Devil Wings Squadron

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I sat by the trade lane waiting for the convoy that my informant told me about, supposedly a convoy carrying Cardamine and information about its genetic structure. I tapped into the trade lanes main frame using the technology the lane hackers so helpfully donated to our cause, the main frame eventually alerted me to a large convoy entering the trade lane from the Honshu jump gate direction, I waited until they were within 5k of the trade lane ring I was next too and deactivated it, in my rush for blood and failed to see the ten or so fighter escorts.

I had no chance, my informant said there would be two fighter escorts not ten. The escorts opened fire immediately unleashing a onslaught of blasts from the weapons, my shields were down to 50% power before I had time to react, I engaged my after burner and hit the closest fighter with all the guns on my ship, their shields were down in no time and a nicely placed missile destroyed him, I dodged the rest of the escorts while firing at my next target but it was useless this escort was in a heavily outfitted VHF, I engaged my cruise engines and dumped half of my counter measures, my computer detected multiple missile locks but the CMs did their job, by the time they realised their cruise disrupters hadn’t work I was already well on my way to the beta jump hole…..

Two days had passed since that fungus of an operation, and here I am sitting near Cryers main base waiting for the Synthetic Cardamines project leader to leave with hopefully some important documents in his hands, my so called informant guaranteed this to be good information, at 1916 he left the station I trailed him for about four hours before I made my move.

“Drop your cargo and give yourself up fool”

“This is Cryer Lead, all fighters leave the gas cloud and engage”

Out of the gas cloud came 15 heavy fighters, two very heavy fighters and a gunboat, I engaged my cruise engines and dropped the usual amount of counter measures but it was no use I was hit by no less than three cruise disruptors. Two of the heavy fighters were hitting me from behind and a very heavy fighter was firing at me from the front, my shields were down and my engines were taking a heavy beaten, my after burner and cruise engines were out of commission my normal engines would be out as well if I didn’t start dodging faster, I pulled a U-turn and hit the heavy fighter on my left with my guns and a missile, his shield was down and his ships was electronics were shutting down but it was futile my engines were dead and my weapon system was malfunctioning I was dead in the water.

“Give yourself up or we will be forced to destroy…”

As the thick liberty accent was ringing through my head the gunboat exploded

“This is Skull leader Archon of the Reapers leave our brother alone or face our wrath”

Both sides eyed each other upped with me sitting in the middle for what seemed like an eternity, the Cryer ships activated their cruise engines, turned and fled from the battle

“We were in the neighbour hood chasing down some Corsairs and thought you may some help”

“Of course, Archon, it’s appreciated I may need a lift, if you have a seat free?”

“Sure, eject from your ship and I’ll tractor you in, don’t forget to set your self destruct we don’t want any Corsairs picking up our technology”

I hit the self destruct and ejected my escaped and soon enough I was on board the Archons ship watching my ship blew up

“I’m going to miss her”

“You’ll get a new one soon enough” came the Archon's rather sympathetic reply

On our way home to Alpha I discussed the Cryer situation with him, the council's arrogance and my run in with the convoy, he simply told me to approach him if I needed help, he himself and heard reports about it but was unable to do divert any of the Reapers resources due to the build up of Corsair military and constant colonial attacks.

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