Beyond Alpha Centauri:: Discussion Thread 2

[History Guy]

Silence, as of yet nothing has been decided on the Soldiers of God at Callisto. Nothing will be until Kassiopeia replies to my last message. But don't worry, you guys will get some action to come.

Franky, I think Morgan shall have already intercepted the Hive message to EC and any response, and as soon as I get a message from Queen Maria, and a response here (or anywhere, actually) from Kassiopeia, I'll do some posts, which will include the interception of the Hive message, the diplomatic visit to Titan, and what I'll do with Mr. Sym. This guy will be moderately useful to the despotic Hive government, at least until we bust up his little party, and do him in in some neat fashion...

Cybergod, the reason Sym is going to Titan (briefly) is as he's got diplomatic training. No one as yet knows that he is going to sell the Hive information. Don't worry, though, he won't leak any Titan information, as I don't think he fully trusts the Terrans for some reason or another. He will sell some things to the Hive, namely the strengths of the complete Morganite army and it's positions. He'll sell you boys some other things as well, but we'll get him eventually!

[Silence]

I am tryign to get a feel on how his miltary works, becuase when I am going to invest my time in writing a bloody space battle post I better get it right.

[Frankychan]

Thanks History for clarifying Mr. Sym's role.

I do think we should not have any more wars right now, seeing that the Morgan/InEn war is enough for now.

Also, if we decide to indeed have another war...it should be drawn out. We don't want anything too flashy early on in the story or else we might not be able to top it after!

Originally posted by History Guy
Franky, I think Morgan shall have already intercepted the Hive message to EC and any response, and as soon as I get a message from Queen Maria, and a response here (or anywhere, actually) from Kassiopeia, I'll do some posts, which will include the interception of the Hive message, the diplomatic visit to Titan, and what I'll do with Mr. Sym. This guy will be moderately useful to the despotic Hive government, at least until we bust up his little party, and do him in in some neat fashion...

"Despotic"??? Hey, I resent that! The glorious Hive Empire's government is not despotic! All Yang is doing is looking out for the welfare for each and everyone of his citizens...*snicker*

Oh, before I forget...I kinda wanna see the "adventures" Mr. Sym will have before finally getting his, so can ya kinda keep him around? Pleeeeeeze?

[Lonestar]

Frankchan,

You'll leave me no choice but to deploy Atmospheric Capable Starfuries to begin buzzing your guys on the ground.

Also, the Cold Harbor might go ahead deploy it's MEU (Marine Expeditionary Unit, on a Goliath Battleship thats 1,000 Marines) on the ground.

[Kassiopeia]

Okay people, especially Cybergod, Silence, History Guy... Frankychan, good work with fixing up what I screwed up

Please tell me if there is something left to respond to. It all has a way of piling up. And I was "AWOL" only for mere 30 hours.

The battle situation around Callisto. Lessee. I would imagine that the blockade consists of

- One Coalition Navy Battle Squadron - i.e. 150 capital ships, some one thousand fighters.

- A handful of Terran Alliance Fleet Battlecruiser task forces... Somewhere around twenty Battlecruisers, five hundred fighters? Help me out LMP....

So a somewhat heavy force out there. Could have a replacing rotation or something take place, that would cut the force down temporarily to some seventy CNS cap ships and fifteen TAF Battlecruisers.

If we are going to have some Morganite soldiers out, it'll be more difficult then pushing a computer monitor through a keyhole. But with all the creativity bellowing within our brainstorm, I am sure something can be thought of.

I think that the breakdown of a typical CSN Battle Squadron is:

8 to 10 Battleships (2nd largest warships)
1 to 2 Carrier(s) (Usually of the medium-size kind)
20 Destroyers
40 Cruisers
80 Frigates

If it is a Command Squadron, it has a Command Ship (a modified Battleship) - There are some fifty of these around in the entire CSN.

If it is a Fleet Squadron, it has a Dreadnaught. Three (or four, I can't remember for the life of me) of these are around, fourth/fifth is under construction.

The Flagship Squadron is 450 ships large, divided to three smaller units, and has the Chief Command Ship of the Coalition Space Navy, the Solaris, under the command of Supreme Commander Wakazashi.

There can be smaller Destroyers for example, but then the size difference is replaced by a larger type of some other ship.

Ok, what about Capella? There are probably three - four Battle Squadrons and a few TAF fleets there. A handsome force, may I add Some little raid to a faroff Morgan location could be staged by the EC forces, but I doubt the TAF would join in. They will want to stay to defend the system, not go to some silly raids.

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Then there is the Titan situation. The two Battle Squadrons, lead by Admiral Kamalakara and (note) Commodore Craston (Decided that Fleet Admiral is no rank at all), are some 300 capital ships. The NS could muster some one hundred ships.
The orbital cannon and the biotech ships will keep the Battle Squadrons at bay for some time... The information that Titan is an independent TA member will arrive shortly, but the Coalition ships' comms systems will "malfunction" and they won't receive it at first. They will proceed at the colony, but the Terran Alliance will intervene before any serious harm is done.

Is that okay with you Cybergod? My post could have the attempted assault on Titan and the general EC opinion on the whole chibang.

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by kassiopeia
If we are going to have some Morganite soldiers out, it'll be more difficult then pushing a computer monitor through a keyhole. But with all the creativity bellowing within our brainstorm, I am sure something can be thought of.

What if some third party arranged some kind of cease fire of some kind or maybe word could get to the EC that the Spartans had begun to move their fleet from the Morgan coporate sector closer to earth. would that provide enough of a distraction or reduction in blockading forces for some to slip out.

And, raids on morgan interests outside the Sol system will bring the Spartan Federation into play.

[Kassiopeia]

Originally posted by Sprayber


What if some third party arranged some kind of cease fire of some kind or maybe word could get to the EC that the Spartans had begun to move their fleet from the Morgan coporate sector closer to earth. would that provide enough of a distraction or reduction in blockading forces for some to slip out.

Maybe. But, there is a huge load of CSN ships in Sol, and the blockade force at Callisto is only a 1/300 of it...

And, raids on morgan interests outside the Sol system will bring the Spartan Federation into play.

Goink. And, the TA would be rather tardy to help against the SF since it was EC's fault to start wrecking havoc with Morgan.
How about doing it anonymous, so that the Morgans can't point fingers at anyone?

Of course, the Federation in play would be most interesting.

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by kassiopeia


Maybe. But, there is a huge load of CSN ships in Sol, and the blockade force at Callisto is only a 1/300 of it...



Goink. And, the TA would be rather tardy to help against the SF since it was EC's fault to start wrecking havoc with Morgan.
How about doing it anonymous, so that the Morgans can't point fingers at anyone?

Of course, the Federation in play would be most interesting.

im posting a message to the EC right now from Kessel. it should be interesting.

[Cybergod]

Originally posted by kassiopeia
Then there is the Titan situation. The two Battle Squadrons, lead by Admiral Kamalakara and (note) Commodore Craston (Decided that Fleet Admiral is no rank at all), are some 300 capital ships. The NS could muster some one hundred ships.
The orbital cannon and the biotech ships will keep the Battle Squadrons at bay for some time... The information that Titan is an independent TA member will arrive shortly, but the Coalition ships' comms systems will "malfunction" and they won't receive it at first. They will proceed at the colony, but the Terran Alliance will intervene before any serious harm is done.

Is that okay with you Cybergod? My post could have the attempted assault on Titan and the general EC opinion on the whole chibang.

It's fine! Just is it okay with you about the bio-armour (for infantry)? I am assuming it is and am preparing to post once you do.

malfunction

This my friends is yet another evidence of the tyranical bureocracy the so called "Earth" Coalition has been bombarding us with! Can't you see our sufering?


BTW

NO ONE HAS ANSWERED ALL MY QUESTIONS FROM MY PREVIOUS POST!!!



-- Nikola

[Sprayber]

sorry Cybergod. your bio-armour seem fine to me.

[History Guy]

What need I answer, Cybergod?

BTW, please do post something on these diplomatic affairs, to give me the go ahead to start work on my next post.

[Cybergod]

OK
Thanx for answering Sprayber

I was kinda hopping for.. *coughs* KASS to post, so shall we wait a post or two?

Since the bio armour is fine, we will proceede to upgrade our forces (along with selling some low bio-tech to Belters). The first thing we'd like to do once we send an ambassador, is to ask for a loan from Morgan

Who should send their representative first? History Guy or me?

And it's the 60th post milestone already!

[Frankychan]

Cybergod,

Your monarchy government has not gone unnoticed by the benevolent Emperor Yang...however, recent events with the Protectorate must need my attention.

Your bio-armor technology would be quite an asset to the G.H.E.'s military arsenal.

Unfortunately, the Hive's stance on the newly established monarchy is not what Yang thought it would be...it is, in fact, becoming a thorn in his master plan. That's the Hive P.O.V.

Lonestar,

What now? How should be proceed? Should we just build up the tension a little while longer?

[History Guy]

You may send your representatives first if you wish. Looks like the start of a pretty nice relationship...and hey...bio armor...sounds pretty good to me...

And hey, loans are ok to me, just as long as we get 3 energy per turn...

And hey! Kassiopeia! How does a small raid on part of your Callisto fleet by the Believers sound?

[Frankychan]

Don't think that I don't know what your doing Sprayber,

Trying to turn the Terrans against us, eh? The Hive is only looking out for the welfare of the cradle of humanity...

Damn, that Hive message is really screwing up our plans....I like it though cause it's making the story more interesting.

BTW-->History Guy, I'm trying to find the village where Stalin was born, you wouldn't happen to know, would you?