<div class="floatleft">(https://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/23/22410/20160311085817_1.jpg)</div><strong>Squadron Name:</strong>Grey Squadron, Charlie and Delta Flights<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Gravity well above D'qar<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Everyone<br/><strong>Mentioned:</strong><br/><strong>Actions (Combat only)</strong>: Attacking Imperial Corvettes<br/><strong>NSFW Warning:</strong>None<br/><br/><hr/>The odds were long.  It was the standard fare more often, in fact in near every engagement the Alliance had against the Empire.  The Imperial Navy always had the numbers to dictate the battle.  The normal tactic or the Alliance was hit and run, making use of surprise to mass what firepower they had or a decisive strike.  However in this case, the worm had turned and instead the Empire was the one springing the surprise and the<em>Vanguard</em>was still at the outer edge of D'qar's gravity well, and it had to stay there in order to give the shuttles a chance to escape and land.  Thus it was up to the Y-Wings of Grey Squadron to buy the time needed for combat recovery actions.<br/><br/>Kaulo's recommendation was quickly passed through to the rest of the Y-Wings, and they lined up for their attack run.  The trailing edge of the first squadron of eye-balls.  The escorting Z-95's increased their speed and moved to engage.  They were not as maneuverable as the TIE fighters, they did have the advantage of having shields.  Crimson and emerald colored laser fire strafed through the black void of space as the two sides engaged one another.  The Y-Wings were not spared, and Grey Twelve was lost under a barrage of enemy fire.  It was the only causality o the group, though the shields were worse for ware, Kaulo himself loosing forty percent of his forwards shields before the optimum firing range was reached, and cobalt lances of energy spat forward towards their targets.<br/><br/><div align="center">(https://pm1.narvii.com/6448/42b84d4738db67482537037b00b3c8e106de1c4b_hq.jpg)</div><br/>The first two salvos hit and the shields about the frigates shimmered in space under the onslaught before failing completely.  The final salvo went through, and in two of the three frigates managed to knock their sensors out.  The third frigate took some damage but its senors did look to be intact.  It moved ahead of the other two and was likely feeding its sensor and targeting data to the other two ships.  However, things were not as bleak as they seemed as a new set of contacts appeared, and Alliance transponders, Black and Monarch Squadrons, and in place to hit the other TIE squarons by surprise.  They were not the only new contact, as the space off the port of the Imperial frigates resolved into the<em>Aspiration</em>, turbolaser fire filling the void where the rear two frigates were, striking durasteel armored plating and vaporizing it.<br/><br/><div align="center">(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/f/f8/FFG_MC75_Ordnance_Cruiser.png/revision/latest?cb=20180106182203)</div><br/>The<em>Vanguard</em>was not idle at all, and in fact had laid a trap for the Imperial screening unit.  In short order two of the frigates were nothing more than venting, crippled hulks, already caught in what would eventually be a decaying orbit about D'qar.  The third frigate was heavily damaged, and making all possible speed away from the engagement.  The remaining TIE fighters and bombers broke of their attack runs and moved to screen and protect the<em>Implacable</em>as now the Alliance was a military threat against them.  Already the<em>Implacable</em>was maneuvering to make a run or hyperspace, merely waiting to recover any surviving TIE fighters.  A victory, at least by the standards the Alliance measure them.