OOC: I was told by Elijah King via PM that he is withdrawing from the fleeting portion of the Skirmish.
Location: Pluton-class Battleship Ablution, in orbit of Anzat
Objective: Defend the planet from the Silver Jedi Order
Allies: [member="Natassia Traxen"] [member="Darth Imperium"] [member="Orion Darkstar"] [member="Garland Kramer"] [member="Jayce Vitalus"] [member="Calina Ovmar"]
Enemies: [member="Gir Quee"] [member="Elpsis Kerrigan-Alcori"] [member="Shamira Karuto"] [member="Laira Darkhold"] [member="Julius Sedaire"]
"Direct hit on some of their ships!" The bridge crew reported. The LRHHVels caught a couple of the Liberte corvettes of [member="Elijah King"]'s fleet that were descending to the planet below, tearing them asunder. Others were suffering severe damage, flaming as the frigates and corvettes headed towards the surface. Most every ship was damaged at least a little bit from the attack - she estimated that spread out through the landing force was about 25% damaged, with two corvettes destroyed, another two flaming(with a frigate), and the rest of the ships bearing visible hull damage. Vanessa had few doubts that they would be taken care of by the planetary turbolaser emplacements.
"Ma'am, we're detecting a boarding pod penetrating the rear of the vessel." An officer stated.
"Set the ship to red alert. Activate the ship's complement of defense droids and order marines to suit up - rad configuration." She said.
She turned back to the enemy fleet, a keen eye watching their ships from afar. A fusillade of ion torpedoes flew towards the fleet - some damage was caused to the shields of most of the bigger ships, and a single Massassi corvette found its engines disabled as its aged systems struggled to reboot themselves from the effects of the ion torpedo attack. Concussion missiles soon followed - the point defense, flak, and laser cannons took most of them out, and some of the drones were used as well, detonating near the missiles as they came in and protecting the fighter screen from attack.
Vanessa pulled out a set of binoculars and used them to look at the fleet from afar - the first group she had encountered seemed to be merely looming, not having a real effect on the battle, but this Task Force was certainly proving to be tricky. She noticed a small spurt of light from the front of several ships and several objects flying away from the combat zone. "What is he... Oh no. Interceptors, point defense guns, get ready for incoming targets."
The dozens of Firelance Torpedoes came around behind the fleet. The Vornskr-class Interceptors went first, followed by the Forge-class Interceptors and the Solace-class Starfighters - The Forges would snap and attack any of the torpedoes that made it past the initial defensive screen of the Vornskrs - they were certainly maneuverable enough for that - and the Solaces would engage from long range. The bomber turrets were firing upon the torpedoes too, and most of the torpedoes were destroyed as they came in.
A few were a bit too close for comfort. One did manage to strike the rear engine array, knocking out two of the larger thrusters. Another grazed the shields of the Ablution before point defense turrets destroyed it. Vanessa watched on as she considered how to respond to the attack. "Ion cannons, engage the torpedoes. I want one of them." She considered for a moment. "How else could they be spreading their digital tendrils across the world?"
"There are other satellites in orbit, ma'am. Weather, mostly-"
"Shoot them down. We can provide the Anzati with new satellites once we drive the Silvers from the system." Now that the torpedo fusillade was over, she checked in with the ships - most had shield damage. The Enforcer's engines had been disabled by an earlier ion torpedo strike. There was smoke coming from two of the engine thrusters on the Resolute, which sputtered a bit more before being shut off by the carrier's captain as he sent out repair crews to determine what the damage was and whether the thrusters could be repaired in the midst of combat. Lighter guns engaged the weather satellites, moving to put them out of commission. They would wait for the Enforcer's engines to be reactivated before moving the fleet towards proper combat range with Task Force Justice, moving at a rate determined by the Endeavour's damaged engines. Once all satellites within range were destroyed, the fleet would fire long-ranged shots at the Absolver - artillery ships were potent, that she knew, and she had no desire to see them used again.
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The marines aboard the Ablution had received the alert, putting on their
Agrinium rad-exoskeletons and grabbing their
Rad-rifles. Sonic grenades were also amongst their armory as a number of them - 100 at least - hopped aboard speeder bikes in the hangar, heading through the central structure of the ship in order to reach the rear of the vessel. The guards already aboard the ship had done the same, suiting up and grabbing the appropriate weaponry. Four passed the panel that Laira had sprayed - it was just a wall panel, but it gave them a sign where the party had been going.
A section of the ship had gone dark and the scent of acrid fumes from burnt insulation filled the hallway as they proceeded onwards, joined by several troopers that had arrived. Another tunnel of destruction indicated the direction of Julius Sedaire as he had damaged some minor systems within the ship before reaching one of the engine maintenance rooms. Quickly the ship went into damage control. The door leading to and from the room - the only entrance and exit - closed and was magnetically sealed shut after Orion entered the room, and the console's functions were redirected to another located on the bridge. The guards in the room were already spraying at the glow of the Jedi's lightsaber with their rad-rifles, intense bursts of over ten thousand rads being sprayed at the Jedi with every shot. Of course, there was no way to tell of such an aftereffect on the weapon. They appeared to merely be particle beam weapons. The guards knew their lives were likely forfeit as they continued to spray shots at the Jedi - but they knew that in the end, it was not what would immediately affect the Jedi as it would be what would slowly affect him as the effects of the by now heavily irradiated room would begin to seep in. Vanessa knew she would need to send in droids during the inevitable overhaul that would occur after this in order to clean out all traces of radiation on board the ship. A console outside of the room would indicate that the door was magsealed - an indication that something was trapped inside. Hopefully whoever came to deal with the Jedi would remember to have put their rad-exoskeletons on.
Elpsis and Laira were another problem. In contrast to Julius, who had merely headed into a room from which escape was nigh impossible, the dynamic duo of good had wormed their way through maintenance corridors. They had been detected, of course, but their mobility had made it difficult for the rad-troopers to adequately cordon them off. Thankfully Garland Kramer and Jayce Vitalus were there to halt their progress - the rad-troopers followed the duo, though they were quickly outpaced. By the time they reached them - a party looking down the tunnel in the corridor above which they had just descended into, and one behind Jayce on one side and Garland on the other - had thankfully trapped them. They already began to engage the two seeming Jedi as their rad-rifled fired radiation-filled particle beams towards the duo within the hallway, assisting the Darksiders in engaging the boarders. Once the troopers had gotten into position, doors in the maintenance corridor behind them closed - this would slow down the invaders were they to break through.
tl;dr
Weather satellites within combat range have been destroyed
All ships survived the attack - Enforcer's engines are disabled and the Endeavour's engines are damaged
Fleet will move to engage Task Force Justice after the Enforcer regains control of its engines
Julius Sedaire has been locked in the now disabled engine maintenance room and is being shot at by rad-troopers with rad-rifles while Orion Darkstar engages him
Three groups of roughly a dozen troopers each have moved to engage Elpsis and Laira - one in the corridor they just took a ladder down from, and two on each side of the corridor behind the advancing Jayce Vitalus and Garland Kramer
Doors behind the two Sith in the corridor engaging Elpsis and Laira have shut but not magsealed
