Log:Resistance: Some Kind of Local Trouble

Resistance: Some Kind of Local Trouble

OOC Date: September 20, 2019
Location: Naboo System, Above Rori
Participants: Ax, Jax Greystorm, Kaelyn, Ektor, Tallissan Lintra, Elrych Cometburn, Poe Dameron, The Resistance

Mere days since the Naboo System was the site of a sudden and bloody skirmish, both Royal Naboo and Resistance patrols are feeling on edge. The prior night, a Y-wing Courier had departed Rori with an elite Intelligence team aboard, en route to some clandestine meeting in parts unknown. That Courier (*White 1*) was expected back at any moment.

Then, in a flash, there it was: the Courier fighter emerged from hyperspace, and all was well- nope, there are five more ships (a quartet of Kimogilas, followed moments later by a Skipray) emerging from hyperspace in rapid succession, promptly opening fire on White 1 as the Courier maneuvers wildly to avoid damage. Within the fighter/shuttle, Silver Astro- in the midst of trying to stabilize a badly wounded Bothan- demands of her pilot, "Have you gone *entirely* insane, Apollyon??" Ektor considers the inquiry, still largely focused on avoiding fire. "..Is that a trick question?" he wonders before being ordered to signal for help. "OH, right-" opening comms, mid-evasive maneuver, he broadcasts, <<White One, incoming hot. Got some new friends on my ass, and a wounded passenger on board- need Doc on standby once we land, and I could use some help living that long, yeah?>>

Proximity alarms aboard the Valor come on, triggering a response from the rapid reaction crew whose turn for duty it was. Leading the charge up to the pylons is none other than Poe Dameron. He and BB-8 load into the T-85 X-Wing, fire up their engines, and lift the lever that deactivates their magnetic hold. He draws in his skids, slams the lever forward, and his engines come to life. A moment later, Poe's gloved hand comes up to trigger his comms. <<"White one, this is Black Leader. I have a rapid reaction team locking onto your position. Lead them to us, buddy.">> Shields shimmer to life as Poe closes the range. <<"All call signs form up on me and check in.">>

Elrych was already out on patrol, having already put in a few hours on maneuvers. Suddenly, there was some action to be had. As Poe launches, Elrych pushes the throttle in his T-85 forward as far as it possibly can and locks his S-foils into attack position. <<"Twelve falling in as ordered.">> He reverberates over the comms. "Eggsy, get me some music... something a bit more exciting than last time." He takes a breath and reaches out to the force.

Another scramble finds Captain Lintra half-dressed and hopping into her flight boots. Heart pounding she is running to the pylons with her white synthscarf trailing and her helmet banging against her thigh as she slips into the X-Wing. Release from the pylon finds the captain seconds behind Black Leader. <<Black Five, reporting Black Leader. On your six."

Kae soooo got in troubles whens he didn't really quiiiite go home like she should last time she took the Wyvern out joy-riding, and then got into more trouble when she showed a report on ordinance use... Sooo naturally, of course, Kae is out joy riding in the Wyvern -yet- again. She'd just gone to her favorite restaraunt on Naboo and is heading out away from the planet ready to jump out.. She mutters about her current ordinance, idly looking it over... At least she shouldn't be yelled at too much about ordinance use! She's swapped ordinance!!! NOw it's advanced micro proton torpedos, not the bigger ones!! Kae huffs after getting a bit of an earfull "I Soooo didn't carry the heavies last time!! Just cause I like firing torpedos for bigger booms dun mean folk should yell at me for their expense!!! Kae says, her arms are crossed, and all during her little whiny tirade, now, Hitch starts beeping at Kae == Maasterrrr == He says in Binary... Kae is still ranting == Maasterrrr!!! == And finally more ranting, before Hitch puts up biiig red displays all over Kae's holo projectors, basically putting red warning labels on every angular video projection inside the fighter ==>> Warning <<==

Naturally, Kae flails.. "What!?!?! Ooh yeah that's bad.. Ooh It's a Y-wing..." Another pause... "Ektor's getting in trouble agaaaain! Time to make more booms!" She calls out, as she then firewalls the throttle, heading as fast as the hyper advanced fighter can possibly go toward Ektor... Kae then transmits << Wyvern here, on the way!>>

The Wayward had been doing thier part even if they had been invited to the party, a Wayward Phantom had seen on sensors ever now and again. The fighter staying out of area of engagements of the more respected military vessels. Though when White 1 jumped in and brought a party on them. The Phantom Revenant popped up on sensors as it began an intercept course not for the Y-wing but the Kimogilas. Jax cursing, "Sith Spit. Exine, We get to do this two days in a row. Open up a channel to Waywards, <Central this is the Revenant, looks like our friend have problems. Requesting back up. Possibly Knight intervention.> THen he broacasts on an open channel, <Resistant Forces, This is the Revenant. Don't shoot it's the General's kid that's annoying but not trying to kill you.>

An out of place laugh, as the Courier's shields are hammers by concentrated and deadly- accurate heavy connons from all sides. An artful twist that most heavy fighters couldn't pull off manages to save White 1 from swift annihilation, but shields are still down and the hull has taken moderate damage. A crooked grin bending his lip, he hollers, "Genius, make yourself useful. You feeling ALIVE yet, Silver? Tell the unconscious guy to hang onto something.." After a harrowing moment of maneuver, he responds, <<Bringing 'em right to you, Black lead. And- Revenant? Which General we talking, here? We got a lot of Generals-" Silver shouts to get him focused again. "OH, right, the thing.. I got em right where I want 'em, trust me."

S-Foils lock into attack position and Poe smirks. <<White 1 has a point, Revenant.">> Poe's chuckling over the comms though. When the two flights meet, Poe opens fire with a practiced pull of the trigger. Red lanced slower than light bolts shatter against a Kimogila's shield, but it holds. Both the enemy fighter and Black Leader pivot away from White 1, angling wide to try to get the advantage on each other. <<"Black Leader here, I'm on their Kimogila lead at the moment. See if we can't get those other guys off White 1. Also..">> Poe groans a bit, angling his craft. <<"...extend sensors.. just in case there's others.">>

As El-rock rockets in just behind Poe and flying in formation with Tallie. He picks out one of the Three Kimogila's firing on White One. He keeps an eye on the range as it counts down on his computer. <<"You know Tion, you really bring the best guests to dinner.">> He quips as his computer give him a tone and he fires linked cannons. He passes by the slower Kimogila and looks behind him. "Ooohhhh... sithspit. Uh, Eggsy..." The songs the droid was shuffling through stop on a random one. It's good enough for now. "Just ah... calibrate the targeting computer and a retical please. I think it got messed up." Or he was just off his game today, but the cocky Corellian Jedi Ace was not ready to accept that just yet. <<"Oh I'm just waiting for a bit old Action VI to drop in again, Lead. You know it. Might want to tell the Yelsik to spin up the Tubolaser batteries.">> He pulls hard on the yoke to come about and try for another pass.

"Oh, Fiver! Beware of Ektor's bearing gifts," she says as she flips them into a roll and fires, red lasers lancing at the second in line chasing Ektor. <<Tion, you have to watch who you out drinking with - you're not keeping good company. Black 5 on Kimo Two>>

Kae has rolled the Wyvern, inverted to Xer's Y-wing... She's angling just slightly so as to pass clostly to the beleagured ancient fighter so maybe, any further shots might be a bit harder to take a shot at the Y-wing? This might not be the best idea, but it works in Kae's mind.

What also works, evidently, are the guns on that little space superiority fighter she has as suddenly the twin guns at the ends of each of the slightly forward swept wings open up, unleashing a torrent of fire that looks less like individual laser fire, and more like a flickering solid beam. All Kae really has to do is lay that torrent of fire in front of the Kimogilla and watch as the enemy fighter flies right through its path, the burst nicely denting the enemy heavy fighter's shields..

As she gets closer to Ektor though, she takes just that brief moment to wave at him as she zips by, maybe he notices? Who knows, but her BB unit waves too!!! Then Kae's back to focussing on the fight, allready cartwheeling her fighter through the air to change vectors, those engine exhaust nosels swiveling to let that fighter use its main engine thrust to give it that much more maneuverability. << Yaaay! I finally hit something with lasers!>> she can be heard over the coms... Her droid can also be heard beeping at her in binary <<== It's about time! So, maybe next time you should use torpedos again!==>> Kae responds << I get in trouble when I use too many!>>

Jax's sets up a persuit angle on Kimogilia 4. Exine filling the cockpit with tone of hitting a target. Jax pulls the trigger on the heavy canons and hits Kimogila 4 leaving the ship dead in the water. <The good piliot that belongs to the blonde general that yells alot. You know Jax Greystorm.> He says letting an exhale out. <Watch where you're Flying, ignore me WHite 1!>

Having gotten the comms from Jax that again there were problems in Naboo space, Ax turns his Avenger towards the stratosphere. He'd been flying the mountain passes after doing an overhaul on the ship's systems from the last engagement.

With the speed of the TIE/ad, it didn't take long for the Echani pilot to break atmosphere with a trajectory putting him on course with the conflict in space. <<Revenant, this is Specter. I'm coming in hot,>> he calls over his comms, lining up on the Kimogila fighter.

He takes the shot, but he'd been coming in too fast to get a perfect volley off and only wings the opponent shields, drawing attention to himself. When return fire comes, he's not so lucky this time.

In response to his company, Ektor drawls lazily, << I do, I really do. But you gotta admit, they keep a party interesting, yeah?>> The assault of Resistance and Wayward (and wayward Resistance) pilots, one Kimogila is knocked out, and the remaining trio are driven off their target and forced into dogfights. This leaves only the slowly closing Skipray, which unleashes a furious fusillade of ion cannons and laser turrets on White 1. "Oh, yeah? Watch this.." Ektor answers his passenger's comment, making the venerable Y-wing dance it's way between the lanes of cannonfire. <<See, I just gotta get hit a couple times to wake me up, yeah?>>

Ektor had far too much on him, and Elrych was talking some sense. <<"That's a good call, El-rock. Get on the horn with the Valor and see if she can make her way over.">> This is said while green laser fire streaks past his X-Wing. Grunting, Poe flipped the switch to close his S-foils. "Hang on, buddy!"

Poe braces his hand against the canopy and engages reverse thrusters tossing his craft's stern side ways. It's such an unpredictable technique, the the fighter chasing him has no choice but to evade. Poe swings Black Leader about, disengaging reverse thrusters, and throwing the craft forward with a sudden shift of the lever controlling his speed. S-foils open, and the red lances that come from Black Leader's cannons shred the kimogila that had pursued him.

<<"Kimogila Lead is down, I'm shifting my target to the Skipray.">> Poe follows this statement up with a pair of red lances that rock the ship and makes her shields shimmer. He's hot on her tail.

Noticing the break off of the Kimogila's or otherwise their destruction, Elrych falls in to hammering the Skiprey's shields with his canons looking to get some attention from the pilot. "That's right, off the pretty white Y-wing, buddy. Right here. Let's go. Move it or lose it." He keeps the pressure on the blastboat. Eggsy bleeps something at him, "Oh... that's right. He is going to lose it eventually. Hah. Good one." He clears his throat and switches comms for one second, <<"Valor... this is Luetenant Come--No I will not hold. Why am... OH... Ah... Might want to have the Turbolasers spin up and start to float out this way. Just in case a big boy jumps in.

Their canopy crackles with green lightning as they take a hit from the Kimogilia. Fiver squawks and trills as it sets to work on checking status. <<Black Five on Kimo 4>> she announces as they barrel out from more fire. They exchange volleys but neither come out of it happy. Targeting brackets are on the Kimogilia that had been dogging the Specter. The overall battle projections show her relative positions and she catches part of the Major's spectacular maneuvers before they are in a position to fire.

"Fiver, look at the Major go." Red fire lances from Black 5 as she dances back into a position, her gloved hand squeezes the firing button and the Kimogilia is out of the fight. <<Black Five splash, Kimogilia>>

Kae huffs "Didn't even wave back..." Hitch then responds == He's busy == Kae blinks.. "Well I'm flying too and I waved..." More beeping from Hitch == Yer crazy, boss== Kae pauses a moment... "Ooh good point!" She calls out and then suddenly she's jinking and darting around as she dodges laser fire... Really the way her fighter's jumping left right, or up and down while maintaining forward momentum might be a little disconcerting.

Then she suddenly noses up, just thrusting up a little bit before her main thrusters nosels swivel down, and well she's flipping and pirroetting, that maneuver slowing her down enough to let the Kimo go past. And just as suddenly, while directly above the enemy fighter, the nose of the Wyvern is now pointed at the Kimogilla..

Kae blinks.. "Ooh it worked!" She calls out, now having a good angle on the Kimogilla before she squeezes the trigger. Flickering red lines lance out from the Wyvern's wings, litterally sawing the enemy fighter in half shortly before it explodes... "Ooh there we go!" She calls out... Hitch comments == Bout time you hit something with those lasers== Kae blinks and then flails "I've hit plenty! They just didn't blow up before!" She calls out, her shields flickgering a little as debris bounces off them. << Wyvern here, splash Kimo-3>> She calls out, now orienting her fighter toward the Skipray....

Jax along with EVERYONE ELSE now chasing the Skipray that's chasing White 1 fires his heavy canon scoring a shot on the ship. There should be some Benny Hill music playing in the background. <Hey Specter, remind me to complain about the ships on a Skipray loudly and often during the next staff meeting.>

Ax wishes he'd brought one of the Phantoms instead of his Avenger this time. At least he'd have the benefit of his astromech to work on his depleted shields. When the Kimo on his tail gets blown to pieces.

<< I appreciate the assist Black 5,>> Ax says over broad comms. <<Might've saved my tail here. My shields are pretty ate up.>> With all the fighters gone and only the skipray remaining, however, Ax doesn't bother taking time to work on his own shields. He aims his TIE at the blastboat and unleashes a quad of green laser bolts. "Damn, that pilot has got some serious reflexes," he says to himself. <<We have staff meetings, Revenant? Why am I not invited?>>

The quartet of Kimogilas had inflicted heavy damage in their initial assault, but the heavy fighters fare poorly against the more effective dogfighters as the skirmish devolves into chaos. All four are picked off promptly, until only the Skipray remains, dogged in its pursuit of the Y-wing Courier. Despite the damage to its shields, the pilot refuses to break off their pursuit, focusing ions, laser turrets, and even an expertly aimed concussion missile at White 1.

Y-wings aren't supposed to move like that. Through good instincts, great skill and a healthy measure of dumb luck, the Courier fighter evades every particle of punishment sent its way. <<Heheheee,>> Ektor's dumb laughter is shared with the others.

The Skipray manages to hold its flight pattern, evading Poe's fire as he tries to keep them within his sights. <<"Everyone fire on this guy. White 1 has to get away.">> Poe fires and misses, but he just chuckles. "Of course I didn't mean to miss, BB-8. Did you blow a fuse or something?" Black Leader holds his flight path doing his best to be mindful of the other pilots.

Elrych keeps on the blastboat, hammering it again with at least two of his cannons as it passes out of the way of Poe's line of fire and into his. "I hate these things..." He grumbles to Eggsy.

"What is with this guy, Fiver, we need to talk to them." Lintra comes in from a high vector while others converge from starboard and port. They strafe the Skipray getting two solid hits that leave it with shields down. "Now that is what I am talking about!" She yells as they pull up out their dive and reorient.

Kae blinks and rotates her fighter out tot he side of the Skipray as it comes on, the girl nearly matching the Skipray's velocity whilst flying sideways, pulling a kind of helecoptor side flight. She frowns, trying to angle the fighter to get a good lead, then squeezes the trigger.

Lasers lance out in a near solid, if pulsating line of fire... aaaand the Skipray dodges aside...

Kae pauses a bit and readjusts her flight path, now trying to again pull a lead on the enemy fighter... "Eeef, why won't they just sit still so I can shoot em." She mutters.. hitch the suggests == Well you could allways learn to shoot better== Kae pauses a bit..

She then takes a deep breath.. "You can't shoot at all! I dun wanna hear it!" She calls out, the droid beeps back ==I wasn't built that way, nor programmed with the necessary information== Kae blinks a few times "I know!" Her droid... == I know you know, I just want to tell you this stuff because you're funny== Kae blinks.

<Yeah we have them all the time. They'res slides, charts, graphs, puppets. It's all rivetting. Mostly about how skiprays are rubbish. I don't know why you're not invited, Specter.> Jax says firing his heavy cannons at the Skipray. He watches the ships take heavy damage, exine quipping something at him. "Yeah.... I know I shouldn't pick on him. Scan White 1 and make sure they're doing alright."

Ax had a skipray of his own, he knew how tough they were and how many weapons they held. <<Gonna attempt a fly-by spin with my tractors,>> he calls over comms to anyone listening. It was a tough thing to do, and it's not something he'd ever actually tried with anything bigger than a TIE/fo that he once sent pummelling into an asteroid.

Ax punches the thrust control to maximum and cycles his weapons control to tractor beams. "Here goes nothing," he says as he makes the attempt. It doesn't work. Having accellerated too much to compensate for the differences in mass and velocities of the two vessels, Ax isn't able to get a lock onto the skipray.

<<Probably a good thing I'm never invited. You know, I actually really enjoy my skipray.>>

White 1 is definitely doing alright. Having failed to hit the surprisingly nimble Courier, the crew of the Skipray is forced to go full evasive to survive the volume of incoming cannonfire- abd even then, the *Ratcatcher Prime* only barely survives, its weapon systems knocked offline amidst horrific hull damage. Though the shipboard astromech restores a portion of shields, and though a micro jump is being calculated, the Skipray must survive awhile longer to effect their escape.

This leaves White 1 to take the direct, straight route toward Rori, broadcasting, <<No lie? It's a lot a fun watching you all work, yeah? Looks like we're clear, going into orbit of Rori. Nice rekkin firefight, yeah??>>

When the targeting computer blares, Poe's eyes narrow and his finger squeezes the trigger. All four cannons spit out a quartet of fire that shatters the Skipray's shields. The approach Poe took requires that he peel off to one side (starboard) and come back around. <<"Shields are down, shields are down! Smash it!">> He's already increased his speed to whip about to set up for his pass!

<<"EL-Rock SMASH">> The pilot of Black 12 says and he squeezes the trigger and sends scarlet death into the now exposed hull of the blastboat. He peels off as he overtakes the Skiprey, not even looking back as Eggsy chides him. "I know, I know. They were trying to kill Astro though and... well, you know."

<Good on you, Elrych> Tallie's comment comes crackling over the comms. "He didn't leave a thing for us, Fiver. Just because he's sweet on Silver." <Just get yourself down there Tion and don't bring back any more low lifes with you next time you are out partying.> Black Five puts their starboard wings up to rejoin the squadron.

Kae watches the skipray get blowed up and she is now flailing again, << Ooooh great shot!!>> she calls out cheerfully... She then grabs the controls on her fighter and tries to pull up near Ektor, and Kae is calling out as she waves rapidly toward Ektor, she's got her fighter turned so maybe her motions can be seen... << YOu all ok in that fighter Ektor?>> She calls out, yup same old Kae.

The SKipray is done and the White 1 is heading to the barn. Jax lets out a sigh of relief, <WHat's the status of the Specter?> He says letting a sigh of relief out. "And our Res friends get to live another day to hopefully save the galaxy." He returns to formation with the others. <Black Squadron. Good party.>

When the last of the targets gets blown to pieces, Ax banks to avoid any debris. He opens up a tight-beam transmission towards Poe's X-wing. <<Black Leader, this is Specter, this is getting to be a more common thing. Maybe we should have a talk, make it a more of an official thing as well. Heard you guys were setting up satellite fleets out there. We're well suited for it, and it's not like the damned First Order doesn't know about our affiliations. Corestar was their attack on us.>>

The Avenger spins back around, throttling down a bit and pulling up beside the Revenant. <<Shields took a beating, but otherwise she's fine. You got any damage, Revenant.>>

<<Oh, I'll get down, Sunshine. Don't you worry.>> The waving and querying from the Wyvern draws a crooked grin and wave back from the Y-wing's armored cockpit. <<I'm all good, Ears. About to duck into atmosphere, though, so- *static* might not *static*>> And with that, White 1 enters orbit of Rori, en route at maximum speed to Beacon Outpost.