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...If you're stuck, build a Death Star and give the rebel vermin something to freak out about... Don't really like the Death Star, if Maintenance points are burning a hole in me than I prolly build one. there's an ongoing bit? Please share (curse you Freud!) I will play to character speaking of which.... Interlude Mon Mothma The Rebel Communication ship had dropped out of hyperspace over a barren moon, on board the Rebel President was in contact with her top leaders. Ackbar, Wedge Antilles, Adar Talon, Page, and the former administrator of Cloud City Lando. The first three were the commanders of the Rebellion fleet, Page leader of the commandos and covert ops, and Lando Calrissian administrator of all Rebellion ground forces after Madine’s death at Imperial hands. All were the most trusted Rebel field agents, the only one remotely suspected was Calrissian, he had joined up after Solo had been captured by the Imperials. Ackbar was the only one who knew where the President was and would be, but in case of his capture an alternate route was set up. She would always remain far from the Headquarters because if both were captured it was uncertain if the remaining forces could organize any resistance. The first subject was Ozzel’s advance through the Sector, with the entire fleet brass in the Sector, albeit heavily defended at Tangrene one could only speculate the havoc that would become the Rebel fleets if they were all captured. The plan unilaterally given was that the Rebel Strike groups would continue harassing the fleet’s. But one extension that Antilles put forth was the subject of great scrutiny by the others. “Ozzel isn’t quick to adapt to change, that much I’ve noticed about him, he can be harassed easily enough. But he came from the Seswenna Sector, which means that sector is left with only Grammel as defense, as hard headed as Ozzel is Grammel is ten times so. What’s more he would only leave the Capital undefended under direct orders. If we send in raiding ships to the capital Sector Grammel will move to attack them, we can than catch Coruscant unguarded and take the Imperial Seat and the Emperor in one movement.â€

No danger of it becoming inactive, my only worry is that it becomes boring, the Rebels are in their death throws I'm afraid as the next chapter should make clear. Not much happening in the next chapter but I've got a nice opening Interlude to give Rebel perspective on things. Interestingly enought the next post serves as a stand alone thread to decide if the AI really is as dumb as it seems, or if my imagination just comes up with good explanations Wheels are turning....

New Blood The personnel were gathering at Ghorman, the entire staff was prepared, only the ship was absent. Moff Jerjerrod, Palleon, and Screed were eagerly awaiting the completion of the Star Destroyer, “Ceasar.â€

Ozzel Ozzel listened as report after report came in of Daala’s successes, he was stuck in Ghorman waiting on a Star Destroyer and Daala was sending the Rebels scurrying around the Sector. His fleet was the most formidable in the Empire, which meant that no Rebel fleet would meet it. Ozzel had been placed in charge of infrastructure in the Sector, he was building mines and refineries deploying troops all over the system, the Sector was important beyond the Capital and the Emperor, between Ghorman and Chandrila a total of 13 Shipyards churned out Imperial Star Destroyers, this was more than all other Imperial Sectors combined. When the Decimator was finally stocked and finished Ozzel set out for Phorliss, the hyperspace isolation was both blissful and maddening for Ozzel. The reports of Daala’s victories had stopped reaching him, but he also had no idea what was going on. A month was a long time to be out of the loop, and it was almost like having a sense severed. When they came out of hyperspace Ozzel had already gone through a dozen strategies but faced with a wing of fighters as opposition Ozzel allowed the Lancer Frigates do their job. He assaulted the planet with the mixed force of War Droids and Storm Troopers, the planet caved easily, apparently the Rebels weren’t worried about this Sector. Which only made Ozzel pray they weren’t worried about Daala’s either. He began running intelligence missions in the Sector to find out anything he could. He found out that a convoy of Corvette’s would be coming out of hyperspace and decided to meet this force with a show of power before they could converge. Each ship fled as expected, Ozzel was confident in his fleet’s strength, and if things turned bad he could still call on the Sector defense fleet for backup. Ozzel was at a disadvantage in the race to defeat the Rebellion, Daala had destroyed the Shooting Star and brought not one, but two systems to Imperial Control. Ozzel had stood idle while the Rebels bombed one of the Sectors Training facilities. When he had sat a course for the system the Rebels had since departed.

(ooc: I’ve got three updates for this section of time, all events are occurring simultaneously I’ve got the updates ready but I’m going to space them out so as not to hit anyone with too much to read at one time.) Daala (cont) The Rebels went as expected, a few weeks ahead of schedule apparently they were not worried about the troop count. Luckily Vader was long gone, and the Imperial Escort Carrier completed. Daala was forced to take some Tie’s from the planetary garrison to fill the wing, but it was only a temporary solution. Daala arrived and saw the Rebel fleet in all its junky glory, the ships looked like one piece of scrap metal held together by rusty nuts and bolts. The Deaths Hand moved forward the new engines being put to good use, the Rebel fleet withdrew almost instantly. Daala’s gunners were crack shots and the Rebel Ground troops were blasted without mercy. As was becoming standard Imperial protocol by this point, the first bombing sent the planet into uprising, the second brought it to the Imperial Standard. At the next meeting of the Admiralty Thrawn confirmed Daala’s position as Commander of the Sector and Admiral of the fleet by promoting Pter Thanos to be General. This sent a silent message to Daala, she was to prepare the fleet to take the Sector than move on to the next. Thanos was nothing like Daala’s Tie Commander, Zuggs, where Zuggs was quite and willing to follow orders to a T regardless of personal feeling, Thanos was warm and expressed his feelings often. His way was too soft for Daala’s taste but she could respect a commanding officer giving his opinion, hadn’t she always done so? After all it wasn’t as if this was Vader’s ship. Intelligence reported that a Rebel Fleet was massing over Vagran, this time Daala would take the Shooting Star. The battle actually was, as seemed to always happen the Rebel Transports had withdrawn but the Shooting Star, complete with fighter armament, remained to fight. The primary fighter in the Imperial hangar bays were the, now, outdated Tie Fighters only a few Tie Interceptor squads were present. In the battle almost all fighters were destroyed, on both sides, in the end only a Rogue Squadron of Rebel ships escaped to the next planet. The Shooting Star was destroyed but Admiral Nevva and her staff managed to make it planet side. Daala Bombed the system and demanded the Sullustian, or she would bomb again. When the Rebels did not answer to reasoning, she added an exclamation point, Thanos objected but he was over ruled. Not only did she get the Rebel, she took the system, this sparked the uprising at Corfai to go out of control and throw out the Rebels before their troops arrived to quell the people.

ooc: Just clearing some stuff up, regarding my knowledge of Star Wars lore. I read the books up till probably Dark Saber, i tried reading NJO books but I just couldn't get into them. I remember almost no personality traits for the characters other than Thrawn's awesome (). During the course of this I'm liable to work with how I remember the characters to be, and how I want them to be. If I'm slaughtering anyone's personality that it hinders your abillity to read, tell me how they're supposed to act and I'll consider changing (probablity of change varies on how much I like character existing personality). Next regarding how I'm handling the Imperial Admirality, I've been reading a book on the Punic War and watched Patton a few weeks ago and the story will deal primarily with the competition between the Imperial Admirals to out do each other. With that in mind I give you an update: Interlude: Daala Daala arrived in the Corellian Sector to make repairs over Tralus, in the embarrassing engagement at Carida all ships including her Destroyer took damage. The Hydra Carrack Cruiser had just completed repairs when the Rebel ships entered the Sector. The Rebel fleet came as a complete surprise, reading over the battle reports Daala discovered the missing Medium Transports. So far she had only failed in his status, still necessity placed her in charge of defense in the Corellian Sector. Still the Empire’s talent pool was expanding, if she was going to keep command she would have to show results, diplomats like Pter Thanos were starting to filter in and rumor had it he was preparing to take over. The Rebel appearance over Corfai was the most surprising blow thus far, aside from the Death Star being destroyed. Corfai wasn’t defended from space but had a large ground concentration. It had no shipyards, or construction yards, or even a training yard. In a Holo meeting the Admiralty tried to discover the reasoning. Thrawn presided the meeting with The Coordinator listening in, Thrawn remained silent his red eyes watching as the Admirals bickered. Daala had remained quiet the entire time, she knew that two things kept her opinion from being taken seriously: 1. Her gender, 1. Her past failure. Ozzel was putting forth his “the Rebels have no strategyâ€

I consider that a job well done on my part

OOC: As long as I get that blood Chapter 2 Part 2 Mission Complete Rumors abound and throughout the Sector the fear of Rebel invasion spreads. Needa cursed the Rebel agents who had leaked the information, the Fleet had been making defense plans for some time to counter the large fleet coming into Uvena, but they had not counted on the populace finding out. Now they were committed the size of the fleet was exaggerated, rumors had it at about half a dozen with two full wings of star fighters. Imperial agents managed to strike the first blow by sabotaging the Comet, Corellian Corvette, at least they took some casualties. Hastily the newly completed Imperial Escort Carrier dubbed “Big Momma ()â€

This was amazing and unbelievable... That you could leave us hanging like this!

Chapter 2 Part 1 Ozzel The Coordinator placed Ozzel in immediate control of retaking the sector, in that status Ozzel was running non stop intelligence missions. Monitoring reports news comes in that a Rebel fleet was seen within the Corfai System. He was also monitoring future targets, for all intensive purposes the logical plan was to form a pincer movement to take the Core, before moving on the Outer Rim. But the glory of such a thing would depend on who destroyed the Rebel fleet, and right now the fleet was on the run. Which made him quite happy to see Admiral Daala beaten and sent fleeing to Tralus to make repairs. Intelligence reports came in reporting the location of Princess Leia she was heading to Chandrila on a Diplomatic Mission. The chance was too good to pass up, the fleet left Bortras and blockaded Chandrila. The Princess was captured, interrogated, and thrown into the ships holding cells. Once the Diplomats in the Sector brought popular support to an all time high, the invasion of Chandrila began. Without the Princess to exercise her leadership skills the system fell easily. The Diplomats moved in quickly so that the fleet could move on. Mazer Rackus was captured on the ground, to his credit, trying to organize a counter attack. No troops were lost on this assault and Ozzel was getting his wish, rumors started spreading that he would be named the next Grand Admiral. He was entertaining all the best delegates and had been letting his intelligence screening drop. His mistake, Needa was paying attention and was satisfied to see that Lord Vader had captured Luke Skywalker. Within a few months the Empire had raped the Rebel Alliance of their leadership. Skywalker is en route to Coruscant from there to be relocated to whatever world/ship is designated as the Prison planet/ship. Suddenly Ozzel was no longer in the limelight, which made his mood sour and determined, which Needa could handle much better than his happy and lazy.

alright some explanations are in order regarding my disappearance and the abandoning of the other story. 1. I didn't like the other story, I was under heavy influence from outside sources. 2. I no longer have the save file So yea I've been lurking here for sometime and it gave me the urge to reinstall and start playing again. But since I've not played in six months I'm rusty (try and notice the justification I gave in the story ) so this is me attempting to rule the universe, Large Galaxy, Normal setting. Fiction attempt #2: Chapter 1 Preparation On the edge of the universe were the only trace of civilization is a primitive tree house, exploration of the Outer Rim has all but ceased there was after all a war going on. The Galactic Empire was all powerful and united, or at least that was the picture created. The Emperor could not coordinate his empire so he chose one of his Admirals to do so for him. But not an established admiral, one pulled off some backwater, one without ambition but with enough skills to get things done. The Emperor knew that the fear of him would ensure The Coordinator would be obeyed he also knew that until he proves himself even that fear would only get the job done. He was provided a Victory Star Destroyer that was mostly gutted of weapons. From here he was to decide the course of the Empire and from there he wasn’t allowed to emerge. The crew given him was minute. barely enough to fill a room, worse he was allowed only minimum interaction. His only company were two pissy droids. But the Empire was strong and the Rebels were weak and scattered (or so the droid said). The Empire had the best officers available and the most powerful starships. But in the first month of duty it began to become apparent to The Coordinator that the war would be long and drawn out. For all the “resourcesâ€

Maybe you'd prefer calling them "After ACtion Reports" which is what it stands for?

I did but I am taking part in an rpg already and I can barely stay current on that one.

Well?

*The Views and opinions reflected by Mr. P probably reflect the authors own. By reading this you HAVE waved your right to press charges.* Welcome class to Galactic Conquest 101, I am your teacher Mr. P. I’m well aware why many of you are here, and I want to say right now, this is not Sex Ed how to woo Wookies. *Watches as ten people leave. * That said I shall instruct you on a simulator the engineers have constructed to prepare you for conquering the galaxy. Be aware that these events happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… * Admiral_Antilliles* raises his hand* “Yes?” “What kind of lame introduction is that?” *WHACK * “Antilliles please stop bleeding on my floor.” Now, The simulator has given us a galaxy to play with err… learn from. The simulator seemed to be functioning well when it gave me my planets I shall explain shortly. We have taken control of the “Rebel Alliance” a group of bandits trying to oppose the almighty Galactic Empire. Scathane: “Don’t you think your being a little biased?” *Smack * “Come by later you can pick your head up.” The main idea for this Alliance is to protect their headquarters, they also begin with inferior weapons and facilities available to them. They do not have the might yet to take the fight to the Empire so the idea is that they use their covert operations to damage the Empire enough so that the Imperial invasion doesn’t come. I get ahead of myself back to the headquarters it is located on the baron world of Horzel XI, there have been worse places, I can’t think of any at the moment but ideally speaking you usually would want your base on the far side of the Galaxy, I can deal with this. Let’s look at some planets, ok two planets in the Imperial seat of power one has a shipyard. Crap. Take note students the Empire doesn’t like it when you play in their back yard and more often than not an Imperial Star Destroyer comes knocking. Luckily the Balmorra has two Cannons on the planet and personnel meaning we can run missions, some alien with an unpronounceable name. Now students tell me what that is over the headquarters, *Silence *, any body? At all? Repeat after me than… “F-L-E-E-T” Class: “F-L-E-E-T” Very good, any who *Class snickers * We have a fleet of one Transport and one Corvete. Who knows what we can do with this? Slacker: “Shove it up you’re a…” *CRACK* As I was saying we explore with the Corvete and discover what the surrounding planets have, you’d be amazed at how fast this process is, by day fifty we have a colony and have explored the entire sector. This is important because if you own the planet you know when You’ve been had and when to abandon the Sector. This is a reason why you do not want to allow inner rim Facilities to send product to the sector your HQ is, the Empire weaves a large Spy web and you can get caught in it and not know. Next we touch upon our available facilities I’ll run through the entire list excluding the one Construction yard at HQ. One Yard in Kinyen, perfect just peachy. Moving on to training Yards, one in Delya … that’s odd I can’t find any more, well this blows. Ahem well let’s see what else the stinkin thing can… Ho! What’s this? Five Shipyard two at Billbringi? *Kisses Simulator*, once again, Shipyard are important at this moment because they give you better defense. For the alliance fighters are the optimal defense at this stage in the game with so few ship yards in one place. Having one in most of the major area’s is a great help. Corellia is completely Imperial, so be it. The first thing done was the addition of more Construction yards to the ones already functioning ones. Now I put the plan of one man fighter defense into play… Student: “Why don’t you build a Death Star?” *Smack * Don’t ask stupid questions. Now than, after that we move Adar Talon to research Ship Construction he is quite useful for this trait and progress should be made in leaps and bounds. Page is another useful fellow to have around I order him to get some info on the Imperial systems, and what info he brings back, the goods we already learn of facilities churning out Storm troopers and tie Fighter, not fun. Next the evacuation of Yavin, as the Imperials know were it is they will most likely come a callin. Leia is sent to Sullust to bring the two shipyards and sorely needed training area. General Dadonna is sent on one of the two Crovets guarding Yavin to explore the galaxy and convert as many planets as possible to our cause, the outer rim class is a great place to build your mines and refineries. Wedge is sent to Billbringi to work the shipyards, Han Chewie and Luke head there as well. Mon Monthma tells of a Lando recruited he’s put to work designing new Facilities. Notice now how we sabotage two Shipyard and one training yard? And get spies deployed to investigate the sudden motion for planets to join the Empire? The Corvet is the Sumitra Sector finds no neutral planets odd there is usually one, no matter I heads south. In Summary The next few times we gain a couple generals, And exploit a few chinks in Darth Vaders Armor. A good fifty days, Oh we also captured Novel Garaint.

By the way, how do does one keep track of what happens when in the game? One keeps notes? Yea, eithier real elaborate notes or just a summary, I tried to write it as i went but only got to day fifty before I decided it was going to slow, I've got it ready on paper I'll post it up to give you an idea of one of the ways it could look. It's rather boreing as I took it in the plot of teaching well you'll see. BTW Whomever posts here will automatically become a character in my intro.

oh they're sooooooooooooooo long, but ok you talked me into it, I'll give an example of the first hundred days of a game. But only if, should the idea catch on, a shrine is built for me j/k

After Action Reports, they are done for games like Europa Universalis, it's basicly what this place is for except instead of telling about one event you tell about the whole game in story form. I'm guessing not.

I think it's being made on the computer and being sent to the winner to add to the sig

Have AARS been done here?

Bah Empire is so great it won't happen again.

Bah Empire is so great it won't happen again.

Or you could just have a month or two break in between tourny's. Since I doubt if a tournament with a game as long as Rebellion is going to be short. Especially with all the rounds, depending on the tourny brackets. But I think the teams should give AIM, MSN, etc SN's so that they can meet or whatever concerning what they want to do. Or a thread could be made here for the two the only problem being that the other team could read, but any private stuff can be crried out via PM or IM. Also Players that swing both ways (Don't care who they play as) Can fill the void incase there are more who want to play as the Empire than Rebels and vice versa.

A thought and a problem. The Problem: We have people who only play as The Rebels, and players who Only Play as The Empire. If they were forced into reverse situations like a person who only plays rebels as the Imperials than it would not go as well. Or if there were two playing against each other who both preferred one than the one who didn't get to be his usual will be at a disadvantage. My Thought: We could do it in the true sense of Galactic combat, Empire player against Rebel player, those who suport the Empire form one team, those who support the Rebs on the other. They could then decide who they want to send against who, (Strong player against inexperianced etc etc). I would play under whatever system used.

Acctually named that mind you. During a game a long time ago playing as the Rebels in the beginning I had a great revelation about a Correlian Corvet I had patrolling/exploring the various sectors in the outer rim for expansion. I had captured a couple Imperial characters and decided that I didn't want to take a chance on the Empire finding them again, I think they were important chars critical to the beginning of the game, I.E Piett, Bevel Lemelsk ( I don't think it was those two because I ussually don't find Bevel untill around day 800 when I end the build up and go on offensive against the Empire). I decided that If they were in hyper space they couldn't escape, so I built a Bonthan spy unit at a training center and transferred the personnel to the Corvet. I tried and tested my theory and not once during the game did any captured character escape. Granted the only time the Corvet stopped was when I was waiting for more prisoners to arrive. The second Prison is ussually my capital, or an outer Rim world as the Empire the capital is my most guarded planet anyway and any rebels in the sector are crushed immediatly. I captured The Princess while she was trying to convert the faithful in Yaga Minor and sent her to The Capital were she stayed untill the end of the game. As the Rebellion I ussually use a Transport to establish a colony on a wold somewhere's so as to store them, and transport them via generic personel. Any one else practice these methods.