Pre ANH Roleplay: The Start!!!

[Mad78]

Merick watched from the Vic's bridge the tunnel of hyperspace disappear and let place to the Fondor system. A telecommunication arrived from the shipyards.

"VSD alpha 34 beta. What are your orders?" said a voice comin from the communicator.

"This is commander milay. We have been attacked by a rebel ambush. I have received authorisation from General Moztay for repairs."

There was no sound while the technician checked the information.

"You have permission to dock at shipyard D45 T9."

"Thank you."

The VSD slowly set a course for the location.

"Call the commando and ask if they are ready." ordered Merick

A colonel called Page had volunnterred to lead the commandos.

"Commandos ready for launch Sir"

"How long to target position?" asked Merick

"30 seconds Sir"

"launch once in position."

Slowly the Vsd passed one of the Golan defense stations.

"5, 4, 3, 2, 1, LAUNCH!"

A part of the nose of the VSD blew up spreading debris all over. The radio imedialtly came to life.

"Alpha 34 beta! What just happened?!"

"Sorry controle. Slight cooling system problem."

"Right now hurry to dock and make repairs."

Little did the controle know that this incident was only a pretext to launch transports camouflaged as debris towards the surface of the planet and the computer. The VSD slowly came in to dock.

"Now crew stay calm will the Imperials repair our ship. Try to act imperial. Let's let Page do his work."

 

4 hours later

 

"Damn! My speeder crashed again!"

The message had on the bridge the effect of a bomb

"Prepare us to leave. Place any imperial personnel under arrest and lock them up. Prepare the assault commandos. General Hechtman. Prepare your fighters you are going to have to esacort the commandos who are leaving the planet and protect the escaping ships." said Merick.

"Sir the diversion vessel has just left its course and is charging towards its target."

Merick watched as the ISD collided with one of the shipyards. The explosion damaged many ships and instalation surrounding the area.

"Launch assault transports and get us out of here. Hechtman it's up to you now."

[ADarkJedi44]

Green squadron came out of hyperspace at the head of the Rebel fleet. As the capitol ships came out of hyperspace, they began pouring out Z-95s and Y-wings. By the stolen ships were begining to move and were heading towards the nearest hyperspace jump point. Quite an impressive grab...

Also the Imperials had realized what was happening. Everything the Imperials had was being thrown at the captured ships, but their temporary distracion with the shipyard would hopefully prove to be fatal. The defensive platforms and capitol ships in the area would not be able to cause any significant damage in time. However, the TIEs could prove to be problomatic. Imperial gunboats and ground attack TIEs were converging on the ships, with plenty of escorts. Let's see what these fighters can do...

"Okay all squadrons you know what to do. Lets take out those TIEs."

A few moments later both of the sides collided. The X-wings were the first one to engage and the TIEs they were up against were no match. The X-wings outperformed them in every way possible. Green squadron chewed through group after group.

They scattered the TIEs and the Z-95s following Green squadron finished off the surviving TIEs. Evan then peeled off to strike at another wave of TIEs. Green squadron followed, ready for another slaughter.

Using superior manuvering the X-wings prevented any serious damage. Then they were upon the TIEs again, with one pull of the trigger a TIE would blow apart. The TIEs were clearly unprepared for this new fighter and even when they hit once or twice the shields absorbed the damage. As Green squadron tore through the TIE fighters they found an undefended squadron of gunboats.

"Launch proton torpedoes!"

The entire squadron was soon redouced to floating debris. Evan saw a group of TIEs on his radar. He turned to saw them passing him and heading towards the captured ships. They were already being attacked by Z-95s and Green squadrons attacked from behind destroyed all the ground attack TIEs and soon forced the fighters to resort to desperate evasion manuvers. Seperated, the Z-95s picked them off one by one.

More and more TIEs continued to launch but the captured ships were clearly escaping. Gunships and corvettes were now covering them from fighters. Green squadron and all the other Rebel fighter moved towards the capitol ships before they were overwhelmed, destroying any groups of TIEs in their path. Green squadron anihilated any group of TIEs that attempted to stop them.

"All fighters return to your capitol ships. Destroy any TIEs in your path."

Within a few moments the fleet was safely in hyperspace. The Imperials were clearly unprepared and that was obviously the key factor. A few moments more and the fleet might have been wipped out. I wonder how helpful our new ships will be...

[Mad78]

The rebel fleet exited hyperspace around the Sullust system. Merick was amazed by their capture. He had expected to capture about 3 ships before having to flee. He would never have dreamed to catch 8 ISDs. The X-Wings were clearly up to the notch. The scientists had insisted to watch the encounter fdrom the bridge and seemed very pleased with themselves. Merick congratulated them as he left the bridge. What he wanted to do was say well done to the General for his flying. When he arrived to the hangar the general was no where to be seen.

"Where is general Hechtman?" he asked a officer

"He has left to inspect the new ships Sir."

"Get me a shuttle."

"Imediatly Sir."

A few minutes later Merick was flying in the direction of one of the ISDs. He couldn't help feeling nervous as long as he wasn't on board.

Once they had landed in the Hangar he saw the General talking with a technician.

"Hello General."

[ADarkJedi44]

OOC: 8 ISDS?!?!?!? That's a little too much....let me modify it a little....

Evan turned to face the Merick.

"Hello Commander, your plan was most excellant. Not only did your X-wings work perfectly, but we managed to steal 8 ships! Five ISDs, a strike cruiser, a frigate and a Victory class! Had you not been recently promoted to commander I would promote you know, but I guess you'll have to wait a little longer," Evan said smiling and obviously very excited.

He continued,

"As you can see this ship is has been very well kept. She's near completion and all we'll have to do is a little touch up. The same with our otehr seven bags. The effects off this assault will come as a HUGE blow to the Empire. We stole from one of their most defended shipyards eight powerful ships. Well anyways feel free to look around. This particular ISD is bound for another Rebel base so we're heading back to hyperspace for a while.

Merick smiled and began to reply....

[Mad78]

"Thank you General. But I believe this will also force the Empire to start taking us seriously. Your job of raiding convoys may get slightly harder. I actually wanted to congratulate you and your squadron for the great work you did of getting us out of there. I must also say that you have a person from High command waiting to talk with you in the telecommunication room. I will be on the bridge if you need me." with that Merick walked towards the turbolifts. He entered the lift and pressed the button for the bridge. This was far better than the old corvette on which he served, if only his farther could see him.

 

OOC: Now it's your turn to find a scenario

[ADarkJedi44]

Evan walked onto the bridge to find a holo of Mon Mothma waiting for him.

"Ah General Hechtman. I want to congratulate you on your excellant job at Fondor, the victory far outweighs any other we have had. I think we have found you a suitable next target, although we'll have to wait until some of the captured ships are ready to attack, but I shall brief you anyways..."

 

A few months later....

 

Evan sat in the briefing room of the ISD Valiant. He knew the strike Mon Mothma had told had told him of a while back was now about to be put in motion. Admiral Helos stood up and began to speak:

"We have found a suitable target for our new ships."

An image of a world appeared, Denab.

"This is Denab, home of an Imperial naval base. The fleet there is four victory class star destroyers. This would be an impossible challenge for the Alliance a few months ago, but not so now...."

 

OOC: I got your scenario for you...-

[Mad78]

Merick watched the darkness of space throught the bridge window of the Strike cruiser General Hechtman had offered him the command of after The Fondor Gambit. These few months had permitted Merick to replace the front and rear quad-laser turrets by 5 very powerful tractor beams, 10 Ion cannons that he stole from a ISD and 20 Turbolaser turrets. He had even manged to fit an extra squadron in the hangar by making it bigger.

"Sir." said the telecommunication officer "General Hechtman wishes you to join him on the Valiant."

"Tell him I'm on my wqay. And then contact the Hangar and tell them to prepare a shuttle."

20 minutes later Merick's shuttle entered the hangar of the ISD valiant.

A lieutenant guided Merick to the tactical room. Standing in front of a holo projection was Hechtman and man that Merick did not recognise. Merick saluted.

 

OOC: What do you think of the name I found for the precedent scenario. "The Fondor Gambit"

[ADarkJedi44]

OOC: It describes the situation well.

 

"Commander this is Admiral Helos. We have a....well I'll let him tell you while you're here."

The Admiral nodded and wasted no time in begining:

"Commander for your part in the Fondor operation and your latest raiding operations we have decided to promote you to Lieutenant Colonel. However, we will deal with that formally after are latest operation is complete. Due to the fact that you were busy with raiding operations, you missed the official briefign for the mission, but General Hechtman has insisted you be apart of it."

A holographic image of Denab was once again lit up. Soon the naval base too apeared.

"This is Denab....."

 

***

The Rebel fleet came out of hyperspace around the Denab system....

[Mad78]

Am I to understand that I must hink up the hole thing?

[Mad78]

Am I to understand that I must hink up the hole thing?

[ADarkJedi44]

OOC: Ermm hink up? I was just intending for you to start the battle...

[Mad78]

OOC: Sure. And please don't mind but I am going to introduce a CC-7700.

 

The tactical display suddenly lit up. The green and blue orb of Denab appeared. Surrounding it were no less than about 15 ISDs that were starting to launch fighters.

"What is this!" shouted the Admiral "Our intelligence announced 5 ISD 3 victories. It's a trap."

"Admiral I shall make my squadron take off imediatly" shouted Hechtman as he started running towards the door

"Wait Gneral. Navigator can we calculate an escape route?" asked the Admiral in to the Commlink.

"Negative Sir. A ship is creating a kind of gravitationnal anomaly which stopps us from calculating a hyperspace course... Sir! Ties in range in 1 minute."

"Tell the fleet to dive throught the imperial fleet and head for the moon. And tell all disponible bombers to aim for the ship that is blocking us." ordered Merick

"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING!" shouted the Admiral

"Saving the fleet sir. Hechtman it's up to you and your squadrons to escort the bombers. May the force be with you."

 

 

OOC: This is not the end of the battle just keep on until we are in the middle of the ennemy fleet

[ADarkJedi44]

OOC: 15 ISDS? Well here we go...

 

The Alliance fleet of three ISDS, two victories, two dreadnoughts, a frigate, a strike crusier and eight corvettes began pouring out fighters. Admiral Helos looked desperatly at the situation. The Imperial fleet greatly outgunned him but it was thinly spread, it was divided into three groups. One in the center, and one on both flanks. Seven ISDS were in the center group guarding the interdictor. Four ISDS with two carracks were on the left and Four ISDS with a strike cruiser were on the right.

"Let's move quickly. Dive through the right flank and make sure the other groups don't have time to jump onto us while we're occupied. Ok here are my order to the fighters, begin transmiting now..."

 

***

Evan quickly look over the orders before the dogfight began. All Z-95 squadrons sole worry was the TIEs. Green squadron was to surpress the TIEs, then escort Gold squadron to destroy the interdictor. The rest of the Y-wings would escort the fleet in their daring manuver by surpressing all Imperial capitol ships. Perhaps we can turn the tables on this trap...

Twenty two squadrons of Z-95s followed Green squadron. Seven squadrons of Y-wings were also following. The Alliance had amassed almost all their strength in hopes of destroying the Imperials around Denab painlessly. Here we go...

"All modified Z-95s and Green squadron launch your concussion missles and proton torpedoes."

The wave or warheads did precisely what it was intended to do. Many carefully organized groups of TIEs were forced to scatter. A few attempted to stay coming straight on and paid the price.

"Hunt them relentlessly! Finish them off!"

Green squadron dived down and destroyed as many TIEs as they could. The TIEs never fully recovered from the first blow and the Rebel corvettes destroyed any attempts to reorganize. Within a few moments the TIEs remaining TIEs retreated and joined the nexd wave.....[/i]

[Mad78]

The Rebel fleet slowly arrived into firing range of the imperials. The imperials opened fire with all their cannons. A corvette was desintegrated imediatly the others started manoeuvering to avoid the fire from the ships.

Tha admiral seemed to be in quite a nervous state. Certainly not one in which to command the fleet.

"To all ships. try to pass under the ISDs to avoid their Ion cannons. And aim for the Hangar bay. Engage them at point blank range."

The fleet started maneouvering. The ISDs and stronger ships created a perimeter to protect the weaker ones and then the hole fleet charged towards the Interdictor. The Imperials had clearly not thought the rebels would go for such strategies and manoeuvred in total confusion. The two dreadnought passed under one of the Isd and consertrated their fire on the hangar bay. The shields of the bay collapsed leaving it unprotected. The dreadnoughts's fire set alight the bombs and missiles of a gt tie squadron causing heavy damage to the inside of the ISD. Its turrets continued firing for a few moments before its powersource failed and it started plummeting towards the planet. One of the strike cruiser exploded under the fire of the Valiant.

"How long till we comme in range with the gravitation ship?" asked Merick

"45 seconds Sir."

There it was. It looked like a kind of rectangle with some turrets disposed on it. it had two wings with 4 strange circular objects on them.

"Tell all ship to target the vessel and open fire."

The entire fleet opened fire on to the ship. Its shields only held for a few moments before collapsing. The ship blew up a few seconds later.

"Navigator use the planets gravity to accelerate and get us out of here¨" ordered Merick

[ADarkJedi44]

OOC: Ok a little recap of the battle here......Well it's pretty long

 

The battle had been saved. The Rebel fleet's offensive had nearly become a total disaster, but now it could almost be called a victory. It had been saved only by the tactical genious of Merick and Helos, Imperial overconfidence, and individual valiancy. Somehow the Alliance fleet had escaped without terrible damage.

The Alliance casulties were a victory, a frigate and four corvettes in addition to almost every other ship being damaged. The Imperials had lost 2 ISDS, a carrack, a strike cruiser and an interdictor in addition to a few ISDS being damaged. The Imperial fighter force had been devestated. Many Rebel fighters had been lost but they had clearly won in that area.

So how had the Rebels won? The Imperial's had underestimated the Rebel Z-95s. Put in the hands of experianced Rebel pilots the TIEs, andled by well trained yet green Imperial pilots, stood no chance. Green squadrons X-wings had been murder to the TIEs. The Imperial fighters had come in waves, they had underestimated the amount of Rebel fighters.

The Imperial fleet had been relativly thinly spread. That and the manuvering of the Rebel fleet prevented the Imperials to bring enough fire power on the Rebels to anihilate them. Lastily, the Y-wings had performed excellently. Their proton torpedoes had damaged ISDs, destroyed one and surpressed others.

Clearly Alliance operations would now be slowed down and more cautious. As the ships were repaired Evan would likely be assigned back to routine raiding operations, but one day the Alliance would return over Denab.....and anihilate the Imperial forces there.

OOC: Ok Mad it would nice to get someone else to do something now but I guess we'll have to figure out some other scenario.

[Mad78]

Merick watched as his crew members repaired the very damaged bridge of the Strike cruiser. Two mortally hit TIEs had crashed into the ship causing heavy damage. This second in command had been killed and a large amount of the bridge crew was or dead or wounded. The remanants were commanding the ship from the auxillary bridge. Merick's comlink bipped.

"Ioor."

"Sir. A telecommunication from HQ for you in the holo room."

Merick left the damaged bridge to take the turbolift to the telecommunication room. He entered the room to see a picture of Jan Dodonna who was the leader of the rebel fleet. Merick saluted.

"At ease Ioor. I have a mission for you. I sought of you after reading the account of the Denab encounter. The Emire is now developping, according to intelegence, a new fighter bomber. We need to get more info. You are to raid the laboratory. We know we can not stop the developpement but we need to know more about this fighter."

"Why can the commandos not do the job?"

"Simply because the laboratory is on a ship which moves from system to system. I have assigned General Hechtman's fleet to help you in your mission. They are waiting on orbit of Sullust. May the Force be with You."

The telecommunication ended. For the moment Merick had to contact Hechtman.

[ADarkJedi44]

OOC: TIE bombers?

 

Evan sat in his room when suddenly his comm beeped.

 

"Merick is that you?"

"Yes, sir."

"Ok we're here in orbit around the Sullust system. We're not going to be leaving for a while. We still have many holes in our intelligence and need to wait for further reports from our agents. Get here ASAP though, you can complete repairs here."

"Yes, sir my strike cruiser will arrive in four days."

 

***

 

A powerful fleet was amassed in the Sullust system. Two dreadnoughts, six corvettes, two ISDS, and a Vic. Most of the ships were still damaged from the last encounter and completing repairs. Personel were busy at work patching up the ships in preperation for the next encounter. General Hechtman stood in the hangar of the Valiant, overseeing last prepares. As he watched, a young ensign ran towards him.

"Sir the strike cruiser we've been expecting has arrived."

"Ah yes, Merick is here at last, prepare our staff for the briefing...."

[Mad78]

Merick entered the Valiant's briefing room. Hechtman and his commanding staff were already waiting.

"Hello General. I shall be bref. The Empire is in the process of developping a new type of bombing fighter. We have had the mission to raid the laboratories. The reason is that the ship is aboard a ship that keeps on moving from system to system. We have to find it stop it escaping and steal information. I actually thought that stealing one of the ships the Empire used to block us during the Denab encounter could be of great utility. What do you think?"

Edited June 18, 2004 by Mad78

[ADarkJedi44]

OOC: Denab encounter rather, but it is of no importance.

 

Evan nodded.

"Naturally we'll need more than we have. Finding it will take a while and without one of those ships there is no way we can capture it. The ship should be decently guarded. Its guards would protect it while it made for hyperspace, way before we could capture it. How would we be able to find on of those ships though? I don't think we can try to raid another shipyard and they appear to be rare. Considering they're rare, they're bound to be heavily protected....

[Mad78]

"I thought of that. One of those ships, escorted by two ISDs, is going to pass by Nar Shadda before joining the third fleet. This is where we are going to strike. Your fighters shall land on Nar Shadda and wait for the ennemi fleet to arrive. When it arrives you shall take off with some commandos. You are to escort the transport to the Interdictor ship. The reste of the fleet will then arrive to give you support."

[ADarkJedi44]

Using a favor or two and some shady business, Green squadron, a squad of Z-95s and the transports had be slipped into a hangar on the surface. Evan had only a little time to brief and prepare his pilots, the timetable before the ship would pass by had been very short. Despite their short preperation time, Evan knew his pilots would do their job. Here was a chance to inflict a a decent blow upon the Empire.

 

***

 

The time had arrived. The intelligence had been very exact about the time when the ship would arrive and Green and Gold squadrons now went through their final launch preperations.

"Ok, here we go. Everyone launch, the ships will be here in a few moments."

Sure enough, moments after the Rebel ships launched, the three Imperial ships were there. Evan quickly transmitted the cordinates to Admiral Helos. This new manuver will work perfectly...

The massive ships began to launch their TIEs and moved on. They had no fear of a few Rebel fighters.

"Rebel scum, surrender now or be anihilated."

Evan laughed silently, then he saw how close the first wave of TIEs was.

"Ok men, here they come. Be ready."

Suddenly the Rebel fleet came out of hyperspace on top of the Imperial fleet. The interdictor ship had brought them out right there. The Rebel fleet hugely outgunned the Imperials and they were already launching fighters and openning fire on the unprepared ISDs. Oh we'll see who's anihilated....

[Mad78]

Merick smilled as the Imperial Commander surrendered. He was right. No need to shed blood when the battle was lost. Now they had the Interdictor and 2 new ISDs. It was time to capture the Laboratory ship. He called the Valliant asking Hechtman to join him on his Strike cruiser. Twenty minutes later the General's X-Wing docked in the cruiser's hangar bay. A few moments later him and the General entered the briefing room.

"Now that we have the Interdictor. It is time to caprure our prey. Our intelligence has noted a few facts about the ship's movements." He pressed a button a holographic representation of the sector appeared.

"The ship is never more than 10 parsecs away from an Imperial outpost and it never visits a system twice its next destination should be Corellia or Vagran."

[ADarkJedi44]

The Alliance fleet sat in orbit around Vagran, awaiting their prey. The two captured ISDs had been sent back to Sullust, where new crews would be found and trained. Both were nearly undamaged, so they would be in action soon. The Alliance fleet now had eight star destroyers, seven of them being the huge ISDS.

The ship came out of hyperspace with its escorts. Four corvettes, two VSDs, two strike cruisers and a frigate traveled with it. The Rebel fleet immediatly began launching fighters and the interdictor ship quickly got its systems on line.

The Imperial fleet looked like it was going to defiantly attack for a moment, but, realizing the odds, it quickly turned around and tried to run. It was all for naught and the fleet once again turned around and began pouring out fighters. They were outnumbered in all repects but clearly these Imperials weren't going to surrender.

[Mad78]

OOC: Let's not make the victory too easy.

 

The Imperial ships turned round and charged towards the asteroid field of the second planet. The rebel fleet followed them, destroying the ones who weren't fast enough. Merick watched from the bridge of his Strike cruiser as a corvette was destroyed by the guns of the Valiant. It was too easy. Why didn't they try and destroy the Interdictor. As the enemy fleet arrived at the brim of the asteroids Merick nderstood.

"Helos turn the fleet around! It's a trap!"

Before the Admiral even had the time to answer. A slash of green light hit the bridge of the Valiant. Turbolasers were hidden in the Asteroid field.

"To all ships. Abandon the pursuit and pick your fighters as you pass." ordered Merick. The Turbolasers continued firing. Destroying a corvette.

Another ship blew before the fleet jumped to Hyperspace.

[ADarkJedi44]

And so they had lost. Casulty wise they had not, but they had been pushed back. The Imperials had lost their fighters, their corvettes and a single VSD. The Rebels had merely lost two corvettes.

Surely the Rebels would now be hunted by larger task foces. Certainly the Imperials would deploy more ships to help their lab ship. Certainly the Imperials would change its path through the galaxy. Certainly the Rebels would have to retreat.

Evan sat in the briefing room. He was terribly unhappy. Admiral Helos began to speak....

 

OOC: Sorry didn't have a lot of time