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| − | == Chapter 1 - The Briefing==
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| − | The dinner-bell rang in the Tibran headquarters, where some important pilots were called together by their Legion Commander. Pilots of name, two ViceRoys, a rebel and a fairly new pilot recommended by the rebel had formed a special operations squadron, to carry out assassination missions ordered by their female LC, Joesphine5.
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| − | This dinner-meeting was all about their first assignment, which they had heard some rumours about but not yet the exact details. They expected though that it was something about the NAPed Legion Commander, for he had been messing around with the goodwill of the Tibran legion for a while.
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| − | In the dining-room, Joesphine5 welcomed her ViceRoys SpiderWolve and Llotyhy, both from different parts of the galaxy, but joined under Tibran command, walked them to a round table, and told them to sit down next to her. Seconds later also CrazyGirl entered the room, and was seated next to SpiderWolve, leaving one spot between her and Llotyhy open.
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| − | As they were awaiting the arrival of JackBlackIV the Rebel, son of Lord Jack III of the Boraxian Downs and Countess Capr'a Bal'h's daughter XIV of the Tibran Highlands, they talked a bit about daily Tibran bussiness, and of course they talked about the latest betrayal of the Ajaxian LC, who had not done what was agreed on in the NAP treaty signed by both the Ajaxian and Tibran Councils, assisting the Tibrans when the joint forces of Boraxus and Krilgore tried to destroy the Tibran base.
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| − | Regardless the lack of assistance from their allies, the Tibrans fought back bravely and had slain the enemy forces, suffering great losses, but also gaining good top-pilots and cruisers. The small group talked about this battle, how they had gained respect throughout the galaxy, but also what they should do with the NAP with the Ajaxians.
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| − | Llotyhy, a young, still wise warrior, suggested not to break the NAP, as SpiderWolve gestured before, but instead hunting down their Commander, for he was the person not sending help, so that not both the Ajaxian, and ofcourse the Tibran legion, would be victims of the combined attack on Tibrar after all. As Crazygirl was about to agree with Llotyhy, they heard rumours on the hallway, as a running young man had ran into a group of guards, throwing them over. Joesphine sped towards the door, flanked by both her VRs, wondering what the noise was about. Then they saw the last person of the group, JackBlackIV, being held by three guards, while the fourth tried to hit him. Llotyhy shouted to the guard, "LET THAT MAN GO!!!", and surprised, the three men holding Jack softened their grip on his arms and neck, and Jack broke loose and said, after spitting on the floor, "see, I told ya I's expect'd in there!"
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| − | As they entered the dining-room again, SpiderWolve asked Jack why he was that late, they had been waiting for over half a Tibran Hour! Jack, expecting this question, started, "well, first of all, ofcourse this group of guards was in my way. Furthermore I couldn't find a parking place for my cruiser out there on the planet, geez, this planet wasn't made for such a good army with this many cruisers! Thereby, if I had been right on time, I wouldn't ‘ve given y'all such a nice entertaining view when I arrived, would I? Oh and before I forget, I missed the jump from TMC here last tick, so I had to wait twenty minutes before I could hyper... damn hypergates closing twenty minutes every 3 hours, why don't they fix that bug?"
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| − | Crazygirl laughed, "but what if you just had left half an hour earlier, then you would've made the tick, we wouldn't have been here yet, so there would've been enough space for your cruiser, and the guards would still have been accompanying our LC in this room, right?"
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| − | The commanders laughed as well, and Llotyhy said, "well, we know you by now, so we already started talking about the weather and such, oh and about LC R34p3r..."
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| − | Jack jumped up, "Don't speak of him when I'm around, the sorry bastard, or I might not be able to controll my emotions! That son of a ..." "Now now Jack, let's not call names at the Ajaxians, they are puny enough already. Controll yourself, then we can skip the calling names part and get on with more important bussiness", the Tibran LC interrupted him.
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| − | "Allright," said Jack, "why did you call us together here? Do you have a mission for squadron 811?"
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| − | Joesphine started, "Yes, I want you and your squad to go out and hunt down R34p3r. I don't want to break the NAP, for then the Bor-Kril forces might try another assault at Tibrar, knowing the Jax might join them. Instead, I want to punish the single person who caused us so many losses. According to my Sector Scan Device, some Jax forces are amongst our troops that are trying to destroying the Kril Scan Tower, and their LC is with them. I want you to await him in the fallbacksector when he is being targetted by the Krils, and shoot him down when he chickens out. If he doesn't, hyper in and kill him. You are on a special, secret mission, and if something about it leaks out, I will not back you guys up. You will be on your own on this mission, ofcourse with assistance of a high level repairship. That's why I asked you if you knew a quite unknown pilot who is flying a repper, and that's why you're here, Crazygirl! Do you guys have any questions?"
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| − | "Yes", SpiderWolve replied, "who will be leading the assault, and what is the use, he'll get a new ship and break the nap anyways!"
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| − | "The assault will succeed. Because of the underground nature of your assignment, I have chosen Jack the Rebel as your leader, you will follow his orders! And the reason the assault will be successful, save the nap and destroy the career of their current LC, is that there is a group of resistance against him in the Council already. I know that EwokDude wants to become LC of the Ajaxian Forces, and that he has support of the other VR, as well as two Squadron Leaders, Memph and Gunny. That is why we will succeed. Once R34p3r is dead or MiA, EwokDude will step forward. It's up to you though to kill him. Never in our history an order like this has been given to a squad, and I hope it will never be given again, but sometimes the necessary must be done," Joesphine5 replied, "I suggest we finish this meal, and then get you all prepared to leave for Southern Sector!"
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| − | "Now wait just a second, so the only reason I'm on this squad is ‘coz I'm the rebel of the legion? To make the other legions think it was a rogue-assault? Great! That's what I've always wanted! Let's go!", Jack added. Llotyhy joined him, "Let's do this, and get rid of that guy!"
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| − | As they finished their meal, they talked about how they could best trap the Ajaxian LC, until Jack said, "We don't have to trap him, we're allies! He'll suspect nothing, until we start shooting ofcourse! This won't be too hard a mission, so let's go!"
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| − | They went to the shuttle-bay of the HQ building, and had a final talk before they went to their ships. "Our planning talks will take place in Crazygirl's repairship, that's the easiest I think, because she has so many ship docks... Our own cruisers can only dock two shuttles, our own emergency shuttle and ofcourse a repairship, so that won't do... Now let's go!", Jack said, as they all walked towards their own shuttle, and waited for Joesphine5 to open the shuttle-bay door.
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| − | == Chapter 2 - The Journey==
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| − | The four ships, three cruisers and a level 5 repairship, set flight towards the hypergate section of their homeplanet, Tibrar. Luckily the hypergates were still open for another ten minutes, so they could jump out together, just before it would close for twenty minutes. The HyperGate Commander hailed the ships, just as they approached the Hypergate Border, "Hello folks, where are you headed? Need to know that y'know, to prepare y'r jumps out!"
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| − | Jack replied back, "We're squadron 811, JackBlackIV reporting. We're headed for the Moons, we'd be very glad if you'd bring us there, mate!"
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| − | After the HGC had prepared the gate to lead the squad towards the Moons of Karrp, he said, "Well guys, the gate is ready, you have five minutes to jump, so hurry up if you don't want to have to wait another twenty! Have fun around the Moons, going there for holidays?"
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| − | "Yeah, I think we deserved a couple of days off after that battle here around our own planet, don't you?", Jack replied, as he activated the hyperdrive of his ship, and sent out a comm to the squad, "shut up and follow me, no more discussion with this man! Let's hyper!" He then entered the hypergate and entered hyperspace.
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| − | He then suddenly heard a very annoying "pling"-sound, announcing that a comm message had arrived.
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| − | He walked towards his chair, looked on his screen and opened his inbox. "Hello Jack", a comm from his LC said, "I see you're well on your way! I will keep you up to date with sector scans from the sectors around you! At this moment there is only one Krilgorian ship hypering into MoK, and there's a couple of semi-inactive tibs in there... The Kril is Jeffrey, he's in a Carrier, don't shoot at him. He's at full health, not much you can do in those five minutes between arrival and the opening up of the gate... You should speed towards Southern Sector as soon as possible, that's the current fallback sector. I might change that later on to Dreadlar, depending on bor and kril movement. I will send my plans for the legion to the VR's as well as to you now, but the orders for your squad are all up to you. Good luck!"
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| − | While reading the message, he had heard the irritating "pling"-sound a couple more times, indicating more messages were waiting for him, so when he had read the message of his LC, and sent back a received-confirmation, he looked curiously into his inbox, seeing replies from his squadron mates, confirming their hypering. He decided to send them a comm about Jeffrey, and ordered them to wait as long as possible with jumping to Aquarius after they had arrived in the Moons, to have at least a bit of vacation, and ofcourse, because they had to recharge their hyperdrives for a couple of hours.
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| − | When they arrived at the Moons of Karrp Sector, Jack sent out another comm, "Let's park our ships in space around Moon One, and join in Crazygirl's ship! I'll talk to you soon!"
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| − | Immediately he sent out a reply, "We're on our way to Planet Krilgore, we'll get him there, we're the reinforcements ya know! Now shuddup and follow us next tick! We'll hyper directly through SS towards the enemy, and take him out as we spot him! Good luck with your targets here!"
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| − | "Now let's have dinner guys, I'm getting hungry! I'd love a glass of fine Romulan Ale, don't you, Jack?" Llotyhy then said, and they went to the dining room and had a meal.
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| − | "Allright," Jack said, grasped Crazygirl's right hand and clumsy kissed it, "Goodbye for now, sweetie!"
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| − | "Okies, bye then!", Jack said, as he entered his shuttle and headed for his ships, in the meanwhile reading his comms and ofcourse the Roid and Aquarius Sector Scans.
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