(The Smarts-class Primary Command Sphere)

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The universe exploded into existence around Smarts, stars coalescing out of the dark void he stared into, then, suddenly, there appeared a planet immediately in front of him. Smarts accelerated forward, leaving his small fleet in orbit while he traveled to the planet’s surface. As he neared the upper atmosphere, he reoriented himself, pointing his ventral surface toward the planets surface. The main sublight engines fired, reducing his acceleration as the planet’s gravity pulled him in.

Nearing the planet’s surface, Smarts shifted fluidly from sublights to repulsorlifts, and extended his landing legs. The closer he got, the more power he applied to the repulsorlifts, until finally, he floated gently to the surface. The repulsorlifts powered down slowly, remaining partly powered to relieve most of the stress from the landing legs. Safely on the surface, he opened the ship’s sealed docking bays and began moving cargo out with small freighters and atmospheric transport craft.

An hour later, finished with his business, he resealed the hangars, powered up the repulsors, and departed just opposite the way he came. Rejoining his fleet, he flew away, reaching for the stars and trying to break free of the planet’s gravity field. Suddenly, several ships appeared from hyperspace: a wall of Star Destroyers protecting an Imperial Interdictor Cruiser. The Star Destroyers deployed a cloud of TIE fighters, and the Star Destroyers and TIE fighters began advancing on the droid fleet.

Smarts set to work immediately, issuing orders to the few ships he had with him, and launching a cloud of his own fighters. The Imperials began to advance, closing the distance between the ships and preparing to attack. Smarts responded in kind, though his Command Sphere moved forward with its topmost decks pointing towards the Imperial fleet, due to the ventral location of the Sphere's main engines.

As the two forces grew closer, Smarts shut off his main engines and rotated the ship, allowing his momentum to carry him into the fight while bringing his forward weapons array to bear on the Imperial formation. The fighters met, and in a rather unusual move, the droid swarm disintegrated, the ships breaking from their mass formation and adopting more random, evasive tactics. The move caught the TIEs off guard and allowed several of the droid fighters to get behind the fighter cloud, where they proved to be much more effective at picking off targets than most droids were.

The droid fleet reached the cloud of starfighters, and passed right through it, intent on confronting the capital ships. Seconds before the two forces met, Smarts issued one last set of commands, then used his powerful comm array to broadcast a massive static storm, completely jamming local communications. The droid formation splintered suddenly, each ship executing the last command it had been given before the communications blackout had separated it from Smarts.

The Imperial ships, unable to coordinate a counterattack, each chose a target and opened fire, while the droid ships converged on the Imperial flagship, firing from all directions and depleting its shields. As the shields failed and the hull began to buckle, the droid ships belched out more fighters, which streaked out towards the Interdictor that was holding position in the distance. Smarts' two smallest ships veered suddenly, running into two of the Star Destroyers, destroying them outright. The droid ships finished off their first target, then broke for combat, abandoning their first group of fighters, which, with no up-to-date commands, were being slaughtered by the remaining TIEs.

The second group of fighters reached the Interdictor, launching a massive wave of missiles. The Interdictor’s shields buckled and it took heavy damage, then several of the starfighters rammed it, cutting deep into the ship and damaging its main reactor, which exploded seconds after the remaining fighters were out of range. The fighters continued on their original course, heading away from the droid ships, and Smarts dropped the jamming field, issued new orders, then he and the remainder of his fleet made a micrujump out of the system. Seconds later, they appeared back in-system, right in front of their retreating fighters. The fighters landed and the ships jumped away once again.

Yes, Smarts thought to himself, this will work very well.



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Post number 2:
(Smarts-class Engine Block)

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The universe exploded into existence around Smarts, stars coalescing out of the dark void he stared into, then, suddenly, there appeared convoy of freighters, large and small, that stretched across local space. Smarts stretched out with his sensors, identifying and then comming the vessel he was looking for. The Engine Block broke from its position in the convoy, accelerating toward Smarts as he moved toward it. As the vessels approached, Smarts decelerated, positioning himself to dock with the Engine Block. The drive unit began decelerating as well, until finally, it came to a dead stop, grabbing Smarts with its powerful tractor beam and pulling the two craft the final few meters together, linking perfectly into a single ship.


Flashes of light appeared nearby, and four vessels reverted from hyperspace, vectoring for the convoy. Smarts moved to intercept, deploying fighters from his own docking bays as well as the drive units clamps. He moved forward, keeping the larger shape of the command sphere in between the pirates and the drive unit, using its mass to protect the vulnerable cargo canisters that were attached to its hull, though he was blocking the drive unit's weapons from being able to fire. He two ships' shields functioned together for the benefit of the whole, the drive unit extending its shields forward to protect the command sphere.

Smarts closed the distance between himself and the unknown vessels, which launched fighters of their own. As he passed in range, the enemy vessels opened fire, and he returned their greeting. Smarts pressed ever closer until, finally, he hauled the massive vessel to one side, sweeping around to bring the drive unit's weapons to bear on the largest of the enemy vessels. Simultaneously, the drive unit reconfigured its shield to defend itself. The additional weapons made short work of the smaller craft, which exploded suddenly as the heavier weapons tore into its reactor. The remaining three ships turned to run, but were grabbed by the drive units powerful tractor beams.

The craft were beaten into submission, and Smarts returned his droids to their previous locations. One of the fighters, its engines damaged during the fight, was listing slightly, so the drive unit used one of its less powerful tractor beams to pluck it from the sky and return it safely and carefully to its place on the ship's surface.

Scanning the debris, Smarts located a damaged enemy fighter, which registered one life sign. Using the drive unit's tractor beams, he moved the craft slowly to the drive unit's landing bay, where the shielded doors slid apart upon the fighter's approach. As it moved directly over the landing bay, the tractor beams disengaged, and two others located within the bay itself grabbed it and pulled it in gently.

Smarts moved back toward the convoy, the three surrendered vessels trailing slightly as the drive unit's tractor beams pulled them along. As the large ship moved towards its position in the convoy, Smarts launched three boarding parties to secure the beaten vessels.

Yes, Smarts thought to himself, this will work very well.


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