The Asteroid Field

Wed Sep 21, 2011 6:00 pm by Kaiden Sareno

*Slipping in and out of large pockets of asteroids and other space debris the Cron Drift was infamous for containing, the lithe Scorpia Transport pushed until it found it's way to open space. From there, the Hyperdrive engaged and let loose, sending the small white Transport hurtling through space - it's destination; Bastion.*

Wed Sep 21, 2011 9:58 pm by Kaiden Sareno

*The Sors-class Droid Vanguard made note of the alien craft in their sectors as they passed harmlessly by, their weapon systems long since degraded into disuse. It would be sometime before their full operational systems were online and repaired to be any effective use in a war-zone if such an event took place in the Cron Drift.* *For now, they simply scanned the areas the alien vessels took shelter in, noted their design and their activity, and continued on their warpath of navigating and mapping out the new Cron Drift.*

Sun Oct 02, 2011 10:04 am by Nem Yin

*If there was anything to said about the Chom-Vrone, it was that they were very persistent in their assigned task. A voracious appetite and lack of sentience made them well suited for the repetitive role of a mining beast. Over and over they devoured pounds of rock, digesting it in their acidic belly juices and excreting precious metal from their rump. Asteroids with cores of pure nickel soon collapsed in on themselves, absorbed to the point where they were naught but hollow shells. After the consumption of each, yorik-et manipulated their dovin basals to help ferry the worms to the nearest or next asteroid on their list, while others saw to the transfer of collected resources to the Vua'spar idling nearby.*

*Positioned on a thorn-seat in his chamber, Skellion Choka conversed with Alith Yin via villip.* *The Praetorite Command was currently in the Roch Asteroids, performing much the same task as Yammka's Claw. It would seem that the Praetorite's focus for the time being was the acquisition of resources to feed their ships. No better supply could be found than within the treacherous fields of asteroids. They also served a dual purpose of concealing the marauders movements within infidel space, which was well given they had taken to piratical type actions as of late.* *After relaying a report to his superior, Skellion put his villip to sleep and rose from the painful creature he had been seated upon. A pop sounded as the seats thorns released their grip on the Commander, ceasing their attempts to feed on his blood. The warrior ran a piece of robeskin cloth over his backside to wipe away clinging droplets of blood, then adorned a set on Vonduun skerr kyrric before retaking the bridge.*

*It wouldn't be long now before their hold was completely full. When that happened they'd likely have to return home to relieve their cargo and resupply, unless of course the already stretched Praetorite came up with some method of transferring the cargo for them. It wasn't exactly easy to move in and out of the field, making each trip into its depths an expensive endeavor.*

*Now back among his underlings at the center of the Vua'spar's bridge, Skellion allowed his mqaaq'it to drift to the blaze-bug readout of the current time. His thoughts turned towards Jarulek, the Intendant he had sent on a mission to investigate the infidel facility on the opposite end of the field.* *How was the treacherous Vong fairing, he wondered. Given the perilous nature of the mission he had been sent on, there was a high probability that he had been caught while performing his investigation. A likely outcome, but one the Commander hoped hadn't transpired. Not because he cared, but rather, because his supply of yorik-et were limited. Preferably they would return home to the seed world with just as many as they had departed with.*

Thu Oct 20, 2011 7:28 am by Nem Yin

*Transports sent by the Praetorite finally arrived in the system, warping out of darkspace along the edge of the field where the Vua-spar "Yamka's Claw" was waiting to meet them. Arrest tentacles lashed onto the smaller ships, while long worms extended from the interdictor and began to fill the transport holds with processed ore.* *This was the most dangerous point of the operation as it meant that the Claw was exposed, unprotected by the field that it had been using as a natural barrier between itself and hostile space.* *The crew worked diligently, seeing the transports filled in under an hours time before once more pursuing a path into the depeths of the asteroid field. The powerful dovin basal serving as the Claw's gravity well generator literally parted the sea of space debris, holding the mineral rich rocks at a safe distance while the capital ship returned to the asteroid it had hollowed out a few months prior. As for the transports, with their hulls now full, they jetted away from the field and darted in darkspace.* *Arrival back at the seed world was expected in two weeks time.*

Fri Dec 23, 2011 1:36 pm by Dacon TryViron

*Scar loads his men and all he off loaded to the old base then takes off in their ship. Once cleared of the field they jump to hyperspace.*

Mon Jan 02, 2012 11:53 am by Kaiden Sareno

*From the direction of travel that would put Rhen Var, an icy Hoth-like wasteland, at their rears emerged two enormous Super Freighters. Their powerful shielding systems fully online and their tractor beam turrets spinning - immediately firing away at several large asteroids that the outer ring of the field so commonly threw at incoming starships, the twin Freighters awaited orders or a communique from the Phoenix Installation deep within the debris field of the Cron Drift.* *In truth, they were waiting for the Installation to be locked down, sealed shut and destroyed by high explosive anti-matter devices once hundreds of thousands of men, supplies, and other vessels were loaded on board the twin Freighters.*

*Whilst the Just Cause II's cargo hold was optimally sitting at one-thirds full capacity, the Happy Failure was near empty, only carrying the supplies to maintain itself and the Droid army of crew members on board.* *Both vessels would be laden full once the Transports and ships arrived from the Installation, and the Commanding Officer of the venture had already signaled for a third Super Freighter, the only Space Trawler known to be in existence in the Galaxy, to join them here at the outer edges of the Cron Drift to assist in carrying supplies from their third and fourth destination before heading home towards Honoghr.*

Modified Pondus-class Super Freighter The Happy Failure II
Commanding Officer: Captain Yerres Toln
Executive Officer: Colonel Gare Taggert
Armament:
[22] Asteroid-Tug Tractor Beam Projectors (Mounted on Dorsal and Ventral surfaces)
[12] Quad Tractor Beam Projectors (Phylon Q7s, Mounted on Dorsal and Ventral surfaces)
Speed: 45 MGLT
Hull: Impervium-reinforced Heavy-grade Durasteel
Shielding:
-Primary: 3 ISD-72x shield generators (Located on bridge)
Countermeasures:
-ECM
Other:
-Hyperwave Package
Hyperwave transceiver
Hyperwave transmitter
Hyperwave signal interceptor
-Scanner Package Mk. I
Full-spectrum transceiver
ILF-5000 Life Form Scanner

Modified Pondus-class Super Freighter Just Cause II
Commanding Officer: Captain Rath Alklay
Executive Officer: Colonel Caden Durrmann
Armament:
[22] Asteroid-Tug Tractor Beam Projectors (Mounted on Dorsal and Ventral surfaces)
[12] Quad Tractor Beam Projectors (Phylon Q7s, Mounted on Dorsal and Ventral surfaces)
Speed: 45 MGLT
Hull: Impervium-reinforced Heavy-grade Durasteel
Shielding:
-Primary: 3 ISD-72x shield generators (Located on bridge)
Countermeasures:
-ECM
Other:
-Hyperwave Package
Hyperwave transceiver
Hyperwave transmitter
Hyperwave signal interceptor
-Scanner Package Mk. I
Full-spectrum transceiver
ILF-5000 Life Form Scanner

Mon Jan 02, 2012 12:28 pm by Kaiden Sareno

*Having carefully traversed the Asteroid Field of the Cron Drift, the thousands of transports from the Installation quietly filed in singularly into the two Super Freighters. Packing themselves in as tightly as they could manage, both enormous Transports soon found themselves completely full of Transports, citizens from Indecia, supplies, and other needed materials from the Station. All (save for drone droids and other non-important materials) people from the Station were evacuated and now the massive Station was empty.* *What couldn't fit in the Transports simply filed in beside them, waiting to launch themselves towards Honoghr at the drop of a hat. While the two Transports would be en route for Garqi, a communique having told them that the grain world would be better suited for the Citizens than the already packed world of Honoghr, the warships would have to direct themselves to the Shipyards hanging loftily over Honoghr.*

*In a valiant effort that could not have been planned more perfectly, the entire armada of Starfighters, Corvettes, and twin Super Transports launched themselves into Hyperspace as one single entity, leaving the Cron Drift eeriely alone as the Phoenix Installation began to break apart, the anti-matter devices exploding on command.*

Modified Pondus-class Super Freighter The Happy Failure II
Commanding Officer: Captain Yerres Toln
Executive Officer: Colonel Gare Taggert
Armament:
[22] Asteroid-Tug Tractor Beam Projectors (Mounted on Dorsal and Ventral surfaces)
[12] Quad Tractor Beam Projectors (Phylon Q7s, Mounted on Dorsal and Ventral surfaces)
Speed: 45 MGLT
Hull: Impervium-reinforced Heavy-grade Durasteel
Shielding:
-Primary: 3 ISD-72x shield generators (Located on bridge)
Countermeasures:
-ECM
Other:
-Hyperwave Package
Hyperwave transceiver
Hyperwave transmitter
Hyperwave signal interceptor
-Scanner Package Mk. I
Full-spectrum transceiver
ILF-5000 Life Form Scanner

Modified Pondus-class Super Freighter Just Cause II
Commanding Officer: Captain Rath Alklay
Executive Officer: Colonel Caden Durrmann
Armament:
[22] Asteroid-Tug Tractor Beam Projectors (Mounted on Dorsal and Ventral surfaces)
[12] Quad Tractor Beam Projectors (Phylon Q7s, Mounted on Dorsal and Ventral surfaces)
Speed: 45 MGLT
Hull: Impervium-reinforced Heavy-grade Durasteel
Shielding:
-Primary: 3 ISD-72x shield generators (Located on bridge)
Countermeasures:
-ECM
Other:
-Hyperwave Package
Hyperwave transceiver
Hyperwave transmitter
Hyperwave signal interceptor
-Scanner Package Mk. I
Full-spectrum transceiver
ILF-5000 Life Form Scanner

STARSHIPS (from Shipyards)
94x Heresiarch-class Supreme Corvette
4x Calavera-class Stealth Cruiser
4x LN-320xh Destroyer Droid
1000x LN-320xd Destroyer Droid
1227x Sors-class Gravitic Droid Vanguard
12x Eschaton-class Assault Fighters

SOLDIERS (from superstation garrison)
5x Sorcerer Ordinators
45x Ainsarii Ordinator Apprentices
10,000x Null Soldaten Vorgesetzter

FOOD & OTHER SUPPLIES
(approx.) 2 mil.x pounds of dry food rations
(assorted) unknown number of OCM and Blaster packs
(varying) Sets of TGMI&Scorpia Body armor and Weapons
(varying) Clothing (carried by Citizens) and stored clothing for (approx.) 7 mil. Citizens

CITIZENS OF INDECIA
(approx.) 4 mil. loyal Imperium Citizens

Sun Jan 08, 2012 11:23 am by Kaiden Sareno

Continued from Ralltiir Orbit ...

*Summarizing what appeared to be a brief and solid retreat of the land that was the Cron Drift, would do no one any good. Not even a full week had passed before Scorpia Industries was returning to the once abandoned Cron Drift. True, they had destroyed their Phoenix Installation and most of the Indecia in the process by means of anti-matter explosives, but the real gem of the Drift were her asteroids. Precious and in great quantity, the varying sized asteroids held a large selection of minerals and other valuable materials that could be easily harvested and processed, placed on the Galactic Market for sale and an easy few credits here and there.*

*Appearing in the same general asteroid-free zone they had left from, were twenty Corvettes and a multitude of Starfighters. Immediately they broke apart into small groups and entered the Asteroid field, running scans moment they arrived to map out the now mysterious field. Having previously relied on the Phoenix Installations gravity fields and her maps, the fleet of the Cron Drift would now always be in constant worry of crashing into one of the asteroids and ruining part of their ship.* *In the mean time, droid mining crews returned to work on some of the larger older asteroids that were being harvested before their retreat. They would have to wait for one of the Pondus-class Transports to tote the minerals elsewhere, however that didn't stop them from gathering it all together near the ruins of the Installation itself.*

Tue Jan 17, 2012 12:03 pm by Kaiden Sareno

Cron Drift Defense Fleet
20x Heresiarch-class Supreme Corvette

240 LN-320xa Droid Starfighter
300 LN-320xd Droid Starfighter
500 Sors-class Gravitic Droid Vanguard

*The loss of the Phoenix Installation was still heavy on the minds of those behind the shadow organization known as Scorpia Industries. Still holding the Cron Drift in their name, using her vast asteroid fields as mining resources, the company utilized it's major Droid Starfighters to guard their fallen citadel from being taken. By who exactly? No one could answer that. But the Drift was still defended.*

Tue Feb 07, 2012 12:22 pm by Kaiden Sareno

Cron Drift Defense Fleet
20x Heresiarch-class Supreme Corvette

240 LN-320xa Droid Starfighter
300 LN-320xd Droid Starfighter
500 Sors-class Gravitic Droid Vanguard

*Elements of the remnant Cron Drift defense fleet broke apart and conducted monthly scoutings of the massive Asteroid field that largely, and for the most part, remained open and free for anyone to scavenge and use for hiding. With their abundance of Droid drone Starfighters all slaved to the central computers of the twenty some Heresiarch Corvettes (the only craft with a human crew), the need to constantly update or speak with personnel on matters of the Drift was low.* *Passed down from Scorpia Industries command on Rhen Var was a list of orders to begin clearing and keeping clear a large portion of the asteroid field many lightyears away from the former Phoenix Installation. Rumors speculated that another Space Station, this time only a small outpost capable of housing a thousand soldiers and a few thousand civilians would be establish to keep the Heresiarch Corvettes maintained and staffed as well as refueled and armed.* *While for the moment the entirety of the rumor was speculation only, if one was to look closely at Scorpia bank records they would see an increase in space defenses as well as Shipyard pieces and manufacturing plants.. they were obviously up to something.*

Sun Feb 12, 2012 1:13 pm by Irrelevant

*One Derylin Space Defense Platform, hauled by a team of space tugs, crawls out of hyperspace out side of the proper boundaries of the Cron Drift. The tugs begin pulling the station to the edge of the asteroid field as the lead pilot comms the locals for an exact delivery location and instructions. The delivery form said that payment had been received, so this was a simple delivery.*

=Randal=

:: This is Randal, of Rendili StarDrive, requesting installation instructions for the Derylin Space Defense Platform ordered by Rhen Var. ::

Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:42 am by Kaiden Sareno

Irrelevant wrote:*One Derylin Space Defense Platform, hauled by a team of space tugs, crawls out of hyperspace out side of the proper boundaries of the Cron Drift. The tugs begin pulling the station to the edge of the asteroid field as the lead pilot comms the locals for an exact delivery location and instructions. The delivery form said that payment had been received, so this was a simple delivery.*

=Randal=

:: This is Randal, of Rendili StarDrive, requesting installation instructions for the Derylin Space Defense Platform ordered by Rhen Var. ::

:: Rendili StarDrives, :: *a strange, almost drone and droid-like voice projected over the open communication waves they were using said,* :: position Derylin Defense Platform at given coordinates here. :: *A pip and bing later, coordinates within the western quadrant of the Cron Drift, a small area once cleared of asteroids and now mostly clean of debris, were sent. If the Derylin possessed suitable sensor units, they would see several hundred Starfighters on their screen, yet visual aid did nothing to help them. The entire asteroid field was crawling with the protectors of the lost Phoenix Installation. They were everywhere, crawling on the large asteroids to even being housed within their hollow cores.*

Tue Feb 14, 2012 1:28 pm by Irrelevant

*The tugs pull the DSDP into position at the given co-ordinates. The tug's basic sensors fail to identify the droid fighters often mistaking them for small asteroids. As soon as the DSDP is in position, the tugs turn around and begin their trip back to Rendili.*

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