TGMC:Lorebits

TINY LORE MOTHERFUCKERS!

"Nagasaki, this is Theseus, what's our plan?" "Straight run at the planet, dumping missiles all the way. So, the good news is that there was nothing at the jump point other than 2 reconsats, which we obviously burned. The bad news is that one of those ships is a battlewagon." "Shit." "Exactly. We shoulda expected it, being as this is a pretty big SoM colony, but Intel hoped all of them were committed to the front." "So, one... what, heavy cruiser? Battleship? and a converted merchie? At least that gives us their strategy." "Use the warship as the shield for the merchantmen while trying to flush it's tubes at us, before we get into range and slag it. Think it has a beam engine, or just tubes?" "Dunno. Most don't have lasers, but we're WAY out of effective energy range. Doesn't matter, though, once we get any sort of missile hit on it, it's gone." "Cool, so the merch... one sec." QUERY- NUMBER AND ALLOCATION OF INBOUNDS TARGET ALPHA-1 1.0 GRAVITY-PREDICTED INTERCEPT WITH TASK FORCE IN 5.3 HR TARGET ALPHA-2-17 5.0 GRAVITY- PREDICTED INTERCEPT WITH TASK FORCE IN .47 HR TARGET BRAVO-1 1.3 GRAVITY- PREDICTED VELOCITY MATCH WITH ALPHA 1 TARGET BRAVO 2-33 5.0 GRAVITY- PREDICTED INTERCEPT WITH TASK FORCE IN .49 HR ASSUMPTION- ALPHA 2-17 AND BRAVO 2-33 WILL GO BALLISTIC IN ~.08 HR FOR INTERCEPT IN 5.0 HR "JESUS, they're dumping missiles!" "Yeah. Nothing from the planet yet, just those 2 generating a cloud. They're probably trying to empty the merchant, then it'll break off. Thoughts on dodging?" "Waste of time, they'll just re-target the missiles unless we go WAY off course, and that'll cost us more than a day." "Agree. So, we just ride in, slash their cloud up with our PD, and nail them with missiles in a driveby." "Looks best, but I don't like high rvelocity engagements." "Shoulda joined the marines, then." "~snort~ Aanyway, we're slaved to your control, fire whenever you're ready."