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Player Name: Ryah
Are you new?: Yes
Character Name: Anakin Skywalker
Character Fandom: Star Wars
Notes: Both threads take place in the Battle Dome, two separate simulations. In the first, other characters are welcome to be fellow pilots on a mission with Anakin or rival combatants.
Anakin didn’t know if he was irritated by the fact he could just barely tell this was a simulation (and his belief he could tell this was fake might all be just from knowing beforehand this was a simulation) or if he was actually just impressed with the whole thing.
Either way, this felt like flying so he would try to accept it as real flying.
After taking the yellow starfighter through a few maneuvers to gauge the ship’s agility, he leveled out so the simulation’s obstacles were before him and on the same orientation as his view field.
He clicked the comm to raise his companion.
“Ready when you are.”
Though not as exhilarating as barrel rolls or dodging blaster fire, Anakin still found the mess of engine parts before him just as compelling. Like pieces of a puzzle, he could lose himself in these components, taking them apart, putting them back together, finding the broken parts and fixing them. Almost a kind of performance art for him and certainly a means to calm and organize his mind.
The gutted yellow starship was only meters away, reminding him the end goal of this simulation was to put this all back together again in working order.
He was so focused on his work, he didn’t notice someone approaching from behind until they were almost on top of him.
Are you new?: Yes
Character Name: Anakin Skywalker
Character Fandom: Star Wars
Notes: Both threads take place in the Battle Dome, two separate simulations. In the first, other characters are welcome to be fellow pilots on a mission with Anakin or rival combatants.
Anakin didn’t know if he was irritated by the fact he could just barely tell this was a simulation (and his belief he could tell this was fake might all be just from knowing beforehand this was a simulation) or if he was actually just impressed with the whole thing.
Either way, this felt like flying so he would try to accept it as real flying.
After taking the yellow starfighter through a few maneuvers to gauge the ship’s agility, he leveled out so the simulation’s obstacles were before him and on the same orientation as his view field.
He clicked the comm to raise his companion.
“Ready when you are.”
Though not as exhilarating as barrel rolls or dodging blaster fire, Anakin still found the mess of engine parts before him just as compelling. Like pieces of a puzzle, he could lose himself in these components, taking them apart, putting them back together, finding the broken parts and fixing them. Almost a kind of performance art for him and certainly a means to calm and organize his mind.
The gutted yellow starship was only meters away, reminding him the end goal of this simulation was to put this all back together again in working order.
He was so focused on his work, he didn’t notice someone approaching from behind until they were almost on top of him.
SCENARIO 1
Well, mostly serious.
Ahsoka couldn't help but to smirk over at him. "I've been waiting on you, Skyguy."
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He thumbed his comm again, "Haven't I instructed you about the proper Padawan attitude before?"
He boosted his speed. Once their ships were 'passed' a certain point as determined by the simulation, vulture droids appeared on the horizon of their trajectory.
A lot of them. And they were chasing a lone shuttle bearing Republic markings. It was doing it's best to evade the blasts of the droid vessels, but there was only so much a shuttle could do.
And if vulture droids were present, that meant their flagship wasn't far behind.
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When he accelerated, Ahsoka was hot on his tail. There was no hesitation to start shooting the moment the vulture droids made an appearance. It wasn't until a handful had been destroyed that she responded back.
"Only about a hundred and eight times. You must keep thinking I'll learn it if you say it one more time, Master," she teased.
Ahsoka barrel-rolled out of the way of an exploding droid before returning her starfighter back to its previous position on Anakin's flank.
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He juked from side to side, waving in and around the droid blaster fire. He didn’t rely heavily on his targeting computer, he pulled the trigger when it felt right.
They were approaching the shuttle now, and the flagship hadn’t yet reared its ugly prow yet. That made Anakin wary.
“Only a hundred and eight times? I thought it would have been more by now.” When they passed the shuttle, he pulled back on his joystick, taking his fighter in a tight arch back towards the shuttle.
“Let’s begin your hundred and ninth lesson, shall we?”
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Unlike her Master, she didn't have his affinity for technology and did rely on her targeting computer from time-to-time on top of the Force.
Anakin wasn't the only one wary when they drew closer to their target. There was nothing on her screen to indicate there was a Separatist ship in the vicinity and she took a moment to physically glance over her shoulder. No large looming ships in sight either.
"To be honest, Master, that's when I stopped counting." Ahsoka allowed herself to fly a bit further and took out some of the droids that were closing in from the far side of the shuttle.
"Can we skip to the part when I start asking about what kind of Padawan you were to Master Obi-Wan?"
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He broke off to trail another droid.
“I’m not Master Obi-Wan, and you are definitely not me.”
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She doubled back to cover the shuttle once her droids were taken out.
Thank the Force he wasn't Obi-Wan. No offense, Ahsoka respected him and even got along with him but she didn't exactly want him as a Master. "You can't tell me that you demonstrated the proper Padawan attitude all of the time."
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The last of the vulture droids blossomed in a fiery ball of gas.
He checked the shuttle information his astromech unit had gathered. Before responding to Ahsoka, he commed the shuttle. “This is General Sykwalker, shuttle Arrcus. What’s the story on these droids harassing you? Where’s their flagship? Droids don’t just come out of nowhere.”
He flipped a switch so the return feed would be sent to Ahsoka’s ship.
“General Skywalker, thank the stars… and they did, we broke atmo from our relief run to the settlement planetside and then they were on us. Like they were waiting for us to return.”
As he listened to the pilot explain what happened, the flagship, a big ol' providence-class destroyer, popped into existence right in the middle of their exit vector. It must have jumped in from outside the system.
“Oh,” he remarked, but didn’t sound too concerned. It was hard to feel too much fear when he knew this all wasn’t real. But that didn’t mean he didn’t find this fun. “That will make things interesting.”
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While Anakin made contact with the shuttle, Ahsoka merely listened in and kept most of her attention on their surroundings. She mentally groaned when his question about the flagship seemed to bring it down on their heads. It seemed even in a simulation, they had some pretty bad luck.
"You just had to ask," Ahsoka said.
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He shot out in front of the shuttle.
"Lesson switch, Snips. How to take on a destroyer, two starfighters and one shuttle. What would be your plan?"
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Fighting it head-on would be suicide - for all of them. No backup troops, no fleet of their own. She'd seen too many battles lost even when they had the 501st next to them. "Lay down cover fire and get the shuttle out of here." That ship was most likely holding more Vulture droids and the odds were not in their favor. Their priority should be to protect the shuttle.
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He nudged his joystick while reducing his speed by a percentage to bring him back behind and to the side of Ahsoka's fighter.
"Good plan. Take the lead, Snips, and get us out of here."
Scenario 1
That possibility came with a limited number of times he could refuse Luke though. The kid was very insistent on this point.
And if he had to spend time with his no longer conveniently dead father-in-law, this was probably the most pleasant option available. He could show him a thing or two.
WHich is why he clicks that comm on. "Let's do this."
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With all participants established in the simulation, it began. The battle popped into existence before them, still some klicks off so they weren’t right in the middle of the fight. It was a mash up of a few battles Anakin had participated in during the Clone Wars. He blended them so that he wasn’t coming at this with a complete tactical advantage over Han – he wasn’t that mean. So he might know the individual elements but he couldn’t predict how this theater would play out.
Anakin was also kind and littered their ‘side’ with cruiser and frigate designs from Mon Calamari and the ones from the Kuat Drive Yards that were less than triangular in shape. (Except for the Delta starfighters, but it wasn’t their fault they bore a striking resemblance to star destroyers.) Rounding out this side of the fight were the too many to count star fighters: Deltas, as previous mentioned, Eta-2 Actis intercepters, ARC-170s, and all the y-wing bombers the Republic would have sold the Out Rim to have during the Clone Wars.
The other side was the standard Separatist fare – cruisers, frigates, a battle station or two. So many vulture droids they changed the black landscape of space between ships an endless sea of hellish grey.
And he couldn’t help himself, he had to drop in the Malevolence. Because it was just more fun when one shot from the enemy could reduce one of their cruisers completely inoperable.
What he didn’t mind was how close to fifty years outdated this may all seem to his son-in-law.
“Two ways to win,” he commed. No preamble to welcome Han to the battle. They weren’t that close. It was easier to just think of him like just another clone in this fight. “Take out the Malevolence." Which made Anakin cringe, because to do that, they would need to cooperate. "Or most kills at the end of the scenario. For the second option, kills by the enemy will be split against us at the end. So it will help to keep your allies alive.”
He almost didn't ask it, but because he at the very least wasn't trying to make things worse between him and Han, he added, "Any questions?"
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THere's one question. Pretty obvious given the time discrepancy. He wouldn't have to ask if if Luke had let him go for Imperials. "There any precedent for a small craft taking out something that size?" Not that the rebel alliance ever worried much about precedent.
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The Malevolence’s weaknesses included: a penchant of its primary weapon overloading when its base mounts suffered structural damage just before the weapon discharged, and an inability to fly through solid celestial satellites. Sadly, it possessed no exhaust ports leading directly to its engine core reactors. And even after its primary weapon was brought off line, the beast of a ship was not lacking in blaster turrets, torpedo launchers, squadrons of vulture droids or a tough bulkhead that could absorb a lot of damage.
“I’ve uploaded its tactical specifications to the simulation, you should be able to access them via your console.”
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Even the quickest glance at the specifications makes one thing abundantly clear. "So the direct approach is out, then." Time for some rebel style thinking, it seemed.
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"The direct approach didn't work the last time I encountered it, no."
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"Sounds like we need sneaky." Which was actually fine by Han. He liked sneaky. Preferred it, sometimes. You pulled a lot of sneaky when the other side had a guy who could choke you with his mind if you just walked up to him. "They'll be expecting us to charge in."
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Sneaking, however, was never Anakin’s strength. On the other hand, being loud and obnoxious so that others could do the sneaking was something he could do very, very well.
“Lay down suppression fire while I land in a hangerbay. Then I’ll draw their attention inside, lead them around in a few circles, while you can attach to either a port or starboard side airlock and sneak in. Once inside, comm me and we’ll go from there.”
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The quad lasers were better when operated from the turrets proper. But when it came to suppressing fire, he could manage by controlling them from the cockpit. Which is just what he starts doing as soon as he's in position.
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But he was also doing it this way because it was flashy, no reason to deny it.
He opened fire at about the same time Han did. Might as well take out a few vulture droids and gun turrets while they were at it. And more than a few ships and towers went up in blazing balls of simulated gas.
“See you on the inside.”
Anakin broke off from formation with the Falcon and angled his fighter to aim for one of the hanger bays. He chose one more towards the center of the clustered openings. He kept firing the whole way in to spread the confusion for the droids on deck. He slowed his ship enough to make his momentum something less than neck-breaking and hit the cockpit hatch release. Relying on the Force the buffer his landing, he leapt free.
He didn’t pause longer than it took to right himself on landing. He activated his lightsaber and used the mayhem sown by his still-moving starfighter (about to crash into a portion of the back wall of the hanger bay and explode) as cover to run towards one of the corridors leading deeper into the ship. He took out the droids that took notice and attempted to stop him, but he made it unscathed to his destination.
As he closed and locked the blast doors behind him, he commed Han, “You in yet?”
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The initial message comes through when he's made it onto the ship, but not in a position for a chat. He clicks the commlink in acknowledgement, but waits a few minutes until he's in better cover. "In position now. Down the starboard corridor from your position." At least that was the impression he'd gotten from the specifications he had admittedly not had much time to familiarize himself with.