The Union Chronicles (RP environ open to all Unioners, tagged or not)

[Typrop]

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Subject: Otto Baumann

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Rocks.
Rocks, rocks, and more fragging rocks. This is what Frankfurt, and the VWA's turf has to offer? Rocks? At least Speyer's nebula home looked interesting and dynamic, with yellows and oranges in a constant, lightning-infused maelstrom. Here, you just have rocks, and planet rejects flitting about in front of your cockpit, all the while you hear the Lucifuge's comms going on about some 'Elf King,' a poem. At least the person who decided to blare it over comms, likely our glorious Arbeitsdirektor Garen, has some taste. Despite lacking the sheer presence Gunn has.

Then, a brief flash. Lucifuge's been hit hard. Likely went too close to a VWA installation.

He could see an Order vessel on scans, Yeggito Kebok. Likely doing recon work. Otto fires off a countermeasure, to test his munitions count.

It went click. No countermeasure.

The pilot brings up a display of what munitions his Solidaritat had.


Absolutely nothing. Literally, zilch, zero, nothing, nada, so much nothing that it was like he completely forgot to load them in. Oh wait. He did.

Telling squad lead, that being Gunn, was promptly told to resupply.

And then came the kicker. Three VWA snubs on scans. Panic set in, as the pilot frantically engaged cruise, managing to slam into the button that also launches a cruise disruptor. Thank God and the flaming wheel-angels that he was out, for that one.

"I swear on my seven dead relatives, I did not sign up for this."

Then, the vessel came lurching back to impulse speed, nearly causing Otto to slam his currently flight-masked face into the parts of the ship that tend to be useful, like the navmap display.

One of the populist lefties mentioned something about dueling the bomber. Has to be better than getting slammed by three, though, still a dreary proposition. After all, great at hitting the broad side of a gunboat, not so much a Sabre. Lack of experience was the first thing to bite Otto as he reared to fight, putting up a false display of confidence to mask the under-equipped bomber pilot currently regretting his lack of mines, countermeasures, and cruise disruptors.

Cue the duel, it was actually fairly close, well, about as close as a well-armed Sabre against an under-equipped, all-EMP gun-toting Solidaritat, with an antimatter cannon being the only thing to ruin hulls could get. He got outmaneuvered, missed several shots with the antimatter cannon, and finally he hit the eject button just as the last shot hit the viewport, ruining the piece of Unioner ship design.

Hours later, a friendly patrol arrived, finally. The escape pod was tractored, as everyone silently made their rounds, and returned for Speyer.

The bomber pilot, now slightly wiser, mentally jots down:

"Next time, buy some flipping munitions."

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