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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tun Kai Poh" data-source="post: 8448393" data-attributes="member: 6761960">Ill Met In LegionspaceBattlegroup Hannibal:1) Maneuver: Heavy Kinetic Battery Fire, Single Target Attack at Range 4-0, targeting two ships (Nikolai Bukharin and We Demand Hazard Pay). Roll of 16 hits the Bukharin for 6 damage, roll of 6 misses the We Demand Hazard Pay. This is pretty much all it can do. Its movement options are currently shut down by the Legionspace Siren."Understood, Captain Var," says Major Mahayhay, without managing to look much happier. "My marines have orders to sabotage fire control, spike the drives, and get out once the ship starts to die. Thank you for keeping me in the loop."She closes the channel.The Hannibal sits in place, pounding away with its primary guns, attempting to find the range on the Bukharin and the mercenary carrier. A barrage strikes the Bukharin amidships, wrecking Printer Bay C and killing dozens of spacers. We Demand Hazard Pay is more fortunate, gliding right between volleys of cannonfire.In the spaces between spaces, in the Blink, hostile ontological signals worm into Aelita's legionspace.<Do Not Proceed><Drive Not Available><Maintain Present Course>She knows these signals are foreign, yet the Hannibal cannot accelerate or decelerate further. She reaches out to engage the turtleback ship's drives - nothing."You won't have luck with the drives, unless you want to turn the crew into jam."Aelita turns to see her opposite number manifesting in legionspace.Aegis presents as a knight, clothed in mail and bearing a tower shield emblazoned in Union red. She gives a little salute to the Armory legion.Aelita stays loose on her feet, letting her arms float in neutral position at her sides. "I just didn't think that Union would stoop to using pirate tricks.""Call it what you want. You shall not pass."Aelita draws twin swords into digital existence. "If you've come to test my defenses, I will have to disappoint you. My component minds are made in Ras Shamra, Armory-forged and harder than the heart of a gas giant. My fleet will win.""Come on, then."The two fleet legions clash, locking esoteric weapons together to produce an unreal bonfire of cosubjectivities.Next: Boarding parties</blockquote>

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