First Strike Prologue --- Babylon Five Versus Star Trek
Posted: 2005-03-03 04:03pm
Hi everyone. I've read the site and some forum posts and I thought I'd try my hand at a Fanfic. This is my first and any constructive criticism is welcome. First, a little bit of science -
If we assume the tech manual is correct, (and Mr Wong does on occasion so why not?)
Galaxy class: "Shield heat dissipation: 3311 GW peak"
B5 Guns 200 megawatt pulse cannons are standard with a rate of fire of two, maybe three shots a second. In about ten seconds the Galaxy's shields would be down. For the fic I'll make this more like 30 seconds.
Earth Alliance particle beams can do about 500 kt a second. So far so good.
The victory class' beam weapons would do about six megatons of damage a second. No armour mod because, well, how is fed armour going to stop
anything?
Figures from http://www.B5Tech.com
That should do it:
---------------FIRST STRIKE---------------
-----------Prologue-----------
IAS EXCALIBUR
The IAS Excalibur soared through space, a gleaming instrument of death, two kilometres long. It headed straight for an empty stretch of space; no stars were visible in a twenty kilometre wide area.
On the Excalibur's bridge captain Matthew Gideon stared intently at the viewscreen.
"Got that scanning data?" he asked Lieutenant Matheson.
"It's like a Drakh Null Field but it seems to be different somehow," came the reply, "The probes we sent through managed to get a few pictures back; I have them here."
Gideon studied the pictures. This was worrying. A dozen or so strangely designed starships were all clustered together facing the probe.
"Any more pictures?"
"No sir."
"Dammit," said Gideon, "We need some intel. Who are these people? We need to know if we should get reinforcements from Earth. They'll take three days to get here."
Matheson looked out of the viewport for a few seconds.
"We could send in a Thunderbolt 'fury." he said, eventually.
"Do it."
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IFS TERROR, FORMERLY 'ENTERPRISE'
Admiral Janeway stood on the bridge of her mighty sovereign class ship. To her left and right the best conscripts worked to glean every bit of information from the null-field spread out in front of her.
"Admiral?" came a voice behind her. Janeway turned to face the speaker.
"What is it, Ensign?"
Ensign Riker swallowed. "There's a disturbance in the null-field, sir," he said, "Something is about to come through."
Just after he said that, something came through.
IAS EXCALIBUR
"We're getting data from the 'fury." said Matheson, staring down at a screen.
"Put it on the main screen." said Gideon.
TWELVE SHIPS IDENTIFIED
ALL BETWEEN 350 - 680 METRES IN LENGTH
SCANNING HULL MARKINGS..... RESULTS FOLLOW:
IFS TERROR
IFS HARBRINGER
IFS EMPIRE
IFS DEATHBR-
The feed cut out in an instant.
IFS TERROR - FORMERLY 'ENTERPRISE'
Janeway looked down out the sensor data.
"A millitary vessel. Send to commander starfleet. 'Military space vehicle sent through null-field. Threat to holdings of Federation Empire. Sending through task force. Ready fleet for full scale invasion.' "
She stalked over to the command chair. Sat in it.
"Take us in."
The task force sailed into the null field.
IAS EXCALIBUR
Matheson looked up from the sensor screen.
"Oh shit." he said, "We're in trouble now."
TO BE CONTINUED
If we assume the tech manual is correct, (and Mr Wong does on occasion so why not?)
Galaxy class: "Shield heat dissipation: 3311 GW peak"
B5 Guns 200 megawatt pulse cannons are standard with a rate of fire of two, maybe three shots a second. In about ten seconds the Galaxy's shields would be down. For the fic I'll make this more like 30 seconds.
Earth Alliance particle beams can do about 500 kt a second. So far so good.
The victory class' beam weapons would do about six megatons of damage a second. No armour mod because, well, how is fed armour going to stop
anything?
Figures from http://www.B5Tech.com
That should do it:
---------------FIRST STRIKE---------------
-----------Prologue-----------
IAS EXCALIBUR
The IAS Excalibur soared through space, a gleaming instrument of death, two kilometres long. It headed straight for an empty stretch of space; no stars were visible in a twenty kilometre wide area.
On the Excalibur's bridge captain Matthew Gideon stared intently at the viewscreen.
"Got that scanning data?" he asked Lieutenant Matheson.
"It's like a Drakh Null Field but it seems to be different somehow," came the reply, "The probes we sent through managed to get a few pictures back; I have them here."
Gideon studied the pictures. This was worrying. A dozen or so strangely designed starships were all clustered together facing the probe.
"Any more pictures?"
"No sir."
"Dammit," said Gideon, "We need some intel. Who are these people? We need to know if we should get reinforcements from Earth. They'll take three days to get here."
Matheson looked out of the viewport for a few seconds.
"We could send in a Thunderbolt 'fury." he said, eventually.
"Do it."
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
IFS TERROR, FORMERLY 'ENTERPRISE'
Admiral Janeway stood on the bridge of her mighty sovereign class ship. To her left and right the best conscripts worked to glean every bit of information from the null-field spread out in front of her.
"Admiral?" came a voice behind her. Janeway turned to face the speaker.
"What is it, Ensign?"
Ensign Riker swallowed. "There's a disturbance in the null-field, sir," he said, "Something is about to come through."
Just after he said that, something came through.
IAS EXCALIBUR
"We're getting data from the 'fury." said Matheson, staring down at a screen.
"Put it on the main screen." said Gideon.
TWELVE SHIPS IDENTIFIED
ALL BETWEEN 350 - 680 METRES IN LENGTH
SCANNING HULL MARKINGS..... RESULTS FOLLOW:
IFS TERROR
IFS HARBRINGER
IFS EMPIRE
IFS DEATHBR-
The feed cut out in an instant.
IFS TERROR - FORMERLY 'ENTERPRISE'
Janeway looked down out the sensor data.
"A millitary vessel. Send to commander starfleet. 'Military space vehicle sent through null-field. Threat to holdings of Federation Empire. Sending through task force. Ready fleet for full scale invasion.' "
She stalked over to the command chair. Sat in it.
"Take us in."
The task force sailed into the null field.
IAS EXCALIBUR
Matheson looked up from the sensor screen.
"Oh shit." he said, "We're in trouble now."
TO BE CONTINUED
