Post by Shadowstrike on Dec 27, 2017 19:35:01 GMT
Years ago humanity found the allspark, as well as the existence of Cybertornian technology. Since then they have studied it constantly, using it's knowledge to power their own technological advancement all while trying to learn it's greatest secrets. Seven months ago in an attempt to harness the enormous power within, they destroyed it's shell unleashing it's contained energies and accidentally reviving Cybertron in the process.
An event that was felt across the galaxy heralding Cybertronians of all allegiances back home. As within days both Autobot's and Decepticon's alike had returned to Cybertron, with the Autobot flagship known as the Regenesis and the Decepticon warship known as the Victory at the vanguard. It was only natural such an arrival would be met with a call to war and the death of hundreds in what is now known as the Battle above Cybertron.
A conflict which despite only occurring between two battleships, led to grave losses for both sides. This is in part because the two ships held the leaders of their faction including the Decepticon Supreme Commander Livewire and the Autobot Prime, Skyspray. Both of who suffered severe injures in the battle, although Skyspray's where the most notable at the time as they would lead to his death during the battle against the DJD leader Tarn who would also perish in the fight. While in contrast Livewire's injuries where internal and led to a sustained stasis-lock only days after the battle due to a lack of treatment.
In the aftermath the Regenesis crash landed in Iacon, while the Victory miraculously continued onward to land in the outskirts of Kaon. It was during this time that the Autobot's recovered under the leadership of the newly promoted Vatimus Primus Sillius, as the Decepticons continued to deteriorate without their own strong leadership and a single person to unify them.
Within only hours upon landing Vatimus had began moving the Autobot forces towards the stronghold of Metroplex City, a decision that would favor them greatly in the following days as they where attacked by a small Decepticon force consisting of Backbeat, Tarn and Kickstart along with her drones. Which where completely unable to penetrate the Autobot defenses, as the Decepticons main force was wiped out while the commanders where forced into a disgraceful retreat. Only to return home to Kaon, a city ravaged by the Great Civil War and the Exodus before it was left to crumble as the newly arrived Decepticon's bickered amongst themselves.
It was to this sorry state, that the new Supreme Commander, Lord Ailnoth arrived with the support of the Nemesis. A symbol of power he used to support his own leadership campaign as he organised the remnants of the original force for war.
Since then the armies of both the Autobots and Decepticon's alike had grown drastically as they pushed to consume as much ground as they could before the inevitable stalemate which has focused on three central points.
It is here where our story continues, only days away from the battle of Petrex. An event that could break the stalemate of the war and allow one faction to push onwards to an eventual triumph.
After the timeskip, both Iacon and Kaon have recovered with much of the surrounding cities having been repaired to an acceptable measure as well. In the case of Iacon the Autobot's currently are situated in their central base of Metroplex city, while the Decepticons have reacquired Darkmount which in this universe is located within Kaon.
For a representation of the current battlelines a map is provided below.
In this map red represents the Autobot's with the darker shades of red being located within the sea of rust. In contrast the Decepticon's are purple.
As you can see from this map there is a number of places where the two factions meet each other. For the most part however the borders between the Sea of Rust and standard locations are lightly contested, as neither side is able to bring their full resources quickly into or out of the sea of rust. As such most of the fighting is centered around locations that are either side by side, or connected by the white hyperlanes. This includes;
Petrex/Esserlon, Tyrest/Tagan, Peptex/Protihex as well as the area surrounding Burthov.
Due to the large amount of territory that exists on Cybertron, in the last seven months since the time skip, millions of Cybertronians have arrived on planet from across the galaxy to fill in the armies of either side. As the two factions prepare to meet each other in the invasion of Petrex, a town which could decide the fate of the war
With the timeskip both sides are stalemated and require a victory that could give them the momentum to push forward. The battle of Petrex is the Decepticon's attempt to do so.
Petrex is a twin-mode town on Cybertron, located north of the Pancontinental Expressway and bordering Esserlon.
The Pancontinental Expressway (which bridges through the sea of rust and between the Autobot and Decepticon town) possesses massive transports capable of quickly transferring resources including new troops. When both sides captured one of the town's though they decided to shut it off preventing the enemy from transporting their reinforcements onto the frontline. As such both sides are forced to use troop transports across the sea of rust and other much slower methods to move their armies.
So when the battle of Petrex begins it's not so much a battle for the town, but rather access to their bridge controls as the Decepticon's hold a well stocked and armed invasion fleet on the edges of the expressway, which if allowed access will overrun the Autobot outpost. If they fail though the Autobot's stronger defenses and foothold shall triumph.
Offensive Objectives
- Destroy Petrex border AA emplacements, allowing for more shuttles to enter it's airspace allowing for the second wave. [Either an exact number listed beforehand with locations to target or a command post]
- Capture and Fortify Petrex's side of Pancontinental Expressway.
- Enter the city and fight towards central command center.
- Activate the Petrex expressway and hold out till reinforcements arrive.
Defensive Objectives
- Kill enough Decepticons to force them to retreat, while not allowing the AA emplacements to fall
- Kill enough Decepticons to force them to retreat, while Reinforcing the Pancontinental Expressway.
- Push them back from within the city.
- Retake the control center to send the reinforcements back
Their while be a post order, although it may not be a rigid one. Part of this is because after a rotation both me and Vating will report our current troop numbers OOC to give everyone an idea of how the battle is progressing. Since their is no official NPC rules on the forums at this moment you while be allowed to kill multiple npcs within a single post, though naturally the staff intend to moderate things so their's no one outright eliminating hundreds in a single post, nor is their anyone destroying dozens with oneliner posts.
We are currently intending to have the armies around 15k on each side in total. For the Decepticons their first wave while be close to 5K although when the AA emplacements are destroyed the much larger reinforcement wave shall arrive. We have decided to go with these numbers because we wanted a massive sense of scale in the main campaign of a war which has expanded across the galaxy, if this does not mesh with a particularly continuity then please remember we are only influenced by Aligned and other continuities not outright restrained from changing details.
Q&A
Are we allowed to use alternate plans of attack? - How these objectives are completed while be up to the players, but for logical reasons they will need to be completed. (So not really sure how else to expand on alternate plans of attack being optional)
we are starting the time skip with a fight?/Will we get a chance for ic planning? - We do plan to have the timeskip start shortly before the battle itself to give people a chance to settle into the new time, this can also be used for IC planning.
An event that was felt across the galaxy heralding Cybertronians of all allegiances back home. As within days both Autobot's and Decepticon's alike had returned to Cybertron, with the Autobot flagship known as the Regenesis and the Decepticon warship known as the Victory at the vanguard. It was only natural such an arrival would be met with a call to war and the death of hundreds in what is now known as the Battle above Cybertron.
A conflict which despite only occurring between two battleships, led to grave losses for both sides. This is in part because the two ships held the leaders of their faction including the Decepticon Supreme Commander Livewire and the Autobot Prime, Skyspray. Both of who suffered severe injures in the battle, although Skyspray's where the most notable at the time as they would lead to his death during the battle against the DJD leader Tarn who would also perish in the fight. While in contrast Livewire's injuries where internal and led to a sustained stasis-lock only days after the battle due to a lack of treatment.
In the aftermath the Regenesis crash landed in Iacon, while the Victory miraculously continued onward to land in the outskirts of Kaon. It was during this time that the Autobot's recovered under the leadership of the newly promoted Vatimus Primus Sillius, as the Decepticons continued to deteriorate without their own strong leadership and a single person to unify them.
Within only hours upon landing Vatimus had began moving the Autobot forces towards the stronghold of Metroplex City, a decision that would favor them greatly in the following days as they where attacked by a small Decepticon force consisting of Backbeat, Tarn and Kickstart along with her drones. Which where completely unable to penetrate the Autobot defenses, as the Decepticons main force was wiped out while the commanders where forced into a disgraceful retreat. Only to return home to Kaon, a city ravaged by the Great Civil War and the Exodus before it was left to crumble as the newly arrived Decepticon's bickered amongst themselves.
It was to this sorry state, that the new Supreme Commander, Lord Ailnoth arrived with the support of the Nemesis. A symbol of power he used to support his own leadership campaign as he organised the remnants of the original force for war.
Since then the armies of both the Autobots and Decepticon's alike had grown drastically as they pushed to consume as much ground as they could before the inevitable stalemate which has focused on three central points.
It is here where our story continues, only days away from the battle of Petrex. An event that could break the stalemate of the war and allow one faction to push onwards to an eventual triumph.
After the timeskip, both Iacon and Kaon have recovered with much of the surrounding cities having been repaired to an acceptable measure as well. In the case of Iacon the Autobot's currently are situated in their central base of Metroplex city, while the Decepticons have reacquired Darkmount which in this universe is located within Kaon.
For a representation of the current battlelines a map is provided below.
In this map red represents the Autobot's with the darker shades of red being located within the sea of rust. In contrast the Decepticon's are purple.
As you can see from this map there is a number of places where the two factions meet each other. For the most part however the borders between the Sea of Rust and standard locations are lightly contested, as neither side is able to bring their full resources quickly into or out of the sea of rust. As such most of the fighting is centered around locations that are either side by side, or connected by the white hyperlanes. This includes;
Petrex/Esserlon, Tyrest/Tagan, Peptex/Protihex as well as the area surrounding Burthov.
Due to the large amount of territory that exists on Cybertron, in the last seven months since the time skip, millions of Cybertronians have arrived on planet from across the galaxy to fill in the armies of either side. As the two factions prepare to meet each other in the invasion of Petrex, a town which could decide the fate of the war
With the timeskip both sides are stalemated and require a victory that could give them the momentum to push forward. The battle of Petrex is the Decepticon's attempt to do so.
Petrex is a twin-mode town on Cybertron, located north of the Pancontinental Expressway and bordering Esserlon.
The Pancontinental Expressway (which bridges through the sea of rust and between the Autobot and Decepticon town) possesses massive transports capable of quickly transferring resources including new troops. When both sides captured one of the town's though they decided to shut it off preventing the enemy from transporting their reinforcements onto the frontline. As such both sides are forced to use troop transports across the sea of rust and other much slower methods to move their armies.
So when the battle of Petrex begins it's not so much a battle for the town, but rather access to their bridge controls as the Decepticon's hold a well stocked and armed invasion fleet on the edges of the expressway, which if allowed access will overrun the Autobot outpost. If they fail though the Autobot's stronger defenses and foothold shall triumph.
Offensive Objectives
- Destroy Petrex border AA emplacements, allowing for more shuttles to enter it's airspace allowing for the second wave. [Either an exact number listed beforehand with locations to target or a command post]
- Capture and Fortify Petrex's side of Pancontinental Expressway.
- Enter the city and fight towards central command center.
- Activate the Petrex expressway and hold out till reinforcements arrive.
Defensive Objectives
- Kill enough Decepticons to force them to retreat, while not allowing the AA emplacements to fall
- Kill enough Decepticons to force them to retreat, while Reinforcing the Pancontinental Expressway.
- Push them back from within the city.
- Retake the control center to send the reinforcements back
Their while be a post order, although it may not be a rigid one. Part of this is because after a rotation both me and Vating will report our current troop numbers OOC to give everyone an idea of how the battle is progressing. Since their is no official NPC rules on the forums at this moment you while be allowed to kill multiple npcs within a single post, though naturally the staff intend to moderate things so their's no one outright eliminating hundreds in a single post, nor is their anyone destroying dozens with oneliner posts.
We are currently intending to have the armies around 15k on each side in total. For the Decepticons their first wave while be close to 5K although when the AA emplacements are destroyed the much larger reinforcement wave shall arrive. We have decided to go with these numbers because we wanted a massive sense of scale in the main campaign of a war which has expanded across the galaxy, if this does not mesh with a particularly continuity then please remember we are only influenced by Aligned and other continuities not outright restrained from changing details.
Q&A
Are we allowed to use alternate plans of attack? - How these objectives are completed while be up to the players, but for logical reasons they will need to be completed. (So not really sure how else to expand on alternate plans of attack being optional)
we are starting the time skip with a fight?/Will we get a chance for ic planning? - We do plan to have the timeskip start shortly before the battle itself to give people a chance to settle into the new time, this can also be used for IC planning.