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Rescue [Rhi, TRIM subjects, TRIM staff, open]

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GIR:
2100 hours

"Confirmation from Ares and Tartarus fleets. Operation is a go. Confirmation from Draconis, Heavies have been approved. Repeat, we are go to use Heavies. Missile cruiser Lanze der Ewigkeit, carriers Ema Vajalikkus and Ema Vaprus, and destroyers Erika and Adelheid are en route to the target and will arrive when we do to provide support against any capital ships that show up. Ares fleet is sending heavy cruisers Tragoúdi tou Drákou and Nýchi Drákou, and Tartarus is sending super transports Klepsýdra, Spirograph, and Kallígrammi̱ 1. All ships projected to arrive simultaneously.", the on-duty comm officer reported, "Secondary objectives suggested. Command wants us to see about liberating as many other subjects as possible, and capture as many staff as we can for interrogation.".

"Let's worry about our big sister first.", the captain reported, "Imperial Knight-Captain Wilhelm, status report.".

<11 Heavies present and accounted for, weapons armed, shuttles stocked, just waiting for the green light, Captain.>, Wilhelm reported.

"Copy that. I'll clear the pilots for launch as soon as our fighters have cleared a path.".

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0120 hours

The rings of white light appeared simultaneously, as did the openings in space, marking the arrival of the 11 vessels. Immediately after the void rifts and warp gates closed, fighters began issuing from the two carriers, Lanze der Ewigkeit, and With Joined Hands as the cruisers and destroyers selected targets and opened fire.

[Basically, this stage of the operation is meant to clear out the station's external defenses.

The two carriers are similarly shielded to With Joined Hands, with the exception of the Aresian kinetic barriers and Tartarian plasma shields, but only have 10' of armor. Weapons-wise, each only has 122 particle beam turrets. Each can deploy up to 200 fighters. Each is about four times the size of Warmonger. (bear in mind that Drake replaced a lot of his ship's fighter bays and other space with cargo holds and weapons.)

The missile cruiser has the same shielding, but no turrets and relies on its EW package and 52 missile tubes (arranged in 4 pods of 13) for offense. It carries a compliment of 46 Schatten Falken fighters. It is about half the size of With Joined Hands.

The destroyers each have a single array of Holy Lance antimatter cannons (that's 4 in a diamond arrangement), and no fighters or turrets. They have 24' of armor plating and 12-layer Holy Shields. Each is about four times the size of the Warmonger

The Aresian heavy cruisers each carry 12 Hades (20 megaton nuclear warheads) missile tubes in 2 pods of 6, as well as twin Alpha massive mass accelerator cannons. They each have 6-layer kinetic barriers and full EW packages, as well as 44 twin-88mm rapid-fire turrets. Size-wise, each is about twice the size of the Warmonger.

The super transports are both Nova-class, and, in their current configuration, carry 200 fighters each, as well as numerous shuttles and ground troops. Each is the same size as the Avarice, and carries no weapons. Novas rely on their fighters and other capital ships for defense. Each has the same shielding as the Avarice.

Current fighter deployments are maximum capacity or 1.5x the number of defending fighters, whichever is less. If there aren't any, then assume each has deployed 1/4 of its compliment to screen the shuttles and unarmed ships.]

masonwolf:
Not too far from the fleets, a small 9 ship fleet of 4 frigates, 3 destroyers, a carrier and a dreadnaught warped in and stayed in position. Inside the Dreadnaught in the seat of command over his men was the Wolfen Admiral Damion of House Fireblade, he typed away at the many screens that gave him the statistics of every ship in his force. "Sir! We have another fleet in the vicinity, they are raising weapons and shields to attack the station."

"Establish a Com link, I want to inform them of our presence... Raise all shields and prep the transports for boarding the station." he ordered as he shrunk down the screen and rose from his seat to allow the imagery scanner to detect his body for transmissions with the other fleet.

As soon as he got connection to the other fleet he stood at attention and gave the leading commander a bow of respect < Greetings sir, I am Admiral Damion of the Wolfen Republic Strike fleet. We have soldiers who were captured by TRIM in the station and have come to free them. We will gladly help attack the station under your command but our soldiers are our utmost priority and will take higher priority than your own.>

GIR:
[Going with having caught the station with its pants down to get this thing moving.]

"No enemy capitols on our sensors. Our sisters report a similar absence. All fighter-bearing ships are deploying at quarter-capacity for screening and station defense neutralisation.", With Joined Hands' XO reported.

"We've got incoming! Nine ships of unknown alignment. Klepsýdra and Spirograph are deploying additional screens. Nýchi Drákou is bringing her mains to bear on their dreadnaught. Holding fire pending motive ID.", the sensors officer reported.

"Captain, we're being hailed. Bringing up visual now.", the comm officer  announced.

"Let me get this straight.", the captain began, pinching his nose, "You're hailing us asking to join in on our mission, offering to lend your forces to ours, but you want to demand we put your mission first?", he continued,

"You're free, of course, to attack the station. Hell, we'll even screen your transports. But our sister comes first and foremost. You don't like it? Your forces can go whatever way they choose when they get to the station as long as you stay out of our way.", he finally decided, "XO, have Nýchi Drákou point those things somewhere else for now. And see if we can get a couple sword breakers sent our way.", he ordered.

masonwolf:
"I'm glad we've come to an agreement Captain, May the Dragon of light guide your men to victory." With that said the com was closed and the fleet stood by and awaited their orders. "Solar Whale, release all fighters. Task force 1 follow my vessel, Task force 2 go below and take out the defenses with green squadron. Task force 3 and squadron yellow, go above and take their defenses from there. remaining squadrons will defend the transports... Cease all fire until they fire the first shot"
With orders said, the fleet began their move with shields up and some ships overlapping shields for the best defense.

Chronicler:
((OOC: Mind if Clara Amalise gets in on this prison break?))

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