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Huge numbers is right. I think I ended up with 180,000 Refined materials once because I'd increased the processing rate.

+ + + The soft but fast clicks of boots on the deck plates heralded Jag's approach. "Major." Saluted Commander Wintle. "The Admiral is waiting for you in his ready room." He gestured to a door off the starboard aft portion of the bridge. "You can go right in." Jag had barely walked through the door and was just beginning another salute when the Admiral spoke. "Have a seat Major." Once he was seated Dorja slid a small crystal shot glass across the desk toward him then raised his own. "I'm promoting you to Colonel and placing you in command of our starfighter forces Mr. Fel. Normally I'd say congratulations but these arn't the best circumstances." The Admiral downed his glass then continued. "I want your insight on these new enemies." Jag paused long enough to compose himself before starting in. "They are not invincible, which should help morale in the long run." "Yes. We did prove that much. Four enemy ships destroyed but at the cost of five Destroyers." "I believe our starfighter squadrons could match them if properly trained to counter their tactics, but we would need a numerical superiority of three to one." "The new Tie Gauntlets seemed to fare well. If we were to face them with a majority of advanced fighters?" "The odds would be closer to two to one then. The shield stripping tactics of theirs will eventually break the inertial compensators of a fighter. Missiles seem to be quite useless against their defences, only massed fire seemed to work for us. Firing too many shots for their voids to intercept all of them." "Did you see any evidence that their defenses might be linked to their propulsion?" "Hard to say sir. Most of us were maneuvering at lower speeds or pacing the blastboats." "When we stared scoring heavier hits on the last interdictor the gravity well began to decrease in intensity. If we could find a way to use this against them..." "We could request a Dominator from the nearest over sector fleet. That would be one way to prove the hypothesis." Dorja threw his head back and laughed. "Major..." The Admiral closed his eyes for a second. "Colonel, I'll be lucky if I lose just my command for this debacle. I've been a cautious Commander my entire career and the only reason I've made it this far is because I get results. Sometimes it takes a little bit longer but I never lose ships." He stood, straightened his uniform, then looked at a display screen on the wall. "Today I was overconfident in the abilities of my fleet... and it got them killed." "Permission to speak freely sir?" Asked Jag. "Go ahead." "You did what you could to save as many Imperial lives as possible. It's possible none of us would have escaped. More than thirty thousand people survived today because of you. Thirty thousand people who have an idea how to fight this enemy." 005 Holy cow, I've been retreiving all of the old material and saving each post individually and I'm starting to realise there's a lot. I didn't think I'd written so many.

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h293/Defender_16/RovinarLightFighter.gif Rovinar Standard Starfighter Crew: 1 (Pilot) 2x Starfighter grade Disruptor/Disintegrator (Negative charge) 2x Micro Phase Cannon 6x Rovinar Close Support Missiles 1x S.P. Torpedo (Optional) Maunfacturer: Rovinar Defense Builders Users: Rovinar, Alliance http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h293/Defender_16/DarkNeeranFighter.gif Neeran Starfighter Crew: 1 (Pilot) 2x Fast Charge Micro Phase Cannon Maunfacturer: Various Users: Neeran Controlled States

+ + + "Hyperspace capable fighters are to jump out-system immediately." Came the Flight controller's voice. Jag knew what that meant right away. They're going to leave the other fighters. "Remaining Gauntlets, try to get to the nearest blastboats! Use the underside docking mount to hitch a ride if you can." Jag and his wing mate blasted through another fighter that had been moving in to harass the Skipray they had been covering. "Dev, I want you to dock with that Skipray, I'll cover." "Negative sir, I've been hulled by debris. No atmosphere in the cockpit." With no atmosphere in the TIE cockpit a pilot wouldn't be able to withstand the cold of space for very long, even with their flight suit intact. "Get going sir, before the Skipray jumps." With out any choice Jag goosed the thrusters swinging his Tie in below the Skipray then thrusting up just enough to connect with the docking connector. Dev's Tie turned and headed straight for a group of six incoming fighters. Three sensor blips blinked out before the Skipray entered hyperspace. + + + "Shields are back up to ten percent and the bridge tower shields are mostly intact. There are thirty medium sized hull breaches and fifty small hull ruptures, the largest of which are clustered near the main reactors. Half of the weapons are operational, none of the quadlasers survived. Hypercom can't connect to any of the main relays and sensors have taken damage as well. Lastly, several of our blastboats and fighters have emerged from hyperspace relatively close by sir. Some of the blastboats are carrying Tie's on their docking connectors." Dorja rubbed his temples as he listened to the Commander's report. "Get the Ties onboard. What's that status of our hyperdrives?" "Operational. The hyperdrives did suffer damage but the engineering crews are still determining how much." "We'll have to risk another jump. I'm amazed we haven't been pursued already." "Cavalcade didn't explode sir. It's possible they could be combing the wreckage for survivors." "There's nothing we could do for them if anyone survived. Plot a series of jumps to take us back to the Battle Group rendezvous point. Jump as soon as the Tie's are aboard... and have the highest ranking pilot still alive report to my office." With that Dorja turned and strode from the command platform back to his ready room. + + + Six Tie series craft entered the main bay of the once mighty Imperial Two Star Destroyer Ardent. One scarred Tie Interceptor and five almost equally battered Tie Gauntlets were all that remained. Jag had seen the rips in the Destroyer's hull and other damage on approach. Most ships he had seen in this condition had been used as gunnery target practice for the Super Star Destroyer crews. The main bay had taken little damage but it still had a haunting sensation to it. Never in his career had he seen a Star Destroyer's bay so empty of fighters. As he popped the hatch upon landing, twice the usual number of techs scrambled over to inspect the fighter. He barely had time to climb down to the deck before a voice ushered from the overhead speakers. "All hands stand by for hyperspace entry. Will the ranking pilot please report to the bridge. Ranking pilot report to the bridge." Jag glanced between the other pilots that had made it. Two were flight officers and the others Lieutenants. He pointed to a senior Lieutenant from one of the other ships. "You, find out how many reserve or replacement pilots there are on Ardent and ask the techs about spare fighters. I'm needed on the bridge." With that Jag moved off towards one of the turbolifts as fast as protocol would allow. 004

Tip for Eagle: Alert your local Media outlet. More 6 party talks... Or, wait should that go in the recent world conflits thread? Galactica season 3 Gag reel

I like trying to create the massiveness that IS the Imperial Navy. I build Star Destroyers for every name in my Destroyer list. ( I'm sure some of you remember the Star Destroyer Names thread. )

Yes that's what I've always been most interested in finding out. Production rates mean little to me. I want more maintinence for bigger fleets. It's not the building part that I have trouble with, it's the supporting stuff already built. (I want my 1,000 strong Star Destroyer force and enough planets left over for the Rebels to actually build an opposition. ) btw: Congrats Tex!

Went skiing today at Tremblant . (Not my pictures) http://www.vivetremblant.com/images/mont_tremblant_winter_05_med.jpg http://canadianwinter.ca/uploads/images/gallery/quebec_city/mont_tremblant.jpg Most of the snow on the runs was human made but oh well.

Yes Mad you are indeed correct. Two or three times total.

+ + + Jag Fel was flying for his life. The information on extending the range of the inertial compensator field had come too late for nearly half of the Tie Gauntlet fighters. Luckily the blastboats had held back far enough that they received the information in time. The fighter screen was fast becoming useless as evidenced by the fires burning aboard Cavalcade. Jag, a squadron member, and a blastboat they had been shadowing were using their combined fire to batter past the tiny black singularities the enemy asteroid fighters used for shields. They were killing fighters one at a time but not nearly fast enough. Cavalcade and Ardent both concentrated their Turbolaser fire on a nearby frigate, overwhelming it's defences and boiling away hull material into space. When Turbolaser bolts finally exploded forth from the opposite side of the ship, the Frigate began to break up. The Victory Destroyers were faring poorly though. Their fighter squadrons were being decimated and shields were fast slipping away under plasma hits. Ardent and Cavalcade's fighter squadrons were now being driven away from their mother ships by walls of fighters. + + + Things were turning grim. "We're not getting out of this one in one piece Commander." "Aye sir." "Sensors have you located the interdictors?" "Yes sir! They're the four Cruiser Analogs aft of us." "And the two other ships?" "The larger ones appear to be acting as carriers. They're literally throwing fighter analogs and similar sized missiles into the Victory destroyers." Dorja looked at the status readouts on the Vic's. The shields were down to thirty percent on three of the ships and failing on the fourth. "Helm... set a collision course for one of the interdictors, tell Cavalcade and the Victory destroyers to do the same." "This is going to be messy sir." "It's already messy Wintle. I'm trying to see that someone gets out of here alive." The ISD's spun about, taking and giving more fire on their flanks as they turned. "Tell the less damaged Vic's to hold back a bit and to ignore the carriers. If a Destroyer loses shields they're to make best speed into the nearest interdictor." The first Victory Destroyer, it's hull flaming and badly deformed, struck it's target before exploding spectacularly. The Interdictor was cracked in two with bodies and debris streaming away in every direction. A second Vic, still being hit by the carriers struck it's target. The third destroyer had lost engines and was being picked apart. "Tell Bier to fall back and cover us. And tell Cavalcade to get any shuttles off while they can." Cavalcade flew past the broken Victory destroyer using it's now expanding debris cloud for cover. All remaining cannon and batteries fired wildly. The last of her starboard batteries disappeared under fire from the cruiser analog and a trailing frigate, but the port shields held long enough for her to put two devastating broadsides into one carrier. One last transmission came from the ship on an open frequency; 'For the Empire.' Then her bow hit her target. The starboard supports buckled more quickly than the port and the Destroyer crumpled in on it's side as the bow stabbed into the heart of the enemy ship. The Sublight drives sputtered out and failed to explode. "Hit that last interdictor with everything we have left!" Ardent and Bier were being hit from all sides by fighters. Two assault shuttles dropped from the main bay, headed straight for the interdictor. About halfway to the ship, space troopers launched from the shuttles, firing torpedoes and E-webs. "What are those shuttles doing?" "They're carrying Nergon-14 charges!" Shouted Wintle over increasing damage alarms. A void opened in front of the assault shuttles but the quick thinking crews detonated their explosives before the ships could be dragged in. Two large fireballs expanded, then were sucked into the defensive void. "Gravity well intensity has dropped by half sir." Reported sensors. "Their interdiction field may be tied to their defences." "Gunnery concentrate on their bow." Gaps were starting to appear in the Ardent`s shields. Plasma flames from fighters were burning holes in the topside hull. Turbo laser bolts still poured forth from both remaining Destroyers as they closed with the last interdictor. The interdictor started taking hits with increasing frequency, it's voids tiring under the stress. "Interdictor is retreating sir, their Grav-well is down." "Helm give us a course roughly sixty degrees up from our current axis and prepare a hyperspace jump. We need to get out of range of the Carriers. Any Hyperspace capable fighters are to get out now." The two ships pulled away, the Carriers raking their undersides with fire while the Frigate analogs continued to pound the aft shields. The Victory Destroyer's aft shields finally fell, allowing direct hits to the engines. "The Bier has lost it's port engine. They're turning to hold our back." The smaller Destroyer had just completed it's turn when it was hit by the combined fire of six ships. The port side exploded open like it had been made out of paper. "Helm, jump us out at your earliest available moment." The wreckage of the Bier wouldn't give them much cover for long, they needed to jump and now. "Hyperspace jump in ten seconds." "The fighters sir?" Asked the Commander. "We have thirty thousand people on this ship." Was Dorja's only reply. The other man nodded in understanding. "Three... Two... one..." The stars elongated for the second or so hyperspace jump that dropped them at the edge of the system. 003 Keep commeting on it and I'll keep posting them. Note: I won't be exceeding 1 post per day addition to this thread no matter how much nagging there is. I am hoping to resume work on the later pieces that were never finished.

So what do you guys think the Fed's would do if those mailboxes started dissapearing?

Neither of which are really a high priority on my list of languages to learn.

"Shields to full, get an image on the screen." Turning toward them were six large rounded asteroid like shapes, just like the ones now visible through the forward viewports. Two larger ones the size of an Imperator and four smaller ones closer in size to a Mon Cal star cruiser. The ships, for they were certainly space faring vessels, all had what appeared to be large coral like growths coming out of them. Then the branch like growths started dropping small specks into space. "Magnify one of the objects they're dropping." An image just like that of one of the small asteroid fragments popped up on screen. The asteroid ships in orbit of Bastion went active then, two more analogous to Mon Cal Cruisers and several around the size of frigates or Carrack cruisers. "They could just ram us and we'd never stand a chance." Dorja cursed "Helm. Plot a jump to the edge of the system. Prepare to recover fighters." The Helmsman had started into the necessary calculations for a jump when a red light went off on his console. "Artificial gravity well detected sir." "Son of the Sith. Tell our Fighters to engage at will." "This should be interesting." commented Wintle. "Ideas Admiral?" "Run like hell first and foremost. Victory Destroyers come about and engage the ships in our aft. ISD's are to reverse engines put down a screen of fire towards the ships coming up from orbit." + + + "We're ordered to engage at will." Said the Wing leader. "Major Fel, take your two Gauntlet squadrons and help screen the Destroyers. Interceptors with me." Several squadrons of Interceptors broke ranks and charged ahead toward the oncoming lumps of rock. "Gauntlet Squadrons 241 and 242 with me." Commanded Jag Fel. "We'll stay with the Gunboats and Skiprays covering this flank." As Jag watched, the four Victory Destroyers came about, running their sublight dives to maximum. It took him a moment to realise they were not accelerating as quickly as they should have been. Then sensors showed active tractor beams between the ships. The Victory's were towing the ISD's backwards out of orbit. The larger Destroyers diverting engine power to tractor beams and weapons. Turbolaser were now filling space with bright green bolts of destructive energy. Jag watched for detonations or other tell tale signs of weapons impacts but none appeared. The Turbolaser bolts simply vanished before they reached the rocky surface of the oncoming ships. The rocks the size of large frigates were fast closing with the fleeing Destroyer group. Meanwhile the TIE Interceptors had engaged the first line of asteroid fighters. Though maneuverable, the unshielded fighters were fast taking damage from some kind of plasma weaponry. Com chatter showed that the TIE sensors were having trouble locking onto the rocky targets. "Major Fel to Wing leader, recommend fighters switch to ground attack sensors. It may help with target locks." "Good thinking Major. You heard him, get to it." + + + "Fighters are now fully engaged. There's too many enemy ships for them to hold them back." "Pull the Interceptors back to the main screen. Send the Gauntlets out to help them if you have to. And see if you can penetrate those defences." "Sir! Cavalcade reports something is striping their forward shields." "Gravity readings are all over the board sir, not just the interdictor." The ship shook slightly for a moment and the forward shields disappeared. "Begin a restart on the forward shields. Try extending the inertial compensators to include the shields. Tell the shielded fighters and other destroyers to do the same." Orange gold plasma poured out from the Frigate analogs and fighters, hitting the unshielded bow of Cavalcade. Secondary explosions tore through the starboard gundecks leaving a trail of debris. A second volley struck near the ship's command platform and heavy Turbolasers. Then two formations of fighters fought their way through the defensive screen and poured fire into the bridge. "Shields back up sir." Called the operations officer. The board showing shield strength was illuminated in orange. "Cavalcade is still responding sir, there were crew in the secondary bridge to take over." "Target the nearest Frigate analog. Both ships hit it with everything." 002

I've succeded in maximizing the use of my Internet handle I guess. The only other one on the 1st google page that wasn't me was an Italian I think. I think this is Italian... not 100% sure. Odd that my username came up 1st in the Game Warden Forums since I've barely made 100 posts there.

And so begins the tale of the New Sith Order... *THX sound* http://www.engadget.com/media/2006/09/-thx.jpg A long time ago in a galaxy far far away... http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/b/b8/250px-Star_Wars_Logo.svg.png ++++The New Sith Order ++++Encounter at Bastion It is a time of relative peace as the Empire ruled by Palpatine controls most of the known Galaxy... blah, blah, blah. Lets get this show on the road! "All Pilots to ready stations!" Blared the voice of the ship's flight controller over the intra-ship com system. Admiral Dorja stood looking through the forward viewports of the Star Destroyer Ardent as hyperspace swirled past. Behind and below him the bridge officers and crew went through system checks and prepared command and control systems. Out beyond the swirling lights were the six other destroyers that made up his taskforce. Two mark two Imperial class destroyers and four upgraded Victory II Destroyers. He had desperately wanted to wait an extra day for the droid fighter equipped escort carriers to arrive and join his fleet but that delay for this mission was too great. Bastion, a well populated and loyal system in the outer rim territories had sent a general distress signal stating that the system had come under attack by an alien force of unknown origin. That was the only information that had reached a nearby patrol frigate before the signal cut off. The Frigate had dispatched it's two hyperspace capable Gunboats to jump to Bastion and determine the nature of the emergency further while the Frigate jumped core ward to report. Neither gunboats reported in at the assigned time. Over the past month pirate and insurgent groups had been attacking hypercom communication platforms through the outer rim and even into the colonies. Contact with several key positions was starting to become spotty at best. It had been more than two weeks now since the last report from Yaga Minor. Fearing that enough rebel cells had massed to attack the shipyard and had cut off communications, he had begun to assemble a group to perform a recon in force when the distress signal arrived. The Twenty six squadrons of starfighters his fleet carried would be more than a match for any rebel force they encountered. Still, it paid to be cautious and he hadn't stayed alive this long by recklessly jumping into situations he wasn’t prepared for. Dorja wondered who or what the alien attackers could be. Surely the Chiss would have sent some warning if there was something coming in from the unknown regions. If it was the Chiss themselves attacking then the Emperor would already have been screaming for the heads of every one of the blue skinned humanoids. +++ They emerged at the edge of the system and began scans directed toward the systems inhabited planet. "Status report please. How many rebels are we dealing with?" Commander Wintle looked up from the crew pit. "Sir it's odd. We've found debris in orbit with enough mass to match Bastion's defence forces but no active Ion signatures." "Hmm... let me see a magnified view." A small view screen built into the wall activated showing a grainy image of Bastion. Small flecks of debris could be seen where they passed across the face of the planet. "You're sure there's no sign of rebel ships in the system? There must be an Ion wake or some remains from a fleet large enough to do this." "Nothing sir. Only a few asteroids in a high orbit." "I want a full load out on our TIE Gauntlets. Equip as many as possible with shield pods and arm all of them with missiles. The Gunboats and Skiprays will escort us as we make the jump in system. Same orders to all ships." +++ The fleet reverted with the ISD's in a wide delta formation and two Victory's above, the remaining two below. "Sensors, find me something useful." "Main population centers appear to have suffered orbital bombardment. Pattern is inconsistent with any in the databanks." "Blast." Muttered Dorja to himself. "Is it possible they suffered a directed asteroid bombardment?" Asked Wintle, directing his attention both to the Admiral and the sensors operator. "We did detect asteroids in orbit after all." "Movement from the asteroid and debris field sir." Wintle spun on his heel. "Weapons can you get a lock?" "Negative sir no definitive contacts." Dorja held up hand towards the Commander. "We'll hold our fire until we can get a good look at the intruders. Same order to all ships." "Aye sir! Permission to have Interceptors form up into independent strike units." "Very well, but include the strike units as part of our fighter screen for the moment, deploy our squadrons in a defensive formation. Only launch the strikes units if they try to run for it." The Destroyers continued in closer to the gravity well for five minutes. "Sensors tell me you have a contact sorted out from those rocks." Whispered the Commander. "I'm sorry sir but whenever I positively identify an object that appears to be moving under power, it just turns out to be an asteroid fragment. I've logged nearly two hundred of them." "Admiral, it's no good. The asteroid fragments are interfering with sensor locks. It's like they're moving under their own power." "Lieutenant, put some of the images of the asteroid fragments up on the main screen. Scroll through them, perhaps we'll find a thruster unit staring back at us." Images began to blink up on the screen, one replacing another in rapid succession. Dorja began to frown. There was something wrong here, something he'd overlooked. The smaller asteroid fragments all looked very similar. All had the same basic shape, almost as if- "Hyperspace reversions detected aft! Multiple contacts!" 001

The original 'thesis' post that the NSO was based on from one of the many, many Empire vs Vong threads. Wow, where to begin. Chronological order would be best I'm guessing. The Empire wins the Battle of Endor. However this battle turns out atleast some rebels are going to escape, (not many but some.) Maybe say 5 of them in starfighters. (A-Wings) The Rebellion, though defeated, would simply go underground and essentially become the equivilant of one of the many pirate bands throught the galaxy. (I'm reminded of the pirate groups in I,Jedi.) I have no comment on what would happen to Luke, Leia, Han and the rest for now. There is no garuntee that the Empire would have gained the Entrenchment technology from defeating the Ssi-Ruuvi. Most of the damage done to the Ssi-Ruuvi Imperium was by the Chiss E.D.F. when their borders (most likely) came under attack. The Empire may have continued on into Ssi-Ruuvi space and conquered them but they would have probably tried to destroy their technology lest their enemy use it on them. Like most exotic technologies some or most of it would have ended up at the Mount Tantiss storehouse. Even with some of it recovered, I don't think this tech would have become very widespread, as the Emperor might want to keep it for himself in ways to prolong his life. (Or the lives of choice followers.) I also agree that Palpatine would begin constructing a New Sith Order much along the lines of what was said above [ie. original discussion this was taken from.] by others. He would certainly have many people to choose from. Mara Jade would essentially remain the puppet she was and Kam would keep his old job. Dathomir would continue to be a source to draw dark side adepts from with the large population of Witches there. The Rebellion would continue in the outer rim territories and some remote locations but I don't think the Empire would (need to) resort to totaly erasing any more species. Even durring the Krytos Virus outbreak Isard had been planning to contain select populations of certain species that had proven useful in labour such as Wookies and Sullustans. The Bothans on the otherhand I doubt would be as lucky as Isard considered them a primary target for extermination. I can easily see an area about the size of the Imperial Remnant becoming a Rebel stronghold arround Mon Cal. Of course that entire area would have been crushed by the Imperials several times. Everyone would just scatter and stay hidden except for raiding. I feel confident that Vader would have been able to deal with the Mount Tantiss incident with Jorus C'boath (sp?) unless perhaps Palpatine had him created on purpouse? Who knows, but most of the more serious incidents through the galaxy that plagued the NR would have been taken care of by the Empire easily. Droid fighters would be introduced on a massive scale but these would be more suplemental, similar to how they were used by Zinj. One human pilot and a Droid wingmate which would shadow and cover them. Certain Elite Units would be upgraded with TIE Defenders and Avengers. Gun and missile boats would undergo a resurgance in the support role and Skipray blastboats would also be numerous. The Empire's missile production would remain mostly focused on Concussion missiles rather than Torpedos much as it has always been. At this point infiltration of the galaxy begins. Vong Infiltrators would have an easy time infiltrating the Rebel factions, Hutt Syndicates or Black Sun and even the Empire. Unless they were to come into close contact with a Dark Jedi there isn't much that would give them away. In the event a Vong was ever seen without an Oooglith Masquer it would look like "Just another Alien" to most imperials. In a worst case secnario the infiltrator would kill themselves before any information could be wrought out of them. When the invasion finally began, all the Vong would need to do is close off the nearby sectors quickily enough to stop communications from getting out. Nom Anor's sucess in the anti-Jedi Peace Brigade [and other group's before it] could be just as effective when used against the populations of the Empire. EDIT: http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h293/Defender_16/TieGauntlet-Missile.gif http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h293/Defender_16/TieGauntlet-Laser.gif

Longest battle ever was over a college campus LAN between myself and a former roommate. We both decided we wanted a really big battle and set about dividing up the Galaxy evenly. I'd bombard a neutral sector so it would join him and vice-versa. Set for fast. We started the battle between 11:30pm and midnight abouts and eventually agreed to let the computers continue the fight because we had classes in the morning. I built as many Star Destroyers as I had names for. (Which was alot +80) Most were ISD and ISDII, 8 SSD's and support ships for each destroyer. I also threw in a few Carrier only support groups at the last second. For every ISD or ISDII that I built was: 1 dreadnaught, 2 Carriers, 3 Carrack cruisers, 2 Lancer Frigates, 1 VSD, 1VSDII, 1 Strike cruise, etc. My friend, he just built Mon Cal Cruisers and Liberators until his maintinence hit zero or negatives. I woke up arround 5:00AM and checked the game progress. It may have been technically cheating since I was the only one awake at that time but I tried to salvage what was left of my Destroyer force at that time. The Chimera, Avarace, and Lusankya were in the best shape of the dozens that had already been crippled and repaired themselves. I took those along with any other heavy ships that still had engines and drew them to the edge of the map away from the heaviest remaining fighting. Most of the still active fleets were made up of things like Carrack Cruisers, Frigates, corvettes, carriers. A few Dreadnaughts still hung in on either side along with some Victory Destroyers. By the time my Destroyers with engines got to my safe zone most of the Vics were floating. Two or three VSDII's might have made it to the safe zone though. The Chimera with Thrawn still aboard recovered with better speed than most other Destroyers and went back into the fighting becoming the Rally point for a wing of Carrack Cruisers. With Carriers causing little damage I pulled them back to the safe zone to protect Lusankya until her guns could come back. Mon Cal Cruisers reviving can be a scarry thing especially when several do it at the same time. I lost most of a squad of carracks before I realised the Cal's had no engines and couldn't persue. Sometime between 6:00 and 6:30AM I sent the Lusankya and a force of Destroyers back into the mass-graveyard at the center of the map. I used the SSD's long range guns to pick off the Mon Cal's that had revived the most then went in with the ISD's to mop up. The Chimera finally bought it fighting about 30 Corvettes and Gunships but the last active ships were wiped away by my small group of repaired VSD's with a couple of ISD's backing them up. The Liberators nearly revived before Lusankya got them but that was it, the battle was over. Between 7 and 7:30AM the last Rebel ships were finally scrapped by the Turbolasers of some twenty repaired Destroyers. More than a Dozen Carrack Cruisers had made it through the battle with only minimal damage and most of the carriers had survived. EDIT: I so totally killed this thread.

Hey Tex, I've forgotten, on an un-edited version of Rebellion how many maintinence points will each Mine-Refinery pair give you?

After nearly a week of +10 degree temperatures we have snow again.

http://chervokas.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/greatpowerful_oz.gif I have every intention of granting your request. Made it to level 10 on my third or fourth try.

A Predecessor to the Praetorian above. http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h293/Defender_16/Type-6AttackBomber2.gif RF-350 Crew: 2 (Pilot, ECO) 6x S.P. Torpedo /or/ Missile Pack 6x Micro-Phase Cannon (6 Armoured mountings) Maunfacturer: Republic Users: Alliance, Republic, Various Produced in staggering quantities by the Republic fleet yards for use by the Alliance durring the Twenty Years War. Though designed for use against capital ships, their carrying capacity and cannon allowed them to be refitted for anti-starfighter roles. These Fighter-Bombers saw action in every major battle of the war, giving the larger starships the time needed to win engagements. These fighters could be found among the starfighter forces of every Allance member state as late as the Rebellion of the 4530's.

I'm sort of into the third group. I think we can fix things but they'll get worse before we do. Rewind to Y2K hype: Me: "Dad! Y2K is coming! Will I still be able to play Command & Conquer? I haven't finished protecting the GDI space station!"

Something wrong with the link? http://www.cosgan.de/images/smilie/konfus/a015.gif Erm, yes actually. *Fixes* Got one of these today. viral-in-the-bad-sense Looks like my cousin got suckered in. I figured something was wrong because he knows I'm really not good with Dutch.

I don't think being equipped with a towel at all times would go over well at work. *Towel catches in toster conveyor belt.* "UM! ... little help!?" *FOOM!* "Uh, Fire. Fire! Helloooo we have a fire here!" *5 minutes later* "I'M ON FIRE HELP!" http://www.chattanooga.gov/Images_Editor/Fire_Misc_Images/Gas-Fire_Solo_Shot.JPG Yeah. So time for some random. Auto sentries in action Who likes mentos freshness?