Pirates Being Pirate: Raiding Cargo

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Blackbird Mission Brief:
"I have it on good authority that a ship leaving Malastare will be full of fuel and only got a small squad of 4 fighter protection. A CZ-100 Deep Space Patrol ship, so what you guys have to do is take the ship before it gets to the target location, heard it might be heading to Sith space so best to get to it before the Sith arrive with their weird space magic. But remember to be careful because one wrong hit and the whole operation goes BOOOOOOOOOM! Now not saying it will come out of your pay check but yea. This job is most important to keep the fleet moving because as you imagine pirates have a hard time getting fuel."

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Location: Deep space, not too far from Malastare.

Zogg sat back in his seat and tried to stretch his arms and shoulders as much as the cramped confines of the turret would allow him too. He had joined the Blackbirds not all that long ago because, for him at least, it was more fun the more people that were involved. Plus with more people and resources the missions got crazier and crazier, and the Blackbirds had their sights on big prizes. Though today's target wasn't storming a base or stealing a warship it was equally as important, after all every ship needs fuel otherwise it's just over-engineered junk. A hearty chuckle rumbled through his large frame as he gazed out among the stars.

The transport was outbound from Malastare toward Sith space, which is a multi jump journey even in the best of times, and this gave the pirates the opening they needed. They had set up along the most likely path their quarry would take, a common hyperspace transfer point not too far coreward of Malastare that had seen a battle in recent times. The scattered debris and larger pieces of hull floating in the void gave them good cover to sit and wait in ambush. A good plan, Zogg had to admit, but seeing as he was never really an accomplished pilot he had been stuck in the nose turret of a Quad-Wing Bomber...... which isn't exactly spacious. But at least the things were going to get flashy and fun soon.

" I hope so anyway." Zogg mumbled as his shoulders started to cramp again. As he stretched yet again he heard beeping from the cockpit above and behind him, and he quickly turned his attention to the gun's sensors. Five vessels had dropped out of hyperspace and were moving into position for another jump. There were four smaller signatures registering as fighter craft and one larger vessel, this must be their target. Zogg clipped on his com "Let's take those fighters out before they even know we're here." He said, barely containing a laugh. He flicked off his gun's safety lock as the bomber's engines began to roar to life. This was going to be fun.


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Captain Romulus "Coyote" Starkk sat in the cockpit of his Haranov-Class Gunship, the War Wraith. To aid the efforts of the Blackbird Pirates, he and a few others were planning to raid a fuel shipment leaving Malastare for Sith space. As he swerved in the pilot's seat to face the space before them, the Shistavanen ordered his co-pilot, a female Chiss, to begin pre-flight inspections and system checks, to be ready to strike when the shipment came along. The War Wraith was positioned on the backside of an asteroid, hiding from sight until the time was right.

As the first ship signalled the arrival of the fuel shipment, the engines of Starkk's gunship roared to life and he steered the ship in front of the cargo ship and it's starfighter escorts. A number of quad-wing bombers flew in from the sides, and the pirate grinned, his sharp, white teeth showing. The laser cannons of the pirate ships opened fire on the starfighter escorts, catching them completely off guard. So far, so good.

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Zogg let out a bark of laughter as he saw Coyote's War Wraith maneuver in front of the fuel ship and open fire, cutting off the quickest hyperspace jump available. That was unless whoever was captaining that freighter was desperate or foolish enough to risk a jump that close to another ship. Ignoring the front two Stingers, he had decided to focus his attention on the two taking up the rear. Having had just a little more time to react to the sudden ambush they broke away from the freighter, avoiding the opening barrage and maneuvering around to hit the incoming flight of bombers. Tracking the closer of the pair he presses the trigger unleashing paired shot after paired shot, each pair coming close but missing just to the rear of the quickly maneuvering fighter, one or two even impacting on the shields of the freighter as the fighter passed over it.

Cursing to himself Zogg switches the gun over to alternating fire allowing him to fire faster, if weaker, bursts. That suited him just fine. The fighter was faster and more maneuverable than the Quad-Wing, but only a few good hits would be all that was needed to knock it out of the fight. The stars wheeled as the bomber's pilot pulled into as tight a turn as could be managed, bringing the stinger back into the edge of His line of fire. Struggling to place the crosshairs on the dancing fighter he unleashed another volley.
 

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Yong Ki Firechild a Protectorate Counselor had been investigating a bounty placed on his Grand Counselor. Chasing another lead had brought him into his current mission. Leaving Nal Hutta only days behind his quarry he had eventually wound up on Malastare. There He had learned that the people he was specifically targeting were supposed to be transporting 2 fuel ships from Malastare to a yet unidentified port inside the Empire. The part that he found truly disturbing was that they were to have a double escort of a CZ 100 Corvette and 4 starfighters to lead and a Piseas class Corvette and 6 additional Starfighters actually flying close escort to the two loaded Centaur class Freighters. His team had managed to place signal markers on both of the capital ships as well as the two freighters. He had decided to follow After the crash team and then drop off once their final destination could be guessed. Onboard what he considered his personal ship a heavily modified and upgraded Shakula class Corvette with his turbo and Ion cannons doubled, whose firepower matched most Frigates. Coming out of hyperspace at the crash teams first jump location Yong Ki was surprised to find the Corvette and it’s escorts already under fire. He was Just in time to see the corvette try to engage a Haranov Gunship with both it’s Ion cannons followed immediately by it’s cannons. Turning on his intercom on “All gunners use following firing solution and take out the engines on that CZ 100. The full volley of all his guns into such a small targeted area immediately overwhelmed the shields the punishment causing the engines to flame out and generators to fail. Transmitting on an open frequency and allowing his droid to translate, “Gentlemen we have a second corvette and half a dozen starfighters inbound.” “If you don’t want to stick around I will understand”
 
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As the corvette escort fired off a pair of ion blasts and a barrage of fire from the ship's guns, Coyote pulled the War Wraith into an upwards barrel roll, narrowly avoiding being hit. He then switched to a dive, flying down towards the corvette's right side. One of the starfighters attempted to engage the Shistavanen's own ship, but was quickly gunned down by a pirate gunner on board. The Captain watched as a larger corvette, which had just exited from hyperspace and had Kjlljk Proctorate markings, rained down a barrage of fire towards the CZ-100's engines. Taking advantage of the fact that the shields would be weakened, Romulus told his gunners to concentrate fire on the corvette's ion cannons as he let loose a pair of proton torpedoes. The combined fire of his gunship and the Proctorate's corvette caused the CZ-100's shields to fail under the strain, and as the engines were destroyed, so were the ship's ion cannons.

“Gentlemen we have a second corvette and half a dozen starfighters inbound. If you don’t want to stick around I will understand."

The transmission came from the Proctprate's ship, and so Coyote sent a transmission of his own, hoping to take advantage of the situation. He had his pilot inform the other pirate ships to of the development over the pirate's private channel while he replied to the Kjlljk on the open one.

"We're not the kind to back down from a fight. These folks have something we want, and we'll get it. Since I assume you want something from them as well, I propose we team up against these forces. What do you say?"
 

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The fighter was just out of his line of fire, he could see it's tail but the gun just couldn't track that far right. suddenly it reversed its turn and cut across the turret's arc and Zogg mashed the trigger down, firing bolt after bolt at his target. After Unleashing the long burst or rapid laser fire Zogg managed to hit the fighter, causing it to spin out of control into the void so rapidly zogg doubted that the pilot could even remain conscious. Looking at his sensor scope as the bomber pulled the tightest turn he was surprised to see another vessel had dropped out of hyperspace close to the convoy, and as they came into view through the transparent turret he was even more surprised to see it attacking the CZ-100. Even bearing the markings of the Kjlljk Protectorate, the enemy of my enemy is my friend, right?

And then he heard the comms come alive as information was relayed to the blackbirds from one of Coyote's crew. Zogg switched his com to the open Chanel in time to hear the second half of Coyote's statement and offer. He idly unleashed a burst of laser fire at the weakened cz-100's turrets and hull as he replied.

"I say it's for the best. less risk for either of us and we don't have to shoot at each other."
 

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Taking a deep breath Yong Ki said,”I accept your offer we can work out the details later in the meantime I am transmitting three radio frequency markers that have been attached to the incoming ships, two Centaurs and a Piseas class Corvette. “

“These ships were taken from Nal Hutta and are supposed to be supplying the empire with materials for some super ship they are supposed to be building. I learned that the ships here are supposed to be the forward skirmishers to clear the lane for the second group.” He continued.
“If you can punch the engines on the freighters I should be able to deliver two full volleys with my ion cannons as soon as they arrive. This should completely take out their shields. After that I will probably be fully engaged with the Piseas. That leaves the six additional fighters that I mentioned they will just be at large so take them as you can.”

Even as he spoke his turbo guns took out the final starfighter that had escorted the CZ 100. While giving the information to His apparent new allies Yong Ki had turned his ship so that it was directly underneath the CZ 100 facing back toward where the ships should exit the hyper lane. “I know this is a lot of information very quickly and just as many supposedly’s I will answer as many of your questions as possible until they show up.” Finished Yong Ki.
 

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Coyote steered his Haranov Gunship around an asteroid, telling his men the new plan of attack. As the man from the Kjlljk Proctorate had said, suddenly a large corvette and two freighters jumped out of hyperspace, and the Shistavanen gave a lupine smile as his ship flanked one of the freighters, headed for its engines. The combination of his ship's firepower and the Proctorate's ship overwhelmed the shields, and his cannons destroyed the freighter's engines. As the War Wraith flew by the Piseas corvette, the pirate captain opened up comms to the Kjlljk's once again.

"Don't worry about the corvette. Keep fire away from my ship, and my crew and I should be able to board the thing and take it down from the inside. What do ya' say?"

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