ABS FIESTA REDUX

[ZombiLoin]

Faw's blood pressure spikes as the Starling does an acrobatic reverse and fires missiles at him and the other pilots. He punches the comms and shouts out a message to his squadmates.

"Enemy aircraft firing missiles at us! CM if you've got some left!"

Faw maxes out the throttle and zooms towards Crash, popping both his flares as he nears Jakko's plane.

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[NoZoner]

Faw's blood pressure spikes as the Starling does an acrobatic reverse and fires missiles at him and the other pilots. He punches the comms and shouts out a message to his squadmates.

"Enemy aircraft firing missiles at us! CM if you've got some left!"

Faw maxes out the throttle and zooms towards Crash, popping both his flares as he nears Jakko's plane.

"I see the missiles, I'm defending!"

Lorens breaks off from Jaakko, turns until the missile is at his 3 o'clock and begins counting in his head. At the point where he approximates the missile is six seconds to impact, he immediately drops power to idle and dips down before pitching into a tight loop.

[Gojira]

Markus aborts if that's an option.

[ZombiLoin]

After popping the flares, Faw cuts the throttle and makes a hard right to throw off the missile, making sure not to hit Jaakko or Lorens.

[Qwepir]

"forget!"
Ellie attempts to evade the missile.

Fulcrum base EV 77
Experience provides bonus of 4
MML provides penalty of 30
Test taken at 51
Roll: 98 - failure
Test failed

Faw's blood pressure spikes as the Starling does an acrobatic reverse and fires missiles at him and the other pilots. He punches the comms and shouts out a message to his squadmates.

"Enemy aircraft firing missiles at us! CM if you've got some left!"

Faw maxes out the throttle and zooms towards Crash, popping both his flares as he nears Jakko's plane.

Fulcrum base EV 77
MML provides penalty of 30
Flares provide bonus of 40
Test taken at 87
Roll: 10, 38
Tests passed

"I see the missiles, I'm defending!"

Lorens breaks off from Jaakko, turns until the missile is at his 3 o'clock and begins counting in his head. At the point where he approximates the missile is six seconds to impact, he immediately drops power to idle and dips down before pitching into a tight loop.

Tigershark base EV 77
MML provides penalty of 30
decent description of what action is being taken provides bonus of 20
Test taken at 67
Roll: 61
Test passed
Ellie gets whacked with a missile while the other three trash theirs.

Pansar makes a gun attack against the Starling.
AC5 accuracy 50
Aim provides bonus of 20
Missile Range provides penalty of 20
Test taken at 50
Roll: 80 - failure
: Dammit!

Starling-1 aims and fires on Crash.
Hypervelocity Autocannon accuracy 55
Experience provides bonus of 8
Aim provides bonus of 10
Called Shot: Engine provides penalty of 20
Test taken at 53
Roll: 47 - success by 3 degrees
Result: 1 hit to engine
Crash's No.1 engine gets perforated, but the plane as a whole is still airworthy.

[NoZoner]

The missile miraculously sails past the Tigershark's canopy and into the wild blue yonder—if only briefly—before exploding several dozen meters off his 9 o'clock.

"... forgetin' Ark, that's too close!," Lorens heaves out in between grunts, "I'm turning towards him now! We need to forget this guy up fast!"

Fire spits out of the exhaust nozzle as Lorens slams the throttle. He brings the gun funnel back to his HUD, puts the bandit in the marker and pulls the trigger for all it's worth.

[ZombiLoin]

Faw's voice chimes in over the radio.

"Affirmative! Gunning for him now!"

Faw yanks back on the stick and goes into an Immelmann to get the Starling into his field of view. Only aiming for a brief second, he fires a snap burst at the enemy aircraft.

[Mr. Hurricane]

There's a thunderous noise as the port-side engine is struck with gunfire. Jaakko is immediately alerted to the damage to the engine. The aircraft begins shuttering, as if experiencing light turbulence. The engine burps fire momentarily before trailing smoke. Otherwise, the aircraft stays airworthy.

"Engine's hit. I think it'll hold for the rest of this fight," Jaakko reports.

The RWR keeps chirping as Starling-1 hits Jaakko with its radar for a gun solution. He continues to try to throw off the aggressor's shot.

[Qwepir]

The missile miraculously sails past the Tigershark's canopy and into the wide blue yonder—if only briefly—before exploding several dozen meters off his 9 o'clock.

"... forgetin' Ark, that's too close!," Lorens heaves out in between grunts, "I'm turning towards him now! We need to forget this guy up fast!"

Fire spits out of the exhaust nozzle as Lorens slams the throttle. He brings the gun funnel back to his HUD, puts the bandit in the marker and pulls the trigger for all it's worth.

AC5 accuracy 50
Aim provides bonus of 10
Missile Range provides penalty of 20
Test taken at 40
Roll: 77 - failure
Reroll granted by duplicate weapon: 35 - success by 1 degree
Result: 1 hit to fuselage

Faw's voice chimes in over the radio.

"Affirmative! Gunning for him now!"

Faw yanks back on the stick and goes into an Immelmann to get the Starling into his field of view. Only aiming for a brief second, he fires a snap burst at the enemy aircraft.

AC5 accuracy 50
Aim provides bonus of 10
Missile Range provides penalty of 20
Test taken at 40
Roll: 29 - success by 2 degrees
Result: 2 hits to Right Wing
Faw lands two shots on the Starling's wing.

AC5 accuracy 50
Aim provides bonus of 20
Missile Range provides penalty of 20
Test taken at 50
Roll: 64 - failure
Pansar also misses.

The Starling launches two more Heatseekers at Crash before turning around again to avoid entering gun range.

[NoZoner]

"Missile launch! Crash! You have two heaters inbound on you, defend!," Lorens shouts, "He's extending back to range, I'm going after him!"

You're going to regret showing your backside, pal! Figuring the bandit must've lost speed in his high-G turn, Lorens leans on the burners and chases down the super fighter. Completely unladen and down to half fuel, the Tigershark continues accelerating like a dropped piano. Lorens finds the bandit in his gunsight once more and pulls the trigger.

[Mr. Hurricane]

Jaakko, with a damaged aicraft, nobody in his immediate vicinity and little time to react, goes ahead and calls it.

"forget this!" he yells.

He pulls the ejection handle and abandons his aircraft.

[Qwepir]

"Missile launch! Crash! You have two heaters inbound on you, defend!," Lorens shouts, "He's extending back to range, I'm going after him!"

You're going to regret showing your backside, pal! Figuring the bandit must've lost speed in his high-G turn, Lorens leans on the burners and chases down the super fighter. Completely unladen and down to half fuel, the Tigershark continues accelerating like a dropped piano. Lorens finds the bandit in his gunsight once more and pulls the trigger.

Whether or not the Starling possesses a higher maximum speed than the Tigershark is irrelevant, as the lighter craft is able to accelerate quickly enough to not only keep pace with its opponent, but start closing the distance.
AC5 accuracy 50
Aim provides bonus of 10
Tail chase provides bonus of 20
Test taken at 80
Roll: 13 - success by 7 degrees
Result: 4 hits to fuselage and engines
Lorens riddles the Starling's entire rear end with 30mm shells, turning the advanced black project fighter into just another fireball.

Jaakko, with a damaged aicraft, nobody in his immediate vicinity and little time to react, goes ahead and calls it.

"forget this!" he yells.

He pulls the ejection handle and abandons his aircraft.

You watch the Fulcrum below you get blasted to pieces by the two heatseekers to start the descent of shame over the Aesthian coast.

Only the retreating attack group and Imperial AWACS remain in the area.
: They got the Starling too!
: What? How?
: [...]

[Operator¹]

"This is Mjolnir 1-2, Major Kirves just ejected from his craft."

[Qwepir]

"This is Mjolnir 1-2, Major Kirves just ejected from his craft."

: Understood, notifying search and rescue.

[Mr. Hurricane]

Jaakko is greeted with the all too familiar to him now feeling of being jammed against the ejection seat. Its all over in a flash, and the seat falls away, leaving him underneath his chute with his survival gear below him. He figures that at this rate he'll be the highest ranking member of the caterpillar club.

So Crash takes mental inventory of all the aircraft he's lost so far.

"I'm alright, let me know when SAR is on the way,"