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Final Turns

Walt grips the stick until his knuckles turn white, taking aim on the Odslighet as he maintains course straight towards it. His heart is pounding in his chest, and his jaw is tense. He can't see anything outside of his roosterpit save for the looming Odslighet before him.

He glances at the radio and opens an Aesthian channel, hailing the flagship. "Lieutenant Ashford requesting clearance to land on the AFS Odslighet," he calls, his voice eerily level.
: What the- how did you get this channel?
: Really, Lieutenant, now that the other renegades are dealt with you decide now you've had enough? You could at least try to die like an Aesthian.

“Xiaomei! stuff!”
Jaakko evades again, desperately trying to get out of the way of the railgun.
The green bolt of the last gun passes harmlessly behind you.

Bell pulls the trigger and fires the cannon with the hope that the shot will connect with the Odjur.
KSM accuracy 50
Experience provides bonus of  8
Aim provides bonus of  20
Test taken at 78
Roll: 41 - success

Target hit. The Odjur loses partial power to its left engines and begins drifting off course. It returns fire with one SAM.

Ellie fires an RGM at the Odslighet's bridge to distract the point defense.
The missile is shot down.

Yamashiro steps up and tries to knock out the last gun.
PPC accuracy 55
Experience provides bonus of  10
Aim provides bonus of  10
Test taken at 75
Roll: 84 - failure

She misses.

Now at Point Blank Range of the Odslighet and its escorts.


Aesthian Airships will reach their target in 2 turns.


: What the- how did you get this channel?
: Really, Lieutenant, now that the other renegades are dealt with you decide now you've had enough? You could at least try to die like an Aesthian.
"I just wanted to make sure you were on board, Sir."

He fires the plasma cannon twice at the Odslighet's top flight deck, knowing full well that it'll critically overheat the weapon. The bolts are followed by the rest of his guns firing together at the same target, trying to maximize the damage dealt. He closes his eyes, staying the course as he hurtles straight for the flagship. He knows that he'll be killed instantly in a dazzling blaze of plasma on impact. Slowly, Walt exhales, fully at peace with and embracing his choice.

He may have never confessed his feelings for her while she was still alive, but he prayed to the gods to be reunited with Virvel eternally in the fields of battle above. He'd tell her how he felt then, he promises himself. We can start a new kill count together. We'll keep track this time. Maybe you'll even get to beat me. A faint smile spreads across his face at the thought.

I'll see you soon, Klara.
« Last Edit: October 29, 2018, 09:56:52 PM by carolcat »

: Does anyone have the Evig Seger's roosterpit?

Bell asks as she deploys a chaff packet before trying to duck out of being hit by the SAM.



Ellie tries dumping an LCB shot into the Odjur's damaged engine.
« Last Edit: October 29, 2018, 10:12:12 PM by Operator¹ »

Jaakko disables his AOA limiter and yanks the stick. He drags the EML beam across the bridge, and follows it with a line from his RAC. He yanks the stick the other way and attempts to get away from the carrier.

Though he'd never been one for prayer, he chants at the top of his lungs a incantation in appeal to the Gods for aid.

Final Turns

"I just wanted to make sure you were on board, Sir."

He fires the plasma cannon twice at the Odslighet's top flight deck, knowing full well that it'll critically overheat the weapon. The bolts are followed by the rest of his guns firing together at the same target, trying to maximize the damage dealt. He closes his eyes, staying the course as he hurtles straight for the flagship. He knows that he'll be killed instantly in a dazzling blaze of plasma on impact. Slowly, Walt exhales, fully at peace with and embracing his choice.
P4 accuracy 25
Experience provides bonus of  12
Aim provides bonus of  20
Airship Target provides bonus of  20
Point Blank provides bonus of  10
Test taken at 87
Roll: 75 - success
Roll: 15 - success

RAC accuracy 50
Experience provides bonus of  12
Aim provides bonus of  20
Point Blank provides bonus of  10
Test taken at 92
Roll: 15 - success
Roll: 38 - success

FLK accuracy 50
Experience provides bonus of  12
Aim provides bonus of  20
Point Blank provides bonus of  10
Test taken at 92
Roll: 26 - success
Roll: 44 - success

LAMS accuracy 95
Roll: 70 - success
Roll: 63 - success

The LAMS open fire and hit every shot, but it would take more than they've got to bring down the 90 tons of steel hurtling towards them before impact. Walter's first plasma bolt annihilates the deck gun before it can fire and punches through the rear hangar wall, blasting a path deeper into the ship. The second shot bores a second path of destruction at a more downward-facing angle, penetrating through to the lower hangar deck and detonating one of the reserve airframes hanging from the ceiling. Lastly, the collision of the Skepna against the back of the hangar wall combined with what's left of its ammunition cooking off results in an explosion powerful enough to send a plume of red-hot slag out the back of the ship.

"Does anyone have the Evig Seger's roosterpit?"
Bell asks as she deploys a chaff packet before trying to duck out of being hit by the SAM.
Blackjack base EV 68
Experience provides bonus of  8
Chaff provides bonus of  40
SAM provides penalty of  40
Test taken at 76
Roll: 86 - failure
Supermaneuverable: 8 - success

Bell survives.
: I have it.

AKM accuracy 55
Experience provides bonus of  10
Aim provides bonus of  10
Point Blank provides bonus of  10
Test taken at 85
Roll: 48 - success

RAC accuracy 50
Experience provides bonus of  8
Aim provides bonus of  10
Point Blank provides bonus of  10
Test taken at 78
Roll: 21 - success

One of Onyx's planes dives on the roosterpit and lights it up with a pair of AKSMs and rotary cannons. With noone at the helm and all four thrusters destroyed, it begins to crash.

Ellie tries dumping an LCB shot into the Odjur's damaged engine.
LCB accuracy 55
Experience provides bonus of  8
Aim provides bonus of  10
Point Blank provides bonus of 10
Test taken at 83
Roll: 46 - success

The beam laser rakes across delicate internals, further accelerating the rate at which the Odjur is going off course. Listing heavily and entering a dive, it is going to miss the target area entirely.

Jaakko disables his AOA limiter and yanks the stick. He drags the EML beam across the bridge, and follows it with a line from his RAC. He yanks the stick the other way and attempts to get away from the carrier.

Though he'd never been one for prayer, he chants at the top of his lungs a incantation in appeal to the Gods for aid.
EML accuracy 40
Experience provides bonus of  8
Aim provides bonus of  10
Test taken at 58
Roll: 36 - success

RAC accuracy 50
Experience provides bonus of  8
Point Blank provides bonus of  10
Test taken at 68
Roll: 20 - success

The EML disables the controls, and the RAC mows down anyone in the roosterpit who wasn't knocked on the floor by the calamity caused by Walter.

Imperial planes continue to lay into the Aesthian flagship, seriously damaging the left engine section. Behind the Odslighet the IAZ Ardea begins to decloak, only to be instantly shot by a plasma railgun mounted on the recovery deck.


AFS Odslighet will reach its target at the end of the next turn.

Jaakko pulls his aircraft around. The extreme G's pull him in to his seat, but he does not notice, between the terror of his situation and his fixation on the carrier. A plasma bolt rips towards the Ardea. The Tukreb swings about, and its guns fall on the aft plasma gun. Jaakko white knuckles the triggers for his EML and RAC, firing in to the gun, then climbing above and peeling away from the Obslighet.

"Ardea, fire!" he pleads into the radio.


Coming out of her evasive maneuver, Bell sees that the armor on the port engine block is heavily damaged and fires a shot from the KSM at it.

: ..It's really coming down to the wire now.



Ellie takes a potshot at the railgun once Jaakko has cleared her line of fire.

Final Turn

: Approaching target area in ten, nine...

Jaakko pulls his aircraft around. The extreme G's pull him in to his seat, but he does not notice, between the terror of his situation and his fixation on the carrier. A plasma bolt rips towards the Ardea. The Tukreb swings about, and its guns fall on the aft plasma gun. Jaakko white knuckles the triggers for his EML and RAC, firing in to the gun, then climbing above and peeling away from the Obslighet.

"Ardea, fire!" he pleads into the radio.
EML accuracy 40
Experience provides bonus of  8
Point Blank provides bonus of  10
Test taken at 58
Roll: 18 - success

RAC accuracy 50
Experience provides bonus of  8
Point Blank provides bonus of  10
Test taken at 68
Roll: 63 - success

Gun disabled.

: ...eight, seven...
Ellie takes a potshot at the railgun once Jaakko has cleared her line of fire.
LCB accuracy 55
Experience provides bonus of  8
Aim provides bonus of  10
Test taken at 73
Roll: 92 - failure

The railgun remains intact, albeit still disabled.
: ...six, five...

Coming out of her evasive maneuver, Bell sees that the armor on the port engine block is heavily damaged and fires a shot from the KSM at it.
KSM accuracy 50
Experience provides bonus of  8
Point Blank provides bonus of  10
Test taken at 68
Roll: 23 - success

The point blank railgun shot penetrates all the way through the engine block, and the engines begin to sputter and die.
: ...four- stuff! We're drifting off target! CIC, can you adjust course? CIC, come in!
: [Firing spinal lance.]

The Odslighet begins lazily rolling to port, hammered from left and right by everything the defending planes still have on their pylons. Secondary explosions go off throughout the primary hull as the damage from Walter's final run continues to mount until the Ardea puts it down with a weapon not unlike a smaller version of the one used by Palisade. The area around the point of impact glows white-hot and the hull plating bulges outwards as the ship fails to contain the mounting pressure inside. Glowing patches of orange spread across the Odslighet's hull plating and bright light spills from every viewport and crack in the armor, culminating in the detonation of the entire fuselage section.


The exploding carrier blinds Jaakko’s night vision momentarily. Bright debris and a pair of wings fall to the city below. He pants anxiously. His eyes jump around the roosterpit. No hostile radar spikes. No hostile aircraft on his radar. Jaakko is ready for the next attack, though there was no one and nothing left to hit him.

He looks to his radar. Ellie is there. Bell is still flying. He searches and searches, but can’t pick more Kobalt flight craft out of the clutter.

Walt had rammed the carrier, he thinks. He watched it happen. It happened. Walt is dead. Virvel was no longer on radar. Snowman was missing as well. Jaakko cannot find Captain Gerowitz. He finds Yamashiro, but without the rest of Raiden. Tippy was missing. Ash was downed. Scorch is unaccounted for.

Dread steals from Jaakko any sense of triumph or victory.

“Kobalt flight, who’s here!?” He demands, fright in his voice.
« Last Edit: October 30, 2018, 11:38:31 AM by Mr. Hurricane »

: It's just me and Skytracer in the air. Snowman probably punched out.

: Scorch, he couldn't make it.. forget.

“AWACS, Kobalt, is that everything? Requestion instructions,” Jaakko chatters anxiously.

The facades on the street are lit with a bright flash from some miles away. We're doomed, Ash thinks to himself. Half a minute passes, but contrary to expectation no massive shock wave ripples through the city, no mushroom cloud towers above him.

Cautiously, Ash peers over where he took cover with the artillerymen. He scans the skies over the metropolis and tries to spot the heavy bombers, but the starry night sky is clear.

"Is it over?"



... It's over!

Lorens watches glowing remains of the Odslighet fall to the city below, his mouth agape in shock and awe. Emotion washes over him as he tries to tally the lost, to calculate their sacrifices and to figure out if it was all worth it.
« Last Edit: October 30, 2018, 12:19:28 PM by NoZoner »

“AWACS, Kobalt, is that everything? Requestion instructions,” Jaakko chatters anxiously.
: Kobalt, this is Spyglass. We aren't seeing any additional enemy contacts. You should be cleared to land at either ZAC or Arx Cypristar fish soon.

The facades on the street are lit with a bright flash from some miles away. We're doomed, Ash thinks to himself. Half a minute passes, but contrary to expectation no massive shock wave ripples through the city, no mushroom cloud towers above him.
Cautiously, Ash peers over where he took cover with the artillerymen. He scans the skies over the metropolis and tries to spot the heavy bombers, but the starry night sky is clear.
"Is it over?"
... It's over!
Lorens watches glowing remains of the Odslighet fall to the city below, his mouth agape in shock and awe. Emotion washes over him as he tries to tally the lost, to calculate their sacrifices and to figure out if it was all worth it.
Militia forces all around you begin cheering wildly at the sight of the Odslighet's destruction. The boy who first found you slumps against a wall and sinks down to the ground to fall asleep, and the man who was less than an hour ago waving a gun in your face is now shaking you by the shoulders and (you assume) praising your assistance in targeting the Vaduren.

“Copy,” Jaakko replies.

His speech has slowed some.

Jaakko takes his hand off the throttle. It’s shaking. His breathing slows from a pant. He gives a few quiet sobs as his breathing slows, they are equal parts suppressed laughter and traumatized sadness. Jaakko retains his composure for now.

Below the massive flying airships had plowed mile-long trenches into the cityscape. Airships that crashed nose-first left enormous craters full of wreckage. The carriers in particular burned bright with huge fuel fires from their on board stores. Columns of smoke rise into the air. It seems to be getting hazy.

It doesn’t feel real, but Jaakko is compelled by his mind to remain hypervigilant, even if there was no more attacks coming.

He brings the aircraft towards Bell’s Flanker and falls into formation with her.

He has no words and flies in silence.