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Jon brought the X-Wing down gently to the ferrocrate landing pad, shut down the engine and popped the cockpit. Seeing now Ladder, he vaulted out of the cockpit, bending his knees to absorb the shock. Beside him the 3 other pilots vaulted out as well, as the Lambda shuttle opened up and a pair of blaster toting soldiers came out. They were there 2 armed guards. They were just to protect there ships when they were on the ground. The lambda also held a couple techs as well as spare parts/torpedoes. A squad of 4 Hefi Defense troopers were making there way over to them. Jon waved over his pilots. "Jeff, watch the set up. Searcy, Tara, lets go meet the customers." He turned and started walking towards the Hefi defense troopers. They were lead to a small empty office where they were left sitting for 5 minutes. A guard finally came in and told them to follow him. They followed him into a much more extravagant office. Jon saluted at the figure, who had a general insignia, and the general returned the salute. "Welcome to Hefi," he said simply. "Thank you sir. I assume your the rankiog military officer?" He shook his head. "No, I'm your liason officer. Your orders come from higher ups... I'm General Mulroon. We're glad you came. We had no space based defenses until you showed up. The other mercanaries we hired are still 3 weeks out... But they'll be bringing in more firepower." Jon nodded. "So, whats the sorta stuff you need us to do?" "For now, 2 pilots on standby... in the air within 2 minutes of us calling you. We'll give you forewarning if we require additional uses of you." Beside Jon Searcy blurted out, "Stance on the New Republic?" The general glared at him for a moment, and suddenly it seemed like Searcy remembered something. "Apologies sir," he said quickly. Mulroon nodded and said, "Fire only if fired upon... That's all you need to know. Dismissed, someone will show you to your quarters." They saluted and walked out. They followed some private to a small facility near there fighters... it was actually just for them, no one else would be using them. They took rooms and coverted one of the rooms to a planning room. About 2 hours later and they were all set up, so Jon called a meeting with the other pilots. "Alright guys, Jeff, Searcy, you guys are on first stand by. 12 hour shifts. 2 minutes to get there, do whatever you want during that time. Tara, you and me are going to hit the streets... get the lowdown on what the populace thinks." Jon got a couple of weird looks. "Hey, I just wanna know, ok?" They slowly nodded and went on there ways.

Is Higher weapon Recharge better or slower? Cause in some games it would be it fires every 12 seconds. In others it would be it fires 12 times a minute (taking 12 as an example) And how much of a difference does it make? Noob question, but i just am kinda confused. And also, does rebed have to be installed to a particular place or does it automatically find SWR and do its stuff?

Rattler swore as he saw the fleet ahead of them. "Stand by," he said quickly over his comm as he reviewed the date. One Mon Cal cruiser, a pair of frigates, some corvettes and a spattering of other ships, all brodcasting as New Republic forces. "Alright, Give out the IFF codes we were told to use... I'm going to contact Hefi Authorities." Jon signed off and put in a call to Hefi. "Hefi control, this is Red flight of 5 requesting orders and a vector." A pause. Just as he was about to press the button and say again the reply came. "Red flight, hold fire unless fired upon. Vector is 231.5. We'll see you on the grount, out." The good news was it appeared the New Republic was friendly. Jon had no real preference for either side... he'd fought for both. He charged about 30% more whenever he worked for the empire, but he was just out making a living. Defending Hefi was that living now... even from New Republic forces if he had too. Rattler switched channels. "Vector 231.5 ladies... hold fire." 4 comm clicks answered him They turned to the vector and another channel opened up. "Unidentified targets, This is the New Republic Cruiser Alderaan. Hold your position and power down your weapons." Rattler swore. "Negative, we are Hefi defense forces. You will now clear the comm," he replied as courteously as they could. "I repeat, power down or you will be treated as hostile." A flight for 4 X-wings banked towards them in the distance. "Once again I say Negative... We will not fire unless fired upon. Contact Hefi Control if you need confirmation." A pause. "Give us a moment. Please hold your position." He was probably gonna ask someone higher up... And in the meantime the X-Wings would reach them... "Accelerate to full speed..." Rattler glanced at his sensors. "Keep moving. They'll intercept us... 2 minutes out from landing. They fire on us there and they'd have to conquer this planet probably... I hope."

Rebels all the way On hard you can win with nothing but corvettes, escort carriers and nebulon-B's... Unless the Empire pulls out some genius tactic, i have every core sector but one (including everything in sesswanna but coruscant). Though it's large, and i only have 4 outer sectors colonized... Original Hard Huge day 1300. I'm just building my first Mon Cal cruiser now, just cause i feel like it. I have it pretty much wrapped up unless they have like all the outer sectors. In all honesties, i think that the best maintenacne for dmg is V2 with 2 tie defenders. Take 5 of those, and i swear no rebel combo can take it for the same maintanence (Im counting cap ships). This is counting that they have equal support forces too. I'm with brew... no sense in having fighters. I keep a half dozen X-Wings at my HQ along with a pair of Nebs. Pretty ez to get the drop on me, but to do that you'll get your ass kicked in core.

joined in the hefi one... there wasn't too many posts to read and find out what was going on. Repora... could i get like a summary of whats happening. I don't wanna read 9-10 pages of stuff. Do you need a particular character or can i just do my own thing? Look forward to RPing w/ u all

OOC: We are at hefi, neutral world in which rebels/imps fighting over. Rebels just beat off Imp fleet after a wee bit of a scrap. Diplomacy is now starting, and people are just getting into it. IC: Rattler sighed as he turned over for the umpteenth time in his pilot seat. The X-Wing's cockpit was so small... he hated long trips. He had tried to catch as much sleep as he could over the 15 hour hyperspace flight, but he hadn't gotten much. "Beep, beep, beep, beep," Jon, known as Rattler to all in his group, reached over and turned off the 2 minute alarm. They were 2 minutes out from arriving in Hefi. 4 X-wings and a lambda combat shuttle... Mercanaries for hire, known as Rattler's Mercanaries. Hefi had hired them and several other mercanary divisions in an attempt to protect themselves in the fight between the Empire and the Republic. There were few mercanaries in the galaxy... it was hard to maintain the numbers, but Rattler and his band had always survived. Rattler counted down the final few seconds and then pulled out of hyperspace, hoping that he wasn't going to be met by hostile forces.

1000 days as empire. I have like 5 fleets that have the approximate strenght of 4 ISD's and 4-5 Lancers. Hunted em down plenty fast. 1400 as Rebel. I actually could of ended it at 1200, but i decided to capture EVERY planet in the galaxy. 422 days online against my friend. Hit him on day 200 with 4 corvettes and an escort carrier, razed everyone of his planets except coruscant... Never knew what hit him