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Interregnum 01-02 S2 / Re: Day 17 [0845 hrs.] (R)idiculous (I)nconvenient (O)rnament
Last post by P.C. Haring -For a moment Reggie was back there; back at Tac-CONN Omega, watching the engines of her student’s training craft; burning from the damage they had sustained from Reggie’s own friendly fire, fire she had delivered to save her other students from a pilot who had lost his grip on reality and suffered a psychotic break. His craft careened out of control, away from her students and straight into…
Her attack killed so many more than she was trying to save.
She heard Janus in her com his words slowly pulling her back to the moment and giving her the needed leverage to push that disaster down and she, not for the first time, wondered what it would take to make peace with that incident and be able to move on.
“…you asshole’ speech you’re cooking right now, it is helpful to watch you do a combat…”
The Betazoid’s mind locked in when he called her an asshole, only for her to realize he wasn’t actually calling her one. He wanted to see her perform. Oh she would perform. She would kick his ass. Maybe then, she might be able to put it out of her mind for a bit.
“Hold on to your neck ridges, Janus.”
She triggered another TVD simulation and watched as three holographic target bouys appeared to launch from Theurgy.
“Engaging.”
She cut to starboard and fell in behind the formation of targets. Her target locked immediately she pulled the trigger on the phasers. Her shot hit home and the number three target disappeared.
Predictably the remaining two split off, one arcing to port, the other to starboard. Tactically her best option was to stay on the target which required the least amount of course correction to pursue. Instead, she cut hard to port a harsh, sharp maneuver that might have been ill advised, but did well to show off just how sharply the Valravn could maneuver.
She executed a wingover roll as she maneuvered, and settled into position, the nose of Wolf-13 gently leading the target before she launched a simulated torpedo. Target 2 cut hard to port as expected, but Reggie was already there, her phaser beams cutting through the simulated engines.
Target 2 disappeared.
The engagement only lasted a handful of second, but in breaking for Target 2, Reggie had left herself open for Target 1 to swing around and settle in behind her. She did not need to check her sensors, nor did she need telepathic contact with her Rio or the enemy pilot.
Without a wingman in the sky with her, it would take more to lose the target. She cut hard towards Theurgy, weaving between the nacelles before cutting hard under the ventral hull. The maneuver opened enough of a gap and she fired the RCS, flipping her ship in a hard 180 and opened fire, wiping Target 3 from the simulation.
She flipped Wolf-13 around again, resuming a ‘forward’ direction along her current course vector.
“What do you think, Janus?”