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3 days ago, Contact with Brute frigate
"Sir, slipspace rupture!" said Lieutenant Zorn. The burly man from Reach seemed fairly calm when he stated this information. Given he has seen space battles from the Harvest Campaign to the defense of Earth, Lieutenant Zorn would need an armada to faze him.
"All hands to battle stations." stated Captain McCullen. There was no urgency in his voice. The destroyer he commanded had a new linear drive for firing MACs and a fully functional energy shield, due to the Elite alliance. His ship, once out armoured and out gunned by the Covanent, was now an equal match for anything except a capital ship.
When the frigate appeared, he could only attempt to hide his laughter when his Nav officer, Commander Thrash, pointed out that the frigate had its shields powered down.
"Arm only our MAC gun, and fire two rounds, one portside and one starboard."
McCullen knew that the enhanced speed of the MAC rounds would go through both lateral lines of the frigate before the Brutes knew what hit them. Only the new MAC cannons were fast enough. An attempt to severe both lateral lines with old systems would fail due to lack of speed.
Two dull thumps sounded as the depleted uranium slugs rocketed towards the frigate. The first round hit the port line a split second before the second round hit the starboard line.
The impact of the rounds sent the frigate tumbling like a top, and with the addition of the streaming red plasma venting from the now ruined weapons of the Brute ship, the crew started to laugh.
"Hey who was working Weapons Station on that strike? I want to have a toast in their honour tonight when we get planetside!", called Commander Thrash.
"Ahh I'm not that great of a shot.", responded Warrent Officer Jake Dant.
"Bloody hell, cut the- that was not a great shot-bull! We all know that only you could have done that!", Thrash said.
Jake Dant was the youngest, and most skilled, man on the command crew. His knack for targeting on shipboard weaponry was recognized while training at Luna facility. Only he and a few others over the past century have been awarded the Golden Naval Targeting award while being a trainee.
The celebratory mood was cut short when Nav officer Lueitenant Sean Trice noticed the Brute frigate performing another slipspace jump.
[Edited on 04.18.2009 6:38 PM PDT]