As the squad prepares for the simulation, many were still half-awake. Arturus begins to worry about the squads performance and fears whether the mission will be a successful one. Corran walks into the room and takes a look at the squad. "Didn't I say to get ready for the simulation in five minutes?" Corran said to the squad. "YES SIR!" Said the squad as they gathered in formation. "I expect you to perform to the fullest in this simulation with little or preferably…NO losses. Is that clear?" Corran said. "YES SIR!" Replied the squad. "This is no joke people, I expect you all to succeed in this mission and to escort the AT-AT's safely and efficiently." Said Corran. Arturus walks over to the console and a screen appears in front of him. He selects the right simulation and puts the necessary setup for the mission. Corran looks over to Arturus to see how well he's doing. Arturus looks up and nods to Corran.  "OK, man your fighters. I want everyone to do their best. Oh and one more thing…I'll give a prize to the first person who shoots down a Snowspeeder." Said Corran as he grinned. "Is there any questions?" Said Corran. "What prize will it be sir? Is it going to be a weekend trip on planet 'Euphoria'?" Said Senior Crewman Whos_Ya_Daddy. "You'll find out when you've completed your mission pilot" Corran said humorously. The squad heads over to the simulation crafts and strap themselves in. Arturus looks around to see whether they are all ready to go and presses the button. The simulation starts.

Arturus increased power to his engines and formed up tightly with Corran. "Dammit this thing is slow."  Art said as they approached the back of the first line of AT-ATs. "Art what to you is not slow, you complain about every damn fighter and bomber you have ever flown."  Corran said as they flew between the legs of the first few AT-ATs. Art glanced at his radar and saw that the main group of fighters was passing over the rebel lines and heading for the AT-ATs at full speed. "Ok Corran, when we approach you take Skywalker, I got Wedge."  Art said over his private frequnecy with Corran. "Roger that."  Corran replied as he tightened up on Art's port wing.  They passed by the last line of AT-ATs and raced towards the rapidly approaching group of speeders. Art reached over and activated his rear facing computer tracking gun.  He transferred the data from his radar to his cannon so it wouldnt shoot at other Imperial fighters. Art watched his computer scroll down the distance to target.  At 1.5km, he switched power to his lasers and began evasive maneuvers.  The two Imperial fighters raced for the Rebel leaders. Corran rotated 180 degrees and dived to the ground before pulling up with his rear to the approaching fighters, his rear cannon began firing rapidly as it chewed up Skywalker's fighter. The rebel fighter spun and rose sharply to avoid the gun.  Art meanwhile managed to pull right at the last second to avoid Wedge's guns and a collision.  Art pressed the automatic firing button for his rear gun and it began to nail Wedge's fighter. Wedge dived for the ground and pulled up in a complete flip. "Damn these guys are good."  Art said as he rose and completed his flip.  He then rotated and dived for the ground and somehow managed to find himself right behind the Rebel ace. Art fired off several blasts into the back of Wedge's fighter and saw the tail gunner's cockpit explode.  The smoking fighter crashed to the ground, causing another explosion and sending debris everywhere. Art turned sharply to avoid the debris but couldnt turn fast enough.  A loud explosion hit the back of his fighter and his computer shrilled an alert showing his rear gun inoperable. "Dammit!"  Art shouted as he completed his turn and and fired off several shots at a rebel fighter passing by.  The fighter's engines explode and the fighter crashed to the ground. Art glanced to the left and saw Corran finish off Skywalker's fighter. "Nice one boss."  Art said as they formed up and raced to chase down the last of the four fighters in the group. Both men shifted all power to their engines and could feel the roar as they rapidly approached the last of the 4 fighters. "On my mark split and attack from both sides."  Art said as they approached.  "Mark!"  he shouted as he broke shrply to the right and prepared to pull back and fire when the time came. Corran pulled a similiar maneuver left and they charged for the rear wings of the rebel fighter.  Art shifted power back to his lasers and let out a blast that just hit the top part of the rebel's starboard cannon. Corran's shots just barely missed the left engines as the fighter began evasive maneuvers. "Clear out of the way!"  Art shouted as he rolled his fighter left and fired a long blast before pulling up and following Corran towards the rebel lines. The rebel fighter explode seconds later showering the icey terrain with firey debris. "Not bad, lets go get the next bunch."  Art said cheerfully as they checked their radars for the next group.
 
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    Gathon pulled his speeder around and headed back away from the center of most of the fighting. With Red5 on the ground pretending he was in the army, Gathon was left without a wingman. Just then Denethor and Emon zipped by in their speeders heading for a small group of rebel speeders. Feeling guilty for his lack of a kill score, Gathon swung back around and formed up behind the two pilots from Two Flight.     Reaching down and flipping to the inter-squadron channel, Gathon spoke into his helmet headset. “Two Flight this is Kaph 7, my wingman is down playing trooper so I’ve got your back on this run.” Denethor’s voice came back over the channel, “Roger that 7, we’re going to pass underneath the oncoming fighters and then split to the sides and come around from behind. We’ll go high, you go low.”     Gathon looked down at his radar screen and saw the rebel snowspeeders coming in hot. “10-4, good buddy.” Letting his fighter drop down so it was just below the flight plane of Denethor and Emon, Gathon put his hand on the throttle with his finger resting on the air brake. As the enemy snowspeeders zipped by overhead, he slammed on the air brake and pushed the flight stick as far forward as it could the go. The instant deceleration and dive sent the blood rushing into Gathon’s head. As the craft came around heading in the opposite direction, Gathon spun the speeder and the blood drained back out of his face.     He glanced down at the radar to find the nearest enemy fighter, but unfortunately the nearest fighter was half a click away, directly aft. Pulling his fighter hard over he turned right into the path of the enemy fighter and felt several blaster bolts impact on the side of the craft. Suddenly the instrument panel became a sea of blinking red. The altimeter was winding down toward zero and the flight controls had been destroyed. “This is seven, I’m going down. Repeat, I’ve been hit and am losing altitude.” He finally looked up and out through the canopy and noticed that his speeder was heading straight toward a rather large building. “Oh well, guess we all gotta go sometime.” Then the speeder smashed into the main power generator and the cockpit went dark. Popping the door to the simulator open, Gathon looked out just in time to see an enormous blackened crater where the main power generator used to be on the main monitor. “Well at least General Veers owes me one.”
 
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-Bachelor for life.

(OOC: Come on ppl, posting a 300 word post doesnt take that much effort, lets get going here, i dont want to write the entire damn story.) "God dammit!"  Art swore as he desperately tried to avoid the two missiles that had locked onto him.  His slow, sluggish, damaged speeder just could not continue to out maneuver the missiles. "Well if I am going to exit this sim i might as well destroy the rebel lines as well."  Art muttered as he rolled to the right and dived for the ground. He pulled up just meters from the snow and raced towards the rebel ground forces. The two missiles mimicked the maneuver and lost their lock for a quick second before reaquiring and following Art in.  Art glanced at his radar and noticed he had maybe 5 seconds before the missiles would smoke his butt. Art transferred all remaining power to his engines and dove for the ground when he hit the rebel lines.  What little laser power was left he fired, incinerating equipment and creating mounds of molten flesh where men had tried to flee. The two missiles following Art mimicked his dive but followed him left at the same time, crashing into one of the main generators. The generator exploded spewing firey metal everywhere and causing several other minor explosions inlcuding two of the main guns and a missile launcher. "Art you ok?"  Corran asked as he swerved to avoid two of the fighters attacking him. "Yep boss, managed to take out some of the ground force too."  Art replied smuggly as he rolled and pulled up away from the snow. Things were getting a little better all the time.
 
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(OOC: nice job so far Kaph)   ----------------------- ADJ:NTO/IA/EFL/WO1 Liquid/Aegis 3-1 (Aegis Nine)/Phoenix Wing/mSSD Atrus/DEF/VEN/VE/(=A=)(=SA=) TRN/JRN Liquid/TBA/TBA/VEDJ/(VP) I am the TO's Adjutant, and the FS's instructor's assistant. Any questions? please direct them to: Me Naval Academy ||| Flight School

Emon was preparing to take on another rebel speeder. "Attention flight 2. There's a speeder attacking that AT-AT over to the North."said Emon "Flight 2, attack."said Denthor Emon and the rest of flight two got into there standard attack patern and began to fire on the speeder. Then, two more speeders came out firing from behind a large mountain of snow. "ATTENTION KAPH SQUADRON! yelled Denthor We need assistance" "Flight two, take evasive action until they arrive."said Denthor Emon was getting tired of always having to take evasive action in almost every engagment, but he knew that this was the only way to stay alive in an attack like this. "There they are"said Rafe as the rest of Kaph squadron came to there aid them. Emon immediatly turned around, and began firing at the rebels. They were not going to stand a chance against all of Kaph squadron. All of a sudden, Emon saw three more speeders coming over a large mountain of snow the west. It was a trap! "Attention everyone! There are three more speeders coming in from the west. Prepare to use your rear cannons as soon as they are in range."said Arturus Emon saw that one of the speeders from the first mountain was now open for attack from behind him, and began to fire at him with his rear cannon. The rebel didn't realize what was going on before it was to late. "Nice shot Emon."said Denthor "Thanks, sir. Just doing me job."Emon said as he smiled He then noticed that the new speeders were coming in range of his rear cannon. "Yo everyone, there in range!"yelled Emon as he began to target there flight leader. He finally got him targeted, and was told that Jaded was also targeting him. They both let loose on him with there rear cannons, and he became nothing more than another dead rebel.
 
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SP Japer/Sith/Dark Knight 1-2 Cabal/ Eagle Sect/VEDJ

PC/CPT/Japer/1PLT/1/1COM/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE/IOC/LoC/CM
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Things just kept deteriorating for Kaph squadron.  Art and Corran were trapped behind the rebel army formation in a desperate fight with a group of rebel speeders and several missiles.  The rest of Kaph was trapped near the AT-ATs and couldnt get away in order to protect them.  Two AT-ATs had already been destroyed and a third one, General Veer's, was severely damaged. "Dammit Corran where are you?"  Art asked as he spun his fighter to avoid an oncoming speeder.  He accelerated and dove for the ground in order to avoid the pair of missiles that was tracking him at the same time. Art was running out of engine power and options as he rolled and pulled up from the ground forcing the two missiles to crash into a platoon of rebel infantry.  He raced back towards the main formation firing what little precious cannon power he had left into the side of a speeder passing by. The rebel fighter burst into flames and crashed into a power generator located near where the AT-ATs were approaching. "Nice one Art."  Corran said as he flew past Art and shot down another speeder.  "If we cant attack the ground targets, we might as well use thier own speeders and missiles to do it."  Corran laughed as he raced towards another group of speeders.
 
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Art stood in thought for a minute as he downed a bottle of water.  He was angry at himself for being the second Kaph pilot shot down, specially after the work he had down with a damaged fighter and in the middle of a missile field. After grabbing another bottle of water and a towel he walked to the change room where he changed into his smuggling clothes and put on his blaster belt.  It was time for some target practice. He quickly walked to the Wing training center where he had set up three target lanes and emptied his pistol quickly to warm up.  7 of the 9 shots hit the head, the other two in the neck and chest. "Not bad."  Art muttered as he reloaded and took more careful aim.  He felt his hand begin to shake as he emptied his pistol again.  This time every shot missed. "What the hell!"  Art yelled as he reloaded and emptied his pistol again.  His hand began shaking more as he again missed every shot.  "Damn Ive got to party less and drink less."  Art muttered to himself as he kicked the ammo stand and walked back to his quarters. He was hoping that the woman he had smuggled in was still in his room sleeping, he need to relax somehow and sober up.  He was still half-drunk and was beginning to feel very tired. "How the hell did I survive so long in the sim."  Art pondered as he opened the door to his quarters and saw that the woman was still there.
 
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Art finished up his breakfast and walked slowly back to the Kaph area.  He stopped by the simulator room and saw that the sim was still going. "Damn i wish I was still in it."  Art said as he shook his head and walked to the water stand.  He helped himself to another bottle of water before walking to the training room. He needed to work out, it had been a long time since he had and he left like his body was starting to get a little too loose on him.  He walked over to the free weights and started doing some basic lifting to warm up. His muscles felt stiff as hell and he began to tire very quickly. "Damn." he muttered as he gave up on the weights and walked to the treadmill.  20 minutes of running should make him feel better he thought as he turned it on and began to warm up. =========================================== 20 minutes later Art stepped off the machine feeling tired and weak.  He was actually smiling though as the exercise and really cheered him up. He decided to go back to the sim room and see how the squad was doing, he was considered going into one of the X-Wing simulators and entering the Kaph sim as one of the X-wing pilots. He took out a small datapad from its holder in his belt and connected it to his larger one that was running the sim.  He quickly transferred the data and walked over to the X-wing sim.
 
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Art plugged his small datapad into the X-wing sim as he quickly stripped and put on a flight suit.  He grabbed a rebel helmet and jumped into the cockpit.  He was eager to show Kaph he was more than the drunken failure pilot that he had been since he had joined. He quickly strapped in and closed the cockpit.  He pressed the power button on the sim and felt the cockpit roar to life as the lights turned on and the screen changed to the planet Hoth.  He quickly sychronized his sim with Kaph's and hacked his way in. The screen changed to a firey battle with speeders flying everywhere.  Art ignited his engines and raced towards the 2 speeders from 3 flt who were desperately defending the AT-ATs. Just as he came into range, the engines suddenly died on him and the sim cut out. "What the hell!"  Art exclaimed as he opened the sim and took off his helmet. He quickly unstrapped and hopped out so he could look at his datapad.  There was a message waiting on it. =From Admiral Riel Fury, dont hack into the sim again= Art chuckled to himself, well the computer system onboard the ship was a little tighter now after he and Gravin and gone on a little hacking spree long ago. Art unhooked his datapad and changed back into his clothes.  He walked slowly back to his quarters hoping to bump into Gathon along the way.  He wanted a little 1 on 1 dogfight so he could show his skills. He didnt want to be known as the worse pilot in Kaph, he needed a win against someone and Gathon was the only other pilot not in the sim.
 
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(OOC: I am running out of things to do here Kaph, lets finish this sim up ASAP) Art entered his quarters and found the three women they had smuggled in sitting around drinking from his personal supply of Corellian Ale. "Alright, its time to go, I have found a shuttle for you to fly out on."  Art said as he helped himself to some of the Ale.  He had hacked into the computer system and made a little addition to the flight records indicating that a small shuttle was to leave carrying a lieutenant to the Imperial Garrison on Corellia, the planet where the women were from. "Ok, you will enter transport shuttle in 20 minutes from now, I have paid a lieutenant to fly you to fly back to Corellia."  Art said as he poured another glass of Ale. "And if we are found."  one of the women said as she stood and faced him with a rather angry look. "Trust me you wont.  In 19 minutes a warning alarm will sound on the other side of the ship.  Most people will be there leaving the area clear for you."  Art said as hhe turned to leave. "Whatever."  The woman said as she opened her person and pulled out a cigarette.  Art sighed and left the room.  He programed his two security droids not to let anyone but him back into the room for half an hour. He then walked back to the simulator room to see how the sim was transpiring.  He was getting very anxious to see the sim end and a new one begin.
 
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