Tuesday, 4 January 2022

Imperial Entanglements

 

The crew of the former assault shuttle Warlock are on a new randomly generated mission to sabotage an Imperial data transfer satellite, located far out in the Vega III System.  The patron is a mercenary group, and the pay is rated excellent.

As Warlock Docks with the satellite an Imperial Corvette appears.  Is this a trap?  Have the mercenaries sold them out?  Are they mercenaries or just pirates?

Deployment.  The data satellite is central.

Warlock refuses the hail.  I keep the satellite between us.  That Corvette is faster and more heavily armed.

Warlock Docks, and the crew hide in the smuggler compartments and set the auto destruct routine to run a false countdown.

The Imperials move in to put a boarding party across, only to find an abandoned ship, apparently counting down an auto destruct.  

Sensors tell my crew that the Imperials have most of ther crew aboard.  The Warlock crew break out of the crawl spaces and a gunfight breaks out.  Engineering is soon recaptured.

Combat under fivecore can be brutal.  The upper deck is swept, and the Imperial Captain trapped ou Warlock's bridge.

The Imperial Captain is killed, with all of the boarding party.  Warlocks crew got lucky.
The Mercenary group finally appear in a destroyer.  This is heavy opposition, and the Corvettes acting Captain turns to engage, giving Warlock the chance to run for it.

The game ends as Warlock escapes, leaving the Corvette and destroyer to fight.  

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