Log:Saber Squadron: Star Forge Cold Ash
Saber Squadron makes a final mad dash to take out the Star Forge.
OOC Date: January 11, 2023
Location: Deep Space
Participants: Jax Greystorm as Self/GM, Nerys Greystorm, Ruur, Sesti Greystorm, Zandra naMuriel, Saber Squadron
[ Jax Greystorm (Jax)]
Jax stood in front of Saber Squadron members gathered around, "Alright, we got one shot at this. We've figured out where the Star Forge is and with the death of Palpatine.... again for the 3rd time. It's the perfect time to strike. The Star Forge for those of you not read in, is an old Victory Class Star Destoryer II that was modified for ore collection, smelting, and manufacturing of automated level of the Tie Avenger II drones. So imagine a Tie Avenger and a Vulture droid had an Sithspawn of a offspring. You will know it." He looks at a gathering of 3 people not in the squad. "Black Ember Aerospace designed them at Prime Sentinel's Request. This is what remains of the Engineer team and software engineer that built the damn things. Then Prime Sentinel Palpatine does what he does and eliminated them and moved it to the automated system. We as a squadron are not prepared for that. So we're having to get sneaky and smart. We're jumping into the system and the software engineer believes they have a back door they can slice to cause the thing to go boom. It's going to take time and we got to keep them alive. So our mission is jump in, fight off the drones and give the software team a chance. You may have noticed the Baudo Yacht in the hanger. That's what the team is going to be riding in. I'm piloting. It's fast and mean. Zandra is in charge of the fighters. That's your assignments. May the force be with us."
It was not a quick trip through hyperspace but they got there. Saber Squadron finds themself in a lonely star system full of asteroids and a white hot star. The Kal'ayre broadcast in Crab's voice, <"Crab here check in. No Vic II on sensors. Just space rocks."> Then contacts start to swarm from one of the larger Asteroids. Then moments later broadcasts, <"Target acquired. Seventy is telling me that rock is throwing off the same energy signature as the Star Forge!">
[ Ruur (Ruu)]
<<"They hid it in an asteroid field huh?">> Ruur comments as he angles Saber 08, an Eta 2c which was a small agile craft, into position with the rest of the Squadron. The balled cockpit was probably a little too small for the large framed Shista but he made it work. His R2 unit whistled from his socket, putting the energy signatures and sensor contacts up on his screen for him. <<"Saber 08, ready to get to work.">>
[ Zandra naMuriel (Zan)]
Zandra is in Saber 5, because that's her baby and she's well used to it by now. She listens to the briefing, marshalling her thoughts. As they get ready to go, she looks to the team. "You heard Crab. We got to protect that yacht and ourselves. So, this is not going to be easy. We'll have to work as a team. Any thoughts?" Then they're boarding fighters going through pre-flight and launching. << "Saber 5, all systems green. Let's get in there and keep an eye on each other, folks. >> Her eta is nearly as zippy as an A wing, and Bubbles is in the droid seat, socketed in. Sensors set and signals transmitted by the droids mean things are ready to go. Zan gets her s foils ready to go, moving to attack formation. << Let's go, team. >>
[ Nerys Greystorm (Nerys)]
<"Break, checking in, moving into defensive position."> That was the plan, yes? Protect the insertion team? Inside the cockpit: "I know we can pop the canopy if we need to. Why do you think I'm in this thing?" No, Nerys was not in her flight suit. Yes, she was wearing her void armor. "If we need to get in there, we'll get in there Now stop kicking me in the head." Such was the life of Nerys and her droid army.
[ Sesti Greystorm (Sesti)]
In her void armor, Sesti stands quietly off to the side listening to the orders, helmet hanging loosely from her fingers. She slides her gaze over everyone there, taking note of who's going to the party, then she heads to the yacht with Jax as they breakup. Pulling on her helmet, she gives him a nod as they split, he for the cockpit and her for the turret. Strapping in, she makes sure everything is order before they jump. She listens to the check ins, but remains silent on comms, waiting.
[ Jax Greystorm (Jax)]
It was a very target rich environment, as there were Tie Avengers flooding towards them. The softeware engineer, a Twi'lek stood at the sensors station of the Kal. "Mr. Greystorm if you could, I believe we need to be about 500 clicks from our current location." Jax flies toward that location, <"Alright approaching the following heading. Let's do this."> Then he looks over at Sesti, <"Just fire and don't worry.">
[ Ruur (Ruu)]
As the two pickets of fighters merge, screening each other for only a moment, Ruur attempts to shoot at one of the approaching avengers. His bolts slip clean past though, the agile Seinar craft easily avoiding the hard to place distance shot. Ruur took a deep breath as he knew he'd probably be having to take return fire on the chin as the two screening flights finally became one messy chaotic ball.
[ Zandra naMuriel (Zan)]
Zan continues in, making her way in, picking a target. "That one, Bubbles," she tells her BB unit. "Let's play distraction from the yacht, right - that's what we're doing." She goes in, guns blazing, making herself a big target. Hopefully bigger than that yacht for the moment. On the secure chan, << call out if you get into trouble, right? We work together.>> "Bubbles, let me know if anyone gets in trouble, right? We are all going home, including that yacht." There's a fierceness in her voice when she speaks that she's sort of keeping to a minimum on the official encyrpted channel. The droid hears it though. Her shots are wide, but not by much. Hopefully enough to get the attention of as many of those blasted crazy things as possible. Yeah, that thought - did go through her mind. She's been hanging around Saber squadron too long.
[ Nerys Greystorm (Nerys)]
As the TIE Avengers moved in to attack the group, Nerys broke right, moving to engage the lead target, "Stop kicking me! That's it. Next time, you're staying home." Numpty, trying hard to retract his kicking foot (all he had was kicking feet), only kicked Nerys again. And got a zap from Bitty for his trouble. But, it was all well, and perhaps Nerys needed the anger building in the cockpit as she dove down into the Avenger's line of fire, breaking just as its weapons opened on her, and hers on it. One of them lost. As the Avenger exploded, it was clear it wasn't Nerys. <"Splash one.">
[ Sesti Greystorm (Sesti)]
As she takes aim, Sesti raises an eyeridge. <Do not worry? When there is an asteroid in the vicinity?> She settles in, aiming for one that's breaking across her path. With a quick squeeze of the trigger she fires, and has the satisfaction of at least seeing it rock and the shields heat up.
[ Jax Greystorm (Jax)]
The Kal had made it to point of no return as Tie Avengers swarmed them and there Vanguard of defenders. Eight of the drones made it through Saber Squadron defenses. Jax destroying a 9th one, "Why haven't I flown this thing like a fighter before? Oh yeah the kids and the chef are normally on it. He's not here right?" Jax says as he looks up at a concerned slicer calls out, "We're in. I'm slicing now." Then Jax calls out, <"We're in keep it up. Start having your astromech plot escape routes. May the force be with you."> Then he calls out to Seventy, "Alright buddy, time to do out do Exine. Show him what a bb unit can do it." He frowns as he misses his R2.
[ Ruur (Ruu)]
Ruur spins the craft on its axis rapidly as green laser bolts rip past him, humming as they resonate with the frequencies of his shields. Saber 08 and the 5th Avenger pass each other and already both were turning to get the drop on the other. Except this time Ruur was faster on the stick. A short chase ensues with Ruur coming in behind the Avenger.
The Shista takes a deep breath and lines up his retical, then squeezes the trigger. The two canons erupt and splash hard against the TIE's shields. Iba whistles, announcing the shields are low. The Jedi Initiate stays on the fighter.
[ Zandra naMuriel (Zan)]
Zan gets that feeling at the nape of her neck that seems to help out her flying and the jedi pilot dodges easily the nasty bots firing at her. She finds a damaged one and fires, bringing it down. << Splash one. >> "Yeah, I know there are a lot, Bubbles. We have to get them one at a time." << Crab, hang in there! We're working on it. >> She zooms by a few of the sithspawn and grumbles, but tries to lure them away from the yacht. << Also, I know you need to connect and all, but let me know if I can do any jamming and if it will help! >> It might help. << Too bad we can't just ionize a bunch of them somehow. >>
[ Nerys Greystorm (Nerys)]
Nerys, who had no force ghost looking over her shoulder, simply flew as she always flew. As if she were sure she would come out the other side. And perhaps that worked for her in the same way, as she danced with one of the Avengers, its fire spray missing her as she did a loop and came back around to try to hit it from behind. Another explosion, and this time she flew through it. Because that was what fighter jocks did right? She didn't know. She wasn't a fighter jock. <"Splash 2. How's the ship holding up? Need me over there?">
[ Sesti Greystorm (Sesti)]
Blocking out the warnings of damage and shields failing and Jax getting 70 on the case, Sesti finds her zone as the droid ties zip about. The one she hit is finished, but she has no difficulty zeroing in on a new target. She waits just that one fraction of a second longer before she fires, sending certain death out to the droid, only sparing enough attention to the flying sparks and spinning parts to make sure it's done before she seeks the next.
[ Jax Greystorm (Jax)]
Jax was busy not dying and hits the com, <"Rave, Fives, we need you to engineering stat! Help Seventy with the shields!"> Then he looks up in time to see Saber 10 get hit, <"Negative Break. You need them. Our boards are reading greenish over here. I got a BB unit, R2, and an R5. You guys stay safe."> He looks at Sesti, "Good shoot." Jax says hitting another target.
The slicer calls out, "We're in. I'm beginning to download the program suite."
[ Ruur (Ruu)]
As Five erupts into slagged metal, which is the state all Seinar products belong in, Ruur cycles through more targets. There were Squadrons and Squadrons of Avengers defending the skunkworks of Palpatines enclave. However, their mission was clear, protect the transport and its mission. <<"Iba, cycle out all the bogies over five klicks from the transport.">>
Once that was done the field was more clear and chosing a target wasn't so hard. He seemed to like five's today because he stuck into the trail of Avenger Fifty Five, splashing them with concentrated laser fire from his twin canons.
[ Zandra naMuriel (Zan)]
There's a swoop around as Zan comes back in, again with her guns blazing. She fires at one of the targets and her shot goes wide, probably making another target have to dodge, with as thick as they are about the place. << These bantha herders are hard to hit! >> she calls. Bubbles shows her Nerys' ship dot on the hud, given she's been hit, and also the yacht, both getting repairs happening and bringing their colours from blinking danger up to an amber or even back to green. It's chaos, there are ships firing everywhere, and the small squad is vastly outnumbered. << Let's keep up the good work! >>
[ Nerys Greystorm (Nerys)]
"No, I'm not going to jump over there yet. If Jax says he has it handled, he has it handled. You start questioning him, he's never going to let you show him your hat collection. And. And. You don't even know how to repair a ship." Clearly, Bitty was getting antsy that her favourite Greystorm looked to be in trouble. As for Nerys, she had enough work getting the R2 on repairs (not well) and flying to avoid one Avenger and take out another. <"Splash three."> They would take them one at a time, if they had to. <"How much longer? They keep sending more!">
[ Sesti Greystorm (Sesti)]
Sesti's concentration shifts, and she glances over to Jax. Her shot fires out, and the droid almost seems to thumb its nose at her as it easily jukes away from the shot... right into the path of Jax's aim. "A whole swarm in my face and I cannot hit even one," she grumbles, but she's taking aim again anyways as they are swarmed from all sides.
[ Jax Greystorm (Jax)]
The Kal'Ayure was at the center of the swarm, as Jax rolled weaved and dodged firing, he responded to Sesti, "Tell me about it." There's a wave of fire as blaster fire struck the ship. He stops looking to Sesti, "I don't know about this one. I may have to call abandon ship." He says turns back to his piloting. <"Alright guys, I want you to..."> Then there's another voice behind Jax, <"And Done."> All of a sudden the drones were dead in space. Jax can be be heard in the back ground, <"What do you mean done?"> The voice of the Slicer can be heard, <"I got the program uploaded to turn off the drones. Now I'm uploading the overload to the asteroid. We might want to fall back."> Then Jax can be heard, <"Alright guys, you heard the slicer. Fall back and lets watch the Star Forge burn. Oh if you would, Under your consoles is a package with cheap sun glass. I know it's a weird request put on and we'll ride out in style."> Then Jax turns to look at Sesti, her ship with little more cosmetic damage. He's wearing cheap sunglass and gives her a shrug and a Corellian Smile, "It worked out. I never doubted this for a moment."
[ Ruur (Ruu)]
When the call for withdrawl comes, Ruur turns his craft away from the StarForge and punches it for escape velocity. He passes by the ship he had been chasing away from their transport doing the slicing and puts the finishing touches on it with his cannons. It explodes. <<"Get the Hyper Coordinates, Iba.">>
A short time later Iba beeps the affirmation that the cours for their jump is ready. <<"Saber 08, we should be good to watch back here.">> He turns his Eta 2c so he doesn't have to strain his neck so much to catch a glimps of the explosion, his red eyes looking on.
[ Zandra naMuriel (Zan)]
Zan is about ready to panic, trying to get her ship in front of some of those shots aimed at the Kal. As the drones go dead, she heaves a big sigh of relief. At Jax's words, Zan's face splits with the grin. She reaches for the sun glasses, taking off the void helmet. << Alright team, into formation and let's fall back. I got one more thing to do, >> she announces. She's got the disk, though it takes a few moments to find it. Stupid flight suit. She has it, because Elrych gave it to her. She pops it into the system and it only takes a moment before the music starts to play. << Let it all burn down, >> she whispers softly. And if there's a tear rolling down her cheek, nobody can see it.
[ Nerys Greystorm (Nerys)]
Nerys frowned, as the fighters she had so valiantly been fighting...just...stopped dead. Where was the fun in that? I mean, that's what they were here for, the fun, "I'm sorry Clutch and Lucky missed this." But, as Jax asked, Nerys reached down to pull out a pair of sunglasses, slipping them on. <"These are going to leave marks on my nose."> These were the things Nerys worried about.
[ Sesti Greystorm (Sesti)]
Even as the fighters stop moving, Sesti still pulls the trigger, blowing one to smithereens that was floating in her direction. There's a stubborn sort of satisfaction in her expression as she pulls the glasses out and puts them on, leaning back in her couch. When Jax tells her he never worried for a second, she turns, and tilts the glasses slightly down her nose so that he can see the total skepticism before she winks, grins and pushes them back up in place. She reaches a hand halfway across the distance between them.
[ Jax Greystorm (Jax)]
As the members of Saber Squad moves out a safe spot. There's an explosion in the back ground. Jax breaks military procedure but that's no surprise. It's Jax and Saber aren't exactly a military unit as the music starts to play it was something Elrych would have probably drove the older Corellian nuts with. "Just wear them and look good Break. Cause you Galaxy just came up Corellian again." https://youtu.be/cKKJV0Aiiv0
