The Lurpfactor

by MAJ Toran Dan

VA Adrenaline was walking down the corridor, which was also known as “Lurp Territory”. Adren stucked in front of a door while she heard loud shots and explosions. Suddenly an unknown voice yelled “As an element, breach, bang and clear. Go when ready!!!!” 
She jumped to the right site and crashed onto the ground. 
“Mam, what are you doing on the ground?” asked a well know voice and the small shadow of LCM Gidda appeared next to Adren. 
“Thanx Gidda, do you know what’s going on here?”
“Sure! CMDR Toran Dan is testing his new Dolly Surround System Premium and his new Game SWAT Stormtroopers 3000.”
Adren glared at Gidda in pure disbelief and pushed the button next to Toran’s door. The door glided away and the two Immortalers saw a big man, standing in the middle of the room, with 3D glasses on his nose, a Blaster in his hand and in full combat gear.
“At attention pilot!!! What the hell is going on here !?!?!” yelled the COM of the Immortal. But Toran didn’t react. Suddenly he took out a little metal thing and threw it onto the carpet. Suddenly the sound of a loud explosion stunned Adren and Gidda. (Why were they so stupid to stand direct beside the big 500 Watt Sub-Woofer ?) But what came after the explosion? The loud female scream of VA Adren which could freeze the blood of a dead.
“Aaarghhhh!!!!!!” screamed Toran and threw his glasses away. “What’s going on here? What do you two guys do in my quarter?” asked Toran and stared at Adren and Gidda.
“Well, I am wondering what this loud noise should be!” yelled VA Adren and suddenly a little vein bursted on her forehead. 
“I am sorry, I didn’t know that I would make such a loud noise with my new little soundsystem.” Said Toran and looked on his 2.5 meters Subwoofer. 

Suddenly the alarm bells began to ring and red light flashed everywhere. Stormtroopers and imperial personnel were running down the corridors. 
VA Adrenaline ran to a comterminal. 
“Here is the COM, Mell what’s up?”
“Mam, we have detected an unknown ship. I think it’s a kind of of freighter but I am not sure.” 
”Ok, I am on my way. Adren out.” Said Adrenaline and turned around to Toran. “I want you guys in 10 minutes in your fighters, maybe I have a recon mission for you.” 
“Yes Mam !” yelled the two pilots and headed away to the Lurp hangar. On his way Toran informed the rest of the Squadron. 
After 2 minutes Gidda and Toran arrived the hangarbay where all 5 Assault Gunboats laid. 
“Come on !” yelled the Ranger CMDR at CM Banger, LCM M. Stephenson and LCM G. Darkonian while they were coming out of a Turbolift. 
All pilots jumped in their cockpits and made their fighters ready for combat. (Electricity, cooling systems, engines, HiFi, life-support systems etc.) 
“Ranger 1-1, this the Immortal. You are cleared for take off. You will be briefed on your way.” 
“Immortal, this is Ranger 1-1, affirmative. We are taking off.” Said Toran and gave power to the two ion engines of his GUN “Lurp”.

Slightly 5 starfighters left the Immortal and headed for the unknown space. In them, 5 immortal pilots, who were more then deadly, crazy or whatever….they were just Lurps. 
“Ranger 1-1, this is WC Mell. You are going to do some reconnaissance for us. I will send you your hyper coordinates. We have detected an unknown ship. It looks like an old freighter but I want to have it confirmed. Any questions ?” 
“Immortal, this is Ranger 1-1. No questions. We are going in, do the job and going out.” 
”Roger Ranger Squadron. Good luck.” 

That was it. Now Ranger Squadron was on its own. As the fighters reached the hyperspace enter coordinates all five pilots slowly pulled their hyperspace engine sticks and suddenly all 5 ships disappeared. Flying through a blue, flashing and rolling tunnel, CMDR Toran Dan and the rest of his Lurps didn’t speak any words. All were concentrated on their instruments and on their mission. Nobody had the need for talking. After 10 minutes of flying the alarm bells began to ring and the computer automatically pulled the ships out of hyperspace. 
“Ok Lurps, there is our ship. I would like to see a splitted five formation.” Said Toran and the Squadron began to break out and to form up. After some seconds they were flying in three groups, flight 1 with Toran and Gidda on the left, Mark Stephenson alone in the middle and Banger and Gord Darkonian on the right. 
“Ok Mark, there is the freighter” said Toran and a hughe ship began to show up in the sun light. It was a dark ship, a little bit like a medium rebel transport but it was heavily modified. But the pilots weren’t able to identify the modifications. 
“Ok Mark, identify the ship and come back. We will provide cover for you.” 
”Ok boss, I am on my way.” Repeated Mark and began to give his engines maximum power. Fastly he left the : + : formation and headed for the freighter. The ship became bigger and bigger on his window and suddenly he was able to recognize the modifications. 
“Ranger 1-1, this is Ranger 2-1. I have a problem here!” yelled Mark and pulled his ship into a steep dive.
“Ok Mark, we are coming to assist you. Lurps go and shoot the hell out of this [Censored] ship!” yelled Toran and followed Marks shiop with his eyes which was followed by salvos of heavy red laser fire. 
The 4 ship attacked in a wall formation. Blue Ion cannons and green laser flashed through the space and hit the hull of the enemy ship.
“Ranger 1-1, this is Ranger 3-1. This ship has no shields, I repeat this ship has no shields!” 
“I see it Banger, but it has a strong hull. I don’t think we can blow it up with our lasers. Switch to….” Suddenly Torans ship was hit by a laser salver. Everything became red and for a moment Toran thought he was exploding. 
“Immortal, this is Ranger 1-1, we are rolling in hot! Need assistance!” reported Toran and began a new attack run after adjusting his shield configuration.
“Ranger Squadron, this is Adren. I will send you Phantom Squadron for assistance”
“Acknowledged.” ‘Damn, Phantom Squadron with CM Spearhawk….’ Thought Toran. 
“Ok gang, switch to Heavy Rockets. Fly as near as you can to this ship to prevent it blowing up our warheads.” 
That didn’t need a reply of the rest of the squadron and smoothly all pilots began to make a turn to aim their rockets. And again they were welcomed by laserfire. 
“2 click until release!” yelled Toran and overwatched his instruments.
“1 click!……..FIRE !!!” 
Big red tracers were leaving the Assault Gunboats and headed for the unknown freighter. 
”Yeah, we are kicking ass!!!” yelled Gord Darkonian and watched the missiles hitting the enemy ship. 
“Boom! I think that was it gang.” Said Toran and look at some debris flying away from the rest of the ship. 
“Look at this!” reported Gidda and suddenly a big needle-like looking Penetrator came out of the cloud of debris. Everything was gone, only a big steel needle was left after 30 heavy rockets hit the freighter. 
“I will shoot some photos of it and then we will head back to the Immortal” said Toran. Suddenly his alarm bell began to ring again but it was only Phantom squadron, lead by LC Badlands. 
“Ranger 1-1 this is Phantom 1-1. We are here to help you.” 
“Sorry Badlands, but the party is over. See ya guys in the Immortal lounge.” Said Toran and began to shoot the photos. 

3 hours later all Ranger pilots, WC Mell and VA Adren were sitting in the briefing room for debriefing. 
“Ok guys.” Said Adren and stood up. “ Excellent work, you saved the Immortal. This little freighter has been a secret weapon of the rebels. Intel gave me some infos about it. It was a normal medium freighter, but instead of cargo bays or manquarters, it had a big durasteel penetrator inside. Around the penetrator was build a strong armor hull and laser against starfighters. The mission of this object was to find and destroy enemy Star Destroyers automatically by penetrating them. Our shield would have been without any affect of protection for us. This thing would have gone through our ship like a hot knife though butter. Intel never have had any photos or plans about such a ship but we had some bad losses in the past which were caused by unknown ships. And with the excellent photos, our spookies will have now again something to store in their databases.” Said Adren and looked at WC Mell.
Mell stood up: “What shall I said? Adren already said everything. I can only tell the whole ship that again the “Lurpfactor” saved our asses. Let’s go to have party..” ended Mell and began to head for the lounge.

by CMDR/MAJ Toran Dan/Ranger 1-1/Wing XI/ISD Immortal