Thors rebirth

[Cellulanus]

Prologue

Death

800 AS

"All guns, fire all will!"

Things have gone from bad to worse, Rheinland has just begun to celebrate its victory over Kusari when the entire invasion fleet was forced to return to Rheinland in light of a complete revolution. Now a fierce battle rages in the New Berlin system between the forces that left to Kusari and a force that consists of Rheinland Military and Rheinland police pilots that have decided to support the revolution supported by a sizable Liberty fleet, and the Battleship Thor is caught in the middle.

*Boom*

"Order flights Theta and Beta to take out the blasted torpedo bombers!"

"No use sir, Theta has been completely destroyed and Beta wing is pinned down."

Another explosion rocks the ship.

"Sir! The engine just took a direct hit!"

"Bring the primary turrets to bear on the nearest cruiser."

"No use sir, primary turrets aren't responding"

"Then bring the secondary turrets to bear on the target"

"No can do sir, they are just barely keeping the enemy gunboats at bay."

More explosions, this time sending shock waves across the ship, several crew are tossed onto the ground and a few command consoles short out and die.

"Verdammt, flak turrets are off line!"

The first officer turns to the captain, "Sir, with the flak turrets off line we will be completely open to bomber attacks"

"I know, helmsman bring us about, lets get out of here in one piece"

"No go captain, that last torp hit the reactor core, primary power is failing."

"Secondary turrets are off line, tetriary turrets offline, docking bay two offline, sensors fai-"

"Enough! Tell me what we do have!"

"Three defense turrets, sir."

"Set them to cover our escape. This is the captain to all hands, abandon ship. Repeat, abandon ship. Come, let us take the shuttle, we don't have much time"

A new alarm starts blaring across the ship, the crew begins to make a hasty retreat to the escape shuttles. On the bridge, the captain is the last person to leave. He takes one look at the bridge and is sure that he will be the last thing to command it.






Two weeks later



The ALG salvaging ship TX-436,
surveying the remains of the infested Rheinland fleet



"This sector is done, nothing out of the ordinary"

"Hey, Klaus, look at that."

"What do you see?"

"It looks like an intact battleship"

"Wait, let me see that scanner, you're right'

"What do you think we should do, all of the other ships are in pieces."

"We're bringing it back intact, send for a couple heavy lifters to drag this thing back to the staging area. We'd better get a big reward for finding this baby."