Talk:AIF/@comment-10905876-20150527041039

-Leviathan Base, Captains' lounge-

Captain Fredrick Jones is talking with fellow sub captain Chris Yates, the two would be heading out on patrol for an extended patrol soon. Yates was captain of the IKN Last Laugh, a Silent Retribution class SSBN with a mixed nuclear and hypersonic missile load, and would be on station in the Arctic, hidden from detection by most subs, and the Sith. Jones would escort the Last Laugh north in the IKN Dallas, before taking his Pittshaven class attack sub south, to patrol around the pacific on defense and escort duty, ready to strike at any sith invasion.

Jones: "Did you hear about Ceres? I heard that the sith somehow managed to bypass the warp detector grids."

Yates: "I heard that they destroyed half the ships at Pluto before they could leave their docks, and that the sith used some kind of superweapon to destroy one of their Viscount class battleships."

Jones: "Damn, didn't hear about that Viscount class. Tell me Chris, do you ever consider transferring to the aerospace division?"

Yates: "Not often no, I built my career in the submariner force, and I wouldn't trade it for anything. How about you?"

Jones: "I don't usually, but there are times, like now, where I think I could hit back at our enemies much harder from the bridge of an aerospace warship rather than the command room of a submarine. But then, if those sith bastards are audacious enough to attack Ceres and two other colonies, then they'll try for earth too. And I know that my boat can hit then hard, and they can't hit me back, so I can return here to load up more weapons, so I can hit then again."

Yates: "I remember hearing about Ewe-29. How she singlehandedly brought down an entire Prometheus base, and survived to fight again too. I hope I have such an opportunity to deliver a blow to the enemy such as that one. And with the heavy arsenal on my boat, that day will soon come."

Jones: "Well..." He raises a glass of whiskey: "...to hitting the enemy hard!"

Yates: "I'll drink to that...."

The next morning the two subs head out, the Dallas leading the Last Laugh out towards a station under the arctic ice, where she will wait for the sith to attack, possibly waiting until the aerospace fleets falter, to strike back....