Lorie and I were taking the Osprey out for a trial run, with the new atmo plant parts that Captain Meyers found for us. We were out Hale's Moon way (again) and got an SOS all garbled and chopped up, but sure enough, the Alliance was hitting the moon again.
We landed fast, ran out of the Osprey with guns drawn. Lorie was wearing her beach shorts and flip flops, and I have a cast on my right leg from the last time I came to Hale's Moon to help with an Alliance raid... not good.
First thing we noticed was that there weren't any civilians around, and no militia. Place was dead quiet. But we heard an odd whirring sound.
Looking up, we saw an Alliance atmosphere fighter craft, bearing down on us, guns blazing.
Running for cover we returned fire with just the small arms we had, but tell ya what, that pilot must have been damned suprised when those shots hit vital spots on that flying ship of his.
He crashed, we ran over to the wreckage. He climbed out and took a few shots at us with a pistol, we shot back, of course. He hit the ground but before we could check him some armored Alliance Troopers came at us from down the street.
Long running gun fight, and I couldn't even run, just hobble along on my broken leg in its cast. Luckily Lorie's bare legs seemed to distract the troopers a bit. We bagged one of them and the other got his injured buddy out of there.
We went back to check on the pilot, noticed there was a CNS reporter there too, looking a bit wild eyed at having been caught up in a fire fight.
[17:51] Alliance Pilot tries to get rid of his breathing mask as he slowly bleeds out and is obviously dying
[17:51] Nack Barnes grabs the pilot by the shirt, "Who ordered this attack! Tell me!"
[17:52] Alliance Pilot: "nnngh..!" *tries to breath..bites his teeth together* scharnebek,,,,commodore....akkh
[17:52] You: Who? Who???
[17:52] You: Commodore who??
[17:52] Nack Barnes shakes the man violently.
[17:53] Nack Barnes drops the fellow back to the pavement.
[17:53] Alliance Pilot coughs and tries to stay awake
[17:53] You: Gah.
[17:53] Tillery Woodhen: i think he said scharnebek
[17:53] You: That name mean anything to you, Tillery?
[17:54] Tillery Woodhen: Not off hand
[17:54] You: Huh.
[17:54] Alliance Pilot tries to catch a last breath..."help me....."
[17:54] You: Well, reckon this is as good a place as any for this good Alliance pilot.
[17:54] Tillery Woodhen notices the blood pooling
[17:54] Tillery Woodhen: maybe if you get him some med care, he'll be able to talk
[17:54] Nack Barnes shoots the pilot in the head.
[17:55] You: I don't think so.
[17:55] Alliance Pilot dies
[17:55] Tillery Woodhen gasps.
[17:55] Lorie Lilliehook sighs.
I headed back to Blackburne with Lorie. Don't much know or care what the CNS Reporter did with the dead body of that Pilot. I just know it's one less Alliance fighter to come against us in whatever is brewing out here.
