I have not mashed a keyboard for writing purposes in...
As for my writing, it feels off, but I can move forwards and enjoy more ship to ship communications as opposed to focusing on activities among individuals.
anyway: maybe this will explain what happens properly, if anything needs clarifying, plz point it out so I can resolve confusion (as I said i'm somewhat in a weird place with my writing, so I anticipate i've left gaping plotholes that could consume battleships)
The sensor chief █████ aboard the starbase ████████, looked on anxiously, frustrated by the idiocy of the Humaniti pilots, and fearing for the consequences of the upcoming battle, while monitoring the combat on long range sensors, the cluster of 20 Unimak vessels, supported by a squad of a dozen gunships continued on their path, weaving through the random barrage of long ranged Loroi plasma shots, seeking to get closer aiming to enter their own effective range, the probing attacks of the Loroi vessels failing to discourage or deter them, after all when facing a total of 15 patrol craft with a measly 6 fighters, the numbers alone significantly favoured them.
None the less, barrelling in from behind, outpacing the ‘protective’ warships, but due to arrive in the midst of the battle as the Umiak entered effective range against the Loroi patrol forces, came almost 30 empty cargo ships, all apparently showing signs of acceleration described as impossible according to their designs, actively random walking to make simple sniping at range with unchanging course more difficult.
Although she kept reminding her staff to check on the position and status of other warships in the system so their logs would accurately reflect the occurances in the battle, the eyes of none in the room were focusing on their allocated task, instead watching the feeds from the battle that would already be over before they had seen it begin, occurring almost half a light hour away.
The feelings in the room, projected subconsciously by each and every loroi were mixed, and confused, anger at the stupidity, sadness at the losses that would inevitably occur, pride in the courage of the idiots running to their deaths, resentment that the poor fools would ignore any sense of reason and go and end themselves.
The Loroi warships were trying to maintain a decent distance between them and the Umiak opposing forces, to help capitalise on their slightly superior accuracy, and effective range of their weapons, while keeping the difference in speed between the two manageable, so that they could pursue the Umiak if they dived upon the transports, or perhaps the planet and it’s starbase instead, what this cost them, was the ability to easily and safely dis-engage, on the other hand, the incoming transports were carrying into the battle a large amount of speed, and would, if they survived, be difficult to pursue if the Umiak elected to chase them, but should according to theory, be unable to pursue the Umiak, on the other hand, they were showing signs of acceleration at speeds that the transport engines were not supposed to be capable of achieving.
The chief only had one thought in her mind that kept returning while she tried to comprehend what was going on, continue to perform her job, and still monitor the rapidly changing events occurring on the main screen before her. Whats with those crazy monkeys?
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“Sir, all systems are operational, but we have too much speed, we risk frying the dampeners if we want to slow down quickly, but the gunners are happy to report their guns are recharging as fast as they can shoot them”
“Good, so the reactor is behaving itself?”
“For the most part, we are seeing occasional spikes, but we can manage them so far”
“Right boys, we ride in hot, and don’t be afraid to take a few pot shots!”
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*** Printing: '███████ of war, Military history text: Umiak Wars, Excerpt: pages 5 to End
The Human captains lead their transport flotilla on a course that would cut betweent he Umiak and Loroi forces, far closer to the Umiak side than to the Loroi, hoping to achieve either distraction, or simply provide deterrents to the Umiak force, with the goal of forcing them to dis-engage, which would secure the safety of friendly transports and warships in the system, unfortunately the Umiak elected to ignore the transports completely, foiling both objectives, however on the eve of battle, the Humans persisted on their path, seeking to close the distance between them an the Umiak, which caught both the Umiak and Loroi somewhat by surprise.
Neither side paid more than curious notice to it, given at the time both sides were directly within energy weapon range, hoping to evade and avoid taking hits from their opponents weapons.
At least they ignored them till a destroyer near the leading edge of the Umiak force exploded, followed shortly after by three gunships also near the transports, without seeing any of the telltale flashes or signals of plasma weaponry, or record of lucky lazer hits either. The Umiak commander initially assumed unlucky odds regarding overloading reactor cores, but when a further 6 warships started to peel away from the battle, citing loss of atmosphere on multiple decks, and seeing for himself a plasma cannon explode before him on a nearby ship as a transport passed within extreme close range, he made the call to withdraw, at least until they understood what devious weapon the loroi were deploying upon the transports, or had laced the space they were flying through with.
In their terror, the Umiak turned their guns upon the transports, initially finding nothing but empty space as the transports pulled manoeuvres requiring between 25 and 40 Gs of acceleration, before finding some of their marks on the nearest transports, ultimately destroying six before finding their rear guns were incapable of penetrating their defensive screens.
Given basic training, even the commander of this raid was aware that no transport should be able to accelerate as fast, or faster than a warship, no transport he had ever heard of in this size class should be able to deflect a point defence plasma blaster at close range, and definitely no transport had ever crippled warships in combat without some kind of weapon.
Thus, forced to assume the transports were a new category of secret warship, and without any certainty of exactly how many or what sort of ships were heading to the jump zone, he radioed he was withdrawing from his objective and reforming with the main force.
The humans however, began bringing their overloading and overworn ships back down to original spec, cooling overheaded systems, and grandually stepping down their overdriven drives, inertiatics, weapons and reactors, while still performing burns to slow their ships and restore desirable velocities and vectors of transportation to exit the system.
In this battle, the Loroi took damage on three warships, the human transport flotilla lost 7, one due to an overloading reactor during the stepping down process, and another five were damaged sufficiently they were considered unsafe to perform the jump to the ███████ system and were forced to return to the ███████ starbase for repairs or decommissioning.
Examining the results of the battle, it was noted that the sheer velocity and firepower of human kinetic kill weapons make effective close range brawling weapons, due to the fragility of modern warship composites used for laser and plasma defence, however the effective range of such weapons render them almost worthless in conventional warfare, not to mention the weight penalties of carrying around ammunition for such weapons.
It was however suggested by one Humaniti observer that they would make excellent defences against boarding actions, however it is noted that no major boarding actions have occurred in de*SI:HY
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hope you're mouth feels better soon! I think I might be one oft he lucky one's that doesn't need their wisdom teeth out, but I remember when I tripped and smacked one of my top incisors on a coal bucket, very painful so I know how you feel kind of! 
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