CHS4-27

==Chapter Twenty-Seventh - Book 4 – Chappy's Howling Siegers==
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===Facing Impending Invasion ===
Situation Room “SCIF”
Michella, Remains of Outworlds Alliance
September 11th, 3030
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As the top leaders looked at the holoscreen the governor thought there was no way that 5 escort ships and some dropships could overcome the force that her generals put together. Among the six commands represented in this room four were able to field either aerospace, dropships, or both for this battle just outside the gravity well of the planet. A little over a hundred ships were headed toward the enemy, in her mind victory was near.
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===Second Naval Battle for Michella===
Michella Orbit
Bridge of the UFFS White Bear, Federation Fleet
Michella, Remains of Outworlds Alliance
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Local Time: 1005 GST
Lt. Commander Alena Shashikanth turned to the com officer, “Patch me to the fleet, Ensign.” 
“Yes,Sir…..you are connected.”
Alena straighten up before she spoke, unknown to her why she did that every time she was going to speak to the people under her command, but she always did.
 
“Fleet, it is time again for battle pick your targets and destroy them, they have superior numbers, but we are superior fighters, when we crush them here, we will have air superiority over this planet, God speed and good hunting. Launch all craft and fighters.”
She looked over the battle plan once more, a four-prong advance hoping to divide their advantage of quantity to a more manageable fight. Pushing the enemy to deal with the threats by spreading them thin along the imaginary battle line.
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====Desperate moments of Combat====
Federation Fleet - Charlee Prong
Local Time: 1006 GST
Lieutenant Commander Sudani of the UFFS Vigil was apprehensive, this was her first time to be in command of a large Task Force, but she was up against 8 squadrons, around 48 fighters against her 12 fighters, 9 dropships and her corvette. So, her first major command could be her last. As they reached the outer range of their weapons, she ordered the fleet to fire at will and then prayed that they would make it.
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4th Alliance Wing
Alliance Fleet
Captain Hija Yoofi highest ranking pilot relayed the order from the ground to take out as many Dropships as possible no matter what the cost to material or life.
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Federation Fleet - Delta Prong
Lt. Commander Hakeem knew what this was about, last week he was caught by the fleet commander kissing her daughter, well in truth she was kissing him, and he had wanted nothing to do with that.
Unfortunately, the Fleet Commander walked in right at that moment, so he was screwed. How screwed, well she put his task force up against a superior fighting force, citing that his skill level would meet the challenge and that as soon as the other task forces are done, they will move over and reinforce him. Fat chance on that., he thought as his fleet moved to engage the 4th Alliance Wing.
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Alliance Fleet - Beta ProngLocal Time: 1007 GST
With both sides in range they fired all the weapons that had a firing solution, as a barrage of laser exchange happen, the Commander of the ground defense force aerospace fighters realize that this was hopeless battle, but if they took out as many dropships even if it was one that happen to be full of mechs it would help the troops on the ground. “Defense Force ignore the enemy fighters focus everything you have on the dropships now.”
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Federation Fleet - Charlee Prong
Lt. Commander Chojecki commander of the Dropship Dawn of the Day saw on their monitors that the enemy aerospace fighters were coming after the ships, meaning ramming them. “Evasive action! Quick move 20 degrees to the starboard now.” Right then an enemy Hellcat flew right where the Dropship used to be.
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Beta Prong'Local Time: 1008 GST
As the fighters strafe the dropships significant damage was done on several craft, but none were destroyed. However, for the Mitchella Defense Force, the 2nd Squadron lost four pilots and the 3rd Squadron lost 2 pilots. The Federation Fleet all flipped on their axis doing an 180 in a matter of seconds and started a high burn to slow down their velocity in order to gain distance on the near batter defense force.
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Federation Fleet - Delta Prong
The enemy fighters came swarming as bees trying to inflict damage on the capital ships bypassing the fighters picket line, fortunately for the Federation that tactic did not work since there was minimum damage and 4 of the enemy fighters were destroyed.
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Alliance Fleet 
Magda Escalante, battlefield commander thought this was stupid, screw the orders from the ground. “Fleet fire at your best target forget about just focusing on the capital ships.”
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Federation Fleet - Charlee ProngLocal Time: 1010 GST
Lieutenant Commander Sudani tried hard not to show panic in her voice as she gave orders to not only her ship but to the fleet. So far, all her ships have been able to dodge the couple of fighters that tried to ram them, but the worry now, the JumpShip. The battle was slowly floating closer to the invaluable ship, that must be the priority right now to protect that ship. “Fleet, protect the Concorde at all cost.”
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Alliance Fleet
The fighters were all over the place, Captain Hija Yoofi had lost control of the situation. 
About ten of her wingmen were just floating away from battle out of control and as of right now out of luck. 
Yet others were trying to ram their fighters into the DropShips screaming over the battlenet. War has a way of making men crazy., she thought. 
Still, she tried to give movement orders even if no one was listening.
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Delta Prong-Federation Fleet Local Time: 1011 GST
Lt. Commander Hakeem saw the change in the enemy tactics especially when he lost three of his fighters and one assault craft within seconds of themselves. “Target that Union Dropship, destroy it now.”
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Alliance Fleet
Magda Escalante was thinking that they may come out of this not only alive but as victors when several of the enemy ships were destroyed but then she noticed her error, her Dropship was no match for two escorts and a dropship as they open fired all targeting her as the weapons ripped through the Union dropship structural integrity collapse and the ship was no more.
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Alpha Prong - Alliance FleetLocal Time: 1013 GST
Horace Ito, commander of the Longshots, the lead DropShip knew that this was useless all of them was going to die, but as his ship approached the enemy fleet he saw an opportunity. 
One that he might be branded as a despicable warrior, but one that he was seriously thinking about.
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Federation Fleet
The battle was going well but Commander Shashikanth saw that one of the enemy Dropships had broken through and was coming dangerously close to the JumpShip Luna Mariner.
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Beta Prong
After a second pass by the Alliance Fleet fighters the result was a few damage Federation ships mainly the assault craft and all Alliance Fleet fighter destroyed.
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Alliance Fleet - Charlie Prong
It’s all but done, Captain Yoofi thought as she looked over her board, which was dead, as she spun off towards the planet, she could only hope that her thermal protection was still in place as she went through the atmosphere.
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Alliance Fleet - Alpha ProngLocal Time: 1014 GST
Ito made his decision. “Weapons as soon as we are in range fire on the JumpShip.” All eyes on the flight deck turned and looked at him and he glared back in his best commander glare, “I said fire on that ship”
“Yes, sir” was all he got and then the lasers shot out toward the sacred ship that was supposed to be off limits.
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Federation Fleet
‘Navigator, roll the ship 180 as soon as we past that ship and Weapons fire on it as soon as we get a lock. We cannot let it destroy our JumpShip.” Commander Shashikanth announced.
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Federation Fleet - Delta Prong
“Task Force Three and Five, this is Task Force Four we have arrived at your coordinates and will engage the enemy as soon as they are in range, Task force Two is mopping up their zone and will be here shortly.”
Lt. Commander Hakeem sighed, a sign of relieve since most of his fighters were destroyed and the enemy was turning their focus on his capital ships.
“Thanks, Task Force Four, we appreciate the help.” was all he could muster.
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Alliance Fleet - 1015 GST
With the reinforcement of the enemy and reports of the battle going very badly for them in the other sectors the acting battle commander ordered the retreat to Mitchella hopefully with the ground forces they will fare better.
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Atmosphere
Captain Yoofi saw through her pilot window that other ships were making planet fall also some just burnt up others looked like they might make it, the heat inside her cockpit was getting unbearable until she finally succumbs to the heat and passed out.
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====Aftermath of Battle====
Federation Fleet
Lt. Commander Hakeem saw the signs but could not believe it, Thank the gods that the other attack prongs did well enough to push the enemy into retreat. Although he doubted that he would ever hear the end of it about how many combat units he lost.
Within ten minutes of the first laser fire the battle was over, space junk floated all over the place and the Federation Fleet maintenance personnel were salvaging as much as possible and taking inventory of what if any Dropships where too damage for the decent down the well of Mitchella.
Three hours later
First Lieutenant Sanat, Battalion commander of all techs in the unit hated to brief the Colonel, he knew she wanted to make landfall and now while the enemy was still in disarray, although not nearly as bad as it could have been there is still going to be a two-day delay to fix four Dropships to guarantee the survival of planet re-entry and all of them had key components for the invasion, she was not going to be happy. Colonel Scragg took the report, tossed it on her desk thanked the Lieutenant and then dismissed him. It could have been worse thankfully only one enemy unit had any real pilots in it, unfortunately they were still not good enough to kill that low life Colonel that was kissing her daughter. Somehow, he had to die without her being accused of murder, somehow…just then the comm officer on the bridge informed her that the Duncan Renegade Combat Group Four was inbound and would be in orbit in 6 days. Also, the Death Regulators Elite Strike Force was almost done recharging at Sevon and would be in orbit within 11 days. At least the invasion will keep her mind from Hakeem, hopefully.
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Room 204, Hospital of the Healer
Mitchella City
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The next morning
Captain Yoofi awoke to see a man looking at her, he was either a nurse or a doctor. Her head pounded, but nothing else seemed to hurt except for not being able to talk.
“Good, your awake, Captain. I am Doctor Hector, you were deliver here last night. You suffered some third degree burns and a concussion, but other than that you are fit and free to go when you feel like it.”
“Oh, by the way you have been transferred to the Suicide Kings as all pilot survivors were, the Mitchella Space Defense Force has been disbanded, and all its assets assigned to the Suicide Kings effective immediately.”, Doctor Hector informed her.
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