Take us Home as we go

[Erremnart]

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A light show of electromagnetic blasts did get someone's attention on Roanoke. Although the fight for the bridge was still fierce, and the senior officers hadn't had the slightest idea of what was going on outside so far, several gunners switched the turrets to local control and armed their weapons.
Even with the limited sensors of the various firing stations, it was clear to them that the Liberty Rogues were a problem for all of them, so now and then uncoordinated fire was heard from the battlecruiser towards the distant enemy ships.


"What's out there-", Virginia turned momentarily towards the ship's windows when she instinctively felt and heard her own ship's fire. Her question, however, was interrupted by covering fire from the main entrance to the bridge.
"Grant, Robin, they're holding us under fire here on the bridge, the ship is out of control, no shields, and I don't need to tell you how much trouble it is when we're in the ice belt and there's fighting outside!", Virginia announced not-so-quietly into her radio to the friendly forces on board.
"The engine room is almost under our control, hold on!", came the voice of Sergeant Mark Robin, the commander of her most loyal and tough Marines, the ones she could trust with the most dangerous tasks. While she had no doubt about the professionalism of Grant and his men, fighting in the maze that was called the engineering was beyond even their capabilities and required not only factual knowledge of the place, but experience in how the crew moved around there.

When the enemy discovered that Virginia and her officers were hiding quite effectively behind all manner of consoles and terminals, they began firing their own weapons to blast the displays on the bridge in an attempt to pepper the defenders with sharp glass and components.
Virginia cursed quietly, shielding her head as a large viewscreen shattered directly above her head and showered her with sharp shards, causing several superficial cuts and also turning the floor around her into rather dangerous terrain.

As Thorn and his men slowly approached the bridge, they could see another two-man crew of enemies carrying an improvised charge made of twin oxygen tanks and an incendiary grenade towards the bridge.

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