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The War Diary of a Crewer: 2370-2373
A fanfic by
Mark Sheppard

July 1st, 2370:
Today I arrived at Kuat, as per my orders. The
entire planet is devoted to one thing, and one
thing only, the Drive Yards. The entire planet's
economy revolves around it. As KDY goes, so does
Kuat the planet.

My shuttle took the long route around The Yard, as
everyone speaks of it here. Talking to one of the
shuttle pilots, I learned that his family has worked
for KDY for the last thirty generations.

There is a big buzz in the Navy. Rumor has it some
thing BIG is opening up, and that the Navy will be
expanded even further than it was under the first Five
Year Plan under Palpie.

I know I'm not supposed to even HAVE a diary in the
first place, thanks to all these asinine new regulations,
but I have this...well...feeling that whatever's happening
here is gonna be big.

Real big.

I just hope I don't die in the process of seeing it.

July 2nd, 2370

I don't believe what I just saw. While I was getting my
issued items, I happened to look outside a porthole and
saw not just one, but FIVE unfinished Executor-class
ships out in The Yards.

We only have three of those monsters in the Navy, and
they want five more?

July 3rd, 2370

Today was a big day. Lord Vader himself arrived at
around 0300 this morning, and rumor has it he killed
Admiral Sarn for not giving him a honor guard when he
arrived that morning.

I sure hope I don't get assigned to the Executor.

July 4th, 2370

Me and a bunch of other guys recieved their assignments
today. We were all assigned to the ISS Corruptor. At first,
we weren't sure what we had just gotten assigned to, and
when we saw our ship from the shuttle window, we were all in
shock, because the Imperators are the elite ships of the Navy.

Only the Executors are more prestigious, and here are a bunch
of guys off farm worlds stepping onto one of the most powerful
warships ever built in the history of civilization!

MORE!!!

Wow. Very nice, Shep. I hope to see more of this.

verilon wrote:Wow. Very nice, Shep. I hope to see more of this.

This is meant to be a sort of quickie fic that I can write new parts for rather
quickly in a diary format, as a way of showing us all what the average
deckman thinks of the War.

I need to work on IP/PC/Division now.....so don't expect any updates right
at this moment..this was a fic idea that I had percolating in my SECRET
FANFIC ARCHIVE OF DOOM!

I like it Shep. It's very real.

Kuat had seven planets, then it suddenly lost three(Heh woops guess they where mined out or somthing) and now at present Cannoincly it has Five Planets, Four for Ship Assembly plus a pleasure world(Number five) Thats Kuat only as they don't want the Workers leaving the system(And possible leaving with Kuat Secrets) to go vactation elsewhere

Mr Bean wrote:Kuat had seven planets, then it suddenly lost three(Heh woops guess they where mined out or somthing) and now at present Cannoincly it has Five Planets, Four for Ship Assembly plus a pleasure world(Number five) Thats Kuat only as they don't want the Workers leaving the system(And possible leaving with Kuat Secrets) to go vactation elsewhere

All of the work is done in giant space yards orbiting the planets, though.

All of the work is done in giant space yards orbiting the planets, though.

Along with Deepdocks
However some ships(Frigits come to mind as well as parts of SD) are build in sections which ARE built on the ground so your story still is fine as is your statment(Nitpick more than anything else)

ISS?

What does that mean?

It should be HIMS [name].

His Imperial Majesty's Ship

Ever going to finish any of your other half dozen odds fics?

Sea Skimmer wrote:Ever going to finish any of your other half dozen odds fics?

That would be going against ASVS tradition

Seriously, when I get the "feel" and time to write endings

July 5th, 2370

Yesterday was spent recieving our assignments and drawing our
supplies from the ship's quartermaster, much as we would if
the Corruptor was like a planetary base, which in a way it is.

First we had to go to the paymaster's office, and notify him
that we were now assigned to the ship, and activicate our
accounts on the ship, which we'll use to buy luxury foods
and other goods on the ship's small shopping mall.

I find it still hard to believe that there is actually a kriffing
shopping mall on a starship, but there it is; a rather decently
sized one - sure does improve morale, being able to buy
cheesy trinkets.

Once our accounts had been activicated we went to the ship's
Housing Officer, who then assigned us to our quarters. We
all were assigned to the same housing block: 4356AA.

After that, we went over to the quartermaster and pulled
our supplies like personal toiletry items, our mattresses
and blankets, and other minor items.

We then went to 4356AA with the other new arrivals who
had been assigned to that block, and we set up our
beds and placed our personal effects inside the lockers
mag-welded to the undersides of our bunks.

Everything we own has to fit inside that locker, including
our uniforms, toiletries, and personal effects such as
books, weapons, etc. It may sound harsh at first,
but you get used to it, and you learn important lessons
on what is important and what isn't.

At 1200 hours, we were all marched off from our quarters
to one of the many mess halls aboard the Corruptor, where
we ate the standard Navy fare, which while not exactly
a gourmet meal, isn't survival rations.

Everyone of course, buys their own spices to make the food
palpatable; and this is the Navy's biggest secret; they make
a profit off selling us all the spices through the ship's PX.

After lunch, we were marched to our assigned assembly halls,
where we were assigned our first duties aboard the Corr-

Shit, an officer is coming! Gotta stop writing!

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Okay!

I have decided to make this fanfic a completely open fanfic, that everyone
can add to.

With three years and over 1,000+ possible journal entries with which
to write, I think everyone is going to be able to get a shot at this,
lol!

The next lucky individual after this gets to write in the names
of our intrepid group of crewers, as well as their Military Occupational
Speciality, by continuing the journal entry after the officer finishes
his inspection tour of the barracks.

Some Visual Ideas:

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Officers Mess Hall

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Crew Mess Hall

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Typical Imperial Rec Room

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/rcrierie/ ... Living.gif
Officer's Living Quarters

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/rcrierie/ ... Living.gif
Crew Living Quarters

*Stumbles into the room*

What's this now? Your going to have to explain what the bases of you year dating systems is so I can get oriented. But I am intrested in continuing the story.

Sea Skimmer wrote:*Stumbles into the room*

What's this now?

You can continue the story and make yourself the hero!

MKSheppard wrote:

Sea Skimmer wrote:*Stumbles into the room*

What's this now?

You can continue the story and make yourself the hero!

It will be done, now answer the question I edited in so I can get to work.

Sea Skimmer wrote: It will be done, now answer the question I edited in so I can get to work.

I'm using our Calendar measurment system to make it more
accessible to our readers. Consider this a "translated" story.

Ie, a year is 365 days, and 24 hours are in a day, and we have
12 months named after roman gods

MKSheppard wrote:

Sea Skimmer wrote: It will be done, now answer the question I edited in so I can get to work.

I'm using our Calendar measurment system to make it more
accessible to our readers. Consider this a "translated" story.

Ie, a year is 365 days, and 24 hours are in a day, and we have
12 months named after roman gods

That was clear enough. What I'd like to know is what year is it? How many years before or I assume after Yavin?

Pretty good Shep, it's a pretty interesting angle. I haven't read too many fics from the little guys perspective.

Sea Skimmer wrote: That was clear enough. What I'd like to know is what year is it? How many years before or I assume after Yavin?

A while after Yavin yeah. Just after the first Executor was comissioned.

Pretty kickass.

MKSheppard wrote:

Sea Skimmer wrote: That was clear enough. What I'd like to know is what year is it? How many years before or I assume after Yavin?

A while after Yavin yeah. Just after the first Executor was comissioned.

Executor's first mission was to attack Yavin. I'll assume maybe a year or so after, which lets Endor be an option for the last entry. Specifics beyond that don’t matter for what I had in mind.

Now Skimmer shall present his first part, to be renown for its crap as a result of being wirtten in five minutes while I ate.

July 5th, 2370

Craft maintenance. We could have gotten a lot worse they say, but I'm not real big on handling fuel and ordinance. Back in training one guy had a bad suit in a decon drill. Stuff took his skin off down to the bone. Lucky it was only a forearm.

Chief Schmidt's in charge of our crew, where assigned to one of the new Starwings. I don't know where the recruiters found him. We all came up to him to report for duty and he drew a blaster on us, demanded to know our plan of action was if he was a rebbey infiltrator.

He then took the next half hour to instruct us on how to use a hydrospanner against hostile war driod boarders. I think that freaked out Noor pretty well. He's okay I guess, didn't get angry when we had to get the boat ready for alert and someone forgot to yank one of the arming pins on a missile. But I don't think that's gonna last.

After eight hours of it was back to 4356AA at 2100 hours before we go to eat in the hall and get a little rec time. Getting late now, lights out in five and I've got to go.

Sea Skimmer wrote:Now Skimmer shall present his first part, to be renown for its crap as a result of being wirtten in five minutes while I ate.

It's actually quite good. Very good.

MKSheppard wrote:

Sea Skimmer wrote:Now Skimmer shall present his first part, to be renown for its crap as a result of being wirtten in five minutes while I ate.

It's actually quite good. Very good.

Really? That is indeed good. And now my personal appearance in the fic is assured.

I opened it up for you all to add to, and the only guy who took 5 minutes
to add to it (it's not hard, really) is Sea Skimmer....If you want to see
more of this, WRITE IT.