As i was ordered to be the one to write the MD for this sortie, here it follows.
After a brief RV and briefing meeting near Ouray base in Colorado, the Commander decided for our small group to intercept a dreadnought (LNS-Revenge) sighted near Fort Bush in the New York system.
Group Composition:
[HF]-Swooping.Osprey - Commander of the attack group
[HF]-Beta.1
[HF]-Marco.Sera
[HF]-Athena.Virgo
[HF]-HFGB-Moloch
As we got close to our target, evidently it wasn't alone.
A Liberator class bomber alongside a Liberty Gunboat and a Liberty Carrier kept him company.
Even so, our Commander gave the order to attack, since we had the most agile group.
As the bombers attacked it, its support moved in to defend it.
Our first kill was the Liberty Gunboat (LNS-Braveheart) since we quickly switched targets to dispose the biggest threat to our bombers.
LNS-Braveheart kill
Then, the glorious blow-out of the dreadnought occurred. By the gods. It was beautiful.
LNS-Revenge blowing up
Then as our own support started to trickle in the form of [HF]-Maverick.Ryker, the Hot Man-sile of the Legion, and he quickly shot down the Liberator that was harassing me as i kept my Supernova's hitting the Carrier by now.
"Hot" Ryker scores one
As finally, the Impreza hull started to be ripped apart from our combined fire, our heavy guns support arrived. The Ven'gyr came and it didn't even opened it's cannons, since our work was done.
LNS-Impreza feeling the heat
After all of this, the field was clear. For a couple of minutes that is. The Commander ordered the bombers and the Ven'gyr to fall back since the space was now clear. As i reached the safety of Colorado, i was urgently called back to New York since our boys that were still there, were being attacked by a Liberty Gunboat, (TF7|LNS-Louisville) and a Bounty Hunter Orca (Cyrax).
The TF7 Gunboat ran away, but the Orca got mauled
Then, suddenly, two Siege Cruisers appeared out of thin air, and our Commander sent me and Ryker to against the Portland. Little did they knew, the Ven'gyr was coming and ready to open fire.
While they were busy with us, the Ven'gyr dropped his engines and opened a surprise Mortar on the Portland's hull.
I got to say. The Captain of the (LNS-Portland) didn't even knew what hit his ship.
The Portland receiving hellfire from the Ven'gyr
And as the other one, the [LNS]CapeTown, barely escaped the wrath of the Legion and did an emergency dock procedure at Fort Bush. But oh boy. The repairs are going to take forever.
The CapeTown getting hammered
All in all, a great mission and we only lost Marco's bomber to focused fire from the Revenge.
He's on ****** med-bay, getting a check up right now, but otherwise seems fine.