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<div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Matt, nice write up of the scenario 2410</div>
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On Friday, 9 October 2020, 10:41:47 am AEST, Matt via SFBdrama <sfbdrama@lists.mattnet.org> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">"Klingons Inbound!" the sub-chief manning the sensors at Base Station <br clear="none">#2410 said suddenly. "Warp footprints say it's a dreadnaught, a pair of <br clear="none">war cruisers, and a pair of destroyers."<br clear="none"><br clear="none">"Report it to the Jordan." The commander replied while turning to the <br clear="none">Comms officer. "Begin sounding recall for personell from the cruisers <br clear="none">on-board. Warm up the Storm Generators."<br clear="none"><br clear="none">It took nearly 15 minutes to get everyone in their proper place. Not <br clear="none">bad, for the attacking force was detected not but 80 light-seconds out. <br clear="none">The Klingons sure took their time in the approach. By the time the Vudar <br clear="none">knew the Klingon's escorts were an AD5 and an FWE, the cruisers Jordan, <br clear="none">Tirzah, and Philistia had warmed up thier weapons and they were <br clear="none">beginning to pull warp 1.8. The Klingons were beginning to launch their <br clear="none">fighter squadron and spread out for the attack plan.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">"Prepare for a close-range engagement, captain." The commander of the <br clear="none">base station had command of the group while the force was in the <br clear="none">immediate environs of the station. Technically the Jordan warranted a <br clear="none">Rear-Admiral's slot, since she was the largest ship class the Vudar <br clear="none">could produce. However, with the guns mounted on the station it was the <br clear="none">best doctrine to coordinate through her. However, defense of Vudar <br clear="none">stations tend to very quickly devolve into independant commands because <br clear="none">of everyone's dependence on subspace and the Vudar's abilities to remove <br clear="none">subspace from the equation.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">"Overload Ion Cannons." The captain of the Jordan commanded the group. <br clear="none">"Launch PFs. Make course for a close-approach with the base in <br clear="none">one-point-five minutes heading three-five-zero. And stay out of arc of <br clear="none">the directional waves."<br clear="none"><br clear="none">The PFs disconnected from their linkages with a sharp release that <br clear="none">vibrated through the fabric of the ships. A total of four fast patrol <br clear="none">ships disengaged from the Tirzah and Philistia. The Vudar force made for <br clear="none">a sharp turn to starboard that took them closer to the base and circled <br clear="none">around again in order to arrive at the base the same time that the <br clear="none">Klingons were projected to open fire.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">The area began churning with random ionic discharges as the base began <br clear="none">dumping power into the subspace matrix. Very quickly, communication was <br clear="none">useless and firing solutions fuzzed out as a beauty of an ion storm <br clear="none">gripped the area. The Klingon attempts to lock onto the station were <br clear="none">further hampered by it's sudden release of fire control and ramping up <br clear="none">of personal ECM. The Vudar ships kept their fire control but also <br clear="none">attempted to further the woes of the Klingon fire control computers. The <br clear="none">Klingon force pushed past 1.6 million miles from the base with the scout <br clear="none">and carrier in the rear and the fighters in the middle.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">"Turn on the Vudar Tourist Association. Full Power." The station <br clear="none">commander said with a smile. The facing Ion Storm Generator emitted a <br clear="none">deep pulse of energy that caused the ion storm to align itself into a <br clear="none">short series of harmonic frequencies. The power built very quickly and <br clear="none">then began to broaden out in a 60-degree arc that bracketed the Klingon <br clear="none">force very nicely. When it smashed into the entire Klingon fleet, half <br clear="none">of the fighters were crippled and everyone's shields were coruscent with <br clear="none">radiant light. Shortly thereafter, another of the base's systems came <br clear="none">into view. Sensing another horrific blast, the Klingon fighter pilots <br clear="none">launched their drones and tried to get out of range. Without dash packs, <br clear="none">they lacked the speed to stay their destruction. Another wave of <br clear="none">directed subspace crashed into the Klingon force, destroying the entire <br clear="none">fighter squadron and doing more shield damage to the attacking force. <br clear="none">"Keep waving at them, ensign." The station commander said, as the <br clear="none">Klingon carrier began turning away from the battle.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">The Dreadnaught and escort ships clawed their way towards the base on <br clear="none">sheer grit. By sheer luck and a blundered defense of the base, three <br clear="none">drones managed to hit the base; taking the shield down by half after <br clear="none">battery power was diverted to keep the shield up. The dreadnaught opened <br clear="none">fire on the base at a half-million miles, followed shortly by the AD5 <br clear="none">doing the same. Thanks to the drone hits, the Dreadnaught was able to <br clear="none">score damage on the armor. A follow-up blast from the dreadnaught's <br clear="none">phasers had begun to strip the base of her weapons.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">However, the Klingon force was not doing well at this time. The carrier <br clear="none">had exited the field entirely, the scout had taken minor internals, and <br clear="none">the other remaining ships had extremely weakened front shields. <br clear="none">Additionally, the PFs had detached from the Vudar force in order to <br clear="none">charge the dreadnaught. At ten thousand miles, six overloaded ion <br clear="none">cannons and as many phasers punched through a paper-thin front shield on <br clear="none">the dreadnaught to nearly cripple her.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Stunned by the blast, the Dreadnaught turned away while the escort ships <br clear="none">gave chase to the PFs. The much smaller Vudar units used battery power <br clear="none">to protect theier structures as they banked impossibly sharp to get out <br clear="none">of the arc of the station's guns. In the mean time, the Vudar cruisers <br clear="none">closed in for the kill against their wounded foe.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Again, at knife-fighting range, the Klingon dreadnaught obsorbed <br clear="none">impossible damage as ten overloaded beams of pure electrons plowed into <br clear="none">a relatively fresh dreadnaught shield. The beams tore great chunks from <br clear="none">the large structer, until the engines blew and momentarily created a new <br clear="none">star in space. Being so close, all three of the Vudar cruisers <br clear="none">completely lost their front shields to the blast.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">With the death of the Klingon flagship and the retreat of the carrier <br clear="none">and the scout, the Klingon escorts attempted to rout. The Vudar PFs were <br clear="none">int he process of disengaing from the immediate area of the battle in <br clear="none">order to reload their weapons, but decided to re-engage once they <br clear="none">realized the situation. The Vudar cruisers turned to the large escort <br clear="none">and began to give chase. They reached extreme tractor range and fired <br clear="none">their fresh phasers into the rear of the retreating war cruiser. She <br clear="none">suffered moderate damage, but more importantly had lost the use of maybe <br clear="none">half of her engines.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">The Ion storm dissipated as the base stopped dumping power into <br clear="none">subspace. With the clearing of the communication channels, the Jordan <br clear="none">transmitted to the nearly-crippled escort, "Heave to and prepare to be <br clear="none">boarded!" The response was a surrender and request for repatriation. The <br clear="none">small escort was allowed to finish retreating unmolested.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Final tally is:<br clear="none">Vudar - No internal damage to mobile units. Moderate damage to the base <br clear="none">(but it wasn't crippled.)<br clear="none">Klingon - Destroyed C8, captured (and crippled) AD5. No internals on the <br clear="none">D5V. No lasting damage (but some internals) on the FWE and F5S.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Vudar Win<br clear="none"><br clear="none">--Matt<div class="yqt7244082518" id="yqtfd30533"><br clear="none">____________________________________________________<br clear="none">Dramatic SFB campaign chatter list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://sfbdrama.mattnet.org" target="_blank">http://sfbdrama.mattnet.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:SFBdrama@lists.mattnet.org" href="mailto:SFBdrama@lists.mattnet.org">SFBdrama@lists.mattnet.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://lists.mattnet.org/listinfo.cgi/sfbdrama-mattnet.org" target="_blank">http://lists.mattnet.org/listinfo.cgi/sfbdrama-mattnet.org</a><br clear="none"></div></div></div>
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