DocTomoe
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Panther Attack Shuttle Wing SP-01
Since the sounding of the initial alert, a group of one-thousand nekovalkryja pilots were at the ready in the flight bay assigned to the Hotaru's SP-01 flight wing. Along with these nekovalkryja pilots, there were the thousands of NH-12B units assigned to the wing, several thousand power armor units, and one thousand Panther-Aeroshuttles to carry them in. The shuttles were fresh, shiny, brand new... and they'd get their first taste of combat which the Mishhu seemed to beg for.
It was barely ten seconds after the alert sounded that Itto Juni Kiri-Mai made her way onto the flight deck, she was clad in the full bodysuit variant of the SAoY uniform, with a black headband tied around her forehead which bared the flag of the Empire upon the middle of it. The headband held back her shoulder length brown-red hair out of the frame of her red eyes. The look in those eyes was something which she had not shown since the battle of Taiie, the blazing focus in her expression made the brilliant red of her manufacturer's tattoo upon her cheek seem pale in comparison... unfortunately she had a companion which failed to match her appearance.
On Kiri-Mai's shoulder was a bubble-gum pink haired NH-12B which had the same exact outfit on as Kiri-Mai, but with tiny bows in her hair... despite her cute appearance, she had an expression of determined focus which made even the eight inch nekovalkryja seem to be a bit larger than she actually was.
As Kiri-Mai approached her freshly assigned Panther, she began to bark out orders verbally and through telepathic communication. “Attention members of SP-01, flush the alcohol from your systems, the new years party is over. We shall mobilize once we're clear of the enemy's initial torpedo barrage. This is not a drill, we have an enemy attack group outside which we're going to show the might of this new attack-shuttle. Technical specs on the attack group forwarding to each of you now. Our primary objective is to move within deployment range to deliver our NH-12 piloted Mindy and LAMIA armors on the enemy vessels, then begin a skirmish with the enemy attack pods. While skirmishing, units 750 – 1000 will be handling FTL maneuvers to intercept enemy torpedoes. Units 500 – 749 will be handling the basic attack pods. Units 250 – 499 will be handling command pods and Ripper armors. Units 1 – 249 will be on multi-role assignment... put your fire where it seems to matter most.
“NH-12Bs assigned to armor combat, your primary objective is to disable the enemy's primary anti-fleet weapons, once their weapons are disabled, begin precision strikes on each of their primary reactors to sit them dead in space so our big-friends can handle them. Your objectives in order of importance; heavy particle weapons, torpedo tubes, transposition weapons, medium weapons, launch bays, reactors, free-fire.
“I expect by now each of you have back ups of your data, get into your shuttles and begin pre-launch procedures... and don't forget to watch that friendly fire out there, keep your heads on your WARMS and network functions.”
As Kiri-Mai gave the last bit of her orders, she sat herself in the pilot seat of her assigned Panther. The spine connection was made and she began to activate the shuttle's systems. Aether reactor, on-line. Antimatter containment, on-line. Antimatter-Energy converter, on-line. Fusion engines, on-line. Antimatter packet launchers, loaded. Primary Aether Cannon, charged. Aether Gatling units, charged... She looked behind her to see her pink-haired companion, disappear into a crawl space, and several other NH-12 units crawling into Mindy armors which were placed in the launch tubes of the Panther. Repair assistant, in place. Armors, manned. Shield systems, charged. Activating gravity control device. The Panther then began to hover off the deck, as it did, the other shuttles followed suit.
“Kiri-Mai to all units, ready check.” When she finished speaking, one thousand ready indicators quickly blinked into existence in her mind. “Link CIES systems, confirm KAMI link. Remain ready for launch.”
Mere moments went by as the fighter wing was on edge and ready for deployment. Along the edges of the bay, a number of LAMIA armors equipped with the KE-W-3000 aether Gatling stood guard in case of enemy pod advances. The bay doors opened and a message was forwarded from KAMI, the lori has made it's move out from the path of the torpedo barrage. “We do what we must, because we can. All units, launch!” As soon as the words were out from her lips, Kiri-Mai's shuttle raced out from the bay at .85c. Kiri-Mai's vision was filled with a hybrid of what she saw from her Panther's view, and what the whole fleet saw as a whole. The launch was timed well, the initial heavy-weapons barrage had just impacted, the wash of radiation and brilliant light was just fading as she piloted her shuttle, setting a course for an arcing route to move in on the surviving enemy's flank.
The course was set and shared with the wing, and soon the one thousand shuttles activated their modest 5000c drives and performed a high speed maneuver to position themselves on the evading enemy's flank as they dropped out of FTL just 'above' the far left flank of the surviving enemy's command ships, and the shuttles then went about a high speed pass while dropping their load of LAMIA and Mindy on the enemy, timing their deployments to allow for an even dispersal of armors on the command group.
As soon as the armors were deployed, they quickly darted from their original deployment positions at FTL speeds to avoid incoming anti-armor fire, only for split seconds they dropped out of FTL to place a burst of aether on a heavy weapons emplacement, or to put a burst of aether down a torpedo tube. Despite their efforts, some armors were ripped clear through with small beams of positrons which resulted in the impacted armors exploding in brilliant displays of matter/antimatter conversion. This exact situation was what earned the NH-12 the reputation of being grim in most assignments.
The Panther component of the SP-01 wing continued their pass, all while raking the enemy with aether Gatling and cannon fire before pulling away and beginning their individual tasks... groups plunged into the attack pod wings, another group darted about, placing brilliant streams of fire in open launch bays, and raking enemy ships with aether cannon fire to hopefully distract their weapons from their relatively frail powerarmor companions. The last group moved about at FTL speeds in front of the Mishhu attack group, it was almost suicidal, but they put themselves into harm's way as they pelted launched torpedoes with antimatter packets and raking Gatling fire.
”All sections, excellent deployment, continue as you are.” Kiri-Mai said in an almost monotone manner as she skimmed her shuttle along the surface of one of the battle ships, dropping the last power armor directly beside one of it's heavy weapon cannons. Once the armor was deployed, she accelerated to FTL speeds to break away from the firing arc of the weapon, she than began the task of Ripper and Command Pod hunting as her mind gave instruction to her group as she watched every Panther, LAMIA, and Mindy move about in her mind's eye. A shudder of pleasure washed over her as she watched brilliant white traces of aether Gatling fire rip through a command pod That was kill 7056 of my service... the pilot thought to herself as that number was quickly washed away with the coming fruits of her defense of the Hotaru.
