The Jedi Convoy

[Dasquian Belargic]

Since the reset, the Jedi of SW-Fans have been seperated. Now, they have a chance to come together!

It has been decided that, as a culmination of current storylines, the existing Jedi have managed to come together as a convoy of ships. Whether you are already part of the convoy, on board another's ship or piloting your own, hopefully this will provide a way to get more interaction and action between the Jedi :) Since many characters will be meeting for the first time, I expect this to be an anxious, exciting time for all Jedi - so enjoy it :D

Feel free to use this thread to discuss how your Jedi might have joined the convoy, or how you would like to join it!

[Zai]

I dont know how he is going to get there...so any suggestions? lol

[Captain Untouchable]

Any word on how big the convoy is, its disposition, etc? Basically, are we looking at a Battlestar Galactica style fleet - one or two "big" ships protecting the convoy and carrying/distributing supplies to a larger number of smaller ships - or just a bunch of transports and tramp freighters that are huddled together like plane crash survivors bobbing on an ocean swarming with sharks?

Dan and s'Il may well have already offered their services on the protection front, but if they haven't and y'all are looking for a Rebel Alliance escort for the convoy, I've got a few ships that'll be at a loose end after the Bothawui battle. Might be able to ... uh... "arrange" some Rogue Squadron involvement as well. :mischief

[Zai]

Sounds good for both ends if Rogue Squadron got involve. Get some activity going. :)

[Dasquian Belargic]

I imagine a rag-tag fleet a la BSG, yes. The Republic may well have contributed a freighter or two, to add to the smaller ships that some of the Jedi already possessed. Having Rogue Squadron around to protect them might be an interesting way to take things, yes... especially since they are going to be jumping around a lot to avoid detection, I guess the squadron would have to basically be assigned to the convoy and no other missions.

[Ilias Nytrau]

Heck, it'd give them (Rogue Squadron) something to do, and they could interact with the Jedi. I've got some sort of idea for a thread à la convoy, but it's currently still a little vague in my head and half-baked, but it'll get there, hopefully when I've more than a few minutes to dedicate to thinking in a straight line i.e. after the munchkin is in bed. ;)

May have one or TWO threads in mind, in fact, on the end of Rogue Squadron and the Jedi. Must ponder, must ponder.

Oh and Zai? If you haven't figured how your character meets up with the convoy, I haven't quite baked through that either, so maybe we could be of mutual benefit to each other somehow. Hit me up on AIM o if you have access, yeah? Or PM. I won't quite be available for another 40 minutes from now, though... just to give you a heads up.

[Captain Untouchable]

I imagine a rag-tag fleet a la BSG, yes. The Republic may well have contributed a freighter or two, to add to the smaller ships that some of the Jedi already possessed. Having Rogue Squadron around to protect them might be an interesting way to take things, yes... especially since they are going to be jumping around a lot to avoid detection, I guess the squadron would have to basically be assigned to the convoy and no other missions.

Been spinning ideas with Miri, and came up with something that links together a few ideas.

At the minute, we have a Corporate Sector plot on the go. The endgame for that is to free up the Corporate Sector "fleet" to patrol the major trade route that leads from the Corporate Sector to the Core (name escapes me at the minute). The point is/was to provide Rogue Squadron and the Rebellion in the area with a slightly abnormal kind of Imperial enemy, for reasons too long-winded to get into right now - they've got clunky old CIS ships and what-not on a par with the Rebels, they deploy Droid Fighters that the Rogues can vape without remorse, etc.

The next step in the hypothetical plan was to have Rogue Squadron assigned to the small group of ships that my Fleeting character commands. The group consists of five ships, one of which is on a par with a Star Destroyer, while the rest are more escorty type things. They'd mainly be doing hit and run missions; usually with the Rogues and one or two of the smaller ships breaking away from the main group, with the rest being held in reserve unless something big (like a Star Destroyer) shows up.

What I'm wondering is if it'd make a cool tie together to have said ships guarding the convoy. Since one or two ships are intended to break away from the group anyway, the Rogues could still wander off and do their thing without endangering the convoy, while the rest stay and look after the Jedi. It might even act as a cover, in a way: if the Imperials think they're hunting down a small group of raiders, then they aren't going to pour in as many resources as they would if they caught wind of a Jedi convoy.

Just a thought, anyhow.

[Zai]

Well I just posted my convoy story up. So uh...maybe it could act as a spring-board to your idea Capt

[Estelle Russard]

I think assigning the Rogues to the Jedi Convoy is a brilliant idea.

The Rogues have been without a cause for ages. I think any missions they do should be related to the Jedi Convoy alone, any other missions can be done by the Valkyrie squadron. Give us all something solid to do.

[Kelly Perris]

That sounds like a solid plan to me. Like... this is starting to feel like the Rebellion is heading toward a more together, solid machine. That's just my take, but hey. :)

[Estelle Russard]

I agree. Im quite excited about this whole idea and the options it is opening up. We been in limbo too long.

[Kelly Perris]

While it's all super and good that we're all gonna have something to do, I'm wondering what process is involved that the 'protection' (Rogues et al.) gets hooked up with the Convoy. Whether someone's been thinking and comes up with the suggestions and 'My people and your people should have a chat'... It's a good plan. Now's a matter of process.

[Sanis Prent]

I've been waiting for something like this so I could springboard a plan for Sanis to finally start making a true moral leap to being a true good guy. He's going to have some sort of falling out with s'Il and I think he'd want to try his hand at this sort of thing initially out of spite. Possibly piss off Rogues and/or Jedi in the process, but in the heat of the moment, start to truly become a protagonist.

[Estelle Russard]

Honestly, I was just going to start a thread with Harlequin and Donut and have them just 'being there' already. By all means tho, it would be easy to rp it out - Perhaps Dan would be the connecting conduit between the Jedi and the Rogues.

Really, there is nothing to stop us moving ahead now that the end outcome is established. Its all now just manipulation of timeline and events and as people envision their characters ending up where they do.

ps) Sanis coming fully over to the righteous is a great idea.

[Kelly Perris]

Yay, Sanis! :D

Hey - something à la meet the folks that are going to be escorting and safe passaging ya? Perhaps a sort of conjoined briefing or what have you and we go from there?

[Captain Untouchable]

I think assigning the Rogues to the Jedi Convoy is a brilliant idea.

The Rogues have been without a cause for ages. I think any missions they do should be related to the Jedi Convoy alone, any other missions can be done by the Valkyrie squadron. Give us all something solid to do.

The only downsides with letting the Valkyries do everything else is that all of our played fighter pilots are now in Rogue Squadron (so there's no one to actually write the Valkyrie stuff), and that it seems a bit "wasteful" of Rogue Squadron from an in-universe perspective. If the convoy is meant to be secret, then no one is going to hear about the great and wonderous exploits of Rogue Squadron, which kills part of the Rebel PR machine.

We can always mix it up, though - leave the Valkyries & co. to do missions "off camera", and chuck in the Rogues every now and again as and when we have a suitable thread opportunity pop up.

[Jason Russard]

Yeah, we could do that.

I'd envisioned a more of a trickle-in effect with ppl arriving and joining the convoy in a very haphazard fashion rather than a formal, here we are and here are our protectors.

Perhaps there was some "incident" which necessitated some impromptu meeting by the leader Jedi dudes and Rogue Captain to outline to everyone just what the expectations were of everyone that was a part of the Wheel?

Our thread could be where we come in at a point where the Convoy is there and functioning with the Rogues present, but where some much needed guidlines are being set down.

This would allow everyone to put in that their characters are present and what their purpose/ambitions are at this point in time. It would serve as a great Introductory thread to the whole concept.


edit: And CU, that would work too. I didnt realise so many of the Valkyries were Rogues now..

[Captain Untouchable]

Well, there was only ever two Valkyrie characters (both me), so it wasn't really a difficult transition. :P

I think we can still have people appearing in trickles, and yet still arrange the whole having protection for the convoy type thing. Presumably the arrival of any kind of Rebel / Rogue force would require a thread to chart it; people arriving would just need to work out if they got involved before or after those evens.

[Zai]

Well I just posted my convoy story up. So uh...maybe it could act as a spring-board to your idea Capt

The thread I created was in a hope of extending room for flash-backs at how we got to the convoy Ilias Nytrau. I'll be AIMing you soon enough. :)

[Hera]

Link or name of zis thread, please? :)

[Zai]

Out the Dark (http://www.sw-fans.net/forum/showthread.php?t=19589)

Takes place on the convoy.

[Barton Henning]

I'm going to use this as a chance to bring The Knightfall into the Convoy, I think... if the rest of the crew wants to come along, that would be zuper :D

http://www.sw-fans.net/forum/showthread.php?t=19611

^ Anyone, feel free to join.

[Captain Untouchable]

Based on Jen's last post, I've been pondering. Rather than assigning my entire Fleeting group to protect the convoy, what if it was just one of the ships, on "detatched duty"? The Valiant is the right sort of ship to slot in as the "Frigate" mentioned in Jen's posts, and I have a character commanding it. We can put Rogue Squadron aboard (which was the plan anyway), and she can basically be the Galactica of the convoy.

Meanwhile, the rest of the ships can be "in the area"; that way, Rogue Squadron can still be borrowed for other missions if needed, and there are ships nearby to call in as back-up if things go pear shaped. it might even act as a decoy as well - Imperial Intelligence might confuse reports of the Jedi convoy with the Rebel ships, and go hunting the latter rather than the former.

If using the Valiant floats people's boats, would it be okay if I crash your thread as the Valiant's cap'n, Jen?

[Dasquian Belargic]

Crash away :)

BTW - would you be okay with me adding the Valiant to a list of ships in the Jedi forum, just so people know which crafts are part of the convoy?

[Captain Untouchable]

I was just about to PM you with the details. :)

The Valiant is an MC40a Star Cruiser (although she's a frigate; Mon Calamari just aren't very imaginative with their names!) and the "Captain" is Colonel Leela Vorega.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Alright, I added the Valiant into the Wheel info post. Let me know if anything needs changing!

[Old Man Russard]

Based on Jen's last post, I've been pondering. Rather than assigning my entire Fleeting group to protect the convoy, what if it was just one of the ships, on "detatched duty"? The Valiant is the right sort of ship to slot in as the "Frigate" mentioned in Jen's posts, and I have a character commanding it. We can put Rogue Squadron aboard (which was the plan anyway), and she can basically be the Galactica of the convoy.

Meanwhile, the rest of the ships can be "in the area"; that way, Rogue Squadron can still be borrowed for other missions if needed, and there are ships nearby to call in as back-up if things go pear shaped. it might even act as a decoy as well - Imperial Intelligence might confuse reports of the Jedi convoy with the Rebel ships, and go hunting the latter rather than the former.

If using the Valiant floats people's boats, would it be okay if I crash your thread as the Valiant's cap'n, Jen?






We've already moved ahead on having the Rogues enroute to the convoy in The Rolling Stone. They (or atleast some, including Donut) are aboard the Dauntless in this thread, which effectively sees Prent officially join the Rebellion.

The idea is for the Rogues to leave the Dauntless from a jump-off point in space, thereafter to be contacted by the Convoy to instruct them as to the final rendevous with the Wheel -- that way Dan/Decepcis does not know the true location of the Jedi convoy - only those a part of Rogue Squadron.

By all means, have the Valliant there with the rest of the fighters etc when we arrive if you like.

[Captain Untouchable]

Alrighty. Let me know if you want Vorega to appear in your thread at all, when you get to the convoy or whatever. Is there space for other Rogues to pop up in there as well?

Out of interest, is S'Il coming along with the convoy, or is she staying with Dan?

[Ilias Nytrau]

Yeah, I want answers to those questions, too.

[Dakota Gue]

AS far as I know, s'Il is staying with Dan, but hopefully she will pop in and answer for herself :)

I think Im going to start a new thread - a shoot off from Rolling Stone where Vorega and any other Rogues can join in, as RS was primarily about Prent joining the Alliance officially and the personal fall-out from that. I dont want to take that over. The new thread will place Prent and Donut at their arrival on the Convoy. Id been planning this one with Harlequin/Hob and it will fit in just nice at this point in time.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Whenever the Rogues are brought in, let me know and I'll have Jamo show up :D

[Ilias Nytrau]

Kelly will be there as well. :)

[Dakota Gue]

Terrific.

I'll have something up later today.

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

Jen is correct; s'Il will be staying with Dan for the time being, but she'll definitely be visiting at some point in the future. Since she doesn't know exactly where the Wheel is, maybe she could be ferried by one of the Rogues? :)

[Ilias Nytrau]

Again...

You can have Kelly for that purpose. He trusts his Lieutenants enough with the squadron to go pick up cargo of some importance. :)

[Captain Untouchable]

Amos may well still be around the convoy at that point as well - I dunno where Wyl is factoring in with the whole convoy side of things, but if he isn't aboard the Dauntless at the time, I'm sure Amos would be willing to let him tag along and visit his wife. ;)

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

Wyl needs to spend some quality time with his future in-laws ;) :p

[Daria Nytherciria]

Wyl needs to spend some time with his Master who is spazzing out not knowing where he is! :twak

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

s'Il will send a nice letter to Daria notifying her of Wyl's safety. And also about the apparent betrothal between Wyl and Teagan :) Might make for an enjoyable letter-styled thread, actually!

[Daria Nytherciria]

I like that idea.

Actually, I like it a lot :o

[Harlequin]

The thread is up in the Wheel forum, any rebs etc can show anytime.

[Jamo Jakatta]

Perris, you want to lead the way?

[Kelly Perris]

That link is faulty. It lead me to no-man's land.

She means this (http://www.sw-fans.net/forum/showthread.php?p=310272).

Yeah, I'll take a look and get on it hopefully sometime this evening, if not earlier. :)

[Captain Untouchable]

What kind of ship is the Oroburos? I thought the Rogues were gonna make camp on the Valiant... or have I got the wrong end of the stick, and the Oroburos is just ferrying us to the convoy, and we're not there yet?

I'm confused. >_<

[Dakota Gue]

Thanks for fixing the link Perris :)

It was the Dauntless that in the Rolling Stone thread with Prent brought the rogues (or part of the squadron) to a jump-off point to rendevous with the Convoy.

The Oubouros was a name suggested in a prior thread for one of the main ships of the Convoy.

The Valiant can arrive now with the rest of the squadron and supplies etc and be the main dock if thats what everyone prefers.

Whatever makes most sense. Im patching things together from a couple of different discussion threads.

[Captain Untouchable]

The post I threw up in The Ragged They Come (http://www.sw-fans.net/forum/showthread.php?t=19611) has the Valiant there before the Rogues had arrived, so it probably makes more sense for them to be landing on her.

Sorry, I's being awkward. >_<

[Harlequin]

I changed Oubouros to Valiant in the thread, no prob.

The Oubouros shall be referred to in another time and place :)

[Captain Untouchable]

Any chance we could get a stickied thread somewhere that has a list of all the Wheel-related threads, in some approximate sort of order? I'm already starting to loose track.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Um.. I can put one up in the Jedi forums later, if someone else hasn't already created one by then.

[Captain Untouchable]

Would it be worth editing stuff like that into the What is 'The Wheel'? thread, or would a new one just be easier?

[Dasquian Belargic]

A new thread, I think... if you just want a list of threads that are taking place there, since the list is only going to continue to grow as new RPs are made.

[Katie]

That's true. I guess it avoids cluttering up the main info stuff with requests for threads to be added and such.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Here you go: http://www.sw-fans.net/forum/showthread.php?t=19648

^ An introduction to The Wheel :D

[Tionne Thanewulf]

Your Wheel will need to pick me and my blond baggage up...some time soon. :lol

[Klo-Ude Jinn]

Hey. I wasn't baggage when they ran into that battalion of war droids on Muunilinst...or that time on Mrisst those clone troopers went mad...or on Corellia when those sand panthers were in heat...ahem...

[Anj]

Tionne, your baggage sure does talk alot. :p

[Captain Untouchable]

Hey. I wasn't baggage when they ran into that battalion of war droids on Muunilinst...or that time on Mrisst those clone troopers went mad...or on Corellia when those sand panthers were in heat...ahem...

Randy Sand Panthers, eh? :mischief

Sounds like some kind of cheesy, sixties TV expression of shock. "The Joker plans to use his doomsday device to destroy all of Gotham." "Randy Sand Panthers, Batman!" That kinda thing.

[I'nu]

YAH!!

...and my foot itches

[Ilias Nytrau]

My wrist itches. Maybe I shouldn't walk on my hands.

[I'nu]

I think they got something for that...on the Wheel

[Navaria Tarkin]

We need more postings ^_^ :whip

[Kelly Perris]

I've posted to 'Of Wheels and Fortunes (http://www.sw-fans.net/forum/showthread.php?p=311024)' (finally!). Other members of the squadron are welcome to follow suit.