The World of The Gunny

The Numerian fleet commander, Sanshen d'Taneram, had had to cede the previous system to the bugs. His small fleet had been outnumbered almost twenty to one, he mused. His small collection of ships included cruisers, destroyers, and three escort carriers. One of which had been passing through for a deployment with 2nd Fleet near the USSA border. It had added a precious three destroyers to his task force as well.

His force lay eight light seconds out from the Gate. Seven cruisers of various types, eight destroyer, two anti-misile frigates, and three escort carriers with 24 fighters each was a motly force to contest any transit of the leviathons on the other side. Oddly enough, his most destructive units were his four Lanyur class destroyers. They were designed as poin blank sluggers with two heavy anti-matter cannon and able to launch three swarms of fast short range ship killers in rapid succession. Their missiles could also be launched in singles to thicken the task forces point defense. His cruisers were either 'balanced' designs or 'raider' designs. Raiders carried almost no anti-capital ship laser cannon at all. Instead the space was taken up by larger missile magazines and increased point defenses. Come to think of it, only the older Albion class light cruisers carried a single capital ship graser anymore and they were being phased out in the refits with an increased ECM suite.

The nearest Fleet Base was Darin Station, but it was two jumps away on the other side of the bugs. The next nearest base was Havilin d'Saurin Station, the home station of 2nd Fleet. That was about eleven jumps away and a little over two weeks travel by courier or scout destroyer. Maybe twenty four days for the remaining battleline. Until then he would be getting small anti-pirate task forces joining him. They would help, but individually would not bring much to the fight.

The best he could hope for were additional heavy units in transit to and from assignments. The battle cruiser Thourgrym d'Orly was a good example. She was already enroute to Numeria with a USSA diplomat onboard for talks about what to do about the bug threat. The Americans and Romans had already been invaded and most of 2nd Fleet had been enroute to help the USSA for the better part of three weeks now.

I look forward to more of this bud.



Cheers, Þórgrímr

This was why I had asked you about the time line and the alien races. I didn't want to disturb canon.