From the personal diary of Commodore Sheppard, 7th Melona 13 ABY
None of them have the guts to do what's necessary. Corulag had to die, those monstrosities will spread to every world in the galaxy if we don't sterilise them. Those spineless wretches at fleet headquarters, they don't understand the reality out here. Another big mistake, not allowing me to take the fleet to Sullust immediately. We will probably never get a better opportunity – but no, the Director claims they have four ion canons and a second defence platform set up, and suddenly it's an 'unacceptable risk'.
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Task Force Immortality - Admiral Samuel commanding
INS Star Fist - StellarFortress - Battlecruiser - Admiral Samuel
INS Spectre - StellarFortress - Battlecruiser - Commodore Sheppard
INS Dauntless - Peacemaker - Star Cruiser - Captain Force
INS Gryphon - Peacemaker - Star Cruiser - Captain Spartan
INS Necromancer - Imperial II - Heavy Destroyer - Captain Rath
INS Flaming Thetan - Legacy - Light Carrier - Captain Karick
INS Defenestrator - Legacy - Light Carrier - Commander Kitty
So here we are at Mygeeto, using SSC ships and SSC crews to clean up the mess Admiral Samuel left behind. He struts around on the bridge of the Star Fist as if he owns it; I can only imagine the contempt that the Great Leader has for that notion. We're still having some problems jumping proper capships in close formation. Getting better with practice though.
Still just one enemy battleship, spewing nonsense just like it was on the logs. We let the support ships handle the enemy destroyers. Co-ordinated fire from the Dauntless and the Grypon took down the first one in about thirty seconds, though I think the carriers helped a little.
Captain Rath took down the third one almost single-handed. Now there's someone who appreciates tactical realities, even if he is a bit hot-headed.
I have to say that beam weapon on his modified ISD packs quite a punch. We have got to get some of those for HAB. The droid fighters were late to deploy; our squadrons took them down almost as fast as they could launch. The Admiral wanted the Fortresses to focus on the main ship. I ordered the Spectre's guns to concentrate on what looked like hyperdrive support systems. Damn, I'll be glad when we have the interdictors up and running, few things I hate more than the enemy catching a breather to repair his ships. Or its ships, in this case. Anyway, the carriers finished off the last cruiser, and that seemed to prompt the big ship to make a run for it at sublight.
Of course at that point it was futile, our bombers soon had the engines shut down and after that it was just a matter of time.
Result: total destruction of the enemy, no losses. Score one for SSC doctrine, anything smaller than a Rapier just isn't worth taking on a mission.
The ground pounders are going in now, hope they can live up to our high standards.
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excerpt from Debriefing Log, Lieutenant Broomstick, 9th Melona 13 ABY
“...so by then it was clear that the dropships had made it through the AA cover, so I broke off and vectored towards the LZ in anticipation of close support requests. Visibility around the enemy base was a bit better, either the buildings or the shielding was deflecting most of the snowstorm. I manged to eyeball them just as Captain Jonen was preparing to fire.”
“The artillery and the AT-AT soon had the bunker out of commission, so I went looking for trouble. Sure enough, I found a platoon of humanoid droids inbound, and my gunner opened up on them with the quad-eighty. The bird proved to be a pretty stable gun platform, we blew them away both squads in ten seconds flat.”
“You didn't have a problem with gusts during hover?”
“Nothing I couldn't compensate for. The stabilisers on the Mug are definitely solid. Anyway, we called that in and Captain Jonen authorised some more armed recon. We continued at low altitude – manueverability was fine, anti-collision alarm is a bit over-sensitive though – no AA turrets in sight. Looks like they only had the outer ring, nothing close in.”
“And that's when you found the main base?”
“Well, we didn't realise it at first. We saw a mess of bizarre missile droids and some service facilities, and opened up with everything we had.”
“Everything?”
“Well, not the rocket launchers, I wasn't sure if the targeting system could handle the wind conditions and in any case we didn't need them. The compound laser turrets carved those enemy droids to pieces in one burst apiece, and their buildings didn't last much longer.”
“That would be when the final attack on the landing zone began?”
“Yes... that last bunker we destroyed, I guess that was the local mainframe. The techs told me the droids had a last ditch attack protocol set to engage if they lost central control, right?”
“You didn't ask for confirmation before destroying the enemy command centre.”
“No, well, sir there was no way to tell, and in any case Commodore Sheppard was quite clear...”
“Admiral Samuel is the commander of this fleet, Lieutenant, and Captain Jonen was the commander in the field. You should have gotten confirmation. Fortunately for you, the attack force was easily destroyed by an impressive display of combined arms tactics on the part of Captain Jonen.”
“Right. I will be sure to follow procedure in future sir. Anyway, the bird is sound, more than that, she's a war winner. I strongly recommend that we get some more of these ASAP. Sir.”
“I'll be sure to pass that along Lieutenant. The technical staff will want to go over the mission again once they've finished reviewing the telemetry, but for now, dismissed.”
“Yes sir.”
“And Lieutenant, one more thing... good job out there.”
“Thank you sir.”
I do hope that we get an explanation to what it is becasue I don't remember any mentioning of it in any of our R&D briefings.