========== The next day ========== The Viper pilots enterd the Simulator Room where Warmaker was waiting for them. "Greetings everyone, feels good to be still alife after our last mission, eh" said Warmaker with a light smile on his Face. In their last Simulator Mission they fought against Rogue Squadron to defend the Executor till the huge capiol Ship was able to jump into Hyperspace. The mission was a success, but nearly all Pilots died in that battle. "Allright, i have another Trainings Mission for us, lets start the Briefing" The lights in the room went out and the ig screen on the wall behind him went alife. "This here is Bluepoint 5" said Warmaker "Its under attack by Imperial Forces severall Capitol Ships enterd the Area. Luckily only 2 Squadrons of tie Interceptors as Fighter Support. I dont need to show you a description of a Interceptor, we fly it the whole day. For our Mission we use the Tie Defender, the best Mass Product Ship in our Navy." "After Rogue Squadron everything will be easy" said MegaDeth "Yes, maybe" answerd Warmaker "But dont underestimate them, they have in theyr fleet severall Lancer Frigattes, the  worsest Nightmare for a Starfighter Pilot. Severall Pilots died before when they come into Range from the severall Laser Systems on a Lancer. Allright, our plan is, we fly in, defend Bluepoint 5 with everything we can throw against them, destroy their Fighters and after that we try to take out their Capital Ships one by one. Any Questions about it?" Warmaker looked into the Round and after nobody had a Question he said "Ok, good luck out there. we start in 15 minutes." ..............
 
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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?"

Hammerman noted for himself to check his room when he returned back home. He remembered that he had left his lights on and did not want be reprimanded because he was sloppy. “It will be alright” he thought. “I’ll take a slap on the wrist and then keep on trucking.” Hammerman flew his Defender around Bluepoint 5 while waiting for the enemy to come within is range.  Hammerman was no one to rush out to an untimely end, despite what you may think after the past two missions, though he didn’t want the enemy to come within missile range. Hammerman figured he’d just as well follow Zed into battle and perhaps Zed would go first this time. “Enemy in two clicks.” said Zed as the fighters approached. Hammerman wondered as to why his Squad was flying Defenders this mission. Most often they flew Interceptors seeing as how that was squad issue. “I wonder how long until I get my A-Wing.” Hammerman thought. Despite the fact Hammerman already had an Interceptor and A-Wings weren’t standard issue Hammerman had been dreaming of his own personal A-Wing ever since he had heard about Tyco ‘s  from rouge squad. Perhaps he could customize his and the he would fly it while he was on leave. Hammerman looked down at his dash. 1.5 clicks away. That’s where all the fun is…
 
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PO1 Hammerman
FM/PO1 Hammerman/Viper 2-4/WingOne/mSSD Atrus/DEF/VEN/VE(=A=) (=SA=)(=JPCA=)
"Its Hammertime!"

after everybody was in their Simulators, Warmaker jumped in his and gives the sign to start the sim. Inside the Simulator it went dark, till the screens around him show a perfect simulation of a galaxy. the Controlls before him where a bit different then the normal ones they use in their Interceptors, but they have traind before with Defenders and have also flown a few Missions in them. Warmaker checked the screen, no Enemy Craft yet to seen, but it was only a matter of time till they appear. "Allright, last checkup for your Systems. Power up your Shilds and Weapons, the Enemy will arrive soon. Zed, take flight 2 and check the area at position 12, Piett, you and Flight 3 fly to Bluepoint 5 to defend it against any incoming Starfighters." orderd Warmaker The two Flight leaders sended theyr understood and went on Position "MegaDeth, take Xaphrael and fly to Position 3, i stay with Gardoon here, we patroll the Area till our Aggressors appear, then we attack from booth sides" "Allright Boss, im on the way to my Position" answerd MegaDeth Warmaker checked his Radar, "everything is so quiet here, to quiet, but that will soon change" said Warmaker as suddenly he heard a loud BEEP. The Attackers have arrived .......
 
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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?"

After barley evading a  blast from a bogey on his six, Hammerman realized that he needed some help. “Could I get a hand Zed?” Hammerman called. “Be with you in a bit.” was Zed’s reply.  While Hammerman swerved then dove to evade intense laser fire, Zed blasted an enemy fighter. “Here I come.” Zed said to Hammerman as he rolled to tail Hammerman s bogey. Hammerman dove then pulled up sharply and when his tail did the same, Zed shredded him with a quad bolt from his cannons. “Thanks pal,” Hammerman said, I owe you one.” “Buy me one when we get outta here.” was Zed’s response, “Form up with me and we’ll go bogey hunting.” Hammerman pulled beside his flight leader and the two began to pick off the enemy. After a short time though, Warmaker called through the ComLink “Pull back some to defend Bluepoint, you’re pulling too far away.” The duo of destruction had to pull back in order to defend the mission critical craft, Bluepoint. “I hate being on the defensive.” thought Hammerman, “Despite the fact we have to wait for the attackers, we also have to forfeit personal  battle in  order to protect the critical craft. And to think the personal competitions are the ones that are the most interesting.” As Hammerman was pulling back he noticed that Sheepy was having some troubles. Seeking to help out, Hammerman pulled over to help out Sheepy…
 
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PO1 Hammerman
FM/PO1 Hammerman/Viper 2-4/WingOne/mSSD Atrus/DEF/VEN/VE(=A=) (=SA=)(=JPCA=)
"Its Hammertime!"

Hammerman pulled hard on throttle in order to keep his lock on the Tie that was chasing Sheepy. Once his targeting sight lit up, Hammerman squeezed the trigger and unleashed fiery death upon  his target. “ Hoorah!” Hammerman released a silent victory cry at his latest kill. Hammerman didn’t like to use missiles on  Ties though he used one now and then just for kicks. Generally Hammerman saved missiles for  capital ships. “Hammer, come and cover me on  this attack run I’m making.” Zed called through the radio. Zed really had no intention to seriously damage the Star Destroyer; he was trying to draw fire away from Sheepy who had gotten in to more trouble. “I’m there.” replied Hammerman. He pulled into formation with Zed  and approached in an attack vector . “Okay,” Zed said., “Lets get outta here.” Hammerman wasn’t paying attention though. He had locked onto a pesky Tie. “Come here you punk. I need to teach you a lesson.” One might suppose that Hammerman was a tad bit too much involved in a pure simulation though often times one gets annoyed that the computer is too smart for its own good. In an effort to even the score with the computer, Hammerman was going to kill this pilot no matter how good the computer made him. As Hammerman jerked upward to tail the little booger, he noticed he was heading right for the bridge of the Star Destroyer…
 
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PO1 Hammerman
FM/PO1 Hammerman/Viper 2-4/WingOne/mSSD Atrus/DEF/VEN/VE(=A=) (=SA=)(=JPCA=)
"Its Hammertime!"

The Viper Pilots where involved in little Dogfight against the attacking enemys as Warmaker opend a Com chanel "MegaDeth, form on my Wing, we take a look on that Capitol Ships who forms at Point 6" "Allright, im on my way" answerd MegaDeth. Booth Pilots turned around and headed to the incoming Capitol Ships "Full Shields to the Front, we dont attack, only if its needed, i wanna see how much ships they exactly have thrown in the Fight against us, understood?" said Warmaker "Affirmative" comes the Reply from MegaDeth Warmaker sended his Tie Defender with full speed on the way to the capitol Ships, the first they aprouch was a old Dreadnought in not the best shape. Booth Defenders was behind him as theyr Gunners reacted and started to shoot, but it was to late, they where now out of firing Range. "Allright, now right into the middle, quick rushing in and then out again as fast as you can, we test theyr react time from the Gunners" To fly into the middle of severall capitol ships had theyr advantage and disadvantage. Advantage, they cant shoot with all theyr turrets, or they would run into danger to shoot on theyr own cap ships, disadvantage if a Turbolaser would hit them, the chances to get instantly killed was high, a Turbolaser can cause a lot damage to a Starfighter, even a Tie Defender.
 
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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?"

Hammerman flew around another Tie and blasted it with a quad blast.  He was glad he had gotten out of the way of that Star Destroyer and he was happy now that he was away from their guns. Dealing with a couple of Ties is easier than dealing with Turbolasers. A following Tie tried to get a lock on him but Hammerman pulled out of it and locked on to the assailant.  Hammerman fired a blast of lasers through the ball of the Tie and it exploded in a fiery ball. “Hoorah.” Though Hammerman, keeping a mental count of all his kills. He noticed on his tactical display that flight three and `Piett were taking on a squad of Ties. “ I feel sorry for those poor, poor pilots,” thought Hammerman, “he was of course referring to the Tie pilots flying against flight three. Despite being outnumbered, flight three was going to tear through those Ties.  The main thing about Tie was not their durability but rather their cheapness. Multitudes of Ties were pumped out by Imperial factories every year and multitudes were shot down. However their high numbers often gave them an edge in battle. That edge didn’t exist in this battle.
 
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PO1 Hammerman
FM/PO1 Hammerman/Viper 2-4/WingOne/mSSD Atrus/DEF/VEN/VE(=A=) (=SA=)(=JPCA=)
"Its Hammertime!"

“Whoa!” Hammerman thought as he avoided some shrapnel that came form the Tie Warmaker had just fried. And so, began the systematic dismantling of the enemy fleet. Hammerman teamed up with Zed and Sheepy to form a fearsome trio of terror. By triple teaming pilots,  the enemy was less likely to escape. Also, by drawing fire towards the star fighters, the lancer frigates virtually forgot about the ore depot that was the main objective in the whole mission. Hammerman called out to Sheepy for assistance and Sheepy was happy to contribute a quad blast of lasers to the cockpit and ball of the enemy Tie. Unfortunately, Hammerman’s Imperial March CD was turned up so loud he did not even notice the missile warning on his tactical screen. About the time Hammerman noticed the projectile, it was within a few meters. Hammerman boosted speed and dodged the missile. Following the evasive maneuver, Hammerman released chaff that caused the missile to explode.  Once the immediate threat was gone, Hammerman was free to chase down the bogey that was lucky enough to get a lock on him. Hammerman found his man and returned him the favor by planting a  missile into the cockpit and ball of the bogey. As Hammerman flew away from the fiery explosion  Zed called over. “Come over here. We’ve almost subdued a lancer frigate.”
 
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PO1 Hammerman
FM/PO1 Hammerman/Viper 2-4/WingOne/mSSD Atrus/DEF/VEN/VE(=A=) (=SA=)(=JPCA=)
"Its Hammertime!"

    As Piett blasted another TIE he began to get cocky. Spinning to the right to bracket another ship Piett let loose a quad blast. It missed to the left so he nudged the craft to the right, not worrying about staying evasive. It was the last mistake he’d make today. As his finger touched the firing stud a brilliant explosion surrounded him and then faded to darkness. The door of the simulator cracked open and he stepped out of it, angry with himself.     Three TIE fighters had synchronized an attack on him. With weakened shields six blasts connected on him, vaporizing his craft with him inside. WarMaker was just about to remind everyone to keep their heads in the game when Zed came on the channel. “Help, I’ve got a pair on m…” the com crackled and then went silent. Everyone was sobered by the loss of 2 pilots in under a minute.     Twisting through a tight dogfight, g5 heard WarMaker announce the losses. He’d known that they couldn’t stay perfect forever. There were too many guns shooting at them. Inverting his fighter he flicked to dual fire and strafed across an enemy fighter. None of the bolts connected but it had bought him time to get into a good position. As he slid in behind the TIE a dual blast connected with his rear shield.
 
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WC/LCM G5

Zed stepped out of the simulator to find `Piett waiting for him. He was shocked to see that he was not in the control room watching the whole thing. "`p, what you doing here? I thought you would be in the control room." "Was heading there, but I figured I would wait for you." `Piett replied. "You took a pretty bad spill in there, you gonna be alright?" "Yea, as usual I'm a'ight." "Well, let's go ahead in there." said `Piett as he motioned to go to the control room. "I hope that they can pull this one off." said Zed. "Yea, let's hope." Zed and Piett walked into the control room to find out that nothing would work.It was almost as if it was being hacked into by something....or someone. One thing was certain things did not look good for the Viper Squadron. Zed and `Piett looked at each other, then back at the screen. One last time they pressed some more buttons, and nothing worked. "Zed, what you think this means." said Piett as he glanced over at Zed. "I dunno `P." replied Zed as he turned to face `Piett. "Usually it means we failed a mission, but WarMaker and the rest of them are still in there. Maybe we should contact Warmaker." "Good idea. How we do that?" "Watch." said Zed as he picked up a microphone. "Warmaker are you there? It's Zed." ........................... "Warmaker are you there? It's Zed." he repeated, but no reply came through. "This looks not good `P. They could be in serious trouble, and we know nothing about it." "Well we have 2 options. We can wait for a reply which could not come, or we can try and do something about it. What you wanna do?" Zed scratched his head. "I don't know. It's a hard decision to make. If we leave, he could answer us. If we don't, we could never know what is going to happen. Almost impossible to decide what is the best way to help from out here."
 
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Sargeant First Class Rizzit BlackHeart
Wildcard Platoon
Raider's Squad Leader
Army of the Vast Empire
SL/TRP/GSGT Rizzit/3SQD/1PLT/COMP/1BAT/1RGT//VE[OPE][OTH]
"Should I let him die slowly, or put him out of his misery?"--Rizzit

"Zed, did you hear something?" asked `Piett. "zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ" replied Zed. "ZED! WAKE UP!" "huh? Ah, musta fallen asleep. What's up." "I thought I heard someone ask to change the channel, I could be wrong." "Prolly not. WarMaker prolly was trying to get through to us." "Yea, let's see what we can do." Piett and Zed tried pushing the appropriate buttons to get the channels switched but were of no avail. Nothing seemed to work, but the communications. The monitors did work, but they were all snowy. "WarMaker, this is Zed. Are you there?" no reply came again. "Warmaker, if you can hear me, nothing seems to work except communications in the control room. Is there something we are supposed to be doing?" Zed turned to `Piett. "`P I don't think he's gonna answer. We had better get down to the generators and try to get things working." "Bad idea. We can't both go. If he tries to contact us again, we'll miss it. I'll stay here and keep watch. You go down and get things going." replied `Piett. "It will get done faster if we both go down." "But who will be here to tell us if it works?" "Guess you're right for once:P"said Zed. "Does WM have any comlinks around here?" "I think so. why?" "So we can stay in touch so we know what's going on." "Good idea. I'll go check." said Zed as he left `Piett to await a message from Warmaker.
 
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Sargeant First Class Rizzit BlackHeart
Wildcard Platoon
Raider's Squad Leader
Army of the Vast Empire
SL/TRP/GSGT Rizzit/3SQD/1PLT/COMP/1BAT/1RGT//VE[OPE][OTH]
"Should I let him die slowly, or put him out of his misery?"--Rizzit

Hammerman took a nose dive to avoid enemy fire. “Whoa,” Hammerman thought, “That was way too close.” With Zed out of the game, flight 2 was currently leaderless in terms of succession within the flight. Though Hammerman and Sheepy still took orders from Warmaker, there was no one to give direct orders to the flight members.  Given that Hammerman was the highest ranking flight member still alive, he felt he should take on temporary leadership of the flight. Quickly recalling that the pilot handbook never stated who was to lead a flight in the absence of a flight leader, Hammerman advised Warmaker of the situation. “WM, we lost our flight leader and are waiting instructions. “Hmmmmm, fly cover for me as I make a run on this frigate.” “Hear that Sheep, we got cover duty.” “I gotcha.” As the two pilots flew in to cover their squadron commander, Hammerman couldn’t help but to think to himself. “I wonder if this battle could move any slower. We’ve been in here a while and I’ve racked up some kills it just seems as though the opposition keeps pouring it on.” As the words escaped Hammerman’s lips, he noticed another flight of Ties had flown in. Distracted momentarily, Hammerman was torn back to his present situation when a laser shot psat his cockpit. “You know, I’d fly a lot better if I paid attention,” Hammerman thought.
 
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PO1 Hammerman
FM/PO1 Hammerman/Viper 2-4/WingOne/mSSD Atrus/DEF/VEN/VE(=A=) (=SA=)(=JPCA=)
"Its Hammertime!"

"watch it guys, we got company" said Warmaker and pulled up his flightstick, the incoming Ties where to near to stay on the attack run for he frigatte. His Tie Defender made a looping and sended deadly fire into the direction of the nearest Tie which hit a wing and made head big holes into it. The Tie Pilot tryd to fly away, but a quick shoot from Hammermann gaves him the rest. The tie Exploded in a fireball. "Good Work Hammerman, you fly from Mission to Mission better" said Warmaker over the com System. "Yeah thanks, im still in the game and not dead" laughed HAmmerman The Advantage of heavy shields, ion cannons and the fastes Starfighter in the imperial Navy let the heavily more numbers of Tie Fighters against Viper Squadron forgett. Skills and weapon Power ruled the Battlefield when they flow with perfect movements to kill one enemy after the other. "We have now a bit time to try again a attack run on the frigatte" said Warmaker "Cover me till i aim with my torps" "Affirmative" comes the Reply "We hold your back free" Warmaker turned around and switched to his Torpedos. 4 clicks away was now his Targett. Warmaker aimd on the Turbolaser turrets and waited for a clear shoot ......
 
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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?"

  Gardoon scrambled for his simulator as he got out of bed, with his imperial boxer and no shirt on.  Gardoon got in, and turned it on, the screen came up and he was half awakem, it was a blinding sight, but he saw that Warmaker was still there     "Sorry guys, slept a bit late"   Gardoon heard the breifing quick   "I gotta go pee man, be right back, everyone cover me!!!"

'Forget it. I'm going all out for them.' Xaphrael muttered as he swung his TIE Defender and headed for the enemy starfighters. Dropping quietly behind one, he gunned a IE down before heading for another. It was gone soon and his kills is upped two more. 'Good. Okay, let's work this up. I'm sick of all these idiots. Sure would do with a correlian ale later.' Xaphrael mumbled to himself as he flipped a couple of switches and fed a little more fuel into the ion engines. The TIE defender's engine rose from a growl to a roar and Xaphrael found himself more able to control the killing machine. Heartened, he gave chase after another TIE, hitting its guns before shooting a heads on target on its engine. The fighter exploded. Just before acelebratory shout escaped from Xaphrael's lips, a serious and hard shot rocketed his cockpit. Cursing, Xaphrael checked his view to see his unknown predator. Dancing behind him was another TIE, guns lowered for the deadly shot. His shields has hit 40%. 'Damnit. All those stupid idiots.' Xaphrael grunted as he sought to escape from his predator.
 
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Senior Crewman Xaphrael
FM/SCRW Xaphrael/Viper 1-4/Phoenix Wing/mSSD Atrus/DEF/VEN/VE/(=A=)