User blog comment:USS Enterprise CVN-65/The New (And Improved) Official Roleplay Room/@comment-13740085-20160101001250/@comment-13740085-20160106181324

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The initial 19,000+ missile salvo from the first layer of the USNiE formation slams into the selected Sith warships. Almost 4,000 missiles were allotted to each of those five, saturating any point defenses that could track them in the 2.5 second flight.

The second and third waves didn't fare as well, as the Sith targeting computers now knew what to look for. But only so many can be shot down in less than three seconds.

William Morehouse, sitting in the cockpit of his FA/S-95 Ghost, had to turn to shield his eyes as the reactors onboard one of the star destroyers went critical, and blew into a massive fireball.

Admiral Stark: "status?"

"One Star Destroyer destroyed outright, three others have moderate to severe damage, the largest of the targets appears the least damaged."

Stark: "pick a new target to make up for the one destroyed, maintain targeting on the other four. Firing pattern Alpha."

"All ships report missile tubes reloaded and pods replaced. Firing pattern Alpha confirmed."

Stark: "then fire."

Now, it's the rear-most layer of the wall that fires first. The second and first layers fire on delayed commands. The result is the next thing to a combined wave of 57,000 missiles.

The three star destroyers moderately to severely damaged in the first set of waves were destroyed this time around. The largest of the targeted ships took more hits, though remained combat capable.

Several minutes later, fire plan Alpha was executed again, focused on five new targets, now ignoring the stubborn large star destroyer. Two were destroyed in that wave, while the other three suffered damage.

Stark: "all ships hold fire. Signal the carriers: launch the bombers."

On the six Basilisk class carriers, nine hundred BA/S-31 Star Hunter launch from their hangars. The Ghost fighters that survived the run-in with the TIEs formed up as escorts with the bombers from their respective carriers.

William Morehouse: "all units, this is Gold 1, don't fly in a straight line. Bob and weave, give them a target they have to work for."