Vehicle Crewman Training
Vehicle Operation

Happy to have passed his first class, Nicholas was getting ready for his next one. His datapad was in his pocket, and his tool kit was tucked in his jacket. He got up and walked to his next class, hoping he got the right room this time. As he walked down the hallway, he saw most of his last classmates going in the same direction as him. When they arrived, the instructor was already there.

"Everybody, come on inside, and sit down at a desk," he said after everyone had stopped talking.

The classroom was large and wide, with no ceiling. The entire room was empty, except for a couple cockpits lying on the floor, and four long rows of desks. He took a seat near the middle, and took out his datapad.

"You won't need those datapads," explained the instructor, "just take out your tool kits, and meet me at the back of the room."

Nicholas stood up, and walked to the back of the room, following his instructor to a door, at the back of the room. They walked outside, to an AT-ST walker.

"This is the AT-ST model of a walker. You will be learning the intermediate walker operation, and basic weapon system operation. All of you will jump into the walker, and show me how you handle it," Ordered the instructor.

Everybody was getting into the walker, and drove it around a circular track. When it came to be Nicholas' turn, he got in the cockpit, and steered it around the short track, then jumped out for the next person in line. After this, they were sent back into the class room to copy notes. They were copying basic weapon notes. When they were done with the notes, they moved on to one of the cockpits on the floor.

"You each will need to get in this cockpit, and fire the guns properly. Nothing will fire as you can see, but you need to show me that you can operate it," commanded the instructor.

Nicholas took his turn third, watching the first two so he didn't make any mistakes. When it came to be his turn, he got in and already knew perfectly what to do. His instructor was impressed in how he just got in, and knew exactly what to do. He had to show how to start up the weapons, and fire them correctly.

"Good work, mister Star. You may take a seat." Said the instructor as Nicholas got out.

Once everyone had completed this, they were sent back to the diagram to copy some more notes.

"Everybody, you will now show me how you drive in groups of four, according to your scores in your first testing." informed the instructor.

Nicholas walked outside to the AT-ST walker with three other guys. When they got outside, there were five more AT-ST walkers lined up for driving. Nicholas was the first to drive, "When you get in, your partners will set up the targets," ordered the instructor, as Nicholas' partners ran out into the field to set them up, "you will have ten minutes to hit as many targets as possible. The weapons you are using will not destroy the targets, they will send off a shock of electricity, which when it strikes the target, it will take it out for a period of seconds, and add a point to your score. Go!" yelled the instructor.

Nicholas finished with a score of 243. When they were all finished, the class was done. They were all sent out to wait to take the exam. Nicholas was one of the first students to take it. When he walked in the room, there were two desks, and a target range with an AT-ST walker.

"Okay, Nicholas. You will start by coming with me outside, and you will drive the AT-ST around for me, then you will come back, and write out all the notes from the class. Then you will go to the shooting range, and hit as many targets as possible. I will need your datapad, please, and you may start your test." The instructor said as Nicholas walked in.

He started walking towards the door, and the instructor followed him slowly. As Nicholas got in the AT-ST walker, he noticed that he was using a different style of AT-ST, because the controls were all in different places than the original one he was using. But, as he got started, it actually wasn't much different. After he finished the course, he ran back to the classroom, his instructor following behind him, looking at his datapad.

"Okay. Now you will walk over to that desk, and write the notes from the class," explained the instructor.

He wrote the notes, after that, he was instructed to go over to the shooting range. There he had to fire at target moving around, while shooting from an AT-ST walker. Nicholas started up the walker, and got the weapons ready to fire. The targets popped out of different corners, from the ceiling, from the floor, and from other areas. He fired at them all, only missing a couple from time to time, but he got the majority of them.

"Good job mister Star, hop out of the walker, and wait outside for the test results." ordered the instructor.

After a couple hours, the test results were posted.

Student Name: Nicholas Star
Score: 267
Mark: 98%
Evaluation: excellent