Beyond - Legends Space Combat --- Like It, Love It, or Lump It (NJO)

Newly promoted to be Squadron Leader of the newly formed and aptly named Vengeance Squadron, Ton Senet was a very young human male, with black hair and green eyes and currently in the fight of his life against the Yuuzhan Vong attacking Farran III, a planet on the Mid Rim.

"Vengeance Three, this is Vengeance Leader, please break left and get the kriff out of my firing lane please!" Ton said through gritted teeth to the amateur pilot ahead, Reek Oblar, an arrogant Sernpidalian who wanted revenge for his albino people that had been nearly rendered extinct by the Vong.

"Yes, Vengeance Leader. Perhaps I will do that," the predictably arrogant answer came back.

"MOVE!"

Reek could be heard mumbling to himself as he broke left, out of the firing lane finally, and revealing the three coralskippers that had been chasing him and battering his shields with magma ejecta from their "rock spitters."

"Kriff," Ton cursed and barrel-rolled to avoid a new volley of plasma.

He came up behind the dovin basal trio (AUTHOR'S NOTE: A play on the Alliance's shield trio) of coralskippers and began firing, showering the first coralskipper with crimson laser splinters.

He dove down under the remaining two as the first exploded in a short-lived flare of flame and burning black yorik coral, and heading towards where the big capital ships were slugging it out a few kilometers away.

Space ahead was lit up with turbolaser exchanges, missile trails, and flaming craft.

Ton was able to admire it for a short moment.

Before another coralskipper exploded to his port side in a firestorm of plasma and yorik coral. Reek waggled the S-foils of his X-wing as he flashed past, obviously the perpetrator of the enemy craft's death.

Ton gritted his teeth harder and briefly reflected that he'd probably have no chompers left at all by the end of this long and disastrous conflict.

But then he couldn't think about anything but killing the Yuuzhan Vong as another squadron of coralskippers flung themselves into the fray.

"Vengeance Squadron, let's kick some alien behind!" he called into the comm before going into a heart-stopping series of spins and spirals and twirls to avoid and confuse the dovin basals firign the rock spitters of the coralskippers as they came in fast and low.

His stream of laserfire caught the first skip in the bow as it was already sustaining another few bursts from Reek, who had designated himself as Ton's unofficial wingmate for this particular battle.

The dovin basal of the coralskipper was confused by the converging streams of deadly light and chose to swallow Reek's salvo, Ton's melting the cockpit of the craft open and Ton watched with a grimace as the Yuuzhan Vong was sucked out into the unrelenting vacuum of space, the cognition hood ripped away with him as his dying craft spiraled down into the atmosphere of the planet below.

Ton looked at the floating Vong pilot as his X-wing flashed past, but not fast enough to avoid seeing that the Vong was still alive, gnullith attached to his scarred and tattooed face, still attempting to attack Ton's passing starfighter before the Alliance pilot's ion drives fried him to Vongsticks.

"Yahoo!" Ton said miserably as he dove back into the fight, resigned to battle until he could battle no more.