after the first heavy conflicts sparked the skies of earth, some background operations happened from both side to try and gain an edge above the opposition, ending up having both sides breaching the treaty. the rest of the treaty still applies but the change of situation caused some rules to be altered. both parties reaffirmed their intentions to limit damage to civilians.
• the cyno blockers situated around the systems report heavy damage from mac gun shells and platinum rods (and one who has a fighter stuck in the control room, origin unknown, probably an engineer who swapped his oxygen bottle for a beer tank). the direct consequence is both sides regaining control over their backup fleets. however the cyno presence is still gonna limit reinforcements based on the size and power of the vessel. it is also going to prevent the use of cyno jump outside of faction controlled territory.
  
  (copy and paste is now ALLOWED, but should be limited based on size and power of the ship. if the ship is NOT destroyed in a battle it can be reused after 5/10 mins for repairs and rearm. if a ship IS destroyed it will need to be replaced. fighters are really easy to make and warp and should be ready 5 mins after destruction (basicly you can't run out of fighters), bombers take 10 mins to respawn (more expensive to make), corvettes are also easy to make and also take 10 mins. larger ships are harder to warp in, making destroyers 20mins, cruisers (25 mins) and larger or more powerful ships a whooping 45 mins (so very precious to have). ships can only be spawned at the main base or directly above if not atmospheric capable. hangars can also store respawn tickets for fighter that can fit in them. BE HONEST! any abuse will be spotted and severely punished)
  
  
• with both factions getting back their access to their full arsenal, the UEE managed to secure their railgun technology to be used on ships (smaller mac guns are allowed on destroyer/cruiser size ships)

citizens of earth were greeted this night with some really bright lights in the sky. it was first thought that this was just the UEE moving the orbital fleet around as they usually do to patrol each mac stations, but this quickly became evident that something was going on as the night sky sparked with an intense light, almost lighting up the continent like it was daytime: a mac station was destroyed by a heavy assault from VDF forces. for the first time one of the key part of the planetary wide defence grid was obliterated.

after the panic settled down more information came in. this was the result of 2 large confrontations between the 2 fleets still locked down by cyno blockers generators put in place by an independant organisation. the UEE fleet command affirm that they detected a massive gravity anomaly near the atmosphere of mars, suggesting that the VDF had made a move from their base, who was spotted by a reconnaissance team a few hours ago. deciding to take the initiative before the VDF could lock their drives to earth, however, they met a tragic fate as their ship emerged from warp, only to appear in front of 2 heavily armed destroyers. the UEE frigate had barely time to launch her fighter before platinum rods shattered her hull, reducing the ship to a smoking wreck.

after the cross faction comms cleared out of all the military chatter and ♥♥♥♥ waving contest of the VDF, the VDF quickly sent a part of the fleet to take on the defence grid, but in their precipitation, they misjudged the warp coordinates and landed behind the mac station. the UEE was fast to react and turned around the massive station, overriding safety protocols to get the main gun aligned, they were quick on the draw, destroying most of the destroyer firepower before it could bring its massive spinal weaponry to bear. however, the mac station itself had not much luck either, as in it's effort to disable the destroyer, it wasn't able to take care of the 2 corvettes and the bomber who were strapped on the hull of the destroyer. they were able to break free and engage the mac station. the first corvette drew the fire away from the bomber to allow it to drop its payload on target, the second corvette sacrificed itself to prevent the gun from targeting the bomber. the bomber pilot successfully lined up before ejecting. a few seconds latter. a massive nuclear blast ripped the main gun and most of the support struts, shattering the hull and causing many breaches. the battle raged as a second destroyer emerged from warp, followed by another corvette. in the midst of the battle, the crew of the mac cannon managed to get a part of the railgun operational again and used it against the second destroyer, who dropped close to allow the corvettes to deploy. again, the mac gun was able to disable the destroyer before striking a critical blow to the engines. however, again, one of the corvettes managed to break through the point defence and stuck the heart of the station, destroying the main targeting controls, the gyro section, and the main power source. soon after the last forces from the VDF destroyed the defending UEE ships before retreating to their main base. the crew of the mac station managed to keep the orbital stabilizer online and the station point defence active. however, the station suffered catastrophic damage to it's power grid, and would soon lose all reserve power keeping the reactor containment field online. the crew was evacuated before the damaged reactor melted and caused the station to disintegrate, destroying the station and anything left by the battle. despite the planetfall of debris, no civilian casualties were reported, and only minor damage to infrastructure was reported.

the VDF military expressed their satisfaction about the recent destruction of the mac station, expressing that they would need only 2 more to be taken out to allow a corridor large enough to allow a planetary assault on the main UEE base.

the UEE planned a conference tomorrow to talk about the battle, but it is anticipated that the destruction of 2 of the most expensive pieces of equipment in the galaxy is still an impressive feat.

as both factions continue to clash, we will keep you informed on around the verse, best new show on this side of the galaxy!

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after long deliberations on the current war both faction agreed on some basic rules to prevent unnesesary damage to civilian populations:
- large cities will be ignored IF there is no military targets in them, otherwise they are valid targets
- terraforming bombs will be forbidden for both sides
- the use of salt based in weaponery is forbidden
- the use of long range weapons should be deployed only if nessesary
- ground strikes are allowed
- vehicles are allowed
- air vehicles are allowed
- orbital crafts are allowed
- to prevent time dilatation, ship number should be kept to only the nessesary
- cyno blokers will be placed in the entire system, preventing the usage of external forces (aka copy pasting), the only forces on the field will need to be built and delivered to the conflict zone using a nanite factory.
- to prevent the usage of god-like-spazzing-flaming-exploding entities on the battlefiled, rotor and piston usage should be kept minimal (good luck building them anyways)
- the win condition is simple: to win, a faction need to discover the position of the enemy main base, and destroy it by destroying the main powersource, the main respawn area, and the nanite factory.
- to discover the position of the main base, you will have to capture objectives revealed from time to time.
- (OFRP: bases should be strongly defended but not invincible)
- (OFRP: we don't have much choice but to stay in creative, so if you take fire or take a rocket to the face, you suicide)
- weapon usage for infantry: have specialisation. not everyone can carry a rocket launcher or a multi barrel gattling. if you carry a anti ship weapon you won't be able to carry and anti infantry weapon.
- jetpack: you have it, don't abuse it
- lag: it will be there, no doubt, again, don't abuse it
- you can use your own ships, ships of your faction, but the usage of external workshop ships is forbiden exept if realy minor (like for a pod or a subsystem or a door but not a capital ship)
- ( and most importantly, have fun, this is going to be a big ♥♥♥♥ waving contest and it is going to be amazing!)

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