>>17750948
It's been 2 day since your boxing match against a Dro'all Chief Mechanic. Between that and the boarding action you took part in on your last mission the rest of the squadron are starting to regard you as some kind of would-be crusader.

Each day more new recruits show up on the station ready to be assigned to a training squadron and ship. Quite the change from a week ago when there were more ships than crews. Word has it the shipyards are stepping up production but until then all available ship berths are refurbishing older vessels removed from storage. One way or another you want a new ship.

Until then you've used the spare time to relocate to a set of quarters aboard your corvette. It doesnt have a name but few training ships do, being relagated to obscurity for the most part. At Chief Kavos' insistance you've spent the better part of the past day familiarizing yourself with the ship interior. In an emergency you could find your way to most parts of the ship, including the escape pods.

At 1600 hours you recieve a message to report to the squadron briefing room in 2 hours time.

>Is there anything you'd like to do before going to the Briefing?

>>17750969
>>Is there anything you'd like to do before going to the Briefing?

Are we any good at calculating jumps? If so, we might help our navigator study. If not, see how the mechanic we fought against is doing.

>>17751011
>Are we any good at calculating jumps?
You are not. Most navigators study for 3 years before being assigned to a ship, though some wonderkids have been known to learn everything within a few months. Calculation can be a bit tricky at times, though this is also dependant upon how complex the navigation computer is.

>see how the mechanic we fought against is doing.

You look up the mechanic Ahani Daska from the station registry and put in a call. The Dro'all on the other end is fairly beligerant in answering the call.
"I told you I already fixed the ship in Beth eight, what do you want?! Oh its you."
You ask her how she er... he is doing.
"You're not calling to gloat? Huh, didnt expect that. I'm doing okay, other than feeling messed up by the hormone swings. Taking a few days off now that your ship is fixed. Dont get it blown up on your next deployment. If you've already gotten it blown up just call maintenence, I dont want to hear about it right now.
Dont think about getting off the hook from that next match a few months from now. I've already called you out for a rematch, dont think any promotions will prevent it. Look i've got to get back to bed I'm tired as hell."

After wishing him well you hang up and head on to the Briefing room.

>>17751170
You CO is waiting behind the podium when you arrive, half of the squadron already present, and it isnt long before the others appear.

"Welcome everyone, this is going to be your first mission briefing for some of you. Let me assure you you havent been missing much." He presses a button and the display behind him lights up with a starmap. Several systems are lit up in red wih numbers next to them.

"Pirate raids are still increasing across the board. The smaller scale raids like the one we were first assigned to deal with are starting to decrease as system defenses are mobilized and getting more experience. Instead the pirate groups are switching to two different tactics, larger scale raids and attacks on shipping. It's because of this that all civilian FTL traffic are now being encouraged to form up into convoys. With convoy fleets we can concentrate our forces rather than spreading them out to jump at shadows. This isnt new, it happens whenever the big a Pirate bands come out of hiding so they're also used to this. For the time being our squadron is being put on convoy escort duty. This will probably last until another training squadron is ready."

The next image on the display shows a planet surrounded with orbital platforms, the same one you visited on your first mission. "A number of Large convoys are being formed up at Loran Two because of its importance as a trading hub. We will have starfighter support on this mission and backup from other squadrons, so we're not doing this alone. Questions?"

>>17751246
>Questions

Do we have any idea what kind of equipment the pirates have?

Anything we should know about the ships we'll be escorting? Dangerous cargo or something that could be a primary target for the bad guys?

>>17750969
source on pic?

>>17751403
According to google image search:
http://www.mangareader.net/tokyo-girls-destruction/7/32

>>17751289
>Do we have any idea what kind of equipment the pirates have?

"The Pirates seem to mostly be using ship in the corvette to light cruiser range, nothing overly crazy. The largest ships we're expected to run into are Kavarian battlecruisers but we should be able to out maneuver those. Light Carriers are another possibility, hence our starfighter support. I'm not going to lie to you, most of our corvettes are near the bottom of the heap in terms of firepower which is why we deploy en mass."

>Anything we should know about the ships we'll be escorting? Dangerous cargo or something that could be a primary target for the bad guys?
"We're not provided with shipping manifests unfortunately. Most ships will likely be Cargo Frigates, Kavarian Y type Freighters or other bulk carriers. In my experience they'll try to disable the Y types first but their shields are pritty strong. They could give up and go for the frigates if that doesnt work. Most of the convoy will have overlaping fields of fire, dont get too close."

>>17751403
No idea, I cant ever remember what board I found it on. Maybe /m/ ?

>>17751487
Anything we should keep our eyes open for?

>>17751419
>Added distraction.
No! Must not read!

"Moving on to our next topic, I'm sure all of you are anxious to get your hands on some new hardware what with all of the other recruits pouring onto the station. Rest assured that You will be getting new ships eventually. Towards that end I'll be introducing you to our requisition system.

Each pilot will be alotted a number of requisition points for the completion of missions in their tour. These can be used to aquire ships and equipment for use in service with your House. These cant be used to purchase equipment for personal use, you WILL be arrested if you try. The baseline allotment is 500 RP per mission, so simply not getting killed will help you a lot. As things stand we recieved a bonus for each of our deployments so far. Right now you all have about 2,000 RP. I'm sending you a rough list of some ship classes and equipment you can purchase, this is by no means final. You are under no pressure to spend it all now and you probably shouldnt. Some equipment like shield upgades cant be moved to a new ship and you cant trade back you training ship."

Ships
Standard Corvette - 1000
Daggar Class Corvette - 1800
Standard Frigate - 3000
Dominion Attack Corvette - 4000

Upgrade Standard Frigate to Combat Frigate - 2000
Combat Frigate - 5000
Light Cruiser - 14,000

Weapons/Equipment
Nuclear missile - 10
Torpedo - 50
Point defense turret - 100
Starfighter - 150
Shield upgrade - 200

>>17751677
>
>Nuclear missile - 10
>Torpedo - 50
What is the fire power difference between those two.

And no bonus for leading the boarding attack on the passenger liner?

>>17751677
Vote we go for Standard Frigate -> Combat Frigate asap.
Also
>starfighter
lolwasteofpoints

>>17751830
Yeah, too bad we're 1000 points short of that. I'd also think being one of 12 ships, all of which basically look the same, may be an advantage in an escort mission.
Don't want to become their primary target just because we look like we're the most dangerous ship around.

>>17751739
>Firepower
Nuclear warheads are innefficent in space with much of their energy radiating away from their target. Even shaped nuclear warheads have similar problems. Torpedo weapons are constructed to release most of their energy into the point of impact and scatter less harmful radiation the way nukes do. They are sometimes referred to as Low radiation warheads. Nukes are cheap and easy to spam targets with by comparison.

>Bonus
The squadron recieved a bonus for your actions in the boarding the liner, about 500RP.

>>17751885
>
>>Bonus
So, what exactly is the difference in damage end effect between 5 nukes and one torpedo?

"Remember, if you decide to it's possible to hang on to your training ship when you are transferred to a new squadron. Its certainly not new, it happens all the time. Think of it as 'first one is free.' Take your time and decide for yourself what ships you'd like to get later. You'll recieve a more comprehensive list later, as we dont have time to upgrade any of our ships before we depart. I just want you to all be aware of it.
We'll be heading out at 0300 hours tomorrow morning, until then we are all on lockdown. Return to your ships and recall your crews. I suggest you get some sleep now.

The Lt stepped down from the podium then stopped himself.
"Oh and before I forget, all ships are being assigned a small detachment of Marines in the event we find ourselves in a position to capture enemy ships. Please dont get them killed doing anything stupid. Dismissed."

>Timeskip to tomorrow morning? y/n

>>17751906
Let's see if we know those marines.

>>17751895
It's roughtly the same but with more radiation that might blind sensors from the nukes (yours and theirs). Most ships dont have missile launchers that can fire quickly enough to put 5 nukes on a target at once.

>>17751926
You stop by the small barracks onboard after the crew is loaded and the ship is locked down. You ask if any of them had taken part in the cruise liner boarding action.

"Just a couple of us." One private speaks up. "It was mostly a mop up and negotiation action by the time we got there. I didnt get to see a thing, I just helped move some passengers around until we could get them out of there. I heard the standoff on the bridge was pritty crazy though."

>>17752019
Dang. Do a small workout to keep in shape and then go to bad and mope about the fact none of our marines know about our actions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reBuz97GgBM
At 0300 the next morning you undock from the station. With considerably less trouble this time you note, having learned your lessions from the other outings. Someone in first flight runs into something though, as you see shields sparking. Hard to say what without asking and embarassing them further. With your luck you'd make a joke just in time to run into someone else.

The Knight's voice blasts out over the com frequency.
"Rise and shine, we're on escort today people! Take some stims if you need them it could be a long day. Remember you have all been assigned an experienced boarding team this time around just in case we need to retake some of the freighters we'll be escorting. Or capture an enemy ship but that could turn into an adventure of its own. Side note before we jump; We're getting strange reports of ghost ships and derilicts that dont match with the piracy reports. Stay on your toes."

The squadron accelerates and powers up their drives. You look over at Linda who is concentrating hard on her console.

Roll for FTL 1d20

rolled 13 = 13

>>17752054
AAAADVENTURE!

rolled 19 = 19

>>17752054
>/tg/ dice
Here we go...

>>17752044
>mope about the fact none of our marines know about our actions.

You revert to real space more or less where you need to be, back in the Loran system again. Linda exhales in relief.
A large to midsize convoy is forming up around Loran II. Everything from the brick like Kavarian Y-Type freighters to the miniscule forms of the smaller FTL capable yachts. Rovinar freight Tenders are positioned at strateigic points ready to threaten anyone getting too close. There are other civilian ships from other Factions present but they are by far in the minority.
In the few minutes it takes for the squadron to approach and move into the designated position the convoy size doubles to more than 100 ships.

Ten minutes later a 1,600m long Carrier and a pair of Light Cruisers take up position at the head of the formation.
"This is Baron Archivald to all civilian ships in system, this convoy is departing. Anyone not already registered is advised to make use of tomorrows convoy at 0800 local time. Escorts prepare for jump. You will recieve telemetry shortly."

As the ships move out of orbit the Baron begins talking to the various commanders over the Navy tac frequency.
"All Knights, Men at Arms and your charges, our flight plan has us pass through one uninhabited system and one deep space realignment point. Those of us escorting the forward half of the fleet will be jumping in first incase someone is waiting to take a crack at the freighters. If someone is you have to tie them up long enough for my Carrier and the rest of the convoy to arrive. I have some torpedo bombers so once the carrier deploys its fighters consider it game over for anyone against us."

As one three corvette squadrons accelerate and make the jump.

>>17752286
When your jump ends you're in nearly perfect formation.
"Holy crap, that was an accurate jump!" You say to Linda.
She frowns slightly. "That wasnt me, the jump data was sent to us pre calculated to hold formation. Only the newer or larger ship have that kind of accuracy."

"I hate to break this up." says the Chief. "But we have enemy contacts."

"How many?" You ask, zooming in your display.
You sensors officer speaks up.
"We're looking at an assortment of modified Frigates, corvettes and cruisers making up the bulk of them, along with one very badly beaten looking Vengance type cruiser."

When you spot the vessel you dont even have time to ask if its the same ship from your first mission before Alex calls out on squadron frequency, "Dibs on that cruiser."

"Hold formation." Orders Dayton. "We're detecting Republic starships near the front of their fleet. We're still outside weapons range."

When you pan your display across the enemy fleet's center you see what look to be about ten round vessels of different sizes. "Republic mercenaries." Kavos concludes "Not good."

>>17752405
"One Light cruiser, one carrier, four Frigates and four missile boats." confirms sensors.

Kavos points to the shining white barrel shaped cruiser at the center of the formation. "That light cruiser is our biggest threat. It has a spinal mounted plasma cannon that could cripple us in one shot, and enough light phase cannons to rapid fire them like a gatling gun. Then there's the missile boats, they each mass less than half of us but they have 16 nuclear missile launchers. They're nothing but a luncher platform with engines and shields."
Your CO comes to the same conclusion.

"This is Knight Lieutenant Dayton to all Knights, reccomend we take down that Jug of a Cruiser first. The rest of our Corvettes can melee."
"Sounds good. I sure hope that Carrier gets here soon though."

Dayton switches back to squadron channel after.
"Everyone break by flights and engage at will. Remember to call for help and cover your squadmates."

What ships would you like to go affter first?
[ ] Vengance Cruiser
[ ] Missile Boats
[ ] Frigates
[ ] Corvettes
[ ] Carrier
[ ] Other

>>17752534
>[X] Missile Boats
We should get those guys before they're able to launch their payload.

Preference for tactics?

[ ] Leeroy Jenkins!
[ ] Stay in formation
[ ] Lets some of your allies lead the way


Back in a few

>>17752600
>[X] Stay in formation
Leeroy Jenkins would probably just get us in the way of somebody else. Let's try to do this as efficiently as possible.

Back, anyone else?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5Ge-3_Owvg

"Mike, Alex let's stay in formation with the others. We wont stand out as much." You punch the throttle, accelerating towards the enemy fleet but careful not to out pace the others. Three Light cruisers, one belonging to the Lieutenant, push out ahead swinging into a delta formation.

"Please tell me we're headed for that Vengance. I've gotta pay him back for that hole he punched in my hull." Presses Alex.
"Missile Boats first, we have to kill them or they'll spam the entire battlefield with nukes."
"...fine."

Orange beams and missiles fill the space between the two fleets, the beams unable to focus at long range. A Couple of shots graze your shield but do little damage. You look over your shoulder at the Chief. "Why cant the phase cannon focus from this far out? I thought most laser beams and such are suppsed to be able to fire insanely far in space."

"Beam diffusion cused by shields. It's the price we pay for protection."

[ ] "Oh okay." (Keep shields raised)
[ ] Drop shields long enough to fire a few bursts (Roll 1d20)

>>17752890
>[X] "Oh okay." (Keep shields raised)

They're already hitting us with their beams, unless we notice them concentrating their fire on somebody else, we should probably keep the shields up.

As you cross the 100,000km threshold the beam weapon hits start to become more noticeable. Nuclear missiles begin to detonate on the forward shields of the ships in formation. The Republic Cruiser fires its plasma weapon for the first time in the engagement. A tight blue beam hits one of your allies light Cruisers, punching through the shield and burning a line in it's hull. Flame pours out of the damaged section for a few seconds but the ship doesnt give any indication it took serious damage.
"Launching SP Torpedoes!" announces LT Dayton. As a pair of projectiles rocket out from his ship riding blue-white tails. The other cruisers fire their more conventional torps. The enemy cruiser changes course, realising they'd been targeted, and hides behind an ugly modified Frigate. The SP torps pass through the Frigate's shield is it it weren't there, shredding the front half of the ship. The other four Torps slam into the remains of the vessel scattering wreckage in every direction.

"All hands brace for weapons fire." Kavos calmly says over the intercom before a pair of missiles hit your shield rocking your corvette.

"Sonia, should I use my torps now or save them for the cruisers?" Asks Alex.

[ ] Save them
[ ] Fire some Torps
[ ] fire all the Torps

Regardless of choice Roll 3d20 linking this post. No stealth rolls please.

rolled 7, 4, 13 = 24

>>17753065
>[X] Save them

I'm also almost falling asleep here, so I doubt I will be around much longer

rolled 8, 18, 3 = 29

Okay, I'm off for the night. Thanks for the thread and I'd like to add that Tuesday is an inconvenient day for questing. I'd furthermore guess participation is so low because everybody else is busy with their metathreads today.
Good night.

>Okay that took way longer to write than it should have.

"Hold the Torps for a minute." You tell him while the three of you bear down on a Missile Boat. The smaller ship is surprisingly nimble despite being a wheel of missile launchers. Your and Alex's fire only manage to damage its shield while Mike's cuts through its hull, blasting several launchers free before it explodes.
"One down." He calls out.

Flying through the debris cloud you swing your ship around and crank the throttle to maximum to kill your momentum. The invisible force of tractor and repulsor beams push and pull agaisnt friend and foe alike, trying to bring the ships down to more resonable speeds for close combat. Your gunners dont cease fire, shooting at anything they can land a hit on.

By the time you and your wingmen have come about you're pointed towards the center of the fight. A pair of friendly corvettes are blown open by explosions as enemy ships concentrate fire. The main enemy Cruiser is still dodging most of the fire from two of the Knights as the third's ship drifts through the fight, out of control. Enemy starfighters are beginning to fill the battlespace.

Baron Archivald's Carrier has reverted to realspace in the distance and is beginning to launch fighters.

Next target
[ ] Enemy Cruiser
[ ] Carrier
[ ] Frigates
[ ] Other

Roll 3d20

>spectators Scippro
Yes thank you captcha that's very helpful.

bump

Loled at the archive description.

rolled 17, 13, 13 = 43

>>17753466
>[X] Carrier
If we destroy that thing and offer the fighters a chance to surrender, now that can't escape, we might take out a sizeable part of the enemy's forces.

If this is still up in 7 hours I'll continue it then.

bump

"Aim for the Carrier!" You tell the others. "If we take it out their fighters wont be harassing us through the rest of the fight."
The enemy Carrier is made up of a forward spherical section with a long spar running behind it. Even as you close on it more Fighters are launching from drop days running the length of the spar. Your phase cannon fire forces it to cease launch operations and raise it's shields. A Torpedo fired by Alex manages to squeak by before the shields go up, impacting the large fusion drive at the end tip of the spar.
The rest of your phase cannon fire has little effect against the shields but as long as they're up the ship wont be launching more fighters.

As you and your wingmen begin to swing around for another pass your sensor officer speaks up. "Detecting secondary explosions from the carrier. One of their reactors has lit off."

When the ship comes into view you see what he's talking about. The sublight drive has exploded, you must have just missed the flash. As you watch the shields around the launch bays go down and the forward sphere begins to seperate from the spar. After getting clear the spherical section lights up it's own drives and makes a run for it.

Your weapons fire burns holes in the abandoned section until it finally explodes, ripped apart by the remaining munitions aboard.

Roll for evasion 1d20

rolled 14 = 14

>/tg/ dice

Also for future reference, since I'm not that starship-savvy, what exactly would starships be good for in a situation like this and roughly how many starships can fit on the buyable ships? Would we need to train their pilots as well?

>>17765645
And then I realized the thread had been dead for an hour

>>17765659
Lol, thread was dead for 24 hours before that, no worries. More incoming soon.

>and roughly how many starships can fit on the buyable ships?
You mean crew sizes of the ships?

>>17765728
Correct me if I'm wrong (I probably am), but I thought starships had to be transported by a ship with ftl. For example, would a corvette be able to carry 1-2 starships while a frigate carried 5-7?

>>17765823
I mean starfighter, my bad

>>17765645
>what exactly would starships be good for in a situation like this
Most light starships from Cruisers on down are able to act as general frontline ships. Some are better at it than others. Corvettes are cheap to mass produce, have the most basic equipment and are used as a stopgap most of the time, but they are faster and more agile. The Dominion uses more corvettes than anyone else. Frigates are the real jack of all trades and can be modified to do anything. Cruisers carry some of the heavier weapons but also have Marines, sometimes fighters.

>Would we need to train their pilots as well?
When you aquire a ship through requisition it becomes your primary vessel. You command the new ship and some (or most) of your old ship's crew are transferred. In the case of requisitioning your next ship the old one you'd be leaving would be transferred back to a training squadron of your House. You arent so much buying ships but paying for permission to use better stuff that belongs to your House.

>>17765823
>Starfighters
Yes, they lack FTL of their own and must be brought along by a carrier.
Corvettes do not normally carry fighters but they can be modified to do so at the cost of other equipment or space. Frigates can be used as pocket carriers with anywhere from 6 on a normal one to two dozen if it was modified just for that purpose. Most Factions have dedicated Carriers for large scale battles able to carry more than 100.

>>17765995
Thanks for the clarification, liking the thread so far

>>17765995
So how bout dat evasion?

>rolled 14

You spot the smoky white tell tale sign of missiles headed for you, not just from one direction but several.
"Incoming missile volley!"
"Scatter!" You yell out.
You and your wingmen pull away in different directions rolling to the side and trying to avoid the cloud of missile fire. Six nuclear missiles detonate on your shield droping it below one quarter but few of the blasts overlap.

"Where are theose missiles comining from?" You ask, quickly glancing over at the sensor operator.
"The starfighters that had already launched are harassing everyone." He tells you.
On your display you can see another friendly corvette take fire from more of the enemy fighters. Two of them launch a Torpedo each before breaking off and running.

"Son of a bitch they can carry Torpedoes?!"

Your gunners take potshots at some of the small craft but most of their shots miss. Thankfully it only takes one solid hit to remove them. Without their Carrier to rearm the fighters longevity in battle will be short.

"Dayton to all ships, we have friendly starfighters incoming. All damaged ship are to break off and head for the convoy. Everyone else avoid the remaining enemy fighters as best you can until they've expended their ammo.


[ ] Concentrate on avoiding fire
[ ] Attack nearest enemy ship in range
[ ] Collect your wingmen and find that Vengance Cruiser


Roll 1d20

rolled 14 = 14

>>17766305
Fuck that Cruiser!

>>17766315
I concur.

>>17766305
How much crew does a Vengence Cruiser usually have?

Could our squadron's marine detachment manage to capture it?

>Another 14
Huh.

"Mike, Alex, do either of you see that Cruiser?" You ask them.
"Which one?" asks Mike sounding confused. "Oh shi- that was close."
A large explosion lights up the center of the battlespace as the reactors on some ship go super critical, distracting most of the enemies for a minute.
"I found it." reports Alex. "It's near the edge of the battle and might be getting ready to run. It still looks pritty beat up."

"Everybody full burn." you instruct them "just watch your shields, there's still fighters around."

You rocket through the battlefield, narrowly avoiding a few wrecked ship hulls and swinging close enough to an allied ship for your gunners to put some fire into an enemy Frigate harassing it. You keep going and before long have spotted Mike and Alex. The Cruiser spots the three of you incoming and fires an alphs strike at the closest of you, Mike, before turning to run. Your wingman's corvette slows after taking half of the hits.

"Mike you okay?"
"I've lost my forward shield and one of my guns. Hull breaches in the forward sections, but not critical. Falling back behind you guys."

>>17766757

"Fuck this guy I'm dumping all of my torps." declares Alex.
"Chief if that doesnt kill the Cruiser how big of a crew do you think it has?"

"One second." Kavos calls up a display and flips through some screens. "Dammit where is it... I dont know, they werent meant for a fixed crew size. Just to be built by rebels as quickly as possible. It shouln't be more than two hundred."

You close to weaons range just as Alex begins firing. Firing everything.

"He's charging up his jump drive!" Yells Linda.

"Cant we put more power to the guns?" You enquire.
"Yes. Gunners, overcharge your weapons to 125%"
"Aye." Both men reply.

The first Torp impacts the aft shield on the Cruiser damaging it. The next one lowers it close to failure and some of your cannon weapon fire penetrates to tear through an engine. Alex's last torp detonates on the failing shield but still delivers enough of a blast to the hull to send the larger ship out of control.

[ ] Put him down
[ ] Attempt boarding (Roll 3d20)

>>17766906
How long until he jumps? Can we disable the drive?

>>17766939
The ship is currently spinning out of control. It would need to realign and accelerate in order to jump.
Provided of course that it's FTL or sublight drives still work. Your sensor operator isnt sure what's still working on the hunk of junk as it looked battered enough that it should have been disabled even before the battle started.

rolled 19, 19, 3 = 41

>>17766998
Attempt boarding.

>>17766998
>[ ] Attempt boarding (Roll 3d20)

Will we get to lead the attack again? It was so much fun last time.

>>17767004
> 19, 19, 3
I dont know how I should feel about this.

>>17767071
I hope we didn't just get one of our squad killed.

>>17767071
The whole thing goes very well but somebody falls down the stairs and manages to break every bone in his body after the fighting is all done?

>>17767094
Boarding goes successfully but the controls were sabotaged by the crew, cruiser takes a couple of threads to be repaired but then we get moneiz when it is finally operational.

You give the order to board the ship.
The Chief calls down to the cramped shuttle bay on the lower decks of the ship.
"Marines if you havent mounted up already do so ASAP. You'll be attempting to board a Vengance type Cruiser"
>Will we get to lead the attack again? It was so much fun last time.
You're in the middle of a battle and are needed at the controls of your ship. Maybe you can ask the Chief if he'd mind taking the controls for a few minutes so you ca-
ಠ_ಠ
No, nevermind.

Alex and Mike close in and launch their own shuttles. Together you tractor beam the ship until its spin is under control. As the shuttles close in a point defense gun pops out from the hull and sprays particle beam fire. You and Alex both blast the turret before it can do too much damage but Mike's shuttle is forced back with most of its side torn open.

The remaining assault shuttles face no more external resistance, docking to seperate airlocks and letting the Marines storm the interior.
"Knight Lt Dayton to all ships, enemy forces are in full retreat, begin rescue and recovery operations."

Baron Archivald's voice was the next over the general channel.
"We have a limited time table people. I set aside a few empty transports large enough to carry damaged corvettes or Frigates but we dont have all day. The remaining convoy escorts will jump in 30 minutes along with the convoy. We'll send a salvage team out to this area in a few hours."

"Sir could we deploy some sensor beacons to keep an eye on things until then?" Asks the Lt.
"I'm afraid not, we're getting some long range jamming."

Hearing this you nervously watch the mission timer count down and wait for the Marines to report back.

>>17767466
With 10 minutes left the Marines report back.
"We've taken control of the ship. Casulties were light. Most of the crew were dead and few of the survivors wanted to surrender. We have 13 prisoners ready for transfer back to the ship."

"Does it look like there's any way to salvage the ship?"
You ask the Marine.

"Honestly this thing is a wreck but it might be possible. Sublight drives are toast, we'd need one or two of the ships to tow us up to speed to jump. *IF* the drive core holds. They're tough things but I'll only trust them so far. If you want to try it we'll need an engineering team. My intrusion experts are cracking the databanks on the ship now to pull intel."

>Your Orders?

[ ] Attempt Salvage (Roll 1d100)
[ ] Order Marines to lock down computers and abandon ship when finished
[ ] Blow it up
[ ] Other

rolled 37 = 37

>>17767610
Let's see if we can get some sexy lewt.

rolled 28 = 28

>>17767610
>[X] Attempt Salvage (Roll 1d100)
That's the whole reason why we even bothered boarding that thing.

rolled 21 = 21

>>17767610
I'm terribly scared of /tg/-dice, you know?

rolled 12 = 12

>>17767610
Salvage that bad boy.

rolled 47 = 47

>>17767610
Loot it like we were playing Deffwotch.

rolled 2 = 2

>>17767660
>>17767674
>>17767689
>>17767691
It seems the answer to
>I can has cruiser
is
>NO U

>>17767660
>>17767674
>>17767689
>>17767691
>>17767698
>>17767718
This is unusually bad even for us.

rolled 39 = 39

>>17767731
Yep. I doubt we'll get to keep our cruisere ;_;

rolled 1 = 1

ILL SAVE YOU

rolled 68 = 68

>>17767755
My god. At least you got double doubles.

>>17767755

you forgot to noko. better delete your post.

>>17767770
He did roll a 1d1, you know.

rolled 6 = 6

>>17767783
oh. it makes sense now.

>>17767800
Stop rolling. You're going to get our Marines killed by papercuts.

>Hey Players, you can have something nice.
Ooooooh
>But you need to roll /tg/-dice to get it.
ಠ_ಠ
No, nevermind.

Okay, you may cease rolling gentlemen.

One of the shuttles return with the prisoners and takes a team of engineers over to make a quick evaluation. Very quick given the timetable.

They make straight for engineering and check the drive core.
"Bad news sir, some of the focusing systems are cracked up in a few places. If we han an hour we could realign the remaining ones enough to have a go at it."

The Engineers and Marines are headed back to the shuttles. There's still time to lockout the computers. It might buy time if another group of pirates happen along before the salvage fleet arrives later.

[ ] Order Marines to lock down computers and abandon ship
[ ] Blow it up
[ ] Other

>>17767856
>[X] Other
Huddle up in your chair and start moping. Let them do whatever they want, you don't care.

>>17767856
[x] Order Marines to lock down computers and abandon ship

>>17767856
Other

Ghetto gank some starships and superglue them to your corvette. Use the extra boosters to create a retardedly fast corvette. Or loot the nukes and ftl drive because why not.

>>17767890
>>17767892
>>17767898
>Huddle up in your chair and start moping. Let them do whatever they want, you don't care.
After being so close! The universe must both love and hate you. It's almost enough to make you collapse into a little black pit of despair.
Your fit of emotional collapse is short lived, with the Chief shaking your shoulder.
"Ahem, pilot you're demoralizing the bridge crew."

>Or loot the nukes and ftl drive because why not.
Then it hits you. Thinking fast you tell the marines to grab any heavy weapons aboard that arent tied down while their expert locks down the computers.

"Dayton to Three flight, what the hell is going on over there?"

"We'll be ready to jump in just another minute sir!" You assure him, telling the others to bring their ships around and get ready to jump. The shuttles undock with less than 20 seconds left and burn hard for your landing bay.

'How fast are those shuttles rated for?' you wonder. It must be slightly faster than your own ship as your shuttle still overtakes you when you begin your acceleration for the jump.

"The rest of the fleet is jumping!"
"Wait for it." You tell Linda.
"Shuttle aboard!" announces the Chief. Linda doesnt wait for you to relay the order, cranking up the FTL.

>>17768175

The deep space transit point proves to be empty of everything but the convoy ships when you return to realspace. Mike had jumped just before you and Alex just after.

The Baron's voice seems to reverberate over the coms. "Knight Dayton, please make sure to impress upon your trainees the importance of timely, accurate, fleet jumps. Battles have been won and lost because of them."

"Yes sir."
"I'll be expecting a simulation report on just those qualities later this week."
"Understood sir."

It takes 20 minutes for all of the ships to align to their next destination and recieve their jump data. In that time you get word from your and Alex's Marines. Between you they recovered 4 nuclear warheads and two Tropedoes. Handy as Alex had expended most of his. There were also numerous small arms.

"I still cant believe we couldnt salvage that Cruiser you grumble."

"Well you could always put in a salvage claim." mentions the Chief. "If the salvage fleet does manage to get their hands on it later it will be claimed as salvage for our House. Even if you dont personally get the ship that should count towards a bonus for third flight."

You decide to think about that as the fleet begins its next jump in a 'timely, accurate' manner.

>>17768366
Well, its not an extra ftl drive, but I'm ok with extra nukes

>>17768454
FTL drives are a bit bulky and most of the important parts are solid state. You would have needed more time to loot them.

The center looks a bit like this.

>>17768569
Not like this?

>>17768590
No, not quite. The ftl system in Voidquest does look like that though.

>>17768622
Does that mean Voidquest will suddenly reappear in orbit around Neptune in a few years?

>>17768638
>wait and see


After arriving in your destination system the convoy breaks up, either headed for the stations in orbit of the various planets in system or moving to join other convoys. The battered and damaged escorts which include your squadron are directed to one of the drydocks in orbit of the system's largest gas giant.
It's only on the sublight journey there that you find out one of the ships from second flight were lost along with most of the crew. Lt Dayton's ship is also sporting some rather serious gashes in the outer armor.

"Mike what's your ship status?" You ask.
"Five confirmed dead." he answers sounding sullen. "They're still identifying the remains of the Marines killed on my ship's shuttle when it was hit. Particle beam shot pierced the troop compartment. The hull breach on my ship isnt too bad, it'll just take time to fix and mount a new turret."

For being your first real multi-ship battle things could have gone much worse you conclude. The ship to ship fighting wasnt so much different from before but you gained a new respect for the strengths and weaknesses of starfighters and their carriers. With any luck you'll keep that in mind later.

After a quick check by the dock engineers you're directed to take up a holding position alongside the other ships that have completed repairs. All crews are ordered to get some rest while there is some downtime.

>Anything you'd like to do aboard ship?

>>17768826
>>Anything you'd like to do aboard ship?
-Set up training regiment for ourselves
-File that claim on the cruiser
-Start working on the report we have to do, the sooner we have that out of the way, the better.

/Mission end

Feel free to post anything you'd like to do aboard ship while you await your next deployment. It will be added to the start of the next thread.
Questions, comments, I'll try to answer them.

>>17768638
Seriously though, he said he'd try to run Void quest again in January but school work must have caught up with him.

>Yeah... I've been retarded busy. I really want to run it but I just can't find the time. It would be easier if I could just drop a post once or twice a day in a thread that stays around, but finding an 8 hour block of time that I can put aside is almost impossible.

>I really don't mean to leave you guys hanging, if you have suggestions I would be open to hearing them.

>>17768826
Create a flag symbol for Sonia Reynard

I propose this but I'm going to bed now. Looking forward to the next thread.

>>17769017
>Create a flag symbol for Sonia Reynard
Well there's this from online. I admit to having very limited knowledge about how a coat of arms is determined.

>>17769274
Any idea when you'll run the next episode/mission?

>>17769274
I will try for Tuesday again since it's the only day of the week I consistently get off.

>>17769497
'kay, see you then.