Rapora Wars Start

[Stellar_Magic]

I sat there and I thought why the heck not... I've got Rapora stuff in every other forum and it's a mod of star wars.

 

Start date: Five yeas after the Vong invasion.

 

Here's a side list:

 

Galactic Federation of Free Alliances-An evolution of the New Republic

 

Rapora Confederation-A group of force sensitive alien warriors with cloning technology, cloaking devices, and a belief that the Sith are the true lords of the force.

 

Vaagari Alliance-Allied with the sith and Rapora the Vagaari are a race of warriors with unique biotechnology and other strange tricks.

 

Hapan Consortium-You should know this.

 

Chiss Ascendancy-Rulers of the you know glowing eyes blue skin. Unique weaponary and warrior code of honor.

 

Imperial Remnant-You either hate them or love them.

 

Empire of the Hand-Grand Admiral Thrawn's personal Empire in the Unknown regions.

 

Sith Order-Duh

 

Jedi Order-Duh

 

Yuuzhan Vong-Trej you can be yourself...

 

Choose a side and a job... then make some posts... its that simple. Please use the rank you've gotten through posts.

Edited June 30, 2004 by Stellar_Magic

[Stellar_Magic]

Signing on...

Raporan Confederation

Major Stellar Magic-Starfighter commander

 

SM stood there side by side his fellow commanders. He could smell the scent of their fear, taste the anticipation, the tension. Before him he could see the black clothed figure of Lord Draken his tail swoshing through the air as he paced back and forth. He stoped suddenly and turned tot eh center of the room as the holoprojectors hummed there activation. As the black clad figure flickered to life every Rapora dropped to one knee, his hands grasping their armored chests.

 

Lord Sidious stood a ghostly smile playing across his face on the holographic image, "It is time that we strike back on those who have oppressed us for the last thousand years, to strike upon the Jeedai and their fledgling Federation of Free Alliances. Go to your squadrons and tell them what you have seen and been told."

[ADarkJedi44]

OOC: I was thinking of starting my own RPG too....you beat me too it, for now

 

Grand Admiral Evahe Litok stood on the bridge of the 2nd fleet's command ship, the Super Star Destroyer Guardian. The Yuuzhan Vong were now the dominant force in the galaxy, but the GFFA remained strong. New ships were being built, new crews trained. The Yuuzhan Vong had the intitive, but not for long.

Morale had been reaching dangerous levels, resources were running low. The GFFA had to have a few victories, and then the rest with come easily. They had to regain the intiative. That was Grand Admiral Litok assignment. To strike the blow that would being the domino effect.

 

But what would come next Evahe knew not, for larger forces were at work...

[Stellar_Magic]

OOC: Glad to see someone join, especially darkie.

 

IC:

The Word spread like wildfire through the ranks of the Rapoa, orders were already pouring in from headquarters, secret units moving from location to location, but to Stellar Magic these facts were just background information, the orders he had recieved made the true reality of the events that loomed before them certain.

 

Stellar's clawed hands stroke the datapad that was before him his reptilian eyes scanning its words and instructions. His squadron would launch the first major strike against the Alliance, a strike that would almost certainly awake them to the new danger they faced. A strike that would occur right under their nose.

 

Slowly Stellar reread what was before him: Engage and eliminate the Light Calamari Cruiser New Cov as she joins with the New Republic fleet over conturuum.

 

With a sigh Stellar tucked the datapad back into its place as he turned toward the rest of his squadron, "Our war of redemption begins today. To your ships."

 

He could only smile at the look the GFFA sensor operators would have as they arrived, they were after all the unknown foe that had plagued the Unknown Regions for centuries and still remained outside of the GFFA's understanding and knowledge. A smile crossed his face, perhaps they'll think us Vong, yes that would be most interesting.

[ADarkJedi44]

Evahe looked over the report. The Light Mon Calamari Cruiser New Cov had been ambushed and destroyed by an unknown force, probably Vong, while attempting to join the Second Fleet. The loss filled him with sorrow, but he could not dwell on the past. He needed to change the future, and at last an opportunity had arisen.

A Yuuzhan Vong fleet had begun massing at Kessel, most likely to strike Mon Calamari. If Mon Calamari fell, the GFFA might fall apart and the galaxy would be the Vong's to rule. Evahe had no intention of letting that happen. The Second fleet was prepared to strike the blow that would lead the GFFA on the path to victory. The entire Yuuzhan Vong fleet had yet to arrive and the ships were extremly vulnerable. The Vong did not think the GFFA had enough strength to launch an assault of that magnitude after so many defeats.

The Second fleet had been trained and slowly formed over the months since the fall of Coruscant. It was specifically designed for the job. The men knew that one day soon they would off to strike a blow to avenge the hundreds of billions who had perished. Grand Admiral Evahe Litok knew all this as he prepared for the operation briefing. He knew his men would not fail him.

The turning point had come, but there was a lot Evahe did not know. Many other forces were at work. The turning point may come, but in which direction would it turn?

[Stellar_Magic]

Stellar slowly glanced out the curved cockpit of his starfighter at the burning hulk of the trio of freigthers, it hadn't taken much to destroy them. With a flicker fo pseudomotion a trio of ships dropped into the system, their hulls glinting in the distant sunlight.

 

The holographic display before him began to light up with the identifications of the vessels scrolling in front of the glass. His targeting computer already computing the vectors ofthe incoming ships. Stelalr risked a glance at the display and hissed, the modified freighter Jade Shadow, Imperial Star Destroyer Glorious Life, and the Lancer Frigate Whip Hand.

 

Stellar swore as he glanced at the hulks, "Squadron, power down all systems make speed equal to debris, and await further instructions, meld communications only." With a mental sigh Stellar reached out with his mind and touched the others absorbing their thoughts and situation. The itch for combat swam through the group. Stellar reassured them, soon the hunt would begin again.

 

OOC: Great...an opportunity for battle. Remember there are some rather important Jedi involved...

[ADarkJedi44]

OOC: Stellar where the heck are you? I'm on board the Guardian about to attack the Vong at Kessel...and you're...wha?

[Stellar_Magic]

OOC: I'm on the Hydian Way ambushing convoys... About a jump from Contruum. Kessel? I thought you were at Contruum. Easy solve...

 

IC: The Alliance craft contiued along their paths ignorant of the debris. Stellar felt his chest ease as he watched the raft go, his unit wasn't ready for an attack against Jedi, let alone Jedi of this magnitude. With a flicker of pseudomotion the craft jumper out fo the system.

 

Seconds after they left a flash message chorused through his head phones, "Rapora Wing Twelve is ordered to sector fifty one twelve and prepare for transit into the maw." Stellar stiffened as he heard those words he glanced down at the exit vectors for the ships, they were a direct line to the Maw.

 

With a sigh Stellar keyed his comm, "Transmitting new orders set course for sector one twelve." Stellar slumped in his seat as he glanced at the two blackened hulks that had been GFFA freighters, "We're done here."

 

EDIT: OOC: Crud I just realized Conturuum is on the Perlmain route not the th Hydian way...duh. Go ahead and smack the Vong around, they deserve it over kessel. It would be a long jump from Contruum to Kessel.

[ADarkJedi44]

The Guardian came out of hyperspace over Kessel to see the reports had been true. A large force floated over the planet with many smaller craft moving around, most likely to supply the ships. As the massive Second Fleet finished coming out of hyperspace, he was once again confident of victory.

"Everyone, shields up and prepare to engage. Launch fighters. Interdictors get your gravity well projecters on line."

As the Second Fleet continued to move closer, the Vong slowly realized what was happening. A few ships launched coralskippers and most began moving into a combat ready position. It was of no concern for this day, Evahe knew, they would all die! As hundreds upon hundreds of GFFA fighters launched, they quickly moved and annhihilated any coralskippers in there way. They sortied into the heart of the enemy fleet, denying the Vong coralskippers any chance to get fully organized.

Then it was the the Second Fleet's turn. The [/i]Guardian was the first to open fire. A Vong corvette simply disappeared. A pair of gunships ceased to exist. A light cruisers was broken into pieces. The massive super star destroyer moved on. Soon the rest of the Second Fleet joined the fray. Vong ships were blowing up everywhere. The starfighters launched their proton torpedoes at the Yuuzhan Vong ships in the back. More Vong ships were destroyed.

The Yuuzhan Vong did fight back, but it was a one sided slaughter. Their coralskippers failed to launch in time and they were distracted with the hundreds of star fighters among them. They thought they were the ones attacking, they were not prepared for vice-versa. Soon they knew their was no hope, but it mattered not. They would not surrender, they were all going to die.

And so it continued that way for a little while longer. Evahe was overjoyed as he watched the Vong be destroyed, one by one. Indeed the turning point had come. Now the Vong would be on the defensive. They may be extremly powerful, but that would not last long.....

 

OOC: I Have to give the Vong a few more painful defeats. Hopefully Trej won't care.......

[Stellar_Magic]

OOC: That is assuming Trej will join us...

 

IC:Stellar slumped back in his seat his eyes focused on the spiraling tunnel of hyperspace, it had indeed been a long jump. With a flash the stars became star lines and the red glow of gas being sucked into the maw dominated the forward view port. Stretching out with his mind he could sense the dwindling battle over Kessel hundreds of thousands of kilometers away.

 

In front of the squadron of Raporan fighters space rippled as the enormous shape of a Raporan war cruiser rippled into existance before them. Stellar's comm link crackled as the cruiser's commander came through the channel, "You're clear for hanger bay two, mission briefing immediately following Major."

 

The Raporan craft banked into the small hanger and as the last of them entered the hanger the craft rippled again and disappeared into the blackness of space.

 

A few minutes later Stellar waited in the briefing room as the Raporan commander commenced his briefing, "As you know elements of the second fleet are active in this region. Recent intelligence has revealed a base code named shelter in the center fo the maw. Your squadron will launch a strafing run on the base. We think the second fleet will have several ships in the maw to act in reserve, destroy them if possible."

 

The raporan commander hissed as he moved on, "We believe there to be several Jedi at this facility, if you become heavily engaged break off and retreat back to the cruiser. It is far to early in this to actually fight the Jedi head on. We must sow confusion."

 

OOC: I haven't launched the attack yet, just so thats clear.

[ADarkJedi44]

OOC: Well I'm sure Trej will be mad about Vong dying either way

Ok I'll go back to concentrating on the Vong.....

 

IC:

 

The battle of Kessel had gone better than Evahe had hoped. The loss of the Vong fleet would prevent them from launching any assaults in the near future. The GFFA now had to follow up by sowing confusing and attacking the Vong's own planets. A raiding campaign would acheive this goal nicely, and if the ships moved fast enough loses should be minimal.

Despite the fact that the battle of Kessel had been completly one sided, casulties among the star fighters had been relativly heavy. The new pilots would need to gain experianced. Also, it couldn't hurt for the Second Fleet to gained more experianced. Considering the Vong defending the planets weren't going to be the best of the best, they'd be outnumbered and surprised, the battles should all be one sided.

The Second Fleet was very large, therefore it would be dived into many groups. With diffrent groups causing chaos within the Yuuzhan Vong Empire, they'd be hard pressed to deal with every threat. Then, as soon as the campaign had begun, it would end and the real assaults would begin.

 

[insert nifty comment about larger forces at work here]

[Stellar_Magic]

OOC: And the attack on Shelter commences...

 

IC:Stellar smiled as his fighter jolted through the final turn into the Maw. Ahead he could see several kuat transports and corellian corvettes scattered in the gaseous space. In the center fo it all was the ugly conglomerate of structures which was Shelter.

 

Kicking the twin ion drives into high gear he keyed his comm, "Attack pattern Sith Hammer."

 

The flights of fast moving Raporan ships broke up into three seperate groups. They formed a small diamond of craft. As the first flight neared the closest vessel they suddenly opened like a flower. From just under hook shaped nose ofthe craft a missile was released from its housing. It blaved toward the oblivious corvette and hit. The impact burned through the ship's shields and gouged an enormous hole through the vessel near its center. The damage was far enough back to destabilize the main reactor which went critical and detonated in the space fo two seconds taking out the corvette with all hands.

 

Stellar smiled as his comm board lit up, Shelter transmitting a distress call in the open, "This is Shelter to all GFFA forces in the area, we're under attack...I repeat." Ahead the first flight of Raporan ships dipped below the corvette's shattered and blackened hulk. They opened fire with their plasma cannosn tracking explosions along the medium transport that was next in line.

 

A transmission crackled across the comm board, once again in the clear, "This is Task Force Guardian of Fleet two, responding to your distress call."

 

Stellar snarled as he keyed his comm, "Flights form up, we've got to strafe shelter yet."

[ADarkJedi44]

The Guardian and a few ships escorting her moved into the Maw to see that Shelter was under attack. Strange fighter craft were attacking. They had yet to be idenified, and they didn't look Vong. They are odd indeed...

Nevertheless Shelter had not been penetrated. It had been rattled up a little bit, but it had held as a whole. However, the orbiting ships were now hulks. The strange fighter craft immediatly backed off as soon as Evahe's ships arrived. They knew to stay would be to die.

"Do not pursue, are fighters are not fast enough to intercept them with their huge lead."

Evahe took a last look at the fighters, clearly very puzzled. Who were they? Yet at the moment he had greater things to ponder. He needed to insure Shelter was ok. And then....then yes....he would return to his purge....

 

[larger forces at work]

[Stellar_Magic]

OOC: Now your sensor operators will yell in disbelief, as I really make you angry... Don't mess witht he Rapora

 

IC:Stellar saw the fleet of GFFA warships, and knew that it was time to make their retreat. He turned his craft toward one of the Maw exits, even though half of his squadron still had Plasma bombs latched to their hulls. He glanced at his sensor monitor to see his second flight of fighters wasn't retreating, "Second flight return to formation."

 

"Negative, we'll show these Allaince scum," The comm transmission clicked off as the flight leader cut his transmission. Stellar gave a resigned sigh as he looked up at the fleet and felt the force flow through him as a new desiogn entered his mind, "First Flight form up, second flight form up on me, you'll have one last shot at them."

 

"Thank you lead," Second flight fell in behind him now as Stellar broke toward the nearest wall of blackholes, "Force meld, form a line astern." Using the force Stellar plotted a course for his ship that skimmed the event horizon of the black holes. The New Republic fighters paced them keeping their distance from the event horizon afraid of being drawn to their doom.

 

The gravitational pull of the blackholes increased the Rapora ship's speed unt it nearly reached that of the speed of light. Suddenly he broke formation and charged straight toward the closest capital ship, his squadron instantly falling in behind him. He glanced down at his targeting computer triggered the plasma bombs. Behind him the rest of the squadron launched what bombs they had remaining.

 

The Imperial II Star Destroyer Freedom Reign was suddenly awash with fire as the Rapora starfighters passed it. The entire front quarter of the Star Destroyer was blown away from the blast. A gaping hole blazed in the front of the command tower as the ship slowly tumbled firing its red bolts of destruction at the passing Rapora.

 

Suddenly Stellar heard an explosion and turned to see a freighter drop in behind them. Already one of his craft was burning and in a moment detonated with a flash. Stellar cursed as he recognized the craft, the Jade Shadow. With a bark of command he signaled the other Rapora and reached for the hyperspace levers. Their path clear the maw disappeared into starlines and tunnel fo blue light.

[ADarkJedi44]

OOC: I'll be gone for a few days so....

 

Evahe looked in disbelief. Those were no Vong fighter craft. Suddenly they had come back and blown up a Star Destroyer?! Now Vong coralskippers would be powerful enough to destroy it in one hit. Not to mention the craft hardly looked organic....

Yet who could they be? Some new strange Imperial craft, something else? Was there another major force in the galaxy? He would have to wait and see, but it would not stop any of his current plans. He had to move forward against the Yuuzhan Vong, or he might have two forces against him.

"Put up all of the escape pods," Evahe said sadly.

He looked at the wreck of the Star Destroyer, as it spiralled towards its inevitable fate. Whoever it was that did this, they would pay. In time they would indeed pay the ultimate price. The Second Fleet wasn't taking any prisoners.

"Then bring us back to Kessel. We need to meet up with the rest of the strike group."

[Stellar_Magic]

OOC: But the Skywalkers destroyed one of my craft, not quite bloodless for the Rapora.

[ADarkJedi44]

OOC: We need to get Antilliles and Mad in here

[Trejiuvanat]

OOC: I don't think I'll be joining this one, one Roleplay is enough for me.

[ADarkJedi44]

OOC: Hmpf! Hopefully Mad and A_A will come through, and maybe that new Jedi guy....

[ADarkJedi44]

OOC: Stellar? You and your Rapora friends gonna do something?

[Stellar_Magic]

The starlines faded into stars and Stellar sighed as the space which greeted him was empty fo sesnor contacts. Slowly he turned to his comm unit and keyed up the holocomm, "This is Stellar reporting, raid into shelter successful, one craft lost,...awaiting orders."

 

"Very well Stellar, return to the Hydian way and resume piratic activity, command out."

 

Stellar let out a slow hiss, reduced to pirate raids again? It would be better just to make a run on Mon Calamari and destroy some shipyards, still he had his orders. Perhaps another raporan fighter squadron was going to hit Mon Calamari, yes that makes sense, they would send another unit to keep the attacks unpredictable.

[ADarkJedi44]

OOC: Stellar do what you like, try not to make it to devestating. I'll retaliate against you eventually

 

The Guardian came out of hyperspace in the Duros system. Within a moment, the rest of the task force was in their positions around the massive ship. The Yuuzhan Vong and Peace Brigade forces in the area scrambled and moved to enage the GFFA forces, but they were clearly no match. They were outmatched and clearly inexperianced.

The enemy capitol ships tried to run, but an interdictor prevented them and the task forces vaporized them. The swarms of GFFA fighters overwhelmed the coralskippers and assorted Peace Brigade craft. The battle was quickly over and the task force then moved to bombard the planet.

Green and red lasers fell upon the planet with devastating accuracy. Every and any target of military importance was destroyed. Then, as quickly as they had arrived, the task force left. The first mission of the campaign had been a sucess.

[Guest Admiral_Antilles]

OOC: Sorry Darky but 1 RP is good for me too...for now...

[ADarkJedi44]

OOC: MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD? For now? Hmm.....

[UlicHorn]

Ulic Horn's Corellian YT-2000 sat floating in the Duros system and its owner cursed under his breath as he worked on his ship. He'd sent a distress beacon against his better judgement but now he was waiting for a ride or at least some help.