The second original TIE mission contest involved T/A Combat Chamber Mission 2. The first and second place finishers were promoted to Brigadier General for their outstanding efforts. Congratulations to all who participated!

2) GN Compton ISD Col - 69,332 pts 33 kills

3) BG Klip SSD Avr - 59,417 pts 26 kills

4) LG Katarn SSD Avr - 58,847 pts

5) LG Crona ISD Challenge - 56,428 pts

6) BG Danman CRS Dsp - 55,730

7) GN Ray ISD Col - 53,093

8) Gobucky COMM - 52,714

9) GN Imperial SSD Avr - 52,373

10) GN Dayv ISD Col - 51,788

11) GN Steve ISD Col - 46,651

12) GN ScottAmman ISD Col - 46,617

13) GN Razrbak ISD Col - 42,729

14) GN Mike SSD Avr - 39,913

Look for the third mission (until 2/11/96) in the ongoing contest on the Emperor's Hammer AOL message board or contact your superiors for a forwarded copy of my sendout.

The Communications Officer, VA Threat (madrihan@students.wisc.edu) herein posts the address where new Emperor's Hammer Newsletter and Pilot Manuals can be found for downloading...

The address to the ftp site is:

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Now the day has finally come. The ISD Challenge is complete. Crona Imperial Technologies has done a fine job building it and they have build it in record time.

The ISD Challenge is now ready for battle and itīs heading for the Aurora System.

To celibrate this there was a reception held on the Challenge hosted by Rear Admiral Brett ISD Challenge COM and Lieutenant General Crona Wing V Wing Commander who had invited the Command Officers and the Flag Officers of the Emperorīs Hammer Elite Strike Fleet to join them aboard the ISD Challenge until it had reached the Aurora System. Here is a schedule of what happened during the day.

All the invited Officers arrived in waves to the highly secret base. The Fleet Commander Grand Admiral Ronin arrived as planned last of all the other officers and a short reception in his honor was held. He was escorted by the Honor Guard members that were currently stationed aboard the SSD Avenger. Soon Omega Squadron landed in the hangar and they also began escorting the Fleet Commander.

Unfortunately, CIT CEO Patrick could not attend because of other projects.

Rear Admiral Brett held a speech.

"Welcome, welcome fellow officers of the Emperorīs Hammer, to the ISD Challenge!" The Rear Admiral was standing on a podium that had been put up in the hangar bay. In front of him was a rather small crowd. All the other COM:s where present. VA Zeus, RA Goatboy and FA Tav Brielīlya as well as all the other WCs, elements of the FCīs Honor Guard and of course Grand Admiral Ronin himself and the rest of the Command officers. Since Cronaīs recent devotion to the Dark Brotherhood he had insisted on inviting the Dark Council as well, by inviting all the high ranking officers major parts of the council was already there so why not have the whole Dark Council here Crona had argued. Of course Brett had nothing against the Dark Council nor itīs presence. He just wanted the WC to answer why he wanted them there. So now Lord Paladin, Grand Master of the Dark Brotherhood and the Krath Priest himself, Master Melan pyr. Not forgeting that the planetery governor Pendragon also was there.

He continued "I RA Brett and LG Crona has invited you here to spend the approximately 24 hours it will take to go to the Aurora system when we leave in a while. I hope you all will enjoy your stay now I leave the word to Lieutenant General Crona." He said and stepped down.

Lieutenant Crona held a speech.

"Thank you Rear Admiral Brett" Crona said; after that he had walked up on the podium. "I would also like to thank you all for coming, Iīm very honored by your presence." he couldnīt believe it, all the high ranking officers of the EH with probably much more important issues on their minds actually were interested in what he might have to say and paid attention. "During your stay here, you will be shown the advances CIT has made in technology that makes this ISD better then any other ISD. But before this I believe Grand Admiral Ronin wanted to say a few words."

Grand Admiral Ronin says a few words.

The GA walked over to the podium, Crona stepped down and they looked at each other breifly and then saluted. The Grand Admiral stepped up.

"Thank you Brett and Crona! Since this will be in our Newsletter I would like to say that Brett and Crona have done a fantastic job in bringing their ship on-line, but I know that without the many brave pilots under their command it wouldnīt be possible. But good leaders are hard to find and to find two that work well together is almost impossible, but Brett and Crona certainly are one of those teams and with them at the controls of this ISD, Iīm sure they can accomplish anything. Nothing will ever stop them if they set their minds to it!" Applause went through the hangar bay both from the invited officers and bystanders in the background.

The Official naming of the Challenge

Now it was time for the offical naming of the ISD Challenge. A Zero-G stormtrooper was equipped with a champagne bottle and was sent out to crush it to the aft hull. When the stormtrooper was in position, GA Ronin went over to Brett and Crona who watched the stormtrooper in a holonet that was linked up with the starfighters that passed by. Ronin handed Brett a diploma.

"This diploma is evidence that this shipīs name is the ISD Challenge and other info. The diploma is signed and ready, all it needīs is mine, Brett and Cronaīs signatures." GA Ronin said.

"Thank you Grand Admiral Ronin, I hereby name this ISD we stand aboard the day of Seventh February of 1996 to the Challenge and that this day will be itīs birthday!" He said and signed the diploma, and handed it over to LG Crona who also signed it. Then LG Crona handed it back to the Grand Admiral who breifly looked it over and then signed it. "Fire!" Brett shouted and the stormtrooper slammed the bottle into the aft hull right into the missile launcher where it immediately broke. Then the turbolaser batteries sprang to life, firing straight up. But only the ones in the aft section were more or less viewable from the bridge.

A dinner reception in the ISD Challengeīs Cantina was held. The Cantina had, for the occasion, been modified with a long table. Our sources report that several toasts where made for RA Brett, LG Crona, GA Ronin, the ISD Challenge and the EH in general.

Now our sources report that the officers began walking around the ISD Challenge to explore the new ISD. Mostly in the Cantina and in the training facilities. In the game section of the Cantina it is rumored that the GA wanted to test a Tie Simulation chamber created by CIT. It is much similar to the one in the Combat Chamber, but this one is much smaller and several of them are linked together providing that you can fly head-to-head. And some of them were special so you could fly a capital ship in them. Our sources says that Imperial team was: Grand Admiral Ronin as a T/D pilot, LG Crona as T/D pilot and GA Roninīs escort and RA Brett as ISD Challenge COM.

The Rebel Team was: SA Adams as T/D pilot, FA Havok as T/D pilot and Admiral Yoni as COM over a MC80. The outcome of the battle is still unknown but it is rumored that the Grand Admiral had an unusual happy smile and was chuckling to himself. And saying something like "I still got it..."

When the rebel team exited their simulators, SA Adams complained about FA Havokīs steering abilities, and he in his turn complained about Admiral Yoniīs so called fire cover, who in his turn said "Hey! Itīs not my fault that a MC80 lacks everything from decent equipment to shields and lasers!" Who was overheard by Fleet Admiral "Pappy" Renegade that didnīt like Admiral Yoniīs point of view at all.

"Hey, would you say that the CRS Despot lacks everything? huh!" Pappy snapped at Yoni who was still complained about by Havok. This resulted that he snapped back "Doesnīt it?!"

"You you...grrr, I canīt help you lack the ability to control one, or any capital ship!"

"Why donīt you take and hover away from here." He said.

"Yeah, sure Yoni, you couldnīt lead a SSD to victory against a simple corvette!" Havok said.

Then it was Sector Admiral Adams turn "Look whoīs talking! Havok it doesnīt matter if you had the whole Imperial fleetīs fire cover you canīt even steer your fighter so you would have been shot down anyway by a rookie rebel!"

Havok was preparing for a very nasty complaint but then he heard the familiar chuckling and he dropped those toughts.

"Well, well isnīt it the "rebel" team that sure arenīt bad losers. Face it gentlemen Iīm still the better then any of you!" he said and chuckled to himself. Then he turned to Rear Admiral Brett and Lieutenant General Crona, good job, weīll have to do this more often wonīt we? And I would also like to say that the rebel team gave me the finest and hardest challenge I have ever been faced! And Iīm sure glad all of you are on the Empireīs side!" The Grand Admiral said causing the rebels among them to ease up a bit.

"Oh, well Havok, Iīll have to reconsider now that we were flying against our GA and your steering abilities kept us alive a bit longer." Sector Admiral Adams said.

"No problem and you were flying pretty good yourself! And you were flying well too, Yoni! Considering that we were outgunned by a ISD and the GA himself."

"Thanks! Well, Pappy MC80s arenīt so bad after all." Admiral Yoni said.

"For once your right Yoni! I watched your battle, you handled a MC80 pretty well." FA "Pappy" Renegade said.

"Oh, sirs I think you all are superb pilots and BIG assets to the Emperor's Hammer, and weīll with you sirs controlling the fleet, we pilots and flag officers know we are in good hands, thank you. I would also like to thank you all for being a part of the first mission played on these machines, thank you and now drinks are on the house!" LG Crona said.

"I totally agree with Lieutenant General Crona, here. What would we do with out you guys? Please come with me!" RA Brett said.

In another part of the ship in the training facilities, Lord Jedgar Paladin and Master Melan Pyr had found a chamber for Jedi training where they had begun a lightsaber duel.

"With the average growth of the DB, and that we might have to send envoys more often with Imperial ships itīs rather smart to have a Jedi training facility aboard. So our envoys wonīt get bored or something else." The retired Admiral Master Melan Pyr said and evaded some well placed slices from the Grand Master.

"Yes..." And evaded Pyrīs lightsaber sweep. "Yes, I agree, itīs better for them to train here or then to sit in the bar or to train at normal facilities that wouldnīt give them the specialized traning a Dark Jedi needs.

VA Doom, RA Anakin and VA Threat where engaged in a furious "fake" blaster battle in a chamber that was covered with darkness and small corridors. It had been built for stormtrooper training and for Jedi training. Suddenly VA Threatīs armor data pad registered a hit. He was dead.

"Damn, who was it, who was it? Suddenly Rear Admiral Anakin sneaked up to him "You're dead?"

"He sure is!" A voice said in the darkness of a corner and RA Anakinīs armor data pad registered a hit. He was also dead.

"Ha ha ha! Got you both!" Vice Admiral Doomsday said and left the shadows. "Yeah, sure, we didnīt expect anything else, with you reconing in all various dark places getting dirty you should have more experience with this sort of thing. I and Anakin here, well, we are more creative and civilised."

"Yeah, sure you get real civilized listening to 500 complaints a day. But anyway loser pays the drink as always."

"Yeah, as always... you pay Anakin!" Threat said sweeping of some imaginary dirt on his left knee."

"What me? You died first as always you pay!" Anakin answered.

"Ok, ok Iīll pay but only because I let you guys win." He said and grinned.

Anakin and Doomsday laughed...

Now they all stood on the bridge. "As we promised, now are we going to have some demonstrations of the ISD Challengeīs improvments." Rear Admiral Brett said.

"Very nice graphical viewers" RA Anakin commented.

"Yes, new from CIT!" LG Crona said.

"Anyway, you are all aware of the problem with holding tractor beam locks. Esp. with the scenario of a light freighter who suddenly explodes and a X-wing comes out of it and escapses to hyperspace." RA Brett continued.

"Yes, very..." The Grand Admiral said remembering those times very important rebels had escaped thanks to incompetent tractor beams.

"Let me demonstrate." RA Brett said and a light freighter came out of hyperspace. "Just as a note all ships that are in the demonstrations are ships that were held at this base. As you can see, our tractor beams have locked on and are pulling it towards the hangar remarkably fast. " RA Brett said. All the officers looked out from a viewport and saw the freighter being pulled faster then ordinary to the hangar. Then it exploded and a X-Wing and A-Wing came out of it. The pieces from the freighter would have made it impossible to obtain a lock, but still the X-wing and A-wing suddenly slowed down and was slowly being pulled to the hangar.

"How, is it possible?" The Grand Admiral asked.

"Itīs really quite simple, the computer senses any new large presence, or something that is large enough to be a starfighter and it pulls it in." RA Brett proudly stated.

The invited crowd in the bridge attained a murmur, that suddenly stopped, eager to get the next demonstration. Suddenly a flight of B-wings appeared out from hyperspace at 5 km quickly engaged the ISD.

"All, these B-wing starfighters have been loaded with either heavy bombs or heavy rockets!" RA Brett said as the B-wings started to launch their ordinance on the ISD Challenge. RA Brett waited a few seconds "Fire!" he said loudly and bursts where heard, the officers that had been looking out the right viewport now turned their eyes against the aft viewport right forward. They saw adv. concussion missiles being launched with about 3-5 seconds between. They all hit their targets that where the bombs and rockets. "As you can see we have upgraded the launcher and targeting computer. As you also can see is that some of the bombs and heavy rockets still are approching us!" They all watched as the rockets and bombs came closer and closer.

RA Brett waited until there was about 15-20 seconds until impact with the first rocket. "Evasive!" And they all felt how the ships engines fired up and begun putting the ship in a leaning position so the forward part of the ship pointed up. In about 50 degrees the ship stopped. By this time the rockets and some of the bombs had passed under them. Soon they exploded.

By then the B-wings where coming in to open fire. Then the ISD Challengeīs turbo laser batteries turned to life. And quickly destroying most of the B-wings and the rest were tractor pulled to hangar. "As you noticed, the lasers have been modified and aquired more fire power and accuracy. We have also added about 10 turbo lasers, 10 turbo laser batteries, 5 ion lasers and 2 tractor beams. The ISD Challenge has also been built to be rather easy to modify in the future, or for special missions. Thatīs all for the demonstrations. You are free to do whatever you wanīt aboard the Challenge until we arrive at Aurora. Thank you all!" RA Brett ended and afterwards followed applaudes.

"Hey you Auroran! Youīll have to do better than that" the young Guardian said and reflected the blaster beam back in the Auroranīs direction.

One day ago the Guardian had never tought his vacation would be like this.

Wing Commander Crona had a small vacation coming up and he had decided to spend it on Aurora. He had 3 days off, that means that he would have 24 hours on Aurora since it would take 24 hours both to hyperjump from the secret base were the ISD Challenge was being build and to jump back from Aurora. Prepared for the trip by making 3 transports availible. One for him, one for suitable troopers and one for droids and advisors. He left the ISD Challenge as fast as his vacation begun. The transport was comportable but nothing to be glad over. In the transport with him was a stormtrooper. Nothing special about him. Crona had choosen the two pilots personally, not because they where good pilots because they arenīt. He had choosen them since they had managed to thwart many rebels that had tried to board their ship, finally ending up capturing the boarding partyīs ship instead. They used many "strange" techniques nothing Crona was hoping to be a part of.

24 hours later LG Crona stepped out of his transport. It had landed on one of the landing platforms in the New Imperial City on Aurora. It seemed rather quiet, thinking about the rumors that the planet citizens acted like it was total anarchy. Iīll find out soon enough he tought. "Stormtroopers stay here and protect the transports!"

The Squad leader stood in attention "Yes, sir Lt. General Crona!"

"Dismissed trooper!" Crona said and began walking into the city. He had become rather thirsty and he was looking after a good Cantina. Then he saw one at the corner of a grey old building. He went over to it and reached out with the Force. He touched the minds of the Aurorans in the Cantina. Crona sensed that it was a rather hostile enviroument, but he needed a drink badly.

He walked into the Cantina, he sensed that no one paid anymore notice to a man walking in with a hood with two white stripes on each side then they did to any other.

Crona looked around, it was like any other Cantina. It was rather dark, the air was bad. He couldnīt notice any other life form other than Aurorans. It wasnīt what Crona would call crowded, if you compare it with the Cantina aboard the ISD Challenge or the ISD Vanguard. He walked over to the bar, sat down on one of the chairs and ordered something; he remembered a friend had recommended for him. Then Crona sensed a rather hostile Auroran closing in to his right.

"Hey you! You are sitting in my chair, Imperial punk! You and your Imperial scum freinds must really love to steal things, huh? Now get the hell out of my chair!"

Crona slowly turned his face against the Auroran to the right. The Auroran was a bit higher than Crona and probably much stronger. Crona concluded that this must be a ADF pilot, Auroran Defense Fleet pilot, he must have hypered out in the last second.

Crona didnīt pay the weak minded coward any more thought. And turned back looking forward.

The Auroran was startled by the green eye he could see in the darkness of the hood looking at him. The Auroran didnīt know what to do. He was sure the Imperial would attack un-questioningly. But when the Imperial ignored him, the humiliation was a fact. He had never been ignored before. He imagined how his freinds were laughing. This caused an immediate rage in the Auroran.

"Hey you! Damn stupid Imperial!" He said as he was about to punch the Imperial in the neck with his left.

Crona sensed the rage that was growing in the Auroran. He also felt the Aurorans outburst before it happened. He saw the Aurorans left fist nearing his neck to strike a deadly blow. Crona reacted with a speed only a Jedi has. He graped the Auroranīs left hand with his own left hand and pulled him forward the same time as Crona stood up from the chair. Crona put his right hand on the Auroranīs blond head and pushed with the right hand. The Auroran flew violently with his head right into the bar.

Now Iīm going to get that Imperial punk the Auroran tought as he suddenly saw the Imperial grab his left hand he saw how the Imperial disappeared from his line of sight. The Imperial was almost behind him to the left when the Auroran felt how another hand was put on his head and added to the push. The Auroran didn īt have a chance to react or do something else. He saw how he was closing the bar disk like in slow motion . It came closer and closer and then he felt how his head was jammed into the bar. All went black. It all had happened in a matter of seconds.

The violent blow made the ones sitting near almost jump into the air.

Crona noticed that the Auroran wasnīt rather conscious. He pulled him up and shaked the Auroran so he would wake up. When he was a bit more conscious and aware of things. Crona claped the Auroran on the right of his face twice. Then he said loud and clear.

"Now get out of my face. Next time take on somebody you can handle" adding a very humiliating tone to the voice.

The Auroran felt how he was pulled up, everything was so foggy. He thought he heard people laugh and pointing at him. He saw a shadow in front of him laughing the worst. You less foggier everything became you louder and violent the laughter became. Then he felt someone clap on the left of his face. Like he was a child! The humiliation, I canīt take it. And after the shadows sentence. The laughter increased he thought his head was going to explode. He tried to move his hand, he could move it. Iīm going to punch his teeth down his throat he thought.

Crona stood there laughing easy at the Auroran. Besides that and the moaning from the Auroran it was quiet. He knew perfectly well what was happening to the Auroran. He also knew what the Auroran was preparing to do. Suddenly the Aurorans right hand prepared for a punch. The Auroran stumbled forward. When the Auroran punched in the air after Crona he walked over to the right and put his foot in front of the Auroran who fell over the foot and landed in the floor. Crona could now fell the tension in the crowd begin to increase.

No, no the laughter the Auroran thought when the Shadow he was supposed to hit walked to the left. He missed the laughter increased. He felt how his feet left the ground. He put his hands in front of him. They took the hit. The rest of his body hit the ground. The laughter increasing and the humiliation couldnīt be much worse. I must do something. Where is my blaster he thought. The laughter was higher then ever.

Guardian Crona looked amused at the pain the Auroran suffered. Then the Auroran took out his blaster from under his left knee. Crona knew it. But he stood and waited. Now the Auroran was standing. He begun firing all over the Cantina, hitting innocent by-standers. Crona watched. When a blaster shot was coming in his direction he took up his lightsaber started it and said "Hey you Auroran! Youīll have to do better than that" the young Guardian said and reflected the blaster beam back in the Auroranīs direction. Where it hit the Auroran in his forehead. He fell down on the floor dead.

"You killed him!" Someone said and several Aurorans drew their blasters and were beginning to fire. An Auroran had sneaked up to the bar standing infront of his drink and to the left of Crona. Then Cronaīs lightsaber cut through the air sweeping against the Auroran in front of his drink. Crona threw himself at the floor spinning a bit and finally stopping on his knee. Where he pulled out his blaster and with the help of the Force he fired against the Aurorans at the same time as he controlled his lightsaber that by know had cut the Auroran and a bit of the bar in pieces. Better train on that more Crona tought. When the lightsaber returned to his left hand and he kept firing at the Aurorans. He holstered the blaster and took the lightsaber in both his hands and began to reflect the blaster beams. Then he felt how the tension outside begun to increase. Stormtroopers on their way Crona thought. He had very limited power to contact others through the Force but he tried to contact the squad leader to wait outside. He succeeded.

Even if the Squad leader didnīt hear anything. He just felt that he should stay put.

Crona reflected all the blaster beams back to the ones that sent them and soon there was nobody left. The Cantina looked like a wreck.

When Crona felt that there wasnīt any more danger. He went over to the bar and drank up the rest of the drink.

"Sir, that will...be...eh. 2 Imperial credits, sir!" The bartender said.

Crona looked at the bartender from under the darkness of his hood.

The bartender looked into the darkness of the hood "Eh, Iīm sorry... that will be nothing for you, sir" The bartender corrected.

Crona said nothing and left. Crona continued his walk trough the Imperial City. He saw people generally unaffected by the Emperorīs Hammerīs presence. He saw fountains, statues and droids while he walked trough the city. But he had a destination. He was going to see the Planetary Governor, Pendragon. Not for any specific reason. He just wanted to meet the man. When he arrived at the building, he saw that they where under attack. Three Aurorans screamed and fired with their blasters at the guards and the Planetary Governor that was looking out of a window. The window could probally withstand anything from a blaster or rifle. The Auroranīs had barricaded themselves behind some hovers and other junk. With the help of the Force Crona snuck up behind them and he activated his lightsaber and three seconds later the Aurorans were lying dead on the ground. Then Crona walked over to the Imperial guards "My name is Lt. General Crona, Wing Commander of Wing V." He said and handed over a data pad.

"Ok, sir. Your clear. Please state your buisness." the stormtrooper said.

"I would like to see Planetary Governor Pendragon" Crona replied.

"You know that he is a very busy..grr..that will be fine. Please report to his secretary on the highest floor. But he might not be there."

"Ok" Crona nodded and took back his data pad, then he entered the building.

Crona sensed a big presence...hm, not strange Crona thought, considering that a Krath Priest is standing less than 10 meters a front of me Crona thought.

"Welcome to Aurora Guardian Crona!" Pendragon said.

Crona couldnīt read his mind too well, but he guessed that he was meaning it.

"Thank you! Iīm honored to be here!" Crona replied and walked over to Pendragon and made a salute.

"Of course you are!" Pendragon replied and returned the salute.

"You are very fortunate Guardian Crona that I took the time to meet you. As you know Iīm a very busy man. But since you also know the ways of the Force I have taken the time to meet you." Pendragon said.

"You speak as if you have planned this..." Crona countered.

"Ha ha! Come now Guardian and Iīll show you around." Pendragon said.

They went over to the lift. "First Iīll show you my office on the highest level then weīll work our way down since I have a meeting later on the lower floors!"

"Sure, no problem. By the way, is that thing common...you are attacked?"

"Iīm sorry to say that itīs rather common. But it doesnīt happen too much now like it did in the beginning. Oh, I heard you cleaned up that Cantina pretty well."

"Yes, I did. Is it bothering you?"

"No not at all, actually we have had the place under surveillance quite some time. It is known to be the place where the most hostile Aurorans hang out. And when I say hostile, I mean against us. So actually you saved both me and the Empire a lot of both credits and time. And you probally saved a couple of stormtroopers that would have been killed in attack against the place."

"Eh, eh...sure"

"Well now we're here, my floor." They walked out of the lift. A couple of moments later they were in the Planetary Governor's office.

Crona walked over to the window while Pendragon went over to his desk and sat down. "You can actually see the whole city from here" Pendragon said.

"Yes..." Crona answered and continued to look.

Then suddenly an alarm went off.

"Oh, thatīs the alarm, they need me, it has been nice meeting you. I hope we can met again"

"Yes."

"Iīll escort you out"

"Thank you!"

"No problem at all."

They both left the office and went to the lift. They didnīt say much during the ride down. Except that Pendragon commented what there was on each floor. When they where on the first floor Crona thanked Pendragon for the tour and they said goodbye.

Crona went out. He saw that it had began to grow dark and lights begun to lighten up. He took a deep breath and began his rather long walk back to the transport. He once again saw the fountains and statues and a bit lesser droids that where hurrying home. When Crona was at the transport it was completely dark. Crona saw that the stormtroopers stood where they stood when he left. "Report." Crona said to the Squad leader.

"No problems, sir." The Stormtropper responded.

"Good prepare for take off."

"Yes, sir"

"Oh, I want to have 3 of your best stormtroopers aboard my transport"

"Sir, may I ask why."

"Hm... I think Iīll need them..."

"Ýes, sir"

15 minutes later they where leaving Auroraīs atmosphere. "You know our direction, pilot.?" Crona asked the pilots trough a com-link.

"Yes, sir" They reported in.

"Good"

With now four stormtroopers now aboard it wasnīt as comfortable as it was before.

"Iīm going to meditate now, donīt disturb me." Crona said.

Several hours later when they had left the Aurora System and they where heading for the ISD Challengeīs secret construction center.

"Sir, sir" A pilot said...

"What is it?" Crona said leaving his meditation.

"Weīve had some mechanical problems and weīve forced to leave hyperspace, and now we have been disabled and we are waiting to be boarded in about 2 minutes." the pilot said.

"What, why didnīt you tell me, if I knew you werenīt gonna tell me I'd be alert for danger by myself." Crona snapped at the pilot trough the com-link.

"What does the enemy consist of?" Crona asked.

"It consists of 2 assault transports" the other pilot said.

"What about the other two transports?" Crona asked.

"They continue their trip to the secret base!" the first pilot said.

"Alright then, weīll have to do one of your great techniques."

"Sure, sir" They replied.

About 1 and 20 seconds later. One pilot had strapped himself above the door. So he would get the boarders under him and they wouldnīt be able to see him. The other one hid on Cronaīs right side of the door. And a stormtrooper on the other side. While Crona flanked by the 3 remaining stormtroopers lined up behind some chairs they had put up for protection. Suddenly the door blow open and blaster shots were all over. Crona reached out with the force and his lightsaber swept to the opening where it cut down all the rebels that where trying to get in. Minutes later it was all over thanks to two pilots with "strange" techniques and a Dark Jediīs lightsaber. The other assault transport had entered hyperspace. Crona, the pilots and the stormtroopers manned the assault transport. Then they entered hyperspace. Several hours later they exited hyperspace near the ISD Challenge construction base. There they called for a shuttle to pick them up. They werenīt so stupid as to take an assault transport with possible beacon balls right into their base so the rebels could track them. Later when the shuttle arrived they went aboard and Crona ordered that the assault transport was to be destroyed. "Destroy that damn rebel assault transport we donīt want them tracking us here, now do we?"

"No, sir" a pilot said.

Later on the ISD Challenge bridge.

"Welcome back Crona!" RA Brett said. COM of the ISD Challenge."

"Thanks! Glad to be back!" Crona answered.

"Had an exciting vacation, letīs go to the Cantina and youīll tell me all about it"

"Exciting..no not really. The Cantina! Must we?"

You start out in a Missile boat with no shields. The object is to save the Avenger and make sure that a transport boards the container to take the shield device. This rebel device locks ino the IFF code of the opposing side and jams out its shields.

Primary Goals:

ISD Avenger must have survived

Container Mox must be boarded

ATR Viper must have completed mission

Secondary Goals:

Container Mox must be identified

CRL Vendetta must be destroyed

100% of A-Wing Yellow must be destroyed

Bonus Goals:

100% of X-Wing Red must be destroyed

100% of B-Wing Blue must be destroyed

We hear of an ambush that is going to hit the EH's fleet, and they send Flight group Delta I out to retrieve the battle plans from transport Sigma. There will be about 4 transport Sigma's so you have to be sure to get the right one.

Primary Goals:

ATR Viper must have survived

Transport Sigma must be captured

Secondary Goals:

Identify Transport Sigma

Bonus Goals:

Destroy every enemy ship!