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“Caddy Lead to All Caddy elements, ignore the corvettes, I repeat, ignore the corvettes. We ain’t going for small fry today. Converge on the Whales and gut her.” Wave upon wave of Bomber line up into 3 formations, TIE/LNs flying forwards to harass the corvettes and try buying space for your slower little hulks of explosive to line up and release safely. The screaming sounds of TIE engines reverberate across dozens of comms channels as the TIE/LNs set their engines to full power, aware that engines exploding is just as much a threat as catching a blaster shot, but speed like theirs would save them from a hit or two, just maybe.
The first wave collides into the screen, and TIEs are swatted from existence, the first wave scattering with 50% losses, before their discipline and training kicks in, and they reform with the converging second wave. More are lost, but the Corvettes are forced to retrain on the LNs as the guns actually begin wearing on their shields in weak spots. The bombers make it through, but not unscathed, and begin the dumping of ordnance across the “Whale”, spearing huge wounds deep into her, and breaking her shields, while weapons blisters and pods across the surface frantically blast with everything they’ve got. By the time the Whale is done fighting back and escape pods and atmosphere flow from her remains, your Bomber compliment was badly mauled, scattering away from the enemy fleet for safety, but unmolested by enemy fighters, allowing them to begin lining up for their next attack.
“Commander, sensors are picking up enemy vessel uncloaking!” A shimmering wave of armor plate materializes in the void, on a direct course for Thagg’s Starboard, before opening up 2 small hangar doors, and massive blasts of explosive occur. It puzzles you on if Thagg hit them somehow before they finished uncloaking, before you register it as Mass Drivers. Capital grade ones. Two huge projectiles fly forth, striking 2 Lancers, and tearing them apart, one going critical after what can only be a reactor cookoff. A second salvo flies true as well, shearing off most of an Arquiten’s engine pod, and even as firing solutions begin being prepped, the Cloakship begins shimmering again, as it’s cloak begins turning back on. Your fleet is about to be in gun range of the enemy fleet, but you could focus fire barrage the area around where the cloak ship should be with your force to try forcing it out of cloak again. Otherwise you could have your own ship fire on it, but chances of hitting after it cloaks go down dramatically without a blanket of fire.
