Log:Rogue Squadron: Paint by Numbers

Rogue Squadron and Rey save a family from some very well armed pirates.

OOC Date: November 6, 2015 (Optional)
Location: Uninhabited stars system along the Perlemian Trade route
Participants: Karas Darkwing, AX, Rey, Jax Greystorm

[ Jax Greystorm (Jax) | 20:15:36 ] With the war on Corellia drawing resources of the New Republic military, the pirates and the First Order have taken notice. So Rogue squadron has been tapped not to return to Corellia but to patrol the Shipping Lanes and protect various transports from pirates.

It was along the Perlemian Trade route in one of the uninhabited star system, used by independent freighters Captains, smugglers, and even pirates that the flight of Rogue Squadron found itself. The star in the system was a white dwarf emitting a cold blue light across the system. There wasn't any planets in the system anymore but just asteroids and few cold rocks that may have been moons at one point in time.

Jax was flying a T-85 on patrol, "This is Rogue 9 err 8. I'm still not use to that. Beginning system scan." Jax says as he taps something into his datapad. Then he comments to Exine, "Yeah how many systems is this? Too many, even I'm bored."

[ Ax (A) | 20:22:57 ] ~ Ax was kicked back as much as he could be inside the cramped confines of his X-wing. He had some music playing softly in the cockpit while he conversed with his droid. "I hate patrols," the Echani mutters. "Next time, I'm picking the routes, show these flyboys what it's like to hit the smuggler routes, maybe through some asteroid belts to spice things up," he says.

<<"Rogue 3 reporting, sensors are once again all clear.">> ~

[ Karas Darkwing (Kar) | 20:26:45 ]

With everythiing going on, Karas has been a little busy, trying to keep a relationship going and his duties to the squadron, which to him, the squadron was on his forefront. With being back in Corelia airspace, he wasn't looking forward to just patrolling, but then again, this is Rogue Squadron, trouble always seem to find them. He shakes his head a little at that. <<Rogue 2, he shakes his head, Rogue 3.>> he grumbles to himself a little bit. <<Yeah that is going to take some getting used to.>>

[ Jax Greystorm (Jax) | 20:38:15 ]

< We're here, so we might as well catalogue the system and do a proper scan. What's our next system on the patrol? Anybody know how many systems we got left before we're sucking down caf back home?> Jax says as starts to fly through the system towards the blue light of white dwarf star. as he draws near one of barren planatoids. Exine pips up and Jax goes, "There's no Tibana gas in this system." Then he stops rewinding his sensors, <Rogue 8 here. I'm picking up Tibanna gas discharge from Sector Delta-Echo-Nine. It's on the other side of the system. I suggest we investigate?>

[ Ax (A) | 20:42:54 ] ~ Ax leans forward getting ready to change his playlist but he notices something on his sensors. Tweaking them a little bit, he's bringing in more information. <<"Belay my last. I've got multiple fighters on scope, and a Lambda. IFF reads it as the Mynok Trap according to the transponder reading.">>

Immediately, the Echani is engaging his shields and flipping the switches to arm his weapon systems. <<"Rogue 3, all systems green. Ready to engage whenever you are, Deadeye.">> ~

[ Karas Darkwing (Kar) | 20:45:26 ]

Karas is about to say something when his sensors beep at him, he checks his holo-display and shakes his head. <<Looks like we got work to do.>> he says as he focuses his sensors in more. <> he calls as he begins moving his fighter in that direction. The T-81 moving smoothly as Rogue 3 re-orients itself.

[ Jax Greystorm (Jax) | 20:59:15 ] The Yt-1210, Bantha Tracks, seemed to be listed slightly to the starboard side and dead in space. The single canon on the tops side firing at the raiders and missing. The shields of the Bantha Tracks showed red on the sensors. Six old T-65 X-wings circle the transport picking it to pieces. As a the Lambda shuttle stayed out of the errant canon's range.

Inside the Bantha Tracks cockpit sit a green small girl about 7 standard years old with Lekku, she calls out in Ryll, "There's Somebody else out there!! We're saved!" Meanwhile a pair of female legs hang out form the engine section and there's a banging sound on the engine, "Probably more pirates, thank your father and his brilliant short cuts." The father was sitting in the gun well, "I'm pretty busy at the moment trying to get out of this. Contact them, Sweet Shroom."

As Rogue Squadron draws closer they don't get an open com from the child but instead from the Mynok Trap, << New Republic force, we don't go for no Law Hounds round here, savvy. Fly away and we won't attack. This our business. You savy, we don't go for Law Hounds around here.>>

Jax opens his s-foils into attack position and tightens up into formation with the others, <Rouge 8, Weapons hot. Who wants to answer? Cause we ain't savvy.>

[ Ax (A) | 21:05:06 ] ~ <<"This is Rogue 3 to pirate forces,">> Ax says as he guns his throttle to the stops, his S-Foils opening up and his lasers going hot as he sends a volley of red laser blasts towards one of the T-65's. <<"I'm not much of a Law-Dog, but consider that your one and only warning. We're too far out and don't have a transport with us to carry prisoners, Savvy?">> ~ [ Karas Darkwing (Kar) | 21:09:56 ]

S-Foils opening as Rogue 3 moves into position, he will have to watch his speeds as the older -65cs are not as fast as the newer models. Still this is where skill comes into play. Karas wasn't going to speak, the others are doing just fine and honestly pirates he thought used to be cool. But now that he sees what they're doing, he just shakes his head. <<Weapons hot!>> he calls into his comm and he lines up one fighter and coming at the fighter head on, he fires and rolls to his right to evade from running into it.

Rey had come out here following signals given to her about a potential Force sensitive recruit. She hadn't expected to have Artoo buzzing to her about pirates moments after coming out of hyperspace. Her eyes look to the scanners and then out in to space ahead of her at the sight of combat.

<<"Rogue Squadron?">> Rye's voice questiosn over comms. <<"This is Silver Leader. I'm moving to assist.">> Random!

The old T-65 X-wing that used to belong to Luke Skywalker opens its S-foils and flares its engines as the silver domed head of the ship's faithful Astro droid spins right to left in his socket behind the cockpit.

[ Jax Greystorm (Jax) | 21:25:07 ]

All but Bandit 6 peel off the Bantha Tracks and go to engage the T-85 of Rogue Squadron. There's a hail of laser cannons targeting Jax and Karas' ships. The voice of the Pirate can be hard, <<So it's your grave the, we're savvy. Law Hounds.>

Jax perfect dodges one of the enemy X-wings in a series of twists revealing how good of a fighter pilot only for the Enemy X-wing to come in a pincher maneuver stripping off half of Jax's shields. Exine yelling at the pilot. Then at the sound of Silver Leader, he lets out a sigh of relief. Then he opens a channel, <Glad to hear it. We got some pirates giving some traders a rough time. Do anything you can to run off any X-wing that isn't ours or yours.>

The little Twi'lek in the cockpit of the Bantha Tracks exclaims, "They're attacking the Pirates!!!"

[ Ax (A) | 21:32:46 ] ~ "I gotta wonder where all these pirates are getting the scratch for X-wings," Ax mutters in his cockpit, watching as the bulk of the enemy forces peel off the freighter, all but one. It only took a moment for Ax to determine that one was going to be his primary target.

<<"Might need to hit that Lambda hard, those fighters don't have room for cargo, so if we take out the Lambda, they might lose the will to fight.">> Ax says over Rogue's comms. ~

[ Karas Darkwing (Kar) | 21:36:55 ]

<<Hey X-Wings are kick ass.>> Karas laughs as he <<WHOA!>> is all that is said as a torrent of laser fire streaks in towards him.. Karas is no newbie when it comes to combat and he's an Ace over Ace by now. Rolling his fighter through the laser fire, and as he does this, "Spark, keep our shields on double front until after I fire." he says to his droid and while the pirates are shooting, Karas use this to fire back at them, hitting the same one he's been dancing with this whole time, watching as the shields drop and the hull take damage.

[ Rey Skywalker (Ry) | 21:39:29 ]

Silver Leader isn't used to firing on its own kind, but what must be done must indeed be done. The classic X-wingthat 'won the war' soars in through space toward the fighter engaging the YT freighter. Inside the cockpit Rey's eyes dance from her controls to the HUD on her helmet visor. She squeezes the firing stud on her control yoke and starts to unleash a torrent of laser fire from the cannons of her ship!

She peppers the enemy fighter, trying to chase it away from the freighter!

[ Jax Greystorm (Jax) | 21:54:19 ]

The pirate ships find themselves in a fight and are almost giving as good as they get. If it wasn't for the fact they're fighting three trained force sensitives and Karas 'Kriffing Splash' Darkwing himself.

The twi'lek girl finally gets the com to working, << This is Tirna... err I mean the Bantha Trap! You've got to get rid of those bad guys! *Bzzz*> There's a spark and the com goes dead. There's a grunt of pain from where her Moms working on the engines. The lone cannon goes dead.

As the Pirate X-wings all move to engage Rogue Squadron and Rey, the Lambda begins to swoop in towards the depowered Bantha Tracks.

Jax is too busy dueling with Bandit 3 to get away to help. <Sounds like a hell of a plan, Toast! I just got my hands busy with somebody who thinks he's an ace.> There a glancing shot and strikes the shields. Exine pipes up, 'Good job, Dead eye! You finally hit it.' Jax comments, "You make it hard to be a jedi in combat with comments like that."

[ Ax (A) | 22:07:06 ] ~ Ax's primary objective is the protection of the Bantha Tracks, so he's now targetting the Lambda that was encroaching on the freighter now. <<"Mynok Trap, I have your transponder information, there's nowhere you can hide. I encourage you to break off your attack.">> Of course, Ax was never one to mince words and he's popping off a shot as he's approaching. ~

[ Karas Darkwing (Kar) | 22:11:50 ]

<<You three get that damn pirate shuttle, I will work on these fighters.>> Karas calls as he hears the little girl's voice something in him is stoked, <<You've done attacked the wrong damn shuttle. Big bad pirates attacking a ship with a child on it, today you all are going down.>> his voice is deep as he speaks to the pirates and he adds more power to the engines of his fighter, rolling in and firing watching as red energy lances streak off destroying Pirate 2. <<Splash 1.>> he says on the Rogue channel and open channel. <<We will protect you Bantha Track.>> Karas breaks sharply cutting thrust and spinning his fighter in a drift allowing all the speed to snap him around and he powers on the engines again and takes off another pirate.

Artoo is frantically relaying information to Rey's targetting computer while his littled domed head spins around behind the canopy of which Rey sits within. She keeps her eyes on the fighter that she'd tagged initially but now that she's hit them once the pilot seems to be on their toes and ready to truly dance. Rey's concentration is clear on her face as she focuses on the fighter dipping and weaving in front of her. She turns her ship quickly and unleasehs another volley of red sizzling X-wing lasers!

[ Jax Greystorm (Jax) | 22:42:21 ]

Trina is running towards where her Mom's working on the ship engines. The little twi'lek pulls one of her Mom's legs. The twi'lek woman and her hover mechanic's creeper comes slipping out and it appears the woman isn't moving. "Oh Momma." The little girl cries before putting her hands on the woman. There's a moment in the force that three of X-wing pilots can feel, a brief warm and bright moment. Then the woman starts to breath again. She reaches up grabbing her daughter the pair sobbing.

Jax shakes free of Bandit #3. He reaches out for the force as he toggles his fire selector to torpedos. "Guide me." He says in almost reverent plead. There is nothing as he pulls the trigger. The tides of the force aren't with him at the moment but it turned out luck and a steady hand were. The two torpedoes strike the Lambda, Exine pinging out a chime as they hit. Then moments later sensor data comes rolling in the Lambda was still in the fight but it shields were down.

[ Ax (A) | 22:46:02 ] ~ <<"We've got reinforcements coming,">> Ax says over open communications, <<"I recommend you cease the attack before you're charged with not only piracy, but murder.">> he adds. Then, he's again firing at the Lambda, though that damned pilot was a tricky little bastard. "Remind me Buster, that I'm gonna start bringing my own damned ships to these little patrols. X-Wings are just not my style." ~

[ Karas Darkwing (Kar) | 22:54:59 ]

Karas keeping to his word, he is bringing hell to the pirates, maneuvering his fighter in behind Pirate 6. The pilot is trying but the T-85 is more powerful then it. Karas sees it trying to dive and Karas rolls wing over wing and as he dives he pulls up and Karas fires detonating the enemy pirate X-Wing. Karas breaks away, <<Splash 2.>> he says into the comm. Which behind what Ax has just said, the pirates will note that they only have four X-Wings now. <<Hunting.>> he calls to the squad.

[ Rey Skywalker (Ry) | 23:06:56 ]

Rey's X-wing comes zipping back up around the freighter. Her eyes look out the starboard side of her canopy to watch the shuttle making a run for it. <<"These pirates are well funded!">> she says over the commms. A lambda and a bunch of X-wings?

She fires off another round of salvos from her cannons before she breaks to keep sure she's close to the civilian ship.

[ Jax Greystorm (Jax) | 23:12:07 ]

Some times, the reward is not worth the pain. The Captain of the Mynok Trap, quickly heeds the word of Ax. It doesn't help that some very clever astromech units out there start faking New Republic IFF signals jumping into the system. He does some very quick calculations, << You won this day, Law Hounds. You can't be everywhere. >> Then the Lambda and the X-wings form up into a tight escape formation and run to hyperspace.

In the Bantha Track, the small family hug each other tearfully. Then the father finally says, "I better get the com units and the sensors working."

Rogue 8 closes up his s-foils, << Silver Leader, I'll bet Toast's credits to those fried dough treats at the stall in the park. They got somebody funding them to help that propaganda go further. Nice work Spash. So who wants to check on the Bantha Tracks?>>