Wonder who that is, Rosa thinks as her cabin door chimes. As far as she knew, none of her family was supposed to be anywhere close to her. The newly promoted woman walks to the door and answers it.
__________________ "Sometimes things must be broken in order to be rebuilt." --Sith Proverb.
"Thank you sir. I'll try not to be too Corellian for you to handle." the young woman replied the ghost of a smirk on her lips. She was wearing a flightsuit in the colors of the Corellian Expeditionary Force attached to the 3rd Fleet, and had a helmet tucked under her left arm.
"Not my problem. I'm sure Lt. Gelian can handle a pilot after his own heart." Cmdr. Cyn said. Gellian had come over with Cyn from the light cruiser Tatooine, where Cyn was exec and Gellian a flight leader -- it was almost a lateral move to their new jobs, except that Taelros was one of the first ships of a new class.
Starship names
Generally, Republic battleships are named after ideals -- Freedom, Justice, etc. Heavy cruisers are generally generals and admirals -- one is the Admiral Ackbar. Light cruisers are generally planets. And frigates can be anything, but are usually named after non-flag officers of distinction.
Wonder who that is, Rosa thinks as her cabin door chimes. As far as she knew, none of her family was supposed to be anywhere close to her. The newly promoted woman walks to the door and answers it.
"Lt. Gelian can you tell me about the Squadron? Our designation... my designation and wing? I'd also like to go over my fighter if I can, hate to trust my life to a ship I haven't looked over and a crew I haven't met...not that I would expect anything but perfect condition from a Republic fighter but..." Istara trailed off with a shrug, there was a limit to bravado, and if she was going to get herself dead, the Corellian in her wanted it to be because the other guy was just that good, not because a part hadn't been serviced.
"I'd also like to start getting checked out on my fighter if you'll authorize some flight time for me."
OOC: Persuasion = 20 (Taking 10) to build up some good will for this if needed.
"Lt. Gelian can you tell me about the Squadron? Our designation... my designation and wing? I'd also like to go over my fighter if I can, hate to trust my life to a ship I haven't looked over and a crew I haven't met...not that I would expect anything but perfect condition from a Republic fighter but..." Istara trailed off with a shrug, there was a limit to bravado, and if she was going to get herself dead, the Corellian in her wanted it to be because the other guy was just that good, not because a part hadn't been serviced.
"Sorry to disappoint you, but we're just F187.2 right now. New group, new fighters, half of them seem to be just out of school, and no one's had too much to drink one night and named the squad yet. Unless one of the kids managed to behind my back." The Twi'lek said. If you knew anything about Twi'leks, you'd guess he was in his mid to late thirties, which was a bit old to be a Lt., especially in the New Republic Navy. But something about him said there was a story behind that.
"Shorhynn keeps shooting ideas down." One of the pilots volunteered.
Shryiiwook
"Then come up with something fit for warriors."
A Wookiee standing next to a P-Wing, presumably Shorhynn, roared.
"I figure we'll find our names when we've seen action," Zenith volunteers, a little shy in the unexpected presence of another Jedi. Though she hadn't thought of it that way, she'd come to rather enjoy the sense of 'mystique' that surrounded her as a Jedi, even if she didn't really encourage it. Now that bubble was burst, and the game was over. Ah well.
"True names are earned, not just randomly picked."
Storm taps a datapad thoughtfully with his claw and snarls at it couple of times. "I'll revise tomorrow's schedule in the evening. I think we can reassing a part of every shift to do extra missile drills. Now if you'll excuse me ma'am, I'd like to go and evaluate the performance of the current shift."
OOC
Need to ask another question about ranks. If I understood correctly, Storm is in charge of the day to day activity of the gunnery stations, taking care that each station is manned, looking over shoulders during drills etc.? And drawing up schedules for superiors to accept . And ofcourse being part of one shift himself 'cause he likes to take active part of manning the stations.
"I can agree with that sentiment." Istara tells the wookie, although unable to do so in his own language, she understands the barks and growls of the language readliy enough. She looks back at the Squadron commander.
"We're not even one of the standard designations like Gray Squadron or Green Squadron? Guess that they really wanted to give you an open field to name us." the Corellian mused, giving some of the standard names that new squadrons used before choosing their final designation.
"What are the flight assignments? Wing pairs and three flights of four fighters or 4 flights of shield trios? And which flight am I with?"
"We're not even one of the standard designations like Gray Squadron or Green Squadron? Guess that they really wanted to give you an open field to name us." the Corellian mused, giving some of the standard names that new squadrons used before choosing their final designation.
"I don't like going by numbers either, but you have to understand the scale we're working on here. Consider that every frigate has a fighter squadron. Every light cruiser has three squadrons. Every heavy cruiser has six. Every battleship has twelve. And with three battleships, 9 heavy cruisers, 27 light cruisers, and 81 frigates in a standard Republic fleet, that means there are 252 starfighter squadrons just in Third Fleet. And that's not counting your mother's task force -- which is about half the deployable strength of the Corellian Navy, but it's about 1/3rd of a New Republic Fleet."
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"What are the flight assignments? Wing pairs and three flights of four fighters or 4 flights of shield trios? And which flight am I with?"
"Has to be four trios, doesn't it? We need the P-Wings in groups of at least three to threaten anything bigger than a gunboat. You're with Zenith and me in the lead flight. Don't let it get to your head." He said.
When Sarcia and the engineering rating she was working with were just about done solving his problems with a power coupling, she got yet another page. This one was from the captain, though. Commander Cyn wanted her to show the new exec around the ship, and give an overview of what it could do.
Sarcia sighed. The last thing she needed was to play tour guide to the new exec. But it did come from the commander so she would make the best of it. She made her way to the exec's quarters and rang the door chime.
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Wonder who that is, Rosa thinks as her cabin door chimes. As far as she knew, none of her family was supposed to be anywhere close to her. The newly promoted woman walks to the door and answers it.
Sarcia saluted. "Lieutenant Targon reporting at Commander Cyn's request!" She notes the shiny new lieutenant commander's insignia. "I believe I am to give the lieutenant commander a tour of the ship and an overview of her capabilites!" She continues to hold the salute until Lieutenant Commander Merridon returns the salute.
Istara grimaces at mention of her mother and her mother's fleet. "Are we all flying P-wings or are 3 trios in E-wings with the fourth in P-wings." She couldn't keep a small touch of derision out of her voice at the prospect of flying one of the bombers. Her godmother might be brilliant and all, and they certainly were useful, but it wasn't her god mother that had to drive the lumbering things.
It seemed silly to her to break up a squadron into two different kinds of fighters if you could keep everyone in the same thing and attach a flight group of 4 P-wings. It'd let you divy up the squadron with 4 fighters protecting the P-wings, 4 protecting the ship from enemy fighters, and the last 4 going after the enemy's own bombers.
Istara grimaces at mention of her mother and her mother's fleet. "Are we all flying P-wings or are 3 trios in E-wings with the fourth in P-wings." She couldn't keep a small touch of derision out of her voice at the prospect of flying one of the bombers. Her godmother might be brilliant and all, and they certainly were useful, but it wasn't her god mother that had to drive the lumbering things.
"Nine E-Wings -- the new Corellian attack fighters that you've probably trained with have a few pluses and few minuses compared to them, and the same goes for the latest TIEs the Imperials are putting out, though their stock birds are still old TIE Interceptors -- and 3 P-Wings, so we've got a dozen pilots and six gunners in the squadron."
"More gunners than P-wings? I guess the 3 extra gunner's work with the ship's gunnery crews or do they man a recovery craft's guns?" Istara says with a nod, assimilating the information that she was almost certainly in an E-wing.
"Right then, with your permission I'd like to go get to know the crew servicing my fighter then, unless we have a briefing comng up...Do you know how long it'll be before we are considered fully operational and assigned to duty?"
"More gunners than P-wings? I guess the 3 extra gunner's work with the ship's gunnery crews or do they man a recovery craft's guns?" Istara says with a nod, assimilating the information that she was almost certainly in an E-wing.
"Two gunners per bomber. They're not the easiest birds to handle, and they carry more weaponry than anything else their size, even when they're out of missiles."
OOC
The K-Wing, which the P-Wing was built instead of, had a pilot and three gunners. The P-Wing is a three-man craft; it's designed to be crewed by two gunners and a pilot.
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"Right then, with your permission I'd like to go get to know the crew servicing my fighter then, unless we have a briefing comng up...Do you know how long it'll be before we are considered fully operational and assigned to duty?"
"All the crew's here, and the ship doesn't seem to be falling apart on us, so within the next few days we'll probably be officially attached to 3rd Fleet... and unofficially off to some remote corner of the galaxy. This is the 187th Frigate Group, after all." He said.
"A few days doesn't leave much time for everyone to get familiar with a new class of starship...do you know what the likelyhood is of this first cruise being a shakedown cruise instead of a combat tour?" Istara asks, then shrugs, watever happened happened. It didn't leave much time to get her checked out on the fighter though, used to as she was Corellian designs.
"How do the E-wings handle? I know they are fast, but do they have any quirks not in the specs?"
Sarcia sighed. The last thing she needed was to play tour guide to the new exec. But it did come from the commander so she would make the best of it. She made her way to the exec's quarters and rang the door chime.
Sarcia saluted. "Lieutenant Targon reporting at Commander Cyn's request!" She notes the shiny new lieutenant commander's insignia. "I believe I am to give the lieutenant commander a tour of the ship and an overview of her capabilites!" She continues to hold the salute until Lieutenant Commander Merridon returns the salute.
"Thank you, Lt. Targon," Rosa says with a quick return of a salute. "Lead on."
__________________ "Sometimes things must be broken in order to be rebuilt." --Sith Proverb.
"Thank you, Lt. Targon," Rosa says with a quick return of a salute. "Lead on."
Sarcia nods and then proceeds to give the lieutenant commander the full tour while explaining the ship's capabilities. It was a good thing she had been reading up on the technical specifications.
"A few days doesn't leave much time for everyone to get familiar with a new class of starship...do you know what the likelyhood is of this first cruise being a shakedown cruise instead of a combat tour?" Istara asks, then shrugs, watever happened happened. It didn't leave much time to get her checked out on the fighter though, used to as she was Corellian designs.
"How do the E-wings handle? I know they are fast, but do they have any quirks not in the specs?"
Zenith pipes up at that.
"They're really sensitive in manuevers," she claims. "More than you'd think for such a heavy fighter. You have to baby the control stick and have a steady hand or you can get into a tumble in no time. Also, the E-wings have a lot more torpedos than older fighters, so your engagement range is longer. It's not just a dogfighter like the X-wings."
She considers, thinking on the practice runs.
"I haven't flown live-fire in an E-wing yet, but I think you'll really have to pay attention to the wings. You've got both engines and most of your weapons way out to the side there outside armor, so you reeeeeeally don't want to take a hit past your shields there. The fuselage is actually pretty heavily armored, so you can take hits there if you have to. Sort of the opposite of the X-wings really, where a wing hit was no big deal, but a hit on the main body was bad news."
"Oh, and your astromech can't see outside the ship in that socket, which isn't a big deal, but it might come up."
"I'd disagree with the assement that an X-wing was a just anything. They had two Proton Torpedo tubes to the E-wings one tube, even if the E-wing has a greater capacity. The same with the upgraded HLAFs that the Corellian Navy uses. They are pretty similair to the E-wing in cross section and armament though like I said the HLAFs have two Torpedo tubes giving them a bit more punch. I think the biggest difference between them is the sopistication of the E-wings computer's making it more responsive and the ship's targetting package."
"So...where were you guys heading before I showed up?"
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Sarcia nods and then proceeds to give the lieutenant commander the full tour while explaining the ship's capabilities. It was a good thing she had been reading up on the technical specifications.
OOC: The idea was to give a few PCs a chance to talk, and you could swing by the pilots in the hangar or Storm on the bridge if you wanted to...
. And ofcourse being part of one shift himself 'cause he likes to take active part of manning the stations.
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