Board Thread:Random RP/@comment-26084195-20160413054226/@comment-26347028-20160418071839

Eureka Enderborn wrote: @MrHobit: You're a police officer, not a fighter pilot. You're forced to watch the battle from a safe distance in the cargo ship. Also, no. Vessels come equipped with EMP shielding as standard.

@Malta: You detect the Covenant combat vessels approaching rapidly, weapons hot. The first thing to occur in this fight is a pair of cruisers firing off their burn-outs (a specialty of the Covenant's), dicing up two escorting UNE frigates. Fighter craft are approaching even faster. "Shit."

"Defensive positions, lads. Engines to 80%, face the fleet."

The fleet forms up in a line, any and all beam weapons they have focused on the larger ships; the torpedoes being held in until they are much closer. The non-beam weapons are being used as CIWS.