A young man approached the famous, most prestidgus meeting place of the most poewrfull force in the galaxy...the Vast Empire. The young mans' clothes were torn to shreads by what looks like the sign of a Mailoc. He struggled up the stairs to where the officers, commanders and members of the high council were gatherd. As he got closer, he could hear the faint voices of the officers. They were talking about the rebel scum, and how they must take them out in one swift swoop. Suddenly, the members of the VE, turned around in the hall to face the young man, as he collasped in front of them with a groan. One of the troopers called for a medic, as the others helped him up. They asked the man what had happend to him. Just as he was about to answer the officer, a member of the Dark Jedi order noticed a mark on the mans' arm. It was the mark of the alliances' coat of arms. It suddenly occured to the dark jedi, that the Alliance was not what it seemed. The Alliance, were forcing people into slavery... Argon Viper was in the dungeon helping out the investigators by freaking the living hell out of a prisoner when the mysterious man had entered the VE area. The dungeon was right next to the Medical offices, so Viper noticed when the man was taken to the medics. At this point, he let out a blood-curdling roar that sent even the investigators cowering, and brought the prisoner to his knees weeping out answers. He walked out and noticed Anakin in the hallways. "Hey Ani,"he said,"who's in the docs?" "We don't know,"Ani replied,"but we think he used to be a slave of the Alliance." "But the Alliance doesn't keep slaves last I checked..." "Maybe they changed their policy,"said Anakin,"but there's an odd mark on his arm that indicates this." "Lemme see it,"said Viper. "Okay,"said Ani,"follow me." They followed into the room and saw the man. Ani talked with the medic for a second and the medic showed Argon the insignia. Argon drew back in shock, his powerful vision also extended into the unltraviolet and infrared ranges, and what he saw was a secondary insignia in ultraviolet that was all to familiar to him... The young man was carried to med room and placed into the glowing red bacta tank that stood by the end of the bed. At that same time, an officer enterd the room, holding some fresh cloths. He placed them on the bed and then hastily exited. In the corner of the room was a 2-IB medical droid, which walked over to the tank of red liquidand removed the man from it. he droid then placed the stranger onto the bedd and checked his opps. The droid then hooked the man up to the IRV unit and allowed him to rest. Suddenly, the door of the med room wooshed open, and the four men that carried him in earler enterd the room. "How is he doing?" asked one of the officers?" The droid turned around an replied. "Good. He should be waking up soon." he officer nodded his head in aknowladgement. Just then, the strangers' eyes began to flutter open. A loud moan filld the room. The stranger then sat up in his bed and looked around the room. "Were...where am I ?" rasped the man. An officer stepped forward and introduced him self. "My name is Argon. You are in the VE headquarters. What is your name?" The stranger looked at Argon with his cold, steel like eyes. "My name....is Sidious...." "Sidious,"repeated Argon,"why is that familiar?" "Uhhh, Vipe,"replied Ani,"Darth Sidious was the name the Emperor used before he toppled the Old Republic." "Oh yeah,"said Viper,"Okay, now that I figured that out, how did you get here?" "I escaped from a large mining operation,"replied Sidious,"They had us mining Tritanium for the hulls of their starships there." "Okay,"said Viper,"The rest of these guys recognize that symbol on your arm as that of the alliance, but I can see something in Ultraviolet, what is it?" The officers spoke to Sidious for quite some time and Sidious explained the mark on his arm. "It's the alliances' mark of slavery. Those who posessed this mark were forced to work day and night in the mines. I feel that the tritainium is not for there frigates, but for somthing else. As you kno, the Alliance infiltrated the System of Sluis, and into Sulust. I'm afraid that your forces there were tottaly wiped out. I was transported to Bespin shortly after the initial attack. It was there, that I heard about the VE, and I knew then, that I wanted to join your cause and stop those rebels..." Anakin and Viper agreed to Sidious' request and placed him into the stormtrooper academy. "As Sidious walked with Viper, he explained the ultra violet mark on his arm. "I do not know about the ultra violet mark you see. It was not caused by the slave mark. I was born with it, and all I do know is it gives me unsurrpassed strength in battle." Viper looked at his new friend and nugged him cheerfully."We'll get the doc's to check it out later. Right now, we must start your training."Viper walked up to two men in excersice suits. Viper saluted them both and introduces Sidious."He is a new member. You are in charge of training, so give him a basic training session for now." Viper walked of to the HC meeting hall, while Sidious trained. "My name is Kaddan. I will be training you for today." Sidious shook Kaddans arm. "Geez, you have a good grip" said Kaddan, holding his hand. As they trained, Anakin and Viper met at the HC meeting hall, where they saw Zed. "We sould take immediate action!" shouted Zed, a little too loudly.Viper and Anakin looked at Zed strangly and Zed quikly grew quiet. "I agree that we must do somthing, but we must consult the other officers." replied Anakin. "Still,"added Anakin, "I think I know the perfect squadren to send.." Anakin had a little glint in his eye, showing that he was up to somthing. The men then turned around and walked briskly to the HC conference room, while Sidious trained hard in the Acadmey. "So" said Kaddan curiously. "Do you have any battle experiance?" Sidious looked at Kaddan with his cold, grey eyes. "Of course I do. I mean, I did have to fight my way out of the Bespin concentration camp y'know." Kaddan laughed heartily. " Of course you did! I'm not underestimating you abilities Sidious. Just train hard, and you'll go far. Oh, by the way. Here are you passwords and registration information you'll need for training." Kaddan handed Sidious an envelope and he gratfully took it. "Thank you. I will serve the VE to my fullist..." During the HC meeting, Daishi and Argon had successfully lobbied to get the mission assigned to the FA squads. Argon then went to check up on Sidious. He found him sparring with Kadann, using the moves that are commonly taught with Imperial unarmed combat training. As Argon entered, Kadann excused himself, he had some VEDJ stuff to take care of and had lost track of time in the fight. "Hey,"said Sidious,"you know how to fight?" "Sure,"said Viper,"you ready?" "Bring it on,"replied Sidious, assuming a stance Argon recognized as belonging to an ancient Massassi fighting style, Sidious had definitely been around. Argon assumed a Noghri stance, having studied from the Noghri just before entering service in the HOS:SO, his first fleet. Sidious lashed out with a fist, apparently to judge Argon's reaction. Argon, recognizing Sidious's displacement of weight, didn't even budge, letting the fist stop four inches in front of him. Sidious, confused, lashed out with a kick. Again, Argon refused to be lured in. This time, more confident, he struck at Argon's solar plexus with a knife hand. This time, Argon knew it to be a real attack, spinning to his left, catching Sidious' hand, and twisting it so that Argon possessed advantageous leverage. "Not bad,"said Argon,"but you give way to many hints as to what you're going to do." "Like what?"asked Sidious. "I'll show you..." [That's it so far, feel free to keep adding  ]

Argon and Sidious were immediately told of their assignment.  The rest the VE was put on high alert, ready to respond the instant the FA needed assitance.  The FA was split into two groups.  Group one was led by Daishi, it also contained Geist, Jingo, Deathwookie, and Fish.  Group two was led by Argon, it contained Master, Narm, Tycho, Hippie, and Sidious.  Stormtrooper was given a Command and Control Ship to command the action on the ground, someone must have assumed that he could control the FA  ;P Argon led his team into the simulater, they were perfecting their tactics to use against the Rebel troops... --------------- SGT MAJ Argon Viper

[Not bad Sidious, I wish someone else would post here though...  Oh well.  BTW, when are you gonna join the FA anyways?] Argon headed into the ship, remembering how he had felt on his first mission.  He was a cocky, overconfident Whiphid hunter, striking out on his own, but he had quickly found that the Empire was an incredibly powerful force, one to join or reckon with.  He had joined it in the form of the HOS:SO(Hand of Sith:Secret Order, a group that shut down a few years ago).  When they had been destroyed by traitors, he had joined the DLSF(Dark Lightning Strike Force), which had merged with the Intruder Wing.  Unfortunately, that group had been whittled down by the Rebels as well, but at least the Fallen Angels had survived, coming to the VE to rest and recover.  He prepared for his next mission, once again ready to destroy anything that got in his way, there was nothing more beautiful than the hunt...

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"Well" said Sidious. "I'm not actually from Sullust. I moved there when i was vey young. I don't know where i am originally from, or who my real parents are. A family took me in and i worked with them on thier farm. But...I wasen't suited to that lifestyle. I wanted an adventure. I was always getting into trouble when i was young. I left Sullust at the age of 16, and became sort of a mercenary. I did any job...as long as the price was right. On my travels, i heard there was a series of uprisings on Sullust. I went back immediatly to see my family. I decided to stay there and help out around the place. Of course though, i kept training and stuff. A few years later, the Rebels strated sniffing around the place, then...they atacked." Sidious looked down at his feet, while evryone listened intently. "Keep going..."whispered Viper. "I was put in a concentration camp, and i stayed there for 5 months...before i escaped."I hitched rides across the galaxy and ended up here...."

They burst forth from the ship as if they were part of a blossoming flower. Hippie and Tycho laid down a mean salvo of covering fire, while the rest of the teams scrambled to the different exits. A blast came out of nowhere, hitting Tycho full in the chest. Instead of dropping to the ground, severely or mortally hurt, his chest armor absorbed the blast completely. "Thankfully they don't make armor like they used to," he muttered. Hippie immediately blew a large, gaping gap in the stomach of the rebel trooper. Recalling his intelligence training, Tycho handed his T-6 to Hippie, who smiled and began laying down a nasty surpression fire, and he took out his small bag of shaped explosives, and made for a wall that should have an access corridor behind it. He placed the charge and dove and tackled Hippie, and he looked at Tycho with a murderous glare, but Tycho's response was the yellow fireball blowing a hole in the wall. They quickly exited the hangar bay and made their way down the corridor, when a voice buzzed over their comlinks, "We've found a decent ship in berth 100657D. It's, however, heavily guarded, and we'll need some backup. There are too many troops protecting it. Hippie silently pointed down a shoot-off of the main hallway, and they followed it for a good 300 meters. He then grabbed a minute explosive out of Tycho's explosives bag, and put it on the wall and set a timer for ten seconds. He then turned, and as if getting revenged, tackled his other team member. The explosion made a nice hole in the wall, and when Tycho looked down, he saw one of the teams, but his view couldn't depress to see who they were, all he could see was that they were there. Hippie double-clicked his comlink to let them know that they were there and able to provide assistance, while Tycho took out his LJ-90 Laser Sniper Rifle. Hippie acted as his spotter, and Tycho took aim at his first target, a rebel officer. Tycho sighted the eye of the enemy, and began to breathe regularly and kept a steady bead. Hippie single-clicked in a form of a question...a double click was the response. He gave a curt nod to Tycho, and Hippie helped himself to another explosive. Tycho put a gentle pressure on the trigger, and the rebel officer jerked back, missing half a head, and collapsed and commenced twitching on the ground. He was dead before he knew he was hit. The other rebel troopers reacted in unison, running to any cover possible and Hippie muttered, "Amateurs." Tycho sent a bearded soldier sprawling, the man's soul becoming permanently nomadic. And a lowly private felt a piercing pain in his chest before the black veil of death came upon his eyes. The teams below rose from their position and delivered supression fire, and made a dash for the ship. Hippie put the charge away and instead used a laser cutter to cut a hole big enough for them to jump through. They didn't have to jump...a force talented Fallen Angel lifted them and deposited them on the ground, and they made a wild sprint for the ship, for the rebel guards began to fire back after their panic went away. They were safe aboard the ship, and Master gunned it, and everyone was thrown back by the acceleration, despite the inertial compensator. They were safely in hyperspace two minutes later, after evading huge volleys of turbolaser blasts and outmaneuvered concussion missiles. They began to explore the ship and found the specs, and other things of interest.
 
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First Sergeant Tycho Celchu

[Nice double post Tych  ] Argon searched through the ship, looking for something to add to his collection of explosives, and wondering how much $ damage they caused on that Rebel ship. As he was searching, he found a couple data cards, and, out of curiosity, plugged them into his datapad. They had a *Very* heavy encryption surrounding them, but his datapad cut through that quickly. Suddenly, words started appearing on the screen: [b]Operation Delta Wing: Description: All life on the system of Taroon will be captured.  No one else must know about the existance of this planet.  The population will be used to mine the rare Septanium, an allow over twenty times more powerful than the tritanium used in the hulls of our ships.  With this resource in our hands, nothing could stop us from overthrowing the Republic AND the remainder of the Empire.  Remember, this is top secret information, do not let this out of your sight. End of Description[/b] Argon quickly hurried up to the bridge. "Daishi,"he said as he arrived,"I think we have a little bit more of a problem than we thought we did." He handed Dai the datapad and Dai made a quick scan. "Holy cr@p,"said Dai when he finished reading,"does anyone here know where the Taroon System is?"

[Finally, someone else posts  ] "I served with the Rebellion for a short time too,"said Argon,"back then, they were heroes, idealistic and committed to their cause.  The reason why they only use slaves now is that they have lost that spirit." "Well,"said Daishi,"whatever the reason, they are using them, and we need to stop them." "Well,"said Master,"we can still get some info from this ship, it'll be a while before they start checking the transports." "Agreed,"said Viper, already holding his 'Silencer',"I'll go with him." "Uhhh, Vipes,"said Tycho,"what exactly is that?" "You'll find out when I fire it,"said Viper, heading after Master..."
 
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Argon Viper
"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
"He who knows his enemy, needs not fear confrontation" - Sun Tzu, "The Art of War"
"Insanity is not a mental condition, it's a way of life" - Argon Viper
"Those who run from death, win little.  Those who simply live their lives, win much" - Argon Viper

[nice setup  ] "Hey guys,"said Argon,"we might have a severe problem, look out the window, it's at 20* starboard, 45* up from this ship." They looked... and stood, speechless, at the sight that greeted them. Before them sat a ship that looked vaguely like a wide bladed sword. It's sides were razor sharp, they could almost see the monomolecular edges to them. Its engines were large, they took up the enire rear half of the ship. And the ship bristled with other weapons. "It's about 2 kilometers long,"said Argon,"and another one wide.  We've got to figure out how to destroy it... or capture it..."
 
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Argon Viper
"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
"He who knows his enemy, needs not fear confrontation" - Sun Tzu, "The Art of War"
"Insanity is not a mental condition, it's a way of life" - Argon Viper
"Those who run from death, win little.  Those who simply live their lives, win much" - Argon Viper

[It works Sid    Heck, I put the thing in and I was trying to figure out what it was...  ] "Well,"said Argon,"if we want to get on it, we could go aboard it the same way we got on board this one..." "You mean crash into the hangar?"said Master,"How bout we try it my way first." Master shot the ship forward, aiming straight for the massive vessel. There was no mistaking the fact that his target was the bridge, so the enemy began to fire at him. However, it was mostly ion cannon fire, not turbolasers. "How did you know they'd only fire ions?"asked Geist. "We're riding one of their ships,"replied Master,"They prefer capturing traitors and executing them to killing them by destroying their own equiptment." Within seconds, they were disabled, and the ship was tractored and being pulled into the hangar. "Argon,"said Master,"this is where you come in, I need you to set up enough explosives somewhere to take out any troops that are waiting for us." "Consider it done,"said Argon, already digging in his bag of explosives...
 
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Argon Viper
"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
"He who knows his enemy, needs not fear confrontation" - Sun Tzu, "The Art of War"
"Insanity is not a mental condition, it's a way of life" - Argon Viper
"Those who run from death, win little.  Those who simply live their lives, win much" - Argon Viper

[Nice, but Tal's not in the FA    Here's the groups we'll use, you me and Tych are one, Daishi, Geist, and Hippie are another, Master Jingo and Fish are the third, and DW can wander around the ships comitting random attrocities.  Also, I don't have time to post now, I'll do it later...]
 
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Argon Viper
"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
"He who knows his enemy, needs not fear confrontation" - Sun Tzu, "The Art of War"
"Insanity is not a mental condition, it's a way of life" - Argon Viper
"Those who run from death, win little.  Those who simply live their lives, win much" - Argon Viper