Kashyyyk
"We must withdraw!" One of the Bridge Officers commented, but the shipmaster ignored him
The weapons may have been torn from their sockets, but none can stop the greater good! The Shipmaster stared off for a moment, his eyes glowing orange, before he tapped a few commands, and took over his ships controls manually. Just a handful of seconds after their weapons had been removed the velites ship jumped into slipspace, and appeared so quick one could not distinquish the time passed. Overwatch read the time as about 10-19 seconds... For comparison, light would have travelled about 14.95 centimetres in that time, the Collective ship had travelled just over 384450 kilometers in that time, which was, in turn, just over the distance from the former Sol-3 to it's satellite. For those unaware, this meant that the secondary universe had a scale factor of 25715.7191, give or take (At least, over short differences...)
And the Collective had just used it to drop the ship right on top of the source of the devastating magic. In about than 3.1000000000000000001 seconds (Maybe give or take 10-20th of a second) the Shipmaster had turned his ship into living ammunition against the stealthed enemy ship, detected from the flare of energies
The Overseer stood, watching in shock from the bridge as the Velites exploded in dark energy as it emerged with the Equestrian stealth ship INSIDE IT. The result? Devastation of both ships, the Equestrian ship as it's hull was twisted and contorted, merged into the same space as the Velites... and then the Velites as the Equestrian shields scathed the section of the ship where it had arrived... unfortunately for both vessels, the Equestrian ship had emerged inside Section DERC-A2. As a result, the Dark Energy core was compromised... and the two ships became consumed as a result of the unstable core, consuming all. There was no sound, only a black ball blasting out with the diameter of 2.4 miles or so. The second core added energy to this, and the ball expanded by another mile. It then collapsed in on it's self, leaving nothing behind
"Sir... I believe they just..."
"Code sacrifice... They must have predicted a force like that was strong enough to cause further damage and wished to prevent such... whatever that thing was, it's power readings were off the charts to have emerged from no where... but a single stealth ship having done that... Damn magic"
"Honour?"
"Honour, move forwards, ready out point defence weapons. Jump forwards! We shall give them a bloody nose. Detonate all loose weapons. All ships, sacrifice upon threatening damage. For the Greater Good!" He barked out orders to the fleet, which entered space and came out among the Equestrian ships, firing their point defences wildly. No, the point defences would likely not destroy the Equestrian ships, but this seemed to be a display of honour and bravery rather than one of reason. The battle seemed lost.
Or maybe it wasn't. The ships launched their fighters and forces and aerial synths, now that they were close to the Equestrian ships they could get to them more easily, dropships launched out and warp cannons were fired from Marchers and Gunships in an attempt to break holes into the Enemy ships.
The two carriers came out over the dreadnaught, and dropped their two assembly and habitat walkers onto the top of it, which proceeded to fire all their weapons. The Assembly walkers fired their dark energy casters at the dreadnaught, while all of them fired their warp cannons and hardlight weaponry. They deployed their forces onto it, all fighting and blasting. "Bring down the dreadnaught!" Was the cry "Show them what it is to know no fear!"
Elite Lance Human teams attempted to break their way inside through any holes that might appear, aiming to turn the ship on it's self
While the Aquilifiers launched their assault on the dreadnaught, the other ships did what they could with their fighters to attack the other ships. If damaged, they had orders to either crash or jump inside the larger enemy ships, clearly with the intent to make the Equestrians lose more than the Collective. Assembly walkers, habitat walkers and Carriers worked over time with their teleporters, trying to deploy some forces down to the planet to cause chaos, mostly in the form of megarachnids
Should the ships be damaged further, they had orders to launch themselves into enemy ships and bring them down with them. Whether they would have the time to conduct such orders was unknown, though they hoped their close proximity to Equestrian ships might make the Equestrians refuse to open fire on them.
Behind them, alone in space, their weapons self destructed in a beautiful display, leaving nothing behind, no sad testament to the wasted resources above the world.
Unknown
"Find me that Chaos ship, strike it's amputated verdict, I want it contacted immediately. Start galactic scans, get the watchers on it, get psionics on it. I want it located, war may now be unavoidable, we will need allies."
"Can we trust them?"
"No. But that's the beauty of it, they can be trusted to be dishonest..."
The watchers begin scanning for the Chaos ship of Lord Nihilus, and trying to transmit out messages to get it's attention and convince it to come to the same space station it attacked before (which now has only a skeleton crew and is at least capable of supporting life" so that they may negotiate with it concerning what they have reffered to in the message as an "upcoming war with the pony races"
