Re: Mission 5: Amaya's Gate
@Miharu:
In an instant, Miharu was repositioned out of the killing zone of Tamamo's aetheric shock array, appearing further below with its arrowhead point directed at Koyryu while backing away at 3000 kilometers per second.
Tamamo reacted swiftly, making a high-energy CFS spin maneuver to point its prow at Miharu before it fired the positron railguns it had saved for after the aetheric deflagration was over, adding to it a spray of projected energy beams from its Combined Field System.
The beams glared white against Miharu's dorsal shields, both positron discharges following them to cause the shielding to crackle violently. The regenerative shields, following their promised specifications, held against the assault: they did not weaken, they did not allow the positron attacks through and seeing that Yukari had reinforced them the target point of the attack - the starboard slope of the rollbar - sustained only minor damage to the armor.
Undeterred by Tamamo's added firepower from its mobile weapon pods, Miharu loosed her own attacks, crackling cobalt bolts enjoining her with Koyryu and Oiwa - seeing those two gunships were moving slowly, Nyton enjoyed great accuracy with his attacks.
Koyryu's remaining nacelle shattered in half from the attacks, spraying armor plates and the inner workings of its sublight engines while the next particle beams struck over the bridge. Hitting the bridge directly once was enough to threaten it with an hull breach and severe equipment failure, but the second hit was enough to spell the doom of its occupants: the bridge dome violently burst open as the air inside was released... and to someone whom bothered to look, the scorched electrocuted bodies of the bridge operators would be seen spiraling out helplessly into space.
Oiwa found herself in an equally bad predicament. Before Nyton could swing Hoshi's turrets to fire on her, Miharu and Miyoko were already hard at work effecting cyberwarfare against the enemy gunship.
Going on the assumption that Oiwa was eagerly awaiting renewed comm uplink with Tamamo, Miharu adopted Tamamo's IFF signature, matched its previous communication frequency and cleared that channel from jamming so it could speak to Oiwa. When she succeeded in getting Oiwa's ear, she went for something 'simple' - she didn't go after the MEGAMI and rather attacked one semi-independent function of the Sakura-class' life support system: the blast shutters.
Usually blast shutters were activated when a ship entered alert conditions and then they could only be manually opened, but when hostilities were over the ship's computer was capable of automatically retracting all of them. Of course, if there were hull breaches, the gunship's MEGAMI would keep the shutters necessary to the ship's survival in place.
So, in this instance, Miharu made an override on the monitoring status of the blast shutters and then sent the end-of-combat signal to have them open up again. Before Oiwa's MEGAMI could countermand the hacking attack, the gunship's innards were opened again to space with the atmosphere blasting out and the hull groaning from the structural stress and the threat of decompression.
When Nyton's two particle beams struck Oiwa, they impaled through the light gunship as if its superstructural frame was made of wet toilet paper. It was too much, and the Sakura-class nearly folded itself in two before it exploded into smithereens.
"That's four!" Miharu announced gleefully. Nyton had two main gun pulses worth of power in the capacitors, but the main gun was still overheating.
The only opponent left was the Tamamo, whom did not seem to like its chances as it put its sublight engines into overdrive and - at 0.75c - swerved around to then speed toward Takumi. Miyoko noticed the last enemy gunship disengage its interdiction field to start shrouding itself in CFS stealth.
