By Trang Tlusni on Monday, July 29, 2002 - 03:10 pm:
| By Trang Tlusni on Monday, July 29, 2002 - 03:10 pm: |
More by reflex than concern for her own safety, Trang had engaged in evasive maneuvers in response to the immenient danger of the massive defold. Her eyes then nearly popped out of her head as the burning wreck appeared. The light from the explosions reflected against her visor and she almost wept... partly because of the waste of life... and partly at the horrendous display of fireworks which seemed more the work of a vengeful child vandel than the work of a true explosion artist.
Her hands shaking with suppressed emotion, she fell in with her flight and opened a channel to them after hearing the instructions from the Captain, "Rachel, Fox, I'm right with you."
| By Ronin on Thursday, August 01, 2002 - 05:52 am: |
The drive plumes of Capt Gospel's Spade flight were long beyond visable range. They were about 20-30 minutes ahead of the escort group now. Registering as blue blips on the tactical sensors of the fighters as being friendlies.
Radio chatter was kept to near nothing as the remaining pilots kept escort formation with the shuttle.
((OOC: For reference here's the layout))
Johann
.............Anthony
====> Shuttlecraft .........Rachel
.............Fox
Trang
The ========> Is the direction they are flying.
((BIC))
Their squadmates were now 45 minutes ahead of them and rapidly gaining on the fiery chunk of metal that was the Corsair. Although they still wouldn't arrive until after the remains had already crashed on the planet.
"Alright Club flight...prepare to activate boosters and follow Spade flight on my signal. "
Gerling had broken the silence to get ready to unleash the second flight to follow after the first one. Leaving the shuttle relativly defenceless, but it was his call to make.
Suddenly Trang's ALERT lights all began flashing and the irritating alarm tones signifying that she's the subject of a target lock for missiles began blaring.
| By Trang Tlusni on Friday, August 02, 2002 - 09:48 am: |
"Dodge! Incoming!" At the same time that the words of warning left her mouth, Trang attempted to loose the target lock and fired off her gunpod in the hopes of permanently deferring the arrival of the missiles before they reached her or the rest of her squad.
A part of her was strangely elated that something, anything, was finally happening that would break the tension of knowing that something was up, but not knowing what that something was. Action replaced the simmering anger resulting from their current situation and the haunting loss of life.
Where in hell are you? Why are you hiding? Show yourselves, cowards! What Trang hated more than anything was anyone or anything that hid behind a smokescreen, that didn't leave their mark and calling card prominently for everyone to see what they had done. You can't hide from me forever! Let me show you what a real explosion should look like! She placed her sensors on overtime to scan for the source of the target lock as she continued her dodging and prepared to defend her squad.
| By Ronin on Friday, August 02, 2002 - 10:10 am: |
As Trang swung around, and focused her sensors, she picked up on the sourse of the attack. 7 old VF-1's had been comming up behind them. With all the shuttle's sensors focused on the wreck of the Corsair that was plummeting towards the planet, they had been able to sneak up to within extreme missle range to the escort group. They also appeared to have some kind of active ECM jamming working for their presence not to have been picked up before now.
They hadn't fired yet, which was lucky for the escort group.
ETA 8 minutes till they were within close attack range.
| By Fox on Friday, August 02, 2002 - 11:03 am: |
"Alright Club flight...prepare to activate boosters and follow Spade flight on my signal." his comms came to life as Gerling gave his order.
That's the signal. Fox told himself as he started to ignite his thrusters. It's been almost an hour since they were ordered to stay with the shuttle as part of their team went to chase after the Corsair. He wished he was in the team that went after the falling ship but then again he would probably wish that he is in this team if this is where he can find the action.
His engines, already warmed up to follow in persuit with the first group when he saw a couple of small objcets suddenly appeared in his radar and heading fast for them.
Missles!!! his head suddenly screamed as he kicked on the pedal and shifted to Battloid mode to intercept the missles with his gunpod since his alarms didn't went off. Knowing full well that the missles are locked to someone else in the team.
"Dodge! Incoming!" he heard Trang shouted over the comms. "They had the lock on her." he said to himself as he (1)let lose some gunpod burst towards the missles.
Then he (2)checked on his long range scanners to pick up anything near where the missles suddenly appeared.
"GET THE SHUTTLE OUT OF HERE!" Fox alerted his teammates over the comms and kicking on his thrusters forward for a better aim. Then he shifted back to fighter mode and followed Trang calling to her, "Careful Trang, it might be a trap!"
(3)He looked again to his scanners to see if there are bogies flanking them while (4)trying to avoid any incomming attack.
| By Anthony Syme on Friday, August 02, 2002 - 12:24 pm: |
Anthony was readying to enter the planet when the warnings from Trang immediately set him into evasive maneuvers. Crap, Our guard was down. Still the shuttle has to go down. He looked over the shuttle but his eyes quickly went back went back to his control panels and started to check on his scanners for any more enemies.
Fox's alert only assured him that there was no place for the shuttle in the combat zone, it had to leave. "I agree, the shuttle has to get out of here and go down there. I think we need to set up a screen for the shuttle to go down safer. It might not work but it's our only chance for now." Anthony said to his squadmates. Meanwhile. Anthony kept an alet for any incoming enemies and held his hand tight to the controls for any more unpleasant surprises.
Actions:
1) Evasive maneuvers.
2) Check scans.
3) Check scans.
4) Evasive maneuvers.
| By Ronin on Friday, August 02, 2002 - 01:01 pm: |
[ooc: Don't worry about posting separate actions just yet...when the enemies close in...I'll have you do that. Until then...just prepare for Mortal Kombat. Post your character's reactions and get ready. I'll let you know when it's time for posting actions in order.
[BIC:]
"BAH....the day I need to run from some out-dated fighters in this bass-akward corner of some third rate system I'll let you flyboys know." It seems professional pride wouldn't let Seargent Belenko admit that she was effectivly riding shotgun in a flying cow.
"That's enough Seargent...Club Flight...give me a status report...what's out there?" Gerling's no-nonsense professional voice cut into the channel.
| By Fox on Friday, August 02, 2002 - 11:17 pm: |
"This is Lt. Hung of Club Flight, we got eight outdated VF-1's at our tail. Lt. Tlusni is going after the bogies and I'm backing her up. The rest of the team is on defensive. Sir." Fox reported and awaiting for his orders.
I bet all of them is itching for a share of the action. he thought to himself while checking up any other bogies in his long-range scan and following Trang's persuit.
OOC: By the way, who's our flight lead?
| By Anthony Syme on Saturday, August 03, 2002 - 06:23 am: |
OOC: I think it's Rachel.
| By 2nd Lt. Bill Lee (Machwave) on Saturday, August 03, 2002 - 11:24 am: |
Bill had been rushing ahead with the rest of Spade flight when Trang's alert came through. 45 minutes ahead of the Clubs, there wasn't much he could do, but he did change his sensor settings to be 360 degrees instead of just focused ahead.
He thought about some of the people in Club flight that he considered comrades and maybe even friends. As he did so, he began to grind his teeth in frustration at not being able to help.
| By Anthony Syme on Saturday, August 03, 2002 - 06:35 pm: |
"By the way, old man, I'm not scared of a bunch of old junk, but I would worry more about what's coming behind them. VF-1s don't come out here just flying alone. Somebody transported them here and it shouldn't be far. And whatever it is I don't think I want to meet it right now. So I recommend that you go down there and finish your job so we can all get out of here asap." that was possibly the longest BS I have said in all my Spacy carrier. thought Anthony as soon as he finishe4d talking to the Sergeant.
| By 2nd Lt. Nexx on Monday, August 05, 2002 - 02:48 am: |
OOC: Ive been doing so mutch in real life I havent had a chance to read through anything...im doing that as I post but I will try and get myself back up to speed shortly. I appologize for holding everyone up. It looks like the sensors of the suttle that I assume Rachel is piloting are focused on the Corsair. From what I gather the orders were to follow it and nothing else. Ronin im not sure of what type of craft Im in so im not sure of wepons compliment or capabilities. Im assuming it has no defence capability whatso ever.
I will also assume that Trang was locked on but I didnt
I am indeed flight lead. Lets see if we can keep the craft in one piece.
BIC:
Had all hell broken loose? Did Rachel walk straight into the bowels of the firie deep? Flight lead. On her first outing. Was she prepared?
"No no no!!!"
She was a sitting duck in a shuttle with no defencive capabilities and one of her wing seperated from formation.
"FOX, stick with Trang at all costs. Get free of that missle and rejoin formation immediatly!"
All this just before an expected order to move out. Rachel absolutly hated the current situation. Her thougths passed briefly to the Corsair, and teh Egale.
Oh my god.
Whoever was on board those ships were in far worse a situation then her. If they, if any, are still alive.
She took in all information she could from all long range scensors and focused primarily on the large ball of fire that started to grow larger and larger as the Corsair/Egale started to enter the atmosphere of the planet.
She couldnt take all of teh sudden preasure as a sigh released itself from her lungs. They were in a bad way indeed.
"Anthony I need you to slide right and take up possition to my starbord, Johann slide up and take Anthonies possition untill Fox and Trang return."
That should do for now. I hope.
| By Cpt. Forte Gospel (Cosmo_Dragoon) on Monday, August 05, 2002 - 04:13 am: |
Forte opened up a comm link to all of those under his command in Spade Flight and began relaying the orders he had just recently been given. "As you all know we've been ordered to intercept the Corsair. I want all weapons primed and ready for the posibility of combat."
After those very words had come out of his mouth Forte could only really just feel saddened by the plight of the Corsair, yet another valuable resource that chances are would not be able to be salvaged.
After the moment had been finished Forte knew that his task at hand was the only thing that mattered, and that trival thoughts should never ever get in the way of doing his job.
"It's showtime ladies!"
| By Anthony Syme on Monday, August 05, 2002 - 06:04 am: |
"It's nothing, but I don't think those VFs are going to let us go down there, you know?" said Anthony as he lined up the starboard of the shuttle.
I wanna play with those guys. Let me play! I'm sure they won't let us go down without a fight!! Let us just engage them!... Calm down! Inside Anthony's mind, his thoughts were crashing each other, a large part of him just wanted to fight, the other told him to just follow orders for now.
| By Fox on Monday, August 05, 2002 - 06:24 am: |
After a brief moment of chasing Trang, while avoiding the missle bombardment of the enemies, he knew that they were way off from the rest of the team. And if they were were ambushed, they would certainly be no way for them to expect any help from them
"FOX, stick with Trang at all costs. Get free of that missle and rejoin formation immediatly!" his comms suddenly came to life as Rachel's gave her orders.
"Aye yay, Flight lead. I'll stick to her like glue if I have to. Fox out." he said briefly focusing on the matter on hand.
Trang had evaded most of the missles while Fox tried to shoot down the missles as they came.
"Trang, are you still ok?" he asked over the comms."
Without waiting for her answer he came beside her and released his chaft while reversing his thrusters in gerwalk mode and shutting them down within seconds letting his initial thrust carry him out of the explosions.
| By Ronin on Monday, August 05, 2002 - 07:24 am: |
[ooc: Actually Rachel is flying point in her fighter...Capt Gerling is piloting the shuttle. And there weren't any missiles fired yet, they had just locked onto Trang. Someone in the incomming fighters was getting excited and forgot that lock-on signals can be picked up on by the target.
Sorry for not making that clear enough.
Here's the rundown.
7 incomming VF-1's they're pretty old, and may be able to transform or not. ETA 7 minutes now.
Rachel, Johann, Anthony, Fox and Trang are all flying escort in their VF-11's. You have the gunpod, FAST packs with extra missiles, Chaff and flare countermeasures, leg missile launchers, all with full loads, and the Head particle-laser.
Captain Gerling, Sergerant Belenko, and Ensign Yuan are in the shuttle as crew, with a medical team of 4 riding passenger.
Captain Gospel's Spade flight are 45 minutes ahead rocketing at maximum acceleration towards the Corsair which is going to crash on the planet shortly.
Since we lost our separate OOC thread, if you have any specific questions about the situation, post them here.
| By UNS Eagle Head GM (Foreman) on Monday, August 05, 2002 - 08:44 am: |
Or you can post them on the ooc thread.
| By David on Monday, August 05, 2002 - 11:09 am: |
ooc:Natasha's player asked me to post for him since he is out, I hope there is no problem with it and could you guys say wich flight David and Natasha belong?
"Seven old boggies coming from behind? Let's face them like they were 22s". He once again checked his sistems and everything was fine or at least seemed to be.
"Hey Captain, what are our orders once we catch the Corsair? Going to Stay and fight those enemies?"
| By UNS Eagle Q-GM (Phase) on Monday, August 05, 2002 - 11:15 am: |
OOC: Thats actually exactly what I thought but I didnt want to arbitrarily ignore the players posts of there evasion. Well I guess scence players broke formation who ever locked on noticed. All the flying around was for nought and Fox and Trang can rejoin formation and await the orders to move.
BIC:
Trang Fox, I need you back in formation now. We are expecting orders to move out any moment now!
| By Trang Tlusni on Monday, August 05, 2002 - 06:40 pm: |
OOC: Oops! It seems that I hadn't made myself very clear, Trang was NOT going 'after the bogies' but was dodging any possible incoming enemy fire. At this point in the sequence of events however, I'll just assume that she IS going after the 'bogies'.
BIC: Trang had been a little too angry initally and had let reason run from her. She did not respond to the Captain's order for information, but Fox had taken care of that, so the order disappeared from her mind as if it had never been issued.
Gotcha, cowards! With a burst of speed, her fighter moved closer toward where her scans had indicated the enemy laid in hiding. She was so intent on her targets that most of the comm chatter from the rest of her flight did not even register with her.
"...Club Flight... Trang... rejoin formation... Trang..." Suddenly, Trang blinked as she realized that Fox was beside her. What's he doing here? The thought slipped through her mind a moment before she realized that she had left the rest of her flight and the shuttle behind.
The shuttle! Oh, this is so stupid! Reason had returned with a bang. Although she still wanted to hunt down the VF-1s, she rejoined the formation with Fox in a huff. "I'm fine," she told Fox.
"Flight lead, we're rejoining formation."
| By 2nd Lt. Nexx on Monday, August 05, 2002 - 08:06 pm: |
"Johann, Anthony, fall back into your previous posistions as Fox and Trang rejoin."
It was Rachel herself this time that produced a sigh, one of relief. At least in some small way things were back on track.
Ok, now what...
She thought to herself and went over the steps of the opperation trying to keep herself focused on what she should be doing and what to do next.
| By Anthony Syme on Tuesday, August 06, 2002 - 07:07 am: |
"Yes, ma'am." chuckled Anthony as he went back to his original position.
| By Ronin on Saturday, August 10, 2002 - 11:25 am: |
"Lieutenant Nexx..." Gerling spoke to her via laser link communication "..there's seven bad boys closing in on my personal space...your flight is to wait for an additional two minutes...and then get them the hell out of my airspace."
The fighters were six minutes away and closing. By giving the VF-1's two minutes to get closer...they were running the risk of their enemies launching long-range missiles at them from extreme range.
"Captain Gerling to Captain Gospel. We've got some un-invited party guests back here...keep your squad hot in case there's any more unfriendlies out your direction. Proceed at full burn and rendevous at the Corsair. We'll meet you there. Gerling out."
| By Anthony Syme on Saturday, August 10, 2002 - 11:58 am: |
Wait two minutes? Is he planning on letting them lock onto us? It'll be one heck of a job. I'd prefer to go after them now. Oh, well, can't be helped. Anthony stayed in position as he armed his weapons to get ready for a fight.
| By Fox on Sunday, August 11, 2002 - 10:14 pm: |
Fox had just entered formation when Gerling gave his orders to Nexx. Being in the wing of the shuttle was quite a bit of sudden change of scenario. One minute they were off to chase the VF-1 the next was they were back to sitting duck position.
"How's it going out there David?" he said over the comms casually. "I almost got myself into quite an excitement but unfortunately we were ordered to back out. I wonder what our flight leads planned for us?"
| By David on Monday, August 12, 2002 - 07:40 pm: |
"That is a good question,,,,,but don't wonder too much or you can loose your focus ok?" He said with a smile. I wonder,,hey, don't wonder David, listen to what you just said!
"Hey Nat, how are you doing over there?"
| By Natasha on Monday, August 12, 2002 - 07:42 pm: |
"I am fine thanks Dave", She said while checking her sensors and looking around to check where everybody was.
I hope this finishes soon
| By Heather (Illusion) on Monday, August 12, 2002 - 11:00 pm: |
Everyone, please read the Announcement thread.