Shadow Squad dropped out of hyperspace a couple of hundred klicks out. "Okay, team, we start our sensor sweeps out here. The usual info is what i want, plus any gravimetric distortions, we have reason to believe some new technology is in development here." Shadow Squad fanned out in order to get a better scan from multiple angles. "Just get the records down, don't bother trying to analyse them people, that's why we have intell people. " "Lead, this is Two, scan complete." One by one the other ten reported in. "Okay ladies and gentlemen, now we tango, remember to set cloaks to engage upon leaving hyperspace. We're going in." ... ....... Twelve highly modified A-wings emerged from hyperspace, eleven of them cloaked. "Lead, this is Twelve, i've got an error, my cloak isn't engaging. Sir, i'm losing power, i'm down to 75%. Still in the green, but barely. Dury's A-wing was losing it's edge, it was now just barely superior to a normal A-wing. "Okay, 11 and 12, use evac route psi two, get out of there. Don't worry Dury, they may have seen you, hopefully they'll just think it was a quickscan. Force be with you." "Okay sir, sorry. See you back at base." "No worries Dury. Okay the rest of you, form up, we're now ten klicks from the main shipyards. Engage scanners. Again, don't worry about what you pick up, concentrate on your flying." A tight squad of ten modified A-wing swooped around the shipyards, never coming too close. "Okay, shut your scanners off, we're out of here. Slingshot round the planet, exit route delta rho." ..... "Um, Sir, that's not supposed to be there." said Two. When they were halfway round. "Yeah, okay, Two, you've got the squadron, Three, you're with me." Two: "Sir, are you sure..." Elvis: "...That this is wise? No, i'm not." he said with a rueful grin, "but i don't see as we have a choice, we need hard data." Two A-wings split off from the group, the other 8 made the jump to hyperspace. Elvis made a quick scan of the station that Two had found, a grim look came over his face, he'd been told about this, the probability of a station here. His contact had said he would want to slingshot round the planet, was this why? What did this station have that was so interesting? The scans were turning up all sorts of interesting minerals, some of which were familiar from the A-wing project, others weren't. Once the scan was completed he and Three made the jump to hyperspace, and the safety of their carrier. Upon landing, Elvis found Drury waiting for him........ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OOC: Sorry that's a bit long, first rpg space sortie for me.