Pre ANH Roleplay: The Start!!!

[ADarkJedi44]

OOC: Mad introduced one earlier and we captured one earlier so who cares? The entire world of Star Wars will not die a horrible death is we go a little off the timeline.

[Mad78]

Merick gazed through the bay of the Chronicle at the Stars. The INterdictor ship was cruising along side, ready to escape in case imperial ISDs arrived.

"Captain Lolan. Power up the gravity generators." The ship shook slightly as the gravity projectors took effect. In a flash of light a shuttle exited the hyperspace, pulled out by the interdictor.

"To all fighters. Fire to disable not to destroy."

[ADarkJedi44]

A moment later two corvettes joined the lone shuttle, the sole escorts. Green squadron moved towards the shuttle and Blue and Orange squads went to take out the corvettes. A few proton torpedoes easily destroyed the fragile corvettes. That left just a single unescorted shuttle.

Green squadron pilots took turns passing over the shuttle. Slowly they brought the shields down as the shuttle manuvered wildly to attempt to escape. Evan then took up a position behind the shuttle and, along with the rest of flight one, used lightly powered lasers to slowly but surely disable the engines. When the job was done, a transport launched from the Chronicle....

 

OOC: It is a CC-7700

Edited July 9, 2004 by ADarkJedi44

[Trejiuvanat]

OOC: Have the interdictor be one CC-7700 than the Sienar one. No one really know when those came around. And keep the OOCs low. It'll be easier for late-joiners or people that haven't been around for long to catch up.

[AdmiralFishface]

"Sir, we're picking up an escape pod." the transport's commander said. "One lifesign aboard, readings blurry, it could be the Moff."

"Take it aboard", Lolan replied. "and then haul the Shuttle back to the Chronicle."

As the transport moved towards the pod, one of the fighter pilots cut in. "Control, the shuttle is deploying a kind of weapons rack" Suddenly two blue streaks shot from the shuttle's aft towards the Chronicle, missing the transport by mere meters, impacting in brilliant explosions on the Interdictor frigate's shields. A few seconds later, the small craft disappeared in a flash of light as it entered hyperspace. The missiles had knocked out the gravity generators on the frigate, allowing the shuttle to flee and proving once more the need for refining of the interdictor technology.

 

Later, on the Chronicle, the passenger of the escape pod left the small transport vessel. He was a salmon-colored Mon Calamari, skinny and looking like he's been to hell and back again, but with lively eyes and a weak smile on his broad lips. The transport's commander announced: "Sir, this is the prisoner, Ackbar, and I think he has a few interesting stories to tell."

 

OOC: Had to make Tarkin escape, didn't I? So here I am, ready to tell the secrets of the Empire to anyone who wants to hear them.

EDIT: Oops, forgot that the shuttles' engines were supposed to be disabled... oh well, that's on heck of a modified shuttle, then...

[Guest Admiral_Antilles]

He was again in the dreariness of space, the vacuum that held the planets in it’s web. It had been 5 standard days since Fel had left Coruscant in search of the ever elusive Jedi named Trej Ocas. After his failure at finding Trej on Coruscant he now let the Force guide him to his next destination, letting it flow through him, coursing through his veins and all of his being.

Coming out of hyperspace, he quickly reached out with the force and hid his ship and ion trail with the Force. The Force had taken him here, a place that was so beautiful, so peaceful that it literally made your mouth open in amazement. This wonderful world is Alderaan, a green and blue jewel in the bleakness of space. A reasonable place to meet a Jedi, Fel thought to himself, if he is even here. Taking the ship sown Fel began to see treetops below him become larger and begin to take form. The Force was strong here, in the air and in the animal life. It was as if the Force had manifested itself in Alderaan. As he finally put the make-shift ship down in a clearing he felt a trickle in the Force, a small reverberation that made you feel dizzy for a second and then disappeared as quickly and mysteriously as it came. That was odd.

 

Two standard days later…

 

Fel had searched most of the planet using the Force with no result to the whereabouts to his mysterious comrade. Hope almost seemed lost and then it happened, a Jedi fighter, cloaked to all but the Force sensitive appeared in orbit around the planet. It was not mistakable; it was Trej Ocas, his comrade, his only hope to killing Dark Lord Elvis, and now he had finally caught up with him. It was now time too see why the Force had gathered them two together…

[Mad78]

Merick waited silently while sipping a glass of brandy. The Mon Calamari that was in the shuttle, Ackbar, said that he was under the orders of Moff Tarkin a keen tactician. As soon as Merick had heard this he had ordered Ackbar to comme and met him in the briefing room. Let's just hope that he could help them about beating the Impire. Ackbar entered the room.

[AdmiralFishface]

Merick gestured for Ackbar to sit down, who acknowledged with a slight nod and did so. "I do not believe I have had the opporunity to thank the Alliance for my rescue." he said slowly. "I greatly appreciate your risking as many resources as you did. I seem to be of great value to you."

-"You have been in contact with Moff Tarkin. I was told you..."

-"Tarkin kept me around for a long time. Of course I was a slave, but I was also his pet. he kept talking to me, bragging about his power. Sometimes he told me of his military sucesses, described every fight he led, described every tactic he employed. I listened to him, following every word." he chuckled. "Sometimes I think the Moff forgot I understand Basic. Certainly he thought his elaborations were far beyond my mental capacities." He shook his head "It is this ignorance that will be the Empire's undoing."

Taking another sip of Brandy, Merick nodded. "Well said. So... is there any information you can give us on the Empires plans for the future?"

Ackbar's expression lost all cheerfulness.

"Yes." he said, his voice low. "You could say that. I do not know much, but Tarkin kept bragging about his new position, he said the Emperor himself had assigned him to overlook a new secret project - he said it to be larger than anything the Empire - or the Republic, for that matter - had ever seen. He said it would ensure the Empire's total power."

[Mad78]

This news disturded Merick. If the Empire did have such a project underhand... It had to be reported to headquarters. Merick switched on the Comlink.

"Set a course for Dantoine." he turned back to Ackbar "I am going to take you to headquarters. If Empire does have such plans the leaders of the Alliance must be warned. Do you know if Tarkin kept any records concerning this... Weapon?"

[AdmiralFishface]

The Mon Cal shook his head. "It is one of the best-kept secrets of the Empire. I don't even know what exactly it is. There are sure to be enormous resources devoted to it, though. If we can find their supply lines, we may be able to find out more."

 

OOC: Too early for us to find out anything useful, let us just fear this unknown threat for a while

[Stellar_Magic]

OOC: Back to Kashyyk

 

IC:The Chimaera's main briefing room was crowded as Kirk Baumer stepped inside. He glanced to where his pilots were seated and smiled slightly before turning to see Lieutenant Pellaeon step to the holoprojector at the end of the room, "Good afternoon pilots, you will be participating in the first strike upon Kashyyk itself by our forces." He flicked on a switch and the light dimmed as the Holoprojector showed a lush green world, a grid and dozens of red dots appeared upon it, showing planetary defenses, "As you can see Kashyyk is well defended for a world of its size, and because of the unique flora and fauna on the world, orbital bombardment is not practical for our purposes, we want the population intact, so we will be forced to use precise strikes on individual targets by teams of starfighters." The holoprojector zoomed toward a single red blip, "This is your target, a LNR defense complex suspended in the trees of Kashyyk, the 195th Bomber Squadron Callsign, Beta flight, will be the Bomber element with Major Baumer's Squadron, Callsign Alpha for this mission, will fly cover. Major are all of your pilots ready for this mission?"

 

"Yes, do you have a replacement for the modified tie yet, or will she be flying a normal TIE/in?"

 

"The engineers have managed to modify one of the TIE's to the Admiral's specifications, so yes we have a replacement," The Lieutenant turned tothe other pilots, "The mission launches in thirty minutes, to your ships pilots."

 

As Kirk left the room he thought of the list of Wookie fighter's intelligence had presented to him, he'd almost certainly encounter them this mission, and he hoped they wouldn't be as deadly as intelligence had claimed.

[ADarkJedi44]

OOC: Have fun Stellar, no one's joining the party....yet

As for our Death Star hint, we'll just let it hang for a while. Too do anything with it.

 

Evan jumped out of his fighter in a relaxed mood. The mission had been easy as far as his missions went. Just disabling a shuttle. Simple. Nevertheless it was a mission and everytime he launched in his fighter it gave him a certain thril.

Rather than sticking around in the hangar with his pilots, Evan quickly moved towards Merick's office. The rescued Mon Calamari, Ackbar, should have already been there and Evan was quite intrested in hearing what he had to say. It took him a few moments to navigate through the ship, then he arrived at Merick's office. Slowly, he opened the door.

Inside, Ackbar and Merick were talking.

"......find out more"

"Find out more about what?"

[Mad78]

"Ahh General! How nice of you to join us." said Merick as he poured the General and Ackbar a glass of Brandy.

"You may have noticed our sudden jump to Hyperspace. The reason of this is that our Friend here has just informed me of a new Imperial weapon under developpement. We are now on our way to Dantoine to inform Headquarters.Our next assignement will be transmitted to us there."

[ADarkJedi44]

OOC: Once again, let the secret weapon slowly fade away.

 

"The news of the secret weapon is disturbing indeed. We doubtlessly soon be running missions to stop it. Neverthless we have problems to deal with as we speak. The Imperial fleet is moving to attack Kashyyk, yet we are so far away. Imperial fiends, doubtlessly looking for slave labor. Yet, does the Alliance have the strength to win in a head on battle with the Empire...."

Suddenly Evan snapped back into reality and turned towards the Mon Calamari.

"I don't think we have been properly introduced. I am General Hechtman...."

[AdmiralFishface]

"...you are undoubtably Ackbar." Hechtman extended a hand. The Mon Cal hesitated, then remembered the human gesture and shook the general's hand. "General, I believe I have to thank you and your pilots for my rescue. I agree, though, that the problem at Kashyyk is one that has to be dealt with immediately. I would not want the tragedy of what happened to my home repeat itself."

He thought for a moment. "This is not a random act of oppression, is it?" It was a guess. "The Empire needs those Wookies. As workforce, most probably, am I correct? That means the are diverting additional resources to troop transports, landing ships, and fighter escorts for those. Then there are the defending wookies. If we join, they need to divide their attention, making them vulnerable to diversions." With a good enough plan, the rebel forces might stand a chance.

[Mad78]

Merick toîpped a few things on the keypad of the holoprojector.

"I guess the plan I had worked out in the first place will have to be scarped. Bur if we reconsider... Okay the blockade force is of 5 ISDs.

That adds up to about 30 fighter squadrons. The wookies possesse about 15 squadrons of homemade fighters. General could you please contact our fleet on sullust and ask them to dispatch an attack force on a course for Dantoine. Bridge. Get us out of Hyperspace and tell the Captain of the Interdictor to set a course for Kashyyk. Time to impress the Imperials a bit."

[Guest Admiral_Antilles]

OOC: It seems that I am all alone lately so if it’s alright I am going two play to characters my Jedi, Fel and a new pilot that has been transferred to SM’s gamma squadron.

 

IC: It was his first real mission, he was finally going to see what it was like, battle. He had graduated at the academy head of his class, a boy to watch out for some said, but he did not care. It was not about the fame and fortune that led him join the academy, it was flying itself. He had loved to look up at stars above Corellia as a boy wandering what it would be like to be up there, with all the pilots and smugglers he heard talking at the spaceports.

Logan Adlar was now running to his brand new TIE/In in the docking bay of the Chimaera. Prepping his engines he heard the other in gamma squadron codenamed, Alpha. After hearing Nine and Ten check in he added his, “This is Eleven reporting in lead I got green on all systems and looking good.â€

[Trejiuvanat]

Admiral Noreto smiled, an enigmatic smile that made everyone around him curious about the reason behind it, but military protocol forbid him, so Lieutenant Pellaeon supressed his question and handed the Admiral the datapad.

"The stormtrooper commander reports they have found a secret hangar in one of the forest layers below Rwoorko. Six homemade squadron have been taken and immediately dismantled, some of the pilots for those craft escaped, the rest have been interrogated and loaded into a transports that has been sent as per Governor Tarkin's request to the Despayre Facility. The Commander believes that other Wookiee cities may house similar squadrons. "

"Good, transmit my commendations for the stormtrooper commander, have him and his troops move to the landing areas and then instruct the Eviscerator to bombard the city, he must not raze it, only remind the Wookiee who has the upper hand, then he will choose any three other Wookiee cities and repeat the procedure. And remind him not too hit the Nursery Rings, that alone could make one and every Wookiee down there angry enough to attempt a suicidical fight for freedom. The 195th squadron will help him."

"Yes sir." Pellaeon said and moved to the communications console.

"Do you believe the Rebels will move at us?" Captain Deran asked from his left side.

"We are a force of five Imperial Star Destroyers, after Kuat they are foolish enough to believe they can win battles like this one. They do believe they have the element of surprise, they probably do not expect what I have prepared."

"Should I have enemy reinforcements gather in the outer system?" Deran asked.

"No, nonsense. There is no need for additional warships, five Imperial Star Destroyer can possibly destroy the entire Rebel Fleet, it's their starfighters that will give us trouble. But I have prepared for such an eventuality," then as if waving the topic away he asked "tell me, have the Freighters arrived?"

"Yes sir, five of them arrived, and have taken the specified positions, I have been wondering will they not land to take more Wookiee slaves?"

"Not yet, captain. Not yet." And Noreto smiled, looking at the far starfield, waiting to remember the Rebels what defeat meant.

[Mad78]

Merick's two ship strong stick force exited Hyperspace around one of the moons of Kashyyk. One of the ISDs blockading the planet immediatly approached to investigate.

"The is ISD Slayer. Lower your shields and prepare to be boarded."

"Tell the Interdictor to begin manoeuvering." ordered Merick.

The CC-7700 fregate manoeuvered to place the destroyer between it and the moon.

"Activate Gravity Generators. NOW!" said Merick

The fregate activated its gravity wells but the wrong way round so that tgey would push instead of pull. Thje ISD, which had not been expecting the course, collided with Moon, the side of the ship was crushed undr the pressure of the gravity wells. Hundreds of escape pod exited the ship seconds before its core exploded spreading debris in a large area of the Moon.

"Well done. Reactivate the gravity wells to pull our fleet out of Hyperspace." ordered Merick.

A few seconds later the rebel fleet exited Hyperspace.

"Launch Fighters and transports. To all rebel capital ships. We are to occupy the Imperials while our transports rescue as many Wookies as possible." he turned towards a lieutenant "And tell our Jedi friend that it is time for him to show us what he can do."

[Stellar_Magic]

OOC: Oh great...here come the rebels. Gamma is a callsign for imperial units, it changes almost every mission...

 

IC: "Rebel ships entering the system, all starfighter squadrons abort, I repeat abort, pull back to the Chimaera," The fighter control's excoted voice filled Major Baumer's headset.

 

"Alphas break by wing pairs, Beta get moving," Kirk snarled into the comm as he watched the lumbering TIE/gts moved into their turns.

 

From hyperspace several squadrons of fighters leapt into the engagement along with a large rebel strike force. Kirk watched as a dozen of the Rebel X-wings broke toward him. He lined up his lasers and pulled on the firing stud as the rest fo the squadron behind him opened up. His target detonated as its front shield's failed from the onslaught. Lasers of varying colors filled the void as space became confused and deadly.

[Trejiuvanat]

"Admiral," Captain Noreto reported. "The Rebel Fleet has arrived, they used their hyperspace interdictor to pull them out. Their size is smaller than the Kuat Group, we detect three Dreadnaughts, six Nebulon B Frigates, twelve Corellian Corvettes, four Quasar-Fire Carriers a Strike Cruiser, and a Modified Light Calamarian Passenger Liner. Starfighter sum up to twenty-four squadrons. Twelve of them are Z-95, six are Y-Wings, three are T-Wings and three are X-Wings.

"An interesting tactic, note it down in the log. Transmit the Freighter captain the signal to withdraw have him lead towards the Obliterator. Have the Rebel Starfighter done anything?"

"Yes, sir. Half their force is headed towards the orbiting Freighters, all the Y-Wings, the T-Wings and some Z-95s, as escorts of the rescue transports. The rest of them is escorting their fleet. ISD Slayer has been destroyed, through the clever use of the Interdictor."

"Foolish," Noreto dictated. "Captain Giker, did not have to warn them just open fire on them, if he is found among the survivors he shall be killed immediately. The advantage is that the inversion of the hypermass shadow will have caused severe damage to its circuitry, they will be hardly able to repeat the trick again. Have Eviscerator join Tyrant and execute a Marg Sabl maneuver to launch fighters, that will hadly surprise the Rebels but it will give them some exit cover while Obliterator takes its position. Have Captain Mondrus launch TIE Bombers in waves of three at his convenience. And recall Major Baumer's squadron, have them fueled and then rejoin the battle."

"Will the Chimaera not launch fighters?"

"No, not yet, engineers are working a special modification to some of our squadrons. Alone the Bomber squadron are ready for battle and there is a more opportune moment for launch. Instead take the Chimaera to challenge the Rebel Fleet. How close are the Rebel fighters to the Freighters?"

"They are seven klicks away and gaining rapidly, the freighters are about five klicks away from the Obliterator. Once the Y-Wing are in range of their ion cannons, transmit the signal to Commader Rhoji."

 

The Y-Wing furtively closed on the five freighters. The rest of their escort followed them, the small transports came a few klicks behind.

"Open fire, ions only, there are Wookiees inside." Gold Leader warned

The first of the salvos splashed across the hull, sending blue lightning in beautiful patterns, then blood-red scars started to show.

"Leader, Five. The Freighters are losing integrity."

"What?" Leader asked, ion shot shouldn't have destroyed them. But he immediately detected the same hull collapse in the other freighters.

"Sir, multiple contacts." A panicked pilot cried. Gold Leader turned again to the freighters, only to see dozens of TIE Fighters coming out of the collapsing freighters. His sensors reported the arrival of at least and entire Imperial wing.

As green fire evaporated his hull, Gold Leader realized that the Empire had them.

 

"The TIE Fighters launched from the freighters. They are rapidly destroying the Y-Wings, T-Wings and their escort. The Rebel transports have been heavily pounded and are retreating." Pellaeon reported.

Ahead of him, the Rebel formation reacted to the sudden loss of half their fighter force, while the rest of their fighters were engaged in furballs with the TIEs launched from Eviscerator and Tyrant, suddenly the image of three Imperial Star Destroyers seemed more threating. Without Y-Wings nor T-Wings to launch their torpedos at the white dagger-shaped ships, and the lack of the wookiee squadrons, the Rebels knew they had only two choices. Withdraw or Perish.

With the Chimaera raining turbolasers and ion cannon fire on the Nebulon Frigates, Eviscerator opening holes in the formation of the Rebel Fleet, dozens of Rebel Corvettes had been turned into space dust, and as Tyrant avenged the death of the Slayer by destroying the CC-7700, the second option seemed more likely.

[Mad78]

Merick watched as another rebel ship blew up under Imperial fire.

"Did Kashyyk answer the message we sent?"

"Yes Sir. They are waiting our signal." answered the telecommunication officer of the Chronicle.

"Tell them to launch and may the force be with them."

 

On Kashyyk, every town launched their last fighter squadrons that they had hidden deeper in the forest, 25 Squadrons of Wookie fighters took off in the direction of the Imperial fleet. They broke up into two groups, one grup targeted the Obliterator and the other attacked the Imperial fighters. The Shields of the Obliterator managed to stop only part of the energy before collapsing because of the of the wookies's torpedoes. The bombing group then targeted the next destroyer while the Obliterator fell in the Kashyyk atmosphere.

[ADarkJedi44]

OOC: Curses Mad, I was already working out a retreat post.

Ah well, perhaps we should give the Imps a victory once and a while don't ya think? Heh in all honesty I'm not sure how to write this post without destroying all the Imps.

 

IC:

 

Suddenly every pilot burst out and began cheering. The Imperials were struggling to react to the new threat. A minute ago Evan was ready to retreat, now the tables were turned. As wookiee squadrons joined the fighter battles, the Imperials scattered in confusion. They tried to meet the new threats, but they were overwhelmed by the twelve wookie squadrons as they laced through the Imperial formations like a hot knife through butter. All the Rebels eagerly joined in the slaughter.

Meanwhile the next ISD was tumbling to its death. The Imperials had lost three ISDs out of their five and the wookiees were fast approching the next one. The Imperials knew they had lost. The fighter began moving towards their Star Destroyers, with the Rebels in hot pursuit. The nearest Imperial ship hypered out of the area without picking up its fighters, lest it be destroyed.

The other Star Destroyer stayed for a few moments in an attempt to pick up the fighters. It got a few of them, but soon it too was forced to withdraw. The Rebels had won! It had been a costly battle but they had sucessfully defeated five ISDs head on....with a little help from their everpresnt allies.

[Mad78]

Sorry. But I can garanty that next time the Empire attacks Kaqshyyk they shall win.

[Stellar_Magic]

Major Baumer pounded a fist on the table, they'd been pushed back, and suffered heavy casualties from a meager attack force of rebel ships, at least his squadron had managed to escape largely unscaved. He glanced along the racks for tie fighters and saw that they were nearly empty. Lieutenant Gilad Pelleaon stepped into the room, his expression showing exhaustion and a grim determination he'd never demonstrated before, "Lieutenant, please sit down."

 

Pellaeon sat uncomfortably next to him, his gaze flicked to the other pilots that were crowded along the tables, Fleet Command and Starfighter Command hardly mixed. He sighed, "We've been beaten again, I thought the Admiral would have been able to pull a victory out of that engagement."

 

"Even the best can be bested," Kirk replied and shrugged, "The rebels can't possibly hope to get a victory of that scale again, their losses were still heavy, they can't afford many more victories like that."

 

"We're heading for the local area staging point, there is a full strength sector fleet there awaiting our arrival, five Imperial star destroyers, four Victory Star Destroyers, six Dreadnaughts, eight Carracks, two Escort Carriers, sixteen corvettes, two strike cruisers, three Nebulon B Frigates, and a pair of Heavy Battle Cruisers. (OOC: Battle Cruisers are IM-410 interdictors with more weaponary and without gravity well generators) Not to mention a group of transport craft."

 

Kirk snorted, "Thats enough to give the rebels a real headache."