Ghosts of the Past...

[Dab]

"It's here." His voice came out as a whisper, with a tone of deep satisfaction.

Captain Soren looked out the at the expanse of space through the generous view that the observatory windows provided. "I don't see anything.." He turned to look at Luciaden and took a surprised step back as he saw his face. More importantly, when he saw the blood red eyes, not just pupils, the entire eye was the color of blood.

Before he could figure out if it was real or a hallucination, the comm panel beeped. Soren walked over and started the holoproj, and the face of a young lieutenant came up.

"Sir, we have detected a ship heading.. .. - -"

"Yes we know its here," Luciaden bit out, interrupting him. "Have all gun crews prepare the Inferno turrets. They are to fire at the range of fifteen-hundred meters. The Caedo battlegroup is to prepare its trap." "Yes sir, right away." The Lieutenant's face disappeared as the transmission was cut.

It was another few minutes before the Miralukan Juggernaut was within the range of any of the station's weaponry, but eventually they started to see individual turrets start firing at it. After a minute, the saturation fire had become a full barrage. A few kilometers ahead of the ship the Caedo and its escorts were preparing the Inferno Web to catch the ship.

After countless shots rained down on the Juggernaut, it was becoming increasingly clear that it was not being effected. "Call off the cannons. Signal the Caedo to spring its trap. The Inferno Cannons are not to shoot until the ship is caught in the web. At that point, all station and battleship's cannons open fire." The Juggernaut came within a kilometer of the battlegroup as Soren relayed those orders to the generals in charge of the two separate operations.

The 'webbing group' consisted of six battleships. The Caedo, one of the other Outcast Dreadnaughts, two Zoner Juggernauts, and two Osiris-class battleships. All from the Caedo's fleet.

The two massive Zoner Juggernauts pulled the web, while the two side-positioned Osiris' made sure the web stayed out, instead of collapsing in on itself. The two trailing Outcast Dreadnaughts were to supply power to the web, and steady the ends of the web, so it did not simply slip over the target ship.

The battleships positioned themselves and waited for the ship to come. Having very little in terms of AI, the ship did not perceive the battleships, or the web as a threat and flew straight into it on its way towards the station.

As the tail-end of the web wrapped around the ship, the battleships and station opened fire with over 30 inferno cannons. The ship could be seen stretching the net's other side as it tried to stop the ship's built up kinetic energy. Eventually it slowed and stopped. The webbing around it slowly pulsating with massive energy.

"Sir," the voice of Captain Laren of the Caedo came from the comm speaker. "We have secured the ship and are preparing the web for transfer to the station." The background hum of the ship's bridge had picked up as the crew got the ship ready to transport a ship easily three times its size.

"Incoming object!" A voice of one of the bridge crew yelled out.

The view of the bridge rocked as something slammed into the battleship's side.

The screen went out as a bright burst of blue covered the screen.



To be continued








(OOC: Hopefully continued faster than it has been.. Sorry about the delay in it, but I've been busy with alot of RL stuff such as school, driver's ed eating my time, and a few other things. The story should progress faster now that driver's ed is almost over, and that I'll have plenty of time during the holidays to write.)

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