The battle, thus far, was going well for the forces of the Galactic Empire. The Tholatin fleet had lost its three lead Star Destroyers, two of them utterly destroyed and a third crippled and slowly spinning away from the scene of the battle.
Some escape pods had been noted fleeing the destroyed ships, and many had been shot down by either side, whether by accident or design no one would ever know.
The Empire's ships, all of them relitively undamaged from the firefight with the opposing ships, pressed their advantadge, and hard.
The Tholatin ships had, for the second time, commenced a turn, trying to bring their remaining warships back to face the Empire directly.
The massive, wedge-shaped Imperial Star Destroyers drove heard into the enemy's flank, guns firing in a deadly sequence that with each bombardment brought the enemy vessels closer to collapse. The unknown enemy Battle Cruisers had thus far taken the brunt of attack from the Star Destroyers, and despite their strange shielding that seemed to absord shot after shot without damage, they were faltering.
The Support line still stood at more than 2500 fighters, and they had not yet exhausted their missile supplies. They had hammered away at the opposite flanks of the enemy fleet, weakening their shields on all sides. Presently, even when a new shield was moved into place, it was as weak or weaker than the shield it replaced.
Even the return fire of those vessels was diminished, still suffering from the ongoing ion bombardment that the Empire had targeted them with (and continued to do so). As for the shields of the Star Destroyers, these were easily reinforced with power from the ship's rear shields.
The other ships of the Tholatin fleet were faring no better. The Aegis Cruisers, ships designed purely for power and not for prolonged space combat, were taking a beating from the Star Avengers that had targetted them; and the commanders of those ships had choosen to ignore their assaulters and concentrate instead on the Star Destroyer that hopelessly outclassed it.
The enemy ships were not limping, and terribly. The SATAPs outgunned them, and with the enemy attempting to both make a hard turn trapped in a gravity well and engage a far larger enemy, they had no way of stopping the weapons fire from those ships.
The SATAPs were sparing no effort for the enemy, ripping guns from her hull with an amazing show of style, grace, and accuracy. Barely a mark was to be seen, aside from the spaces where the turrets had been blasted into oblivion.
Bhindi watched all of this from the bridge of the Osciliath, which was currently holding between the two enemy Battle Cruisers and splitting her fire between them.
The Tholatins had finished their turn, and they now faced the Imperial warships again, for what little good it did. The ships had suffered enough damage now that the remaining battle, for the Imperial side, would be little more than janitorial duty.
Turbolaser fire continued to fly forth, pounding the Tholatin fleet back into the oblivion from wence it had come.
Some people, it seemed, just didn't learn.
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Damages (This Round)
TTR
2 Saberie Class Battle Cruisers - Heavy Damage
<font size=1>Shields at 20%, Guns at 30%, Hull at 70%</font>
2 Aegis Class Cruisers Heavy - Severe Damage
<font size=1>Shields at 30%, Guns at 15%, Hull at 55%</font>
TNO
2 Imperator Class Star Destroyers Light Damage
<font size=1>Shields at 90% (reinforced), Guns at 100%, Hull at 100%</font>
