Waiting... always the hardest part. But also essential to gunnery.
Chase has familiarized himself with the gunnery controls for the heavy fire support, and rests his hands calmly near the controls while he listens to the comm chatter.
5 o'clock - he checks sensors in the indicated vector, counting dots showing up on his screen. He doesn't fire - too far out of range, and its not his job to blunt the attack - his job is covering the fighters and picking off problems once the dogfighting begins.
"They're feeling out our defenses. There'll be more coming." he responds, picking up missile locks where he can, but not firing - transmitting the locations to the fighters and defense systems instead so they don't need to find them on their own, and have some advance help in picking out targets.
Re: First Wave - The Monster
Chase has familiarized himself with the gunnery controls for the heavy fire support, and rests his hands calmly near the controls while he listens to the comm chatter.
5 o'clock - he checks sensors in the indicated vector, counting dots showing up on his screen. He doesn't fire - too far out of range, and its not his job to blunt the attack - his job is covering the fighters and picking off problems once the dogfighting begins.
"They're feeling out our defenses. There'll be more coming." he responds, picking up missile locks where he can, but not firing - transmitting the locations to the fighters and defense systems instead so they don't need to find them on their own, and have some advance help in picking out targets.