Shishousha Inai Kousen = Casualties within War .
Before you start reading:
Disclaimer - If you can't stand creative writing, fan fiction, use of the imagination, or the likes.. then don't read this story, as this use's the creative writing skills of Kalshion and the experience he's achieved from writing for over 7 years
A story that depicts a company's rough time's and there rise to power within the X-universe
Prologue:
A breeze blew through the Outpost 934 located on Argon Prime, two soldier's stood guard at the entrance as a ship began landing procedures near the building
A discoverer, known to be one of the best scout ships the Argon's have. The cockpit opened up and a female stepped out, her hair was golden and it ran down to her backside, one of the soldier's cocked his head to one side, taking in the sight in one fell gasp
His partner tried his hardest to ignore the scene, but after a few seconds, and after the female flashed her body at him, he couldn’t' resist it anymore. Dropping his rifle on the ground, his mouth was agape.
"Might you two gentle get your act's together and show me to your commander." She said while holding a clipboard, she sighed and shook her head then walked past them, both soldiers staring straight at what most male's would normally stare at
The door's parted way and she walked in, then closed behind her. "I see my two idiots out there got a little out of hand?" came a voice from the speakers
"To out of hand, I told my father that wearing this would bring to much attention," She snarled. "Besides.. who would wear such a skimpy outfit anyway?"
Even though she couldn't see it, the person on the other end had grinned. "You"
"Apparently," The girl walked over to a touch pad and keyed in her code, the door's then moved apart and she walked into a large circular room. Monitors and other video screen's covered the walls, each displaying different type's of data. "How goes the recon?"
One of the officer's in that room glanced over his shoulder, and noticed the nice looking female, although also noticing her rank. "Um... well.. The Paranid's don't seem to notice our fleet hanging around in the Sensor Distortion Nebula"
She nodded. "That’s good, that’s good, how much longer before our boss is in position?" She said. "He's in position now Ma'am, just waiting for us to give him the go ahead." The officer said
The room was noisy, that was an understatement, the noise level was so high that each person in there needed headsets just to communicate, while the other's who didn't have them where close enough to those who they needed to talk to
"Let our boss know he commence the attack," The girl grinned. "I'll spoof the Argon Militaries Surveillance systems so it'll look like a Xenon/Khaak invasion"
This happened over 150 year's ago, when a small corporation known only as "Sept" lost a half dozen trade conveys in Paranid Space, the sectors: Priests Refuge, Cardinal's Domain, Sacred Relic, Spring of Relief, Friars Retreat, Pontifex Seclusion where targeted for retaliation against the Paranid Empire
The invasion by the company consisted of four Destroyer class vessels, ranging from an Argon Titan to the Split Python. The fleet also had three carriers, two Condors and one Colossus
The Paranid in these six sectors didn't stand a chance; those who didn't want to fight fled the sector. But the Paranid did put up a good fight, a flight recorder recovered from a destroyed Paranid Nemesis shows just what happened, as of this point it's been cleared up and translated so it can be easily understood, however much of the recorder was damaged and image's could not be recovered:
"This is Sector Patrol 8348! We got Argon Aggressors in sector!"
"Those aren't Argon! There Split"
"They can't be Split, they have Boron Fighter's and Teladi Corvettes!"
"This isn't possible! It must be a splinter group.. Pirates maybe?"
"Who cares! There attacking our empire! Run them out!"
"No can..................................... to ma..................."
"Enem........... Breached ........"
"To ma......"
Sound's and the hull breaking apart permeate the rest of the track, making any further talk or sound's unable to recover
After the Battle of Cardinals Domain, the corporation set up in the six destroyed sectors. Check Point's where set up at the three entrances to Sept's Company Space (SPS)
Sept now controls these sectors and the sectors have flourished for over 150 years but now the Paranid are ready to retake there lost sectors, and this time, they have help
End Prologue
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Chapter 1: Information and Secrets
As fate would have it, all six sectors where rather isolated from the rest of the universe, as the two side super gate's where blocked by two massive carriers that prevented any passage, and also acted as a plug for the gates; thus making it impossible for ships to use them for they would come out and crash into the carrier hulls
The only entrance into the corporation's sectors was through Loomanckstrats Legacy, Mi Ton's Refuge, and Moo-Kye's Revenge. However when the Corporation took over the six Paranid Sectors, these last three was renamed to "Loomanckstrats Gauntlet" presumably because the nearby pirate anarchy base provided some much needed defense during the early year's of construction
Now it's been renamed once more to "Loomanckstrats Passage", mostly due to the pirate base no longer being present, as the corporation had it moved to a more "Strategic" position located just outside the Passage itself, making it the first checkpoint, and thus the first headache for most traders, into the main corporation's sectors
Although the Sept Corporation kept the sectors the way they where, name wise, everything was changed. Proof of this can be found in the Friars Retreat sector, which was hardest hit in the attack, after the battle's ended and many year's had passed, this sector was turned into the main construction yard for the capital ships and fighter's that the corporation use's, all are from unique designs
The only ships used by this corporation that closely resemble any of the race's is the Split Dragon, Argon Titan, Split Python, Paranid Nemesis, and a Xenon K which wondered into these sector's and got itself captured by a couple of brave, if not rather dumb, pilot's who lost roughly half there number's when they had been told to wait for backup
The Xenon K, happily renamed to "Kissin" is still in service and act's as a sector patrol in the Loomanckstrats Passage, even to this day many trading ship's and even pirate's stray far from this ship, as it is armed with Khaak Kyon Emitters. Many a ship that has strayed to close has been mistaken for a "threat" by the ship's onboard computer system and thus, been turned to scrap, although no one would dare argue with a computer, expically one that could vaporize your ship in a blink of an eye
Perhaps the most secretive of the corporation is the sector: Spring of Belief
No one knows what goes in that sector, only that it's gates are heavily guarded. Pirates and the Corporation seem to have some sort of agreement, as the pirate's base near these gate's leave there ships alone, yet attack any they don't recognize, at is of course, those that have managed to enter the six sectors through "other means"
One of the security feature's this corporation set up was a "Jumpdrive Jammer" technology stolen from a Khaak Station sometime during the Xenon Invasion by the company's original founder, but had it hidden so that the Argon Secret Service wouldn't get wind of it, which didn't work, because several year's after they came a huntin but didn't find anything in the asteroid located in Ore Belt
There are 3 Jammers, one located near the blocked west super gate, another located near the blocked east super gate, and then another located in the middle of the passage in the sector: Mi Ton's Refuge
These jammers act as a buffer to prevent any unauthorized jump into the system, the jammers are capable of distinguishing between friend or foe and thus will allow authorized ship's to jump in, but will caused unauthorized ships to find themselves smack dab in the middle of a pirate hunting ground, to date: no one has attempted an illegal jump into the system, not since the Paranid sent in 3 destroyer's and 1 carrier and lost contact with them soon after, later finding them under Pirate Control.
One more feature the Corporation seems to have is ships, there sector's are full of defensive vessels which would make an attack on the corporation near suicide. There's constantly 150 ships ranging from scout's to carriers in each sector at any given moment, 200 ship's are located in one of the sectors while another 300 are located in the main sector that house's the corporation's Headquarters, with so many ships you'd think they'd have traffic jam's every now and then
Somewhere in the Spring of Belief Sector
The door's parted on a station located near the Corporation's home planet, as two people walked through the now opened door's and toward what appeared to be a dock yard, one of them looked over his shoulder. "The commander wants use to fly a sortie into the passage? Why?"
"Apparently," The other one said. "Our pirate ally’s told us that the Paranid are conducting recon sweeps, I think there trying to find a weakness"
"Between the Argon and the Boron, who are also our allies, I doubt they'll find anything," His partner exclaimed and looked at his fighter. "A mark V...."
"Fresh off the assembly line, sport's six weapon hard points," his buddy smiled broadly
He sighed. "But can they fit the APPC?"
"Sadly no, test run's are being done on the second prototype and the recording's are promising, naturally though they'll have to stay close to there carrier ship so they can get the energy transfer from the power ship," His buddy said and got into the cockpit of his fighter. "6 GHEPT," he said. "Nice.. it's about time those idiots in research made a heavy fighter capable of mounting six of these"
"Mine's different," his partner said over the radio. "I think Research has finally been able to reverse engineer the Kyon Emitters, I have 3 Beta and 3 Alpha Kyon Emmiters on here"
"Well.. Command told us to take them out for a test drive, I guess the test drive they have in mind is us using the Paranid for target practice," he said
The two closed there cockpit's, checked with there crew on board, which each fighter had two people on board to main the turrets
The two fighter's had two fixed front mounted point's, while on the direct left and right of the cockpit where two turret's, fully capable of pivoting left to right and up and down. Making it easy to defend the front, these turrets’ can also spin around to the back to attack anything that came from behind. The turret system's use a type mind meld type of system, where it's controller is seated just behind the pilot, a helmet cover's the operator's head and eye's and the visor show's what the turret sees. The left handle control's rotation while the right control's up and down motion. This type of motion can also be translated through the mind, and thus allow the operator to just "Think" about what to do, but most commanders often tell there handlers NOT to think, as it has lead to many "Accidents"
The door's to the hanger bay opened, a field fell over the opening and the two fighters launched, going right through the field and into open space
Both of the fighter's came about and turned on a heading toward the north gate, as they passed by several station's, a near by destroyer came along side them
~I see the brass is finally letting you two test them out~
"Yea I know," One of the two said with a broad smile on his face
~When they prove successful, mind teaching my boy's how to fly them? God knows test pilot's are better at flying then anyone else~
Again one of the pilot's smiled, or maybe they both did, either way one of them opened a comm. to the destroyer's captain. "We'd be glad to, but the brass has use doing a very odd test run, they have these ships equipped with weapon's, I'm guessing they want us to see how the fighter's functions in combat"
~I see... well if you need assistance let Beta Wing know, there in the passage right now~
"Will do, thank you sir," the pilot's saluted then flew off at maximum speed, which was only 249 M/S. Upon arriving the gate they passed through it and into another one of there sectors, they noted the six destroyer's on either side of the gate. "They don't want people to wonder into our sector"
"It's a secret; no one’s supposed to know what happens in there. In fact, our sensor's are jamming everyone else's except our own, making all non-corporation ships think where just a few trading vessels," one of the two said to the other
"Make's sense"
The two ships passed through the system with little problem, and made it into the passage in under thirty minutes. The two passed by a large asteroid, if it wasn't for the cockpit's unique interface they wouldn't have noticed the 3 pirate Bayamon's camping on the asteroid, the owners just waiting for an unauthorized ship to pass through the sector.. and perhaps it was there lucky day
A trading ship was passing through the asteroid field, being closely chased by Beta Wing
~Stop that ship! It has explosives~
~Negative! If it hit's the gate it might through it off!
~I don't care! It mustn't pass through or even get there!~
The two pilot's looked at each other, they where about to take action when there sensor display lit up and three Bayamon's suddenly came to life, flying past them and toward the run away trading vessel
One of the Bayamon's fired directly into the cockpit, it's shield's only holding out for a few second's before letting some of the plasma into the cockpit, vaporizing it's pilot and the control systems, the vessel suddenly spun out of the control and crashed into a near by asteroid. Container's spewed from the broken hull just before the cargo of explosives went off, destroy the entire asteroid but leaving a prize for the pirates: Space Weed, which was "legal" in the passage as long as the pirate's didn't try and get non-pirates hooked
The two pilot's just shrugged and kicked in the after burner, displaying there ship's by flying over, under, and side to side of each hunk of rock they encountered, so much so that one of the pirate's just had to open a comm. with them
~You stinking show offs!! Next time you do that I'm going to send this Plasma so far up your butt your granny will feel it!~
The pilot's just laughed. "Third grade threat..."
"Nah... 1st grade threat.. nothing knew from an unintelligent dwebs"
~WHAT WAS THAT?!~
"Nothin..." the two said in unison and flew off
~Ooooooooooooooh! Those test pilot's make me so MAD~
"Buddy.. turn off your system comm. your making a fool out of yourself," one of the two said
~Huh?! HEY!! YOU LITTLE PIECES OF-~
The two cut there comm.'s knowing full well what the pirate was going to say, but deciding not to hear it. "Baka..." one of the two said
End of Chapter 1
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Chapter 1: Information and Secrets
As fate would have it, all six sectors where rather isolated from the rest of the universe, as the two side super gate's where blocked by two massive carriers that prevented any passage, and also acted as a plug for the gates; thus making it impossible for ships to use them for they would come out and crash into the carrier hulls
The only entrance into the corporation's sectors was through Loomanckstrats Legacy, Mi Ton's Refuge, and Moo-Kye's Revenge. However when the Corporation took over the six Paranid Sectors, these last three was renamed to "Loomanckstrats Gauntlet" presumably because the nearby pirate anarchy base provided some much needed defense during the early year's of construction
Now it's been renamed once more to "Loomanckstrats Passage", mostly due to the pirate base no longer being present, as the corporation had it moved to a more "Strategic" position located just outside the Passage itself, making it the first checkpoint, and thus the first headache for most traders, into the main corporation's sectors
Although the Sept Corporation kept the sectors the way they where, name wise, everything was changed. Proof of this can be found in the Friars Retreat sector, which was hardest hit in the attack, after the battle's ended and many year's had passed, this sector was turned into the main construction yard for the capital ships and fighter's that the corporation use's, all are from unique designs
The only ships used by this corporation that closely resemble any of the race's is the Split Dragon, Argon Titan, Split Python, Paranid Nemesis, and a Xenon K which wondered into these sector's and got itself captured by a couple of brave, if not rather dumb, pilot's who lost roughly half there number's when they had been told to wait for backup
The Xenon K, happily renamed to "Kissin" is still in service and act's as a sector patrol in the Loomanckstrats Passage, even to this day many trading ship's and even pirate's stray far from this ship, as it is armed with Khaak Kyon Emitters. Many a ship that has strayed to close has been mistaken for a "threat" by the ship's onboard computer system and thus, been turned to scrap, although no one would dare argue with a computer, expically one that could vaporize your ship in a blink of an eye
Perhaps the most secretive of the corporation is the sector: Spring of Belief
No one knows what goes in that sector, only that it's gates are heavily guarded. Pirates and the Corporation seem to have some sort of agreement, as the pirate's base near these gate's leave there ships alone, yet attack any they don't recognize, at is of course, those that have managed to enter the six sectors through "other means"
One of the security feature's this corporation set up was a "Jumpdrive Jammer" technology stolen from a Khaak Station sometime during the Xenon Invasion by the company's original founder, but had it hidden so that the Argon Secret Service wouldn't get wind of it, which didn't work, because several year's after they came a huntin but didn't find anything in the asteroid located in Ore Belt
There are 3 Jammers, one located near the blocked west super gate, another located near the blocked east super gate, and then another located in the middle of the passage in the sector: Mi Ton's Refuge
These jammers act as a buffer to prevent any unauthorized jump into the system, the jammers are capable of distinguishing between friend or foe and thus will allow authorized ship's to jump in, but will caused unauthorized ships to find themselves smack dab in the middle of a pirate hunting ground, to date: no one has attempted an illegal jump into the system, not since the Paranid sent in 3 destroyer's and 1 carrier and lost contact with them soon after, later finding them under Pirate Control.
One more feature the Corporation seems to have is ships, there sector's are full of defensive vessels which would make an attack on the corporation near suicide. There's constantly 150 ships ranging from scout's to carriers in each sector at any given moment, 200 ship's are located in one of the sectors while another 300 are located in the main sector that house's the corporation's Headquarters, with so many ships you'd think they'd have traffic jam's every now and then
Somewhere in the Spring of Belief Sector
The door's parted on a station located near the Corporation's home planet, as two people walked through the now opened door's and toward what appeared to be a dock yard, one of them looked over his shoulder. "The commander wants use to fly a sortie into the passage? Why?"
"Apparently," The other one said. "Our pirate ally’s told us that the Paranid are conducting recon sweeps, I think there trying to find a weakness"
"Between the Argon and the Boron, who are also our allies, I doubt they'll find anything," His partner exclaimed and looked at his fighter. "A mark V...."
"Fresh off the assembly line, sport's six weapon hard points," his buddy smiled broadly
He sighed. "But can they fit the APPC?"
"Sadly no, test run's are being done on the second prototype and the recording's are promising, naturally though they'll have to stay close to there carrier ship so they can get the energy transfer from the power ship," His buddy said and got into the cockpit of his fighter. "6 GHEPT," he said. "Nice.. it's about time those idiots in research made a heavy fighter capable of mounting six of these"
"Mine's different," his partner said over the radio. "I think Research has finally been able to reverse engineer the Kyon Emitters, I have 3 Beta and 3 Alpha Kyon Emmiters on here"
"Well.. Command told us to take them out for a test drive, I guess the test drive they have in mind is us using the Paranid for target practice," he said
The two closed there cockpit's, checked with there crew on board, which each fighter had two people on board to main the turrets
The two fighter's had two fixed front mounted point's, while on the direct left and right of the cockpit where two turret's, fully capable of pivoting left to right and up and down. Making it easy to defend the front, these turrets’ can also spin around to the back to attack anything that came from behind. The turret system's use a type mind meld type of system, where it's controller is seated just behind the pilot, a helmet cover's the operator's head and eye's and the visor show's what the turret sees. The left handle control's rotation while the right control's up and down motion. This type of motion can also be translated through the mind, and thus allow the operator to just "Think" about what to do, but most commanders often tell there handlers NOT to think, as it has lead to many "Accidents"
The door's to the hanger bay opened, a field fell over the opening and the two fighters launched, going right through the field and into open space
Both of the fighter's came about and turned on a heading toward the north gate, as they passed by several station's, a near by destroyer came along side them
~I see the brass is finally letting you two test them out~
"Yea I know," One of the two said with a broad smile on his face
~When they prove successful, mind teaching my boy's how to fly them? God knows test pilot's are better at flying then anyone else~
Again one of the pilot's smiled, or maybe they both did, either way one of them opened a comm. to the destroyer's captain. "We'd be glad to, but the brass has use doing a very odd test run, they have these ships equipped with weapon's, I'm guessing they want us to see how the fighter's functions in combat"
~I see... well if you need assistance let Beta Wing know, there in the passage right now~
"Will do, thank you sir," the pilot's saluted then flew off at maximum speed, which was only 249 M/S. Upon arriving the gate they passed through it and into another one of there sectors, they noted the six destroyer's on either side of the gate. "They don't want people to wonder into our sector"
"It's a secret; no one’s supposed to know what happens in there. In fact, our sensor's are jamming everyone else's except our own, making all non-corporation ships think where just a few trading vessels," one of the two said to the other
"Make's sense"
The two ships passed through the system with little problem, and made it into the passage in under thirty minutes. The two passed by a large asteroid, if it wasn't for the cockpit's unique interface they wouldn't have noticed the 3 pirate Bayamon's camping on the asteroid, the owners just waiting for an unauthorized ship to pass through the sector.. and perhaps it was there lucky day
A trading ship was passing through the asteroid field, being closely chased by Beta Wing
~Stop that ship! It has explosives~
~Negative! If it hit's the gate it might through it off!
~I don't care! It mustn't pass through or even get there!~
The two pilot's looked at each other, they where about to take action when there sensor display lit up and three Bayamon's suddenly came to life, flying past them and toward the run away trading vessel
One of the Bayamon's fired directly into the cockpit, it's shield's only holding out for a few second's before letting some of the plasma into the cockpit, vaporizing it's pilot and the control systems, the vessel suddenly spun out of the control and crashed into a near by asteroid. Container's spewed from the broken hull just before the cargo of explosives went off, destroy the entire asteroid but leaving a prize for the pirates: Space Weed, which was "legal" in the passage as long as the pirate's didn't try and get non-pirates hooked
The two pilot's just shrugged and kicked in the after burner, displaying there ship's by flying over, under, and side to side of each hunk of rock they encountered, so much so that one of the pirate's just had to open a comm. with them
~You stinking show offs!! Next time you do that I'm going to send this Plasma so far up your butt your granny will feel it!~
The pilot's just laughed. "Third grade threat..."
"Nah... 1st grade threat.. nothing knew from an unintelligent dwebs"
~WHAT WAS THAT?!~
"Nothin..." the two said in unison and flew off
~Ooooooooooooooh! Those test pilot's make me so MAD~
"Buddy.. turn off your system comm. your making a fool out of yourself," one of the two said
~Huh?! HEY!! YOU LITTLE PIECES OF-~
The two cut there comm.'s knowing full well what the pirate was going to say, but deciding not to hear it. "Baka..." one of the two said
End of Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Sometime had passed since they had encountered that transport. They had jumped through another sector and into Loomanckstrats Passage, both pilots checked there scanners and found nothing, but that remained silent until five minutes later when Beta Wing jumped back into the sector
"Mind if we fly escort sir's?" The squad leader asked and one of the pilots replied that they didn't mind
Beta Wing, which consisted of four nova vanguards and two discoverers. The discoverers flew ahead of the rest of the pack, they weren't armed with triplex, but instead, quadrax scanners.
Quadrax Scanners where created by the corporation as it's answer to the growing problems of cloaking drives used by the paranid, the scanners where capible of detecting cloaked ships. However it was also discovered that it's scanner range was roughly six times more powerful than the currently used triplex scanners
The discoverers flew between the asteroids and through a nebula. Both pilots where just laying back when suddenly a message flashed on there head's up display
<-----EMERGENCY SOS DETECTED!----->
Flashed several times on there heads up display. "This is Beta Discoverer to squad lead, where picking up an SOS from a fellow corporate transport, apperently being attacked by a paranid destroyer and several of there fighters"
Back with the group, the squad leader nodded. "A destroyer.... we don't have the firepower to take that on." he said
"You don't." One of the test pilots said. "But we do, our ships are armed with hornet missiles and a few other 'unique' weapons."
"Then why don't you two take on the destroyer and we'll go after the fighters." Beta Wing said and soon flew on ahead of the Mark V's. The two pilots shook there heads and laughed slightly. "Beta Wing is getting ahead of themselves again."
"Thats nothing new." One of the two said before increasing his thrust. "Come on, that transport is in trouble and we do need to test out the weapon's systems."
"Huh.." the other grinned. "that's a good idea"
The two pilots flew into the nebula and waited, the corporate transport flew straight by them, apperently the pilot saw there powered down nova's because he bobbed his wing's up and down slightly before escaping deeper into the nebula
The Destroyer, who had apperently wanted this transport along with it's fighters, flew into the nebula with no regard for what was hiding in it
The Nebula's near the corporate zone often have ships or small base's hidden within, this is because most sensor's are not capible of detecting ships inside these nebula's, this is even more privalent of powered down ships.
About two minutes after the paranid entered the nebula's beta wing along with the mark V's powered up and began there attack, the attack against the fighters only lasted two minutes, the paranid had been caught off guard and didn't know what to do
The Mark V's flew under the paranid destroyer. "Open fire!" The two pilots shouted to there turret operators, the turrets soon came to life and slammed there firepower against the hull of the paranid destroyer. "Targetting bridge." one of the two said as they flew around the outside of the destroyer, APPC and GPPC shots flew by them by failed to score any hits
The fighters flew right up to the bridge and launched there salvo of hornets right into it, the ships flexed for a split second before collaspings, allowing the rest of the hornets to score theres hit's on the destroyers bridge. The destroyer soon stopped moving and just floated there, several pirate corvette's soon appeared and attached themselves to the hull
"Our job here is done." The pilots said before jumping out of the sector, along with the transport, and back into Spring of Belief. The transport's captain saluted the pilots, a corvette flew up above the transport and locked a tractor beam on it then took the transport to the local shipyard for repairs
The pilots flew back to there assigned station and landed. "That was fun..." one of the two said
"Calis, John." The dockyard's chief spoke from the gantry way above. "It's how was the sortie?"
Calis smiled and pushed himself off the deck and floated up to the gantry. "Quite fun really."
"I heard a Paranid destroyer paid one of our transports a visit." The chief smiled and typed in a set of commands that displayed a transperent window. "The pirates appriciate the capture, the paranid put up a fight on board but where taken care of."
John smiled and allowed his boot's to clamp down on the gantry. "Thats good." he said and began to walk away. "I'm going to take a shower, call me if you need me."
"Calis, how did the weapons work out?" The chief asked
"The Kyon Emitters need to be tuned a bit more, there were some problems with them." Calis said and looked at the Mark V's. "There was also a problem with the power plant, might want to check that as well."
With that Calis turned away and waved. "I'm going to the lounge to rest." he said and soon disappeared
[ooc: Sorry about the complete lack of an update, been very busy]
Sometime had passed since they had encountered that transport. They had jumped through another sector and into Loomanckstrats Passage, both pilots checked there scanners and found nothing, but that remained silent until five minutes later when Beta Wing jumped back into the sector
"Mind if we fly escort sir's?" The squad leader asked and one of the pilots replied that they didn't mind
Beta Wing, which consisted of four nova vanguards and two discoverers. The discoverers flew ahead of the rest of the pack, they weren't armed with triplex, but instead, quadrax scanners.
Quadrax Scanners where created by the corporation as it's answer to the growing problems of cloaking drives used by the paranid, the scanners where capible of detecting cloaked ships. However it was also discovered that it's scanner range was roughly six times more powerful than the currently used triplex scanners
The discoverers flew between the asteroids and through a nebula. Both pilots where just laying back when suddenly a message flashed on there head's up display
<-----EMERGENCY SOS DETECTED!----->
Flashed several times on there heads up display. "This is Beta Discoverer to squad lead, where picking up an SOS from a fellow corporate transport, apperently being attacked by a paranid destroyer and several of there fighters"
Back with the group, the squad leader nodded. "A destroyer.... we don't have the firepower to take that on." he said
"You don't." One of the test pilots said. "But we do, our ships are armed with hornet missiles and a few other 'unique' weapons."
"Then why don't you two take on the destroyer and we'll go after the fighters." Beta Wing said and soon flew on ahead of the Mark V's. The two pilots shook there heads and laughed slightly. "Beta Wing is getting ahead of themselves again."
"Thats nothing new." One of the two said before increasing his thrust. "Come on, that transport is in trouble and we do need to test out the weapon's systems."
"Huh.." the other grinned. "that's a good idea"
The two pilots flew into the nebula and waited, the corporate transport flew straight by them, apperently the pilot saw there powered down nova's because he bobbed his wing's up and down slightly before escaping deeper into the nebula
The Destroyer, who had apperently wanted this transport along with it's fighters, flew into the nebula with no regard for what was hiding in it
The Nebula's near the corporate zone often have ships or small base's hidden within, this is because most sensor's are not capible of detecting ships inside these nebula's, this is even more privalent of powered down ships.
About two minutes after the paranid entered the nebula's beta wing along with the mark V's powered up and began there attack, the attack against the fighters only lasted two minutes, the paranid had been caught off guard and didn't know what to do
The Mark V's flew under the paranid destroyer. "Open fire!" The two pilots shouted to there turret operators, the turrets soon came to life and slammed there firepower against the hull of the paranid destroyer. "Targetting bridge." one of the two said as they flew around the outside of the destroyer, APPC and GPPC shots flew by them by failed to score any hits
The fighters flew right up to the bridge and launched there salvo of hornets right into it, the ships flexed for a split second before collaspings, allowing the rest of the hornets to score theres hit's on the destroyers bridge. The destroyer soon stopped moving and just floated there, several pirate corvette's soon appeared and attached themselves to the hull
"Our job here is done." The pilots said before jumping out of the sector, along with the transport, and back into Spring of Belief. The transport's captain saluted the pilots, a corvette flew up above the transport and locked a tractor beam on it then took the transport to the local shipyard for repairs
The pilots flew back to there assigned station and landed. "That was fun..." one of the two said
"Calis, John." The dockyard's chief spoke from the gantry way above. "It's how was the sortie?"
Calis smiled and pushed himself off the deck and floated up to the gantry. "Quite fun really."
"I heard a Paranid destroyer paid one of our transports a visit." The chief smiled and typed in a set of commands that displayed a transperent window. "The pirates appriciate the capture, the paranid put up a fight on board but where taken care of."
John smiled and allowed his boot's to clamp down on the gantry. "Thats good." he said and began to walk away. "I'm going to take a shower, call me if you need me."
"Calis, how did the weapons work out?" The chief asked
"The Kyon Emitters need to be tuned a bit more, there were some problems with them." Calis said and looked at the Mark V's. "There was also a problem with the power plant, might want to check that as well."
With that Calis turned away and waved. "I'm going to the lounge to rest." he said and soon disappeared
[ooc: Sorry about the complete lack of an update, been very busy]