Defender_16

Yay Tex! I feel all better now. (As I imagine your Vic does too.)

Hey Krytos, can we get some profile pictures for your Majestic? I still think of your version of it as the best one made yet. I was hoping to use it in my ship scale chart. (With your permission of course.)

+ + + Shanna Vance lead the way into the darkened interior of the Alien structure. She held a blaster pistol in one hand and her lightsaber in the other. Two Troopers flanked her using their helmet lights to illuminate the corridor. The walls and ceiling were coated in a faintly glowing lichen but it seemed to grow more dim as they approached. The remaining armed civilians and two Troopers stood guard at the entrance leaving a much reduced fireteam to scout the building. As interested as Jag was to learn more about the alien Yuuzhan Vong, sneaking into a building behind enemy lines wouldn't have been his first choice. He certainly had never expected to be anywhere near someone armed with a lightsaber. Eventually they entered into a cavern like room that must have been near the center of the structure. Suspended from the ceiling were several of what appeared to be a rack like restraint device. Three of them were occuped. "Watch yourselves." Cautioned Vance. "Don't get too close to those things." One of the racks, which again turned out to be living creations, held a Tie pilot and the other two held Stormtroopers minus their armour. "Is there any way we get them out?" asked Jag looking a bit more closely. One or two appendages from the rack were wrapped arround each person's neck, as well as arms and legs. Vance smirked for a second and then frowned in concentration. "These racks that are holding them seem to be keeping them at a set level of pain." "Stormtroopers are trained to brace themselves against pain from wounds." Commented one of the commandoes. Vance checked the racks again. "The ones holding the Stormtroopers look a bit tighter. Like they're inflicting more pain on them. Hard to tell for sure since they're all unconsious." "Permission to wake one the troopers sir?" Asked the same Commando. "Granted." Nodded Vance. The armoured figure searched his utility belt for a moment until he found a small hypospray. He reached up and pressed it to the back of the trapped man's head before injecting it's contents. "Used to wake people up from concussions. Not especially good for you but it's better than sitting in a coma." The trapped man began to wake up and the appendages holding his body tightened forcing a grunt of pain from him. "We're trying to get you out of there soldier just hang on." The other man did his best to nod. "Ideas?" Asked Vance. One of the Commandoes pulled against one of the restraining arms to loosen it and the others tigntened. "That's not going to work." Jag looked from the prisoner and than to Vance. "Sir, you said it's keeping them in a constant level of pain right? What would happen if we inflicted more pain than the device was causing?" Vance looked to the Commando closest to the rack. "Inflict a minor wound that we have enough medical equipment to deal with." The Commando pulled out a vibroblade, checked that it was turned off, and then stabbed the trapped man in the arm. The prisoner groaned through clenched teeth, but the arms holding him loosened somewhat. "It works but we'd probably kill him before we get him out of there at this rate." The man hefted a pistol. "Gutshot or Stun Bolt?" He asked the Intel officer. "Gutshot." The trapped man mannaged to get out. "Do it." agreed Vance. The commando angled himself so that the shot would angle across the front of his abdomen rather than burning straight into him and possibly hitting organs. The bright red bolt lit the room and the rack dropped somewhat but didn't release it's prisoner. Vance, annoyance clear on her face, walked over and thumbed on her lightsaber slashing through the weakened strands in one swipe. The prisoner dropped into the waiting arms of the other Commandos who quickily applyed a bacta bandage to the gut wound. There soft noise from one of the other entrances to the room and everyone brough weapons to bear. Nothing had appeared yet but it was getting closer. "Let's get the other ones down quick." The commando shot each of the still trapped prisoners without waking them up. Thankfully it still caused enough pain for the grasping racks to loosen. Two lightsaber slashes later and both men were on the floor. Finally the thing that had been causing the noise entered the room. None of the Troopers fired immediately so that their mission recorders could get a good look at the creature. It was a sort of purplish pink colour and moved about slowly on four stubby legs. On the top of it's body though were appendages obviously intended to reach up to the trapped prisoners. The ends of some looked slightly sharp while other parts were covered in white almost rocklike pustules. It wandered about the room searching the racks for prisoners but generally ignoring the group of standing soldiers. "Kill it." The first word was barely out of Shanna's mouth when four red beams converged on the creatures body. It dropped to the floor writhing for a moment, spilling blood on the floor. Small puffy almost sluglike creatures began to appear from near or possibly in the walls. They began to soak up the small blood spills left by the larger one. "Get a sample of one of those white things then burn it. We need to get out of here." 047

As far as the default settings go in a strait ship battle it should favour the Imps. The ISD's are purpose built warships while the Mon Cal and Dauntless are converted passenger liners. The Imperial ships should be stronger. But that said the Mol Cal ships should have redundant shields making up for it lack of weapons compared to Imp Warships. So the ISD1 may not actually have as much Turbolaser power as it should compared to the Mon Cal in Rebellion. How much Turbolaser damage does 1 Turbolaser do? The ISD has something like 70 TL (Wookiepedia is up in arms over what the real weapons load is. ) ISD2 100 TL and 20 Ion The Liberty type has 48 TL and 20 Ion

Oh no, I totally didn't finish the picture/design of the Galactic Venture! I was hoping to have Mad or someone model it in 3D for me at some point. (It's totally not a Star Destroyer btw.) It's based arround a 'Modular Star Hauler' or 'Modular Taskforce Cruiser.' Both ships are essentially the same thing and I could really care less which one it starts out as. Booster has been building this thing up for more than a decade now into a sort of Warship/Carrier/Cargo hauler allowing him to go Pirate.

What will J post next? Perhaps something with a Tie Defender in it? (Yeah, I know... not likley. ) It's too bad we can't have animated cards in Rebellion! That'd kick ass as a special forces card.

IE 6.0

Well what do you know. The Sens won! They actually get to move on for a change.

All the links work fine for me in IE.

That TV series had been 'upcoming' for how many years now? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_live-action_TV_series Wth? Doesn't come out until 2009? And they're going to screw with the continuity even MORE between episodes 3 and 4. Haven't they done enough to mess it up? That is IT! We have to kill Lucas off ASAP. Ideas?

Wow, all this time I thought that a higher damage control number meant faster repairs in battle... Wait a second, I tried that in my Gundam Mod. Since none of the ships had shields I had to put the damage control up to an insanely high number. It worked too. My problem with that mod though was that the weapons didn't do nearly enough hull damage.

I was wondering where you were. Jeez you ok? I hope seeing another Rebel post won't put you back in the hospital. + + + Booster Terrik, long-time smuggler and part-time Admiral in the Rebel fleet, bellowed at the top of his lungs to be heard over the bridge crew. "Karrde, if you've been holding back any tricks for a special occasion now would be a good time." Talon Karrde edged closer to Booster so that he wouldn't forced to shout as his partner had. "How long until that Imp taskforce gets here?" "Best time is five minutes I figure." Replied the larger man shrugging. They'd been pursued for nearly a week now by an Imperial taskforce after hijacking a heavy transport. Eventually the fleet had called for an Interdictor and so, a Dominator class ship had finally cut them off. The Galactic Venture may have been a big ship but even if she'd been a Star Destroyer it wouldn't be able to hold off the small Destroyer force that was after them. Karrde paused with a comlink half raised to his lips. "Can the Venture drive off a Dominator in five minutes?" "It depends on how good the equipment you gave us is. Pilot! Put us nose to nose with that vapin' Imp dragship. Get the fighters out there to cover us." The smuggler built warship started to come about. The second that the main drives cleared the line of sight for the heavy turbolasers the weapons opened up. The topside guns unleashed everything they had. Fire from four Turbolaser and two Ion Cannon turrets lit up the Dominator's shields. The Imperial ship's return fire struck the Venture's re-enforced port shields. Imperial Skiprays launched their Torpedoes nearly overwhelming the Rebel ship's energy defences. Then the T-wings and Tie Clutch craft swept out from behind the Venture. A few concussion missiles struck the blastboats before the approaching wave of Tie Starfighters caught up. Four squadrons of Interceptors and one of Avengers faced off against six squadrons Rebel fighters. Wheeling and darting neither side made themselves easy target. The Rebels had the advantage of shields on every fighter but the Imperials had better training. Fighters that took damaged looped out of the main fight either to recharge shields or limp back to their carriers. All the while the Venture turned to face head on toward the Interdictor. When the maneuver was completed the ship thrust ahead with engines cranked past their safety limits. The Turbolasers on the forward hull were able to more easily open fire now filling space with more light. Quadlasers mounted amidships chased off any more blastboats that tried to make torpedo runs at the ship's flank. "Range to target?" Asked the large Corellian. "Not close enough." Responded the Secondary Weapons officer. "Equalise the shields, the bow has enough extra plate to take a few hits." "Booster what did you do with those weapons I traded you from the main stockyard?" Asked Karrde. "Well to be honest I gave most of them to Iblis two years ago." "But not all I assume?" The bridge shook from Turbolaser impacts that had punched through the shields striking the bow. Booster grinned at Karrde then turned back to his special weapons officer. "Range! How long?!" "Ten...nine.." "Divert power to the forward conveyors. Prepare to lever open the forward hold." "Two...one...range." "Weapons power to forward shields. Open the bay doors!" The Heavily armoured sections making up the protective doors for the forward cargo hold swung down and out of the way exposing a honeycomb of tube like assemblies. "Fire." Thirty Torpedoes and Ten Heavy missiles flashed out of the forward bay. They struck the shields of the Interdictor like a wave with the slower Heavy missiles lagging only slightly behind. The Gravity Well disappeared and the aft shields dropped from the Imperial ship as her Captain put all defences forward. Some of the Heavy Missiles penetrated before the shields could be brought back up. Explosions were walked up the hull along the midline leaving five large craters. One of the forward gravity projectors was also hit spewing debris into the vacuum. Another twenty Torpedoes flashed out and the remaining shields imploded. The Imperial ship began a hard turn putting all power to engines. The Tie craft rushed back to help cover their carrier as it fled. "That'll do. Helm get us out of here." The Venture turned and headed away in the opposite direction of the Interdictor. Fighters recovery began with the Tie clutch craft landing first. The large bays built out of two scrapped Strike Cruisers allowed the fighter to take off and land faster than most other ships. Not far ahead of the Venture a small flotilla of armed freighters emerged from Hyperspace. At the forefront of them were the Pulsar Skate and an X-wing with green stripes. "It looks like my no good Son-in-law finally arrived." Frowned Booster "We should get out of here while we still have time." Commented Karrde. "Fine." Booster picked up a comlink. "Venture to Skate, Mirax get us some nav co-ordinates quick. We have an Imperial fleet to lose." "Already have some." Replied Booster's daughter over the com. "Compliments of the Bothan." +++ When they were safely in hyperspace Booster turned to Karrde. "Kre'fey wants us to do something for him or he wouldn't have given Mirax a set of jumps to follow." "The question should be will he be able to afford our services?" Booster laughed. "I hope you can afford another IOU Karrde." 046

Thanks to Tofu Found some Robot Chicken epsodes I hadn't seen before. Little Hitler Calvin & Hobbes

You know, you could keep posting in the same thread. It would cut down on the overall number of threads in this section. It's all related to the same thing anyways. Anyways; AAAAAGH! The strobing coloured lights! I'm going into seizures~! lol Starting to look better. What were all of the Mon Cal's aiming for btw?

+ + + Lieutenant Commander Kirrek, second officer aboard the Star Destroyer Ardent sat in his quarters contemplating how events had unfolded so far. He had been confined to quarters for days now, a pair of Stormtroopers stood guard outside. It was likely that he was suspected at a traitor but the Admiral didn't have enough evidence at the moment to make a true case. He wouldn't be brought before a trial until Intel had looked through all aspects of his life and determined that he was guilty. That was normally how things were done. If he had presented any more of an immediate threat he didn't doubt that an accident would have happened to him days ago. Having to sit through a battle or two while unable to man his usual battle station was beginning to wear on him. From outside the door to his quarters there was a metallic tink-tink followed by the deep thud normally associated with a stun grenade. The clattering of Stormtrooper armour hitting the deck was barely audible through the door. After a few second the door opened and a shaved headed man in a tech uniform stepped inside. "Help me get the Troopers inside." he said without preamble. The two of them grabbed the troopers one at a time and laid them out in the center of the room. After they were both bound and stripped of weapons the Commander turned to the tech. "Who are you?" "Cedrick Galdent, deep operative. You were mistaken as being the cause of an act of sabotage and have been scheduled to be executed." "I'm not a Rebel agent." "Who turned off the ship's internal security in the space dock then? Everyone else with the clearance to do it has an alibi." "I... I don't remember. I though I'd fallen asleep for a few minutes." Now that he though about it there were several instances over the past year or so where it had seemed like he'd dozed off for a few minutes. "You're a sleeper agent. Look there's nothing I can do to get you off the ship but there's a Rebel pilot in the brig that you can get out. I can cause a select shut down in the com systems between the bridge, Brig and main landing bay." The tech pulled a pad out of his front pocket. "Everything you need to know is on that datapad. We have twenty minutes before the Stormtroopers outside have to report in, I'll rig a holo to stand in for them until then." Kirrek sat looking at the tied up Stormtroopers contemplating this turn of events. "Go now. Hurry." Prompted the tech. "There's precious little time left and I have work to do." Kirrek stepped out the door and headed down the corridor, paging through the instructions on the data pad as he went. +++ The doors to the brig parted and the Commander strode through as if not a thing was wrong. According the data pad the order for his execution hadn't been entered into the Ship's main databank yet so, as far as everyone else knew, he was just under suspicion. The Stormtrooper officer in charge saluted him as he approached the desk. "Sir, arn't you supposed to be confined to quarters?" "The Admiral just had me let out. I'm to take the prisoner down to the landing bay now that one of the fighters has been rigged with a remote destruct. I'd like a few troopers to come along for escort in case she tries anything." "Yes sir." The trooper looked over the screen in front of him quickly. "We'd already received Colonel Fel’s consent to using the Rebel pilot before he went down the planet. Are we expecting combat soon sir?" "Not just now. The Commander wants to test if the Rebel will stay on her leash before we get into actual combat." Things went smoothly. A small squad retrieved the prisoner from her cell and followed as Kirrek lead the way to the Turbolifts. The Rebel thankfully didn't show any sign that she recognised the Imperial officer. Not that she should recognise him Kirrek thought. As far as he knew he'd never met a Rebel in his life before today. When they reached the main Hanger bay the Deck Officer was easy to find. He stood directing several dozen techs through vehicle recovery and repair efforts. He noticed the Stormtroopers as they approached and turned to the Commander. "What can I do for you Commander?" "I understand you have one of the captured A-wings rigged with a self destruct? We're to test out the pilot in it while we're in a non combat situation." "Port side. We loaded it into one of the Tie launch racks. I'll have a tech show you which one." The Deck officer yelled over to one of the various personnel in the bay and soon they were following him over to the docked fighter. The launch rack directly next to it was occupied by another A-wing with bright green Imperial markings. The Tie pilot standing next to it waited until the last moment before he saluted. "Both fighters checked out sir." Said the pilot. "The remote destruct can be triggered either from my fighter or the bridge." "Good. Get your launch clearance from the bridge. Rebel, get in your fighter. If you make any hostile act towards an Imperial craft we'll blow you out of the stars. Understood?" The Rebel nodded and climbed in, the Stormtroopers keeping blasters trained on her the whole time. Kirrek reached into the cockpit and hit the engine start, at the same time slipping the datapad into the side while the troopers couldn't see. After stepping away the officer and troopers waited nearby the few minutes until the fighter received clearance and launched. A pair of Tie craft followed soon after them. 045

Return of the Jedi Super-duper-Extended-'original-vision' edition.

Kyp's Vision: A piece that I originally wrote seprately from the main NSO Storyline to give the series an equivilant to one of Jacen's visions durring the war. As I found myself writer's blocked on getting the Commando team out of the forest I added it to the end of the originally posted NSO thread. This turned out to be the last thing I would post before the crash as I never broke through the block until a month ago. + + + Kyp stood on what must have been one of the tallest buildings he had ever seen. In every direction were other towers of equal or lesser height, stretching to the horizon as far as the eye could see. In one direction was what looked to be mountains covered almost to the peaks by the cityscape. In the other direction stood a huge structure that dwarfed the one he was looking out from. Transparisteel and stone had been built up into majestic spires and interconnected towers. Grand promenades and gardens were encased in transparisteel domes. Statues as large as Corvettes could be seen at points around the building's exterior. All of it combining to create a giant pyramid shape that seemed to have an almost greenish hue. The skies should have been filled with air traffic by the size of this city but there was almost none. A dull rumbling began to build, permeating everything, and the sky seemed to change colour. The sky's dull bluish purple changed to bloody red and everything seemed to darken. There was thunder and wind that threatened to throw him from his perch but he remained, watching, wanting to know what was happening. Then the rain started to fall from high above. It was not water that fell though, but fire. A hail of burning debris filled the air, larger pieces appearing with each passing moment. A pair of nearly whole Golan platforms pierced the clouds followed by the blasted and ruined hulks of Star Destroyers. Debris was pelting the cityscape, punching holes in ferrocrete and transparisteel. One of the platforms struck the mountains and buildings around it were flattened like wind blowing grass. A Destroyer struck the great building to the west, collapsing the great domes surrounding and built into it. The entire city was swept up in a fiery inferno consuming everything. He tried in vain to climb higher to stay above the rising tide of flames but soon the tower he was on was swept up as well. He tried to jump from the ferrocrete blocks as the building began to collapse but couldn't seemed to gather enough of the force around himself. Then he was falling, surrounded by the scorching blasts and broken transparisteel that would surely crush him if he didn’t die from the fall. + + + Kyp snapped awake screaming, the feeling of fire scorching his lungs still fresh in his mind. Breathing heavily, drenched in sweat he looked around. He was still in his small cabin on the Lady Luck, no flames surrounded him and he didn't appear to be injured in any way. Rolling out of the bed Kyp shrugged on his robe and went to check on their progress through hyperspace. 044 Sorry for the slightly late in the day post. Had a morning shift today instead of the evening. EDIT: Dang, this post looked a lot bigger in MS Word.

Close when Playing as Empire but not the three shipyard thing.

Strike Cruiser is already overpowered in Rebellion compared to what it's supposed to be. Crappy dmg control is kind of a balance I guess. I agree with being able to chew up the Destroyers early on with Escort Carriers. The Imperial Fleet basically can't go it's separate ways like it needs to in order to project Imperial power because of the Starfighter threat. The Empire get's cheaper fighters yes because you're always replacing them. If you wipe out the Rebel Starfighters it takes them much longer to rebuild then for the Empire. If the game is unedited there's really little insentive to go into the outer Rim at the start as the Rebels if you can make it in the Core. It's really not that hard to beat the Imperials in the Diplomacy battle or with incite uprising giving you half the Core before the Empire takes all of Sesweena. The game isn't balanced I agree. It would balance better if there were some additional advantages to the Empire in the Core and the Rebels in the Outer Rim. That way the Rebels would got for the rim earlier on and give the Empire a chance in the Core systems.

Omg, it's a DVD man! Don't you believe in an intermission? (The movie Theatres need that for any LOTR movie btw.)

I root for the Sens on occasion... like when they don't lose. Sooo it doesn't happen all too often.

Nice picture Tex. I dunno, at the back somewhere like on a sports car?

Still cool, but have we seen this article before? It seems familiar.

Man... who would they get to play Luke Skywalker if they remade it?

Only thing I can think of that fits that is where the guy went on the War memorial and only found out he'd done it a week later after his friend saw his picture on the news.