fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars [OPEN]

[sonofalderaan.livejournal.com]

Tycho was glad the squadron had so many new recruits, and he certainly didn't mind the sizable increase in his work-load that went along with it. After all, that's what his job as squadron XO was; making sure everything was organized. Still though, when it came down to it, Tycho was a pilot. He felt far more comfortable in the cockpit of a fighter than he did anywhere else.

Today, today he could use the distraction of some demanding piloting. Today, he wanted to go fast.

The sensoriums resolved themselves into the familiar hanger bay of the Mon Cal star cruiser Home One. The atmosphere was tense, buzzing with the familiar adrenaline high of before a major battle. With a grin, Tycho hoisted himself into the cockpit of his temporary ship, an A-Wing. Expertly, his fingers flicked over the controls, even as he logged into his squadron's com channel. "Green three has four lit and ready when you are," he informed Green Leader. Then they were off, forming up in a screen with the other fighters, ready to make the short jump to Endor.

Back in realspace, the fighter screen streamed towards the half finished Death Star, until there was Lando's voice on the coms, barking at them to pull back. It was a trap, the Death Star's shields were still up- even knowing it was coming, Tycho's stomach still clenched. But now, now here's where the fun part came in. He allowed himself a small smile as his craft turned to engage the oncoming wave of TIE-fighters. His A-Wing danced, his A-Wing soared, and TIE after TIE met their ends.

Tycho was a different pilot than he had been at the actual Battle of Endor 9 years earlier. He was older, more experienced. Still, he got the same joy out of flying that he always had, that same feeling of this is what I was meant to do.


[OOC: if anyone wants to come in and observe the battle, or hop in another fighter and join in, that's cool! Tycho's mostly just vapin some Imps to blow off steam. If you're not familiar with the Battle of Endor (the fight against the second Death Star) the video is here]

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[jesushasagundam]

He recognized the voice - it was the Colonel's, then. "If you wouldn't mind, sir, I'd like to start getting a feel for things."

A mental command, and the Strike Freedom suddenly turned solid, the familiar red, blue and gold hissing across its skin as the Phase Shift armor activated. Kira scanned the fracas, trying to (rather fruitlessly) find the Colonel.

Behind! He spun reflexively, seeing one of the bent-wing fighters coming his way, bearing down on him from behind - It's fast... - and drawing his beam rifle, shooting twice in rapid succession to smartly clip the wings off of the ball-like core.

[sonofalderaan.livejournal.com]

"Nice shooting," Tycho's voice came. Suddenly an A-Wing pulled up next to Kira. "I assume you have an IFF* in that thing? I'm Green Three." The A-Wing waggled its wings in greeting. "Hm," Tycho continued, "we'll give you the designation 'Blue One', if you don't mind."


"Whenever you're ready, Blue One. I'll be your wing."


*Identify Friend/Foe

[jesushasagundam]

"Understood, sir." Kira pushed the throttle to maximum, trying to keep pace with the zippy little fighter. "What's our objective?" He could roughly tell from his sensors whose side he was on - and that the massive white wedges were the enemy - but war rarely boiled down to "destroy everyone on the other side."

Green laser fire lanced toward him, and he almost lazily rolled to the side to dodge it.