Tool sits quiet getting his thoughts together. i do not trust either of these groups. i don't see away out for this with out a fight. they aren't going to pay us and let us go that never happens. they will get what they want from us then they will wipe us out. Nor lied and miss lead us but he isn't trying to kill us. I feel we kill them before they kill us. i like credits just as much as the next guy. But i would want to live to spend them. I say we fight i would rather go out fighting, then die with full pockets. Tool readies himself for what ever the diction is.
As the others speak, Alim is quick to calm down and hear what the others are saying.
Feeling that his last attempt at speaking was a bit more sharp than intended, Alim takes a deep breath and tries again.
Turning to Dahlia, Alim begins-"Dahlia, I did not know what you did with the funds you receive. However, I beg you to reconsider your choices. These Eoxians that are before us will not do anything worthwhile with any information you may present to them. They will take it, destroy us, and then proceed to the Station to retrieve what they desire. They will destroy anything in their path, including innocent civilians. Whether the Ambassador has done anything with them is besides the point right now. You can be frustrated and angry at the Ambassador and demand answers from him upon our arrival at the Station. But doing this sort of deal knowing that these individuals are arrogant and ruthless and will stop at nothing to get what they want..." Alim trails off, not sure how to wrap up his thought. He looks back at Dahlia with a pleading look.
Dahlia considers all the input to their current situation, then motions everyone to their battle stations and clicks the Comms button.
"This is the Sunrise Maiden. You are interrupting a legal salvage operation and are currently not in good standing with the governing authorities in this sector. But we are not uncivilized, so we will discuss terms for the information you want. We will provide all the answers you seek when the following terms are met.
1. We demand 1 billion credits.
2. We demand you make reparations to all worlds and people's affected by your unlawful activities.
3. You will then remove yourselves from known space and never return." with a little smile, she adds the last bit.
"You have until yesterday to meet our demands.
Releasing the button, she yells to the gunnery post. "talks broke down! Open fire!"
You think you are in any position to give demands? You are funny and foolish. You will pay for your insolence with your lives. You all will be serving the Corpse Fleet soon enough.
In a fight against multiple ships, movement is more important. But against 1 ship, I say both to guns.
Hux chuckles at dahlias exchange with the corpse fleet but internal feels quite panicked. He looks around at his comrades and then to his most trusted companion Jib.
Don't panic
Hearing this Hux snaps back to reality and begins work diverting power to the guns.
Oh ya here we go. hold on tight Tool springs into action
Alim's eyes become squinted as he smiles at Dahlia's decision.
Quick to action, Alim looks to Tool and shouts, "Let's not keep this fleet ship waiting! Let's see what this ship can do!!!"
The enemy ship moves only a little bit but does so in a very evasive way.
Tool determines they cant really out run them so he swings the ship around fly evasively to set up the gunners for a good opening shop. . light them up guys
Tool quickly gets used to the controls of the ship as he swings the ship out and around to face the enemy ship. Unfortunately, the enemy ship is able to lock on to you with their starboard side guns and blasts you! Luckily, those old shields are strong and the blast is unable to break through. But it is clear they are weakened at this point.
Katara takes aim at the aggressors, using this gun for the first time he fumbles on the controls.
our shields took a big hit there. I'll try to keep them up
Dahlia hurries to the forward gun, doing her best to get a clean shot.
The gunners do not seem to have much luck with the new ship's guns. Both send their shots off into the abyss. Hux is able to play around with the power core a bit and manages to send more power to the shields, repairing some of the damage done.
The enemy ship flies in an odd zig zag way towards you. The way that it flies makes it clear to the gunners that they will be tricky to land a hit on.
Tool tries again to whip the ship into position for the gunners.
Tool uses is expert flying skills to wipe the flight around behind the enemy ship. He clearly made the right call as the enemy ship doesn't fire, implying they do not have a gun facing that direction. Dahlia needs to flip screens to the starboard side.
Dahlia takes another shot.
i should be able to get these shields totally fixed here
Katara tries to fire again but this just doesn't seem to be his fight.
The gunners are really having a hard time getting a lot lock on the enemy ship. On the bright side, any damage done by the enemy ship to your shields seems to be fixed with Hux's expert work on the power core.
"Should I get out and throw a rock?"
Alim looks to Katara to speak, but is interrupted by Dahlia's wise crack.
Tool feels them get the jump on him this time so he tries to to evade any shot they may get off
The enemy ship quickly loops around to get you in their forward facing arch. The pilot attempts to be evasive about it, but his movements are too predictable so it turns out to not be any harder to lock on.
Now for the bad news, once the enemy ship got into position they launched a plasma torpedo at you that found it's mark. It blows right through your starboard shields and actually damages the hull a bit.
The good news is they fired a lighter gun at you and that shot missed!
Dahlia misses again
"good thing we didn't negotiate. now we can all die noble deaths."
Hux looking more and more panicked exclaims I cant fix damage to the hull but ill try to get some shield back try to protect that side tool.
This isn't going to well guys.
Dahlia is still struggling to get the hang of the new gun controls but Katara finally got a lock on them as he blasts them with a light particle beam. The shot seems to of destroyed the shield but at the same time, the blast was absorbed by it.
Hux is able to boost the starboard shields back to life again.
After a whirling few moments of being under some rough fire, Alim is brought back to the present as he sees Katara's shot make direct contact with the enemy ship. Alim's hopes are raised as he shouts over to Katara. "Nice shot! That was excellent, Katara! Take aim and do it again!"
Tool dose what he can to try to protect the Sb shields well trying to evade another shot
The enemy ship tries to press the assault on your starboard side, by the excellent flying from Tool makes it all but unreachable. They settle for an attack at your aft! They fire another torpedo at you but this one misses by a hair.
While the torpedo flies by you, the light particle beam lands a shot against your aft side shields. The shot is unable to break though the shield though.
You got it Captain!
Katara feeling better about the controls now releases another connecting shot. This one aimed at the forward shields.
Slightly reassured by the knowledge that the old ships guns still seem to function Hux moves to the art shields and begins repairs.
Dahlia takes another shot, hoping for better luck.
With the aim from the captain, Katara lands another blow on the enemy ship! This time, his shot goes right through the shield and manages to injure their hull for the first time. Unfortunately, Dahlia's luck is not turning around and can not take advantage of their whole in defenses.
Hux is able to renew the shields again by supplementing the power to it. As he does that, the enemy ship begins backing away.
lets lets take the fight to them Tool turns the ship and heads at the enemy hopeing to evade there gunners but give his crew a nice clean shot
Tool manages more evasive maneuvers, but uses them to fly away from the enemy. The distance between you and the enemy ship will hamper the gunners attempt to hit.
The distance and evasive flying seems to of worked out for you as their gun misses your ship by a hair.
Katara fires and once again makes a connection with the port side of the ship.
Dahlia fires again.
Katara manages to land another hit from the light particle beam! It once again blows right through the shield and damages the hull.
. The blast was aimed perfectly to cause some damage to the engines.
Dahlia's shot was well aimed if the enemy ship was any closer but because of the distance it misses by a little bit. Very similar to what happened with the enemy ship.
The enemy seems frustrated by their miss from the distance and evasively fly right up to you!
Hux moves to continue work on the starboard shields
Tool cuts turning the ship sharply bring the ship around they enemy ship. Blow these b@~$@es up
Tool's plan to suck the enemy into making a big mistake like flying too close worked like a charm as he takes advantage of their close quarters to fly around behind them where you know they lack guns! This leaves you right behind them.
Dahlia scrambles to the forward guns, hoping her luck changes with the new weapon, and fires.
Katara continues to fire on the enemy ship, he doesn't think firing at a new side every round is a good idea but whatever.
Hux focuses his attention on the forward shield trying to get it topped off while the enemy cannot attack.