G5 was the last one out of the hangar. As Viper 12 he got the position farthest back in the squadron and flight formations. That also meant that if there was a sneak attack from behind he was the first to die. He always kept that in mind while on patrol. I kept his hand light on the stick and his feet comfortable on the pedals. Now there was no patrol, they knew where the enemies were and who they were. He really wished he hadn’t known, the thought of going against Rogue Squadron made you feel nervous and queasy, no matter how many missions you’d flown or if it was a simulator. As he dropped out of the hangar and fired his engines he took a slight left to meet up with Scout where he was heading for the back of the ship. The plan was to try and avoid Rogue Squadron as long as possible and get rid of the A-Wings. If the A-wings were gone they wouldn’t be able to shoot them in the back while occupied with the likes of Gavin Darklighter.     When they were about 2/3 of the way to the engines scout took a left and went to get above the Executor. It was awe-inspiring. He regularly flew off of the Atrus so the scale was nothing new, but flying to protect Vader’s flagship was something an Imperial pilot dreamed of. As he came around the rim of the ship and reached the middle of the top of the ship they took a right and flew directly away from the bridge, right on the line the peak of the hull defined. As he flew away from the bridge the waggled his stick left and right, creating a slight roll to and fro. It was the traditional salute from a fighter to the bridge.     Now that the ceremony was done he dialed the inertial compensator down to 95% to get a better “feel” for his craft and took up a position to Scout’s 8 o’clock. They came left and angled towards the point the rebels had just hypered in to the system at. He wanted to take advantage of the fragility of the A-Wing so he set his lasers to quad and got ready to fire. He glanced over his instruments, making sure everything was green and then went into a quick visualization of him landing safely at the end of the battle. Now that his ritual was done with he was ready to dust off some scum.
 
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WC/LCM G5

The closer he came to the approaching ships the more he could see and the more the sensors could distinguish them. It appeared that they were in a loose echelon form; the front line consisted of the A-Wings and the back row held Rogue Squadron. This was quite obviously set up so the A-Wings could accelerate ahead of the X-Wings without having to worry about collision. It seemed most likely that they would use the A-Wing slash strategy that Ackbar had developed. The slower X-wings would distract them, particularly by trying to engage. The pilots would be so intent on surviving the Rogues that they wouldn’t notice until too late that 3 or 4 A-wings were targeting them and ready to rip them up. This way they could pick off the Interceptors one by one, with the A-Wing pilots staying safe. The Rogue pilots were good enough to survive the battle on their own. Once viper was obliterated the Executor would be open for attack. They would be able to take their time with no fighters bothering them. It was the perfect plan.         Unfortunately for them, it was also the obvious plan. It is said that he who knows his enemy has won the battle. Right then he hoped it was true. He radioed his ideas to the rest of the squadron and they agreed. The plan was still to engage the A-Wings first, but now Flight One would hang back. When the X-Wings tried to engage the Vipers would play along and break off their engagements with the A-Wings to fight the Rogues. When the A-Wings went to slash them, Flight One would pounce on the preoccupied A-Wings, basically using their own strategy and fragility against them.                 Knowing he was to be bait, and therefore the focus of a lot of fire, g5 pulled his mind together and pushed down his fears. At the beginning it would be 8 v. 24, which were pretty much crap odds. Just surviving the first 5 minutes of this battle was going to be very tough, much less taking on Rogue Squadron once the A-Wings were dealt with. Testing his controls and flipping switches to prepare for the fight g5 sped towards the Rebels.
 
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WC/LCM G5

‘g5 is pretty smart. Prolly it is going to be that case.’ Xaphrael muttered as he scanned the deep dark space for the approaching enemy fighters. Tuning his cockpit a little, he sat back and waited. This is going to be one hell of a fight. Waiting has got to be the wrost part of the entire thing; just sitting there and wondering what the hell is going to happen is even worst than being in the actual battle itself. At least in battle, you have a more concrete motive. ‘Okay Vipes, you heard the plan. Now you have to carry it out. The enemy starfighters will be here within 5 minutes. Take it out the way we have planned if they attack the way we expect them to, which is most likely the case. If not, just try kill them and we will be talking of another alternative.’ Warmaker spoke as Xaphrael looked out as saw a tiny mass of silver objects – the attacking enemy squadrons. ‘2 minutes before firing range … ‘ ‘1 minute before within firing range … ’ Xaphrael could see them much clearer now. It was a decent size. Xaphrael tried to squeeze out the idea of Rogue Squadron, but it was hitting much harder than before.
 
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Leading Crewman Xaphrael
FM/LCRW Xaphrael/Viper 1-4/Phoenix Wing/mSSD Atrus/DEF/VEN/VE/(=A=)

Xaphrael flew and tagged on the nearest A-wing, opening fire upon him. The first few shots succeeded in damaging the shield. Xaphrael switched to missile mode and laser guarded the missile to the engine of the A-wing. A huge explosion rocketed, and when it cleared, it was obvious that the A-wing was limping and the pilot is struggling for control. Xaphrael grinned and was about to finish off the guy when a shot buffeted his starfighter. Astonished and enraged, Xaphrael looked at his hind view mirror to spot an irritating X-wing dancing around behind him, trying to get more shots are him. ‘Hey, someone try and finish off the X-wing behind me. It is a total nuisance.’ Xaphrael called over the intercom. ‘Coming right up. Just hand on there … ‘ g5 replied. A series of bolts from g5 did not hurt the X-wing; the pilots of the Rogue Squadron are excellent, but it succeeded in shaking it off Xaphrael’s tail. ‘Thanks a lot g5.’ Xaphrael said. ‘You’re welcome. But keep that. I might need it soon.’ g5 replied. Xaphrael returned to his controls and kept chasing after the A-wing. Once he got near enough to it, he blasted the A-wing and watched with a sinister triumphant look as the A-wing exploded. Nine A-wings against four TIE fighters.
 
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Leading Crewman Xaphrael
FM/LCRW Xaphrael/Viper 1-4/Phoenix Wing/mSSD Atrus/DEF/VEN/VE/(=A=)

‘Thirty minutes!?! Oh sheesh.’ Xaphrael muttered after hearing Warmaker’s message. Anything would have been possible but against nine A-wings and an unhurt Rogue Squadron, this is an extremely tall order. Barely five minutes into battle and the shield downed to 95%, Xaphrael was wondering how long he would last in this little hell hole at a corner of the vast universe. As usual, he just picked up another A-wing, hovered over it as unobtrusively as possible, before pouncing and blasting its shield and engines into pieces. When he was done with it, the A-wing was pretty much hurt. Gardoon quickly picked it up and the A-wing was scrap in a couple of minutes. --- g5 cursed as a laser bolt from a X-wing missed him … by an inch. It was not fun at all. g5 knew that he hates being a bait and he wondered what the hell on earth was he thinking when he actually agreed to this. He had to be nuts at that time. Swerving, rising and falling. Dodge. ‘Darn, someone pick this X-wing away from me for hell’s sake!’ g5 yelled over the intercom before a bolt hit his TIE fighter square. G5 winced as he saw his shield dropped to 75%. ‘Okay, I’m coming’ Scout replied.
 
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Leading Crewman Xaphrael
FM/LCRW Xaphrael/Viper 1-4/Phoenix Wing/mSSD Atrus/DEF/VEN/VE/(=A=)

Warmaker just apeard behind a A-Wing and sended him 2 quad Laser Shoots in his back which let him explode into little pieces as he heard over the com "One is down, they got Hammerman" "Damit" thought Warmaker "Ok, Zed, have you seen who has shoot him down?" "Yeah" said Zed "I think it was Tycho Celchu" "Ok, i must have a eye on him" thought Warmaker "the battle is 5 minutes old and we have one down" Warmaker turned around to aim on another A-Wing as on his right Site a other A-Wing explode. MegaDeth voice comes over the com "YEAAHAHAHAHA, One more down" "Piett, what is the status from Flight 3?" asked Warmaker "Status, god, im fully busy with avoiding hits then shooting someone, rougue Squadron is good, very good." "Keep your Fligt alive, we finish soon the A-Wings and attack then" answerd Warmaker. 4 A-Wings left and 12 Xwings, noone from Rogue Squadron would been destroyd yet, Warmaker and the rest from Flight One regroupd and engaged the last A-Wings. "Allright, finish them off now, no grace for them" said Warmaker as he switched to double lasers and penetrates another A-Wing with his Powerfull Lasers. a cold and evil smile apeard on his face as the fighter blows up. "3 more and then the Rogues" said Warmaker and headed out for another target ......
 
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CMDR/DJK/LCM Warmaker/Viper 1-1/Phoenix Wing/mSSD Atrus/VE/VEN (=A=) (=SA=) (=FOCE=) (=JCPA=) (=SCPA=) [VC-B] [SV] [CBV] [IC]

Wing Commander Phoenix Wing
Viper Squadron Commander

"You can run, but you cannot hide"
"Have you ever kissed a Snake?"

Warmakers Tie Interceptor rushed like an Angel of Death trough the Fight, a few moments earlier he shoot down one from Rogue Squadron, sended him endless counts of Laser Bolts into his back which let the missilels inside the ship explode and with it the rest of the ship. "Executor, here is Warmaker, what is your status?" asked Warmaker over the com system. "Still on the way to the Hyperspace Entry point, we try to speed up our Engines, but we are heavily damaged, keep us the Starfighters out of the way, the Executor MUST Survive" replyd the Com Officer "Understood Executor, we do our best" said Warmaker BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP the sound from the Missile Warner let Warmaker reacte quickly, a X-Wing was nearing from behind, weapons full powerd up. Warmaker hit the right rudder and pulled up the flightstick. The Interceptor turned around quickly and warmaker aimd on the incoming missiles. Just as he wanted to shoot at it, a Laser from the X-Wing who sent him the missile hit Warmakers Shields. He pulled again the Stick up, turned in a looping and hit the left rudder to roll arund till he send a chaff away. The missile exploded harmless behind him, but the X-Wing still folowed him and fired laser after laser. Warmaker aimd onto his new Target, the X-Wing who followed him was Tycho Celchu "So So, first Hammer and now I" thought Warmaker "let the fight beginn" .........
 
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CMDR/DJK/LCM Warmaker/Viper 1-1/Phoenix Wing/mSSD Atrus/VE/VEN (=A=) (=SA=) (=FOCE=) (=JCPA=) (=SCPA=) [VC-B] [SV] [CBV] [IC]

Wing Commander Phoenix Wing
Viper Squadron Commander

"You can run, but you cannot hide"
"Have you ever kissed a Snake?"

Xaphrael flew, gunning down another A-wing along the way. Back at the cockpit, he heard the devastating news that Hammerman is gone. 'Damnit. This stupid battle is only seven minutes old. How on earth are we gonna survive this ?!?'' Xaphrael muttered before speaking over the intercom. 'Okay Warmaker. We have three A-wing left.' Xaphrael reported. 'Good, but dont talk to me for the moment. I'm trying to shake Tycho of my back. He is a real pest.' Warmaker grunted back. 'Okay. Understood.' Xaphrael replied. Xaphrael was actually honestly surprised that he is still surviving. Maybe it was because he was pretty inconspicuous, but Xaphrael is very thanksful your it. He wanted to try and stay in this mission as long as possible and challenge himself against the lights of those of the Rogue Squadron. That would mean that he has to wipe out the A-wings first. Chasing after another A-wing, Xaphrael started to fire upon him when he realised that he had picked up a X-wing on his tail. A round of fire burst at Xaphrael TIE fighter's tail. A glance at the X-wing's identification number made him swear so badly that it would have made any pirate blush. The pilot in the X-wing was Wedge Antilles, and with every shot, he was inching ever uncomfortably closer.
 
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Leading Crewman Xaphrael
FM/LCRW Xaphrael/Viper 1-4/Phoenix Wing/mSSD Atrus/DEF/VEN/VE/(=A=)

Xaphrael was cursing as usual. Maybe one day if he really disappeared from the face of the galaxy, he might be remembered as the one who kept cursing right from the start to the end of battle. Xaphrael smirked. It was not such a bad idea after all. But the main thing first was the irritating pest as his starfighter’s tail. Wedge Antilles, maneuvering as never before, is going to get him soon with any shot unless he does not get help soon. ‘Gardoon, Wedge is on my tail. Try get him off. Be careful though. He’s a smart bum.’ Xaphrael called for assistance. ‘Yeah, I am on my way.’ Gardoon replied. Moments later, Xaphrael observed from his rear view mirror, flashes of home fire firing upon the X-wing. ‘Good ‘ole Gard.’ Xaphrael grinned, hopeful that it will break off the pursuer. It did not. Wedges shook off the rounds of fire easily enough and continued to keep Xaphrael on his toes. Xaphrael flew fast, speeding up, trying to put some distance between him and that blasted X-wing pilot. Swerving and dodging, Xaphrael decided that this mouse and cat game was enough. Turning his starfighter around, Xaphrael made for it, straight at Wedge Antilles’ X-wing. Stepping up on the accelerator, Xaphrael saw the distance between himself and the Rebel pilot close dramatically. 
 
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Leading Crewman Xaphrael
FM/LCRW Xaphrael/Viper 1-4/Phoenix Wing/mSSD Atrus/DEF/VEN/VE/(=A=)

Hammerman crushed a Mountain Dew can on his head and checked the sim.   “Aww, Come on you guys! What’s taking you so long? Twenty minutes? I don’t wanna wait around that long. I wonder what there is to do in here.” Hammerman pulled himself out of his hover chair and walked over to the sim controller. “You know, I bet if I fool around with these buttons long enough, I can help out the guys in the sim.” Hammerman checked the screen first. “MegaDeath and Warmaker are doing well. Though  some of the other guys are having trouble. Rouge squadron  is very good. Maybe if I head in back of the control board.” Hammerman headed for the back when suddenly he tripped and fell. “Aww sonofa…” As Hammerman hit the floor, the lights in the room clicked off. “Tell me, those lights I the room didn’t come off. Come to think of it, the sim is off too…….Crap.” Hammerman crawled around the back of the sim to see what when wrong. “Come on, you piece of crap work. Do it for the H-Man. This is so not cool. Com on you piece of crap!” Hammerman gave up and swiftly kicked the sim. “Aww crap, I think I broke my legs.” Hammerman was rolling on the floor in agony and didn’t notice that the lights came back on. Hammerman then hobbled up and rushed out the door…
 
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PO1 Hammerman
FM/PO1 Hammerman/Viper 2-4/WingOne/mSSD Atrus/DEF/VEN/VE(=A=) (=SA=)(=JPCA=)
"Its Hammertime!"

Hammerman poked his around the corner to see if anyone was in the room. “Whoosh.” Thought Hammerman, “If I play it cool then no one will know that I temporarily caused a power down.” Hammerman strolled into the rooms with his hands in his pockets, whistling all the way. Hammerman reached his chair and slumped down into. “I am so tired.” he thought. “What’s taking you guys so long!” It had been some time since he died and now he was getting bored.  Actually, now that he had just gotten comfortable and drowsy, he heard some foot steps behind him. Spinning around, Hammerman saw two Rebel commandos. “What the…” Hammerman thought. It was highly unlikely that two Rebels had boarded the Atrus though Hammerman assumed the broke out of the cell block. “Hee-Ya!” Hammerman released a martial arts type yell  coupled with a martial arts type kick. His kick scored home and sent one Rebel flying.  The other rebel tried charge Hammerman but was caught by a boot to his gut followed by a jackknife power bomb. “And that’s the bottom line…” Hammerman started to say  when the other rebel hit him with a chair. “Sonofa!” Hammerman hit the floor hard but was quickly up and  dropkicking the rebel without a cause, I mean chair. Out of his left eye Hammerman saw a rebel approaching with a  knife. Hammerman quickly pulled out his longest blade…his pocket knife. Hammerman had used the blade before in a bar fight while the squad was on leave.  MegaDeth had given it to him to compliment MegaDeth’s Ryukk blades.  Hammerman drove his 2-inch blade into the arm of the rebel. Before another blow could be struck the other rebel picked Hammerman up and threw him down an exhaust pipe near the sim.  “As Hammerman neared the bottom of the pit he wondered if had left his barrack light on. Hammerman hit the ground with a sickening thud. Hammerman was surprised to that he could stand up despite his great fall. He was also surprised that his shoulder was covered in drool. “You know,” thought Hammerman, “I shouldn’t fall asleep after sims.” Hammerman watched the screen as Gardoon was fried by Draklighter’s X-Wing. “Finally,” Hammerman thought “Some company.”
 
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PO1 Hammerman
FM/PO1 Hammerman/Viper 2-4/WingOne/mSSD Atrus/DEF/VEN/VE(=A=) (=SA=)(=JPCA=)
"Its Hammertime!"

Warmaker was hunting with full speed after the Proton Torpedos fired onto the Eclipse, one after one he shoot down with single Laserfire. "First Hammerman and then Gardoon" thought Warmaker as he heard suddenly over the speakers "Im hit im hit my right Engine is hit i cant manouvre well anymore" that was sheepy "ARGH, another hit, all Systems red, i try to ...bzzzzzbzbzbzbzbzbzbzbzbzbzb ............." Sheepys Signale, was nomore on the radar. "Ok, 3 Pilots down so far" thought Warmaker as he tryd to catch up the last 3 Torpedos. He was now very near to the Eclipse, under one click. With a praecise hit from his Lasers, another Torpendo exploded before it hit the Atrus, but Warmaker could do nothing against the remaining 2 Torpedos. Booth slammed into the Hull of the Huge Warship. Warmaker needed to make a hard turn that he would not follow the Torpedos and would make the hull break huger when his Interceptor exploded. Short above the Hull Armor, Warmakers Interceptor turned around and headed straight above the surface back into the fight again. "Executor, we couldn stopp all Torpedos, i see a few more Hull Breaks, did they affect the estimated Hyperspace Entry Time?" asked Warmaker "Viper One, here is the Executor. No, luckily the hits was in a section we closed earlier. Nothing Important got hit" replyd the Executor "Allright, back to the Fight" said Warmaker and turned around to fly to the huge ball of metall from dogfighting Tie Interceptors and X-Wings.
 
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CMDR/DJK/LCM Warmaker/Viper 1-1/Phoenix Wing/mSSD Atrus/VE/VEN (=A=) (=SA=) (=FOCE=) (=JCPA=) (=SCPA=) [VC-B] [SV] [CBV] [IC]

Wing Commander Phoenix Wing
Viper Squadron Commander

"You can run, but you cannot hide"
"Have you ever kissed a Snake?"

Warmaker was still a few clicks away from the battle as he heard a incmoming message from MegaDeth, "MegaDeth here, i have Problems, someone from Rogues Squadron is behind me and dont want to leave" Warmaker looked on his Tactical Screen, after a seconde he found the Enemy starfighter behind MegaDeth, it was Rogue Leader, Wedge Antilles "MegaDeth, you have Wedge Antilles behind you, im on my way, hold out." Warmaker speaded up his Starfighter on the way to help his Friend. MegaDeth heard the Message and tought, "great, Rouge Leader, behind me. Anyway, lest see how good you are" With that MegaDeth, switched to 33 % Engine Power and started to turn around till he also spun around his own to avoid the Laser shoots from Antilles X-Wing. Rogue Leader went into a half looping to stay behind Megaeth, but he started to turn in on of the quick turns only Tie`s can do into the other Direction and was suddenly infront of Wedge`s X-Wing in a Head to Head run. MegaDeth switched to quad Laser bolts and started to shoot, his opponent spun around and avoided every hit, then he also opend Fire. Booth Starfighters went on a collision course till Wedge pulled up his Stick and went into a half Looping, MegaDeth behind him, firind with all Lasers. Slowly the sheilds went under 60 % "I get you Wedge, said MegaDeth as suddenly the X-Wing infront of him, turned hard right, spun around and turned again left with switching speeds, that manouvre comesto unexpected that MegaDeth had can do anything against it. On his back screen MegaDeth saw Wedge Antilles X-Wing, saw the 4 red Lasers who flyd to fast to his only less shielded back ........ Warmaker who followed the Dogfight from a few clicks away, saw the Explosion which was a few seconds ago MegaDeth "One more down, said Warmaker and we have still a few minutes left" .......
 
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CMDR/DJK/LCM Warmaker/Viper 1-1/Phoenix Wing/mSSD Atrus/VE/VEN (=A=) (=SA=) (=FOCE=) (=JCPA=) (=SCPA=) [VC-B] [SV] [CBV] [IC]

Wing Commander Phoenix Wing
Viper Squadron Commander

"You can run, but you cannot hide"
"Have you ever kissed a Snake?"

Warmaker speeded up his Tie Interceptor after he got the Message from Piett. 2 X-Wings from Rogue Squadron where chasing after g5, 2 clicks away from them, Warmaker switched to double laser shoots. To get a faster firing rate at he heavily skilled pilots from Rogue Squadron. One click away he started to fire and hit the first X-Wing in the back shields, quickly his Enemy rolled and started to turn around, warmaker behind him firing with all lasers, but not many shoots from him hit the turning X-Wing. “Damn, those Rogue Guys ARE good.” Warmaker switched to 33 % Engine Power as his Missile warner gets active again. Warmaker changed to the incoming Missile on his HUD and turned around to face it as 2 red lasers missed him “Uhhh they hit me nearly. Who was that ….” The missile was one click away and Warmaker opend his Fire on it. Just as he had a clear target aim, his laser warner showed him a ship behind him rdy to rip him apart. Warmaker pulled his Stick up and sent his Interceptor in a short looping till he sends a chaff away which let the incoming missile explode. “Ok, now to you my friend” thought Warmaker as he aimd on the after him hunting X-Wing. “Tycho Celchu again.” Said Warmaker “Seems like that will be a longer Fight”
 
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CMDR/DJK/LCM Warmaker/Viper 1-1/Phoenix Wing/mSSD Atrus/VE/VEN (=A=) (=SA=) (=FOCE=) (=JCPA=) (=SCPA=) [VC-B] [SV] [CBV] [IC]

Wing Commander Phoenix Wing
Viper Squadron Commander

"You can run, but you cannot hide"
"Have you ever kissed a Snake?"

Warmaker flyd with his Tie Interceptor on a Head to Head run versus Tycho Celchu in his X-Wing. Head to Head runs are one of the Dangeroust moments for a pilots live. One lucky shoot till you just aim on him can kill you. Warmaker switched to quad lasers, he know he will not have the chance to shoot often, so he needed all Weapon Power in his few shoots. 2 clicks away …..1,6 clicks away ……….1,4 clicks away, Weapon Range, but noone of the two shoots, 1, click away, booth started to send theyr deadly Energy, Warmaker moved his Flightstick up and down to avoid the hits, returnd quickly and send another quad shoot. A few Seconds later, booth changed to 33´% and started the Turn War. A Tie Interceptor was faster and could make better Turns then a X-Wing, but these was Rogue Squadron, they know the X-Wing very well and flyd them like Ties. Tycho flyd his X-Wing trough a perfect looping, Warmaker short behind him, but then he used the rudder and the X-Wing drifted out of the Way, turned sharp around and Warmaker looked into 4 Laser Cannons, ready to shoot. He sended his Interceptor in a wild spin and dived under the X-Wing. Only a matter of Time when one of the two got the first hit, only a matter of Time when one of the two Pilots would die ……
 
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CMDR/DJK/LCM Warmaker/Viper 1-1/Phoenix Wing/mSSD Atrus/VE/VEN (=A=) (=SA=) (=FOCE=) (=JCPA=) (=SCPA=) [VC-B] [SV] [CBV] [IC]

Wing Commander Phoenix Wing
Viper Squadron Commander

"You can run, but you cannot hide"
"Have you ever kissed a Snake?"