Here you see Cerapa's ships and stations just hanging out. The three ships are Lump Smashers, incredibly fragile but each sporting a powerful vulcan cannon.
The station in the upper left is a 'One Eyed Crab', the habitat station of Pio-Alions.
The defense platform roughly in the middle is a Kitty Flak 88, packing four autocannons and a PD factor of 1.
And finally the big sucker is a Crab Factory, capable of building even the largest ships in record time for a station due to its five production bays. It also is pretty hardy due to its size. It is currently working on a Hellcat.
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Dammit, why can't anything nice ever get done?
Well, something nice did get done for DFnewb, as that monster you see there is his Seigfried MK1! Packing several twin blaster turrets, a pair of quad missile turrets, 6 fighter bays and 6 construction bays. It is DFnewb's flagship, and it's very likely(read, definitely) here to check out that anomaly, and basically slaughter everything in its path while it's at it.
It is accompanied by the 4000 series of DFnewb's ships. The Frigga, Hersir, and Ullr. The Frigga is the same carrier we saw in the first battle. The Hersir is a blaster boat, carrying 7 blasters on a otherwise small-ish frame. And the Ullr is a Point defense ship carrying a ring of 8 point beams, easily neutralising most if not all incoming fire. The Ullr also carries one fighter bay.
Mid battle the 'Lumpies' get attacked by the Frigga's hornets.
This distracts them as they flank to the side.
Unfortunately, there are more, alot more. And why are those fighters flying directly...
Oh hell no.
Those would happen to have been the other fighters known as Zeros, deployed by the Seigfried and the Ullr, these suicide ships can dish out some quick and cheap damage.
The damage provided by Zero suicide attacks are enough to cause massive damage to the fragile Lump Smashers.
Here comes another wave
and the other ships!
The Zeros destroy one Lumpy.
And the remains of that attack end up destroying the Kitty Flak as well.
The other two Lump smashers get finished off.
Now the Crab Factory starts getting wailed on.
A missile salvo causes massive damage.
And another finishes it off.
Not long after and the habitat station gets picked off.
This battle has cost Cerapa 14200 in stations, 3600 in functional ships, and 17500 from losing the Hellcat that was under construction. All this was a grand total of 35300 cash.
DFnewb didn't lose a thing besides perfectly expendable fighters.
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