Ashlan Remnant
Locations: orbit
opponent:
Irratar Hemstagon
ally:
Tristan Evore
composition
Pillar of retribution - 3/3 majestic cruisers - 3/3 nebula star destroyers i have been linking the right ship but using the wrong name - 4/6 dominion escort frigates
Isla could see on her holo, and now from her shielded viewport that the battle had fully begun. The enemy coming this close was a bold but dangerous move. The Ashlan fleet was extremely heavily armed and the ships were outfitted to be as durable as possible, if this was a pitched duel the enemy were going to come out badly from it. More beams rocked the shields of the pillar of retribution, several emitters were overloading, but her shield technicians were keeping there redundant overlapping systems operational for now. "Keep firing, we have ships on every turret, they should all be firing at maximum capacity"
The captain nodded, the amount of incoming fire being converted by the shields was more than offsetting the drain of having all batteries at full operation. The lead star destroyer was taking a particularly aggressive course, so the shield leech and fusion accelerator was continued to be targeted on them, at this range most weapons were hitting.
There was a bright flash like a supernova in the distance as a ship she could not see exploded, she looked at the holo, it was one of her frigates, her sensors detected a catastrophic reactor breach. "All ships continue firing, take evasive manoeuvres but keep your guns on them." her words were silenced suddenly and the holo board showed disconnects on every ship. "admiral, they are jamming all external communications"
"That much is clear, get our ECM suite up and break through that jamming signal, we need to speak to our ships"
"captain, the enemy is launching boarding torpedoes, it appears we are the intended target"
"Sound the boarding alerts and prepare the Marines to welcome guests, fingers crossed out CAP and point defence will mop most of them up first" As if she had spoke the order to the gun turrets directly, she saw the tracers of hundreds of rotary point defence turrets spraying in clouds around the ship, her fighters also flew across the expansive ship to engage the same torpedoes. There was enough flak there to prevent a large amount of the torpedoes hitting home, but her internal sensors showed that survivors of the wave had started to impact the ship. She looked at the two silent Holy Guard that part of the platoon assigned as her personal bodyguard. She could only hope the fighting never gets this close.
An alert arrived on the hyperspace arrival system, something big was about to arrive, seconds late the hulking form of another Noble Crusader battlecruiser dropped out of hyperspace and immediately engaged he opponents. The registry read Paladin's Light but she didn't have the comms back up yet to ask him why he was here, this was not part of the deployment plans. She was grateful though, his fleet would surely improve the situation.
Far in the distance, the Dominion frigates were suffering badly, their heavy turbolaser emplacements were singing, scoring hit after hit on the destroyers, but the larger ships hit hard, as second frigate broke in half as a proton beam passed through her mid section, a third, suffering a major hit to her bridge was now without leadership, but her disciplined gun crews continued to fire as instructed.
The Majestic heavy cruisers were now taking the brunt of the star destroyer firepower, and although their shields were holding, some buckling in the external plate were bleed pressures where leaking through were beginning to show.
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