Across the empty void holes emerged, spewing forth long slender ships. One bigger than all the others, USS Sunderer had arrived!
In the front, on top of the ship, was a human in space suite. He bent over, as to gather all his strength, before exploding back up in a scream. And through all radio channels, a simple broadcast "Whaaaaahoo!"
"Admiral, the humans have arrived." Her head fell into her claws. Why, oh why, request help from the humans? They were as subtle as a supernova and only occasionally less destructive.
Time to synchronize for their joint stealth attack. "Reconfigure the network to accept the human signatures and get me their admiral."
They where going to attack their hated enemy, and the humans would help, mostly cause they were their biggest trade partner.
Unfortunately their military strategies and outlooks could not be more different. Theirs was a dance, an elegant weave in an out of enemy territory. Striking key points with focused strikes.
The humans strikes could only be said to be focused if your smallest possible target was a planet!
"Admiral, human transmission incoming." Here goes nothing, her first face to face with the human admiral, hopefully he would be more reasonable than the last one.
The admiral was not on his bridge, and was that a space suite? "Ehm, if your preoccupied we can recontact you later?"
"What? Oh no, this is just how I prefer it. Motivates the crew you see, don't let them hit the admiral!" The human chuckled to himself.
"Wait, are you perhaps the human on top of the USS Sunderer?"
"The very same, did you like the entrance?" Oh good, another lunatic.
"Let's just get this over with." She couldn't wait to get away from the humans and into battle. "Our forces will be on the enemies stations around the gas giant, and distracting the enemy fleet. While your armada bombards the fortified planet."
"Already got the briefing sweetheart, so don't worry. We brought a surprise!" Perhaps it wasn't too late to back out of this arraignment? No, her orders were absolute and she was loathed to admit it but the humans had better ships for planetary bombardment than anything she could bring up.
"Lets just do this, T-5min, over and out."
Now it was all in motion, all had been planed in excruciating detail, last minute checks were made and engines prepped for jump.
"All ships in fleet, prepare for jump on my command. JUMP!" Of into hyperspace, here ships beaming of all the colours from the exotic particles energetic interactions contrasted sharply to the humans dull blue.
Both entered the system at high alert, straight into defensive positions. They had been expected, or rather predicted. It was a good, although obvious plan, to attack the main supply depo. She could see her fleet quickly spreading out, darting in and out of fire as their shields glimmered by each strike from enemy projectiles.
Some ships exploded into fiery red, as their shields overloaded. Far more damage was being done to the stations, as lasers beamed across their surface. Glowing white hot from the heat.
It was going well, soon the main bulk of the enemy fleet would be all over them but they would be long gone by then. She dared a distraction to see what the humans were doing.
They hadn't even begun the bombardment? What was they doing? Was this the special surprise, sitting by the sidelines? If their admiral was about to call here 'sweetheart' the very least they could do was take part in the battle!
One strange thing was the USS Sunderer, that the screen had zoomed in to, it had broken into many pieces and was now many times longer than it had been before. She was about to ask for a more detailed report when a bright light filled the view.
Had the humans self detonated their ship? This was just getting weirder and weirder. A moment later another bright light, this time it was the fortified planet that shined like a star. But the humans hadn't even fired a single laser!
As the brightness diminished, the total devastation could be seen. USS Sunderer was no more but neither was the planet. Split into large chunks that started to orbit each other. Didn't matter how far down the fortifications had stretched, even if they had reached to the very core they couldn't have withstood that!
Objectives had been achieved, damage to the stations and destruction of planet fortifications. She looked at it in a moment of awe, interrupted by a message from the human admiral.
"Lovely battle, must get going. Good luck with the war and see you later, sweetheart!"