USH'S ORIGINAL TRILOGY GAME EPISODE I 'LANZAR'- Imperial Thread

Originally posted by General Zink
We're feared as Assasins and Bounty Hunters, not Pilots...

Arvus puts his life before his paycheck, which is already considerable. The Emperor hired him, not Esgabath.

Pissing off a Commissar is a good way to end your life.

"That's not what I was paid for," Arvus says, simply. "Unless you decide to give me enough money to buy my own Star Destroyer, the deal was not for me to engage militant Rebels in space. I'll bring you Drakkon or the Rebels, but only on my own terms. I'm a very incapable pilot, Commissar. Better than the average TIE Pilot? Maybe. But if this is one of the Rebel pilots from earlier? No way, he's way out of my league in the order of space superiority. I'd rather have my feet firmly planted on the ground and my gun to his head..."

Originally posted by Lord Melkor
(And I spoke about one Rebel ship in my analysis Rylis, because you know, I assumed that our Tie-Fighters can deal with some of them....)

"Why are you landing?! I told you to aid Squadron Leader Ulrand!"- Commisar rants through communications.

(Never a good idea to count things out like that, I've found.)

"We're here to capture Drakkon, I thought, Commissar. Not easy for us to do up here. Not to mention I can't see us being of much help up here anyway." Rylis replies. "Good pilots we may be but not good enough."

"I actually thought that you are considered a deadly pilot, Rylis, how disapointing.

And I am afraid you are forgetting who you are talking with, Mr Arvus! I am not your equal, I am a Commisar of Galactic Emperor, and his power is mine to wield! To me you are only a criminal scum who posessed enough useful skills that Empire decided to pardon your crimes, and now you are well paid instead of being long executed as justice demanded. But as I alluded in our earier conversation, what Empire gave you can be taken back. Remember that this is war Arvus, and not following orders aids the enemy. Aiding the enemy is treason, and the penalty for treason is death. Do not test my patience any further."

Arvus gapes at the comm unit, barely remembering to maneuver his ship.

"My apologies, Commissar, but I feel I am of no use to you in matters of space combat. If you want Drakkon brought to you, you're going to need us intact, not vaporized. Ulrand is a deadly pilot, not Rylis."

-

How sad, we're currently getting less trouble from the Rebels than we are ourselves...

Yay for the Dark Side.

"Better do everything to ensure that Drakkon is captured, then.

Agent Lyle, you still have my trust. Do whatever has to be done. Traitors you can deal with as well. Commisar out." -Pissed off Esgabath cuts the link.

Arvus cuts the link after the Commissar, closing communications.

"Sheesh," Arvus says to Rylis. "Better watch trigger-happy on your ship there..."

"I have no worries. I'm sure Lyle can see the sense in our refusal to provide air cover. After all, if my ship was shot down, he'd be just as dead as I." Rylis says, glancing over at Lyle. "Right?"

(yay Dark Side indeed...)

This is why you stay out of politics, Lyle...

Everything is the matter of politics, right? Officer who doesn`t care about politics may end death. And Agents are not ordinary soldiers.

Arvus gets paid better. doped

Yeah who knows maybe when you land Janthis and Jaiden will be there to arrest you by order of Esgabeth

😛

Engagement has begun.

It is a light trader, smaller than Last Laugh.

There is the Romanesque light fighter that was in the orbital engagement before. The other fighter is larger than it first appeared; a heavier class, well torpedo-armed.

Lyle stands there a moment, then grins at Rylis.
"What am I going to do? Shoot you while you're flying? This is on your heads, though, not mine."

As the first TIE fighters are destroyed, Nidar starts to yell orders to the helm.

"Activate lateral thrusters. get us on station next to the Deviator."

Trebeis- your XO wants a word with you.

Can we get as much info on those ships as possible, so we can later possibly trace them to those people that were seem hanging around Galahad?

Nidar seems to be worried?

You can try, yes, though Imperial records are slow.

And yes he does.

"Could those ships be a threat to us?"

"... conceivably."

"So long as we do what we actually were brought here to do...there is absolutely nothing the Commissar can complain about." Rylis replies.

Okay, I say that we land our ships in the jungle, but as close to the edge of the clearing as we can get. Once we land we seal up the ships so none of the wildlife can get in (though if we're close to the edge the chances of any attacking will be smaller than if we had landed in the deep jungle). Once it's clear, we can move into the clearing itself and join up with the army.