RidOv Chpt-16

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==Ridiculously Overboard!! (A Captain Roberts Tale!!)Chapter 16 - The Big Introduction==
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There was a fight...
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...in the system when she arrived. on the one side, weighing in at no armor and a pair of DropShips, was an Outworlds flagged merchant vessel broadcasting out of Cerberus, the Larry's Wife.
On the other, were a a JumpShip with three DropShips, including two Unions and a Leopard, flying no ident but still marked with the hull markings of a Federated Suns naval unit. one of the dropships still had remnant paint from DCMS service (the Leopard) and the other two, included one with FWL markings and one with Lyran markings-all were defaced.
The Larry's Wife was clearly taking the worst of it from fighters and the guns of the Dropships, and streaming helium from ruptured tanks.
(("We can't beat that."))
"We should. The people on that merchie aren't going to be getting out of here alive if someone doesn't help." Amanda judged. her head throbbed and her neck ached. "We can run propulsion, OR gunnery right?"
(("Yeah, and we need both to win a fight against those odds."))
She bit her lip, "Maybe not. Get ready to switch the commander's override from propulsion, to gunnery."
(("Amanda, this is a bad idea. We can't launch fighters, because we have no pilots...")), Desmond told her
"We're here to recruit, and this is reputation." she stated.
She got up from her command couch, and activated the weapons console station.
(("You're really going to insist on doing this, aren't you?"))
"They're from Cerberus, these other guys aren't." she stated simply.
(("Very well. First, deprive the attackers of landing spaces. Target the Leopard CV, and the shuttle bays on the two Unions, then the enemy JumpShip's sail assembly and helium tankage with the ship's lasers while under drift, before reclaiming helm for evasive maneuvers, I can run the point defenses when their fighters come after us."))
"Sounds like a plan." she pulled her false eye out, and plugged it into the weapons console's maintenance data port.
"Yo-ho-ho raise the black flag Yo ho." she whispered, as she lit the engines on a 3 gravity burn for the battle, before moving to the gunnery console's main controls.
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