Defender_16

Tripple post? Not how I pictured to make my second 1,000th post but oh well. I have at long last cleared the greatest hurdle in the NSO. I got Jag outta the gaddammed forest! It's enough writing for two seperate posts but it's finished. I'm desperate for any additional ideas that people can throw in here. Oh forgot something or didn't notice it before. What about the Diversity Alliance? (Didn't read that book.) It was supposed to be aliens against humans of something right? Here we go. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Diversity_Alliance Who know it could be yet another group thrown into the mix. Hmm... I suppose Imp intel could eventually try to twist this group to fight against Iblis at some point since he does have a lot of Humans in his faction.

Anyways I think we need some preemptive applause for the release of the Beta. http://www.rockcentral.co.uk/quiz/content/files/images/applause.png ...or should we hold the applause?

A few of these didn't divide up as well so I ended up with two shorter ones. Here's the first. EDIT: When the hell did Ardent get Tie Defenfers!?!? *FIXES RAPIDLY* + + + By the time Jag reached the landing bay they had entered from and launched with the rest of his flight, the battle had changed. The Vong fleet had closed with the Imperial formation almost to point blank range. The two fleets could no longer fire wildly into each other and were forced to divert fire to closer, individual targets. Then the fighters which had been held in reserve began their attack. The shard fighters swept into the Imperial formation like a giant wave. Some whole squadrons of tie craft were swept away before they could react and roughly one quarter of the Corvettes were soon out of action. A second less devastating wave of blastboat analogs followed. Though they were able to compound damage done by the fighters first strafing runs everyone was prepared enough by the fighters to expect a second wave. One squadron and two blastboats that had broken through the main fight headed for the Ardent. The fighters already surrounding the Destroyer formed up, ready for a head to head. "One Flight on me." Called Jag. "We're going to come up right behind that small incoming force and hit them as the rest of Ardent's squadron does." The Avengers and Gunboats launched missiles and torpedoes at the on coming force then opened up with lasers. The shards dropped back enough for the blastboats to come forward and the larger ship's superior defences gulped down the incoming missiles without any trouble. Then the formation changed to better intercept the laser fire even as the shards began firing plasma. Jag's flight were just able to reach weapons range as they came up behind the attacking group. Sixteen laser cannon fired a continuous burst of single fire shots into the backsides of the enemies. One blastboat, distracted by the fire, put all defence aft for a second and was hit in the bow by an Avenger's quad burst. The interiors of the ship superheated and geysered out of the hole in the front of the ship. Even as the blastboat and a few of the fighters were destroyed the formation held together with remarkable precision. The return fire was as devastating as usual. One Gunboat exploded as their shields failed and two of the older Tie craft detonated sending solar arrays whirling out in different directions. The other advanced ties scattered and looped off in different directions. The remaining Gunboats barely survived the pass as they were hammered by more combined fire. As the two assault craft broke in either direction Jag saw that Ardent's heavy Turbolaser Batteries were straight ahead. "BREAK! One Flight Break!" Even as he was getting out the words and matching his own actions to them the Turbolasers fired. Bolts the size of starfighters flashed through the space they had just occupied and three shards were washed away by the beams. The remaining ships in the formation looped back, took fire from one of the Carrack cruisers for a moment, then headed back to the main fight. A flight of Gauntlets and Interceptors took pot-shots at them then returned to a position near the Sevanar. Jag took a breather then keyed the com for the Ardent. "This is Fel, permission to detach flight elements from Ardent's defence for a quick foray into the main engagement." Commander Wintle came on over the com instead of the Flight controller. "That's a negative Colonel. We're under specific orders to hold this relative position above the Command ship. You may not engage unless you, our group, or the Command ship's bridge tower are being threatened. Sorry." Jag glanced at his sensors as another enemy unit broke through the main fight and headed for them. This one with what looked to be a small corvette analog hanging near the center of their flight. "Don't be sorry sir. I think we'll have plenty to do here after all." 031

+ + + Admiral Dorja and Colonel Fel stepped out onto the spacious bridge of High Admiral Burgan's flagship. The rounded forward viewport was easily twice the width of those on other Destroyers and was heavily reinforced, with a second layer of Transparisteel viewports. The crew pit area was divided into four areas about the same size a regular ships' crew pit. The aft area with Command chairs and security checkpoints had been widened as well, easily making room for additional Stormtroopers or guests of importance. Slightly off to the left of center was the Admiral's command chair which had holo projectors arrayed around it. Jag stayed beside and slightly behind Dorja as they approached the Command chair. The Admiral, who may only have been in his early forties, sat surrounded by several aids and officers, an Imperial Army General and a woman wearing a hooded cloak. Jag assumed she was a member of Imperial intelligence or something similar. Just as Dorja and Jag were coming to a stop, Burgan spun his chair to face them. "Welcome aboard and congratulations on staying alive. I'm assuming from those two Carrack cruisers you brought along with you that the Robaillo Sector fleet is gone?" "Yes sir." Answered Dorja. "The Right to Rule escaped with a civilian convoy but we were forced to sacrifice her to punch past a Cruiser Analog near Gravlex Med." "Unfortunate, but that's the least of our worries. I assume you have all of the data you collected compiled?" "Yes sir." Dorja pulled out a datapack. The decking vibrated from shield impacts as he handed it to Burgan sending the older man's gaze to the forward viewports. The bow of the ship may have been more than five kilometres away but if the shields came down it would only take seconds for any fighters to get through. Burgan plugged the datapack into a slot on his command chair and information began to filter onto some of the screens surrounding him. The man was apparently good at speed reading because he had gotten through the meat of the data in seconds. "The Yuuz... han... Yuuzhan Vong. These aliens. You've seen some of them outside of their ships and vehicles?" "No Admiral. All of our encounters were ship to ship while we were attempting to retreat. The one time we won an engagement the entire ship was destroyed leaving only hull fragments. We believe the escaping plasma burned away any bodies." "Anything specifically that seemed to work better for you in engagements?" "In ship engagements, just using more fire than they could handle on a single target was about it. Ramming similar or greater tonnage ships into theirs also seemed to work." A smirk tugged at the corner of Burgan's lips. "I'll take that under advisement. Starfighter tactics?" Dorja gestured to Jag. "Colonel Fel here is my flight group Commander. His people have been getting better at taking down their fighters." "Colonel Fel? It appears your family is becoming quite the celebrity group lately. Well let's hear some fighter tactics." Burgan flipped a switch on his command chair before Jag started. "For starfighter tactics when engaging these... Vong, we found that the best way to take them down was to concentrate the fire of a group on single targets to overload their defences. Since the enemy fighters would retaliate we fast started using shielded vehicles like blastboats to take the brunt of return fire while the unshielded fighters could take cover behind them if they couldn't dodge the fire themselves. Groups consisting of two or three interceptors around shielded fighters like Gauntlets seemed to work quite well as they don’t slow down the other Tie's." Jag paused as another impact against the forward shields shook the ship. "Heavy Flight groups appeared to do reasonably well, especially if undamaged vehicles could cover for others that had been hit while shields recovered. These plasma weapons are very dangerous. They can knock out an unshielded Tie with one hit if they get lucky. Any kind of graze will cause heavy damage. Missiles seemed to have little use against fighters." The Admiral flicked a switch as Jag ended then picked up his communicator. "This is High Admiral Burgan to all flight Commanders. You are instructed to do what you can to follow the guidelines put down in the transmission you just heard. You're getting a great deal more warning about what you're against than others have. Do your jobs to the best of your abilities and we'll make it through this. May the Emperor guide your hands today. Burgan out." The Admiral put his comlink away then turned to Jag. "That was very well done Colonel. Now get to your fighter and get out there. Admiral Dorja will be aboard for the rest of the battle unless something goes wrong." Jag saluted, turned on his heel and fast marched to the nearest Turbolift. "Let's get to winning this." He heard the High Admiral say before the door closed behind him. 030

Hmm.....

Bastion. And perhaps the Corporate Sector?

+ + + "Hail them." Directed Burgan. "I'll take it at my station." "They've already begun transmitting on all frequencies, audio only." "Enemy ships appearing out of hyperspace dead ahead.â€

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Good job SOCL. That was getting a tad of topic but I suppose nobody really wanted to be the one to start a new thread for that. Now back to how things are going in the world at large. http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h293/Defender_16/Ilikewherethisthreadisgoing.jpg

I'll post the how the day-progress has been going later but right now the newest bit. Day 2335: 7th attempted battle at Chandrila (Ie. the Imperials didn't reatreat right away this time.) I've now seen the largest fleet ever assembled by the computer against me. I was starting to wonder when they might actually use the damn fleet to attack Coruscant but I got tired of waiting. I pulled out the Entire Coruscant Defense fleet, Ackbar's Rapid Response Unit, Han's anti-Zsinj fleet group(Technically Lando's) and any other fleet I had lying arround Coruscant collecting dust. My Dedicated Anti-starighter fleet is unfortunately busy on the other side of the Galaxy trimming back the Tie Defender numbers. Rebel Fleet 2x SSD, 2x ISDII, 4x ISD, 7x VSDII, 8x Mc80, 7x A/FRG, 6x DREAD, 5x B/CRS, 11x FRG, 20x GUN, 19x CRV, 8x Carrier, 1x Dauntless, 1x Liberator Imperial Main Fleet 4x SSD, 2x ISDII, 7x ISD, 8x VSD, 3x STRK, 3x DREAD, 1x INT, 5x Escort Carrier, 4x FRG, 15x CRK, 5x L/FRG The Imp fleet isn't huge but the number of SSD's make a big diffrience and all of the Carrack Cruisers are fairly recently built. In the end the Imperial fleet retreated losing only 1 Carrack Cruiser. The starfighter battle before they decided to leave was absolutely huge though. Losses Empire: 9x Tie Fighter, 27 Tie Interceptor, 3x Tie Bomber, ~120 Tie Defender [30x Defender Squadrons surviving] Rebel: 120 Squadrons (Even mix of Y-wings, A-wing & X-wing) [116 Squadons surviving] My fighters brough the shields on one of the SSD's down to half before it escaped. The Fleet has returned to Coruscant to rebuild the Starfighter forces and await the arrival of a Trio of CC-7700 Frigates.

I don't live in the US dude, I live in Canada. Where the heck is GAT? He lives closer to Toronto so things may be diffrient there. EDIT: ...uh, just realised my location marker isn't working. *Fixed*

Most people here don't really bother buying guns because of the hassel you have to go through to get them registered. Really it's pritty much just farmers or Annual deer hunters that have guns. The same can't be said about the larger cities of course where crime and violence of all kinds has been on the rise.

+ + + Ardent and it's escort ships dropped out of hyperspace for forty seconds, reoriented for the next jump and leapt back into hyperspace. "Come on, come on." Whispered Dorja looking out through the forward viewports. "Don't be too late..." "Sir?" Asked Wintle as he approached the front of the bridge. "Should we really be pushing the Hyperdrive so hard like this? It's just been installed, not all of the pathway connectors may be in place well enough to hold under our fastest rating with repeated use." "We have to risk it. If there's a fleet headed to Yaga Minor we have to beat them there, or at least catch up in time to warn them." The younger officer nodded solemnly. "Yes sir, but shouldn't we at the very least send one of the Carrack Cruisers the rest of the way to Agamar?" "No. If an Interdictor caught them they wouldn't stand a chance. Likewise we need their anti-starfighter support. We all go or none of us go Commander." "Aye." The two stood there for a few minutes looking out into the endless swirl. "I had an idea that could get us an additional pilot sir." The Commander brought up suddenly. Dorja eyed him carefully. "Am I going to like it?" "Not likely sir." "Well shoot and get it over with." "We put a self destruct device in one of the A-wings and see if we could interest the Rebel pilot in a decreased sentence when this is over." The old Admiral leaned forward an laughed. "What, offer her five years in prison and extended probation?" He sighed and looked away for a second shaking his head. "Why not? Ask her when we get a chance." "Yes sir." "And tell Colonel Fel about your plan. Bring him along with you." + + + Admiral Burgan and everyone else on the bridge of the Superior were shoved forward slightly as the swirl of Hyperspace abruptly ceased. "Premature reversion!" Shouted the Master Helmsman. "Gravity wells detected!" "Status Report!" Shouted the Admiral. "Interdictor fields have been established across the hyperspace lane sir. It's completely blocked." "We'll have to find the gravity generators and destroy them. Deploy half out Vindicators and some Frigates to hunt them down. They can launch fighters at their discretion." "Yes sir." "Re-establish our hypercom connection with Taskforce Two." "I'm having trouble establishing signal sir." Replied the communications officer. "I no longer have com feeds from the Taskforce Two Command ship." The Captain of Burgan's Command ship spoke up. "Sir we've detached a force to destroy the interdictors but it's come under attack." "Captain, handle that problem with the Interdictors for a moment will you? Use your best judgement. Now... what is the status of Taskforce Two?" The holofeed flickered back to life resuming it's grainy image. This time it was being transmitted from a Victory Destroyer. The ship’s first officer was doing his best to quickly relay the status of the fleet. "Command ship 'Imperial Splendor' is reported adrift and without power. Imperial class ships have all been crippled or destroyed. The outer Frigate and Light Cruiser shell is now in full retreat. They are currently being picked off by concentrated fire from enemy cruisers." "Damn!" The Admiral slammed a fist down on the arm of his command chair. "Instruct all remaining ships from Taskforce Two to jump to our position. Captain, set our course for the interdictors. All ships ready weapons." The doors to the bridge hissed open and walked in General Richardson accompanied by Shanna Vance, the Emperor's Hand. At their approach the Admiral waved toward the displays. "If you want to see what the enemy looks like feel free to view what happened to Taskforce Two just minutes ago. I have a battle to direct." "Most of the surviving ships in Taskforce Two are jumping. “ Reported Communications. “They should arrive in seven minutes. " "Did they recover any fighters?" "The Droid fighter carriers were hit along with the Destroyers. All of the droid Augmented squadrons are remaining behind to buy time." "What's the status on these interdiction fields?" The Captain spoke up. "They appear to be generated by oddly shaped dedicated projectors. No engines detected. They must have been towed into place." "Put up an image of one." The image of a dark lump shaped not unlike a human heart appeared. A flight of Tie craft flew towards it on a strafing run, making sure to stay at range. Most of the laser bolts were swallowed by tiny black holes but some made it through to scorch the surface. Jerej looked over the Admiral's shoulder frowning at what he saw. "Some type of interdiction mine. Reminds me of the Empion Mine project those years ago." Two Vindicator class cruisers moved in on the same mine and fired salvos into it, overwhelming it's defences with sheer number of shots. "Have the interdictor cruisers bring up their gravity well projectors. If we destroy all of the mines we need something to drag the Taskforce Two survivors from hyperspace. When the last survivors have arrived deactivate the wells." Dreks looked to the side and noticed that the Emperor's Hand had finished reviewing the recordings from the battle and now seemed to be in some kind of trance. General Richardson, being the joker that we was, passed a hand in front of her face to see what response he would get. He wisely stopped after just a few seconds when he noticed his superior's attention. The woman came out of her trance like state, frowned in Jerej's direction, then turned to face the Admiral. "I have news Admiral. The Chiss have encountered this species before but not in anything approaching these numbers." She looked to the forward tactical displays. "Their tactics also appear to have increased in complexity." Burgan had his attention riveted on the woman now. "How do we beat them?" He asked, his most intense stare directed at her. Vance hesitated a moment then drew herself more upright. "Information on that was less clear. Varying laser power and intensity was one way of helping to defeat their defences. Their... propulsion affects their defence as well as the shield defeating effects we have seen. It was not very clear. The information from the Chiss has not been reviewed in some time. It could be hours before I can get you more information if there is any." "It's better than nothing." Replied Burgan turning away. "We'll have to figure out the rest on our own then. Propulsion and defence affect each other... a gravitic drive of some sort perhaps?" "It's a nice theory but our data feeds from Taskforce Two arn't the best. By the time we figure it out ourselves we may be dead." "We don't have any choice but to. All ships are to vary their weapon power and firing rates. Take down those Gravity Mines. If the enemy fleet follows the Group Two survivors then we’ll try to deploy our larger ships behind a screen of light cruisers. That might buy us enough time to see what works." The General stepped away to issue orders to the proper ship Commanders. Meanwhile ahead, light cruisers, frigates and corvettes began to revert from hyperspace on the other side of the gravity mines. Their Turbolasers began pouring fire into the Mines, forcing them to split defensive cover between Group One's advance force and the Group Two survivors. Within a minute the last surviving ships had arrived and the Mines had been destroyed. The smaller ships quickly made their way to the large formation and took up positions fed to them by the command ship. The advance guard also pulled back, waiting for the enemy fleet that had to be coming their way. "Sensors let me know when you get anything." Requested the Admiral. "Yes sir." Several tense minutes followed in which little happened. Starfighter squadrons launched and took up positions around or near the Cruisers and Destroyers. The Gunboat and Skipray blastboat units were sent out to the fringes of the fleet to help prevent any attempts at flanking. Weapons and shields went through additional tests and the surviving ships of Taskforce Two tried to effect temporary repairs. "Contact! Hyperspace reversion detected aft. A four ship unit, not part of our group." "What kind of ships do we have sensors?" "IFF shows them as the Destroyer Ardent, a Vindicator out of Yaga Minor and... two Carrack Cruisers from the Robaillo sector sir!" 028

Omg, I can't believe it took me that long to notice the Stormtrooper. Caught it the third time I looked at it.

It's a 'page' with the P upside down. When I do screw up my spelling it's hard ta miss I guess.

Double Post. I have found it, the One Ring, er I mean my moment of inspiration! I figured out where to send Dorja & Friends next off. Following Garqi Dorja is going to be given command of a new class of SSD. Unfortunately it's not quite finished it's shakedown, and it'll be some time before it's supplied with the types of Starfighter squadrons Dorja wants. While that's happening our Aged Admiral will be leading a large convoy escort bound for the Corporate Sector. A sort of Escort/Recon in force mission. Guess I'll have to figure out where the CSA stands a little bit sooner rather than later.

Actually I don't know. It just seemed to make sense to me that it would only work one way. Guess I'll give it a try and see.

I read through most of that site at one time or another. It's good that they normally show the alternate planet locations with an asterix next to them or whatever. It's size and relative accuracy is good for planning out story arcs. I've tried doing this before Tex. It's murder let me tell you. Eventually I just gave up as I had better things to waste my time on. Good Luck! (Perhaps you have more patience than me.)

Just finished Reading the "Starlight and Shadows" Trilogy by Elaine Kill-all-my-favourite-characters-off Cunningham. None of the books in the series have pages on Wikipedia.

There's a lot of things you said in there... ...I don't think you're problem is the Traitor program. Where to start. The Protectorate Total Conversion comes with a bunch of saved games. A good example is where you start as the Rebellion with 1 sector in the Outer Rim and the Empire controls lots of the rest of the Galaxy. (They also have a few SSD's floating arround. ) By the sounds of it you used the Traitor program on the save game intended for use as the Rebellion. That mean's when you load up the save game you used Traitor on you'll see the galaxy as the AI running the Empire sees it but be unable to affect what that side does. Hopefully you still have a copy of that save game ('cause it's one of the better ones) elsewhere because any file you use the Traitor program on is permanantly altered. So if you don't back up the file you can't play it anymore after using Traitor. Man I've lost some kick ass games to accidental use of Traitor.

Yet another 300 parody.

Double post: OMFG SNOW (Posting while we still have power.) http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h293/Defender_16/turnabout.jpg The city cancled our garbage pickup. That's never happened before.

+ + + Taskforce One dropped out of hyperspace much as it had at previous navigation points on the trip from Agamar. This time was different though. "Holocom re-established with Taskforce Two via Agamar and fleet relays." Reported the Communications officer. "Status of Taskforce Two?" Asked Burgan. "Report coming in from Admiral Ackron. They have been holding position one jump distance from Yaga Minor, as ordered, for the past three hours. They have held off sending recon ships into the system itself." "Good, he obviously has a sense for more things than just hyperspace mechanics." "Sir, Taskforce Two reports they have also been detecting asteroid like contacts appearing some distance away for the past half hour despite still being one jump away from Yaga Minor. I- One moment sir." The Com officer stopped and began sending back confirmation codes to ensure their signal wasn't being compromised then turned back to the Admiral. "Taskforce Two reports that they are being engaged by a fleet of asteroid-like ships. The ships micro-jumped to their position. The enemy fleet is equivalent to sixty percent of the tonnage of task force two." Burgan gave an astonished look to Richardson. "Asteroids! Well now there's something we don't see often." He turned his attention to one of the officers and raised his voice enough to be heard. "Master Helmsman can we make a jump directly to Force Two's current position?" The experienced naval officer input a few coordinates into the computer charts then turned in the Admiral's direction. "Yes sir! But it is a very narrow route." "We'll chance it. Captain, have a flight of scouts continue on to Yaga Minor. Send two light cruisers along with them. They're to send all data back to the Holocom relay ships and to retreat if they find anything dangerous." "Yes Admiral." "Course plotted." Reported the Master Helmsman. "It will take several minutes to reposition the fleet to jump sir." Burgan waved off the man. "Jump when ready. Com, tell Force Two that we should be to their position in minutes. And get a feed of the battle, I want to see how things are progressing." The large overhead holographic projectors activated and soon were showing feeds from Taskforce Two. The now badly distorted hypercom signal was just clear enough to make out what was happening. A concentrated sphere of objects -obviously the asteroid ships- were pushing hard towards the Super Star Destroyer at the center of group two. Hundreds of small asteroid fragment like fighters formed a defensive screen for the largest ships, soaking off the worst of the Turbolaser fire coming in at them. Several asteroid ships the size of Frigates or light cruisers broke up under the combined fire of two or three Star Destroyers apiece. Orange plasma poured out from the ships, impacting shields or wiping away Tie fighter formations. At the center of the enemy formation sat a ship larger than an Allegiance Destroyer. The huge enemy ship reached the remainder of the defensive screen formed by smaller Destroyers, just as Cruiser and Destroyer sized Asteroids were passing the heavier Destroyers surrounding the Command ship. The Cruiser analogs slowed as withering fire from the Command ship pelted them, turning space the bright green of Turbolaser fire. The Admiral turned away for a second to talk to Richardson. "I want the status displays of our largest ships in Group Two. See what kind of damage they're taking." "All hands prepare for hyperspace entry." Called the Master Helmsman over the inter-ship com. Jerej plugged a datapad into the Admiral's command chair. "The status of the ships sir." Half of the displays linked to the command chair previously showing Fleet status of Taskforce One switched over. The holographs indicating shield strength of Ackron's fleet held well above sixty percent for most of the ships. The Command ship's was still at ninety five percent. "Hyperspace jump in three... two..." The shields winked out of existence on half of the Destroyers. "One..." The forward shields disappeared from the Command ship and the other Heavy Destroyers. Then they were in swirl of hyperspace. Something had gone horribly, horribly wrong and it took all of his will to keep a small scream from escaping. He instead sublimated the noise into a command. "General!" Richardson was there in a second. "Sir?" Forcing the practiced calmness and tactical logic that had gotten him this far, the Admiral went into problem solving mode. "Before we jumped the shields failed suddenly on all of the heaviest ships in group Two. It was not a display malfunction. Does a weapon exist that could neutralize shields so easily?" "How suddenly?" Burgan snapped his fingers for emphasis on 'sudden.' The General frowned. "I'm not aware of one. There are slower acting devices but they require lots of power and take longer to cause effect than say, standard Ion Cannon do." The Admiral nodded. "Right... Fine then. Invite our state guest to the bridge at once. If anyone would know about it, it might be her." "Understood." 027

I don't really trust the Force.net most of the time. These are the same guys that said the Death Star 2 was 4,000km across.

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