Odin Weekly Squadron Report #6
Release Date: 08/17/01
This weeks fiction is from CPT Saar, thanks!
“If you chase two rabbits, both will get away.” It was something his brother had often told him as they where growing up together. However, Saar had found over the course of his thirty years that his brothers’ childhood saying had proved true time and again. As the two Lambda-class shuttles broke from each other and sped away on different hyperspace vectors, he wished that he could resolve just which rabbit he should be chasing.
A raging dogfight boiled all around his TIE Fighter, making his decision that much harder. He had been ordered to inspect and disable all fleeing Rebel ships, but his orders also made it clear that he was never to leave his flight group. As their leader, they would be lost if he was to go jaunting off without them. A TIE Flight without its leader quickly fell into disarray, and that leads to ruin with these young, inexperienced pilots.
The distance between the shuttles and Saar’s fighter grew in both directions, the range meter quickly scrolling off the exact area between them. Alright, he thought, time for a decision. He knew that one of these shuttles was carrying Rebel officers, and he had exactly 1.5 minutes to engage and disable their craft before they hyped out of the area. He gave them both a quick final glance, and then dumped all power from his lasers into his engines.
The engines gave an unearthly howl in response, pushing Saar back into his flight seat. He had chosen the Shuttle labeled Tropsobor by his target acquisition system because it had left the platform after the other shuttle, leading Saar to believe that the first was a decoy.
His hurtling ship closed the gap between them swiftly. When the range meter hit 2 klicks, he recharged his lasers and set them to dual fire mode. This would slow his rate of fire, but significantly increase the amount of damage he administered. He lined up his shot, and the wail of his Heads Up Display let him know that he had achieved a solid lock. He let the sound fill his ears for a few seconds, knowing that the shuttles’ pilot knew that he was in serious trouble. Saar always liked his opponents to get nervous and make mistakes. Sure enough, the Tropsobor made one. It’s pilot went evasive, taking him out of his hyperspace route. If he had stayed on course, Saar thought, He would have taken some damage, but surely would’ve been able to jump before I finished him.”
Saar grinned under his helmet. The Lambda-class shuttle moved slower that a wet Hutt, and he quickly dropped in again on its tail.
Saar followed the shuttle through a series of twists, turns, rolls, and dives before getting a perfect lock on the ship. He was nothing if not a perfectionist, and he liked his kills to be achieved with a minimum of laser fire. As the targeting receptacle went yellow and began to wail, he squeezed the trigger.
In that moment, several things happened. The Tropsobor exploded in a blinding flash, the other shuttle made the jump into hyperspace, and eighteen Rebel A-Wings and twelve X-Wings tore out of hyperspace and roared right over his fighter, all of which left Saar momentarily disoriented. He quickly realized his error: The Tropsobor was the decoy, and by going evasive, it had bought the other shuttle time to jump. Not only that, but its maneuvering had drawn his flight and him far away from the rest of the squadron.
The squadron to which the A-Wings raced to like panthers on the hunt.
Cursing, he rolled his ship around and dumped all power to engines. He looked at the range meter, and realized that there was no way that he could reach the battle before the Rebels cut his squadron to ribbons. “Two Flight, on me! Lets hunt this scum from behind. Missile armed!” As he closed in on the action, he heard his comm. channel buzzing with reports of wingmen dead and fighters damaged, luckily none from his flight or squadron yet. Saar called quickly for reinforcements from the Grey Wolf, the ISD that was serving as their home ship. His request acknowledged, he could now do nothing but hope that his squadron fought well and didn’t get slaughtered like wolf pups away from the den. Come on Raxis, save the day. “Odin leader, we are here to help!”
The Rebels were busy chasing TIE’s, so they did not notice the three TIE’s approach. Saar and Two-Flight made most of that fact, taking out four starfighters before they had a chance to blink. The remaining Rebels turned their ire on two-flight, and soon Saar was pushing the limits of the TIE Fighter to the edge in an effort to evade and attack. “Two-flight, go evasive!”
He pulled back on the control yoke, taking his ship on a ninety-degree climb that left the A-Wings under him, following his last path. He then slammed the yoke forward; throwing the TIE into a gut-wrenching dive that put him right on top of the A-Wings. He only managed to get a few hits, however, before the swifter Rebel fighters broke and reformed. With three to one odds, and reinforcements not having arrived yet, Saar knew it was time to lower the odds. Chasing two rabbits was bad enough, he thought ruefully. Saar looked at his HUD, he was now far from the dogfight, the rest of two-flight had joined the Odin and were putting up quite a fight. No time to think about that now… concentrate on flying.
He acquired the A-Wing labeled Red 5 and began to give chase. The sleek Rebel craft easily paced his TIE Advanced, and it had the added luxury of having swivel lasers. Let’s just even us out a little bit, shall we? Saar switched over to single fire laser and began to pattern-fire around the A-Wing. By firing all around him, I control where and when he moves. After a few moments, the Rebel craft sat right where Saar wanted it, and he let loose with a withering torrent of laser fire that dropped the A-Wings’ shields and locked the swivel lasers in place... Now, it’s just pilot against pilot, and I know I’m better.
The Rebel pilot jinked his craft away from Saar’s line of fire, twisting and diving to evade a strong lock. Saar followed through every move he made, peppering the small craft with laser fire. The A-Wing took a steep roll, and Saar broke off from his tail and snaked his craft in an “S” pattern which brought him right in line with the Rebel as he topped off his climb. Switching over to dual fire, he blasted the Rebel craft into a ball of brilliant gasses. The debris flew into the other A-Wing that was chasing him and blasted it to pieces. Now back to the main fight.
Saar flicked to missiles and popped two off at distance, both hitting their marks. Excellent, time for his gloating. He fired another missile, his last one. The missile caught an X-Wing following Raxis craft. “Saar is here to save the day!”
As the explosion subsided, he turned his attention his threat alert screen. A fighter behind me impossi- shit there was a third A-Wing! Coincidentally, the A-Wing had also turned his attention to Saar, and had launched missiles from both ports. The two red streaks tracked on his ship side by side, as if in a race to see who could bring death first. Saar cut all thrust, charging his guns to full power. Several tense seconds passed as the missiles came in range.
Once he had a lock on the first, he fired and scrolled quickly to the next, not waiting to see if his shot was true. Again, he scrolled. To find that he only had time to throw his arms over his face before the missile shattered his hexagonal view port and detonated in his chest.
Everything then went dark, and with a hiss of pressurized air, the simulation chamber opened. Saar sighed heavily, and pulled off his flight helmet. He looked up into the face of his commander, who was laughing
“Perhaps next leave, Captain” was all Raxis said to him. With a terse smile, he spun on his heel and walked out of the room. Saar slumped in his chair. Saar now had to buy drinks for the entire squadron, as he was the first to die.
Thanks to Saar for his fabulous fiction this week!
Squadron News:
Lets all give a grand welcome to LT Kiptan Irtor, Odins newest pilot!
Also, with the comming of our 7th pilot, Odin has dropped down half in citations. I'm glad we have kept as many as we did, but let's see if we can reclaim the ones we lost!
EH war tommorow! From 8pm EST untill Midnight EST! Give it your best pilots The war will take place on undernet in channel #Warnight. Check the combat calendar for more information
Special Congrats goto our Commodore who was promoted to the rank of Vice Admiral! Way to go Khad!
Also, Congrats goto Brian, who was promoted to Lieutenant Commander this week
Squadron Status:
Imperial Storm II battles can occur at any time. Keep an eye out in your email bins and on tc.org's news page. Battle times and dates will be listed there.
Regular Weekly Competition for XvT and XWA are held. Check the combat calendar for more information on these competitions. Flying in these competitions can bring in the medals. LoCs and DFCs are plentiful!
Still many many spots to fill in the squadron, if you know some people on Daedalus who will be an asset the squadron, don't hesitate to reccomend odin squadron to them.
Lets see if we can knock down the rest of the XvT Citations and start working on gaining the TIE's in order as best possible from 1 on :-)
Squadron Activity:
CMDR/CPT Raxis Krieger - TC-TIE 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15
FM/LT Brucmack - Participated in Zone Sunday, Completed IWATS-XAM, Participated in XWA AUS Comp, and XWA Thursday Night Training
FL/CPT Saar - Submitted this weeks Fiction!
FM/CM SCUD - Completed IWATS-GFX and DB-XvT 2, 3
FM/LT Kiptan Irtor - TC-XvT 1, 2, 3, 4, Completed IWATS- SM/2, IIC/1, IIC/2, IIC/3, M/1, M/2, ASP
FL/LCM Brian - DB-TIE 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, TC-TIE 170, FREE-XvT 7, 8, 9, 10
FM/LT Andrew - TC-TIE 6, TC-XWA 7
(Im sorry if i forgot anyones comp results, i only mark down ones i recieve in my email box for wins generally. Though congrats if you did fly and thank you)
Promotions, Medals, Assignments, ect:
LT Brian ---> LCM Brian
LT Brian ---> Distinguished Flying Cross x2
CPT Raxis [PLDN] ---> [CNTR]
LT Irtor [unrated] ---> [GREN]
LT Bruc ---> Medal of Communication, Bronze Oak Cluster (250 posts on message board)
LT Bruc ---> 4x LoC
CM SCUD ---> IWATS-GFX
LT Irtor ---> IWATS-SM/2 (97%) IWATS-IIC/1 (100%) IWATS-IIC/2 (100%) IWATS-IIC/3 (100%) IWATS-M/1 (90%) IWATS-M/2 (90%) IWATS-ASP (100%)
If you won a LoC and its not here yet, its comming. Be patient. :-)
Communications:
mIRC is a prime way to get in touch with myself or the two Flight Leaders. If you need to downlaod mIRC. it can be found at http://www.mirc.com . I doubt any of us need that since I've seen you all on there, but there it is anyway, and for those who may not know, regular names of the pilots in the squadron are: CPT_Raxis (or `Loki), CPT_Saar, LT_Brian (LT_Doom) and LT_Andrew (LT_Foxbat), CM_SCUD and Brucmack, LT_Irtor
The odin squadron website can be found at http://members.home.net/vesuvius7 and the Flight III website can be found at http://www.angelfire.com/games3/odin/index.html. Give them both a visit sometime!
Also...:
Many of you have been wondering about your pending BSFs..heres what I have:
Andrew TC-TIE #18
Brian - TC-XvT #12
Brian - TC-TIE #177
Andrew - TC-XvT #12
Brian - TC-XvT #14
Brian - TC-TIE #22
Brian - TC-TIE #18
Bruc - IW-BoP #26
SCUD - TC-XvT #13
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Final Thought this week...
Ohh what can I say...It's been a rather productive week for the squadron. With the comming of a new pilot this week, we've completed 27 Battles, 4 Free Mission, 9 IWATS Courses, earned 4 LoCs and 2 DFCs as well as 1 rank promotion and 2 FCHG Promotions. When you compare this week alone to last months activity, we can compare to last months totals of 56 battles, 13 IWATS courses and 5 multiplayer competitions. Im sure that if I were to add up this months activity in 2 weeks, we would match or beat last months activity from 4 weeks. Congratulations guys. You're doing a superb job. Keep up the great work that you are all doing.
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ODIN SQUADRON OF WING XIII : Assault
COMMANDER: CPT Raxis Krieger (vesuvius7@home.com)
NICKNAME: Rolling Thunder
BANNER: odin.gif
MOTTO: We are the Blade Thats Cuts down our Enemies
HOMEPAGE: http://members.home.net/vesuvius7/
MESSAGE BOARD: http://pub27.bravenet.com/forum/show.php?usernum=2240257306&cpv=1
FLIGHT I - TIE INTERCEPTOR
Nickname: Hidden Fury
Motto: No Warning, No Resistance
1) CPT Raxis Krieger (vesuvius7@home.com)
2) LT Brucmack (brucmack@bigfoot.com)
3) TBA
4) TBA
FLIGHT II - TIE ADVANCED
Nickname: Black Aces
Motto: His modis ad victoriam
1) CPT Saar (Ehsaar@hotmail.com)
2) CM SCUD (scudlebutt2002@yahoo.com)
3) LT Kiptan Irtor (IdleDaylight@hotmail.com)
4) TBA
FLIGHT III - TIE INTERCEPTOR
Nickname: Perpetual Darkness
Motto: The Darkness awaits you
Homepage: http://www.angelfire.com/games3/odin/index.html
1) LCM Brian (soccerwars10@aol.com)
2) LT Andrew (apeters91@aol.com)
3) TBA
4) TBA
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Total: 7
FCHG Listings | Combat Ratings | Squadron Reports (5)
Squadron Citations (25):
TC-TIE Battle 1 - Capture of Zaarin
TC-TIE Battle 2 - Strike at Calamari
TC-TIE Battle 3 - New Dimensions
TC-TIE Battle 4 - Recapture Zaarins Technology
TC-TIE Battle 5 - Pirate Uprising
TC-TIE Battle 6 - Destruction
TC-TIE Battle 7 - Betrayal
TC-TIE Battle 8 - Strike Against the Pirates
TC-TIE Battle 9 - Tracking the Defectors
TC-TIE Battle 10 - Battle for the DeathStar
TC-TIE Battle 11 - Renegade Battle
TC-TIE Battle 12 - Jedi Hunt
TC-TIE Battle 14 - Vader Takes Command
TC-TIE Battle 133 - Punishment Tour
TC-XvT Battle 1 - The Verpine Encounter
TC-XvT Battle 2 - Capture of a Murderer
TC-XvT Battle 3 - Preparing for Battle
TC-XvT Battle 4 - Encounter with the Black Sun
TC-XvT Battle 5 - Phoenix Saga
TC-XvT Battle 6 - Wolf Pack Aggression
TC-XvT Battle 7 - The Resupply
TC-XvT Battle 8 - The Loshen Resistance
TC-XvT Battle 10 - Abduction of VA Priyum
TC-XWA Battle 1 - Avenger Encounter
TC-XWA Battle 7 - Assault on Chimera
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Respectfully Submitted,
CMDR/CPT Raxis Krieger/Odin/Wing XIII/ISD Grey Wolf
BSx2/PCx8/ISMx10/MoI/LoC-PSx81/DFC/CoB/OV [CNTR]
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