Really we'd love to get story ideas from everyone in the army, if you have any questions drop one of us a line

So entries are in an what is going to happen now is that each SL gets to pick their top four stories in order. Send me and havock a pm as follows:


1st choice: Story #
2nd choice: Story #
3rd choice: Story #
4th choice: Story #


The stories have not been done in a uniform format, but want I want the SL's to do is rank their favourite stories based on the concept of the idea and whether you think it would work well for your squad as a runon.

If you want to use the story for your squad's runon and no one else has picked it as their first choice you can use it. If two people pick the same one I'll flip a coin and the loser gets their second choice!

Please let me know in your PM if you do NOT want to use a story from the competition for your squads next runon.

Story #2 Hack


A mischievous group of people/organization that's been wanted for a while (Hells Angels-style or something maybe..?)  anyway a known criminal organization [insert whatever you want]  has hacked into the Vast Empire's network and are interested in obtaining [insert whatever you want here, examples can be a missiles system, some piece of software, Intel that we obtained not long ago, a weapon under development...] A higher-up finds out there's been a security breach via a memo from a lower-ranking, fellow officer and assembles one or more squads to take care of the threat.

Whomever wants whatever we have of interest is due planet-side shortly, a long battle ensues, the Corps gets infiltrated...Use whatever your imagination wants.

As for how that all ends...it's up to you

Story #4 Hide and Seek

Insert Squad Name here ends up on a VE fortress planet due to temporary assignment to garrison/training the garisson in their speciality/hyperdrive malfunction on the ship transporting them/ some combination of the above. Soon after they arrive (maybe 4-5 posts in, or a few more), things start to go wrong. Power generators show flickers, areas are "accidentally" sent into lockdown, erroneous orders are sent via datapad, supply shuttles are inadvertently fired upon...

Then the lights go out, back-up generators are destroyed, and a Rebel/Thrawnist/Insert Enemy Here fleet appears in orbit...

Initially, the squads would start at a landing pad. The introductory posts would make it clear that the fortress planet is...a fortress planet. Army troopers would be shown as well-trained and armed, there would be stormtroopers everywhere, gun batteries and reinforced walls, blast doors everywhere...

The squad would need clearance and security checks to go through most places, despite their elite status. Those performing the checks would be very distrustful, but not overly so. Basically, the whole place is in a constant state of high-alert.

Every couple of posts, have something go wrong as above. Basically, there's something going terribly wrong at the fortress despite the precautions, and the garrison would really like to find out what it is. They're confident they can handle it without the help of a single specialist squad, though, especially since the squad's considered a suspect for some of the problems.

As it turns out, eventually, the generators all shut down at the same time, several barracks go up in smoke, and the shield generator facility goes dark and stops responding. The planet's been quite thoroughly infiltrated by non-VE special forces, with some of the fortress garrison replaced by commandos (a few troopers, technicians, maybe even part of the base's gunnery crews). As the shields and fortress guns shut down, an enemy fleet appears in orbit and starts to fire on the orbital stations. Without the means to fire the fort's guns, reactivate the shield, or even properly organize their forces, the fort's defenders are going to be in for a world of hurt.

That's where the squad comes in. They're supposed to turn the power back on and basically save the day. Of course, they're not going to know what the problem is for quite a while or until they run into an infiltrator in Imperial clothing.

For the fortress, I'm thinking "Bastion" from the EU, only on a smaller scale. Maybe one big complex with smaller ones across the rest of the planet?

Maybe a moon instead, to keep things managable? At a "hyperspace reversion point" or "hyperspace junction" or some such technobabble?

Vigil? Tigrane? Debalock? I don't know, I'm not good at coming up with names.

Summary:

Part #1

Introductory Post:
Squad lands, for whatever reason. Should give feeling of GUNS, GUNS EVERYWHERE, and some paranoia.
If because of temporary assignment to garrison or specialized training, assigned and shown to their quarters. They are watched carefully but not overly so; see above.
If because of ship problems, as above, but with more paranoia. Things are starting to go wrong, and a visiting squad of stormtroopers sounds like a cover story.

Squad's shown to barracks, given datapads with maps. Weapons confiscated at landing, asked to keep on shuttle? Have armed guards at every corridor. Access to armoury restricted, to show paranoia.

Have cantina, off-duty guards inside? Opportunity to give the guards personalities beyond "scowl and saying 'move along'".

Lights flicker? Blast doors close and refuse to open? Have guards mutter to selves and explain that they've been having problems for the past few days. Com-link superiors to get it fixed?

Introduce one or two of the infiltrators at this point? Have squad meet technicians/garrison squad/off-duty gunnery crew? Infiltrators should seem normal, maybe overly friendly or terse?

A few posts in, Part #2. Lights go out, blast doors seal. Everyone's in confusion. Squad breaks out, hears contradictory orders over coms. Distant thumps, like explosions. Much more static over comlinks. Squad runs into garrison squad. Squad confused, no idea what's going on. Squad Leader trying to get the troopers following him to follow standard drills (make way to assembly point and wait for orders). The group hears blasterfire, runs into squad of armed infiltrators as they're killing a group of troopers. Infiltrators should be well armed (rifles and repeaters) but lightly armoured. If Thrawnist/Imperial, storm commandos. If Rebels, rebel infiltrators. Posts should give sense that they're on the same level as the squad. Maybe have them be silent, use gestures, give sense of efficiency?

Part #3. Shooting-fest later, the squad finds a functioning console, discovers problem of fleet. Told to try and restore power by Someone Important. Thrawnists want to capture fort, not destroy it, so they wouldn't have blown up the generators. Squad shoots way to generators, restores power, saves day. Maybe have other objectives (recapture gun batteries, shields) if the squad's attention span hasn't wandered or it doesn't come off as video-gamey.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Bastion
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Stormtrooper_Commando

NPCs really only consist of following:
Generic Garrison trooper
Generic Technician
Infiltrator, see personality above.
Important Person Who Only Exists to Give Squad Orders. I'm thinking they'd have an impressive mustache. Large and bushy at that. Ginger? Colonel? Colonel Boris? Something vaguely Russian? I've never watched "Red October".

PM away!

Sorry I didn't get my entry in. Got swamped at work.

Oh well, I'll just hoard its awesomeness for Wraith

So the scores from the squad leaders have been tallied. Each entry gets 4pts for a first choice, 3pts for every 2nd choice, 2 for each 3rd and 1 for each 4th

And now . . . drumroll . . .

In joint fourth place with 9pts each:

Story 5 by skarr
Story 3 by red

In second place with 10pts

Story 4 by corvin

Which means the winner with 12 points

Story 1 by Jamasis!


Congratulations! Prizes and which story each squad gets will be annouced later.

I think the closeness of the top 4 stories shows just how good the quality was, well done!

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