I'm not Shaz, but I think it's really good.  I'm not sure what the next assignment is, still new to this, but welcome to VEN.
 
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Senior Crewman Gunnay
Nazgul 3-2
Adjutant to the Training Officer
A:TO/FM/SCRW Gunnay/Nazgul 3-2/Wing I/mSSD Atrus/1VIF/VEN/VE (=*A*=)

Sorry it took me this long to post. My memory stick went lost as welll as my massive projects increasing in demand

Hope this is ok, every time I see some sort of diagram or explanation involving the words' degrees and radius' i just go blank


Barrel roll.
In order to avoid flying to fast into enemy fire while overtaking it, the barrel roll is administrated or the other way round to make the enemy over shoot you. By plunging the nose of your craft and spiralling it on the axis before pulling up and then repeat the process while moving in a forward position.

Disadvantages: Its easily predictable since its such a simple manoeuvre to administrate. Because of its simplicity many fighters might make the mistake of overestimating it and could risk losing control of their craft.
Advantages: Easy way to make your enemy overshoot.

Spiral dive
When trying to shake an off an enemy administrate the Spiral dive when he moves to the side of your tail, plunge your craft down sharply which for a second causes him to overshoot and lose his target. Administrate a barrel roll as you plunge down but be careful not to stay to long in the roll as the enemy might quickly regain his target. End the dive by pulling up sharply while reducing speed, which could land you on your enemy's tail.
Disadvantages: If your craft does not possess a good manoeuvrability, it will not be capable of administrating the sharp pitches and turns.
Advantages: Easy way to turn the tides of an battle by means of making your enemy overshoot or 'over gain' your position thus landing in your fire line.

Sorry if Ghostshot and Liano already moved on to squads. I started typing this a long time ago, but then I had to change comps and stuff.




"Gweat, we fisthly cwant be wate!"
Shiric rolled her eyes at the boy beside her. The 'boy' beamed in anticipation as he stuffed ration bars into his mouth. Sighing Shiric unplugged the ration bar from his mouth. She reddened slightly at the few curious glances cast at them from bystanders.

"This is so typical of you Lenrax!"
She whacked him over the head. He grunted something resembling an apology before he opened another ration bar.
Shiric turned sharp to the left into the hall leading to the Flight School corridors. Right in front of them another trainee was walking about. A twilek. Shiric narrowed her eyes in curiosity. A twilek? In the Navy? It was not unheard of, but they generally joined the Corps. What caught Shiric most was the Twilek's skin shade. It was white. The lights dropped odd shadows about them as they passed underneath a bulb flickering vividly.

Shiric fell into a jog to catch up with the twilek.
"Hi, sup?"
The twilek caught off guard regarded her suspiciously. Shiric shifted uncomfortably under her gaze. Why would anyone be so suspicious about a simple 'hello'?
"Hi, my name is Shiric. You are?"
"Liana."

For a few seconds silence passed between the two females but it was quickly broken by Lenrax or Len as Shiric preferred to nick him.
"Hi lady, whatsup?" he asked to Liana.  Another uncomfortable silence passed.
"Well, Lennie, this is Liana, and Liana this is Lenrax. Are you here for your first space flight as well?" asked Shiric trying to be friendly. Though she wasn't usually this friendly towards strangers, the twilek seemed to be to silent.
The twilek nodded.
Frowning Shiric contemplated on how to approach Liana.
"Lennie, be a dear and run up ahead and see what time our training starts?"
"But Shir, it start----"
"Just do it"
She cast him a warning glance at which he meekly nodded.
As he disappeared around the first corner, Shiric could see from the corner of her eyes the twilek visibly relax slightly.

"Anyhow, how long have you been here?" Shiric asked grabbing at a random subject to attempt a conversation.
"Not very long, just started out and you?"
Shiric laughed.
"Me? I'm to lazy to bother with classes, bin stuck here for  a little over one month I think, or more."
Before either one of them could say anything Lenrax came charging right back at them.
"I'm not allowed to complete training!, what is this crap!" he slammed his fist angrily at the wall beside him as he came to halt next to them. Shiric instinctively reached up to him and wrapped her arms around his neck.
"Shhh, why, what's wrong?"
Lennie's like kid sometimes she sighed to her self.
"Something about my eyes not being right, first have to see the meds. How stupid!"
Shiric sighed in his ear as she played with his scruffy dark hair.
"Well, at least you can come back, just imagine if you are out there and your eyes fails you."
Lenrax pulled away from her and crossed his arms.
"How come it was never picked up before?"
"We were training in sims, sims automatically corrects your sight and ears, and whatever matters."
Lenrax slumped against the wall. Shiric waved a hand to Liana to tell she should perhaps move on without them for now.
"There, there, its not that bad, you're just being a brat now"
Shiric stifled a snicker at her down trodden friend, though she felt pity at him. It really meant a lot to him to be part of the Navy. She shuddered to think at how she would feel if she was rejected.
"Come on, let's get you back to your room"
He shook his head.
"No, I want to see my little girl beating all the other's asses today"

" Right&whatever" said a voice from behind them. Shiric's head glanced to the source of the voice. A blonde hair blue eyed male grinned at them.
"I'm GhostShot, ya new at this thing?"
His slight Corellian accent betrayed his origin, and the small slang he threw in occasionally indicated he has most likely been part of the backwater parts of Corellia
"Shiric and the cry-baby here is Lenrax." She answered. Len pouted at her comment forgetting already at why he was angry.
"I take it, you've done this before?" asked Shiric curiously.
"Ya, but, just wanna run through it again before I'm off to duty, so you and this guy together?" asked GhostShot with a playful grin.
Lenrax started nodding his head but Shiric gave him a whack across his back.
"Was"
"Hehe, sure doesn't seem like it" Shiric shrugged with a shaking head.
"Whatever" she muttered, she found her self-taking an immediate liking to Ghostshot, he approached situations and people directly with humour, though she suspected that he just like any Imperial harboured their own dark secrets.

"Come on, we have bin taking to much of our sweet time getting at the Flights, lets go" muttered Shiric. 


"Right. I am Captain Ragnal Locke of the Perseverance. We are here to train, not to dwindle and chit chat as some of our fellow pilots choose to do"
Shiric tried to hide behind Lenrax and Ghostshot when the Captain's eyes flicked them. He seemed to be a precise guy as he addressed them with his hands folded behind his back; his neatly trimmed brown military style cut hair and his self-assured brown eyes. The ashen scar running over his left cheek eliminated any doubts about his experience or loyalty. Many has heard how he attained it..

"In a few moments you will get in your fighters, and we will set course to Tague for further experience. This training will be very different from the simulator training you received on Abrae. Take mind, we won't tell you what to do next. You should have enough insight to think for your self by now. Get going."
A strange calmness dominated her demeanour. Unlike the other pilots who were al starting to chatter in anticipation, she couldn't help but be pulled into the silent corner of her mind. Liana seemed to be going through the same calmness she was experiencing. The calm before the Storm.

Silently the two females were running through their pre-flight check, though there wasn't much to prepare for on their crafts. The sturdy TIE interceptor, a sphere-like cockpit that had two extensions on opposite sides connecting to square wing, which on each end had two triangles protruding from it on the opposite, ends as well. The white varnish reflected her dimly in the light of the hangar bay as she climbed in. She threw a quick glance back at Lenrax who were gazing at the whole procedure longingly. Shaking her head and thoughts together she proceeded into her cockpit.

"This is Viper11 standing by." She muttered into the tiny microphone attached to her helmet. One by one, the other pilots reported in. Within a matter of minutes they took off.
Even though Shiric was by now familiar of the strange drop like feeling eminating from the pitt of stomach when she entered Z-gravity to fast with adjusting the TIE, it was still all simulating. This was real and it felt odd, calm exicitement set her nerves ablaze.

As they blasted off to Tague Shiric couldn't resist doing a loop and pulled hard up. Seconds after she leveled again. Despite Captian Locke warning her about doing it again she couldn't help but grin and even imagined hearing a chuckle from GhostShot.

Soon afterwards they arrived at their 'training grounds'. There was nothing exciting about them. Locke made then run through the courses individually supervising each and everyone of them. Luckily there wasn't to many and it was soon Shiric's turn to go.

She slowly descended her craft to match the opposing training crafts. She felt the  vibrations of her TIE, it seemed to be humming with anticipation. At the order of Captain Locke, Shiric sped off. The course was pretty easy. Locke transmitted to her the coordinates and directions which need. Punching it in she started the small course. Her hands started fidgeting, any moment another TIE was supposed to attack. Why wasn't it attacking her? She pushed the throttle up  and increased her speed when an image blurred passed her with a zoom!
"SHIITE!" she yelled forgetting Locke was on the other end of the line, she made a sharp turned to the left hoping to catch her target on the training bot. Bingo. She triggered her shots but was quite surprised when it did nothing to the TIE.
"Sir?" she questioned surprised over the link.
"Don't worry, the TIEs you are fighting are equipped with sensors which records your shots, don't worry lassie, you didn't miss, but it still feels awkward not to see it being exploded to the corners of the galaxy."

Relaxing at the Captain 's explanation Shiric settled back into her seat and waited for the next target or targets. She wasn't quite sure. The course continued with various crafts trying to overcome her, but most of it was to test her reflexes and such as. As she executed a spiral dive however she didn't quite prepare her self for a third TIE, with her concentration focused on the back TIE and front TIE, she pitched sharply into the third crashing its sensors to smithereens. Shaking the stars out of her head she tried to gain control over her ship, she limply pushed the eject button before she suddenly blacked out.

*****

Okay. Dots. Lots of dots.
Shiric struggled to focus her eyes to form a picture. Whatever was in front her seemed to sense her struggle because it suddenly hugged her tightly.
"Honey, Shirie, you're ok, damn I was worried!"
Lennie, no she thought to her self trying to escape his death grip.
"Wha happened?" she asked with a stiff jaw,
"You damaged your TIE pretty bad, I am quite baffled as to how you managed to cause that much damage." Locke said from the side of her bed.
"Woman, they always baffle us with dazzle and our cars with---ow!"
"Don't you dare finish that!"
Shiric glared at her friend threateningly as she pillowed him.
"Guess, I'm out. Len, please remember to report to me for you space flight, Shiric can you join you on the Atmospheric flights since she would need to re cooperate a bit." ordered the Captain as he left the room. They both gave a solemn nod before Shiric pillowed him again.

"Old gang back together heh?" Len grinned as they took their traditional route to the Flight School. Laina and Ghostshot shook their head while Shiric rolled her eyes in agitation while she tried to stifle a snicker at the newest addition. Glasses.. Ghostshot cracked him self at len while even Laina couldn't contain her smirk. Len tried to shrug it off with a joke.

"Can't they fix your eyes?"
"Something about me being an unique case as usual. I wearing some type of goggles during flight, and glasses on ground. It makes the switching easier while I wait for the next appoitment." Len sighed.
Shiric stiffled her giggles at his downtrodden demeanor.  He looked quite smart unlike his usual scruffyness...

Shrugging the thought and Len's face away Shiric concentrated on the task at hand.
"Whatever, I just want to get training over and done with, of course hotshot beside us has already done passed it."  she muttered at which Ghostshot chuckled.
"Not that difficult, remind me to take ya to this very cool place I found with my other trainin- group. Which reminds me, Len obviously you are set and fixed for this mission right?" Ghostshot asked when he remembered Len's glasses and cracked up again. Gripping the novice tightly by the shoulder Ghostshot patted him on his back with the other hand. Len started coughing at larger more robust man's strength.
"Don't
"Huh,...eh right." Len manage to sputter.

"Come one, lets just get there!"


****Berchat****

Shiric quickly flipped the switches of her dashboard online, and started the engines as she prepared to lift off from the Bulk Cruiser. With humming engines she left through the hangar entrance to outside. The ship jolted slightly downwards at the sudden gravity change at which she quickly responded by increasing the engine's energy output. It was odd feeling not floating with her ship as she usually did in the outer space. The barren planet lied stretched out before them. Massive crates filled the vast grounds, on the horizon she could see the heat waves weaving in and out of each other. The ground was shaded and coloured in tones of brown, orange, red and yellow with a variety of shadows cascading from huge upturned boulders or craters stretching behind human eye.

"Hi, used to the G's?" asked Ghostshot over the Raido link.
"Yeah, will just need some flight practise."
"The ol' C'tin Locke said we can take twenty and explore while getting used to this. Lemme takke ya to the spot one my mates talked about. Follow me." Ghostshot ordered as he did a summersault as he pitched his craft to the right. With  blasting engines they set after him to his designation.

The zipped across the destroyed lands incapable of housing human life and across. Lost in the scenery, she didn't notice when she almost crashed into Len who was yelling at.
"I'm SO sorry Lenny!" she cried out to him over the link in which he replied a grunt of some sort. Kicking her self she got in contact with Ghsotshot again.
"So what you wanted to show us?" she asked. His trademark chuckle was heard through their cockpits.
"Watch and follow." he muttered as he fired up his engines and sped off to the ground. Curious Shiric followed him to the ground from a safe distance along with the other. She slowed her craft down even more going far to fast at what she was trained and used to.
When they finally managed to catch Ghostshot back in action, he  was flying at speedily through the air while he dodged massive boulders and ducked through enormous torpedo shots that drilled through some of the bigger boulders.

"I think use they use these ground to test new weaponry." she heard Len mutter in her ear through the headset.
"I'm going in, it looks like fun." she said to to the other, and dropped the idling engine back into action. Cautiously she aproached Ghostshot's playground. A massive boulder leaned in her way which she passed on the right hand side and then she was met with another boulder, whose remains lied scattered about him. Kicking in another gear she sped up zig-zagging slowly between the sharp edged rocks, some of them resembling trees, other the sizes of TIE crafts. No sooner and she was flying near the speed at which Ghostshot was managing, once she dodged one obstacle another appeared. She miscalculated several pitches and drops not taking the gravity in mind and missed them narrowly. Ducking through and drilled hole in a boulder she was joined by the rest of trainees who found this intriguing. Another found this intriguing as well.
"Pilots cease flying immediately." ordered Captain Locke sharply from within his own hovering craft. Shiric felt her self go red, though no one would see. they were making fools of themselves. Like children playing with a new bike while he was spectating it.


Slowly but surely every got to a stop.
"The main reason we came here was to test your capabiltiy to fly in atmospheric enviroments which you just proved to be quite capable. I think we can make use of these grounds next time when we fly again. Good job, you can continue your..err little exercise." Shiric grinned when she heard Len screaming liek a small child as he set off again.