Away mission, Hibernia
In reply to Fate (msg # 144):
The next few weeks is not particular exciting. The Labrysian garrisons, lacking leadership, put up valiant but predictable defences, and you are able to seal them into their caves most effectively. The Labrysian rebels are then able to patrol them and, as they expend considerable resources getting out again to avoid slow suffocation when their scrubber equipment finally runs out, the rebels are able to tear them apart and reclose the entrances, condemning those within to a suffocating end.
The attack on the research centre does reveal that they have developed a weapon with is really an early version of a Particle cannon. Unfortunately the design was sent back to the home planet just a week before you got here, after the ill-fated assault by the Midway destroyed the massive new and fast battleship.
Prior to the Dastavkas return, two small hero class vessels and a Lightning class from Aegir return with tanks and holds brimming with supplies and missiles. Most of the missile fighters are able to reload, having been almost empty, and everyone breaths a sigh of relief. However, they also bring work of a Governemtal assault on Aegir by the Government fleet based at the research colony, in which the bulk of the Government fleet was lost. Somehow, they got word the Yuri and Mirotovetz were absent, and tried to press the attack, but the planetside fighters proved too much for the 5 cruisers. There was significant damage to the fighter base, and a few fighters were lost, but the Government fleet was destroyed.
When the Dastavka does finally return, it brings with it several small Labrysian troopships and warships, though the bulk of the fleet went to the research colony to attack it as a distraction. Finding the fleet based there absent, they attacked the incomplete starbase and have managed to attack and capture that planet also, and the reserve fleet and troops have returned with Dastavka to secure Hibernia.
This message was last edited by the GM at 22:24, Wed 23 Aug 2017.