Hijacking of the Chabarak

The Hijacking of the Chabarak was an engagement between the United Systems and a minor Council of Tusoka faction led by the Chabarak. The operation was initialized in hopes of attaining an intact Tilam city-ship for the Systems Intelligence Service (SIS) to study and eventually devise knowledge from.

The operation
The earliest point of time for the operation was when elements of the SIS had managed to retrieve a several damaged patrol ships that were attacked by the Unvari Hegemony. They tested the tilam's response to encountering their ships, seeing that they retrieve the craft and bring it onboard any ship that is large enough to hold it should one be available. With this knowledge, the SIS began to plan an operation to potentially capture one of their city-ships.

When it was decided to initiate their plans, the United Systems deposited one of their captured craft within the path of their known patrols. A single city-ship, the Chabarak, along with its escorts arrived to investigate after being notified. As the Chabarak began securing the patrol ship, the explosives onboard was detonated and Battlegroup Lamia jumped into the system. Signalling its distress beacon, the Chabarak was effectively crippled from the trap. Making use of its move manoeuvrable vessels, Battlegroup Lamia largely stayed within the blind spots of the city-ship while engaging its escorts. After destroying its flak corvettes, Systems strikecraft were launched and began targeting the enemy superstructure and outer turrets while the Systems Assault ships deployed its marine complements into the city-ship. As the marines were making it aboard, the assault ships were abandoned and destroyed, allowing the remainder of Battlegroup Lamia to destroy the Chabarak's remaining escorts.

Using information gleamed from informants and AI incursions within the ship systems, the marines splits into four teams which split off towards different objectives: the bridge, main engineering, weapons control, and power systems. Following them securing their targets, all four teams locked themselves in and begins venting the entire ship of air supply. As the three other teams secure the remainder of the ship, bridge crew uses specialized AI programs to usurp control over the city-ship.

With the Chabarak now within their control, Battlegroup Lamia and their prize leave for a designated star systems where the SIS would be waiting for them.