[OOC: Well, that class .5 hyperdrive seems a bit unrealistic (they were experimental at best in SW), but other than that it sounds good]

Argon was waiting at the redezvous point in a gunboat he'd taken from the Illustrious, his former ship.

He figured it would be about the type of ship he could use to train Raz in anything he was likely to get.

Unlike most gunboats, this one was a trainer fighter, with some warhead capacity removed to make space for an instructor's seat behind and to the left of the pilot.

As Raziel's ship arrived, Argon punched his engines to one third throttle and swept toward it.

It had been a while since he'd flown seriously, and he'd spent the past few hours weaving through asteroids and practicing his aim to shake off some of the rust.

He had opted against bringing a trainer TIE Advanced because, while they were far easier to use, getting used to them if he was flying something bulkier could mean the death of Raziel, and Argon wanted to give him a relatively good start on this.

"Ready to start?" he said into the comm.

"Yup," replied Raz, "just hook up and I'll be right over."
 
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Argon Viper
IW COL Argon Viper{ret}
Fallen Angel and Proud of It!
"History is on the move, those who cannot keep up will watch from a distance, and those who get in our way will not watch at all" - Grand Admiral Thrawn
"In combat, second place is only the last to die."- Anonymous
"Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses" - Carl G Jung

    Argon watched intently as Raziel familiarised himself with the controls of the gunboat.
    "Try and relax Raz, if you do everything deliberately it's never going to come naturally." Argon whispered over his shoulder.
    "Humph" Raziel sighed and closed his eyes for a second.
    "Ready? Let's begin."

    For a while Argon showed Raziel some basic manoeuvres. He went through the basic ideas of trying to shake off someone behind you and explained when to use various counter measures.
    "Quite often someone close on your tail will back off if you're giving them a hard time. They do this just so those dodges i just showed you have a small effect from their point of view. Don't let them do this, you don't want to be an easy target. juke one direction and move the other, or perhaps double juke if you feel like being random. Remember if you get predictable you won't last five minutes..."

    Argon carried on showing him how to carry out as tight a turn as possible, whilst not damaging you're engines.

    "Now remember follow your instincts, but always do exactly as i say." Argon grinned in a disconcerting manner.
    "Why whats going to happen?"
    "Hmm" Argon ignored him."
    "Where's Ramon?" Raziel asked catching on.

    At the last possible second Argon flicked a switch to his right. The sensors immdeiately started beeping. Another gunboat had just dropped out of hyperspace behind them and was closing fast.
    "Hey that wasnt fai..." Raz started to protest.
    "No time for that now! defend youself!" Argon shouted as laser darts brushed past them.

Raziel punched the throttle forward and dropped down at a tangent, accelerating all the way.
 
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SL/SGMTRaziel/4SQD/1COMP/1BAT/1RGT/Tadath/VEA/ {EW1} {WoS} {VP} {IG} {CDS} {BoA}
Assistant Squad Leader - Squad4 Wraiths
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989.

[OOC: Please don't use the slow down trick as my idea, that's a move only the AI in the game really uses, and it's only useful if they're at point blank range    Instead, my suggestion would be to juke one direction and move the other, or perhaps double juke if you feel like being random  ]

"Well, first off," said Argon, "he was too far away for a dodge like that to work.  If you want to make a constant turn like that, he's got to be close.  At range, you want to ducking and dodging even when you're standing still."

"Secondly," he continued, "up or down is usually the best direction to dodge because he can't use roll or yaw to keep up with you.  Now, let's see how you do when you're not caught off guard."
 
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Argon Viper
IW COL Argon Viper{ret}
Fallen Angel and Proud of It!
"History is on the move, those who cannot keep up will watch from a distance, and those who get in our way will not watch at all" - Grand Admiral Thrawn
"In combat, second place is only the last to die."- Anonymous
"Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses" - Carl G Jung

"Don't make a regular pattern. A spiral, like you tried there, is predictable. Lock yourself on to a vision cone so you'll always have your opponent in sight, but apart from that keep jinking around. Try and see where your opponent's next shots are going and don't be there. Really, though, the best thing to do is not to get into that situation at all. I've seen people fly at each other like that in battle and both of them die more often than not."
 
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    Argon has Raziel chase Ramon through several lose asteroid fields for the next few hours. This time Argon kept close to the control panel, just incase Raziel should get a little too close to one of the huge rocks.
    To his credit Raziel's reflexes kept him from straying too close to the asteroids. His twisted and swirved through the field keeping Ramon firmly in his field of view.

    Soon they returned to Raziel's new ship. Thanking Argon and fish greatly for their time Raziel went back across to his own ship.
    "Well thanks one more time guys, it's been a great help,"
    "No problem at all Raz, infact it was quite good to see...hold on," Argon left the comm link open, but paused.
    "I see it too," Ramon put in. Almost as soon as Raziel sat down he noticed the incoming signal on the sensor readout.

    "Ok i'm disconnecting you now Raziel get ready to run for it. I didn't mention there are several pirate groups operating in this area did i?"
    "Oh dear," was all Raziel said. He prepped the engines and the massive thrusters started to glow red.
    "Ok hyperspace co-ordinates running, i'll need a minute. Damn." Raziel said already accelerating rapidly.

    The large ship dropped out of hyperspace behind them and innefective turbolaser fire lanced out towards them. Raziel found it strange that it wasn't firing any laser turrets. Ramon was closest to the ship and reported his scan.
    "Ok we have a modified medium carrier here. Looks like a cheap unarmed varient that someone has strapped some turbo lasers too. Uh oh we have fighters launching."
    The initial speed at which the fighters headed towards them scared Raziel, but then his sensors finished their sweep.
    "Ha ha pinooks! They're actually using pinooks! Ten of them mind!" The pinook starfighter was well known as a fast moving target. It's terrible manoevrability coupled with weak shielding and hull meant that it was a true failure on the market.
    "Oh i'm not going to take an insult like that!" Argon shouted.
"Come about now! Raziel keep close in behind me, don't get cocky."
    Raziel's ship accelerated rapidly and quickly caught up to Argon's gunboat. He loaded his pair of proton torpedoes and locked onto the closest.
    "Lead his mine," he said into his comm.
    "Seems only fair the newby should get the first shot," Argon laughed.
    "He'll probably miss anyway," Ramon laughed as they came within torpedo range of the pirate fighters.

    "Surrender your ships now and no harm will come to you!" an anxious sounding voice said over an open channel.
    "Hmm not likely," Raziel whispered to himself, finger over the launch button.
 
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SL/SGMTRaziel/4SQD/1COMP/1BAT/1RGT/Tadath/VEA/ {EW1} {WoS} {VP} {IG} {CDS} {BoA}
Assistant Squad Leader - Squad4 Wraiths
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989.

    The first of Raziel's torpedoes slammed into the lead pinook. Against such a fragile fighter it was overkill. The pinook's wings shot out in opposite directions, deflecting off the shields of the pinook behind but forced it to pull out to the side.
    Seeing an opening Raziel punched the throttle forward and shot ahead of Argon and fish as each of them pulled out wide.
    The Quintessence sliced through the fighters like a knife, one of them caught a glancing hit to his shields, but nothing serious.
    As he went between them he began to roll. As he shot past the last of the group he had twisted 180 degrees. He pulled hard on the flight stick and swept down and around. By the time he had done a full turn the pinooks were still only half way through their turn.
    His second torpedo blasted across space, closing the gap between itself and an arcing pinook in seconds.
    The torpedo had gone after the pinook trying to pull to its right, Raziel's headed for the pinook on the left. He miscalculated his approach and shot past the fighter before he could get any good shots in.
    Having only just started their turn to re-aquire their target the pinooks were now perfectly positioned to pursue Raziel as he had shot past them a second time.

    Raziel pushed the throttle full foward and the Quintessences engines launched him foward. By the time the pinooks had got a targetting lock on him he had accelerated beyond 100 MGLT and was quickly putting distance between himself and the pinooks.
    He pulled right to avoid the furst burst of laser fire and then back to the left. The laser fire shot far to his right as the pilots had taken his previous velocity into account. From this distance he thought he could avoid their fire long enough to get out of range.
    Suddenly his computer beeped away. Damn forgot about the carrier he thought.
    He cut the throttle and pulled hard on the stick launching his ship up high away from the turbo laser blast. By the time he righted his ship and checked his sensors the two remaining pinooks were upon him.

    His ship was far more manoevrable than either of them, but they kept wide apart and did a good job of keeping him stuck between them.
   
    "Er not too bad," Raziel replied into the comm.
"Got too of them on me and i can't shake them. I'm a long way from you two and putting more distance between us all the time, any suggestions?"

(ooc: how do you stop a ship that's gone into hyperspace btw? )

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SL/SGMTRaziel/4SQD/1COMP/1BAT/1RGT/Tadath/VEA/ {EW1} {WoS} {VP} {IG} {CDS} {BoA}
Assistant Squad Leader - Squad4 Wraiths
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989.

(ooc: i'll edit my post to be in trouble
np more interesting now)
 
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SL/SGMTRaziel/4SQD/1COMP/1BAT/1RGT/Tadath/VEA/ {EW1} {WoS} {VP} {IG} {CDS} {BoA}
Assistant Squad Leader - Squad4 Wraiths
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989.

[OOC:  Stop a ship in hyperspace?  You'd need an interdictor cruiser  ]

Argon twisted left and then right in rapid succession, spinning around behind the third pinook before it could react.

This maneuver left the other pinook able to fire on him from the side, but he was dodging too much for it to get a good shot.

Immediately as it flashed past, Argon planted three sets of paired laser shots directly into the back of the ship, boring deep into it and leaving it to drift in space.

He then snap rolled to his right, bringing his sights to bear on the ship that had just passed him.

It wasn't long before that ship turned into a fiery ball as well.

He then checked his sensors, Raz was out in the middle of nowhere, getting hemmed in by two of the enemy fighters, and the carrier was adamantly trying to follow him.

That made a bit of sense, his was the only ship that might contain cargo, and these were pirates.

"Raz," he said, "drift as far left as you can and drop your throttle.  They're getting close enough to you for that to work."
 
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Argon Viper
IW COL Argon Viper{ret}
Fallen Angel and Proud of It!
"History is on the move, those who cannot keep up will watch from a distance, and those who get in our way will not watch at all" - Grand Admiral Thrawn
"In combat, second place is only the last to die."- Anonymous
"Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses" - Carl G Jung

[OOC:  True, you could kill them with a well placed boulder, but that'd be monstrously difficult...]
 
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Argon Viper
IW COL Argon Viper{ret}
Fallen Angel and Proud of It!
"History is on the move, those who cannot keep up will watch from a distance, and those who get in our way will not watch at all" - Grand Admiral Thrawn
"In combat, second place is only the last to die."- Anonymous
"Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses" - Carl G Jung

[OOC:  It's not like you know someone with a mobile boulder like say a few of the old POD transports at thier disposal or something like that.  /OOC]
 
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Kuroishi Wraith VEA
Daishi Raptor VEN
Assistant Writer Why Project Copyright Infringment
Ich bin hessliche amerikaner.
Nehmen mir zu dein frauen von vernunftig preis tugendhafte.
"And the sound of many heads hitting many solid objects was heard throughout the land." me

    "Oh now you've really gone and done it," Raziel said. Another laser dart caught his shields. His tapped a few buttons on his console. Both fighters were now looked into his torpedo's targetting computer.
    Raziel smashed the throttle forward and rolled hard to his right. Thinking he was trying to make a break for it the pinook on his right opened fire infront of Raziel whilst the one to his left swung round low trying to get in behind him.

    If the fighters had noticed his torpedoes loading and locking on they may have realised he had other plans. Fortunately the rather pricey diffuser pads he had installed must have been sufficient to scatter their scans.

    Raziel pulled hard to the left, reversing his thrust to slow him sufficiently ands them cutting his throttle. The pinook trying to get in behind him shot straigh past, unable to decelerate at the same speed. The proton torpedo launched almost the second he passed Raziel's ship.
    Razie's targetting circle outlined the other pinook the moment it left the launching tube. The second torpedo shoot past the rapidly expanding debris cloud that had been a pinook and slammed head on into the second fighter.


    Raziel pulled around slowly and drifted over the bulk of the transport before thrusting to match it's speed. Argon and Stonefish were positioned likewise.
    "So, where are we taking our over confident friend?" Raz asked
 
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SL/SGMTRaziel/4SQD/1COMP/1BAT/1RGT/Tadath/VEA/ {EW1} {WoS} {VP} {IG} {CDS} {BoA}
Assistant Squad Leader - Squad4 Wraiths
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989.

(ooc: i'll try and think of something for us to do, that is if you're enjoying writing about flying again? )
 
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SL/SGMTRaziel/4SQD/1COMP/1BAT/1RGT/Tadath/VEA/ {EW1} {WoS} {VP} {IG} {CDS} {BoA}
Assistant Squad Leader - Squad4 Wraiths
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989.