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Go after the rogue Captain

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Drone Clearence

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Some Easy Escourt duty

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Screw all you rule obeying fools! There are other means of credit procurement!

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[Armok]

.... Well darn.

[Immortal]

"Diplomacy will obviously not be working here men, we need to strike hard and fast.. If the team agrees I would like to issue these orders.
All crew to battle stations!
Open fire! Helios put 3 Ravenhawks and 5 interceptors to each weapons platform. Take them out before they can finish powering.
Flarewise concentrate your laser bank on the platforms, avoid all damages, stay back.
Urist co-ordinate evasive maneuvers with us and the Flarewise, back us away from these platforms! Keep us in the wreckage though, we can use it to draw the destroyers to us."

I'll get a sit-rep of the system immediately. We need distances, firing ranges (ours and theirs), and approx. size of all enemies we can see.

Alec you wanted your chance. Get to your stealth fighter and be ready to hit that space station. Take a nuke..
Scramble all fighters..

[Gotdamnmiracle]

"Roger roger, we have a go. Wildfire, spin out... Form up.... Firestar, what do long range scans read?" Alec gives the mark to launch and calls for fighter formation. Alec awaits information on areas layout, debris and craft locations, and estimated scan radius's.

(Alec is flying the stealth nuke, if that is okay with the GM. I'll break formation when I get an idea of where I am going and the path to get there. Send me that sit-rep when you get an accurate scan.)

[Gotdamnmiracle]

"Arm salvos. Arm main gun. Test fire in, two. One." Wildfire shoots a very small burst from their main guns. "All clear? Form up and ready for interception." In the change of flight pattern Alec uses the closer pattern to mask his rapid deceleration and formation break. Alec flips his outgoing comm off and attempts to control his speed, awaiting a more accurate estimate of where craft and large scrap or debris is.

(I'm assuming the Firestar has better long distance scanners than a fighter.)

[PyroDesu]

"If those destroyers can't hit us while we're in this field, then it would be best to stay in here, as the debris might hamper them if they attempt to enter it.

If they can, then staying in the debris field is not worth it, we would risk collision with debris and our weapons would have severe limits on what they can target. Even with Urist at the helm, there's too much crap here to not be a hazard. And even then, what of the Flarewise? She's not likely to be as maneuverable as us, so, even with Urist at its controls as well, there is risk of collision."

[Immortal]

Good point, cancel that last order. Pull out of the debris field, head for the station once we are done with those platforms.

[Gotdamnmiracle]

It wasn't supposed to do detailed just cut through hulls and power lines and possibly hitch rider on fighters. So that it seems like it will perform up to spec.

I help adwarf with his mecha systems.

Design and build a heavy duty welder, so that mechas can do basic repair work and cut into tanks and other armored vehicles/ compounds. (Modular design, so you can switch them ou with other weapons when needed.)

You set up a modular cutter tool that is built into the wirst of the powered EVA suit while adawarf works slimming down SMGs and building and creating an ammo feed to boxes mounted in the suit's backpack.
It's quickly becoming a quite heavy design but with duel wrist mounted SMGs and several hundred rounds in the backpack to feed to them it can put out a surprising amount of fire power while staying space capable.
But it's become fairly bulky.

Maybe you should try to switch to energy based weapons so that ammunition and the energy for the servos and motors could all be siphoned off of the same source. Or you could just free up the whole attached weapons thing completely and rely on regular small arms. We will have to troll the market for energy based small arms, light weight alloys and armors, and small battery packs that remain cool next time we head back to a station. Braben hall might have the widest selection, if a little shoddy or less than legal.

[ansontan2000]

"All units, battle stations! Unit commanders, to the rec room for breifing and debriefings NOW!"

[Jerick]

"Arm salvos. Arm main gun. Test fire in, two. One." Wildfire shoots a very small burst from their main guns. "All clear? Form up and ready for interception." In the change of flight pattern Alec uses the closer pattern to mask his rapid deceleration and formation break. Alec flips his outgoing comm off and attempts to control his speed, awaiting a more accurate estimate of where craft and large scrap or debris is.

(I'm assuming the Firestar has better long distance scanners than a fighter.)

The wildfire squadron tests their guns as they form up, with Alec using the diversion to slip away from the fighters.
More detailed scans begin coming in showing the movement of the largest debris and the weapon platforms.
The debris field isn't that dense and the weapon platforms are spread out.

Maybe you should try to switch to energy based weapons so that ammunition and the energy for the servos and motors could all be siphoned off of the same source. Or you could just free up the whole attached weapons thing completely and rely on regular small arms. We will have to troll the market for energy based small arms, light weight alloys and armors, and small battery packs that remain cool next time we head back to a station. Braben hall might have the widest selection, if a little shoddy or less than legal.

The destroyers are a vast distance away but they have powered they're engines and are heading your way.
"This is the House Laberine armed forces you are trespassing in a restricted area leave immediately!"

Spoiler: Nav computer (click to show/hide)

Tabien System
Galvenn (known shipyard)
Jayld
Vrinis
Ilbrier (Digital Rights Front Headquarters)
The disputed Zone
Lastros Ak'Mkal
Braben Hall (Black market)

• Repurposed Mining station 29

N 5647
N 2059 Hermin's Valley(Pirate Base)

(Trade post)

Spoiler: Firestar status (click to show/hide)

Credits: 36,239
Hull damage: Fine
Armor: Full
System Damage: Fine
Computing Power: 200,000
Weapon Status: Ready to fire
Weapons:
4x Point Defence Turret Battery
2x Double 4 Inch Repeater Cannons
twin linked railguns
400 missile tubes
Railgun shells: 30 (Railgun shells do more damage but the railguns can still fire scrap metal if need be)
4 inch Cannon shells: 200
Gattling rounds:1200
(Internal defenses)

Missiles:

• Tether Anchor x2 (currently in use: 0)
• Giber x41
• Interceptor x231
• Ravenhawk x104
• Hammer x2
• Hound x47
• Fighter Hunters x51
• Fighter Destroyer x11
• Tracker Beacon x2
• Driller Nuke x7
• Avangelis x22
• Blinder x10
• Burster

Crew:45 (1 cast)
Specialists: Doctor 1/ Hacker 2/ Security 3/ Fighter pilots 17
Crew Morale: Extreamly high.
Crew rations: 11192 (one crew ration per crew memeber consumed per day)

Computer System:
Type: Armok Modular system
Modules: Superior Targeting (Turrets + main gun)
Custom sysems Automation(Systems, doors, lifesupport all respond automaticly to crisis situations, are automatic and only active when needed saving power)
Customised manuvering and thrusters (The Firestar's controls respond in realtime but lack the percision of a better control system, they've also been optimised for use by the crew of the Firestar)
Basic Shuttle jump calculating (Very long jump calculation times)
Tailored AI interaction module(designed to link the AI Urist into the ship systems)

AIs:2(Urist, Helios/Bill)

Other Craft:
Away

Hanger
Scout Drone(Fuel: 10/10)
3xGattling Drones(Fuel 10/10  ammo 250/250)
Rocket Drone(Fuel 10/10 Missiles: fighter hunterx3 /3)
Remote Fighter(Fuel: 180/200, Computing Power:150)
(Forward Mounted Gattling gun:670 gattling rounds Missile launcher: Interceptor )
Old Knell fighter(Fuel; 180/200, Computing Power:75)
(Forward mounted beam weapon x2, Missile Countermeasures: 0 Pilot: Total newbie)
LR Cargo Shuttle (Fuel: 321/600, Computing Power:60)
Ravenwind fighter wing (five fighters) (Fuel; 100/200, Computing Power:75)
(Forward mounted beam weapon x2, forward mounted cannon: 0, Rear mounted point defnse gun, Missile Countermeasures: 0, Pilots: Average)
Ravenwind fighter wing (five fighters) (Fuel; 100/200, Computing Power:75)
(Forward mounted beam weapon x2, forward mounted cannon: 0, Rear mounted point defnse gun, Missile Countermeasures: 0, Pilots: Average
Ravenwind fighter wing (five fighters) (Fuel; 100/200, Computing Power:75)
(Forward mounted beam weapon x2, forward mounted cannon: 0, Rear mounted point defnse gun, Missile Countermeasures: 0, Pilots: Average)


Hanger fuel tank:4000/4000

Cargo:
Satellite x4
Stealth probe x2
Data Courier
4x crawler drone

Spoiler: Flarewise (click to show/hide)

Cargo Vessel
Hull damage: fine
Armor: depleted
System Damage: fine
Fuel: 15,000/15,000
Computing Power: 25,000
Weapon Status: fine
Weapons:
4x Point Defence Turret Battery
4x Laser Turrets
6 missile tubes

Missiles:

• Fighter Destroyers
• Interceptors x5
• Interceptors x70
• Ravenhawks x25
• Fighter Hunters x10
• Gilber x10
• Hound x10

Specialists: Doctor 1/ Hacker 2/ Security 2/ Fighter 15

Crew:35
Crew Morale: Extreamely high
Crew rations: 7340

Computer System:
Type: Armok Modular system
Modules: Superior Targeting (Turrets + main gun)
Custom sysems Automation(Systems, doors, lifesupport all respond automaticly to crisis situations, are automatic and only active when needed saving power)
Customised manuvering and thrusters (The Firestar's controls respond in realtime but lack the percision of a better control system, they've also been optimised for use by the crew of the Firestar)
Basic Shuttle jump calculating (Very long jump calculation times)



Other Craft
Docked



Cargo:
14 Halker Fighterbombers
5 Ravenwind fighters
4 vesker torpedo bombers
vesker torpedo bomber (Stealth)
1 crawler drone

Spoiler: Galveen 4 trade station rented warehouse (click to show/hide)

Mainframe(network, computing power: 40,000)
basic ship parts
99 flak shells
smoke grenades
explosives (one mines worth)
Escape pods
Some small arms
fighter parts
Patrol ship Reactor
80 advanced fabrication components
Advanced tools
12 units advanced electronics
3 Fabrication Components
2 Advanced Fabrication Components
one heavy calibre cannon turret(medium)

[Immortal]

".. Why did we not fire.. Fire the damn missiles! Fire the cannons!
Flarewise open up on them with your laser bank."

[Gotdamnmiracle]

(Will incoming comns give me away?)

Alec picks a route that will be further away from the fighter groups and craft and through some space debris.  Alec wipes sweat out of his eyes as he attempts to control his speed and disguise his ship as space trash or a wrecked fighter. He picks a route that will avoid scans and pings to the best of his knowledge and finally, but breifly, get him to where he needs to drop the nuke.

(This might be my last post (for a while), considering I am leaving for two monthes, computerless. I'm sure you will need a fighter pilot, so if anyone would like two character temporarily please let me know. I leave a little later today. If this is still running when I get back (fingers crossed) then I will definately still play it.)

[PyroDesu]

".. Why did we not fire.. Fire the damn missiles! Fire the cannons!
Flarewise open up on them with your laser bank."

Arjen's half-destroyed voice cuts into Alec's command before he can complete the order:

"Belay that order. Do not open fire, at least, not yet.

Urist, see if you can hack those defense platforms. If we can turn them on each other, or the destroyers, we won't waste ammunition and we'll take out two threats at the same time. Even if you just shut them down temporarily, it will remove a distraction.

Helio, try to hack the destroyers, shut them down, make them lose control, overload weapons; whatever you can do."

[ansontan2000]

"On my authority, carry out Arjun's orders! Missile squards, get ready to open fire on my mark!"

[PyroDesu]

"On my authority, carry out Arjun's orders! Missile squards, get ready to open fire on my mark!"

"Remember people: The station has priority right now. Even with Alec's stealth bomber and nuclear device aiming at it, if the nuclear blast somehow fails to destroy it, it becomes priority target for you bombers.

If the blast does its job, which it should, your target will be the destroyers, do not, however, attack until the station is gone. Also, I want no more than 5 missiles in the air at a time per destroyer, observe the damage before launching another salvo at the same ship. No need to be wasting them. Also, remember that you will have railgun fire support from the Firestar if needed.

Once the destroyers are down, priority shifts to the defense platforms. The Firestar and Flarewise will be moving out and away from the debris field while the station and destroyers have priority, so as to hopefully be out of range of the platforms when they become priority. However, I do not want you hotshots going after the platforms, leave them for our capital ships. Instead, sit tight and return to base after the nearby platforms are gone.

Also, Alec, that nuclear weapon is likely to induce massive EMP effects over the surface of the planet. You'll be in space, so it won't even be near you, but anything on that planet or in its atmosphere within a certain range of the blast is likely to be disabled unless its electronics are hardened against EMP effects or has Faraday protection."

[Jerick]

The destroyers and station are actualy a long way away (about ten minutes out for the Firestar) they're just putting out so much power you can see them from ages away.

(Will incoming comns give me away?)

Alec picks a route that will be further away from the fighter groups and craft and through some space debris.  Alec wipes sweat out of his eyes as he attempts to control his speed and disguise his ship as space trash or a wrecked fighter. He picks a route that will avoid scans and pings to the best of his knowledge and finally, but breifly, get him to where he needs to drop the nuke.

(This might be my last post (for a while), considering I am leaving for two monthes, computerless. I'm sure you will need a fighter pilot, so if anyone would like two character temporarily please let me know. I leave a little later today. If this is still running when I get back (fingers crossed) then I will definately still play it.)

No you can pick up incoming comns unnoticed.
You aim your ship carefuly drifting most of the way with a few extreamly percise thrusts to propel your vesker to where it needs to be but it will take you a long time to get there.

(See you when you get back then!)

".. Why did we not fire.. Fire the damn missiles! Fire the cannons!
Flarewise open up on them with your laser bank."

Arjen's half-destroyed voice cuts into Alec's command before he can complete the order:

"Belay that order. Do not open fire, at least, not yet.

Urist, see if you can hack those defense platforms. If we can turn them on each other, or the destroyers, we won't waste ammunition and we'll take out two threats at the same time. Even if you just shut them down temporarily, it will remove a distraction.

Helio, try to hack the destroyers, shut them down, make them lose control, overload weapons; whatever you can do."

Helios grumbles to himself as he tries to interfere with the destroyers.
"Damn it they've upgraded their secruity, you used to be able to force an emergency stop remotely but they seem to have patched that recently.
They've cut down on the number of systems you can access remotely as well, it's like these guys have suddenly become obsessive about digital sec-shit! Counter Viris! ....ok, ok I think I've got it contained buuut now I'm locked out from their systems, sorry guys you're going to have to take them out the old fashioned way,"

Urist has a little more luck by scrambling the weapon platform IFF transponders, they can no longer tell the difference between allies and enemies.
But they havn't been granted clearence to fire yet.
"This is your finial warning begin jumping to another star immediatly or you will be destroyed!"