Operation Target Shooting

Operation Target Shooting was a joint operation between Starfleet , Deniksol Starfleet and the ESRO Remnants Fleet against the Romulan Star Empire. The goal was to destroy an outlying romulan base, in order to prevent them from reaching Starbase Infinity, and effectively put them on the defensive. The attack was an overall success, as the romulan base was destroyed, and the romulans were now on the defensive.
==History==
Starbase Infinity had been attacked by a large fleet of romulan ships. While the fleet failed to make it past the #1 Regenerative Shield, it left the impression on Starbase Infinity that they were not going to stop.
AliG1972 called for a joint task force operation to be planned and executed. The date was scheduled and preparations were made to attack a romulan base. If this base were destroyed, the Romulan Star Empire would be out of range of Starbase Infinity, and SBIC could attack without the threat of being attacked themselves.
===The Attack===
SBIC's ships dropped out of warp only 12 kilometres away from the station, and began firing the moment the dropped out of warp. 2 torpedoes hit the station before it raised shields, which disabled the comm array almost immediately. This stroke of luck meant that reinforcements could never be called, simplifying the entire operation.
The romulan base started firing on the ships, however they had little effect on the high tech, well designed ships utilised by the Federation Starfleet, Deniksol Starfleet and ESRO Remnants fleet. Nearby romulan valdore classes and telazort classes attacked, but again had little effect. They were nowhere near as manoeuvrable as the raptor classes used by ESRO, severely underpowered in comparison to the ships being used by Starfleet, and could not make a dent in the incredibly sturdy Deniksol ships.
The SBIC made quick work of the base's shields, and started firing near the power core in an attempt to overload it. However, the base deactivated it and switched to auxiliary to prevent an overload, so the ships started firing on the auxiliary battery instead. They destroyed the battery and cut power to the entire station, forcing them to use the main core. From here SBIC's ships fired on the core, and caused it to start overloading. The SBIC ships warped out as fast as they could, and at the same moment, the base's singularity core breached, and the station collapsed into itself.
===The Aftermath===
Not only had the attack met it's goals, destroying the station and cutting access to Starbase Infinity, but it also caused turmoil in the politically unstable romulan senate. Many began to doubt the "power" advertised in propaganda by the romulan senate, and protests started all over the planet demanding the truth about the attacks on Starbase Infinity. While the outcomes of these protests remain to be seen, for now, the romulans are no longer able to access Starbase Infinity, are now on the defensive and are in a state of political turmoil. It was, in every way possible, a victory for SBIC. The SBIC-Romulan War and everything that happened in it was now under the control of the SBIC.
==Fleet Numbers==
The attack was extremely small scale compared to the attack on Starbase Infinity by the romulans, with only a handful of ships involved. While the romulans outnumbered the attacking fleet, SBIC and it's allies were far more developed than the romulan fleet.
Romulan Force
*7 Valdore Classes
*6 Telazort Classes
*Romulan Base
Federation Starfleet Force
*U.S.S. Atkins
ESRO Force
*S.S. Aotearoa "The waka of death" (Raptor Class )
Deniksol Starfleet Force
*2 Loli Class Heavy Battlecruisers
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