Twilight Of Peace

[Dab]

Dab: Xizer take out Zerstoren, his torpedos are costing us too much. Keiran on me, we will take out wraiths. All cruisers and gunboats fire on their gunboats, we will have the battleships take down the cruisers.

Within minutes the Leviathen had yet again arrived using it's massive engines to pull up beside the Schadel and was firing off every gun and turret it had on the port side. The Leviathen had caught the ship completely by surprise due to its speed. The Schadel was now defensless and unmovable. The AW fighters, though outnumbered, had killed off far more than they had lost. flight groups of the 282nd were jetting through the dogfight blowing up fighters everywhere, and Dab and his bodyguard had been picking off bomber after bomber. The AW fighter wings had been reduced to 3/4 their original size but had reduced the Rheinland fleet's to 1/2 of its original complement. And factoring in the reinforcement wings from the Leviathen the fight was more like 2 to 1 than the 3 to 1 it had been. The 3 AW battleships had destroyed a quarter of the Rheinland cruisers, while the gunboats and cruisers had taken 1/2 the enemy gunboats.

Dab: Ableben alert the Enterprise battlegroup of the incoming fleet in Sigma-17. Send any battlegroups that have not already been given orders to head to Kurile immediately.

The Enterprise battlegroup was by far the biggest and most effecient group in the entire AW fleet. Consisting of 3 battleships, one the Enterprise worth 2 battleships all by itself had been heavily modified and could hold its ground against two battleships all by itself. It had 40 cruisers, and 35 gunboats. And a starfighter carrier capable of holding 200 fighters. Add that to the wings of all three battleships it had at least 150 fighter wings.

Two starfighter carriers had arrived from Theta carrying AW eagles, far more agile than the Rheinland Wraiths. They were in the process of unloading all the fighters, bringing the fighters numbers almost even to that of the Rheinland fleet's.

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