Stellar_Magic

Now we wait for Trej.

It's revenge for what you did with Darth Venom...I still have to straighten that plot out.

OOC: I'm changing post styles, perhaps you should note the name of the Cruiser. IC: Darth Avarice nodded to the repair droids that were examining her fighter as she exited the cockpit and dropped to the deck of the Kar Lur Cruiser Rakatan Enterprise with a thrumb of power the Sith Infiltrator Anger's Delight slid into the hanger bay and slowly dropped to a landing on the deck. Darth Avarice smiled as she felt the wave of anger and frustration that poured from the pilot as he powered down. She felt her smile broaden as she saw him step down the ramp his fists knotted at his sides, "You look angry Fury." Darth Fury cast his gaze at her, hatred in his eyes, "We lost, how should I feel?" "You completed our objectives Fury even if you do not know them, now the Timeless One has new orders for you," Darth Avarice leaned against the still warm hull of her Tornclaw fighter, "You are to take a small fleet and intercept a Jedi attempt to contact the Chiss hiding in their redoubt." Darth Fury nodded, "It will be done." * * * Athien sighed as she dropped the General onto the couch of his quarters and looked up at the walls. Her father had trained her well and as her eyes flickered across the sparse furnishings she got a clearer look at the man's character. Then her gaze stopped on a single piece of artwork, a corellian piece that she'd seen as a holo before, "Typical Corellian, drunk and brash, but with an added layer of complexity, interesting." General Hirotek stirred on the couch, "You forgot that we don't care about odds." Athien felt her smile broaden, "But you do, you care for the men under your command." She gestured to a piece of Mon Calamari make hanging over his cot, "That was made by the late Admiral Ackbar wasn't it." "It was," General Hirotek stumbled upright and straightened, "You are very much like your father Athien." She tried to walk to the bed but lost his footing and Athien pulled him back upright, keeping him from falling to the ground, "I shouldn't have drunken that last bit of wine." Athien felt her eyes harden as she felt a hardened piece of skin under his sleeve. Pulling it back she saw a tatoo that few ever would seen and even fewer would recognize, "You're a mandalorian." "Was," Hirotek replied ashe sat down on his bed, "I never truely fit in."

Darth Avarice has sealed orders for you, I'll post so you'll know what they are.

Nothing, The Timeless One planned for the missions to be botched, it just will continue to fit in with his broad grand plan for the war,

Don't hold your breath when it comes to Athien, she's a pretty complicated and sometimes abrasive character. She also has pretty high standards, it remains to be seen if Hirotek could stand up to them though. Also BS, I was thinking of actually having her be attracted to someone else... Eh, Oreton? So back to the battle of Fondor, there's two Raporan Replicators (Which you keep refering to as Resurrectors) in system, the Resurrector, and the Malliable World. The Malliable World has been damaged, and is moving to withdraw, but now you still have to deal with the enormous Raporan fleet and the Resurrector. The Skywalkers will soon recieve their new family transport, the Jade Scimitar, a vessel that will make most other ships seem horrendously obsolete with a combination of Vong, Sekotan, and Alliance Technologies and designs. I can't wait to get it into action.

MENTALS! I prefer the term Eccentrics.

OOC: Is it just me or is BS's character flirting with Athien? Also the Raporan Replicator that is in system isn't the Resurrector but another ship called Malliable World. IC:The Timeless One smiled as the force of Imperial ships closed on his position. He leaned back in the command chair of the massive flagship of the fleet, "Instruct Savla Squadron Kubal to conduct a portside sweep on the GFFA Task Force moving to support the attack. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v436/StellarMagic01/SaclaAttack.jpg The Timeless One watched as a squadron fo Twelve Savlas cut across the formation firing their weapons as they went. Behind them they left a stream of Mines, each one targeting its nearest opponent and firing. The GFFA Task Force broke up as the mines scored a kill on one of the Imperial IIs and trained their fire on the mines. The Timeless One nodded, "Order the formation to invert." With that order the entire rapora formation switched from a dagger to a giant pincer that threatened to surround the Imperial fleet. One of the Rapora spun away from the consoles, "Sir, we're picking up a fleet coming out of hyperspace, lead by the Guardian." The Timeless One shrugged, "So Darth Tuvax could not delay Evahe for as long as I hoped, no matter. Signal Fleet Group Resurrector, supply them with a vector twenty thousand kilometers below and behind us." Smiling the Timeless One knew he'd just doubled his fleet and soon he'd have a true battle to contend against the enemy. * * * Athien leaned back and watched Hirotek get drunk, it was an odd quirk of the Rapora that drinking affects them extremely little, and it occasionaly made discussions over alcohol much more entertaining, this was not an exception, "So what happened?" "General Ah'bat leaned down next to Kre'Fey and said, 'You admiral are drunk.' And then Kre'Fey said, 'You General are right! And if I wasn't drunk, I'd be punch drunk, taking coruscant can do such a thing you know." Lir'ka stepped into the room, "Sir, I've got Admiral Kre'Fey on the line." "You do!" Hirotek stood up in a rush, "Damn." Athien shrugged and turned to the second in command, "Please inform the Admiral that General Hirotek is currently indisposed." She lifted her small glass of purely blue green aldera wine, "A toast to victory." Lir'Ka shook her head as she stepped out the door. The General took one last swig of his wine then collapsed onto the floor. Athien laughed to herself as she took a drink from her wine and wandered over to the comm and keyed it, "Lieutenant, your CO has had a bit to much to drink, could you help me get him to his quarters?" Smiling she bent down pulled the General upright and thought to herself, maybe she'd get a glimpse of the other side of this eccentric man. OOC: Now the Resurrector with support ships will drop into the Fondor system... BS, I just had to be a little funny with your new character didn't I?

Do you remember where this all began, I do. So the first scene from the Novel version of the Rapora Wars. The simple calm black velvet of space was torn by the blurred form of an X-wing flashing across the vast vacuum. Its battered sides marked from damage from old battles and reentries, few of which the owner of the vehicle had participated in. The red domed R2 unit that was nestled behind the pilot’s seat slowly turned in its housing, casting its gaze upon the stars. In the cockpit the pilot of the craft heard the droids mournful whistle, “It’s good to be out again isn’t, Annie?â€

The Timeless One smiled as the massed Raporan fleet moved to engage the GFFA forces above Fondor. Their ships were struggling to enter formation as the enormous Raporan Replicator appeared in the center of the Raporan formation. It rotated activating its primary weapon assembly, then fired, slicing into the GFFA formation demolishing a trio of Imperial II Star Destroyers. Then with a flash another fleet dropped out of hyperspace well above the world of Fondor and began to maneuver to engage the Rapora. At its center was the massive hulk of a Sovereign class Star Destroyer. * * * Admiral Oreton smiled as he nodded to the navigator, "Excellent Job, weapons is the Superlaser ready to fire?" "Yes sir," The young green lieutenant answered as he leaned over the console. * * * Luke Skywalker nodded to Ulan and Harrar, "I appreciate you speaking with me so quickly." Harrar smiled, a curious expression from the Vong Priest, "Any news of the Galaxy is welcome." "I'm afraid it isn't good news," Ulan answered solemnly. Luke nodded, "Has Ulan briefed you in on the actions of the Rapora?" "He has, I wish we had another choice but to maintain what we have we must fight, I've asked Sekot to begin work building us ships, though it is cautious of having us take up arms, it has agreed." Harrar shrugged and nodded to Danni Quee as she drifted into the meeting, "How long until the ships are ready?" "It will be awhile Harrar, Sekot has decided that the Skywalkers need a new vessel of their own first." Danni smiled, "Me and Sekot have been working on combining modern GFFA technology and Sekot's organiform equipment." Luke felt his eyes widen, "A living ship?" He glanced back around the group, "What about the bonding ceremony?" Ulan smiled, "The Organiform circuitry doesn't require such bonding." Danni shrugged, "Still it would make the interface more efficient. The ceremony will be ready whenever you are." Luke nodded, "Alright, Ulan I need you to contact the remnants of the Chiss Ascendancy, we need to know their statis. I hope you'll be able to find them within the redoubt."

I've started working on a SW: Novel for Rapora Wars. This may take awhile... The Battle of Fondor will probably end up being a tactical victory for the GFFA but a strategic victory for the Rapora. Meaning: The shipyards will be destroyed, but the Rapora will suffer heavily.

News Flash, the attack on Kuat was part of a two pronged offensive. The second strike has just begun...at Fondor. Raporan Attack Fleet: (You'll hate this) 1 Raporan Replicator named the Malliable World 2 Vareme Class Supercruisers 12 Kar Lur Class Cruisers 18 Savla Class Cruisers 24 Drefra Class Corvettes Fondor Defense Fleet: 2 Super Star Destroyers 17 Imperial II Star Destroyers 4 Dominator Star Destroyers 9 Victory II Star Destroyers 11 MC-80as 9 MC-90s 1 Bothan Assault Cruiser Trej, I suggest you move to assist Evahe in this engagement.

Space was filled by the firery detonations from missiles, lasers, plasma, and torpedoes. The brilliant flashes of destruction came fast and furious, sowing space with flames and embers from ruptured hulls and crackling shields. Athien felt the bridge of the Freedom of Thought shake as a blast from the Kar Lur cruiser Draco's Circle smashed against her shields, "Report!" "No damage captian, the shields caught it all," Lieutenant Jolean yelled from her post, "Port Shields at Thirty percent!" "Full axial rotation, Plasma batteries, standby." Athien felt the deck rock again as the stars rotated above her, "Have you found their shield modulation?" "Yes captain," the special tactics officer answered swiftly, "We've got their modulation." "Match modulations for our guns and ready for a modulation switch on the shields," Athien hissed as she saw the last shots from the Kar Lur's volley flash against the shields, "Switch modulations." "Modulations switched," The tactic officer replied coldly. Athien smiled and nodded, "Fire!" The batteries of Plasma cannons loosed their full salvos on the Raporan Cruiser, smashing against its main hull. One of the blasts sheared through the central spar of the cruiser and the ship began to tumble forward, out of control. Cheers echoed the bridge for a moment and Athien smiled, "Bring us onto the next target." * * * Jag bit his lip as the flight of Raporan fighters sliced through his defense sector, "Alright lets get them." The Raporan fighters saw the Clawcraft dropping in behind them, in response they accelerated. Jag bit his lip as the fighters began to pull away from their foes, "Send all discretionary power to the engines, except shields!" Their lead began to lessen and as the Rapora heard the twirping of their target warning systems began to maneuver. Jag center his crosshairs on the lead fighter as the massive bulk of the Eclipse class star destroyer rose before them. Jag loosed a volley of green laser blasts at the target and saw two of them slice through the ship's shields and tear apart the vessel's engine. A second later it detonated. Now only three remained. Then there were two, another Chiss Clawcraft sliced toward the formation and scored a hit on the fighter's cockpit. The craft carried on going straight and smashed into the Eclipse's shields even as the last two climbed over the hull. Jag saw what they intended, "They're going for the bridge!" "I've got them," That was four, one of the few remaining fighters from the squadron under Jag's command. He fired tracking across the rearmost fighter which detonated in a brilliant fireball as the shots hit the plasma bomb slung underneath its cockpit. The flames blinded four and the clawcraft flashed and exploded as it hit the Eclipse's shields. The final Raporan fighter loosed its plasma bomb and as Jag was about to call out a warning to the eclipse a chiss Clawcraft shot from around the bridge and flew straight into the bomb's path, sacrificing himself to save the command crew of the destroyer. * * * Darth Avarice turned away from the battle as waves of brillaint green turbolaser fire arched toward the Vareme class Supercruiser. Explosions danced across the vessel's hull but its shields held as the Cruiser fired upon the two nearest UDA ships obliterating them. Even so Avarice knew the truth, the battle was going against them. * * * Kyp Durron lead the Admiral through the maze of tunnels and pointed to rack upon rack of starfighters hanging above them, "The design seems familiar doesn't it." Admiral Evahe nodded, "They look alot like the Raporan fighters." Kyp nodded as they stepped through another bulkhead, "Yes, I've seen dozens of sculptures of Rapora in here, and we've found something thats really disturbing." They stepped into a broad circular room and Kyp nodded to Kara, "Go ahead." The center of the room glowed slightly and suddenly a Raporan starfighter materialized in front of them. It hovered for a moment and settled down onto the floor. Admiral Evahe felt his jaw drop open, "By the force..." Kyp nodded somberly, "It'll take a lot more then destroying their ships to stop the Rapora. If they can build a fighter in a few seconds, how long for a cruiser, or a destroyer? How long to build another resurrector or something even bigger?" Admiral Evahe nodded, "You better send a report to the advisory council and high council. This has to be addressed." His com link chirped, "Admiral Evahe here...are you sure?" Kyp turned to the Admiral, "What is it?" Admiral Evahe shuddered, "A Raporan fleet has just been sighted over Fondor." He sighed, obviously tired, "Kuat will have to take care of itself, to Fondor."

Thats the one NJO book I haven't read. It's the one that Anakin dies in.

I've been reading some stuff on that trilogy and I've come to the following conclusions. Number one, there's a rumor that the Dark Jedi that leads the enemy will be the same evil character as in Star by Star. There is also a rumor that Killiks an extinct race from Alderann will be part of it. These are unconfirmed, and would really screw up Rapora Wars if they were. Number two, there will be nine books following The Unifying Force, again these are unconfirmed. If proven true, I'll have to move back the time line for the Rapora War. Still, none of these have the web of connections that Rapora Wars does to all the elements of the Star Wars Universe, a complete explaination of the prophecy, connections to the Infinite Empire, connections to the "Nameless Threat" in the unknown regions, Thrawn's return, a complex working of how the force actually exists and works. Need I go on? Of course they'll never listen to me until I've publish other works, so darn.

Goddamnit George! No I'm not working with George Lucas. I will say that the Rapora do sound remarkably similar to the enemy in this new series, but I doubt they've got a history as long and as detailed as the Rapora. Actually this is something of a test bed for a series of books. Thus far I think that the Rapora would really stand quite well in the legion of star wars enemies.

Um, if you kill the Supercruiser, you kill Darth Fury...

Yeah, you'll need it, to kill Replicators anyway.

Athien slammed her fists into the command chair in frustration, "Damn, activate gravity well generators, focus on the Eclipse's vector." She saw the looks of surprise from the crew but they hurridly complied. "Transmission from the Genisis," Jaina said softly. "I'll take it," Athien answered leaning back in the command chair. "Athien, what are you doing!" The frightened and stunned form of General Ioor appeared before her. Athien smiled, a smile she knew was just as predatory as the Rapora, "Winning this battle General." Glancing aside to Jaina she smiled, "Inform Colonel Fel that his fighters will be tasked with directly engaging those fighters which are targeting the Genisis." She smiled as she looked to her tactical holo, "Destroyer squadrons one and two, move to one thousand kilometers ahead of the Genisis. Combat groups three and four will move to one thousand kilometers port and stardboard of the Eclipse. Destroyer squadron three and command group will move to one thousand kilometers below and above the Eclipse." She glanced back at General Ioor, "We'll shield you from the faster ships, you take care of that supercruiser, use everything you've got including your whole fighter wing. We'll cover you." General Ioor slowly nodded, "I understand, thank you Commodore." Smiling brightly Athien keyed her fleet comm, "All units, your priority is to defend the Genisis at all costs, protect it and we may yet win the day." * * * Kyp Durron nodded, "Admiral, we found an immense underground complex, filled with working equipment, we counted over a hundred seperate chambers. Several of which were filled by hundreds of operation starfighters. We dated a couple and they're well over ten millenia old." Admiral Evahe frowned, "Show me."

No, I'll have Athien be an a** and force you to stay...

That thing is the only ship you've got that can take on the Rapora Supercruiser, if athien moves to keep the fast Savlas and Kar Lurs off your back you could win this thing. Just think, a completely destroyed Rapora fleet! No, there won't be a Raporan Replicator a.k.a. in this engagement, so don't worry about it.

Okay the battle of Kuat... Phase 1: Recon probe is fought to a standstill. Phase 2: The rest of the Raporan fleet arrives Phase 3: The Asteroid strike Phase 4: The Eclipse SSD arrives. This is where we're stuck. The Eclipse SSD arrives and manages to destroy a couple of Kar Lur's with its superlaser before the Rapora succeed in destroying the weapon. Being all alone without support the Eclipse could easily be overwhelmed by the smaller and faster foes. So Athien deploys her forces to screen the Eclipse. With the help of the Eclipse they fight the Rapora to a standstill. NOTE: The key to winning battles in this RPG is to try and eliminate the Rapora's big advantages. Intercept their fighters as far out as possible. Keep your forces loose and adaptable, the Rapora can change plans very quickly. Never, ever deploy heavy starships without significant Anti-starfighter support. Use the Rapora usual numerical inferiority to box them in and whittle them down. Loosing one or two ISDs to kill a Kar Lur is actually good for the GFFA.

You forget, each bomb is capable of taking out a star destroyer, I put the damage on the conservative side. In actual fact the eclipse only has about twice the hull and shielding as a Sovereign, and a couple Kar Lurs really beat up Terj's ship there. Your other wings are busing fighting the absolute swarm of Raporan fighters and Vagaari fighters that are out there.

OOC: Using an Eclipse was a mistake in general, but if I have Athien cover it, it should be able to rip a seam in the enemy fleet. Captain Veran Cardras wa the creature's name. He stood on the bridge of his ship, the Kar Lur Cruiser Vrackador Cycle. Smiling her looked out at the black dagger which sat in space before him, "An Eclipse class ship. Helm full power, medium weapons target the dorsal heavy turbolaser clusters, heavy weapons, target the superlaser, fire on my command." The Cruiser rolled and leapt toward the Eclipse, its hulk swooping across the battlefield, "Order our fighter screen to gun for torpedo runs on that ship." The Eclipse class ship saw the cruiser coming and began a ponderous roll to bring more of its guns to bear as a wing fo Raporan fighters loosed their torpedoes on the behemoth. The brilliant flashes of explosive plumes the size of star destroyers rippling across then through the shields of the ship dominated the bridge viewport. "Their bow shield has collapsed!" "All guns, fire!" Suddenly a solid stream of golden projectiles stabbed through the night and into the bow of the Eclipse class ship. The Superlaser casing cracked and broke disabling the weapon as blasts rippled across the ships front. over two dozen heavy turbolaser batteries fell from the barrage. As the ship grew closer the return fire collapsed the Kar Lur's bow then ventral shields. As parts of the hull began to evaporate Veran smiled, "Full axial roll, break off the attack." * * * Darth Avarice nodded as she saw the Eclipse's greatest weapon smolder from its destruction. Then as if to overshadow the magnitude of the GFFA's error the Vareme Super Cruiser unleashed its full weaponary. A seam was chiseled in the ship's hull the length of a star destroyer as the volley of super heavy plasma cannon fire rippled across its side and battering down the shields. * * * Athien was beside herself with anger, "You fools expected the Rapora to fall apart because of the appearance of a single Eclipse class Star Destroyer! That ship will be destroyed if we don't intervene." Biting her lip she spun to the communications officer, "Signal the Eclipse, inform them that we're moving to support. She glanced at one of her officers, "Commander, is the Freedom of Thought ready?" "We are ready and awaiting your orders." Jaina felt herself smile as Athien nodded, "Take us into the fight."

Here's a suggestion, fire on the Raporan Super Cruiser, you won't be able to kill it right away, but if you don't try to damage it, it will completely pick you apart. Also the Kar Lur and Savla's are fast enough they can dip in and out of firing range and harass your vessel without endangering themselves that much. Their high speed would make targeting them with the superlaser problematic.