The Capture of the Destroyer Aquarius

[DarkOddity]

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It was another normal day, I awoke in my captains suite aboard the Battlestar Aldebaran receiving the typical "Enemy craft reported in system by Crete" warning from my CIC (Command Information Center) I ordered my CO to begin preparations to intercept and engage the enemy, got dressed and headed up to the CIC.

A few hours later we arrived in a seemingly relatively empty area and were engaged by a group of about 30 Bounty Hunter fighter craft. They ripped and tore at the Aldebaran but sure enough we killed all but a few stragglers who began to retreat. I ordered the ship into cruise speed to pursuit.

After a good long chase pilot headed past an asteroid field and suddenly stopped his ship and there we saw it. A large bounty hunter station ripe for the picking, still under construction with a small fleet of Bounty Hunter Destroyers moored on the station. I ordered weapons control to concentrate their fire on disabling the stations mounted turrets and to disable the engines on the ship moored closest to the Battlestar, by the time this was done the other 4 Destroyers had began launch precedures and started turning to engage the Aldebaran. My tactical ops took over the Melee and had weapons control target the bridge platform of the oncoming destroyers, taking them out one by one in rapid succession. Soon enough the Destroyers were reduced to nothing more than burnt out hulls floating in the combat zone.

Shortly after the space battle, while in a slow pattern around the Bounty Hunter station I ordered ten squads of five marines to prepare to enter the statation. We launched the ten raptors complete with pilot, co pilot and the compliment of five marines. Each Raptor latched onto the station in seperate locations setting up a full circle around the stations command center and two raptors latched onto a portion of the station close to the disabled Destroyer which was still moored to the station. Their standing orders were to cleanse the destroyer of the Bounty Hunter Scourge and defend it untill the other marines sent to the command station regrouped with them.

After a hard fought battle against the Bounty Hunters aboard the station my marines managed to capture the station commander and all but three of his command staff without difficulty. All the marines headed to the destroyer, leaving two squads on the destroyers bridge to oversee the new prisoners. The Marines un-moored the ship to prevent anyone that was possibly in the station from boarding while the Marines were searching the ship.


After searching the entire ship the Marines signaled the "All Clear" and I had the Aldebaran send out 4 Raptors with a skeleton crew to man the newly commandered destroyer, and an additional repair ship was launched from the Aldebarans launch bay to repair the Destroyers engines.

My tactical officer informed me it would be most wise to leave the area incase the Bounty Hunters Guild received a distress signal, I agreed and ordered the Aldebaran to set course for the Tripoli Shipyards, and lock the tractor beam on the destroyer and keep it in tow.

After a long dreary flight to the Tripoli Shipyards we arrived, the shipyard used it's tractor beams to moore the captured destroyer, did a scan diagnostic with their advanced scanners and notified me that the weaponry aboard the Aldebaran fried the engines to the point where they would need to be replaced, and the cost would be severe in both time and money. I made a credit transfer to Tripoli and told them to make it so nomatter the cost.

Two months later I returned to Tripoli Shipyards to pickup my prize, a fully functional and armed Destroyer. The ship was henceforth relieved of the name given to it by the bounty hunter scourged and dubbed "The Aquarius" of the Corsairs.

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