Thu Jun 28, 2012 4:19 pm by Lunak'yyx'aele
:: Null to Control, orders received. Patrol en route. ::
*The Krenvoss-class flagship "Null" began to ease forward, along with two VT-49 assault ships breaking away from the fleet defense force in a standard high-priority escort formation. While the assault ships took the forward flanks at a fair distance on either side of the small shuttle, a grouping of four Nssis-class Clawcraft were suddenly jettisoned from the Krenvoss, approaching the target from behind.
Two of the clawcraft locked targets on the shuttle's engines and fired simultaneously, a short, light burst of laser fire intended to disable the ion engine of its sublight drive. The remaining two nimble fighters zipped past the shuttle itself and turned in immediate about-face, ready to target any weapon systems the shuttle might be tempted to engage.
With carefully synchronized timing, the "Null" locked one of its powerful tractor beams onto the shuttle, allowing for the two VT-49's to launch their extension cables from either side of the ship and physically lock it within the escort between them.
On any other world, this might seem a gross overabundance of security measures, but on a world like Korriban, when an occupant is labeled as 'dangerous,' the warning was taken with every available degree of precaution.
As the shuttle was forcibly eased gently into the upper atmospheric levels of the planet to descend towards the city of Dreshdae, with the clawcraft and assault ships surrounding it, the Krenvoss kept its tractor-beam lock on the shuttle until, many miles beyond the ozone, it finally lost connection.*