Attack on Carrier Alpha-26

The Attack on Carrier Alpha-26 was an engagement between Federation Alliance and Dominion forces during the Dominion War.

One of the keys of the Dominion Kalandra Sector Fleet was a single Jem'Hadar Carrier designated Alpha-26. In addition to ferrying dozens of Jem'Hadar Fighters to the Battle for Betazed, it's large polaron based cannons inflicted significant damage on the major ships of the Starfleet 10th Fleet.

Recognizing it's importance, Captain Roger Osmont, commanding officer of the USS Carpathia, and leader of the Starfleet 352nd Tactical Wing's Destroyer Unit, aka the "Rigellian Roughnecks" became determined to destroy it. Peeling off from the rest of the Tenth Fleet with his wing, he slamed into the Jem'Hadar lines and smashed his way through a group of Jem'Hadar Fighters, shattering them all with concentrated phaser and torpedo volleys and minutes later he approched the Carriers escort of Minthras-class destroyer escorts. Splitting his Wing into two groups, he had them swerve around and flank the escorts, catching them from port and starboard in a withering crossfire of phasers and torpedos. While the Carrier manuvered to attempt escape. the Roughnecks methodically demolished it's escorts.

The attack however was not without it's price, by the time the 352nd had lost over half it's own ships that were destroyed by Dominion counter-attacks and the remainder were all heavily damaged. Even worse was the fact that the Carrier was getting away, heading for a group of Galor-class destroyers that would provide it sufficient protection from the damaged ships in the 352nd Tactical Wing that were now regrouping.

Unwilling to let his prey escape, Osmont and his crew of 350 made the supreme sacrifice, increasing their impulse engines to maximum power, they rammed the Carpathia directly into the Carrier, detonating their Auto-destruct System at the same time, the resulting explosion shattered the carrier and all the attack fighters aboard as well as several attack fighters that had come to offer assistance and destroyed one Galor-class destroyer nearby but narrowly missed destroying several Galor-class Ships as well. Those ships were then eliminated by the remaining ships in the 352nd Tactical Wing. (Last Unicorn RPG: The Dominion War Sourcebook: The Fires of Armageddon).