CH2: S [Day 2 | 2315 hrs] For all the blood-tainted stars...

Re: CH2: S [Day 2 | 2315 hrs] For all the blood-tainted stars...

Reply #25 – December 08, 2025, 12:03:45 PM

[ Dominic Winters | Wolf 10 | Local Space | U.S.S Theurgy ATTN: @Dumedion @rae @Pierce @Stegro88 @P.C. Haring - All Wolves.

Atlas was glad that Shadow had come to his wing. Sure, she was a little nuts, but in that moment, nuts was what you needed. Archon formed on his opposite and the diamond hurtled towards the massive warship. That was until the trio got ambushed in a pincer. Two from one side, one from another. Atlas' shields lit up as his ship registered multiple impacts, which forced Atlas off his attack run along with the others.

Atlas had a bogey on his six who was relentless in her pursuit. Disruptor cannons landing hits on the rear shields, and Atlas, despite his best efforts, had trouble shaking the fighter through maneuverability alone. It simply outclassed his valkyrie. Rear shields began to fail and a target lock was registered. The Stalker launched several of its limited micro torpedoes and Atlas in return, deployed his ECM and pulled some hard turns through a debris field. "Fuck fuck fuck.. get off my ass..." The stalker had to peel off enough as its torpedoes struck the countermeasures and detonated, giving him enough of a chance to start firing his wing-mounted phaser arrays.

One blast, two blasts, and the Stalker had to peel off. Atlas whirled his fighter around and pushed into his own pursuit. The arrays firing in response, followed by a quad launch of Atlas' stingily preserved micro torpedoes to finish off the Stalker. Two made impact and crippled the craft while the others missed.

Forming up with Shadow and Archon again Atlas commed in. "That was hair raising. I hate stalkers." He commed to the other two. Now came the fun, going for gold. "Rerouting power from Aux systems to Shields.. rebalance.." Down to thirty percent across the board. Atlas pushed the craft to full impulse towards their target. His vision focused sharply on the target ahead of them, the sinister, green-glowing Thalaron emitter.

This surfaced memories of a similar attack run on a Dominion power core that provided energy for a defense grid. Atlas' teeth grit together as his heart rate began to spike. "Wolf-04. Fire." As soon as she lit it up with the cannon and the target was locked on. "Weapons live and gone!" He called out as the double impact was launched. The hellbore punched through the hull and detonated, while the Hellhound deployed it's nightmare payload across the surface. Atlas pulled up hard as the fireball chased his wake. Interial dampeners were damaged and he could feel the G forces at work on his body.

It was that funny feeling of an approaching blackout that forced his hands to release the near-death grip on the stick and level the fighter out. His attention was rapidly brought back into the world when Archon's gurgling erupted into his helmet. His sensors registered the ETS from Wolf-09 engage, sending Archon back to Theurgy for desperate medical treatment. He pulled away from the Doom-Plume as Atlas did not want to be caught in that and suffer a similar fate.

"Ten to Four, Bandit on your Eight. Coming in to assist. Archon's ETS engaged. Clear." He banked to assist Shadow with her new 'friends'.