TDM vs P&N

[Story Junkie]

2419.8:
Three of the Furies are useless, and along with the damaged Hummer, are making their way back to Albireo. The remaining craft should be ready for combat in a few days.
The Vaxin cruiser still has some intact engines, but noone in the fleet can figure out how to get the stupid thing started. A construction ship has been called from Albireo; if we can't figure out the problem with these Vaxin engines soon, it will be cut up and towed home in pieces.

Another wave of Vaxin BattleCruisers has been spotted moving insystem, but at their present speed, we have half a year to prepare.
At least half of the ships damaged in the Last battle should be back in service by then, but the enemy fleet is larger than ever.

Reports from home are quite negative lately. The Last batch of Furies is nearing completion, but the work is draining our reserve funds. Ten should be completed in the next four months, but production will have to be cut back drastically when our mineral reserves give out.
Scientists describe elaborate theories on how to solve the resource problems, but none of them can be expected to happen in less than a decade.
Aside from economics, there are uncommon numbers of industrial accidents lately. One of the Construction bases has even committed suicide after a premature reactor ignition destroyed the defense base it was working on.

[Alpha Kodiak]

Ok, I've got to know...

How are my poor harmless Vaxin doing against your horrible, beastly, enemy of peace empire, anyway?

[Suicide Junkie]

Well, the Vaxin, destroyers of worlds, and the Canadian Dominion, peaceful intellectuals not afraid to defend their homes, have been experiencing a universal time distortion.

Canadian scientists believe it has something to do with an excess amount of Au in alternate universes.

[Alpha Kodiak]

Uh-oh, this sounds serious. I've heard of this affliction before, and rarely does anyone survive to continue on. Well, perhaps in the new AU there will be another interesting conflict.

[Story Junkie]

2420.0:
Minerals are very scarce in dominion territory these days, and the construction of the new Furies is being delayed because of it.
A large number of old escort class warriors have been retired, and production contracts everywhere are not being renewed.
Almost 40% of our military is out of service now, due to damage or early retirements.

The political situation outside our borders is decaying as well. There are at least four separate wars that have broken out, and all of our allies are involved in one way or another.
Tales are told of the ever increasing wealth of the Vaxin Consortium, but we can only hope they are lies or at least over exaggerations.

Only two positive points of news recently. First, our scientists have made breakthroughs in the energy shield technology being employed by the Vaxin.
The physics of the fields are calculable now, and engineers have improved the armor-shield boundary efficiency to 60%. You'd have to ask a physics professor to tell you what that really means, but from what I'm told, that level of efficiency makes the devices rival our best pure-armor plates.
The second bit of good news is that Phoenix has been recognized by the military high command. The construction ship which arrived to haul off the Vaxin prisoners bore with it the codes for a two-star Blazing Fury III, which has been given to Phoenix with full honours.
Phoenix's wingmen will receive BF3 codes as soon as the budget will allow for it.

[Story Junkie]

2420.2:
Phoenix has nearly completed her metamorphosis, but the Vaxin fleet has arrived.
Seven BattleCruisers and five Light Cruisers approaching in tight formation.
The vaxin fire first, from well outside the weapons range of the dominion ships. Phoenix is hit once, but her new shield-armor easily absorbs the blow.
The Vaxin close in, and target Phoenix with their short range cannons. She is struck twice amidst the hail of plasma bolts, shields down to 70%.
Dominion Hummers open fire on the nearest Vaxin ship, a light cruiser, but the small ship is able to weave through most of the shots.
Phoenix strikes a blow, and the weak defenses of the LC are disabled. The other two Furies spray shells, but between them only manage to shear off the non-functional shield generator.
Concentrated Vaxin fire hammers Phoenix in return, burning away the shields, and melting her armor into goo.
Her parting shots cripple the LC, and Phoenix limps away from the battle.
Dominion ships bLast away the shields on a Vaxin BC, and the Vaxin unload more fire at Phoenix.
Nearly unrecognizable, and unresponsive, the Phoenix tumbles away on her initial course.
Another exchange of weapons fire scores light internal damage to a Vaxin LC, and heavy damage do the defenses on one of the Hummers.
Soon, the Vaxin LC is disabled, and the shields on a second BC collapse, in exchange for the Last of the shield-armor on the Hummer.
A second Hummer is savaged by acid and plasma, for light internal damage on a third Vaxin BC.

The Vaxin are winning the battle, so the Capture ships are called to the front.
The Vaxin ships close in, and pound the two damaged Hummers into scrap, but the capture ships drive forward amongst a hail of DUC fire. The Vaxin leader's shields collapse, and Medusa's troopers storm aboard. The Vaxin ship bursts into a nova as the selfdestruct sprays an antimatter mist. One of the crippled Hummers, and the Wasp class escort ram a nearby BC, and through the holes stream more marines. FOOM! another Vaxin ship erupts. The Last capture ship dives through the enemy fleet to grapple with the Last unshielded Vaxin ship, and it too erupts in flames.
The remains of the Dominion fleet fall back as the enraged Vaxin forces charge. The second Last Hummer falls to a blaze of fire, while the lead Vaxin's shields fail.
Crippled hulks are vaporized as the Vaxin pass, but the three remaining Dominion ships continue to resist. The lead BC suffers armor failure, but continues on.
Long range Acid globs begin to impact the armor of the Furies, while the return fire remains locked on the BC. The Vaxin BC has absorbed immense damage, but continues forward with what few weapons remain operational.
Finally, the Vaxin BC loses engine power, and falls behind.
On the run, the three dominion ships spray fire wildly behind them as the Vaxin LC slings plasma into the rear hulls, and the larger ships hurl Acid globs like artillery.
The LC's shields and armor collapse, but not before one of the furies has been stripped of defenses. It manages to power ahead, and leaves the other two to defend alone.
The Dominion ships reach the edge of the sector, and dish out Heavy internal damage to the LC before pulling out of the combat zone.

[Alpha Kodiak]

Yee-haw! Now I can get my pom-poms out again.

[Story Junkie]

2420.3:
A total of seven ships managed to escape through the warppoint to Albireo. Two support escorts, the construction ship, the surviving Hummer, the two somewhat intact Furies and the Phoenix.

Reserve forces have been pulled in from all across the starsystem, leaving the Auriga warppoint woefully unprotected from a known Vaxin-colonized system.
Only a handful of ships couldn't make the rendezvous at the Tyrik warppoint, and so the gathered population is a hefty 41 personnel.
Three fresh Furies are here, along with one damaged and two crippled. We have two hummers, one of which has a lost its sensor jamming armor plate.
The escort fleet from the Auriga warppoint numbers 20, of which only four have direct-fire weapons installed.
The remaining non-combat craft are three supply scouts, the builder, three factories, and six transports.

2420.38:
The fleet has now waited almost a month, and no attack has come.
A hastily constructed probe is being sent through the warppoint, and will hopefully give us some decent intel on the Vaxin before it is destroyed.

2420.4:
The probe has returned to report roughly 20 Vaxin ships scattered across the system.
With a temporary reprieve, and the reinforcement Furies gathered, the escorts have been returned to their post at the Auriga warppoint.

With the support of the warppoint bases, Phoenix has been fully healed in an incredibly short time.
Since our forces are strong again, and the Vaxin scattered, we will be returning to the Tyrik system!

Phoenix shall lead nine furies against the Vaxin warfleets, while another military outpost is prepared for Tyrik VIII.

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PS @ Alpha Kodiak.
> "Yee-haw! Now I can get my pom-poms out again."
Nyah, Nyah. Phoenix just won't stay defeated

[Wardad]

This is General GUTBLUBBER. Hope is not lost. We have a large fleet of UBER ESCORTS headed your way. ETA is... well.. the End of the Game or BEYOND!!!

BTW: We changed tactics slightly. It seems every jack man of us volunteered to board those Vixen ships.


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The Stuper Guiness

[Alpha Kodiak]

Vaxin High Command:

We have them exactly where we want them! They believe that we do not have a focused plan. Soon, they will make their fatal mistake!