Week 5 Hunt - The Bloody Standard of the Pirate Fleet of McConnel

A small weapons company located in Volans recently screwed over the Private Pirate Fleet of the McConnel family. The pirates got their entire stock and killed all their workers in response. Now the Pirates McConnel are fleeing across the Brethren Expanse with a convoy of six Pirate Light Frigates full of Elite Plasma Rifles, ammo clips and Plasma Charges. Its a pirate treasure from any military leaders perspective.

There is six Pirate Light Frigates, 2 Banking Guild Carrion Salvage Ships, and twenty five Stiletto Starfighters. The Stilettos are on patrol preventing ambush, while the Carrions are armed with EMP ICMBs to disable enemy ships.
In second combat round after the Pirate Fleet McConnel is attacked, they will shadow jump away.

This mission is open to All Players.

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Four SAV's equipped with Spectre cloaking systems will float with minimal power in the path of the Pirate convoy. Once they get near they will fire up their engines and lock onto the Carrion Salvage ships. They will board with intent to secure the ships.

Meanwhile 10x Ripper gunpods with spectre cloaking systems will trail behind ready to engage.

Once secure the carrions will EMP the rest of the Pirate fleet and make them an offer they hopefully can't refuse.

"Mc Connell family, we offer you the choice of joining us or facing destruction. If you surrender and join the Lions of Earth in its mission to liberate oppressed worlds you will be rewarded monetarily, as well as not facing your destruction here in the dark cold void of space. As men of honor we will accept your word if you agree to join us we will escort you for training. What say you?"

If they attempt to resist the rippers will attack to disable them. Like a cat playing with its food.
If they accept they will be brought to Casablanca station to be trained, and then to refuge to be sworn in as EEF Spacemen.
If they lie and run once at Casablanca Station it will be my personal mission to hunt down and kill each ship captain that dishonors himself.

Space Pirates. Disgusting.

Prime remembered the damage caused by Ironbane, the countless lives lost for no reason. He had often wondered that if the Unity took a more harsh stance regarding piracy earlier, if some of those deaths could be avoided. He also considered his failures regarding Dr. Lac. He should have realized what was going on...

Well, this time he would take such threats quite seriously. Besides...plasma rifles could converted into the significantly superior plasma lances with some modification. Whats more, the pirates could lead prime back to their hideout. The best way to exterminate pests is to destroy their nest after all.

Prime could assume that the Unity would not be the only group to attack the pirates. He will have a number of Seneschals in Unfettered Wingsuits waiting close to the battle, but outside of conventional scanning distance. Once battle is joined, they will teleport on to the ships, place homing beacons, and then leave.

If there is time, the more technologically talented Seneschals will use the confusion of battle to delve into the frigate navigation computers to determine their hide-out before leaving the battle to join up with a distant Dreadnaught and its fighter compliment. We will not engage directly.

10x Blackheart security stilletto fighters will engage the enemy stilletos and pull them away from the main fleet while the Lion's of Earth SAV's board and use the EMP ICBM's against the pirate fleet. By the time the Pirate fighters realize something is up hopefully the fleet will be secure. If not the blackheart fighters will pursue and tear apart the pirate fighters as they retreat back to the pirate fleet.

I will shadow jump into the region, and send out a distress signal to the fleets of the McConnel family.

"McConnel ...Cer...Clan, you must listen to me and heed my warning. Come with me if you want to ...lex... live. I am known as Viggo the Kasanthian, of the armoring Voguel clan. i am but a simple ...ner... nightmare rancher, that has been searching for a safe location to continue my work. I have been ...coq...constantly accausted and harrassed while looking for a simple existance.
I ..phi....plead with you, that if you stay this course you are bound for ...cis...certain doom. There are many out that that will simply destroy you for the ...sev... sake of the pirate name. There is no need to join with me, or change you actions, but i wish you to beware. Your choices are limited, and I will offer you a safe place to ...hurm... hide out. It is always good to have a mutual ally in a ..taz...time of need."

I will give them the coordinate of my settlement at Nykosa 9. I will shadow jump ahead to clear the way, and provide safe passage. They are offered a place to stay, recooperate and strategize. I will befriend them, and show them how i was brought up in my culture.

But of course, no one really can trust a pirate. Once their trust has been earned and their guard is down, I have have them killed off and raised as instilled nightmares. It would add a nice human component to my forces, suck to be a pirate this day.

Pirates, who cares about pirates! Captain Holonost sure didn't, why was his task force sent off to take on pirates, surely someone else would take care of them. However orders were orders and he would not disappoint his Queen.
His fleet was small, 10 Quall Light Frigates and 50 Neo Flayer Star-Fighters. The Star Fighters would engage the enemy fightercraft, keeping them busy at least at best destroying them, they would be grouped in twos. One fighter would begin to fire its Fireball Cannon trying to keep the enemy fighter off guard while the other would use its Nano Whips to grab a hole of the enemy fighter and tear it apart.

While the fighters were busy the Quall Light Frigates would go to ramming speed. They would be line it straight into the enemy capital ships slamming their frontal horns through the hull and send in their boarding parties. These forces would subdue all the pirates found inside the ships for capture and the cargo of the ships. Once the crew and cargo were secure the Quall Light Frigates would pull back and withdraw.
There were only 8 enemy ships and ten Quall Frigates so that allowed them to lose two ships while still accomplishing their goal. If there are no losses those two ships will provide covering fire for allied units.

When it comes to the space battle Captain Holonost was instructed to only shoot at the pirates, however his orders were to seize anyone and everything inside the ships though he was asked not to permanently kill anyone inside the ships. Why waste good hosts after all? All prisoners would be taken back to Kyrpos and locked away until further notice.

Upons Ryuk's Arrvial, he broadcasts a messages to everyone, with the mconnel family being the primary receiver.

"Greetings McConnel Family, I am Ryuk. I don't know if you have heard of me, but I am the proprietor of Ryuk's Casino. I usually prefer to have someone who knows you, but the only person that I know under my command that knows you is Jimmy McConnel. He told me he was the black sheep of the family, and that I shouldn't mention his name, but he has joined my army, and now is on his way to becoming a productive member of society, one in which he can be judged going forward and not on past atrocities.

Since the death of most of the Pirate leaders, many of you have been running around aimlessly, abet doing some impressive raiding acts. I am currently gathering men and women such as yourselves, and am implementing training programs and structure to better the people around me. To this end, I am making this offer to you, and other entrepreneurs you are similar to, to join my forces. You will be paid and trained, food provided for and be able to continue living a long healthy life.

There is one thing you should know before you make this decision, and that is you will be given an unity uplink when you join. This will connect you to the rest of my forces, and provides some very nice benefits , like knowing if you need help, so we can come rescue you.

I know you will have to make your decision quickly, as there is a lot of people that wish you dead here, but know this, if you refuse my offer, I will not make any aggressive actions against you, although I will defend my allies from attack.

Ryuk"


My force that I am sending 10 Dreadnaughts, 50 jogtun mark 1 fighers, 100 jogtun mark 2 fighters as ships to this fight. I also will be sending 500 Ryuk's Rabble 400 combat oriented and 100 engineering focus. The 20 not connected to the Unity are on this mission.

If they accept, I will send a message to all kansantian and unity members asking for aid to escort them to Marduk, where they will be immediately given uplinks and orientation. Ryuk's Rabble members will be transported over to make sure no one is on the ships or that the ships have "mechanical difficulties" or other problems.

IF they don't, I will protect my allies from being attacked.

Ryuk

The Lions claw and a contingent of ten fighters will jump in behind the Quall fleet and If the attack on the carrion ships is successful and the pirate fleet is EMP'ed and stunned the claw will hail the Quall fleet.

"To the Quall na Drone fleet, the lions seek the pirate fleet for their pride. We don't however need the crew, a worthless bunch of criminals, if it pleases your mistress we would be willing to give you the crew and half the weapons in the frigates holds. The lions will take the other half. You need only help us defend it against anyone else who wants it."

OR

If the attack on the carrion ships was unsuccessful the claw will hail the quall fleet and say,
"To the Quall fleet, the prey is yours, we will extract our soldiers and leave you the kill."
After getting the boarding party the lions contingent will retreat.