h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

~Message to all allied ships~
There is a Trade Federation assult fleet on an inward vector towards the Hotel. I am in need of assistance to
hold them off until my reinforcements arrive.



[Inside the Corvette]
[Captain] The Lt has just hypered in. Admiral Yuri and the bulk of our forces will still take some time to arrive

[Yo]Very well, continue on course 310-20, bring the fighters in behind the destroyers and have the crew make
ready for 0-G combat. We'll waste no power on artificial gravity, reroute it to the engines immediatly

*the HV pulls out of the hanger*
[radio] Da`Kaja, this is the Hitchhiker's Vision.
I'm behind ya, Yo, and we'll see if Axe gets out here. I have two fighters on board, and four on the hotel. What's the ETA of the TF fleet?
[in ship] Commander, I'm taking my fighter out. Run the ship in my absence. *takes the turbolift to the fighter bay* *the HD2 is launched*

[Transmission from the Da'Kaja]
[Yo]We have about 30 seconds before they start dropping out of hyperspace....I'm reading 2 Battleships in the first wave.....tramsmissing specs of that class ship....


~Transmission~
Engines: 3 Rendili StarDrive Proton 2 (Primary) / 6 Rendili StarDrive Proton 12 (Secondary) Engines
Maximum Speed: Slow-even for a Capital Ship
Size- 3,170 Metres (Diameter)
Weapons:42 Quad Laser Batteries (2 Batteries Forward, 1 Battery Left, 1 Battery Right, 2 Batteries Aft) (7batteries in one larger battery)
Star Fighters: 1,500 individual Droid Starfighters (Maximum Capacity)
Ground Troops:
139,000 Battle Droids
50 (25 per cargo arm) C-9979 Landing Ships (Maximum Capacity)
550 MTTs (Maximum Capacity)
6,250 AATs (Maximum Capacity)
1,500 Troop Carriers (Maximum Capacity)
Comments:These ships are literally slow heavy sheilded and armored doughnuts. Speed and manuverability are your assets.

~end specs~

[Yo]As you can see, boarding these ships is not a viable option at the moment. Once reinforcements arrive perhaps then we can capture one.....here they come, all ships commence firing as soon as we are in range





[Yo-transmission]We must draw the fighters away from the capital ships!

[Automated Transmission] Sorry, but Axe can't come to his ship right now. Please leave a message after the tone .

*The Discord de-cloaks of the ort side of the HV.*

Alright then. I've been looking forward to another fight.

[Not-so-Automated Transmission] Hey guys! Sorry about this, but I'm kinda busy ATM. I /would/ send the Tripwire along, but it's kinda busy as well. Something to do with minor version changes...

Involving the strings "Tripwire" and "4.1"

... I've sent along a couple of Drone Frigates for you to play with instead .

*the HV forms a large subspace field generator around it, and so does the HD2* [to bridge of HV] HD2 docking now... *HD2 docks and is then sent back out, in drone mode, along with the rest of the fighters*
*The HV activates it's forward plasma cannon, killing about half of the fighters before they reach their target* Alright... *the ship angles up, and a lifeboat loaded with explosives is sent directly into the center of the fighter fleet, killing half in the explosion and the rest in the shockwave* Discord, your cloaking device is your only asset. Hope they don't scan and try to get as close to the battleships as possible, for to pick off fighters as they leave the bays.

*moves in towards the gray battleship and begins launching a volley of concussion missles at the crater, enlarging it and depressurizing the vessel* *the vehicle is handily disposed of, relatively intact* [to hotel] Send a tug when the battle's over... we can refit it.

It's a droid ship, there's no pressure to release. The section where the crater is, is a non vital section of the ship. To destroy the ship we have to completely eliminate it. The place where the crater was made is also by far the least defended part of the ship. So it's still quite functional. Remember, the ship is 3 km in diameter. We've just barely scratched it.



~inside the corvette~

[Weapons officer]Fore sheilds down to 30%....aft sheilds at 60%...re-routing power...
[Yo]Drop mines....now!

*The Discord de-cloaks within the crater of the grey battleship. It fires all it's weaponry as deep into the ship as possible. It then releases an EMP missile which drifts slowly into the bottom of the crater as the Discord moves away at maximum sub-light speed.*

[Axe (in charge of hotel while CV's out)]
Confirmed.
Salvage team 1, Hotel. Pickup designated ships after battle.

[S. Team 1] Will do.

*sets the HV into it's auxillary grav-spin configuration and thrusts forward into the donut. The spin causes every weapon on board to expose itself to every part of the donut at some point* That move's just fun! [HVEVA] sheilds down to 72%, suggest retreat for conservation purposes.
*the HV pulls out*

*intercom*

[Hotel] Station defense systems online (Sysop security override). Activating plasma turrets. Please standby...

[Axe] Life's so easy when you don't have to hack everything...

[Hotel] Plasma turrets online. Assigning targets...

*the HV docks to the outside and assists plasma turrets*
I'm in stasis indefinetley. Till I say otherwise, Axe, you're running the show.

(intercom) [EVA] CV confirmed stasis. CV's ships have been placed under SHSS Employee Command (Commander T. Henson).

*Commander Henson walks aboard the HV bridge* *he salutes*
Commander, you are to defend this station at all costs. This includes the inbound Mercenary fleet. You can't fight them with your current armament. You can, however, run. CV229 and CV911 are at your disposal.
The cats may help, but their space forces are limited.