Pre ANH Roleplay: The Start!!!

[ADarkJedi44]

OOC: Where on earth is Scath?!

 

IC:

Admiral Helos stood on the bridge of the Pride, in awe for a moment by what he saw. He wasn't stunned for a while though, he knew what to do.

"Sir we're reciving a distress signal from a Rebel corvette, it states they are taking up escape pods.

"Ok it appears the Imps have found out one of our bases. Get the alarms on, alert the other ships and launch fighters. Shields up and open fire on the carrack and the dreadnought. Send two of our corvettes and green squadron to secure those escape pods and the area around them. Everyone else on those two Imperial ships and their fighters. Plot us a course to the nearest Rebel outpost and be prepared to leave. Get the Vic out of here, she's useless. Do this all quickly, lets get a move on!"

***

 

"Green squadron's away!"

 

"Ok men we have to clear a path for those two corvettes and save our comrades before the rest of the Imperial fleet pounces on us. Lets give the Imperial's some hell for destroying one of our outposts!"

The Imperials, too, were clearly stunned. Their two capitol ships were taking a pound and were clearly doomed. The carrack, which was the first concentration of fire, suddenly explode. unable to take the concentration of fire. The Y-wings were about to take the dreadnought out and the other three squadrons of Z-95s were slaughtering the scattered TIEs.

The corvettes Green squadron was escorting were dealing with most of the TIEs threatening them and all Green squadron really did was look pretty. Eight TIEs escorting five ground attack TIEs moved to attack the corvettes, this time a real threat.

"Ok move to intercept."

Green squadron peeled off and attacked the TIEs with a vengeance. Aggresive fighting prevented them from organizing. Another group of underexperianced pilots... They tried to stay together, but Evan's pilots were clearly superior in every way. The shields of the Z-95s prevented the TIEs from doing enough damages. The remaining TIEs scattered in every direction, but Evan decided not to pursue.

"Ok back to our corvettes, do not pursue, I repeat do not pursue."

Within a few moments Green squad was back with the corvettes as they finished picking up the last escape pod.

"This is the Pride we're leaving now, too may Imperials to wait around. We've destroyed the Imperials in the immediate area and are transmitting cordinates to the nearest base now. To victory!"

Green squadron and the two corvettes could not stick around either, Imperials were also advancing on them.

"Ok we're out of here..."

 

OOC:Ok Mad do what you want now.

[Mad78]

The Escape pod that Merick was sharing with the Navigator and one of the Scientists shook as it was taken in to a tractor. Merick watched as the escape pod was tracted in to the Hangar of one of the Corvettes and was deposited on the floor of the Hangar. A few seconds later the door of the Pod was opened by a naval soldier. When he saw Merick's badge he said

"Were you the captain of the Corvette?"

"The Captain was killed. I took over command."

"Follow me please" said the soldier.

Merick followed him and heard the sound of the motors change. The ship had jumped in to Hyperspace. A few minutes later he arrived on to the bridge of the Corvette. Standing facing in the middle was a man. Seeing General gallons on his sleve, Merick saluted.

"Major Ioor reporting Sir."

"At ease Commander. (Commander! That was a pretty rapid promotion.) For what reason were you in the middle of a swarm of Ties with a damaged Corvette?" asked the General.

"We are carrying vital information Sir. A group of Scientists has just changed sides and is proposing us the plans of a new Starfighter if we give them a new identity. The meeting was taking place on Mon Calamari. The inperial fleet exited Hyperspace and tried to capture us. We managed to escape after sustaining heavy damage. When we arrived to Umgul we hide in the Asteroid field to repair but we were detected and attacked and then you arrived." answered Merick.

[ADarkJedi44]

OOC:Anyone else going to join in?

 

IC:

For a moment Evan silently thought over what he had just been told. It seemed a little much, but it was belivable. Also, being a General in charge of fighters, hearing of a new fighter naturally intrested him. What could it be?

"Well commander it sounds like you've had a rough time. I have a few more questions before you can take some time to relax. Who are the scientists, do you know anything about the starfighter, and do you need any help?"

As Evan finished, he smiled.

[Mad78]

"Sorry Sir." answered Merick slightly embarassed "The Scientist's Shuttle had just landed when we were attacked and then.. Well I have had to survey the repairs on the Ship. All I know is that this fighter will be a great improvement compared to the Z-95. But I do know that the plans for this starfighter must be brought as quickly as possible to the Rebel HQ. We can not permit the Imperials to recuperate these plans."

The General eyed him for a moment before saying.

"Right. Tell all scientists to join us in the conference room in two hours for the debriefing."

[ADarkJedi44]

Evan sat down in his chair as the others filled in the meetings room. The two hours he had taken to rest had helped him very much, but he still felt over worked. Surely he would get a decent rest.

He had yet to report this new development to high command yet, waiting for more information to be gathered. This should be intresting...

"The commander here has told me you have plans for a new starfighter..."

This drew nods from many of the scientists. Evan eyed the one who seemed to be the leader.

"Well what can this fighter do?"

[Mad78]

The Scientist got up and inserted a data card into the slot of his console. A holographic representation of the fighter. It looked a bit like a Z-95 exept that it had four wings and that its nose was longer and straighter. An R2 unit could be seen behind the cockpit and a laser canon was fixed at the end of each wing.

"This is the T65 X-Wing codename Raven. It is a amelioration of the the Z-65. It is armed with 4 laser canons and a proton torpedoe launcher is fixed under the cockpit. It has a Hyperdrive and is just about capable of matching the speed of a Tie fighter."

Merick was astonished. The information was the kind that could win the war!

[ADarkJedi44]

Evan looked at the image, even more surprised then he thought he would be. A fighter capable of wiping out TIEs and attacking capitol? With a hyperdrive making it capable of groups of it striking with hit and run missions alone? A thousand questions raced through his mind. High command needs to be told of this!

"Well how do we go about getting some of these?"

[Mad78]

BTW We really need somebody to play the Scientists!

[ADarkJedi44]

OOC: Well Mad since you're the one leading me through, I guess you should.

[Mad78]

Okay if you insist.

 

The Scientist suddenly seemed a bit less confident.

"Well that is the only problem. We know that it is possible to mass produce but unless you entirely convert a factory I don't see how. And it would surely cost a lot in ressources."

Merick knew it. There was always a disadvantage with new inventions.

"But I must add." said the chief Scientist "All the people who came with me are fully trained engineers and I guess that if we take a few pieces from your Z-95s w should be capable of constructing a complete squadron of X-Wings if not more."

 

BTW I guess you wren't expecting that were you

[ADarkJedi44]

OOC: Okies but no "mass production" of X-wings for a while.

 

IC:

 

Another pleasant surprise...

Well I'd be mosted pleased if you could convert at least Green squadron into this new fighter. We'd be glad to test it out and see if its fit for an attempt at mass production. Before I inform hq of this, may I ask what your price is?

[Mad78]

As we said before all we want are new identities. To be riden of the Empire for the rest of the war. Does that sound okay.

[ADarkJedi44]

"That is fine, although I belive Merick would be in charge of that." He pointed to the commander. "Now lets get to work shall we?"

[Mad78]

Merick turned towards the General.

"Good General. As you know my crew and I are stranded without a ship. Now you will surely agree that these plans a crucial information that must be bourght to the HQ as soon as possible. But understand that it will not be much use if we are uncapable of defending ourselves if attacked and agree that it is not with 3 corvettes and 2 dreadnoughts that we shall have an effective defense. But if we manage to repair the victory destroyer... I know a man who directs a hole section of the Fondor shipyards. Now he owes me a "little" service. Now I think this should be our first stop considering that hauling this wreck about has absolutely no utility. And with that I am sure that the rebellion would need a bit of that sort of firepower. So what do you think?"

[ADarkJedi44]

"Fondor? Isn't that an Imperial shipyard? Besides the ship isn't that damaged the Alliance has the tools to repair it. As for heading for the HQ, that's where we're taking the Vic now. Like I said, there will be sufficent facilities to repair it there. Once we get there, you will have to talk to high command itself, for the information on this fighter is radical."

[Mad78]

Okay on which planet is located the HQ? And should I be affected to a different ship than this one?

[ADarkJedi44]

OOC: Mad try to make your posts a little longer.

 

IC:

 

Evan smiled.

"Despite the valuable information you give us, I cannot tell your where our HQ is located. We'll be there soon enough, you can stay on the corvette. She'll take us the whole way, but lets get back to your friend."

Evan had an idea forming in his mind, one that could bring even more firepower to the alliance.

"You say he owns part of the Fondor shipyards?"

[Mad78]

Merick was starting to understand what the general meant.

"Computer. System Fondor. planet 4."

The lights dimmed and the holographic projector projected the image of the Fondor system. It then zoomed on to its forth planet.

"highlight shipyards alpha 3 to gamma 5."

Little blue shapes representing the different shipyards started orbiting the hologram a large about a third of the nothen equator was highlighted in red.

"During my very short career as a smuggler, before I entered the Imperial academy, I found some very compromising information about the govenor of this area of the shipyards. He would surely do anything to retrieve it including giving us acces to any area of his zone. You may also be interested to hear that most of the ships who exit the shipyards are remotely controlled by a computer. To avoid collisions."

[ADarkJedi44]

"Well commander, we'll discuss this more later. I am very intrested though, High Command will definatly want to hear about that too."

A few ships would help a lot indeed...

"We should get some rest now, we'll be arriving at the base soon enough. All of you will need to do quite a lot of discussing so I recommend being prepared."

With that he left the room, flashing a last smile at Merick.

 

OOC:

[Mad78]

A lieutenant escorted Merick to his cabin.

"If you need anything just use the interphone." said the Lieutenant will saluting.

"Thank you very much. Could you please call me when we arrive at the HQ?" asked Merick

"Of course Sir. Good night."

"Good night Lieutenant"

The officer turned round and walked away. Merick entered his cabin. It was quite big compared to what he was used to. A clean uniform was waiting on the bed. But first he wanted to have a shower.

An hour later he exited the bathroom clean and ready for action. But for the moment he neede some rest. He programmed the room's computer to wake him in 6 hours and fell asleep trying to imagine what ship he would be affected to next.

 

6 hours later the computer turned on the bedrooms lights to wake Merick. He got up. A bit of sleep had done him some good. He tried on the clean uniform. A perfect fit. He was just about to exit the bedroom when the sound of the corvette's engines changed. He walked at a rapid pace towards the bridge. When he entered the bridge the General was gazing in to space.

"Hello" said "Is this it?"

[ADarkJedi44]

"Yes this is our base of operations. I hope you're ready, you're going to have quite a lot of work to do. The Fondor idea is most intresting, it would doubtless panic the Imperials. Get your scientists together."

 

"Ok I'll be right back," Merick said and left the room.

 

A few moments later, he returned with his group of scientists. Evan turned to look at them.

 

"We're about to dock with the large spacestation in orbit. The members of Alliance High Command are waiting. I've told them of what we discussed, but they'll have to hear it from you themselves."

 

OOC: Ok Mad take us through the whole meetings unless ya really need me

[Mad78]

Merick watched the green and blue orb around which the ship was orbiting. The computer of the ship had identified the planet as Dantoine. Six giant Golan defense stations were rotating the planet. These stations had been modified so that they could be rapidly moved a bit like tha rest of the Rebel administration.

The corvette slowly docked at one of the stations. Merick, the General and the Scientists were welcomed by ten armed naval soldiers with a colonel.

"Please follow me." said the officer

The soldiers surrounded the group in a escort formation. They crossed three halls full of greenery and multiple corridors before arriving in front of a blast door with two soldiers guarding it. The doors slowly opened to reveal a totally white room. In the middle was a round table with four people seated at it. The first on the right was a male Mon Calamari with brown skin that he reconised as being Admiral Ackbar, the leader of the rebel fleet. To his right was a tall man with grey with a kind but serious face, that was Bail Organa, the diplomat from Alderaan. Next to him was a tall woman with brown hair and a long white dress. That was Mon Mothma the leader of the Alliance. And next to her was a man with a white beard and white hair. That looked like Jan Dodonna, one of the leading Generals in the alliance.

Mon Mothma got up.

"Welcome." she said with a big smile on her "I believe you have some interesting news for us." The group seated themselves and the meating began.

 

An hour later the group came out. The scientists had got the permissionto create a experimental squadron of X-Wings for the Corvette and the Counsil had also demanded that Merick and the General study a possible plan for Fondor. The two of them walked towards the tactical operations room. On the way Merick turned towards the General and asked

"By the way you haven't yet told me your name."

 

OOC:I am going to be absent for 5 6 days so please excuse any delays in the story

[ADarkJedi44]

OOC: Then lets do a lot today!

 

IC:

"General Evan Hechtman. I'm in charge of fighter operations in the Alliance's first strike group. It's been some hard work. Apparantly you have had a tough time also. Although I'd love to take a rest now, we need to get right back to work. That Vic needs to be repaired, Green squadron needs to be modified to X-wings and we need to plan out the idea for Fondor. So how shall we go about this?"

[Mad78]

Merick watched the holographique representation of Fodor turn slowly above the table. Hundreds of little red dots represented the defenses of the shipyards.

"As I already told you. The new ships are first directed on autopilot to the mon base where the crew will board, this of course to avoid a colision due to a human error. Now if we could program a ship to collide with one of the shipyards we could cause anought confusion to have the time to steal a few ships." Merick paused to let Hechtman analyse the plan.

"How could we modifie the ship's course?" asked the general

"I was thinking of using a computer virus. We could also use the the virus to order several other ships to jump into hyperspace to a place where our commandos could take controle of the ships. The only problem would be to insert the virus into the system. We can only give such orders from the main computer which is located on the surface of the planet and is very well protected. We will have to use commandos. We can acces the planet by using the damaged Vic. We could bring it there demanding repairs.

What do you think of that for a plan? And I must add that your x-wings would be of great utility to cover the ships's retreat."

[ADarkJedi44]

"Ok so let me get out plan straight to make sure I heard correctly. The vic jumps in to bring in the commandos. The commandos go in and tamper with the computer. One of the ships collides with one of the shipyards due to the work of the commandos.

Chaos engulfs the scene and the commandos get out of there. Transprots arrive and take a few ships. As the captured ships begin to flee, the rest of the Alliance fleet jumps in and fends of the Imperials."

This plan is extremly audacious, but if we can pull it off.....

"Well commander its an all or nothing situation. I do belive that the Empire is going to be absolutly shocked, therefore we have a chance at pulling this off. If we suceed, the benifits would be beyond words..."

 

OOC: Okay get us started. My X-wings are ready to get tested.