RP: YSS Imperator [YSS Imperator] Mission One: Star by Star

YSS Imperator
Hanger

With her helmet in hand, Ayane slowly floated down from her Hayabusa, taking her time to readjust to the solid ground of the large Sharie-class battleship. There was a lot of activity within the hanger as the ground crew moved the fighters off the landing decks to make room for the other craft that were moving into the hanger bay.

Looking around, Ayane saw one of the flight officers beckoning her over to the briefing room. She was still a little dizzy after her first battle, but she was excited and happy about the battleship kill she had scored. Some of the veteran pilots had many markings on their fighters, denoting kill or mission count. She hoped to have a similarly marked craft one day, but for now, she was content with her highly successful first mission.

Smiling with confidence, Ayane hovered to the ready room and prepared for the debriefing.

Ready Room

A different person, a warrant officer, was giving the debrief. She was a light blue Neko with stark white hair. She spoke while pointing at a projection of the battlefield, the projection beginning a playback of the battle from the very beginning.

"Avatar Squadron is our squadron of the day. Taking down bomber and battleship alike. Your squadron leader will give you your final tallies on kills which we will add to your kill boards."

She then commenced to her droning about what was good, and what was bad about each pilot's use of their craft. During the monologue, one of Avatar's other members leaned over to Ayane and whispered while trying not to be noticed by the briefing Neko,

"Nice job taking down that battleship, brass might thank you with something."

Space

It seemed that every ship was detonating something, and Yamatai was winning by far.

With each large beam from one of the Sharies, one or even sometimes a few L'Kor vessels would detonate. The cruisers were taking a bit more time to take vessels down, but it was evident that they were. Within the end of thirty minutes, the majority of the L'Kor fleet lay in ruin, with only a handful of extremely damaged carriers being guarded by a failed vanguard.

Suddenly, the vessels began turning away from the fleet and the sensors picked up charging FTL drives. The response from gunnery consoles throughout the fleet echoed the response of two battleships detonating violently as their cores sent every system throughout the vessel into a fiery blaze.

Of the entire forty-seven ships that opposed them, a mere eight escaped. Most of the escapees were smaller vessels, with only two of them being carriers. The rest of the ships remaining lay derelict and burning, with a slim chance of any retaliation or counter-attack.

Some of the cruisers broke formation to take on survivors and prisoners of war, and the rest commenced repairs and rearmament from a few transports that soon arrived from behind the frontlines. The Star Army had suffered only seventeen casualties, and all had been recovered. The damaged cruiser, YSS Saigō, was patched up to the best of the ability of the transport and repair ships and rejoined formation.

It was the post-battle calm that began to reach even the far corners of the fleet, and Division Three gained one battle star on her record.

YSS Imperator Main Engineering

"The decks are repaired." The elysian's proud voice exited the speakers up on the bridge. "I think they system got a bit unhappy with all the people trying to supercharge our shields, though. No real damage, but it's hotter than standard ops." Calming the heart of the ship as she whittled down the aether output after the enemy fleet had retreated, Araena did another do-over for the city's general status, feeling satisfied with what she was seeing. Well, mostly satisfied.

"Aside from that, we're all in the green."

Ready Room/Cabin 4/Galley

"I hope so!", Ayane whispered back to her squad mate. Tired and hungry, Ayane fell in and out of consciousness as the debriefing dragged on. But soon, it was finally over, and Avatar Squadron was released from duty. After returning to her cabin to change into a bodysuit uniform, Ayane decided to run to the galley to grab the last few main entrees and dessert. She had not been able to eat before the mission and the galley was closing down. As she hovered quickly through the passageways to the galley, she remembered her room mate and...partner, Ayane Akagawa. As she entered the line, she sent a telepathic message to her.

Meet me in the galley. They're closing down! See you soon!

Imbuing her messages with a touch of romantic urgency, Ayane eagerly awaited a response from Akagawa.