Ship Command 101 (Quinn Colson)

[Jorus Merrill]

At a messy spaceport on an asteroid in the middle of nowhere, there weren't many entertainment options. People played cards or got drunk or did spice, mostly. Jorus usually preferred tinkering with old machines, and Port Mynock had plenty of those. Today, his salvage project was stripping the holobank out of an old Confederate command throne, just outside the hangar where he'd parked the Wretched Hive.

"There we go," he said with some satisfaction. He slapped the holoprojector and twisted a cable, and a holographic field hummed to life. It was staticky, but he could see the details well enough. With a flourish, he plugged a datacard into the side of the salvaged projector. Ships took form above the projector.

"This here," he said to the people who'd gathered in the asteroid tunnel, "is an old fleet command training program. On this setting, each player controls one frigate, two corvettes, and two squadrons of X-wings." He cracked his knuckles. "Anyone want to step up and challenge me?"

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[Eli-Mae Forrest]

Quinn stood towards the front of the demonstration, she had always been an outstanding fighter pilot and dog fighter but lately she had become interested in commanding a fleet. She felt this would make her a bigger asset on the galactic scene as well as it was something she wanted to do. As the man asked for any challengers she would step forward her firey red hair shining in the dim light and she would say

"Im down"

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[Jorus Merrill]

[member="Quinncolson"]

"All right, outstanding. Let's see what you've got."

He took a hydrospanner to some exposed internals and the static reduced to manageable levels. Two identical fleets took form: each had a frigate, two corvettes, and two fighter squadrons.

"Looks like we're starting at long range from each other. Since none of our ships have long-range turbolasers or hypervelocity guns, we can't shoot at each other yet, so let's see...how do I want to close this distance..."

The formation he set up was pretty standard. He put both corvettes in front of the frigate so they could interfere with fighter attacks, but moved them out to left and right so the frigate big guns could shoot straight ahead. It wasn't the best formation around, but it would give him a good idea of how his opponent thought. He kept one fighter squadron around the corvettes as a defensive screen, and held the other one back near the frigate in reserve. His ships headed toward turbolaser range.