[GrimWulf]

"I can't get a positive ID on these," Reese calls out, "Anyone having better luck?" Reese slams the magnification up on his optical to max and tries to visually ID the incoming. 9d6.hits(5) → [3,2,6,5,2,1,1,4,5] = (3) (this assumed low-light and very far away, low-light is accommodated for by vision and very far was a -3, if it's full darkness then it'd be 1 hit if dropping the last 6 dice)
At the same time, Reese thumbs off the safeties on his weapons and gets ready to deploy counter measures on a moments notice, still hurtling towards the incoming bogies.

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Serge looks the soldier directly in the face whispering, "When you take it seriously."  he then calls out for help from the nurses and a laser bone saw. "Got a turtle here, he's gone into shell shock, Nurse secure him to that table and medicate him, looks like we might have to amputate!"

[Mithlas]

The spacer's face begins to drain of color before he remembers that it's all a simulation. He rolls his eyes but holds in a chuckle as a man with Spacer Third Class rings on his cuffs and the Alliance's medicine emblem of twined snakes around a pole approaches with a bone saw, clicking the blade out to complete diagnostics on it before retracting it and injecting a saline solution substitute for sedative in slightly shakier motions than strictly textbook.

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The other Velociraptor pilot clicks into the channel, "I can't get a positive lock, but I'm guessin' Halpa gunpods. Might only have their standard laser loadout. They've come in railgun range, permission to open fire with canons?"

The digital feed isn't having any problem with lighting, but even common EWar can make target locks take longer and require much closer scans to get accurate reads on the unit and any possible equipment installed on it.

Reese's observations and experience with the Halpa is more than enough to remember their tendency to use automated smaller, closer-range 'gunpods' or 'gun bits' in place of fighters, and like most Halpa units they tend to be equipped with particle cannons versus the mix of railguns and laser cannons used by Terrans. His raptor's railguns snap on and load in a fraction of a second. A moment later, the fighter's EWar computer warns of enemy lock-on.

The distance measurement scrolls down and a warning blinks that the virtual enemy units will likely be entering effective particle cannon range in five seconds.

[Scawire]

Slicer at first starts to think to hold until we confirm the incoming as hostile but being lite up with a lock on he decides to move to a more agressive stance. Ok they locked us up fire at will, but keep in formation. Deploy fighterbots on a tight wing assistance if you have too use them as an extra sheild if the heat gets too hot. With the fire command given Slicer joins his wing in taking these inbound treats out of this black stary sector of space.

[Mithlas]

Slicer's virtual Velociraptor snaps into attack posture like a snake coiled in the corner of its cage, and his wingtip particle cannons glow as they discharge the first pulse of super-energized shot against the virtual enemies closing in. The small, nimble enemy jukes out of the way in a mechanical but efficient pattern, just barely enough to keep a telling blow from landing on it. The maneuver carries the brief but identifiable infrared flare as the object thrusts out of the way, just as a real enemy in the real world would. A small sign of realism even deep in the simulated scape.

[GrimWulf]

Reese deploys his fighter bots ahead of him, knowing they can take the heavier G force acceleration a lot better then he can. He marks one of the Tango's in his HUD as his as sic's the bots on it.  "Clearing my throat" He opens up with his particle cannon at the same target trying to take advantage of the limited 3 on 1. He tries to anticipate it trying to dodge him.

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Arsenault lets the spacer go and moves onto the next most urgent patient in the queue. He takes a quick glance at the time, never really knowing how fast it was passing while he worked.

[Mithlas]

Reese's virtual fighterbots leap ahead in a basic attack pattern as he takes a potshot on the nearest incoming signature. It goes wide, but so does the first shot the gunpod takes against his first fighterbot. Their railguns blaze, the first missing but the second scoring a solid hit that pierces the gunpod's core and sends it into spinning fragments of polygons.

The spacer pilot with them engages the virtual gunpods on the right flank, sending his fighterbots to harass the next tango while he lines up a shot on his enemy. The railgun running the length of the Velociraptor flares and the gunpod winks into a dissolving array of virtual polygons. His fighterbots take potshots at the next gunpod, but fail to score a hit. With both flights in range, the crossfire lances through the kilometers between both formations.

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Doctor Walther spends the next hour instructing the new personnel, focusing on the PMC medic, then retires to the adjoining office to fill out reports. He pauses to give a thankful nod to Aresnault and tugs the door closed with his off hand. The remainder of the simulated explosion event passes without any mistakes being made or further snark from the 'wounded' actors. As soon as the ship intercom announces the end of the training, the medics not stationed in medlab disperse to their stations and the other spacers to theirs.

[Scawire]

Slicer gives his command to his drone back to attack on the same target he is. With the command sent Slicer tries to light up one of the hostile near him. As Slicer lets loose with the rail gun he wished he was firing some high grade lasers across the blackness of space.

[Mithlas]

Slicer's fighterbots slide through the black of virtual space, railguns on all three Velociraptors spitting fire. The tango dodges out of the first slug, narrowly away from the second, but the third pulse blasting it apart. Several of the virtual tangos fire back, their particle cannons failing to score a blow against the raptors.

[GrimWulf]

Reese slams the stick one way and cuts his thrusters in another sending his raptor into a controlled tumble. He then stabilizes and comes up for a shot on the tango's taking shot's at Slicer's raptor. His fighterbots automatically move to his new target, continuing their last command.

[Mithlas]

Reese comes up along the side of the gunpod, the heat signature clear enough on his virtual enemy's baffled thrusters. His fighterbots fire, the railgun blasts missing the nimble, arrowhead-shaped enemy about half the size of the fighterbots, but his shot pounds through the virtual gunpod, which folds into itself and winks out of the digital arena.

Reese's previous gunpods pursue him, firing at his fighter and one of his fighterbots, which spins out of the way. One of the gunpods facing Slicer holds its target and fires, but the second recalculates threat based on Reese's destruction of its accompanying pod and turns its particle cannon on him. The assist computer blinks to remind about the lock-on warning, adding an incoming signature approaching at missile acceleration.

The other pilot jockeys for position against his remaining gunpods, failing to score a hit himself but dealing a telling blow with his one of his fighterbots even as his other bot is dodged by its mechanical opposite.

[Scawire]

Slicer decides fire at the closest gun pod hoping to score a hit and start lowering the number of tango's firing at the newly formed team of pilots. Lets geek these tangos Slicer thinks as he lets his rail guns throw lead across space at his target.

[Mithlas]

Slicer's railgun blazes fire, the burst coring the virtual gunpod and sending it into a dissolving spread of polygons that wink out of the virtual scape.

[GrimWulf]

Reese curses as he realizes that his last maneuver , while getting him in line for another shot, left him open to one from the Tango's. He tries to evade the shot, but his virtual screen momentarily floods red as his raptor is struck by enemy's weapon. No time to assess damage, he sets his fighterbots to autonomous mode and tries to get his craft turned around for a return shot on his pursuer.

[Mithlas]

An off sense of heat creeps into Reese's body, enough to notice but not more than he can shrug off. His shot blasts another gunpod and his bots blast another which grows sluggish and shoots wide at Reese.

The spacer pilot and his first fighterbot finish off the gunpods in his vector and his second fighterbot blazes at the gunpod which retargeted Reese, the failing to score a hit in the maneuvers.

[Scawire]

Slicer doesn't like taking heat when he is jumped into a space fighter so he decides to turn his fighter at the tango shooting at him. Once he has a beat on Tango 1 he decides to see if his rail gun can toast the small digital annoyance Shot at me will you lets see how well you can take it..