Sk8guy and Kain double-teamed one of the Z-95s, both Aegis pilots pummeled the enemy fighter with laser blasts.  But to thier surprise the Z-95 didn't suffer any damage, not even a scratch.  Both pilot's targeting computer showed that the enemy's shield was still a 100%.  Both fighters tailed the Z-95 as it went evasive, pummeling it with laser blasts. "Somethings up Sk8, our laser cannons aren't penatrating that Z-95's shields." Kain said frustrated. "I have a feeling somebody is messing with our simulation...but I don't know who." Sk8 replied. Just then four Z-95s had sneaked behind them and began firing their laser cannons at them.  Sk8 and Kain broke off and seperated in opposite directions.  Kain began executing complex manuevers to shake the  two Z-95s that were tailing him.  The Z-95s began to firing their lasers at Kain's fighter, scoring hits to the shields. "Oh frak, this is great." Kain muttered under his breath.  "How the heck are we gonna beat these freakin' ships if we can't even damage them?" Lonewolf commed the entire Aegis squadron.  "Aegis listen up.  Looks like Riel has somehow reprogrammed the remaining Z-95s and the Toscans to be immune to our attacks.  For now disengage them and go evasive, we need to save our energy until we find a way to damage them."   ----------------------- Sergeant Major Duran "Demi Wraith" Driscoll TRP/SGM Demi Wraith/2SQD/1PLT/1COM/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE [ES:2] [EW:1] [GC] [IG]

Riel sat in his office chair watching as Aegis tried surviving. He then heard an abrupt knock on his door, "Not now I’m busy! Go away!" The door busted open with a very angry DH. "Hey! You should be in the sims! Uh oh! This wouldn’t be about that little programming would it? wait! No don’t!" LoneWolf  Dodged more enemy fire as a long line of Tuscans formed on him, three to be exact. The curiously looked at his timer and say something out of the ordinary. "Full shields?" LoneWolf looked at the rest of his stats to see what was up, "Full shields, full energy, and full torpedoes. Guess Riel had a change of heart." He switched to channels to warn his wingmates, "Aegis we got our sim back! Lets give it to ‘em!" he pulled a U-turn getting beaten with fire then returned it with several torpedoes, they burned straight through the line one after another. "Flight three do your run on the next ship, lets make them burn!" LoneWolf began getting back in the motion of attacking, one of the tuscans didn’t quite explode from the torpedo yet. "Get back here!" LoneWolf growled after letting a few shots rain out.   ----------------------- EFL/ESN Lonewolf/Aegis 2-1/mSSD Atrus/DEF/VEN/VE/(=A=)(=SA=)(=JCPA=)(=SCPA=)[SRC][VC:Ebony] CM/DJK LoneWolf/Sith/Eagle Sect/VEDJ Army character: Ares "It's a big universe, if you keep you mind to what you are simply told then your restraining yourself from finding what could very well be out there."

"w00t!!!" Liquid shouted into his comm, his shields, missles, and everything were back. Good job, DH Liquid thought, opening up through the Force to communicate with his fellow pilot. He pushed his craft hard, making sure that he could get lined up with the corvette that was supposed to be invincible. He locked onto the ship and let the sweet torpedoes fly, he saw his Flight Members follow suit. He couldn't believe that the craft was actually taking damage, although, it seemed to hang at 10%. He figured it was another bug and came around, lasers flailing into the exposed corvette's shields. He watched as the indicators finally dropped to 5%, after the rest of his squadron followed suit. He turned his controls hard right, avoiding enemy frie from the toscans. He watched as Lonewolf came around in his gunboat. He clicked the button for more lasers, and turned towards the toscans that were assaulting his gunboat ferosciously. He picked one and flew after it, lasers going quicker than a normal pilot could pull the trigger. He avoided the enemy fire and dodged and weaved like it was nothing. "Let's give 'em some patented Aegis dancing lessons guys," he shouted into his com, making sure that everyone heard.
 
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ADJ:NTO/IA/EFL/WO1 Liquid/Aegis 3-1 (Aegis Nine)/Phoenix Wing/mSSD Atrus/DEF/VEN/VE/(=A=)(=SA=)

CM/DJK Liquid/Dark Knight 1-3/Lion Sect/VEDJ/(VP)

I am the TO's Adjutant, and the FS's instructor's assistant. Any questions? please direct them to: Me

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"Keep it up! we can win this Aegis! LustHawks forever!" his war cry echoed through his ears as he drove at an enemy Tuscan. It brutally took the abuse then flew straight past him still as a whole. "You want this to really hurt huh?" LoneWolf swung back, pulling hard on his flight stick. He managed to turn in time to have a great wall to shoot at, "Bye Bye! You arse just became mine!" the enemy fighter screen soon shrinked down to a squadron’s worth mixed with Z-95’s, and Tuscan fighters. "I Take it we still have to take these fighters out before we can touch the corvette. Hurry up and take it two to one! We can do this, flight one." "Yeah boss?" Kain came back. "Lets use half our warhead load to supply a diversion screen on the fighters. Flights two and three save your warheads for the cruiser. Lets form up Aegis!" on the verbal command every flight took their point and every pilot took their wing. "Lets show these schmucks what the Elite Aegis Squadron can do!" He switched to warheads and began his lock on the lead fighter. It slowly turned red then he fired a shot, quickly locking onto the next fighter. He went through systematically stopping when he had two warheads left. A couple of craft took a hit from a warhead, erupting into flames. And three held their ground as they got pounded by a warhead. The rest merely provided splash damage, and blinding lights. The dog fight then began.
 
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EFL/ESN Lonewolf/Aegis 2-1/mSSD Atrus/DEF/VEN/VE/(=A=)(=SA=)(=JCPA=)(=SCPA=)[SRC][VC:Ebony]

CM/DJK LoneWolf/Sith/Eagle Sect/VEDJ
Army character: Ares

"It's a big universe, if you keep you mind to what you are simply told then your restraining yourself from finding what could very well be out there."

Liquid pulled hard on his controls, letting out a war cry as he evaded the enemy red that was coming from what seemed like all directions. "Rusty, get me some cover, I'm taking a run on the corvette, do it now!" Liquid shouted into his com, watching the wookie reluctantly follow orders. "Sir, we've got 2 toscans incoming." Rusty said, breaking off to engage. "Give me 2 moments, and i'll be there to help, just keep 'em occupied." Liquid said, unloading some pain unto the corvette. He watched the shields of Riel's ship drop to 5%. "Serves you right, Sir." Liquid said, cursing under his breath. He turned hard to the right, feeling the impact of the g's on his body as he engaged some enemy uglies on his course. He pushed his manueverable craft to the limit, still testing and getting the feel of this foreign craft. "You shall die, enemy scum!!!!!!!" Liquid shouted as another unfortunate pilot chose to dance a little too close to his targeting sight. He couldn't believe when the bastard's shields refused to give in. His jaw dropped to the floor as he realized he had only one alternative. His warheads. He locked on and fired at will, filling in the rest of the squadron.
 
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ADJ:NTO/IA/EFL/WO1 Liquid/Aegis 3-1 (Aegis Nine)/Phoenix Wing/mSSD Atrus/DEF/VEN/VE/(=A=)(=SA=)

CM/DJK Liquid/Dark Knight 1-3/Lion Sect/VEDJ/(VP)

I am the TO's Adjutant, and the FS's instructor's assistant. Any questions? please direct them to: Me

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  Darkhawk smiled as the Corellian Corvette that had arrived second went up in flames. "Nice job, One Flight," he remarked, although it had really been a completely united effort to bring the capital ship down. He couldn't eve remember it's name; he had been preoccupied when it arrived with other things.   He began to laugh out loud to himself as he remembered the look on Riel's face when he --- well, that was a story for another day. Right now he needed to concentrate on taking out the Ishamel.   Unfortunately, Riel had boosted the capital ship back up to 100% shields and armor, even though Aegis Squadron had already taken it out once. Damn, I forgot to fix that Darkhawk thought. However, they had had little trouble whittling it back down to low levels.   Looking down, he saw that he only had two advanced concussion missiles remaining in his warhead bay. Well, better make them count.   Flying in close to the Corellian starship, he made extra care to avoid turbolaser blasts aimed his way. From his long service in the Empire, he had learned of several weak points on numerous Rebel - and Imperial - star craft. The Corellian Corvette had two.   Homing in on an area right behind the engines and near the power drives, he released his two warheads. They struck the hull head on, lowering it to 63%. Not much damage, but that would serve as a poignant marker to the others.   "One Flight, Two Flight, aim your remaining warheads there. It's a weak spot on the armor, and only one of the turbolasers has a range back there, so they're not likely to be shot down. In fact, I'll try to keep that gun busy or even take it out while you make your runs."     "Roger that, Aegis Six," Lonewolf replied. "Kain has no more warheads, I'm sending him to back you up. sk8guy, you're my wing. PJ, stick with Zakath. Let's toast this puppy!"     "Woohoo!" sk8guy screamed, ready for the kill.   ----------------------- ADJ:NTO/EFM/COM Darkhawk/Aegis 2-2 /Phoenix Wing/mSSD Atrus/DEF/VEN/VE/(=A=)(=SA=)(=JCPA=)(=SCPA=)(=FCO=)[LoC][BRC][VC:Ebony][KC] VE Today - Junior Reporter Darkhawk DLS/CL/SG Darkhawk/Eagle 2-1/mSSD Atrus/VEDJ/VE/[CR]

The star became pinpricks before as my gunboat exited hyperspace. The large dagger shaped Atrus loomed before me. I throttled up and commed control for landing clearance. I received the clearance and then headed for the docking bays. Before I could actually 'dock' the simulator shut down. The canopy didn't raise however; across the display screen it read, Loading new mission perimeters.... I merely waited for the new simulation to start. I didn't really want it to. i was tired of this simulation junk and I wanted some real flying action. The sim started and I was in a holding pattern waiting for the rest of Aegis to load and join the formation outside of the Atrus. I wasn't quite sure how Riel planned on having us fight ourselves, but I figured he had been saving out flight data and was going to load enemies in the same craft using that data. This might actually prove a challenge. "OK looks like we're all here so let's form up and head for the asteroid field." Lonewolf said through the comm. We all throttled up and raced away toward the asteroid field to face our new challenge. It felt good to be in my TIE advanced again, the maneuverability and the speed. I felt at home and peace, ready for anything.
 
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EFL/1LT Michael "sk8guy" Rose/Aegis 5/mSSD Artus/DEF/VEN/VE
     (=A=)(=MA=)(=JCPA=)(=SCPA=)(=UCPA=)[-BRC-][-VC|E-]

DJK sk8guy/Eagle1-7/VEDJ/m/SSD Atrus

     "Unleash the power of the Dragon!" - Michael "sk8guy" Rose

I watched as I picked up the copy Aegis on my scanners. This wasn't going to be easy. If my assumptions were right, they were programmed with all the maneuvers we've done so far. I came up with a strategy and hailed Lonewolf, "Lead, I have a theory. If the copy Aegis pilots are programmed with moves we've done before, all we have to do is go after our own Clone." "I don't follow sk8. Isn't that the same thing?" Lonewolf questioned back. "No. What I mean is you go after the leader, i go after the two flight leader and so forth." I replied. That way when we are fighting 'ourselves' and we see our move, we'll easily be able to counter it." I futher explained my plan. "Good thinking sk8. Plus if we do maneuvers we haven't done in the sims before that will work as well." Lonewolf deduced. "I'll give the plan to the rest of the squadron." he said as he switched frequencies and unveiled our strategy. Once he finished the enemy was nearing his position. They stopped our of missile range and the two flights broke off in opposite directions. They weren't buying the trap so I detached myself from the asteroid, noticing DH and PJ did the same. "Lead, I think your  trap failed to catch anything. We're going after the 2nd flight coming at us, good luck." I said as I throttled my fighter towards the cloned Aegis two flight leader.
 
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EFL/1LT Michael "sk8guy" Rose/Aegis 5/mSSD Artus/DEF/VEN/VE
     (=A=)(=MA=)(=JCPA=)(=SCPA=)(=UCPA=)[-BRC-][-VC|E-]

DJK sk8guy/Eagle1-7/VEDJ/m/SSD Atrus

     "Unleash the power of the Dragon!" - Michael "sk8guy" Rose

I got behind the clone or myself, getting a solid lock. I fired,but the T/A in front of me dodged, greatly as I had expected. I stayed on his tail, then suddenly the fighter pulled a move I would do. I recognized it as the Corellian Slip. Of course I knew how to counter the attack. I slowed my speed down and did a vertical loop. i finished the move right back where I started, the tail of the copy. I smiled as I once again laid down some fire on the ass of the T/A in front of me. Unexpectedly the ship juked left and then followed suit with a suicidal invert right towards me and fired a quad linked burst right into viewport. Luckily the shields took all the impact, but the bad thing was I've done that before. That last move made me think. How could that happen if the copied Aegis was done using the data collected from previous missions? Suddenly it hit me. "Lead this is five. I don't think these are computer pilots or that they were programed using our flight data." "How do you figure this sk8?" Hey responded. "This copy of me is doing things a computer wouldn't do and some moves I've never done. If they were programmed from previous data, that can't be." I said hastily. As laser fire rained down on my shields. Then my shields collapsed, exposing my hull. Time to get serious. I drained my lasers and raced for the biggest asteroid in the area.  I headed right for a gaint crater, then pulled up and fired a torpedo, blasting rocks above me. The T/A behind, blind to the falling debris raced on. I pulled out of the way and the pilot didn't have to react before his ship was pummeled by the rocks. I sighed and wiped the sweat off my forehead. That was close, maybe too close.
 
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EFL/1LT Michael "sk8guy" Rose/Aegis 5/mSSD Artus/DEF/VEN/VE
     (=A=)(=MA=)(=JCPA=)(=SCPA=)(=UCPA=)[-BRC-][-VC|E-]

DJK sk8guy/Eagle1-7/VEDJ/m/SSD Atrus

     "Unleash the power of the Dragon!" - Michael "sk8guy" Rose

ooc: Sorry guys, i been busy lately, and utterly confused at things when i tried to jump back in. Up till now I had been silent, but now I was a little worried, having to fight duplicates of my  skilled colleuges was a highly intimidating concept. It had been a while since I had been in serious aerial combat, so my SIM was probably also more skilled at the current time than I was. I laid low with my shields on full power using my friends fire as a barrier from the action. From my position I could see my other self doing the same thing. I pulled a hard left breaking from the cover of my companions attempting to come from behind on the other me, a move he was to smart for, and found myself flying right into fire I tookva few hits and ducked low,  fired back landing a few hits on his enemy . But ducking low didnt fool the other Dcos, and he was hot on my tail. I weeved in and out of asteroids attempting to land my pursuer on a big one, be he was too smart.. I amaze myself sometimes.. HeH HeH... I then got an idea.. I would fly straight up, and then attempt a suicide dive... I jerked upward on my joystick and flew straight out of the field I looked back and as i expected he was hot on my tail about 900 ft. below me, I picked up speed to give myself a little more space and then turned around flying what i thought was straight back on my unexpecting pursuer. But the little devil wasnt there anymore.. where was he... I leveled my self out and looked around... everyone else was in a heavy firefight with themselves but the other me had disapeared..  Then it happened. My Shields shut down, and i was taking heavy fire from behind, this time i didnt duck low, I rolled sidewayes and looped behind getting behind him  now, but he wasnt scared, his shields were still at at least half power. He rolled and ducked so i mimicked, I couldnt let him get back behind me. My shields were down, and i was smoking but i wasnt going down without my clone, my teamates had enough trouble with themselves, they didnt need more. I mustered up all the energy my ship had left, and Picked up speed i flew foward Firing heavily with my blasters I rammed into the back of the other mes ship causing him to spin sideways and start into a dive, my ship lost complete power and started spiraling right after. I watched my enemies ship hit the ground in a smoke filled explosion, shortly followed by my own demise.

LoneWolf jerked hard on his control stick to avoid another hit, he flew as straight as he could so his other self would become confused. "No! he isn’t me!" LoneWolf growled, "Never will be! Because if it was I would be scared." The notion only angered him more for such a cheap imitation. He sent ripples through the force and began thinking of a solution.if it was a real life situation he could use the force to nudge an asteroid at his enemy as he flew by but that would be dangerous itself. In such a case he could even loose a touch on reality. "I’m not in real space!" he spat, "Guess I’ll have to recharge my lasers." He danced dangerously through the field, having rocks explode as his shadow. The battle was his blood, and his enemies blood he would spill. "I’ll have your arse on my canopy when I’m done with you!" The stubborn T/A hung close to him but a distance began to grow, his clone was using shields. "I thought I took those from you!" LoneWolf cursed one more time then began to plan how he would turn it all around. "Your mine you wanna be Aegis fighter!"
 
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EFL/ESN Lonewolf/Aegis 2-1/mSSD Atrus/DEF/VEN/VE/(=A=)(=SA=)(=JCPA=)(=SCPA=)[SRC][VC:Ebony]

CM/DJK LoneWolf/Sith/Eagle Sect/VEDJ
Army character: Ares

"It's a big universe, if you keep you mind to what you are simply told then your restraining yourself from finding what could very well be out there."

The green bars steadily stacked up, LoneWolf’s sweat on his brow did so also. He had dragged the chase to the other side of the asteroid field. In the distance behind the two craft there was a flutter of lights and explosions as fighters duked it out. The massive super star destroyer lay in the background almost threatening to cut through the field. No doubt there was a small crowd of people watching the ESC in the lounge. "That’s where I’ll be heading after I fry some Tie Advanced." LoneWolf put the power setting to maintain the half filled laser power then began to line up for a turn back behind one of the remaining asteroids. He stopped behind the asteroid and watched his radar closely for the right direction to go. The enemy slowly began to go to his left, he would go to his over the asteroid full throttle. LoneWolf cut the power back to his engines at full and danced upward. He came on top just in time to give hell to his clone. The last of the shields dissipated and the hull took a brutal beating. A shot came through and pierced the cockpit, little doubt came to him that the pilot was dead. The Tie Advanced went blindly forward not changing course, LoneWolf came behind and finished it off. The explosion shattered metal everywhere. "Mark one for Aegis leader!" LoneWolf turned back around and began charging his lasers again. His life was considered expandable in the sim now, as long as one aegis fighter remained victory would be theirs, no need for shields. Now LoneWolf just had to find a target.
 
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EFL/ESN Lonewolf/Aegis 2-1/mSSD Atrus/DEF/VEN/VE/(=A=)(=SA=)(=JCPA=)(=SCPA=)[SRC][VC:Ebony]

CM/DJK LoneWolf/Sith/Eagle Sect/VEDJ
Army character: Ares

"It's a big universe, if you keep you mind to what you are simply told then your restraining yourself from finding what could very well be out there."

Kain raced into the asteroid field.  His clone was behind him still trying to blast him into pieces as both of them entered the field.  Kain began to manuever around the asteroids trying to lost the clone tailing him.  He went around another asteroid and then the clone suddenly stopped firing.  Kain took this opportuntity and took his fighter into a vertical dive.  After a few seconds going into his dive he pulled back up and made a wide U-turn.  He cut his throttle to two thirds and began to look for his clone.  Before long he saw two TIE Advanced in the distance firing at each other. "What the frak!?  Who's clone is it thats trying to fry my tail!?" Sk8 yelled over the comm. "Sk8 where are you?  Are you in the asteroid field?" Kain replied. "Yeah, I was flying around shooting up some asteroids then this Advanced came out of nowhere and began firing at me...is it your clone thats attacking me?" Sk8 asked. Suddenly Lonewolf's TIE Advanced came up behind my clone.  "Hey Sk8 you need some help getting that TIE off your tail?" Lonewold asked. "Lonewolf don't destroy him, I'm pretty sure it is, hold on I'm coming to get him." Kain said over the comm. "Well hurry up Kain, me and Lonewolf have to get back to our race." Sk8 said smirkingly. "Alright no problem, just keep him distracted while I come up behind him." Kain said. Kain flew his way towards his clone, linking all four cannons he began lining the Advanced up with his tageting cursor. "Hey Sk8, you see that big asteroid to right side of your ship?  Go around it and I'll be on the other side waiting for him."  Kain said. "Yeah I see it, I'm going around." Sk8 replied. Kain flew to the other side of the asteroid and cut his throttle waiting for them to fly by.  As soon as he saw Sk8 TIE fly by he slammed his throttle foward and tailed his clone.  Quickly he lined up the clone and let out quad laser blasts into the hull of his clone.  The clone of himself exploded into a big fireball.  Kain let a big sigh and began working his way out of the asteroid field. "Thanks Sk8 for your help." Kain said as he exited the field. "No problem Kain.  Now Lonewolf lets get back to our race..."
 
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2nd Lieutenant Kain "Fire Bomber" Rennok
FM/2LT Kain Rennok/Aegis 3-2/mSSD Atrus/VE/VEN [=A=] [=SA=] [=MA=] [=JCPA=] [=SCPA=] [=FOCE=] [VC:ST] [BRC]

YF-19 AVF "Black Rain"

Liquid smiled an evil smile as he banked and turned around the asteroids that were in the belt. His clone's shield's were hurting at 2% now, and he decided it was time to have a little fun. He pushed his tie to the limit, transferring all but a little enery from his lasers into his engines, and completely cutting his shields to aid in his speed. He watched his craft accelerate past 173 MGLT and smiled as he saw his adversary pulling the same, trying to keep up. Fool Liquid thought, pushing the button and watching "himself" not have enough time to react to the sudden explosive powers. His cockpit became consumed in flames, and the tie burst into a giant explosion. Much like a star exploding, only much, much smaller. He continued pushing his throttle forward, this time transferring all of his energy into his engines, and smiled with joy as his craft went past 190 MGLT. He caught up with sk8 and Lonewolf in no time at all. He joined into their little race and easily began floating around the rocks as if he were an invincible force. And in a way, he was. He pushed harder on the controls, tuning his flight skills, as well as easily beating the 2 vetran pilots. He pulled besides them on one of the larger asteroids and cut his engines. He commed over to them and asked if the old timers wanted another go at a Krath. "You Sith are all flying, and yet, i whoop your butts, what's up with that?" Liquid asked, waiting for a responce.
 
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ADJ:NTO/IA/EFL/WO1 Liquid/Aegis 3-1 (Aegis Nine)/Phoenix Wing/mSSD Atrus/DEF/VEN/VE/(=A=)(=SA=)

CM/DJK Liquid/Dark Knight 1-3/Lion Sect/VEDJ/(VP)

I am the TO's Adjutant, and the FS's instructor's assistant. Any questions? please direct them to: Me

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