OOC: w/ IDFK

[b]Deyika[/b]

Deyika had been half asleep when Tonak's call rang in. Her lithe body tilted backward and head hidden under a paper pamphlet of written instructions, fingers still blackened with grime, oil and other little nasties from rerouting what ships she could to remote control. Sadly not all of them were possible in the convergence and that left a slight bitter taste in her mouth. Namely at the thought of lives likely loss in this battle. Over and over her mind wrapped about Tonak's given details on the mission, a fact she found a bit bitter-sweet, since.

Her thoughts were jerked into the present when the communicator's soft beeping caused her to stir awake. She groaned softly in frustration. Slowly she edged the crudely written item from her face and into her lap, her long hair a slight frighten mess thanks to her odd sleeping position. Her head lazily shifted to the side, spotting the beeping thing as she sighed then rose upright. She had been busy researching the ships they had received for the fourth time only to fall asleep, her body stiff from her less then comfortable position. 

With a soft flutter, she tossed the paper upon the console and pressed the button. She smirked when Tonak's voice came on, her head shook at his confidence and certainty as he relay the new orders. So it was time for the stupid Tau'ri. Dey's hand went to her console, reaching out to all the ships under her command, both to ensure they understood their task as well as were ready for it. Unlike them, she was on the sidelines for now thanks to her promise to Tonak. She braced then spoke to she was commanding. 

"Alright guys, the Tau'ri are on their way and should show up within the given coordinates soon. Time to spread out so we can give them some warm company to enjoy, remember to jump in and out of hyper space to flank." 

The moment the Langford came into sight, the first it would be face to face to were two Ha'tak motherships and two Al'kesh hovering in waiting. The Al'keshs were cloaked, their forms hung back behind the much two larger ships within the shadows, hidden from both sight and the PDS on board the Langford slightly as it would have trouble tracking them. Without wasting much time, Deyika signaled the first Ha'tak to release the Gliders which swarmed from their hanger bays and decended towards the Langford. At the same time, the other Ha'tak began to enter hyperspace in the opposite direction of the Tauri ship. Like Tonak said, she had ensured most the ships were spaced apart so any attacks on the Ha'tak wouldn't affect nearby ships and her losses low. 

[b]Langford[/b]

Watching the map update as they emerged form hyperspace, Catherine hissed as she saw one of the Ha'Tak missing and the other following shortly after. "Bastard in command has to be a woman with those instincts." she growled, her eyes ticking form one end of the holomap to another, analyzing the situation. "Incoming fighters!" the sensors tech caleld out and the dots highlighted on the map. It was clear. A fighter screen covering the mothership. But the absence of the other two was annoying. IT meant that this could easily turn from an offensive engagement to a defensive one.

"Target the mothership with the bow batteries, time on target. More are incoming, I want that oune out of my sky. Can we get nukes to intercept the fighters?" she looked over to the weapon's tech. "Too late." the officer shook his head. Catherine was just about to voice another idea, but the ship shook and red warnings blossomed on the tech's screen. "Ma'am we lost the forward baterries! The buffers are damaged!" he reported, his hands flying over the keyboard. "The other two?" she asked. Why did nothing of this show up on the shakedown? "They read online but we might only have those two shots!" Kat nodded, gears in her head shifting into turbo, "And try hailing the planet, see if anyone's receiving us! Ariadne, handle the ground, I'll take it up here!"

[hider=Damage Roll]

25% of Critical due to extreme range.

1st Beam: 5
2nd Beam: 1
One critical hit.

Critical hit upon - Armour Weakpoint.
Result = Decompression(Non important if life support is off)
 = Structural Weakness - Can cause more damage on repeat hits or extraneous manuevers.
 
[/hider]

"Earth ship [i]Catherine Langford[/i] to any Langaran official or resistance: We're answering your distress call and have a team ready to assist you, we need a safe beaming zone, over?" Static returned through the bridge officers headset. "This is.... min... Dreylock of the.... council. The .... is under hostile.... They have.... Quinn.... unable to... counter due to... forces. We have a warehouse... two blocks from... facility... ring platforms.... ready... our forces will.. assist."

Ariadne quickly took in what information she could from the garbled transmission. She couldn't decide whether to be annoyed or pleased that she was to command the ground mission. Normally she was happy to do so, but doing so from on high had never been her style. Still, she complied with the order. It was something of a rush commanding troops again, holding their lives in her hands. The obvious move was to have the ground team take the rings. It would concentrate their forces, but then if the Langarans had already been defeated once their help would probably not be very useful to the far more elite ground team the Langford had. Still, they would make a nice diversion. She opened the channel to the Langarans to give them orders. She was speaking with Idalia's voice both to avoid scaring the Langarans and make it easier to understand her over the primitive Tau'ri radios. "No. Our team will beam down nearby and enter the facility from another route. Your forces are to attack on my signal." She then switched to the channel on which she would give orders to the ground team. "Ground team, you will be beamed down at these coordinates. Enter the facility when the Alliance troops have been drawn off, do not fire unless you must. The Langaran troops will be creating a diversion to draw attention from you."

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Deyika flinched when she spotted the Ha'tak take two hits from the Tauri's larger ship. The first beam had clearly deal the higher damage as the outside of the ship's hull blow off chucks, exposing its interior to the vacuums of space and causing some structural damage. It was fortunate Deyika had the two pilots sealed off in the bridge where life support was centered, sitting back to view the battle's chaos. She only hoped the system hadn't been depleted or the ship was completely useless. The second beam however had managed to miss anything important and merely caused mostly surface damage, slightly less concerning matter to its occupates. The Ha'tak didn't remain in position. Instead its large bulk veered to the left, making it a less easy target to hit, and targeted its weapons systems upon the Langford. About twenty or more blasts rang out from the arc around the pyramid center. Meanwhile the Al'kesh, who had been behind the larger vessel, had been shifting their position to flank the Tauri's ship at the sides where they would decloak and would set on firing at the sides while the ship was likely distracted with the Ha'tak. 

Seeing the wounded prey, Kat ordered the Langford to pursue the Ha'Tak. As far as accuracy went, she couldn't complain at the range they were firing. In fact she was rather lucky, considering the condition of the weapons. "Finish them off with the missiles, there's has to be more here, let's not play all the trumps." Just as she finished saying that, the Al'Kesh popped up on sensors and commenced their attack run. [i]Wunderbar.[/i] captain growled in her mind. With the railgunners busy with the gliders and missiles pouring towards the wounded pyramid ship, she needed a way to relieve the shields from the flankers. tapping her earpiece, she connected to the fighters: "Change of plan, Rea'C Take the fighters and head straight for the Al'Kesh. THe Gliders are busy wiht our point defenses, you should have no trouble getting through. Once the bombers are gone come around and help Langford's gunners."