Inner Grinifrin system, (System 1-B)
6th August 2137AD
1st Wellington class Battleship Brigade of the Helian Empire

"Hmm...this ship ought to work for my capital city series of vessels, It has plenty of weapons and enough energy for 1 on 1's and ranged combat...That's olden New Zealands capital done...next design shall be named after Polands capital, Warsaw"

-Arleigh Ju-Anne, ship designer of the Wellington class Battleship and many other ships named after Capital cities from old terra

in the distant past...more than 100 years before the shattering...those who were greedy, foolish and power hungry enough to bleed the empire...suffered immensely

"The war between the newly formed faction, now formally known as the Inner System Confederation and the Helian empire has raged for 5 grueling years! This unjust war started in 2132, with Atrocious first raid on August 6th, on the convoys heading toward the Ultaheim system, cutting vital supplies off from the harsh Tundras, the Empire was swift to act and the Emperor had ordered an increased garrison for this system and the wormhole, even launching secured heavy mining operations on the Ultahemian moon of Helios as well as Alloy plants and ore processing plants in order to make the system more self sufficient in defending itself against this threat, reconnaissance was conducted, contact was initiated in the following months, they refused peace and drew to arms, attempting to swarm the wormhole with missile vessels...yet now, the Empire has secured strongholds within occupied ISC Territory and plans to Siege their newly discovered capital world of Baxtor and its moon system, now begins the Baxtorian campaign, hopefully bringing this war to a quick end, leading the charge will be our newest cutting edge Wellington class Battleships, capable of ranged combat and capital dogfighting. Rumors state that the Empire is currently working on a large, new class of ship, currently the specs aren't known exactly, it's just said to be larger than a battleship, possibly larger than the enemy Flagship class too, yet that is all we know, thats all from us, the Times of Tellus, stay tuned."

-Morning broadcast of the current situation with the Helian empire and the ISC, August 6th, 2137, 5th year anniversary of Attack day

Leading the charge: Fleet admiral John E. Sterling

Ships: 6 Wellington class Battleships

Objective: initiate siege of Huntrinar (baxtorian moon) to begin the Baxtorian campaign

Huntrinar defence fleet 1 Toad class Flagship, 2 Rune class cruisers, and 10 Mite class AI piloted fighters (garrison weakened from previous attacks)

Defence fleet Fleet Admiral: Juan Adrano

(HE)(Sterling, Battleship, "New Zealand")"Alright Wellies...time to start the campaign and take their underwater cities! Remember your training and lets give them the best anniversary possible...Prosperitas humanitati! Prosperitas imperio!"

The ships jump from Ultaheim Equatorial orbit into Huntrinar's SOI, making swift progress in going from crash course to orbit

(ISC)(Adrano, Flagship "Superior")"Contact lads...give em hell!"

(ISC)(Vlad, Navigator, Flagship "Superior")"Fleet Admiral, these ships are unkown...armament seems to be focused on intergrated weaponry, especially those plasma bays!"

(ISC)(Adrano, Flagship "Superior")"I'll analyze that later, Fleet, launch missiles, warping to their location in T-20 seconds, now...(Fleet Admiral Adrano analyzes the ships,) targets appear to be Battleship class vessels...with...an unusual amount of plasma weaponry bays...unless those 6 side ones aren't plasma..."

(HE)(Sterling Battleship "New Zealand")"Contact up ahead, ships launch torpedoes, aim for the Flagship, we knock that thing out they lose coordination! That saves us some sweat and damage!"

the Defence fleet warps to the battleships position

(HE)(Captain Norman, Battleship "Tabby")"Fleet Admiral, hostile cruisers are getting a bit fiesty, im head on-ing them! I'll order the torpedo gunners to continue launching torpedoes onto the Flagship!"

(HE)(Sterling Battleship "New Zealand")"Roger that Norman!"

(HE)(Captain Waddick, Battleship "Theia")"Enemy fighters are mine! Swarmers launch! Torpedo gunners focus fire on hostile Flagship, turret gunners, defend us against cruisers!"

(ISC)(Adrano Flagship "Superior")"(many hits were taken) Shields were temporarily down...(grunts) Navigator, identify the Flagship, we shall focus fire there"

(ISC)(Vlad, Navigator, Flagship "Superior")"Identified, it's the New Zealand"

(ISC)(Adrano, Flagship "Superior")"Aye, missile launchers, fire on the New Zealand, cruisers gang up on that thing, if we focus at one ship at a time we stand a chance of actually causing significant damage"

(ISC)(Bartholomew, Cruiser "Illustious")"a bit caught up here, multiple Battleships are taking me on at once, I may need some help"

(ISC)(Hari, Cruiser "Maul")"Roger that, sending support swarms, I'll try divert their attention to me, you go meet up with the rest and take on the New Zealand, I'll join up later"

(ISC)(Adrano, Flagship "Superior")"I'll send half of the fighters to assist you Captain Hari, that way should you swarm them their CIWS is occupied!"

(ISC)(Hari, Cruiser "Maul)"Copy that!"

(HE)(Sterling, Battleship "New Zealand")"Damnit...hostiles are ganging on me...I may not make it, should I not, Captain King, take the lead, coordination is key, 2nd Salvo is away! Fire at that flagship!"

(HE)(King, Battleship "Kyoto")"Roger that fleet Admiral, coming to your aid, hostile cruisers are trying to divert us here, ones heading your way!"

(HE)(Waddick, Battleship "Tabby")"launching swarmers...that things a dead rock!, Beams Fire!"

(ISC)(Bartholomew, Cruiser "Illustious")"Get to the life pods! Our shields are dying out! QUI-"

The Illustious was taken out by plasma beam fire to the reactor and shield Magnetizer, from the Tabby, this was the first demonstration of experimental Helian beam technology's power

(HE)(Waddick Battleship "Tabby")"ONE SHOT?! I'm going to have more fun with this! Fleet Admiral how are you holding up?"

(HE)(Sterling, Battleship "New Zealand")"Somewhat OK, my frontal Shields are getting pretty battered..., I'm charging my beams, fleet, charge your beams, aim for that Flagship!"

(ISC)(Adrano, Flagship "Superior")"If they use this thing on us...I thing we are done...we should focus fire on those beam turrets, seriously, we take those things out and they are done, Fleet! Focus fire on hostile beam turrets!"

(ISC)(Hari, Cruiser "Maul")"Roger that! Swarmers launch!"

(ISC)(Drew, Cruiser "Chadwick")"Roger that, plasma turrets focus fire there,"

(HE)(Sterling, Battleship "New Zealand")"Thrusters fire! We might still be sent flying backwards...Beams Fire!"

most of the Battleships had fired their beams alongside Sterling, the Flagship suffered immense damage, yet was still active as a derelict looking vessel, serving as the central command center for the fleet...Fleet Admiral Adrano survived, yet its Shield magnetizer was severely damaged, the Shields have been significantly weakened..."

(ISC)(Adrano, Flagship "Superior")"We survived....that, this thing won't last long, Crew, get to the lifepods, I'll ram this thing into the Flagship!, don't worry about me just go!"

The Crew then say their goodbyes and leave, Fleet Admiral Adrano then attempts to ram the ship into the New Zealand yet Fleet Admiral Sterling evades and goes up, after that, the Superior was torpedoed down by Fleet Admiral Sterling...

(HE)(Sterling, Battleship "New Zealand")"Flagship eliminated! Alright, Fleet take out their cruisers, our CIWS has taken out their fighters, it's just the cruisers now, we can kill em!"

(HE)(Waddick Battleship "Tabby")"Aye! Charging beams, firing intergrated cannons, im dogfighting this one!"

(ISC)(Hari Cruiser "Illustious")"Grrgh...this one's head on-ing me, our most optimal plan is to still retain out positions and plan, take out the New Zealand"

(ISC)(Sara Cruiser "Alandor")"Our combined firepower won't be enough! One of us needs to banzai into it or atleast create a decent opening by the Shield magnetizer and then precisely strike a devastating blow...which has low odds!"

(ISC)(Hari Cruiser "Illustious")"Fine...going in, Crew, Abandon Ship, I'll set this thing on a crash course, these cruisers were great against older helian ships..."

The Crew abandons the ship...and the kamikaze charge commences...the Illustious hits the New Zealand, yet, not head on, it instead flew straight through the side, damaging the vessel tremendously...the Illustious then drifts off...as an abandoned vessel (funfact: no one knew its exact trajectory after the collision, so even after the war, many wanted to find the Illustious (or half of it), even to this day, the Baxtor Imperium is searching for it to reverse engineer the old ISC vessel into a potentially new class of vessel despite the very outdated technology)

(HE)(Sterling Battleship "New Zealand")"HOLY- now I only have half the damn ship!...left side is inhospitable, all doors leading there are closed...the hell am I going to fly this thing?!"

Eventually, the Helian Pilots beam the last remaining cruisers, saving the bulkhead torpedoes for any structures on the moon itself, eventually, after about 30 minutes, a heavy missile Contact appears on Sterlings radar, it's a missile from an ISC base on Huntrinar, the CIWS fires all it can, even the main turrets fire at it, fortunately, it was enough to deviate the missile offcourse, leaving it lost in space (since it was traveling too fast to come around for Sterlings ship, it would take a while for it to slowdown and speed up again, even by that time, the ships left).

(HE)(Sterling Battleship "New Zealand")"Well, our bulkhead torpedoes can survive Huntrinars atmosphere, I have the base on lock, im firing a salvo"

(HE)(King Battleship "Kyoto")"I wonder why the ground crews only decided to react now...they had all this time...I'm not complaining yet...seriously"

(HE)(Suki Battleship "Vela")"It's because the I in ISC stands for Innefficient or Incompetant, take your pick!"

(HE)(King Battleship "Kyoto)"That's one way to put it indeed"

The bulkhead torpedoes had survived the atmosphere, somewhat malformed yet Still fine, they then hit the bases missile Silos, disabling them and the bass offencive and defencive capabilities, the ships warp away back to Ultaheim, Huntrinar surrenders and is under Helian control, the Helian Empire then proceed to send guarded convoys and dropships to the moon to occupy it and build a stable stronghold, as well as many military vessels to form a formidable garrison

-The Siege of Huntrinar, 6th August 2137AD, the battle that secured Huntrinar, thus beginning the Baxtorian Campaign

Wellington Class Battleship

The Wellington class Battleship was a formidable and versatile combat unit for its time, made for fighting against the aging ISC designs (which were made to fight against older helian vessels) in order to progress in the war. The Wellington class Battleship enables pilots to choose their fighting method, between capital ship dogfighting, which sports its large intergrated cannons and CIWS or ranged combat, using majority of its other armament, primarily its experimental helian Beam turrets (due to them being experimental the pilots didn't want to risk using it first in combat should something go wrong) or even its rapid torpedoes, thus making this ship loved amongst its captains and also mass produced, since it didn't take too much resources to produce. This ship comes armed with a total of 6 tri barrelled heavy helian battleship turrets, 2 experimental beam turrets, 8 intergrated plasma cannons, 2 intergrated rapid fire plasma bays and 6 medium, rapid torpedoes. This ship historically has been the backbone of many fleets and battles, fighting in very important battles, such as the Siege of Huntrinar, the siege of baxtor itself amongst many others in other wars, yet it was declared Obsolete in the year 2203AD, and production stopped. In the post shattering Interstellar war, these ships are still in storage, yet a lot of factions are choosing to scrap them for metal and use that metal to produce better modern battle units, mainly the Helian Remnants choose to scrap them, yet there are a large amount of factions that choose to still use these ships instead since they either lack the infrastructure to do so or because they dont want to clog their shipyards with scrapping operations, hence they either keep them as is or modify them with modern weapon systems, these ships do perform quite well even in modern day battles when used right.

Inspiration:

I'm not lying, a Literal fricking spatula

Essentially I thought of a ship with the hull shape and specs of a spatula, yet since I'm too lazy to do math for asymmetrical designs I thought of taking 2 of those and sticking them bottom to bottom and in the designer it came out pretty great! I just modified it a bit.

Who are the ISC?

Well the ISC began as a facti-...

Hehe Boi!...that's for you to guess brochachos, I did modify helian lore earlier yesterday (since I had from Thursday to today free) since I realised...a Faction needs history...peace is boring without nuance and war is interesting if it is written correctly, also it would give worlds some more in depth history too! Systems as well! So perhaps you guys could guess? I guess like guessing games sometimes...anyway I'd like to also say, Exams are over! (HELL YEAH!), yet school still continues for a week and a half, starting tommorrow...so yeah, then its holiday...when we go back? Idk probably in a weeks time if im guessing by date...

Nonetheless, Live Long and prosper and thank you!