Hellfire Legion: The Capture of the Razor

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The Capture of the Razor





Drake Thastus led a decent sized fighter wing on a mission, to capture a corsair gunboat. Normally the diplomatic relations between the Hellfire Legion and the Corsairs were good but when two weeks prior a diplomatic group asked for a gunboat from the Corsairs they were denied. Even at the promise of payment and riches they denied, the pirates were unwilling to give them a gunboat.

So it became time to take one from them, the HF had lost many battles because of no support for their fighters and they desperately needed something to help turn the tides in the war against liberty.

HF intelligence ascertained over the weeks that two Corsair gunboats and escorts would be here 50k outside of Crete in omicron Gamma headed to the Omicron theta Jumphole.

Drake held onto the flight controls carefully monitoring his sensors, eight other heavily armed fighters cruised with him and two cruisers two kilometers behind. Drakes radar lit up a signal a small Corsair group two Gunboats were in the group. One the Razor and the other the Scythe, eight Titan fighters escorted them each well armed and aces flying the fighters.

Be ready for anything, there could a dozen or more fighters nearby, we need to hold out until the Balistner comes with a boarding party. Drake said, his voice crackled through the comm net. The two cruiser flying support, were both liberty cruisers, the VultureOfDeath and the Renegade each extremely well armed.

Drake kept his focus as the Corsairs quickly got closer at the speed he was going it seemed that he was not moving but that space was pushing two Corsair gunboats into his face. He scanned again; his wing was 4k away from the gunboats. The Corsairs now had them in sensor range.

Drakes console lit up he was being hailed by the Corsair gunboat, he did not respond he primed his weapons and locked into the first Corsair titan. Drake was flying a Talon Very Heavy fighter; he bought one from the Order a long time before. His Talon carried several nomad weapons and a pair of Outcast Cerberus Cannons and one inferno heavy shield buster.

Drake slammed on his engine kill his talon was moving 350K per hour he opened fire on the first, his inferno slammed into the unsuspecting fighter followed by a punishing stream of fire from his cannons. Taking it out quickly, two more Corsair fighters were caught off guard by the rest of the group. An intense dogfight broke out between the two forces.
The Renegade and the Vulture intervened striking down the rest of the fighters; the Corsair Gunboats shot down four HF fighters and damaged Drakes badly. But the sight of the two cruisers and the sight of a dreadnought out in the distance compelled them to stop shooting. The Balistner was 10k out from there with a stolen transport loaded with men.

We may have won this battle but keep up your guard. Drake ordered, a tone of worry offset his confidence.

Sensors aboard the Renegade began screaming, five Corsair Osiris and four wings of ten Titans were flying in and at 10k out. Drake was left with a decision, his ship rocked red lasers were beating his shield the gunboat Scythe was reopening fire. Renegade open fire on the Scythe.

The Renegade loosed one powerful blast from its massive forward gun permanently silencing the Scythe.

The Corsair ships were not arriving together as most would expect the fact of the matter was, the Corsairs had their fleet on patrol throughout Gamma. Normally a dreadnought would have been assigned to quell this uprising but a week earlier an Outcast attack on Gamma damaged it and sent the Corsair fleet into a full alert state. As a result Corsair Osiris were on patrol everywhere.

The Balistner arrived at the gunboats, the transport docked with the gunboat and troops boarded it rifles blazing. At that time the Corsair fleet arrived at the site, We need to get out of here now! Drake shouted, the gunboat was active again set a course for the Omicron Theta jump hole the Balistner provided cover fire. Hellfire Legion Battleships had a great advantage over most, shielding most groups simply couldnt afford shielding.

True to form the HF stole that too from a destroyed liberty dreadnought, it didnt even get a chance to activate the generator. But now the Balistner had the chance to try it against an entire Corsair battle group. The Dreadnought easily dispatched a Corsair Osiris with several shots from its main guns. The commander of the Balistner scanned for Drake and detected him entering omicron theta with an Osiris behind him and its escorts.

The Corsairs gave up entering Omicron Theta if they attacked the HF force there they could provoke and attack by the Asgard Warriors and their Flagship Ableben and suffer the wrath of a Zoner Juggernaut. The HF had won, and captured a well armed Corsair gunboat.

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