C2

1 hour ago.

Captain how long till we exit the hyperspace?

Admiral Ludwig Schmidt geared up in his newest generation Mark 14 black exoskeleton armor asked out loud as he observed the UNS PUNIC's bridges tense crew all geared up in their Mark 14 black exoskeleton armor working tirelessly in their stations.

ETA 5 mins sir.

Arthur captain of a state-of-the-art UNS PUNIC Aegis-class battleship answered in a professional and disciplined manner.

So 5 more mins and we will find out if humanity still stands a fighting chance or are we doomed to lose our only chance of turning our dead Earth into a Gaia planet.

Ludwig murmured under his breath while pulling up PUNIC's holographic 3D holographic model out from his holographic table.

The spaceship measured over 1400 meters, with a height\depth of 800 meters and a rectangular and predatory aesthetically pleasing to the human eye shape.

More than a third of the length was occupied by 2 enormous chemical engines and its hyperdrive.

A huge mass of sensor arrays stabbed out from its bow.

It was armed to the teeth with coilgun cannons for long-range space warfare and medium blue laser canons for mid-range, hundreds of 40 mm PDC's (point defense canon) hidden all over the spaceship, and dozens of nuclear torpedoes pods.

Protected by a 1-meter thick ceramo-metal armor belt and deflector, a crew of over 10000 men and women manned the ship with onboard barracks and armories, medlab, laboratories, berths, and flight decks.

"The Intel pukes and R&D wackos say that PUNIC can destroy 3 fungies battleships on its own but it's just on paper it hasn't yet been tested in combat in fact not one of our spaceships had yet tasted blood"

Ludwig mused in his mind as he played around with his 3D model only to get pulled out from his thoughts by Yarrowreachers navy's attache Admiral Schlugger.

Admiral Schmidt are the rumors about Einherjars true? Are they really such monsters as your people say they are?

Ha!Ha!Ha! Admiral, Schlugger you have no idea. The only reason the fungies haven't conquered Sirius Prime yet is that the pre-war deployed Einherjars are slaughtering them left and right.

"And the ones on Apdrade Prime are the weakest with the most outdated tech they are like children in front of the zero generation, especially after their augmentation upgrades and new equipment"

Admiral Ludwig kept the last part of his thoughts to himself.

Admiral Schmidt, you're not telling the whole truth, are you?

Of course, I'm not after all we haven't yet officially formed our federation yet and it's our first war there's no way we would share all of our secrets with you. Your people first have to earn our trust just like we have to earn yours.

Fair enough.

Anyways Admiral Schlugger why did you volunteer to be the one sent over?

That's because I want to see personally if tying our fates together is the right path for my race to take.

I see...

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Inside the PUNIC's hangars space strike crafts pilot's geared up in their black Mark 14 exoskeleton armor could be seen boarding their fighters and bombers one after another.

While the service crew wearing different colored exoskeleton armor were busing reloading the strike rafts armaments and fuel tanks.

John hurry up will ya! It's only a couple of minutes before we exit the hyperspace and all hell breaks loose!

Lilith roared at the service crew rearming her all-black Mark 14 space fighter which looked like a sci-fi version of an F-22 raptor on steroids as she peeked her head out from her opened cockpit while tying her short hair painted in a mix of purple and pink with her left side reaching her neck and her right side reaching her right ear decorated with different colored piercings into a high bun.

Shut it you flying maniac! We're working as fast as we can! Or do you want me to accidentally drop this baby and blow us all up to kingdom come?!

John a 2 meters tall augmented human who received both civilian and military standard body augmentations said as he picked up a bigger-than-him space torpedo with a nuclear warhead with his exoskeleton armor glowed hands together with his battle buddy by the torpedoes front and end and installed it under Liliths strike crafts right wing.

That's it your good to go!

John said after seeing the space torpedoes status glow green on his HUD screen as he gave a thumbs up.

"If you're still alive big sis hang in there I'm coming for you and if you're not..."

Lilith thought in her mind as she looked at her and Hope's photo made during their military academy's graduation ceremony glued to her strike crafts control panel while putting on her fully-enclosed helmet with a hose connected to her strike crafts life support system.

In the photo both of the 20 years old looking girls were dressed in UN's standard black field uniform with black berets on their curly amber hair holding their graduation diplomas in their hands and they were so happy full of hopes and dreams for their futures but a year later the Ishri invaded and all their plans and aspirations shattered to pieces.

... I'll fucking exterminate their whole race.

Lilith said it under her breath in an ice-cold tone full of killing intent as her HUD screen lit up.

[System online]

[Neural connection-green]

[Exokeleton armor-green]

[Life support'green]

Valhalla, I Brunhild connection check over.

Brunhild, I Valhalla loud and clear over.

Lilith performed a connection check with her squadron's TOC(tactical operations center) as she booted up her strike crafts operating system by pressing a bunch of switches on her control panel causing her cockpit to close and depressurize itself while the strike crafts AI ran its readiness check.

[Mark 14 space fighter strike crafts all systems-green]

Only to hear the bridge shipwide announcement

Attention all personnel prepare for ship-wide depressurization! ETA till we exit out of hyperspace 3 minutes! All pilots prepare for taking off! I repeat! Attention all personnel prepare for ship-wide depressurization! ETA till we exit out of hyperspace 3 minutes! All pilots prepare for taking off!

Upon hearing this Lilith and all of the other strike crafts pilots dialed up their chemical thrusters output and started slowly navigating their strike crafts into their assigned positions while the air inside the ship got sucked out and the service crew vacated the take-off lines.

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Abrade system.

Out of nowhere in front of the Ishni fleet that numbered over 60 spaceships of different classes that were busy bombarding Abrade prime out of nowhere 16 black human spaceships blinked into existence all at once.

63 Ishi warships detected and locked on! They haven't picked up our presence yet! We have the element of surprise!

PUNIC's Sensors officer 2nd Lieutenant Chen said while staring at his station's glass see-through holographic monitor.

All ships sound the battle alarms, fire all our space torpedoes, and launch our fighters and bombers!

Admiral Ludwig roared into the fleet-wide intercom as he pulled up the 3D holographic situations model out from his table which showed the status of both of the fleets.

Yes!Sir! Weapons and flight control launch space torpedoes and our strike crafts!

Arthur echoed out Ludwig's orders as he too pulled up the situations model from his table.

Yes! Sir! Launching all of our space torpedoes!

Weapons Officer 2nd Lieutenant Katerine said as she pressed the torpedo's holographic launch button.

Attention all strike crafts TOC's (tactical operation center) launch all strike craft! I repeat! Launch all strike craft!

Flight control officer First Lieutenant Hans passed down Arthur's orders as fast as possible while pressing the holographic Hangars doors control button.

On all of the Human spaceships almost all at once all of their torpedoes launch pods opened up and from them hundreds of torpedoes flew out and after adjusting their trajectories flew straight to their designated targets.

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Brunhild, I Valhalla you have the green light! Good hunting may Odin bless you! over.

Valhala, I Brunhild copy over.

Lilith said as she slowly increased her thrusters output to the max causing a gust of blue flames to blast off the raised take-off ramp behind her strike craft making her fly out from the PUNICs hangar.

Lilith watched one after another strike craft fly out from the moving forward to Xenos fleet PUNIC's hangar and for up behind her into a large arrowhead formation made out of 3 arrowheads. w

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Admiral, we are in the range for our coilgun canons!

2nd Lieutenant Chen said expecting to hear and feel the sound and vibration of PUNICs coilguns firing their solid ceramo-metal warheads at the enemy's spaceships only to take a peek at Admiral Ludwig who was staring at his table without saying a word.

All ships fire! Fire all of our coilguns! Tear those fuckers into pieces!

BOOM!BOOM!BOOM!...

Almost at the same time all of the Humans spaceships started firing their coilguns at the Ishartis spaceships together.

One after another solid warheads impacted against the unprepared Ishartis spaceships deflectors and as they did a few unlucky Ishartis corvettes deflectors gave out after getting hit by PUNIC's salvo and got torn in half by the delayed UNS SNIPER Anvil class cruisers salvo of solid warheads.