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Date Posted: 21:54:49 05/31/01 Thu
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's message, "Operation Wyldcat Strike (Everyone taking part in the mission post here)" on 16:14:59 05/11/01 Fri
Lucca blinked as the Scanner spoke to her...but she had no time to puzzle over it. She could feel the rumble as the ship repositioned itself for the drop, noise pointing almost straight. Through the viewports she could see the other four dropships, and the red reentry trails of the squadron of brightly-painted Valkiries sent to escort them--Shade's advance team was already out of sight. Then the sudde, sickening rush as the dropships' main thrusters kicked in, shaking violently energy shields glowing white-hot as they ships plummeted through the athmosphere, their rapid decent meant to avoid any possible ground fire.
"R-Really h-have t-t-to au-g-gment the sta-b-bilizers on these th-hings," Lucca muttered, white-knuckling her armrests. She risked a peek at her watch. "About five more minutes."
Shade's Serraph Panzer, Ellis' Blau Angel, and five other YF-21s flown by OverSec's senior officers had already made reentry, and were gliding downward with the sun to their backs, engines powered down. Unlike the other fighters, these had their Active Stealth engaged, making them invisible to sensors, and by comng our of the sun, a favorite tactic of pilots as far back as the First World War, they were virtually undetectable by technological OR visual means. The plan was to allow ant fighter Timeships that might be in athmosphere to detect the main force coming down and move to intercept--only to be hit from behind by Shade and Co. Fo now, the continued thit slow decent, still continuing to scan...
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