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Post by MikDaTv on Dec 4, 2008 13:42:40 GMT -5
The Lysander shook from multiple turbolaser hits on her unshielded hull. Her port side fighter bay had sustained heavy damage and had multiple hull breaches.
Thinking the Lysander was as good as dead, the enemy ships switched their fire to the Roger Young. The already unstable and crippled cruiser sustained some heavy hits and then lost main power. Escape pods ejected from her like streams of missiles.
Captain Walton held on tightly to the back of his command chair as he watched the hologram display the battle taking place in space. The bridge was running emergency lights after the main lights had shorted out from a power surge.
What had been a fairly even fight was quickly turning into a bloodbath. The entire fleets shields had dropped before Walton could tell everyone to lock out their main computers from the network. Tom Sawyer was sustaining major damage and her entire fighter compliment had been destroyed. The Nero was getting attacked by the Widget and Blade's long range turbolasers. They'd managed to whittle the enemy fighter compliment down but they still numbered in the hundreds.
"Attention All hands" Walton started. "Stand by for the order to abandon ship. Helm, new coarse, get us on a coarse directly for the enemys center, flank speed. Once thats done, put all weapons on automated defense program "Razzle Dazzle." All non essential officers evacuate the bridge and get to your life pods."
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Post by MikDaTv on Dec 4, 2008 13:47:10 GMT -5
The Mandalorian's mines impacted the mass driver and detonated against it's protective shields. The shields went ridged and turned white but held. It took a torpedo hit from a Multiple missile warhead launched by Lysander to break the shield and damage the turret.
It's gimbals and bearings spilled out into space and the turret went immobile, but could still fire. Luckily that kind of damage could only be repaired in space dock.
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Post by MikDaTv on Dec 4, 2008 13:48:18 GMT -5
Captain Keyes struggled watching the battle, he couldn't take part because he was still tied to space dock and his computers weren't networked yet. So far the shipyards hadn't been attacked but the battle was still a few hundred kilometers out.
"Are we sealed up yet?" Keyes asked.
"Sir, only decks 5 and 6 are reporting open hatches still, they're crews are locking them up as we speak." The technical officer reported.
"What about the network?"
"Still locked down, but according to Lysander they should stay that way. They suffered an external slice that brought their shields down." The technical officer responded.
Captain Keyes walked back and forth trying to decided what to do. The Ilium defense ships were still hanging back with him. Their obsolete ships wouldn't be worth anything in that fight but it looked more and more like Walton could use the help.
"Hatches sealed Captain, we're space tight."
"Very well then, all hands prepare to separate from space dock. Bring main power online." Keyes ordered
"Understood sir, it will take a minute since the computers aren't networked." the helmsman replied.
Keyes just nodded and looked at the tactical readouts some more. "Open a channel to the Ilium defense ships."
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Post by MikDaTv on Dec 5, 2008 0:40:21 GMT -5
"Jor, there's a hole opening in the lines!" Jor heard a pilot say. he glanced down to his sensors and indeed saw that the Killik Dartships had been spread so thin that a hole had opened in their coverage. They might try to make an escape through it. if they could get clear enough they could try and jump to hyperspace. But right before he gave the order he noticed something. A wing of dartships had assembled below the opening and were merely circling. It was a trap, as soon as they'd go for the hole, those darts would get on their tail and kill dozens. But they were dead anyway and this was the only chance they'd get.
"All ships, make for that hole at flank speed. Knights, your hanging back with me to cover their escape." Jor ordered over the com. acknowledgments rang out and Jor formed up behind the fleeing fighters, the last remaining ships in Knight squadron formed up behind him and prepared to sacrifice themselves for their fellow squamates.
Then something unexpected happened. A hale of turbolaser fire rained down on one of the nest ships, shattering it's shields and impacting the hull. Jor looked up and saw a Interdictor cruiser and 3 warbirds bearing down on the nest ships. Their fighter compliments launching and heading for the cloud of Darts.
King 1 came over the com. "One of those ships has Mandalorian markings, the rest have Corellian hull identification numbers."
Jor smiled. "its the Mandalorians! They're here for one hell of a fight. All fighters make for the new arrivals and prepare to dock for rearming and refueling, our replacements are here."
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Post by Elifain on Dec 5, 2008 13:06:23 GMT -5
Elifains swerved to dodge a dart on an intercept course, and set the rear turrent to lock on to the target, and blow him out of the air. He had barelly gotten away from the blast radius before his mines went off, and before the allied flagship blasted the guns motors. Out of the corner of his eyes, he saw a new firefight opening up, over by the hiveships, in where a mandalorian vessle, and a few correllian ships had joined the fray, allong with their fighter squadrons. If I'm not mistaken, this juste became a winnable battle, He said into the comm, to who-ever was listening. He quickly pulled a U-turn, and charged back the way he came, unleashing another barage of laser fire, into the enemies shielding above the command deck, along with his remaining 8 concussion missles, and what was left of his space mines.
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Post by MikDaTv on Dec 5, 2008 13:29:02 GMT -5
The Tom Sawyer was sustaining heavy damage from turbolaser fire. Her forward sections were crumbling and her main engines were losing power. Her commander ordered the ship from the backup bridge and her weapons were targeting the Polar Star but they weren't doing much damage.
Polar Star fired it's main cannon and the shell streaked out across space. Before it struck Tom Sawyer however, the shell struck against the shielded hull of Galactica as it put itself between the two ships.
"Sorry we're late Captain Walton." Keyes said over the com as Galactica's weapons opened up. She was a carrier and not built for a slugging match, but her fresh guns were a welcome sight to the battle.
"Better late then never Captain Keyes, prepare to receive survivors." Walton said back.
"Survivors? Your not going down are you Gabriel?"
"Afraid i am. we're losing power and without enough power to maintain our reactor cores containment field, we'll lose the ship to an anti matter reaction." Walton responded.
Keyes shook his head in disappointment but was caught off guard when the Tom Sawyer behind them exploded. her shields were down and that left her open to dartship attack. dozens of Darts had rammed into her side and ruptured her fuel tanks. Her entire engine sections had exploded sending the bow off into space.
Keyes sat down in his chair and buckled in. "All guns, focus on the Polar Star. Auxiliary power to shields."
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Post by MikDaTv on Dec 5, 2008 13:29:39 GMT -5
The Skirata's Pride fired her turbolasers into one of the nest ships. her shields had dropped and the concentrated fire from the Mandalorian crewed vessels were now digging into here hull like a knife stabbing into a fruit. It was glorious. They had arrived just in time to rescue the remaining republic warriors and were now succeeding in destroying one of the large enemy ships.
Jor's fighter landed in the Skirata's Pride's small fighter bay and a flight crew in Mandalorian armor charged out and started refueling here and loading her with missiles.
5 more fighters landed beside him and similar crew began working on them. Jor marveled at their quickness. They operated with the professionalism and teamwork that took crews months to perfect and they had only just began crewing the ships. Jor now knew why these men and women were such difficult foes during the Mandalorian wars.
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Post by Elifain on Dec 5, 2008 13:43:36 GMT -5
Elifain was somewhat surprised when a ship tagged Galactica pulled in front of a ship, just before it blew up. He hadn't cought much of the fleets conversation through the battle, mainly due to the fact they used a fleetcom based comunication, except when the comm officer had directly talked to him, but he figured that this was planned by the captains. His assult on the command deck hadn't done anything to the enemy ship, other than buzz their shields a little, but that wasn't about to stop him. He turned around, and used his more powerful laser turrent on the ship, while his fast recharging laser turrets opened up on the passing dartships. He started drawing more fire than he had intened, and was forced to pull head back to the defense fleet, only then noticing that the enemy fleet was currently fighting a battle on both sides. With the planetary defense fleet on the assult from one side, and the Mandalorian fleet taking out the hives, and probably planning on heading insystem to take out the rest of the enemy fleet, he figured they would attempt to fly out of there before being seriously destroyed. That left the option of destroying the enemies engines, so they would not be able to run and fight another day. This is Tracin'ya Drakain, pilot of Claw of Mando, calling any defense fleet ships available. Hit the engines and hit them hard, otherwise chances of escape are high. We don't want them coming back with reinforcements any time soon... As he finished his statement, he hit thrusters, to do a slingshot around one of the allied ships, and turning back towards the engines. He didn't wait to see if the defenders would listen or not, but he was determined to do his part in the battle, no matter. When he was in range, he opened a full barage between his lighter cannons, and his heavier ion cannon.
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Post by MikDaTv on Dec 5, 2008 16:40:37 GMT -5
"Captain, the Claw of Mando is requesting support for her run on the enemy. looks like he plans on targeting her engines." The Galacticas com officer announced.
Captain Keyes turned back to the com console and glanced over the message. "We don't have the fighters to spare, but wish her luck. Press hard on their middle to try and draw the Darts out from their rear flanks, that should open things up a little more for her."
The com officer nodded and let Claw of Mando know that they were unable to send any fighter support but they'd try and draw the Darts off her.
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Post by MikDaTv on Dec 5, 2008 16:41:30 GMT -5
The first of the Nest ships began to break up. the giant hole that had been getting deeper and deeper thanks to Mandalorian fire had spent so much atmosphere into space the massive ship had to be struggling to keep up life support, and hundreds maybe even thousands of Killik bodies had spilled out into space.
Her internal structure was weakening under the strain and she had lost power to her entire port side when a wayward turbolaser bolt struck a power coupling deep within the hull. Wraith bombers did a bombing run against it causing a peppering of explosions across her dorsal surface. These explosions were followed up by laser fire from the Interdictor cruiser.
The dartships that had been all over the place were losing numbers quickly now thanks to the fatigue of fighting for the past 20 minutes strait and the 3 Warbirds advanced point defense system.
The other Nest ship began moving away, heading away from the battle at her top speed. Leaving the other nest ship to die. Dorian stood on the bridge and chalked it up for a tremendous victory. But before he could celebrate this new victory, the fleeing nest ship blossomed. Missiles poured off her hull of all kinds.
"Evasive maneuvers, get us out of here!" Dorian yelled. His helmsman put the Pride onto an evasive coarse away from the missiles. The other ships however weren't so lucky. The interdictor sustained multiple hits from proton torpedo's collapsing her shields. Then an assault concussion missile hit her directly in the bridge, knocking her out of the fight.
One of the other warbirds was hit by nearly a hundred concussion missiles causing unthinkably catastrophic damage to her. Main power offline, life support failing and engines losing power. The third warbird sustained massive damage as well, but her crew was still good enough for one last stand. in the last act of defiance they rammed their Warbird into the ship that had doomed them. Their cold fusion reactor went critical and exploded crippling the nest ship but not enough to keep it from jumping to hyperspace, which it did.
The rest of the remaining dartships broke off their attack and headed for the other battle closer to Ilium.
Dorian sneered at the surprise move and pointed at the fleeing fighters. "Pursuit coarse, target them with the torpedo launchers and fire at will."
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Post by MikDaTv on Dec 6, 2008 16:12:00 GMT -5
The Nero's bow suffered a critical hit from an assault concussion missile and the ship veered off coarse, not under command, her side guns still firing. The Widget moved in for the kill but was struck by a huge wave of laser fire.
The Ilium defense fleet had joined the fight. 19 obsolete corvettes opened fire on the Warbird, their laser canons striking it's shields and damaging it's duroplast plating. The Widget didn't take it lying down though. She turned from her prey and fired her weapons on the corvettes. In one strafing run she downed 6 of the 19 unshielded corvettes.
The corvettes turned to track their fire but they were slow and not very maneuverable. It didn't matter however since after their first barrage and following concentrated fire had caused the Widget's forward shields to collapse. As Widget circled around for another strafing run Galactica targeted her with a warhead.
The warhead launched from it's tube and streaked out towards the Widget. The multiple missile warhead split into 10 individual proton torpedos and slammed into the Warbirds forward bridge area and the dorsal section right at the base of the wings. Her shield generators exploded and her bridge section suffered major damage. Now that her shields were gone, the Ilium defense frigates were having a much greater effect, blowing away bits and pieces of the Warbird, a little at a time.
The Widget peeled off it's coarse and headed out of the system, jumping to hyperspace once it was clear of the battle. She had been knocked out of the fight.
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Post by Elifain on Dec 7, 2008 0:46:55 GMT -5
Elifain heard the message from the comm officer on the Galacticas, but remained quiet. He fired all his weapons on the engines, but had not dealt enough damage to the ship. Its rear turrets opened up on his ship, slamming down the shields, and blasting off the starboards wing, barelly inside the spent concussion missle launcher. He had dodged the rest, but couldn't fly the ship to the Ilium fleet. He also couldn't really do much for evasive maneuvering(sp), so he quickly launched an S.O.S. drone out of his ship, and powered down. The S.O.S. Drone flew away from his vessle, before activating the beacon, just so that the enemy wouldn't find him and blow him out of the air. He breathed out, the first full breath since the battle began, and kept watch out of the viewscreen as the remnents of the battle raged.
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Post by MikDaTv on Dec 7, 2008 9:19:40 GMT -5
The Skirata's Pride fired her proton torpedo launchers continuously, downing at least a dozen dartships as they fled from one fight and into another. Jor climbed back into the cockpit of his fighter and took off along with the 5 other Y-35 cobras. The surviving fighter force was down to 36 ships. 6 Cobras, 12 Wraith bombers and 3 Dragoons 8 Sith fighters and 7 republic fighters.
Jor formed them up in front of the Pride as a fighter screen and prepared to join in on another battle. From a distance it looked like the Lysander had charged the enemy right into their center and was fighting them while surrounded. The Galactica, still not fully outfitted was the major ship left in the Ilium fleet but only her turbolasers were firing. Jor guessed that was because she wasn't fully loaded since she performed an emergency separation from space dock.
Jor turned his fighter towards the dartships and prepared to engage again. "All fighters, this is Jedi Knight Jor Halcyon. We're going in. Watch each others backs and keep your wits about you and you'll have a hell of a story to tell your kids one day. Split up into pairs, pick your targets and go. May the Force be with you."
Jor hit the afterburners on his Cobra and jetted into the fight that had already spiraled out of control.
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Post by MikDaTv on Dec 7, 2008 16:56:42 GMT -5
"I want you to deactivate it's shields." Sarah said gently into the slicers ear.
"I can't my lady. I've tried but it just isn't working. All her systems are separated from the network. I don't have the access!" The slicer said frantically. His heart was beating intensely. He could feel Sarah's disappointment in him, which was something he hated, something he feared more then death. If he could bring Galactica's shields down by shooting himself he would just to make Sarah not be disappointed in him.
"Keep working on it, and don't worry, every little thing is going to be all right." Sarah said with a smile as she rubbed the back of his neck lightly. She turned to Commander Jones. "That ship Galactica, destroy it now!"
Commander Jones nodded his head and turned to the viewport with a determined look on his face. "All ships in the fleet, change targets to Galactica. Maximum power to weapons."
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Post by MikDaTv on Dec 7, 2008 17:02:29 GMT -5
Outside the Lysander gained a temporary reprieve as all the guns that had been targeting her switched to Galactica. The ship was pretty much empty now. She'd ejected life pods and they had been picked up by either Galactica or the enemy ships. Walton worried about their treatment but figured that the enemy was still basically members of the Republic and would therefore treat their republic brothers with respect.
Only Walton and a few select bridge crew remained on board. Both fighter bays had been smashed to bits and large sections of the ship were open to vacuum. Walton looked at his own tactical readouts. He'd lost 60% of his offensive capabilities and even if he could get the shield computer online again it wouldn't do any good since the generators were smashed to bits. He heaved a heavy sigh and continued the fight as best he could with his dwindling power reserves.
"Whats the status of Claw of Mando?" Walton asked his sensor officer.
"She's adrift, but salvageable. She's deployed an emergency buoy." The sensor officer replied.
"Flag her for rescue, get a Dragoon on it right away." Walton ordered. "Put all the power you can muster into the engines. Get me close to one of those Nest ships.."
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