Our intel was not quite up to scratch
03 Sep 2020Galen Peran
{ Personal Log /// CMDR Galen Peran /// 03 SEPT 3306 }Can someone please explain to me what the f**k just happened? How did an Anarchy faction, with dwindling resources manage to find so many fully engineered Vultures, Pythons and Anacondas?
Hmm... okay lets backtrack, let me explain...
Day one of the War and things were going to plan, numerous conflict zone skirmishes won, the enemy taking heavy losses, maybe we got complacent, maybe we got cocky.
We dropped out of super cruise, into what I counted as our 8th or maybe 9th conflict zone for the day, to be met with an ambush! Within seconds my radar was a confetti of flashing red triangles! Plasma hits, Phased Spectrum lasers, the works...
My shields were starting to suffer, draining faster than my distributor and cell banks could charge, a lesser commander would have retreated, but i'll be damned if I'm going to tuck tail and run, that sends the wrong message to these bastards!
Despite overwhelming odds we were holding our own, one of our pilots on comms even dared to say that we seemed to be getting the upper hand
Then the moment all pilots dread, "Shields Offline"
This seemed to give the enemy a morale boost, as the fire on my Corvette immediately intensified, before long I was down to 50% hull and i began to hear cracking sounds in my canopy. Committed to finishing this fight one way or another I donned my emergency oxygen hood, and not a moment too soon as my canopy broke away and I was faced with nothing but the vacuum of space in front of me.
We were beaten up and in bad shape, but the enemy was far worse off, we had successfully destroyed or disabled almost all of their carefully planned ambush, only one or two ships remained. And I certainly didn't need a HUD to finish them off!
Finally we all received the confirmation that the enemy was in full retreat. We had won the battle.
So here I am, back in Hire Hub, consoling the ground crew and fleet engineers who are faced with the task of repairing the damage
Once complete we go back out there and carry on fighting... but not before someone in squadron "intelligence" gets paid a visit from me and gets their arse kicked!