~*~The Rebellion - RP~*~

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Name: max
Codename: Hawk
Appearance: Tall brown eyes light brown hair with sun streaks
Personality: Kind
Age: 14
Gender: M
Crush: Delilah
Rank: Soilder
Power (Max of 5): Super strong has wings
Other: Hes 98% humen 2% bird so he has lighter bones airsac so he can breathe higher in the air and has 30 feet across
Weapons: N/A
Pic: None
Username: ChickenRadio
ChickenRadio on dapples account Are they accepted?
 
WARNING: VERY LONG Post Ahead and Possibly More to Come. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED… *dun, dun, duuuuuun* =P

(I am going to try to revive this thread by upping the excitement a little by giving the Rebels a sizable army of NPC’s that don’t have special powers. Also, most of the tech on here that you may not be familiar with like TX-130, AT-TE, AV-7, Proton Torpedo, X-Wing, TIE/Ln, hyperdrive, etc., you can look it all up on Wookiepedia.com It will have very good descriptions of all of this and more. BTW, someone let me know if this happens to be the longest post on BYC, it was 7 pages when I wrote it on on Office Word. Font: Arial size 14)


As the slugging match between The Power and The Rebel Alliance raged on, some of the military personnel in the numerous countries that supported The Power came to realize how corrupt and evil The Power really was and decided to change their loyalties. It started small with only a few troops, sometimes as few as just a single soldier to a small group of a few troops who had become good friends, defecting here and there. Then it began to gradually pick up speed, slightly larger groups averaging about a dozen or so soldiers-sometimes stealing vehicles and supplies like a 3-ton truck full of weapons and ordinance, an APC or a light tank, or a few jeeps with a howitzer attached to the trailer hitch of one-began to run off and join the Rebellion. Then it really started to pick up and become more common than attacks by or on the Rebels. A flight of four aircraft here, a light battalion of 300 troops there, a Navy patrol with a PT boat there. Within three months of when the first few soldiers ran off, defections were very common, in some places were even a daily occurrence, and large-scale defections were not unheard-of. At least five Nuclear Destroyers (DDN) a Nuclear Anti-Aircraft Light Cruiser (CAN) and even two of the new American Proton-powered Heavy Cruisers (CBP) sailed off into the night from the Power’s seaports and Naval bases, the Light Cruiser with two military cargo ships tagging along behind it. An entire armored division added 150 TX-130 fighter tanks of various models and 12 AT-TE (All-Terrain Tactical Enforcer) heavy assault walkers to the Rebel arsenal. An artillery platoon yielded 35 AV-7 (Anti Vehicle) long range Proton Cannons and 65 Howitzer field guns. The whole Canadian 24th infantry division provided nearly 10,000 GI’s. But arguably the most helpful defection was the American 38th Elite Air Wing in its entirety. 72 of some of the most advanced aircraft the world had ever seen, flown by some of the best pilots still left alive by the brutality of this and pervious wars, plus all of their support personnel, supplies, replacement parts for the aircraft, and even the men and women that developed these aircraft and the procedures needed to build them. The 38th consisted of six squadrons with twelve aircraft each: three squadrons-Rouge Squadron, Wraith Squadron, and Talon Squadron-of Incom T-65B “X-Wing” Multi-purpose starfighters, Lightning Squadron, which used the Koensayr BTL-S3 “Y-Wing” fighter-bomber, Polearm Squadron, which used the Incom RZ-1 “A-Wing” Interceptor, and Nova Squadron, which used the Slayn & Korpil “B-Wing” or “Blade-Wing” heavy starfighters. The Rebels lovingly accepted the grace they had been given by the 38th and immediately set up a hidden production line for the starfighters in a huge, forgotten, underground bunker complex that had recently been discovered nearby. Making this defection even better was that the 38th had the only models of any of these aircraft currently in existence, and the only designs were still in the hands of the developers. This meant the Power was now almost completely restricted to using the TIE (Twin Ion Engine) series of aircraft, which mainly consisted of the following; the standard model TIE/Ln Starfighter, the faster and more agile TIE/IN Interceptor, the heavy-hitting TIE/sa (Surface Assault) Bomber, and recently, but in very small numbers, the TIE/X1 Advanced fighter. These four main models were affectionately nick-named, and more-often-than-not referred to, by the Rebels as, respectively, “Eyeballs”, “Squints”, “Dupes”, and “Brights”, due to physical appearances, characteristics, or other factors. These craft were fast, agile, and generally cheap to make, but this was because, with a few exceptions, they lacked shields, life support equipment, hyperdrive (this is the system that allows very fast inter-planetary travel and long-distance inter-solar travel possible, look it up), and, in the standard TIE/Ln, even ejector seats and missile-lock warning systems. Now the X1was and exception to most of these cons, as it did have all of these systems and still retained its speed and agility, making it an extremely lethal and formidable fighter that few but the very best pilots could survive an encounter with. However, luckily for the Rebels it was vastly expensive and very time-consuming to produce, making it only available to a very small number of the very best pilots The Power still had. The bomber model, too, had life support equipment but thankfully it often did not have anything more than a single laser cannon as armament that could be used against other aircraft. The Power, desperate to stop the defections, began to mass-produce several different models of very cheap, very out-dated, piston-engine aircraft, also known as propeller planes. The last time prop planes had been used in significant numbers in war was during World War II which was nearly 250 years ago. They had soon thereafter been phased out by jets, which in turn were eventually phased out by Ion and Proton engines. Because the design of piston engine aircraft was so outdated, The Power could produce tens of thousands of them in a very short time and for extremely cheap. They began to take these planes, load them with explosives, and used military personnel that they believed were likely candidates for defection, as well as recruits that seemed to have very little potential, to fly them. The planes had almost zero armor or armament as far as guns or lasers and the pilots, unless they had been taken from defection candidates and had already been pilots, had almost zero training. They were given two days of take-off training, two days of flight training, and three days of training on how to actually hit their targets. Many people noticed that there was a distinct lack of training for how to land the planes, and were confused by this since with planes take-offs are optional, but landings are not. Many thought “That’s stupid, not training them on how to land the planes. How are they supposed to come back from their missions?” The answer was simple: they weren’t. The Power had decided to produce these many thousands on planes, pack them full of explosives, and send the expendable pilots on one-way missions to attack Rebel forces or forces that had defected and were on their way to Rebel territory. Kamikaze missions. The rookie pilots were instructed to find any “Rebel Scum” and crash their planes, and therefore themselves, into their target. The hope was that the fear of being put in a Kamikaze unit would keep troops from defecting, which it did to some degree, but the leadership of The Power quickly realized that the tactic was also very effective as an attack strategy, after a single Kamikaze pilot flying an over-loaded plane managed to single-handedly sink the Impacable, one of the two American Proton Heavy Cruisers, by flying straight down the funnel and setting the Impacable’s ordinance magazine ablaze. After only eight minutes, the huge magazine detonated, blowing the ship in half and completely vaporizing about a 50 foot-long section of the nearly 650 foot-long vessel’s midsection; after the explosion, the remains of the ship sank in just over four minutes dragging the remains of her crew down with her. Of her more than 1,800 crew, only twenty-nine survived the initial blast and sinking. Twelve of these men died either from thirst, starvation, disease, wounds, or sharks before they were rescued by a defecting HPT (Heavy Patrol-Torpedo) boat, and another four, including captain Henry Farland, later died in the hospital. After reports of Impacable’s sinking came back, The Power decided that the new Kamikaze strategy was more than worth the men and materials and, to the horror of the Rebels, began launching large-scale assaults that consisted mostly or even entirely of Kamikazes.


One of the defecting Nuclear Destroyers, the USS Saratoga, DDN-1083, was charging North-West towards Rebel-controlled territory around the South-Eastern corner of the United States. She had been docked in Port Harcourt in Nigeria. In the dead of night she had slipped her mooring lines and her commanding officer, Captain James Fletcher, allowed the Saratoga to silently drift out of the harbor with the receding tide. He knew that if they were detected leaving the port unauthorized, the trigger-happy gunners in the huge shore batteries were likely to shoot first, ask questions later and Saratoga would be blown clear out of the water. It was slow moving, but they were undetected, and once they were out of range of the shore batteries Captain Fletcher ordered flank speed--maximum throttle--and the bow pointed out to sea. The Destroyer’s turbines barked to life and her three propellers began to spin, quickly turning the water behind the ship into a violent white froth as she accelerated to her top speed. The Saratoga was the first ship in a class of the same name, a line of solidly-built but fast assault-worthy warships that measured 427 feet from bow to stern, 52 feet from handrail to handrail at her widest point, and her RADAR mast towered 45 feet from the water-line when she was fully loaded. Her top speed was supposed to be 43 knots, but her crafty chief engineer had modified and tweaked her turbines which had boosted her max speed to almost 49 knots. She had eight 8-inch main Proton cannons, housed in pairs in four main turrets--two foreword of the superstructure and two aft--which took a few seconds to reload but could shoot within twenty feet of a target eighteen miles away and packed a wallop to boot. She had 24 emplacements for twin mounted 40mm cannons, and 38 emplacements for single-mount 20mm repeating blasters, nicknamed “The Woofer” and “The Buzzer”, respectively. She also had two missile batteries amidships, just forward of her aft funnel which was located about 40 feet behind its twin, that were equipped with Proton Torpedoes, Concussion Missiles, AIM 120D-X9’s, and some miscellaneous experimental missiles that the Saratoga had been tasked with testing before she changed her allegiance. She also carried 34 Mark-108F Anti-Ship Torpedoes for combat against other Naval vessels. As she charged across the Atlantic and the sun began to rise on the second day after her defection, her RADAR operators picked up a solitary plane 17 miles out, approaching off the starboard bow just emerging from a thick cloud bank it had used to hide itself from the RADAR of potential enemies. It was ID’d by their scanners as a scout for one of The Power’s Kamikaze raids; one of a number of planes that were not filled with explosives, but sometimes were armed with droppable bombs, that flew out ahead of the main force and radioed back information on weather patterns and potential targets. Captain Fletcher knew that by now it would be known that the Saratoga had defected and she would now be a target for one of the suicide raids so he ordered the ship’s main batteries to engage. The bow cannons quickly opened fire on the reconnaissance aircraft, trying to take it out before it could radio in their position.


In the lone recon plane, Takeo Iriushi glanced at his sensors; the ship was firing at him. He’d already ID’d it as the Saratoga and was getting ready to call in its location to the Kamikaze formation he was scouting for, then the Destroyer’s fire demanded his attention. He began throwing his plane all over the sky, trying to dodge the deadly balls of laser energy that were almost half the size of his whole plane. He maneuvered violently, in turn throwing himself all over his cockpit from the constantly changing positive, negative, and lateral G’s. He flipped on his commlink and hit the button that transmitted his position to the other scouts through the comm. “ARC group, this is ARC twelve!” he yelled. ARC was a term that meant Aggressive ReConnaissance, or Advanced Recon Commando in the infantry, and was used with aircraft to designate a scout aircraft that was sufficiently equipped to be able to potentially damage the targets it was scouting. As he jerked his plane around even more, Iriushi yelled into his comm “I’ve found the Saratoga! I repeat, I’ve found the defected USS Saratoga! I’ve sent the coordinates but I am under heavy fire and require immediate assi…” A round from one of Saratoga’s main batteries grazed his right wingtip, the pure energy and heat contained in the phone-booth-sized ball of laser energy partially discharged into his plane, melting the end two feet of his wing into slag and knocking his plane into an uncontrolled tumble towards the sea. “Sithspit!” he swore as he began trying to regain control of his aircraft. After falling for an agonizing 30 seconds that felt like an eternity, he managed to get what was left of his plane into limping but stable flight. He checked his gauges, he was leaking fuel, and fast. He thought that he may be forced to ditch in the ocean if it continued. Then, a little too late, Iriushi saw a round from Saratoga screaming in right at him. He tried to dodge, but the damage to his wing made the aircraft’s response sluggish. For a second or two, his windscreen was filled with a bright light as the shot neared him. Then, for a brief instant, he thought he felt heat.


“****, he did get our position out.” Captain Fletcher said as he stared out the transparisteel viewports on the bridge of the Saratoga. It had been fifteen minutes since the scout plane had been vaped by the number one gun turret, the Proton cannon turret farthest foreward on her bow, whose crew had since painted a prop plane silhouette on the side of the turret housing, adding to the thirteen aircraft and several ships and land batteries already taken down by that turret. Now the rest of the assault force came into view both on the scanners and above the horizon. There were more than 250 suicide planes in the group, and they were all headed straight towards Saratoga. The ARC planes hung back, keeping themselves out of the way of the assault force and out of range of the destroyer’s guns. The attackers circled the ship ominously, like vultures waiting for their prey to die. The USS Saratoga was about to face the largest and most unrelenting Kamikaze attack… in history.

(ok, I just went back and edited this post because the font was too big and I forgot the Wookiepedia reminder at the beginning and I just now figured out that BYC has an auto-censoring thingymobobitinator (<--this is now an official legitimate term because I said it is) that's so cool!)
 
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name: Zaley
code name:
appearance: pretty, dark wavy brown hair, really green eyes, tall 5.5, tanish skin
personality: tomboy, tuff, confident, nice
age: 17
gender: F
crush: none
rank: hunter
power: telepathy, invisibility, make plants grow
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other:
weapons: knife, small gun,bow
username: willowJay57
 
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I RP'd on here, but this RP's kinda dead. The OP is barely on BYC anymore.
 
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Why did this thread have to die? Why?!?!? It was a great rp!
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