<div class="floatleft">(https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/760/430/c89.jpg)</div><strong>Character Name:</strong>Kaulo Ma<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Leaving D,qar<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Open<br/><strong>Mentioned:</strong>NA<br/><strong>Actions (Combat only)</strong>:<br/><strong>NSFW Warning:</strong>NA<br/>Kaulo keyed his microphone again.<em>"Gold six.  Acknowledged."</em>What else could one say when they'd been assigned what was essentially a suicide mission?  He'd learned that when an order ended with 'May the Force be with you', that order was likely to end in death and those words were a final benediction.  Fighter/bombers versus a capital ship.  Their lives were being spent to buy time to allow non-combatants to escape.<br/><br/>That didn't mean Kaulo was going to sell his life cheaply.  Many smaller predators could overwhelm a single larger one, if they were fast enough and targeted vulnerable areas.  It made a fitting analogy for their situation.  Raider class ships weren't intended to fight off swarms of fighters.  They were escorts for larger ships like the Gladiator class and relied on the larger vessel to provide fighter cover.  He was flying a fully armed BTL-A4 Y-wing assault starfighter/bomber.  If they could inflict enough damage before the fighters could be recalled, the might be able to buy the<em>Vanguard</em>enough time to flee.  Unless....<br/><br/><em>Half the task force is not here.  Either the Aspiration and her escorts have been assigned elsewhere or they have yet to arrive.  Or they are already here and elsewhere. </em><br/><br/><em>"This is Fin.  Accelerating and preparing for an attack run on target designated Raider One.  Commander, I recommend initiating long range scans of the escape route.  I suspect you will find the Aspiration lying in wait like an ambush hunter.  The Implacable is meant to drive the prey into a trap, rather than being the real assault."</em>