Zaknussem
Caldari
The Ironbreakers
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Posted - 2008.04.12 00:26:00 -
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Edited by: Zaknussem on 12/04/2008 00:26:37
The Seventh fleet of the Amarr Navy was passing through a backwater system when they spotted a lone Defiant cruiser parked in a remote asteroid field. The Defiant cruiser, upon realising it had been spotted, sent a rude message to the whole fleet, questioning the fleet's ability to fly straight through open space. Afterwards it warped towards a moon orbiting the outermost planet of the system.
The fleet's Commanding Officer ordered a squad of frigates to pursue and crush the Defiant vessel. The squad soared after the cruiser, and for a brief time the comm channels were full of combat chatter...and then static. No signal. While the fleet was trying to figure out what had happened, the Defiant cruiser returned, this time transmitting anti-Amarrian propaganda songs across all channels before warping back to the same moon.
The CO was not happy, but he wasn't stupid either. He ordered a full scan of the system to see if a Defiant fleet was hiding somewhere nearby, and upon finding nothing, he dispatched a whole wing of combat vessels to annihilate the lone cruiser. The wing warped away in formation, and again the comm channels were alive with orders, counterorders and reports, but eventually all the channels fell silent...and then the Defiant cruiser returned once more, seemingly undamaged, and starting broadcasting rude limericks about Amarrian mothers being "bad women" before warping back to the same moon once more.
The CO was furious. How could a single cruiser, outnumbered, outskilled and outgunned, emerge not only victorious, but unharmed? He decided not to risk things any further, and ordered half the fleet to warp to the moon, and destroy everything and everyone they found there. From the main window of the bridge, the CO could see a dozen battleships, over 20 cruisers, countless frigates and a carrier warp away to the moon, but he knew that many more ships would be making the journey. The Defiant cruiser would soon be a speck of dust, floating through space.
The comm channels blazed with traffic. From what the CO heard, drones and fighters were launched, Frigates and cruisers attacked in tactical formations from various angles, battleships fired enough Mega Beam weapons to cook planetary oceans. Finally, after 30 minutes of frantic transmissions, the channels fell silent once more. The CO tensed and waited. Eventually, a lone Abbadon battleship returned to the fleet, badly damaged with visible fires burning along its hull. The CO screamed in anger and called up the battleship: "What is the meaning of this!?! I send enough ships to send the fear of God into God himself, all against one lousy ship, and you are the only one that survives!?! How can you explain this disaster!?!"
"But sir, there were two of them..." |