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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."

Luyten's Star, outbound jump point to Procyon- "Theseus, you ready?" "Yeah, all systems green on our end. Ready for jump." "Roger that. Feels good to take the war to the enemy." "How bad do you think it'll be? Hesperus is a key world." "Shouldn't be that bad, most of their ships are trying to push our core systems." "But they're gonna have something." "Undoubtedly. Jumping now, wait 30 seconds, then follow us through. CYANSPACE TRANSLATION SIGNATURE DETECTED- CYANSPACE TRANSLATION SIGNATURE DETECTED- "And that's both of them. All stations, rig for jump." "Weapons here, fire control disconnected, autoloaders disabled, capacitors drained, ready for jump." "Life support here, manual disconnect sealed and system offline. Cryopods sealed and in manual control, ready for jump." "Engineering here, reactor shutdown enabled, cyanspace core at 90% and awaiting final commit, ready for jump." "Propulsion here, main drive offline, pre-startup checklist complete, ready for jump." "All stations report ready for jump, sir." "Very well. Triggering jump autosequence and main computer shutdown." WARNING!- TEN SECONDS UNTIL JUMP- WARNING! "I hate this part." "Everyo- DISCONTINUITY "Oh go..." "USE THE TRASH CAN!" "All stations, report!" - "ALL STATIONS!" "blergh- engineering here" "And?" "Gimme a minute, initiating startup... core discharged, jump complete. Bringing reactor up now." "THANK you. Life support?" "Everything's coming up green here, but Blomberg missed his can." "Hah. Have him get a mop. Weapons?" "Point defenses are enabled, just need engineering to get me more power for them. Everything else is green. Looks like the 'saki and Iwo found something to shoot at, though." "Awesome. How bad?" "Looks like 2 ships and a planetary defense grid. Missiles are away, and they're heading out to match us, but both were in low orbit, so we lucked out there." "Great. Propulsion?" "Main drive's up, and engineering's fully up now as well." "Very well, give us a 1g course to match with the Iwo Jima and match helm control to keep us in their PD shadow. Weapons, turn over missile control to the Nagasaki once we're in formation." "Aye, sir." "You got it!"