Defender_16

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+++ The Venture, ISD Storm Harrow and both MC-90's once again found themselves manoeuvring between the larger Imperial capital ships, space all around them filled with starfighters and freighters. Defiance, finding herself hard pressed, unleashed her second last volley of Torpedoes into the bridge complex of a Destroyer. Secondary explosions ripped through the other ship's portside hull leaving her adrift. The Mon Cal cruiser then rolled to put her failing shields toward the crippled ship, allowing them time to recharge. An explosion rocked the Starboard side of the Galactic Venture and then Booster suddenly found himself getting up off the floor of his bridge. "What just hit us?" "A Turbolaser barrage got through and hit a fuel storage tank in one of our Strike Cruiser hulls. Starboard Landing bays are out of commission." "Get everyone out and seal it off." The ship shook violently as another barrage ripped into the same sections already damaged by the explosion. "Shields get something up to cover that." Booster watched the sensors as smaller ships started to draw the attention of the destroyer that had hit them. "Helm, point us at the closest Destroyer in our forward arc, I want to get away from that one that was hitting us." The ship started into a small turn and then began to accelerate. "Destroyer Trident dead ahead." Reported the helmsman. The view screen at long last came online again showing the ship they were heading for. Straight as the Starboard profile of the target destroyer. The Trident fired a broadside into the Venture's bow and the ship shook. "Prepare heavy turrets for forward fire. Helm, when weapons give the all clear bring the bow down." The heavy topside turrets turned to point forward and charged to full power. A second Turbolaser volley hit the forward shields collapsing them. "Weapons hot." The helmsman brought the bow down five degrees giving a clear field of fire to the Turrets. The four Heavy Turbolaser turrets and two triple Ion Cannon turrets all fired at once striking the Destroyer's shields. The Venture's bow came back up just the other ship tried to train weapons on the turrets. Return fire struck the armoured bow plate. Whole sheet sections of metal boiled off into space from the laser hits. "Fire the remaining rockets!" Shouted Booster over the scream of metal carrying through the hull. The forward bay doors dropped open and slightly more than a dozen Heavy Rockets flashed out. One Turbolaser beam aimed for the Rebel capital ship struck one of the missiles but the rest didn't encounter any resistance until they hit shields. The wave of missiles detonated simultaneously, none of them making it through to the hull but pouring all of their damage into the Destroyer's shields. The Starboard shields crumbled away. "Bow shields back online!" Reported operations just before another hit rocked the ship. The same man sighed. "Bow shields down again." The Tie clutch Squadron that had stayed near the Venture began strafing the exposed weapons on the Imperial ship. "Helm, bring us up and over Trident. Operations, put all shield power to Port. After we begin our climb roll us... 50 degrees." Starfighters began pouring laser and Ion cannon shots into the Trident's Heavy turrets. One Clutch dodged the wrong way and was blown apart by a stray Turbolaser bolt. A Tie Interceptor squadron hid from the Venture's quad laser cannons behind their carrier, striking at any Clutch that came near enough. Venture's Bow came up and over the top of the Destroyer, her starboard shields now holding against the weakening return fire. As the Modified super freighter rolled her topside heavy turrets came into line with the other ship's exposed hull. All six turrets fired into the base of Trident's bride tower, Heavy Ion bolts cutting off the ship's command and control. The next barrage cut into the Destroyer's remaining weapons. A converted Sorro Subb Ferryboat caught up to the battle and fired her bow ion cannons into the Destroyer's belly, sparing her laser cannon an Quad laser to chase off the remaining interceptor squadron. Even as the light from the Imperial Destroyer's engines flickered out the ship's Portside weapons continued firing at smaller Rebel ships that were nearby. It took the Venture's gunners another four Turbolaser barrages to drill through the primary power conduits cutting the last power to the ship. A short distance away another Star Destroyer slipped through the Rebel formations, blasting apart a C3 passenger liner. It wasn't the only one to make it through the fighting. Several others either linked up with the Bombardment force survivors cutting their way through, or made it to the relatively safe zone created by the long range guns of the Super Star Destroyers. Booster took a moment to breath, wipe away the sweat on his brow and look at the screens. "Begin a full restart on all shield generators. Helm, give us a course to intercept any smaller Imp ships then bring us in on the Imperial Bombardment force." The Venture began to turn away from the crippled and drifting Trident. "And find some of our starfighters in this mess. We're going to need the cover." On the displays one of the Bothan Cruisers and an Imperial class ship both exploded. 070

So, is this officially resumed now?

Loved the Optimus Prime one at the end. Is that picture really from Raiders of the Lost Ark or is it shopped? I mean, I wouldnt put it past the guys at ILM to throw something like that in there durring production. (WARNING: Kiwi voice actors playing Boba Fett ahead. You have been warned.)

....it's not happening now. Did anything change? EDIT: Oh shi- The adds are diffrient today! They're mainly star Wars Related ones. They wern't yesterday.

My dad says it's gotta be something in the site. That or... what the adds perhaps?

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When did it start for you? It wasn't doing it for me before today. EDIT: I'll have to check the other computer to see if it does the same thing.

*Clicks out some more error -Click- boxes* I've done some checking and this is the only site/forum that causes the problem. Is there an old Torjan horse in hidinbg on the site? I looked up this type (Which is a fairly old type of Virus) and it seems that it hides as html documents or web pages. EDIT: http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h293/Defender_16/AVGWARNING3.jpg *Looks close* Source: Backup Copy ...Uh... uh-oh. Does that mean what I think it does?

I seem to have a real problem here guys. Every time I load a new parge on teh Rebellion forums, (Not on any other forum) I get this type of Virus warning. http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h293/Defender_16/AVGWARNING.jpg Content.IE5\ (A variable folder number here ) \ie7-standard-p[1].js Trojan horse JS/Uniz.B EDIT: *Clicks heal on 2 more windows* Needless to say I am somewhat concerned over this.

We'ere on Defense platforms today! The old regular Golan Series of platforms was already plenty big compared to most Capital ships. http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h293/Defender_16/ScaleACAD.gif This is the Empire though so bigger is better and a few upgrades are needed here and there to keep costs down. (Golan 3 Upgrade A) http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h293/Defender_16/Golan3A.gif Unless you're Palpatine and want to Super Defend Coruscant. (Golan 4) http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h293/Defender_16/Golan4A.gif The Golan 4 is intended for a long range turbolaser barrage relative "up" towards the viewer. Each turret has 8 Heavy Long Range Turbolaser Cannons designed specifically by Golan Arms.

All good ones guys. Keep it up. http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h293/Defender_16/Motivational/152543396_266a5657b1_o.jpg http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h293/Defender_16/Motivational/158877512_1532b12a62.jpg http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h293/Defender_16/Motivational/528638794_5b75ba753b_o.jpg What would give you the Idea I got most of these off of an RPG site?

+++ The three Bothan Assault Cruisers and converted freighters pushed back a small pocket of Carrack Cruisers. One of the Star Destroyers caught in the middle of the battle was forced to fall back to the Carrack Cruisers as well. The small Strike Cruiser force approaching the Bombardment force decelerated and came about. "Tyrranic to Destroyers and Strike Cruisers, concentrate fire forward. We're going to plough straight through that Rebel mess. Support ships do what you can to give us more cover." The Star Destroyer's heavy Turbolaser turrets fired off one last volley aft before beginning a slow steady turn to point them forward. Within seconds the group closed to weapons range with the Rebel ships. "All ships fire at will." Turbolaser bolts flashed out striking the Rebel cruisers and a few lighter ships. The Bothan cruisers broke off their attacks on the light cruisers and Destroyer that had been pushed back putting more power to shields to survive the attacks. The Bothan ships were equipped with generators offering twice the protection of the old Victory Destroyers so they wouldn't go down easily. "Increase speed, we won't be able to buy much time like this." "We don't have the power to maintain weapons and the tractor locks if we increase speed sir." "Redline the reactors if you have to. Find the power somewhere! We have to cut our way through to the command ships." "Sir! Obliterator and Rebel support ships coming in on the flank of our group. They're trying to link up with the planetary forces." +++ "Kyp? Kyp come in." Octa had been trying to contact the Jedi ever since she'd felt something strange come through the force focused in their area. She was beginning to suspect it had been focused on Kyp now. She could feel the red crackling anger that he normally gave off whenever he slipped back toward the dark side but it was starting to grow more than normal. Despite it all though the two Jedi pilots continued to burn through Imperial Starfighters, so Octa continued to shadow his movements. A Tie Avenger fired a concussion missile at Kyp's fighter nearly point blank before pulling up. Suddenly the missile acted as if it had bounced off a wall and flew back into the Tie's path, the explosion tearing off a wing array. That wasn't normal. She glanced down the her sensors and realised that they were starting to move towards the other side of the battle now. Towards where the other Jedi pilots were. "Ramis to Horn, come in." "Horn here, go-" Corran's voice cut off as he grunted through a turn tighter than his inertial compensator was designed for. "-ahead." "There's something wrong with Kyp. He's not responding and it feels like he's slipping into some kind of Dark Side trance." Octa glanced back at the sensors again for a moment. "He's also headed straight for you." +++ Corran knew that couldn't be good news. Kyp didn't get along with him that well on the best of days but years ago they had agreed to put their own feelings aside when it came to fighting the Imperials. "Tyra, I'm your wing but try and keep us out of the worst of the fighting for a few seconds I need to try something." "Gotcha." "Kyp, respond." Corran commed, not really expecting a response. Slipping his fighter slightly in behind Tyra's X-wing, Corran diverted more of his attention to searching out the battlefield with the Force. The chaotic swirl of death filled more and more of space the farther he pushed his perceptions out until finally he felt the burning blazing comet that was Kyp. It left a path of destruction wherever it went and he could feel it's attention focusing in on him. Near the edges of the Comet was the brightly burning speck that was Octa. Focusing more of his attention in on Kyp, blocking out as much of the battle as possible, he tried to find anything out of the ordinary. Anything besides Kyp turning into a giant engine of destruction that is. He felt his X-wing shake from an explosion nearby, it had to have been a concussion missile, but otherwise ignored it. He tried nudging Kyp through the force but that only seemed to make him even angrier. Dammit Kyp I'm trying to help you! Something had to bee feeding Kyp's anger or shielding him enough to prevent others from helping him... perhaps both. Then he noticed it. Like a piece of thread floating in the breeze. As soon as he saw it, it disconnected from the tail of Kyp's comet and started to seemingly burn away like some minor burst of the other man's anger. As it faded however Corran saw that it seemed to pull back toward the Imperial command ships still hovering on the edge of the battle. He moved his focus toward the largest groups of life forms in the battleground. He caught the same thread disappearing just as he looked over the ships. Everything between the two ships was quiet... Corran opened his eyes and looked over at the sensors, zooming in on the enemy Command ships. In the space between the two Super Star Destroyers was a Mark Two ISD. It's turbolasers fired off a shot towards the Rebels at extreme range. Far from quiet. "Horn to all elite squadrons, designate ISDII... High Order as a priority target. There may be an Imperial Inquisitor on board." +++ Halmere withdrew from his trance and quickly shielded himself and as large a space he could manage from detection through the Force. He'd felt someone searching him out but he might have pulled back in time. Nearly five full squadrons of Rebel fighters began to break off their current engagements and fight their way towards the imperial command ships. The Inquisitor swore. 069 Post Number sixty nine... nothing kinky here folks, move along... move along.

That effect Krytos is referred to as 'Uncanny Valley.' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_Valley It's one of the many reasons the Final Fantasy Movie didn't do so well. Wikipedia may question it's veracity, but I've studied the effect myself over the years.

Nice Vehicle Krytos. Will the Midsize one be more akin to the Imperial Assault shuttle? And don't forget that weird Bantha class ship the NR uses. I'm sure you can come up with soemthing better than it. Uh, I think these belong in the Randomness thread? Should I put my avatar back as that then?

Spoon

I know I got to 43,000 by leaving the game on fast overnight and moving all of my fleets and ships to Coruscant so the Empire wouldn't cause any battles. More than 10% of the planets in the galaxy had been hit by Natural disasters. *Counts on fingers* ...no it was way more than 10%, had to have been more than 40 or 50 planets.

Uploading quick b4 I have to run to work. http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h293/Defender_16/Motivational/traps_01.jpg http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h293/Defender_16/Motivational/Style.jpg http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h293/Defender_16/Motivational/shrewd_tactics.jpg

IG-88 vs Boba Fett? Wait this seems familiar...

Crap! Realised once I got to work that I hadn't finished my second pass through on certain parts of the post so it may seem a bit unfinished until I can correct it. EDIT: Part I was concerned about has finally been fixed.

You're certin it's not just some random YT-1300?

+++ Tyrannic held the center of the Imperial formation pulling back from the failed bombardment. The larger star destroyers did their best to drag disabled Victory destroyers behind them using tractor beams. The Rebel capital ships continued to harry the Imperial capital ship while their starfighters caused havoc. The damaged Vic's, while slowing down the retreat, were acting to draw some fire from the Rebel ships who didn't want to allow the smaller Destroyers to become operational again. In return, the Rebel Vic's were able to use the hulls to stay out of the heaviest Imperial counter fire. A Corellian Corvette that had closed with Tyrannic realised they'd put themselves in too much danger and began to turn. An aft firing turbolaser barrage burned one side of the corvette's hammerhead bow along with the underside turbolaser and a few of the sublight drives. Before she could be hit by more fire it ducked into the Destroyer's engine wash and decelerated, fast falling behind the Imperial formation. An X-wing squadron swept through the Destroyer formation to port of Tyrannic. Tie squadrons made swooping attacks on the group only to fall prey to a mix of Tie craft that were shadowing the X-wing unit. The fighters stayed clear of the Lancer frigates and refused to come too close to the Nebulon B Frigates. Two X-wing's separated from the main unit both showing signs that they were avoiding the attacks from Interceptors before they were even fired. "Sensors isolate those two X-wings." The display screen showed one to have Green markings and the other to have grey. "Those have to be Jedi pilots, designate them as priority targets." "Aye sir." "Where are our Advanced starfighters?" "Covering the rear guard of our formation sir." "Fine, tell the Lancer Frigates to suspend friendly fire protocol if they think they can manage a shot." At Nalgol's direction the Lancer Frigates had already closed to just above the hulls of the Star Destroyers. If the Rebel starfighters wanted to menace the larger ships it would greatly endanger their starfighters. +++ Corran and Tyria, the only two force gifted members of the Bothawui Elite squadrons, had spit off from their squadrons to draw the attention of the Imperial squadrons nearby. Someone must have noticed the way they were flying because soon some six squadrons diverted their attention to focus on the two fighters. "Corran it's working!" Shouted Tyria. "I know it's working, run!" Replied Corran as he lead them down into the thickest concentration of Imperial capital ships, hoping to use them for some cover. A storm of green bolts criss-crossed space not just behind them but all around. If not for the improved speed and maneuverability of the new XJ's even Jedi senses wouldn't have been enough to save them. The pair flashed under the spar of a Nebulon B and then over and around a Carrack. A near miss from the Carrack's Ion cannon fuzzed the sensors on both X-wing's for half a second. "Split up!" Shouted Corran and the two fighters turned away in opposite directions. A Heavy turbolaser bolt split space where they'd just been. CorSec and Wraith squadrons, along with a few wayward A-wings were doing their best to down the Ties pursuing the two Jedi but it wasn't enough by any measure. It was time for desperation tactics. Corran dove toward one of the Star Destroyers a Lancer Frigate was protecting. As he came up over the portside edge of the ship the Lancer above opened fire. Skimming the shields and hull of the Destroyer the Lancer didn't seem to care if each miss hit the larger Imperial ship. Through the Force he saw a wall of laser beams forming just ahead of his fighter and wrenched the X-wing into a ninety degree turn. The shield power dropped as ten beams grazed the underside shields. A handful of Interceptors crazy enough to dare the fire from the frigate dove down so the Corellian changed direction again, still skimming the shields, and flashed past the bridge tower, heading back to the main Rebel force. Tyria and the rest of the elite squadrons soon joined up with him, ties still pursuing, and they looped around to join the Gunships at the edges of the Rebel force. +++ The Tyrannic's com officer raised his voice. "Sir we have a priority transmission from an oncoming Strike cruiser group. Audio only." "Put it on." Commanded Nalgol. "Tyrannic, this is Strike Cruiser group Alpha, we're going to try to scrape as many of those Rebels off you as we can." Nalgol shook his head even as he head the other man. "That's not going to work Alpha, there's just too many of them to pull that off. Come about and decelerate into our formation, that's the best thing you can do for us." "Understood. Should we send our Tie squadrons into that big brawl happening just off your aft? "Negative, keep your ties for close support and to form a screening line. We need to keep as many Rebels from..." Nalgol looked out ahead and then checked the sensors. "Alpha decelerate immediately. We have Carrack Cruisers retreating across our course. We've Rebel ships ahead." The Destroyer captain considered the options. He would have to punch through this group of Rebels fast if they were going to survive the ones coming up from behind. +++ "What is the delay with bringing our Destroyer line back into the main fight? They're coming in too slowly and not pressing the attack." Turr Phennir raged at their inability to quickily counter the Rebel attacks but did his best to keep it from his features. "Sir, the Destroyers report that their shields and even some weapons took heavy damage from the Mon Cal Cruiser's Torpedo attack." The General frowned at that news. "Tell them to move in and start fighting their way through the main battle. Our ships that are engaged there won't last much longer without support and the entire bombardment group is going to be cut off if they don't draw some of the Rebel ships back." "Aye sir!" "What have we got left in the main battle?" "Some of the light cruisers and support ships are still hanging on and two of the Destroyers that weren’t damaged in the opening pass have been fighting non stop, but the Rebel cruisers are starting to concentrate on them." "This is going to be close... any word from the Inquisitor?" "None yet sir." 068 May contain minor spelling and grammatical errors that the spellcheck only made worse. Feeling too tired right now to do any more.

Did I mention I found a lot of these? I ust keep forgetting to upload them. http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h293/Defender_16/Motivational/150396206_c11c942776.jpg http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h293/Defender_16/Motivational/156404624_eb11383f33.jpg http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h293/Defender_16/Motivational/FirePower.jpg

It would certainly make sense Tofu. That or it's a complete coincidence. I mean, if you jumble letteres arround enough eventually you're going to get a name that comes out the same as something real in the world. Good find though. My little bit of randomness for today. (A little bit of swearing, kinda mild.)