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[lord Martiya]

I'd have to go about forming a coalition with the long-term goal of fucking the Vong in the ear when they drop in to say Hi. We know the when, we know the where, and we all hate terrible writing and also biotech wank, so that's probably one of the few things we could agree on.

Admiral White Haven, you can count on my help, the ISD Arcadia, the Acclamators Oberth, Goddard and Tsiolkovsky and my frigates. Just give me enough time to name them...

[Darth Hoth]

3 ISDs, 9 Acclamators, &c

I rush full ahead to Bakura to crush the OT heroes while they are there with a super-weak task force getting kicked by retarded sauroid aliens. Without them holding together the house of cards that the formative New Republic/Alliance of Free Planets is even now becoming, this should give the Empire all the opportunity it needs to re-establish itself, preserving order and security in the galaxy. Then, I pledge my services to Palpatine the Undying . . .

I immediately take my numerically superior fleet and ambush the fuck out of you before you can doom the galaxy to palpatine's eternal tyranny.

Ah, but since I posted first, I move first, and therefore will also arrive first, all other things being equal. A time difference of a few seconds is more than ample time to blast the Flurry and the Ssi-Ruuvi battleship (that might or might not have captured Luke by then) out of the aether, and vapourising Salidar should not take much longer . . .

OK, since this is basically at the start of the EU, we have a number of things ot ensure...

*Destroy the upstart lizzered people at Bakura.
*Ensure the continuation of the Empire withOUT the Emperor if possible (Honestly between the host of mad super weapons he goes off on, he does more to destroy the Empire then anything else)
*Pull up a list of all the Warlords who would make trouble and curbstomp them before they get too uppity.
*Assimilate the fledgling 'New Republic' into the Empire under the guise of a kinder, gentler, Palpatine free Empire.

Of course these are all things on the "Too Do" list.. right away one needs to form a nice organized collection of all our ships, sort out who owns what, reinforce fleets, and work out how we want to go about ensuring the worst aspects of the "EU" never take place.

If we look at it pragmatically, we cannot reasonably defeat Palpatine with the forces we have available; our total fleet is probably smaller than a couple of SECTGRUs as it is, even if we all agree to cooperate under a combined command (which is by no means guaranteed), and certainly cannot challenge the Empire's full might. Only a Force-user can be any real threat to him, and we have none. If, instead, we rely on the canonical heroes, they will create a mess that is every bit as big as the EU made it ("history" proves that they do it over and over again, always, regardless of what past lessons should have taught them). Better to join with the Empire and attempt to liberalise it from within. If we make ourselves useful, we should be able to rise rapidly in the hierarchy, to positions of real influence. Attempting this approach with the Empire would, quite apart from avoiding much of the devastating civil war, be much easier than trying the same with the NR, with its unparallelledly inept powder keg mixture of corrupt politicos and useless bleeding-hearts, who would fight to the last against any "undue" influence.

And of course, then we can also earn promotion to Dark Jedi rank and have Force of our own to play with. The Light Side has no comparable means of offering metaphysical power to those born without it . . .

[Darksider]

Ah, but since I posted first, I move first, and therefore will also arrive first, all other things being equal. A time difference of a few seconds is more than ample time to blast the Flurry and the Ssi-Ruuvi battleship (that might or might not have captured Luke by then) out of the aether, and vapourising Salidar should not take much longer . . .

In which case I should arrive just in time to kill you for fucking over the entire galaxy and consigning it to eternal tyranny. Either way, I'm taking your Imperial apologist ass out of the equation to prevent you from doing as much damage as possible.

[Darth Hoth]

[Tarkin]"You Rebel scum!"[/Tarkin]

Well for me that you have no interdictor vessels to keep me there, then. You did not think that I would stay and fight against hopeless odds, did you?

[Darksider]

[Tarkin]"You Rebel scum!"[/Tarkin]

Well for me that you have no interdictor vessels to keep me there, then. You did not think that I would stay and fight against hopeless odds, did you?

Do you seriously think that killing the heroes of the rebellion at bakura would make the galaxy a better place? There are several more threats they need to stop before your beloved Emperor reaches byss and takes on a new body. Or hey, how about we just use our knowledge to try and reform the New Republic so we have a competent government that isn't evil or oppressive? You know, warn them about the vong so they might actually be prepared for them. There are plenty of other options that don't consign the galaxy to eternal darkness under a tyrannical madman. If you intend to follow the latter option, then make no mistake, no matter how long it takes, I will track you down, and I will kill you.

[Crossroads Inc.]

What ARE you going on about you twit! this RAR os taking place immediately following the destruction of the DSII< Luke isn't anywhere NEAR The whole SSri area. Im proposing we take them out before the whole Balkura thing ever happens.

[NecronLord]

Again, we run slap bang into the issue of not knowing where the target is. Ssruvia (or whatever it is, their holy planet) is essentially unknown to the galaxy. Therefore it's not in your navicomp. Therefore, you're going to find it how? Throwing darts at a board?

[Thanas]

I'll go join Thrawn's command, therefore receiving knowledge of where Ssi-ruuv is located, blast it, then protect Bakura from any idiot who tries to pull things.

After that, Ryloth. Bakuran liquor and Twi-Lek dancers make for a good retirement.


[/idiot]

More realistically, I simply join Thrawn and be done with it.

[Lord Pounder]

I'll take my 12 ISD's and the support ships and party on down with the PRFY.

Failing that hide out till Thrawn emerges hand over my Fleet to Thrawn and advise him that his body guards need to be watched.

[Solauren]

I proceed to fuck the galaxy over by heading to Sulon, going to Kyle Katarn's old house, getting the map to the Valley of the Jedi, and proceed to become a Deity.

Failing that, ask the Mess if they have an opening for me....

[Kuja]

I think our best bet would be to get together and lay relatively low for awhile. Since we know that the Vong invasion is coming, and how it's going to go, we can hang out and start quietly gearing up for it - producing some war driods and readying the high-tech buckshot that was discussed in PSW a ways back.

I think the way to do this is to take a path similar to that of the Imperial Remnant; we can declare ourselves an independent state. What with us being way out on the Rim, and the amount of firepower we have guarding a relatively small sector of space, trying to hammer us would be a dicey proposition.

We can mostly keep to ourselves for some years. We know that the New Republic, despite its bungling, is going to handle the vast majority of what the galaxy can throw at it, and interefering too soon could backfire on us if we end up re-raising the Empire with Palpy at its head (jokes aside, I really don't think anyone here would really want to help a batshit-crazy Emperor Reborn run the galaxy). Instead we can sit back and make airy remarks about the possibility of friendly alliances with the Republic or with the Remnant, but never so much that one gets angry at us.

When the Vong hit, that's when we can swing into action. There are several reasons for this:

1. We have a long time to prepare for it.
2. We know that the New Republic is going to bungle the situation badly, which gives us a good opportunity to play hero.
3. The Vong are a threat orders of magnitude greater than anything we've seen yet.
4. Most impotantly, waiting some twenty-odd years to get into the picture will erase or at least ease our biggest weakness: very few of us actually know wheat the hell we're doing with these fleets, and we don't know a lot of crucial details about the Star Wars galaxy, like where the hell things are except for generalities (as has been pointed out). Two decades of practice and drills will help us learn what we need so that we don't get massacred like a bunch of idiots.

Anyway, the Vong. We know that the Vong are going to hit the New Republic hard and quickly start a drive towards the center of the galaxy. Once they're committed to this, we can advise the Remnant on the sly (since they'll be fairly close to the Vong's corridor) and then both of us can slam into the Vong's flanks and chew them up, hard. By and large, we would hold many aces in this fight and we, along with the Remnant forces might be able to make short work of them.

In the aftermath of the Vong invasion, the Republic (if it's still around) is going to look weak, divided, and foolish, while the former Imperial forces are going to be all but glowing with resurgence. At this point we can help with the arrangement of the new, relatively benign Empire seen in the comics, so long as we take care to quietly assassinate Darth Krayt (*hack*) and the rest of the new Sith (*hurk*) before they fuck it all up again.

At that point, we can pretty much retire into a life of wealth, luxury, and twi'leks as the heros who spearheaded the deafet of the galactic invaders and the men and women who helped engineer the rise of the new, glorious Empire.

[Darksider]

What ARE you going on about you twit! this RAR os taking place immediately following the destruction of the DSII< Luke isn't anywhere NEAR The whole SSri area. Im proposing we take them out before the whole Balkura thing ever happens.

Which is why i'm replying to Darth Hoth, who explicitly stated his intent to kill the heroes of the rebellion and pledge his loyalty to palpatine. Killing the Suu-ruuk and defending Bakura I have no problem with, killing the good guys, not so much.

Realistically, assuming I can stop Darth Hoth's plan to help out a maniacal sith lord, I do whatever I can to help fix the New Republic so that it isn't quite as stupid as the one in the EU. I let Luke force-scan me so he knows i'm telling the truth, then I warn them about thrawn, Warlord, Zinjsi, The reborn Emperor, and the vong.

[Crossroads Inc.]

I like this plan, I like this plan a LOT. I and my Six ISD's are full behind this and at your service.

All this talk about jumping into things right away and trying to play hero right out of the gate are more then likely just going to get us killed. The New Republic are schmucks, but "Fate" does dictate that they are going to win them without too much chaos right up until the Vong incident. I WILL say I wish I could stop the Galaxy Gun incident which, with the destruction of Byss, evidently wipes out a VAST amount of Imperial Heavy warships which would quite nice to have later on.

One other thing, it would also be nice to procure at least on or two world devastators for mass production of ships and goods. As far as I recall they were simply 'shut down' and then the New Republic destroyed them... I wonder how hard it would be to swoop in and carry one or two off without raising TOO much ire from the NR.

In the long run however, waiting till the Vong arrive to make our move is the best deal. Palps will be long dead and we can help bring about a far more stable and reasonable empire once the NR are shown to be bungling morons.

I Propose the start of a Charter, me and Kuja will be the first signers of it, dedicating our forces to a long term 20year plan to curbstop the Vong.

Oh yes, it was mentioned we have access to some fairly advanced cloning systems. I don't know about you, but I'm looking forward to a harem of Catboys and Satyrs, if they arn't too hard to genetically manufacture.

[Stark]

Wow. I'll have to look up how long it took Zor to recycle this thread topic THIS TIME.

In a few months - everyone in SDN gets... SPACESHIPS!!!!!!111

[White Haven]

Admiral White Haven submits his forces to the Yuuzhan Vong Ear-Fucking Coalition, given that it was his idea in the first place. Let's get it on.

[Batman]

I take over some resort planet or other (possibly in the CAS) and spend the rest of my life having a good time on the beach while the Galaxy by and large completely fails to care. I may wind up selling some if not all of my warships for revenue.

[RogueIce]

More realistically, I simply join Thrawn and be done with it.

Failing that hide out till Thrawn emerges hand over my Fleet to Thrawn and advise him that his body guards need to be watched.

If I remember someone quoting the DESB correctly, we have to tell him to watch out for the Reborn Emperor as well. Or find some way to prevent that little problem.

Otherwise, I'm for NecronLord's plan. Except being the Thrawn fanboy that I am, I'd do everything I can to keep him alive. Or maybe prevent Luke and Mara from killing his clone just before the Vong show up.

[Havok]

Wow. I'll have to look up how long it took Zor to recycle this thread topic THIS TIME.

In a few months - everyone in SDN gets... SPACESHIPS!!!!!!111

Dude, stop trying to out Havok my out Starking.

Somebody needs to get a tally for the force the PRFY represents. We may just be able to keep up our pirating ways, drunken on rum and redheads in SPAAAAAACE!

Also... OMG 100 TIMES THE FIRE POWER!!! all concentrated on one ship doesn't seem like any sort of advantage over 34 ships that can strike at different locations simultaneously, and who by their selves can slag most planets. And as we know, a sufficient fleet (certainly not 100 SDs worth of firepower) can destroy one SSD with well more than a two SD escort.

[Pelranius]

If we all get together (a very big if), it would be ideal to blast through to Byss and level the planet, or at least the Imperial Citadel. Byss might have very substantial defenses, but at this point it probably doesn't have much of a fleet around it, at least not enough to fend off a bunch of Executor Dreadnoughts and assorted support ships.

The big three heroes might be useful, but ideologues like Mon Mothma and Bel Iblis (probably nearly other one of note in the political leadership and the SpecForce command) will definitely have to be killed to prevent them from turning the galaxy topsy turvy in some lunatic attempt to recreate the Old Republic as they remembered it, rather just rearranging the top of the Imperial structure.

I wouldn't bother working past the incompetence of the New Republic, at least not without altering it drastically and that means we have to get rid of a lot of the top and middle management.

Same goes for COMPNOR and the like. The Advisors and aristorcrats can probably be brought into line or marginalized.

[Crossroads Inc.]

Members of the Lord Kuja Combine to Bugger the Vong:

Kuja-Twelve Imperial-class ISDs
Crossroads-Six Imperial-class ISDs
White Haven-Six Imperial-class ISDs

Who else will sign up for a long term 20yo plan to Screw over the Vong and ensure the rebirth of the Empire?

[consequences]

So, lets see what the inevitable Mess Coalition would have this week:

2 15K+

15 7.5-15K

20 2.5-7.5K

8 1K-2.5K

25 placeholders and reprobates.

So, 421 ISDs, 1267 acclamators, and 7780 lancer frigates, unless our two heavy hitters want an executor instead. Sufficient to start some trouble, or bust some heads of troublemakers I would think.

[Kuja]

Admiral White Haven submits his forces to the Yuuzhan Vong Ear-Fucking Coalition, given that it was his idea in the first place. Let's get it on.

The contribution of the good admiral is of course recognized, and it is duly noted that Operation Ear-Fuck could not have proceeded without him.

[Styphon]

I like the general idea of Operation Earfuck, but I feel like we should do more to stop Palpatine coming back and destroy/capture whatever super-weapons we can. Is the entire plan set in stone already, or can we still work out some kinks in those directions? Say some clandestine hi-jinks with clones of random bounty hunters, or something?

Considering how laughably small my force is compared to most of the others, I'll throw in with the Earfuck Coalition either way, of course.

[Questor]

I'll commit my forces to operation Earfuck as well. Then I'll sell my services to the highest bidder.

[Themightytom]

Wow. I'll have to look up how long it took Zor to recycle this thread topic THIS TIME.

In a few months - everyone in SDN gets... SPACESHIPS!!!!!!111

Dude, stop trying to out Havok my out Starking.

Somebody needs to get a tally for the force the PRFY represents. We may just be able to keep up our pirating ways, drunken on rum and redheads in SPAAAAAACE!

Also... OMG 100 TIMES THE FIRE POWER!!! all concentrated on one ship doesn't seem like any sort of advantage over 34 ships that can strike at different locations simultaneously, and who by their selves can slag most planets. And as we know, a sufficient fleet (certainly not 100 SDs worth of firepower) can destroy one SSD with well more than a two SD escort.

or even a suicidal A-wing after we lure the SSD in close to a large moon or asteroid..