Rapora War (OOC Discussion)

[AdmiralToguroAni]

This might be a silly question, but why don't they just build a few Sun Crushers? I figure that Quantom armor is rare and expensive, but surely theres more of it out there than what was used to make 1 sun crusher. They could even build it without the superweapon to save money and ram the Rapora ships, killing the occupants and saving the bulk of the ship for salvaging? The Sun Crushers are so small that the bigger ships would probably mistake them for fighters in the melee unless they were specifically on the lookout for them.

[Stellar_Magic]

Actually the Sun Crusher wouldn't be of much use, its designed to destroy stars, not ships. Plus Raporan Plasma weaponary is probably strong enough to crack that armor which it has. We've already utilized a number of fighters with that sort of armor and the Rapora managed to hold their own.

 

The Vagaari are an advanced spacefaring race from the Unknown Regions. They're imperial and piratical in nature and dominated local space for a large period of time until the Rapora invaded and supplanted their government with a puppet. This has fueled a resentment within the Vagaari populace and Vagaari Warriors can be found on both sides. Despite this the vast majority has remained loyal due to propaganda and the promise of control of additional worlds after the war ends.

 

Vagaari are roughly humanoid with marbled rusty brown skin and two mouths placed vertically above each other. Thier technology is specialized in biological means through the breeding of Wolvkils (A form of War Dog), suspended animation, and bioengineered weapons. Vagaari are actively incorporating shared technologies between the Rapora and Vagaari into their next generation of vessels.

[AdmiralToguroAni]

I dunno...I still think if you took some Sun Crusher designs, removed the superweapon in favor of that cloaking thing that the TIE Phantom has and beefed up the armor a little, you'd have a nice weapon. Think about it--the "Phantom Crushers" (or maybe the "Sun Phantoms"?), painted with space-like designs for camoflage cloak in and get close, then just ram the crap out of the Raporan fleet! Remember when they cut through the Imperial Star Destroyer in whatever book that was? You've got the capital ships fighting it out and the Rapora whipping them, and the starfighters are doing whatever it is starfighters do, when all of a sudden 4 or 5 Phantom Crushers appear out of nowhere and just ram the Raporan ships! They'd never know what hit 'em! They'd either have to focus their fire on the Phantom Crushers to crack the armor and leave themselves vulnerable to the enemy capitol ships, or go after the cap ships and get rammed by the Phantoms! If the enemy turbolasers were a problem, then the standard fighters could make runs along the side of the cap ships, ionizing or destroying the turrets so that side is undefended as they get rammed. what do you think?

[Eko]

Hmm, not sure about the Vagaari Stellar, I may just go with GFFA or something else. I'll sleep on it and get a character written up for you tommorow, thanks for your help.

[BadSamaritan]

 

I think you're going to need to change your post somewhat, or maybe we should just ignore it.

 

Dont need to change it, like I said, there a lots of places to look for advanced technology in the galaxy. The Quella are just one example out of many. I never intended for ou to think of them, I just made up an iceball world to set the ball into motion.

[Trejiuvanat]

Just finished my last post in the introductory setting things up for the subRPs.

 

Ulan and the Solos going to Zonama, the Imps back to the Empire, and there's Corran, who will be a 'mini-plot' I want to keep around for a while, probably jumping in between sub-rps while figuring out where booster's gone.

[Stellar_Magic]

I dunno...I still think if you took some Sun Crusher designs, removed the superweapon in favor of that cloaking thing that the TIE Phantom has and beefed up the armor a little, you'd have a nice weapon. Think about it--the "Phantom Crushers" (or maybe the "Sun Phantoms"?), painted with space-like designs for camoflage cloak in and get close, then just ram the crap out of the Raporan fleet! Remember when they cut through the Imperial Star Destroyer in whatever book that was? You've got the capital ships fighting it out and the Rapora whipping them, and the starfighters are doing whatever it is starfighters do, when all of a sudden 4 or 5 Phantom Crushers appear out of nowhere and just ram the Raporan ships! They'd never know what hit 'em! They'd either have to focus their fire on the Phantom Crushers to crack the armor and leave themselves vulnerable to the enemy capitol ships, or go after the cap ships and get rammed by the Phantoms! If the enemy turbolasers were a problem, then the standard fighters could make runs along the side of the cap ships, ionizing or destroying the turrets so that side is undefended as they get rammed. what do you think?

 

Been there, done that. The Raporan particle shields are strong enough to deflcet any attempt to ram their larger cruisers and their smaller ones are fast enough to avoid being hit. The Rapora don't use turbolasers but a highly advanced form of plasma weaponary. The two Supercannons used on the Kar Lur Class can kill a ship with ease and are only slightly less powerful then a low grade superlaser. The weapons on their fighters are equivalent in punch to a heavy turbolaser, which can penetrate the armor on a suncrusher.

 

We also used a full squadron of starfighters which utilized the same form of armor as the suncrusher engage the Rapora over... was it Kuat or Fondor? They got beaten pretty badly, fighting force sensitive pilots can be such a drag.

[AdmiralToguroAni]

in that case the only option available is to distract the reptilian-like Rapora with feeder mice and kill them while they're busy.

 

Either that or construct a working Darksaber and make Kevin J. Anderson's book actually worth something =/ . If Dorja the Hutt can afford one, the New Republic could probably build a few. Its just a DS superlaser in a smaller casing, after all. Hopefully the Raporans can't block that, because if they can shrug off a superlaser, then we're all screwed.

 

Failing that, theres always a Megazord....

[BadSamaritan]

in that case the only option available is to distract the reptilian-like Rapora with feeder mice and kill them while they're busy.

 

Either that or construct a working Darksaber and make Kevin J. Anderson's book actually worth something =/ . If Dorja the Hutt can afford one, the New Republic could probably build a few. Its just a DS superlaser in a smaller casing, after all. Hopefully the Raporans can't block that, because if they can shrug off a superlaser, then we're all screwed.

 

Failing that, theres always a Megazord....

 

This post, right here, got me to laugh mroe than any other post ever in the RP boards. Thank you.

 

And as for you Trej, The smugglers are mine to control for the most part. Now I have to come up with some big scheme that only Lando and Karrde could cook up. Your making my job harder!!! But thanks for posting about the Mandalorians so that I didnt have to. Im feeling lazy today.

[Trejiuvanat]

And as for you Trej, The smugglers are mine to control for the most part. Now I have to come up with some big scheme that only Lando and Karrde could cook up. Your making my job harder!!! But thanks for posting about the Mandalorians so that I didnt have to. Im feeling lazy today.

 

Yup! I knew which is why I only mentioned Lando and Talon as maybe having something up their sleeves, which is left for you to elaborate.

 

Meanwhile Booster is mine for the taking and to complete Corran's miniplot: Pirates of the Hydian: The curse of the Errant Venture! Featuring Booster Terrik in the role of undead captain.

 

I do have a little something for the Errant Venture in the long run which I think I can eventually tie into the Imperial side of things, but before I'll keep busy with Corran allowing myself to jump between subRPGs...

 

As for the Mandalorians, I left their part on the dinner open enough in case you wanted to have them say something. But a quiet discreet participation seems to fit with their style.

 

Lastly regarding the BoE SubRPG: OOC: Hadn't the Rapora blown taken Yaga Minor? Or blown it to bits and pieces...? I think I'll use the allpowerful and corrupted Edit tool and change the planet to some other world in what little remains of my Empire. Now good old Dorja will go to Serenno. Dooku's homeworld, one of the Imperial systems more distant from the Unknown Regions. And though it was not part of the NJO Imperial Remnant, I believe we had somewhere, somewhen agreed that the Empire had gained much territory after the war against the Yuuzhan Vong.

[BadSamaritan]

You sir, are devious. I like that. But anyways....

 

As I drank mysef into a stupor last night (Yes, I have drinking problems), I was thinking of what kin of hair brained scheme lando and Talon could come up with. And I think I may have somethng. Lando designed and manufactured the YVH War Droids. Is there any reason why he couldn't build a droid to help fight the Repora? if there is, im sure i can think of something else. Religious orders also came to mind, but that might be taking it a bit to far.

[Eko]

Check your PMs BadSamaritan, I have questions for you...

[AdmiralToguroAni]

Is there any reason why the GFFA doesn't use those droidekas to fight Rapora on land battles? I figure they can reverse engineer them after what, 50 years? They can block lightsabres and two of them forced a Jedi master and Padawan to run for their lives. Of course, we've all been missing the real easy solution to this battle.

 

In episode 1, Obi falls into a pool of water and his lightsabre shorts out. Therefore, our answer is...Supersoakers! Just fire a few shots of water at the base of the raporan lightsaber, and you've got a really angry, wet, unarmed Rapora to deal with. If that doesnt work....

 

Throw an ice cube at them. Reptiles hate sudden drops in temperature.

 

Offer a peace treaty, giving them land in exchange for a cease of hostilities. We weren't using Jurassic Park anyway, and they'd be right at home.

 

Give them a spot on a children's daytime television show. "I love you, you love me, join the Darkside with my family."

 

Have Kevin J. Anderson do the mods from now on. Since the good guys ALWAYS win when he writes, the GFFA will win no matter what happens!

 

Have the Yuuzhan Vong create a living ship that eats the Rapora's living ship. Mmm.....living ship...(drools)

 

Some more serious ideas are:

 

Drench the Rapora with water to short circuit their lightsabres

 

Plasma, from what I've read about it, is most effective against energy attacks. Perhaps some strong projectiles like those seen in Ep.3 could work.

 

And like before, if all else fails, use the Megazord. Go go Jedi Rangers!

[Mad78]

ATA, have you read the RPG? You will see we have already used several super weapons against them.

 

What do my characters do?

[Stellar_Magic]

Tuvax and Ioor would probably work best in the Stand Firm subplot, they are afterall fleet commanders, though I suppose Tuvax could jump to some of the other plots, It's your choice, we're going to be a little more freeform from this point on I think.

[Mad78]

I think Tuvax would do well as a fleet commander with Ioor. But i would also like him to be a bit on the spying subplot. I will post later this week.

[Stellar_Magic]

Come on guys, post!

[Mad78]

My Timetable has been kinda filled up.

May I introduce a kinda raporan order which specialises in regrouping intelligence for the raporan army?

[Stellar_Magic]

May I introduce a kinda raporan order which specialises in regrouping intelligence for the raporan army?

 

I'm not sure I understand what you're asking, are you trying to create a new branch of the Raporan military or is this a command. Explain.

[Mad78]

It would be an independent branch of the raporan millitary who specialises in Assasination and spying.

[Stellar_Magic]

Why not just use the Sith? Oh well, lets see...

 

The Raporan Intelligence Directorate:

 

The intelligence branch of the Raporan Military command structure, the RID also works to act in counterintelligence and paramilitary operations.

 

Because of the obvious difficulty in inserting Raporan agents into New Republic worlds the RID relys primarily on droids and mercenaries for espionage and infiltration. In those situations where the use of a Raporan agent is required the agent will often be forced to utilize holoshrouds or some other disguise to avoid detection on New Republic worlds, the same cannot be said for infiltration of UDA facilities due to the fact that a portion of those serving there are in fact Rapora.

[Trejiuvanat]

For anyone that cares or is interested, here's some maps I made regarding the Empire.

 

How it 'grew' after the Vong War. And how it stand as of now in the campaign.

 

http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/5352/empire3jq.th.jpg

 

http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/6156/empirerapo6mp.th.jpg

 

Both maps are rather self-explainatory, I just wanted to have this for future reference.

 

About Generis /Atrivis Sector and Dathomir, I figured those two to be at least under some partial cooperated Imperial/GFFA administration as they were important to the GFFA.

 

Nirauan and Bastion we now that are destroy, which is why they are dimmed. The border is especulation on my part.

 

Ah, the Garos IV Rapora offensive and the names in obvious other fonts I put in to use in the Imperial side of things. So don't worry about it, though it'd be fun if the GFFA subRPG would mention the fall/siege/anything of Garos IV.

[Mad78]

Great maps Trej!!! Very useful they shall be.

 

SM, do you think i could deepen the info on the RID? Such as what equippement they use, what is special about their agents and so on?

[AdmiralToguroAni]

Okay, more ideas on how to beat the Rapora and their near-invincible buddies, the Aklasp. These are actually serious.

 

Defeating the Aklasp: Silicon, which the Aklasp are composed of, reacts to the basic acidic solution of sodium hydroxide. If battles are expected against Aklasp, using bombs filled with Sodium Hydroxide, either fired from launchers or aircraft should destroy them.

 

Rapora: Being reptiles, I would say that cooling them down would almost certainly kill them, regardless of armor. To that end, I suggest that anyone fighting a Rapora use a type of gun equivilent to a flamethrower, but rather than gold gasoline, it holds liquid nitrogen. The nitrogen would be fired at high pressure at the rapora. The Rapora could try to block the their lightsabre things, but since a liquid is being fired instead of a solid, they would find the weapons rather inefficent for blocking.

 

I also suggest a massive cloning program of Ylasmari or whatever those force-blocking squirrels are It may very well be that something about their hide, blood, or skin blocks the force. To that end, it might be possible to put a Ylasmari pelt on a human, making them immune to force attacks,

[Trejiuvanat]

About the ysalamiri, you need the stupid things alive if you want their Forceblocking field active, so they cannot be pelted for force-resilient armor. Also, I think that Myrkr was trashed during the Vong War, so Ysalamiri wouldn't be in massive supply nowadays.

 

Extreme heat or extreme cold can harm the Rapora, extreme cold can also damage the Aklasp. Liquid Nitrogen would be an interesting alternative. No doubt Stellar will prepare an appropriate contingency...