Dread Lord Havok
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Post by Dread Lord Havok on Sept 6, 2020 6:12:43 GMT -8
The SD Belphagor heaved to for another drill and a VT-49 Decimator, the IRON MAIDEN II, flew out from Bilbringi to the Namadii corridor, before disappearing into Hyperspace.
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Dread Lord Havok
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Post by Dread Lord Havok on Sept 6, 2020 14:31:00 GMT -8
The Belphagor withdrew further away from the asteroid field to conduct live-fire combat exercises.
Sounding general Quarters would start a series of drills as all hands rushed to their battle stations. Environmental would seal certain areas of the ship, damage control and fire teams would don their fire and environmental suits so they could battle fires and control damage in the void of space.
The various crew stations throughout the Belphagor were abuzz with activity. Each station had their own sets of drills to work on.
The turbo-laser batteries worked on gunnery. Target beacons and automated droid targets were deployed at various ranges to allow turbolaser crews to practice firing the powerful weapons of the Victory III star destroyer. The bright blasts from the multiple batteries could produce blinding flashes of light and crews wore their helmets with visors to eliminate the flashes that would interfere with visual targeting. The gunners practiced agility exercises where they alternated between a set of targets. Random movement drills, sustained targeted fire on a moving target, and independent firing drills.
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Dread Lord Havok
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Post by Dread Lord Havok on Sept 9, 2020 14:15:12 GMT -8
A military shuttle dropped from Hyperspace from the Namadii corridor vector. The ship transponder signal would Identify the shuttle as FO military, originating from Bilbringi., with Station commander Malice. Its present flight record shows it traveled to Coruscant, though it was currently arriving from Muunilist.
The ship transmitted the appropriate military codes, including those showing the Bilbringi Station Commander was present as well as a Fleet Admiral. Bilbringi control approved a flight vector from their position, and transmitted the orbital drift charts to allow the ship to safely pass through the asteroid field.
The Shuttle responded instead that it wished to deviate and dock with the Belphagor instead. Bilbringi traffic control confirmed the deviation. The Shuttle made a wide banking turn and headed towards the Belphagor.
Earlier that morning, the Belphagor, a Victory III class Star destroyer, had moved itself quite a distance away from the asteroid field and the hyperspace lanes. The ship was still located there and was engaged in live firing exercises.
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Dread Lord Havok
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Post by Dread Lord Havok on Sept 9, 2020 14:37:15 GMT -8
"Sir, hail from approaching Sentinel class shuttle FOB-1313, requesting permission to board." An ensign reported to Captain Gagarin. "They are transmitting under authority of a Fleet Admiral." The Captain glanced over to Admiral Sykes. "Who?" The ensign responded. "There's no name attached. Just a Code name: "Magnetar." They are also transmitting encrypted orders from the High Command." Admiral Sykes spoke. "Captain, its time for us to open our seal orders." The admiral turned to the ensign. "Permission to board granted. Secure the ship from general quarters and end all drills. Have a detail ready to receive a Fleet Admiral in the primary hanger bay." "Aye sir!" The ensign quickly transmitted the permission and passed along the orders.
"What's going on, Admiral?" Captain Gagarin asked. "Follow me, Captain."
The captain followed Admiral Sykes to a secure conference room, just off the main bridge. Using his code cylinder, and the Captain's code cylinder, the Admiral opened a safe in the room. The safe contained several datapads. The Admiral selected the appropriate data pad and closed the safe. The datapad allowed the admiral to decode the High Command's Orders. He quickly read the datapad, before handing it to Captain Gagarin. "We're being transferred. Not just us, the whole fleet." the Captain looked up from the datapad. "That is correct. It seems the time for drills is over." The admiral put on his officer's cap. "Time to see what the future holds for us and the Doomsday Fleet."
Captain Gagarin put on his officer's cap with a nod and followed the admiral to the hanger.
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Dread Lord Havok
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Post by Dread Lord Havok on Sept 9, 2020 15:16:31 GMT -8
Admiral Sykes and Captain Gagarin arrived in the Primary Hanger Bay as the Sentinal shuttle ramp was lowering. A platoon of Hanger staff stood at attention, and the bosun's pipe sounded. Two men walked down the ramp, not waiting for it to lower all the way before stepping on the hanger floor. Admiral Sykes and Captain Gagarin approached and saluted. "Greetings. I am Vice Admiral Sykes, and this Captain Gagarin. Welcome to the Belphagor." The two men returned the salute. Both wore the grey uniform of the imperial navy, but neither wore rank or insignia. "It's a pleasure to meet you both. I am Admiral Malice and this is Captain Hyze, my adjutant. We are here to take command of the Doomsday fleet and it's personnel and transfer it to a combat division of Imperial Intelligence. We understand that most of the elements of the fleet have not yet been completed, crewed or provisioned. Admiral Sykes, I would greatly appreciate it if you were to stay in the Bilbringi system and oversee its readiness." "We've seen the orders and they are confirmed. I'll have my things removed from my quarters at once." There was a hint of sadness in the Vice Admiral's voice. Admiral Malice interrupted Admiral Sykes. "Vice Admiral, You misunderstand your roll. You are to ultimately maintain command of Task Force 2 and 3. Commadore Danzig will still command task Force 1, and Commadore Ginsburger will still control Task Force 4. You will maintain your quarters on this ship. Take us to the Bridge, I'll explain more there."
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Post by Dread Lord Havok on Sept 9, 2020 15:50:20 GMT -8
In the conference room on the Bridge of the Belphagor, the conversation was resumed.
"The Doomsday fleet was drawn-up as an ultra elite ground assault force. If you notice, most ships are designed for information collection, ground insertion, and orbital support. You have yet to receive your ground force compliments because those are still being assembled. I am coordinating overall strategy and deployment, but as I said before, you and your fellow commodores will be working closely with ground forces. The current orders are to ready the fleet and Deploy the Belphagor to Muunilist." "When will we get ground troops?" Captain Gagarin asked. "I don't know." Admiral Malice added. "I still need to coordinate with the High Command and Imperial Army on the transfer of Project DarkWing. That's where our ground forces will be coming from. They are an ultra elite commando project." Admiral Sykes and Captain Gagarin looked surprised.
While Malice was talking, Captain Hyze was issuing orders for staff on Bilbringi to pack up Malice's kit and belongings from Malice's former Bilbringi office and have it transferred to the Belphagor.
"We all work for Imperial Intelligence now, and I don't need to say anything about the operational security requirements for special operations. How soon can we head for Muunilist?"
Captain Gagarin spoke. "We're just waiting for our fighter compliments. We were scheduled to receive them tomorrow. 24 TIE Defenders, and 12 TIE Demolishers. The INVINCIBLE carries most of the task force's fighter power." Admiral Malice thought for a moment. "Put a Rush Order on the Belphagor's fighter complement, Press-gang fighter crews from Bilbringi if you have to. This ship leaves for Muunilist in an hour." "Understood." Captain Gagarin nodded. "I will take the Sentinal Shuttle back to Bilbringi to ready the rest of the fleet. Is there anything else?" Admiral Sykes inquired. Malice looked to his adjutant to see if he missed anything. Captain Hyze added, "Sir, I've contacted Bilbringi, they will have your kit brought on board shortly. Also, our department's staff communally uses codename 'MAGNETAR' to designate Admiral Malice and his staff. Standing Order One, the fleet and commanders are not to use Admiral Malice's name in transmissions, records, or communications, only 'Magnetar'." "Make it so. Dismissed." Malice Saluted.
After an exchange of salutes, the meeting adjourned. Within an hour, 24 TIE Defenders, and 12 TIE Demolishers were procured from Bilbringi, Admiral Sykes took the Sentinal Shuttle back to Bilbringi VII, Malice's kit was transferred to the Belphagor, and the ship got underway to the Hyperspace lanes.
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Dread Lord Havok
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Post by Dread Lord Havok on Sept 9, 2020 15:59:16 GMT -8
The Belphagor plotted a course to Muunilist, before jumping into hyperspace.
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Shel Hu
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Post by Shel Hu on Nov 1, 2020 23:44:04 GMT -8
Per the decree of the Emperor, Shel Hu had been named Grand Moff of the Bilbringi Oversecter. Her fleet arrived shortly after, projecting her new leadership role. However, the fleet would patrol the worlds included in the Oversector.
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Dread Lord Havok
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Post by Dread Lord Havok on Apr 25, 2021 11:37:03 GMT -8
Six U-Raider class stealth corvettes dropped from hyperspace and entered the Bilbringi system. The ships, “Mjolnir,” “Beowulf,” “Valkyr,” “Valhalla,” “Odin,” and “Freye” (Captains- Dresden, Gritzel(female), Lazerus, Amos, Valker, Posen), arrived at the base to take on full supplies, as well as begin their formal trials. Each ship had been assigned a Rendili technician in order to train the crew on the distinctive capabilities of the raider class variant. They were also there to help trouble-shoot if there were any problems with the stygium cloaking devices.
The ships were part of the I.I. fleet, and therefore outside of the general naval chain of command. No shore leave would be granted, at least right now.
Once the space worthiness trials were complete, the six ships would be pitted against the First Order task force stationed in Bilbringi in a series of war games to test the effectiveness of the ships in their role of blockading a planet, and initiating the I.I.'s "Mortal strike" doctrine.
Once the war games were done, the ships would be ordered to their station over Corulag, for additional maneuvers for assisting the SSE commandoes to practice covert planetary orbital infiltration.
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Nem Yin
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The dark expanse of the intergalactic void is not as empty as they would have you believe...
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Post by Nem Yin on May 28, 2022 12:13:12 GMT -8
A bright flash on the starry backdrop of space signalled the arrival of a ship in the system, emerging from the winding corridors of darkspace as it rapidly decelerated from lightspeed travel. The oblong shaped bio-organic scout ship, Brittle Bones, stalked the asteroid choked system like a hungry void predator that had scented prey. Its vast sensor array scanned for mineral rich sources of fuel, while its dovin basals allowed it to glide through the dangerous debris field with little risk. Manipulating gravity, larger rocks were guided from its path while smaller objects were grappled by its arrest tentacles and pulled into its hungry orifices. The hull of the vessel, which was comprised of living yorik-coral, had been scoured black with a red trim to keep it in uniform with the First Order it now served. On the bridge, the well seasoned Kronn Yin saw all that the ship saw, the tall-yor over his head as he was seated in his cognition throne symbiotically joined his senses with the ships. The only disconnect was the occasional painful jolt as the hooked protrusions of the mask pulled on the skin of his neck, tearing his flesh wherever they had penetrated his corpse pallor complexion. It was like he had become a hungry predator of the void, rather than the notable Yuuzhan Vong commander that he was. He opened his mouth, or rather, the Brittle Bones opened its forward facing hangar. Six smaller rocky shapes slid from the opening and swerved out in front of the larger, but still relatively small, scout ship.These yorik-et, or coral skippers as the infidels tended to refer to them as, zipped about like flies. They helped clear some of the debris from the scout ship's path, but mostly they worked in conjunction with the larger ship's arrest tentacles, using their dovin basals to push appropriate sized meteorites into its feeding appendages. Through use of the oggzil biot attachment to the scout ship's villip choir, Kronn was able to transmit their intention to refuel and scout asteroids to the shipyard and local First Order contingent in the system. He didn't engage in any dialogue beyond that, he was too focused on the hunt. Eyes not his own lingered on a sizable nearing rock, while he maneuvered the yaret-kor turrets into position. Glowing streams of molten rock emerged in long lances from the ship's lava cannons as it began to shred an asteroid that had its attention, whittling it down to reveal the desired minerals contained within.
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Lucius Vasili
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Post by Lucius Vasili on Jun 26, 2023 11:43:37 GMT -8
--As per the Emperor's orders, Task Force King Sword arrived from hyperspace and took up position just outside its orbit. Immediately, scanners were cast out as far as they could down the Corridor as it was the only path into the Eastern Rim aside from going around the long way to Agamar. They also began their attempts to reach out to whatever patrols they could to gather, hoping their luck didn't falter and the majority being focused in the Core. A line was also established with Grand Marshal Zahn to monitor the hyperspace route as well as to cover in their retreat if needed.
Lucius watched from the bridge as his ships established their blockade formation, the Gladiator IIIs priming their gravity well projectors, ready to catch anyone that tried to sneak through.--
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