The Last Armada

by Combine

Rating: everyone
Tags: Science Fiction, Adventure, Human, Dark, Alternate Universe
Length: 4598

Earth has been Destroyed and the remaining fleet try to find a new home out in the Galaxy

The Earth Defence Force or mostly known as the EDF have waged a great crusade across the entire galaxy against a race known as the Serencos, for over sixty five years the war has been lasting but the good guys don't always win, during the year of 2405 or known to humans as Dooms day year the Serencos finally made one of the largest military strikes against the EDF destroying earth.

Now the remaining fleet or known as "The Last Armada" have fled through hyperspace to find new hope, a new earth but it’s been two years from they went through hyperspace and hope is dying down for the crews on board the fleet until long range radar picks up something very interesting.

A planet with colourful ponies but things don't always go the way they should and well.

What would you sacrifice for peace?

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2016-07-30 15:37:38 UTC

Chapter One: Deep Space

:Earth Defence Force Information hub:

:Selected File: Entry: 24-ZE

:Access Level: Captain

:Level Access: Restricted

Entry: 24-ZE (restricted information, limited access)

Before the year of two thousand four hundred and five, humanity stretched right across the galaxy with over seventeen planets with over Thirty two trillion people living on them, but during the year of two thousands three hundred and fifty A strange race known as the "Serencos" came through a black hole sending a small fleet right outside the buffer zone of the plant Exilim. Which was the smallest planet in the solar system that the Humans occupied at the time, the Earth Defence force only had seven destroyer’s based at the planet but due to this being humanity’s "First contact" with another aliens race they weren't ordered to attack straight away. As governor Robert Harris attempted to make some kind of communication with these aliens but some were during earth time of Four and Five PM the Aliens (Later to be known as the Serencos) opened fire on the planet of Exilim with a type of huge super weapon which destroyed the planet.

The super weapon and the Serencos first contact fleet was destroyed by Commander Georg Thomas and the details of how the weapon was used or even if the seven destroyers’ fought back against the Serencos are unknown as there were no survivors on either side. After the event the government of Earth declared war against the alien race of the Serencos who began to bring more and more ships though the buffer zone of the once Exilim planet and during this chores thousands of battles raged for over fifty five years across space and the reaming seventeen planets the EDF had controlled of. Excluding earth until the year of two thousand and four hundred and five in which during this year the Earth Defence Force had four massive armadas what had over Three thousand ships in its arsenal all ranging from small cruisers to super carriers. But after “Dooms day” were the Serencos lunched over Ten thousand ships against the EDFs Three thousand only Seven survived after Earth was destroyed. The seven remaining ships one Super carrier, One Dreadnought, three Kalanda Class 1 and two Colony Cruisers banded together during the chaos and formed “The Last Armada”

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The Super Carrier “Terminus Aeternum” was built during the year of two thousands three hundred and seventy eight a few years aftert the "First contact" event and is the largest of all the Ships within the EDFs armada, the ship itself is Ten miles long and three miles wide, it also holds around five hundred thousand military personal and around another two hundred thousand support staff that work around the ship.

The ship holds around Five thousand fighters, Three thousand drop ships and hundred more of different type of ship, due to it being a super class ship it holds one of the biggest armouries in any ship in the EDF fleet which are dotted all around the ship, from small arms to heavy mech suits

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The Kalanda Class 1 is the backbone of the EDF Fleet and was built in 2350 as there was a need for a medium battleship and is around Five miles long and two miles wide, the ship itself is able to hold around one hundred and fifty thousand military personal but no support staff as unlike supper carriers like the "Terminus Aeternum” as there isn't no need due to the small size of the ship. The armoury on the ship itself holds enough to destroy a small planet and enough to arm a small army.

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The Vulcan class colony ship was developed to carry entire human colonies through the Galaxy and deposit them, along with their orbital habitat, in systems to be colonised. Able to carry about 100 000 people and all of their equipment, these vessels were huge and were the work horses of the Earth Defence Force. In fact, it was estimated that almost 30 billion colonists were moved from the core system to the colonies using the Vulcan class over a 167 year period.

Colony ships carried no offensive weapons to speak of, although they were equipped with self-defence guns and carried several frigates and fighter wings that equipped the colonial militia.

The Stern Tiger is the last of the Earth defence forces Dreadnought and holds a special~

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Year: 2407, Two years after Dooms day year

Location: Super Carrier “Terminus Aeternum”

Jonathan placed the pad down, although he was a Captain in the EDF, since dooms day all access to the fleet have been restricted to the Admiral and other top brass, though Jonathan still liked to look about how the fleet was doing through the two years he was on this metal coffin for and the fact that there wasn’t allot of reading material packed on the ship when it left earth so reading anything which wasn’t a combat manual was a god send.

After placing the pad on his lap he looked around his bunk bed in his small room which he shared with five others due to the extra amount of crew which were placed on the ship from other wrecked fleets, although at first it was hard to deal with having six people including yourself in a room designed for four you kind of get used to it after a year or so.

Jonathan moved his hands and rubbed his eyes while sitting upright looking around the room, the room itself had two bunk beds on two sides and in the middle of the room was a small table with different kinds of equipment ranging from body armour, ammo, backpacks to hair brushes. Normal EDF regulations don’t allow any type of armour or firearm related items to be littered around the ship. But due the last visit the “Terminus Aeternum” made to the moon it was rammed stocked with weaponry of all sorts filling the armoury almost three times over.

In fact all of the armouries on the right wing of the ship are basically huge piles of weapons so it was decided that armour and ammo would be allowed to be kept in crew’s room just so they could save some space. Although it helped the quartermasters out the same couldn’t be said for the crew has keeping a few sets of full combat suits in a small room which is already over full isn’t helpful and also the fact that his other team mates also leave it lying all across the floor which makes it hard to navigate around the already cramped room and sometimes it takes a good half an hour to find out who’s armour who’s.

As Jonathan scanned the room he found the familiar sight of five people, on the top bunker on the other side of the room were two people a boy and a girl sleeping with each other on the same bed, behide the girl was a medium built boy around the age of seventeen with jet black hair and a dragon tattoo going around his arm up to his shoulder with dog tags around his neck saying “ADRIAN”. In front of a girl with blond hair with black highlights of the same sort of build as Adrian and age was hugging his arm as it wrapped around her chest with the same dog tags as him saying but they here hidden by Adrian’s arm.

Underneath the top bunk lie another man who was of much larger build than both of them, In fact his legs hung over the front of the bunk bed, he has a short brown hair almost like a buzz cut and has his left arm bent over the back of his head as he slept looking upwards with “Juggernaut” Tattooed on his muscly arm. On the floor lay another man who was moving about trying to get some good sleep with all of the armour which laid across the floor he would often move his hand to his back, probably due to back pain or some sort. Unlike the others he had basically no hair at all and was almost the same size as Juggernaut but not as well built and was laying his head on a helmet which put his neck at a funny angle (No wonder he can’t sleep right) and underneath him he expected to find Lauren sleeping as usual.

Jonathan moved to his right hand to pick up the pad again from his lap and began pressing some buttons on the small screen

: Super Carrier “Terminus Aeternum” Information hub:

:Access Level: Captain

:Level Access: Un-Restricted:

:~“Good morning Captain Jonathan Baker” :~

“Morning” Jonathan Muttered under his breath

:~ “Earth time: 6:45 AM. Date: 21st of September. Year: 2573” :~

“Yes I know the date, you tell me every fucking day you stupid machine” Jon replied a bit louder than he would of liked

:~” Admiral Shepard has asked for all military personal to be up and ready within three hours, although the command isn’t going to be issued in till seven AM. Apart from that your day should go on as normal”:~

“Thanks.” and with that he signed off.

With that the screen went blank and Jonathan placed the pad in a charge slot within the wall, Jon then preceded to pull his blanket off him and swing his legs freely off the top bunk before saying “Wake up boys and girls, we move in twenty!”

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~::Onboard the “Terminus Aeternum” Command Centre::~

The Command Centre on the "Terminus Aeternum” is a large chamber outfitted with terminals that had both men and women sitting in front of them and was also beaming with life with other sailors working away at there other stations. At the front of the command centre was a huge reinforced window at the front ship with a view shooting out into space, at the back of the Command centre sat a man in his late fifty's wearing navy blue power armour with "EDF" on each shoulder plate also known as "Admiral Shepard" and was sitting down on a leather chair.

Admiral Shepard lent back on his chair rubbing his eyes before speaking “Are you sure these readings are right?”

“Yes Admiral, all readings have been checked three times now and we are one hundred and fifty percent sure.” A female voice came from behide.

Admiral Shepard removed his hand from his face picking up a small pad scrolling through it again shaking his head “How ready are Military personal on the Stern Tiger and the  e Kalanda Classes?”

“All Military ships within the fleet are still on the same level as when we left earth… But the Kalanda Classes over the two years they have dropped by some standard as there hasn’t been a threat for so long but the Stern Tiger is still on the same level although

none of them have been informed of this finding” The same voice replied behide him

Admiral Shepard lowered his pad before speaking “And on his ship?”

“The same as you left it two years ago but it has dropped as well, I have already got the order ready to go to mobilize all Military personal within the two hours.” She replied

Admiral Shepard Shifted on his seat to sit up right before sighing  “Give the Order in half an hour, looks like we found a new home.”

“Yes sir.”

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"How come we have to do this shit on our day off, I wanted to get some time with Barbara" Arian said as he sat on the edge of the bunk placing his boots on with a small smile

"Oh don't you worry" Barbara said as she moved her hand around his face making him face her "You will" before kissing him on the lips holding him tight with Arian returning it.

"Will you two knock it off for once?" Ryan said in annoyed tone as he struggled to deal with the back pain due to sleeping on the floor placing his combat vest on as he was pretty much dressed when he went to sleep.

Nor Barbara or Arian stopped there "Tonging" session but Barbara just raised her free hand sticking up her middle finger up at Ryan, juggernaut just simply chuckled to himself while he strapped his knee pads on and Lauren just smiled pulling down her T-shirt giving a quick look at Jonathan before her smile faded as Jonathan wasn't paying any attention to what was going on around him as he was simply strapping his combat vest and shoulder pads to his chest seeing as he had a twenty minutes start he was pretty much ready.

Jonathan let out of sigh as he placed his helmet on his head with a click as it attached itself to the suit, the suit itself is the HASMAS X12 prototype suit with a built in exo skeleton weave which almost forms as a second layer of skin also fitted with the EDFs special forces combat webbing which attaches itself on the weave. The helmet is fitted with a fully integratable HUD witch is connected straight to the Earth Defence Force Command hub what allows all information to be past to and from Command and Control it also has inferred and night vision build into the visor. The arms are built out of a custom fibre metal which allows two long blades to come out on the wrist and on the elbow on each side as a close combat weapon.

Finally Barbara and Arian stopped there "Session" and continued to get dressed on the top bunk while juggernaut just stood in the corner with a tank top and cargo pants, although armour was allowed to be kept in the rooms but due to Juggernauts side and the fact that he wore power armour which stood around nine feet tall it had to be kept in the armoury as it also needed special machinery to be attached onto him.

Ryan finally finished putting on the outer layer of the HASMAS X12 prototype suit which was the standard suit for Jonathan and his team, bar Juggernaut of course. Lauren was almost ready herself as she was calibrating her helmet to EDF command and control with his finger to her helmets right side all the while in silence until it was broken by Luaren.

"So you think the Serencos found us?" she said as he removed her hand from the side of her helmet.

"Fat fucking chance mate" Adrian replied as he clipped his vest onto his exo skeleton weave "If those Serencos twats where here the whole station would be on red alert" he finished a matter of fact jumping down from the top bunk with a metal thud as his boots hit the floor.

“As much as I hate to agree, Adrian’s got a point” Ryan countered while placing the helmet on his face making his voice somewhat robotic “If the Serencos were here we would know about it” he turned his face from Adrian’s to Lauren giving a weak smile from under his helmet which couldn’t be seen “I’m sure it’s nothing but a drill as normal.”

Ryan was interrupted by another metal thug as Barbara jumped off the bunk as well landing near Adrian “Ryan’s right” Barbara said as she picked up her helmet from the already overflown table holding it in her hand, she was about to speak again when another voice stopped her.

“Are we ready?” a metical voice of Jonathan said as he stood near the door looking at the four with his arm folded leaning against the wall “we’ve only got a couple of minutes before the rest of the crew are done gearing up and off to the armoury.” Jonathan lent forward abit, mainly towards Ryan “Unless you want to spend two hours again in line for weapons?”

“Fuck that.” Ryan replied while the others just laughed.

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~:: “Terminus Aeternum” Command Centre::~

Around the Command Centre Admiral Shepard still sat on his chair looking out into the space but the only difference this time was there was a hologram of a man wearing the same armour as the Admiral but it was in snow white as was pensioned behide Shepard with his hand behide his face standing up right.

"All Destroyer's including the Stern Tiger have been notified of the mobilization, Two of the Destroyer’s will stay with the Vulcan class colony ships to the rear and the front make sure if anything happens that they will be protected from any danger.” The man stopped taking in a breath before speaking again “The remaining Destroyer will stay with this ship and will act as a buffer zone if anyone or anything attempts to board this ship as when we reach the planet we will be in range of Plant to Space weaponry or aircraft.”

“Do you think that these aliens are intelligent no longer have the technology to attack this fleet Vice-Admiral Hacket?” Admiral Shepard interrupted but made sure Hacket had finished his sentence.

“At this moment we are unable to make any sort of link on the planet so until then we can only prepare for the worse unless we would want another “First contact” incident again.” Hacket replied in the same cool tone as when he started.

“Good point.” Shepard muttered as Hacket continued his report.

“After all military ground personal have all been assigned there equipment and weapons we will make the jump sir.”

“Very well Vice-Admiral Hacket, send me a report when you’re done.” Shepard replied

“Will do Admiral, Vice-Admiral Hacket out” The hologram disappeared to the floor

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The hallways of the Terminus Aeternum were filled with life as crew members made their ways to their work stations along with military personal coming out of their rooms in full combat armour to the armouries. Among the consent stream of men and women were a group of six people walking along, five of them wearing special operation HASMAS suits.

“So do you think we will get to pick our own weapons again like last time?” Barbara said with glee as they attempted to get by people walking in the other direction.

“Hope so, those B.E.R battle rifles are the dogs nuts mate” Ryan laughed as he turned his head to face Barbara.

“Doesn’t matter anyway, not like we will get to use them” Juggernaut said quite bluntly from behide the group.

“Fucking hell you really know how to piss on some ones parades don’t you?” Ryan countered letting out a small chuckle afterword with Juggernaut giving a smug smile back.

As the group reached on of the hanger bays they came across a large door on the right side of the hall way with two massive sliding doors about Seventeen feet tall sigh in bright red letters reading “Heavy Mech Suit Armoury”

“Looks like my stop” Juggernaut said as he broke away from the group towards the doors keypad

“See you at the briefing mate.” Lauren said giving a wave of her hand as Juggernaut finished typing on the keypad opening the door which showed the inside of the Mech armoury which was filled with different suits of armour which were all attached to wires at the walls with techs working over them and men preparing to board them.

The rest of the group continued walking down the hallway towards the Small arms room as juggernaut made his way inside, the two massive doors shutting behide him.

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~:“Stern Tiger” Command Centre::~

The Command Centre on the Stern Tiger is almost the same as the Terminus Aeternum as it was also fitted with a large chamber outfitted with terminals that had both men and women sitting in front of them. With the main command hub being in the middle of the centre with Vice-Admiral Hacket standing in front of a floating robot

Vice-Admiral Hacket pressed the pad next to him cutting the hologram connection to Terminus Aeternum before turning around to face five soldiers who four of them were in heavy armour all stood to attention.

“Give me a report on all Combat personal” Hacket demanded to no one in particular

“The Orbital Drop Shock Trooper battalions are mobilized are ready for action sir.” The soldier on the far right said, he wore heavy black armour with the O.D.S.T logo painted on the side with a skull also known as Colonel Bass.

“All gunships are also mobilized are ready for action sir.”

“Spartan III Alpha Company mobilized is ready for action sir.”

The other two next to the right of Colonel Bass said one after each other, and then Hacket turned to face the last one of the left who wasn’t wearing any armour but a suit with a EDF pin on his tie with a sly smile on his face.

“The weapon is ready Sir.”

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Terminus Aeternum: One Hour Later

"Attention Attention all Military personal report to respected areas! Attention Attention all Military personal report to respected areas!”

The serine continued to repeat itself as soldiers and heavy mechs rushed around the large hallways of the ship getting to their battle stations, including Jonathan and his team who rushed down a flight of stairs on the east wing of the ship to the fighter/ dropship bay and they were also joined by the heavy footsteps of Juggernaut in his power armour suit as he tailed from behide.

“Come on mate, I knew you were fat but not that fat” Ryan joked as they rushed along the Hallway.

“Fuck off” Juggernaut replied trying to keep up with the group.

“Jesus Christ, Why do we have to rush everywhere ?” Barbara said, huffing between runs.

“I thought you would be used to doing things in a rush” Adrian laughed, gently bumping Barbara’s arms next to him as he ran

“Fuck you” she replied blushing.

“Would you?” Adrian replied with a sly grin under his helmet.

“Will you two shut the up and hurry up” Jonathan Barked loudly as he picked up his pace towards the hanger.

“Fuck me who took a shit on your lawn?” Adrian asked as he kept up with Jonathans pace although Jonathan didn’t reply.

The brief had been quite simple as normal when the fleet do a hyper jump, all Military personal are to report to their stations just in case we jump right into a Serenco fleet which hasn’t happened yet so far.  Jonathan and his crew made it to the hanger bay which was a huge and filled dropships and gunships alike all lined up in rows with techs and crew members making last minute check overs before strapping them down so they didn’t slide about and get damage or more so hurt anyone near, on both sides of the hangers where row after row of seats with soldiers all strapped down in seat ready to get into their ships just in case they are needed for battle.

They proceeded to sit down on a few free seats available on the end of the second row bar from Juggernaut, who had to go to the back with the other mechs seeing as he stood around nine feet tall and weighted A ton along with no chance of hell being able to strapped down on a chair so he had to do with being strapped to the wall like the others but some techs before they themselves strapped themselves down next to the mechs just in case something happened, after they had all been strapped down they waited for the jump. While waiting the soldiers began to check over there equipment and weapons,

"Great, more hurry up and wait shit" Ryan said in a huff as he check over his B.E.R battle rifle which laid between his legs.

“You got your fuckin’ rife, why you still bitching?” Lauren said with slight annoyance as she checked over her own Battle rifle.

“Because we will never get to fucking use it, that’s fucking why!” Ryan said almost shouting.

“Shut up Ryan” Jonathan said as he laid back on his chair

“Sorry, didn’t mean to insult your Girlfriend” he countered rolling his eyes.

Jonathan just looked away while Lauren blushed looking away as well, although this didn’t go unnoticed by Ryan.

“I fuckin’ knew it you two where fuckin’ each other” Ryan said almost hoping out of his seat if he wasn’t strapped down pointing between the two, with everyone in hearing distance bursting out in laughter, including Juggernaut.

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~::Terminus Aeternum Command Centre Half an Hour later::~

The Commander centre was still as busy but all of the crew members were strapped down to their seats while the admiral remained seated in his leather chair

"Admiral all ship’s crew are ready to make the jump, orders sir?" A female voice called out from behide again."

Admiral Shepard laid back in his chair and let out a heavy sigh before speaking

"Do it."

The thrusters of the Terminus Aeternum among the other ships within the fleet began to warm up letting out a loud roar which would be ear piercing if it wasn’t in and space and just as it warmed off the fleet shot of into hyperspace, into a new home, into Equestria.

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~::Equestria: Time- Eleven AM (Four hours before the Last Armada makes contact)::~

Spitfire was sitting down at the briefing room at Canterlot along with the other wonderbolts in a semi-circle looking at a board. Where one of the Royal guard officers stood along with the wonderbolts manger to his side talking about the Dragon Migration‎ and being on standby just in case any Dragons decide to break ranks along Equestria.

To be honest Spitfire was board out of her head as they did this every year and funny enough the briefing was always the same, sure learning how to out flank a dragon is exciting the first time but after a few years the buzz wares of. Especially when they teach you to as if you could only count to potato and plus nothing ever happened bar from sitting in the waiting room of an Airfield base waiting to be scrambled.

Spitfire signed and laid forward on her chair propping her head up with her hoof to make it seem like she was listening to the droning of the Officer at the front but her manger, Mr. Thunderstorm knew most of the tricks spitfire used when she tried to day dream and proceeded to trot over to spitfire who seemed completely oblivious to him until he was right in front of her.

Spitfire looked up at the face of Thunderstorm who wasn’t looking happy to the fact that the Captain of the Wonderbolts was day dreaming during such a high risk briefing, but spitfire just replied with a sheepish smile.

“Something wrong Spitfire?” Thunderstorm said in a cool tone but the annoyance was obvious.

“Ermm, noting just er- checking the board?”  Spitfire replied trying to think up a good excuse but the only thing she got was a small suppressed laugh from Soarin.

“Right, don’t let it happen again.” Thunderstorm added while walking back to his original place in the room, while getting glances from the others some good, some bad before they looked forward.

Spitfire rubbed her eyes muttering to herself “This is going to be a long day.”