Another victory for the combined might of the Brotherhood and the SCRA. This time it was the AW, HF and an Impaler.
The incident started as an SCRA bomber supported by a fighter encountered an AW gunboat. The Mantis moved to assist and forced the target to retreat in cruise a number of times. Finally, the Mantis Cruise distruptors hit home, and the target was sent to the void (or shipyards, whichever one suits the situation).
The AW fighter Orome arrived just in time to see the timely demise of the Gunboat, and he was engaged. However, he proved a harder target to hit, with the gunnery crew of the Mantis having problems targetting, due to the asteroids being in the most inopportune places.
The new SCRA battleship, whose name I cannot pronounce, arrived on scene just in time to repulse the large force of HF (and badly trained) reinforcements which jumped in. The Silverfire perished quickly and the annoying Impaler was next.
A HF nomad gunboat (!!) fell quickly; as he tried to escape, he hit my cruise distruptor. The hammer met the anvil as his ship was torn apart by the combined force of our ships.
The remaining AW fighter, who was nothing more than a flea during the fight, retreated when he saw the inferiority of his allies.
In an unrelated incident, the Mantis was badly injured by two sso| gunboats. The SCRA were unable to provide adequate fire support as their battleship had docked, and the Mantis was quickly overwhelmed. Despite this, the crew are in high spirits due to the utter failure of the HF and AW to inflict any damage. They had to rely on bounty hunters to do it.
Currently a drinking party on the Mantis as it is being towed to Tripoli. Decks 1 through 4 are decompressed, but they were uninhabited as battle stations was announced. The command deck has suffered minor damage but the gunboat should be operable withing a few days.
