Reapers retirement

[marauder]

***OOC***

Ok, as usual, unless your in the phantoms, I ask you via PM or you PM me first DO NOT post here.

***IC***

Tohoku system, near tegaki's arch...

A taiidan friegther cruised under the giant arch with a manta alongside it.

The frieghter was unmarked, just sported a neutral ID. It had hogosah plasma cannon turrets with a pair of sidewinder missile launchers on the gun slots.

The manta had all the BHG markings sprayed out and a large inverted P across both sides, it also had a long white strip running from the cockpit back to the engines with hundreds of little groups of black lines, the total kills of it's pilot.

"Nothing on the scanners, seems clear." Frank said as he let the auto-pilo fly the frieghter.

"Too clear, have Kara get the turrets online." Reaper said as he glanced at the sensor log.

"Roger." Frank leaned over and stabbed a button on the console, "Yo, the boss wants you to get the turrets ready."

"I have, I have a funney feeling somethings about to go wrong." she replied as she swung the turrets around again, checking the empty space for the tell-tale flickers of reflected starlight.

"Attention phantom vessels, you will stop and prepare to be taken into custody." An arrogant male voice boomed on the system channel.

"Well, well, well, one BHG destroyer, twelve hammerheads, just for little old me." Reaper replied sarcastically as he pulled a tight loop and sped back towards the BHG ships.

"Engage! Remember we want them alive." The destroyer commander ordered as Reaper shredded a hammerhead.

"Well thats comforting." frank muttered as he circled the destroyer, which has trying to get a solid lock.

"Eat plasma you..." The rest of Kara's sentence was cut off as a burning hammerhead slammed into the freighter.

"Oh damn." Was all Frank said as he noticed a pair of missiles from the destroyer heading right at the cockpit.

As the frieghters shield had been dropped due to the hammerhead colliding with it, the first missile shattered the cockpit viewport, the second went through and detonated against the cockpit bulkhead.

All the ships stopped for a brief moment as the freighter exploded, then several of the hammerheads seemed to twitch as Reaper screamed in rage and re-engaged them.

As the destroyer headed to the frieghters wreckage a container transport appeared, tractored in the wreckage and then opened up on the damaged capital ship.

"Creasefire!" the BHG commander ordered as the transport blasted away.

The destroyer started to return fire but had suffered alot of damage, then Reaper started circling it dropping nuclear mines and it's fate was sealed.

As it started to burn Reaper pulled up and dropped one last mine, however the surviving hammerheads chasing him managed to hit it just as they dropped his shield.

The explosion destroyed a pair of the pursuing hammerheads as well as Reapers heavily damaged manta.

The transport again tractored in the loot, then it finished off a burning hammerhead before turning and cruising away.