Location: In Orbit near the Aurora and Rendili Shipyards, Aboard the Keshiri Flagship, The Skyfall.
Objective: 2
Forces: Fighters/Bombers remaining 85%, Capital/Named Ships found in the links as to their state of destroyed or not.
Disclaimer: I hate not having a second fleeter. Time for Mimban 2, Electric boogaloo.
Aithne stood with her back straight, eyes forward and watching both through the force and through the very screens infront of her, seeing that there were ships incoming and her smile grinned as she reached out with the force, her hand drawing to her very controlled twisting of space itself and grinning as she closed her hand. Her mind had reached out touching her people and pushing them into a rush and pushing them towards the conflict ahead as the ships started to zip out of Hyperspace.
Aithne was not her father, nor her Godfather
Aedan Miles
but to discredit her ability to lead the fleets of her father's was something that made her grin. Her mind worked, touching each of the commanders as she sat there on the Skyfall, the oldest ship, the flagship, the very ship that started the Keshiri Fleet and now was dwarfed by other ships in the fleet but that did not matter. It was the symbol of the Keshiri people, the memory that what they fight for is a long time coming and Aithne continued to twist her hand as she pulled on the force to order her people in a far more cohesive manner.
And when the enemy arrived, they would find no fleet caught off guard, but one ready for them. The arrival of the carrier's overhead was a bit surprising, bringing carriers in that close without support was a deaths sentence. Then came the battlecruisers, half a hundred at the least with carrier support of their own. Aithne smiled and her hand danced, worldlessly giving the commands through her panel and through her own mind as she ordered the activation of the Shield cruisers in the second wing of the Liberation fleet. Large shields folded out, occupying the space between the battlecruisers and the Keshiri defenders, the folds spreading out and reaching to create a great wall. A wall that the thousands of shots would slam into, the intended initial burst stopped in their tracks as even if they could push through, any course that had been planned was disrupted, and any that still started to make their way to the fleet would find a wave of flak firing at them and tearing them apart.
The Battlecruisers could be dealt with when they moved into a proper position once more, instead,there was the matter of the carriers and their absurd number of fighters... luckily that was the specialty of the pirate brothers and the daughter of them. Aithne turned her focus up and with it the cluster class cruisers of the Keshiri Defense Fleet, and the multiple wings of the primary Shadow Fleet. Flak and laser cannons turned the darkness of space into a light show as the guns fired up into the sky, tearing apart organic fighters, ripping apart their flesh and scorching it. Dire Class Patrol ships moved, with movement like that of a bomber, but the weapons expected of corvettes, missiles were launched and detonated into clumps of the biological fighters. Praetorians and Hammerheads turning their guns as they ships now twisted in space to fire at the very underside of the carriers presented to them.
The corvettes and cruisers were not alone in this effort though. The drones of the dozen Sev'rance class carriers, hundreds of droid fighters filling the air as well and space now turning into a dance between fighters and ships, mixing and tearing into each other. Droids were slower than these organics but could maneuver better, losing to the initial engagement as a great number of them fell in the first strike, but worked to recover.
And the manned fighters, they had a different job. Rendili Fighters, Devastators, Umber Dropships, Cutlass Gunships, Remnant Fighters, X-wings, and A-wings. It was truly a mix of many different past conflicts brought into one and their job was to just as the organic fighters came to strike at the fleet, strike back with far more strength. Rendili Fighters, Cutlass Gunships, X-Wings, A-Wings, and other superiority fighters split off, fighting for their own lives, but within their formations were something more. Scurrg class bombers, bringing vast payloads, Deliverance Class Corvettes with bombs and turrets, shields that protected their crew during the approach. Devastators with heavy torpedos and Apollos with a special little prize as the interceptors gunned it for the fleet of carriers, splitting off and looking to reach the carriers before any of the other ships.
It was these apollo class interceptors who separated and twisted, running between ships and letting go of their payload. Five fighters, five charges, a cylinder-shaped bomb that stayed there in between the carriers and floated, nothing coming at first but then, a blast. The sound ripped through the interpreters on the ship as the telltale blast of seismic charges rocked and shot out at the sides of the carriers. Against normal craft, shielded and protected against such blunt use of charges like this would be useless... but biological ships, that while strong, were still living beings and faced the dangers of such kinetic damage... that would likely twist at the carriers in particular. That would not be the end though, as Aithne smiled, her notice that fighters were getting through, soldiers dying, a few dire class patrol boats going down already. This was already taking a toll on her people but this was not the end.
"ALL SHIPS, FIRE!" With that order, the first physical one she had given, the sky would turn blue and green, heavy warheads rippling from their tubes from the Hellfire cruisers, slamming into the undersides of these carriers moved into range, The Leviathan, a battle cruiser from the days of the Omega Protectorate, sending waves of turbolaser fire up into the air and striking at the underbellies. A Colony class Carrier doing what it can as an Impellor provides cover for it and the shield class cruisers defended the most heavily, keeping the heavy guns of the enemy at bay, for now, knowing that the moment the enemy fighters destroyed them, or their shields failed that there was no chance for this to be a clean fight.
That thought concluded in her mind as the closest two hammerhead frigates burst and detonated, the damage done by the overwhelming number of fighters who streamed down. The Cluster classes still sending mountains of flak into these swarms, trying to avoid friendly fire as best they could as the dance most certainly claimed thousands of lives already in the opening moments. One Shield Class Cruiser's shield falling, its power failing and the ship becoming nothing more than a defense for the others.
How long could they hold, she hoped that this could end the way that they needed it too as the Infernus class she stood on turned its guns towards the carriers above, unloading both turbolaser and mass drivers into the living bio ships.
But there was more she could do, as she left her mind from her people, and reached out to the biological fighters, grinning widely as her body shifted and she further gave herself to the dark side. Her skin paled like her father, her veins darkened, and her hand twisted in the air, seizing the minds or beings that were the fighters, sending them into disarray or even into slamming into each other where they could. Her body twitched and shook as she continued this, trying to do whatever she could as one of the cluster class cruisers were overwhelmed and its people escaping to their pods.
This would not end in the loss of the shipyards, she would make certain of that, even if it took the lives of all those who would give them.
Tathra Khaeus
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