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Re: The Farshot Campaign: Second Strike
Farshot Campaign, Second Strike: Day 1
Operation Returning Wrath
This tactical combat feed is certified as to be from Admiral Takena Kincade, commander of the MCF Athena and master of the 4th Fleet of the Earthguard. Location of relay from MCF Athena is 0.5 lightyears from the edge of Haegmonian territory, Revastus Nebulae.
Now Transmitting...
*Takena was worried. A moment ago, the battle had been going exactly to plan, even better than he could have hoped, but now… That massive battle cannon had cut a swathe through Yellow Squadron like they were nothing. There was still a chance that this would work out favourably though, as the Stealth Frigate had already managed to land troops on the asteroid. It was really down to them now. If the cannon went down, the battle would probably be won. If not… well things would not be good. In any case, Green Squadron could not afford to be held back now, what with losses as they were. The second the cannon went down, they would jump in to reinforce the fleet.*
BATTLENET ACTIVE
Colour Squadron Green
Green Squadron has been given orders to power up and ready for a HyperWave event. They are to jump to hyperspace now, in the direction of the battle, dropping out early only if the unidentified Haegmonian cannon remains intact. The Athena cannot be risked.
MCF Athena, Construction Flagship of the Fleet
1 ‘Imhotep’ Class Strike Carrier
1 ‘Mars’ Class Heavy Cruiser
6 ‘Jenner’ Class Medical Frigate
2 ‘Sparkler’ Class Technical Frigate
1 ‘Cougar’ Class Combat Destroyer
1 ‘Century’ Class Heavy Destroyer
3 ‘Lynx’ Strike Frigate
3 ‘Jaguar’ Class Anti-Fighter Frigate
4 ‘Wildcat’ Class Combat Frigate
2 ‘Tiger’ Class Lance Frigate
Lieutenant Commander No Dachi
Ship Name: Defiant
Class: Jupiter Class Battle Cruiser
Crew: Green
Awards: None
Performance: As yet Ungraded.
Notes: Lieutenant Commander No Dachi has been treated, and now returned to full health from his short bout of Space Flu.
Lieutenant Commander Hewitt (now Lieutenant Mao Win Hong )
Ship Name: KJG-730-T (Unchistened)
Class: Wildcat Class Combat Frigate
Crew: Green
Awards: None
Performance: As yet Ungraded.
Notes: Lieutenant Commander Hewitt appears to be missing in action. His 2ic will assume command until he can be found. Lieutenant Mao Win Hong has the following history: Coming from a poor family (he blames China) Mao jumped at the chance when he was offered a full ride to the academy. He was one of the few people to get out of the Shanghi slums. He graduated showing a high affinity for strategy but scored rather average on the tactical ship to ship part, therefore made a junior office to get used to combat a little.
Objectives:
Primary:
1. Ensure the survival of the MCF Athena. INCOMPLETE
2. Jump to Gharis System, reinforce Yellow Squadron. INCOMPLETE
Secondary:
1. All ships remain hidden and unharmed. REVOKED
2. Provide assistance where possible. INCOMPLETE
3. No ships lost. INCOMPLETE
*Signing back on with the commencement of operations.*
Colour Squadron Blue
Blue Squadron is to be deploying the GravWell mines and maintaining them. If any craft tries to flee the system by any means, they are to deal with this threat to our mission
2 ‘Sparkler’ Class Technical Frigate
Einstien – Light hull damage
Nerti – Light hull damage, light propulsion damage
1 ‘Mars’ Class Heavy Cruiser
Leo - Light fore hull damage, light ventral hull damage, medium dorsal damage
1 ‘Neptune’ Class Strike Cruiser
Isis – Medium munitions damage, medium starboard hull damage, medium port hull damage, medium propulsion damage
1 ‘Cougar’ Class Combat Destroyer
Brazil – Medium starboard hull damage
2 ‘Gunmetal’ Class Lance Destroyer
Starlight – Medium Fore Armour Damage, medium munitions damage
Washington – Light propulsion damage
1 ‘Century’ Class Heavy Destroyer
Brazil – Light starboard hull damage
3 ‘Lynx’ Strike Frigate
Ares - Heavy hull damage
Denver – Medium hull damage
4 ‘Jaguar’ Class Anti-Fighter Frigate
Tokyo - Medium hull damage
Vigilance - Medium hull damage
Lightbeam - Heavy hull damage, heavy munitions damage, light propulsion damage
4 ‘Wildcat’ Class Combat Frigate
Morning Star – Light hull damage
Delta – Heavy hull damage
Remus - Heavy fore hull damage, heavy munitions damage, heavy propulsion damage, drifting
Retribution - Medium hull damage, light munitions damage
4 ‘Tiger’ Class Lance Frigate
Darkside – Medium hull damage, medium munitions damage
Bast – Medium hull damage
Seti – Medium hull damage
Lieutenant Commander Duke Dunsworth
Ship Name: Apocalypse Dawn
Class: Mercury Class Patrol Cruiser
Crew: Green
Awards: 1 'Foxtrot' Destroyer Disable Partial Credit, 1 ‘Delta’ Cruiser Kill Partial Credit
Performance: As yet Ungraded.
Report: The lightly damaged cruiser that had been doing the attacking, now became far more damaged, as your ship wheels suddenly about. Now, a cruiser’s engines are not meant for rapid maneuvering, but the crew recognized the need, and didn’t complain, but the engines themselves are another matter. The ship creaks with the strain as the engines and power systems go beyond tolerance. On your damage board, red indicators appear on several of your engines, indicating that they’re offline. Enough remains for you to continue moving around, but another sharp turn like the one you just did would not be advised. The enemy fairs worse though, with your lasers beating down the ‘Charlie’s shields, golden storms of energy flowing out from the points of impact. The mass rounds blast straight through, impacting on the enemy hull. Just as you see the explosions, the cruiser’s fore shielding dies away. Obviously they haven’t just stayed idle through this, and their laser fire and missiles have been nibbling away at both your starboard (while you turned) and fore shields and armour.
Lieutenant Commander Derrick Eath
Ship Name: Nightrunner
Class: Panther Class Stealth Frigate
Crew: Green
Awards: None
Performance: As yet Ungraded.
Report: Having not received any new orders, your crew continues to fight on.
Lieutenant Commander Ryon J’Kar
Ship Name: Les Revenant
Class: Cougar Class Combat Destroyer
Crew: Green
Awards: 1 'Foxtrot' Destroyer Disable Partial Credit, 1 ‘Juliet’ Kill Credit
Performance: As yet Ungraded.
Report: Your rounds blast out at the smaller craft, in a massive display of firepower. The frigates, already distracted and with light damage, didn’t stand a chance. One was hit by the cloud of mass driver rounds, wheeling away from the tech frigates, and the second was pulverized by laser fire. The strikes burst through its hull, melting circuits until it reaches a reactor, then the ship detonates in a small fireball.
Objectives:
Primary:
1. Deploy GravWell mine network. COMPLETE
2. No enemy vessel may escape the Gharis System. INCOMPLETE
3. Any communications that might penetrate the Revastus Nebulae must be prevented. INCOMPLETE
Secondary:
1. All GravWell mines remain intact. INCOMPLETE
2. No ships lost. INCOMPLETE
*The Einstein and Nerti drop their last mines, this time under a little fire from the Haegmonian frigate pack. With the mines all deployed, it should be near impossible to leave the system via HyperDrive. However, there remains one mine out of position, which means there could technically be a HyperWave solution. Also, the mines themselves remain shockingly unprotected, and it won’t be long before the Haegmonians wise up to this.*
Colour Squadron Yellow
Yellow Squadron will be disabling and occupying the Breaker Epsilon asteroid base, then defending it from any enemy forces that may try and destroy it to prevent it falling into our hands.
1 ‘Imhotep’ Class Strike Carrier
Typhoon - Vapourised
1 ‘Mars’ Class Heavy Cruiser
Leo – Medium hull damage, Light munitions damage
3 ‘Neptune’ Class Strike Cruiser
Titan - Medium fore hull damage, medium port hull damage, medium starboard hull damage
London – Heavy starboard hull damage, light general hull damage
Pegasus – Light hull damage
1‘Mercury’ Class Patrol Cruiser
Detroit – Medium hull damage, light munitions damage
1 ‘Cougar’ Class Combat Destroyer
Drago – Light fore hull damage
4 ‘Gunmetal’ Class Lance Destroyer
Zeus – Vapourised
Enterprise - Vapourised
Dublin – Medium dorsal hull damage, medium starboard hull damage
2 ‘Century’ Class Heavy Destroyer
Endeavor - Heavy fore hull damage, heavy ventral hull damage, heavy port hull damage, heavy dorsal hull damage, heavy engine damage, heavy munitions damage
3 ‘Lynx’ Strike Frigate
Neolith - Heavy hull damage, heavy munitons damage, heavy propulsion damage
Zeta - Heavy hull damage
4 ‘Jaguar’ Class Anti-Fighter Frigate
4 ‘Wildcat’ Class Combat Frigate
Arrowhead - Medium hull damage
Freedom - Heavy hull damage
4 ‘Tiger’ Class Lance Frigate
Firestorm - Medium hull damage
Lieutenant Commander Fluffie
Ship Name: Strider
Class: Imhotep Class Strike Carrier
Crew: Green
Awards: None
Performance: As yet Ungraded.
Report: The rapid reversal in the engines was not appreciated by the power systems, but it had to be done. A few red lights began to blink as several conduits blew out. The damage was reduced to a minimal though by your crew. In response to your comms, a message returns saying to launch now, seeing as if they weren’t used now, the Deltas might never get the chance to. Caution was no longer and option, that cannon had to be disabled immediately. Your fire on the destroyer is moderately effective, mostly due to it being already damaged. It would be a lot fairer if someone hadn’t pounded it first. Your two ships trade fire, until the ‘Echo’ begins to break off, heavily damaged on its port side. It begins to roll, in case you decided to follow. For your part, the Strider’s starboard weaponry and hull is about half as effective as it should be. Your bombers fair rather well though, dropping green-glowing plasma bombs onto the ventral surface of the lumbering heavy destroyer. Needle missile fire is confused by the mass of escorting Alphas, and after the first run, these batteries go silent, pulverized by the energy bombs.
Lieutenant Commander Richard 'Crazyboy' Sharpe
Ship Name: Valkyrie
Class: Panther Class Stealth Frigate
Crew: Green
Awards: None
Performance: As yet Ungraded.
Report: Your troops, continuing to fight admirably, though now with several losses, find their way into both of the corridors outside the reactor room and command centre, but are cut off by sealed doors. There aren’t many troops left behind them, but the actual crew themselves had the good sense to seal themselves inside. It won’t take long to breach them, but for now the Dragoons just have to wait. D-Team fair better though, surprising a squad of Haegmonians who were busily setting charges about a fire control room. The last one to be shot managed to fall onto a console, simultaneously activating the firing sequence, and the remote for the charge he’d just placed, thus blowing up the console he’d fallen on. Your sensors, close as they are to the cannon, begin to pick up its power systems charging. Fortunately, the explosives you’d already put in place are detonated in time, and the asteroid begins to spin away. Before anyone in the bridge can correct it, the lilac pulsating beam blasts out once more, this time harmlessly into space. Looks like Breaker Epsilon will be shortly in Earthguard hands, since the Deltas of Yellow Squadron are on their way.
Lieutenant Commander Jenna 'Lady Hawk' Sarenndon
Ship Name: Vanguard
Class: Cougar Class Combat Destroyer
Crew: Green
Awards: None
Performance: As yet Ungraded.
Report: Having not received any new orders, your crew continues to fight on.
Objectives:
Primary:
1. Breaker Epsilon base captured. INCOMPLETE
2. Vessels protecting the asteroid destroyed or disabled. INCOMPLETE
Secondary:
1. Only minimal damage to facillity. INCOMPLETE
2. Weapons systems intact. INCOMPLETE
3. No ships from the squadron lost. FAILED
*The fleet, having scattered at the first blast, has begun to reform into some form of coherent mass. The Deltas are now beginning to stream towards the asteroid facility, attempting to stay out of its gunsights. There is a collective gasp when the cannon begins to fire again, but several explosions on one side push it into a spin, redirecting it away from the fleet. A comm comes in from the Athena, informing you that Green Squadron is jumping in soon, as long as the cannon is inoperable. Better get cracking then…*
Colour Squadron Red
The main battering ram. Their job is simple, if not necessarily easy. They must eliminate any resistance from enemy vessels there may be.
1 ‘Jupiter’ Class Battle Cruiser
Phoenix – Light hull damage
3 ‘Mercury’ Class Patrol Cruiser
Peregrine – Medium fore armour damage, medium port hull damage, medium ventral hull damage, heavy munitions damage
Nightwing – Light fore armour damage, light port armour damage
4 ‘Cougar’ Class Combat Destroyer
Rapier – Medium fore hull damage
Sunflare - Medium rear hull damage
Glory - Medium dorsal hull damage
2 ‘Gunmetal’ Class Lance Destroyer
Imperial – Light hull damage
Executor – Light hull damage
1 ‘Century’ Class Heavy Destroyer
Andromeda – Heavy starboard munitions damage, medium starboard hull damage, light general hull damage
2 ‘Lynx’ Strike Frigate
Unicorn - Medium hull damage
Ghost - Medium hull damage
3 ‘Jaguar’ Class Anti-Fighter Frigate
Hydra - Medium hull damage
Star Hunter - Medium hull damage
5 ‘Wildcat’ Class Combat Frigate
Genesis – Heavy engine damage, Heavy munitions damage, Heavy port armour damage, Medium general armour damage.
4 ‘Tiger’ Class Lance Frigate
Splinter - Medium hull damage, light propulsion damage
Viper – Medium hull damage, medium munitions damage
Lieutenant Commander Incom 'Bakan' Morgan
Ship Name: Redemption
Class: Mars Class Heavy Cruiser
Crew: Green
Awards: None
Performance: 1 'Bravo' Battle Cruiser Kill Group Organisation Credit
Report: Having not received any new orders, your crew continues to fight on.
Lieutenant Commander John Caspian
Ship Name: Liberty
Class: Neptune Class Strike Cruiser
Crew: Green
Awards: None
Performance: As yet Ungraded.
Report: The crew obviously agrees with your tactical assessment, as hey go about their tasks with relish. A conservative quantity of fire is launched at the surviving ‘Delta’, just as it fires a last, rather hopeful barrage in your direction. Your needlemissiles easily deal with the missiles, though the lasers and mass rounds continue to cause damage to your shields and hull, this time the rear section. The ‘Delta’ fairs worse, as your rounds slam into the damaged sections of hull, through it and into the bowels of the ship. There is a secondary explosion, and its running lights die. Looks like its reactor is gone. The Andromeda, rolling to present its less damaged port side to the ‘Echo’ class now attacking it, begins to move towards the protection offered by your guns.
Lieutenant Commander Gordian Ross
Ship Name: Cicero
Class: Century Class Heavy Destroyer
Crew: Green
Awards: 1 'Golf' Destroyer Kill Partial Credit
Performance: As yet Ungraded.
Report: Having not received any new orders, your crew continues to fight on.
Lieutenant Commander Jorge Sanchez
Ship Name: Merrimack
Class: Lynx Class Strike Frigate
Crew: Green
Awards: 1 'Golf' Destroyer Kill Partial Credit, 1 'Hotel' Frigate Disable Credit, 1 'Hotel' Frigate Kill Partial Credit
Performance: As yet Ungraded.
Report: The ‘Bravo’, despite being slow and lumbering, does have rather a lot of guns, and one was bound to hit. Fortunately it was only pulse lasers that managed it, mostly due to the skill of your pilot and your armour only receives a small battering. Your dumping of projectile fire into the larger vessel’s rear does not of course finish it off, but your sensors do register that its engines are certainly damaged. That should make it easier prey for other craft. The ‘Juliet’, while not designed for eliminating your class of craft, did do a better job than the ‘Bravo’, hitting you with several laser rounds. Your return fire peels back armour plating and blows off one of its ion beams, but its still not going to be that easy. Fortunately, your missiles are ready again.
Lieutenant Commander Triolus Harbinger
Ship Name: Fate
Class: Jaguar Class Anti-Fighter Frigate
Crew: Green
Awards: 1 'Bravo' Battle Cruiser Kill Group Credit
Performance: As yet Ungraded.
Report: Your officers report to you that there are only a couple of full squadrons of the full twelve fighters left, but they’re mostly engaged. Your ships moves closer to the Genesis, which has been left alone by everything except a squadron of enemy heavy fighters, since it’s so heavily damaged.
Objectives:
Primary:
1. Destroy, disable or capture all enemy ships. INCOMPLETE
Secondary:
1. No ships lost. INCOMPLETE
*Red Squadron continues to fight the main battle, which continues to be fierce and a storm of activity.*
Haegmonian Confederacy Forces
Group 1 (Defending Asteroid Base):
1 ‘Breaker Epsilon’ Asteroid Facility
1 ‘Bravo’ Class Battle Cruiser – Light armour damage, light propulsion damage
2 ‘Delta’ Class Patrol Cruiser – 1 Light fore hull damage, 1 Medium port armour damage, light munitions damage
2 ‘Echo’ Class Heavy Destroyer - 1 Medium armour damage, heavy port armour damage, heavy port munitions damage, light propulsion damage, 1 Medium armour damage, heavy ventral damage, medium munitions damage
5 ‘Foxtrot’ Class Combat Destroyer – 2 Heavy munitions damage, 1 Light armour damage, 1 Medium armour damage, 1 Vapourised
9 ‘Hotel’ Class Combat Frigate – 1 Engines disabled, 3 Light hull damage, 1
drifting, 4 destroyed
6 ‘Indigo’ Class Anti-Fighter Frigate – 1 Heavy munitions damage, heavy hull damage, heavy internal damage, reactor damage, drifting, 2 Medium hull damage, 3 Light hull damage
5 ‘Juliet’ Class Lance Frigate - 3 Medium hull damage, 1 Light hull damage, 1 Vapourised
5 Squadrons of Fighters – 18 Craft destroyed, 20 Craft damaged
5 Squadrons of Heavy Fighters – 15 Craft destroyed, 14 Craft damaged
Group 2 (Main Group):
2 ‘Bravo’ Class Battle Cruiser – 1 Medium hull damage, heavy ventral hull damage, medium propulsion damage, 1 Vapourised
3 ‘Charlie’ Class Heavy Cruiser – 1 Heavy munitions damage, Medium armour damage, 2 Medium hull damage, medium munitions damage
2 ‘Delta’ Class Patrol Cruiser - 1 Detonated, 1 Drifting
1 ‘Echo’ Class Heavy Destroyer
1 Light armour damage
3 ‘Foxtrot’ Class Combat Destroyer – 1 Medium fore armour damage, light munitons damage, light propulsion damage, 1 Engines disabled, power disabled, drifting, 1 Light armour damage
3 ‘Golf’ Class Torpedo Destroyer – 1 Destroyed, 1 Medium hull damage, 1 Medium armour damage, heavy munitions damage
9 ‘Hotel’ Class Combat Frigate - 2 Drifting, 1 Light munitions damaged, 2 Destroyed, 3 Light armour damage, 1 Medium armour damage
6 ‘Indigo’ Class Anti-Fighter Frigate - 3 Light hull damage, 2 Medium hull damage, 1 Heavy hull damage
6 ‘Juliet’ Class Lance Frigate - 2 Medium hull damage, 3 destroyed, 1 Heavy hull damage
10 Squadrons of Fighters – 25 Craft destroyed, 17 Craft damaged
10 Squadrons of Heavy Fighters – 19 Craft destroyed, 19 Craft damaged
Objectives:
Primary:
1. Kill the lot of you.
Secondary:
1. Escape, get reinforcements, come back, kill the lot of you.
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