Learning more from a rescued widrab scientist about the new breen doomsday weapon, KDF and allies scout the breen research facility hidden inside the nebula...
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When: Saturday, Dec 1, Beta +1
Audience: Klingon and allies
Event type: Bridge RP
Starting point: Starship bridge
OOC point of contact: @gulremal
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Spoiler: READY - FIGHTShow
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Couple of minutes later, after rescued widrab scientist was sent to sickbay to recover...
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: Lyra: So, Amoniri state is developing a trilithium warp-powered projectile. We need to find the research facility Mozak mentioned.
Egzo@HF_Mudd looks over at the holoimage of Lexi, 'well?' written all over his face. (No, not in Sharpie.)
Lexi@crystyll looks back, 'what?' written on hers (also not in sharpie), "Don't look at me in that tone of voice, little fella's still out cold."
[Local] Lexi@crystyll: "Turns out he was actually beat up pretty bad. Doc's got him sedated for now until he recovers sufficient strength"
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "He mentioned our best bet of finding the place is by tracking their patrols."
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: "'Kay, let's do that then."
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "Which is...harder than it sounds in this nebula admittedly..."
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: "Yeah..."
[Local] Lexi@crystyll: "No fancy sensor tricks up your sleeve with all that shiny tech on the Kayeri?"
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: Lyra: We know the trajectory of the destroyed cruiser.
Kayd@anncarise nods, "That's a good starting point. We can use the ion pulses, along the trajectory, if we pick up any other warp trails it'll likely be these ships."
[Local] Lexi@crystyll: "Sounds like a plan."
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "Downside is these pulses aren't exactly subtle."
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "Although I'm guessing the Breen can't communicate much better than we can in these conditions. So if we alert the patrols, we might be able to take them out and the base will never know."
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "Until whenever they're supposed to report in of course."
Egzo@HF_Mudd mms and nods.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: Lyra: Is it wise to give the breen any inclination that someone's after them?
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "No, but we might not have any choice. Plus, they're gonna realize sooner or later that their test ship isn't coming back."
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: "What's the alternative? We go in there waving our arms around until we bump into them?"
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "And they aren't finding the wreckage in this mess, so they'll suspect someone knows instead of sabotage."
[Local] Lexi@crystyll: "But we can use the patrols to find the base, then hit the base once the patrol departs again"
[Local] Lexi@crystyll: "If we're efficient, we may be gone before they return - as their base will be" she grins
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "That's the best case scenario, if the patrols don't see us when we see them."
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "It's a gamble, but anything that lets us see them through this nebula is going to come with the risk of alerting them that something is up."
[Local] Lexi@crystyll: "Minimal odds, admittedly. But the best control of the battlefield if we are successful"
Kayd@anncarise | Meanwhile Kayeri Vaj scans to see if there's anything left of the destroyed Breen ship's computer core.
Kayd@anncarise looks offscreen to her crew, "Well, there goes that idea."
Kayd@anncarise turns back to the others, "Guess accepting the risk's our only option."
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: Lyra: *nods* Breen must be stopped.
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "Unless our unconscious friend happens to have Breen ID codes?"
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: Lyra: He did say he had some inside help, but they're dead now?
[Local] Lexi@crystyll: "Unless either of you have a Vulcan on board to fish around in his unconscious head, we're not finding out"
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: "Fresh out."
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "Shame. With the proper identification and falsification of our warp signature, Kayeri Vaj might've been able to pass for the Breen cruiser while you two stay cloaked."
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "In the case they did spot us...that could buy us a free pass to their base."
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: "If it's the warp signature yer lookin' for... Shlaak?"
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "If there's anything else they use for IDs though..."
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "Warp signature alone's worth a try, but it might not be enough."
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: "Yeah, 'sonly half."
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: Shlaak: We still have those holoemitters from the Breen-True Way scuffle years ago. We kinda...never returned them to the base.
Egzo@HF_Mudd grins. "Yeah, I remember."
[Team] Egzo@HF_Mudd: (I actually still do!)
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "That could help!"
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: Think they'll work in this mess?
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: Shlaak: But only for one frigate-sized ship. *shrugs* I see no reason why not, as long as our shields filter any troublesome radiation.
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Was the destroyed ship a cruiser?
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: Shlaak: though, they were modified to mimic Fenrisal, not Amoniri breen ships.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: Lyra: *pokes at the computer* Yes, debris suggest it was a Chel Grett warship.
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "Might not pass for what we need it to..."
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: Shlaak: *grunts* We -could- try to modify the holoemitters for a larger vessel, but extending our shields to protect the ruse...that will be troublesome.
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: "That's why I pay ya an extra half share."
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "What about joining our shields?"
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "Like extending shields, but we all contribute to one another to create one big shield bubble."
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "Won't even need to cloak any ships that aren't part of the disguise. Just need to fly in really good sync."
Lexi@crystyll quirks a brow, "Interesting premise..."
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: "Could work."
Lexi@crystyll doubletakes to someone on her bridge, "Hey, you want extra half shares too? Then /you/ start coming up with these ideas, P'taQ."
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: Shlaak: *scratches his head* Yes, but without correct IFF signal, our ruse will help up until they scan us or try to establish direct comms.
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: "Yeah... still that problem."
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "That's the issue...and why I was wondering if our friend had Breen IDs."
Egzo@HF_Mudd looks to the /other/ alien they found in this nebula.
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "We're definitely not getting any IFF out of that wreckage, that's for sure."
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "He did a /very/ thorough job."
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: Lyra: *catches Egzo's look* I'm a doctor, not a tactician. But we can always try luring the breen here?
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: Lyra: I mean, looking for a patrol is definitely an arduous task - why not mimic a distress call and see who comes to the rescue?
Egzo@HF_Mudd looks around. "Who wants to be bait?"
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "We still need to get a distress call through this nebula though..."
[Local] Lexi@crystyll: "Much as I enjoy the promise of the fight, tactically speaking it's makes most sense to use Kayeri as bait..."
Lexi@crystyll glances to Kayd almost apologetically, though if sorry for volunteering her, or missing out herself is uncertain
[Local] Lexi@crystyll: "The partial efforts to create a faux-identity of the prototype ship, should make for a convincing decoy."
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "You two have cloaks. And are more built for ambushes."
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "We're probably the best one to broadcast the signal.
Lexi@crystyll nods, smirking, "You read my mind. We also still have the Widrab's lifepod, so you could use that too"
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: This is why B'Atar's ship is built for anti-Breen
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Who needs holoemitters when your ship is literally half Breen
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Haha
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "Every little should help. I'll get my crew working on how to get a distress signal through the nebula's interference."
Egzo@HF_Mudd nods.
[Local] Lexi@crystyll: "That's where the pod may come in. We can use its emergency frequency which should be able to cut through this soup"
[Local] Lexi@crystyll: "Or we can just figure the details and fake its signal" she shrugs, "Whatever's easiest really, this is just what my engineer tells me who's poking at the thing"
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "We'll take the pod, then. We're not a big ship, but our rover bay should be able to fit that inside."
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: "Good idea."
Lexi@crystyll nods her agreement, turning the look to someone off camera as a 'see to it'
Kayd@anncarise FX | Kayeri Vaj attempts to use whatever distress systems the pod is set up with to cut through the nebula and alert the Breen.
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "You better get cloaked and into position..."
Lexi@crystyll nods and barks out orders accordingly on her bridge. QanwI' ripples out of view and stalks around their bait
[Team] Lexi@crystyll: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvCI-gNK_y4
[Team] Lexi@crystyll: don't know why, but the whole bait thing coupled with stalking just took my head straight to this xD
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Hours pass in waiting, until everyone's sensors pick up an approaching energy signature. It's coming roughly from the direction of the projected course of the destroyed breen cruiser at warp 8.
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "We've got incoming. Get ready to hit them soon as they find us..."
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "But try not to destroy them too completely. We need their intel."
Egzo@HF_Mudd grumbles a little, but doesn't say anything else (on comms).
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Energy signature drops out of warp at some distance, a minute or so away at high impulse. Your passive sensors catch a sensor sweep...
[Team] N'Py See@gulremal: rolls plox
[Emotes] Kayd@anncarise: rolls 61 (1-100)
[Emotes] Lexi@crystyll: rolls 41 (1-100)
[Emotes] Egzo@HF_Mudd: rolls 37 (1-100)
Kayd@anncarise speaks to the Kayeri crew, "Prep deflector systems for a grav well."
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "We're picking up a large energy signature and a whole bunch of small ones. I think we've attracted that carrier the Widrab mentioned..."
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: Lyra: A carrier? Can we handle something that big?
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: Rritt: *mutters* Pity we couldn't keep those tricobalts...
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "I'm not the warrior here. But we might be able to whittle them down with a Colonial Fleet trick."
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: Shlaak: 30 seconds to contact.
Kayd@anncarise | Kayeri Vaj backs away from the destroyed warship, trying to lure the enemy into its debris field.
[Local] Lexi@crystyll: "Or with well placed cannon fire..." she mutters
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Two dozen smaller energy signatures appear on everyone's sensors, moving a bit ahead of the big signature, doing their own sweeps of the area.
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: "Keep us away from those fighters."
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "You think you can take the carrier?"
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Half a dozen of smaller signatures speed up and head towards the Kajeri Vaj, focusing their sweeps.
Kayd@anncarise continues luring them towards/further into the debris field.
Kayd@anncarise looks offscreen, "Activate the grav well as soon as they're in the field. The debris should do the work for us."
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> 6 fighters speed up entering the field, locking on Kajeri Vaj - they will be on top of it in seconds.
Egzo@HF_Mudd murmurs commands to his helmcat, having the Ferasan bring Hag'lhr in close to the Breen carrier, slowly, almost coasting, to where a surprise attack can do the most hurt.
Kayd@anncarise | Kayd's holo flickers as Kayeri Vaj activates the gravity well in the middle of the fighters inside the debris field.
[Emotes] Kayd@anncarise: rolls 43 (1-100)
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Gravity well appears in the midst of the 6 breen forward fighters. 4 are caught and crushed by the forces of the well, but 2 fighters rush out of it, guns blazing at the signal they were tracking
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: - but missing.
Kayd@anncarise | Kayeri Vaj raises shields and returns fire.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Breen ships are on alert, and expecting trouble.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: -- ROUND 1 --
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: -- Egzo's action --
[Team] N'Py See@gulremal: in general - these guys expected trouble, and once "escape pod" started acting funny, they knew something was afoot, so no surprise round
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Makes sense, we did lure them in with a distress call after all
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: "Steady... steady... UNCLOAK AND FIRE!"
Egzo@HF_Mudd chops his hand down.
[Emotes] Egzo@HF_Mudd: rolls 99 (1-100)
[Team] Egzo@HF_Mudd: awwwwwyeah
[Team] Lexi@crystyll: and wow, boom!
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Wow
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Egzo launches the Duras Plot Torpedoes and totally wrecks the carrier
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: hehe
[Team] Egzo@HF_Mudd: I did say I was going for Maximum Hurt.
[Team] Lexi@crystyll: hahaha
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Hag'lhr ripples out from cloak and fires a burst of focused fire, striking a heavy blow to carriers' starboard shield array, dropping it down completely!
[Team] Lexi@crystyll: Duras Plot Torpedo xD
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: -- Lexi's action --
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Haha we were discussing that last night!
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Hence my naming!
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "Wow, you weren't kidding when you said you can handle that carrier..."
Lexi@crystyll FX | QanwI' decloaks behind the main fighter formation, spraying wide cannon fire as is sweeps through the middle to detonate a subspace boom at the heart of the formation as it speeds away
[Emotes] Lexi@crystyll: rolls 22 (1-100)
[Team] Lexi@crystyll: meh, we can't all be crit-kings
[Team] Egzo@HF_Mudd: That was more a scatter-fire thing.
[Team] Lexi@crystyll: and fyi: subspace boom is a piloting ability for 50% reduction in speed & turn rate. seemed fitting against fighters
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Breen pilots are on high alert and quickly disperse at the first sign of fire, but the subspace boom manages to disable 2 of the fighters that were too slow to evade...
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: -- Kayd's action --
Kayd@anncarise tractor locks debris and hurls it in the direction of the two surviving fighters into the field to make it difficult for them to advance on the Kayeri's position, while laying down some cannon fire
[Emotes] Kayd@anncarise: rolls 17 (1-100)
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Yup...seems about right for a non-science roll
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: haha
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: I'll save my rerolls for when I'm going up against more than 2 fighters...
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Fighter pilots seem to be quite adept, and they evade the incoming debris while fully clearing the gravity well.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Breen carrier launches 12 more fighters, 6 from hangar bays on each side of the ship. It reinforces the SIF fields on the shieldless side while it's polaron defense turrest fire at Hag'lhr-
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: -scoring some hits and dropping Hag'lhr's shields to 70%.
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Oh dear the Breen are fighting back
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Meanwhile, 16 remaining fighters split into two 8-fighter groups, one rushes at Hag'lhr and does the joint tractor beam attack, practically locking Egzo's ship in space, while other group starts-
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: - pummeling at the shields, dropping them to 25%.
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: and Egzo drew all the aggro...
[Team] Lexi@crystyll: the price you pay for big crits on the boss...
[Team] Egzo@HF_Mudd: Did do all the damage, yeah.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Two standalone fighters pursue Kayeri Vaj, scoring some minor hits at her shields, dropping them to 80%.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: -- ROUND 2 --
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: -- Egzo's action --
[Team] Lexi@crystyll: i imagine egzo's next action consisting of many colourful expletives
Egzo@HF_Mudd curses. "Evasive! Reverse shields, break that tractor!"
[Team] Lexi@crystyll: ^ called it!
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Hahaha good job!
Egzo@HF_Mudd 's Orion engineer flips up a covered button and mashes it, inverting the polarity of the raider's protective bubble.
[Emotes] Egzo@HF_Mudd: rolls 5 (1-100)
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: (reroll)
[Team] Lexi@crystyll: oh no she broke the button!
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Awww
[Team] Egzo@HF_Mudd: (Male Orion
[Team] Lexi@crystyll: pfft
[Team] Lexi@crystyll: serves you right then
[Team] Egzo@HF_Mudd: Norvan, on your left.
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Hehe
[Emotes] Egzo@HF_Mudd: rolls 47 (1-100)
[Team] Lexi@crystyll: male orions = no finesse for button mashing
[Team] N'Py See@gulremal: wrong levaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
[Team] Egzo@HF_Mudd: why do we even HAVE that lever
[Team] Egzo@HF_Mudd: anyway, that should be enough to break us free, but probably shields down (and full evasive, of course).
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Hag'lhr reverses shield polarite breaking the tractor beams' hold long enough for Rritt to evade the tractor lock...for now.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: -- Lexi's action --
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Because we borrowed the setpiece from a Star Wars ship
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Hehe
Lexi@crystyll FX | QanwI' veers towards the mass of fighters, cannon fire spraying relentlessly
[Local] Lexi@crystyll: "Let's see if we can draw some of their attention, and check sensors for any unstable gas pockets; time for the pied piper to play a tune!"
[Emotes] Lexi@crystyll: rolls 29 (1-100)
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Qanwl's turns around and fires at the fighers squadron that was shooting at Hag'lhr, taking out two of them.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: *fighter
Lexi@crystyll scowls at her science report, "Fine, then we'll just make our own. Just keep drawing their fire!"
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: -- Kayd's action --
Kayd@anncarise | Kayeri Vaj continues trying to evade the fighters through the debris field while Kayd and her cyberwarfare specialists try to jam the Breen's communications so their fighters can't coordinate.
[Emotes] Kayd@anncarise: rolls 70 (1-100)
Kayd@anncarise | The ship also takes some potshots at the fighters of course, but mostly to discourage the chase rather than actually expecting to shoot down the nimble craft.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Kayeri Vaj manages to jam comms of the last two wings of fighters that launched, while her gunners shoot down one of the pursuing fighters.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Breen carrier prepares the last wings for launch. It's deflector hits the Qanwl' with a energy siphon, dropping her power levels to 75%.
[Team] N'Py See@gulremal: so, all lexi's rolls are at a penalty
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Ooooh that's what energy siphon does
[Team] Lexi@crystyll:
[Team] N'Py See@gulremal: and unless she shakes it off, that thing will continue to drain power
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: *busts out the Shadowfin*
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Recently launched wings have trouble coordinating, and they score only minor hits on Qanwl', taking her shields from 75% to 50%.
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Yay I helped!
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Two wings (one at 8 and other at 6 fighters strong), continue pursuing Hag'lhr, taking potshots while they position for next round of tractor pummeling...
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Remining fighter breaks of pursuit of Kayeri Vaj, speeding away from the fight...
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: -- ROUND 3 --
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: -- Egzo's action --
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Is the fighter running back to the carrier, or towards the way they came, presumably where the base is
[Team] N'Py See@gulremal: they are running away.
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: In a completely random direction?
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: ooor just can't tell yet
[Team] N'Py See@gulremal: they are evading fight and gravity well
[Team] N'Py See@gulremal: they are also warp capable
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: ahhh
Egzo@HF_Mudd attempts to go back on the offensive, or at least, strike a balance between attacking and defending.
[Emotes] Egzo@HF_Mudd: rolls 30 (1-100)
[Team] Egzo@HF_Mudd: (meh)
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Hag'lhr tries to shake off the attackers, and manages to take down two more fighters...but these are not the good odds.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: -- Lexi's action --
Lexi@crystyll FX | QanwI' lures the attention of as many fighters as possible, arcing around and pulling the group back towards the nose of the carrier where it vents a cloud of warp plasma, igniting it with an+
[Local] Lexi@crystyll: + engine burn
[Emotes] Lexi@crystyll: rolls 57 (1-100)
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> The trick does no discernible damage to the carrier, but it takes out half (6) of the pursuing fighters.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: -- Kayd's action --
Kayd@anncarise | Kayeri Vaj chases the fleeing fighter and tries to hold it in a tractor lock, then pummel it with weaponry.
[Emotes] Kayd@anncarise: rolls 58 (1-100)
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Unlucky fighter is no more.
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Had to spend a round on one fighter...but couldn't risk it going and calling friends!
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Breen carrier is slowly turning around, launching the last two wings of fighters (12 total) while it maintains an energy siphon on the Qanwl'. This time the drain is extremely strong, reducing -
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: - all power levels by 50% to 25%, and dropping shields completely!
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Oh keelah Lexi has the aggro now...
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Two wings, now each 6 fighters strong, keep pursuing Hag'lhr. One tries to snare BoP with tractors, but only slows it down this time.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Second focuses it's barrage on the slowed vessel, dropping it's shields to practically nothing (5%).
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Remaining wing on Qanwl' regroups, purges their comms from interference, and prepares for a strafing run at weakened ship...
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: -- ROUND 4 --
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Oh no I'm the only ship with shields now
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: -- Egzo's action --
Egzo@HF_Mudd attempts again to regain the momentum, going to QanwI's assistance rather than attacking the carrier.
[Emotes] Egzo@HF_Mudd: rolls 98 (1-100)
[Team] N'Py See@gulremal: to clarify: currently we have 5 6-figher wings around. 2 have just launched, 2 are on egzo and 1 on lexi
[Team] Egzo@HF_Mudd: ... and it's pretty effective
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: Rritt: Hold my beer.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Hag'lhr does a Crazy Ivan while performing double barrel roll, giving pursuing pilots some headaches. Hag'lhr is suddenly behind the breen wing pursuing the Qanwl', and then the wing is no more, -
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: - blasted by the pinpoint-accurate fire of the Hag'lhr's main cannons.
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Wow
[Team] Lexi@crystyll: somebody's on form today xD
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: Rritt: *licks his paw and smooths his hair fur*
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: -- Lexi's action --
Lexi@crystyll | QanwI' veers sharply towards the carrier and executes a subspace fold to jump to the other side of it, using the large ship as cover while they restore shields
[Emotes] Lexi@crystyll: rolls 70 (1-100)
[Team] Egzo@HF_Mudd: Nice move.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Qanwl' breaks the energy siphon's hold and activates emergency battery to reactivate the shields, bringing them back up to 25%, along with the other systems...
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: -- Kayd's action --
[Team] Lexi@crystyll: just glad the roll came good, else we'd have jumped right inside one of their hangars!
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Yeah...
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: and do I need a turn to get to everyone else or are we all clsoe together enough?
[Team] N'Py See@gulremal: you did go away to lure some of the fighters, you will need one round to get into the main fight
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: alrighty
Kayd@anncarise heads back towards the main fight while she continues trying to scramble the comms of the fighters, this time focusing on the groups on the offensive against friendly ships.
[Emotes] Kayd@anncarise: rolls 66 (1-100)
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: I am primary tech support after all! hehe
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Kayeri Vaj rushes into the main combat and manages to mess up comms of the one of the squadrons that were chasing Hag'lhr.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> One of the wings pursuing Hag'lhr falls back to regroup and clear comm garbage. Second wing continues pursuit, but they are still under the impression of a crazy move Rritt did and fail to hit the
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: - target.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Two newly launched wings split between Qanwl' and Hag'lhr. First wing rushes and Qanwl' and grabs it into tractor beam embrace, locking it in place.
[Team] Lexi@crystyll:
[Team] Egzo@HF_Mudd: Don't expect me to save you again. I can only do that trick once per episode.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Second wing rushes at Hag'lhr but they miss wide and put themselves right in front of Hag'lhr's cannon sights...
[Team] Lexi@crystyll: wow that second wing must be piloted by clone troopers with aim like that...
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Yeah Egzo is getting a massive killstreak today...
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: hahaha
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Breen carrier does a full turn, and fires a large torpedo towards the Qanwl'. Torpedo spreads into a net of transphasic mines which ram into immobilized vessel, burning the shield-
[Team] Lexi@crystyll: *cries*
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: - emitters into slag and causing ship-wide damage.
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Awwww
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Carrier turrets zone onto Hag'lhr, removing whatever shielding is left and scoring some hits across the left wing, reducing mobility.
Lexi@crystyll 's image flickers and vanishes as systems drop out
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: -- ROUND 5 --
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: -- Egzo's action --
Egzo@HF_Mudd curses some more. "Runnin' out of tricks here... evasive, we gotta get our shields back!"
[Emotes] Egzo@HF_Mudd: rolls 91 (1-100)
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Hag'lhr speeds out of the direct danger, and chews the emergency battery, restaring their shields back to 50%.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: -- Lexi's action --
Lexi@crystyll FX | QanwI' runs a feedback pulse through the tractor beam/s holding it to break free, using emergency reserves to speed away and re-engage cloak
[Emotes] Lexi@crystyll: rolls 45 (1-100)
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Qanwl' chews one of the 2 remaining emergency batteries to boost its engines and escape the grip of the fighter wing. Ship shimmers in an out couple of times before cloak finally kicks fully-
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: - online, masking the fleeing vessel.
Lexi@crystyll 's holo gradually flickers back into life as power is restored bit by bit
Lexi@crystyll 's audio feed is thankfully broken by static cutting out most of the abusive encouragement...
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: -- Kayd's action --
Kayd@anncarise | Kayeri Vaj tries to jam the carrier's targeting locks.
[Emotes] Kayd@anncarise: rolls 37 (1-100)
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "Okay, we're not looking in good shape right now and I'm all out of tricks. Do we still have this in hand or should we try and hide in the nebula?"
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "If we're lucky we might still be able to follow the carrier's warp trail to the base. That or we can go back for reinforcements."
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Carrier's targeting locks are scrambled...but for how long?
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "I'm messing up their systems and comms as much as I can, but I don't think I can keep this up for enough time to take out that cruiser. And deploying a Ghost team over is probably going to be suicide.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Not that it cares much, as it launches a torpedo spread in the direction of the incoming orion vessel. All torps save one miss the mark, but last one hits the frigate head on, dropping the -
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: - shields to 25%.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> One fighter wing takes a pot shots around the area where Qanwl's cloaked, but scores no hits.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Remaining 3 wings form a wide formation and move in to surround the incoming orion ship.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: -- TO BE CONTINUED --
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: Lyra: So, Amoniri state is developing a trilithium warp-powered projectile. We need to find the research facility Mozak mentioned.
Egzo@HF_Mudd looks over at the holoimage of Lexi, 'well?' written all over his face. (No, not in Sharpie.)
Lexi@crystyll looks back, 'what?' written on hers (also not in sharpie), "Don't look at me in that tone of voice, little fella's still out cold."
[Local] Lexi@crystyll: "Turns out he was actually beat up pretty bad. Doc's got him sedated for now until he recovers sufficient strength"
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "He mentioned our best bet of finding the place is by tracking their patrols."
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: "'Kay, let's do that then."
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "Which is...harder than it sounds in this nebula admittedly..."
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: "Yeah..."
[Local] Lexi@crystyll: "No fancy sensor tricks up your sleeve with all that shiny tech on the Kayeri?"
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: Lyra: We know the trajectory of the destroyed cruiser.
Kayd@anncarise nods, "That's a good starting point. We can use the ion pulses, along the trajectory, if we pick up any other warp trails it'll likely be these ships."
[Local] Lexi@crystyll: "Sounds like a plan."
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "Downside is these pulses aren't exactly subtle."
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "Although I'm guessing the Breen can't communicate much better than we can in these conditions. So if we alert the patrols, we might be able to take them out and the base will never know."
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "Until whenever they're supposed to report in of course."
Egzo@HF_Mudd mms and nods.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: Lyra: Is it wise to give the breen any inclination that someone's after them?
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "No, but we might not have any choice. Plus, they're gonna realize sooner or later that their test ship isn't coming back."
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: "What's the alternative? We go in there waving our arms around until we bump into them?"
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "And they aren't finding the wreckage in this mess, so they'll suspect someone knows instead of sabotage."
[Local] Lexi@crystyll: "But we can use the patrols to find the base, then hit the base once the patrol departs again"
[Local] Lexi@crystyll: "If we're efficient, we may be gone before they return - as their base will be" she grins
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "That's the best case scenario, if the patrols don't see us when we see them."
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "It's a gamble, but anything that lets us see them through this nebula is going to come with the risk of alerting them that something is up."
[Local] Lexi@crystyll: "Minimal odds, admittedly. But the best control of the battlefield if we are successful"
Kayd@anncarise | Meanwhile Kayeri Vaj scans to see if there's anything left of the destroyed Breen ship's computer core.
Kayd@anncarise looks offscreen to her crew, "Well, there goes that idea."
Kayd@anncarise turns back to the others, "Guess accepting the risk's our only option."
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: Lyra: *nods* Breen must be stopped.
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "Unless our unconscious friend happens to have Breen ID codes?"
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: Lyra: He did say he had some inside help, but they're dead now?
[Local] Lexi@crystyll: "Unless either of you have a Vulcan on board to fish around in his unconscious head, we're not finding out"
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: "Fresh out."
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "Shame. With the proper identification and falsification of our warp signature, Kayeri Vaj might've been able to pass for the Breen cruiser while you two stay cloaked."
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "In the case they did spot us...that could buy us a free pass to their base."
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: "If it's the warp signature yer lookin' for... Shlaak?"
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "If there's anything else they use for IDs though..."
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "Warp signature alone's worth a try, but it might not be enough."
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: "Yeah, 'sonly half."
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: Shlaak: We still have those holoemitters from the Breen-True Way scuffle years ago. We kinda...never returned them to the base.
Egzo@HF_Mudd grins. "Yeah, I remember."
[Team] Egzo@HF_Mudd: (I actually still do!)
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "That could help!"
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: Think they'll work in this mess?
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: Shlaak: But only for one frigate-sized ship. *shrugs* I see no reason why not, as long as our shields filter any troublesome radiation.
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Was the destroyed ship a cruiser?
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: Shlaak: though, they were modified to mimic Fenrisal, not Amoniri breen ships.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: Lyra: *pokes at the computer* Yes, debris suggest it was a Chel Grett warship.
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "Might not pass for what we need it to..."
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: Shlaak: *grunts* We -could- try to modify the holoemitters for a larger vessel, but extending our shields to protect the ruse...that will be troublesome.
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: "That's why I pay ya an extra half share."
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "What about joining our shields?"
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "Like extending shields, but we all contribute to one another to create one big shield bubble."
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "Won't even need to cloak any ships that aren't part of the disguise. Just need to fly in really good sync."
Lexi@crystyll quirks a brow, "Interesting premise..."
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: "Could work."
Lexi@crystyll doubletakes to someone on her bridge, "Hey, you want extra half shares too? Then /you/ start coming up with these ideas, P'taQ."
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: Shlaak: *scratches his head* Yes, but without correct IFF signal, our ruse will help up until they scan us or try to establish direct comms.
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: "Yeah... still that problem."
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "That's the issue...and why I was wondering if our friend had Breen IDs."
Egzo@HF_Mudd looks to the /other/ alien they found in this nebula.
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "We're definitely not getting any IFF out of that wreckage, that's for sure."
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "He did a /very/ thorough job."
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: Lyra: *catches Egzo's look* I'm a doctor, not a tactician. But we can always try luring the breen here?
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: Lyra: I mean, looking for a patrol is definitely an arduous task - why not mimic a distress call and see who comes to the rescue?
Egzo@HF_Mudd looks around. "Who wants to be bait?"
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "We still need to get a distress call through this nebula though..."
[Local] Lexi@crystyll: "Much as I enjoy the promise of the fight, tactically speaking it's makes most sense to use Kayeri as bait..."
Lexi@crystyll glances to Kayd almost apologetically, though if sorry for volunteering her, or missing out herself is uncertain
[Local] Lexi@crystyll: "The partial efforts to create a faux-identity of the prototype ship, should make for a convincing decoy."
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "You two have cloaks. And are more built for ambushes."
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "We're probably the best one to broadcast the signal.
Lexi@crystyll nods, smirking, "You read my mind. We also still have the Widrab's lifepod, so you could use that too"
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: This is why B'Atar's ship is built for anti-Breen
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Who needs holoemitters when your ship is literally half Breen
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Haha
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "Every little should help. I'll get my crew working on how to get a distress signal through the nebula's interference."
Egzo@HF_Mudd nods.
[Local] Lexi@crystyll: "That's where the pod may come in. We can use its emergency frequency which should be able to cut through this soup"
[Local] Lexi@crystyll: "Or we can just figure the details and fake its signal" she shrugs, "Whatever's easiest really, this is just what my engineer tells me who's poking at the thing"
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "We'll take the pod, then. We're not a big ship, but our rover bay should be able to fit that inside."
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: "Good idea."
Lexi@crystyll nods her agreement, turning the look to someone off camera as a 'see to it'
Kayd@anncarise FX | Kayeri Vaj attempts to use whatever distress systems the pod is set up with to cut through the nebula and alert the Breen.
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "You better get cloaked and into position..."
Lexi@crystyll nods and barks out orders accordingly on her bridge. QanwI' ripples out of view and stalks around their bait
[Team] Lexi@crystyll: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvCI-gNK_y4
[Team] Lexi@crystyll: don't know why, but the whole bait thing coupled with stalking just took my head straight to this xD
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Hours pass in waiting, until everyone's sensors pick up an approaching energy signature. It's coming roughly from the direction of the projected course of the destroyed breen cruiser at warp 8.
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "We've got incoming. Get ready to hit them soon as they find us..."
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "But try not to destroy them too completely. We need their intel."
Egzo@HF_Mudd grumbles a little, but doesn't say anything else (on comms).
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Energy signature drops out of warp at some distance, a minute or so away at high impulse. Your passive sensors catch a sensor sweep...
[Team] N'Py See@gulremal: rolls plox
[Emotes] Kayd@anncarise: rolls 61 (1-100)
[Emotes] Lexi@crystyll: rolls 41 (1-100)
[Emotes] Egzo@HF_Mudd: rolls 37 (1-100)
Kayd@anncarise speaks to the Kayeri crew, "Prep deflector systems for a grav well."
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "We're picking up a large energy signature and a whole bunch of small ones. I think we've attracted that carrier the Widrab mentioned..."
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: Lyra: A carrier? Can we handle something that big?
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: Rritt: *mutters* Pity we couldn't keep those tricobalts...
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "I'm not the warrior here. But we might be able to whittle them down with a Colonial Fleet trick."
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: Shlaak: 30 seconds to contact.
Kayd@anncarise | Kayeri Vaj backs away from the destroyed warship, trying to lure the enemy into its debris field.
[Local] Lexi@crystyll: "Or with well placed cannon fire..." she mutters
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Two dozen smaller energy signatures appear on everyone's sensors, moving a bit ahead of the big signature, doing their own sweeps of the area.
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: "Keep us away from those fighters."
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "You think you can take the carrier?"
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Half a dozen of smaller signatures speed up and head towards the Kajeri Vaj, focusing their sweeps.
Kayd@anncarise continues luring them towards/further into the debris field.
Kayd@anncarise looks offscreen, "Activate the grav well as soon as they're in the field. The debris should do the work for us."
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> 6 fighters speed up entering the field, locking on Kajeri Vaj - they will be on top of it in seconds.
Egzo@HF_Mudd murmurs commands to his helmcat, having the Ferasan bring Hag'lhr in close to the Breen carrier, slowly, almost coasting, to where a surprise attack can do the most hurt.
Kayd@anncarise | Kayd's holo flickers as Kayeri Vaj activates the gravity well in the middle of the fighters inside the debris field.
[Emotes] Kayd@anncarise: rolls 43 (1-100)
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Gravity well appears in the midst of the 6 breen forward fighters. 4 are caught and crushed by the forces of the well, but 2 fighters rush out of it, guns blazing at the signal they were tracking
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: - but missing.
Kayd@anncarise | Kayeri Vaj raises shields and returns fire.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Breen ships are on alert, and expecting trouble.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: -- ROUND 1 --
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: -- Egzo's action --
[Team] N'Py See@gulremal: in general - these guys expected trouble, and once "escape pod" started acting funny, they knew something was afoot, so no surprise round
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Makes sense, we did lure them in with a distress call after all
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: "Steady... steady... UNCLOAK AND FIRE!"
Egzo@HF_Mudd chops his hand down.
[Emotes] Egzo@HF_Mudd: rolls 99 (1-100)
[Team] Egzo@HF_Mudd: awwwwwyeah
[Team] Lexi@crystyll: and wow, boom!
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Wow
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Egzo launches the Duras Plot Torpedoes and totally wrecks the carrier
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: hehe
[Team] Egzo@HF_Mudd: I did say I was going for Maximum Hurt.
[Team] Lexi@crystyll: hahaha
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Hag'lhr ripples out from cloak and fires a burst of focused fire, striking a heavy blow to carriers' starboard shield array, dropping it down completely!
[Team] Lexi@crystyll: Duras Plot Torpedo xD
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: -- Lexi's action --
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Haha we were discussing that last night!
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Hence my naming!
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "Wow, you weren't kidding when you said you can handle that carrier..."
Lexi@crystyll FX | QanwI' decloaks behind the main fighter formation, spraying wide cannon fire as is sweeps through the middle to detonate a subspace boom at the heart of the formation as it speeds away
[Emotes] Lexi@crystyll: rolls 22 (1-100)
[Team] Lexi@crystyll: meh, we can't all be crit-kings
[Team] Egzo@HF_Mudd: That was more a scatter-fire thing.
[Team] Lexi@crystyll: and fyi: subspace boom is a piloting ability for 50% reduction in speed & turn rate. seemed fitting against fighters
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Breen pilots are on high alert and quickly disperse at the first sign of fire, but the subspace boom manages to disable 2 of the fighters that were too slow to evade...
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: -- Kayd's action --
Kayd@anncarise tractor locks debris and hurls it in the direction of the two surviving fighters into the field to make it difficult for them to advance on the Kayeri's position, while laying down some cannon fire
[Emotes] Kayd@anncarise: rolls 17 (1-100)
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Yup...seems about right for a non-science roll
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: haha
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: I'll save my rerolls for when I'm going up against more than 2 fighters...
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Fighter pilots seem to be quite adept, and they evade the incoming debris while fully clearing the gravity well.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Breen carrier launches 12 more fighters, 6 from hangar bays on each side of the ship. It reinforces the SIF fields on the shieldless side while it's polaron defense turrest fire at Hag'lhr-
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: -scoring some hits and dropping Hag'lhr's shields to 70%.
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Oh dear the Breen are fighting back
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Meanwhile, 16 remaining fighters split into two 8-fighter groups, one rushes at Hag'lhr and does the joint tractor beam attack, practically locking Egzo's ship in space, while other group starts-
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: - pummeling at the shields, dropping them to 25%.
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: and Egzo drew all the aggro...
[Team] Lexi@crystyll: the price you pay for big crits on the boss...
[Team] Egzo@HF_Mudd: Did do all the damage, yeah.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Two standalone fighters pursue Kayeri Vaj, scoring some minor hits at her shields, dropping them to 80%.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: -- ROUND 2 --
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: -- Egzo's action --
[Team] Lexi@crystyll: i imagine egzo's next action consisting of many colourful expletives
Egzo@HF_Mudd curses. "Evasive! Reverse shields, break that tractor!"
[Team] Lexi@crystyll: ^ called it!
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Hahaha good job!
Egzo@HF_Mudd 's Orion engineer flips up a covered button and mashes it, inverting the polarity of the raider's protective bubble.
[Emotes] Egzo@HF_Mudd: rolls 5 (1-100)
[Local] Egzo@HF_Mudd: (reroll)
[Team] Lexi@crystyll: oh no she broke the button!
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Awww
[Team] Egzo@HF_Mudd: (Male Orion
[Team] Lexi@crystyll: pfft
[Team] Lexi@crystyll: serves you right then
[Team] Egzo@HF_Mudd: Norvan, on your left.
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Hehe
[Emotes] Egzo@HF_Mudd: rolls 47 (1-100)
[Team] Lexi@crystyll: male orions = no finesse for button mashing
[Team] N'Py See@gulremal: wrong levaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
[Team] Egzo@HF_Mudd: why do we even HAVE that lever
[Team] Egzo@HF_Mudd: anyway, that should be enough to break us free, but probably shields down (and full evasive, of course).
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Hag'lhr reverses shield polarite breaking the tractor beams' hold long enough for Rritt to evade the tractor lock...for now.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: -- Lexi's action --
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Because we borrowed the setpiece from a Star Wars ship
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Hehe
Lexi@crystyll FX | QanwI' veers towards the mass of fighters, cannon fire spraying relentlessly
[Local] Lexi@crystyll: "Let's see if we can draw some of their attention, and check sensors for any unstable gas pockets; time for the pied piper to play a tune!"
[Emotes] Lexi@crystyll: rolls 29 (1-100)
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Qanwl's turns around and fires at the fighers squadron that was shooting at Hag'lhr, taking out two of them.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: *fighter
Lexi@crystyll scowls at her science report, "Fine, then we'll just make our own. Just keep drawing their fire!"
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: -- Kayd's action --
Kayd@anncarise | Kayeri Vaj continues trying to evade the fighters through the debris field while Kayd and her cyberwarfare specialists try to jam the Breen's communications so their fighters can't coordinate.
[Emotes] Kayd@anncarise: rolls 70 (1-100)
Kayd@anncarise | The ship also takes some potshots at the fighters of course, but mostly to discourage the chase rather than actually expecting to shoot down the nimble craft.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Kayeri Vaj manages to jam comms of the last two wings of fighters that launched, while her gunners shoot down one of the pursuing fighters.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Breen carrier prepares the last wings for launch. It's deflector hits the Qanwl' with a energy siphon, dropping her power levels to 75%.
[Team] N'Py See@gulremal: so, all lexi's rolls are at a penalty
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Ooooh that's what energy siphon does
[Team] Lexi@crystyll:
[Team] N'Py See@gulremal: and unless she shakes it off, that thing will continue to drain power
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: *busts out the Shadowfin*
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Recently launched wings have trouble coordinating, and they score only minor hits on Qanwl', taking her shields from 75% to 50%.
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Yay I helped!
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Two wings (one at 8 and other at 6 fighters strong), continue pursuing Hag'lhr, taking potshots while they position for next round of tractor pummeling...
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Remining fighter breaks of pursuit of Kayeri Vaj, speeding away from the fight...
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: -- ROUND 3 --
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: -- Egzo's action --
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Is the fighter running back to the carrier, or towards the way they came, presumably where the base is
[Team] N'Py See@gulremal: they are running away.
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: In a completely random direction?
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: ooor just can't tell yet
[Team] N'Py See@gulremal: they are evading fight and gravity well
[Team] N'Py See@gulremal: they are also warp capable
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: ahhh
Egzo@HF_Mudd attempts to go back on the offensive, or at least, strike a balance between attacking and defending.
[Emotes] Egzo@HF_Mudd: rolls 30 (1-100)
[Team] Egzo@HF_Mudd: (meh)
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Hag'lhr tries to shake off the attackers, and manages to take down two more fighters...but these are not the good odds.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: -- Lexi's action --
Lexi@crystyll FX | QanwI' lures the attention of as many fighters as possible, arcing around and pulling the group back towards the nose of the carrier where it vents a cloud of warp plasma, igniting it with an+
[Local] Lexi@crystyll: + engine burn
[Emotes] Lexi@crystyll: rolls 57 (1-100)
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> The trick does no discernible damage to the carrier, but it takes out half (6) of the pursuing fighters.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: -- Kayd's action --
Kayd@anncarise | Kayeri Vaj chases the fleeing fighter and tries to hold it in a tractor lock, then pummel it with weaponry.
[Emotes] Kayd@anncarise: rolls 58 (1-100)
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Unlucky fighter is no more.
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Had to spend a round on one fighter...but couldn't risk it going and calling friends!
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Breen carrier is slowly turning around, launching the last two wings of fighters (12 total) while it maintains an energy siphon on the Qanwl'. This time the drain is extremely strong, reducing -
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: - all power levels by 50% to 25%, and dropping shields completely!
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Oh keelah Lexi has the aggro now...
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Two wings, now each 6 fighters strong, keep pursuing Hag'lhr. One tries to snare BoP with tractors, but only slows it down this time.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Second focuses it's barrage on the slowed vessel, dropping it's shields to practically nothing (5%).
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Remaining wing on Qanwl' regroups, purges their comms from interference, and prepares for a strafing run at weakened ship...
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: -- ROUND 4 --
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Oh no I'm the only ship with shields now
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: -- Egzo's action --
Egzo@HF_Mudd attempts again to regain the momentum, going to QanwI's assistance rather than attacking the carrier.
[Emotes] Egzo@HF_Mudd: rolls 98 (1-100)
[Team] N'Py See@gulremal: to clarify: currently we have 5 6-figher wings around. 2 have just launched, 2 are on egzo and 1 on lexi
[Team] Egzo@HF_Mudd: ... and it's pretty effective
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: Rritt: Hold my beer.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Hag'lhr does a Crazy Ivan while performing double barrel roll, giving pursuing pilots some headaches. Hag'lhr is suddenly behind the breen wing pursuing the Qanwl', and then the wing is no more, -
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: - blasted by the pinpoint-accurate fire of the Hag'lhr's main cannons.
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Wow
[Team] Lexi@crystyll: somebody's on form today xD
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: Rritt: *licks his paw and smooths his hair fur*
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: -- Lexi's action --
Lexi@crystyll | QanwI' veers sharply towards the carrier and executes a subspace fold to jump to the other side of it, using the large ship as cover while they restore shields
[Emotes] Lexi@crystyll: rolls 70 (1-100)
[Team] Egzo@HF_Mudd: Nice move.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Qanwl' breaks the energy siphon's hold and activates emergency battery to reactivate the shields, bringing them back up to 25%, along with the other systems...
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: -- Kayd's action --
[Team] Lexi@crystyll: just glad the roll came good, else we'd have jumped right inside one of their hangars!
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Yeah...
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: and do I need a turn to get to everyone else or are we all clsoe together enough?
[Team] N'Py See@gulremal: you did go away to lure some of the fighters, you will need one round to get into the main fight
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: alrighty
Kayd@anncarise heads back towards the main fight while she continues trying to scramble the comms of the fighters, this time focusing on the groups on the offensive against friendly ships.
[Emotes] Kayd@anncarise: rolls 66 (1-100)
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: I am primary tech support after all! hehe
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Kayeri Vaj rushes into the main combat and manages to mess up comms of the one of the squadrons that were chasing Hag'lhr.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> One of the wings pursuing Hag'lhr falls back to regroup and clear comm garbage. Second wing continues pursuit, but they are still under the impression of a crazy move Rritt did and fail to hit the
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: - target.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Two newly launched wings split between Qanwl' and Hag'lhr. First wing rushes and Qanwl' and grabs it into tractor beam embrace, locking it in place.
[Team] Lexi@crystyll:
[Team] Egzo@HF_Mudd: Don't expect me to save you again. I can only do that trick once per episode.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Second wing rushes at Hag'lhr but they miss wide and put themselves right in front of Hag'lhr's cannon sights...
[Team] Lexi@crystyll: wow that second wing must be piloted by clone troopers with aim like that...
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Yeah Egzo is getting a massive killstreak today...
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: hahaha
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Breen carrier does a full turn, and fires a large torpedo towards the Qanwl'. Torpedo spreads into a net of transphasic mines which ram into immobilized vessel, burning the shield-
[Team] Lexi@crystyll: *cries*
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: - emitters into slag and causing ship-wide damage.
[Team] Kayd@anncarise: Awwww
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Carrier turrets zone onto Hag'lhr, removing whatever shielding is left and scoring some hits across the left wing, reducing mobility.
Lexi@crystyll 's image flickers and vanishes as systems drop out
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: -- ROUND 5 --
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: -- Egzo's action --
Egzo@HF_Mudd curses some more. "Runnin' out of tricks here... evasive, we gotta get our shields back!"
[Emotes] Egzo@HF_Mudd: rolls 91 (1-100)
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Hag'lhr speeds out of the direct danger, and chews the emergency battery, restaring their shields back to 50%.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: -- Lexi's action --
Lexi@crystyll FX | QanwI' runs a feedback pulse through the tractor beam/s holding it to break free, using emergency reserves to speed away and re-engage cloak
[Emotes] Lexi@crystyll: rolls 45 (1-100)
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Qanwl' chews one of the 2 remaining emergency batteries to boost its engines and escape the grip of the fighter wing. Ship shimmers in an out couple of times before cloak finally kicks fully-
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: - online, masking the fleeing vessel.
Lexi@crystyll 's holo gradually flickers back into life as power is restored bit by bit
Lexi@crystyll 's audio feed is thankfully broken by static cutting out most of the abusive encouragement...
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: -- Kayd's action --
Kayd@anncarise | Kayeri Vaj tries to jam the carrier's targeting locks.
[Emotes] Kayd@anncarise: rolls 37 (1-100)
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "Okay, we're not looking in good shape right now and I'm all out of tricks. Do we still have this in hand or should we try and hide in the nebula?"
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "If we're lucky we might still be able to follow the carrier's warp trail to the base. That or we can go back for reinforcements."
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Carrier's targeting locks are scrambled...but for how long?
[Local] Kayd@anncarise: "I'm messing up their systems and comms as much as I can, but I don't think I can keep this up for enough time to take out that cruiser. And deploying a Ghost team over is probably going to be suicide.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Not that it cares much, as it launches a torpedo spread in the direction of the incoming orion vessel. All torps save one miss the mark, but last one hits the frigate head on, dropping the -
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: - shields to 25%.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> One fighter wing takes a pot shots around the area where Qanwl's cloaked, but scores no hits.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: <FX> Remaining 3 wings form a wide formation and move in to surround the incoming orion ship.
[Local] N'Py See@gulremal: -- TO BE CONTINUED --
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