Thread:Johnathon Strider/@comment-24852191-20150423015312/@comment-24852191-20150505025103


 * Landry yells over the radio to all ships.

Landry: All ships, this is Commander Landry. Combat Alert: Alpha. Engage the enemy fleet and cover the Hansgraf. No matter the cost.


 * No sooner does he say that than the fleet divides up into squadrons and attack the Covenant fleet.


 * The destroyer Killing Wide leads the frigates Death's Revenge and Crystal Clear in an onslaught against one of the CCS-class battlecruisers and a corvette. All tree fire their MACs with little effect. They then fire a barrage of Archer missiles that hit and flicker the battlecruiser's shields. They switch targets and fire at the unshielded corvette. The corvette takes massive damage before going down. In return, the CCS-class battlecruiser fires a barrage of plasma torpedoes. The frigates are annihilated and the Killing Wind is down by the head and on fire.


 * The Lexington-class carrier, UNSC Essex, leads the destroyer Look Out and the frigates Relevance, Saratoga, Callimari, and Okinawa on a run against the two RCS-class armored cruisers. All open up with their MACs, missiles... everything. One cruiser is taken out by a lucky shot to one of its repulser reactors after its shields are down. The other fires full salvos of plasma torpedoes, destroying the Relevance, Okinawa, and Look Out. The Essex is badly damaged, but continues the fight as she fires four more MAC rounds at the second cruiser. Concentrated fire from the Essex, Saratoga, and Callimari end up damaging the armored cruiser which retreats to slip space.


 * The Hansgraf leads the destroyer Burgundy in an attack on the remaining CCS-class battlecruisers and corvette. Both ships fire at the corvette, damaging it enough that it looses power and goes adrift, but escapes. The battlecruisers return fire with more plasma torpedoes. The Hansgraf fires countermeasures that detonate most of the torpedoes. Two get through. One hitting the Hansgraf's port-bow and the other hitting the Burgundy amidships and cutting her power in half.


 * Both ships resume their fight with the battlecruisers, destroying one of them. The other severally damaged due to a heavy pounding from the Hansgraf's starboard side "Dulies". It too retreats to slip space.


 * This leaves the Aspect of Faith. The CAS-class is more than capable of destroying the remaining UNSC forces single handedly, but retreats to slip space.


 * Follow the battle, Landry hadn't seen anything else of those Spec-Ops Elites and took this time to assess the situation. Of the 11 ships the UNSC "second" fleet had, only 6 remain. Of the seven ships the Covenant had in the attack, 4 escaped. That's not including the 3 ships that had been used to capture Strider. That makes 7, more than the UNSC. There's no telling how many ships J'Mal brought with him. If it is but a fraction what he commands in the 26th century, we are doomed. J'Mal would fall back and attempt to make allies with what ever is against us, for insurance. This, Landry was sure of. He was also sure of another thing. They would be back and unless more allies were made with UNSC and Strider returned, Earth would never be the same.