I'll wait for your post to show, then, before I start writing (Because I'm certainly awake at the moment). In the mean, I think it's time to start reading.

EDIT: Also welcome back.

Also, diverting for a moment from the topic in favour of eccentricities, what's the policy on discord missiles (Buzz droids)? Can the warhead launchers on our Interceptors even load them? And assuming they could, would doing so be against a regulation somewhere?

Fair enough. I just thought I'd throw that out there.

Cancel that, curve-ball's back. I'm just not gonna have enough time to be able to lead the Squadron anymore.

As a result, I'm afraid I am going to have to resign as Squadron Commander.

This is awkward...

On the plus side ('bout the only one there is) current story may be twisted so as to also explain this and likely further changes to come...

We're all sorry to see Dunny go, but RL comes first, as ever.

Obviously, the NHC is aware of the current state of affairs in the Starfighter Corps; we're working on a new line-up now.  Keep posting, guys: on the squadron story, personal CD tales, and certs/skills.  The new run-on will begin before the week ends, and we'll all have a bit more direction.

IC I'll likely help explain the OOC situation by either scrambling the two squadrons together in order to make one better than the other, or scrambling them together to increase the competitive spirit AND teamwork Or I might do it for some awkward reason such as being dead drunk and this being a total whim on my part I'm leaning towards the second one however as that would be both more plausible and wouldn't sound bad IC or OOC should NS open up again.

So yeah, I'll likely join the story and provide a plausible IC explanation for the OOC changes before the big story starts so as not to be caught off balance by that one as well.

PS - If anyone has any other ideas, comments or suggestions... post 'em here. Or you can PM them directly but transparency would work better in these sort of situations.

Do try and send them on time however...

A few observations on the Tuk'ata mission thus far - normally squadrons are RPed as full or almost full, including NPCs and not just the active PCs. Since most of you only mentioned the active members then that's that for this mission. First note would be for you to properly read the posts before yours - there's no way 18 pods would've been filled if only a handful of pilots are supposedly present. On that matter why 18 pods anyway? Why not 24 or more considering most Imperial militaries used 4 flights of 3 fighters?

Oh, and there wouldn't really be lone Avenger pods, lone bomber pods or lone Defender pods. There'd just be regular pods that could be configured to run as various vessels - TIE fighters, Interceptors, Avengers, Defenders, Bombers or even X-wings, A-wings and possibly Y and B-wings. So I'll ask that either Scral change his post to fly an Interceptor like the rest of you or Maroy change her post and remove the "lone Avenger" bit as both squadrons would otherwise fly the same craft. The logical choice considering the existence of certs and skills would be for the former. Since this mission's original purpose changed somewhat I personally don't mind for you to try playing with the nice toys however. I'll let you choose...

Scral, walking around a military ship and jumping in a simulation pod given your described condition would be plausible so no qualms with that. You will however need to figure out how you'll end up being part of the squadron in an official capacity as you won't really be able to just walk up to a real fighter and hop in it. Security forces would see to that...

I'll post later when I get home as previously promised, other than that keep doing what you're doing.

PS - I'll check out the fleet story next and likely post a similar post soon-ish as well...

Scral's got a good point about the NR fighters. They use a massively different control scheme, so that even in the EU books two separate types of simulator pods were used. The Wraith Squadron books in particular point that out.

That said, all Imperial fighters share their basic control scheme (if not their cabin shape, which's relatively immaterial to their controls) aside from specialized functions like bombing. They should all use the same simulator pod, with any unused interfaces being ignored.

-Drac

/me headdesks

/me takes a moment and a deep breath then rereads those last few posts

/me headdesks once more

I ask that someone please explain to me exactly what happened in the squadron story. Seriously.

For the record here's what I understood thus far: a handful of pilots get together and try to beat a supposedly impossible scenario. That's perfectly fine. We basically have a small convoy of ships led by a frigate against a Star Destroyer (was this one a regular Imperial class or Republic class though - cause the NR uses the latter - doesn't really matter all that much, and I'm mostly curious because the two have different designs). That's also fine.

The Nebulon only launching the handful of mentioned pilots? Fine again. The ISD launching its own fighters? Equally fine, though note there would be a maximum number of those - 72 for Imperial class, 36 for Republic class. The ISD jumping around the system? Fine, except you'd need to first accelerate enough to make a jump and then decelerate upon exiting it. This in turn takes time for capital ships like ISDs. Also a ship can only jump in the direction it's facing. Couple that last one with the fact this is a simulation and I agree that calculating where the thing might pop out is indeed plausible. Wouldn't likely be as possible if the scenario was for real but no point further complicating matters with "what ifs".

The Starfire Snare? This is pretty much the biggest thing I couldn't quite comprehend. How exactly is it supposed to work in theory would be one question and how exactly it worked in this sim would be the other one... I mean I read what happened but for the life of me I can't however understand why exactly that happened the way it did.

A Star Destroyer getting scared by a lousy half dozen fighters? Seriously? I know it's a simulation and as such a greater degree of stupidity can be attributed to the enemies and blame their AI for it in the process but there really should be a limit to just how stupid that AI can turn out to be. Even with concentrated and continuous fire I for one don't see half a dozen fighters, even fully upgraded Defenders, taking down an otherwise undamaged Star Destroyer. Even if they were all equipped with rockets and bombs (which would be a lot easier to shoot down for that matter) and thus manage to temporarily break the ship's shields... the damage would still be localized.

But to get back to the outcome at hand - we basically have 6 Avengers rushing toward the Star Destroyer... and somehow managing to make it turn towards the convoy? Personally I don't see the need for that as a ship that size has a lot of turbolasers, ion cannons, heavy lasers and also point defense lasers to take care of attacks from virtually any and all direction... but say the ship ended up turning.

Next the AI is supposed to be stupid enough to jump straight into the convoy? And say that can somehow, through the grace of some god happen nonetheless. The resulting chain explosion would somehow not be enough to take out the entire convoy?

So you see my friends I'm having a really hard time accepting parts of this scenario, much less the whole package and am thus hoping for someone to clarify matters for me. Preferably sooner rather than later...

Don't look at me, I was in the gym. Anyways all is well now, we are fighting and dying is a glorious battle that will be celebrated with the Blue stuff when we return. Today IS a good day to die.

Hades, you traitor! D:

@Deep
To my understanding the NR was still heavily relying on captured Imperial-class destroyers at the time of the mission the sim is based on.

Anyway, the destroyer is definitely not scared of the fighters. The idea was that it's jumping around so it can outflank the defenders and deploy its own fighters from multiple directions. The sim is coded so it simply jumps to the location least defended. (Programmers love taking shortcuts. Trust me on this one.) The VE fighters spread out and position themselves such that the least-defended position happens to be exactly opposite of the convoy, and hope that the computer puts the jump sequence before the obstacle avoidance sequence.

It is highly improbable, you're right. And you bring up a good point about the slow acceleration. I didn't think about that.

Personally, I think DeepSix is just embarrassed that he got vaporised..

Ohi. I'm DR, an old hand, kind of, for those who don't know me, and I'm now in this squadron. Nice to meet you all.

DR!!!!

How's it going, man? Long time no see.

-Drac