Ellie just flies along like usual, but she keeps an eye on her radar just in case anything else comes along.
"Hey Walt, did you hear anything funny while they launched you off the carrier?"
: Yep, it finally happened. That bomber broke the catapult. Ripped up some of the flight deck too, this is a mess!
On board the carrier, Cualli can see for herself the light (albeit potentially fatal, if sucked into an intake) superficial damage around where the catapult broke. Virvel sits in her fighter behind the ruined track, frustratedly tapping her helmet.
Rolling 1d100 for distance: 5The group of trash planes barely makes it ten miles away from the Tordenskjold and the other airships before encountering a large group of South Aesthian aircraft.
: Look, enemy planes at two o'clock! Looks like some sort of bombing mission.
: That bomber is none of your concern. Your mission is to destroy that aerial fleet.
: None of our concern? That thing's flying dangerously close to our territory under heavy escort, carrying
who knows what. A few of us could break off and-
: No. Two Aesthian carriers are flying by your coast with only two cruisers as escort, an opportunity like this will never present itself again. Leaving this force undermanned is a risk we will not let you take.
Based on how close the aging planes got before being detected, you can only assume that there is some sort of EWAR plane mixed in with the group, and you probably aren't seeing every plane taking part in the attack.
Enemy planes are currently at radar range.
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