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Posted 23 January 2009 - 11:44 PM
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Posted 26 January 2009 - 03:53 AM
Since their last adventure, our heroes have formed an official squad and successfully fought several battles for the Republic. They use a symbol that JD showed them (which represents hope in the time that he comes from) to represent themselves and even have their own ship called Fortitude. Their latest missions were small ones and nothing too challenging for them, but they are about to embark on their greatest adventure yet...
It was a peaceful morning on board the Fortitude. The group had just returned to Coruscant from a mission the day before and was now relaxing in the briefing room of their HQ ship. Oky Wan Kenobi was making some repairs and upgrades on 8P-4C while Thok and JD were polishing their guns. In a corner of the room, Jim was having a conversation with Wouwie and Bob, and at the other end of the room, Adam and Pr0 were having a friendly lightsaber duel (again).
Suddenly, the door opened and Commander Rex entered the room. "Sirs," he said, "there's an incoming transmission from the Senate. It says it's important!" "Put it on the holoprjector" said Jim. Rex pushed a button and the holographic image of Jedi master Mace Windu appeared over the table in the middle of the room. "General Windu! What can we do for you?" greeted him Jim. "I have a very important mission for you and your team, Commander Butcher" explained the Jedi master. "Several hours ago, we lost contact to one of our Jedi knights. His name is Ren Luun and the last we heard of him is that he was inspecting some "highly suspicious Separatist activity" on the moon of Trexxon. We don't know anything else. It is your mission to locate Luun and return him to Coruscant safely. He may have some very important information about the Separatists!" "Understood, general." said Jim. Windu asked: "Is your team ready to depart immediately?" "Most of us are, general Windu," Jim replied, "but we'll need to make contact with Garviel Loken; he's still stationed on Gryphon IV. Afterwards, we'll leave and meet him on Trexxon." "Very well" said Windu. "May the force be with you." And with that, the hologram disappeared. "You heard him, guys! We have to leave ASAP! Get ready and let's go! Trexxon is a jungle planet, so dress accordingly. I'll give Garviel the message." And so, they all scurried off to make preparations.
Edited by Oky Wan Kenobi, 26 January 2009 - 03:58 AM.
Posted 26 January 2009 - 05:01 PM
"Incoming message from master Windu," said Oky. Everyone quickly stopped and rushed to the hologram projector. "Jim, I forgot to mention you'll be working with a clone legion," said Windu. "Witch one?" asked Jim. "The ninety ninth," said Windu. " The commander is..." asked Jim. "Cc99901, code named Tee Bee," said Windu. "Thank you, for the information master Windu, Jim out," said Jim. "Windu...out," said master Windu. " Everyone preped" said jim. " Good lets go to Trexxon.
Posted 26 January 2009 - 07:49 PM
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Edited by Jammiedodger714, 26 January 2009 - 07:50 PM.
Posted 26 January 2009 - 09:42 PM
Adam was ripped out of his train of thought as Oky reported JD's faint over the intercom.
First post!
. . . Sorry, but I had to say something like that.
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Posted 27 January 2009 - 02:52 PM
Suddenly master Windu appeared into the holoprojector.
Windu:"We want you to keep watch over the new commander and the group, with the latest betrayals after a few incidents involving Nute Gunray, we cannot take any chances."
pr0:"Why? I trust them with my life!"
Windu:"We can trust some of them, but there are some we have questions about."
pr0:"Tee Bee is a clone, I think he will be loyal to the republic."
Yoda:"Decide he must, when the time comes."
pr0:"Why me? As in why for this mission?"
Windu:"After you turned away from the dark side and helped us, we are assured that you can help us."
pr0:"Right than, thank you."
With that pr0 bowed to the masters and the holo characters dissapeared.
pr0:"Well, time to get back to my normal business!"
pr0 went to the corridors and supprised Adam once more...
By the way, its great to be back in the second season!
Edited by pr0visorak, 27 January 2009 - 02:53 PM.
Today is the Star wars Clone wars Ryloth the trilogy!
Posted 27 January 2009 - 05:28 PM
(notice Jim in jungle gear and JD has been struggling so much his hair is messed up )
Edited by Tim Bit, 27 January 2009 - 06:35 PM.
Posted 27 January 2009 - 06:37 PM
Oky: That peice of slime!
Jim: JD, I'm sorr--
JD: Look! I don't wanna talk about it anymore. Please....
With that, JD walked out the room, leaving a worried Jim and Oky behind him.
Jim: I have never seen him like that.
Oky: Should we tell the others?
JD went into the conference room at sat down. He could not get her out of his head. Then he realized, she is still alive in this reality. Perhaps he could see her...No. We have a mission to do.
Edited by Jammiedodger714, 27 January 2009 - 06:39 PM.
Posted 28 January 2009 - 12:31 AM
He walked to the bridge, he missed his old squad. The only clone he took, was his Captain, Burns.
"Sir, awaiting orders" He said.
"Copy Captain, I'll let you know when we get any." Bob said.
"Right Sir." The captain said.
All of a sudden, Bob's communicator beeped, he took it out and read what it said.
"Hmmm, apparently we're about to leave for a jungle planet....Better go change" Bob said...
Edited by Bob the Construction Man, 28 January 2009 - 12:35 AM.
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Posted 28 January 2009 - 01:50 AM
Skulls were smashed, alliances were reforged, and fire-giants were torched.
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Posted 28 January 2009 - 02:12 AM
" Still, I don't-" Tee-Bee was interrupted by a sudden spark and shake."What in the blazes was that," said Tee-Bee. "I don't know sir it came from the moon," said an officer just as they were hit again.
"Make your way to the escape pods," Tee-Bee said as him and Terr-E joined the other clones and droids in the elevator. Tee-Bee and his men then rushed to the pods. "Come on six per pod," Tee-Bee heard an officer say as his pod door shut with a thud. "This is not good," he said as he saw blast after blast hit what used to be his ship.
Then as his Venator finally got blown apart a smaller ship took its place. "Now they get here," he said as Vulture droids started to attack his men.
Edited by Tim Bit, 28 January 2009 - 03:03 AM.
Posted 28 January 2009 - 02:34 AM
"Captain, how do you like my new jungle armor?" Bob asked.
"It's nice sir, but doesn't the red stick out?" Burns asked.
"This helmet was given to me so many years ago, besides, doesnt the white stick out?" Bob said.
"Good point sir." the Captain said.
Bob headed toward the others, to see their new outfits...
Next comes an escape pod I made...
Edited by Bob the Construction Man, 28 January 2009 - 02:35 AM.
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Posted 28 January 2009 - 02:40 AM
Is this to big?
Commander jifel limped into a small tent propped up against a massive tree.
Inside, Jedi Master Ren Luun crouched beside a clone engineer fiddling with a battered comm unit.
"Any luck, sir?"
"Afraid not, commander."
Dejected, jifel tossed helmet into the corner. "We are running low on supplies, do you want me to take a few soldiers out to hunt for food?"
Ren turned around. "No!! We cant risk discovery, its a miracle the clankers havent found us already!"
"Alright sir." jifel ducked out of the tent, when Ren halted him with a fading voice. "wait... something has just left hyperspace... for good or ill, someone is coming."
Edited by jifel, 29 January 2009 - 02:04 AM.
Posted 28 January 2009 - 09:34 AM
The door to Adam's quarters swooshed open and Oky entered the room. "Alright, what is it?" he asked. "I already told you," said Adam. "The holoprojector is doing something weird! There is blue light but no message or anything." Oky rolled his eyes at the lack of technical terms in Adam's description of the problem. Then, he turned toward the holoprojector. Oky wasn't a speciallist in holoprojectors, but he knew enough about that technology to know that this wasn't normal. He bent down to the projector, removed a plate on it, and started poking around its insides. After a while, he said: "Strange. Everything seems to be working fine. The problem must be that the signal we are receiving is very weak. Maybe there is something wrong with the holo-transmitter of the person who is trying to contact us. Hm... maybe if I just turn up the frequency and do some adjustments here... and here..."
All of a sudden, an unstable image formed inside the spot of blue light. It was very hard to make out who it was, but it seemed to be a Jedi. Then, they could here a voice. It said: "... Hello?.... anybody... hear me?... This... Ren Luun... and... mander Jifel... under attack!... discovered... Dooku... searching for something... Need... backup..." Then, the connection broke up.
The two took a deep breath. "Woah!" said Adam. "That was the guy we are looking for! And he's trouble!" "Yeah, but more importantly, he seems to know something about Count Dooku's latest plan," said Oky Wan. "I wonder what that scumbag is up to this time." "I think we'll find out soon enough," said Adam." C'mon, we gotta tell Jim!" Oky agreed, so they rushed out of the room and toward the bridge. When they got there, they both said: "Jim! Jim! We have to tell you something!" "Later," said Jim with a busy look on his face, "we're about to arrive at the Trexxon system." And sure enough, the blue hyperspace tunnel outside the window disappeared and the planet of Trexxon and its green moon took its place...
Edited by Oky Wan Kenobi, 28 January 2009 - 09:35 AM.
Posted 28 January 2009 - 01:49 PM
Posted 28 January 2009 - 01:58 PM
THe planet was full of ships crashing and seperatists fleets shooting all ove rthe place. The ship shaked as it continued to get shot.
Jim:"You know we have guns! We can fire back anytime now!"
pr0:"I was about to suggest that..."
pr0 took the controls and started blasting droids on by one.
Oky:"Jim! Its about the mission! We found the target and he is in trouble! We need to extract him now!"
Jim:"Cant you see we are in our own mess!"
pr0:"Guys we got a pod approaching!"
Adam:"Is it one of ours?"
pr0:"Dunno but I lowered the shields and he is coming in, we are going to find out soon enough..."
Today is the Star wars Clone wars Ryloth the trilogy!
Posted 28 January 2009 - 04:57 PM
Posted 28 January 2009 - 08:03 PM
"Can you guys fix this thing?" Bob asked.
"No sir! It's hard to fix!" Some clones answered.
Bob started to fix the engine, but it was rather difficult. This will be hard Bob thought...
Sorry if there is no engine room like that, however I like it...
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Posted 29 January 2009 - 02:44 AM
trooper alpha-996 walked up to the light tank, a ready blaster held loosely at his hip.
"Sir, do you want me take over watch?"
Wearily, jifel turned and stooped his head to remove his helmet. When possible, he preferred face to face conversations. At the prescice moment his head bowed in a life saving move, a blaster bolt tore through the air with an ionised crack that singed his brown hair.
Jifel leaped, tackling the clone and rolled, drawing a commando pistol and squeezing of a spray of lasers that blackened the damp tree trunks that loomed through the misty night.
Silence. There was no movement, but there was heat, like a fired blaster. Exactly like a blaster.
Jifel studied it, and saw the faintest red glow in the shape of a stealth droid covered in a chilling material.
As a smile crept over his still helmeted face, he squeezed the triiger, once, twice, and a sapling toppled in the droids ditch.
Jifel grinned and sprinted over to the ditch, leaping and pivoting in a single fluid motion that left his gun pointed at a trapped droids bttered faceplate. He took the silent approach, snapping its metal neck around and severing the control wires.
Knowing he had to give word to General Ruun, he was in too much of a hurry to see the assassin droids above.
Posted 29 January 2009 - 03:25 PM
Adam:"Zip it and continue shooting those droids! We cant let them destroy this ship!"
pr0:"Well we are going to go down one way or another..."
The ship was covered with fire as it entered the atmosphere.
Jim:"I cant control this thing!"
Oky:"Give me a try!"
Oky pushed Jim away as he started to bring the ship under control, with the nose of the ship pointing towards the groung it was obvious that it wanst going to be a smooth landing...
In the engine room...
Bob:"Connect the blue wire to the blue wire and the green wire to the green wire..."
Clone:"Are you fixing it sir or playing with colors?"
Bob:"You just let me worry about the details!"
Back in the bridge...
pr0 got out of the gunner seat and started reading the damage report.
pr0:"We need to lift this ship up a bit!"
Adam:"Oky is trying but he cant seem to get it done!"
pr0:"Well than hurry!"
Their fates were approaching soon as the ship flew pass the atmosphere and into the sky...
Today is the Star wars Clone wars Ryloth the trilogy!
Posted 29 January 2009 - 06:13 PM
"Garviel out," Garviel replied and turned off the holo projector. He walked over to the clone commander. "I'm going to need my Ship, Commander, any idea what Trexxon is like?"
"Jungle planet, I think... never been." He pressed several buttons on his wrist "Ship on its way as well. The clankers are running out of troopers now, ever since you vaped that ammo dump."
Moments later, a wedged shaped fighter appeared in the sky and landed on the courtyard outside "Hello R3" Garviel smiled to the astromech droid in fighter "Lets get them out of trouble again,"
He climbed in and took off...
Edited by simonjedi, 29 January 2009 - 06:31 PM.
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Posted 29 January 2009 - 07:56 PM
JD: Guys, let me do this. I had one of these in the future...in fact it was almost exactly like this one!
Jim: GAH! *BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP* We lost secondary right engine!
The Fortitude began to spin out of control.
JD: Thats it! Oky, pull the levers down on the right! Jim! Turn on the boost to the remaining right engine!
Jim: Are you crazy?! We'll crash!
Jim activated the boost and the ship shot forward and staightened out.
Jim: PULL UP OKY!
Oky: I can't!
The ship suddenly slowed sending Jim and JD flying forward. Jim landed in a box of grenades and JD smashed his head on the control panel. The ship landed on some dense shrubs which softened the landing, but the Fortitude skidded. Oky saw the ravine ahead and flick all the power off buttons. The ship was so close to the edge. Oky ducked and held his head. The rumbling stopped. After a few seconds Oky slowly peered out of the cockpit. It looked like he was floating, but really the ship was slightely overhanging the ravine. Oky turned and saw Jim consumed in a pile of grenades. Oky rushed over to Jim.
Oky: You okay?
Jim: Yes, I think so.
They got up and looked around.
Jim: Not much damage in here...wait, where is JD?
They looked down and saw JD lying in the doorway, in a pool of blood.
Jim: MED DROID!
Oky knelt by JD.
Oky: Dammit not again! JD? JD wake up!
Jim: The Med. droid is in pieces.
Oky: I got a bandage.
Oky wrapped it round JD's head. After lying him in his bed, Jim started to hear him talking.
JD: Death Star....Palpatine....TRAITOR! The clones killed them all! No...it's Darth Vader! Not now!
Jim: What? What is it JD? Oky, come here quickly!
Oky: What is it?
Jim: Listen to him. He keeps on saying this...
JD: Death Star....Palpatine....TRAITOR! The clones killed them all. Darth Vader is here! Run, quick!
Oky and Jim listened intently.
Oky: Could he mean Chancellor Palpatine?
Jim: No idea....
JD sat up and yelled:
JD breathed quickly, oblivious to what he had been saying.
JD: What the?! Not again!
*he saw Jim and Oky looking at him in thought.*
What did I say, guys?
Jim: I think you know more than we do.
JD fell silent.
Edited by Jammiedodger714, 29 January 2009 - 09:38 PM.
Posted 29 January 2009 - 08:39 PM
Wouwie: ''Everybody ok- What the hell happened here?!''
Jim: ''JD crashed into the door!''
Rex: ''I'll get a medic here!''
And Rex running to the med bay.
Wouwie: ''And who the hell was flying this thing?! I'll make sure he gets an fast course ''Flying an damaged ship''!''
Oky: ''Erm...It was Jim and me at controls, JD commanding us!''
Wouwie: ''Hmmm...I'll make contact with the Jedi Council. I'll send some clones and droids to scout the area for enemy activity.''
Jim: ''Do that Wouwie, we'll keep an eye on JD.''
Computer voice: *Beep beep beep* ''Incoming message form the med bay''
Rex: ''No-one is here! All the droids are in pieces! Oky, do you think you can repair one?''
Oky: ''Erm...What class droids are that?''
Rex: ''The body said ''XD-569A''.''
Oky: ''Hmm..That will be a tough one...I'll do my best!''
Wouwie: ''Jim, Oky? Should I get some back-up?''
Posted 29 January 2009 - 09:33 PM
He got up and pressed the door open button. It opened slowly, and some sparks flew as it did so.
He noted his Clone Captain over by the engine, and he woke him up.
"Urghgg--Commander?" The Captain asked.
"Yeah, I'm here. We should probably head up to the bridge to see where we are." Bob said.
"Where ever we are, it won't be good...I don't like this at all." The captain said.
Bob went on to go and make note of the dead, and to wake up the unconscious ones. Then he went up to the bridge, to take in his new jungle surroundings.
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Posted 29 January 2009 - 09:38 PM
JD thought what he could have said. Could he have told them about the future?
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