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OCC:This belongs back at the inital explosion since the thread jumped along nicely while I was gone

IC:
Eric's eyes widened as he felt the explosion rip towards him. He suddenly crouched down and slowly a black cloak began to roll out aorund him sheilding him from the blast. As it flew over him he felt the heat of it burn his skin even though the demon cloak protected his very being. As the wave of destruction subsided he fell foreward the demon cloak slowly disapating. He was panting heavily at this point since the energy it took to protect himself from such a blast was emense. Slowly he rose to a kneeling postion parts of his face red from the burns and his right hand blistering and it's skin cracked. He pushed the pain from his mind but fell forward fainting. The only unburned part of his body was his left demon arm that seemed to thrive on the wave of death and destruction.
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"SIR!" A massive exposion was jsut detected on the surface. We've lost Eric's signal as well." "Shit! Wake another AE from cryo and get her or him or whatever they are ready to check it out." "Yes sir!"

Admiral Karath heard the explosion and saw a battle unfolding. Three of his Marines were sent in to protect him. He grabbed the pistol from one of them and said, "Follow me. Our guys are in battleand we're not doing anything."

"is it time master?" the Aprentice asked still in her cloak and hood, she looked up to him.
"yes, Admiral Ashlacok send a message to Unified Sith. Inform them of my return im shore the Emperor would want to know the founder of the 1:1 order has returned." Bane sead looking up from his throne, Stairing at the Admiral.
"yes my lord right away" the Admiral Saluted and walked out towards the Comm tower in the Palace, funny it was the first thing bane wanted built on the planet.

{for Coreworlds and Unified Siths eyes only since A Coreworlds would be the only one to be able to brake my Encryption and B Unified Sith since im sending this to him}

To: Darth Sidious
From: Darth Bane

Sidious, i never did meet you in person even though the years of the empire. but i have come back defeating death for over 6,000 years thanks to the force and Sith Magic (dark Side of the Force), I wish for you to Join me on corelon we have much to talk about and around my planet there is something you will find vary interestion and will be useful in the comings of war. I will not give to much away even tho the Jedi Scum of coreworlds knows of whats around Corelon and will most likely intercept this message and pass it onto Allies, the less they know the better.
Im shore you will come to see your Order Master for there is much for you to learn tricks of the force you must learn.


OOC: will write more just need to sleep.

(OOC: It would be much appreaciated if this RP slowed down until I start posting later on in the day seeing how I am in the duel with the sith right now)

sephrioth gives 10 starfury planet killers to coreworlds as a gift.

OOC: Feaz to use full power lightning your guys must be a high level Sith. Jedi cannot use full power lightning as they would fall towards the dark side. Just an FYI from the star wars universe.



As the Dual began all non force users would be in a distinct disadvantage. The Sith, accelerating beyond normal comprehension would seem to appear and disappear all over the room. Their force powers being conserved and ready to use would also give them an advantage. Each Sith attacked their enemy with thousands of strikes, now fully accelerated the dark side of the force began to flow from these abominations of life as feely as blood from a wound. The accelerated Sith quickly dodged the incoming bolts of lightning from the Feazanthian guard and responded with a volley of their own. Meanwhile the Coreworld emperor was slowly beginning to beet down his opponent. Each Force user was deep in a struggle for life and death while the guards in a melee with the other national leaders and guards attempted to allow the struggle to go on unhindered.

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The incoming transmission did not go Ignored by the Imperial command.

To: Darth Sidious
From: Darth Bane

Sidious, i never did meet you in person even though the years of the empire. but i have come back defeating death for over 6,000 years thanks to the force and Sith Magic (dark Side of the Force), I wish for you to Join me on corelon we have much to talk about and around my planet there is something you will find vary interestion and will be useful in the comings of war. I will not give to much away even tho the Jedi Scum of coreworlds knows of whats around Corelon and will most likely intercept this message and pass it onto Allies, the less they know the better.
Im shore you will come to see your Order Master for there is much for you to learn tricks of the force you must learn.


The emperor outraged by this sheer act of arrogance was tempted to blast Banes homeworld into a thousand pieces, however that was not a good idea. The last thing the Empire needed was another enemy, after all the war was about to heat up and extend across the Galaxy. As for Bane being the order master, that was long ago and he was no longer regarded as such. The 1:1 order was gone, in place there was vast academies training the thousands of Sith that were being born each day. No Banes time had past and so it shall remain. However allies were needed for this long war ahead, and what better than a Sith ally. Palpatine though unable to attend himself sent his second Lord Vader to deal with the matter, Vader would take the Death Star to Corelon.

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Location, 300km under the surface of Curoscant.

Technician 1. “We have field integrity. Levels are rising. We are detecting a vast concentration of energy.”

Technician 2. “We have reports that the Death Star is about to destroy Juria. Prepare for a large energy spike.”

Technician 1. “These readings are unbelievable, they are beyond our wildest dreams. It is possible that Dark Shadow could work.”

Emperor Palpatine. “See that is does, this is the perfect way to destroy the Jedi. Soon we will have our revenge and our war will be complete.”

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Meanwhile an unknown craft had entered the Curoscant system, making its way towards a patrolling Star Destroyer the enemy craft began to latch on to the hull. Drilling their way through the Imperial Star Destroyer would not remain un-alert for long.

On the bridge captain Muro was busily sifting through reports of system security until he heard a large alarm suddenly sound. There was intruders on board. The Star Destroyer now fully alert ordered all squads to their stations while large bulkheads were sealed around engineering and the bridge.

“Report Commander”, the Captain boomed.

Sir we have detected increased pressure upon the outer hull here and here. We believe we have been boarded. Alert all squads and launch fighters to get a view of the hull. I want to know what’s on there.”

“Yes Sir.”

“Send a communication back to Curoscant reporting this, though we should be able to defend ourselves.”

From the tactical console a large voice could be heard over the resounding clatter of the bridge crew. Automated defensives are now online. All gunners are at their stations, it wont be long until we find the cause of this problem Captain.”

“Excellent, dispatch a squad to the affected section, I want a visual.”

“Yes Sir!”

WIckian Raiders strike back at the Sith, http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=7230883#post7230883

(ooc you do relize my leader wasint in the hanger ... with you you guys moved to fast i didnt get a chance posting him moveing there)

OOC: Feaz to use full power lightning your guys must be a high level Sith. Jedi cannot use full power lightning as they would fall towards the dark side. Just an FYI from the star wars universe.



As the Dual began all non force users would be in a distinct disadvantage. The Sith, accelerating beyond normal comprehension would seem to appear and disappear all over the room. Their force powers being conserved and ready to use would also give them an advantage. Each Sith attacked their enemy with thousands of strikes, now fully accelerated the dark side of the force began to flow from these abominations of life as feely as blood from a wound. The accelerated Sith quickly dodged the incoming bolts of lightning from the Feazanthian guard and responded with a volley of their own. Meanwhile the Coreworld emperor was slowly beginning to beet down his opponent. Each Force user was deep in a struggle for life and death while the guards in a melee with the other national leaders and guards attempted to allow the struggle to go on unhindered.
*insert some really cool battle music, like the FF7 one*

Emperor Masaki matched the Sith blow-for-blow and speed-for-speed, and began to push an offensive upon the evil minion of Palpatine, trying to punch through for a weak spot.

I saw the lightning and the guard dodge it. Time to unleash my own!

At a point when the guard and I were deadlocked, I suddenly loosened the deadlock, forcing the guard to stumbled forward, and unleashed my own brand of Force Lightning on the guard, knowing that he would be hard-pressed to dodge and keep from being paralyzed long enough for Eamonn to strike.

((OOC-You'll find that, seeing as my nation is not a Jedi nation nor has any knowledge of the "Force" in a religious sense, the Peacekeepers use a varied mix of light and dark techniques without any perception of the side effects))

A trio of greasy shadows darted from the darkness into the light, and back into the darkness on the other side of the corridor. They moved faster than any normal humanoid should. More shadows shot out, following the first three. As the shadows reached for the hilts of their Plasma Swords, the butt of Feazanthian assault rifles leveled at the backs a group of passing guards.
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Torroth spun and threw up a force shield against the lightning, blocking the remaining bolts with his blade. As electricity danced across the two halves of the energy blade, the Peacekeeper Master leapt over the head of the Sith warrior and stabbed.

Peacekeeper
http://halo.bungie.org/gunmodels/iansword.jpg
http://www.bungie.net/images/Games/Halo2/screenshots/H2MP_Beta_MidshipDuel.jpg <----that one's big

Seeing Daniel use force lightning on the guard, Eamonn knew he had his best shot at striking. Eamonn raised his lightsaber and went to strike at the guards neck.

Eric slowly rose from the ground. His right hand's burned skin cracking sickly and parts of it falling to the ground. He pulled the com device form his face and placed it in the pocket on his uniform and pulled his 14mm pistol. He slowly moved into the shadows. He clicked off the saftey and suddenly seemed to blend in with the shadows. "Not my fight," he muttered as he watched.

Each of the Sith guard engaged in the battle were fighting for their lives now. The effort was useless they were not going to escape alive and nor would they allow themselves do be captured. Each Sith jumped away from his combatant back into the recesses of the Cargo bay. Each one raising their lightsabre laughed loudly until the Lord spoke his last words. “Jedi, You do not understand the force will soon be ours your time has ended, our time is now.” Each Sith raised their sabres and apun the blades removing their own heads.

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“Captain, we have a confirmed intruder alert on deck 112, shall I seal it?”

“Affirmative, seal the deck and raise force fields. Then once your done vent the atmosphere.”

“Understood.”

The fleet now alerted to the boarding of the Tyrun sent other vessels to assist. This was indeed a disturbing thought that an enemy could infiltrate the vessel so easily. If the emperor heard of the grievous breech of security heads would roll. Over eight hundred storm troopers had been routed to the breeched section while Sith knights took up position outside areas of critical importance. The computer systems were all locked out except for the bridge and engineering which had ten feet thick Neutronium blast doors in the way.

On the outside of the star destroyer itself Tie Defenders and fighters had been launched to see what on Earth was breeching the hull. Firing on the determined breech point they discovered something very unusual, a cloaked pod.

I was sickened by their suicides. "Damn..."

"Such is the way of the Dark Side, son." Dad said, clasping a hand on my shoulder. "Is everyone all right?"

"Crap," Eamonn cursed and looked toward Emperor Masaki. "I'm fine, if slightly annoyed by these lot."

"So am I, Eamonn." Andrew said. He then asked the others. "What about you guys?"

"I'll be fine," Eric said as he steped out of the shadows "Just need some burn treatment. But I'll heal fast." At that point he slid his pisotl back in it's holster and walked towards the sith corpses. He held his burnt arm with his demon arm letting a numbness flow through it to ease the pain.

"Damn," Alicia muttered, her twin gray blades collapsing back into their long handles. The body fell; the head rolled away, to stare blankly at the overhead.

"That......" she winced. "....bah. Just a few cuts. So, who gets to go on the shuttle?" the High King inquired. "One person to act as the Sith lord, four people for his guards, and a few prisoners/guests. Having stowaways is out of the question, unless.....the Sith are complete screwups, or we want to distract them from the real goal....who'd be insane enough to get one of their own people captured...." while thinking, she kicked the headless corpse over, and picked up its sabre. "Interesting design," she remarked.

"Looks like there's nothing left but a few pieces." I said, eyeing the place where the shuttle once was. "What are we going to do now, Dad?"

"I'm going to have to have you guys plan further details on the infiltration. I'll talk to Master Elendil about this."

"All right."

My father left the room, to talk to the Jedi Master of the Order.

"Heh. Insanity is one of the characteristic for the AE. Besides. It's always fun to ruin there days when you break free and kill a few of em on the spot," Eric said as he reached the sith corpses and knelt down beside one of the lightsabers flicking it off. "If we are going to have people pose as prisioners or defectors the sith uniforms will have to be slightly damaged to make it look like the prisoners were captured recently in a raid or fight."

The Peacekeepers deactivated their blades. One of their kin had fallen, a Shadri female. One of the Asrengard closed her eyes and said a quick prayer.

The leader walked over to Daniel and bowed.
"I am Torroth Halcyon of the Peacekeeper order. We were sent as delegates for this conference, but I see it was good that we came armed. May I suggest an alternative location to continue these deliberations? That is, unless they have already been completed. My government is prepared to side with whatever plan the Coreworlds empire is taking."
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It was a good thing the Peacekeepers were wearing atmosphere suits, for the atmosphere was vented from the compartment in which they resided. The standard guards were dealt with easily enough, but the Sith guards were a bit more of a hassle.
One of the Peacekeepers sent out a tremor in the Force to draw away the pair of guards at one of the bulkheads. His compatriots readied their blades.

"Heh. Insanity is one of the characteristic for the AE. Besides. It's always fun to ruin there days when you break free and kill a few of em on the spot," Eric said as he reached the sith corpses and knelt down beside one of the lightsabers flicking it off. "If we are going to have people pose as prisioners or defectors the sith uniforms will have to be slightly damaged to make it look like the prisoners were captured recently in a raid or fight."
"What do you mean?" I scratched my head, then it clicked. "You want to have us use these uniforms for the plan?"

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"Master Elendil."

"Andrew."

"The Dark Side grows. It is nearing the point where the balance to the Force is tipped in the Sith's favor once again."

"I agree." Andrew said. "Already, some of our abilities are weakening, like seeing into the future."

"Yes. I have a hard time seeing very far without the use of the dark side." Master Elendil stroked his chin.

"How can we deal with them? How can we bring the Force back into balance?"

"The Force itself will find a way. I suspect that it will find a conduit to channel the Light Side through, and use that conduit."

"Mmm." Andrew thought for a minute. "I wonder..."

"Yes. Perhaps so, but we will have to wait it out."

"Yes. Which brings me to something else: I think we, as Jedi, should go into 'exile' for a while."

"Hmm. Perhaps you're right..." Master Elendil said. "We'll do it."

"All right. As soon as I conclude the meeting, I'll head to the Sovereign."

The leader walked over to Daniel and bowed.
"I am Torroth Halcyon of the Peacekeeper order. We were sent as delegates for this conference, but I see it was good that we came armed. May I suggest an alternative location to continue these deliberations? That is, unless they have already been completed. My government is prepared to side with whatever plan the Coreworlds empire is taking."

"Good thing you came, Mr. Halcyon." I said, returning the bow. "We're just about to plan further details on how to infiltrate and bring down the shields of the Death Star."

Something just snagged on my mind and wouldn't let go. "I just thought of a problem: there will be a lot of Sith like the guys we just fought, especially on said Death Star."

"Simplest way yes. In war you take every opening you can get. But the one we can't use is the sith lords. I'll be willing to pose a defector. Becasue me being a prisioner is highly unlikely due to the fact that I've only been captured once in my entire lifetime in the military and even then I gave my captors hell. Killed a few before they sedated me. But anyways what other options do we have?" Eric said as he reached into a small pouch on his scorched uniform and pulled out a glass tube with a small injector on the end and stuck it in his burned arm. After a few moments the sluge drained into his system and a small bit of cracking could be heard from the burned skin cracking further. "And yes I know that we will be facing several sith. That is why we are going to have to use stealth heavily."

Torroth smirked slightly.
"My people can handle the Sith warriors. Our fury has yet to be fully unleashed, mind you. For two centuries we have been little more than police forces in the Empire, but now we shall reveal ourselves for what we truly are."

Konas was fine, though he didn't speak when the questions were asked, he disengaged his lightsaber and put it on his belt, and glanced around. He untied the little ribbon in his hair, and his short bushlike ponytail fell down back into the curly orange/brown way he likes it after he had worked hard.

He looked at the others, most of them had fared fine but some had fallen, but the sith...commiting suicide.

"Its a damn shame," He said in a rather humorous, sarcastic tone to himself.

He walked out of the room, and into a tech station, he pressed a few buttons, coming in contact with Techon communication.

"This is T.C number 1, who and what is your buisness?" A calm and nice voice said on the other side.

"This is Konas Amst, I was sent to CoreWorlds to escort diplomat Jouch," Konas explained. "I would like to be put through to Emperor Jonas."

"Right away," The tech said. "After you send us the code signal."

Konas entered it in, and he was soon put through.

"Konas, its good to hear you," Jonas said. "How is it going over there?"

"There has been a major problem Sire," Konas explained. "Sith came here pretending to be diplomats, but it was a trick, majority of everyone there died, including Jouch..."

"I...I'm sorry Konas, I know he was a good friend of yours," Jonas said. "What happened afterwards?"

"We were engaged in short duels with the sith, in the end they commited suicide," Konas said, he then glanced around. "Tell me, is how secret and how guarded is this line?"

"No one should be able to hear us, no matter how much splicing they do, its an infinity code," Jonas answered.

"Alright, I have an idea," Konas said. "The sith said that they are willing to stop the attack on CoreWorlds if all Jedi leave the nation..."

"And?" Jonas asked, intruiged.

"I beleive, that we could have all the Jedi could leave CoreWorlds in different directions, and then from wherever they went, disguise themselves as refugees and come to Techon in refugee camps since we have been accepting them," Konas said. "From there we Jedi could lie low until the Sith don't expect anything, and then we could lead our attack."

"Have you discussed this with Andrew Masaki?" Jonas asked.

"Negative, but I beleive he might like the idea," Konas said. "I will get back to you on it, over and out...."

He flipped the switch, and the console he was at went dark.

I ran through a couple of stealth techniques that might help, in my mind. "Yeah, can't exactly go blazing in the corridors..." I smirked.

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Andrew walked back to search the faces for Konas.

Eric smirked. "Had you been from Phalanix you might have made it in the AE. Not many do," he said as he began to walk over to the sith lord's corpse and began to look for anything that might be of some help on it.

Konas walked back from the console into the crowd, and saw Andrew, he approached the emperor, nodding his head in a bow slightly.

"I sensed you were looking for me, just as I sense you sensed me looking for you," He said, then recounted what he said to make sure he said it properly.

Rob mean wile was hiding behind some crates wile the battle was going on still waiting to see if any thing else was happening a p-13 telepath would probably not affect any sith any way so what good would he have done fighting he thought ,rob got up looking around a bit surprise about what had happen.

I then spotted a figure behind some of the boxes. "Excuse me."

I saw that it was Rob. "Hey! The battle's over. You ok?"

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Andrew listened to Konas. "A wise plan. I've already gone over the main exile plans with Master Elendil. We'll modify them with yours."

Andrew listened to Konas. "A wise plan. I've already gone over the main exile plans with Master Elendil. We'll modify them with yours."
"Very well," Konas answered. "In the meantime, what can I do to help? On the ship or elsewhere I need to do something."

"Very well," Konas answered. "In the meantime, what can I do to help? On the ship or elsewhere I need to do something."
"Well, you can help Daniel go over what stealth techniques you and he knows. They'll be much needed when you infiltrate."

I then spotted a figure behind some of the boxes. "Excuse me."

I saw that it was Rob. "Hey! The battle's over. You ok?"

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Andrew listened to Konas. "A wise plan. I've already gone over the main exile plans with Master Elendil. We'll modify them with yours."

Rob wandered over unscathed "yeah I’m fine .. i wished i could have done more to help you wile the battle was going on but i figured a P-13 would not affect a sith "uhem "how many people did we lose" rob said smiling glad to see his old friend

Konas walked over to Daniel, seeing him talking to Rob, he kind of 'ahemed' to get Daniels attention.

"Come on now Danny Boy, we need to discuss these tactics we are gonna use to get around the Death Star," Konas said.

Rob wandered over unscathed "yeah I’m fine .. i wished i could have done more to help you wile the battle was going on but i figured a P-13 would not affect a sith "uhem "how many people did we lose" rob said smiling glad to see his old friend
"Not too many." I said, then Master Konas 'ahemed'.

"Oh, right. The techniques." I said. "There is that microscopic sense one, where you'd make your Force sense really really small..."

"That, or we could use the combined of us Jedi going to create an image of another party to distract them while we get the real job done," Konas said.

Admiral veers motioned towards the blue blips on the battle layout. “They are retreating. Excellent. Commander order the fleet to pursue the enemy until the enter hyperspace. Re-direct all fire upon the Shipyards I want the m destroyed.”

“Yes Sir.”

The Sith fleet motioned its way in pursuit of the Coreworld forces, Tie fighters and defenders hunted down the fleeing enemy while the capital ships glided through space, almost hidden in the black void. The Shipyards were now receiving all most 100% of the Imperial fire power available, there would be no survivors there would be nothing left. Everything would be destroyed.

“Commander once the shipyards have been nullified set a course for Curoscant.”

“Aye aye Sir.”

In honor of his majesty, The Emperor Reborn, We the Remnants decalre war on all who oppose His will. May you appeal for mercy to Grand Moff Anthony Kies.

"That, or we could use the combined of us Jedi going to create an image of another party to distract them while we get the real job done," Konas said.
"That would be cool." I said. "You think it'll work on Sith Knights?"

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The battered fleet of 295 ISDs and less than 300 other ships managed to make it into hyperspace. With the shipyards gone, they'll now have to use allied shipyards and resources.

The shipyards themselves were destroyed after the shields were broken by the Death Star and the enemy fleet. Now only the planet Waylord is left, with 10 million people surviving under the futile shields.

"If such a ploy does not work, then we should come up with a 'Plan B'."
Halcyon rubbed his jaw tentatively. One of the Asrengard spoke up.

"Perhaps we should launch an offensive in space at the same time? If they are distracted, they most likely would never think of checking inside their own ship."

"That could work," Eamonn said. "Though I doubt their own security would be relaxed enough."

His hatred Swelling, Grand Moff Kies now sends 100 Tie Advances as an Expeditioanry force. The Pilots are anxoius to destroy the tratorious Rebels who go against his will.

His hatred Swelling, Grand Moff Kies now sends 100 Tie Advances as an Expeditioanry force. The Pilots are anxoius to destroy the tratorious Rebels who go against his will.

A patroling carrier deployed two squadrons - 200 single ships - of Rogue fighters and a tactical wing of Cobra fighter bombers. These vessels were more maneuverable and heavier armed than the flimsy TIEs, and let loose with blasters and phase disruptors.

The Imperial Star Destroyer Megalodon jumps in to aid the Feaz ships and unloads it's compliment of 48 starfighters (2 X-wing, 2 A-wing) and missile boats.

"I think my dad was thinking of something similar," I said. "He did say that the only way to know when to shut down the shields is if the Death Star is attacked..."

"Shutting the shields down in the first place will be the hard part," Eamonn remarked.

"An Ion charge should do it. If not that, then..."
Halcyon ignited his blade. "This will."

"That would be cool." I said. "You think it'll work on Sith Knights?"


"If there are enough of us we should be able to," Konas said.

"Yeah." I said, fingering my lightsabers.

Two parties.. Alicia ran through the idea. "I can try to meet with the Sith on the Death Star," she offered, "And get some of your people into my party. Weyr's position in this conflict isn't public, just yet, and I'm still a potential ally for the Sith. I could act as a destraction, while the rest of you lower the shields." Of course, they'd have to be willing to demonstrate the power of their station to some backwater leader, she did not add.

"Perhaps we should continue elsewhere?" inquired Halcyon, looking at the blasted-out and battle-scarred hangar. "I suggest we assemble our teams and meet in, say, the Peacekeeper training grounds aboard the Feazanthian outpost Thaddis Sabbah?"

Admiral Veers was curiously interested about the small planet now kneeling before the Death Star, “if only they would join us” he said to himself then the Empire would have no need for all this destruction. But being honest, Veers enjoyed it. He enjoyed murder. “Tactical take out that planet.”

The death Star once again firing removed 10 million people from existence.

“Admiral, we are receiving a communication from Curoscant, the death Star is to rendezvous with Lord Vader while the fleet is to take up position in the home system. These come from the Emperors office.”

“Helm Veers ordered, take us to the transmitted coordinates, and Comm order the fleet to head home.”

“Yes Sir.”

"Ahh!" Konas said sharply and in pain.

He bent over, leaning against the wall, his eyes closed, lips tight together, clearly something was up.

A splitting headache attacked my head. It wasn't as intense as Juria, but it was still bad. "No! Not again!" I gritted my teeth, trying to will the pain away.

Just as suddenly, it was gone.

"Damn."

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Andrew felt the deaths, too, and rubbed his temples in pain. I hate it...more have died now.

"Ahh!" Konas said sharply and in pain.

He bent over, leaning against the wall, his eyes closed, lips tight together, clearly something was up.

"Hey, you all-right?" Alicia inquired, concerned. The Jedi had seemed decent enough, even if he did go around probing other people's heads.

"One of the cons of being Force-sensitive." I explained. "We sense the death of millions when a Death Star destroys a planet."

Eamonn just nodded, his hand still on his lightsaber. He could feel the horror of 10 million people being wiped out and closed his eyes. His breathing depened as he fought the pain.

"Hey, you all-right?" Alicia inquired, concerned. The Jedi had seemed decent enough, even if he did go around probing other people's heads.
Konas gritted his teeth, eyes still closed. "Yes, I experienced what the others did as well...Juria was much worse... the deaths, so much death, I can feel there pain, horror. I feel queezy..."

Eric's eyes widened slightly as he suddenly felt planet the Death Star had just removed form existance. As the feeling subsided he rose from the sith corpse and said "If you want I can lead a distraction team. Give me a few troops and I'll cause one hell of a mess."

"That's a good idea," Eamonn said, his eyes still closed.

"Or we can try using one of my nations AI systems to place sensor ghosts in diffrent areas of the ship. It might help but if they were smart enough they would find out quickly."



OCC:THIS WAS POST 7000 FOR ME W00T

Eamonn opened his eyes, "How does that work?" he asked.

Konas gritted his teeth, eyes still closed. "Yes, I experienced what the others did as well...Juria was much worse... the deaths, so much death, I can feel there pain, horror. I feel queezy..."

There really wasn't much one could say to something like that. Force sensitive...it sounded a lot like the inherent ability of the magi'i and alchemists to sense great disturbances made to the fabric of the world. She noticed that the netCrys hanging beneath her black arachnoweave suit had grown uncomfortably hot.

"Or we can try using one of my nations AI systems to place sensor ghosts in diffrent areas of the ship. It might help but if they were smart enough they would find out quickly."

"Provided you can hack their systems, I don't think the Sith onboard will be fooled by a systems malfunction. It's worth a shot, but we'll need some more concrete dstraction."

OOC: Geez this thread posts fast lol

IC: The WIckian Delegation had rejoined the group, Arduous still burns were dressed with bandages and bacta patches from a medic, barley regaining his composure.

Arduous looked upon the gathered Jedi and Feaz warriors, seeing his brethren planning reminded him of a time long ago when the resistance was still new, the good ole days a sollie would call them.

"My friends I too will now be joining the strike team in addition to Sgt. Hawkins here. I myself am not Jedi,” For a second the pain of his wounds were evident in his eyes “and i burn to pay these cowards back for there crimes." He then nodded to Hawkins, who approached from the Jedi from behind Arduous for the first time.

"I do not know if we shall survive this coming conflict to see what the next day brings but that is our lot. I am a Marine, the uniform I wear requires that I defend the defenseless, protect the innocent and my nation at the cost of by own life's blood, that is my Duty. In the course of doing this when I am in battle things happen to me that i can not understand, things slow I see the path of actions, ways around them, people move slowly while i move quick. I've made enemy soldiers think they've not seen me though I am less then a couple meters in front of them. I've had an energy blade stuck into my chest, only to see the blade dissipate in front of my own eyes." He said explaining the supernatural events to affect him.

"I...I think I am what you all would call 'force sensitive' and after all this i would like to be trained in the ways of the Jedi" Hawkins declared.

"True but let me plant some plasma charges and I can cause some major chaos alone. Hell back in the civil wars I was the most independant elite. I ended up setting up so many charges that I made a rebel battalion think that they were being moved on by the full force of the army. Heh boy were they surprised when only four people opened fire on them. But anyways I say we have two teams. One team moves from hanger to hanger casuing as much chaos as posible while the other team moves for the sheild generator. At the same time the team causing the distractions can move towards the powercore. And if you help reprogram a AI to function on a few fighters or what ever is docked in the hangers we can use it against the sith," Eric said with a smirk, "But we will have to make some sacrifices I'm sure. I jsut want to say this now. Those who don't want to leave these lives behind should back out now."

OOC: Someone's got a thing for blowing stuff up...*sweatdrop*

"To each his own, ser," Alicia replied diplomatically. Are you calling me a coward? "How long would it take for you to get onboard the station?"

"It'll vary. Hijack a sith shuttle or transport and it might take weeks or days. Full out attack on the death star weaken the sheilds enough for a few ships like dropships to get through then land in a hanger. That'll take about maybe four hours tops. But the price is far to high," Eric said before leaning against a nearby wall, "And I'm not calling you a coward. I'm saying if you don't want to say good bye to your familys or loved ones for the last time. I was born to fight. I have nothing to lose but I'm not sure about the others."

OCC:Actualy I have more of a taste for dismemberment

OOC: Geez this thread posts fast lol

IC: The WIckian Delegation had rejoined the group, Arduous still burns were dressed with bandages and bacta patches from a medic, barley regaining his composure.

Arduous looked upon the gathered Jedi and Feaz warriors, seeing his brethren planning reminded him of a time long ago when the resistance was still new, the good ole days a sollie would call them.

"My friends I too will now be joining the strike team in addition to Sgt. Hawkins here. I myself am not Jedi,” For a second the pain of his wounds were evident in his eyes “and i burn to pay these cowards back for there crimes." He then nodded to Hawkins, who approached from the Jedi from behind Arduous for the first time.

"I do not know if we shall survive this coming conflict to see what the next day brings but that is our lot. I am a Marine, the uniform I wear requires that I defend the defenseless, protect the innocent and my nation at the cost of by own life's blood, that is my Duty. In the course of doing this when I am in battle things happen to me that i can not understand, things slow I see the path of actions, ways around them, people move slowly while i move quick. I've made enemy soldiers think they've not seen me though I am less then a couple meters in front of them. I've had an energy blade stuck into my chest, only to see the blade dissipate in front of my own eyes." He said explaining the supernatural events to affect him.

"I...I think I am what you all would call 'force sensitive' and after all this i would like to be trained in the ways of the Jedi" Hawkins declared.
"Pretty impressive credentials there, Sergeant." I whistled. "Hey, Dad! Get Master Elendil to check the Sergeant here! We think he's Force-sensitive."

"Right." The Emperor left for a few minutes. In the meantime...

"I'm going to tell you one things right now, Sergeant Hawkins: Concentrate on the moment. Feel, don't think. Trust your instincts." I said, echoing a long-dead Jedi Master*.

Dad came back with the elven Jedi Master.

"Ok. I'm going to check your blood for midichlorians." Master Elendil said, holding up a portable blood-tester. "They are related to the regular mitochondria that you'd learn in biology class, but with one important difference: they allow you to access the Force."

OOC: *if you can guess who the Jedi Master was who made the quote, I'll give you a prize. ^_^

Eric laughed for a moment before saying, "Probably the entire AE core are force sensitive. I bet the AE training is harder than jedi trianing." At this point his burns were slowly disapating the dead skin flaking off.

"Now as I see it, all of us will need to pose as someone in order to infiltrate the Death Star. Mostly likely, we'll need to go in as army troops, technicians or Sith Knights and make sure our tour of duties are at the Death Star." I said, pacing back and forth. "Then, we mosey over to the shield generators, and scope 'em out. We take 'em out when the combined assault begins."

"Staging Grounds"
Lagrange Point Alpha

The NSV Aquamarine prepares for its gate-jump to the Tenetia Royal Space Station, deep within Coredian Space.

"Coordinates set Captain Griffith."

"Good..." said Griffith as he began to recline in his chair, until the door of the bridge slid open, letting in a mass of Praetorian Guards, meaning only one thing, that someone high up from the government.

"Oh great...What now?" exclaimed Griffith, as he jumped from his seat. "The ambassador is already onboard."

"Praetor Philippe Marks and Praetor Yuko Hikaru will be joining this delegation, by the request of Magister Kenshin." said the lead guard in a commanding voice, as the Praetors entered the bridge.

"I see...Ensign, please show Praetor Philippe and Hikaru to their quarters." said Griffith.

As the ensign led Praetor Marks and Praetor Hikaru off to their rooms, the Praetorian Guard quickly marched out of the bridge and returned back to the shuttle from which they arrived on.

"Now that's over...Start jump sequence." ordered Griffith.

Several kilometers away from Tenetia Space Station

"NSV Aquamarine to Tenetia Royal Space Station, requesting to land in docking bay 5." called out the communications officer onboard the NSV Aquamarine.

"How do you think they'll react to a defector from there enemys? If not I might beable to pose as a heavy trooper."

"Docking bay 5 is cleared. Have a nice day. Too bad you missed all the excitement."

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"Suspicion, obviously, probably would test your loyalty just in case." I answered.

During pur reasearch of anti-matter we discovered a weapon powerful enough to make a blackhole which remarkabely could be controlled and if this war doesn't end the Sith worlds will be destroyed by these terrible weapons.

Now it was Hawkins turn to laugh "Tough you say, hell the 2.0 gravity training on the 5th moon of Thetis is tough, when you are outfitted with a 200 kilo ruck and un-powered armor! All training is tough, I’ve hit my limit as a marine, that was made clear to me early in this campaign. I’ve seen how much I can effect the outcome of a battle, and i failed my people. I need now to know how to more effectively utilize what untapped potential i have to save peoples lives, isn’t that the way of the Jedi?
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Arduous looked at Andrew seriously and stated,
"He wouldn't be trusted unless he could prove his loyalty to the Sith Lord, perhaps by offering the Sith one of us as a prisoner...a token to prove his loyalty. If this is the course taken then I will offer myself as this prisoner!" He said his voice cold and level.

He also realized that a Shiva Option, the complete destruction of Sith Planets was unacceptable that massive loss of life may be acceptable to SITH but not to US!.

OOC: CW, didn't Qui Gon Gin (spelling is ???, he's from Episode I) say that

IC: Admiral Karath walked to the TFU area. He saw many people busy.
"Could I please talk to the TFU representative? I need to present him or her with a traety to look over."

aye forgot to answer CW prize question it is Qui-Gon Jinn

OOC: Qui-Gon Jinn! Yay! You get a free X-wing and a cookie! ^_^

IC:
"President Bastidas is over there." I pointed to a kid of 16. "And yes, Hawkins, the mandate of the Jedi is to protect those who can't protect themselves: the meek and innocent."

"A prisoner..." Andrew mulled it over for a minute.

Ooc: Yea! I Win The Xwing!

“I know being a prisoner is asking for a tortuous death, yet but does not the ends justify the means? I am willing to take this risk, I have survived torture before, the Sith do not scare me, neither does death, for I have seen things so much worse. And I know if I can stay alive long enough for the strike team to launch their mission, I can escape.” He stated “Can any of you here say that you yourself would not risk your lives for such a worthy goal.?”

Thoughts of being tortured by the likes of Palpatine were crushed as soon as they appeared. "I'm obviously a little too well-known to appear as a simple prisoner..." I smiled weakly. "But I also know that if I weren't so well-known, I would offer up myself, too."

"Yeah, kid." Dad smiled. "Maybe if someone puts a scar on your face or knocks out a tooth..."

"Hey! No one is messing with my face!"

"Kidding! Just kidding!"

¬_¬ "You'd better be..."

Dock 5
Tenetia Royal Space Station

"So this is where the meetings are being held...Seems pretty battered to me." said Ambassador Davidson.

Davidson was a young man at the age of 30 who had recently joined the UMN International Relations Division. He was wearing his usual formal black business suit, and fixed his tie as he stepped out of the NSV Aquamarine and onto the staircase.

Praetor Philippe Marks stepped out of the vessel next. Marks had graying hair and had started to develop wrinkles on his face, but he maintained the build of a person years younger than he was. He was wearing a dark black cloak that was now required to worn by all high ranking government officials, over his formal business attire. On the cloak, or formally know as the Pallium Praeturae*, was the -Noir- seal and flowing horizontally up and down the left side cloak were 3 blue patches that signified his rank has praetor. Marks walked down the staircase and followed several steps behind Davidson. Marks, now 55 years of age, walked with an aura of wisdom and he held himself up with an apparent sense of honor.

Praetor Yuko Hikaru emerged from the vessel next. Only 20, she was the youngest of the Praetors, but she was extremely intelligent. Considered a genius by many, she rose through the ranks as a top negotiator. Though a genius in some fields, she was prone to clumsiness and was known as a "quack" by some of the people around her, since she tended to talk alot. But her track record outshined her personal defects. She wore the same type of Pallium Praeturae, and she pulled her hood down from over her dark raven hair back in a ponytail. She had the face of an angel and stood straight like a model. She looked around at the bustling dock, before starting walking carefully down the staircase, but she still managed to almost lose her balance near the bottom of the stair case.

The group was escorted from the dock into the station where they would soon meet up with Emperor Andrew and relay Magister Kenshin's message.

OOC: what am i doing!?!?! i should be studying for my PSATs tomorrow!?!??

The Praetors didn't have long to wait for Emperor Masaki, for an aide told him about them. "If you'll excuse me, son, my friends..."

Andrew soon walked to the Praetors. "Hello. I see you are the delegates from -Noir-. What does the Magistrar Kenshin wish to say to me?"

The Praetors didn't have long to wait for Emperor Masaki, for an aide told him about them. "If you'll excuse me, son, my friends..."

Andrew soon walked to the Praetors. "Hello. I see you are the delegates from -Noir-. What does the Magistrar* Kenshin wish to say to me?"

"Hello Emperor Ma..." started Ambassador Davidson as he reached out his hand, but was cut off by Praetor Hikaru.

"Hi, Emperor Masaki, it's an honor to meet you..." said Praetor Hikaru as she took Masaki's hand into her own, while almost tripping as she 'jumped' forward.

"Ahem...Praetor Hikaru." rebuked Praetor Marks. "Good evening, Emperor, it has been sometime since we've met at the inauguration of Kenshin as Magister."

Marks reached his hand into his cloak and pulled out a small, thin, silvery disk like object and placed it on the nearby table.

"A message from Magister Kenshin." said Marks, who tapped the disk with his finger. The disk started to levitate several feet into the air and began to project a hologram image of Magister Kenshin onto the table.

Hello, Andrew, my good friend of many years. I am deeply grieved at the destruction of Juria, at the hands of the Sith, and I deeply apologize in not being there to help you with your loss.

I know that now is a time of urgency as the Sith, from what we can gather from our intelligence, is currently on the hunt for you and will not stop until you are eradicated. I also hear about the Sith threat known as the...Death Star, I believe, and its massive fire power that destroyed Juria.

I again apologize for my late reply to your predicament, but I come to you now...By message of course...With good news. The people at the UMN R&D department, Vector Industries, and Nergal Industries have been developing certain "things" that might be of interest of you and that might turn the tide against the Sith threat. I will do my best to try to get there, at Tenetia, to personally help you, and show you the new 'toys' we've got developed here...Hehe.

Now that the serious part is over...So...How's Daniel doing? Oh, and did he get the presents we got him for his birthday? Shoot...I have to go...Administrative stuff...Well...I'll try to get there ASAP. Later...

*Magister...could also be called Meister. Both meaning master.
Magister: Master, school teacher, Latin. (equivalent to sensei in Japanese)
Meister: Master, German.

OOC: someone tell me to stop posting...i gotta sleep...argh!?!?

The Death Star bust out of hyperspace now within the Corpsac homesystem, the aura of the dark side was present and filled the Space surrounding all upon the battlestation.

“Helm take us to the designated coordinates.”

“Yes Lord Vader”

OOC: CORPSAC HURRY UP

(OOC: would you SLOW DOWN! jesus i cant even get one post in im busy with school work and other things .. you guys are moveing to fast for me.. if you want good deep post from me you would ove much more slowly ill post when i get a chance to mabey later see ya)

“I know being a prisoner is asking for a tortuous death, yet but does not the ends justify the means? I am willing to take this risk, I have survived torture before, the Sith do not scare me, neither does death, for I have seen things so much worse. And I know if I can stay alive long enough for the strike team to launch their mission, I can escape.” He stated “Can any of you here say that you yourself would not risk your lives for such a worthy goal.?”

"You are a brave man. I respect that greatly. There are to few people out there that are willing to risk it all to end the sith attacks. I'm willing to do everything in my power to ensure that you make it out alive. Even if it means my own death."

OOC: Can't be helped, TFU.

IC:
Andrew smiled at the younger girl's energy. She'd be perfect for Daniel if she were a bit younger...

"Tell the Magister that I will love an audience with him when he has the time." Emperor Masaki said to the delegates. "Also tell him that Daniel..."

I moseyed over to see Kenshin's hologram. "Hey, tell Kenshin I'm fine, and I loved the presents he sent me. Say thanks for me, eh?"

"...is fine and healthy." Andrew finished as if nothing happened. You really shouldn't interrupt.

Yeah, well...

Ok...

(OOC: would you SLOW DOWN! jesus i cant even get one post in im busy with school work and other things .. you guys are moveing to fast for me.. if you want good deep post from me you would ove much more slowly ill post when i get a chance to mabey later see ya)
OOC: Basically, all hell broke loose, we won a battle, the Death star looms, we have captured a shuttle and uniforms, and my rep wants to talk to yours.

OCC:Actualy the shuttle was used as an explosive when the hyperdrive blew up. We're currently going to try finding a shuttle on it's way to the death star and hijack it I think.

OOC: Basically, all hell broke loose, we won a battle, the Death star looms, we have captured a shuttle and uniforms, and my rep wants to talk to yours.
OOC: The shuttle was destroyed in the explosion. We'll have to capture another, or a freighter.

OOC: Anyone mind if I RP the freighter being hijacked? I'll use the SSS (supersonic ship shatterer...basically a tazer plus a supersonic wave generator.)

(OOC i am so confused guys .. CM i think i missed your post sorry if i did btw CM do you have aim or yahoo or msn ? we should talk over I'M)

OOC: I don't use IM, just TG me over NS. All I want to do is sign a non-agression pact with you as well as a mutual-assistance pact for CW's defense.

OOC: @Sith: Is Palpatine interested in an ally who'll promise to backstab CoreWorlds? [[anyone who uses this IC-ly will get an immediate Ignore, especially because Alicia has no intention of backstabbing CoreWorlds.]]

Meanwhile, Alicia went into step-up, her eyes glazing over for a second, and a tremedous amount of data shunted between the WSGS Nox and the High King.

"Nox, you got the link up?

"Yes, ser. The Fishers are relaying."

"Right,[i] she lwaited, processing the datastream, [i]"Get ready for a databurst," she said, finally.

"Ready."

There was a pause that lasted a nanosecond. "Done," Alicia sent, finally.

"Roger, ser."

[i]"And send a shuttle,"

A second had passed to the world as Alicia came down from step-up, allowing her body to resynchronize with the normal flow of time. Her eyes snapped back to focus.

Emperor Masaki sent some aides to call all the people back around him, since he has an idea.

"M-m-master Elesto?" an aide called to him. Kartion swiveled around to face the aide.

"Yes?"

The aide, took a deep breath.

"The Emperor w-wishes you to come to a m-meeting he's about to hold, he has a err, another i-idea." the aide stuttered. Kartion grinned.

"Thank you aide, you may go."

The aide scurried away as Kartion got up.

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Kartion met up with Andrew.

"One of your aides said you had an idea? What is it?" Kartion asked.

The Star destroyers crew were alert and not foolish. The orders were, not to open the blast doors under any circumstances until more reinforcements could be summoned. After all, they couldn’t even if they wanted to, all controls had been routed to the bridge. In all reality the Star Destroyer was locked down. From all entrances to the deck Droidikas were forming up. Over one hundred would be ordered in to flush out and eradicate the intruders. Each one forming its shield bubble, armed its primary weapons. The atmosphere now reformed within the deck would allow the eradication of the intruders easily and quickly. The blast doors opening slowly would undoubtedly cause some concern for the enemies; after all they were now being hunted.

Upon the bridge all automated defensives were being brought online. The Captain was following all standard Imperial doctrine for this invasion, now for the slaughter. The blast doors opened would now allow the droids to flood into the deck, As they proceeded the bridge closed the blast doors. It would not be long until this situation was resolved.

OOC: Waits for everyone to come, gather around Emperor Masaki before posting the plan.

OOC: @Sith: Is Palpatine interested in an ally who'll promise to backstab CoreWorlds? [[anyone who uses this IC-ly will get an immediate Ignore, especially because Alicia has no intention of backstabbing CoreWorlds.]]

Meanwhile, Alicia went into step-up, her eyes glazing over for a second, and a tremedous amount of data shunted between the WSGS Nox and the High King.

"Nox, you got the link up?

"Yes, ser. The Fishers are relaying."

"Right,[i] she lwaited, processing the datastream, [i]"Get ready for a databurst," she said, finally.

"Ready."

There was a pause that lasted a nanosecond. "Done," Alicia sent, finally.

"Roger, ser."

[i]"And send a shuttle,"

A second had passed to the world as Alicia came down from step-up, allowing her body to resynchronize with the normal flow of time. Her eyes snapped back to focus.

The empire is interested in deliverance not promises. You must prove yourself before being considdered an ally.

Konas approached Emperor Andrew, and waited.

Eamonn was stood waiting, his arms at his side.

OOC:
@Sith: 'k, gotcha. Thanks. *kicks school compy lab*

Summoned by an aide, Alicia came to the growing pseudo-circle of delegates forming around Emperor Masaki. Interesting.....so the G12 was hiding something from me..... she mused inwardly. If the Group of Twelve, the consortium of great Weyrean phyles that were nations in and of themselves, was offering use of its facilities and its new shadowship designs......

The empire is interested in deliverance not promises. You must prove yourself before being considered an ally.

Just points to my Idea...food for thought.

IC: Arduous and Hawkins move closer to the emperor ready to hear his words. Arduous also just received a Comm. burst that the 1st raiders were beginning operation out side the Sith world of Ebaq. Perhaps they could capture a freighter/transport in that operation for use with the Strike mission...

OOC-Bout bloody time, Sith.
Damnit, I have one damn field trip to DC and then a doctor's appointment, AND YOU POST THREE PAGES!? Good thing nothing really major happened.

IC-
"They are not falling for the bait, Master 'Nosoolee."
"We have underestimated our enemies. Very well, use your explosives."

A pair of small blue orbs bounced down the hallway towards the guard. One of the orbs stuck to a guard's foot, and secreted a sticky plasma that adhered the ball to the boot permanently. The other one stuck to the bulkhead itself, and both began burning silver-blue as they began their detonation...
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Master Halcyon recieved the message from one of Masaki's aides, and bid his compatriots a short adieu before joining Masaki and the others.
"A plan have you?" inquired the Peacekeeper Master.

Secret IC to all but Sith and allies to Sith:
"A plan, I have." Andrew smirked. "I'm going to offer a message of surrender to Palpatine."

"WHAT?!" I asked, incredulous. "Surrender?! What kind of plan is that?"

OOC: Insert cries of exclamation from others here.

IC:
"I'm going to surrender as much of the fleet as possible, but I, myself, will take the Sovereign battlefleet to exile. Of course, any captain that doesn't surrender and flees is welcome to increase the fleet numbers." Andrew explained. "My plan is simple: I am going to be a nasty thorn in Palpatine's side, ordering hit-and-fade attacks, and basically restarting the Rebel Alliance of the old days. That is the best way that I can fight back."

Dad turned to me. "You are a good pilot, my son. I have seen you in action, and I want you to do something for me."

"What is it?"

"You are to pick the best pilots you know, and restart the one squadron that could possibly help win this war: Rogue Squadron."

"Rogue...Squadron...?" I remembered the amazing holovids of the exploits of Wedge Antilles, Tycho Celchu, Corran Horn, Gavin Darklighter, Jaina Solo and others. "Are you serious, Dad?"

Andrew grinned. "Dead serious. The Rogues will be instrumental in the infitration plan against the Death Star. Raid freighters with Sith army troops, take their names and uniforms, and then use them to infiltrate the Death Star."

"Man..." I said. "What a great plan..."

"Yeah." Andrew said. He turned to the delegates around him. "What do you guys think?"

Halcyon looked interested, but still had his doubts.
"Though my people were new to this galaxy around the time of your rebellion, we have heard of the exploits of Rogue Squadron. I know that my government would be willing to send you some of their fighters for your usage, and many of my own team are decent pilots. However, I am concerned about this surrender plan of yours. Who knows what Palpatine will do with the ships you surrender to him? What is to keep him from invading the rest of us? I mean, Tarsonis and Feazanthia Prime are most likely safe from the Death Star, but many outlying systems will be in grave peril."

Eamonn stayed silent for a moment. "Well I have no alternative plans," he admitted.

Halcyon looked interested, but still had his doubts.
"Though my people were new to this galaxy around the time of your rebellion, we have heard of the exploits of Rogue Squadron. I know that my government would be willing to send you some of their fighters for your usage, and many of my own team are decent pilots. However, I am concerned about this surrender plan of yours. Who knows what Palpatine will do with the ships you surrender to him? What is to keep him from invading the rest of us? I mean, Tarsonis and Feazanthia Prime are most likely safe from the Death Star, but many outlying systems will be in grave peril."
"It is risky, as many great plans are." Andrew admitted. "But it's important that we...I...do this to make the Sith believe that we truly have surrendered."

Eric was smirking. "If you need any pilots my sister and her squadren would love to help. Hell if you need to you can use several Phalanix outposts for staging areas. And since I speak for the entire relm of Phalanix I'm sure they are behind you everystep of the way."

Konas left out one burst of laughter. "I as well can reach my friends, Leader's Squadron and have them come in and help."

He looked at Andrew. "As for your problem Emperor Masaki, I only see one problem, that being the fact that its too perfect."

Konas left out one burst of laughter. "I as well can reach my friends, Leader's Squadron and have them come in and help."

He looked at Andrew. "As for your problem Emperor Masaki, I only see one problem, that being the fact that its too perfect."
"Meaning?" Andrew asked. "Don't worry about bursting my bubble. I can tweak it as needed."

"So what will you tell the sith when they ask where the rest of the fleet is? And also where will you go at first?"

"I'd say thats a pretty big hole in your plan," Eamonn mentioned.

"I am reminded of a great warrior nation on old earth, they had a history of being great and honorable warriors. However, in a long and costly war their infrastructure could no longer support the cost of the war, forced to surrender. Their Navy en route to the surrender point scuttled all there ships in sight of and under the guns of their enemy at a place called Scapa Flow, perhaps that is what you shall do to your navy, I shudder to think what the Sith would do with such fine ships." Arduous said.

"So what will you tell the sith when they ask where the rest of the fleet is? And also where will you go at first?"
"I will tell the Sith nothing, of course. And I was thinking of going to one of your nations to set up a government-in-exile..." His eyes trailed over the delegates and landed on Master Konas for a second.

"I am reminded of a great warrior nation on old earth, they had a history of being great and honorable warriors. However, in a long and costly war their infrastructure could no longer support the cost of the war, forced to surrender. Their Navy en route to the surrender point scuttled all there ships in sight of and under the guns of their enemy at a place called Scapa Flow, perhaps that is what you shall do to your navy, I shudder to think what the Sith would do with such fine ships." Arduous said.
"I'd not like to sacrifice troops and good captains that way." Andrew sighed. "It is risky, all right. But it can be done if carefully prepared."

"Perhaps a lockdown of the main systems - the weapons, sublight and faster-than-light engines, and computer files? A Feazanthian A.I. would be able to encrypt them sufficiently to provide a one-to-thirty-five thousand and six possibility that the Sith would be able to crack even one of the ships' computer systems."

Admiral Karath walked up to the Masakis, leaving the datapads on the TFU rep's desk. On them were some non-agression pacts and mutual assistance pact. The Admiral saw the Masakis talking about surrender and said, "You know, you never asked about our military industrial capabilities. We have 2000 space docks that can create a Star Destroyer in eight months. Each one uses replicating devices and AI controlled construction.Your credit is enough and we could 'loan' you some Asguard motherships. I don't believe that you'll lose."

Admiral Karath walked up to the Masakis, leaving the datapads on the TFU rep's desk. On them were some non-agression pacts and mutual assistance pact. The Admiral saw the Masakis talking about surrender and said, "You know, you never asked about our military industrial capabilities. We have 2000 space docks that can create a Star Destroyer in eight months. Each one uses replicating devices and AI controlled construction.Your credit is enough and we could 'loan' you some Asguard motherships. I don't believe that you'll lose."
"I know." Andrew smiled. "It does help that I have good allies to work my rebellion with."

Admiral Karath looked up to Andrew, "I hope you know, we can make Star Destroyers by the thousands within two years. All of it free of charge if we get a small colony."

"Also if you wish. You can use the Reach orbital shipyards for repairs. And since every pilot and trooper in Phalanix loves a good fight you can at anytime call in one of the several RDF forces that are constantly in the fold dimension. If needed they can remove a crippled ship in a matter of minutes and have it at an outpost or space dock for repairs while the crew can relax. That and the AEN Hell Striker that is currently orbiting will go with you if you want. That way you'd always have a way to cominucate with the RDF forces."

Admiral Karath looked up to Andrew, "I hope you know, we can make Star Destroyers by the thousands within two years. All of it free of charge if we get a small colony."
Andrew raised an eyebrow in disbelief. "You know how much material actually gets into a Star Destroyer? I don't believe you could make thousands in just two years. It took a long time to build ours, and we only had about 1200 of all types of Star Destroyers at our naval height."

"Thank you, Erik. No doubt your help would be instrumental in the plan."

"Heh you should see project Quake. If the war drags out seven years you might have the most powerful weapon in Phalanix at your side. That and Reach will always be a safe haven for you and your people. The fact that they have two of the smaller planets converted into litteraly gun planets and two asteroid belts with so many turrets that even the sith would have a hard time attacking it," Eric said with a smirk at the thought of the project being completed.

"We know. We have replication technology and nanite construction. We also have a few mines on asteroids around our home colonies. We can build 2000 every eight months. Mind you that the speed to make them will most likely destroy the docks. I'm just stating what is possible, but not safe."

"Oh, in that case, I suggest you do such things more quiet-like. Maybe a couple dozen per year." The Emperor said. "There is the problem of crewing them, but droids do help..."

"Very well. May I also suggest an AI that only requires a skeleton crew for the ship?"

"Very well. May I also suggest an AI that only requires a skeleton crew for the ship?"
"Yeah, that can be possible. We don't rely too much on AI, of course, but it will help."

"Just wondering but what kind of AI? Becasue if needed Phalanix is willing to offer up some of the class S AI and even some Overlord ones for fighter controll."

"Very well. We shall produce you only about ten per month, with the AI installed. The AI is codenamed CORTANA. It will take care of vital functions such as life support, engineering, security, travel, and detection systems."

"Meaning?" Andrew asked. "Don't worry about bursting my bubble. I can tweak it as needed."
"Meaning that the problem is, is that it seems to good to be true, but in fact, nothing is perfect," Konas said. "It will be a matter of time before flaws show up. Its too perfect, therefore its not good enough. Making it appear that you surrendered, suprise attacks. Many things could go wrong in the attacks; betrayers, so forth and so on."

He looked around at the others. "I am a mere Jedi Master, I cannot chose actions that will decide the fate of billions. I can give my words though. The best thing to do is attack as quick as possible, but as we do so catch them off guard. Guerilla warfare may work with small bands of soldiers on ground, but with fleets in space it gets more complicated."

"That's where I come in, Master." I said. "Capships are useful for when you want heavy punches and things like that. However, there are times when you need speed more than power. By becoming little more than pirates in the eyes of the Sith Empire, we can sting them and hurt them just as badly as if we used an overwhelming fleet. Overconfidence was Palpatine's downfall once. It can be so again, if done right."

"Very well. We shall produce you only about ten per month, with the AI installed. The AI is codenamed CORTANA. It will take care of vital functions such as life support, engineering, security, travel, and detection systems."
"That will be fine. For now, I shall leave you all to implement your plans." Andrew said. "Oh, Konas, you wanted to tell me something before, right?"

Konas was looking at the ceiling when the question was asked.

"Huh? Oh yeah," he said remembering. "Well, since all you folk here, except you guys," He said looking at those from Feaz(and I don't know the rest). "You heard how the sith diplomat, while acting big and tough, said that if all Jedi left CoreWorlds, the Sith would leave it alone, for the most part at least. I beleive that, if we, have all the Jedi leave CoreWorlds in different directions, to planets that have refugee treaties with Techon, they could board ships as refugees and come to Techon. Where they lay low for a while, until the Sith don't expect it, and we come back in a suprise attack."

"That is a wise strategy Emperor. Already elements of my own Navy have begun such strikes in Sith Controlled territory. Hopefully these operation will continue indefinitely making it hard for the Sith to supply their fleets and colonies."

"We are fighting a goliath here, we shant fight him toe-to-toe right off the bat, no we need to blind him, cripple him, tire him out, then go in for the kill."
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"But how long would that be, Konas?" Eamonn asked.

Konas was looking at the ceiling when the question was asked.

"Huh? Oh yeah," he said remembering. "Well, since all you folk here, except you guys," He said looking at those from Feaz(and I don't know the rest). "You heard how the sith diplomat, while acting big and tough, said that if all Jedi left CoreWorlds, the Sith would leave it alone, for the most part at least. I beleive that, if we, have all the Jedi leave CoreWorlds in different directions, to planets that have refugee treaties with Techon, they could board ships as refugees and come to Techon. Where they lay low for a while, until the Sith don't expect it, and we come back in a suprise attack."
Andrew snapped his fingers. "Perfect. Just what I need to keep 'em overconfident. You're a lifesaver, Konas."

Finally, my father turned to me one last time, father-to-son. "Daniel. Be careful when you go out there and don't get reckless. It will be some time before we see each other again, but know this. The Force be with you, always."

"And with you, Dad." We embraced and Andrew instructed Rocky the R2 unit to take care of me in battle. I swept away some tears coming from my eyes.

"I now leave you people to refine your plans. Take care of yourselves. May the Force be with you all." With a swish of his cloak, Andrew left to take a personal shuttle to the Sovereign battlefleet, somewhere in deep space.

OOC: Probably the last time you guys will see Emperor Masaki, other than Secret IC and all that, until the attack on the Death Star.

Hawkins considered the flight of the Jedi into a self imposed exile he considered his options, he figured it would provide the perfect lull in the war in which he could be at least a part of his training as a padawan.

Arduous looked at the crowd one last time also.
“I too must return to my fleet and lead the fleet into battle. I will stay long enough for Hawkins here to gather his belongings, but I understand that he is to be trained in the ways of the Jedi, and by whom? “

"By me, personally." Master Elendil said, walking past. "Mr. Hawkins, I formally offer you an apprenticeship under me. If accepted, I will give you as much basic Force and lightsaber training as you need."

"I shall remain here to protect you, Prince Masaki. My people must return to the Empire, but shall return soon. Where shall this Rogue Squadron be assembling? I must know so that our fighters and pilots may be delivered. I may also be able to get my hands on a carrier for servicing."

The other Peacekeepers began disappearing in rings of light. The A.I. in Halcyon's headset spoke up.
"What're you doing? You're a Peacekeeper Master! Your men need you!"
"These people need me more."

"I accept your training Master Elendil. I just need to collect a few things from the flagship and I shall be ready to travel, with your permission i shall gather them." Hawkins said.

The previously unspoken LAC commander moved to where Daniel was standing, the young man still contemplating the departure of his father.

"E-Excuse me? she asked him, when he acknowledged her she continued "My name is Commander Lucy Liao of the Commonwealth Navy Light Attack Craft Service. I'd like to offer my support to the squadron you are assembling, I've always wanted to fly one of your peoples X-Wings, we have an interceptor similar to it in the home system im sure i can adapt to it quickly enough." she told him excitably.

"Hmm." I thought about it for a minute, then pulled up a holomap of the galaxy. "Let's assemble...here."

A small colony far from the Sith borders, Vortex is a planet full of heavy winds every day.

"I've been there before. It's pretty safe, for now." I said.

"I accept your training Master Elendil. I just need to collect a few things from the flagship and I shall be ready to travel, with your permission i shall gather them." Hawkins said.

"Go ahead. I'm not stopping you." Master Elendil said.

The previously unspoken LAC commander moved to where Daniel was standing, the young man still contemplating the departure of his father.

"E-Excuse me? she asked him, when he acknowledged her she continued "My name is Commander Lucy Liao of the Commonwealth Navy Light Attack Craft Service. I'd like to offer my support to the squadron you are assembling, I've always wanted to fly one of your peoples X-Wings, we have an interceptor similar to it in the home system im sure i can adapt to it quickly enough." she told him excitably.
"Er, ok." I said, smiling a bit nervously. "I'll have you trained up in a simulator, first. I think there's one around here somewhere..."
"Sir?" A soldier snapped a salute, and I returned it. Gotta get used to that. "There's one at the common room for the pilots."
"Well, then. There you go!" I smiled.

"Hmm." I thought about it for a minute, then pulled up a holomap of the galaxy. "Let's assemble...here."

A small colony far from the Sith borders, Vortex is a planet full of heavy winds every day.

"I've been there before. It's pretty safe, for now." I said.
Admiral Karath, about to shove off, says, "Is that where you want delivery of the ships?"

"Yup. To Vortex we shall go!" I said, then went red as my stomach growled. "But first, some dinner, heh."

Hawkins left the flagship and returned with an extremely large foot locker with his personal effects ready to do what was need next, be it dinner or whatever.
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Laio headed in the direction of the simulators as she was excited to learn how to use an x-wing, it couldnt be much different from the Tomcat Interceptors of the WIckian Navy...

"Ok, ma'am. It shouldn't be that hard to play a sim." The freckled young man smiled. "Kinda like a video game, but much more realistic. There's a tutorial, but I'll tell you the basics."

Fred showed the woman what the cockpit looks like. It's not much different from others, but with a couple extra buttons and switches than may be familiar.

"The Incom T-65D X-wing is our most common interceptor-starfighter. You'll find it just about everywhere you go, even in pirate fleets. It's a rugged craft, able to take a couple hits because of it's shields and titanium hull. When you get yours, it'll be assigned a astromech droid so it could help you make repairs and plot hyperspace jumps."

"The X-wings have four laser cannons on their wingtips that can be fired two at a time for rapid-fire, or all at once for precision shots. It also carries six proton torpedos in two launchers. You getting this all right?"

I headed to the large cafetaria, and filled my plate with a banthaburger and fries, and took some Coke to drink before going to the sim room to test my own skillz.

Kartion watched The Emperor leave.

Good luck old friend... he sent through the Force. SHaking his head, he turned and left for the cafeteria.

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Kartion caught sight of Daniel. Sighing, he went over to his table.

"This seat taken little dude?" Kartion asked.

"No, Kartion. It's empty." I said, swallowing a piece of bantha.

"Great." Kartion said. Pulling out the chair, he sat opposite Daniel.

"So Daniel, how's it been since I took a ULOA?" Kartion asked.

I smirked, held up 3 and a half fries, and then ate them.

Kartion grinned.

I guess he doesn't blame me after all... Kartion thought. Sighing, he looked at Daniel.

"I heard you were starting Rogue Squadron, any chance of me getting in?" Kartion asked.

"Sure, if you can fly well." I said, slurping up some Coke. "I'm going to test the pilots as they come in. I do need to decide the scenario..."

"Hmm..." Kartion thought for a second.

"Perhaps we could have a wargame. I've got my entire fleet up there...soo...how about this. Three ISD's, with a full complement of TIE's and a few...ahem...D-wings. And we go up against them. It's be a good scenario, and one we're likely to encounter often when the surrender goes through."

"You really love the D-wings, eh?" I asked. "That sounds cool. Oh, and the TIEs are shielded."

"Why would they be shielded?"

"Encountered 'em during the attack on Juria. It took a couple more shots than usual to kill 'em." I said.

"Hmm...that shouldn't be a problem. Okay then, we're going to play the wargame using 'Tag!' rules."

"That'll be fine." I said.

I finished my meal and replaced the plate in the shelf where dirty plates go. "I'm going to test a newbie pilot or two. Wanna watch? And then after, we can do the wargame."

Kartion shrugged. "Sure."

The two of us headed to the sim room...

Laio nodded her understanding of the I.O's brief instructions, it all seemed fairly routine so far...

"In that case, the Ocean Fleet will not leave Paradigm," Alicia said, when the plan to 'surrender' was proposed. "I can't promise much, not now. Weyr has always been a haven for outlaws, and you will always be welcome there, even if it isn't apparent." Even if the entire CoreWorlds fleet shows up there one day and asks for protection.

CoreWorlds surrendering? Perhaps it was a good plan. Perhaps the Emperor or his allies would take up her offer of using the extensive Paradigm facilities. With the two magi'i, she took the newly-come Weyrean shuttle to the Nox.

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"Tienetia Station, this is the WSGS Nox, going outbound on the following vectors...please be advised. came the message from the Nox and its escorts.

Four vessels redlined their drives on the outskirts of Tenetia, and the universe inverted for a single moment in time.

****

"How was it, ser?" Admiral Masato Igarashii Storm asked on the Net as the four vessels, the Nox among them, slingshot around the Paradigm system.

"Cancel the dispatch orders. We'll keep the Ocean Fleet on alert, however. What's your best assault wing?" Alicia sent back. "I'm fine, Mouse."

"Er...Third Striker," Storm responded, confused. "They're attached to the Gray Corps. Hell, the entire Corps is a raidership command."

"Tell them to get ready for deployment. Get the new Shadows onto the Sith supply routes. We'll hit them where it hurts."

"Aye, ser," the Admiral replied immediately. If he found the orders strange, then he did not show it.

"Did the COuncil declare war on the Sith?" Alicia asked next.

"No ser, they're not even debating it, yet."

"Good. How's everything on your end?"

"The Shadow translated into an incoming freighter; fried scanners on a dozen ships and shut down every fusactor around the Core. Nothing major, we were not near Starhavven. Most of the fleet's here, anyway. Grumbling....." Mouse continued with his report, as the Nox began on its approach to Starhavven.

Laio nodded her understanding of the I.O's brief instructions, it all seemed fairly routine so far...
"Good. Now we do have a range of scenarios for you to choose from, all gleaned from actual battle footage. Which one would you like?"

Eric's smik began to fade slowly as he walked towards his fighter. Fortunatly the blast didn't damage any of the munitions or else it to would have exploded. As he walked around it he dragged a finger across it dragging off the dirt slowly exposing the black phoenix design on it's gun pod. He stopped and climbed up on the wing and sat down leaning agianst the body of the fighter and sighed. He clsoed his eyes and began remembering his "heroics" during the second civil war. The worst war he had been in...

In orbit the Hell Striker was back on condition green (no alert status.) "Sir we relocated comander Lancer and he is fine. Shall I stop the launch?" "Yes do it. If Eric needs us he'll let us know...."

IC: Kartion hums the Imperial March.

OOC: Badly disguised BuMp!

Konas walked around the ship for the next few hours, wondering what to do, then suddenly he remembered Leader's Squadron, a non-government affiliated squadron. He was good friends with the Leader of the group, who coincidentally, was named Aaron Leader. There was a total of twenty-two members in the squadron listed as so.

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Name: Ship:
Aaron Leader (human) E1
Alonzo Flores (human) E1
Philip Hirzel (human) E1
Adam Rosselit (human) E1

Colin Walthour (human) X2
Justin Halker (human) X2
Jorgan Blared (zabrak) X2

Tabitha Tousley (human) Y-Wing
Evani Coursin (twilek) Y-Wing

Bill Mathews (Human) X-Wing
Kasset Wouth (Bothan) X-Wing

Sarah Conn (human) A-Wing
Curlisto Harting (Zabrak) 7-95 Headhunter

Zell Torgad (Rodian) B-Wing
U'Tell Surfurk (Rodian) B-Wing

Tim Jenkins (human) Snoop (X-Wing)

Maria (human) Backrunner Pilot
Sagaem (human) Backrunner Captain
Vinn (human) Backrunner Gunner
Keith Black (human) Backrunner Gunner
Tenned Doring (Mon Calamari) Backrunner Gunner
Ebald Tog (Laquin) Backrunner Mechanic

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After trying five times, he finally got in contact with them. They would fly to the planet Talin in the Alsair system, he would from there take them wherever they needed to be. In the meantime they needed to get all Jedi out of CoreWorlds and to Techon.

Halcyon happened upon the sim room and decided to dip in. He sat himself down in one of the cockpits and took a gander at the odd controls.
"What do you make of this, Ramada?"
"Odd indeed. I think I can interface with it. Hold on." Her voice disappeared and soon returned. "That stick there controls movement along the X, Y, and Z axes. The trigger fires the main blasters, while the button on top fires the missile weapons. I'll highlight any of the controls that you'll need to use when the time comes. They obviously didn't make these things with A.I. in mind."

Laio who already was an experience pilot, a bloodied Veteran of the Battle of Thetis was sure she would pick up how the X-wing flew quickly enough after the tutorial. The most difficult thing for pilots to develop was a sense of situational awareness, and if she hadn’t developed that she would have been died long ago...One particular mission peaked her interest. She noted that it was often used as the scenario to determine weather candidate would be accepted as a Rouge.

"Sir, I would like the Redemption Scenario." She chose confidently.

"Ahh. A fine choice." Based on defending the corvette Redemption against a Star Destroyer and it's compliment of TIEs, it's an easy yet still challenging choice for new pilots. Basically, the Destroyer hung back while wave after wave of TIEs came, making it a challenge to have the corvette survive. "In you go."

I slipped into another simulator and smirked as I picked the same scenario, but as the enemy. Might as well pick the bad guy today.

OOC: New thread here: The Empire Strikes Back! (http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=365276)
Set one week after this one.

Master Halcyon programmed the same scenario into the simulator and immediately found himself in the void of space.
"Grenada, missile situation."
"Eight proton torpedoes, two launch tubes. Can be set to launch in single or double bursts."
"Lock on?"
"Looks damn inefficient, but you should be able to knock some of them out."
Halcyon locked a torpedo onto an approaching TIE and let loose.
"That should even the odds."
He powered the X-Wing forward and engaged the TIEs with the lasers.

OCC:If anyone wants to talk to Eric he is in the hanger sitting on his fighter. And I've got my drivers to study for so I'll be posting less.

After trying five times, he finally got in contact with them. They would fly to the planet Talin in the Alsair system, he would from there take them wherever they needed to be. In the meantime they needed to get all Jedi out of CoreWorlds and to Techon.
Most of the Jedi have already left the nation, as well as all the initiates. A few stealthy ones have stayed, of course, to help what they can.

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In the meantime, I played one of the enemy TIEs, an Interceptor, feeling around for the other pilots. I fought and killed one of the CPU X-wings, then searched for another...

I smiled, as the sim control showed it was Laio. Let's see how good are you...

As I tracked and locked on Laio, I let loose a volley of my quad-laser cannons at the X-wing.

"Don't worry, I've got you Liao."
Torroth pulled in behind the interceptor, locking on with another proton torpedo and firing.

OCC:If anyone wants to talk to Eric he is in the hanger sitting on his fighter. And I've got my drivers to study for so I'll be posting less.
"Commander Lancer?" a Sergeant said. "If you're not busy, the pilots are at the simulator room. If you want, I'll take you there."

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Deedledeedledeedledeedle....

"Crap." A proton torp locked on me. I jinked hard to break the lock, and then 'dove' sharply as it fired. The torpedo missed, and I 'rose' to target the guy who almost did me in.

Halcyon closed the S-foils of his X-wing and dove, coming back up beneath the interceptor and letting loose with all four laser cannons.
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Meanwhile, a carrier was en-route to the station. On board was Feazanthia's addition to Rogue Squadron.

"Huh? Sure..," Eric said as he hopped down from the wing and walked over to the Sergeant. "Lead the way."

"Whoa!" I narrowly missed the red laser cannons and looped 'up' to attack the foe on his back with my green lasers.

"Huh? Sure..," Eric said as he hopped down from the wing and walked over to the Sergeant. "Lead the way."
The sergeant lead him to the simulator room, where several pilots have already started fighting. There is a faint smell of ozone from all the sims running, but that is normal.

Eric looked aorund the room and smirked. He always loved watching a dogfight even mroe watching a good one to. "Almost like the ready room back home..." he said to himself.

I broke off the attack long enough to try and go after that first X-wing I targeted. Soon, I found her, and locked on. Blazing green bolts lanced out at Liao, surprising her, I hoped.

Eric looked aorund the room and smirked. He always loved watching a dogfight even mroe watching a good one to. "Almost like the ready room back home..." he said to himself.
"There's still a couple empty." The sergeant said and pointed.

Laio heard the shriek of her R2 droid as Daniels bolts struck her rear shielding how ever she made no effort to avoid any few bolts besides reinforcing the shields, she only turned the nose of the ship a few degrees, Other then that the craft remained "Flying" in a relatively straight line.

"No thanks. I'd rather watch. Besides the only fighter that I realy can fly is the VBR-2. And that thing for any tie would be one hell of a fight."

Laio heard the shriek of her R2 droid as Daniels bolts struck her rear shielding how ever she made no effort to avoid any few bolts besides reinforcing the shields, she only turned the nose of the ship a few degrees, Other then that the craft remained "Flying" in a relatively straight line.
Hmm. She's good. I lined up behind her, and tried to batter down her shields before I veer off.

Laio could not see the Tie behind her as her eyes were glued to her targeting computer, who ever she could still "feel" it back there stalking her. It was not the sort of power or sense a Jedi would have but rather the sense of the situation developing in her mind of the battlefield. She figured she would last no more then fifteen more seconds flying this straight and slow, but that was more then enough time, she had a lock on her target.

"RED 1, Fox 1" she stated as her craft shuddered as the first torpedo left its tube, she adjusted her sights picking a second target no more then two seconds later "Fox 2" she said as a second torpedo headed towards a second Tie bomber, again another pause, her craft shook more violently as more laser bolts impacted on it "Fox 3" she said calmly over the horrendous protests of her R2 unit, one bolt penetrated her now non-existent shields hitting her top portside engine wrecking it another bolt grazed her s-foil. However her plan was complete three proton torpedoes now raced for the three Tie bombers lining up in formation to finish the Redemption off, it was a race in all likelihood they would not win.

Laio slammed the throttle of her craft to its maximum and pulled hard back and left with the joystick, spinning the craft up words rotating madly to avoid the TIE fighters Lasers. Hopefully losing the pilot in her violent maneuver, but she had a feeling he was still back there.

She is good. I thought, when her shots took two down, bursting them into flame. but not good enough!

Knowing she's crippled, I moved in to finish her off with a good shot before veering off to attack the corvette.

He's close...she thought of the TIE following her moving in to kill her, he’s real good too, but I’m not out of it yet. She paused another second sure the TIE behind her moved even closer to in that time to ensure a perfect kill committing himself.

Laio then pulled back completely on the throttle rapidly ceasing any forward acceleration as she slowed she noticed the TIE move if front of her and she snapped of a couple shots at it before she resumed acceleration again, if her plan worked the TIE be dead by her snap shots or in front of her.

"Wha--?" I saw the fighter suddenly slow, and I had no choice but to overshoot or risk a collision. "Gaah!"

I banked sharply, and only by the Force did I manage to get a light scorch mark on my fighter's wing. "Man, she is good! She almost killed me!"

A couple of CPU TIEs saw their 'leader' getting hurt and decided to pursue the enemy pilot, giving me time to accelerate and break away.

"Sheesh. If I didn't know better, I'd think she was Force-sensitive." I muttered. But the corvette was still there, and I had to kill it in order to win the battle...

But there was still one Force sensitive out there, and he knew what Daniel was doing. As he broke away, Torroth's X-wing began attacking head on with all four laser barrels and a pair of torpedoes.
"I know it's you, Masaki. Not even our sims are that good."

Laio watched from a distance as Masaki and her ally in the sim dueled, she knew as they closed that there was a good possibility that only one would emerge from the pass...she also had a feeling that it would be Daniel he seemed to have a talent, what her Instructor at flight school called the "touch".

Yet, while the Feaz pilot and Masaki dueled she maneuvered to finish of the final two bombers making a final run on the Corvette with a couple proton torpedoes, she was along side the Corvette looking for more targets when she noticed Masaki's TIE approaching on an attack run.

Kartion watched the sim unfold.

"Jeez, that kid has come a long way..."

Sighing, he leant on a chair, and watched the viewscreen.

Eric was leaning against the wall in the room hidden in the shadows slightly. "Hmm I wonder how one of them might hold up against a VBR-2 or a Pulsar," he said to himself. He knew that the VBR-2 wasn't sheilded but it made up for that in firepower and also with the pilot's skill.

But there was still one Force sensitive out there, and he knew what Daniel was doing. As he broke away, Torroth's X-wing began attacking head on with all four laser barrels and a pair of torpedoes.
"I know it's you, Masaki. Not even our sims are that good."
Yikes! A game of chicken! Everyone knew that TIEs are bad at this thing, since they don't have shields. So I immediately broke off the head-on assault, the proton torpedoes following me.

Thinking fast, I smiled and led the proton torps on an attack run with the corvette. Frendly fire's a bitch, ain't it?

As the torpedos tracked closer, I sprayed the corvette with a couple laser bolts, then sharply rose over the hull, allowing the proton torpedos to hit and cause much damage.

Hah! Someone needs to pay me good credits. I grinned as the simulator showed the corvette starting to break up...

"Son of a Vagrant Whore!" Laio swore as she saw the corvette destroyed. What was he thinking using such powerful weapons in such close proximity to such fragile vessel, who they were supposed to be protecting!

A lack of situational awareness is what she chalked this up to, but Masaki as good as he is, luck has just run out. As he maneuvered above the corvette he traveled right across the prow of her ship, Laio quickly yawed in behind him and her reticule turned green with a lock as she depressed her trigger send four lasers at the deadly TIE fighter.

"Waaa!" I was hit by the sudden blast of laser cannons and the fighter blew up around me. Then two words appeared on the screen: GAME OVER.

I pulled off the VR helmet and pulled myself out of the simulator. "Man...that was a tough one. I wonder who finally beat me..."

"Laio kid. It was Laio, but great job." Kartion said, pointing the the Corvette.

"Yes very impressive was of taking out the corvette," Eric said as he moved slightly in the shadows, "It'd be fairly interesting to see what you would do with a sheilded tie."

"Thanks, Kartion and Eric." I'm glad I picked her to be part of my squadron... "In a couple minutes, I'm going to test your skills in there. One-on-one duel in the Hoth asteroid belt."

"Either that, or we can replay the Battle of Yavin." I added with a grin.

Eric smirked. He had been doing some reading before on the Battle of Yavin as well as the Battle of Hoth. He recalled the images of one of the space probes they sent into the feild in a bet and remembered how fast it was destroyed by the feild.

"Yavin kiddo, with the Star and Two ISD's thrown in, okay?" Kartion said.

I grinned. "You got it. Wanna join, Eric? Most enemies killed wins."

"Heh, the Star counts as a Million kills technically, for all the crew and stuff."

"I know that. I meant TIEs and stuff." I said.

"Sure. Just wondering but what will we pilot?" Eric said as he walked voer to a empty sim unit and leaned agianst it and streched his arms. "Hope that the fighters can handel augmented reflexes."

OOC:
http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=359776&page=13&pp=20
This thread will tell you all you need to know.

IC:
Tenetia, Coreworlds
"Ladies and gentlebeings of the Galaxy." Governor John Ryan reported over the CWHNN. "Sometime within the last hour, the Death Star has appeared over our capital planet of Juria...and destroyed it completely. It is not known at this time if the Royal Family and Jedi Council has managed to escape, but we assume the worst."

"A probe droid managed to capture the destruction of the planet...and all is left is an asteroid belt."

"Nations of the galaxy...our nation is in peril. Our government has fallen. Our population is halved. Our fleets are desperate for a victory. My friends, we must rise up against the Sith, who have done this terrible deed. The Imperial Republic of Coreworlds now asks for your aid, in whatever way you can. But one thing is clear: The Sith will stop at nothing to destroy or enslave us all! Either we stand together now, stand strong and face this threat with bravery and determination, or the Galaxy will fall to them! There is no other choice, no other path to travel!"

"I call upon all the members of this interstellar community to help us defeat the Sith, no matter who you are, no matter if we are allies or not! This threat will and must be defeated, for our sake, for our children's sake, and for the sake of the Force! The fate of the universe now rests in your hands! Come, and draw your swords against our common enemy! No matter how long it takes, no matter how hard it will be, we shall defeat them!"


OOC:*In Homer SImpson voice* "Woohoo!Big war!"
Oh,right.Tag!

"Sure. Just wondering but what will we pilot?" Eric said as he walked voer to a empty sim unit and leaned agianst it and streched his arms. "Hope that the fighters can handel augmented reflexes."
"Either X-wings or Y-wings." I said. "I'd recommend the X-wing, since Y-wings are pretty slow, even though they're strong."

"X-Wings Eric. We'll be flying as a trio, so lets watch each other's asses." Kartion said, heading over to the Sim console.

"Yes I know. Y-Wings are more or less designed as heavy bombers while the X-wing is more of an interceptor. I guess I'll take the X-wing. Just better give me a minute to get use to the controls since I've only piloted two things. A VBR-2 and a Eagle class dropship." Eric smirked as he steped into one fo the sim units and began to look it over.

"Heh, I'll load up a target sim, and then the Yavin sim will five minutes after, okay?" Kartion asked, his hands pausing on the console.

Eamonn finally made it to joining the others in the sim room to see what they were up to.

"Sure ok. Just don't get in my line of fire," Eric said with a laugh as he streched his hands and started to get the feel for the controlls.

I hopped back in my cockpit, and replaced my VR helmet on my head, ready for the next sim.

"Okay, loading...in 5..." Kartion started, before running to another X-Wing pit, strapping himself in, and putting on his helmet."

"2..."

Eric straped on his helmet and clsoed the exit to the sim unit and smirked. AS the sim loaded up Eric lookd over the controlls. He was a quick learner and loved a new chalange. As soon as it was fully loaded Eric fired a laser blast by acident into empty space. "Heh so thats the laser."

"Sure, why not," Eamonn shrugged. "Just need to go over the basics."

"Yup, that's the lasers kiddo, and here they come...!" Kartion said. In front of them, red wire frame Tie's appeared in swarms, and bore down on them...

"Fire!!!" Kartion shouted. Even though this was just training, kartion wanted to vape some targets. Rolling and grabbing the trigger, he hit five targets in succession.

"Ah, back in the X-wing." I smirked, as I blasted away at a couple of wire-TIEs for target practice before the actual sim.

Laio now watched the three others participate in the Yavin sim, it was her turn to watch.

Kartion was vaping them by the dozen. Grinning, he hit the afterburners, and plowed through a group of Ties. Grinning, he dodged some laser fire, before turning and regrouping with Daniel.

"Two minutes kiddo, lets vape some more before we hit the DS..."

OOC: The WIck, we're not on Yavin yet, give us a couple of mins.

Eric smirked as he suddenly unleased a hell sotrm of lasers at the ties. Insted of normaly brekaing off he increased power to the engins and roared forewards towards the ties firing until he neared them and he broke off.

"How about we test the mind link?" I suggested as I destroyed yet another TIE. "Before the two minutes is up?"

"Okay then kiddo. My mind is open...now." Kartion said. Closing his eyes, he removes the force barriers from his mind.

Through the Force, I had my mind join with his. Now, it seemed like we knew each other's every moves and actions.

"Lets go kick some wire frame ass kiddo!"

"Yeah!" We pursued a couple of TIEs and I took the one on the left.

*Switching to 1st person*

IC: I took the one on the right. Grinning, I targetted the right wing, and set the fire settings to Quad. With a *beep!* I fired, until I realised the beep was the timer. I watched the lasers hit spectacularly, before my ship entered hyperspace...

Eamonn sat back and watched the action on the screen.

As my TIE died, I, too heard the timer beep, and entered hyperspace. Hyperspace is a blue-purple tunnel between two points in space. The color is blue because of the Doppler shift. Soon, we reached near the point we need to be, and the stars became more white than blue, and in streaks. The streaks turned to points of light, and then we were at the Yavin system.

A timer (30 minutes) appeared as the Death Star loomed with two Star Destroyers, spitting out wave after wave of TIEs...

"Okay guys, form up on me, pattern Delta Echo 5-5-5. Daniel, set you lasers for twin fire, Eric, switch to quads, I'm using single fire. And set shields double front at all times, and good luck." I said. I switched to single fire, and then watched my scope as the swarms of Tie's slowly approached...

"Right." I set my lasers for twin-shots, shields double-front and got ready to fight. "Here we go!"

My red lasers blazed the sky in front of me as I attacked the first few TIEs, their lasers nibbling at my own shields.

"Afermitive," Eric said as he flicked the sheild lever to the front and diverted a small fraction of his engin pwoer to his lasers as he set them to quad firing. He started opening fire on the ties firing as fast as the lasers would go picking off several ties as he did.

OOC: kept where they are vauge becasue i do not know. He went off with Master Elendil when they fleed the CW other then that i dont know...

Sgt. Hawkins, actually it would just be Kevin now since he was detached from the marines to start his Jedi training under Master Elendil. He stood in the middle of a circular empty room dressed only in the green and grey skin suit of the WIckian Marines, out of years of habit of it being his primary uniform he found it hard to give up. The Jedi asked to meet him in the empty room so he stood and awaited his arrival.

Its been roughly two hours now and he was growing impatient, he was wondering where the Jedi could be. Calming himself he decided to listen to the young Daniel Masaki’s words and become one with the moment, his breathing steady he closed his eyes concentrated on locating the Jedi. He over heard the jedi saying they could feel each others presence so that’s what he concentrated on finding. It did not take long he could sense he was just standing outside the doors.

OOC:I'm really sorry I'm late, I can only login after school these days.

IC: The RS fleet came out of warp in the Teretia system. The collective Dominion space force consisting of:
2500 War Cruisers
500 Ravan class capital ships
1 Republic class Universe Cruiser Saving Grace

OOC2: I'll briefly go into each, if you're really curious, go to the Rise of the Sith thread and check more detailed stats there or TG me.
War Cruiser Bio:
650 meters long
120 meters wide
50 meters tall
Heavy shielding, two feet of uridium-cased armor
20 phaserbanks, 10 quantum torpedo tubes w/ autoloader

Ravan class bio:
5 km long
2 km wide
1.5 km tall
Incredibly heavy dual-layer shielding
150 heavy automatic turbolaser turrets

Republic class bio:
40 km tall
20 km wide
10 km long
5 feet of pressure-treated, stress tested, uridium encased dura-armor
500 turbolaser turrets, one massive subspace-ionic pulse cannon (really big forward gun)

IC: Piett:This is Piett to Teretia, I assume we're making a stand here? If so, good, I have been yearning for the day my former masters grovel in fear. We are also to recieve a reinforcement group of 500 War Cruisers and one Ravan to make up for the losses suffered from the Doom fleet. That may not seem like much, but as you know our ships are extremely resilient. We hope this will help forward the efforts against the Sith.