Speed and Accuracy, or Power and Safety, the choice is yours
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- Darth Mortis
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Speed and Accuracy, or Power and Safety, the choice is yours
Okay Gentlemen,
You have just been "accepted" into the Empire along with all the young males of Earth (it was that or a BDZ).
Upon completion of your initial training, you have qualified as either a Tie interceptor pilot or a the controller of a heavy turbo laser battery on the executer, and the decision must be made now.
What do you choose and why?
I myself would go for the Pilot position, I like to be in control of my own destiny, but the thought of raining heavy TL's on a Mon Calamari cruiser sounds fulfilling.
You have just been "accepted" into the Empire along with all the young males of Earth (it was that or a BDZ).
Upon completion of your initial training, you have qualified as either a Tie interceptor pilot or a the controller of a heavy turbo laser battery on the executer, and the decision must be made now.
What do you choose and why?
I myself would go for the Pilot position, I like to be in control of my own destiny, but the thought of raining heavy TL's on a Mon Calamari cruiser sounds fulfilling.
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well. I KNOW the executor goes down... so I suppose I would pikc the TIE intercewptor, mayvbe I will be good enough to be called Alpha 1 and get placed in a Tie Defender
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Lets see....... several meters of durasteel and shielding with a gun capable of leveling small cities in a single blast, or a unshielded metal ball with two anti-fighter Laser cannons.
I like job insurance, Gunner for me.
I like job insurance, Gunner for me.
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I'd pick the gunner station easily, just so I could explore every inch of that big, grand, dagger-like ship that we all know as Executor with relative safety to boot.
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An Interceptor is a unshield metal ball with four anti-fighter laser cannons, In fact up to 10 guns can be argued for it.Pure Sabacc wrote:Lets see....... several meters of durasteel and shielding with a gun capable of leveling small cities in a single blast, or a unshielded metal ball with two anti-fighter Laser cannons.
I like job insurance, Gunner for me.
I'd take a starfighter. Easier to jump ship and join the Alliance to Restore the Republic that way
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Having lived aboard aircraft carriers for 4.5 years I'm going to be a gunner on the Executor.
It might be a big ass target but it's well protected and everything else in it's battle group is likely to be sacrificed in protecting it if need be.
I guess I've never been quite fast and accurate enough at anything that I'd feel that my odds of surviving in the Imperial Military would be greater by being a Tie pilot. I'd be one of those guys who does pretty well for awhile doing almost everything right. The almost part being the killer. I'd likely get killed by an asteroid hitting my ship or some crazy rebel ramming my Tie as he goes down in flames.
It might be a big ass target but it's well protected and everything else in it's battle group is likely to be sacrificed in protecting it if need be.
I guess I've never been quite fast and accurate enough at anything that I'd feel that my odds of surviving in the Imperial Military would be greater by being a Tie pilot. I'd be one of those guys who does pretty well for awhile doing almost everything right. The almost part being the killer. I'd likely get killed by an asteroid hitting my ship or some crazy rebel ramming my Tie as he goes down in flames.
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Wing tip guns, right. Forgot about that.Crazedwraith wrote:An Interceptor is a unshield metal ball with four anti-fighter laser cannons, In fact up to 10 guns can be argued for it.Pure Sabacc wrote:Lets see....... several meters of durasteel and shielding with a gun capable of leveling small cities in a single blast, or a unshielded metal ball with two anti-fighter Laser cannons.
I like job insurance, Gunner for me.
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Stanislav Petrov- The man who saved the world
Hugh Thompson Jr.- A True American Hero
"In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope." - President Barack Obama
"May fortune favor you, for your goals are the goals of the world." - Ancient Chall valediction
Stanislav Petrov- The man who saved the world
Hugh Thompson Jr.- A True American Hero
"In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope." - President Barack Obama
"May fortune favor you, for your goals are the goals of the world." - Ancient Chall valediction
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