Empire of Man (continued)

[Starhawk]

A new Front

It had been twenty years since the devestating battles against the Goa'ould left tens of thousands dead, it had been twenty years since the fall of that enemy and their damnedable allies and for twenty years the Empire of Man saw only peace and exploration.
Hundreds of new ships had been built and millions of personel had been brought into the ranks of the building Imperial Military Machine as it expanded to protect the growing Empire it was responsible for defending. And the Military had changed quite a bit in those twenty years, more aliens had been brought within the folds of the armed forces then ever before, even Jaffa who once served the vile Goa'ould had joined the ranks of the Imperial Marines and were proving themselves as excellent soldiers once trained out of their suicidal tactics of prior centuries when their "gods" cared not whether they lived or died.

But all that ended the morning of the ninth month of the year 2447 when for reasons unknown the Emperor of the EoM and the Ruler of the Manticore star kingdom declared war on one another and the first occured between the Manticore's Alpha fleet and the Imperial 2nd Fleet, though it was an easy victory for the Empire with only a single destroyer lost to the 14 enemy starships destroyed it signaled the start of the largest and possibly most costly war the Empire of Man had ever fought in it's long history.

As it stands there have been seven engagements between Manticore and Imperial fleets and nearly two dozen smaller single ship engagements, although all of these have ended with overwhelming Imperial victories inteligence reports show that the resources of the Manticore kingdom are slowely but surely shifting into a wartime footing, churning out warships, fighters, and other materials of war and the Empire is not wasting this respit either, nearly every shipyard in the Empire is buisily turning out new warships and volunteers and pressed soldiers in their hundreds of thousands are joining the ranks of the Imperial military as it gears up for the largest interstellar war Humanity has ever seen, and to make it all worse for the Empire of Man was that this enemy was not some insectoid race like the Xi'Chung or some parasite like a Goa'ould, they were 100% human and that could make them all the deadlier....in the year 2448 two human Empires are at war and only one would survive.

OOC: I may be switching over from the (story by story) basis of the first thread to a more linear story with a (chapter by chapter) style because since I have only one enemy on only a few fronts most of the same characters would be constantly recurring anyway

Oh and as it stands the Manticore have engaged my navy seven times in major fleet engagements, unfortunately for them 6 of those times they were facing a force at a warp point and didn't stand much of a chance, on the 7th occasion they were just so totally outgunned it was a one sided battle from the second my ships entered firing range.

Thus far I've taken out around 100 Manti ships only 70 of which were warships the rest are colonial or mine related ships. I've lost 2 heavy destroyers and had nearly 30 ships crippled. But don't start feeling sorry for the Manticore yet they have PLENTY of ships being built and LOTS more already on active service, they are currently trying to take out one of my minefields so that the fleets on the other side can jump through.....ooooh now that will be one helluva story as the Last time I looked I saw about 86 Manticore warships and I have a feeling there are a few more cloaked ones .