Tides of Change

[Tommeh]

Commodore was back on duty, onboard Khepri. One of the new osirises, serving on active duty only for a short period. Regular duties around Minor, working with Mission Control, Khepri was patroling far reaches of Minor, clearing out occasional Core and Navy wings who happened to find themselfes on wrong place in wrong time.

In one moment, all the Delta JH patrol wings went silent...Khepri's 1st Comm officers were keeping constant radio connections with those patrols, to monitor one of the Minor's entrances...

"All hands prepare for cruise speed, kick up those engines Demarco!" Aaron gave clear orders to proceed towards Delta jump hole. But on the way there...the worst scenario came true...Mission control reported unconfirmed Nomad battleship seeing.
Clear orders from Isis control were sent in wide system comms:

All ships, return to Toledo's higher orbit, secondary defenses were breached, we got an major problem here, over!
Officer's voice striked fear in pilots and Captains, everyone rushed to Toledo as soon as possible.
The sight was horrible...as Khepri was approaching Toledo, an massive purple ship was slowly uncovering.
And it already found his first victim. Osiris Dead Sea was struggling with the beast, newly commissioned, osiris was lacking proper armor upgrades and crew was lacking any experience in battle with larger Nomad units.

Khepri opened fire as soon it was possible, but it was to late for Dead Sea. bolts of energy ripped apart that osiris like a paper...Toledo defenses were bombarding that Nomad battleship, but ship was placed under certain angle where defenses could not deliver even half of full power. As the one osiris went down in flames, beast slowly turned towards Khepri and opened full barage. Second osiris started shaking like hell itself is coming upon it, shields failing in seconds, kinetical barriers barely blocking the fire from wiping out entire bridge.

That's it, fall back to Isis, all turrets open covering fire, Khepri turned backwards toward Nomad battleship, and started retreating while firing back. Combined fire from Khepri and Isis dealt serious damage to that monster...and he was slowly falling back, Khepri took heavy damage, they were to close when it got caught in fire line. Ship barely hold together, but gunners were still in full barage, still hurting that Nomad menace...
Eventually reinforcements arrived, clearing out any remaining Nomad snubcract, but that monster managed to run away heavly damaged, leaving purple trail in space...it was obvious that battleship took heavy hit, and won't come back so soon.
But Aaron was furious...we lost an bloody osiris infront of Toledo, how is that possible, he slams the walls in shuttle as he was leaving Khepri which was taken to Evora repair docks...damage was massive.
How did it got through, Taggart grabbed closest officer in shuttle and started waving around with him, tell me now god damn it. How did they knew that vulnerable spot in Toledo defenses...bah, you know nothing, Aaron let him go and went in back of shuttle to cool down.
Reports with causilties have started coming in...Dead Sea lost almost half of the crew, four patrols squadrons were taken down right at Delta jumphole, where their bodies were still floating in space.
Khepri lost 17 crew members aswell. 15 % of Toledo defenses were offline.
Order confronted yet another threat, and successfully turned it back to it's hole. But price was high...possibly to high.

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