ooc: na, he was shooting at any of them that came within his range while he was on the hull of the ship. He only managed to get one confirmed kill and winged several others, but damaging a fighter doesn't count. [ooc]

Kyle had approached the carriers with Will and (insert mech pilot who want along here). Upon calling for surrender the carriers decided to fight and Will was hit before he could destroy the turret on the closer carrier. But still, he managed to kill the turret in the end.

Kyle accelerated toward the second carrier and fired off a volley from his rifle and a couple of missiles toward the enemy's turret. Although his missiles hit, his rifle fire missed due to the freighter powering up it's engines and maneuvering to flee into the asteroid field.

"This is Koga, it looks like the last freighter is fleeing. Shall i peruse?"

"Don't let them escape. Concentrate fire on the engines."

Wayward nodded.

"I'm on it."

Wayward boosted until he was flying in line with the engines, directly behind the vessel and out of range of any guns it might have. He drew his machinegun and grinned.

"This is the end, pirate scum."

He fired.

Kansai opened fire with his missles taking out the auxillery engines before Wayward's machine gun volley crippled the main ones. "Captain, this is Panther. Second freigher's engines are scrapped. Awaiting orders"

[OOC]Dante, I hate to tell you this but your damaged and your shot was useless. Lasers have a range of 12/24/36. Our mechs are equipped with 10/20/30 rifles. That ship was moving away from you to boot, in space that matters when your using a matter weapon (no pun intended). Even if you got within max rifle range you would be out of it for a bit, best you can do is max missile range and you would still have to deal with the fact that the ship is running. And now I’ll post what really happened. Tis more interesting anyway. [OOC]

"This is the end, pirate scum."

Wayward fired, and to his supprise the shells ricocheted off of the freighter’s hull. “What?” Then Wayward’s mech was slammed into by a lance of laser, knocking his mech into a drunken dance of stabilizing thruster bursts.

Kyle cursed as he saw Wayward’s mech hit, “Hell fire son! Don’t you know how to fight in space? You almost need to get point blank to a blasted fleeing enemy! Watch and learn pup.”

Kyle set his mech into overboost and began to close distance on the fleeing freighter. He made sure to weave and bob so that the enemy ship would have a difficult time tracking him with the turret and the overall impression was that a large angry firefly was charging a balloon.

Kansai opened fire with his missiles taking out the auxiliary engines with a lucky shot to a critical area, but unfortunately the main engines were still operational. The turret swung menacingly toward Kansai as he attempted to gain another lock.

Kansai cursed as the turret trained on him. He quickly armed his rifle and strafed left as a bolt of searing energy screamed past him "DAMMIT! Whos got the turret under wraps?!" Kansai dodged another laser and readied his missles "you are to stop or I swear I'll rip you apart with my bare HANDS!" he said as his missle reticule trained on its main engine.

Kyle watched as the turret trained upon Kansai's mech, "Hey! You should pay more attention to me!" Screamed Kyle over his com as he began to unload round after round into the freighter. Since he was at a close range most of his shots did damage to the ship, and his missiles tore into the armor. For a brief moment Kyle looked in horror as the ship's turret changed targets and began to turn on him, but then it shut down. Well, i guess i hit a power relay.

Just when Kyle had hope that this was over the Auxiliary engines flared to life once more. $%#^!!! They just rerouted power from the weapons to the Auxiliary engines!

"Cocky bastards!" Kyle was approaching their hull but if he didn't do something as soon as he got to the enemy hull then they would slip him off once they gained enough momentum. All the while this was happening Kyle was firing round after round into the ship's engine area, hoping to damage a critical system.

[ooc] and that's it for me tonight people. i have a test in the morning [ooc]

OOC:
I am very tempted to argue the point.

The temptation has been duly resisted and locked away in some bottomless abyss.

That said, I would like to ask you where you arrived at your conclusion from.

BIC:

“Hell fire son! Don’t you know how to fight in space? You almost need to get point blank to a blasted fleeing enemy! Watch and learn pup.”

"Of course I know how to fight in space, have you forgotten about a little thing called inertia?"

He cursed.

"Well, that's it for me."

He turned his UCV and coasted back to the Dirk. He'd haad his fun, time to let the others earn their keep.

Kansai opened his comms again "Koga I have a missle lock. I reccomend that you move"

(OOC) Seriously. I'm getting tired of being left behind here!


Erika's mech lost power from the shockwave, and she was up to her forearms in wires, attempting to get it restarted. "Come on..." She said, then twisting a pair togeather, she got power back. "YES!" She said, putting back in the wires. When she checked her moniters, she noticed that it was almost over.

"Your heading into the asteroid belt. They'll have to slow down to survive." John said into his com. He had patched into the main sensors of the ship.

Samuel was back at the Dirk. He had overheated his mech a little with the sword. He had used it for too long. He was sitting angrily in his cockpit.

"Where the hell is our mechanic?"

Wayward had just docked. As he alighted from his UCV he saw Samuel ranting about the mechanic.

"Chill out, man, the boss and some other guy got damaged too. She's fixing them up now."

[ooc] i used the weapons specs that jad gave us. In space inerta is very important, but that ship was traveling away from you and you were at max weapon range, a range in which your rifle usually does crap in the first place. Yes i'm taking into account that matter weapons travel farther in space. The fact that the ship is fleeing is very big. [ooc]

"Fire away Kansai, you won't hit me and if the engines are your target then i don't expect the fracking thing to explode."

[ooc] i'll be on once more in 2 hours. [ooc]

Erika got on the comm. "Sorry about that. My mech lost power, but I got it back up and running." clicking off, she started to make her way back to the ship.

OOC: I'm confused... Is the one ship that was running away stopped now? If so, how many people does Jake have to drag in exactly?

OOC: depends on who thinks they are to wounded to come in.

Two torpedos were launched from the dirk. The only did little damage to the hull around the engines. The first derelict carrier crashed into a large asteroid. The other had surrendered and was powering down as the Dirk class corvette moved into a position to release tow lines.

Samuel sat back into his seat, and put his helmet back on. He got tired of waiting for the mechanic to finish fixing up the other mechs to get to his, so he did it himself. Fixing up some mild overheat damage isn't the hardest of things to do. And while he was out, he had reloaded. He was only out of half his rifle clips, and his missiles were mostly there, so he didn't need to reload that little amount. He just wanted to. After plugging in, he activated his boosters and launched out into space. He saw that all the fighting was over.

"Damn it! I finally get my mech fixed up, and the fight is done!" Samuel huffed.

"This doesn't come out of my cut."

ooc: to my knowledge one ship has given up, one is derelict and one is halfway out of the combat zone. I assume by now the 1st ship is being boarded and has been taken over.

Kyle had finally closed the distance on the enemy ship and was alongside it, mid hull. With his mech's left hand he activated his laser blade and drove it into the ship's hull so that he could let his boosters cool down. Then he began to fire his rifle down into the ship, slug after slug drove deeper through the freighter's protective hull.

Upon the impact of the 10th round there was an explosive blowout. A gout of atmosphere caught Kyle's mech and ripped the laser blade from its grip. His mech flew away from the freighter head over heels.

As Kyle's vision blackened around the edges he examined his handy work. Not bad, but it seems to hurt more than i remember. Ug, i should have rolled before i fired that last shot, not after.

ooc: now the ship that's fleeing has a hull rupture. They probably aren't going anywhere anymore. It's up to jad whether or not the surrender now.

OOC: The engine was already destroyed Gato... And when did you get a laser?

"Ship stopped, I'm heading back. Anyone need to be pulled in?"

ooc: the laser blade is built into the forearm and works like wolverines claws only in singular laser form, so if it was ripped from your mech you lost an arm.

ooc: righty o then. My mech is now a one armed wonder. Will the last freighter surrender now?

(OOC: And losing an arm is DEFINITALLY going to cut into your pay.)

OOC: I still want to know where he got that small laser from...

IC:
Jake sighed as he watched Kyle do a suicide attack. Flying over to his UCV, Jake grabbed the body of the UCV, and tucked the main part of the arm that was blown off underneath his arm, then boosted towards the Dirk.

OOC: He figured they are surrendering, and since they can't move or shot he could always come back.

ooc: small laser = laser blade.

ooc: ah hell, your right! i though you stuck a small laser on the mech along with a melee weapon. meh, then i'll just change my post to say that i fired several rounds and punched through the hull that way. Edit: ok, my post has been edited.