Cmdr Ristar Posted March 15, 2000 Report Share Posted March 15, 2000 To: All ISS Fleet Members From: Fleet Cmdr. Jeehun RistarRe: Tactical Readiness Commanders, On the commlink there is a message entitled "The Death Wraith," I want the ISS to research the details of this ongoing mission, and determine a strategy for each Wing. Cmdr.Zwycky, I want an entire briefing on the situation and any other situation on the commlink. All Wing Commanders, give me a briefing on all situations as it pertains to your command. If any threat is headed into GALCOM territory, let's be ready for it.Fleet Cmdr.Jeehun Ristar GCV Shogun, ISS02 Fleet Leader - ISS Fleet Intelligence and Espionage Wing Commander - ISS Fleet Shogun of the Dragon Council - Order of Jade Dragon -Commander's Shield Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Zwycky Posted March 16, 2000 Report Share Posted March 16, 2000 well, here goes:[report]"The Death Wraith" is a continuation of "Prelude to the dance", "Gamma Omega", and "Cerberus Stirs" and is based around the proposed bc3020 timeline DeSylva wrote: (see here for that) This does not mean that all these events will pan out exactly as stated here, but it gives the context and basic structure of the events unfolding. There's no reason why ISS can't end up more prominent This story is the story of the second Gammulan War.For those of you unfamiliar with those threads, here is a brief summaryPrelude to the DanceThe Gammulans are dissatisfied with their current position of not controlling every system in their quadrant. They mass together a large fleet of Stormcarriers and other vessels to capture the Falkerie homeworld and Cerberus Starbase (operated by wraith fleet), then move on and expand their territory.Commander Gallion was ordered by ISS and the Jade Dragon to capture a Gammulan transport carrying a new cloaking device. He has to call off the attack because of a mechanical failure of a jury-rigged part. He beams aboard a transporter bomb, which disables the ship, and heads back to Cerberus for repairs. Unbeknownst to him, Rattler was around, picked up the device and took it to Spectre, where it was installed, giving Spectre HQ dynamic cloaking ability. This is given the codename Raven WaltersThere are other minor events that happen, positioning ships in different places, supplying of Falkerie resistance cells, the massing of the Gammulan Armada (consisting of seven orders of Stormcarriers), but all just setting the scene stuff really.Gamma OmegaThe GCV Swiftsure is on a resupply mission to Artemis Starbase (a covert observation base deep in Gammulan territory), and gets to it just in time to evacuate the base and receive the core dump of the bases computer before it is destroyed by OTS missiles from a stormcarrier. On approaching Spartacus base (a similar facility), they find it has been totally destroyed by nuclear missiles. The comms guys at Artemis had managed to break the gammulan codes and intercept a message: quote: VTo: Li'Shai Gasun, Second Order Command; Y'Jak Lerut, Fourth Order Command Fm: JariusDisregard all prior orders. Blackout commences at 1440 GST of this galactic date. At 1500 GST, initiate Backlash. Do not attempt contact until Rinaal is ours. Commander Somerset recognises that this can only mean one thing and transmits the message back to Wraith HQ: Gamma Omega. I.e. war with the gammulans.The message is received, understood and passed on with varying degrees of success. Wraith HQ's staff are evacuated and self destruct and booby trap mechanisms are set up throughout the station. Also many minefields and cloaked defensive formations surround it. Cerberus starbase is also evacuated, with defenders diverted to Rinaal.Many corsair and sin Vessels are swamped by Gammulan ships and destroyed. The gammulans used biogenic weapons to kill one of the ship's crew. This fact was relayed back to wraith. The GCV Prinze Eugen manages to survive being swamped and boarded.The Swiftsure manages to get back to Wraith HQ and take charge of the defences before the Gams arrive. Cerberus StirsGallion recovers a secret project entitled Solarin from Cerberus before it falls and is totally devastatedCommander Somerset relays information necessary for breaking the Gammulan codes to Galcom HQ via secure cloaked courier.Gallion escapes from LV-104 (where Cerberus used to be) but is spotted by a single Gammulan cruiser, which Gallion destroys but only after suffering significant damage.The Gams outnumber the defenders around Wraith 6 to 1, and Somerset requests use of the G-2 units (a nuclear minefield) which breaks the credian accords and requires two command personnel's authorisation. The minefield devastates the invading fleet, but it is only set off when one of the minor ship's cloaking system fails, it is destroyed and the debris form that explosion disturbs other vessels cloaking fields, and they are destroyed and so on. Wraith Vessels decloak, attack and destroy a weakened vessel or two, then recloak and reform.Wraith HQ is evacuated when it comes under assault and the self-destruct is armed. The station is self destructs after it is boarded, taking out a few Gammulan ships and troop transports. Fifteen Wraith BC's break off from the defence and destroy large numbers of the iridium supply vessels before waiting for gallion to arrive and take command of them. 6 of them are lost, but leaving nine to act as a harrying force, attacking the gams from behind and disrupt their supply lines.The gams get their fleet reinforced to a strength greater than the invading force that captured Rinaal. Gallion's ship the Graf Spee evacuates the last survivors of Cerberus and goes back into temporary hiding. The gams analyse their tactics and begin to deploy probes that mimic the signature of an uncloaked Stormcarrier to trip any more Wraith traps.The survivors of Wraith make a new stand at Hadar-9, augmented by the Mandorians, who had just decided to ally themselves with Galcom. A single small insurgent outpost on Rinaal sends the message Raven Walters to Rattler before it is destroyed by laser fire. Rattler understands and gets the insurgents ready to defend themselves.The Death Wraith (so far)two more of the Wraith harrying force are lost due to an unfortunate accident with a meteroid , which destroyed one BC and gave away the location of another to the gams.Some of the gams other probes were incredibly difficult to detect and prevented target locks on any ship near them, even by the nuclear mines, creating safe regions in the system. This threw the defenders slightly, and allowed the Gams to get all of their forces through, but also bought some time for the defenders, who redeployed part of their forces (seemingly) in non-strategic positions while others fell back to Dabis Station.The seven wraith ships nearly moved out of their positions, assuming Gallion was dead, but were stopped by a transmission from the corsair himself. quote: The two messages that the Man had sent were simple. One was directed to Wraith and the other was sent to a Dragon. Both carried the same message a detail. The Gams have control of the entire Gam Quadrant and that Corsair was back and would be operational soon. The message sent to the Dragon included one thing not sent to the Wraith; a RFI on certain cell growth. The gams annex the Falkerie home world but can't find all the Resistance fighters. They decide to test their new recruits by sending them in to destroy the resistance or die in the attempt. They don't know that the Falkerie resistance has been trained and supplide by the Jade Dragon for years.ISS gets a strange message about the Falkerie resistance cells, which is passed on to Ristar. Well, that's the background up to the point where Ristar gets the message. (up to the post 03 11 2000 9:20am Not much happens in the next few posts, except it's the second day of the war now, there's a bit of a standoff between the Gams and defenders in Hadar-9 and Gallion has met up with the wraith harrying force, slightly strengthened by a few other BC's, and he's lured some of the vanguard of the gammulan fleet in Hadar-9 into an ambush after disabling a couple of stormcarriers and some cruiser escorts.[/report]Phew! I haven't had time to write a post yet, been working on this and am quite busy for the rest of today. Maybe I'll get something done tomorrow. Same goes for the other reports.Later,------------------ Commander Ben Zwycky GCV Svoboda ISS07 Defence Wing -ISS Fleet Adjutant to the Fleet Commander ISS Fleet Recruiting Officer http://www.watson-jones.swinternet.co.uk/Svoboda "Nakonec pravda vitezi" (in the end the truth wins) [This message has been edited by Ben Zwycky (edited 03-16-2000).] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cmdr Ristar Posted March 16, 2000 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2000 Cmdr.Zwycky, Great Job, I am going to go over the information in detail and get with the Command Staff and I need to get in touch with the Dragon Council to discuss things. I want to commend you on your thouroughness.Fleet Cmdr.Jeehun Ristar GCV Shogun,ISS02 Fleet Leader - ISS Fleet Intelligence and Espionage Wing Commander - ISS Fleet Shogun of the Dragon Council - Order of Jade Dragon - Commander's Shield Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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