The combined force caused their armor to collapse, and the second shot penetrated into the structure. “That was just two shells!” cried the Perseus captain. “And that was with our reinforcement module on maximum! We’ve gotta end this quickly before they tear us apart!” “Calm down,” chided Lucifer.
“Perforate their main thrusters as they pull away,” said Lucifer. “It’s like they want us to slice them apart. They’re practically begging for it.” Lucifer sighed deeply as ze pinpointed multiple strike zones on the destroyers’ main thrusters. The Perseus frigates were only too kind to follow hir o
The Marauder captain was completely dumbfounded as alerts dominated every screen on the bridge. It seemed that they were getting completely picked apart no matter what he did. Most of their guns were completely frozen, and their hangars were under severe attack. And he was in a major bind - if he r
“Status on the guns,” he said impatiently. “6 of 10 on the starboard have partial articulation again,” said an officer. “Other destroyers report between 3 and 7 similarly operational.” The captain grinned. “Switch all repairs to the port side guns,” he replied. “Then have our starboard fire at wi
Before they could even think to retaliate, the Perseus mecha buzzed past at great speed, and vanished towards one of their frigates. The Gorgon fighters were utterly devastated in two brief attacks, and reduced to less than a quarter of their original strength. What remained of their squadrons lim
The frigates all pulled away from the twisted, mangled destroyers. Warped sheets of destroyer armor were prised off as they ripped themselves from the deep indentations they had created. They had wrenched all five of the destroyers into each other, and turned them into one large and terrible wreck.
“The galaxy’s filled with maybe’s,” countered the captain. “And the only thing that’s certain, at least for companies like ours, is our principle. Please, let them concede. You won’t lose anything if you do. But we lose ours if you don’t.” Lucifer sighed deeply. “Very well,” ze said. “I’m done he
He then went over the few frightening times that he had run-ins with “a certain pilot” - first at a Tetragrammaton Tech station, and the second at the secret Fed asteroid base. There were other skirmishes when he recognized the pilot, all out in the colonies. Each one was a devastating encounter fo