Welcome to the Navy Vegabond. My name is Tomas, and I am part of the training staff for the Vast Empire Naval Academy.

The first step will be to create the biography of your character. This is the physical description, emotional makeup (what tends to be going on in his head in certain situations), and a brief history of your character. You can find examples on the Wiki (link is below). Please post your completed copy in this thread when you're finished and I (or one of the other staff) will read it over and either give you the green light to move on to the next stage or give small suggestions as to changes you should consider that you might not have thought of. Glad to have you here.

VE Wiki: http://www.vastempire.com/wiki/index.php?title=Category:NavyMembers

Sorry, I'm a little late but...

Welcome to the VE!

Sorry 'bout that vegabond, I thought I had replied already. Anyways, nicely done. To answer your question we are in the New Republic era (Thrawn is currently giving them headaches, though we don't generally interact with the characters from canon).

For the second step of training, I will point you to the "Pilot Procedures" section of the Academy. Your task is to locate read up on the flight maneuvers and describe two of them in a post here (in your own words). If you have any trouble, feel free to message me here via the Message Center located at the top of the ComNet.

I'd also suggest making your way to IRC. A tutorial can be found here:

http://www.vastempire.com/main/ref/irctutorial/

If you don't want to download mIRC, you can also use the java IRC. It's link is a couple under the ComNet on the main page. You'll find it's the most commonly used form of realtime communication within the Vast Empire.

Keep up the good work.

Ah, no...the Naval Academy section of the Wiki.

Welcome to Vast Empire. My advice is, get the training out of the way as fast as you can. It all goes uphill from there.

The Split-S

    This maneuver is used to shake off a pursuit. While in mid-turn roll the ship upside-down, then pull into a dive. Then you pull back to come out of the dive and right yourself at the same time. You will have gained a quick burst of speed and be taken out of the range of your enemies’ guns. This maneuver only works when there are no missiles are involved as they have a much farther range. This move would be particularly more effective in an atmospheric battle as it relies partially on gravity for the speed boost, not sure if it would have the same effect in a space battle but it could still get you out of range.

The Sandwich

    Used when you are in pursuit of an enemy when one starts to chase behind you. As the enemy slips in behind you so too does your wingman slip in behind him and lines up for a shot at their back. Your wingman just has to be careful not to hit you when shooting at the pursuing enemy. Useful only with a wingman (obviously) but this maneuver can be used in either space or atmospheric battles. A few things I can see going wrong with this technique is that the pursuing enemies’ resultant explosion might hit you with either the explosion itself or a shockwave depending on whether or not you were able to get far enough away in time. Also, they could pull the same thing on you bringing in another enemy to trail your wingman and attempt to take him out.



Also I downloaded the mIRC client but I'm not sure whether or not I can load it since I access the site through a school computer so I'll probably just use the java one.

I finished the wiki page but there were some minor issues.

A. I didn't have anything to put in some of the tables so I cut them out for now.

B. For reasons unknown to me my Pilot Rating/Proficiency Table doesn't look like the example.


Not sure if thats a problem but oh well.

Yes, there was an error in the coding. Sorry, my bad. I fixed it both in your Character Page and in the tutorial.

Actually, I'm surprised there weren't more errors. I didn't expect them to be giving it out yet. Thanks for testing it out for me.