Exegol preplay

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The ships exited hyperspace, and Poe's first thought upon seeing Exegol was that it looked dead. It was the the ugliest thing he'd seen in a long while, and he wondered if it had always been this way, or if building a colossal fleet of Star Destroyers here had killed the place.

And when the ships dived into the cloud cover, they nearly ran into the Sith fleet. It was massive. Their triangled hulls were enormous, but they grew even smaller as their numbers seemed to stretch into infinity.

"Great dark seas," Aftab Ackbar gasped across the comm. "Look at that!"

"No sign of the Falcon or allies," Tyce said from her ship.

"Help will get here," Poe assured them.

Comments

Re: Spaceships

[somethingwithturquoise]

Well, yeah. That was the point.

With an alert of an active enemy on the move toward her blooping almost cheerfully on her screen, Summer quickly switched on a suggestive nav path with the program she used to help her guide herself through asteroid fields when she went stress-relief meteor-blasting. She knew she didn't have much time to really think about it, though, so she gloss over it quickly before immediately dropping down at just about the time she figured that laser fire would be reaching her. A few more adjustments, locking onto a few of the enemy ships and planning her course to hopefully swing by them just slightly ahead of the laser blasts so they got caught in the range, then ducking swiftly back around and weaving through them like some spastic, unpredictable pink guppy swimming through a swarm of sharks.

Re: Spaceships

[tros_npcs]

She was doing a very good job of keeping them busy, and one TIE even exploded not by thanks to one of them trying to hey her.

They did have better numbers, though, so they were persistent with the shooting.

Re: Spaceships

[somethingwithturquoise]

Good! The more persistent they were with the shooting, the more chances there were to miss and hit something behind Summer rather than Summer herself!

Especially since she was clearly having way too much fun with this, for how dangerous and insane it was to be weaving through ships like this. But now that she was getting the hang of it and hopefully getting the feel for how the ships that were pursuing her were moving and shooting, she also felt confident in shooting out a portal in front of her, so that she could disappear into it and close it off as soon as she wound up on the other side, which hopefully would put her in a different spot on the battlefield.

A risky maneuver, especially if she screwed up the coordinates, but, hey, you didn't win shit by not taking risks! And hopefully, she could come out on the otherside with a nice round of her ion cannons at the ships over there before they even realized what hit them. Literally!

Re: Spaceships

[tros_npcs]

That did result in one TIE flying right through the area she had just occupied and being obliterated. Good risk on her part, apparently!

Re: Spaceships

[somethingwithturquoise]

And you know what? It being successful even just the once was all Summer needed for encouragement to keep doing it. It required a bit of focus, really, so she was sort of on her own, doing her own thing, unless someone directed her otherwise, but zipping around between enemy ships to get their attention and then portaling out into a different area would at least provide a small amount of distraction and collateral damage.

A drop in the bucket, sure, but every little bit counted.