Red Team (Round 14 & 15)
As the terms of surrender are announced by the Blue Team and Idaya's crew speak of it the battle rages on, neither side letting down their guard. While Idaya tries to locate the source of the enemy transmission, Cor continues to try to keep the shields up. It's a difficult battle as the ships keep hammering the corvette from three sides. The Y-wings had now switched to ion cannons which was causing some minor system problems and hampering her work. Fortunately R2-A9 on his own initiative had moved to the engineering station and plugged himself in, repairing systems almost as soon as they were ionised.
However the heroic effort to keep the shields up could just not keep up with the sheer volume of fire. A concentrated blast from the rear rocked the ships. Immediately a roar of alarms went off as the aft shield overloaded and failed. Moments later the port shield went too. But that was the least of their problems as the remaining torperdoes turned and flew at the corvette's bridge.
Mika had been valiantly fighting a losing battle with the helm. Already suffering from reduced speed and maneuverability from power diversions, the ion attacks were further affecting her. She'd comandeered a frontal turbolaser to assist the defence. As the torpedoes turned she joined CC9 and Dohr in a scathing frontal fire that destroyed two torpedoes. But the other four plowed in.
In a desperate move Cor threw all the shield power she could to double front. It left the other sides open to fire from the ships but with two shield facings damaged and the torpedoes posing the greatest risk, she didn't waste time asking the commander.
The torpedoes hit with an explosion that temporarily blacked out the front view screen. When it cleared there were alarms blaring.
"Damage report!" Idaya called as she checked her own systems. It was not a good sign. The hull had taken a beating and structural integrity was down to 18%. One of the front turbolasers had been destroyed. The port and aft shield generators were showing signs of damage.
The Chiss quickly assessed the positives in the situation though. Yes she's lost a forward gun but she had two more pointing forward so there wasn't an exposed side. The shields could be repaired. It was also unlikely the Blue Team had any more projectiles as it had been at least half a minute since any missiles or torpedoes had been fired. With their shields down it would have been a perfect time. Furthermore, the aft gun had managed to score a hit on Blue 5, a Z-95 which had already been damaged by a previous hit, destroying it.
Finally she'd managed to pinpoint the ship the transmission had come from, partly thanks to R2-A9. Idaya had only been able to determine the transmission had come from the port flank. But R2-A9 had identified the distinctive sound of a Koensayr R200 ion jet engine which were used in Y-wings. Blue Leader was either Blue 9 or Blue 10, the Y-wing pair even now peppering the corvette's port side with ion fire.
Over the comms came a new sound. Rather than Blue Team Leader with more demands it was various voices at once on the convoy frequency.
"Under attack!"
"By the force they're shooting!"
"We're hit, taking dam. . ."
"Three is down, damn they got six too."
Temporarily flicking to a long range scan, Idaya saw Blue 2, a lone R-41 was flying through the freighter convoy. Already two freighters were no longer showing up though scan showed them present. The R-41 was disabling the freighter convoy.
Despite sound strategies from Idaya, Mika and Cor and some great shooting, several torpedoes hit. Of course it was half the amount it could have been. Red 1 has taken significant damage but is still functioning. One forward gun is destroyed but you still have two left facing front and one on every other facing. Two of the shields are down but can be repaired (R2-A9 has moved to engineering already). The fighters are swarming you but none have fired any other missiles so are likely reduced to guns alone.
A little over 15km distant, the freighter convoy is being disable by a lone R-41 Starchaser.
Grid Locations
Red 1 - A10
Freighter 1 - AH27
Freighter 2 - AG27
Freighter 3 - AF27 (Disabled)
Freighter 4 - AH28
Freighter 5 - AG28
Freighter 6 - AF28 (Disabled)
Blue 1 (R-41)- B11
Blue 2 (R-41) - AF31
Blue 3-8 (Z-95 x5) - E10
Blue 9-10 (Y-Wing x 2) - A19
Blue 11-12 (Y-Wing x 2) - A1
Red Team
Red 1 - 0/200SP 53/300HP Port & Aft shields damaged, front turbolaser x1 destroyed
Freighters 1, 2, 4 - Undamaged
Freighters 3, 5, 6 - Disabled
Blue Team
Blue 1 - Undamaged
Blue 2 - Undamaged
Blue 3 - Undamaged
Blue 4 - 25% Shields, 87% Hull
Blue 5- Destroyed
Blue 6 - Undamaged
Blue 7 - 4% Shields, 100% Hull
Blue 8 - Undamaged
Blue 9 - 5% Shields, 95% Hull
Blue 10 - 20% Shields. 100% Hull
Blue 11 - 3% Shields, 95% Hull
Blue 12 - Undamaged