Billie didn't have time to admire her handiwork, receiving her next set of instructions. "Let's go light it up." She said with a glint in her eyes as she moved into a standard combat spread, taking the lower position and allowing Machins that vantage point.

”Holy crap! LC they’re not heavy fighters, they’re bombers and they’re carrying a fucking payload!” Harry shouted as she watched her target split open like an egg to reveal what were either bombs or rockets before it exploded. With her cannon chewing up the light fighter she would follow it into it’s dive, aligning her crosshairs just ahead of it before squeezing the trigger in order to finish it off.

 Lizzy smiled and sent to Nikki," Ok lets both hit the two seater then each take an escort fighter lets come from their blind spot." Lizzy would fly with Nikki and when they both had a shot Lizzy opened up full guns on the 2 seater then then quickly went to the right escort and went to get a good shot on it hopefully as the two seater is destroyed by her and Nikki.

Nikki laughed a bit and went with Lizzy after putting a new song on.

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"Nothing like having fighting music"

 Some of  The  roussian  two seaters  started to reach the  forwards ships of the Fleet.. doors  opened in their  bomb bays , the  two  bomb-things   drooped with  small thrusters     burning bright..

 Two   were Direct hit  on the  Athena's   port  side, near the  Hanger   Dec,, a few other  ships , that didn't have   Roussians  boarding them were starting to get Hit.

  Shadow  Got the word  and   Said into COMs  across the Fleet,Knockdown   the  2  seaters.. they have  some  kind of buzz bombs..

  Harry   finished off  the  damaged  fighter  , Kat  COMed,..do not  do that!... there are plenty to kill we can finish wounded one later.... come.. we   go  for the  2 seaters!

 Shadow  and Flores    started  to     turn on the    Fighters  nearest the  'tip of the spear..all  8 hsips.. 4  from delta 1  and  4  from delta 2 were  all smokign from hits  taken from the Roussian Cap ships  and   the  fighter-bombers.

 The downside  for the Roussians,,, the rest of Delta  1 and delta  two was pouring over    top of the      8  ships  that  Broke  the wall... and they weren't  stoppign until the reached the Planet.

 armed with  beth and  LillY's  target scans... the rain started to come for  Roussa

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 in retrospect, attacking from  under the 2 seaters, was not only the standard, it was also  most effective to destroy the  aircraft, if they still had thier   ordinance.

  Shadow   came in Hard   at the Nose  of a tri-fighter formation  with  Flores    torching the  2  seater  as the reacted to  Shadow... Shadow's   Aircraft  had been hit many time , but thus  far, nothing Telling.


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 Nikki and Lizzy   came  in   one  another  set of    tri-fighters ..  another  group  had  sent its  weapons  into the belly of  The Burian  Flagship

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 Billie  and Machins   were above The hermes  Now  as the  fight began to sink further to the    battering Rams of the  assault... The roussians   were overwhelmed.. Delta Fleet ships, Burians. and Nivairan    streaming past the    8  that broke the Wall...like WW I  troopers   who dover on Barbed wired  so thier  mates   could step on them  and    charge the  enemy

 Alright Ensign?... look for the two seaters, Knock them down first

 Lizzy sees and hears everything going on and says, "Ignore the fighter escorts lets hit those fucking two seaters hard and fast Nikki. Fire and Fury !!!!!" Lizzy was flying her ass off, dodging fighters, and heading for the nearest two seater and she will come in from the bottom with Nikki at her side hopefully and shoot down as many as they can, covering each other as they go.

”I don’t like leaving loose ends, nor do I want anyone getting killed by a fighter I didn’t finish off” Harry responded as she moved back into formation with Kat and went in search of more of the two seater bombers that were moving to attack the cap ships at the fleets head.

"If the pissants pop up, take them out.  but I agree the 2 seaters first." as she fired into the one fighter in front of her.  she flew in tandem with Lizzy

   The Hermes  couldn't quite  cross the  T of the  Roussian who was unloading troops  as fast as thier  smaller  shuttles  could  end them.

   The Hermes starboard  Guns  fried, hitting   the  Roussian  Port  Stern,  Plates  flew  and Debris .

   The Roussian Cap ships  were in a very bad way now... over 80 ships  strong and set a  wall that would  scare normal folks... failed to  hinder the delta Fleet..  the  8 ships  that  hit the Wall first, where stopped  for now, as  well as a  few others  who had been hit   , but  now  the  Fleet   poured through the  Breech in the wall..  hammering  Roussians   as  the  pushed over the  8  that  punched the hole..

 The Roussian  Flanks  were get   pounded  as  delta  3 and Delta   4  , curled  around the ends..The defenders   were loosing ships.. some hit surrender lights  and   tried to   dive  out of the action, only to  be  chased  and Pounded to box  wood   by  Delta  vessels.

 The Burians reached  the planet and started to   shell, even as the   rest of the Fleet was   Catching Up, the Nivarians    were headed   downward, and  Hammer  the  southern Hemisphere.

  The Hyrians were coming with the  delta Fleet's  transportbases... the roussians were now  trapped   between the  fleet that was  starting to shell their   planet, and the Hungry Hyrians  who wanted to tear up the Roussians.

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    coming  , en Masse were  4   two seaters  and   8  fighters...  the   two seated   configured in a  way for the rear guns  to   cover    themselves , except  for  where the fighters

 Hugo Kruass and  Steele  charged  down and took out  one fighters , but had to vver  off when  the rear  gunners stitched  up Higo..

 Steeler here... a formation of   Two seaters  and Fighters  bearing on on the   Hermes...6:00 high...

 Machins  said.....Hermes 6 , Ensign..lets go.....

Billie nodded. "I've got your back!" she responded as she followed Machins, making it a point to look around while also checking her screens for any enemies.

 Lizzy looks and sees them, she then says," Ok Fury lets go get these fucking bastards, concentrate on the two seaters from below get their payload." Lizzy would head for the group 6 o'clock high with Nikki and any other fighters coming to help defend the Hermes, where Izzy and Haley where and everyone else she cared about.

Spotting the large formation of bombers moving into position Harry would gracefully turn her fighter and begin her attack run, calling the sighting to Kat as she did so, with her aiming for the port most bombers fully intending to gut it with a burst of cannon fire before moving on to the next one in line.

   Machins  and  Billie  Dove into the fray... Machins  chewed up  a fighter, that lost a  wing  and    spun out  downward.. Machins   kept on course towards the  2 Seaters..

 Billie  had  an open shot  at the lead  twoseater  and  took out the   Canopy  and the Nose, removing the   aircraft from the board in a flash of fire.

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 Lizzy and  Nikki came in from another side.   Lizzy   hit   a Fighter     , shattering it.. while Nikki  took out  another  2  seater,

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 From  under the formation Kat says,I will take escort..you torch the egg carier..    the lower   escort  fighter   was  hit and  jerked upwards  before   fire  broke out in the cockpit, then blew up...

 Harry  fired  at the two seater . the last one of this   formation, it tried to send off its  payload, but  that only gave Harry a clear shot at the payload,  and the  aircraft  musroomed  into a Big ball of fire, and was gone.

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 Shadow  Called over ALL COMs...All Wing  Commanders.. Portect your  Vessel if you  are at the wall... if  your  Cap ship is   heading  to, or already  at the Planet, cover them  from any  two seater attacks.... Keep knocking them down!

   Two  , Two seaters without   escort headed  towards the Hera, who was    a few miles  behind  The hermes.. she looked in a Bad  way..., but Fired her Broad  sides  as she slowly spun around  like a malfunctioning  compass...

  Shadow didn't  even say a word to Flores, when he  broke to the right she Broke  to the Left ,,, firing on the   two seaters with  delfection shot  for the side..using the Pusle  weapons as tracers  before  Killing the Aircraft  with 37 MM fire.

 frans COMed in..we're goign to have aloty of beat up aircraft, and we didn't reach the damn planet yet!

Shadow frowned as he looked at the  Command Console, his  sadness at the lights that were blacked out... and the increasing  numbers  of yellow   and  red lights..

 When the dec is clear. we'll send back the worst  first...  anythign that can fly is  goign into atmo..i promise you that.

Pulling back hard on the controls, Harry would send her Mantis into a loop that would pull it and more importantly her away from the growing fireball that had appeared as a result of her hitting the ordinance lurking within the belly of the bomber above her. With the enemy now well and truly torn to shreds Harry would fall back into formation as Shadow spoke of sending home the wounded birds and that the rest of them would be entering atmo for the next stage of the campaign ”ok but until then let’s find some more Roussians to butcher” Harry said, already searching the Black and her scanners for more targets for her to hunt down and kill.

 Lizzy would look for her next target, as they went to take out the two seaters. Lizzy got a fighter and would look for any two seaters left if none near her, she would stay on Nikki's wing and go after fighters or any shuttles and smaller ships she sees close to her or threatening any nearby ships. " Nice shot Fury lets find more abd guys to kill, the child killers need to all die, the Empire needs to die."  Lizzy was flying her ass, still using the controlled rage and her powerful emotions, but still staying in control and killing as many bad guys her and Nikki could get.

Nikki replied "No one gets to hurt those kids anymore with out payback" She followed  "Let's let them know what we think of Empire scum

In reply to Billie Morrisson (msg # 35):

Sarah watched the board light up, "LT Robinson, transmit to all ships. Prioritize targets in order of Red, Orange, Yellow, if you don't have any in your sector hit anything that moves."

She says watching as hard ammo rounds the size of a small car rained down on the planet. If anything the Burian guns seemed to fire faster on the planets targets than they had against the Roussian naval vessels. The energy and hard ammo weapons reaching out like the fingers of the gods smiting their foes.

  The  fighters   were thinnignout, either gettign shot  down  or heading for the planet for the 'next meeting'

  the roussian    ships  at either end of the broken wall were trying to scatter,, but  two ships   would bracket them, regardless of surrender lights.

 hundreds of Enemy fighters were  streakign down through the Atmo as well as  shuttles , as Roussians  abandoned  ship...most  of the shuttles  were blow  up before they reached Atmo.

  5 Roussian cap ships   that sat with   flashing lights and  hardly any damage.. had some  ships of Delta 3  send  boarding  teams across and found only wounded  in dead /

   Admiral Hennings was informed and he told the ships  to  clean out any roussians. and those ships would be prize  vessels.

 meanwhile.. shells    rained  down on Roussa...

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  Shadow to Hermes... we  don't have much action right now..if we are goign into atmo, we need to  get our   belts  refreshed.. and patch up some of the fighters.

 Captain Morris  answered in his clipped British tone,..we have a bit of a mess about?.. should be a few minutes before  we invite  you in..stay sharp...

 Alright Boys and Girls?  you heard the Man... take  stock of your  damage and  what  ammo you'll use..   we'll be goign    into Atmo  next.... make sure  you see where  the beach ehad beacons   set up, incase you have to Pod Out...

"How are you holding up, Machins?" Billie asked as she checked her own status. She didn't think she took any damage nor were there any indicators on that spoke otherwise.

With her orders to protect the Hermes preventing her from pursuing any of the enemy aircraft that were currently fleeing to the planet’s surface, Harry would give a derisive snort over the comment about checking for the beachhead, knowing that the chances of survival behind enemy lines were extremely slim, and that was assuming she didn’t simply explode. She would however check the status of her fighter, noting that other than needing a fresh belt of 37mm ammunition that she was all set to go.

  Machins  chuckled,..good..better then i was last time out... You have to  worry, sometimes   about a wingman.. are they scared...are the headcases, will they listen, or will they leave to  hanging while they chase kills?...

 I bet 20% of the  Pilots in the ESN who die, are because thier  wingmen left  them to die

.................

  Opening up a COM  as the   Hermes wing   began to circle the ship,..Shadow here... Captain Si?..  portside , just below the  Bridge, , plates  as missing, a bit of smoke drifting out?.. You  have folks on that?

  No, LC, thank you  I'll send word to damage Control...

 Any News on the Fleet. Captain?

 We did not lose  any ships, but  6  retired from the field... One had to blow its hanger dec. they are Limping back  to where the  Burians stopped the Roussian chase... Even battered, they can for a   decent defense together..

 what about the Eggplants?

 At last count?... we accounted for almost all.... 5 escaped towards  the  outter planets.... and we captured  at least six  now.. others are being  cleaned out by boarding parties..going to be alot of scrap to share with the allies after this.

Bura 2 was on a mission, hunting down Roussian ships. Captain JA-DE aboard the Retribution had them operating like a wolfpack cutting off the still fighting Roussian ships off then swarming them, or running down those attempting to escape and pounding them into scrap metal.

At the edge of Roussa's atmosphere the Bura 1 task group continued it's punishment of the planet. Gunners prioritizing the critical infrastructure when able, otherwise hitting anything that looked like a residence, village, town, farms. Anything that looked to be developed and not a naturally occurring feature, and even some of those were being targeted. Sarah had been right the Burian navy was clearly taking a scorched earth approach to this battle.

 Sam watched her screens as the battle unfolded, the Roussians where getting decimated. Sam kept Coms with Bura 2, sending retribution to those bastards. Sam just went to work, you fuck with our kids and you die.

 Sam sent primary big targets to the gunners, Sam would try and listen in on what the Roussians where doing to fight off the attack, and as always look for a way to hurt the Roussians.

 Sam was normally a sweet woman but she was out for vengeance.
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 Lizzy checked her fighter status and it was green across the board, half her hard ammo was gone but that was the only problem she had with her fighter.

 Her and Nikki took positions protecting the Hermes as she wondered how Izzy and everyone was doing on the hanger deck. She also would inspect the Hermes and looked at the space junk.

 Lizzy would also watch the explosions on the surface saying die you child killers.

  Captain  O'Reilly 'ere... LC.. yer  ta bring the    fighters back.. lead load, we'll patch up what we  can.. Admiral say's  you'll be leavin' again in about   2 hours....

 ..Already Done, Captain... alright... head to  #2  and  #3 bays... i want your best fersh and  new  Powercells...we've only been out about an Hour, but  we may as well top off  so the  crews  can recharge the ones we have  in now....get somehting to eat and drink..the next food you'll have will be Beach head  QM  food..or  eating Roussian goodies    when we pick through the ruins..

>>>>>> fighters to hanger  dec...