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"There's gotta be something salvageable from all those Rebel fighters we shoot down" is shouted from underneath the fighter, followed by "Okay who let this kriff-head try a manual landing rather than using the auto-pilot?"

"Not really... you know how powerful our lasers are. Once their armor is gone their shield generators get toasted faster than you can say Bob Dole... Hell we have tractor beams for that..."

Vordak approaches the head mechanic as soon as he's done with the minor repair work, saying in a low tone of voice "There have to be some replacement shield generators for the Assault Shuttles and Gunboats on-hand, can't we do something with those?"

"The main problem is that these ships are extremely small, those shield generators are far to large to fit on one of these ships, we have to have shield generators specially made and that costs money. Now, if you want to cough up about 1 million credits per unit..."

"Okay, I'll capture Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa and get back to you."

Vordak spends the next few stretches of free time he has assembling information and forming a report/request that he sends to the Wing commander(or other sympathetic officer if the Wing Commander is a total schmuck), which can be summarised:
In the course of half a dozen major engagements in our current fighters, our fighter complement will be reduced by at least 2/3rds. In the meantime, from 12-20 pilots, depending upon various personnel factors, are going to be inflicting the majority of damage upon the enemy. However, given the current fragility of our fighters, several veterans will be lost at the same time as all of the rookies, while maybe a couple of rookies will achieve the requisite levels of skill to not be butchered like cattle. In addition to this, the rapid advancement of new pilots has presented a security risk, allowing a number of traitorous malcontents to inflict disproportionate harm to Imperial forces.
Equipping the core force of our fighters with shields will immediately increase our forces lethality, and survivability, as Rebel forces have statistically attacked shielded fighter to a greater extent, but not to such an extent as to offset the defensive advantage of a shielded fighter with a skilled pilot. This will distract them from the slaughter of the unshielded fighter component, allowing the rookies to score kills that would otherwise be denied to them.
Long-term, this will ease the strain upon the logistics system, cost less than continually replacing fighters, and if applied on a wide scope, will drastically reduce the viable targets presented to Rebel affiliated Pirates. The reduction in personnel movements will also signifigantly reduce our vulnerability to detection by the Rebel Intelligence apparatus, and severely curtail the opportunities available to traitorous scum.

Note, this is the summarised version, the actual document would be 20+ pages in length with appended statistics and relevant source information.
OOC, Yeah, I'm really jealous of the captain getting a Defender.
BTW, what is the actual pilot hierarchy on-board according to flying ability anyway?

OOC Probably my guy. Or at least he would like to think so. He only needs 2 more kilss to get double ace.

Ranking generally goes by numbe of kills.

OOC Well Jace has 8, 2 of which were from the last battle.

Sr.mal wrote:OOC Well Jace has 8, 2 of which were from the last battle.

OOC: your guy has Heroic surge, mine has three more Pilot Ranks, so we're probably about even on kills, since we both missed the first battle in-campaign(damned Bothan Flu).

consequences wrote:

Sr.mal wrote:OOC Well Jace has 8, 2 of which were from the last battle.

OOC: your guy has Heroic surge, mine has three more Pilot Ranks, so we're probably about even on kills, since we both missed the first battle in-campaign(damned Bothan Flu).

My guy was just hungover.