Bloodfrenzys new ship

[marauder]

***OOC***
when I mention fighter 'wings' I mean the four ship patrols you usually see flying around gamma and the other systems the corsairs control

***IC***

Omicron gamma, near the Omicron Theta jumphole...

"Lord, the remaining BHG ships are scattering." the sensor officer reported.

Bloodfrenzy glanced at the video feeds from outside the Desolator. Pieces of shattered fighters drifted amongest crumpled, twisted hull plates from the capital-ships.

A corsair Osiris floated past, fires burned brightly through the few intact veiwports left. It's engine section had a massive hole straight through it and the bridge had been blown open.

A second corsair Osiris was also floating inert, though this was because it's crew were desperately fighting off the crew of a BHG cruiser that had rammed into it and then fired it's turret weapons into the crippled Osiris' hull, blasting massive holes into it. The boarders were going to be overwhelmed soon because shuttles of corsair reinforcements from the other two Osiris' were docking with the enbattled ship.

Several cruiser wrecks drifted amongest the expanding debris, some missing engines, others most of the forward gun mount. One had been virtually cut in half and the pieces floated close together, still linked by half melted support beams and twisted armour.

Of the eight corsair VHF wings that had also attacked the BHG fleet only two were still at full strength, three were over half-strength, two had been wiped out and the last wing only had a single, nearly crippled, fighter left.

The BHG fleet had been reduced to roughly twenty odd cruisers which had split up into four and five ship groups with upto eighteen VHF's as escort.

The rest of the BHG fighters had either been annihilated by the missile salvoes launched by the Desolator and the other osiris' as they had closed in. Or by the corsair fighters, which had used the popular BHG tactic of ganging up four or more ships onto a single enemy fighter.

Some BHG fighters had managed to break off from the battle and ran to the Theta jumphole to try and get repairs from Freeport 9. Several didn't make it to the jumphole and others never got out of the asteroid field on the other side due to the high level of radiation that finished off their heavily damaged ships.

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"Set course for tripoli shipyard, once we dock have all the damage repaired immediately." Bloodfrenzy ordered "Once the repairs are done we are going to hunt the rest of that fleet and destroy it." He flicked the comm off as the bridge crew cheered.

"I wonder what they thought they could accompolish by attacking the corsairs." Bloodfrenzy muttered softly to himself. "Either they were sent after me in revenge for the assult upon shieffield, highly possible, though very unusual. They could have been hired to wipe out the corsair homeworld, though that wouldn't make alot of sense. They need criminals to make a living. Or they could have been hired to distract either the corsairs or the phantom empire from something else. Hmmm, this will need to be reported."

TO: Phantom HQ

FROM: Bloodfrenzy

MESSAGE:

My lord the BHG have tried to assult Omicron gamma with a fleet of cruisers and VHF's. I think this is unusual enough to be investigated further for the following reasons.

1) the BHG have never fielded a task force of this size.

2) the BHG would not launch such a tactically stupid assult without a VERY good reason.

3) what would the BHG stand to gain from destroying the corsairs, who are a major souce of income for them.

4) if the target was actually me, why not attack me in a system so far from any form of house navy support?

As you can see the reasons behind this fleet are unclear at best, I beleive someone hired them to distract either the corsairs or us from something else they either have planned or are doing.

****MESSAGE ENDS****

"That should get Darkstars attention." Bloodfrenzy said after re-reading the message before he sent it.