Log:First Order/Resistance: Moonrise over Endor
First Order/Resistance: Moonrise over Endor
OOC Date: February 5, 2016
Location: Endor
Participants: Jax Greystorm as GM, Nym Landala, Delphine, Fuze, Pox, First Order
The Lamsel juts up from the ground below and both the ground teams made their insertion into the ship to search for the good doctor. A flight of X-wing from the Resistance had been launched to provice air support and protection for the troops below. Much the same with the First Order Tie fighters secercy being the keyword of this mission and support roles. Both groups were low in numbers and have remained hidden form each other till now. Of Course there had been a nearby Ewok village that FZ-4792 would have been told was in her area of operation and it a possible security risk.
Red 2 is flying close to the planet in an arc that is meant to keep a close eye on the ground movement as well as protect them from anyone in the sky. As Nym looks down on the forest villages, she spots something strange, quickly relaying over the coms, "This is Red 2, Ground Team, I'm seeing the Storm Troopers attempting to repeal the bridge of Lamsel. Keep an eye out!" Banking right, she makes a bother pass as her wingman remains close at hand. "Alright, everyone, let's stay alert. The First Order's never let anything go easy."
Some ten kilometers away, out of sight below an intervening sprawling range of lush hills, two pairs of TIE fighters seems to be playing a game of tag in the valleys. The lead TIE/sf Space Superiority Fighter, to give it its correct nomenclature, zigs and zags around the hills, hugging the trees, followed closely by her wingman, and behind them, Pox and his wingman. The plasma glow of the twin P-s6 ion engines make the fighters look like a flight of demented glow-bugs, and to the uneducated eye it might seem that they're just playing a childish game of follow-the-leader. But an experienced tactician would observe that the jinking, darting flight below the hilltops will confuse any observer who happens to be in the vicinity, especially an observer down in the verdant greenery of Endor, and that uncertainty will detract accordingly from the chances of being hit by small arms fire from below or missiles from above.
In the lead fighter, Squadron Commander designation FZ-4792, callsign 'Fuze', flashes a white-toothed grin behind her black insectoid helmet. "Try to keep up," she taunts over the heavily encrypted ship-to-ship frequency. "The groundpounders are gonna need us to wipe their asses soon." Her gunner grins to himself as he practices tracking imaginary targets sweeping by on the ground.
Then everything kicks off at once. On her scanner, a blip flies across at speed, and Fuze's voice kicks in sharply, "One hostile, X-Wing, bearing 041, range 10,000, speed point seven five. Engaging." Even as she was speaking, her TIE fighter breaks out of its bank and, engaging full thrust, darts towards the action. "Finalizer, Fuze. Tell the groundpounders they got company airside." She's hugging the trees, jinking up and down as she comes on an interception course towards the T-70. "Pox, with me. Alpha Two," which would be her own wingman, "Recon that village. If there's anything hostile there, suppress it." Which is quite the euphemism.
Flying along in the same zigzagging pattern is PX-1221. His hands lazily grip and ungrip the control yokes of his TIE fighter and his eyes scan both his scanner and the forest down below. He chuckles into his comm at the comment from Fuze about keeping up and pops back, "Any time, Alpha One." He is glancing around when the comm comes through of the impending combat and his eyes snap forward, watching the lead fighter. As she banks and darts off to intercept the fighter, PX-1221 tails her. "Affirmative, Alpha One. I have your tail," he says into the coms. Gone is his previously lazy demeanor, replaced with a cold assurance.
Blue 3 flies not to far behind Red 2 with his wingman Blue 10 following beside him. "Red 2 this is Blue 3 me and Blue 10 here got your six" Delpine says over the comms. Blue 3 moves into position and follows along side with his wingman.
After her relay to the ground team, Nym pulls upward, seeing the TIE fighters moving into their position. "Red 5, we've got incoming. Blue 3, Blue 10, watch your tails." Eyes narrowing, she finds a target in Fuze's TIE fighter. Her trajectory was off to the side, but she swoops and circles. It's a tight loop and the young Naboo pilot is too eager for the battle. It puts her right in Fuze's sights - the First Order pilot outmaneuvering her. Swearing under her breath, she zig-zags and attempts to make herself a harder target. "Red 5, I've got incoming!"
The lead TIE fighter's pilot is good. Really good. Really fricken' good. As Nym's X-wing pulls round in that tight loop, Fuze simply flips her TIE-fighter about its axis, 'skidding' it across the sky. As the targetting computer indicates a lock on her HUD, her fingers drift over the fire controls, and the forward-mounted twin L-s9.6 laser cannons belch forth those characteristic blue plasma bolts that sear towards their target. Fuze is grinning.
As Fuze moves to engage Red 2, Pox stays true to his word, flying alongside her. As Fuze engages and can't manage to get a shot, PX-1221 flies in attempting to get a shot at the fighter himself but he just can't get her into his sights. His wingman flies along in his wake, for now all three TIES stick together as Pox's wingman attempts to line up a shot on RED 2 as well.
Blue 3 instantly goes to work ass soon as the TIE fighters move in on Red 2. "Blue 10 we need to support Red 2 let's go." Delphine pushes buttons and levers and gets into position quickly. He takes aim at one of the TIE fighter "Pew Pew" He says calmly as he pulls the tigger and lasers shoot forward. One of the lazers find their mark. Blue 10 follows suit and moves into positon against aother one of the TIE fighters.
The Ewok village was a grove of large trees in a small clearing in the valley the next mountain over. Vine bridges run from tree top to tree top and to platforms. The small furry humanoids go about their daily business. The hunter returning with their day's catch. Others carrying berries and fruits. The village artisans are sitting on the platform crafting spears, clothes, and other ewok things. Though at sight of the Tie fighter there is the sound of a horn as the ewoks scramble to take cover.
As Nym finds herself in the sights of the TIE fighters, she quickly barrels upward and then down in attempt to dodge those bright blue beams. Abruptly, she plummets toward the planet before sweeping upward and finding her sights on Pox in the midst of flashes and space. Pulling her finger on the trigger, red bolts streak toward the TIEs as she narrows in on her target and directs Red 5 to keep an eye on the other fighter who was so recently on her tail.
As Nym's X-wing drops and then rockets up, Fuze uses the kinetic energy of her own fighter to rip round in an inverted-G turn, pulling up right behind Nym and mashing her finger on the firing stud. Only some neat work by the Resistance pilot keeps her engines and X-foils intact, and Fuze mutters an obscenity as the laser bolts streak past Nym's ship instead of blowing it to smithereens.
PX-1221 growls in frustration as his ship rumbles with the impact of the shot from Blue 3 bounces against his shields. There is a steady growl that likely cuts across the coms as he watches Red 2 whiz up toward him and line up a shot. At the last possible moment, Pox jerks the control yoke of his ship, performing a high arcing corkscrew maneuver that allows him to dodge the blaster fire from Red 2 and to place himself above Blue 3 and racing down toward the X Wing. He growls and opens fire, laser canons firing directly for the X-wing.
"Impressive" Blue 3 say the TIe fighter lands a shot. As the lazer bounces of the sheild Delphine jerks the controls and pulls off a tight loop able to get himself into positon to fire another well timed shot at the TIE fighter. "Blue 10 I need to you support Red 2" Delphine says over the comms again. "I'm trying to it's just I can't line up a shot" Blue 10 bellows out as he tries to keep up with the TIE fighter.
"Dammit," Major Greystorm hisses and throws her head back against the cushioned rest. "Good eye, Red 2. Everyone copy, Daggers? Expect some 'First' rate company, entering from the upper levels. I want you all together, NOW. Move as one. Delong, keep on our rear, Gaaruurra - you get up that ladder-Sarlaac's sac, demo-girl! Watch your footing! Get up that hatch before anything else wants to shake hands. Find a functioning terminal that'll let you plug in, locate the Doctor and his data, and move your ass back to this ship!"
As word cuts across his coms from one of his TIE pilots, General Hux growls and says, "Alpha Squadron, affirmative. Engage and terminate. Show the Resistance scum no mercy." His eyes scan the screens before him, watching as HM-8668 and EM-1710 and their third move downward on schedule. "Copy that, RK-8801, Troops, be advised we have Resistance fighters engaging with Alpha Squadron. Watch your backs, no doubt the Resistance must have heard the signal as well. Be advised and proceed with caution, be ready for a fight, but move quickly. Find the doctor and extract!"
The Ewok village had bunker down at the whine of the Tie fighter. If the pilot hasn't seen the villagers with their own eyes, it could have been written off as deserted. Though there is a ghostly quiet to the village at the moment.
As Nym continues her attack on the TIE fighters, she moves her target from Pox to Fuze, seeing that Del seems to have the pilot in his sights. "Great shot, Blue 3!" she calls out when she sees he's hitting on the TIE fighters shields. Her own target is wily. Though she keeps managing to get the ship in her sights, it continues to dodge and evade the bright red bolts from her mounts. "Artie, hold tight, we're gonna get that Firstie."
There's an almost beatific smile on Fuze's face as she glides and zigs and zags, twisting her head to see 'above' her as Nym keeps firing at her. Then Nym's wingman presents as a sitting duck...and Fuze misses! She just can't get the angle as she simultaneously dodges a bolt from Nym. Her voice, though, is calm and collected as she indicates over comms, "Alpha Two, drop a missile into the furry little shits' village and return to the dogfight, you're needed here."
PX-1221 curses loudly into his com as he is hit again and the warning siren sounds in his computer warning that his shields are down. "Alpha 1, shields down, staying engaged. I am going to shoot this bastard out of the air!" Pox is snarling now as he jerks the yokes of his TIE, spiraling around Blue 3 and firing once more, laser canons arcing out toward the X-wing.
Blue 3 rumbles and shakes a bit as it takes another shot. Delphine sucks his teeth as the R2 unit chimes and beeps. "Silly R2 unit you know I don' understand you" he says. Delhine notices the his shelds were down aftter the last shot and he tries to get into a position so that he can shoot at the TIE fighter. Blue 3 swerves and dives around but still unable to to get any chance to take aim. Blue 10 is going after Fuze's TIE fighter, but isn't making any progress either.
Alpha two's rocket strikes one of the great trees causing it to explode and toppel. Fire begins to spread among the remaining trees though probably that the Ewok can't put out the fire. A pair of ewok gliders launch after the Tie fighter. The ewoks firing blaster rifles from the gliders at the tie fighters. The sounds of alarms below as Ewoks rush to put out the fires.
Nym continues on Fuze's tail, determined to land a hit on the TIE Fighter while she is in her sights. It's a fast battle, the pair exchanging opposite colored bolts against each other. Nym attempts to get the TIE fighter in her sights, frustrated when she's unable to do so and even more so when she feels a rock to the X-Wing as a bolt connects against her shields. Artie makes a high pitched whine of disapproval and dismay as he starts to divert power to the proper places. "I know, Artie, I know, I'm on it!"
Fuze and Nym continue their deadly dance in the sky, twisting and weaving and leapfrogging around each other. Fuze grins wolfishly as her bolts strike home on the X-wing; they might be absorbed by the shields, but still, it's a palpable hit. "Come on, you little bastard," she murmurs, the pictogram of the X-wing dancing all over her targeting computer's display. "Sit still so I can shoot you. Come on..."
PX-1221 is spiraling his TIE in a tight corkscrew with Blue 3. His teeth are bared and his body jerks to and fro in his seat with each breakneck spiral. He bides his time, dodging around the enemy fighter's shot and then as the X-Wings crosses his targeting computer, he pulls the trigger for his torpedoes. The long missile releases from the bottom of his TIE and with a burst of thrusters races straight for Blue 3.
PX-1221 is spiraling his TIE in a tight corkscrew with Blue 3. His teeth are bared and his body jerks to and fro in his seat with each breakneck spiral. He bides his time, dodging around the enemy fighter's shot and then as the X-Wings crosses his targeting computer, he pulls the trigger for his torpedoes. The long missile releases from the bottom of his TIE and with a burst of thrusters races straight for Blue 3.
While chasing after the TIE fight Delphine lost his focus for a split second as he see Red 2 get Hit. "BLUE 10 assist Red...AAHHHH" he says as he is hit directly with a missle. Alarms go off as metal goes flying off the ship, rubber tubing come loose and smoke fly all around the cockpit and he struggles to gain control as the X-wing frail about. Calmlt pressing buttons an flipping switches Delphine was able to get some conrol back. "Guys... I'm in pretty bad shape here" He says while hs comms go in and out. " I can use some help" "Roger that Blue 3 " Blue 10 moves int to assist.Blue three fires missles and the miss "Well thats the way the cookie crumbles"
Nym attempts to come to Delphine's rescue as she sees Blue 3 come under heavy TIE fighter damage. Focusing on Pox, she attempts to distract the other pilot from his prey, firing ineffectively against his ship. As Fuze locks in on her, she deftly dodges the bright blue blasts intent on knocking her out of the sky. As she wheels about in an arc around the fight, she sees the blast that knocks Delphine out of the sky. With a gasp of worry, she barks, "Artie! Map his trajectory! Now!" The R2 unit beeps angrily and defiantly. "I don't care, I'm still reading a signal on him. He's alive, we're going to find him."
With a swoop upward in a feint to attempt to fake out the TIE fighters, Nym then dives into the tries, following after the smoking wreckage of Delphine X-Wing. "Next time," she glares at the stars and their enemy. "Ground team, this is Red 2, Blue 3 is down, but I'm still reading life signals. We're going to need medical and a pick up at the coordinates I'm sending now. Red 5 and Blue 10 are still engaged, but the skies are not clear. Be safe."
Nym's X-wing lines up on Fuze's wingman, which is all the opportunity Fuze needs. "Pox, you got a bogey on your tail. On it." She slides the X-wing right on Nym's tail, fingers gliding like a lover's touch over the firing controls. As the targeting computer locks on, "Fire One!", and a torpedo goes streaking out, corkscrewing around and passing between Nym's X-foils. Fuze doesn't pause to self-comiserate, but keeps her finger on the firing control. But Nym's a wily one, the X-wing breaking lock and cutting away leaving Fuze to stare at the X-wing's retreating silhouette. She's memorizing the paint pattern, the markings, the flying. She /wants/ that pilot.
Pox grits his teeth as he dodges the fired torpedo from Blue 3. Their corkscrew dance is a frenzied and somewhat beautiful affair as the two fighters spiral tightly, each seeking the upper hand. PX-1221 seems to be in a zone as he even manages to dodge shots fired toward him from Red 2. With a yell as the spin becomes so frenzied it threatens to make him pass out, Pox jerks the trigger, firing another torpedo toward Blue 3, the missile arcing in and blowing into the damaged fighter with explosive effect. He lets out a roar of victory into his coms, even as he takes the blaster hit fired at the last moment. He whizzes away, searching frantically for the pilot that ejected moments before explosion to shoot him out of the air.
The badly beaten X-wing Blue 3 makes another run for the TIE fight that had damaged him. "I'll get you..." he manages to get out before taking another big hit. The X-wing spirals out of control on fire towards the ground. Smoke fire, metal fly in all sorts of directions. Delphine is unable to stay conscious as he plummets right before the X-wing explodes the R2 unit ejects Delphine out of the ship. The force of the explosion propells Delphine faster causing the parachute to not work as well. Delphine crashes into the trees bouncing from branch to branch before landing in a pile so shub beaten and battered.
