Pests:
Zen Dias scans the area in front of his ship as he watches the traffic coming and going from the colony. He spots the dagger and it moves with the traffic. He nods and walks over to the sensor station.
"Anything?" asks Zen.
"Nothing yet sir."
He nods and goes over to his chair and sits in it.
"Sir! We have a distress call from transport ship." yells the communications officer. "They are under attack by three mobile suits."
"Order the Dagger to begin pursuit of mobile suits." orders Zen as he leans forwards in his seat. "We will keep our distance and watch where those mobile suits go."
As his orders are carried out he watches as the mobile suit spot the approaching Salamis Kai and blast away from the transport. The rush towards an old looking Zanzibar class ship. Once they enter the ship, it turns and blasts away from the line of ships and heads towards a nearby chunk of rock.
"Okay order the Dagger off. They are too far ahead and we do not want to scare the pirates off." orders Zen as he sits back and watches his orders carried out. "Send the information off to the CMC."
"Aye sir."
Outcome: Pirate location Confirmed.
Zen Dias: no damage, 20 exp, 200,000 credits
Screams in Space:
As the Crawfish nears the end of its journey, its crew moves about the ship in an organized manor. Ahead the space colony S1-1001 is visible. It looks almost like a toy but the crew ignores that fact as they continue to watch for trouble. At the moment James Daviott is sitting in his command chair watching a news vid on his screen. Outside the ship two mobile suits move on patrol.
"Sir. I think we have contact moving up from the colony." reports the Sensor officer. "I am unable to get a clear reading on the contact because of m-particle levels."
James head shoots up. "As in we are being jammed?"
"I don’t think so sir." answers the sensor officer. "If that was the case we wouldn’t be able to see the contact at all and I am pretty sure the colony would of scrambled some kind of response."
"Very well. Alert all pilots and get them to launch. I don’t want to be caught with my pants down. Could it be a rep from the colony coming to escort us back?"
"I don’t think so. I believe it was well away from the colony when it started moving sir."
James nods and brings up the sensor feed on his screen. The contact is moving fast and on an intercept course. He frowns at the screen wishing he had a little more information. Then he hears his sensor officer cry out in surprise.
"Sir! Incoming transmission. Playing it on speakers now."
"...tention Pegasus class. You will stand down now and surrender the convoy." orders a deep sounding voice over the radio. "If you do not. We will take over your ship and space your crew and then take the convoy anyways."
James frowns again and nods at the comm officer. "I think I speak for the crew and myself in saying that you can go to hell. Or you could just turn around and leave."
Then a blast of static blares over the speakers before the comm officer can cut it off. James nods and looks around the bridge and sees the crew already jumping to action.
"This is the captain. All hands to battle stations." says James as he pushes the button on his arm rest that opens a ship wide intercom.
"Status on mobile weapons and fighters?" asks James as he looks over at the operations officer.
"All launched and awaiting your orders." reports the young lady at the operations station.
"Order the fighters to fly away from the convoy in opposite directions. Then tell them to wait for my signal to attack the incoming targets weapons. I believe we are going to face a ship."
"Aye sir."
"Then order our mobile suits to take up cover positions for the Crawfish and to work together in attacking any mobile suits that are deployed against us. Then order the two balls to take up guard positions on the convoy."
"Aye sir."
"Communications I want you to tell the convoy to keep moving to the colony at best possible speed. They should run into forces from the colony in response to that blast of comm static."
"Aye sir." responds the communications officer.
"Helm. Take as at the contact at best possible speed."
The helm officer nods and begins to move the Crawfish towards the incoming contact.
"Weapons I want you to begin firing missiles when you feel you can gain a hit on that contact. Then you are free to fire the other weapons when they are in range."
"Aye sir!" snaps the weapons officer as he snaps to action.
As he watches his sensor screen the enemy ship comes into focus and James grins a smile that could never be described as happy. He then begins a ship classification app on his screen and frowns as a match comes up.
"A Musai FPT." states James. "Thank god it isn’t heavily armed. Order the fighters to attack when that ship launches its mobile suits and they move to attack ours."
As he watches the incoming ship he spots three Zaku II Kais and a single Rick Dom II. He grunts as he notices the custom colors on the Rick Dom II. The four suits blast away from the ship and rocket towards his. Then James feels the vibration as missile after missile is launched towards the attacking ship. The enemy mobile suits fire their weapons into the stream of missiles destroying a few but opening a path.
As the explosions clear the four mobile suits find themselves facing a trio of mobile suits. One of the Zaku II Kai pilots cry out in surprise and tries to retreat away from them but finds itself under attack by two beam rifles and a bazooka. It is quickly dispatched but the other three mobile suits quickly attack. But they find themselves facing pilots who know what they are doing as their attacks either hit nothing or hit shields. They see the Crawfish launch signal flares but are unable to pay much attention as they duel for their lives.
Meanwhile the missiles launched by the Crawfish begin to explode around Musai FPT. They don’t hit anything vital though. And then energy blasts begin to blast past it. Its captain curses as he orders evasive tactics and to fire back. From what seemed like it was going to be an easy fight, this battle is starting to test the skill of his crew. An officer cries out and the captain’s head snaps towards what prompted the outcry.
A fighter is coming straight at his ship and there is nothing he can do about it. It launches its missiles and one strikes one of his ships guns. Then the captain spots another fighter and cries out in horror as it fires rounds into his ship’s last weapon.
"Launch the flares to signal our surrender!" orders the captain.
As the flares erupt from the Musai another Zaku II Kai is destroyed as hawk slices into its reactor and the suit explodes. The Act Zaku then flies to help the Zaku II F that is facing down the last Zaku II Kai. It isn’t doing as good job as its two allies but being a more skilled pilot has helped with keeping him alive. The Zaku II Kai spins around as the Act Zaku enters the fight and peppers the suit with machine gun fire. The Zaku II F pilot grins and slams his own heat hawk in the Zaku II Kai’s cockpit killing the pilot.
The pilot in the Rick Dom II curses and fires the scattering beam gun in his suits chest blinding the Galbaldy Alpha that he was fighting and then slices the suit’s arm off. And then the Rick Dom II slams the Galbaldy Alpha aside and blasts towards the Crawfish.
"You bastards will pay for this." shouts the pilot as he begins firing his giant bazooka at the Pegasus Refit.
The rounds slam into the Crawfish and explodes. The ship returns fire with the weapons it is able to use and they force the Rick Dom II away and the suit keeps going.
"Let him go." orders James as he watches the suit disappear from sensors as the level of m-particles distort the sensors at that range. "Begin repairs and order that ship to proceed to port."
The communications officer nods and goes about giving the orders. James raises his hand and begins to rubs his temples. James thinks his crew did a good job and he shall give them some rest while in the colony.
Outcome: Convoy protected.
James Daviott: 3 days of hull damage, right mega particle gun damaged(2 days), 100 exp, Musai FPT captured, 1 Zaku II Kai salvaged, 500,000 credits plus a Zaku II F2 in reward, Tiamat rep decreased
