Necessary Evil (SI/Lwhekk)
  • Posted On: Jun 10 2003 1:26am
ooc:In that case it would have been a member of Wraith Squadron.
  • Posted On: Jun 12 2003 7:23pm
"Get the remaining pickets to fall in on us, get us some heavy fighter support. All ships continue engagements."

With the craze of battle it was hard to plot courses among the chaos of movement, but the inumerable sawrm droids formed order from chaos and began to move. The massive Shree lay undefended, open to attack. Another massive salvo poured from its hull, pounding into a Bird of Prey Its sheilds being overwhelmed by the ion radiation of the massive cannons of the shree, the laser pierced her hull, yet she flew away as though she had missed. The swarms did exactly as their name had called, forming a layer over the shree, a viable moving defense.

The wurrifs engaging the destroyers were having it rough, taking more damage than they were giving. Still any attention away from the Fft Wren was well worth it. From behind one of the Destroyers lurked a forgotten group, a vanished Wurrif and its protectorate group, their fires pulsed right up the engines of the destroyer in salvo after slavo...


OOC: Sorry bout the crappy post, I told ya id reply and now its 5 min before I have to go to work, lol

Damage:

SI:
100% Sheild Damage to the Shree.
2 Picket Ship Destroyed
50% Sheild damage on the remaining Light Cruisers

BH:

1 Destroyed Birds of Prey
1 Crippled Birds of Prey
85% Sheild Damage to two Birds of Prey. (Please note that these two vesseles belong to the squadron that retreated and are out of the battle for now)
  • Posted On: Jun 12 2003 10:11pm
"Sir there are enemy ships advancing in sector eighty-four" Keyan announced to Griff, eyes on his console.

Sector 84 was the area directly behind the Vanguard formation. Already, the Defiant was shuddering slightly as laser blasts rocked the engine housing, to the rear of the ship.

"Classifications?" Griff asked Keyan.

"A Light Cruiser and it's support fighter craft" Keyan responded, holding on to the edge of his console as the bridge was shaken again.

"Ceace fire on the big egg and have Explorer redouble it's assault" Griff said.

"Come about, on a heading of thirty-five degrees port, thrusters only. Bring all weapons to bear on the Light Cruiser" Griff said down into the crew pits.

The large Imperial-class Star Destroyer lumbered away from it's firing position on the Shree, and slowly headed off to the port side, quickly gaining speed. The Light Cruiser followed, even as the Defiant's weapons came pounding down on it. It followed doggedly.

"Open a channel to Director Meer of Wraith squadron. He is ordered to halt his retreat and fire at the Light Cruiser following us." He turned to the Defiant's bridge crew. "In the mean time, you are ordered to keep a steady course for the safe zone, with the Interdictors" Griff said.

"Sir, Shadow and Deception report shield loss to three light cruisers. Rampage squadron reports destruction of another picket ship" Keyan said.

"Excellent, order the-"

"Sir" Keyan said, interupting. "Explorer and Zenith are reporting rising power levels in the big egg" He said.

Griff called up the live visual feed from the Zenith, a Victory-class Star Destroyer, on his own command console. Indeed, explosions were beginning to form all over the Shree's hull. The ship's weapons went silent, as did the glow from it's engines. Griff also noted how close the camera was to the Shree...

He stiffled a slight gasp. He had ordered the Zenith to fire point-blank at the Shree. So when the Shree went up, the Zenith would be caught.

"Order the Zenith to back off, now![/i] Griff ordered, abandoning his calm composure. Keyan began relaying the order instantly, without hesitation.

Griff turned back to his console, and the live feed from the Zenith. The 900-meter ship began to back off slowly, but it's engines were sluggish. The ship backed away, meter by meter...

And then the Shree exploded.

Griff had to shield his eyes from the bright flash, and after a minute he forced himself to look back. The visual feed was nothing but static now. He turned to Keyan.

"Report"

"The big egg has been destroyed. Collateral damage to the Zenith" Keyan reported.

"Order the Zenith to retreat, Explorer is ordered to cover her" Griff said.

The wounded Zenith slowly moved away from the battle, another Victory-class Star Destroyer moving to cover her...


OOC: Damage Report

SI:

1 Shree-class battlecruiser destroyed.
1 Fw'sen-class Picket Ship destroyed.
100% Shield damage to 3 Light Cruisers.

BH:
75% Shield damage to 1 Victory-class Star Destroyer.
1 Bird of Prey Destroyed (Listed as 'crippled' in Shreeftut's post)
100% Shield damage to 2 Bird of Prey (Note: These ships belong to the retreating squadron)
  • Posted On: Jun 14 2003 12:15am
Marth looked around the bridge of Wraith One. His ship had been damaged heavily but hadn't been destroyed yet. Other ships in his squadron hadn't been so lucky.

"Sir, all enemy fighters are concentrating on Vanguard Formation. We can launch our Missile Boats safely now."

Suddenly, an immense flash eclipsed the battlefield and Marth had to look away.

"What was that?" He demanded.

"The big egg, the cruiser, it's destroyed."

"Sir we have orders from Admiral Griff to make attack the light cruiser harrasing thier rear."

"Any fighter's in the area?"

"Most of them are engaged. Theres a dozen or so fighters guarding the light cruiser."

"Alright, launch all Missile Boats. Tell all the Missile Boats to form up behind Wraith Two."

"Aye Sir."

"Space out the Bird of Preys at 20 kilometers."

"Aye Aye Sir."

"Alright Helm. Get us full Power. Full shields fore, even out the rest of the shields."

"Guns. Concentrate all your fire on the Light Cruiser's Engines. Once we're pass them tractor the cruiser and swign around under it. Right after we begin to tractor Wraith Two begin's their run. Then the Missile Boats, then the rest of the squad. Then us again."

"Sir we're approaching weapons range with the cruiser."

"Alright all weapons fire. Concentrate on their engines if possible."

The Bird of Prey screamed over the Light Cruiser. Gun batteries peppered the cruiser's shields. Then Missiles streaked in from the fore and aft batteries of the Bird Of Prey. Just as the Aft Batteries opened fire, the tractor beam latched onto the Wurrif swinging it around and under the light cruiser impossibly fast. The gun batteries resumed fire.

Then it was Wraith Two's turn. Once again the missiles and gun batteries peppered the cruiser but the shields still held though it was obvious that they couldn't stand up to this strain forever.

Then suddenly a huge explosion blossomed on the Light Cruiser's bow. The Missile Boats had fired, this time gaps appeared in the shields allowing a few missiles to get in and destroy bulkheads, but for the most part the shields held.

OOC:
Damage:A bit more damage to 2 Bird of Preys
3 Missile Boats gone.

Ssi-Ruuvi:
1 Wurrif at 50% shield damage.

Note if you concentrate all shield power aft your nose will get destroyed by Defiant's tail gunners.
  • Posted On: Jun 14 2003 1:15am
The battle stoped momentarily, at least for the Ssi-Ruuvi, a few seconds of shock passing over the fleet. The General had said so many words, among them how he would give his life for the planet, and how true that rang now. He had also spoken about how he expected the same from each of them. A rekindled vigor would spread through the fleet with this blow.

Behind the Zenith the Wurrif and escort increased speed, pushing their engines to the limit to overtake the crippled bohemoth. The pickets fired blatently into her engines, each stab of a laser or splash of an ion cannon tearing away at her fragile hull and eating into the systems they protected. Above, the rest, The Sn'ref and her fighter escorts climbed the rear of the vessel in a sharp upturn before leveling off on the sheild emmiter towers of the beast.

Fire rocked the wurrifs sheilds as it hoverin in place momentarily. Its fighters picking off missle fire before it approached. Like an ominous egg of death it opened fire on the bridge decks of the Zenith, its ion cannon splashing across the unsheilded outter hull, damaging vital control systems; The laser cannons punching through the alloys, opening holes into space, holes that normaly would automaticaly seal if not for lost and damaged systems.

Aboard the Sn'ref, the captain sat back in his custom made backless chair, a cheaper version of the shreeftuts. He had saved a good salary for months just to get it. He mentally prepared for his coming demise, it was only envitable.


"Continue firing, Divert all power to our forward guns. By all our power make sure those weapons never stop firing until theres not one of us left alive to see it happen!"
  • Posted On: Jun 15 2003 3:28am
The Birds of Prey of Wraith squadron came on the Wurrif like an avenging wind. Pulse turbolasers slamming into it's shields and outer hull. The Defiant's own tail gunners assisted as well, firing when they could to try and get the Wurrif off the Star Destroyer's back. Turbolasers from the Defiant splashed across the Wurrif's forward shields.

"All ships report missile tubes loaded and ready to fire" Keyan said from his station.

"Good. All ships pick a target and fire at will" Griff said.

"Sir, the Zenith is begining to list. Captain Pterson reports that the primary systems are failing. As is main power" Keyan reported calmly.

Griff turned to the Defiant's comm officer, "Open a channel to Captain Pterson" He ordered. The comm officer did so, and signaled that the channel was open.

"Captain Pterson, report" Griff said, not bothering to identify himself over the open channel.

"Sir....my ship is dying. Primary power has failed. I have ordered all forces to abandon ship" Pterson reported, calmly.

"Good. We will recover them. Get to an escape pod yourself, Captain" Griff replied.

"No time sir!. I have set the self destruction sequence. I request permission to stay with my ship, sir" Pterson said, still strangely calm.

Griff sighed slightly, he understood of course. Captain's pride.

"Granted" Was Griff's only reply.

"Thank you sir. I am going to take these @#%$ down, along with my ship!"

Griff nodded, even though Pterson could not see it.

"Good luck, Captain Pterson. I salute you" Griff said. There was a pause, then Pterson replied.

"Tell my daughter...that I am okay" Pterson said, still calm.

"I will. Good luck" Griff said, and Pterson cut the transmission. Griff immedietly turned to Keyan.

"Order the Explorer to back off. The Zenith is about to go up"

Griff turned back to the viewport, where the Zenith hung, wounded. The other VSD, Explorer burned it's engines to full, gaining distance from the Zenith...


Zenith



Pterson cut the transmission to the Defiant and looked at the six other crewmen who had opted to stay behind with their captain. He nodded once to them and they all sat down in the now empty tractor beam controllers chair. There were still a few automated turbolasers firing at the attacking Wurrif, so the Ssi-ruuvi ship did not withdrawl. He started punching in commands on his console, aligning the tractor beam, he targeted the Wurrif. The ship was the size of a Carrak-class cruiser, and made a nice big target. The Zenith's engines suddenly failed, and went dark.

His finger hovered over the firing stud of the tractor beam...

The Wurrif made another pass, ion cannons blazing...

"Now!"

Pterson pressed the firing stud, just as the Ssi-ruuvi ship came into range. The tractor beam lanced out, capturing the egg-shaped vessel in midflight. The other crewmen did the same thing, all seven tractor beams caught the ship, halting it's flight.

The Wurrif's engines blazed a hot white, trying to escape the pull of the tractor beam. It gained a little ground, gradually pulling away from the VSD. However, Pterson and his crew had already succeeded in halting the Ssi-ruuvi ship just enough...it's fate had been sealed.

Pterson smiled.

And the Zenith exploded.

Defiant


Griff shielded his eyes slightly from the sudden glow, that formed in the darkness of space. He sighed heavily, a major loss. Pterson had been brave to the end.

"Sir, two other Wurrif's have been destroyed by Silencer and Rampage Squadrons. Vanguard formation also reports the destruction of two more picket ships."

He paused.

"And we have lossed two Birds of Prey, both belonging to Rampage squadron"

Griff closed his eyes.

"All ships retreat" He ordered.

"Understood" Keyan said and began relaying the orders on a fleetwide band.

Griff crossed his arms over his chest as the Black Hand fleet disengaged from their battles and begining pre-hyperspace manuvers.


EDIT: I forgot to post damage.

SI:

3 Wurrif-class Light Cruisers
2 Fw'sen-class Picket Ships

BH:

Two Birds of Prey
Heavy Sheild Damage to six Birds of Prey (75%)
  • Posted On: Jun 16 2003 12:38am
"Admiral Griff has ordered the retreat sir."

"Pick up any escape pods of the Zenith. Load all remaining fighters. Defend yourselves but do not press the attack."

"Aye Aye Sir."

"Sir we've loaded all the fighters and escape pods we can hold. Sensors indicate no escape pods left."

"Alright. Form up at Checkpoint Gamma with the nearest of the Intredictors. We'll escort them out of system. I want damage reports on all our ships as soon as we've entered hyperspace. We've fought well today and hurt the Ssi-Ruuvi hard. Harder then they hurt us. You can rest assured that the citizens of Bakura and countless other worlds will thank you and your comrades for your sacrifices today. Today you fought and you won."
  • Posted On: Jun 18 2003 6:30am
OOC: Final Damage:

SI:
30 Droid Starfighters
10 Pickets
1 Shree-class battlecruiser
3 Wurrif-class Light Cruisers


BH:
5 Destroyed Bird of Prey
3 Missile Boats.
1 Victory-Class Star Destroyer.

This thread is complete, I will make the appropriate edit in my fleet manifest.
  • Posted On: Jun 18 2003 8:01pm
Dont forget the Zenith