Rolled 6, 6, 4, 4, 10, 2, 5, 7, 8, 1, 10, 9 = 72 (12d10)
>>5604185The lithe lizard zips back to his usual station, nimbly dodging around WEAVY and FoZ as the latter limps over to the engineering console, and quickly widens the view on the main screen to include the new contacts.
“The original contact, designation U1 has remained on a direct pursuit course as planned, and has failed to launch any additional munitions. In 32 seconds we’ll know if they’ve just been playing dumb, or haven’t actually spotted our minefield. Mr La’afette?” He turns to your Tactical officer for confirmation.
“Yes, the LRFs will light up their SCRAM drives for terminal manoeuvres so we can be certain how many, if any, reach the target, without the intervening light lag.” Comes the professional reply immediately.
“They’ve been programmed to converge on one side of the enemy craft in order to overwhelm any last ditch point defence fire.”
Your Ops officer nods along with the explanation, “Right, they’ve either seen them and shot them down already, or they haven’t and won’t have time to react and rotate more point defences on target. Meanwhile we have two new TFA contacts, designated U2. No visual confirmation so they must have just surfaced from subspace, no additional munition launches detected from them as of yet. Eyes-of-Night?”
Your Science officer takes over in turn, “The new contacts have almost identical signatures to U1. I’d suggest our Engineering officer assess the capabilities of our original adversary and apply them to the two new ones.” She nods primly, in the direction of her fellow Tyllano officer who has just finished settling into his station. He finishes powering up his console before turning his head to eye you and the semi-transparent figure floating over your shoulder with his still blue-tinted eyes.
“Awaiting your orders, Captain.” He says professionally, after a moment.
“I have the report from damage control for you Captain, though that Acting Chief Engineer of yours was in quite a flap, if you’ll excuse the pun.” You Comms officer offers dryly. “I’ll forward it to you and FoZ.” Isobel flicks the report to your holodisplay and then returns to quietly conversing with various crew members throughout the ship coordinating comms and keeping up with morale.
The original damage report you had received has been updated to include estimates of repair times and notes on which sections are completely destroyed and inaccessible. Curiously the auxiliary reactor, which previously was marked as red, is now only a damaged orange but apparently locked down from access. This must be where the WEAVERS are installing the captured void core.
Before you can begin assigning priorities, however, your Tac officer draws your attention back to the main screen.
>Rolled 10“Captain, TFA shows all 8 LRFs have entered their terminal phase successfully.” Coen says quickly, “Duration on the scope indicates close range engagement. I estimate their point defences will have limited effectiveness at that range.”
>Enemy PDs. DC9 