Aboard our newest and greatest ship the Mourning Star we were hauling cargo once more our new drives had pushed us to the beta band and could get us into the alpha hyper band if we pushed them hard enough but only temporarily as it would quickly overheat and going that fast consumed enormous amounts of fuel. Our first mission out from the yard was a simple cargo run into a very dangerous zone Ganymede colony was really an active war zone between three warlords looking to take control of the station and we were going right in to that mess probably not our best choice in a battle cruiser but we went cargo hold full of assorted supplies and materials.
luckily I had ordered maximum defense when exiting hyper we were immediately attacked by a force of frigates blockading the hyper point sadly they were quickly dispatched by our auto cannons and we even took the time to salvage the wrecked ships. I should mention that the Mourning Star is shaped like a diamond with 13 sides the front tapering into a spike the aft flat and covered in drives each of the sides except the rear was covered in turrets all 12 of them minus the rear which was flat but I'd ingeniously placed a set if sides to attempt to cover the rear arc sadly it was lightly armed compared to every other angle it still had firepower comparable to a light frigate but compared to the front it was practically unarmed.
As we had easily taken out the blockade we moved towards the station only to be intercepted by a flight of cruisers 6 all total and the fight was on. The first cruiser went down from 4 railgun hits in rapid succession the second took the remaining 4 shots we had in our capacitors but went down pretty quickly and then the cannons and hellbores really came into their own taking down 2 more in rapid succession all while we were under fire from them thankfully our shields were holding strong and hadn't failed under the onslaught we faced. As we turned to the last two cruisers they ran one pushing its engines maximum escaped but the other we obliterated they were better at dodging our shots and we missed 4 times but we also hit 4 times with a pair of shots left in the capacitors their ship was destroyed and we moved to salvaging the battle field unfortunately we ran out of storage capacity and had to accept the fact that cargo came first but we would be back hopefully there would still be something worth salvaging.
After defeating the blockade and the flight of cruisers we proceeded to the station transferred the cargo and sold the salvage making a nice profit we headed back to see what we could salvage from the cruiser wrecks knowing that we didn't have much time before they had floated away far enough to be lost. We found a few wrecks still nearby and quickly salvaged what we could before heading back to Mars station for resupply and our next trade run. We had unknowingly ended the blockade of Ganymede colony by utterly blasting much of the fleets of two of the warlords in contention for the station into so much scrap and twisted metal and the legend changed it now was now the unkillable ship Mourning Star but one day soon it would be the unkillable fleet.
After resuppling the battle cruiser I managed to assemble a crew for the old Gray Shade and as a fleet we continued trading into hot zones thought the pirates would run as soon as they saw us coming the two unkillable ships were enough to strike fear into the hearts of the pirates.
4 years later
I had finally commissioned constructed and crewed my second battle cruiser the ship known as Frontier and my fleet had grown but then something happened the pirates had assembled a massive fleet 300 ships from corvettes to battleships and a pair of dreadnoughts the epitome of war and they were waiting for me luckily this time I knew they were but I wouldn't back down from a fight. We prepared as best we could and went this battle might be our last but we would show the pirates we were not going to let them rule the system. We arrived at the battle site and found even more ships than the 300 we expected so stage one was launched 10 missiles per frigate in the enemy fleet all total we only had 180 missiles on all of the ships but that would handle 18 of the frigates or should then we fired a volley of railgun rounds at the nearest dreadnought, we unloaded everything from all 3 ships 4 from the frigate and 8 from each of the battle cruisers for a total of 20 railgun shots pelting the dreadnought and luckily we managed to punch through the shield on the massive ship and do considerable damage to it actually putting it out of the fight for the time being mean while the cannons were working over the corvettes however they had already dumped thousands of missiles all bearing down on my small fleet.
Our combined firepower was enough to put a dent in the missiles coming towards us but not nearly enough so we kept fighting our cannons taking out corvette after corvette as we fired everything we could to deal with as many missiles as we could. I had placed the frigate in the rear of our formation to help protect the rear of our battle cruisers and it would be telling how effective the tactic would be. The battle was raging on our shields taking a pounding as the enemy fired cannons and railguns at us but our shields were holding strong but slowly were being worn down slowly as the missiles closed on our fleet. Shields being pelted we fought hard taking out about 80 of the enemy ships before the shear swarm of missiles came to clean our clock.
As the missiles arrived we had whittled them down to the hundreds but still it wouldn't be enough and then they arrived every one of my ships shook as missile after missile impacted us it was first the shields on Frontier that failed then those on my command ship the Mourning Star and finally those on the frigate the Gray Shade as missiles slowly stripped away our defenses. The first ship the armor failed on was the Frontier followed by the Gray Shade but my ship the Mourning Star held barely as the swarm of missiles finally ended all three ships were there the Shade and Frontier were both venting from holes in their armor my ship the Mourning Star had received a beating but luckily the damage had been slightly more spread out.