Hundreds of people walked out of the academy twin doors talking exited about their future either as a pilot, taking a command on a ship or about finally becoming a mechant of some sort. Daren was one of those hopefuls who tried to become a ship captain, but that rank he would get propably later on. Daren had a recomendation letter to the forces where he was going to report for duty already today. Daren tried to find his way out of the academy stairs, which was crowded and his friend Almon was right behind him. They became friends in the academy and almost never pareted ways in the academy time, because they even shared a room. Finally they both had their own life`s to concentrate on and the doodbye`s would be ahead of them, because Daren would become captain while Almon was going back home for a year to help his father and after, that god knows where they would place Almon. Daren instead would join the forces to protect the coalition and defend the two things, that he couldn`t find anywhere from the galaxy. Freedom and justice, he kept those values so important, that he would give his life for them. Daren and Almon got to their vehicle wawing at some other class mates and swooped away from the academy. Daren couldn`t hold his joy and began to smile from excitement while Almon pulled out a bottle, that he had been saving for this day under his seat. He took a mouth full and handed the bottle to Daren while took over the control of the vehicle, Daren took some allthough wasn`t a drinker and offered it back to Almon who shaked his head.

"You keep it...I`m done drinking for the rest of my life" Almon said with slightly melancholic, which made Daren look Almo with a amazed look.

"You gotta be kiddng me...You were the best drinker in the hole academy, you drank even the teachers under the table when needed, besides I´m not a drinker and you know that." Daren smiles remembering how he had passed out when he had tried to drink Almon under the table.

"Yea I was, but that stuff is out of my life for good now cause i have to focus on my coming career and my paps ain`t gonna bee too happy, if I drink instead of helping him on the shop. You keep it as a memory of our academy days." Almon pushed the bottle away from him.

Daren looked at Almon slightly laughing"Well in that case I believe, that you just took your last drink and sure I`ll keep it as a memory...even what`s inside" Daren smiled putting the bottle to his bag.

They arrived to a tall building where the recruiting took place and Daren jumped out of the vehicle with his bag on his shoulder turning to look at Almon grinning, who grinned back sadly as if something had hurt him at that moment.

"Well you know we both hate this part and very long goodbye`s so hower of you old scum." Daren smiled stepping back from the vehicle, which hovered into the air. Almon turned to look at Daren" You take of your self buddy and I`ll keep in touch unless you get yourself blown up besides if were lucky I might end up in the same ship as you one day." Almon speeded away while Daren waiwed at Almon with a small tear drop in the corner of his eye "take you too old scumbag" Daren smiled and turned to walk the stairs up while stopping the tears, because he was on a public place. Fortunately no one had seen it and Daren could rise in peace with out any strange looks at his back. Daren got to the top and took a cleansing breath of air and walked in to the lobby of the building where people sat waiting for something. Daren walked to the desk where a quite pretty woman sat and Daren leaned on to the desk with his hands.

"Excuse me mam, but I`m Daren Telcrot and I`m here to join the navy forces." Daren was once more being the polite person who he was, unless he was pissed of or he was givng orders when he yelled others people`s ears out.

The woman checked some information from the computer after giving Daren an examinating look." You have a recomendation by one of the academy teachers i see and everyting else seems to be in order so please wait here in the lobby, I`m sure that someone will soon pick you up and tell you which ship you will be placed on."

Daren walked to one of the chairs and sat down dropping his bag on the floor knowing, that nothing in there would be broken and it made a small puff sound when it hit the ground. Daren crossed his legs and took a relaxed position knowing, that it could take a long time for him to get any information.

"Damn byrocrats.."Daren thought inside his head....

OOC: this is a take over of Lashbane...

Daren waited for hole 2 hours to get an answer, when he had already fallen asleep when a soon 40 years old came in to the desk where the woman was working and she pointed at Daren, who of course couldn`t notice anything while he was asleep. Daren wakes up falling from the chair on his butt when the man taps him on his shoulder and looks around confused. The man glooms over Daren who is still confused.

"Your butt on the move and follow me.." The man says these words very amused of himself.

Daren realises how embarasing it was and got up quickly picking up his bag following the man into a office, which door said "Colonel Ebenbrag" and Daren cleans himself up from the dust, that had been on the floor and he hears the woman behind the desk gigling at his embarasing event. Daren blushed and stepped into the office, where Ebenbrag was sitting in his chair staring at him with his hand pointing at the chair. Daren closed the door and sat on the chair dropping his bag on the floor, Daren gulped loudly when the colonel gloomed over the desk.

"I am Colonel Enberbarg and you must be, that student which my friend at the academy sent here. Malakem has been talking about you for sometime Captain Telcrot. I hear, that you were quite a geninous when it came to developing strategies and using the enemies weakness against them. Besides we need more captain`s from our new training program and when we look at you I think it has worked well unless you screw up on your first assingment Captain Telcrot" Enberbrag sits to his chair smiling, because he had leaved Daren without words to say and after a while Daren gets them out with great effort."Me?...A captain? Wel...thank you sir...I`m...well as you can see...speechless." Enberbarg smiled back and pulled some papers out on the table pushing it towards Daren who takes it. "Your ship and your crew captain, by the way you might see some familiar faces in your crew and your a lucky one because your crew is fresh from the oven, but you must remember that we are counting on you so please don`t screw up." Daren gulps once again, but slightly smiling because he had under estimated himself, he never thought he would get so lucky alltough master Malakem, who was himself a war veteran had some influence in the navy. Enberbarg points at the door there is someone I`d like you to meet captain....

EDIT: Rp soon as possible Jan so, that i can continue this topic further...

OOC: He means Lashbane not Flashbane.

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[font=Times New Roman]“Captain Telcrot, a pleasure to meet you. Please sit down.” Said Jan, gesturing at the seat which Telcrot had just risen from.[/font]
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[font=Times New Roman]“A-a pleasure to meet you to sir.” Telcrot managed to gasp out, obviously in surprise.[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]What did you expect Jan, for him to be perfectly calm? He just found out his been made a captain, when he’s just graduated from the academy a few hours ago. And then you come walking in, the Minister of Defence of the Coalition, not to mention an Old Republic commander, leader of the New Rebellion and one of the founding members of the Coalition. He has every reason to be surprised. This has been a big day for him.[/font]
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[font=Times New Roman]“Captain Telcrot, you may be wondering why I’m here. After all, as Minister of Defence I’m a busy man and it can’t be expected that I meet every new captain. However, you are an exception. You have shown considerable talent, more than just a standard captain.”[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]The fact that Jan had come to Mon Calamari anyway to see the first graduation of the new GC troops was just a side matter. The important part was that Telcrot was so talented.[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]“As such, we have decided to reward you for those talents that you have shown. You have been given command of the Longsword Frigate, Dreamer. Dreamer has been assigned to a fleet consisting of a Haven Light Cruiser, Justice II, and another Longsword Frigate, Angelic. This fleet will be escorting a group of Battle Horn Transports and an Escort Carrier. Onboard the carrier is 6 squadrons of Saber Assault Bombers/Space Superiority Fighters (SAB/SSFs). You will escort them from there starting point, here on Mon Calamari, to their destination, Ando. On the way you will need to stop at via a variety of other Coalition planets to drop off or pick up materials. You will need approximately an hour in each system. Kubindi, Tammar, Bimmisaari and Leritor must all be visited. At Ando you will be placed in orbit there and integrated into the space defences there, at least for the time being. At that point some of your crew may receive shore leave. Captain Galden is the captain of Justice II and will be in command of this mission, therefore your direct superior. He will meet you at the spaceport in Docking Bay 52 in one hour. Do you understand Captain?”[/font]

Daren was stunned to meet Jan Donavan the minister of defense of the coalition and shaked his hand in quite a shock, Daren quickly sits down at command look to be in the brink of madness.

“As such, we have decided to reward you for those talents that you have shown. You have been given command of the Longsword Frigate, Dreamer. Dreamer has been assigned to a fleet consisting of a Haven Light Cruiser, Justice II, and another Longsword Frigate, Angelic. This fleet will be escorting a group of Battle Horn Transports and an Escort Carrier. Onboard the carrier is 6 squadrons of Saber Assault Bombers/Space Superiority Fighters (SAB/SSFs). You will escort them from there starting point, here on Mon Calamari, to their destination, Ando. On the way you will need to stop at via a variety of other Coalition planets to drop off or pick up materials. You will need approximately an hour in each system. Kubindi, Tammar, Bimmisaari and Leritor must all be visited. At Ando you will be placed in orbit there and integrated into the space defences there, at least for the time being. At that point some of your crew may receive shore leave. Captain Galden is the captain of Justice II and will be in command of this mission, therefore your direct superior. He will meet you at the spaceport in Docking Bay 52 in one hour. Do you understand Captain?”

Daren rises out of the chair slightly shaking and makes honor.

"Understood sir...but it`s a great honor to be granted with a trust like this and I will do my best to serve the Coalition in anyway."

Daren bowed to both men and stepped out of the door shaking from excitement, but then Enberbarg yelled after him.

"Captain you forgot to take the file considering you ship and crew, but for me I wish the best luck to you...don`t worry you will do fine without peeing your pants on the first day. You`ll get used in this stuff...." Ebenbarg smiled as Daren slightly embarassed took the file looking the last time at Jan before leaving. Daren walked out of the room gasping for air, but after a while he began to smile and left out of the building almost dancing the steps down from excitement while he could hear heartly laughter behind him. He was still slightly confused, because he had been made as a captain few hours after craduating and had met the minister of defense. He had trully under estimated himself once again and he had a new spark of conficende in him for the rest of his career for, that or so he thought for now. His mom and dad would be proud of his son when they would recieve his post, which he could send to Serenno after the mission was over. Daren reached the street level and began to walk towards the docks with his bag on his shoulder, he was so excited, that he could notice his own whistling, which made some people look at him with strange looks. Daren didn`t notice it and wouldn`t have cared because he was so high, not even being drunk could win, that ultimate feeling od success. Daren stopped on a map, that would give him directions and the fastest way would be to take a train to the spaceport and he wouldn`t give a bad image of himself to captain Galden. He jumped the stairs down, that lead to the railway station and he rushed towards the train, which just arrived on the station. He made his way to the train trough the crowd and apoligized all the time from the people he bumped into, he just got between the train doors and sighed from relief. He turned to look at almost empty train, which really didn`t bother him on the conterary it made him happier when he sat down and raised his bag on his lap.

Daren smiled when he opened the file, which contained information about the frigate he was going to command in the very near future

"Let`s see what kind of a ship I`m commanding" Daren chucked to himself looking at the Dreamer files, which proved quite familiar cause he had read much of these longsword frigates in the academy. He had even developped few crazy manouvers for the ship in his own mind, but never revealed them to any knowing, that it wouldn`t be of any use. Daren looked trough the crew list and was happy about the second ranking officer of the ship, Mina Yraji one of his friends from the academy and a very smart woman allthough sometimes a pain to handle with. There also came up names like Lomay Dagar and Charo Tuga, who were good mechanics and would be a fine addition to the crew. Daren closed the file and looked outside smiling slightly while putting the file in his bag, he would soon take command. It was still hard to believe, but it was true. The train began to make a squil sound while breaking on to the station, which was his stop. Daren walked out to the station and began to walk until he reached the docks where he began to look at the docking bays, 50...51..52. "Aha!" Daren thought and walked to the bay looking for Captain Galden...

[font=Times New Roman]Jan smiled as Daren ran off after returning to get the datacards. He was an enthusiastic one, that much was obvious. And his training showed him to be very reliable and competent. However how we would manage in a real life situation? If a problem erupted on his ship between crewmembers, would he be able to manage it? If his fleet was suddenly pulled from hyperspace and ambushed, would he be able to react in time and make a difference? These were all questions that had to be answered, yet could not be answer, at least not yet. Some of those answers Jan would get soon enough. Already plans were in motion for that. In the coming months all of the new captains and crews would be tested. They had proved to be competent in training, but training wasn’t everything. Now they would have to prove their competence in real life situations.[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]“Captain Galden, good to see you again.”[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]As Kit sat down Jan handed him a folder containing information on his new assignment. As Kit read them over, Jan thought about their past encounters.[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]Captain Galden and Jan had a history together that went way back to the New Rebellion. Galden had shown considerable intelligence and competence while serving as a communications officer on a Haven Light Cruiser and Jan had recommended he request a transfer to an XO or Captain position. Kit, taking the advice, had soon risen to become one of the finest captains in the Galactic Coalition. He had been with Jan on the mission to Onyx to recruit Joren Logan and then on the following mission to Chalacta, Sneeve and Delaya.[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]“So Justice II, along with Dreamer and Angelic, will be escorting a convoy including the carrier Endurance, full of 6 SAB/SSF squadrons.”[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]“Correct.”[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]“These two new captains, Telcrot and Albsan, how have they performed?”[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]“This is their first mission. Albsan is you standard Quarren, quiet and hard working. He isn’t the best tactician, but he tries hard and enforces discipline. Telcrot, however, is something else entirely. His scores were top notch at the academy, the best I’ve seen in years. His main instructor, Malakem, speaks very highly of him.”<o:p></o:p>[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]“Malakem, yeah I know him. Not one for giving out praise easily.”<o:p></o:p>[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]“And yet he lavishes it on Telcrot.”<o:p></o:p>[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]“Interesting. We’ll see how they perform. So this is just a standard convoy escort, then integration into planetary defence force and crews go down for shore leave, nothing special?”<o:p></o:p>[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]“On the surface yes. In actual fact, no.”<o:p></o:p>[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]“We have something special planned.”<o:p></o:p>[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]“Obviously, but what?”<o:p></o:p>[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]“Most of our captains and crews are green. If they aren’t green then they have experience in our military, but only recently received actual training. As such we have something special planned for each of the captains.” Jan then proceeded to fill Galden in on Operation: Surprise!<o:p></o:p>[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]“How will it work though? Many of the officers will notice the differences in power readings.”<o:p></o:p>[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]“True. However we have been planning for this for a while. We, in collaboration with Fleet Intelligence, have placed some senior officers onboard the ships are critical stations. These officers had files faked up for them, identifying them as new recruits and as having just recently graduating, like much of the crew. In fact, as part of the mission, they did go through the academy, although they made sure not to act too smart or too dumb. The occasional one of these actually does have their real information on the files and are acting as senior crewmembers, but that is not common at all.”<o:p></o:p>[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]“I see. I guess I’ll see you again on Ando. Now I have to go meet these officers. If you’ll excuse me sir…”<o:p></o:p>[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]Galden got up and hurried down to the airspeeder, which took off and flew him to just outside Docking Bay 52. As he entered, he immediately began scanning the crowd for Captains Telcrot and Albsan. The first one he saw was Albsan so he quickly walked over and introduced himself. He soon came to the realization that Jan was right about Albsan being quiet. He said few words and mainly only responded to direct questions, not offering any extra information. Soon he saw Telcrot walk into the docking bay and pause, as if looking for someone.<o:p></o:p>[/font]

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[font='Times New Roman']“Captain Telcrot, I am Captain Kit Galden, commander of the Haven Light Cruiser Justice II. This is Captain Albsan, of the Longsword Frigate, Angelic.” Galden said, whiled offering Telcrot his hand.[/font]

Daren looked around the bay and saw a officer walking to him when Daren knew that we was just in time without mistakes.

“Captain Telcrot, I am Captain Kit Galden, commander of the Haven Light Cruiser Justice II. This is Captain Albsan, of the Longsword Frigate, Angelic.” Galden said, whiled offering Telcrot his hand.

Daren shaked his newfound commanders hand and smiled friendy of course to make a good impression. Daren had also some knowledge of human psychology and had his way with many people because of his studies, but it remained to be seen if this man knew what Daren knew.

"Pleasure to meet you captain, I apoligize if i seem a little nervous or excited because it`s not every day when you get out of the academy, get your own ship to command, hear that you`re a captain and meet the defense minister of the coalition, not to forget my first command." Daren realised just something and became embarassed releasing the handshake "I`m sorry captain I`m babling too much instead of concentrating to your words, my apoligiez once more." Daren could see a smile sneaking to the lips of the captain allthough he tried to hide it, then the captain took few steps and nodded Daren to follow him.

"We have shuttles waiting to take us to our ships on the orbit Captain Telcrot, the captain of the Angelic is already waiting on his ship and I have met him before so his presence now isn`t necesesary. I heard, that you`re quite succeeded in the academy and for, that i gongratulate you because Malakem doesn`t usually praise many people, but we can talk some other time captain because now your shuttle awaits you." Galden slammed Daren friendly on his shoulder, which made Daren almost fall because he was leaning forwards with his weight and didn`t expected a slam like that.

Daren walked towards the shuttle while Galden went to his own and Daren wawed slightly before walking up the landing ramp, Daren saw few other crew members who welcomed him in and told them to sit down. Daren sat down besides a long blonde haired man who had ponytailed his hair seemed to be very excited. The ramp rised and the shuttle lifted itself up from the ground and left towards the ship on the orbit, inside the crew members couldn`t hold their excitement except Daren. He sat there trying to make out were these people in important missions on his ship and excamined them for the trip until he could see his own ship ahead of the shuttle. It was a 500 meter frigate with powerful thruster "arms", Daren had seen some pictures and seen it`s power in simulation, but never in pure action. The shuttle began slowly to enter the hangar after closing in at the ship, but then the man besides him shaked him from his arm and Daren turned to look at him.

"What`s your job on the ship?" The blonde man asked as the shuttle was going into the hangar and Daren decided to play for a while.

"Well...Nothing important really so I won`t bother waisting time telling you, that information becausee you have better things to do than listen to my job at this ship." Daren looked inocently at the roof while all the crew members began look at him and there was a death silence except for the shuttle`s ramp hitting the floor slowly.

"Come on tell us" One of them said "yeah!" The other shouted and the blonde showed him in his ribs slightly, but then Daren stood up and took his bag walking into the head of the ramp.

"What are you affraid of wussy?" One of the mocked at him." Are you low here? Are you the shoe cleaner?" The shuttle was filled with laughter and Daren suddenly turns at them with a cunning look at his face.

"No...I`m just toying with you because the one laughs best who laughs last...I`m your captain" Daren bowed "Have a nice day gentlemen" Daren walks the ramp down laughing for leaving the crew members speechless as, if they had been hit by a meteor. Daren walked trough the hangar to a turbo lift where he was with few mechanics who were already in their uniforms, Daren walked out of the lift and made his way to the captain`s quaters. Daren arrives at the door with curious looks on his back and he zips a card, that was with the files that Colonel Ebenbarg gave him. He closed the door looking at the room with a smile on his face, excellent just as he though and finally he would have his own desk. Daren began to unpack his stuff and classicly places a photo of his family on his desk, among other things he out the bottle on to a self on the wall where hanged a picture of the Dreamer. He finishes unpacking he puts the bag into a closet from where he pulls out his captain uniform, which was a typical suit in the navy. He changed his clothes and to make himself more powerful character he places a blaster on his belt where it had a nice place for it. Finally he tries a cap on, but it doesn`t really fit so he just throws it back to the closet and cleans himself up ny wiping his uniform with his hands. He looks himself in front of the mirror thinking,

"Me a captain? who would have believed? Allthough I look very good in this uniform, but those damn caps should be made different sizes, but instead I just have to take more care of my hair to look more representive."

Daren walks out of his quaters and locks the door recieving hails on his way to the bridge and politely answers back to them. Then he arrives to the bridge where the crew was already doing their things slightly nervously since it was their first time, which brought comfort to Daren cause he was nervous too. The other ships were assembling into a formation and Daren looked at the operators of the ships whistling to get their attention.

"Boys..."He pointed at his tags, which showed his rank "Get this ship into formation quickly and someone get me a connection to Justice II, also prepare for a hyperspace jump after a while when i say so." Daren walked closer to the men that were operating and looked at a screen where a picture of Galden appearred and he turned to look at Daren while the both ships bridge crew were in full work.

"Captain Daren Thelcrot, Dreamer and it`s crew are reporting for duty. We are currently joining the escort formation and we will soon be ready for a hyperspace jump towards Kubindi sir." Daren informed with a slightly shaking voice and no one around him dared to laugh at him because they were just as nervous as he was, even more perhaps. Galden nods slightly smiling.

"Well done captain, your ship will be taking the left flank and after you`re ship is in position we can jump to hyperspace where everyone can take a slight breather. Justice II out..." The picture fades away and Daren looks at the operators.

"Well? You heard him! The left flank is ours to secure!" Daren let his voive out of control accidentally, but it got speed to the operators and Daren took few nervous steps closer to see the ships assembling better. The ship got on it`s place and radio channel was opened where Catain Galden spoke.

"Goodday crew of all these ships, We have got ourselves some fresh new blood from straight from the academy so give some cheers to our newest ship crews." Many cheered, which made the newcomers feel slightly better "But now we are going jump to hyperspace and we will be arriving to Kubindi." Daren got his hand up for a mark for the ship operators to get ready to jump to hyperspace and they began fevoursly to out the cordinates ."All ships procceed to hyperspace..." Galden`s voice faded out and Daren lowered his hand while they hole escort left for Kubindi. Everyone sighed from relief, that nothing had went wrong and Daren turned away from the operators to see his school mate approach, she stopped in front of him and hailed.

"Mina Yraji reporting for duty sir!" she says with a trembling voice.

"Undoutably you do" Daren smiles at her and continues "No need apoligy liutenant, your only punishment was to miss this ship crew first acts on here on the bridge...Nothing more...nothing less" He smiled and turned to look at the flashing star, which they passed....

OOC: got bored of waiting so decided to create this rp when the ships are in hyperspace...

Daren looks at the flashing stars while Mira seems more relaxed and turns to some consoles to help some bridge members, who seem pretty nervous as they all did. Some just showed it and others kept it to themselves or at least tried to, Daren took few steps nervously around the bridge checking his people and their actions. Daren sighs from relief inside himself, because everything seemed to be fine, but it all could be the calm before the storm, if something went wrong. Daren looked around trying to stop walking and realised, that even at the bridhe he had a chair. Daren walked to it and there was also a small desk, which was attached to the chair almost like in the academy. He sat down smiling, the chair was comfortable and soft unlike the academy`s hard chair, but the way of learning is rocky as they say. Daren neverthought, that his learning would end because every day he would learn something new about persons on this ship, it`s capabilities and what ever it held inside. Daren looked at Mira smiling, because she knew what she was doing and Daren knew, that he could trust on her, but then he turned to look at the flashing space before him. So many years had passed since he had seen his parents and he had every single reason to miss them, they were propably currently on a profitable business trip away from Serenno. It was also Serenno he missed, home was actually closer than he thought, but still he was chained to his duty as an officer, but that was what he wanted, wasn`t it?

It truly was, but he just felt so confused for this day because the new information and suprises didn`t seem to end. Meeting Jan Donavan was a great honor and Daren was barely capable to stand when he shaked his hand, he could say that Donavan was a role model for him cause Daren supported the same thoughts as Donavan. To meet one of the founders of the Galactic Coalition, which was one of the true places he felt home, but his home wasn`t under the Coalition flag. It was too close to The New Order and every day he affraid, that Serenno would be swalloed under the influence of TNO and there would be nothing he could do. Unless...He could persuade a new move in Serenno politics and get it under the Coalition flag, but did he have any political power? Daren sighs sadly and doesn`t notice while Mira moves to his side looking at worried.

"Are you having a bad day s..."Daren interrupts her by raising his hand

"Mira you know me better than anyone on this ship, so please as a friend I ask you not to call me sir or captain. It just doesn`t seem natural, that a person I know calls me by my title. Don´t greet the title, but greet the man Mira" Daren smiles slightly.

Mira smiled slightly confused, but nods understadingly."Yes Daren, I`ll do that from now on, but something seems wrong...are missing your family? The academy or your home planet?" She smiles when she says the second chance.

Daren looks into the flashing space once again "Yes, Not in a millenium and Yes...but that isn`t yet the most stunning thing, that has happened to me today. You get promoted to a captain 2 hours after step out of the academy, take your first command and.." Daren smiles inocently" Meet Jan Donavan..." the last words make Mira look like she had been hit with thousand volts of electricity. Daren enjoyed when he these moments when he left people without words and did it many times in the academy, one time even for Malakem. Daren had know more than Malakem would have ever expected and after, that Malakem had been embarassed and said, that he knew that already and that this was only a test. Allthough he just tried to regain his lost honor, because a student had outsmarted him, but after that it didn`t happen again, pushing Daren to the limits actually became Malakems new obsession. Daren smiles.

"Malakem must miss our little games..."

Mira finally gets some words out of her mouth. "It must have been quite an honor to meet him.."Mira begins to smile"And yes Malakem made it his personal duty or obsession, I don`t know which one it was."

Daren doesn`t turn away from the space "Oh it was an honour to meet and damn suprising cause when a Colonel slams the information, that you`re a captain against your face and then Donavan walks in it`s quite a shocking honor." Daren turns and looks Mira in the eyes "And what comes to Malakem....It was personal obsession and how do I know? I looked one time straight in the eyes while he was observing how I could handle a test and I just knew from the look in his eyes."

Daren rises up and steps away from the chair. "You may take command for a while liutenant, I will be on a small walk to see what kind of people this ship holds inside it and how capable it is. I`ll be back here when we get out of hyperspace." Daren left Mira to the bridge while he went on a small walk, just to clear his thoughts for a while and reorganize his thoughts for the next actions, that he would recieve from captain Galden...

[font=Times New Roman]Kit smiled as he left to go to his own shuttle. Daren was an interesting fellow, one that might even turn into a friend in the future. As his shuttle flew up to Justice II he walked throughout it and talked to some of his crew. Most of them were new recruits, straight out of the Academy. While many did quite well there, they were still green. They had never seen a real battle, never had their lives threatened in anyway. How they would perform with the threat of death looming over their heads had yet to be seen. Now, with “Operation: Surprise!” that would be found out. The green crews would be tried and tested and become true warriors. Some people felt that they had already done that, that they had proved their worth in the Academy. But that was not so, as the Academy wasn’t the same as real life. So they had to be tested.[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]Kit smiled as the shuttle landed and he caught a turbolift to the bridge. As he entered a young Tammarian wearing a brevet captain’s insignia stood up and shouted.[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]“Captain on the bridge.”[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]“At ease.”[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]Kit walked over and sat down beside his XO.[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]“I am Brevet Captain Lorona. It’s a pleasure to be serving under you sir.”[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]“How long have you been in the fleet Lorona?”[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]“Just got my commission today.”[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]“I see. Well Captain Lorona, how do you like the Justice II?”[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]“It is an excellent ship sir.”[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]“That it is.” Kit turned to look at the Cren navigator. “Ensign Tornaldo, please plot a course to Kubindi, using the path designated Alpha 2. And tell me when it is ready.”[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]“Yes sir Captain.”[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]Because of location of Mon Calamari in relation to other Coalition worlds and Black Dragon Empire space, High Command had seen fit to make certain paths which the majority of Coalition shipping would follow, including all military ships. It involved a very long, circular route which involved going towards the edge of the galaxy to a system designated MX-103. From there they would travel near the edge of the galaxy to the system designated MX-104 and from there across to Kubindi, being sure to avoid the Centrality, which was well known to belonging to BDE, except for the planet Oseon, which was controlled by Vinda Corporation.[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]“Sir, the path is all laid in.”[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]“Ensign Wartic, send the course to the other ships and make sure they check them. Then open a channel to all the ships in the fleet, and get it to broadcast on the ships intercom.” Said Kit to his Mon Calamari communications officer.[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]“Yes sir.”[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]“Goodday crew of all these ships, We have got ourselves some fresh new blood from straight from the academy so give some cheers to our newest ship crews.” Here Kit paused for a few moments. “But now we are going jump to hyperspace and we will be arriving to Kubindi.” Another pause for the ships’ bridge crews to check out the numbers, since it shouldn’t have taken long, as it was a pre-made course. “All ships proceed to hyperspace on my mark. Five, four, three, two, one, mark.”[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]Justice II shook as it made the jumped to hyperspace. Once the ship was safely in hyperspace Kit stood up. “XO, you have the bridge. Call me when we come out of hyperspace at Kubindi.”<o:p></o:p>[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]Kit slowly walked back to his quarters, stopping along the way to pause and talk to some of the crewmembers. He soon realized that Jan had been right, pretty much his entire crew was made up of new recruits just out of the Academy. Kit would do anything for some of Joren Logan’s Praetorian Guard or some of the White Knights. But they were too few in number to be stationed everywhere. As well, he did have Telcrot under his command, arguably one of the best captains, at least in the Academy, ever to belong to the Coalition.<o:p></o:p>[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]Finally Kit reached his quarters. Once there he immediately turned on a holoprojector and called ship security.<o:p></o:p>[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]“Lieutenant Portar, Ship Security.”<o:p></o:p>[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]“Lieutenant Portar, this is Captain Kit Galden. I would like you to send me the direct feed from the holocams situated on the bridge.”<o:p></o:p>[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]“I’m afraid I can’t do that without you giving me your authorization code.”<o:p></o:p>[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]“Authorization Code is Five, Eight, Gamma, Mon Quarren, Twenty-two, Haven, Kit Galden.”<o:p></o:p>[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]“Your authorization code is correct and your voice print matches correctly. Sending you the feed now.”<o:p></o:p>[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]Kit watched the holo as the ship rocketed through hyperspace. This way he could tell what kind of captain the XO would make. So far he seemed to be doing quite well, keeping the crew busy, but not running around showing off his power. That was exactly the kind of XO that would become a good captain…<o:p></o:p>[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]“Sir, we will be reverting to hyperspace momentarily.”<o:p></o:p>[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]“Excellent. I’ll take over from here. You did a wonderful job.”<o:p></o:p>[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]“Ensign Wartic, turn on the intercom.”[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]“All crewmembers, reversion into real space in five, four, three, two, one, reversion.”[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]Justice II came out of hyperspace and proceeded on into the system. Behind it came the transport, arranged in a triangle formation, with the escort carrier at the back center of the triangle. To port of the triangle was Dreamer and to starboard was Angelic.[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]Excellent, the ships all made it out in formation. So far, so good.[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]“Kubindi Control, this is Justice II escorting convoy WI-3 from Mon Calamari to Ando.”[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]“Justice II this is Kubindi Control. Transports 1 through 3 are to come to a new heading, 45 degrees to port. They will be met at…” here KC listed a the coordinates for the rendezvous point. “The rest of the convoy, minus an escort for Transports 1-3, should maintain their current heading and course. Other shuttles are coming to top you guys up with fuel.”[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]“Thank you Kubindi Control. Justice II out.”[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]Ensign Wartic cut the channel and then opened a new one with the fleet.[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]“Transports 1 through 3, turn to port 45 degrees and continue until you reach the coordinates being sent to you now. Dreamer, escort them there. Endurance, launch two squads of fighters to cover for Dreamer.”[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]Kit waited for confirmations and then had Ensign Wartic cut the channel. Now he just had to wait while medical supplies were moved from the transports to the shuttles coming up from Kubindi and then wait for his ships to be refuelled. While they didn’t need to be refuelled yet, the path they were travelling was near the border with BDE and High Command had felt that it was better that the ships all carried a full fuel tank. Kit was in perfect agreement, as you never knew what might happen, when a war might break out…[/font]

The ships come out of hyperspace and commands begin to come from Justice II to the rest of the ships.

“Transports 1 through 3, turn to port 45 degrees and continue until you reach the coordinates being sent to you now. Dreamer, escort them there. Endurance, launch two squads of fighters to cover for Dreamer.”

Daren arrives running to the bridge and huffs loudly while taking a comlink to answer, but also to talk to the approaching shuttles.

"Dreamer copies on that one Justice II, Dreamer out.." Daren turns the channel off and takes contact with the shuttles, but doesn`t forget the closing fighters squadrons.

"Shuttles 1-3 join to formation and we will escort you to the port..."Daren contacts the squadrons leaders. "Fighter Squadrons 1 & 2 you may progress to the sides of the dreamer covering our flank and be prepared for sudden suprises, which I doubt..." Daren hears copies from the shuttles and fighters then he sits in his chair closing them for a while, Mira looks at Daren raising an eyebrown.

"In a rush?" Daren smiled "You get stuck babling with some academy class mates and soon realise, that the ship is coming out of the hyperspace and you`re the captain then you`ll have a hurry."

Mira smiled "Shall I put out our own 2 fighter wings? They would be ready in about 30 seconds..."

Daren performs a slash move with his hand" Nah...they boys will be tested later...and of course girls, that fly.."Daren smiles. "Unless anyone attacks us we have no need to put them out on such rutine runs when we have these 2 from Justice II." Mira nods and turns to follow the operation at hand. The ships were currently getting re-fuelled and the shuttles meet the transports while Daren orders the fighters slightly forwards to cover the shuttles, but keeping them close for quick use. The medical supplied were soon exchanged and the shuttles were returning while Dreamer was re-fuelling. Daren orders them till the re-fuelling is done and they soon return while the dreamer returns to it`s position. Daren comlinks to Justice II.

"This is the Dreamer, all medical supplies have been transfered and the ship is re-fuelled so the Dreamer is ready to jump to Tammar at your command." Daren said finally getting his heart beat to normal while hearing the other ships reporting and the following hyperspace jump orders towards Tammar. Daren raises his hand "Prepare to jump hyperspace....jump at my command....Now.." The ships disappear into hyperspace towards Tammar...