Talk:New Arcadian Republic/@comment-10905876-20150507230326

-Venus Orbit-

The NARNS Viscount waited in orbit around Venus (far from prying eyes, to keep the ship under wraps), all hands at battle stations and her weapons configured for training only. Just below the horizon of Venus, the NARNS Andre Courteau drops out of warp. Aboard the Courteau, (shorthand it will be referred to as just the Courteau or Courteau class) pilots finish up boarding their interceptors, and the atmosphere in the ship's massive hangar is pumped in to storage cylinders. Meanwhile the ship starts to accelerate around Venus, chasing the Viscount around the planet and gathering speed relative to the other ship. Once the hangar is depressurized, the three armored hangar doors slide open, and the fighters streak out of the ship, and form up in front at full acceleration. With the fighters clear, the Courteau's hangars are closed back up, but they are not pressurized to prevent loss of a huge portion of the ship's air to battle damage. They circle around the planet towards the Viscount, swarming the ship and causing moderate damage to be registered on the training computer. Next the Andre Courteau comes up at high speed, blasting away with simulated fire, and her starboard main engines' thrust reversers are deployed as she approaches the ship, while the port mains are brought to null thrust. The ship rotates around its vertical axis as it approaches the ship, and as it passes 90° the main engines are returned to full forward thrust, and the maneuvering thrusters fire to slow the ship's rotation as it decelerates in a clockwise loop around Viscount, firing the whole time. At the end of the maneuver, the Courteau falls in with the Viscount, and the damage totals are added up. The maneuver allowed the carrier to close up its hangars before entering the battle, and the rapid change in course allowed the ship to avoid some damage. With the practice considered a success, the ships repeat the exercise a few more times, and then warp back to an NAR base.