Mission 2: Duro want get them

[Dani Kortex]

Duro was an imperial world, it was also one of the first hyperspace routes that were ever created. This meant this world was rich with commercial traffic. This inevitably attracted pirates, to try and do quick raids on some unprotected freighter. Dani was here with @Zan and Drali and @Zvonimir Augustus to try and stop this, and try and get hold of information, from where the current base was. They hoped to get one ether disabled or capture some wreckage with a nav logs on it. The plan sounds easy enough but was it, was a whole other question. She was operating under her call sign Mrs Pink, and @Zan and Drali was operating under the call sign of Red YEET. She still wondering if agent @Zvonimir Augustus would come up with one. She was in a Crux Class starfighter it was adequate for her needs, though she would like something with a bit more umpth if you knew what she meant.

She sat in a V formation, listening to coms traffic, waiting for some pirates to attack, and the SOS call to come in. So she and her fellow pilots, can swoop in and save the day, and hopefully get the intel they want.

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[Zvonimir Augustus]

Usually a pilot's callsign comes to them naturally, instead of people just picking whatever they want. Zvonimir doesn't even know what a "YEET" is and he wouldn't know how a 'YEET' could be red even if he knew what it was. Zvonimir hasn't had much mission time so his callsign hasn't came yet, it would in time but not yet. The Anaxes native does know that his name has a lot of syllyables so they can just refer to him over the comms as 'Zvon' for brevity's sake. Also, the woman from before is "Mrs Pink". Okay.

On this mission at Duro, Zvonimir would be flying with Mrs Pink and this so called 'Red Yeet' in the Duro system. For such a commerical hub in the former Imperial Republica there isn't much protection as their should be, aspirates can just do quick raids and get out before they can be dealt with. Understandably the war is making commercial defense less of a priority.

Well, none of that is going to happen today with this group here, as they will thwart the pirates if/once they see them, and if possible do more than that.

Zvonimir is wearing his standard armored flightsuit, helmet on and everything strapped in the cockpit of his Reflex-class starfighter, flying in formation, ready and alert. Shields aren't active yet, but as combat is forthcoming, shields would be turned active. No action yet so far, just listening to comms traffic, no communication with-in the little squadron though, just waiting for the magic words to come through on the comm channels.

Hopefully pirates come soon, because Zvon is getting impatient and bored, and he didn't feel like striking up a conversation with the others.

@Darasuum @Sabrina

 

[Darth Valravus]

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The stars twinkled in the distance. The near silent thrum of her XS-100 light freighter was the only sound for awhile until the movement of her turret caused some noise of mechanisms activating. Reaching to the side Zan adjusted the small mirror she had on her ship to see if her own war paint and the hallway behind her.

The light freighter was adequate in terms of weaponry and defenses. But she needed something better. Hopefully in the next couple of weeks Zan would have time to look for an upgrade and sell this vessel. It had done well thus far but it had some wear and tear plus given her tendencies towards missions the deucalian woman was going to need a more fearsome ship. Perhaps she would get a bomber.

For the time thing the ship was low power draw. Her targeting computer was not even active. The passive scanners were the only thing running and non essential systems were down. The shields were up but that was just her personal preference for the situation at hand. Red YEET was actually not super interested in engaging in space combat. But her other side liked space combat a great deal. She had picked such a foolish call sign and now they were both stuck with it.

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[Dani Kortex]

Her ship was pretending to escort @Zan and Drali freighter along with @Zvonimir Augustus fighter, as they began moving through space. They saw a group of imperial ships, coming at them. Though something was off, they seemed to become in fast. She hailed them, This is Mrs. Pink, Please state your intent? They did not respond over the comms, but instead, the six Crux fighters opened fire instead. They where being ambushed, this was how they were getting away with it, they had access to empires ships. She shouted down the coms to the others Break and attack. AS she spoke, she had to make quick maneuver otherwise she would have been hit by a missile. They had the upper hand for now, but she fired back, her missile struck home. The blast cracked one the enemy pirate ships and blew it into itty bitty pieces. She then took a shot to the wing, that sent her ship flying. It nearly tore the wing off.

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[Zvonimir Augustus]

Was still nothing. Nothing on comms nothing on sensors, just the sounds of thrusters burning, the sights of his wingmates and the planet Duro in the background. Then then not long after they would come across six Crux class fighters. More friendlies patrolling the system. Although, they seems to be moving at maximum speed and heading straight towards them. The closer they got, the more suspicious Zvonimir's expression was. They didn't show any signs of slowing down and if they didn't change course then there might have be a collision.

That wasn't what was going to happen, for as soon as Mrs Pink said something on the comms, they started shooting at them. Zvonimir was shocked that their own ships would aburptly open fire on them, pilot's instinct took over. "Well kriff!" he exclaimed to himself as he veered the ship upwards hard and fast the second he saw laser cannon fire heading in his general direction. The pirates were an afterthought at this point to Zvon, as he was putting his survival and that of his wingmates above the mission for now. For all Zvon cares those bogeys were either traitors and/or Rebels; but whoever they are, they are going down.

They all seemed to have Crux vessels. Although Zan has a freighter, since Dani has a Crux, she'd be easier to be mixed up in the ensuring melee, Zvon would have to be careful to avoid friendly fire.

Zvon would transition into a somersault that which would help him avoid any more laser cannon fire, and as soon as levels his craft out he would find one Crux head traveling his way. It's unlikely to be Mrs Pink's so it's fair game. Zvon would fire a volley of laser cannon shots at it and strike it before it fires on him. It would be destroyed. Although Zvon wasn't going to celebrate just yet, he would keep manuevering, going left so that he's not a sitting duck and to hopefully avoid anyone still trying to fire at him.

Two of the hostile Crux would be down now, only four more to go.

@Darasuum @Sabrina

 

[Darth Valravus]

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Blip, her eyes focused on the scanner, blip, there was a series of signatures alright. She turned her turret towards their incoming direction. Activating all the previously dormant systems Zansquinted behind the targeting computer. technically they were not on an Imperial sanctioned mission. Also, why was Dani using her call sign to identify herself. Only those in the Tuk'ata squadron would recognize it. It was not an adequate means of identification by any means. No name, rank or any particular incentive for an imperial. That would be the case particularly for an arrogant one that tended to fill the empire's ranks.

Either way, it looked like they were going to engage regardless. There was no other choice unless she wanted to become space junk. They opened fire on her first. Zan wanted that for the record. A light flurry of shots that mostly missed her since they were at maximum range. But two ships targeting her light freighter at once when it had not been able to get to full speed yet was not avoiding damage.

Anybody that attacked her, friend or foe would get what was coming to them. Hel, Darth Tagus had gotten a force push from her on the last mission they had been on. Of course that was not entirely intentional either Zansupposed.

Without even asking her pilot droid reported the near complete loss in shields. But these ships lacked any shields altogether. In mild frustration she depressed her triggers and lit up one of the six crux starfighters. Two of them banking on another. Zan was not adjusted to the void of space and prefered rending her enemies with blade and blaster. As a result, Red YEET missed the lead starfighter. If the following stolen starfighter had not been so close behind the light laser shots would have been completely pointless. Zan would take what she could get and learn from her shortcomings.

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[Dani Kortex]

Dani wing was badly damaged from the staffing she took from the enemy fighter, so much so that one her guns where now malfunctioning, and could blow up. The cannon was out of action, and she was worried if she pressed the fire button it would try to fire blow her ship up. She decides unless she had to use it was missiles only, she was not going to take the risk of dying here. She was not going to risk dying from her own weapons malfunctioning.

She managed to circle slightly, and get an aim on one of the ships, she fired her second missile. The missile jetted off and hit the ship as it turned into it, there was an explosion, but the pilot jettisoned before the explosion. The debris from the explosion raked her ships, her shields were now down. The transparisteel had cracks in it, she would not be able to use the ship for re-entry to the planet. She would have to be rescued if she survived this. She soon had one on her tail, and she was now fighting for dear life, she was turning, and was hoping to bring her fighter, back towards the freighter.

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[Zvonimir Augustus]

Zvonimir's wingmates were catching heat from the stolen fighters and Zvonimir was then catching an bogey on his tail. Zvonimir saw this gritted his teeth underneath his helmet as he was was pressed with enemy fire. It's a good thing that shields were turned on before the ran into these guys, otherwise he would have taken some damage in some vital areas and be disabled if not worse. As Zvonimir kept evasive manuevers, banking and swerving back and forth he accelerated forward and then doing an half loop in an attempt shake the bogey off. He didn't avoid all the shots, but a good lot of them, although with only light shields shields began to fail and his craft took damage from bleed through damage. Wouldn't take a lot of time to bring down Zvonimir's craft.

Stil, as he came out of his half loop, he could see a crux fighter on the tail of Mrs Pink, firing shots at it as she tries to evade the pirates' shots. Zvonimir had only a brief moment of opportunity before he had to manuever his fighter against the one chasing him, but he fired a quick burst of laser canon fire at the one on Mrs Pink's tail the second he had it in cross hairs. The quick burst hit and with the ship's low durability a chunk of the ship was blown out, leaving a carcass of a ship as it floated in the void of space disabled. Now Zvon has to find a way out his own predicament ...

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[Darth Valravus]

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So many moving shapes. They were flitting about in the darkness like bats trying to get into her hair. Unlike normal girls Zan was not bothered by small mammals and instead just considered them pests. <"Get out of my face you bloody **** sock." She hollered the deucalic swear knowing full well that neither her fellow wingmates nor the enemy would hear her.

The twin light laser cannons before the acolyte was enough to destroy the ships if she kept the sights on it. Zan wanted to watch them explode into fiery flowers but the targeting computer was her best bet at taking them out. She managed to down another one well enough and begin firing on a third. Hopefully her cannons did not overheat and also that she was not firing on a friendly starfighter. So far Zan felt like she could successfully guess which one of them were Mrs Pink and Agent Agustus.

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[Dani Kortex]

She realized that six fighters where dead, she did know if @Zvonimir Augustus was one of them or not. She sent a general hail, Everyone alright? She then spotted that one the pirates had bailed, she contacted the local base. As they answered her hail she replied, We have been attacked by Imperial fighters, we have a survivor, can you bring him in please, so we can question him. Even though she said please, she was only being polite, it was an order. They replied Rodger that we send a ship to pick him up now. She circled around the man floating in space, he would lead her to their base. She did wonder what was going through his head, in the cold vacuum of space. As having ship rotate around you, would be unnerving, to say the least.

The rescue ship did not take long, and when it did turn back towards the planet to get her ship fixed. This was over now, and soon they know the whereabouts of the rebel base.

The End

@Darasuum @Faster Than Light