Mission 6 - You are telling me that was an accident?Having proved we can do some decent shooting up of stuff, we get to go kill a freighter. Of course it will have escorts. We all keep the same ships from last time around, apart from Sgt. Darker, who upgrades from a light interceptor to a light gunship - MOAR DAKKA!
The sector we arrive in is wide open with some asteroids on the far side, which if I was the pilot of a crappy trade barge would be where I was hiding. We race over there.
Contact - Dsarker spots an enemy bomber, who takes the unusual approach of flying past all our guns. Well, if thats what he wants to do...
An enemy stealth bomber joins the party. We shoot a bit at him too. Shame ALL our shots miss. Then this happens.
I collide with the bomber, but should have enough speed to get away - I hope. One of Dsarkers missiles is still chasing that stealth bomber.
While I am putting up with "being chased by bomber issues" it lands a light hit on me for minor damage, but that aint as bad as the situation Delta Foxtrot is in - he is dead. The stealth bomber avoided the missile chasing it, and instead to decided to get delta foxtrot. His drone didnt stand a chance. He at least got one shot off that hit the drone. Thats our first green on green. I am having some difficulty in shaking the bomber still.
I dont think we are up against the bravest pilots here.
My day keeps getting worse though:
Thats 2 ships menacing me now. A little help guys? My ship has accrued some serious damage now - mainly the loss of all engines. I can manouver, but not control my speed at all. I can still shoot though. Cyrus lands 2 retaliatory shots on the bomber that was giving me so many problems. The battle calms for a moment as both squadrons regroup. Then, the cowardly reputation of the enemy is confirmed.
Note the characteristic yellow glow of engines being prepared for hyperspace. Well, this doesnt mean we should stop trying to kill them... but for some reason Cyrus decieds to shoot me instead, damaging my battered ship still further. Thanks. I now have a stealthless, 50% dead craft with no engines that cant turn right very well at all. I get 2 missiles off at the bomber, and one hits before it drops off sensors. But thats not the one I want...
The bomber that was pissing me off earlier is now a sitting duck. Enjoy missiles to the rear, much? But no, these first 2 miss totally:
Instead they lock on to an enemy gunship, which thanks to a colission with Dsarker is stationary. Dsaker is attemting to reverse away from it at high speed. Both have enough firepower to seriously ruin each others day. Somehow, Dsarker gets a shot off while avoiding the point blank return fire. The enemy then immediatley jump into hyperspace, apart from the stealth bomber. His pilot ejected earlier, and Cyrus is gonna take out some anger on the wreck...
Time to find the transport. We fan out into a search pattern. Flying through asteroids proves hard with no ability to control your speed. Before we find the trader, we are ordered back to base - our inability to find it is taken to mean that it escaped. Our lack of a scout ship again hurts us badly.
DebriefA mixed bag of a mission. Again we didnt manage our objective. Our lack of scout craft rated pilots is becoing a right pain in the ass. We lost Delta Foxtrot (who was scout rted, but we lacked the finds to give him one), but his file does make note that he activley volunteered to fly ships likley to get killed, so I suppose he got what he wanted. Cyrus lands a kill, and gets a Medal of Honour - for shooting up a an abandoed ship...
. Dsarker will suffer no court marshall for his killing of Delta Foxtrot - command are treating it as a "combat incident". Should Foxtrot end up cloned, he might have something to say about that. For those of us still with breathing privelages, its onwards to the next mission.
Pilot Roster, Ship Preference and Combat RecordsOn Duty- Lt. Monkeyhead - Fighter/Bomber (6 missions, 15 kills, 3 ships lost, 1 Gold Cross, 1 Medal of Conspicuous Bravery)
- 2nd Lt. Cyrus - High Speed (2 missions, 2 kills, 1 Medal of Honour)
- Sgt. Dsarker - Dakka (2 missions, 2 kills, 1 green on green)
At Base:- Pvt. Hexedmagica - Shields
- Pvt. Elfeater - Fighter
- Pvt. PhantomSpaceMan - Scout/LR
- Pvt. Bulldog (Clone) - Scout
- Pvt. Mormota - Fastness
- Pvt. Jerick - Fighter/Bomber
- Pvt Tarran - Speed and Shields
- Pvt. MaximumZero - GUNZ
- Pvt. Roboboy33 - Speed, Armour
- Pvt. von Fluss - Fighter/Scout
- Pvt. Hanzoku (Clone) - Speed
- Awaiting Further Recruits
The Glorious Dead - Medivat cloning on offer for the restless.- Sgt. Warhammer - Killed by an enemy Drone during Mission 1: Attack Hospitals (1 mission, 1 ship lost)
- Sgt. Bulldog - Killed by an enemy Drone during Mission 3: Ambush (2 missions, 1 ship lost)
- 2nd Lt. Inteuniso - Killed by an enemy Drone during Mission 4: Attack on Observatory (4 missions, 2 kills, 1 ship lost)
- Sgt. Hanzoku - Killed by an enemy Stealth Bomber during Mission 4: Attack on Observatory (2 missions, 2 ships lost)
- Pvt. Jopax - Killed by unknown enemy during Mission 4: Attack on Observatory (2 missions, 1 kill, 2 ships lost)
- Pvt. Delta Foxtrot - Killed by Sgt. Dsarker during green on green incident in Mission 6: Destroy Transport (2 missions, 1 ship lost)
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