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Nodoka Hanamura · (This post was last modified: 07-12-2024, 04:58 PM by Nodoka Hanamura.)

Non-Combat After Action Report

Date: 05.21.34, 07:30 GAST
Rank & Name: Lieutenant Struikas, Andrew (Firebrand)
Reporting From: Valravn Garrison
AAR # 003

Lieutenant Struikas, reporting.

Been a minute. Me and Locksmith were tasked to seek out a 1st.. or Onest, as people seem to be calling them around here - Cruiser and her escort, that had been seen lurking around Liberty. After we were put into a disadvantageous position in California, we fell back and called for reinforcements. Sadly, given it was late at night - said response was little to none. After a wild goose chase, me and Locksmith managed to lure the ships into the Independent worlds one by one, initially engaging the LNS Warhog, a.. Montante-class Gunboat.

.. You think they're scraping the bottom of the barrel here, but that's not all. Not yet - We engaged the Gunboat, and I had to bug out briefly away from the engagement. The fight persisted for 20 minutes, primarily prolonged by the comedian going to and fro the California Hole until the vessel went up like a roman candle. We were returning to base by way of Ontario afterwards. EWR satellites near the Inverness Hole later on found a Archer-class cruiser - it was squawking LIBNAV IFF.. but the ship was a clean slate - no pennant number, no hull designation, not even a NAME. The IFF Identification was of an Ensign, Anthony Buffalo.

An Ensign. Commanding a Cruiser. Does.. does LIberty just fling what they can at the wall and see what sticks, these days? It makes me honestly wonder how we lost at Detroit. But then maybe 1st is just a special kind of.. special. Anywho - we met the poor bastard at the Ontario Hole, he asked if this was Manhattan -- Yes, he seriously did ask that question - And honestly I'm feeling bad now a bit for blowing his ass up because it seems to me that he didn't know what the fuck he was doing.

We followed him into Ontario and engaged him, where he took us on yet another, albeit more explosive, wild goose chase out of the field and above the solar plane. Once we knocked their shields down initially, we started wailing on the Archer-class's powerplant assembly. One.. little known fact about the Archers for those of you not used to fighting 'em. Their powerplant on some of their 820 and onward refits are fitted with Ageira BK-4494C Bulwark Cold Fusion Reactors. Those things are notorious for their piss-poor shielding, and it doesn't help matters that they're placed at the back of the ship -- in front of the propulsion drives.

You hit the engine enough times you can bust the armor and cripple the drives - and one well placed shot will hit and blast that shielding wide open and send the fucker into a cascading wildcat meltdown, taking out the auxiliary MOX powerplant, cooking off plasma stores, along with the main store that drives the forward gun - It'll essentially result in the damned thing turning into a firework and cooking or irradiating any poor bastard inside if they can't haul ass to muster stations fast enough. I'm not saying we sent those poor bastards all straight to hell, but - suffice to say they're going to feel that for a very, very long time if they didn't. Hope that bit of intel counts as something useful, Megiddo. Forgot all about the report I got years ago about that crap.

All in all, the ship went up, he called us cowards as the thing was going off, and we went home, job well done.

Libera Te Ex Infernis. Struikas out.

Black Box

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