Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26073440-20180530204003/@comment-29646689-20180530214923

Defense
Sparky helped me counter a bunch of things. For anything else coming at my stuff, cue tractor beams pushing them away. And I mean there's A LOT of these around.

Since Btd456creeper said some time ago that they placed the entire battle in its own dimensional bubble, I think Earth is outside it. And so, I think I am safe. And thus, I send my X-70K on engine boost towards Furnace.

Ion Pulse Cannon is dead.

The statement "detonate the shields" imply that you instakill them. Unfortunately, as I have stated before, the shields on Furnace can survive waves of FTL impacts and absorb them. The reason why those Halo attacks dealt more damage is because I am holding back.

The cringy singing fails to deafen me, because in space nobody can hear you scream. unless you are General Hux on the Starkiller Base.

Furnace shields 32%.

Dreadnoughts and battleships suffer minor shield damage. Smaller destroyers and cruisers suffer moderate shield damage.

Offense
The Interdictor cruisers get kaboom'd, but I had expected the possibility of this. Gravity well generators on Furnace and various larger ships activate. And thus revealing the other plan in my Operation Exterminatus. drumroll the Thrawn Pincer. The gravity well generators pull the previously jumped ships out of Hyperspace, behind the Forerunner dreadnought and in range of whatever engines are at its rear. These dreadnoughts (2 Sovereigns, an Eclipse 2, several Mandator 4s and 3 Executors) fire away at the engines, trying to disable them.

Meanwhile the TIE bombers are still blasting the Forerunner dreadnought with warheads.

(btw, my dreadnoughts disabled their SRAs for small amount of time to enable escape.)

I order my ships to execute an Alpha Strike. The various larger ships of the Imperial Fleet turn to face the incoming Halo ships with their wedge shapes, form a rough wedge formation, and fire all weapons simultaneously. For context, something like this can quickly convert the surface of a shielded planet into slag. ("quickly" defined as no more than 10 minutes)

I also order the bombers to execute a Nova Flare. Instead of bombing random structures, they try to find any major superstructures (10km cannons, ship bridge, engine, etc) and collectively fire proton torpedo warheads at them for concentrated fire.

Star Forge finished building its newest order. The Eclipses, Praetor 3s, and Resurgents forms a defensive formation around their creator. Star Forge stops building capital ships, and instead builds swarms of droid fighters.

Centerpoint Station (hidden) is done reloading, as is Starkiller Base.

Other things (PLEAS READ)
Attacks not responded to:


 * Planet at lightspeed launched by Centerpoint Station hitting Halo fleet


 * Starkiller Base superlaser

Both of these attacks are about a week old. If they are not responded to in 2 update cycles (defined as 2 of my update posts), I will probably just decide what they do.

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As this is all happening, a bunch of GR-75 cargo transports and Galleon-class cargo ships arrive from Hyperspace behind the Imperial Fleet and Furnace. They spread out, distributing supplies to capital ships. More cargo ships lift off of Furnace, carrying newly produced resources.

Entities and allies
Death Star: BOOMED

Death Star II: shield damaged

Starkiller Base: shielded, now regrouping

Star Forge: active, rebuilding ships

Furnace : active, shielding Imperial Fleet

Centerpoint Station: hidden, but has used its attack. Recharging.

Sun Crusher: hidden

Sun Razer: hidden

Mass Shadow Generator: DESTROYED

Arc Hammer: on Furnace

Emperor's Eye: active, defended by Sparky

Galaxy Gun: hidden

Molecular Disintegrator: operational (survived because it disintegrated its attacker)

Nova Bomb stolen from Halo: hidden

Ion Pulse Cannon: DESTROYED

Wormship: in a different dimension

███████: [DATA EXPUNGED] in Deep Core

Sparky: active, supporting shields

Eclogronio's fleet: active.

Infinite Engine: active, hidden

yes, the Infinite Engine exists. yes, it is hidden.