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Anya banked hard into a corkscrew manoeuvre that brought her AX-02
Lancer head on to the topside of her targeted pirate fighter. Her
Lancer's sound system was pounding with the sound of 'Ten Ton Brick'
by a band called Hurt, the music keeping her focussed and alert. She
squeezed the dual trigger on the control stick with out hesitation.
Fiery death was spat out by her twin Type XII Pulse Phaser Cannons in
the nose of her Lancer and the 8 Type X External Pulse Phaser Cannons
attached to the innermost hard points on the wings of her fighter. It
wasn't that she was out of missiles, she carried 4 quad pods of
Quantum B3 Missiles. No, these pirates weren't hard targets. The
finite munitions could be saved for the more difficult targets up
ahead on this mission. The pirate fighter she was attacking
disintegrated in a ball of fire. Opening a comm channel to her
Lancers Anya called "Two Flight continue fighter suppression, Three
flight back them up. One flight form up on me, time to go hunting."
Anya set a course to intercept a pirate freighter headed out of the
asteroid field on an escape route. She thumbed her munitions selector
over to her Quantum B3 Missiles in dual fire mode and only hoped they
could be done with this attack before her temporary home the Starfleet
Intelligence, Ronin Class, USS Jackal showed up. Her wingmate Lancer
Two, First Lieutenant Cerwynn Jones pulled up on her starboard wing
and Lancers Three and Four, Second Lieutenants Steven Fletcher and
Ignar Manasi respectively formed up behind and below her. All the
Lancers carried the same munitions as her so it was easy to plot
tactics. "One Flight use your combined pulse phaser cannons to take
down the freighter's aft shields then break off. I'll use missiles to
finish them off."
It wasn't that Anya wanted the glory of killing the freighter, there
wasn't any in attacking such a target. Things like freighters were
never included in the wing's kill tallies. It was more for expediency
that Anya was going to deliver the final blow, she was fairly familiar
with the model of freighter she was hitting. It was popular with
smugglers due to the number of discreet alcoves within its structure
but it did have quite the weak spot at the aft end. The only saving
grace for it was that it was difficult to hit...difficult for most
pilots anyway.
Lancers Two, Three and Four and unleashed a hailstorm of phaser blasts
on the aft shields of the pirate freighter which desperately fired
ineffectually at the Lancers barely grazing their military grade
shields. The freighter's aft shields went down and Anya banked her
Lancer hard round a small asteroid swooping into her attack run on the
pirate freighter. Lining up her attack run on the weak spot Anya hit
the 'afterburners' accelerating her Lancer to 0.98c just shy of Warp
1, faster sublight speeds than any other craft Anya had ever heard of.
In reality it wasn't an afterburner in the traditional sense of the
word, the 'afterburners' on the AX-02 Lancer was merely turning off
the limiter on the 2 Experimental 'Coil' Impulse Engines. The limiter
had a purpose though, when using the 'Coil' Impulse Engines at full
capacity after about 65 seconds the overheated and blew up
spectacularly taking the fighter they were attached with them. To
avoid this the limiter had been installed to keep the engines
operating at roughly 80% capacity. Anya reached her target area and
cut the impulse engines to almost nothing allowing momentum to carry
her on course. Using the Multivector Thruster Arrays she manipulated
the Lancer to face down onto the freighter and upon the target
reticule moving over the freighter's sweet spot pulled the trigger on
her control stick launching two Quantum B3 Missiles piercing through
the enemy's hull. She frantically hit the thrusters and brought the
impulse engines back to life launching her Lancer out of the blast
radius as the missiles detonated in the Impulse Engine Core of the
freighter setting off secondary explosions throughout the large
freighter.
Rejoining with the rest of One Flight Anya checked her sensors and saw
that from Lancer Squadron Two Flight and Three Flight had finished off
the remaining pirate fighters and were moving to join up with One
Flight. The heavily armed Windhover Squadron were moving towards her
also after carving up the main pirate base with their powerful
Arclight Cannons and Sun God was supplying detailed sensor information
into the datastreams between the fighters from a distance .
Opening up a comm channel to the entire unit Anya congratulated her
unit. "Well done people, your every bit as lethally efficient as the
taxpayers and brass hoped you would be when they signed off on
training you. On that front this has been noticed by Starfleet
Special Forces Command as well and after almost a year of me bugging
them they have finally signed off on our unit being assigned Elite
Status. I got the news shortly before we left Unity but I figured now
was the better time to reveal it." The coveted Elite status was so
rare to be used it was almost a myth, it meant they were the Aces of
Aces a force to be so reckoned with they were never assigned unit
numbers they were only assigned a name which would they would come to
be feared by. Anya forwarded on the unit's new seal to their main
display screen. "Welcome to Reaper Wing."
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Major Anya Xerxes
Reaper Wing CO
USS Chimera - C
