User blog comment:USS Enterprise CVN-65/The New (And Improved) Official Roleplay Room/@comment-27404954-20160308031302/@comment-27404954-20160308154000

Onboard the Socratic Method "Sir, we're receiving massive hits on our scanners. Nothing on the classical scanners, but we're definitely getting something on the gravitometrics. And our EW arrays are picking up massive activity, corresponding with AI neural networks."

The captain leans back in his chair. "Very well. Deploy the cyberweapon."

Unbeknownst to the Delusion ships within the Lucaria ruins, their next communications hold a special data packet, one for each ship. Once it reaches the central AI core for processing, the data packet bursts, sending highly virulent code into the AI's central processor. The Delusion AIs try to fight it, but this blend of recovered TEO Cyberwarfare research and Aneph ingenuity and technological skill is impossible to combat except in a few isolated cases on small ships.

The Delusion ships begin to spaz out, their AIs rendered helpless by the malignant code. Some Delusion ships fire at and destroy each other; other ones, the one with crew, flush the human crew out of the ship via explosive decompression. One AI, controlling the largest Delusion ship, does a series of barrel rolls until it crashes outside of Lucaria with a massive explosion.

"Sir! The cyberweapon worked perfectly! The CCU Delusion ships are helpless!"

A small smile spread over the captain's face; the smile of victory. "Fire at will. Oh, and if you'll just record this - the CCU declared war on us by attempting to interfere with the reclamation effort. Therefore, we request support from any of our allies in dealing with the Terrorist threat. Transmit to HighCom."

The communication officer nods. "Right away, sir."

Below the two massive battleships, several different types of weaponry extrude from internal weapons bays. The first weapon, a bow-mounted synchotron beam, flashes with invisible light.

Two of the very largest Delusion ships lose full engine control and crash into Lucaria, their engines shut down remotely by stopping the reaction in the engine itself.

Two massive railguns flash, and four Delusion ships die, two split in half by the massive 36m railgun round, the other two crushed by the ships as they fell from the sky.

The other Delusion ships do not react, too busy attempting to purge the code from their systems. Unfortunately for the ships, this code would take hours to remove completely... hours they don't have.

As the Delusion ships continue to spaz out, utterly helpless, the Aneph battleships open fire with every weapon available to them, downing a new Delusion ship with every volley, concentrating on the spindliest weak points to split the Delusion ships apart instead of wasting ammunition, and worse, time trying to destroy them another way.

Griffons from the Sigismund Dorn played their own part, too. If any Delusion ship was hit by the X-ray synchotron guns of the battleships but didn't hit Lucaria, a squadron of Griffons would circle around and launch a full complement of anti-ship missiles directly into the engine exhausts.

Soon, the Aneph ships stood alone in the utter wreckage of CCU's once proud Delusion fleet - only some ships had gotten enough control of their engines to run away, straight into the Yevata contingent. Their fate was unknown. Some ships had recovered control of their guns in time to fire back, and the Lexell Kotov was missing a significant chunk of its underside 2040 turrets, while the Socratic Method had recieved multiple hits near its crew compartments.

On the bridge of both ships, the captains sighed in unknowing unison. It was over now, and the weapon had worked perfectly as planned.

"Radio down to the Lucaria base. Let's see what the troopers found..."