Log:Saber Squadron: Sabers over Chandrila
Saber Squadron enters the war. The last flight of Zandra naMuriel.
OOC Date: January 18, 2023
Location: Chandrila
Participants: Jax Greystorm as Self/GM, Karas Darkwing, Nerys Greystorm, Zandra naMuriel, Saber Squadron
[Jax Greystorm]
An element of Saber Squadron gathered by Jax at a moment's notice, raced through hyperspace toward Chandrila's star system. A blue holographic Jax appeared in everyone's cockpit, almost a tiny blue bust, <Alright, Commander Tico of the Resistance, going to take a bit to get use to that.> He murmurs, <Had her people reach out to us, Calrissian's dead and the Sith are making a move on the Republic. Her little fleet sucker punched them than jumped out. I'd love to say we're the second punch. We're not, we're just the sting. We're jumping in, I'm announcing who we are and see if I can draw us a whole bunch of attention. Ever torpedo and laser cannon bolt fired at us, is one less at a civilian. We do what damage we can, we help give people a chance to escape. It gets too hot for you, jump out. If an interdictor shows up in system, jump out.>
The space around Chandrila was carnage, star destroyers and tie fighters hung heavy in the system. They were ravaging the New Republic Fleet and the civilians in the system.. Jax glances to Seventy outside his cockpit, <Alright Seventy, let's make it good. On all Channels.> Then he clears his throats, <"Attention all Sith Forces, this is Jax Greystorm, Jedi knight and Saber Leader. You have twenty seconds to disengage or I will give the order for Saber Squadron to attack in the name of defending civilians. I would take it. I were you.">
A cloud of Sith Tiefighters begin to break off from some civilians and head towards Saber Squad. <"Well that went as planned. Hopefully that will give some openings for some people to escape..">
[Zandra naMuriel]
Zandra is in formation as they come out of hyper. She's in Saber 5 as usual. Her attention is on the hud, heart in her throat mostly at the carnage already visible. She nods as Jax talks, quiet now, intent and concentrating on the situation. "Give us what cha got, Bubbles," she says to the BB unit as the red dots showing enemies start showing up along with blue showing civilians and green showing identified allies. Too few allies. << "Roger Saber Leader, ">> she replies on the Saber encrypted channel. << "Let's do what we can. ">> She opens the s-foils on her eta, prepping for combat as the ties break off and head their way. "And here we go."
[Nerys Greystorm]
Nerys Greystorm had not arrived with the contingent of Saber Squadron. She had been on the ground when the Sith had descended to begin the hostile takeover of Chandrila. She had managed to make it off of the devastated, but still overrun planet, though she had not escaped as so many others had attempted. She had flown the 2400, blockage running with the best of them, to icrojump out to the Kima, it's systems powering up to make its approach to the system's central planet. But as they waited to make their jump, the call had come from Jax, and Nerys had left the Kima to her crew, launching her E-wing and moving to form up with the rest. <<"Break is here. Looks like you brought the party.">>
[Karas Darkwing]
Spiraling out of the atmosphere a blue and white T-70 X-Wing speeds out into space. Quickly tuning into Saber Squadron's tactnet, Karas winces a little as he was just recently shot. Upon hearing some of the communications, <<"Saber 04 is here.">> he calls as he moves to form up with the rest of the squadron.
[Jax Greystorm]
The laser cannons splatter across the shields of an Action IV transport, seeing the hole created by a swarm of Tie fighters, takes it's opportunity to punch through the blockade and rushes to hyper space. Moment's later there's a bright flash where an yt-2000 had been. A Z-95 follows the Action transport to safety, and finally a VCX-200 is sheered in two, scattering dying people in the void.
Jax calls out on Saber channel, <BREAK and BOSS. I'm glad to see you guys still functioning. We're going to cause problems and poke holes. It get too hot get out.> Sev brings up a target painting it 01. "Alright Sev, you keeping count? Keep my people alive, They get in the red, you tell their astromechs to jump." Then Jax turns his head and takes aim at 01 and pulls the trigger, "I hope this has been twenty seconds."
[Zandra naMuriel]
<<" Welcome to the party, ">> Zan adds her own greeting to the arriving Nerys and Karas. << Hope you brought the popcorn. >> Something anyway, might as well keep the mood as light as she can, given the situation. She would cheer at some ships escaping, but she's instead increasing to attack speed, picking a target and opening fire. "Here goes nothing," she murmurs to Bubbles. A moment to concentrate on the Force, easing her emotions and bringing herself to that serene spot, and her finger hits the trigger as the reticule flashes green. Her lasers streak out, soundless but showing the faint light trail before they impact the shields on the TIE that Zan is firing at. <<" Target acquired and firing. Shields in the yellow on T11. ">>
[Nerys Greystorm]
Nerys did not bother trying to have a conversation with the R2 unit on her ship. No, he was very angry, and you did not want to talk to Exine angry. Instead, Nerys simply dove into the oncoming swarm of TIE fighters, trusting that the droid would, probably, keep her ship together if she needed it. Not that she got much joy on her first shots. Some ace pilot she was. Ah well, maybe wining wasn't really the point, just keeping their attention.
[Karas Darkwing]
<<"This is where the fun begins!">> Karas says. He grins as Jax tell them Saber Squadron is here, he closes his eyes for a moment as he flips the switch to engage the S-Foils. The wings separate into attack position and all the battles he's been in, the loss he's suffered. He takes a breath as he remembers each squadron he flew in, things were about to get crazy and a new war has started. <<"Time to get to work Sabers, LET'S ROCK!!!!!">> he calls as he pushes the throttles forward. Power channels through the engines and the X-Wing takes off, dancing through laser cannon fire as it moves. Seeing one of the Ties be fired on, rolling wing over wing to his left and mid-roll. Red energy lances streaks out hitting the TIE, <<Splash 1!>> he calls as he completes the roll and banks away to look for more targets.
As he starts looking for a new target, he is fired upon and there is a hail of emerald bolts streaking towards him. Karas Darkwing is a KRIFFING ACE, screw Maverick, he's better. The T-70 weaves and rolls around ships evading blaster bolts, one glances him, though its' not too bad. "Spark get that for me bud!" his astromech works on the damage as he gets ready to drift around.
[Jax Greystorm]
Sev is tracking everything and pointing out data. The little droid brings up the image of a Baudo Yacht appears on Jax's holoviewer turns red and then is gone. " A Baudo Yacht just broke up to enemy fire? What was it's callsign? Solar Storm. It's not Kadi or the Kal." Jax takes a deep breath, "Probably a Senator though."
The Tie/SF bearing down on the Saber Squad do not take kindly to the destruction of one of their own. The pilots and Gunners both targeting the squadron with a vengence. Jax dodging and weaving with his nimble fighter, <"We got their attention. Let me know how your doing? It gets hot get out.">
[Zandra naMuriel]
Zan is a good pilot, and she dodges left, right, up, down, and even jukes and rolls with all the shots headed her way. Her shields do get hit by a couple, glowing with each shot and bringing a string of whirlbeepblat from the BB unit who promptly gets to work trying to repair the shields. While Bubbles does that, Zan continues to try to get the attention of the tie fighters, hoping to let the civilian ships escape. As she rolls to avoid yet another shot and to get out of Karas' way when he shoots at 11, she spies a target of opportunity and zips towards 5, sliding into position to let her lasers fly. They hit, despite 5's attempts to dodge, and Zan hits hard with multiple shots, her fighter then zooming through the debris left behind in a slowly expanding cloud of junk. <<" Splash 1, ">> she calls, trying to encourage her small but mighty team.
[Nerys Greystorm]
This was not the night Nerys was hoping to have. Perhaps the sheer amount of unhappiness in the cockpit was having a deleterious effect on the pilot. But, on the positive side, even if Nerys had not hit anything, she was not, herself, dead. Some good might still come out of the night, <<"Not having much luck here, but at least they're still chasing me.">> And not the poor souls trying to get to safety. If such a thing still existed.
[Karas Darkwing]
Trying to keep track of his targets and allies is a full time job, but Karas is able to keep up. Keeping an ear to the tactnet, he lines up a shot and fires in on a Sith TIE dropping it's shields almost completely, <<How is everyone doing?>> he calls out over the comms. Though as he does, another TIE has gotten within weapons envelop. "Kriff, hold on Spark!" he calls to histromech as he tries to evade, but one of the heavy cannons hits hard, nearly dropping his shields completely. "Can't take another of those. Spark, sorry man, I need you to repair that shield generator or we aren't going to have a good day." he says to the droid.
[Jax Greystorm]
Jax didn't have the luxury of playing Loth Cat and Loth Mouse with the Tie/Sf that Seventy had marked at 01. The Tie fighters/SF were getting more and more interested in Saber Squadron. Civilian ships were still dying. Jax pulls the trigger as he jousts with 01, stripping it of it's shield and causing it to explode. 07, as Seventy had marked it spins out of the way to dodge the explosion of 01 and into Jax's canons. There's a brief explosion and it's gone.
A Corellian Corvette, the blockade runner itself, makes orbit from Chandrila. It's cannons firing out in every direction. The ship finding it's own hole, and when the Tie's go to intercept it, it makes it's own hole. Then in a flash, the Corvette is gone.
A new ship had just arrived into system, it was small for a Star Destroyer, around the size of an old Republic Accumulator Star Destroyer but unlike any other Star Destroyer, a pair of large ugly metal bulbous shapes sit at back of the hull just before the tower that would be the ships bridge.
Jax looks through his sensors at the ships, <It's getting hotter, Saber Squadron. If you need to break out break out.> Then moments later there's a series of beeps and whistles from Seventy, "What do you mean Exine's here? Nerys was suppose to keep him aw..." Then it hits Jax what Seventy is saying and the impossibility of his request.
A sense of dread and even fear filled the jedi knight as his bb-unit displayed a small holographic image of the Interdictor. Jax whispers to himself "There is no ignorance, there is knowledge. There is no passion, there is serenity. There is no chaos, there is harmony. There is no death, there is the Force." Then he turns on the Squadron channel. <Alright, Saber, an Interdictor just jumped in. If it's allowed to bring the gravity well online... well the party's over. We use the old Rogue Squadron tactic, slip the shields and unleash our ordnance. Break your ships in a rough spot, fall back. I know you got something cooking to get people out of here. If this works, they're going to need that.>
[Zandra naMuriel]
Every alert goes red and Bubbles screeches. There's a moment of sheer panic - Zan knows what that ship is. She reaches for the force, meditating as she listens. << Roger, leader. Trigger going in for a run. >> She's in position to take the first run, dodging the fire from the tie fighters as if they're not even there. Her eta dances through space, the two nearly moving as one - there are some jedi masters who'd be proud right now, if they were around to see it. Zan has practiced and practiced and practiced this maneouver, in sims, in practical, as much as is technically possible outside of actual combat.
She speeds up, aiming that little fighter at the interdictor. Bubbles is helping her out. There's a deep breath, and a nod. "We got this, Bubbles. We do." A query from the little BB unit and a half chuckle from Zan. That's all there is time for, as the speed she's going at means she gets there in a hurry.
It's a piloting trick, but Zan is an ace pilot. And she proves it this time, her ship slipping under the shields of the nasty evil planet killing interdictor. <<" I'm in, ">> she calls, letting the team know, even as she uses the Force to get her target lock. <<" May the Force be with us, ">> she adds softly, but loudly enough for them all to hear. <<" Get out of here, I'm about to stir up the hornet's nest. ">> Her torpedos are fired and both hit. That's one thing, but Zan's not content with their damage, she aims her fighter at the bridge, she can see it, nearly see the shocked look on the faces of the folks there as Saber 5 slams into the bridge, following her torpedos.
There's an explosion as Zan's fighter explodes in a bright flare, leaving the BB unit crisped and ionized, and the pilot inside - Zandra - dead.
[Nerys Greystorm]
Well, Nerys certainly knew which way the winds were turning. Not only did two of the TIEs turns to chase her own, one shot from each impacting the E-wing, but when she made the call that she needed Exine to get on the repairs, the droid simply...ignored her. If anyone was going to be doing repairs in the E-wing that was not his Aethersprite, being flown by the pilot who was not his pilot, it was not going to be this droid. The Shortest Greystorm could go back down a hole on some backwater world where she came from, for all he cared. None of this though, made it onto the comms, Nerys knew better. Only her terse words, <<"Shields are almost down. Heading back to the Kima, we'll provide a defensive screen as long as we can.">> Doing her best to evade the TIE fighters, Nerys punched in the microjump to get her back to the Starseeker. No match for even the smallest of the Sith fleet ships, but one worked with what one had, yes? With Nerys jumping away, she could not see Saber 5, nor the collision course the pilot had set for the capital ship. <<"Jax! What happened to 5?">> Poor timing, because then Nerys herself winked out, her sensor signature disappearing, reappearing on the starboard side of the Starseeker.
[Karas Darkwing]
Karas heard the call to take on the Interdictor, his shields are down to eight percent. Spark is having a hard time, but he didn't care, he wasn't going to let his squadmates going in without him. He was pulling around, the engines of the T-70 was still pouring power out of them. Racing towards the smaller Star Destroyer, though as the ship starts to get closer, <<"Copy that lead........krif!!">> he calls out as a Civilian ship flashes in front of him, and as he does he has to weave past an enemy TIE chasing that ship.
He wanted to help his squad mates, but he hears the calls of help from the civilian ship, he breaks and rolls the X-Wing and he starts to chase the TIE and as he does, he fires quickly before the TIE was able to line up it's shot, destroying it. <<"Sabers, I'm covering Civilians, send me targeting data I will come to help once I get them out of here!">> he calls out.
[Jax Greystorm]
There was a pause as the galaxy inhaled for a moment and at the exhale, the bridge of the Interdictor was gone and so was Zandra naMuriel. It was enough damage that small capital ship began to break up and explode.
It was silent in the cockpit as Jax was stunned, his eyes not believing what he had saw or what the force had whispered to him. It was only the sound of Nerys' voice in his ear and the scream of Seventy that cause Jax to come back to reality. He pulls up at the last minute breaking through a chuck of debris and threading the needle between a Tie. <"She's gone, Nerys. She's gone. Sabers pull out. I don't think we can do any more as a squadron here. There has got to be another day.">
