Duty

thanks, it might be a while though, i write slowly oh what the heck, here is some more : The transport was a mess, one of the engines had been destroyed and another two spewed fuel from ruptured fuel lines, fires raged everywhere. "Please help us !" Begged the captain of the transport "We have important cargo aboard, the rebels must want it as badly as Lord Vader does" he continued Another message came through, this one was from a squadron of TIE fighters who had been on training manouvers nearby "We have been dispatched to your location, we will arrive in 15 minutes, defend that transport till we arrive" "C5, divert all available energy from the reactor to the shields, i have a feeling it will be needed at some point" Craylo ordered. Lights in the cabin and computer consoles faded briefly, as the entire Firespray´s shielding was reinforced. "I am detecting 3 rebel ships heading this way please deal with them, or we will be destroyed!" the transport captain exclaimed. "Are you alright master?" C5 asked slightly concerned "Yes i´m fine, i was just thinking." Craylo replied, when i go to challenge the rebel ships, make my voice sound like Boba Fett. If this works, there will be no need to fire a shot" he added. "Mesa gonna find yous soon Jaden" came a young gungan voice from somewhere in the leafy garden. The voice belonged to Oopiee, one of Jadens friends. Jaden had hidden himself behind a large bush, he could still see Oopiee, however Jaden would be missed by all but the keenest observers. No sound could be heard from the oppulent garden, aside from the splashing of fountains and the murmer of a conversation between the fathers of the two boys in the workshop. "Mesa spend longo time looking for you Jaden, yousa maxibig hider". Oopiee announced to the garden. When what seemed like an eternity to Jaden had passed, he crept from his hiding place. ( it had only been 5 minutes ). Oopiee had taken the time to hide in the large fountain in the centre of the garden. Jaden crept around the garden, looking in all the hiding places he would use, when he had no luck with this, he went to the central fountain and sat on the edge of the stone work, watching a butterfly like creature flit from flower to flower. Unknown to Jaden, Oopie had risen silently from the waters of the fountain. Splash! Jaden was soaked by Oopiee. "Mesa got you!" Oopiee Laughed. Jaden climbed into the fountain alongside Oopiee, it was very refreshing on a hot summers day such as today. " And i got you!" Jaden exclaimed as he splashed Oopiee Craylo´s ploy had worked, or so he thought. The rebel ships withdrew, with the exception of one ship, a Y-wing bomber. "Rebel vessel, you are ordered to leave the system or be destroyed." A vocally altered Craylo ordered. "If you, Boba Fett are guarding a lowly transport such as this, then the cargo must be valuable indeed." The rebel pilot said. "This leaves me with no other choice fett". The next sentence made Craylo´s throat dry. "FOR THE REBELLION!" screamed the Y-wing pilot. The pilot rammed his engines into full throttle. "Master, readings indicate the rebel ship is overloading its reactor, the ship will destroy itself" C5 reported. "He wont do much damage to the transport C5, i wouldnt worry too much" Craylo said, watching the course of the Y-wing. "The transport will be decimated, the rebel vessel is full to the brim with high yield photon torpedoes." continued C5. "What a day this has turned out to be" Craylo muttered under his breath. Seconds later, laser bolts spat out of Kraylo´s firespray, disabling the engines of the y-wing. Kraylo came alongside the disabled Y-wing, its engines blackened and sparking. He turned his ship round to face the Y-wings cockpit. "You wont win" was the last thing the rebel pilot said. he stretched out his hand towards the firespray, and flattened out his palm. In his hand was a ball like object, it was flashing red. A thermal detonator. Craylo´s family and the girl he met on the palace balcony where the last thing he saw, as they flashed past his eyes Edited by - freighter fighter on 12/18/2004 10:46:43 AM Edited by - freighter fighter on 12/18/2004 12:52:44 PM Edited by - freighter fighter on 12/18/2004 1:03:02 PM

ok, next installment It was a few abstract memories of the girl that came to craylo at first, her long flowing golden hair and her smile came to mind most often. The transport captain had by this time gotten the fires under control, and had contacted Naboo space station to ask for assistance, he also relayed Craylo´s actions to rsf command. His memories of the girl where stronger now, and more cohesive. He was standing on the palace balcony, admiring the view; he had been called to the palace by his commanding officer to collect his orders. "It’s a lovely view isn’t it?" a gentle voice beside him remarked. He turned to see a young woman dressed in a simple, yet elegant dress, with an ornate necklace around her neck. "Yes, it is a lovely view" craylo replied, a little dumbfounded at her beauty. "You must be one of the new pilot graduates, congratulations" she said warmly. "May I ask your name, pilot?" she asked. "Craylo Venis, at your service" he said with a smile, and a bow. "I´m Adelpha, it’s a pleasure to meet you" she said with a curtsy and a giggle. As the pair stood admiring the scenery, a protocol droid approached, containing sealed orders for Craylo. Craylo took the orders from the droid and turned to Adelpha. "It looks like I’ll have to guess what you do some other time, perhaps over drinks?" he asked, slightly nervously. "I´d love to, farewell Craylo Venis", she said A long range tug and salvage vessel had arrived to tow the imperial transport to Naboo, as had the squadron of TIE fighters, and a gunboat, to protect the ships from any pirates who had ideas above his or her station. C5 had survived the attack and occupied himself by sending a standard distress call on imperial and civilian frequencies. He set about conducting basic repairs to the reactor, which would provide power to the life support systems, and little else in its current state, he also got to work on the engine, with the aim to stop the spinning of the ship, and point it back towards Naboo. Meanwhile, back on Naboo, Craylo’s brother Dari was working on a survey droid for some research scientists due to travel to Endor with the aim of cataloguing the various species of plants and animals there. A red protocol droid shuffled into the workshop and waited for Dari to finish installing some components. “Excuse me master, there is a gentleman in the main hall waiting to speak with you” The droid announced respectfully. “Please tell him I’m busy, he’ll have to come back later” Dari said a little preoccupied with trying to fit an argumentative set of long range lenses into the droid. “The gentleman insists it’s important, he says it’s about master Craylo” responded the droid. “I do hope he isn’t in any trouble master” the droid said as Dari rushed from the workshop. Craylo had come around from being knocked out by the explosion of the Y-wing, he was saved from blindness due to the cockpit glass darkening as the explosion happened. “Where are we C5?” he asked “Still in Naboo space master, however I have good news and some bad news” C5 responded “We are close to an exit for a hyperspace route used by cargo vessels, it is certain we will be found soon, that’s the good news.” However, the bad news is, there’s enough oxygen to keep you alive for 17 days, however in our current state it may take 18 days to return to Naboo” C5 reported. “Thank you for that little ray of sunshine C5” Craylo sighed, as he closed his eyes. Special guest time.... “Go easy on the supplies; they have to last a while” The captain of a YT-1300 freighter that was lurking in a nebula to hide from Imperial patrols said to his rather furry co-pilot. A series of grunts and howls came from a nearby supply room. “You’re always hungry, why don’t you do something useful and fix the hyper drive?” He suggested. The captain began to wonder why the hyper drive was the first thing to be hit in battle; at least it kept his mind from turning into mush staring into the dense, looming nebula that surrounds the ship. A golden droid was sitting in the co-pilots chair, eves dropping on local communications channels. “Sir, I’m picking up a distress call on imperial and civilian frequencies, it’s from a vessel belonging to the local security forces, it is 20 minutes from our location, and the ship has been heavily damaged” “Are there any Imperial ships nearby?” the captain responded hesitantly “No sir, we are the only ship within range” was the response. “Well then, lets go, it beats staring at green clouds the whole time” responded the captain, glad to finally leave the expanse of green. The engines roared into life, and then stalled. “Is there any way I may be of service sir?” the golden droid asked, trying to sound helpful. “Yeah there is as it happens” “And what is that sir?” “Get out and push” Back on Naboo, Dari had taken Jaden to the Lake retreat, along with the little black droid, who Jaden had named Beeper. Adelpha had invited Dari and little Jaden to the retreat, when Craylo introduced her to his family a week previously. Jaden had barely left the landspeeder that bought them when he placed Beeper on the floor and dashed around after it. Adelpha had met the landspeeder dressed in a similar style to when she met Craylo. Dari gave a formal bow after exiting the speeder. “No need to be so formal, this is my home” she said with a smile. The pair made their way to a shaded bench, where they sat, and watched Jaden play. The ships engines had been repaired and the crew had found Craylo’s damaged ship. “Thank goodness you’ve found us, we can’t last much longer” C5 announced to the ship. It wasn’t long before the ships were on the way back to Naboo. Adelpha, Dari and Jaden had sat down to lunch for no longer than a minute when a message arrived for Adelpha. She read the message twice before it sank in. i will continue to write the story, just not update it here, unless anyone wants an update Edited by - freighter fighter on 12/23/2004 12:05:09 PM

As promised, you gave a comment to Wolfy´s story, I´ll give one for yours. <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> You´ve got excellent character traits and development happening for their behaviors and what they do, but you´ve left out some important parts. For one, we don´t know what they look like. Even Adelpha, who you describe the best, doesn´t have any mention of the colors of her dress or its specific style, how it shapes her nor do we know the color of her eyes. Her necklace, there are endless possibilities how a neckless can look, yet there is no features given. Is it gold, copper, jade...a chain, linked, loosely held clasps? Also, the most lifelike character in this story is Jaden because it doesn´t take extra explanation to understand the things he does, where others who do things we don´t do in our world, it might require a little more flare to the description. Like I said, when it comes to talking, you give a great sense of the characters personalities, but looks, facial expressions, body movements and character qwerks are all lacking. From a reading point of view, don´t separate every line of text with a spacer. Only use spacers when going to another character somewhere else, or jumping time. I know this forum doesn´t indent, so maybe you need to mark each new paragraph with something. For instance what you wrote could be more easily read like this: <font size=1 face="trebuchet ms"><BLOCKQUOTE><hr size=1 noshade> ___&quot;C5, divert all available energy from the reactor to the shields, i have a feeling it will be needed at some point&quot; Craylo ordered. Lights in the cabin and computer consoles faded briefly, as the entire Firespray´s shielding was reinforced. ___&quot;I am detecting 3 rebel ships heading this way please deal with them, or we will be destroyed!&quot; the transport captain exclaimed. ___&quot;Are you alright master?&quot; C5 asked slightly concerned &quot;Yes i´m fine, i was just thinking.&quot; Craylo replied, when i go to challenge the rebel ships, make my voice sound like Boba Fett. If this works, there will be no need to fire a shot&quot; he added. &quot;Mesa gonna find yous soon Jaden&quot; <b>{A NEW SCENE SOMEWHERE ELSE, DOESN´T NEED AN INDENT TO START} </b> came a young gungan voice from somewhere in the leafy garden. The voice belonged to Oopiee, one of Jadens friends. Jaden had hidden himself behind a large bush, he could still see Oopiee, however Jaden would be missed by all but the keenest observers. No sound could be heard from the oppulent garden, aside from the splashing of fountains and the murmer of a conversation between the fathers of the two boys in the workshop. ___&quot;Mesa spend longo time looking for you Jaden, yousa maxibig hider&quot;. Oopiee announced to the garden. ___When what seemed like an eternity to Jaden had passed, he crept from his hiding place. ( it had only been 5 minutes ). Oopiee had taken the time to hide in the large fountain in the centre of the garden. ___Jaden crept around the garden, looking in all the hiding places he would use, when he had no luck with this, he went to the central fountain and sat on the edge of the stone work, watching a butterfly like creature flit from flower to flower. ___Unknown to Jaden, Oopie had risen silently from the waters of the fountain. ___Splash! Jaden was soaked by Oopiee. ___&quot;Mesa got you!&quot; Oopiee Laughed. ___Jaden climbed into the fountain alongside Oopiee, it was very refreshing on a hot summers day such as today. &quot; And i got you!&quot; Jaden exclaimed as he splashed Oopiee Craylo´s ploy had worked, or so he thought. The rebel ships withdrew, with the exception of one ship, a Y-wing bomber. &quot;Rebel vessel, you are ordered to leave the system or be destroyed.&quot; A vocally altered Craylo ordered. ___&quot;If you, Boba Fett are guarding a lowly transport such as this, then the cargo must be valuable indeed.&quot; The rebel pilot said. <b>&lt;--- </b> &quot;This leaves me with no other choice fett&quot;. <b>{TWO CHARACTERS TALKING TO EACH OTHER USUALLY SHOULDN´T HAVE PERSONAL DESCRIPTIONS IN THE SAME PARAGRAPH} ---&gt; </b>The next sentence made Craylo´s throat dry. ___&quot;FOR THE REBELLION!&quot; screamed the Y-wing pilot. <hr size=1 noshade></BLOCKQUOTE></font><font face=´trebuchet ms, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica´ size=2> You´re very good at showing the character qualities through dialog, but if this were to be compared to your photography skills, this would be a black and white photograph story as opposed to a full rich color photograph showing all the detail. But as it is fan fiction, it is very good for what it is. And I wouldn´t suggest necessarily pushing yourself too hard on something you can never sell. Although, if you write an original story of your own one day, you should consider these things I said to help you bring breadth to the world you see in your mind. Merry Christmas! <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Sir S Edited by - Sir Spectre on 12/25/2004 7:48:34 AM

sS, could you please email me at ben_hollingbery@hotmail.com, i feel my story is coming on in leaps and bounds, and i´d love some help shaping it <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

@FF: i beleive this is starwars no? because if it is i didn´t know they had advanced enough for &quot;photon&quot; torpedos, highest i knew they had was &quot;proton&quot; torpedos <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=m

are you sure? ¬_¬ i´ll go check