tidewater Darkstar

[Campaign Day 08, Gl.432, asteroid belt]

This next episode was first delayed by a mandate from the Institute of Procrastination, but once that passed over I realized I had a great deal of trouble remembering what actually happened. The few images don’t give an intelligence outfit much to go on, especially without the set of WRS’s from immediately after that particular fight. I knew we chalked it up to a Canadian loss, but aside from the scale being tipped that way, we can only see 1 Japanese ship (with red base) with a hashtag # cube marking it “crippled”, and 2 Canadian ships (blue bases) that have little cubes with a heart ♥ next to them, which we began using to indicate ships “breaking off”, or forced to flee because of loss of life, or the excessive risk of such.

It was very likely here in this battle that Frontenac, a Cornwallis Class frigate, suffered a comical series of hits that drilled from her starboard quarter clean through to the port side, with enough torpedoes for the last one to explode Completely Outside the Ship on the Other Side.  -That earned the ship and crew an extra point of experience.

I also seemed to recall in one of these early battles, we hadn’t got the ‘rules for fleeing’ down right, and I let a small corvette (Oakville) linger a bit too much.  (She should have turned towards that corner, and never looked back)  While drawing fire off of a friendly ship by shooting with little effect, she herself took enough damage to become crippled rather than just leaving early, which tipped the outcome in whichever game that was.  Probably this one…

What we do know:
The Canadian’s Battlegroup Sable, consisting of a destroyer, frigate, and corvette, moved ahead to Gliese 432, with the 2nd Advance Group of the Japanese (with a destroyer and 2 frigates) meeting them amongst a cluster of asteroids. Results were such that the Canadian force was in retreat, while the Japanese would begin plans to establish a forward base near there, very close to the end goal for both sides, the habitable star system at Gliese 433…