Battle of Namars point in Sol, 21351.57 AM, Jan 17 - 2135The station in the Nevada dessert on Earth registered a foreign object moving from the asteroid belt towards Earth on a direct collision course. It was only an hour or so before the object was identified as an unknown type of ship engine, never before seen or registered. The ship was moving in very high speed at almost 4200km/s, much faster than any Union vessels.
3.23 AM, Jan 17 - 2135First patrol squadron of Sparrow class patrol ships was ordered by rear admiral Bethany Cook to intercept and identify the incoming object. The senior commander Iseki Shuichi of the two ships was ordered to not fire unless they were fired upon and try to establish communication with the incoming vessel if possible.
10.42 AM, Jan 17 - 2135The two patrol ships USS Hussar and USS Middlesbrough had closed with the alien vessel and deployed their gravitation radar on the and precluded the size of the vessel was surprisingly small at roughly 894 tons. Commander Shuichi ordered the two ships to edge closer to get a better reading of the ship as the size seemed odd and might not really be correct for the IR signal or match the engine profile, something was odd so it required a closer inspection.
9.48.55 PM, Jan 17 - 2135The two ships now was quite close to the alien vessel, perhaps a few hundred thousand kilometres only when The Hussar detected several energy surges from the vessel after which several heavy impact was registered on the hull of the ship. Shuichi immediately broke off formation and started retreating while ordering commander Charlotte Norman of the Middlesbrough for arm their weapon and close in and fire their railguns.
After only a handful of second a second barrage of metal slugs ripped into the Hussar, but still the armour was holding it together, but for how long.
The Middlesbrough had now managed to close in on the enemy vessel and opened up fir with their own railguns and its shot impacted the enemy ship. More time passed and several times the Hussar was hit and started taking sever damage... the Middlesbrough was now chasing the enemy vessel and the Hussar launched their lifeboat vessel and started to prepare for abandoning ship. But in order to give Middlesbrough time to engage commander Shuichi ordered to stand their ground and the ship suddenly exploded and some survivors managed to get to the rescue pod but Shuichi died standing on the bridge.
Several more seconds passed and Middlesbrough launched another salvo at point blank range and suddenly the alien vessel stopped cold, apparently severely damaged from the attack... but apparently it's weapons was still functional and a frantic salvo at close range simply pulverised the Middlesbrough . Some of the crew including it's captain managed to reach the escape pods. Luckily the Hussar managed to deploy their lifeboat who picked up the survivor of both ships and quickly exited the area.
Lieutenant Waylon Mickens, commander of the lifeboat was later awarded the medal of honour for his quick action and saving the surviving crew crew of both ship.
A few hours later, the mineral hauler USS Amber was dispatched to asses the damage of the alien vessel that now had disappeared from the sensors of Erath tracking equipment. It managed to make contact a few hours later and discovered that indeed the alien vessel was damaged and it's engines seemed to have been disabled. The ship stayed there for several days trying to make contact, but it was more or less impossible as the ships crew seemed to refuse any such attempts. later on a small probe was left to just monitor the ships thermal signature.
Nov 7, 2125The two newest patrol ships had now been deployed from the Earth shipyards with four more being constructed or planned. A new mission to engage the damaged alien vessel had been planned and this time a veteran of the space navy called Kubota Toshiyuki had been appointed as the commander. How ever, he was know for his aggressive stance and doing things his own way, was he the best choice?
The two ships was dispatched and soon they started the approach of the the alien vessel with their weapons ready. The hope was that the alien ship had lost most if it's ability to defend itself from the last salvo of the Middlesbrough . But soon several shots was ripped into one of the patrol ships as Toshiyuki ordered a general charge... sadly this did not go so well. One of the ships did manage to open up fire on the alien ship but only do minor damage before both ships were destroyed. Although, most of the crew could be saved, Toshiyuki himself died standing on the bridge pressing the railgun fire button in a fit of rage and madness.
If he survived he probably would have been court-martialled for disobeying orders and recklessly endangering the crew and his ship for no good reason.
A new attempt with four patrol ship was later done to try and approach the alien vessel surrounding it from four different direction... but every time the alien vessel was frantically defending itself from any approach and even this attempt was abandoned as not to risk any further unnecessary losses.
The union politician now argued how to best solve this situation. They know that some technological new weapons needed to be developed to deal with this threat and there also was the issue of where it came from. None of the the jump points in Sol was directly monitored by the union so some form of monitoring station had to be considered, then there was the issue of defending Earth. The Union had basically no real army, fleet or orbital defences in place... no one even contemplated there could be some intelligent threat out there besides other humans.
This was a GAME CHANGER in terms of policy and strategic focus of the Union and a wake up call of a new reality!!!
