How Maniac and I survived our first mission together I’m not sure. He just about won a Mechanic’s Nightmare trophy for the shape he brought his Scim back in from our last mission. Not that my bird was in much better shape. I asked the Colonel for a transfer, but he’d turned me down flat. I’m pretty sure my screw-up in Gimle was still on his mind.
So maybe I was still in Colonel Halcyon’s doghouse. At least I was still flying. Even if it was with Maniac. This time we were on escort duty, trying to get more assets in system to support a ground push. Of course the cats weren’t going to let that happen without a fight. The quartet of Salthi waiting in the rocks halfway to the destroyer was kind of an annoying surprise. Almost as irritating as having to bail out Maniac every time he got target fixated.
When we finally got to the destroyer, she was under attack by four Dralthi. Not sure why the cats sent those up unless they were desperate. That wasn’t even a fair fight. Even Maniac managed to get a kill.