Old and new...

[lw'nafh]

About 3 to 4 weeks later, the Collateral Damages was tasked with assisting a planetary invasion, not as part of the main fleet of course, but more of a distraction, it would approach from the opposite direction of the Fleet, power up its main gun, but never fire, the Federals would send a large portion of their ships to "Deal with it" and the Fleet would make their move... However, Delexis had an ulterior motive.

Over the vast amounts of radio chatter, ReLIC isolated one signal, from High Command:

"Alright X, you know what to do, get on it."

Delexis sat back in his chair, he didn't reply, he thought... Oh, I'll get on it... I'll get on all of it...

"ReLIC, it's time to commence our own little... "Operation". First objective, batter this fleet, we'll give the Federals some time to stew in their own fear. Second, high-tail it out of here, we need to get as far away from Colony space as possible, out to the Edge. Third.... Well, that's for us to decide, isn't it?"

ReLIC Hesitated...

"Commander! You know what this means!?"

Delexis ignored it, and looked out the viewing screen...

"Bring us in."

The Collateral Damages lurched forward as the engine went to full impulse, from the Flagship of the Invasion fleet, all they saw was the planet, Delexis didn't respond so they had to assume he'd been found out, so they commenced the invasion...

About half way through the landing processes, a large ship buzzed in front of them all, it was the Collateral Damages, and its guns were trained on the fleet, however this ended, it wouldn't end well for them. Delexis gave the order.

"Rip them to bits, no survivors, let the soldiers planet side deal with the rest"

The Damages' guns lit up like a Christmas Tree, all of the anti-shipping guns were trained on the capitals, and the point-defense were tracking the hundreds of fighters and bombers, buzzing around like insects, in a matter of minutes, the majority of these fighters were destroyed, the Flagship was taking crippling fire, and the rest of the fleet was simply helpless, they couldn't fire back and do enough damage, nor could they aid the Flag and get it out of there, they'd been defeated by a single ship.

"ReLIC, we've done enough, they'll retreat, now... Where to next?"

"May I suggest a Renegade system?"

"As long as we're the biggest thing there, get us out of here"

The Collateral Damages disappeared in a flash of blue and purple light, all that was left was the crippled flagship, and the debris field, a reminder of what happened, this, was "Red Friday"...

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