For The Alliance! - Highlights

For The Alliance! has been completed with a sudden victory to the Imperials
due to an unfortunate FTL accident.

Points result: Imperials - 3206 (2154 without rebel accident) vs Rebels
- 1876
Fighter losses were Imperial: 97% (70/72) & Rebel: 91% (71/78).

Major events:

Turn 1: Interdictor SD 'Impassable' is attacked by 12 squadrons of rebel
fighters, taking major damage & losing the bridge for 5 turns. Carrack DDE
'Pandora' seems to have crack gunners, taking down 12 fighters with only 5
PDS.

Turn 2: 'Impassable' is attacked again, taking heavy damage & losing
shields & all firecons, but more TIE/In squadrons arrive to assist,
taking down a lot of rebel fighters. ISD 'Nemesis' takes a double threshold
check as the entire rebel fleet concentrates it's forward firepower. It loses
life support & both shields as well as most of it's secondary weaponry.
'Nemesis' TIE squadrons are freed up & attack Mon Cal cruiser 'Libertys Sword'
dealing light damage. Disaster of the turn goes to the
TIE/bomber squadron, which hits with 3 torpedos... and then only scores
3 points of damage.

Turn 3: 'Impassable' is finally finished off by rebel fighters, but not
without a fight, as the rebels have now been reduced to 13 fighters (from 78),
leaving the imperial forces with fighter superiority. They use this to
advantage, heavily damaging the bulk carrier 'Hornet'. ISD 'Nemesis' loses the
rest of its batteries & hyperdrive in a point blank gunnery duel. It's now
reduced to a single broadside turbolaser battery
(class-3).
The Nebulan-B frigates 'Endor' & 'Morning Star' are destroyed.  'Endor'
simply ceases to exist as it becomes possible to walk across the
turbolaser fire targetted upon it (from 20 hits to -22 hits in one
turn).

Turn 4: ISD 'Nemesis' falls prey to a lucky shot from 'Libertys Sword' as the
mighty behemoth starts to disengage, the Imperial response is to target all
firepower upon her & the carrier 'Hornet', forcing thresholds upon both ships;
Hornet losing it's bridge. Fighters continue to pound capital ships & a few
more die on each side. Oh, and Conflageration sends a few droids out to paint
over the scratches on the hull.

Turn 5: Imperial Dreadnought Rancor finishes off the Rebel Carrier Hornet with
secondary batteries, as the primaries targetting Liberty's Sword go astray.
The Rebel squadron 'Angela' escapes into hyperspace &
Reb#F10 becomes an ace in one turn as the flight leader kills 5 TIE/In.
Things start heading towards the endgame as the rebel fleet starts to scatter
in preparation for hyperspace.

Turn 6: Liberty's Sword explodes with all hands as she turns to engage, being
unable to engage hyperdrive. However, this draws fire away from the other
vessels, most of which should now escape safely. Rancor suffers from several
secondary explosions, including a steady stream of atmosphere from a
particularly deep strike from The Voluptuous Ursula, losing life support. The
remaining rebel fighters flee the field while most of the imperial
fighters are slaughtered by point defence, only 1 TIE/In surviving to
attack range.

Turn 7: Conflageration & Incendiary attempt to co-habit the same section
of space during FTL translation, resulting in Conflageration disappearing
never to be seen again & Incendiary being destroyed by the backwash. The
Voluptuous Ursula gains the attention of every Imperial ship, having her
shields fatally overloaded & several shots punching through to the command
bridge. The rest of the fleet successfully escapes into hyperspace.

Turn 8+: Rancor repairs life support on Turn 9.

'Neath Southern Skies
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