I tend to be little late when it comes to posting, but hey its better late than never right.
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“Sniper ships are the Ship of the Line in modern fleet battles.” Stated Rurik.
He was looking out of the view port at the glowing cloud of gasses that surrounded his ship, a Rokh class battleship. He turned back to Lieutenant Korsakov who he had being talking to.
“The modern sniper fit vessel though is not a true sniper vessel. All the fleet’s ships gather onto one spot within full sight of the enemy and proceed to engage them at long range. This is contrary to what a sniper is. A true sniper remains hidden from their enemies and when the sniper the strikes the target does not see their death coming.”
Rurik waved his hand towards the gasses of the nebula that surround his ship. “This nebula hides us from the directional scanners of our targets. Our passive targeters prevent them from know about us when we lock onto their ship. Our Advanced Railguns and Spike hybrid ammunition allow us to hit a target from up to 200km away; of course we can’t lock a target from that distance, that’s why we need our sensor boosters. We, Lieutenant are a true sniper, destroying our enemy before they even know we are here.”
“Ensign Hoth bring up our targets on the holo display.”
Rurik looked at the display and watched as the two gallante shuttles began to extend docking tubes to each other as their occupants attempted to transfer the good they contained.
“Weapons control lock onto the target and prepare to fire once the shuttles docking tubes are connected.”
“Target locked commander. Ready to engage.”
Rurik watched as the docking tubes locked together, sealing the fate of the ships.
“Our targets, Lieutenant, don’t know it yet but they are the dead. Weapons control fire when ready.”
The reverberation of eight Railguns launching a single deadly volley was felt throughout the ship. On the holo disply the hybrid charges tore through the shuttle, disintegrating it and killing its passengers before they even knew what happened.
