Raziel
Dark Jedi Spymaster
The pair of Scion-class stealth corvettes entered the system far out from the main worlds, the burst of cronau radiation that heralded its arrival would be undetectable from the main worlds from such a distance. The pair accelerated gradually, but inexorably towards the system, keeping their signatures low. Due to the relative velocities of the two systems they’d jumped from, and the orbital position of the worlds in the system, the aimed not for the moon of Jamoura itself, but another body in the system.
They closed rapidly on the world from behind, turning an acute change of course, the exchange of kinetic energy between themselves and the celestial body would of course tend to zero over the course of their trip, but the momentum exchange relative to the system’s star meant they used the world as a slingshot to catch up with the target moon without having to burn their thrusters hard.
It took several hours to complete the journey to the moon, coming up on it from behind, relative to its orbital course. If they’d come in any harder, the thrust required to slow to make a safe drop would have given their position away. They cruised in nice and close, using their carefully calculated course to bring them in tight for the drop without major corrections.
As they passed they opened hangar doors and dropped three small pods that had been hastily fitted into the small corvettes. They hit the thin atmosphere at high speeds, but even a thin atmosphere was like a thick soup compared to the vacuum of space. Even shielded as they were against particles and the electromagnetic storm, their drop could not go undetected. Speed was their weapon now. The drop pods came to rest on the surface close to their target destinations: one of the massive transmission arrays that acted as the main node between the local systems and the Holonet.
OOC/
5v5 PvP as per discussions. No major tech (large vehicles etc) can be deployed through the EM field.
[member="Break"]
[member="Death's Hand"]
[member="Dagora-Kel"]
[member="Hion the Herglic"]
[member="Ashogo-Kel"]
They closed rapidly on the world from behind, turning an acute change of course, the exchange of kinetic energy between themselves and the celestial body would of course tend to zero over the course of their trip, but the momentum exchange relative to the system’s star meant they used the world as a slingshot to catch up with the target moon without having to burn their thrusters hard.
It took several hours to complete the journey to the moon, coming up on it from behind, relative to its orbital course. If they’d come in any harder, the thrust required to slow to make a safe drop would have given their position away. They cruised in nice and close, using their carefully calculated course to bring them in tight for the drop without major corrections.
As they passed they opened hangar doors and dropped three small pods that had been hastily fitted into the small corvettes. They hit the thin atmosphere at high speeds, but even a thin atmosphere was like a thick soup compared to the vacuum of space. Even shielded as they were against particles and the electromagnetic storm, their drop could not go undetected. Speed was their weapon now. The drop pods came to rest on the surface close to their target destinations: one of the massive transmission arrays that acted as the main node between the local systems and the Holonet.
OOC/
5v5 PvP as per discussions. No major tech (large vehicles etc) can be deployed through the EM field.
[member="Break"]
[member="Death's Hand"]
[member="Dagora-Kel"]
[member="Hion the Herglic"]
[member="Ashogo-Kel"]