FTL: Faster Then Light: Pirate Moon

[Grey Star]

Star and Jet boarded the Bird of Prey and took off to a coordinate. Infront of them was a massive space station covered in thick shielding and hull with a redicous amount of cannons on it.

 

[Nick]

"Is that ours? Its not ours is it..."

 

[Grey Star]

"No... Sadly. It's also stupidly expensive to maintain compared to just a big ship with a lot of advanced fully upgraded systems." Star said. The Federation Artillery ships were using their lasers and attacking with lasers while the Crystal ships fired their special weaponry that was capable of penetrating the super shields, as did the Bird of Prey. Everything else was concert rating firepower on a specific section of the shielding hoping to overwhelm it and also making the station's guns target them either dodging or shielding through it. The sights of this many Vulcans was amazing.

"Keep firing in the Pirate Moon!" Declared a voice over comms.

 

[Nick]

"I get the feeling that there might have been a better strategy we could have used here..."

[Out of the story for a second here, Couldn't you theoretically just fire off a lot of lasers, use the FTL to get ahead of those lasers, then fire more lasers making it so that you effectively have double the burst firepower at the start of the fight?]

 

[Grey Star]

(Yes but FTL sensors aren't that good.)

"Oh like what?" Star asked as the combined firepower started to wear down the hull.

 

[Nick]

"Maybe like if you were to have hit-and-run tactics making them have to re target their weapons repeatedly"

 

[Grey Star]

Another volley of crystals embedded themselves into the hull.

"There's guns all over that thing. Better to have them recharging rather then repedeatly getting hit by new ones."

 

[Nick]

"Not worth doing the math on that"

 

[Grey Star]

"So... I might need you to do something for me." Star asked.

 

[Nick]

"Thats why im here isnt it?"

 

[Grey Star]

"Get in talks with the computer and see if she can analyze the station station's read out from all of our scanners combined."

 

[Nick]

Jet turns on his bluetooth

"Why do I even have this old arse tech..."

 

[Grey Star]

The AI spoke to him directly. [The hull is not wearing down. Ships are acquiring chip damage. Chance of success, zero.]

 

[Nick]

"Sounds like this isnt working, and did you never consider putting a speaker in here for the AI to use? or at least for some damn music to lighten the mood?"

 

[Grey Star]

"No. This ship wasn't made to be AI perfect." He replied.

[Re-analyzing attack patterns. Required data.] The ship needed to move into specific coordinates in order to reanalyze the station. Jet was going to have to manually use the guns to draw attention away from those areas, and then move into them.

 

[Nick]

[Um... I guess Jet does... that thing that you just said there?]

 

[Grey Star]

(Yeah this final battle ideas was kinda stupid.)

The fleet's attacks were now penetrating the hull. The computer was reporting 20% chance rate. There was a problem. A massive pirate fleet was incoming.

 

[Nick]

"Uhh... I think they called in reinforcements"

 

[Grey Star]

"This is not time to me playing- mother of god." Star said first anger and then in awe.

The pirate fleet started to attack. The destruction of the Pirate Moon would be either a complete loss of the fleet and it's destruction, or a retreat. Unless Net figured out a way to win.

 

[Nick]

"I think that is we had a heavy ship overload their core and ram into the hostile fleet then it might be able to take em' mostly out, just transfer our crew off of it before that happens... And I couldn't possible be the mother of God, she was a damn star man!"

[Don't you love the depth-free lore of the Zoltan religion? And by that I mean we have almost no lore on it at all]