Nyxie
【夢狐】
Ashelotte was flying low from clearing to clearing through the woods as the enemy squadron seemed to scramble to meet the Horde's assault gunships. Before she knew it, a fiery ball came down and a significant blast of light flared out in the distance. Circe... she thought. The longer they waited, the more Circe was put at risk. Ashe wasn't the best general or admiral in the world, but she was gifted and unquestionably devoted.
"Enough of these God damn games! Blow it. Blow it up! BLOW THE SHAFT TO KARKING HELL!!!"
Ashe opened up the throttle all the way once more, letting the engines roar to life as long blue ribbons trailed out from behind their vectors. In one quick decisive strike, she flew straight for the turbolift at incredible speeds. Suddenly, it found itself the target of four burst fire laser cannons. Right as she was about to near over it, she quickly inhaled and tensed, pulling up the sticks all the way to reach an apex turn ninety degrees to the entrance vertically. She cut the engines at a decent altitude - not wasting any time - briefly disabled the shields, and let the laws of physics do the rest. The heavy fighter stalled and quickly generated lift under its wings, correcting itself into a noseward descent. This time, not only the burst-fire of the four cannons met it, but warhead after warhead of HE round and everything else she could throw at it. Flaring the throttle now, she picked up the sticks and slowed the craft to a suitable flight maneuverability airspeed. There probably wasn't a damned pilot in that side of the galaxy that would think twice about risking their life attempting all of the things she had in but a day. As for those around on the ground... hopefully they'd have taken the hint and ran like all hell before the second onslaught fell down from above. If not, their lives meant little to Ashelotte's in her newfound desparity - only Circe's.
"All Magnolia gunships, drop everything you have into that turbolift - I want that shaft turned into an open crater NOW!" Ashelotte commanded.
Of course it was only naturally that the foxtress knew the weapons were far from enough to cause damage to the internal facility - thus not risking collateral damage to Circe. Perhaps it was even fortunate, as any more of it and she might have easily decimated it in a fit of rage and haste. One of the shieldless gunships went down from a proximity torpedo hit. Another beside it was damaged, and its right-side weapory were mostly incapacitated. The gunships had then decided to launch several burst missiles at the oncoming fighters from afar, the rain of submunissive shrapnel bound to overwhelm their shields while they swooped in for the kill head-on with their cannons. The enemy squadron was sure to take some losses, a positive change in pace for the small but powerful Horde forces. Just as soon as the damage was tallied for the second encounter with this enemy aerial force, the gunships heard the order and moved into position to fire. Though still remaining mobile, they could do something the fighters generally could not; that was stand still and still retain most (if not all) of their mobility. Ashe's clever use of programming and commands relayed to her 'backseat' astromech droid, which waited patiently and scanned for a good fix down the hole for the missiles to be guided by. It beeped to life in an attempt to affirm the go order though in its own native binary, and as dozens of warheads were again fired, they rushed up into the air to swoop past her fighter in altitude and then began descending near-vertically down into the opening she managed to carve out.
Ashelotte mumbled inward laughs under her breath as she wached warhead after warhead follow the optical queues of her droid, circling high above it, hearing the thunderous cackles of the hundreds of submunissions going off in and around the shaft. If there was anything alive down there, they'd be lucky to be able to put all the pieces together and identify what belonged to who, yet the equipment and barricades would all be relatively undamaged.
Mandolorians were a lot more arrogant than they looked, and now they'd pay the price for ill-preparation and underestimation. Ashe wanted desperately to crawl into that infernal tear-ridden hole in the ground and peel out Circe and half-dead Mandos herself, but there was a summoning from the sky - one she could not deny.
"Come for me...."
"Enough of these God damn games! Blow it. Blow it up! BLOW THE SHAFT TO KARKING HELL!!!"
Ashe opened up the throttle all the way once more, letting the engines roar to life as long blue ribbons trailed out from behind their vectors. In one quick decisive strike, she flew straight for the turbolift at incredible speeds. Suddenly, it found itself the target of four burst fire laser cannons. Right as she was about to near over it, she quickly inhaled and tensed, pulling up the sticks all the way to reach an apex turn ninety degrees to the entrance vertically. She cut the engines at a decent altitude - not wasting any time - briefly disabled the shields, and let the laws of physics do the rest. The heavy fighter stalled and quickly generated lift under its wings, correcting itself into a noseward descent. This time, not only the burst-fire of the four cannons met it, but warhead after warhead of HE round and everything else she could throw at it. Flaring the throttle now, she picked up the sticks and slowed the craft to a suitable flight maneuverability airspeed. There probably wasn't a damned pilot in that side of the galaxy that would think twice about risking their life attempting all of the things she had in but a day. As for those around on the ground... hopefully they'd have taken the hint and ran like all hell before the second onslaught fell down from above. If not, their lives meant little to Ashelotte's in her newfound desparity - only Circe's.
"All Magnolia gunships, drop everything you have into that turbolift - I want that shaft turned into an open crater NOW!" Ashelotte commanded.
Of course it was only naturally that the foxtress knew the weapons were far from enough to cause damage to the internal facility - thus not risking collateral damage to Circe. Perhaps it was even fortunate, as any more of it and she might have easily decimated it in a fit of rage and haste. One of the shieldless gunships went down from a proximity torpedo hit. Another beside it was damaged, and its right-side weapory were mostly incapacitated. The gunships had then decided to launch several burst missiles at the oncoming fighters from afar, the rain of submunissive shrapnel bound to overwhelm their shields while they swooped in for the kill head-on with their cannons. The enemy squadron was sure to take some losses, a positive change in pace for the small but powerful Horde forces. Just as soon as the damage was tallied for the second encounter with this enemy aerial force, the gunships heard the order and moved into position to fire. Though still remaining mobile, they could do something the fighters generally could not; that was stand still and still retain most (if not all) of their mobility. Ashe's clever use of programming and commands relayed to her 'backseat' astromech droid, which waited patiently and scanned for a good fix down the hole for the missiles to be guided by. It beeped to life in an attempt to affirm the go order though in its own native binary, and as dozens of warheads were again fired, they rushed up into the air to swoop past her fighter in altitude and then began descending near-vertically down into the opening she managed to carve out.
Ashelotte mumbled inward laughs under her breath as she wached warhead after warhead follow the optical queues of her droid, circling high above it, hearing the thunderous cackles of the hundreds of submunissions going off in and around the shaft. If there was anything alive down there, they'd be lucky to be able to put all the pieces together and identify what belonged to who, yet the equipment and barricades would all be relatively undamaged.
Mandolorians were a lot more arrogant than they looked, and now they'd pay the price for ill-preparation and underestimation. Ashe wanted desperately to crawl into that infernal tear-ridden hole in the ground and peel out Circe and half-dead Mandos herself, but there was a summoning from the sky - one she could not deny.
"Come for me...."
@People (I couldn't tag you because SOME people wanna be rushy)