New start 10 Evaluation Day

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New start 10 Evaluation Day

James was getting dressed anticipating the days events, he was sure that he had put together the best evaluation and combat training program that could be devised, as he was entering the kitchen to grab some coffee he heard Jeff & Mike talking,

James: good morning you guys are up early.

Jeff: Mike and I were talking and trying to figure the best way to train our pilots.

James: I think I have it covered, I have a selection of combat scenario’s that will push these guys to there limits. I want each of us to co-pilot them and record your observations let them make the decisions, and your comments and the computer records will tell the story, look for the best in them, and help me put together the best teams, I am going to input the scenario’s into Jake and have him in put them in to the ships, all of the combat will be controlled by Jake,

Jeff: that will be like real combat.

James I hope so Mike can you get Sam up and moving meet us in the cafeteria at 7:00.

Mike: ok

James & Jeff head to the landing dock James enters Hawk 1 Jake I got an job for you , and hooks in his data pad, and opens the training scenario’s

Jake: retrieving data.

James: I want you to depart station and run the programs, tailor them to the pilots skills, set the timing for 1 hour each run after we have ran the pilots thru three runs we’ll debrief them, ok

Jake: roger,

James leaves the ship to find Jeff hen to head to the cafeteria.

When they arrived James spotted Mike and Sam sitting with some of the other pilots and joined them,

James: good morning enjoy your breakfast, you will need the energy for today’s training. Then sets down and orders, Toast and coffee and some oatmeal for breakfast.

Once breakfast was over James assigned pilots and Co-pilots David Kingston with me, Chuck Conder with Jeff, Derrick Powell with Mike, Joseph Barclay with Sam ok go to your ships and prepare to depart , Jolene Barstow, Leann Hayford, Dena Jones be on the landing bay in 1 hour, then he followed David,

When James entered the bay he noticed that Jake Had all ready departed, He watched David look over his craft then entered it, David strapped in to the pilots seat and powered on the systems, David had named his AI Samantha,

Samantha: all systems ready

David: request departure clearance and clear trade lanes

Samantha: clearance received, Hatch secured, clamps released departing station leaving trade lane.

David got a transmutation telling him to move to a position shown on his flight map and that he would be escorting a transport ship that was haling Gold coins.

David checked the map and navigated to the position indicated he noted that a transport showed up on the map with a green circle on it . H was then told to follow the ship and protect it from attacks.

David had been following the ship for 10 min when Samantha reported 2 unidentified ships had entered sector and was on an intercept course with the transport,

David warned the ships off, then Samantha identified them as pirates, David warned the transport and turned to intercept the 2 pirates, David opened up with his front cannons on pirate 1 while launching 2 missiles at pirate 2 P1 tried to evade David and was taking heavy damage p2 was running and maneuvering with the missiles on his rear
Samantha: informed David that p1 had ejected David turned and kicked in the boosters to catch P2 David was closing fast on the pirate and started firing when Samantha told him that three more pirated had entered the sector and was closing on him David had gotten p2 shields down to 10 % when the other pirates entered firing range , David launched 3 missals to intercept the pirates when Samantha him that p2 ejected at 2% shields, David turned and engaged p3 then p4 then back to p3 when p4 split off with a missal on his tail, David opened on P3 when it exploded David turned to go after P5 who was coming in to firing range and had launched 2 missals at him he commanded Samantha to engage them with the turrets while he continued to engage P5 Samantha informed him that 1 missile was destroyed the other flying wild and that P4 was lining up on his rear he told Samantha to engage P4, P5 shields were down to 25% when the rear turrets opened up on P4 who tried to evade but was to slow and he ejected after three more hits on P5 the pilot ejected David told Samantha to scan the ships for contraband and eject it and cap the ships and send them to the trading dock and to notify sector police to pick up the pirates as he contacted the transport James Noted that the engage had lasted 13 min and David was sweating heavily James also noted on hid data pad that the ship had only taken two hits and sustained no damage,

David had made contact with the transport who had completed it run and was docking at the trade center. Mission complete. David received another set of coordinates to go to and assist a ship under attack.

David turned kicked in the boosters was 2 min from the position when 10 Khaak ships appeared on the screen, He told Samantha to target the ships as they came in range and engage with weapon of opportunity,

David flew right thru the Khaak ships destroying three and engaging 2 with missiles when he broke thru and pulled in as wing man on the ship that was under attack the ships shields were at 75% David told him to stay with on his port side and engage any thing that got past him, then headed for the 7 remaining Khaak ships opening with missiles and guns after they broke thru 2 remaining Khaak were retreating, David Headed for them using his boosters destroyed 1 with guns the other had been disabled when the other ship hit it with a missile destroying it. David was told to return to station ,

James noted that the ship had taken more fire this time and that the shield never fell below 80%,

David: flew to with in 10 km of the station, Samantha request docking permission and land.

Samantha: docking granted, entering station, landing clamps secured, opening hatch

James: David take a break Ill review your training later, James unhooked his data pad and left the ship.

James was looking for Dena as he walked down the landing ramp spotted Her red hair first then her pre-checking her fighter, walked up Dana you ready for your run?

Dena: Yep Lets go

James followed Dena in to the ship, James strapped in to the Co-pilots seat and plugged in his data pad, and signaled Jake to start the program.

Dena: had powered up and got her AI (Jack) to scan the system,

Jack: no unidentified ships found, Incoming transmission,

Dana answer the comms was told to patrol the northern sector that the flight path was being sent, Dana acknowledge the data transfer and told Jack to undock and fly to the position plotted.

Jack: departure granted, hatch secured, docking clamps released, departing station, departure lane cleared, increasing power to cruse speed 135 ms on course,

Dana check the flight path and the sector radar and long scan projections, Checked weapons load out and selected Mass driver for upper & lower turret , and set them for auto defense, Selected Wasp and Thunder bolt for missile load out,

Jack :position reached starting patrol.


5 Min into the patrol 6 Xeon ships showed up on the radar,
Dana notified base command requested back up and turned to engage the ships,

Dena: Jack auto engage on set wasp to engage tgt 2&4 Main weapons on tgt1 turrets on tgt 3

Jack : targets entering firing range, Missiles away engaging tgt 1 shields at 60% tgt 4 evading tgt 2 evading, switching to tgt 3 with main guns tgt 1 being engaged with turrets shilds at 40% hull damage at 50% engines destroyed tgt 3 shields at 40% engaging with turrets shields destroyed engine at 20% hull damage at 60% tgt 2 hit disabled tgt 3 evaded missile tgt 5 entering firing range engaging, thunder bolt launched at tgt 6
Tgt 5 shields at 40% engaging with turrets ship destroyed tgt 6 in firing range engaging destroyed, tgt 3 entering firing range engaging shields at 30% engaging with turrets tgt destroyed tgt 1,2 disabled, tgt 4 disengaging, tgt 3,5,6 Destroyed.

Dena engaged the boosters and went after tgt4

Jack target entering firing range, engaging , ship destroyed

Dena: jack scan tgts 1&2 eject any contraband, put ship status on screen,

Jack: scanning , no contraband found,

Dena’s back arrived and took up positions to her left,

James noted that the battle took 101/2 min the back took 12 min
Ships shields had fallen to 76% on the first run but the ship had not taken any more hits and sustained no damage 4 ships destroyed 2 could be capped ,

Dena got the message to return to station.

Dena: Jack land it the trading station.

Jack: roger:

Jack increased power to 70% and headed to the station when he was 10 KM out he reduced power requested landing clearance entered the docking lane and entered the ship and docked
Jack: Docking clamps secured opening hatch

James unplugged his data pad and departed the ship, Dana Meet me in the conference room in 45 min ok

Dena: sure

James headed to the office, Jeff & Sam were already in the conference room when he arrived,

James: were is Mike?

Jeff: on his way in with Leann they just Finished their run.

James : either of you have any problems today?

Jeff: Chuck and Jolene are good, Jolene Caped 3 of her tgts and keep her ship out of the line of fire, Chuck did Good but is a hands on doesn’t rely on the AI like he should , I think with a little time they will do good.

Sam: Joseph was very quick and did work with the AI caped 4 ships and destroyed all of his xenon tgts before help arrived.

James: Both David & Dena surprised me I thing both could be team leaders there score was 95 of a hundred. Take a look at the data. And hands his data pad to Jeff.

Jeff Hooks the data pad to the viewer along with his and Sam’s then sit back down

Mike: enters the conference room, Man that was hairy out there, then he plug in his data pad, and starts the split screen that shows each of the runs,

As the Partners view the pilots in action and see the ships status at the bottom of each, the partner make observations and commit on the pilots’ skills at the end Jake had put the pilots score all were above 85 the highest being Dana at 96 and David at 95 Chuck and Derrick had 93 Leann had 89 Jolene had 86

James Asked Mike what did she do to get a score like that Mike said that she had reduced speed during the engagement and took sever hits from two of the attacking ships and it dropped the shields to 40%, before she used the busters to get out of the line of fire, he believed that she was too single target minded rather then engaging the group

James: asked for recommendations for the pairs,

David & Derrick, Dena & Leann, Chuck & Jolene

James: Jake do you concur?

Jake: no David & Jolene should fly together David has strong leadership and he will keep Jolene from engaging wildly. Derrick & Chuck will benefit each other’s skills but a better teams would be Randy & Chuck, Derrick & William.

James: I think we should run some sims with that assignment to see if they work out together.

Mike: I agree with Jake’s assignment and yes sims will help.

Jeff: agreed

Sam: ok looks good

James: bring in the pilots Ill let Jake debrief their performances, then I’ll give then their assignments.

Jeff went out to the lobby and told the pilots to enter the conference room.

James: all of you did good today, I’m going to let Jake the AI that set up the flight scenario’s brief you on your performance.

Jeff started the data pads, Jake shoed each performance adding commits and recommendations on each target engagement, The pilots were taking notes,
When Jake finished the briefing,

James: do any of you have any questions or comments?

Most remarked about Dena’s xenon fight,

James: OK I know Jake was hard on her bet he proved she could handle it . Now for you assignments, David & Jolene, Dena & Leann, Randy & Chuck, Derrick & William. As the week progress I will have some sims set up for you as teams but you may run in to some engagements as you perform escort duties, Re member to protect the Freighters and each outer first, the rest will sort itself out. That all I have you can take your fighters back to the carrier.

James: Mike inform Randy and Will about the assignments and send both groups for escorts this week.

Mike: ok

The partners left and headed to their suite. When James got a message from Thresica tha 2 more pilots has shown up Tom Hays Alexander Swift ,

James: Mike we have 2 more pilots to train

Mike: ok Ill set it up,

They entered the suite and headed to their rooms to change for lunch,

James, Jeff, Mike, and Sam entered the lounge for lunch Spotted Thresica and some of the others having lunch and joined them,

Thresica: Hi James I got the new pilots settled in, and told them to meet me at 2:00 pm for their ID cards, is there any thing you want me to tell them ?

James: yes that Mike is setting up there training and that they need to talk with him, Mike you want to brief the new pilots at 2:00 in the office?

Mike: that’s fine

The waiter took there orders and left.

After lunch all returned to the office,

James and Jeff were in an office looking at the schedule, They set David & Derrick, to escort Sparrow 1 That had some Power cells to deliver to TW, and Dena & Leann to escort Sparrow 2 that had some Silicon wafers to deliver to Crystal fab in KE Sparrow 3 Had no runs till the after noon and those were local they assigned Randy & Chuck to escort it and , Derrick & William to escort Sparrow 4 to AP with some Power cells to sell

Mike: met with Tom Hays, Alexander Swift and took them to the docking bay to familiarize them with Hawk 14 & 15

James decided to check on how the HQ station is coming along, James headed to the landing bay and entered his ship,

James: Jake depart station and land on TL,

Jake: roger, Hatch secured, docking clamps released, departure granted, leaving station, docking lane cleared, course set TL notified Docking granted, reducing speed Approaching ship, docking bay opened, applying rearward thrust, entering ship, landing, clamps secured, opening hatch,

James good job and leaves the ship, The TL captain was waiting for him ,

James asked how was the construction coming?

Captain told him that it is 18 hours ahead of schedule, and hoped to complete the station in 2 days sooner if the current rate of construction holds.

James : Took his hand You are doing an exceptional job thank you, then entered his ship, Jack, depart the ship and fly me around the construction sight ok,

Jake: departure granted, hatch secured, received flight path around construction sight approval, docking clamps released, bay door open, departing ship, entering flight path, HQ on main viewer,

James watched the viewer as Jake flew around the construction sight. Once they were at the end of the path.

James: Jake take us home.

Jake: roger, docking granted approaching station, proceeding to land, entering station docking clamps secured, opening hatch.

James went into the cabin and started working on the joint training exercises.
At 6:30 pm he left to go to the lounge to meet his people and have dinner,
When he walked into the lounge Thresica waved him to her table,

James: took the seat that Thresica was pointing to : wats up?

Thresica: I got a message from AP telling me that I could expect 10 more Pilots within the next three days and five more after that,

James: that’s good news I will have 12 ships by Friday and was thinking of order 10 more, but I wanted to get these guys started first. And generate some steady income,

Thresica: I can get the runs if you can supply the escorts I’ve been declining about 4 a day because we don’t have the Pilots or the ships and the SF’s are staying busy we could use 4 more today they generated over 8 mil with the escort fees, at that rate they pay for them self’s and crew pay in 2 days,

James that’s good well see if it holds for a week then I can order more ships. The HQ should be ready to install the sections Friday and personnel can start moving in Monday How’s the HQ personnel coming?

Thresica: I got the Maintenance, Cooks, House Keeping and Security selected an on stand by till Saturday, I’m not sure what personnel you will need for the repair bay, or Operations,

James: Ill have Mike assist you with those folks ok.

Thresica: ok Heres mike now and waves him over .

James: Mike I need you to help Thresica Pick out the repair and Operations personnel for the HQ ok.

Mike we can sit down and do that tomorrow.

Jeff: walks up James the runs did good today and we capped 4 busters that tried to get Sparrow 3, I had them sent to the carrier for now Sparrow 1 & 2 are staying in HN for the night with their escorts, Susan is putting them up tonight they have early runs in the morning,

James: good well have to look at getting some suites their for that purpose I guess,

Jeff: Susan said she is getting more runs then we can handle and has been asked to expand to Red Light, Cloudebase Southwest, Ore Belt, Cloudebase Southeast, Home of Light and Ringo moon, I told her to get me the information and I would look at it.

James: that’s the second time I been told we need more ships, I will think on it. Lets eat I’m starved.

Jeff flags down a waiter and gives him his order

The waiter takes the other orders and leaves,

James decided to visit his people as they entered the lounge and sat down, he was talking to David, Chuck and Derrick when his meal was delivered, he returned to his table and sit down to eat when his commentator started buzzing,
James answered it

Jake: 3 fighters identified as pirates has entered sector Sam, Jolene, Leann, and Dena have launched to intercept the sector Police has also been dispatched, I will keep you advised.

James: Sam and three other pilots is flying to intercept 3 Pirates sector police has also been dispatched.

Jeff: I’m going to assist

Mike: Ill go with you

As they were leaving David, Derrick, Chuck , and Randy joined them.

After James finished his dinner He and Thresica went to the landing bay and boarded Hawk 1

James: Jake what’s the situation,

Jake: 3 Pirate Busters entered the south gate and was attacking a freighter when the pilot requested help Sam & Dena were the first to depart and engage the pirates when 2 falcons turned to intercept them, Jolene and Leann got to the falcons and engaged them Sam & Dena engaged the 3 busters destroyed 1 disabled the other 2 the freighter escaped and landed at ore mine, Jolene disabled and caped the first falcon while Leann damaged the second and it tried to run Leann disabled it shields and the pilot ejected she was capping it when three more falcons entered sector and she engaged then Sam and Dena used boosters to get to her aid she had disabled 1 and had damaged the 2nd one when she pulled out to let her shields recharge Sam engaged the 2nd and Dena went after the 3rd one Jolene Came back to help them and caped the disabled falcon, 3 of the Pirate pilots died 4 were arrested by sector police 2 busters 5 Falcons were captured and are headed to the carrier Hawk 11 Has minor damage and is returning to the carrier Hawks 10, 12, and 5 had no damage,

Jeff , Mike ,David, Randy and chuck launched but were not engaged, Jeff & mike are flying over watch while the other ships dock at the carrier. Incoming message from Captain Richard,

James Ill take it, Yes sir, They were, Thank you , Yes Ill send some one over in the morning, ok Bye

James: the pirates are part of the Black Hand Clan, Captain Richards has found out that they have a bounty out for Hawks security service told me to be careful. Thresica send some one over to the police station to pick up a copy of the engagement reports Ok

Thresica: I’ll take care of it.

James: Jake send a message to Jeff, Mike, and same to meet me in our suite when they land, and tell the carrier to be on alert for fighters, and you keep an active scan of the sector if you need to deploy drones to do that do it.

Jake wilco

James and Thresica left the ship and headed to the apartments James dropped Thresica off at her apartment then went to his own,

James was at his desk when Jeff & Mike walked in and Sam was right behind them,

Jeff: that was in interesting engagement the pirates have not attacked this late before.

James: ya and I found out we have a bounty on our heads or the Company does anyway. I been thinking about security, I think I look in to installing a defensive system in the HQ maybe some Laser Towers and have a ready stand by fighter team, well tomorrow I’ll get with Chris and Tracy and see what we can come up with, If you have any ideals let me know, I’m going to bed and sleep on it see you in the morning.