Commodore Sae Yonna, recently promoted to her rank and place aboard the Star Cruiser Glorious Heritage, looked over the orders one last time.
It was, she thought, not going to be fun. But then, fun and games had no place in war.
"Helm, plot us a course to the Tava Yagen asteroid field. We're going to show those Trade Federation @#%$ that we don't need their imput."
It took a moment, but the ship slowly turned and, picking up two of her sisters, made the leap to hyperspace.
To Tava Yagen, and Durelium Ore.
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"Reversion mark in five... four... three... two... mark!" Almost as if they had been swtiched off as one would a holoprojector, the swirling blue lanes of hyperspace vanished, replaced by the rocks of the Tava Yagen asteroid field.
The field stretched as far as the eye could see in all directions, filling space in front of the ships like no other.
Sae Yonna was already issueing orders. "Bring up the equipment and get those asteroids on board."
The Star Cruiser, well not designed for mining or transport, was large enough that such a mission was more than possible. And with her were a number of small Corvettes, modified quickly for this mission, as well as two of the older Victory class, also modified slightly.
The Tava Yagen system had, luckily for the Galactic Defence Initiative, been monopolized by a small mining firm that had gone out of business some months prior to this operation.
At the time, High Command had decreed that with the Trade Federation in charge of the stocks from Mestra, it would be unnessary to move into the system.
They hadn't anticipated the Federation's treachery. But they had prepared for a sudden loss of Durelium, and this operation was it.
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Tava Yagen System - Six Hours Later
"All systems are primed and operational. Preparing to lift off." The few shuttles that had set down on the asteroids, delivering equipment or what have you, rose gracefully from the surface of those asteroids and moved towards the waiting task force, their holds full of the ever-so-precious Durelium Ore.
It would hold out for some time, anyway. At which point the Empire would have to think of a new way to limit the abilities of their former allies.
Sae had no doubt they would. But the GDI would be a step ahead of them. It was their job.
The small task force leapt to hyperspace. They didn't know that another such force was waiting outside the system to fill their own holds, or that the asteroid field was almost mined out by the GDI fleet that had stopped there on its way to Byss.
All they knew was that the GDI would have an abudnent supply of Durelium Ore for some time...
It was, she thought, not going to be fun. But then, fun and games had no place in war.
"Helm, plot us a course to the Tava Yagen asteroid field. We're going to show those Trade Federation @#%$ that we don't need their imput."
It took a moment, but the ship slowly turned and, picking up two of her sisters, made the leap to hyperspace.
To Tava Yagen, and Durelium Ore.
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"Reversion mark in five... four... three... two... mark!" Almost as if they had been swtiched off as one would a holoprojector, the swirling blue lanes of hyperspace vanished, replaced by the rocks of the Tava Yagen asteroid field.
The field stretched as far as the eye could see in all directions, filling space in front of the ships like no other.
Sae Yonna was already issueing orders. "Bring up the equipment and get those asteroids on board."
The Star Cruiser, well not designed for mining or transport, was large enough that such a mission was more than possible. And with her were a number of small Corvettes, modified quickly for this mission, as well as two of the older Victory class, also modified slightly.
The Tava Yagen system had, luckily for the Galactic Defence Initiative, been monopolized by a small mining firm that had gone out of business some months prior to this operation.
At the time, High Command had decreed that with the Trade Federation in charge of the stocks from Mestra, it would be unnessary to move into the system.
They hadn't anticipated the Federation's treachery. But they had prepared for a sudden loss of Durelium, and this operation was it.
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Tava Yagen System - Six Hours Later
"All systems are primed and operational. Preparing to lift off." The few shuttles that had set down on the asteroids, delivering equipment or what have you, rose gracefully from the surface of those asteroids and moved towards the waiting task force, their holds full of the ever-so-precious Durelium Ore.
It would hold out for some time, anyway. At which point the Empire would have to think of a new way to limit the abilities of their former allies.
Sae had no doubt they would. But the GDI would be a step ahead of them. It was their job.
The small task force leapt to hyperspace. They didn't know that another such force was waiting outside the system to fill their own holds, or that the asteroid field was almost mined out by the GDI fleet that had stopped there on its way to Byss.
All they knew was that the GDI would have an abudnent supply of Durelium Ore for some time...