Shivae Gravity Well, 0855 Terran Time<br/><br/>Shivae was a cold planet; its ambient temperature, in summer, was around Ten or so degrees below freezing, though there was some argument over whether it was measured on the farenheit or centigrade scale.<br/><br/>In orbit, the TEC had laced dozens of Gauss Defense satellites, essentially giant cannons that were fitted with some thrusters to maintain position and aim at targets. Effectively miniaturized versions of the spinal cannon in the Kol Battleships, most of the satellites were clustered around the planet's main population centres, which had managed to avoid hostile bombardment due to the Cannons being a serious threat to any enemy vessel within range.<br/><br/>At the moment, there were two separate, but openly hostile fleets, Totaling Approximately Forty ships, not counting the swarms of strike craft that flitted about, taking pot-shots at one another. Rimward from the planet, an Advent fleet waited, a pair of angular, but curved Capital ships making up the central formation. That central formation, Identifiable as a Halcyon Carrier, and a Radiance Battleship, was surrounded by a Dozen Disciple-class Frigates, commonly, and derisively, nicknamed 'flying pintos' by Some wags in TEC intelligence. A half-dozen cruisers fleshed out the formation, several Destra Crusaders acting as the main 'punch' behind the Lighter frigates.<br/><br/>Coreward, almost directly across the Gravity well from the Advent fleet, a Vasari Fleet held station, protectively surrounding a 'Space Egg'; one of their Jarrasul Evacuators. A massive ship by any stretch of the imagination, the Ovid Vessel was twice the size of the two Capital ships that flanked it, a Vulkoras Desolator and a Skirantra Carrier stood like a pair of loyal, overly large guard animals, waiting on any potential for abusing targets of opportunity. Screening the capital vessels, instead of short-range Skirmisher-type Frigates, the Vasari has a Dozen Kanrak Assailants, heavy missile frigates designed to punch holes at long range, which, in turn were screened by a half-dozen Skarovas Enforcers, Missile and Plasma beam-armed Cruisers, eagerly awaiting the chance to Hammer an enemy vessel into scrap.<br/><br/>Finally, hovering only a few hundred kilometres from the South pole, a single TEC capital ship hid, its emissions masked in the magnetic field of the planet, waiting silently as, at the one 'empty' known phase lane, the TDN Agronev Arrived in-system, armed and ready for anything.<br/><br/>(OOC: Images of known enemy Vessels)<br/>(Advent Ships)<br/><br/>http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/sinsofasolarempire/images/a/ae/Halcyon-Carrier.jpg (http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/sinsofasolarempire/images/a/ae/Halcyon-Carrier.jpg)<br/>http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/sinsofasolarempire/images/e/ee/Radiance-Battleship.jpg (http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/sinsofasolarempire/images/e/ee/Radiance-Battleship.jpg)<br/>http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/sinsofasolarempire/images/9/92/Disciple.jpg (http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/sinsofasolarempire/images/9/92/Disciple.jpg)<br/>http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/sinsofasolarempire/images/9/96/Destra-Crusader.jpg (http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/sinsofasolarempire/images/9/96/Destra-Crusader.jpg)<br/><br/>(Vasari Ships)<br/><br/>http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/sinsofasolarempire/images/8/8b/Jarrasul_Evacuator.jpg (http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/sinsofasolarempire/images/8/8b/Jarrasul_Evacuator.jpg)<br/>http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/sinsofasolarempire/images/a/a6/Vulkoras_Desolator.jpg (http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/sinsofasolarempire/images/a/a6/Vulkoras_Desolator.jpg)<br/>http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/sinsofasolarempire/images/c/c5/Skirantra_Carrier.jpg (http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/sinsofasolarempire/images/c/c5/Skirantra_Carrier.jpg)<br/>http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/sinsofasolarempire/images/5/53/Skarovas_Enforcer.jpg (http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/sinsofasolarempire/images/5/53/Skarovas_Enforcer.jpg)<br/>http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/sinsofasolarempire/images/8/8e/Kanrak_Assailant.jpg (http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/sinsofasolarempire/images/8/8e/Kanrak_Assailant.jpg)