[center][img]https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/44/83/ea/4483ea50d2aa34b3bacb78d1dfaff185.gif[/img][/center] [center][color=darkgray][h2]S T A R W A R S : S K I E S O F R U I N[/h2] [sub][i][url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN_CP4SuoTU]Join the Empire they said. It'll be fun they said.[/url][/i][/sub][/color][/center] [hr] [color=lightgray][center][sub][b][h3]F A S T F A C T S[/h3][/b][/sub][/center] [center][sub]▲ Star Wars Universe, Rebellion Era, 2 BBY, Opening months of the Galactic Civil War ▲ Action, adventure, drama, and all the other good stuff. ▲ Players take on the role of Echo Squadron, a tie fighter squadron know for two things mostly: achieving mission goals often determined suicidal at best and losing countless personal along the way. ▲ Character focused story. Less on the War and more on its effects on the individual cogs that make up the Imperial war machine. [/sub][/center][/color] [sub][color=darkgray] [i]P I T C H[/i] [/color][/sub] [hr] [indent][color=lightgray] [i][b]A galaxy at war![/b] The discontent bodies rising by the day in protest against the Empire have unified as the Alliance to Restore the Republic or Rebel Alliance for short. Lead by the traitorous Mon Mothma and Bail Organa, members of the Imperial Senate intent on securing power for their own nefarious deeds. The Rebel forces have begun a guerilla campaign across the galaxy, in a campaign of terror designed to cripple the Empire's infrastructure and scare its fear citizens into complacency. Shipyards and Imperial garrisons have been attacked, government buildings have been bombed and reports of hostage by nefarious rebels flock into our news room by the day. Yet the bravery of the Imperial Military knows no bounds. In the name of protecting the people and keeping the peace, the military has fully mobilized to quell the rebel incursion. From the men and woman of the Stormtrooper corps trained and disciplined as fine instruments of war. To the heroic pilots of our mobilized infantry such as the colossal ATAT. The daring and courageous pilots that take to the skies. And we cannot forget the disciplined and heroic officers and Moffs that organize brilliant battle plans. Everyday these men and women fight for the rights and safety of the fair citizens of the Empire. Honored by their communities, loved by all (the uniform's make anyone dashing), and made up of men and woman just like. Do you have what it takes to? If so ENLIST today![/i] That holovid probably sounds familiar to you. The promises of glory, wealth, a stable career might of hooked you in. Or maybe your family has a history of service, you have relatives that fought in the Clone Wars against the Separatist and later the Jedi traitors - so of course it just felt natural to sign up. Maybe you come from a well-off family and to help keep their influence in the massive bureaucracy of the Empire, they sent you one of their unimportant spare children away to join the military. Maybe your just some farm kid from some backwater in the outer rim, and don't want to die in the same boots as your father so you jumped at the first chance to see the world. Whatever it was something convinced you to sign up. You went through the academy and they found out you could fly, or at least you had the aptitude to fly. You made it through your advance flight classes without crashing and kept your grades up. Maybe you joined a club or a fraternity or something. Then you got a letter inviting you to attend Flight School. A chance to become among the best pilots that the Imperial Navy has to offer. You go and live on a training vessel for the next six months. It's hard, really hard. Most of the time you can't find time to even sleep. When the first of your cohorts dies screaming in a fireball during a live fear test against the combat drones you vomit and have nightmares for a week. By the time the tenth one rolls around you barely even blink. The TIE becomes an extension of yourself. You learn its quirks, it sounds and particulars. Somehow along the way you've gone from some kid to a weapon in the Imperial Arsenal. You learn to put the value of the equipment and vehicle ahead of your own life. You learn how to follow orders without thinking, you learn loyalty, you learn how to kill. And then just like that its over. You've graduated. Your on Coruscant, and somebodies pinning a metal, Grand Vizier was there and everything. You expected things to be easy now. Fight off the occasional pirate, patrol the Empire's shipping lanes, grow old retire and collect your pension. You didn't take the rebels into account. I mean its not that you have anything personal against them. Some of your family might even be rebels, but you have a job to do. A galaxy to protect and they are making it real hard to do that. Soon you found yourself being transferred aboard the Imperial I-class Star Destroyer [i]Tempest[/i]. A rugged and worn Star Destroyer that had been in active duty since the concluding years of the Clone Wars. The Tempest usually spent its days out in the outer rim crushing pirate kings and bringing order to dissenting colonist. More famously though its the traditional home of Echo Squadron. Your new squad. Echo Squadron has a rather infamous reputation among the Imperial Navy. Suicidal even in comparison to their cohorts, Echo gets the job done no matter what. They take on the most dangerous of missions and somehow come out alive and swinging. Their casualties rates are high especially among the new recruits dragged in to supplement their constantly falling numbers but those that stick around manage to do so with ease. They are famed for having never failed a mission, their tenacity and their unorthodox methods. And now the Tempest and by extension Echo has been recalled to Coruscant to resupply and rearm themselves before heading out to deal with high level rebel targets. Try and not die too quickly will you? Rookies don't grow on trees. [/color][/Indent] [color=darkgray][SUB][i]O O C I N F O R M A T I O N[/i][/SUB][/color] [hr] [color=lightgray] [indent]mkmkmkmkmkmkmk So if you. - Like Star Wars. - Like cool space ships. - Like generally good people fighting in a desperate struggle not only to survive, but to retain their humanity even while serving an increasingly inhumane regime. - Like fun bits - Like depressing bits - Like character focused stories - And can write at least one post a week. Maybe this is the Star Wars RP you've been waiting for. [/indent][/color]