Log:Resistance: Backstabbing The Backstab
Anti-Pirate Operations
OOC Date: December 16, 2019
Location: Vergesso Asteroid Fields - Lybeya System - Bajic Sector - Outer Rim
Participants: The Resistance:Leia as Jessika Pava, Kare Kun, Ektor, Elrych Cometburn, Zandra naMuriel, and Merek
[Elrych Cometburn]
Somewhere between the Khuiumin Sector where Courkrus is and the Quence Sector where Suarbi resides, The Vergesso Asteroid Fields stay. Here a CR-90 Corevette known as the Backstab is offloading a recent score of booty into a cash on some hollowed out Asteroid where is can stay until things get less hot. The Resistance, in reprisal for the attack on Axxila after its liberation from the likes of Kavil, have good intel that this is where they can strike at one of the Invid Pirate ships.
The Backstab was an old warhorse from back at the battle of Khuiumin, and the flag ship of the gang the Khuiumin Survivors. Captain Nive was aborad now, not expecting anything to go down. Perhaps relaxing. Besides, they had an escourt of six 'Ugly' Y'Ceptors with the best Pilots in their gand in them making sure nothing happened.
[Leia Organa]
<<"Alright, Black Squadron, I've got the transport on sensors.">> Jessika sasy immediately upon exiting hyperspace, quickly reaching out to switch up her sensor-suite for long range scans, <<"I don't see a fighter screen, but you bet your sweet asses they'll have something to intercept. The transport is our target, I'm running escort on Tion on a bombing run. Joy you sweet in with Zan to engage fighter support once they come peacocking on us...">> The foils of her X-Wing lock into attack position as the fighter sweep in over top of Ektor's Y-Wing. <<"Sound off, then let's get it done. I skipped breakfast and I'm starving.">>
[Ektor]
Aboard an old S3 Y-wing bomber, Ektor sounds off lazily, << I.. cannot keep track of what number I am, now. Hey, Genius: am I still Black Seven? Arright, Genius says I'm still Black Seven. So here I am. Hey, Jess! Together again, yeah? You wanna do this the sensible way, or the fun way?>> There's a dangerous smile in his voice. <<Please say 'the fun way'.>> Over his shoulder, he drawls to his gunner, "Either way, Spooky-tank: light up any Ugly that gets after us, yeah?"
[Kare Kun]
<<"Heard, Black three. Joy and Zan on it.">> Kare is quickly adjusting her sensors she mmms thoughtfully and listens to Rev make his notes. "Understood. Just keep it tight and we got this." She glances then at her read outs and readies to move in, forming up closer to Zan and her A Wing. She rocks her wings to give a visual okay before she is throwing her switches for full manual targeting. "Should be fun."
[Merek]
Merek is settled back in the Y-Wing which is piloted by Ektor, both hands upon the stick for ion cannons, while he begins to scan the horizon for all prime targets. "Copy that, Tion," he says through the modulator on the helmet. He flicks on the switches to charge up ion weapons.
[Zandra naMuriel]
Zan has to laugh at the info given, shaking her head. She's in her fighter, and settled nicely in, as they come in. << Black 10, Roger that, Lead. >> She has her sensors on, and takes a moment to breathe deeply and reach for the Force, in case there's anything she can find that way.
[Elrych Cometburn]
Jacob Nive is infact having a cup of Caf, going over the numbers of their loot on a Datapad in his ready room. He ran a tight ship despite being a pirate. The Moff demanded it and they were all old war horses. When the Kalaxions start going off he almost spits out that Caf. "What the Kriff is going on!" He shouts in question, rushing onto the bridge.
"We're being attacked sir!" Comes the voice of the sensor officer, "THey were on top of us before we even saw it coming." Today, the asteroids offered no reprive from Black Squadron as Kare had worked hard to plot them a course as close as they could to the hide out asteroid. They had the element of surprise and first attack.
"Get us ready for take off! Get us out of here!"
"But the loot!"
"Screw the loot!"
Popping into existance in Black 12 is Elrych, his music playing softly in the background as he comms in, "Twelve here... ready to go." The Jedi takes a deep breath and reaches out to the force for aid in this action.
[Leia Organa]
<<"There they are. Tion, stay tight on my three and we'll have ourselves some fun..">> Which, from Jessika, is about as good as it's gonna get as far as agreeing to do things the less than professional way. The incoming fighters are screened off, twisting the control yolk into a down spiral in an attempt to get a target lock before letting loose with quad lasers that miss after some fancy flying from the pirates fighters. "Come and get me... Cycle shields to rear, I don't want to get backdoored on the first date.." Said to her droid, who beeps anxiously, because Jess has a reputation.
<<"Go let loose on them Tion, I'll keep them busy.">>
[Ektor]
<<You get me, Jess, you really do,>> Ektor drawls with mischief in his laughter. "Hang onto something, Spooky, it's gonna get wild in a bit.." The Y-wing holds formation with Jessika's X-wing, remaining at top speed, despite the.. unorthodox angle of his approach. R2-G13 warbles, nervously. "Oh yeah, Genius, we're doing this." A trill of alarm answers him. "Hey, Jess said to have some fun, so we're gonna have some fun. Or maybe crater, who knows?" The proton bombs are armed with the flip of a switch on the control panel.
[Kare Kun]
<<"Lets double up and hit em hard, Zan. Lets stick together on this. Same target each time. Lets down em and move onto the next.">> This proposed she comes in tight on Pava's starboard side and sweeps in hard as she finds her first target. <<"Aquired target!">> Her foils snap open like a cobra as she screams in though her ship now starts to slow due to their deployment. The lasers light up and seer through the empty void of space to hit the side of the ship hard. It rocks and within seconds explodes, showering the area in debris and brilliances before space ends the reaction. <<"Splash one target. On you Zan.">> Kare prepares to follow her wingman.
[Merek]
Merek lines up with the weapon systems on Ektor's Y-Wing, and begins to make a solution for firing into one of the fighters, which then dodges. He then shifts the ion cannons to line it upon the corvette, while he flicks a few switches. "Alright," he then pulls the straps from the seat about him, then he nods a bit.
[Zandra naMuriel]
Zan actually started with a separate target than Kare's, though she does hear the other pilot. << Roger that, Joy, except I heard you too late,>> the younger pilot admits sheepishly. She fires at her target, rattling it a bit, which is not a bad thing, truthfully. << on your six, and will follow your lead. >>
[Elrych Cometburn]
The Fighters are scrambling and one explodes as Kare digs into it with her shields. THERE WAS A DOG FIGHT!!!!! Chaos and Mayhem. So much panic that the crew of the Backstab doesn't even unclasps the docking collar to their hide away, instead ripping away from it as it starts to lumber towards an escape trajectory. Zandra is able to knock one of the Aces hard and they go evasive leaving only 4 active targets to engage. They do so without impunity.
Elrych angles in on Ektor's wing, <<"Just like we took out the Blazing Claw right?">> He triggers the targeting computer and angles in on the now ambulatory CR-90.
[Leia Organa]
"Okay..." Jess glances back over her shoulder as the fighters fall in just as she intended for them to, relying on line of sight to make sure they're staying in her afterburn before switching back to her view screen. "Let's see what you got, punks." Apparently they took her shooting first personal and score a glancing blow over her super charged shields, "Replacement, you want to lock that down for me, huh? Keeping in mind /you're/ the one in the back, not me..." The droid beeps, both because it does not like its name (all of her droids are named Replacement) and acknowledgement, setting to work getting shields back up to full.
Meanwhile Jess is doing some fancy(ISH) flying trying to get another target lock, but the pirates are proving to be rather elusive! "If you did something to my fire controls, we're going to have a /very/ short talk about your place in the hierachy of ship maintenance..." Replacement, once again, tootles dismissively to the pilot. "Whatever" <<"Keep it up Foy and Zan! Spooky, nice hit. Tion... you.. uh.. you did alright I guess.">> Grinning to herself as she sweeps the fighter in a tight loop to come back around to overwatch on the Y-Wing.
[Ektor]
Ektor weaves through the screen of Y-ceptor Uglies, without coming under fire. Aloud, he muses to Merek, "See, these guys have made a crucial rekk-up: they saw one Wishbone and were all 'one Y-wing can't take out a corvette! The cap ship can restore shields all day, and they'll run out of toroedoes, yeah?' And, well.. they ain't wrong. Which is why we ain't gonna HIT the shields," he notes, abruptly nosing into a dive intended to slip the aged fighter underneath the *Backstabber's* shields. It is a risky, imprecise, and highly complex maneuver in a sluggish old fighter. Swerving between salvos of turbolaserfire, Ektor's recklessness doesn't pay off, this time; recognizing in the last moment that the angle is juuuust a bit too steep, Merek hears the two words no gunner ever wants to hear: "Uh oh." A mere instant before the light bomber craters in a fireball on the corvette's hull, the eject lever is pulled hard, rocketing all three (Ektor, Merek, and R2-G13) clear of the doomed fighter. <<Okay.. not *quite* how I planned.>>
[Kare Kun]
Kare moves in as Zan lines up and she keeps up with the other enemy fighter when her own ship is hit and it throws her off a moment. Her head turns and she calls out to her droid. "Catch that before we lose the dampener. You got this Rev." He is already complaining and telling her to fly better but she's ignoring him. <<"Got a bead on our target, Zan. Firing.">> Fire she does, just as Ektor is hit so that the brilliance of the fighter's explosion and then debris blinds her from seeing what happens to the Y-Wing at first. That is when she hears Ektor on the line and she turns her head to look out her cockpit. <<"One job Ektor..one job.">>
[Merek]
Merek looks back at Ektor when he is about to line up a firing solution upon the foe, "Wait wha---" then it looks like they are then pulled into space by the maneuver of that lever, while he begins to spin away with them all. He watches as space begins to zoom around into a twirl, <<"Wonderful work, Tion. If the plan was to turn our ship into the missile.">> He then takes a moment to shift his whole frame, while he gives a push with his pilot, "EKTOR! YOU ARMED IT! PUSH US AWAY FROM RANGE!" At one point he tries to push the pilot along with him.
[Zandra naMuriel]
Zan zips up when the attacker expected her to go down, and the shots aimed her way missed. Breathing again, she turns her fighter to continue, selecting another target with a whoop as Kare takes her first target. << Got another target, nice shooting, Joy! >> And then things are lighting up, and there's a stunned, << Kriff! That can't be goo -- d. >> Goo, it could be, but Zan does finish the word.
[Elrych Cometburn]
Captain Nive watches in absolut terror as the Y-Wing comes careening towards his ship. He knows what's on board that thing, he knows what's about to happen to his precious ship. "No..."
Elrych is flying along with Ektor and watches him dive down, <<"Wait, Xer... you're way too stee-">> The kid is two late as he watches the Y-wing impact on the hull. There is a sudden bright flash as Merek foreshadowed and the Proton Bomb(s) on board erupt, tearing into the heart of the CR-90 and practically ripping in in two. It was dead, gone, nothing but metal and scrap to add to the Asteroid. That was... except for Jacob Nive and the Skiprey that detatched from the one docking area on the ship. He was readying his escape in the heavy fighter!
Seeing the ship destroyed, Elrych is still a bit astonished as he turns to go after a fighter. <<"Well... that's one way of doing things. You alright guys?">> He asks the Pilot and gunner as his lazers rip the shields away from an Ugly and send them Evasive... The Jedi does not persue further. <<"Skiprey escaping the wreckage!">>
[Leia Organa]
Ektor's indicator on her tac-screen blinks out and is replaced by a trio of life-boats from the blazing fireball that is Black 7s Y-wing.. <<"Not precisely what I thought you meant when you said fun. Captain Pava to the Valor, we have two jetisoned pilots that will need a pick up after action...">> Jessika says with a grouch in her tone, bringing the snub-nosed fighter around, "Lock down those shields, huh?" The droid beeps derisively, <<"He's broke loose, rally on me, we're going to blast that huttsucker into the void.">> The droid is not convinced. "I know what I'm doing, I'm a professional."
[Ektor]
<<"I *know* I armed it, what good is an inert bomb? Hey, don't push, you can't push in space- stop it! Listen, just ride the momentum of the blast and shut your-">> he doesn't have time to finish the warning before the detonation erupts in a blinding flash. <<OW, MY EYES.>>
[Merek]
<<"You know, I am---">> Merek then feels the wave that blasts along the three of them, two men and a droid. A shift of the hip while he watches as the dogfight keeps on in space. He's looking to the pieces of the corvette while he takes a moment to adjust the system on the flightsuit, meditating to conserve all he needs to wait for rescue. <<"Fine, but I'm stuck with Tion, so it's debatable.">> That to Comet.
[Zandra naMuriel]
Zan's target gets lucky, or so Zan thinks, as the skipray blasts free of the wreckage, and Black 3's instructions come through. << Black 10 - Forming up and hitting attack vector on that skipray, >> Zan calls. Instead of her previous target. She has some speed on her side, the A wing a fairly fast ship, so she catches up a bit. When there's an opportunity, Zan fires. Her shots miss, but not by much. Might scare the crew inside that skipray just a touch. Or well, considering who it is, might not. Zan peels away, and then circles, intending to head back for another run.
[Kare Kun]
Kare manages to keep out of range of those shooting at her but that means nothing when it comes to her attempting to stop the skiprey. She misses - quite amazingly and it causes her to frown. "Sure, when it counts...Rev you sure you got everything settled back there? Stick feels off." she remarks and then settles herself into place after rocking back and forth, making sure to keep close to Zan in case they need to cover each other.
[Elrych Cometburn]
Elrych makes a hard turn and angles in with the rest of the Squadron on the Escaping Skiprey and Captain Nive. What ever goons he was able to grab are in the two laser turrets. The fire rips out at space towards the fighters. Some dodge, others don't. Either way, it leaves Captain Nive a way to pilot without having to deal with fighting off the Fighters. Skiprey's were handy like that. The three fighters left angle in on the enemy while the two parts of the CR-90 now drifting away from each other garner secondary explosions and escape pods start to jettison. <<"Looks like we might have some POW's too...">> Comments the Jedi.
[Leia Organa]
<<"Oh come //on//...">> Jess is on that Skiprays six like a burrow tick, but can't seem to land a solid shot on anything tonight... "You know what the common denominator is right?" The droid does not like where this is going at all... "You.. you're the newest addition, you are the weakest link... If I didn't need you for repairs, I would definitely launch you out of that housing like a missile." As fancy as her flying is, and it has been for the /most part/, Testor just can't get linked up. "You fail me again and we're doing this by los and I'll take my chances without you."
[Ektor]
<<You got him right where you want him, Jess! Just.. luring the Hutt-sucker into a.. false sense of security, yeah? I'm guessing, I can't see nothing..>> Ektor drifts, facing the wrong way, any efforts to wiggle around in place for a better look proving futile.
[Kare Kun]
Kare is not one to give up and even if her first shots go wide she is moving in fast, pushing her X-wing to the limits while its foils are open. <"Nother shot being taken...come on..">> A whispered plea to whatever or whomever is listening force or not and she pulls the trigger. Cannons burst to life as lazers streak and two strike the skiprey, causing ehr to grin. "Yes...all right, hopefully that will inspire and we can take him down."
[Merek]
Merek keeps maneuvering along in space along with the pilot, keeping to himself while he thinks about things.
[Zandra naMuriel]
Zan's awing is zippy and good thing because she's got the attention of a couple of the baddies. One in the turret and one in a fighter. "Just you wait," she growls at the fighter that's trying to tail her. She dodges that shooting, with a zig zag and then lets the bottom drop so she doesn't get herself in the way of the skipray's turrets. Without a droid to talk to, she's quiet, trying to concentrate, as she spirals up and hits the thrusters to go in for another run.
[Elrych Cometburn]
Elrych pulls hard out of the way of one of the Uglie's shots and attempts to get a bead on Nive, but that huttsucker is just too good and is able to eadily avoid his fire. The two turrets on the Skiprey fire behind the craft but luckily don't hit anything this time. Black squadron is living up to it's name but so isn't the Captain of the formerly intact Backstab.
[Leia Organa]
The snubby whirls into a chase pattern behind the Skipray and attempts to light up his shields, <<"That's precisely what I'm doing Tion.. I knew you 'got me'... Completely doing this on purpose..">> The droid beeps, "A little less mouthy droid and a little more fixing my shields, huh?" That just angers the R2 unit. But at least she finally hit something.
[Ektor] <<Knew it,>> Ektor mumbles, managing to sound cocky even as he drifts helplessly in space. Merek is kicked at lightly. "Eh, yeah. Fair enough," he concedes to the barb.
[Kare Kun]
Kare does not want to let him go, not at all and as others score hits there is hope that they will in fact succeed. So as she lines up her next shot she feels almost certain she has him save he pulls a lucky damned move and she curses in her cockpit as all four beams disappear into space. She lets out a vexed sigh and watches as the flight of them starts to turn about to flee. "Great...thats great.." she murmurs to no one but herself and Rev. He replies with a laundry list of things she did wrong. SHe sinks a little lower in her seat as she mutes the droid.
[Merek]
Merek looks then to space while it looks like the foe has escaped from the team. He looks back to Ektor, "Well, looks like we will wait to get pick up."
[Zandra naMuriel]
Zan watches as she gets shot at a couple more times, veering slightly to make sure they miss. She tries again, concentrating, breathing deep, centering herself, and when she's got a good shot, she takes it, sending bolts flying at the skipray. Alas, the pilot is good enough to dodge her shots, which gets a mumbled cuss word, and then a shrug. Zan circles to come back again, if there's anything to come back to.
[Elrych Cometburn]
Elrych is able to hit Nive at least once, before the ship jets away into hyperspace. A look to his sensors indicate the remaining Uglies fleeing as well, leaving their destroyed corevette and stranded pirates to float amongst the asteroids. Seconds after the escape, the Valor appears before them all and slowl maneuvers through the wreckage and space rocks to get to the ejected crew of Ektor's Y-Wing. <<"Hey guys... there's always next tim...">> Says Elrych encouragingly. At least they got the big ship.
