"Captian, that was our last set of shields, what will we do now?" asked Pilot Kuracko of the Bulk freighter Southampton.

"Yesti, Kuracko, plot me an emergency course in any direction, anywhere but here! We must escape!" yelled captian Joki of the Bulk Freighter.

The freighter was under attack by a Imperial Patrol Vessel, a ship known as a Constrainer class Picket ship. This ship was the recentley comissioned Binder, trying to test her systems on unsuspecting prey belonging to the Merchant's guild, who have been known to ship excusivley for the Galatic Coalition, enemies of the Empire. The Constrainer had been in a running gun duel with the merchant ship for nearly ten minutes, and finally managed to collapse the shields of the freighter. Now realising how much trouble they were in, the Bulk Freighter began to accelerate to lightspeed. The Constrainer class Picket fired twice more, blowing through what remianed of the Bulk Freighter's shields, and impacting the hull of the ship. Then the freighter was gone, having entered the safety of hyperspace.

The Captian of the Constrainer class Picket ship, Joshi, was not happy after seeing the escape of the freighter.

"Ensign Guru, plot the course of the freighter. Where will it pop out at?" asked the captian.

"Sir, it should emerge near the planet of Ando." said the ensign.

"Ando, Ando. That planet is part of the Galatic Coalition, correct?" asked the captian.

"Yes sir. Should we go in after the freighter?" asked the ensign.

"By all means, but let's inform our partners of the departure from the assigned patrol zone." said the captian.

"Yes sir, message sent." said the ensign.

Then, swinging about in vengeful purpose, the Constrainer wheeled about, and went after the Bulk freighter in vengeful pursuit.

Two hours later......

The Binder emerged from hyperspace near the planet of Ando. Ten kilometers ahead of them was the damaged Bulk Freighter, venting cargo from it's aft holds, with it's engines sputtering. The Constrainer put on full speed, quickly closing the distance. It opened once again with it's laser cannons at the Bulk Freighter, causing more devastation. A half dozen new holes had been opened in her hull, venting more cargo, packaged foodstuffs, along with the bodies of a few crew members, out into open space.

"Send a message out to anybody who will hear us. This is the Bulk Freighter Southampton, out of Gyndine with a cargo of trade goods for merchants on Ando. We are under attack by the forces of the Empire, and need immediate assistance, repeating...." said the captian of the Freighter.

Meanwhile, a few lightyears behind the Binder.....

"Sir, the Binder has pursued the enemy into the Ando system. They are engaging the Bulk Freighter from approximatley 300 kilometers away from the planet." said the first officer on board the Black Widow.

"Excellent, let's proceed forward at flank speed. We won't bother to jump to lightspeed unless the Binder really needs our help." said Commodore Braxus.

OOC:
1 Constrainer class Picket Ship entering the fringes of the Ando system.

Onboard the bridge of the flagship of Taskforce Defender.

"Sir, we will revert at Ando momentarily."

"Excellent."

A reduced Taskforce Defender had retreated unharmed from Bilbringi and had decided to reinforce various worlds. Their first stop would be Ando. They were reduced because some of their ships had been sent off to go to other planets.

Suddenly, with a jolt, they came out of hyperspace at Ando.

Planetary Base on Ando, a few moments before.

"Sir, we have detected an Imperial picket ship. They are chasing the Bulk Transport Southampton. Southampton has requested help."

"Activate the minefield. Instruct Southampton to go into the minefield, the mines will protect them."

"Yes sir."

The Bulk Cruiser Southampton entered the minefield, with the Constrainer Picket Ship Binder following it. The Defender Ion Mines located Binder, and started firing ion cannon bolts into it. Wave after wave if blue energy went at the ship, went through the shields, and hit the hull, spreading across it like wildfire.

"Sir, we have 11 Defender Gunships coming out of hyperspace."

"Excellent. Get two Defender Gunships to fire on that picket ship. Get them to bring shields up, and to only fire ion cannons. I want to capture that ship."

"Yes sir."

"Power up shields, weapons and load the missile tubes."

The two Defender Gunships roared in, each firing 10 ion cannons. They went above the picket ships, firing down on it, so that any misses by the minefield wouldn't hit them, and they wouldn't hit the minefield if they missed.

OOC:

Fleet Manifest:
11 Defender Gunships
50 000 Defender Ion Mines
1 Planetary Gencore Two Shield Generator-Activated

Damages:
TNO
1 Constrainer Picket Ship-Binder
70% damaged(only 30% combat effeciency left)

GC
Mines:200 destroyed(assuming you fired at them instead of the transport.
Defender Gunships-2 with shields at 95%(assuming your rear guns are firing at both)

"Sir, the Binder has jumped too close to the gravity well. There last reported position was inaccurate sir. They have been disabled, and it looks like they will be boarded, and captured." said the Sensors officer.

"Damn. Oh well, another operation aborted. There will be other opportunities. At least we now know what kind of defences they have in place over the world." said the Commander.

"Bring us about, and withdraw to Vladet." ordered the Commander.

Soon thereafterwards, the Illustrious Fast Attack Cruiser came to a near stop, rotated, and began to enter hyperspace the way it had come.

On board the Constrainer Picket ship Binder..........

"Sir, we have been disabled!" sang out the sensors officer.

"@#%$. Navigation, I thought you said were on the edge of the system!" said the captian.

"We were sir. As defined by my guide book, the edge of the system is defined by the gravity, section C33-oh.............." trailed off the Navigation officer as the captian withdrew his side arm and shot the incompetent officer.

"Sir, they'll capture the mini-gravity well technology!" said the captians aide.

"Not if I can help it. Yesti, take the commandoes aft with you, break into the lockers, and blow up the gravity well with the thermal detonators, and shoot any vital equipment." said the captian.

Five minutes later, the deed was done. Although the GC would pick up a perfectley usable picket ship with ten dual laser cannons, they would not be able to dissect any information from the now destroyed gravity well, or the shot out comptuer systems on the vital gravity well technology.

“Sir, the picket ship has been completely disabled.”

“Tell the two Defenders to launch troops in spacesuits with explosives. They are to get onboard that craft, stun everyone onboard and then fly the ship down to the planet. We will drop the shield for them. Instruct the transport to come down to the planet, and deactivate the minefield.”

“Yes sir.”

Ten troops from each of Defender Gunships jumped out of the landing bay and rocketed towards the Constrainer Picket ship.

“Sir, we are reading explosions. It looks like they have destroyed part of the hull (the gravity well generator).”

“Excellent. Tell the troops to land there, and to seal off the breach. They probably won’t have to deal with any enemies, they will all have been killed in the explosion, or sucked out into space.”

“Yes sir.”

The troops angled in on the hole. They landed in the vessel, in what used to be a small gravity well generator.

“Sir, the area has been sealed off already. We have a few bodies here, all armed with blasters, with partially depleted power packs. I am also reading the remains of some computers, some droids. The explosions seem to have been caused by thermal detenators.”

“Use your slicing gear to open the doors and get to the bridge.”

The slicing gear was quickly placed on the pad that opened the doors, in the proper locations. The commander swiped a datacard through the slought in the slicing machine, wiping the existing code. On the second swipe a new code was put in, and on the third the door was opened. The troops swarmed into the bridge. Stun shots were fired everywhere. The enemy did not put up much of a resistance, as they were being sucked out the door, but one of them managed to wound of the soldiers. While the hit would have been non-fatal, they were in vacum, so the squad had to act fast. The commander immediately shut the doors, sealing off the area. Another trooper, named Atticus, ran over to a computer. Most of the rest of the troopers worried about securing the five people they had captured.

"Sir, this computer wasn't destroyed. They probably didn't have time to do it. It has been wiped a bit. It has controls for engines, life support, weapons, everything. I can find what was wiped out."

"The thing they destroyed. It must be something special. All right, start by getting a breathable atmosphere in here. Restart the ship. Worry about engines and particle shields first. Then signal Ando Space and Landing Control. Tell them we have captured the ship."

"Yes sir."

"Jed, get over here. Use your medical equipement and help Pops here. Make sure he lives through this."

"No problem. Now that we ahve a good atmosphere in here it is only a problem of making sure he doesn't get hypothermic. I'll also patch his suit."

"Good. Kit, get over here and try to see if you can find out what the special system was."

"All right."

"Atticus, signal the fleet telling them that the ship is largely intact except for a some special system. Tell them we are trying to find out what it is."

"Right away."

"Sir, I have an idea on what the special system was."

"Go on."

"When we were flying over here I saw the name of this ship on the hull. It's Binder. That is what they called Imperial Interdictor Cruisers. My guess is that this ship is some sort of interdiction picket."

"This ship isn't large enough to have a full sized gravity well generator on it, not with the rest of the weapons."

"I never said it had to be full sized. It could be that the Imperials developed a small gravity well generator, one that has to work with others to be fully effective. That's probably how they ambushed the transport, and how it got away. They only had one of these ships, so the transport was able to run. They expected to be able to destroy or capture it before it could escape, but somehow the transport managed to escape. More then likely the transport has beefed up engines or shields."

"Good point. Unfortunately unless we can find that technology that doesn't help us. Atticus, transfer that information over as well. And bring us down to the planet."

"Yes sir."

The Constrainer Picket Ship was quickly taken down to the planet. When it landed at a military garrison, the troop commander saw a Defender Gunship coming down behind them. The transport had moved off to customs.

"Good job every one. Time to go to the debriefing. Bring the prisoners, and make sure they are well secured."

The troops got off the ship, bringing the five prisoners with them, and were surprised to see an Aqualish in a Fleet Admiral uniform and a female Mon Calamari in a Master General's uniform waiting for them. The Master General, Jesmin Ragabag, walked forward. She quickly returned their salutes.

"Good job Colonel. Your troops performed wonderfully. Did you manage to get any prisoners?"

"Yes sir. Five. The rest were sucked out of the ship to quickly."

"Excellent. I'm sure Intelligence will be very interested in what they have to say."

"Most likely."

"Transfer the prisoners over to these Military Police and then award all your men, and yourself, with a three day leave."

Jesmin watched as the prisoners were transfered to the Military Police. At that point the Defender Gunship landed. Immediately engineers raced out with sheets of metal to weld voer top of the gap in the hull of the ship. The vessel would be sent over to a Construction Planet, where it would be fixed, and slightly rebuilt. Then it would be able to go out and fight the Imperials that had originally made it.

Jesmin turned to the Fleet Admiral.

"What do you think the special system was?"

"Probably a mini-gravity well generator, like that trooper suggested. How about you?"

"More then likely, yes that is what it was."

"I only wish they had managed to capture it intact. The design could have been used in future R&Ds. Now we just have a picket ship that we don't necessarily need."

"Don't count that vessel out yet. With some added speed and some slight modifications it would be an excellent Anti-fighter ship."

"True. However, we will have to leave that to our superiors."

The Fleet Admiral left, and Jesmin went off to meditate.

Meanwhile the military police had taken the prisoners to the intelligence division of the military base.

"These five were captured on the Imperial ship."

"Thank you for bringing them here. Place them in isolation."

The five prisoners were placed in seperate cells. One hour later interrogators were sent to each of the cells.

"You can save yourself a lot of trouble if you just tell me what we want to know."

"Fine, I'll talk. I never wanted to be in the Imperial Navy anyway."

"What is your name and rank."

"Crewman Oper."

"Crewman Oper, what type of vessel were you in?"

"I think they called it a Constrainer Picket Ship."

"And what was your job on the vessel?"

"I was a technician. I had to make sure everything was running smoothly. I serviced weapons, engines and the hull.”

“Did you service anything else? Like a special system?”

“Yes. A mini gravity well generator. I have the specifications for it, and the whole ship on some datacards. You can have them if you want.”

“Why weren’t these destroyed with the rest of the ship?”

“Because no one knows I have them. I pulled them and was planning to jump ship. I would have sold the plans to the highest bidder and then make a new identity for myself.”

“What about your family?”

“My family and most of my friends were killed when the Imperials took Rachuk.”

“I see. Where were you based out of?”

“Vladet.”

“Thank you. We will help you, and can provide a new ID for you if you wish.”

“I do wish so.”

“Ok. I’ll get back to you with the ID.”

The man gave him the datacards, and the interrogator walked out of the room, happy that he had found the knowledge he had came for. The interrogator immediately transferred that information to his superiors, who then placed the same information in the computer system on the Constrainer Picket Ship. Today was a success.


OOC:

1 Constrainer Picket Ship-captured
All the specifications of the Constrainer Picket Ship-captured
5 Prisoners captured

I'll continue this thread when I get back.

Admiral Kraken listened to the report from the Inexorable, and smiled, knowing that, although the Galatic Coalition Officials would be trying to tear apart the remains of the Binder right about now, that they would find nothing. Even if someone had tried to make copies of the original blueprints, with the specifications of the mini-gravity well, they would not have succedded. For Kraken had devised a new security system, and had it implemented into the ship's system. If anyone without authorized access tried to make copies of the specs for the special technology, a scam set of specifications was downloaded instead. The title said, specifications for DX-9 Mini-Gravity Well Projector, but in reality, the main contents held several pictures of stormtroopers baring their asses, and burning Galatic Coalition flags.

When the engineers in the decoding area brought up the supposed specifications for the Gravity Well Projector, they were not pleased by what they saw. No one on the picket itself had the authorization code needed to access the real schematics, which by now were smoldering ashes, thanks to the efforts of the captian.

OOC:
Fake set of Blue Prints, and some nice rear ends was the data captured by GC officials, not a set of real blueprints, and specs.