As the Speedy launched out of the Formidable's hanger in the middle of the mass launch of dozens of fighters, bombers, interceptors, and other Gunships and Corvettes a wing of five other ships formed up on Greg as a female voice called in "This is lieutenant Sasha of Gunship squadron three the General has placed us under your command for this battle."
"Acknowledged Lieutenant, Keep your ships close we are going to run hunter killer runs over the light cruisers before engaging strike craft" Greg replied taking a moment to look over the squadrons scan a trio of HMP Droid gunships , a pair of Braha'tok and a single CR70 blockade runner. Then the lieutenants ship it was slightly larger and heavier armored than the rest of her ships not to mention it was iconic to Gregs eyes a beautiful Hammerhead corvette.
OHHHH I want
As the eight ships raced towards a lone light cruiser at the head of the invasion AA mounts threw blast at any foolish imperial strike craft that got too close. Giving Greg a chance look closely at the ships of his temporary squadron and their weapons the droid gunships and the hammerhead had pretty standard weapon load outs of turbo lasers, laser cannons some single fire concussion missile launchers had been bolted on here and there the '70 however were an eye opener each had a trio of ion cannons that looked slightly too big for their mounts.
A plan began to form as they lined up for their pass Greg called out "ok boys and girls here's the plan everyone but the '70 will five at the cruiser as we pass with everything our goal is to knock out their shields then the CR-70 will fire every ion charge they can to disable it now a quick question who else has combat droids or troops aboard and what type? I have sixty useful combat droids aboard" the pair of spiders is too large to maneuver in ship corridors." a few moments later Inventories came through: the HMPs each had thirty battle droids the '70 had two hundred droids the Braha's had twenty Dornan Marines the hammerhead had a hundred marines aboard.
"Then the plan going forward is this after a cruiser is disabled either of the gunships, hammerhead, or me will dock and send their compliment of combat teams aboard. The 70 will split their teams in half to board two targets each. By the end of our combat team deployments we will hopefully have seven of the ten cruisers or some of the three carriers. Or we can go after a single destroyer I personally recommend the cruisers and carriers "everyone agreed.
Forming up they made a beeline for the nearest cruiser swatting a handful of Ties as they came within range the blaster fire was so think between the squadron and cruiser you could practically of walked from hull to hull the cruisers shield held for a handful of seconds before armor and hull began to superheat and melt opening a compartment to space throwing a few imperials into space before lasers stopped and the ion cannons on the CR70 blasted into the ship and the engines glow faded and died the closest HMP dashed in and above the breached compartment before a harpoon fired from the main airlock a solid stream of B1s and 2s zip lined across and into the ship allowing the cable to detach.
The group reformed and started heading towards the next cruiser and repeated the tactic allowing the next HMP to dock the rest of the ships having held fire in time to avoid damaging the hull this time.
As they headed to a carrier this time they came under concentrated Tie attack it was at this time the first boarded cruiser powered up and opened fire on the fighters swarming around it sending half into a fireball and the other rocketing away as it slowly moved away from the battle towards one of the many orbital stations where the cruisers surviving crew could be properly taken prisoner. Just in time for the squadron to reach the carrier. Smirking Greg thought lets show these kids how it's done sending word to his droids to power up this carrier would be his.
The commander of this carrier was slightly smarter than the others as they got within weapon range the carriers guns and its escorting squadron of Ties opened fire on the approaching squadron who returned fire with a quartet of missiles, three of witch were intercepted either by the carriers guns or one of its escorting Ties the forth impacted and knocked the shields down allowing a dozen hits from squadron to hit the carrier, but opened one of the gunships to take several direct hits from the carrier.
Taking a quick glance at the screen Greg radioed "Braha Riptide get clear of the cruiser and help keep these fighters off of us until your shields are recharged you can't take even a single hit from their guns"
A moment later the reply came "this is Riptide continuing the fight elsewhere." the anger in the beings voice was a physical wave. But they followed orders whipping around and destroying in a burst of hot red angry lasers a trio of Tie Bombers and their escorting fighters before heading after some more.
The weakened group fired rapidly into the shields of the carrier. The Speedy slowing down ready for the moment its shields dropped to launch its boarding party. The hammerhead seeing just lasers were not enough to knock their shields down launched four missiles from a single use box launcher and in a flash the missiles impacted the shields. A chaotic spider web of lightning over the hull cascaded as the shields went down moments later a dozen ion charges slammed into the hull and the engines died.
The speedy darted in inside the carriers landing bay taking several hits to its shields from stormtroopers and pilots firing their handheld blasters after a moment the boarding party thundered down the ramp and started spreading out gunning down any imperial who didn't immediately surrender
(POV Change Alpha1 SBD)
Metal slammed metal as the mechanical droid forces stormed the hanger bay as the Speedy shot back into space as its ramp sealed. Their master wanted this ship captured and flown to a station to rejoin the fight after the surviving crew was taken prisoner. Over the wireless and encrypted comms their Master had installed so they didn't have to vocalize their orders to subordinates Alpha the bridge Bravo engineering Charlie Life support Delta guard the hanger. Delta lead hack into the ships mainframe and secure the crew where they are.
Roger delta subvocalized
As the boarding party separated Deltas SBD five B1 droids three Droidicas a single spider droid stayed behind to guard the hanger and the pair of Ties that remained.
Using blueprints of imperial Quasar Fire class light carriers the three teams separated each racing to their assigned targets. Using the max possible crew compliment the number 300 in the top corner of their visual receptors as the teams raced encountering imperial naval or storm troopers blasting them down before they could react.
The number kept dropping with each kill 299….297….291 as crew was run across and gunned down. As Alphas lead element rounded the corner they found themselves faceplate to helmet with a squad of ten storm troopers armed only with their carbines.
If Alpha had been an organic it would smile as it and its brother SBD launched a single micro wrist each the rockets throwing imperials in all directions making best use of the disarray Alpha4 primed and threw a stun grenade the blue field causing Stormtroopers to crumple the moment they were touched in total only four troopers were killed the others were stunned by the grenade and after having delta open and lock an empty closet with them stuffed inside wearing only the black skin suit.
Outside the bridge the droids waited for delta to break the code to open the door standing stock still and silent the count in the corner read 183. The lights in the corridor dimmed as word came in from Bravo engineering secured another few minutes passed and the ventilation fans activated again. Charlie life support secured
Alpha 1 focused on the mission timer 6min 21sec an electronic nod at an acceptable outcome so far was jolted by the ray shield over the bridge door shut down and the door split in half sliding into the walls before it was a quarter way open the droids tossed in a trio of stun grenades and stormed the bridge after they went off as they rounded the corner B9 was struck in the chest plate by a laser one of the bridge crew hadn't been stunned. They didn't get the chance to fire again as four other B1s targeted and shot the crewmen dead.
Alpha walked up to the communications station and extended the computer interfacing link installed by the Master into all of the B2 series Battle droids to broadcast a messaged to its master
Ship Secured, Master
