Redic Scott
Nov 13th, 2004, 07:11:46 PM
Operation Take Down (Minus 7 Days)
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Commander Dar'us sat at the command seat of the lead Nebulon-B Frigate. He looked at the datapad in his hands and then back towards the viewport, showing the tunnel of hyperspace. If the report was right, he knew what was ahead of him, if not, he would have to improvise. For the sake of everyone, Dar'us hoped that NRI would be correct, but incase they weren't, he had taken the hours in hyperspace to come up with different engagement senarios.
The man this operation was aimed at bring down was Limara Kuram and his Dragon Snake pirate group. Over the past months they had went from being an annoyance to a very deep thorn in the side of NR shipping. The group had started small, but had grown more bold and vicious over time. They were now getting hold of larger and more powerful warships and intercepting more and more cargo. Their latest raid had taken and destroyed almost 85% of the cargo in one convoy. It had been the last straw.
After that the NRI had put their agents within the Dragon Snake organization to work. Through them they had learned what convoy would be hit and where. They were hoping to take as many people prisoner as possible and interigating them to find out the location of Kuram's main base of operation. With that done, Operation Take Down would go into full effect.
"Five minutes, sir." Called out one the bridge personel.
The Duro commander nodded and got ready to see if the NRI probes had been correct about what to expect within the system. If they were correct, his 2 Nebulon Bs wouldn't be able to take them on.
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Suprisingly, everything went according to plan. Almost as soon the convoy existed hyperspace, they were pounced on by 4 squadrons of mixed fighters as well as 10 modified shuttles. Each shuttle sported a pair of ion cannons and started targeting the convoys transports.
"Initiate the scatter." The commander called out.
At once, all the shuttles that weren't yet ionized, started a disorganized scatter in all directions. As planed, the other Nebulon Frigate moved closer and started to fire on the shuttles and fighters. As it did, NR fighters screamed out towards the pirate craft.
"Sir, one Demolition Class Cruiser and 2 corvettes coming in."
"Hmm, that's to be expected, engage the corvettes, keep them off the fighter."
"Yes, sir." Came the response.
The corvettes weren't a problem, but the bigger Cruiser was. Closing in on the ensuing battle, the corvettes started to take fire from the two Frigates, as they in return took fire from the Demolisher. As the Commander watched, two X-wings exploded after taking laser fire from one of the corvettes, but the rest had cut the number of unfriendlies to just over 2 squadrons and most of the shuttles were holed wrecks.
According to the plan, two transports strayed close to the Demolisher and got themselves ionized right in front of it. As they floated in the coldness of space, they larger cruiser came over them and started to tractor them both inside its large modified hull. With that done, Commander Dar'us, told the comm officer to call in beta force.
As he looked on toward the fight, one of the corvette was burning as it limped away from the battle. Combined fire from both frigates had holed it and sent it fleeing. His fighter squadrons, though, had lost some more people to the other corvette and some lucky hits from the enemy fighters. A few more strained into the path of a shuttle and had gotten themselves ionized.
With his attention mostly on the fight, he hadn't noticed the other ships dropping from hyperspace. To the port side emerged they rest of the NR task force, consisting of only two ships, they were more than enough. One of them, an interdictor, powered up its GravWells and let the Gravity field fall around them. While it did, the other ship, a Bothan Assault cruiser moved forward, between the abused frigates and the Demolisher, starting to exchange fire.
As soon as the Captain of the Pirate cruiser realized it was a trap, he started to turn and run, but the NR ships followed and the surprises didn't end. He soon realized that the trasports had had taken on board were not full of cargo, but of NR Marines. These stormed out as soon as they recieved the order and took control the hanger reather quickly. They split into two teams and one started to move their way toward the engine room.
In just under 20 minutes of running, the Demolishers engines died and it floated in space. The Marines sent a coded message, saying that they had taken the engine room and the rest of the marines started to move towards the bridge. However, before they even reached it, the Captain surrendered his ship and personel. With that part of the mission over, captain and some of the crew were transfered to the NRI. From them, the location of the hidden base would be extracted.
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Commander Dar'us sat at the command seat of the lead Nebulon-B Frigate. He looked at the datapad in his hands and then back towards the viewport, showing the tunnel of hyperspace. If the report was right, he knew what was ahead of him, if not, he would have to improvise. For the sake of everyone, Dar'us hoped that NRI would be correct, but incase they weren't, he had taken the hours in hyperspace to come up with different engagement senarios.
The man this operation was aimed at bring down was Limara Kuram and his Dragon Snake pirate group. Over the past months they had went from being an annoyance to a very deep thorn in the side of NR shipping. The group had started small, but had grown more bold and vicious over time. They were now getting hold of larger and more powerful warships and intercepting more and more cargo. Their latest raid had taken and destroyed almost 85% of the cargo in one convoy. It had been the last straw.
After that the NRI had put their agents within the Dragon Snake organization to work. Through them they had learned what convoy would be hit and where. They were hoping to take as many people prisoner as possible and interigating them to find out the location of Kuram's main base of operation. With that done, Operation Take Down would go into full effect.
"Five minutes, sir." Called out one the bridge personel.
The Duro commander nodded and got ready to see if the NRI probes had been correct about what to expect within the system. If they were correct, his 2 Nebulon Bs wouldn't be able to take them on.
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Suprisingly, everything went according to plan. Almost as soon the convoy existed hyperspace, they were pounced on by 4 squadrons of mixed fighters as well as 10 modified shuttles. Each shuttle sported a pair of ion cannons and started targeting the convoys transports.
"Initiate the scatter." The commander called out.
At once, all the shuttles that weren't yet ionized, started a disorganized scatter in all directions. As planed, the other Nebulon Frigate moved closer and started to fire on the shuttles and fighters. As it did, NR fighters screamed out towards the pirate craft.
"Sir, one Demolition Class Cruiser and 2 corvettes coming in."
"Hmm, that's to be expected, engage the corvettes, keep them off the fighter."
"Yes, sir." Came the response.
The corvettes weren't a problem, but the bigger Cruiser was. Closing in on the ensuing battle, the corvettes started to take fire from the two Frigates, as they in return took fire from the Demolisher. As the Commander watched, two X-wings exploded after taking laser fire from one of the corvettes, but the rest had cut the number of unfriendlies to just over 2 squadrons and most of the shuttles were holed wrecks.
According to the plan, two transports strayed close to the Demolisher and got themselves ionized right in front of it. As they floated in the coldness of space, they larger cruiser came over them and started to tractor them both inside its large modified hull. With that done, Commander Dar'us, told the comm officer to call in beta force.
As he looked on toward the fight, one of the corvette was burning as it limped away from the battle. Combined fire from both frigates had holed it and sent it fleeing. His fighter squadrons, though, had lost some more people to the other corvette and some lucky hits from the enemy fighters. A few more strained into the path of a shuttle and had gotten themselves ionized.
With his attention mostly on the fight, he hadn't noticed the other ships dropping from hyperspace. To the port side emerged they rest of the NR task force, consisting of only two ships, they were more than enough. One of them, an interdictor, powered up its GravWells and let the Gravity field fall around them. While it did, the other ship, a Bothan Assault cruiser moved forward, between the abused frigates and the Demolisher, starting to exchange fire.
As soon as the Captain of the Pirate cruiser realized it was a trap, he started to turn and run, but the NR ships followed and the surprises didn't end. He soon realized that the trasports had had taken on board were not full of cargo, but of NR Marines. These stormed out as soon as they recieved the order and took control the hanger reather quickly. They split into two teams and one started to move their way toward the engine room.
In just under 20 minutes of running, the Demolishers engines died and it floated in space. The Marines sent a coded message, saying that they had taken the engine room and the rest of the marines started to move towards the bridge. However, before they even reached it, the Captain surrendered his ship and personel. With that part of the mission over, captain and some of the crew were transfered to the NRI. From them, the location of the hidden base would be extracted.