Sirius Business - a C# Aurora forum game. v2.5

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Now 189 million km.

The Boarding Shuttles are arriving at the Carrier Fleet to refuel from one of the Admirals present there.

 

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Refueled.

It used up less than 5% of the Admiral's fuel.

 

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Now 144 million km away.

Still no missiles spotted.

 

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Now 121 million km away.

 

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Now 83 million km away.

How far away were we when the smaller missile boat opened up on us last time?

 

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Range: 67 million km.

This would be the Deux-Sevres.

We'll reverse course just for five minutes, then double back.

That's to add a few minutes onto the time we get to recharge our shields between salvos. Assuming that we're at the edge of his FC range.

 

[randakar]

Now 83 million km away.

How far away were we when the smaller missile boat opened up on us last time?

To my knowledge -- something in that neighborhood

 

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Missiles incoming.

 

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Shot down more than half of them!

Three hits on the shield. Total of 54 points.

Missiles expended: 1035.

 

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... and again.

We won't bother with a turn-around this time.

The reason that I pulled a turn-around on the first Deux-Sevres salvo was that I wasn't sure whether a Lot-et-Garonne was going to join in the fun, and I wanted to gain us some extra shield-recharge time, just in case. But no second ship fired on us, so we'll just tank these incoming Deux-Sevres salvos on our shield.

 

[Acheron]

Very nice. Loving the fact that we're commencing offensive operations against them now. Finally we get to dictate the terms of engagement.

How did the first battles go? An when were these?

 

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How did the first battles go? An when were these?

When the Modrons declared war and bombarded our base on Harmony (wrecking our shit and killing every civilian colonist on the planet).

 

[Wagonlitz]

Range: 67 million km.

This would be the Deux-Sevres.

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We'll reverse course just for five minutes, then double back.

That's to add a few minutes onto the time we get to recharge our shields between salvos. Assuming that we're at the edge of his FC range.

Sounds good.

 

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Shot down five out of that salvo. Only two shield hits.

Missile count: 1042.

 

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Another missile launch, presumably by the Deux-Sevres.

 

[Wagonlitz]

Shot down five out of that salvo. Only two shield hits.

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Nice
We're running them our of missiles before then attempting to board the sarthe, right?
Did any of the other ones have any close combat weapons? Wondering if we should tskr out everything, but the Sarthe, possibly with missiles, before attempting to board the sarthe. Such that the others can't damage it once we've taken it.

And then try and board it without having shot at it, to take it undamaged.

 

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Nice
We're running them our of missiles before then attempting to board the sarthe, right?
Did any of the other ones have any close combat weapons? Wondering if we should tskr out everything, but the Sarthe, possibly with missiles, before attempting to board the sarthe. Such that the others can't damage it once we've taken it.

And then try and board it without having shot at it, to take it undamaged.

Since boarding the enemy ship safely requires a 20-to-1 speed advantage by your boarding shuttles anyway, my plan was to first immobilize the Sarthe, then just avoid it (get out of its gun range) and chase the rest of the enemy fleet out of combat range of the Sarthe (killing them as I go), while the Marines boarded it.

That way they can't destroy it after we capture it.

 

[Wagonlitz]

Since boarding the enemy ship safely requires a 20-to-1 speed advantage by your boarding shuttles anyway, my plan was to first immobilize the Sarthe, then just avoid it (get out of its gun range) and chase the rest of the enemy fleet out of combat range of the Sarthe (killing them as I go), while the Marines boarded it.

That way they can't destroy it after we capture it.

But then we risk destroying it instead of.immobilisjng it.Isn't it better to risk some boarding shuttles to get their trch in oje go?

 

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But then we risk destroying it instead of.immobilisjng it.Isn't it better to risk some boarding shuttles to get their trch in oje go?

Getting the ship doesn't give us the tech.

We get the same amount of tech as if we found the drive in a wreck.

Exactly the same.

 

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Four shield hits.

Missile count: 1049