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oops. i thought you had ejected already, and i forgot that the tractor beam hadn't been created yet.
UR picked up the escape pod with Luke in it. "I'll take you to my cruiser..." he pauses a second, "...and you can get some clean pants."
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Originally posted by Ultimate Rebel: **oops. i thought you had ejected already, and i forgot that the tractor beam hadn't been created yet.
UR picked up the escape pod with Luke in it. "I'll take you to my cruiser..." he pauses a second, "...and you can get some clean pants." **
Luke goes to UR's cruiser and gets some new pants.
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OOC: I assume UR's cruiser is now in Lethe IC: Miles arrives in Alcyon and picks up Cory without incident. Miles then jumps directly to New Cydonia.
On Lethe Prime: The rebels swarming the space port leave Derrick and his UGE-uniformed crew alone. Derrick pays off the local UGE administrator to help continue the charade. In the bar, Derrick hands the yellow credit chip to the second waitor that asks for his order. The waiter serves up a local drink called "Blue Monday". Derrick returns to Thunder as the painters finish up. The head of the painting crew hands Derrick an invoice. The invoice lists more than paint costs-- it also lists the names of all the rebel ships in the port and in local space, their officers, and their recent movements. Derrick scans the invoice and hands over the purple credit chip. Thunder blasts off, drifts by the 7 rebel cruisers, and jumps to New Cydonia.
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OOC: I already have Lukes escape pod in the Blood Claw, as it was launched straight at me then retrieved via a magnetic grapple. I am also going to be less involved in this story, as I am on vacation in California, and no longer have access to a computer whenever I want.
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Originally posted by Admiral Benden: **OOC: I already have Lukes escape pod in the Blood Claw, as it was launched straight at me then retrieved via a magnetic grapple. I am also going to be less involved in this story, as I am on vacation in California, and no longer have access to a computer whenever I want. **
OOC: OK, let's clear this up. I am in new pants in UR's cruiser. Benden is in California. The mercenaries are (mostly) on Lethe. It does not matter how we got to our respective positions.
Originally posted by Admiral Benden: **OOC: I already have Lukes escape pod in the Blood Claw, as it was launched straight at me then retrieved via a magnetic grapple. I am also going to be less involved in this story, as I am on vacation in California, and no longer have access to a computer whenever I want.
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OOC: So what? I'm on vacation in Spain. (not trying to brag) So Luke is on the Blood Claw, not in my cruiser? I'm naming all seven of my cruisers. (mine) Sickle Leader (I re-named it) Sickle Master Sickle Claw Sickle Weapon Sickle Blade Sickle Blood Sickle Force Those are all names of cruisers I have had in the game. IC: UR calls up Beneden, "I'm heading off back towards Palshife. I'll call in when I get there." UR docks his Manta and heads towards the bridge of Sickle Leader. In a few minutes the private task force is in hyperspace for the fringe region.
OOC: Ultimate Rebel has a "Sickle" fleet of 7 cruisers enroute to Palshife, Admiral Benden has 6 cruisers-- "Blood" fleet-- in Lethe. Luke is whereever. Lightning Wing is now fully assembled at New Cydonia.
IC: Emp and Thunder arrive at New Cydonia simultaneously. The rest of LW is there already. A number of New Cydonian warships are hanging around the system. Derrick orders Emp to dock on Thunder. While he is waiting, Derrick contacts Cydonian Traffic Control: "UGE flight 666 is the port congested". Encoded in the signal is the invoice from the head painter.
Derrick, Miles, and Cory meet in the conference room. Miles is fitted for his new orifice "Tell me again how you managed to eject 5 million credits... Maggots!... Left em for the rebels... I coulda sprung em... I had rebel connections... drooling idiot! ... had to reveal the LW connection, so not only are we out 5 mil, my rebel connections are useless!...". Cory is only fired.
An hour later Cydonian Traffic Control replies "port is clear". Fools! Derrick curses. Didn't they read the report! Derrick orders Miles out to lead the LW fighters. "I picked up a replacement Lightning fighter while Thunder was under repair. New pilots named Dash, break him in." Derrick continues "The Cydonians have exercised the raid option in my contract. LW will escort several Cydonian Argosies to Lethe. No pay if an Argosy is lost enroute to the planet-- but theres 6 cruisers in Lethe!-- Cydonia is sending several of their own ships-- but theres 6 cruisers!-- Get out there!".
Miles forms up the Lightning Wing alongside the New Cydonian fleet. A latecomer launches from New Cydonia-- a Confederate Cruiser! The cruiser-- sporting New Cydonia marks-- takes position at the head of the fleet. Still not enough Miles thinks. The fleet: 1 Confed Cruiser, 2 kestrels (including Thunder), 6 corvettes, 3 argosies, 12 rapiers, 20 lightnings (including 8 from LW) and 6 defenders all jump to Lethe.
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Admiral Benden met Luke in Airlock A, right in front of the Manta docking ring. "How are you doing Commander Luke?" he asked. "We are now enroute to Armstrong in the Apollo system. We need to check some of the records. If Letheans are attacking our ships, then we need to see if the Confederation is influencing them. There are several reports of independant space forces being bribed by the Federation to raid our shipping fleets. We must make sure that there are no accounts that the Confederates have transfered money to the Letheans from. When we get there, a new Rebel Destroyer will be waiting for your use, so you can continue with your mission as soon as we are finished investigating this occurence."
The starlines stopped around the veiwport, and a planet with blue oceans and purple skies was visible off in the distance. UR's small task force/fleet prepared to dock on a smaller station reserved for those of high rank. He stepped put and made for the High Council room to make his report, but before he could do so the sirens started wailing " 'Fed warships in hyper route for Palshife! Everyone: to your ships, they'll be here in five minutes!" UR knew five minutes was not enough time for many ships to be prepped for battle, "Sickle Leader," he said into his wristphone, "Stop cooling down the engines and start warming them up! Warfleet headed for us, tell the others." By the time he managed to get there with many people panicking the ships were ready and Sickle Master and Sickle Force were already lifting off. UR jumped onto the boarding ramp and it closed behind him. All the ships were leaving for space now. Before they were far from Palshife, the warfleet had arrived and started launching their fighters, " All fighters: quick! Deploy, Mantas deploy faster than patrol ships!" All the mantas deployed and launched salvos of missiles, and the cruisers launching heavy rockets.Ten patrol ships blew up into a cloud of dust. Slowly, some other ships, mainly destroyers, came out to assist.
OOC: Admiral Benden + Luke are enroute to Armstrong. I assume they have entered hyperspace already and Admiral Benden took his entire fleet along, UR got to Palshife VERY quickly... 2 space stations at Palshife!?
The New Cydonian Assault fleet arrives in Lethe. The thrice cursed rebels are gone! Miles almost regrets not being able to show Dash the "Lightning Strike" maneuver-- guarenteed to kill any large vessel. Lethe Prime's ever vigilant defense fleet does not rise. Theres static on the Lethe traffic control channel. And the intersteller news channel.
The corvettes reach Lethe Prime orbit first. Now the Lethe fleet launches. The "cydonian" confed cruiser and rapiers join a brawl on the edge of Lethe Prime's atmosphere. "got to cut through. LW ships, spearhead formation in front of argosies. Thunder takes position at the head of the spear. Waves of heavy rockets drive away the large lethean ships, waves of missiles deter the smaller ships. The Argosies get through and land unscratched.
Originally posted by magicianeer: **OOC: Admiral Benden + Luke are enroute to Armstrong. I assume they have entered hyperspace already and Admiral Benden took his entire fleet along, UR got to Palshife VERY quickly... 2 space stations at Palshife!?
OOC: Oops! I meant to say landing bays. I'm just full of mistakes! How 'bout I just arrived. Move my post down some, and have other things happen before my last post.
OOC:Sorry I havn't been here in a while.
Luke and the rest of the Admiral's fleet are nearing Armstrong. Most 'Fed's they see don't stop and fight. They are all heading toward Cydonia... "This could get serious," Luke warns Benden. "When I was still working for the Confederation, before I became a Rebel spy, I was usually on assignments raiding near Deneb. We refueled on Cydonia a fair few times. They're a lot more advanced than most people think. I don't know about the Letheans, though..." Luke ignores everyone on the bridge's wincing when he mentions he used to be a 'Fed pilot and continues: "We all considered Lethe to be some sort of joke. There were rumors that the Confederation High Command were going to enlist the Cydonians help, but there was nothing official. We sort of guessed that it wasn't true, because the Cydonians seemed no kinder to us than to the Rebels.... but I suppose that has changed, eh?"
But then they exit hyper-space and drift towards an ugly gray ball known as Armstrong.
Miles and the LW fighters land with the Argosies at the Lethe space port while Thunder returns to the fight in orbit. The traffic control tower is laying across part of the launch zone, and the terminal building is a smoking ruin. Cydonian troops swarm out of the three argosies, thousands of them. The confed cruiser sets down nearby and unloads a division of Confederate Marines complete with fusion-powered hover tanks. Miles joins the Argosy captains sampling the local brew in the ruins of the spaceport bar.
A drunken hour later, a Cydonian Army sargent grabs Miles. "We need escort out of here, the Lethean Army is here!" Jeff siezes a box of genuine earth brandy, and we all return to ships. No sign of the confed cruiser or confed troops. Cydonians are retreating in order. Miles and LW launch and strafe the Lethean positions. The Cydonian troops board the argosies.
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Dirk Riprash, Owner of Privateer's Haven and Captain of the Deat Hawk, a heavily modified Kestral, Jumps into the Alcyon system, having been informed of the battle there a while ago. Pirating had been slow these days, so he had been lowered to scavenging parts from smashed up ships.
Then, as his ship has collected the shatterd hulls, his sensor officer shouts "Sir! Fleet of 2 fed cruisers an 3 frigates jumping in system!" "Launch fighters!" Along with is 2 Lightnings, Riprash had sacrificed half his cargo capacity for a Manta bay, which he had earned planting Rebel opratives onto Earth.
The fighters sreamed from his bays, as he ordered all weapons to be brought to bear on the lead confed cruiser. Missiles blared from their launchers, and stacatto burst shot from his netron turrets. Soo the cruiser was little more than a drifting hulk. The Confeds reckonded he would be a tough fight, so they jumped system, but they would be back, with the Blue Streak fleet with them (5 cruisers, 10 frigates 10 gunboats)...
Riprash was down in the mess when the battle alarm sounded.
"Confed fleet insystem. All senior officers to the bridge!!"
He stared at the viewscreen. "A fleet of 25 sips after lill' old me? I'm very touched!" "Captain, we've got some strange markings on the ships!" "What do you mean?" "Cydonian marks sir." He stared at the Confed Blue Streak fleet ahead of him and shuddered. "Get us to Lethe. Now!"
Commander Luke and Admiral Benden are at Lethe, looking through the Armstrong Galactic Library for any reference to anything conscerning anything conscerning the south-eastern part of the galaxy. They aren't having much luck...
UR is commanding the battle curently above Satori. They have only lost a handful of Mantas. The 'feds have lost over half their ships. "Something's wrong. They seem weak." "Who cares? We're turning them to dust aren't we?" "Shut up and stay alert!" In a few minutes all the 'feds were dust, with a few disabled for construction for Rebel ships. Many of the captains were grouped, talking about their recently won victory. "Any idea why the offense was a little weak?"....
Luke and Benden give up. Luke gets in his new destroyer (The RSS "Constant Vigilance") and heads back for New Cydonia with some Manta escorts, now extremely ticked off.
OOC: Welcome Riprash... Pirate Kestrel + 6 fighters vs 2 confed cruisers, 8 pt boats (carried by cruisers), and 3 confed frigates. Pirates down one CA, suffering no losses, other confeds flee in terror. A bit much even against the EV AI. btw, neutron turrets don't exist.
OOC: Admiral Bendens Fleet + Luke's destroyer are in Lethe syst... reading while Lethe burns. I assume departure from Armstrong was nearly immediate and they took copies of the relavent data (or I completely misunderstood Lukes post). Anyway, the following takes place before their arrival.
The Argosies boost for orbit, LW fighters weave among them dropping flares to distract Anti Ship artillary. During the interlude between the chaos near the ground and the battle in orbit, Dash calls in "ya know, we've already done what we were hired for, we should get out of here-- Nah, can't have the customers die on us". Then Miles reaches orbit.
The Lethe Defense Fleet has taken control of the battle. The remaining Cydonians cower behind the blazing photon cannons of the Kestrel Thunder. Thunder rapidly cycles Cydonian Lightnings through her fighter bay. The LDF is directly between Miles and Thunder. Derrick commands "Miles, escort <boom> Argosies around far side <crash> Lethe <clatter> jump to New Cydonia, will <rumble> you there." Miles relays instructions to the Argosies. The 8 Lightnings + 3 Argosies circle around Lethe Prime and run for the Hyper Limit.
Just before they reach the limit, a Kestrel jumps in dead ahead-- Deat Hawk-- Miles would recognize that scum anywhere. LW circles around Deat Hawk. Fortunately, the Hawk does not have his usual aggression and heads towards Lethe Prime. The Argosies cross the hyper limit and jump away cleanly. A large confed fleet jumps in on the same vector as Deat Hawk, and on top of the LW fighters.
Miles flies through the confed formation-- "more cydonian marked confeds". Miles calls around the LW. Everyone is operational. The Letheans blew the tritanium off Thunder (again), but she escaped into hyperspace. Miles and the LW fighters jump to New Cydonia.
Elsewhere Terran Naval Yards begins stamping out more cruisers and frigates to replace recent losses.
(This message has been edited by magicianeer (edited 06-29-2001).)
(quote)Originally posted by magicianeer: **OOC: Admiral Bendens Fleet + Luke's destroyer are in Lethe syst... reading while Lethe burns. I assume departure from Armstrong was nearly immediate and they took copies of the relavent data (or I completely misunderstood Lukes post). Anyway, the following takes place before their arrival. **(/quote)
OOC:No, we were reading in Armstrong, then headed for Cydonia. I don't know where Benden is now. I'm in New Cydonia in a rebel destroyer and six mantas as escorts.
(QOUTE)Originally posted by magicianeer: **Elsewhere Terran Naval Yards begins stamping out more cruisers and frigates to replace recent losses. **(/QUOTE)
OOC: All with Cydonian markings.
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