Location: On a Boat
Allies: [member="Muad Dib"]
Enemies: [member="Catalys Maijora"], [member="Cedric Dorn"]
Objective: Operation ****block
Ships:
Larraq watched the battle play out in full, holographic glory as his fleet operated with precision and efficiency. The formation of two corvettes and a frigate, known as Fast-Cav One, had maneuvered to the left of the other frigates that made the center of the Mandalorian formation. Larraq watched as the three ships opened fire upon the two smallest Primeval ships. The primary Vulcan Mass Driver of the Haran'uliik Frigate barked out round after round of devastating flak rounds designed to shred ships of the Corvette class while the trio opened fire with a host of more traditional weaponry as well. On the far right flank, farther out than the right-most Keldabe Battleship, Larraq watched a swarm of contact icons reach the halfway point between their starting position and their goal. The fighter swarm he had ordered that way was made up of several different ships. Cabur and Beskad class starfighters, as well as Vhe'viin interceptors and Purudii fighters. With them were Naast Missile Boat, Kandosii Bombers, MMG-84S Gunships, and Cabur, Beskad, and Tegaanalir Patrol Ships all raced along the perimeter of the combat zone to find their way behind the Primeval Fleet while Larraq's Capital Ships continued to hammer the enemy forces with Electronic Warfare and more conventional weaponry.
Larraq could still feel the deck vibrating under the continuous barrage by the Keldabe Battleship's four Vulcan Mass Drivers and numerous other weapons. The vulcan weapons hosed space with shrapnel from massive flak rounds, rounds designed for shredding gunships and corvettes, but remarkably effective at shredding shields and known to cause sensor and tracking distortions due to the large amount of fast moving shrapnel it produced. Larraq's ships were calibrated to deal with the effects of the weapons. But since they had seen little use outside of his own fleets, there were few in the galaxy that would have reason to anticipate such a weapon. Larraq watched as the four Mandalorian Battleships drifted forward on maneuvering thrusters. It wasn't a fast advance on the enemy's flanks, but it slowly pulled the four corners of his formation around the enemy fleet like a closing hand. The battleships had not yet moved completely alongside the enemy fleet. At the start of this, they would have been at a 45-degree angle from the hostile fleet's point of view. Now, they were approaching the 55-60 degree marks as they slowly moved forward while keeping their prow pointed at the enemy.
Twenty-four contact icons raced forward from the enemy LSD's forward facing torpedo tubes. These small warheads would be directly in the area of effect of three
conical distortion projectors aimed at the Primeval fleet by the three Jahaatir Electronic Warfare Frigates that were currently barraging the two light star destroyers and two battleships of the primeval fleet with a mix of specialized weapons, including the
jamming beam projectors. Each of the Jahaatir Ewar Frigates carried four jamming beam projectors and a distortion projector. Each of the three ships was pointing one of its jamming beam projectors at each of the four largest primeval ships. Each jamming beam was, alone, capable of causing significant distortion to the sensors of a large star destroyer or command ship. Pointing three of them at a ship as small as a light star destroyer or a battleship was overkill, as was the addition of blanket coverage by the distortion projectors and their area of effect coverage.
As the twenty-four primeval warheads raced forward into this area of effect, they failed to appropriately acquire locks onto the four Mandalorian Battleships that were their intended targets. Instead, the twenty-four warheads arced and spiraled wildly in the void as they tracked the ghost signatures that were overwhelming their targeting systems. The mandalorian fleet's point defense turrets quickly prioritized targeting these warheads as quickly as possible, shooting down a good percentage of them. A full volley of
EMP Detonation Missiles were volleyed from the three Jahaatir Frigates, each armed to detonate after the warhead had flown strait forward for a set period of time before detonating at a precisely planned distance from the warships themselves. The missiles were targeting the cluster of wildly moving HELIX warheads that the enemy fleet had launched, hoping to disable as many of them as possible. Seven of the warheads were shot down by the point defense of the Mandalorian fleet. A further four were disabled by the EMP effect of the missiles launched by the Jahaatir Frigates. The thirteen remaining warheads detonated at random locations between the two fleets, and pointed at random directions. The laser-effect of the warheads would cause as much friendly fire as it did damage to the enemy.
Larraq watched the display with a mixture of amusement and disappointment.
<What is their commander thinking?> Larraq wondered to himself as he watched the movements of the Primeval fleet. Their sensors and targeting data would be an absolute mess, and yet they were firing advanced weapons that were highly vulnerable to electronic warfare at the obvious risk of damaging their own ships. The only logical course of action would have been to surrender and leave when the option had been provided, and yet the enemy commander had ordered a suicidal course of actions. Instead of opening fire with everything at their disposal and hoping to get a few good shots in before the enemy retaliated, the Primeval commander had ordered a single volley of seven warheads, not even 1/10th the total alpha-strike capacity for a ship as large as what they had brought. It was less of an opening attack and more like flipping off a cop. Just a bad idea.
Larraq sighed at the actions of whatever Primeval Commander had chosen to assault the heart of the Mandalorian people. He had heard great claims that the Primeval were a force to be reckoned with, and yet their navy was, apparently, made up of hand-me-down ships from halfway across the galaxy and commanded by fools that barely knew how to operate them.
"Just put them out of their misery. Disable all missile guidance systems, set for timed detonation, and begin full volleys at the enemy fleet." Larraq ordered as he watched the battle unfold on the display in front of him. Even just one Jahaatir Frigate would have been enough to lock down the small Primeval Fleet, but Larraq was currently hitting them with three such vessels. All the same, random shots from the enemy ships were hitting the Battleships as well as the rest of the fleet in spite of the absurd amount of electronic warfare being pumped into them. Most of the fleet's ships had shown good shield stability until the AOE warheads of the Primeval Fleet had detonated, causing as much damage to the Primeval Fleet as it had to the Mandalorian one. Now, Larraq's ships were showing a dangerous dip in shield strength. Normally, Larraq would have ordered his ships to maneuver closer to the Primeval ships and activate their shield leech weapons, but with the enemy fleet under the effects of Ewar, closing with them would just make his ships an easier target.
"We're not using the main thrusters. Divert power from there to shields." Larraq ordered.
"And increase power draw from the reactors."
At his command, Larraq's battleships began adding their own warheads to the rest of the armament they were firing into the enemy fleet. Concussion Missiles were volleyed from mass-driver launchers, vastly increasing their velocity and reducing the time it took them to reach their target, as well as reducing the amount of time the enemy had to detect, identify, predict, and aim at the fast-moving warheads. Knowing that their own flak effects would likely shred the warheads if they simply targeted the center of the ships, where the flak cannons were currently focused on shredding the shields of the primeval capital ships and keeping the enemy from being able to safely launch starfighters or bombers, the Mandalorian battleships instead aimed their warheads at the prow or stern of the enemy ships, far enough away from the flak effect to avoid 'friendly fire' on their own missiles. On the forward holoprojector, volley after volley of tiny icons raced between his ships and the primeval fleet.
<They should have just surrendered and left.> Larraq thought to himself.
[member="Kaitara Ordo"]
(OOC: I think you got the wrong thread hun. Nobody's anywhere close to the surface of Mandalore in this thread. However, there is another skirmish on Mandalore in
this thread where you should be able to engage in the ground battles / dueling going on.)
