2439-40
2439.09.18 -- That didn't take long, less than three weeks for the ground combat to finish up. One planet down.
10.23 -- Now starts the Uri response. Just as the Fist of Boojie is about to jump out to the next system, a fleet of several dozen ships, mostly corvettes, arrives. Then a second one shortly afterwards.
11.05 -- Now a third, almost on top of us. Between the three of them, they outnumber us about two to one.
Of course, our ships are far larger with almost all of the Uri fleets being corvettes, but still we may take some losses here.
11.18 -- Having seen about 40 corvettes obliterated in a single salvo, I then watched a
fourth group jump in!
It was a real light show at knife-fight range, and even our nearby transports did not emerge unscathed. There were only so many weapons, and far more targets.
2440.01.28 -- After exactly three months of fighting, it was over.
This doesn't show everything: there were seven different groups of Uri ships altogether. Still you can see that the damage was rather one-sided. For our side, we did lose 70% of our troop transports; they were so close by due to being readied to jump out to the next system. This is simultaneously a great tragedy and almost completely irrelevant. Gene Warriors from a few systems, easily replaced later, were mobilized and sent in. This will amount to a delay of maybe weeks at most; perhaps not even that. Amazingly, not a single battleship was lost, though some were damaged pretty badly. On the Uri side though, the ledger read as follows:
13 transports
285 Corvettes
49 Destroyers
16 Cruiser
9 Battleships
It was so overwhelming that we even destroyed a ship that wasn't even there; the summary showed that for one flotilla, 44 out of 43 corvettes were eliminated! 372 total vessels blown into so much space debris. I'm not sure we exceeded that in any single battle even against the Scourge. This will definitely be a day long remembered. Even though we lost so many armies, the overall picture was still an overwhelming victory.
Intelligence reports that we have smashed the vast majority of their fleet here. Already we can potentially enter the mop-up phase of this war.
02.03 -- Setback on Sol'Anhace, as a few of the planets leaders have not been replaced yet on schedule.
04.01 --
Another small matter to deal with.
05.19 --
Unlike last time, we were able to find the bastard this go-round.
06.17 -- Gethmar, governor of Eskogg, dies at 162. It has been some time since we lost one of our leaders. It was a small matter to find a fairly young candidate skilled in the sciences.
07.02 -- Gravitational Analysis research completed. The Uri tried the usual tactic of sending transports in after our fleet moved on, but leaving a few battleships behind has put a quick end to that. Slow, steady progress in the war is expected, and the energy balance is now almost up to even so we can do this as long as is necessary. It would seem only a matter of time.
Research Director's Briefing: Dr. JIMGA Jr.
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Planetary Signal Boosters(Voidcraft, 41 mo.) -- +10% planetary sensor range
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Sentient Combat Simulations(Computing, 48 mo.)
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Assembly Algorithms II(Computing, 41 mo.) -- -5% construction time
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Applied Superconductivity II(Industry, 41 mo.) -- +5% energy
Dr. JIMGA Jr., at a mere 261 years of age, you must choose again.