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Tenelapis Orbit, Several Days Earlier

Two NAR Toy Box class transports are just exiting the atmosphere of Tenelapis, carrying their cargo of 50 Crusader tanks and a few BSA-1 Imperial stealth bombers. They are escorted by a single Highlander class aerospace destroyer, keeping watch for marauding pirates.

Suddenly, three Arbarker class aerospace detroyers and a Cresent class aerospace fast battleship, all three of Cattirian make, drop out of warp in front of the transports. One more Arbarker exits slipspace behind the transports. The flanking Arbarker opens fire on the warp systems and engines of the Toy Boxes and Highlander, quickly putting them out of action, thanks to the large number of shells output by the Arbarker's 38cm cannons.

Before the transports and Highlander have time to react, the Cresent and the forward Arbarkers open fire on the bridges of the NAR transports and escort, in a gambit to kill the commanders of the ships, as well as disable the comms systems of the vessels. They are fairly successful in landing their shots, and the NAR vessels are essentially dead in space within seconds, before they even have time to react and send a distress signal.

Now blind, and with little ablility to aim its main weapons, the Highlander fires blindly in the general direction of the CN warships, and due to the extreme ROF of its main 130mm guns, manages to land some hits, however, these do little damage, and do little to slow the destrucion of the Highlander from volley after volley of fire from the Cattirian vessels.

With the escort destroyed, the Cattirian ships close in for the kill. However, rather than destroy the transports, they attempt to board. They quickly storm the transports with marines, overwhelming the poorly armed crews of the transports. With the ships and their cargo under firm control, the Cattirian ships and their prizes enter slipspace, and jump to random coordinates before coming to Project 9, easily shaking any pursuers.

At the scene of the crime, several NAR ships investigate, and quickly determine the raid to be of Cattirian origin, which wasn't too suprising. However, they do find the fact that the transports were captured to be quite odd. After launching several search parties to search for the MIA transports, the transports are deemed a lost cause, and the event is soon forgotten...

To be continued later...