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"The way of war is a way of deception. When able, feign inability; when deploying troops, appear not to be. When near, appear far; when far, appear near. Lure with bait; strike with chaos. If the enemy is full, be prepared. If strong, avoid him. If he is angry, disconcert him. If he is weak, stir him to pride. If he is relaxed, harry him; if his men are harmonious, split them. Attack where he is unprepared; appear where you are unexpected. This is victory in warfare; it cannot be divulged in advance. Victory belongs to the side that scores most in the temple calculations before battle. Most spells victory; least spells defeat; none, surer defeat. I see it in this way, and the outcome is apparent." -- Sun Tzu

"Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting." -- Sun Tzu

Counted
 
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"The way of war is a way of deception. When able, feign inability; when deploying troops, appear not to be. When near, appear far; when far, appear near. Lure with bait; strike with chaos. If the enemy is full, be prepared. If strong, avoid him. If he is angry, disconcert him. If he is weak, stir him to pride. If he is relaxed, harry him; if his men are harmonious, split them. Attack where he is unprepared; appear where you are unexpected. This is victory in warfare; it cannot be divulged in advance. Victory belongs to the side that scores most in the temple calculations before battle. Most spells victory; least spells defeat; none, surer defeat. I see it in this way, and the outcome is apparent." -- Sun Tzu

"Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting." -- Sun Tzu

Le Tally
 
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"The way of war is a way of deception. When able, feign inability; when deploying troops, appear not to be. When near, appear far; when far, appear near. Lure with bait; strike with chaos. If the enemy is full, be prepared. If strong, avoid him. If he is angry, disconcert him. If he is weak, stir him to pride. If he is relaxed, harry him; if his men are harmonious, split them. Attack where he is unprepared; appear where you are unexpected. This is victory in warfare; it cannot be divulged in advance. Victory belongs to the side that scores most in the temple calculations before battle. Most spells victory; least spells defeat; none, surer defeat. I see it in this way, and the outcome is apparent." -- Sun Tzu

"Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting." -- Sun Tzu

"Alright, here we go people." Trevor said as he finished up his pre-flight check. The bomber was running perfectly, but he was sure he would discover a few of its personality kinks once he got flying. The rest of his 'flight' was across the hanger from him, also finishing up their flight checks.

"This is Master 1, ready to go." Trevor said as he powered up his engines. He only sorta knew his flight, as they hadn`t been around each other for all that long.

"Master 2, reporting in, everything is green and ready to fly." Jesse Saummers called in. She was a pretty, young thing, but not someone Trevor would be interested in, although rumors did fly around that she was interested in him. She was a pretty new pilot, but had already shown skill on previous flights.

"Master 3, I`m set." Adam Hi`retk Chimed in. He was a more experianced pilot, and reminded Trevor a bit of Art in how precise he was, but he was a lot less mature until he got into the fight. It was a little bit annoying to see such a switch, but he was a pretty fun guy to hang around when he was acting foolish and immature, much like many other pilots.

"Master 4, I`m good..." Jim Caprice stated, his voice slowly trailing off as he spoke. Jim was brand new out of the acadamy, rounding out Trevor`s group after the old Master 4 had been transferred out, apperently going to the same place as Tokijin had gone. Trevor had personally been hoping to be sent to the same place, but it didn`t happen. Oh well, she`ll be back soon enough... He thought to himself as he dropped from the claw that held his bomber and skillfully piloted it out of the hanger, followed by the rest of his flight.

"Alright, we arn`t going to be arriving for a few minutes, so watch these asteroids and try not to get killed on the way there." Trevor joked as two asteroids bounced off eachother in the distance. It was a little bit of a fear that he would lose a pilot due to some stupid judgmental error, but if it happened, it would happen.

"Whatever you say boss..." Adam replied, using his nickname for Trevor. It wasn`t something Trevor personally enjoyed, not being that big of a fan of the nickname, but he didn`t really say much about it.

"Yeah, we`ll be carful, don`t worry." Jesse said in a flirty tone, which resulted in the other two pilots groaning, Trevor still staying quiet.

"C`mon Jess, leave him alone eh? Word is he`s got a girl back in Nazgul." Jim said, which provoked an immediate reply from Trevor.

"Oh yeah Jim, whats makes you think that?" He said angerly, Adam trying to hold back his laughter and Jesse trying to decide whether or not he was denying it to give her a chance, or if he was embarased. "Your fresh out of the `cadamy, and you don`t know shit, got it?" Trevor asked, not expecting an answer.

"Yeah, I got it..." Jim replied, pulling his fighter a slight way away from Trevor`s fighter.
 
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These posts are too short.  1 point awarded after merging.
 
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"The way of war is a way of deception. When able, feign inability; when deploying troops, appear not to be. When near, appear far; when far, appear near. Lure with bait; strike with chaos. If the enemy is full, be prepared. If strong, avoid him. If he is angry, disconcert him. If he is weak, stir him to pride. If he is relaxed, harry him; if his men are harmonious, split them. Attack where he is unprepared; appear where you are unexpected. This is victory in warfare; it cannot be divulged in advance. Victory belongs to the side that scores most in the temple calculations before battle. Most spells victory; least spells defeat; none, surer defeat. I see it in this way, and the outcome is apparent." -- Sun Tzu

"Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting." -- Sun Tzu

"Alright, we`re down to one V-wing, good work people, looks like he`s making a run for it." Trevor stated as the lone V-wing turned towards the opposite end of the Asteroid belt and punched it. He also hit the V-wing`s speed boost, which pushed the engines beyond their normal capacity. Trevor sighed as he launched away from the flight of TIEs.

"Keep on him as long as we can, and maybe we`ll find the outpost quicker." Adam suggested as he pushed his throttle forward, the TIE lurching awkwardly away from the rest of the flight. Trevor had been flying slower than he normally did, so for him, speeding up seemed to add alot more speed than it really did.

"Keep an eye open, you never know if the NR has turrets mounted on these asteroids." Jesse warned as they shot around a large one, about the size of half a Victory Class Star Destroyer. cruising over the surface, Trevor was keeping a watch out for large craters.

"Hey, Y`all steer clear of that big one." Trevor warned, himself making a large loop around and ahead of a crater that was easily 120 meters across, and incredibly deep.

"Why is that?" Jesse asked as she followed Trevor. Adam too followed, but Jim, finally getting his chance to defy Trevor`s orders, stayed on his course.

"Crater Worms.." Adam explained before Trevor could. Trevor, having not payed much attention to what Jim was doing, after assuming he had followed, was quite surprised to look out his left viewport to see a lone Interceptor crossing the void.

"Crater worms?" Jesse asked. Adam was about to explain before Trevor cut him off.

"Jim, pull up now!" He hollered as Jim continued across the crater, actually slowing down as if to show just how he was trying to defy orders. "Jim," Trevor said, sounding more worried then pissed now, "Get out of thre, or you will die. I`m not screwing around. You will die."

"Yeah, just watch me..." Jim replied, the cocky pilot pointing his craft nose down and then punching the throttle, shooting the fighter downward. This is when Trevor quickly suggested that everyone cut their comms, he doing the same as soon as they complied.

Trevor was tempted to follow Jim for a minute, just to see if he could give any help, but found that the opportunity had passed as Jim`s fighter blasted back out of the crater, no longer black, but now covered in a white substance that appeared the be moving. A few of the white chunks fell off, but it didn`t matter much now. The fighter was slowly losing its ridgidity, almost collapsing under the vacuum of space. But before it could do that, a figure fell from the cockpit. It was Jim, but he didn`t last long, quickly being destroyed by the vacuum. Within seconds the white stuff was falling back to the asteroid as well, leaving nothing behind.

"What the HELL was that?!" Jesse asked, and Trevor was somewhat surprised, he had never heard her swear before. I guess hanging around with pilots will do that too you. Oh well, she was bound to curse at some point.... Trevor thought to himself as he debated whether or not to tell her what had just happened to Jim. To bad for him, Adam beat him to it, his bluntness hitting Trevor like a hammer.

"Those were crater worms. They latch onto a fighter or cruiser or whatever and devour it." He explained, not sugarcoating it at all. Trevor thought he heard Jesse gag before asking her next question.

"S-so, They ate Jim?" She asked, herself hoping it wasn`t true. She didn`t care much for the guy, but seeing someone in your flight die from something so stupid and gruesome at the same time would be enough to bring any green pilot to question their reasons for flying.

"No..." Trevor said slowly. He realized that had they actually eaten Jim, it probably would have been a much less painful death. The crater worms had an incredibly strong anesthetic in their saliva, as well as various acids. Odds were that if Jim had been bitten, it would have been totaly painless, even though it would have left a gaping chunk in him. But unluckily for Jim, the craterworms didn`t eat flesh.

"They wouldn`t have eaten him. There are elements in human and alien flesh that the crater worms don`t like. You oculd be looked in a room with them and not have to worry about a thing." Adam started, sounding a little less harsh then he had before. Apperently the realization that he had witnessed this before and others hadn`t finally struck him. "But that doesn`t change the fact that they ate his flightsuit. He then fell out of the chewed away cockpit."

"He had probably suffocated before he fell though, but...well..yeah..." Trevor said, trailing off, not wishing to explain what had happened to Jim`s lifeless body after it dropped from the fighter. Jesse gagged again, but didn`t speak after this. Trevor felt bad for her, worse then he felt for Jim. She had had to expeirance that for the first time, where Jim had for the last.

"Yeah..pretty bad way to die..." Adam said as he pulled his fighter up and away from the asteroid, Trevor following suit. Jesse did as well shortly after, but going a bit higher then Trevor and Adam, as if the worms were going to sprout wings and fly after her.

"So how do they survive without air?" Jesse asked, and Trevor felt it was a good question, one he didn`t have the answer to, but once again, Adam did.

"No lungs." He replied simply, to which Trevor and Jesse both simply replied 'Oh...' in an understanding way.

"How about the vacuum?" Trevor asked, taking his turn to ask a question.

"No clue." Adam replied with a laugh. "Alright, well, I`m going to see if I can`t find a NR frequency."

"Sounds good, Jesse, you watch out for more of those worms." Trevor said as he began to watch his scanners carefully.

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Geez, I think I might have hurt her feelings...I hope she`ll be alright though, flying angry is only good for a short while, until that anger burns out... He thought to himself as he got his bomber into position above the asteroids which were floating below him. I`ll have to talk to her after the mission, when we get back. If we get back... He thought to himself, before becomign surprised at just how negative he had momentarily become. Dammit! How do girls always manage to do that...

Pushing the thoughts out of his mind, he returned to the task at hand, which was aiming his current bomb at one of the standing AA`s. He had always found that aiming in space was harder, but why that was he didn`t know. He did find that bombing things in space was alot easier, as long as they stayed generaly still. That was because there was less things to worryabout such as bomb trajectory, wind speeds and angles, gravatiy, and other smallfactorys which could get incredibly confusing, enough so that Trevor often just left them alone and bombed on instinct, when he was in a bomber.

"Alright, here she goes..." He said alloud as he dropped the first bomb. Normally he loved the sound of a bomb being released from the bomb bay, but in space it wasn`t as much of a love. In the atmosphere, you could here the 'woosh' echo through the air around you, and the sound of the bomb dropping away from your fighter, and sometimes even hear the explosion as it made ocdntact with it s target. Space was different. There was still a 'woosh' noise, but it was far less grand as it was muffled by the vacuum of space and could only be heard through the thin metal that skinned the fighter.

Another reason space is good though, is that you`re opponents cannot hear you flying towards them. Sadly, He thought, continuing the thought as he watched the bomb drop, Is that they can sneak up on you just as easily. Thats why I love radar. This reminded him to check his radar, which thankfully told him that no one was around aside from his flight. He pulled his fighter around slowly,his engines now just barely on so he could aim more precisly.

The first bomb dropped at an even pace, before connecting with its target dead on. The AA`s durasteel roof paneling was first dented, before the bomb exploded just moments later, tearing into the metal of the AA, sending spurts of flames from fuel and coolent lines. Shrapnel was blown about, although most of it mearly klinked off of the nearby, now 'lone' AA on that asteroid.

"Woah, nice fireworks boss! 3 down, 3 to go." Adam said excitedly over the comm as he and Jesse began their second run. Jesse retained comm silence, but Trevor was too caught up in his targeting to notice this. He had gotten into 'the zone', A zone he had not visited since he and Reaper had been out the day before for a practice battle, and even then, he didn`t get a whole lot of time to stay in the zone. This is absolutly where I belong, this is where I should be. Not in an interceptor, but in a bomber.. He thoguht to himself as he rotated the bomber slightly to allign himself better with his next target.

Adam was laying down fire on the turret that Jesse had been chewing up the duracrete on earlier, this time managing to score some hits on the metal, causing plumes of smoke to shoot out, as well as the occasional jet of flame. He didn`t manage to wreck the turret, but did cause enoguh damage for it to be less of a threat than it normally would have been.

Jesse on the other hand had managed to get off a missile. In the short life of this missile, it had launched from the launch tube on her fighter, made its way through the void of space, and connected with the rocky surface of the asteroid, right next to a turret. This blew a large crater in to the asteroid, as well as uprooting the turret from its base, knocking it down with what normally would have been a deafaning crash. The turret had remian operational though, launching a missile after Jesse who was now evading franticaly, perfmoring a multipule level innaman, followed by a short split-s, which again was followed by her pulling hard back on the control yoke, pulling herself up and tearing past Trevor, who had just aquired his second target, that is, the turret that had launched a missile after Jesse.

The missile that had been following her had decided in its tiny brain that it would insted switch targets, locking on to Trevor, allowing him little time to get everything accomplished that he needed to do. He quickly launched his second bomb while pulling up hard and pushing the throttle forward. This bomb would land off its target, having a spin put on it as it slipped out of the bomb bay. It made contact with the ground next to the turret, but it was enough for it to cause the missile inside the launch tube to detonate, which in turn caused the missiles inside the turret to explode violently, sending shards of shrpnel in every direction at high speeds, which would not slow down until they made contact with something.

A good number of these shards managed to make contact with Adam`s right wing, to which he said sarcasticaly over the comm - "Thanks alot 1, just what I needed, a heavier fighter. Oh well, as long as those things don`t affect anything I should be good." He said before thinking to himself I wonder what the techs will think of this. One will probably walk up to the wing and take a look and wonder what giant porcupine i brushed against., finishing with a laugh.

Trevor was now evading the missile with horrible jerks and twists of his bomber, doing his best to outwit the tiny rocket before it managed to dismember him. The missile was right on his tail though, gaining a few inches every couple of seconds. He ripped out ahead of the missile, bringing himself towards the missile turrets, which he realized was a bad move, even if only two were left. Choosing to do something stupid rather than the logical thing, he dove hard and ended up between two of the turrets, both which launched missiles at the same time. With the distance between the two turrets though, the missiles did not have time to correct their courses and follow Trevor, instead each crashing into the opposite AA turret, causing a chain reaction, just like Trevor`s second bomb.

He was still worried he`d have to deal with a missile right on his tail, but luckily for him, the turret`s explosions had managed to totally destroy the missile, although it was close enough that the ensuing explosion managed to take out his aft shields.

 
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Jesse let out a little squeel before jumping away from the puddle and looking around the hanger. Upon closer inspection, there was small pools of blood everywhere, and closer to the door, there were drag marks, as if someone had been slid across the floor while bleeding heavily.

"This does not look good at all..." Adam said slowly as he moved closer to the door, inspecting a few small crush marks in the metal. It looked as if someone had balaneced a fighter on a stick and pushed the metal in, the dents being about 2 inches deep. Adam counted 8 in all, all in a circular pattern infront of the door.

"I`m not sure, but i don`t like it...We should probably check this out before bombing the shit outta the place, just incase command wants to know about it." Trevor said as he started towards the door, his pistol held at the ready.

"Don`t you think it`d be easier for us to just bomb it and leave, and not tell command about this?" Jesse ask nervously as she stepped around a puddle of blood, drawing her pistol herself as she kept up with Trevor.

"Nah, we can`t. Its recquired for us to check it out or something..." Adam said, and Trevor wasn`t sure if he was making it up because he wanted to know what was going on, or if it was actually true. Either way, they were going to figure out what was happening.

"Alright, here`s the deal. If we find out whats going on and I end up dead, you two run for it and get out of here and let them know what happened." Trevor explained quickly as they rounded the corner, the blood trailing off and revealing a dull grey floor.

The hallway was devoid of any and all life forms except the three pilots, who were slowly making their way down the hallway, checking rooms as they went.

"This hall is clear, which way now?" Trevor asked as they came to an intersection. they could go left or right. Peaking around the corner for any help in making their decision, Jesse leaned back and confirmed that going left would lead them to whatever they were after. Trevor stepped around the corner and noticed ahead of him was another pool of blood, along with bloody footsteps, and a bunch more 2 inch deep holes, these ones filled partialy with blood. The footsteps ended uprubtly though, although the dents continued on after the end of the footprints.

"This is getting pretty damn weirded up..." Adam said as he examined another footprint, before all three pilots looked back down the hall they had just come down. An odd screeching noise was being made, as well as some screaming and some blaster shots. The screech continued though after the blaster shots had died down. The three looked at eachother before sprinting down the hall, hoping to find out what was going on. As they got close to the corner, they were met by a puddle of blood ozing its way across the floor. Diving around the corner, Trevor was horrified at what he saw.

Running away down the hall was a giant spider, a man`s arm could be seen dangling from out of its pincers at it looked back at Trevor. For a moment he thought he was done, but the monster just kept running down the hall, away from the trio of pilots.

"What the hell was that thing?!" Adam asked as he helped Trevor up. Jesse picked up a blaster rifle which the man had dropped, apperently feeling inadiquatly armed with just her pistol. She wasn`t alone.

"I`ve got no clue, but I`ve got a bad feeling we`ll be seeing that bastered again." Trevor said slowly as he checked back around the corner they had come around, before starting down the hallway the spider had gone down.

"Just where are you going?" Jesse asked as she reached out and grabbed Trevor`s shoulder, stopping him dead in his tracks. He quickly spun around and held up his index finger, pointing at her face.

"I`m going after that thing. If you`ve learned anything today, its that some stuff can live out here in space. If that thing finds its way to a civilized planet and reproduces, I feel bad for them." Trevor said as he turned around. He had suddenly slipped into 'hero mode', somehting he didn`t really like to be in, but didn`t have much choice once he got into it.

"Lets just bomb it and leave." Adam suggested with a shrug, trying to think of the easiest way to get rid of it. Apperently the man`s blaster didn`t do much good, so what good would theirs do. Trevor kept his pace down the hall as he called back his answer.

"It might survive it. We know crater worms can survive bombings, so why not this bitch." He said, suddendly wondering how he planned to kill it. For a moment he thought maybe he would be better off just heading back to his fighter and bombing the base as Adam had suggested, but that just seemed too easy. And if Trevor had learned anything from the horror holo`s he had watched, the easy way was always the way that got people killed. but then again, the guy who plays hero usually dies to...


 
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The 25 foot behmoth didn`t leave the hanger, but Trevor could still hear its peircing screaming in his head. He was glad he was finally going to get to bomb something though. He made a series of passes, each time bombing specific sections of the building, making sure to hit the mess hall and the hanger repeatedly.

"Alright, we`re good to go." Trevor said as he looked back on the smoldering base. There was nothing left of it, except heaps of ruin and ash.

"Good, lets get back to base, I need some therapy or something." Adam said jokingly as he flew skillfully past an asteroid that was sailing towards him, turning slightly as he did so. They were careful to avoid the asteroid that had previously been discovered to have crater worms in it, although Trevor made sure to fly high over it and dropp a pair of bombs into it, hoping to help kill off some of thevile creatures.

As they finally reached the cruiser they had been docked at, Trevor let out a sigh of relief. That was almost too easy. Oh well, I never want to see a spider again. He thought to himself after requesting permission to land.

"Permission granted, Mr. Evenson. You and your flight can use claws 3 through 6." The command person told Trevor, sounding a slight bit snobby over the comm, as if he felt he deserved a better job then the one he had been given.

"Alright, thanks command. We won`t be needing for claws though, we lost a rookie. Only 3 of the 4 Masters are returning." He said, sounding quite a bit dissapointed. Losing a member of your flight was bad, esppecialy if it was their virgin mission, and to something that was so stupid. Trevor had learned not to blame himself though, only if he absolutly had to.

"Alright, sorry to hear that, we`ll let the higher-ups know." The voice told him as he entered the hanger and swung his fighter in a tight right hand turn to make it fit in claw 3. He cut all power to the main engines and was now running solely on repulsor lifts, guiding the craft in under the claw perfectly and then raising it until it was locked in by the claw.

He popped the hatch and stepped out of the fighter, carefully taking his helmet off and setting it back in the seat. He threw his gloves down into the fighter too and grabbed the nearest tech by the shoulder.

"Hey, could youmake sure my helmet is carefully put in a box and returned to my quarters?" He asked, the face of the tech remidning him of someone. "Have I seen you before?" Trevor asked, trying to remember where exactly the memory of this face was locked away in his mind.

"Yeah, I served on the Righteous When Nazgul was there. Some of us Techs follow the squadrons, or specific people around so that we can get used to them and their fighters. Its something new the navy is trying. I was assigned to you, my name is Clark." The man said, holding out his hand.

Trevor shook it, replying with, "Nice to meet you Clark, Name`s Trevor, but I gotta get going...I need some sleep." He said as he turned away, and began to walk away. Under his breathe he whispered 'Or therapy'...

As he was leaving the hanger, Jesse caught up to him and walked next to him.

"Hey, I want to appologise.." She started, looking from her feet to his eyes, and then back to her feet quickly. "I`ve been being pretyt pushy lately, and i`m sorry. I think I`m going to leave you a lone..Leave you to that girl of yours in Nazgul." She said, brushing her hair out of her eyes and then looking at him again. She had started to tear up, but hadn`t actually started to cry.

"Thanks...It wasn`t to bad, but it was nice to get to know you Jesse. Hopefully I`ll see you around in the future. Maybe that drink after the debreifing?" He aske,d holding out hishand for her to shake.

"Sure thing." She replied, shaking his hand with a smile and then sprinting off down the hall to her quarters.
 
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