Manteca continues to monitor Boreals gunning display, chiming in occasionally with warnings.
Now that it is clear wher ethe safe spot is in regards to the bone ships weapons it is down to a piloting battle. If Allison can manage to keep the Sunrise Maiden out of reach of the weapons it is only a matter of time until the other ship is destroyed. "Our core got infected by snails. That rusty babe hasn't seen a warp blowthrough for eons." she excuses the maneuver, that doesn't meet her own expectations.
Allison's piloting is still good enough and to keep out of the armed arcs of the ship.
axed, due to bad piloting.
"Stick on them!"
Manteca tries to direct Boreal better while looking over at Allison.
"Allison, are you sufficiently outpiloting them? Would it be more beneficial for me to provide assistance to you?"
Manteca motivates Boreal, but she misses the enemy ship, while Tannhäuser manages to shoot it. But only subtracts from the shield's energy
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The gunners of the ship throw a fit as the pilot doesn' manage to keep them in shooting range.
Allison tries to keep at the back of the enemy shield as the sweet spot of that combat.
Allison does a loop and a roll and again points the nose of the Maiden at the aft. "Yeeeehah! Give that bony ass a whopping! I'm going to blow the remains apart with the ion beam of the thrusters when I plough through it!"
Tannhäuser keeps firing.
Manteca sighs as Allison puts the ship through her piloting gymnastics.
"I'll take that as a 'No thank you, Doctor Imani, I'm doing just fine without any encouragement," says the shirren. "Sorry, Boreal Typhon,
looks like you're stuck with me until we sink this ship."
"Oh, sorry, I got carried away. Of course I'd enjoy my personal cheerleader squad!" Allison replies.
Boreal grunts at Manteca with a nod and tries to fire once again.
Even though Allison got a supreme position the team can' make use of it.
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The gunners bang their heads on the controls.
Allison continues to fly like an eagle.
"I'm like a horsefly, and you won't get rid of me!" she threatens as she tries hard to stay behind the enemy ship.
Manteca speaks telepathically, directly to Boreal.
Boreal, the longer we're in this fight, the more Allison will struggle to come up with these quips of hers and they will become more and more strained. For all of us - please finish this.
Eric boosts power to the shields
Boreal shoots the light particle beam from the turret.
That shot is a nice hit that further weakens the shields of the enemy ship.
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"Haha, kiss my thrusters, if you can reach them." Allison boasts as she showcases the inadequacy of the other pilot.
Manteca attempts to assist EH-RK in rebalancing the shields.
The enemy ship gets shot again and again and again, but at this rate it will take like forever to demolish it. But they are not willing to wait for that and start getting away. Which it has a chance, as it is faster than the Sunrise Maiden.
Balance Shields
Even though the pilot of the bony ship does his or her best, there is no way to trick Allison. "I'm detecting a trionic wave signature coming from the optronic plasma flange. Give them a few more shots and their plasma flow induction will break down."
Manteca looks back at Boreal. "I don't know what that means, but that means we have to make every shot count at this point. Don't fire til you're sure, Boreal Typhon."
"That's what you get for attacking us!"
Now with the ship turning tail, Boreal and Tannhäuser line their weapons up and send some parts of it flying into space.
Now the port side weapons glitch.
The ship slows down in its course to run away and does a flip, facing the Sunrise Maiden with its front weapon battery.
"Whooaaa! Highnoon! Shootout! Bu you won't shatter my particle stream as long as I have the MFJ in my hands!" Allison does a cool manoeuvrer to make the Maiden harder to hit.
"RAAAAAAA"
EH-RK decides that the shields are fine now. He scans the craft, attempting to gather more information about it...perhaps even an owning entity.
Boreal tears a large hole in the back of the ship.
As for who is behind that attack is hard to say, as the vast of the Eoxian fleet has separated from the Eoxian government (at least officially) and a lot of them are for hire for everyone who can afford that.
"Hold steady, Tannhauser, our shields can take the hit!," yells Manteca, urging her to make the shot, consequences be damned.
With the aid of Manteca, Tannäuser also brings home a shot that adds to the structural damage of the enemy ship.
The enemy ship is in a serious condition now. The pilot goes for desperate meassures and starts on collision course.
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"Llllaaaaame." Allison states as she evades that attempt with a roll.
Manteca looks at Boreal now. "Boreal Typhon, bring guns to bear. IT's time to put these people to flight."
Eric frowns at the ship as it attempts a ramming action.
Humanoids: We are attempting a job for Ambassador Nor, an Eoxian, and we have been attacked now twice by ships of Eoxian make. There is a high probability approaching ninety three point four oh two seven that this is not a coincidence. Eric says as Allison expertly pilots the ship away
Eric targets the ship with a weapon system from his computer terminal. He waits for Wraith to line up the ship with either the Port or Starboard lasers