A short rundown of the Thing - Yeti war, and results as of turn 174
[ooc](Looks I am not iron on the dates .. wish SF assistant would track battle dates for a race. Especially when you have ships raise crew grades due to battles, and thus the battles get entered somewhere. Both empires involved here have been struggling for cash. I have taken down the previous post for a better rewrite. will be two parts though. )
(The Thing of Odin contacts the Norse Yeti in turn 116. The Yeti reject communications and prepared for war.)[/ooc]
RM -- Meirica -- Home -- Maigh Eo -- Baile Feirsta -- Yeti Prime
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Cliath
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Rafla Yeti -- Tre Li -- Cliath 2 -- Maigh Eo Moh -- SN 125 -- Bun Cranncha -- Rafla -- Ostlann -- Beag -- Padraig -- Home
The northwesterly winds were bringing clouds laden with rain in from the sea, pronouncing the end of summer and the beginning of fall after the harvet.. Thus the children, instead of running over the meadows, gathered under the eaves of the old ancestral hall, hiding in a gable of the atic seldom used but to store unused winter clothing. While the first drops tapped against the window, they snuggled into the musty furs to trade tales and stories.
'Lars, why is your father gone for so long?' asked seven year old Ingrid the tow-haired older boy sitting next to her.
'Mhh..' he paused 'Let me see if I can remember it all. It's been allmost five years ago the skald Svea Halgardsdottir and her ships discovered a race of huge shaggy beasts among the stars, just beyond the rocky system of Magh Eo. Their world is covered with great glaciers and high mountains, but they only growled and bared their claws when Svea tried to bring them the tales of the Aesir. After some month, Svea grew bored and wandered to find new stars with more interresting people.'
'What happened then?' The other children closed in around the two, sensing a tale of daring and heroes unfold.
'Then, in the summer of last year, while most of the ships were out watching the funny speaking men in robes who had taken over the land of the dragons,.. ' Lars continued 'traders reported seeing stranger ships in the starlanes to Cliath. It was the Yeti, they had come from their lair and were hunting in Maigh Eo for the trails towards our worlds. The warriors went out, to bring them to their heels and teach them that they tresspassed. A fleet was send out, half a dozen of eagla, the battlecruisers, the mighties ships we had then, and a dozen cruisers and a handfull fo destroyers. They did not want to tire themselves chasing after fleet pray, and thus eased around the small path of retreat for the hunting yeti, waiting in ambush. The pathfinders of the Yeti could no longer report to their brethren at home, and thus grew worried and hid, waiting for more of their foul kindred to come to their rescue. And as our warriors exspected, they came, lasers blazing bright and full of fight. A mighty clash it was, but they had not counted with the cunning of our folk.'
'How did they fight them?'
'We have cruisers of the An Gleas kind, wich can throw mighty bolts of plasma. Those waited close, to keep the yeti busy. While they did so, the eagla threw their big missiles at them over a distance they could not reach with lasers and other beams. When they had brought down the last valiant an Gleas, they had all damaged engines and could no longer chase after the eagla,who still threw missiles at them. Thus they had to run back to their caves, tails between their legs.'
'And our warriors, seeing as the funny speaking men in robes did not want to fight with them, came home and gathered the Noilag, the mighty battleships we just had launched. They are huge and powerfull, heavely armored and with beams wich can electrocute you inside your ship. The Yeti quavered and hid in their lair.'
'But the yeti had three huge bases and six little ones, and twelve battlecruisers, and all could throw beams of force to rip things apart, and they did not sleep fought like crazy... their beams were allways hitting our ships and taking them down. Thus, the Noilag had to come back, their armor in tatters, and many An Gleas had been destroyed while taking down all the little bases. The yeti know how to shoot, even more accurate than our best ships, father said.'
'So they came home to make new plans?'
'Yes, they did. They repaired the ships and made new ones, and left many eagla and Iasc to guard the lair, as the missiles fly farther than beams.'
