Stellar_Magic

OOC: Sorry BS but the trophy for least serious player still goes to kaja... IC: (Do I actually have a character? no.) High above the world of Ord Mantell the 1st United Defense Alliance fleet decloaked. Their ships arrayed in a perfect attack position enabling them to pulverize those few forces to their front and punch evacuation transports through the defenses and to the besieged forces. Everything seemed to be going as planned and that if anything was what bothered Commodore Athien the most as she settled back in her command chair and gazed across space at the Raporan ships. She forced a smile as she nodded to the holos of the captains of her squadron of vessels, "You may fire at will." The chiss squadron under her command was the first to fire in the fleet and the Raporan vessels before her the first to suffer from the withering barrage. As the other squadrons opened fire the Rapora lit up their drives and dove toward the planet. It was a maneuver the Rapora had exercised time and again, a maneuver that maximized the Raporan ship's advantages. They rolled as they moved away from their attackers to spread out the impact of the weapons fire on a multitude of shields. Those Vagaari ships that had been scattered among the raporan formation were destroyed in the volley as the majority of the Raporan ships escaped. The Chiss had their window for pulling the troops out, but the Rapora had escaped with only the loss of a half dozen light cruisers. Even now the Raporan ships were pulling away from the planet attempting to reverse the situation and entrap the UDA ships within the world's gravity well.

You say Galactic Civil War, just how far before and after the OT are you casting your net for ships and the like? Also... Someone get ElvilleJedi!!! He's the one you want! I've got some experience at modifying games but not much else, I did a little Visual Basic in high school and forgot most of it. I can create some pretty good images but I donb't have photoshop, I use GIMP. Hmm... Anyway your description has created a whole lot of questions for me. How will combat occur? You've got ranks but no chain of command, maybe adding one wouldn't be a bad idea.

Well my ST vs. SW stuff included the Rapora... An RPG, I'm afraid it would get a little one sided with people doing some really biased things.

Just a general notice Kaja, you'll find we're are very...very...serious in this RPG and your character better not screw up our whole perception of the Rapora because if it does, I'll kill you!!! Also Kaja if you want your character ever to be promoted you're going to have to cut back on his less then serious actions. If you don't his superiors may feel obliged to reprimand him. Tuvax should regroup his forces and start attacking the GFFA compound itself. You'll be facing a hodgepodge of enemy forces. Tuvax will not participate in Kyp's demise.

Just so long as you don't do anything that crazy in Rapora Wars... You know what I'd do to you if you tried it BS.

I'm from USA. You know, the United and Stupid Association.

Yeah keep it a secret Lucas so fans like me can write awesome fanfiction about it... You all know I've got my own theory

It's all because Palpatine is George's Alter Ego. He can't stand the thought of being corrupted by his corporate opulance.

Rakamats... Vong? What next? Killiks? Chiss? Vagaari? Hey BS, maybe we could make a Rapora Wars addition... Image the destruction we could unleash! Personally I think they should just try and make a realism mod and maybe an expansion pack before you try anything that big.

No, the Rapora aren't humanoid, they're bipedal with the basic body shape of a velociraptor thats been forced to walk much more erect then normal. Argh...starting over is no fun.

I don't recall... Which of you guys is commander of that force, speak now or forever hold your peace! I had a major computer problem, and some of you will undoubtably decide to kill me upon hearing this, I no longer have any of the files for the Rapora Wars RPG. None of them. I think I'm about ready to throw up my hands in disgust!

Grand Admiral Thrawn watched as the Raporan fleets entered hyperspace, a thin smile playing across his lips, "Excellent, that weakens the enemy a little." He turned and watched a number of the Aklasp ships disappear into hyperspace, "Signal the ground forces, tell them we'll arrive in two minutes." * * * Kyp and Ulan ran. They ran from the stream of Raporan warriors and broken imperials. The retreat had already become a route, a route to the next defensible position. Behind them walkers and men who couldn't flee quickly enough were struck down as sith and raporan troopers raced after them. Behind them the Vagaari troops were strung out picking through the last pockets of normal resistance. Still they ran. * * * Darth Tuvax snarled as he charged after the retreating imperials. The jedi were far ahead of him and Tuvax knew he wouldn't be able to reach them until they'd joined with the defenders of the base itself. Still he followed, urging his forces forward, and hoping for a victory over them. * * * High above Adumar the battle for the planet waged, and a squadron of raporan reinforcements from a nearby squadron arrived. The six Savla class light cruisers were lead by the warship Cyclical Death captained by Rimak Ardar. Now the Commodore in the Raporan navy was faced with his first combat engagement, actively fighting against an entire GFFA fleet. Hundreds of Vagaari vessels were already engaged and had slowed the GFFA forces to a crawl, it was now Ardar's chance to beat them into submission.

Well I just introduced him as a Raporan fleet captain, to be an apprentice of Fury or Tuvax, Rim would have to be part of the sith order, and not many rapora are actually members of that order (Thus far only Tuvax has been) so I gave you a different sort of role.

I'm alive...but quiet.

Which side will this vessel appear on? We don't need another super vessel to add to the mix do we?

Okay guys... twenty questions. 1. How many worlds are there? 2. How modable will the game be? 3. Can weapons be given an aim down the sight feature? 4. Are vehicles such as AT-STs invulnerable to small arms fire? 5. What weapons will each unit be equipped with. Okay I did five... now someone post five more.

Personally I think we're on the verge of having too many characters, we should take the axe to some before adding more, or... We could start another spin off and keep the characters divided into an orderly manner.

The Timeless One smiled as he studied the report before him, "So the GFFA is about to attempt to break our blockade, nice of them to inform us of it by assualting Adumar." He leaned forward and glanced to the Rapora warrior off to his right, "Inform task force four they will prepare for immediate departure for Adumar. Alert the Aklasp to fake a jump to Adumar and take up position at Ord Mantell Extreme approxamently twenty degree above the ecliptic." As Clawdar slunk off to issue the orders the Timeless One grinned, "Come on in Thrawn, the gate is open." OOC: um...Mad, Tuvax has got a Shadow Bomb sitting next to him... shouldn't you do something about it?

I've been rained in by a mountain of essays... oh well.

This is just proof as to the addictive nature of Rapora Wars.

Bring your whole fleet, remember the aim is to draw forces away from Ord Mantell. Darth Tuvax should concentrate on the imperial troops. The Jedi will keep for now, Kyp's fate will be sealed inside the base by a squad of the veteran Rapora warriors.

Can anyone say Guerilla war? Fortunately at least Athien will show up with some UDA ships. Not all is lost.

Mit'thrawn'uruodo smiled slightly at the image of the general before him, "General Ioor, Han Solo's forces on Ord Mantell are about to be overrun, I'll need you to launch a diversionary attack on Adumar to draw some Raporan forces away from Mantell and give my fleet a chance to punch through the defenses they're throwing up." "Yes Admiral," General Ioor answered with a nod. Slowly Thrawn turned to the second hologram in the room, "Admiral Oreton, I suggest you place your forces on standby, if we become heavily engaged I'll need your ships to bail us out." Finally Thrawn turned to the last Hologram, "Admiral Hirotek, Commodore Athien tells me you've had some sucess in your attempts to swing the Vagaari from their current loyalties. The battle at Ord Mantell should draw the enemies attention from their own borders, I suggest that you move into the unknown regions and find a suitable base of operations near Vagaari space. Commodore Athien will follow you into that territory after the conclusion of the battle with a force of UDA vessels. I trust you understand the goals of your mission." "Yes Admiral, it'll be good to bring the war to the enemy." Admiral Hirotek answered and Thrawn smiled. "Due to the possiblity of this operation going awry Commander Veran has a copy of my will. In the battle itself Commodore Athien will be my second in command," Slowly he turned and nodded to his daughter, "If you loose communications with my ship at any time you may take command." "Yes father," Athien answered quietly, hoping it would not become necessary. * * * Kyp stepped back as the Rapora warrior stalked toward him. If Rapora and sith were bad, this thing was ten times worse, it was both. The Rapora hissed as it ignited its two blades and charged. Kyp backflipped away from the attack and landed behind the Darktroopers, "Ulan!" Suddenly the Yuuzhan Vong was there, dropping from a speeder bike and igniting his lightsaber, "Kyp, who is that Rapora?" "I have no idea," Kyp answered as he turned away from the battle and pulled out his commlink, "This is Imperial Alpha, we are heavily engaged, request air support for an opportunity to disengage and fall back to the base." * * * Corran heard the call as he spun away from two Raporan Tornclaws, "Kyp, this better be good." He glanced down at his monitor and new that there weren't nearly enough fighters still up to do the job conventionally, "I guess I'm going to have to be a little inventive." Horn broke hard on the stick and homed in on Kyp's presence in the force, using it as an aiming point. With a tight smile he sent a message to kyp, where do you want this strike? A series of images flashed back and Corran smiled, that he could do. * * * Han Solo nearly jumped as Kyle Katarn careened into the map room with a Raporan Plasma Carbine grasped in his hands, "Kyle! Why aren't you with Fett?" "He said he could handle it himself. He thought you might need saving." Han sighed, "We all need saving it seems. We're reading the transports now, but in order to get off planet we need to clear a hole in their blockade. Thrawn's on the way probably but he won't get here for another hour, at the least." "He'll have a diversionary attack before he gets here, he always does," Kyle answered solemnly. "Lets hope the Rapora don't remember that." * * * Kyp smiled as the Raporan Sith stepped in front of the line of Droideka'kars. As the whine of an engine filled the air Ulan flipped his lightsaber up into a salute as Corran's X-wing thundered overhead at ten meters. As the X-wing rocketed away Tuvax smiled until he heard the soft thump of the two shadow bombs hitting the ground just before and beside him and his troops. * * * Lowbacca waited as the Rapora squad leader stepped forward and twirled his lightsaber, then he struck. With speed and force that would have stunned most opponents Lowbacca swung toward the Rapora's blade. Their sabers smashed together, but instead of purely resisting the blow the Rapora slowly twisted his wrists spun delivering a counter strike the sliced across the Wookie's chest, a painful wound. Lowbacca barely flinched from the smell of his own burning flesh as he roared a wookie battlecry and charged his opponent, his climbing claws sliding out of one of his paws. The Rapora easily blocked his blows before withdrawing a lightdisk from his pouch and activating it. He used it as a small shield, parrying each strike that came near it with a cock of his wrist. Then he spun on his heel and kicked the wookie. His killing claw reamed the wookie's arm, ripping away flesh to the bone. Stunned, Lowbacca felt his arm go lax and watched his lightsaber fall from his hand. Then without a moment of hesitation the Rapora spun once more and burned through his neck dropping the headless torso to the ground before him.

I have to agree with Trej, there's some stuff missing. I also think that not one of us talked about a scenario base for the gameplay. Scenarios should be secondary to creating a "Grand Campaign" in which you conquer the Galaxy.

I've actually read the one of the novels, they're not bad. Especially compared to stuff like the Truce at Bakura or Darksaber.