Stellar_Magic

Well, Han's kind of busy right now, and it wouldn't have been a good idea to spread the information around. So as of right now, nope, no one knows you were coming.

Right you're seeing the front of the ship, the glow is from the weapons systems.

Just a question, which direction do you think that Aklasp ship is going. I ask because your probably going to guess wrong.

Well crud...it's to big!!! Darkie, here's the Army stats for the Rapora thus far: The Raporan Army: Personal Weaponry: Kar Drask Plasma Carbine The standard weapon of the Raporan Warrior the Kar Drask Carbine is the terror of GFFA troops. The plasma carbine is capable of punching through all sorts of personal armor and even light energy shielding. If that wasn’t enough the weapon features a clip enabling a Rapora to attach his lightsaber like a bayonet. Type: Plasma Carbine Effective Range: 38m Maximum Range: 68m Shots per power pack: 40 Shots per gas canister: 120 * * * Kar Vada Plasma Pistol The personal sidearm of Raporan officers the Kar Vada is a weapon that packs as much punch as a disruptor. Type: Plasma Pistol Effective Range: 18m Maximum Range: 32m Shots per power pack: 24 Shots per gas canister: 72 * * * Lanvahok Lightsaber The personal weapon of choice for Rapora warriors is the Lanvahok lightsaber. It is a double bladed weapon where one blade is approxamentally half the length of another. The shorter blade emits at an 80 degree angle from its brother giving the Raporan warrior a weapon that can be used with great effect in lightsaber combat. Type: Lightsaber Primary Color: Red or Orange * * * Lightdisk This weapon is the Raporan equivalent of a Vong razorbug. It is a simple disc with three lightsaber emitters attached around its edge. Rapora warriors will often use the force to guide these weapons into their targets. Type: Thrown Weapon Effective Range: 80m Maximum Range: 100m * * * Thermal Grenade A weapon design based upon the same principals as the thermal detonator, a Raporan Thermal grenade is smaller then it’s GFFA counterpart and has a curved throwing handle enabling it to be thrown much further distances. Type: Grenade Effective Range: 30m Maximum Range: 40m Blast Radius: 18m * * * Xeno Bomb The ultimate in anti-personnel weapons developed by the Rapora, the Xeno Bomb releases a discharge of radiation that kills the beings in a structure while leaving them intact. Fortunately it is difficult to use in combat and the attacking troops must withdraw clear of its blast radius. Type: Placed Charge Blast Radius: 100m Droids: Droideka’kar Based off the aged Droideka chassis the Droideka’kar war droid is a fearsome and common weapon of the Rapora arsenal. It is a machine built for one purpose, the dealing out of death. Like the original droideka the droid is most mobile in a rolled up position. Type: Battle Droid Armament: 2 PLX Missile mounts with a five shot magazine for each, two extra magazines are stored near the reactor 2 Plasma Cannons at the center of each arm 2 Repeating blasters replace the inner blaster mounts on each arm 2 Lightsabers replace the outer blaster mounts on each arm Shielding: personal combat shield capable of deflecting lightsaber blows and mid to light blaster fire. Armor: 10cm thick plate that can turn light blaster fire. Sensors: the sensor head includes a variety of sensors including infrared, motion, optical, heat, x-ray, and ultraviolet. Droid Brain: Relatively dumb by modern standards but smart enough to anticipate ambushes and logically analyze enemy tactics. * * * Kar Vanel Multipurpose droid The second droid used by the Rapora, the Kar Vanel is a homegrown design which mimics the anatomy and motion of the Rapora themselves. The droid is used primarily as crews for their vessels and interpreters. Often times the droid will be armed the same as Raporan Warriors. Type: Multipurpose Droid Armament: None Shielding: None Armor: None Sensors: Infrared, Optical, and Motion sensors are used in a composite eyes which is tuned to replicate a Rapora’s vision. Droid Brain: Relatively bright and capable of thought and learning, its intelligence is roughly equal to a Protocol Droid. * * * Kar Vanel’kar Security and Combat Droid The combat version of the Kar Vanel, the Kar Vanel’kar is used when only the most advanced droid technology will do. It features an ultra intelligent droid brain that rivals the average intellect of the Rapora. Nicknamed the Jedi killer by the GFFA the droid is equipped with cutting edge technology in hyper reflexes and a precognitive simulation allowing the droid to keep pace with a Jedi in hand to hand combat. The droid is capable of utilizing all Raporan weaponry. Type: Battle Droid Armament: 1 built in flamethrower in the right wrist Poison injectors included in the claws of the droid 2 Emergency repeating blasters hidden within the hands of the droid Shielding: No shielding standard, the security model includes an advanced ray shield similar to a droideka. Armor: Cortosis shell underneath a 5cm armor plate. It can turn small blaster fire. Sensors: Infrared, Optical, and Motion sensors are used in a composite eyes which is tuned to replicate a Rapora’s vision. Droid Brain: An advanced tactical droid brain capable of thought nearly as intelligent and random as a human. Personal Loads: Rapora Warrior 1 Fully cortosis lined and enclosed combat suit with an air filter to remove smoke, dust, gas. 1 Helmet equipped with infrared, x-ray, and ultraviolet sensors along with a sonic sensor and anti-sound for protection against sonic attack. 1 Plasma Carbine capable of deliver rapid fire with an explosive yield equal to a heavy blaster cannon (As in vehicle mounted) 1-2 Personel lightsabers 1 Light disk, imagine throwing a frisbee with a trio of small lightsabers mounted on it. 3-6 Thermal Grenades, very similar to a thermal detonator but equipped with a stick shapped handle for farther throws. -OR- 1-2 Xeno bombs, which kill using only radiation leaving structures and equipment intact. 1 Personal Plasma sidearm, punch equal to a disruptor. Vehicles: Alaran Hover Tank Like most military forces in the galaxy the Raporan army acknowledges that in some battles speed rather then firepower or armament is the deciding factor in engagements. The Alaran Hover Tank is the Rapora’s fastest vehicle often used in reconnaissance and harassment of the enemy Height: 19m Crew: 4 Rapora Warriors -or- 4 Kar Vanel Droids Armor: 25 cm of Armor Plate Capable of stopping light and medium blaster fire. Shielding: None Armament: 1 Heavy Plasma Cannon 1 Rocket launcher with a magazine of thirty warheads Top Speed: 210 km/h Troop Capacity: 8 Rapora Warriors -or- 8 Kar Vanel’kar Droids * * * Salyar Artillery The largest, slowest, and heaviest ground vehicle in the Raporan arsenal is the Salyar Antimatter Gun. With a maximum range of 39 km, the artillery piece is capable of leveling entire hillsides with its unique antimatter armament. Height: 68m Crew: 6 Rapora Warriors 92 Kar Vanel Droids Armor: 1 meter of armor protects the entire unit making it incapable of being damaged by all but the heaviest of ground operated weapons. Shielding: None Armament: 1 Antimatter Rail gun capable of firing antiproton or antielectron projectiles against distant targets Top Speed: 18 km/h Troop Capacity: None * * * Varan Kar class Walker This three legged behemoth is the Rapora’s largest ground assault vehicle. It’s designed to be capable of decimating even the largest and most advanced armored vehicles known to the Rapora. Some accounts claim that one of these vehicles managed to take on an entire regiment of Imperial Walkers on Ord Mantell single handedly. Height: 28m Crew: 2 Rapora Warriors Armor: 45cm Armor Plate capable of withstanding most blaster fire and light laser fire. Shielding: Unique combined kinetic and energy shielding capable of stopping all but the heaviest of weapon. A proton torpedo does have the yield to penetrate the shielding however. Armament: Dual Heavy Plasma Cannons 2 Side mounted Plasma Cannons 2 Plasma bomb launchers hung beneath the walker’s torso. Top Speed: 70 Km/h Troop capacity: 8 Droideka’kar battle droids hung from two four-droid racks. Units: Company sized units: These are the component parts of regiments and battalions. Droideka’kar Assault Company The mainstay infantry unit of the Rapora, the Droideka’kar Assault Company provides ample firepower but lacks the offensive speed of most other battlefield units due to its lack of vehicle support. They are used primarily in urban combat, jungle combat, and garrison duty. Composition: 4 Raporan Warriors 128 Droideka’kar Droids Motorized Infantry Company The apex of Raporan mobile warfare, the motorized infantry company is usually tasked to rapidly flank enemy forces. They rely on speed and firepower to surprise their enemies. Composition: 32 Rapora Warriors 96 Droideka’kar Droids 34 Alaran Hover Tanks

UPDATE Rapora Wars Directory and Dictionary: Basic Dictionary of Factions and Species: The Aklasp: “Fear is what we are, beings that know no fear nor age nor death.â€

There's a list of vehicles in the Game Encyclopedia toward the bottom. (Look under Rapora military. I've already used a number of vehicles...I'm also about to update the encyclopedia.

Well work is proceeding, slowly... I've completed both blockade images, both of which include some never before seen vessels. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v436/StellarMagic01/RaporaBlockadejpg.jpg The center of this image is the newest addition to the Raporan Forces, the Aklasp light cruiser. (You've seen two of these ships in the RPG) The second image is off the GFFA blockade card. You can see the new vessel for the GFFA side as well, the Valiant for Liberty class cruiser. (This ship won't appear in the RPG for some time due to its unique background) Sorry I couldn't actually have it in my post, but here's the address...it's in BMP format so it wouldn't work otherwise. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v436/StellarMagic01/RebelBlockade.bmp

You'll need to build your own armored forces to Attack the UDA with. They use primarily heavily modified Imperial equipment. Think of up gunned, meaner AT-ST and AT-ATs. You'll need to build up a sutable number of armored vehicles of your own.

Problem everything but one can't go faster then light in modern physiscs, the effect of gravity. I'm waiting for string theory to give us instantanous travel like the effect of gravity, now that is the future of sci fi!

I think he asked for classes...

OOC: I expect this engagement to take several posts. BS I hope you don't mind having Athien take some initiative with your force. Also, Darkie, to get Raporan Vehicles you have to use nano assembler things to build them. Most Raporan assault craft lack the room to deploy vehicles directly. IC: The Convoy of troops headed for the Raporan fleet stretched out acrosss nearly a thousand kilometers of space. At the lead was a Kar Lur Cruiser flanked by a entire squadron of Savlas. On either side of the body of the convoy were Vaka class cruisers. At the center were an enormous number of Drefma Corvettes and Savla light cruisers loaded with troops and tons of nano assemblers. Then there were the Vagaari. At the very heart of the convoy was a Vagaari Paskla class carrier flanked by twelve of the Vagaari's new Savlanna class cruisers and almost two dozen Alaga Dreadnaughts packed with thousands of warriors. The convoy was slowly passing through the heart of an asteroid field on its way to the final jump to it's destination, Ord Mantell. In amongst the debris six Freedom Sword class corvettes and two Freedom of Thought class cruisers waited cloaked. The leader for the expedition was General Fel who sat in his command ship druming his fingers impatiently. His executive officer, Captain Resak, a Vagaari defector glanced at the tactical display, "We're outnumbered aren't we?" "For now," General Fel conceeded as his fingers continued to drum slowly against the armrest, "Unfortunately if we let them get much further they'll be able to jump." The communications officer spun to General Fel, "Signal from Admiral Evahe, his task force will arrive in four minutes." "How long until the enemy are able to jump?" General Fel asked quietly. "Twenty minutes sir," The sensor officer answered slowly. Suddenly his voice quickened, "Sir, we've got another convoy exiting hyperspace." General Fel felt his eyes widen, "Show me." The holographic image changed to show the other group of ship's that were approxamently thirty minutes from the convoy at their current speed. The instant the images resolved themselves General Fel, felt his breath go out of him, "Thats no convoy." There were just shy of twenty ships in the approaching force, but the number of ships paled in comparison to their composition. At the center of the enemy's formation was a massive Vareme class Supercruiser. It was flanked by four Kar Lurs and six Vakas. The other eight ships were Savla class cruisers. It was clear the Rapora had recognized the vulnerability of their convoys. General Fel knew that with Admiral Evahe's help the odds were roughly even for both sides. Still it would require luck to obtain a victory over the reinforced enemy. Suddenly the communications officer turned her face smiling, "I've got a message from Commodore Athien, she's offering her assistance, she'll be in system within moments." General Fel smiled, "Tell the Commodore that she may have just won the engagement for us."

Why is corrections misspelled?

Okay done. And BS, you try confounding everyone in the RPG at the same time, it's not easy.

Hold it... Let me edit my post!

OOC: Um, you're thinking of the wrong weapon, the Positron Weapons the Aklasp use in ranged combat doesn't freeze their target but send a kinetic energy pulse through it exciting the molecules to the point that they disperse in a cloud of smoke, it's the melee weapons that freeze the target. Um, wouldn't Han have his headquarters close to or on the front? IC: The Aklasp snarled as it drew a weapon that looked strangly like a lightsaber from it's side. Then with a hiss of compress air an icy white beam lanced out from it. Water began to condense around it and swirl like a miniture vortex. Ulan Shai twisted the weapon around in his hands and began to squeeze the trigger, it wouldn't budge. Frowning he squeezed harder before suddenly realizing that the weapon was keyed to an Aklasp's hand strength, one that would be much greater then his own. In desperation he though the weapon at the Aklasp and watched as the white blade of the Aklasp melee weapon sliced through the rifle. Han stepped through ragged door and turned in time to see Ulan duck back as a brilliant white blade sliced through the table next to him which shattered into a cloud of ice crystals. Han watched the fire in Aklasp's eyes light up as Ulan dived beneath another table. Han suddenly felt his mind stop, fire, ice? He turned and saw a simple fire extinguisher lying beside the tent. Smiling broadly he grabbed it from the ground stepped back inside, "Ulan!" The vong turned in time to catch his thrown lightsaber. Then Han turned to one of the Aklasp as it closed in and pulled the pin of the extinguisher. As he came closer Han let loose. The extremely cold wall of Carbon Dioxide seemed to smash into the Aklasp like a brick wall. It scream in pain and thrashed about before firing blindly through the fog. The bolt missed Han completely but vaporized the communications gear. The Aklasp looked down over the fog and hissed, it's mouth gaping open revealing the molten inside of the creature. Han lifted extinguisher and blasted a spray right into the creature's face. It's body spasmed for a moment and it dropped to the floor cooking the plastic beneath it, obviously unconscious. Ulan Shai at the same time rose from behind cover and activated the lightsaber. The Aklasp that faced him hissed in his face before smiling, "You will die Jedi." "We will see." Ulan answered as he stepped forward and waited. The Aklasp took the que, he swung down in a strike that would have lopped off the Jedi's head, but Ulan rolled beneath the blow and lunged. His blade struck the creature's armored torso but failed to penetrate deep enough to eliminate his opponent. But the Aklasp was still in pain, it recoiled away from him as drops of molten metal dribbled onto the floor. Ulan struck again throwing his lightsaber up toward the creature's neck. The blade sliced through the weak joint and severed it's head. The Aklasp clearly dead dropped onto the floor. Ulan and Han tensed waiting for the last creature to make it's move. OOC: And that is how you kill Aklasp. IC: With a flash the first wave of Raporan fighters disappeared in an enormous explosion. As they did the next wave of Raporan fighters were closing on their targets. The Rapora starfighters came closing in on the Mandalorian Cruiser. Their squadrons climbing to greater and greater altitude. As they did so they divided into two elements, the two squadrons of Tornclaws broke toward the Mandalorian Starfighters pumping a hail of laser blasts at their foes, destroying many in the process. The Kar Asp class starfighters climbed to over two thousand meters before turning toward the Mandalorian cruiser, but even then they did not dive directly on it. Then at once the entire wing released their plasma bombs which dropped free fall toward the Mandalorian cruiser. Of the forty eight bombs released, only five would hit their target. The rest were misses or blasted by ground fire, but those five hits were enough. The first three knocked down the dorsal shield, the next two destroyed the ship's engine compartment and disabled her reactor. The mandalorians were stranded on the world.

I probably can't name them all but... Eclipse Eclipse II Sovereign Sovereign II Executor Allegiance Vengeance?

Well, it's official, the Aklasp now have claimed the title of having the most deadly small arm in the galaxy.

Darth Avarice stood on top of the Alaran Hover Tank chewing her lip as she watched the GFFA troopers fighting desperately for the ridge above her. She glanced to her left where the forest blazed before smiling, "Order Company A of the 22nd Occupation Droid Regiment to advance and engage the enemy on the ridge to the east." "Yes, Lord Sith, should we ready the 3rd Motorized Assault Regiment to continue the advance and flank the enemy?" "No, order them to slow their advance, we must make certain the Aklasp are in position before we press our attack," Darth Avaraice answered smiling. * * * Vana Dorja's eyes slowly fluttered open, her vision was blurred. Hugging herself she felt her fingers touch a pair of point scars where once a life readout scanner had been strapped. She sat alone in a darkened room and winced as a light snapped on directly over her head. Slowly she rollled onto her side and winced at once as a spasm of pain flashed through her, a calm almost clinical voice echoed in the chamber, "Do not move, you have suffered severe injury, if you move you may worsen your condition." Vana lay still and closed her eyes fighting against the pain. Her mind was blank, a wiped slate as another voice that gave her chills echoed through the room, "Welcome to the land of the dead." * * * Lieutenant Melina Thompson trigger a burst of blaster fire that caught the first Rapora warrior charging toward her in the chest and pitched him to the ground. His comrades dropped down to covering positions as several other GFFA troopers shot blasters at their opponents. Smiling she patted the nutrient cage of a Yslamiri that lay beside her in between the rocks. Uttering a sigh she pulled a thermal detonator from her belt, stood, pushed the activation lever and tossed it as far as she could into the Raporan Assault Transport's hold. Yelling across the intercom she dropped back behind cover, "Fire in the hole!" The detonator destroyed the already abandoned Raporan transport, and throwing pieces of debris across the ridge. Most of the Rapora somehow managed to avoid being injured by the debris, but at the same time taking cover gave Lieutenant Thompson's battered company a much needed respite. The Rapora hunkered down and only scattered plasma shots flashed across the ridge. At the same time one of the junior Lieutenant's ran up to her, "Melina, we've got Raporan War droids deploying on our flank, at least a hundred of them." Melina picked up the long range comm, "General Solo." * * * Han Solo turned to his communications officer as Melina Thompson's voice flooded the communications, "We're heavily engaged with at least one Rapora Company with an additional company of War Droids on our flank, we need reinforcements." Han shook his head and glanced over to Ulan, "Not good, Lieutenant I'm sending a team of jetpack equipped commandos your way, thats all I can spare." "Roger General." * * * Captain Varka dropped back down as a smattering of blaster fire glanced across the rock in front of him. He hissed in vexation, "I was told this was an unoccupied ridge! Now we're in a fight!" Glancing back down the hill he saw the Droideka'kar Assault Company deploying for combat. He scrambleled down the hill toward the Rapora commander of the company, "Captain, what are you doing, those droids weren't designed for combat in the rocks." The Rapora nodded, "I know that, we'll take the west approach and try and support you as best we can." Captain Varka snarled, "Damn Avarice, why does she not send true infantry, even the Vagaari would be ample for this." Still fuming the warrior scrambled back to his company. Glancing up at the rocks he made a snap decision, "Fix Lanvahoks, and prepare to charge!!!" * * * Darth Avarice smiled as her communications officer turned to her, "The Aklasp report that they are in position." Smiling Avarice glanced at his officers, "The 3rd Motorized Assault Regiment may resume it's advance." * * * Han Solo heard it first, a crackling sound punctuated by a roar like a blowtorch. He turned in time to see a massive smoking figure step into the doorframe of the command tent and lift a strange rifle to it's shoulder, "Get down!!!" Han overturned the holographic map and dropped behind it's protection as he drew his DL-44 from his hip and fired. The bolt hit the creature dead center but seemed to flash and disappear like it had hit a blast door. His eyes wide Han dropped back down as a purplish white blast shot into his comm officer blasting apart her torso and scattering her extremities across the room. The other officers huddled behind what cover they could find as two more beasts stepped into the tent. Ulan Shai drew his lightsaber and waited. * * * All along the inferno a line of Aklasp Warriors a mile long and 1,000 strong stepped out of the inferno. The GFFA troops upon the hills overlooking the enemy were stunned. It seems the enemy had turned the tables on them. OOC: It seems that the GFFA just got it's a** handed to them. Oh and Trej, don't kill all the Aklasp in the next post. I'll want to show of some of their traits and their new melee weapon, so just kill one or two, okay?

Well I know there's problems with the stats, but oh well... I'll have seperate but similar stats for Star Destroyers from this era (They'll be considerably faster though).

Okay Mad, here's the format for Starships: The ship's name... Freedom Sword Class Light Cruiser The ship's description... The Freedom Sword class Light Cruiser is the UDA's reply to the Raporan Savla, fast and maneuverable; she can run circles around larger vessels. Her durasteel and neutronium hull can withstand most energy weapons quite well including medium and light plasma fire. She is the sword of the UDA's fleet hitting hard and fast. The ship's basic statistics. I use the official Lucasarts values for these, SBD, RU, MGLT, and DPF for Shields, Hull, Speed, and Maneuverability respectively. I'll post some numbers for known vessels from the Star Wars universe for comparison. Shields: 4800 SBDs Hulls: 960 RUs Speed: 70 MGLTs Maneuverability: 24 DPF Next is rather obvious, the armament of the vessel. Armament: 12 Heavy Turbolasers 18 Turbolasers 14 Ion Cannons 4 Heavy Torpedo Launchers 12 Plasma Missile Launchers 26 Chiss Batteries (Equal in damage to a heavy Laser Cannon) 12 Anti-starfighter Laser Cannons (Rate of fire equal to that of the Falcon's defense cannons) After that is the number of crew. Crew: 800 After that is a breakdown of the standard troop compliment aboard ship, we'll ignore this for now because I'm working on a different manner to detailing what troops are on a vessel. Finally is a listing of special abilities for the vessel, this can be none to a wide range of special abilities. Special Features: A Phase Cloak enabling the vessel to disappear from all sensors and allow matter to pass through the ship, without any real effect. Strategic placement of Yslamiri around weapons systems and critical areas to deny Rapora the ability to target or dodge those systems very easily A Shield Monitoring Sensor which allows the vessel to discover the exact frequency of an opponents shields and fire through them unhindered. (It often takes nearly a minute of combat for the sensor to find the shield modulation, and it can be countered by switching modulations. For clarity here's the statistics for a Imperial Star Destroyer, and a Corellian Corvette during the Galactic Civil War. Imperial Star Destroyer: Shields: 4800 SBDs Hull: 2288 RUs Speed: 11 MGLTs Maneuverability: 5 DPF Corellian Corvette: Shields: 400 SBDs Hull: 192 RUs Speed: 22 MGLTs Maneuverability: 10 DPF

Okay Trej, here's some answers to your questions Yes, they breath, their bodies require an unusual amount of oxygen in fact, but without oxygen they can survive for a short peroid of time before going into a comotose like state. Yes they do emit a lot of heat radiation, equivalent to standing next to a furnace that melts metal. I believe in one of my posts I showed Darth Avarice having trouble being around them because of the amount of heat they gave off. Their armor is often times scaldingly hot and I wrote that they melted and warped the floor of a Raporan warship just by walking across it. If you're saying blaster fire, the answer is no. Blasters release heat, and Aklasp like heat. If you're saying shrapnel or a thrown spear the answer is yes. The melting of a colder metal would lower their body temperature and render them comotose. Actually no its not, its superheated liquid metal which is even more dangerous to organics. Yes there are fewer of them, but each one is immensly old and experienced. They're also very hard to kill. No, they're not force sensitive. I forgot that didn't I? In truth they have little need for a melee weapon but they do have. Imagine a lightsaber that cut not by infusing heat but by taking it away. A lightsaber that chilled objects until they shattered. Well thats my concept for their personal melee weapon. They're slightly slower then the average human being. Humans really aren't that fast anyhow. You remember the scene in episode I where Qui-gon (sp?) starts to burn through the bridge blast doors. Think of that as the exoskeleton of this alien creature.

It doesn't have to be pretty just deadly.

Actually I haven't added a lot of stuff yet... The Mandalorian Cruiser, The Vagaari under species, the Aklasp vessels, lots of GFFA and Imperial equipment, the hybrid Raporan starship, the hybrid Mandalor/GFFA/UDA starship I'm working on, the advanced droid fighters Hirotek used at Kuat. It's amazing how much we created.

For one thing Raporan tactics are going to begin to change, you'll find that the Replicators aren't going to be used offensively as much. Yes, you'll want to destroy them but it would have been better if in some cases if you just aimed to disable the vessel. I know it's annoying but part of it was that I wanted to use the Replicators alot early on just for the shock value of them.

That would be good, just try and copy the format so I can easily insert the additions into the encyclopedia.