We had an rare combat situation earlier in Omega 11. As the heavy tanker Hannover was being prepared for shipping, he notified us of a corsair capital patrol incoming.
A strike wing formed up and proceeded to scan the enemy task force. It was two corsair Osiris and a Legate, along with a fighter, on our side were 3 of us 2 hessians, and an unidentified vessel with a [RoS] prefix on its ID broadcast. Later we were joined by a bounty hunter and at the end a military pilot with a freelancer wingman
The fight started and after about 20 minutes, the first corsair Osiris was down, identified as ECG|Col-Popei. Meanwhile the enemy fighters were killed by a hessian pilot. During the fight we lost one of our bombers, but I was close enough to tractor his escape pod.
The other two cruisers tried to flee into O5, we chased them and managed to inflict heavy damage on ECG|Col-Dimension before he managed to jump. While we flied around the jumphole waiting for our unofficial allied group to organize, one of my wingmen suffered an engine malfunction, which the other corsair cruiser took as chance to shoot him, he was quickly destroyed by the Solaris turrets.
We thought the fight was over, but on my way back to Solarius the hessians told me the corsairs were back. It was ECG|Col-Dimension. He was cruising near Solarius, and I took the chance to disrupt his engines. We began shooting it again. the Solaris cruiser, CNS-Saros cruised in from O5 to assist its ally, during the fight we lost the hunter and the unidentified [RoS] vessel, but we managed to destroy Col-Dimension. We also lost one of the hessian bombers at some point. Seeing the fight was lost I prepared to cruise away, but a military pilot along with a freelancer arrived to the scene and we kept on with the attack. We managed to damage CNS-Saros. He fled towards the sun, not sure if he was trying to get us to follow him into the corona or we was doing a desperate attempt to survive. We stood far enought to not get damage from the corona, but the military pilot followed the corsair and was quickly destroyed.
It was a matter of minutes before the corsair captain noticed that he was doing too much damage to his vessel. He had no nanobots left, because he had given them away to the Solaris cruiser, and he was heavily damaged by our torpedoes. He tried to cruise out of the corona's danger range but we kept him pinned down with our disruptors. He desperately tried to cruise but his attempts were in vain, the red giant consumed his vessel. At the very last second he managed to fire 2 missiles at the last hessian and destroyed him, leaving only the freelancer and me alive.
Both DHC pilots were rescued and transferred to medical for further inspection.
I leave you this nice picture I managed to take, maybe we could add it to a calendar or something
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