"Either way the Taelros should jump so that its too far away to ram. Who knows, if its target is gone the ship might skip the ramming attempt. Besides, didn't we disable most of the ship's systems before boarding. We shouldn't be sitting around talking though." Istara agrees.
"Back to our ships, I guess. I hope you have enough room on the transport for the crew here." the Corellian comments.
[OOC: What are the results of my 'search your feelings' check, is it possible to disable the engines in time -since preseumabl it will be less than 10 minutes before the ship starts moving?]
"Look, I want this ship for the Republic a lot, but we do have to get moving if Saricia's correct," Rosa says as she begins to lead the Imperials towards the nearest turbolife. "Let's move!" she says, making sure to tell the marine team to hurry up as well.
__________________ "Sometimes things must be broken in order to be rebuilt." --Sith Proverb.
[OOC: What are the results of my 'search your feelings' check, is it possible to disable the engines in time -since preseumabl it will be less than 10 minutes before the ship starts moving?]
Istara
You get a very strong impression of 'stop meditating and start running'.
OOC: Adding the prisoners to the assualt team is going to make things kind of tight on the shuttle, but you'll manage.
"Vape, power up the fighter, get the other astromechs to power up theirs, we need to get out of here asap, and that means being ready as soon as we hit the hangar." Istara says through her flightsuits commlink, not bothering to argue further as she ran toward the lift. She wouldn't have minded staying behind to at least try to capture the ship, it was really all just a roll of the dice if they would even make it to the hangar anyway.
"This is the type of situation in which Ion Cannons are useful." she mutters to herself thinking disparaging thoughts of the designers who hadn't thought of adding them to the Taelros, or even giving it fighters with that capability.
I'll clear the way. Storm says and pounces forward. The natural speed of Cathar allowed him to outrun most people and he was going to use that to scout ahead so the others wouldn't need to slow down.
OOC
I'll go on ahead and make sure there's no obstacles on the way.
OOC: Of course, the GM didn't put in ion cannons because he still thinks the mechanics for ion weapons are wonky.
The last of the battle droids on the bridge seem to ignore the Commander's orders, and take shots at the Republic detachment -- and their prisoners -- as they leave, though a few blaster shots disable them.
A handful of battle droids show up in the hall, but they go down to blaster fire or lightsabers without too much difficulty. The other squads report much the same.
As they leave the lift and start running for the docking bay, life support systems begin to turn off, regular lighting replaced by dim red emergency lights, ventilation stopping. And just when the last of you are boarding the shuttle and your starfighters, the ship's artificial gravity begins to spin down.
Back in her E-wing, Zenith is just getting things powered up when she notices things starting to float up off the floor of the hangar deck.
"There goes gravity," she warns. "Lets move it before they start pouring the thrust on! And has someone warned the Taelros?"
She kicks the maneuvering thrusters to jockey out from behind the shuttle and get a clear departure angle...preparing to jet out of there in a hurry once she has it.
"I think the Commander warned them on our way to the Hangar, but did we hear what our orders are once we disembark?" Isatra asked as her canopy came down and sealed. Safe now that she was within the ship thanks to her inertial compensator, Istara made sure her guns were fully charged.
"Vape, get me a targetting lock on the engines, lets see if we can't hamstring her. I wouldn't mind owning this lady." the Corellian pilot tells her droid.
[ooc: Move to exit the ship, ready a standard action to shoot at the engines +11
Will shoot if it accelerates towards the Taelros, or if she is ordered to shoot]
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Rosa races to the comlink aboard the shuttle and quickly messages the Republic frigate. "Merridon here," Rosa says as the ship answers. "The Neb-C is on a suicide mission. It's going to ram the ship. Most enemy personnel are our prisoners and we're on our way off, don't hesitate to retaliate.
__________________ "Sometimes things must be broken in order to be rebuilt." --Sith Proverb.
Commander Cyn had closed to within short proton missile range while you were onboard the enemy frigate, and Lt. Gillian had kept the P-Wings at a similar distance. It was medium range for the remaining E-Wing's proton torpedoes, but that couldn't be helped.
"We aren't taking any more chances with this." The captain broadcasted to all the fighters and the shuttle. "Fire on my mark."
As soon as the shuttle and the three Republic fighters were clear of the deathtrap of a suicidal frigate, already accellerating, the fighters, bombers, and frigate opened fire. Proton torpedoes from six E-Wings; short-range blaster fire from Zenith, Istara, and Khyber; bomber-grade proton missiles from the three P-Wings; the massive capital ship proton missiles from Taelros; and even the frigate's heavy turbolasers fired at extreme range.
Pouring every erg of energy into a suicide run, with no concern for keeping a crew alive, the ship withstood a massive amount of pounding, and accellerated faster than most of you would have believed possible (Saricia, though, had a fair notion that it was quite possible, and that in a similar configuration, a Sacheen-class frigate would have been even more deadly). It wasn't enough, though. ISS Shrike survived the first volley of missiles and blaster fire. It even survived the second. But as it entered point-blank missile range of Taelros, the third volley blasted the Nebulon-C into ashes.
Istara grinds her teeth in frustration at the waste. All it would have taken was to shoot the engines out, which they might have had time for if the Taelros had made a micro-jump to the edge of the system. Then again, it might have just decided to ram her or one of the other fighters, or even the shuttle. Still it would have been nice to be able to have captured the frigate, not even her mother had been able to capture one of these yet.
"Do we return to the ship escorting the shuttle, or should we fly CAP around the Taelros Lt.?" Istara transmits over the squadron's frequency, and she can't help some of the glumness in her voice.
Rosa curses at the resilience of the enemy craft as it takes missile after missile from the Republic ships, breathing a sigh of relief only when it is finally destroyed. Now, she thinks as she watches her shuttle head back towards the ship, what about the dark Jedi?
"Fly CAP around the Taelros for now, Istara," Rosa replies. "I still don't trust this situation completely..."
__________________ "Sometimes things must be broken in order to be rebuilt." --Sith Proverb.
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The wing commander sets Zenith, Istara, and Shorhynn (the Wookie P-Wing pilot) to fly CAP initially, while the others return to dock inside of Taelros to restock missiles and repair any damage.
While the shuttles make dockward haste, Wes reviews the situation in his brain, wondering about any tactical issues, anything that stands out. Also, while doing this, the Gunnery Sargent does have the prisoners re-searched, thoroughly, including the officers, for anything suspicious.
OOC: The three techs (all enlisted) and the captain are the prisoners you took -- and the only non-droids that you found. Only the officer was carrying any weapons; he doesn't appear to have anything concealed beyond what he handed over.
"Lt. Commander Merridon, Lt. Storm, please join me in my briefing room in half an hour. If nothing else happens, we should be in orbit by then." Commander Cyn said.
"Sir, I'd like to request that the others replace us on CAP as soon as they are rearmed and refueled. I caught some shrapnel from a grenade blast and a few other injuries as well. I'd like to go into a healing trance, but I can hold off for a bit longer." Istara points out to the LT. making sure he knew she and likely Zenith were wounded and wouldn't be at their best if they had to fight.
"In that case, Mari and Alix can take the first shift." Lt. Gellian says, then broadcasts updated orders to the fighter crew. "We're not that short of missiles."
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