We have an emergency situation yesterday in Kyushu. A group of Zoners contacted us about a Outcast Battleship around the Taus, that they've been chasing for a while. Aparently this Battleship had no crew, and was commanded by a software. Who is behind that software, and who programed it is beyond our information. Callsign: Prometheus[Harvester24], Class: Outcast Dreadnought, attitude: Hostile.
The zoners informed us that this battleship was very powerful and it had managed to escape from their forces from Tau-31 and Tau-23. The Emperor, against his wishes, allowed the Zoners to bring a Warship to Kusari space, to search for this battleship. The Emperor also mobilized the Imperial Guard's Destroyers to perform the searching.
With the Imperial Guards blocking the New Tokyo jump gate, and watching the New Tokyo and Shikoku jump holes, and the Tau-23 jump hole. I ordered the Bakumatsu to guard the Tau-29 jump gate, and also sent a bomber to scout the Hokkaido jump hole. We got all the exits covered, however, if this battleship had tried to jump in any of the jump points, I don't think it'd not have made any difference to have it guarded or not, as our ships weren't capable of handle it alone, and it would have meant the lose of the Guardian ship.
The AFA came to assist us, they were sent to patrol the trade lanes, and also a couple of ships were sent to search for it above and below plane.
Although, the Prometheus didn't attempt to cross through any jump. The Zoner Battleship, callsign "Syros", found the Prometheus 35 clicks above the Tau-23 jump hole. One by one, we mobilized the fleet over there.
The Imperial Guard destroyer, callsign "Kanrin Maru", began communications with the Prometheus. However, the ship refused any kind of communication, and we only got statics from it.
After several minutes of efforts to get into Prometheus's Program, a Zoner from the TAZ association, by the name of "Avenging Angel" engaged the main program, and the exchange of information began.
The "Angel" tried to hack its program, to get it out of Kusari, I truly believe his intentions were to take possesion of this ship. Gladly or not, he failed to accomplish that. The Zoner left the area after his failure.
We proceed to use force, with the hope that it will start any emergency system that the Prometheus could have. We found out, that the Prometheus was holding 14 Naval pilots, which we rescued from its cargo hold.
Our scanners were getting a source of energy growing in the back of the ship, which indicated that it was trying to engage its cruise engines, which, it did. The whole fleet pursued it, and we got to stop it after flying 20 clicks to the Hokkaido jump hole. As soon as we stopped it, the entire fleet opened fire onto it.
It didn't last more than a few seconds against such a power. The remaining rests were to be scouted and all the data was sent to analize in our labs.
Apart from the result, it was a great demonstration of our power, and our fleet capacity, even when it was our whole fleet. I, as one of the commanders leading the fleet, couldn't be more proud of our acts.
There is a camshot from the moment of its explosion.
