[ooc: Sorry, that might have been a bad post (the last one)   Gardoon thought to himself as he was begging to pick out a feezable target,  "I am gonna get my ass kicked for sleeping this mission in"  beeeep, the tone told him he had lock on one of the tie's.  Gard swithch to quad the deadly quad blast, and fired two quads at the oncoming tie, 3 hit the tie, blocking it to smitharines.    Warmaker was making his attack run on the interceptor that was about to take Hammerman out.  Warmaker swithed to duel fire, and hit the trigger 3 time, letting out 6 deadly lazer blasts that ripped the interceptor apart.   "Thanx for the save," cried Hammerman, "I didnt want to loose this mission just "yet".   Gardoon gave WM a "congradulations," and switched to advanced missiles, he felt a huge blast and started twirling.........  Recharging shields, i should be alright.........................................

OOC: It's `Piett, not Piet! Just as anticipated, `Piett replied to WarMakers message. (Or so he thought.) "WM, this is `Piett. We're having difficulties here." "What kind of problem could you have from watching the sim?" "That's just it, Zed and I can't get nothing to work. Your screen comes on, but all we get is snow." Then `Piett thought to himself "I hope they're doing all right." Meanwhile, things were heating up for Viper Squadron in the sim. Scout and the rest of them had an endless amount of tie fighters to contend with. This was an easy challenge, for Tie Fighters against Defenders are a useless battle. The Defenders are sure to win....unless of course the Fighters concentrate all firepower at a single Defender. Chances are pretty well in the favor of the Defender blowing up then. Luckily, rookie pilots were not that smart.......or were they? Only the pilots flying against them could tell for sure. Not much can be said about the mission from the control room, when all that works is a communications setup. `Piett and Zed knew that very well. Warmaker was still confused as to how only the communications would work, and not the rest of the equiptment. "So you get no picture at all, and where is Zed?" "Downstairs doing a status check. It is our opinion we're being hacked into by something....or someone!" "Impossible....we would have seen something by now." "Well, okay. But just watch out for yourselves. They could already be there......"
 
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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

"Wow, you would have thought that they would have given us a better mission than this, you know. Tie defenders against the weakest and cheapest fighter out there? I think someone's up to something, so stay sharp guys." scout said. "Okay, I think something's going to go very wrong in a little while." g5 told him. Flight three flew away from the rest of the group in the pursuit of another flight of helples tie's. Without Piett they were doing ok, but that was against countless waves of tie fighters. Meanwhile flight one was having the same luck, mostly dull shooting of the vast sea of turkeys. Sure enough the pilots were seemingly rookies. Scout turned to his cup holder and dared a sip of his drink. It payed off. He accidentally moved his joystick and avoided a collision with a tie and at the same time quenched his thirst. "Ahh nothing like a Dr. Pepper." scout said to himself. "Back to work scout we don't want our pilots out of the sims because they were 'thirsty'." Warmaker said. Flight two was having the same problem as everyone else. There was no challenge. Sheepy and Hammerman were just too good with the defenders to get "killed" by the swarm. Back at flight three Gravin noticed a movement of a particularly big dot on his radar. The lancers were moving. "Shoot, guys I think we have a problem. The lancers are moving and their target is, if I'm not mistaken, bluepoint 5." Gravin told eveyone. "I see them, let's keep them from getting there." scout said in reply. "Not so fast, you must have forgotten, the people in those lancers aren't these rookies we've been taking out squadron by squadron. They'll just kill you before you can get in to attack." Warmaker told him. "Well we can't let those lancers get to bluepoint, but they'll rip us to shreds if we go in to attack them. What can we do?" Scout said.
 
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"You can't cheat death forever, but you can sure make the bastard work for it."


po2/LCRW scout/Viper 3-3/Phoenix Wing/mSSD Atrus/DEF/VEN/VE/(=A=)

"Everybody get in formation. This may be our only chance at defending bluepoint." Warmaker said. Scout moved his defender in towards flight 1. Firelinking his lasers and ions he could take out a tie with only one hit. It took a little bit of fighting but he finally made it. "Any idea who is behind this? a malfunctioning repair droid perhaps?" scout suggested. "No clue, but we're bound to find out." Piett replied. "Maybe they can hack into the stats of the lancers too." scout said. "If that's the case this could get pretty bad for us." Hammerman said. The rest of Viper moved into the V formation with flight 1 as they mounted their attack on the lancers. The Tie defenders were very formidable opponents to a group of tie fighters but to a group of lancers they were just another minor disturbance. It seemed hopless as...  

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"You can't cheat death forever, but you can sure make the bastard work for it." po2/LCRW scout/Viper 3-3/Phoenix Wing/mSSD Atrus/DEF/VEN/VE/(=A=)

Scout's sheilds had been nearly completly depleted. He had not bothered to set the recharge rate for more than just maintinence level. He quickly dumped some power from his quickly recharging lasers into his sheilds. The four laser cannons and two ion cannons were quite effective when used in numbers and were kept charged. The other lancers realizing the the threat turned about and moved in to surround the defenders with the disabled lancer in the front and the others closing in at the sides. They opened fire on the defenders but Viper squadron was one step ahead of them. They had already moved into a weakpoint in the defences, at Warmaker's command and started to disable it too when the tie pilots all moved in to protect their lancers from this unlikely attack. "Ignore the fighters, we need to take out the lancers first." Warmaker commanded. "Yes, sir," Scout replied as his squad took out the rest of the systems of the lancer. "Warmaker, I think we should also target their specific systems with our warheads so they can't recover. I mean after they have been taken care of." scout suggested. "Sounds good but concentrate on disabling the other lancer." warmaker said. Scout's hull had actually been damaged when the tie fighters came in to assist the lancers. He had to constantly drain his weapon power to supplement the sheilds so they could take this beating. "Almost there. We've almost got it." Hammerman said entusiastically

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"You can't cheat death forever, but you can sure make the bastard work for it." po2/LCRW scout/Viper 3-3/Phoenix Wing/mSSD Atrus/DEF/VEN/VE/(=A=)