Rocket Jocks, Assemble!

[Captain Untouchable]

Are there any Rebel pilot types - Rogues or otherwise - who are around at the moment, in a position to post regularly(ish), and looking for something to do?

Jenny and I have been scheming and what not... it'd be helpful to know who is about. :angel

[Lucy Gray]

I'm here. (Actually on the Wheel). Rogue 7. What did you have in mind?

[Charlotte Tur'enne]

If Jen's planning on posting as Joker I'm sure I can drag Flipper out of the dredges of my brain to post. :p

[Dasquian Belargic]

Joker and Razor, here :cool

[Sanis Prent]

Rogue 13, where da ho's at

[Captain Untouchable]

Alrighty - that looks like we've got about half a dozen Rogue pilots to play with. Groovy. :cool

Long story short... while Rogue Squadron has been protecting the Wheel, we haven't been out in the galaxy doing awesome stuff. That's bound to make Imperial Intelligence a little suspicious, and the last thing we want is them looking for us, because that makes us a target painted on the side of the Wheel.

The plan is to do a few snappy little missions, where some of the Rogues & friends fly off to go kick some ass, get noticed, and draw attention away from the Wheel; the rest of the Rogues will stay behind to protect the convoy.

Jenny has a thread on the go that she thought we might be able to provide air support for - wanna give us the lowdown, Jenmeister? :smokin

[Dasquian Belargic]

No Fate... is the thread is meant, which has it's own thread in this forum

[Captain Untouchable]

Couldn't even be bothered to post a link (http://sw-fans.net/forum/showthread.php?t=20865), eh? That's just lazy. For shame! :mad

:mneh

[Dasquian Belargic]

Almost as lazy as you not using your eyes to find the thread yourselves :mneh

[Captain Untouchable]

Are we still doing the Rogue part on a separate thread, or are you wanting to lump it in with the main mission? 'cause if we're waiting until later in the thread to show up, we might as well find something else to blow up in the mean time. :mischief

[Dasquian Belargic]

Rogues don't need to show up til later, so having something else to do before then would make sense :)

[Captain Untouchable]

Woo! Extra explosions. :D

Hmm. In that case, I think I have something that should work pretty well. I'll brew up an intro post over the evening, and point y'all in the direction.

[Carré Inirial]

Rogue 11, present and accounted for ;)

*waits patiently for Jace's link*

[Captain Untouchable]

Appologies for the delay - I was ambushed by robot ninjas, and was briefly held captive until I could MacGuyver together a crude EMP device from my phone, three paper clips, and a length of nylon string.

Here's the thread (http://www.sw-fans.net/forum/showthread.php?t=20878). I can give details on "the plan", and the disposition of the Imperial forces in the system if people ask for them; anything else, I'll have to make up on the spot. :uhoh

Hopefully we'll get through this briefing relatively quick, so we can get on with the actual ass-whooping. :smokin

[Jaden Luka]

Okay, just adding up the numbers, and we've got seven Rogues, four Valkyries, and the Layla with us on this shindig.

With Oisin Ocasta flying as Rogue Twelve on this, that gives us Three Flight as per normal, a flight of Valkyries as per normal... and then three X-Wings left over: Rogue Five, Rogue Seven, and then Jaden, who is nominally Rogue One.

Razor, Archer - which would you prefer: flying together as a wing-pair for this one, or as a threesome with Jaden? :mischief

[Lucy Gray]

Razor, Archer - which would you prefer: flying together as a wing-pair for this one, or as a threesome with Jaden? :mischief

Yeah, let's ask the two female pilots who are having a cat fight if the want to be partners or team up with a dude.

I'm actually okay with either situations.

[Tera Uolmi]

Jaden, you're on your own. Archer, for one flight only... you're my wingmate (aka. my bitch)


:D

[Lucy Gray]

MEOW!!! CAT SCRATCH FEVER! I'm all yours baby. That's how I roll!

[Jamo Jakatta]

Blonde on blonde brutality

:smokin

[Iyar Thiled]

...hmm... there's got to be a way to sneak a holo recording of this somewhere.

Add it to my wall of disgrace. Still got princess Pheonix in her snazzy sweater trying to look all nonchalant about sneaking off for an evening with Prent. I think Razor and NewGirl tearing each other's hair out would make for a lovely partner image, don't you? :lol

[Sanis Prent]

we need more chicks in Rogue Squadron that put out, that's all I'm saying

[Jamo Jakatta]

You guys need to branch out.

Intel chicks is where it's at... kinky :smokin






:uhoh

[Inyos Aamoran]

I hear the Jedi females can be considered quite attractive in some cultures.

[Cirrsseeto Quez]

jI don't want anythjing to do wjith a woman that can rread my mjind.

[Lucy Gray]

but think what they can do with the Force.... hmm......

[Bette Davis]

Let me know if you need a little resistance. I don't mind being assigned to whatever place it is you're attacking. I might get Hellfire Squadron if any of them are around, or I can say that Bette's been reassigned again for disciplinary problems...

[Carré Inirial]

Ooo...now that could be fun, Bette :D

[Captain Untouchable]

I've spoken to Holly - we're gonna save facing off against the Hellfires until we've managed to get a finished mission under our belts. :uhoh

Does anyone else have any questions regarding the mission, or shall I move stuff along? Does anyone want to do anything "before we leave", or are we good jumping ahead to the "dropping out of hyperspace" bit? Anyone want a "private word" with the Captain? Carré - do you want a few minutes to get acquainted with your new wingman, etc?

If no one says otherwise, I'll have us proceed with the mission some time on Tuesday, probably.

[Cirrsseeto Quez]

Let's get a move on!

[Dasquian Belargic]

Yeah let's get to the mission :)

[Captain Untouchable]

My internet went squiffy, so unless I can find somewhere with free wifi to use before work, I unfortunately won't be able to move us on for a few more days. Since no one has said otherwise, I shall assume we're moving straight on, and will post as such when I can. :)

[Jaden Luka]

Right! We're good to go.

The A-Wings are gonna swoop in and bust up the TIE formations, scatter them all over the place, and then our Rogues can go nutty and vape 'em. There's no other plan, scheme, or organisation... so just get together with your wingman, and go crazy. :)

[Oisin Ocasta]

Post #12 posted by Rogue 12? Huzzah. The irony. :lol

Yes, folks, something is up. But thus far, we have no idea what. On the upside, it means that there are only a dozen squints for us to contend with right now, and about a dozen fighters going up against 'em. That gives us one each / two TIEs per wingpair, to do with as you please: I'll leave it to you guys to wrestle out between you who gets to blow up what. ;)

That includes one for the Layla as well, if someone over there wants to get trigger happy... :mischief

[/Jaden]

[Bette Davis]

I've spoken to Holly - we're gonna save facing off against the Hellfires until we've managed to get a finished mission under our belts. :uhoh

Does anyone else have any questions regarding the mission, or shall I move stuff along? Does anyone want to do anything "before we leave", or are we good jumping ahead to the "dropping out of hyperspace" bit? Anyone want a "private word" with the Captain? Carré - do you want a few minutes to get acquainted with your new wingman, etc?

If no one says otherwise, I'll have us proceed with the mission some time on Tuesday, probably.
Don't think I didn't notice you invited a different Imperial pilot to play with. :colbert

[Captain Untouchable]

I assumed from what you'd said that you were too tied up with the Hellfires to make a solo appearence? :huh

[Tannis V'larr]

Actually, not having seen this thread at all, I invited myself. Sorry to make trouble. :(

[Bette Davis]

:p I'm not mad sillies. And I did say that I *could* get the Hellfires, or use Bette solo. ;)

[Aros Indigu]

Kinda late, now aren't I...

I'll pop up next time. :)

[Grace Van-Derveld]

You guys need to branch out.

Intel chicks is where it's at... kinky :smokin






:uhoh

You're asking for another broken nose

[Carré Inirial]

Is that what we're calling it now?

[Cord Avery]

*Has a blank expressionless look on her face as she eyes everyone in the room*

Why break his nose there are far more efficient ways to make him feel pain and they last longer?

*The tone of her voice had no real sense of emotion at all as she spoke*

[Jamo Jakatta]

The woman's head of the frakkin' spy brigade, for stars sake. If anyone knows how to torture a man, it's gotta be her :p

[Emelie Shadowstar]

Silly flyboy, didn't anyone tell you? All women are born with that knowledge. It just takes the truly gifted to properly use it. ;)

[Jamo Jakatta]

I know how it is, being born gifted with a huge talent.. :hat

[Kerryna Khapst]

*pets Jamo*

Carré would have replied, but she's too busy laughing :)

[Iyar Thiled]

... :rolleyes

[Jamo Jakatta]

High five!



Don't leave me hangin, bro!

[Iyar Thiled]

You've been drinking today, haven't you?

[Chir'daki]

The woman's head of the frakkin' spy brigade, for stars sake. If anyone knows how to torture a man, it's gotta be her :p

I beg to differ, Mister Jakatta.

Perhaps you require a demonstration?

>D

[Kassandra Distorith]

Did someone suggest a torture demonstration?

Let's begin...

*removes a delicate flechette from her briefcase*

[Vega Van-Derveld]

*watches with unblinking eyes, his shoulders rising and falling with every ragged breath*

>D

[Reginald Nil’vak]

Why must everything be so gory with you people? Don't you realize how difficult it is to get others' blood out of your clothing? |I

[Salem Ave]

Blood, on my hands?

Never.

[Kassandra Distorith]

Reginald my sweet...did I not leave you with strict instructions?

*arches a brow as she begins to carve*

[Reginald Nil’vak]

Well at least someone around here has a bit of class. I was beginning to get that nagging feeling that I would have to convert myself over to the rather unsightly business of learning to dismember a body or some of that nonsense.

>_> Uhh...

I believe those instructions were lost... somewhere... I think that pale little frop you had tumbling about with us for a while must have misplaced them.

[Kassandra Distorith]

Now why would I spoil the perfection of you, hmm? I adore you the way you are, my dear.

Now go before I change my mind and my appetite gets the better of me.

*trails the tip of her tongue along a fang*

[Jaden Luka]

We're fast approaching the end of this thread; and I think we can be proud of ourselves for the job we've done so far. Nice work, guys and gals! :D


We could, hypothetically, end the thread (or the mission part, at least) in three posts time: one to reveal what happens to Razor (:ohno); one to reveal what happens to Tannis (he's stationary, and has no warning of those incoming missiles: so even unguided he may not notice them until it's too late :ohno); and then one last one to blitz through the attack on the Interdictor, setting us up to end on a cliffhanger.

That obviously doesn't tie off everything, but we can always explain what happened next in an Epilogue post at the end, or in a follow-on intermission thread, etc... that may just be the opportune dramatic point to draw things to a close.

Does that sound reasonable to people, or would anyone in particular like to throw in extra posts on top of those three - Charley; do you want one more to close off what the Layla does? - or are we happy to go with that? I'm just eager to work out these last few steps, so we can end the thread on a definate bang, rather than dribbling away towards an end where we just run out of anything else to do. :uhoh


The next step is of course to introduce the Challenger and the Thunderbolts: but that warrants a new discussion thread unto itself, I think, so we'll worry about that later. :)

[Lucy Gray]

Sounds good to me. I'm out of torps anyway.

[Sanis Prent]

oops, posted before I read this.

Anyway, I sent Layla on a nice little rope-a-dope that should have Mr. V'larr eating enough cannon to put that dogfight at a stand-off so we can tie it up or whatever.

[Rev Solomon]

(Is Tannis)

I'm not stationary, by the way. I was pursuing Layla at high speed and flipped my fighter around during the light burst without altering my trajectory. That does mean I need to turn again before thrusting, or I'll just be killing my own momentum until I accelerate past zero velocity.

Of course, that also means that Spoon blasting away at my front, not my rear. And that my response time against the torpedoes is actually going to be worse than if I were still facing away, though I may be able to take them at an angle rather than head-on, which is probably my only chance of not losing my ship outright.

Stupid miracle-worker astromechs... :mneh

[Rhinn Ikthoos]

(is Kylie)

Love that dang astromech. I swear if I make ace, it will be because of that little bucket.

[Alexander Tur'enne]

I'm not stationary, by the way.

Motion in space is relative, what with orbits, galactic rotation, spatial expansion, and what-not. You are moving with constant, unchanging velocity, as per Newton's first law of motion. That's close enough. :colbert


I swear; for a pointy-eared bastard who claims to have the brain of a supercomputer, you're not exactly up to speed on your latest cosmological hyperdynamics theories. :mneh

[Tannis V'larr]

This is why I ordinarily do not allow the clergy to speak on my behalf.

[Katie]

*whistles mournfully over the fate of Razor's astromech*

:(

[Jaden Luka]

*pats Katie*

Sorry you lost your friend, Kate. :(

Anyhow - in the intrests of zomg-y awesomeness and drama: I think one more post from Tannis (insert clip of Darth Vader's TIE tumbling off into space), and then one from me to leave us at a spectacular cliffhanger? We can then re-tell the remainder of the mission as part of the introduction for a follow-up / aftermath thread?

Or would people prefer to keep posting the mission a little longer? :huh

[Dasquian Belargic]

Now seems like a good, dramatic cut-off point.

[Jaden Luka]

Alrighty, then. That's one mission, finito! :dance

I'll get together with ya over the weekend Jenny, and we'll work out how we wanna start the aftermath.

As a general question to the room... do we wanna tackle the whole reassignments / new ships for the Wheel / etc stuff in this aftermath thread as well, or shall we keep that separate in case the Wheelies wanna join in?

[Lucy Gray]

Is it okay if I respond one last time to the Defender's Missiles? Also, Lowrook's ship has 2 X-Wings, 1 Y-Wings and a salvaged X-Wing. FYI.

[Captain Untouchable]

Sure, if you want to. :)

Alternatively, we can always kick off the aftermath thread with a scene between you and Tink, with him bitchin' about how you've scratched up his beautiful plane? That'll let you explain what happened in hindsight, etc, if that's the way you wanna do it.

Up to you, Spoon. :smokin

[Kerryna Khapst]

Don't forget about Chrys...she might be good for the aftermath thread as well.

[Lucy Gray]

I'll do aftermath. It'll explain why one of razor's legs ended up tangled around my strike foil.

[Dasquian Belargic]

I think Sanis is going to pick Razor up.

[Anbira Hicchoru]

Cirr is.

With a butterfly net.

[Captain Untouchable]

A butterfly net?

I was expecting a lasso.


Edit:

Would a lasso even work in space? :cyduck

[Dasquian Belargic]

What else would a space cowboy use?

[Captain Untouchable]

He could captivate you with his charms?

[Andana Callax]

That presumes said cowboy *has* charms :p

[Nen Lev'i]

True'nuff, that.

Dude's a cat. Coulda had his charms cut off when he werra kitten. ;)

[Cirrsseeto Quez]

WHAAAAAAT :cry

[Jaden Luka]

Don't be ridiculous - of course his 'charms' are intact.

What the hell else could be be licking down there all day? :|

[Cirrsseeto Quez]

Not all day come on!

jI thought no one was lookjing!

[Mara Tallen]

They're just jealous, Cirr :)

[Tera Uolmi]

Who is starting the aftermath thread? I'm left in limbo here :ohno

[Carré Inirial]

Is Jaden starting it, or does he want one of us to start it?

*eyes Space Monkey*

[Captain Untouchable]

Sorry!

I'll get on that in a bit. Been distracted by Doctor Who music and all sorts today...

[Jaden Luka]

When is a Win not a Win? (http://www.sw-fans.net/forum/showthread.php?t=21115)

Thread is up... I'll try and grab Jenny in the morning for a few posts to check in with Razor, and then I'll jump down to the hanger bay with Tink, where I'm guessing most people can potentially be hanging out, or what-not.

I remember in one of the EU books that the Rogues helped out a lot with the maintainance on their fighters, so yeah. You're helping to fix 'em up, bitches. :mad