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Region: The Galactics Union
Anti-Piracy: The Battle of Okko Station
With the formation of the 1st Armada of the Imperial Atran Navy, the anti piracy campaign has been largely successful, attacks on inter system hyper lanes have dropped dramatically by 70% since the start. However there remains one notable area, the Akkaren Sector, where piracy remains rampant, with the main pirate base yet to be located, until now. Earlier in the week, a captured ships hyperspace data log finally revealed one location they jumped too after every attack, the Okko System, an uninhabited binary star system with nothing but asteroids and a few barren dwarf planets. A small scout probe confirmed the location of a large orbital outpost in orbit of Okko C14, one of the asteroids, alongside the presence of a substantial fleet of a few hundred small ships. In response, a system fleet of 150 ships has been dispatched under command of Rear Admiral Calimir to destroy the pirate holdout.
As the Atran ships drop out of hyperspace well inside the system, the Okko base has already detected the incoming vessels and begun dispatching fighters and preparing battle stations, with the mixed fleet of a few hundred corvettes and frigates, civilian ships converted to combat vessels, forming a battle line in the asteroid field around the station.
Rear Admiral Calimir, on deck of his flagship, the Lumen Class Cruiser, AIN Akar, hails the pirate station, sending a demand of surrender as the Atran fleet lazily advanced towards the asteroid field. The response to the demand is short and instantaneous, the Okko stations antimatter cannons immediately open fire, catching the Atran fleet with its shields down. Streaks of vibrant purple energy flash across the empty space at nearly the speed of light, slamming tungsten containers filled with multiple grams of destabilized antimatter into the Atran fleet at nearly the speed of light.
Flashes of all consuming light fill the void of space, as multiple ships are vaporized in an instant. 13 frigates, 23 corvettes, and two cruisers, including the Akar, killing Rear Admiral Calimir instantly. The Atran fleet immediately panics and begins raising shields, firing back in an unorganized attack, firing a full barrage of their own antimatter weapons. More brilliant flashes of purple fill the space as both fleets trade blows, though now both sides are fully shielded, and so the explosions crash against shields, creating flashes of bright purple and blue.
The Atran forces, now without a commander, begin to make a disorganized retreat to the edge of the system to regroup, with the AIN Junu, the only remaining Lumen Class Cruiser, taking operational command under control of Captain Malenkovic. A large group of pirates use the opportunity to jump into hyperspace and flee the system, with only 30 ships remaining to defend Okko station to the death.
With command of the fleet under Malenkovic, the Atran fleet takes a proper fighting stance, with what remains of its frigates and cruisers grouping together while screening ships form up on the sides of the formation to protect the flanks and continues to return fire, focusing its heavy cannons on the smaller ships to overwhelm their shields and pick them off.
As bright purple streaks across the void, numerous pirate ships are vaporized as their shield capacitors overload and fail, with the antimatter cannons smashing into the hulls and causing the ships to explode in brilliant flashes of light. Soon, all that’s left is the station itself.
Atran forces fire a full barrage of micro missiles, with thousands of small missiles slamming into the stations shields simultaneously, causing a capacitor failure. With the shields down, a WIL-78 Class Light Cruiser, equipped with ionic cannons, fires a pulse at the station, overloading the reactor and causing a loss of power. With the station disabled, the Atran fleet fires a full barrage of cannon fire directly into the station, causing it to explode. The battle of Okko station, the first real battle the Atran Navy has fought, has ended, with heavy casualties for the Atran Navy.
