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CNN Sobseki

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Anchorwoman: Good Evening, I'm Swifty Frisko reporting live from Sobseki with a CNN Special Report!

Reports have been received of a showdown between local corporations at one of our jump-gates.  Local CONCORD police ships are at the scene, and I'm being told that Achuran reporter Trisha Takinawa is there live.  What's the situation Trisha?

>Scene changes from news studio to the observation deck of a CONCORD Caracal

Trisha:  Thanks Swifty.  You can see behind me three Battleships belonging to a several different owners, apparently awaiting the arrival of a fleet belonging to the Imperial Commonwealth.  Commanders Alpin Wolf and Paul Moon, indentured Deputies of the organisation Standards & Practices, have stated their intention of "Preventing further loss of life and destruction of resources at the hands of Grand Commander Joe Phoenix and his followers, even at the point of a gun".  The Commander of the Armageddon that is accompanying them, one Captain AltBoy, has also made clear his intention to aid the fleet with batteries of heavy remote repair modules.

CONCORD have offiicially stated that after looking into this, Wolf & Moon's Declaration of War against the Imperial Commonwealth is legal and they will not interfere unless the parties involved.... oh wait!  Something is happening!

External: The three allied warships sit motionless at various points around the Gate, CONCORD orbiting like angry hornets.  The gate flares suddenly and space seems to ripple as three more Battleships materialise, all three bearing Imperial Commonwealth insignia

Trisha:  That's the Imperial Commonwealth fleet alright, according to their ID beamers they are commanded by Captains Allko, Tito and SpaceWizard.  I can see the turrets swivelling and.... yes, they are engaging!

External: Space lights up as the battleships begin firing at each other.  Moon's Dominix is wreathed in fire, seemingly taking the brunt of the IC firepower.  A bright beam of energy crackles out from AltBoy's Armageddon, reinforcing its shields and patching armour holes.  However, after a few seconds of maneuvering under fire, it becomes clear that the massed firepower is more that the Dominix is capable of taking.

Trisha:  It seems that the Deputised fleet is becoming overwhelmed.  That Dominix surely can't take much more of that kind of punishment.

>Studio:

Swifty:  Can you tell if there is any real risk to space users attempting to use the Gate?  Any attempts by the parties to deploy area-effect weapons or ECM generators?

>CONCORD Caracal:

Trisha:  No Swifty, from here it looks like a fairly clean fight..... one moment....

>Researcher hands Trisha a note from off-camera

Trisha:  This just in, CONCORD ship scanners report that Commander AltBoy's Armageddon appears to be only using one of its repair modules!  A ship that size can often have as many as half a dozen or more, it doen't make sense it should only be using one.......

>External:  The Dominix begins to try to align to the Gate, gaping wounds in its sides blazing brightly revelaing internal fires on many decks.  Just as it begins the spin-up sequence for its engines, the Armageddon's engines flare, and it lurches at the Gallante-built vessel, causing its proximity thrusters to fire, pushing it off alignment and causing the jump to fail.  A split second later, and a massive fireball rips the squat round shape of the battleship into thousands of tiny spinning metal shards.

Trisha:  Oh my!  Swifty, did you see that?  Oh the humanity!  It looked like AltBoy's ship purposely rammed the Dominix, forcing it off the Gate just long enough for it to be destroyed!

>External:  Without remote repair beams or any other targets, the Commonwealth Battleships destroy Alpin's Raven in short order, its escape pod warping through the gate almost as soon as it ejects for the ship as it explodes.

Trisha:  Well Swifty, that looks like the end of..... wait!  Are..are we getting this?!

>External:  AltBoy's beams, all of them this time, begin repairing SpaceWizard's armour and shields, boosting them signifigantly as SpaceWizard fires on the unprepared Imperial Commonwealth Ravens. Clearly a highly skilled and very well equipped pilot, SpaceWizard's weapons carve the already damaged Imperial ships up in seconds, and the escape pod belonging to one of the Captains is destroyed in the explosion of the other's ship.

Trisha:  SpaceWizard has just attacked his Imperial Commonwealth allies!  And now is jumping through the Gate as AltBoy's Armageddon scoops the most valuable cargo and is preparing to leave also!  It would seem that it was a rouse by two very well organised Commanders to take advantage of the War between the two sides here today Swifty!  If anything, a lesson for us all I think!

>Studio:  Swifty:  Indeed Trisha!  I think there is a lesson for anyone out on the space lanes tonight:  Do You Know Who Your Allies Are?  Reporting for CNN, I'm Swifty Frisko.....

>CONCORD Caracal: Trisha:  And I'm Trisha Takinawa, Good Night!
>Behind Trisha, barely noticable through the view port of the Carcal, a Minmatar Probe-class scout frigate decloaks, and scoops as much of the abandoned wreckage as possible before looking around shiftily and running for it.