Dramatic SFB: Convoy Raid #2272: After Action Report

[Charles Carroll]

Lol...very nicely done.

On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 11:15 AM Paul Meyer via SFBdrama <
sfbdrama at lists.mattnet.org> wrote:

> Mr. Gorntastic was having some kind of celebration and he wanted to
> impress his guests. That pretty much summed it up. Summed up why he was on
> this reptile forsaken mission, Captain Slartac thought to himself.
>
>
>
> Because the Great Green Gorn empire was an empire of warriors, devoid of
> most luxury items, he was sent to raid their cousin’s convoy for more
> luxurious luxury items than we have and take them to Magrathea for the
> celebration. “I’m surprised that guy is still in office,” he thought to
> himself. But, a mission was a mission so here he was in his ship the CCH
> Riojasaurus along with the rest of his fleet, the BC Hagryphus and the BC
> Halticosaurus.
>
>
>
> They had a tip that their cousins, the Great Gorn Confederation, were
> shipping some luxury items close to their shared border making them the
> perfect target for this mission.  “Luxury Items,” Slartac snorted at the
> thought. The Great Gorn Confederation sounded like it was made up of a
> bunch of Science Officers. Maybe that’s where all of the Science Officer
> dropouts from the academy were sent.
>
>
>
> Captain Slartac had never fought a Gorn fleet before. Yes, he’d done the
> typical training scenarios in the academy going up against his colleagues,
> but it’s always different when the plasma is hot. In order to prepare, he
> spent the week reviewing the historical documents, specifically the ones
> entitled Arena and Balance of Terror as well as reflecting on tactics that
> had been used against the GGG in previous battles, most notably against
> Commanders that are now serving with the Totally Teeny Tholian empire and
> the Punishing Peladine empire.
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>
>
> Captain Slartac’s thoughts were interrupted by his Science Officer
> reporting that they had located the Great Gorn Confederation’s convoy. He
> could smell the cheese and crackers already.
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> It appeared the convoy was being accompanied by the MCC Princess Bauria
> (definitely a society of failed Science Officers…), CS Death Stomp, BDD
> Spine Crusher, and the MSC Brontes. Based on this report, Captain Slartac
> quickly formulated a plan of attack. He’d approach from their starboard
> side. He didn’t want to set his fleet up for alpha strikes from all of
> their weapons right away and he thought this approach would be a good
> opportunity to see how they’d react. As for targets, he despised scout
> ships the most. He considered them little ships full of Science Officers.
> And, if that wasn’t bad enough, they had a tendency to make other ships
> harder to hit. And he liked hitting other ships…
>
>
>
> The second most despised ship in the opposing fleet was the CS Death
> Stomp. Not only did it have a decent name, but it also carried a Plasma R
> launcher. And, Slartac did not like the idea of being chased all over space
> by R torps.
>
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> The attack plan was to enter the battle at a speed of 21 and accelerate to
> 31 about ten impulses into the battle. Besides, that’s probably when the
> Death Stomp would decide to launch that R torp.
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> As somewhat expected, the Free Traders started accelerating and turning
> away from his fleet once they were in range. The Traders were accompanied
> by the BDD Spine Crusher and MSC Brontes while the MCC Princess Bauria and
> the CS Death Stomp turned toward Captain Slartac’s fleet to engage.
>
>
>
> Sure enough, as the two opposing fleets closed, the Death Stomp and the
> Bauria launched their torps. Two Ss and one R. Right around that same time,
> Captain Slartac gave the order to go to 31 and they launched all of their
> torpedoes at the Death Stomp from the Riojasaurus and the Hagryphus in
> attack pattern A. He was saving the Halticosaurus torps for cover while the
> Riojasaurus and the Hagryphus recharged.
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> Captain Slartac wasn’t sure if that would be enough to cripple the Death
> Stomp since his previous experience with other captains had them pulling
> something out of from under their tails at the last moment, severely
> limiting the damage they took from plasmas. After launching the volley,
> Slartac gave the order for the fleet to turn hard to port in order to stay
> in front of the enemy torps. Hopefully they had enough of a lead to run
> them out and avoid damage.
>
>
>
> His fleet was able to stay ahead of the R and two Ss. However, the Death
> Stomp wasn’t as lucky. Having started at a slower speed and finishing his
> arming sequence late, he had little energy to apply to stay away from
> Slartac’s volley. The Confederation Captain was able to apply some energy
> to ECCM to lessen the impact, but the force of four Ss and four Fs was
> still too much for the Death Strike to overcome.
>
>
>
> Slartac felt a tinge of regret as the CS Death Stomp exploded in fiery
> ball. But, what real expectations could one have from a bunch of Gorn that
> dined on cheese and crackers?!? They probably had some wine on those ships,
> as well.
>
>
>
> Finding that the torps had chased them a good distance from the convoy,
> Captain Slartac realized that it was time to turn back towards the fleeing
> ships and try to run them down before they escaped. He’d just received a
> subspace communication that Captain Traccus, who was supposed to be
> providing the prophylactics and blow to the party, had been raided by the
> annoying Andromedans. And, if he failed to provide the cheese and crackers,
> Mr. Gorntastic might lose it.
>
>
>
> But, by this time, it was already over. The Riojasaurus and Hagryphus
> burned too much energy trying to re-charge their plasmas in order to catch
> up, and the Halticosaurus had to take an extra wide birth to avoid the last
> of the plasmas that were chasing him. Long story short, Captain Slartac had
> learned his lesson to not get too far away from the freighters when in
> pursuit.
>
>
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> As the Confederation ships slipped out of range, the Science Officer
> called over to Slartac, “Not to add insult to injury, but out sensors tell
> us that those freighters weren’t even hauling cheese and crackers. They
> actually had preserves and crumpets.” Captain Slartac rubbed his head with
> his scaly hand as he began thinking of what he would tell Mr. Gorntastic
> for the loss…
>
>
> Great Green Gorn ready to advance...
>
>
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