GoldLeader's Commandos by GoldLeader

Grand Admiral GoldLeader stood on the bridge of his Dreadnaught, the UPA Virtue. He stared out at the many stars and at the UPA Base and fleet. He was thinking about the past and about how UPA was at its low point, almost falling apart, but was then brought back up again, and he was looking at what was the result. But just then, a call was being sent to them from the UPA One. It was Drewhead. GoldLeader was glad to see him, he was beginning to get bored. "Hey Drew, how's it going?" asked GoldLeader. Drew replied "GoldLeader, how could you be so casual when answering a call? My ship could be split in half, I am about to die, I send a distress call to you, and you reply, 'Oh, hey, how is it going?'!?!?". "Whatever Drew, what's the problem." said GoldLeader. "We are about to have an SC Meeting, report to the UPA One. Hacker and R2 are already there" said Drew. GoldLeader replied "Ok, on my way." GoldLeader walked to the docking bay and took his personal Muurian Transport, the Falcon Claw, over to the UPA One. It was a short trip, naturally, due to the speed of his ship. He headed toward the Meeting Room and saw Grand Admiral WedgeantR2, Grand Admiral Drewhead, and Admiral Hacker there talking about past missions or something. GoldLeader took a seat and the meeting began. R2 was the first to speak up. "We have located an Imperial base that has loads of cargo. The base is heavily defended by 2 ISDs and 3 Frigates. We could take out the defenses are kind of easy to defeat with all we have. The main problem is that the base itself has hundreds of stormtroopers. We need someone to go in there, after we disable the station, and to open up the cargo bay doors. This way, we will be able to fly all the cargo out of there.". "So now we need someone here that is willing to go in there and get those cargo bay doors open after we disable the station and all destroy all there defenses." said Drewhead. Hacker asked "Why not just ask for their surrender?". "I sincerely doubt that they wll cooperate becuase we heard that the commander of the station is Grand Moff Grelo, one of the most loyal and most stubborn Imperial officers in the remenants of the empire." said Drewhead. GoldLeader finally spoke up, "So who should we send in there?". R2 and Drew both stared at him. "Oh great, why me?" asked GoldLeader. "Because you did such a good job stealing your ship and you have the Falcon Claw, which is the best craft to carry you and your commandos." said R2. "And just who are my commando's?" asked GoldLeader. "There is you, BigMike, Firestorm, Owen, Crusher, hopeflt, yoda, and Raptor. You all had experinence doing some commando work." said Drew. "Alright, I'll do it," said GoldLeader "but can I ask a question?". "Sure GoldLeader." replied Drew. "WOULD YOU AND R2 STOP TALKING ABOUT ME BEHIND MY BACK?!?!".

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It was a half an hour till Falcon Wing and Tiger Wing jumped into hyperspace. Eagle Wing was going to stay back and guard the base while they were gone. When they got to the base, they were going to first destroy the defenses and then disable the base. Then all of GoldLeader's commando's would rendezvous back on the UPA Virtue and then take off in the Falcon Claw. They would then force themselves into the station and get to the cargo bay. They would then open the doors and would then leave the station with all the cargo they had. They would also sabotage the station so that when Imperial reinforcements came, they would see a nice explosion before their eyes. GoldLeader was ready to go and was waiting in the Falcon Claw. He would also participate in destroying the defenses and disbling the station. The UPA Golden Bear, UPA Moonstalker, UPA StoneWall, UPA Raven, UPA Guardian, UPA Startide, and the UPA Death Wind all got into posistion around the UPA Virtue. The UPA Virute was in front, and the UPA StoneWall was right to it, 3 klicks away. The UPA Golden Bear and the UPA Moonstalker were directly behind the UPA Virtue. The UPA Raven was between the UPA Virtue and the UPA StoneWall with the UPA Death Wind on its aft. The UPA Guardian and the UPA Startide was behind the UPA StoneWall. GoldLeader began to talk to Drew on comlink. "Ok, I already have hopeflt onboard the Falcon Claw with me, since he is not flying. He will be my co-pilot." said GoldLeader. "Alright, we are about to enter hyperspace. Ready for this?" asked Drew. "Always was" replied GoldLeader. Just then, the effects of hyperspace began to take place. The stars became longs white streaks which kept going to infinite. Exactly 2 hours til they reached their destination. This was going to be a long 2 hours for GoldLeader.

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Finally, they had reached the Imperial station. Drew sent out a message to everyone, "All squadrons report in.". "Blue Leader standing by", "Gold Leader standing by", "Vortex Leader standing by", "Defiant Leader standing by", "Red Leader standing by", "Wraith Leader standing by" replied all the squadron leaders. GoldLeader began to speak "Ok, everyone in Tiger Wing, target those defenses, try and get the ISDs first. Falcon Wing, lets disable that station." GoldLeader and hopeflt flew the Falcon Claw out of the docking bay of the UPA Virute. GoldLeader immediately went after the station and started firing everything he had on it. Meanwhile, Defiant and Wraith squadrons dumped their torpedoes on the ISDs. One of ISDs was destroyed within a matter of seconds. While Defiant and Wraith were taking out the capital ships, Blue Squadron was mowing down those TIEs. Just then, one of the TIEs got onto the Falcon Claw's tail. It scored a shot on the left engine. GoldLeader targeted it immediately and destroyed it. "Oh damnit, I can't hold it. I'm going to have to get back to the Virute. Take over for now BigMike." said GoldLeader. Just then, he headed back for the UPA Vitrue. He saw that BigMike was handling the attack on the station quite well. When he got back on the UPA Virute, he began to repair it immediately. He hoped that he would have it fixed before the rest of his commandos get back. Then, GoldLeader's comlink beeped. It was BigMike. "We disabled the station, and Tiger Wing just killed both ISDs and a frigate. We heading over there now. Are you ready?" asked BigMike. "Yeah, I'm ready." said GoldLeader. GoldLeader worked as fast as he could repairing the Falcon Claw. BigMike was the first to fly in the docking bay, then came Raptor, his brother. After them came yoda, then Firestorm. One by one, they piled in. They got there commando gear ready, and then, finally, GoldLeader repaired the engine on the Falcon Claw. They took off for the station.

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Out in space, it was calm and there was no more battling going on. Blue squad was on patrol around the Imperial station, but besides that, it was much different than before. GoldLeader also saw that one of the frigates was still there, but wasn't moving at all. "We bagged one of their frigates," said BigMike, "now who are you going to give that one to?". "Well, we'll have to see after this mission is over." It only took 2 minutes for them to reach the station. They landed on one of the platforms, and were ready to go in. "Ok, everybody in their posistions. Got the explosives Firestorm?" asked GoldLeader. "Yeah, they're right here.". He took them out to show them. "Put that damn thing away before you blow us all up." said Owen. "What, don't trust me, Owen?" Firestorm said scornfully. "Both of you shut up, or else I'll have you demoted." said GoldLeader trying to cool them down. GoldLeader thought to himseld Oh this is going to be great. They then forced there way through one of the doors leading to the station. There was just blackness inside, so they turned on there infrared goggles. To there amazement, there was no one there. "Oh yeah, great trick. I think the Imperials played this one enough." The Imperials heard that, and stormtroopers began to come. "Oh crap! Draw blasters!" said GoldLeader. But no one was to stupid not to once the stormtroopers came. They began firing at each other. hopeflt hit one of the stormtroopers dead in the head, and Crusher got two of them in a second flat. After about 15 seconds, the first wave of stormtroopers were already killed. "Wow, I didn't know that you guys were so good." said GoldLeader. "Ok, first order of business, we have to get to the cargo bay and get those doors open. But we can't do that until we restore power. So we have to get to the generator. So that's where they went. There was hardly any stormtrooper interference. They finally got to the generator. They had with them a portable generator to give the station limited power for about a half an hour or so. They hooked it up, and the power was restored to everything but weapons. GoldLeader began to say "Lets get to the carg-". Just then he was cut off by a blaster that almost hit him. They were ambushed! "Hide!" said GoldLeader. And they did. They drew there blasters and started firing back at the stormtroopers from behind boxes or walls. One of the stormtroopers hit yoda in the leg. "AHHH!!!" screamed yoda. "Oh great, Crusher, cover yoda. You'll have to get him back to the ship. After they cleared away the stormtroopers, Crusher carried yoda back to the Falcon Claw. GoldLeader hoped that they would get back. GoldLeader and the rest of his commandos headed for the cargo bay, and once GoldLeader turned a corner to the hallway with the door leading into the docking bay, he immediately turned back. He saw 2 stormtroopers in front of the door, and lucky for GoldLeader, they didn't see him. They had an alarm right next to them which would warn the whole station and say where they were. So GoldLeader and Owen went inched their way around the corner and took aim as fast as they can. Both of their laser blasts hit both stormtroopers simultaneously. They headed toward the door, opened it, and hid at the sides of the door so anyone inside the cargo bay wouldn't see them. GoldLeader peered inside the door to see if anyone was in there. There was only 1 Imperial officer and 3 stormtroopers. Not one of them was facing toward the door. Bad mistake for them. Since Owen was the sniper of the group, he kneeled at the door and shot them all as fast as they could. One of the stormtroopers managed to yell "HEY!!" but was shot a nano-second after. They entered the door and went to the controls for the cargo bay door. BigMike flipped the switched and the doors opened. He also put in a code to lock the doors in place. They now had to get to the comm station and tell Drew to send in the tugs to pick up the cargo. In one of the boxes were some sequencer charges. GoldLeader took 2 of them. "Just in case" GoldLeader said. They headed for the comm station and saw that the door to it was locked. BigMike tried to open it, but couldn't. So, GoldLeader placed one of the charges on the door and set it to manual. They all stood away from the door. GoldLeader hit the switch and the charge blew up. One of the officers standing next to the door flew away from it. They shot all the officers in there and activated the comm unit. "Drew, send in the tugs." said GoldLeader. "They're on there way." replied Drew. "Ok everybody, lets get back to the generator and set the explosives. They headed back to the generator and set the explosives. They were set so whenever any new ship enters the system, they would explode. They then ran back to the Falcon Claw. But just as they thought they were home free, stormtroopers ambushed them right after the turn to the hallway leading to the Falcon Claw. GoldLeader immediately turned back and set the other charge on the wall before the wall turned. Luckily, the stormtroopers didn't see him do this. GoldLeadr and his commando's ran back as far as they could, and when the stormtroopers turned the corner..... BAM!! The stormtroopers were knocked back almost all the way to the Falcon Claw itself. GoldLeader and his commando's ran as fast as they could to the Falcon Claw. Once they got inside, GoldLeader yelled across the ship to Crusher "FIRE UP THE ENGINES!! HURRY!". GoldLeader got to the cockpit and took the controls. He shooted off the platform and put all power into engines. They raced back for the UPA Virute. GoldLeader told the crew on the UPA Virute to activate the tractor beam. Just then, an ISD appeared. And at that moment, the station blew up into a million pieces. "Did Drew get all of the cargo out in time?" asked GoldLeader to ThomasH who was filling in as captain of the UPA Virute. "Yeah, and just a few minutes before the ISD came in." replied ThomasH. They then hyperspaced back to base leaving the ISD behind with a bunch of space dust floating near them. They also claimed that frigate that was disabled during the battle. When they got back to base, they had a party on board the UPA Virute. "Congratulations everybody! We all did a great job stealing that cargo. I'd espicially like to thank my commandos. I'd also like to say that yoda is doing fine and will be back in action within 5 days. Crusher did a great job getting him out of there. I wish I could promote you, but you aren't in my wing. You'll have to ask Drew for that.". Drew then said "We'll see, maybe that frigate we bagged does belong to somebody." GoldLeader then said "I heard that it is now a tradition in the UPA that whoever did the best in a mission buys drinks when we are celebrating. So since Crusher did the best this mission, I think he would be honored to buy a round for us all.". "Thank you for this honor, GoldLeader, but I think you did the best this mission." said Crusher. "No, no, no. It is quite all right. You did great this mission." said GoldLeader. "GoldLeader, come on, you led us all this mission. You did a great job." said Crusher. And with that they continued arguing and arguing, while the rest of the UPA just laughed at the two of them. It was a great day for the UPA.

The UPA Shipyards by GoldLeader

It was a normal day for the UPA. Just regular recon missions and all that. The SC were about to have a meeting on board the UPA Base and Grand Admiral GoldLeader and Grand Admiral Drewhead arrived at about the same time. They sat down and waited for Grand Admiral WedgeantR2, Admiral Farell, and Admiral Hacker to arrive. GoldLeader began by asking "Good morning Drew, how are you doing?". "I'm fine GoldLeader. I just finsihed breakfast. Some of that cargo that you stole had some good food in it." said Drew. GoldLeader replied "Oh yeah, I bust my butt just so you could eat good food for breakfast. Hehe." Just then, WedgeantR2 arrived and said "Hey Drew, hey GL. I just had an idea I had to tell you.". Hacker arrived then and took his seat. "Hello sirs. How were your mornings?" said Hacker. "Not bad." said GoldLeader. "Ok, I have this good idea that I was thinking about last night. Remeber when we were building the UPA One and the UPA Paradigm, but we had to use the New Republic Shipyards?" asked R2. "Oh yeah." replied Drewhead. "Well, I was thinking. With all the ships we are having to get built, why not make our own Shipyards?" asked R2. GoldLeader said "That's a great idea, but where are we going the supplies needed to build them?". "Good question GL. And I have an answer. With the cargo that we bagged-" "With the good food in it" said GoldLeader. "Yeah GoldLeader, that cargo" said WedgeantR2 and continued "With the cargo that we bagged, we could build some of it. But to build the rest, we need to bag a convoy. There is an Imperial convoy passing through the Hoth system. We could get it there.". "Hey, wait a minute. I was talking to JBC_Dan_Arms_ a couple of days ago and he said the JBC needed some supplies also. They were going after the same convoy! Maybe we can get them to help us out." said GoldLeader. WedgeantR2 said "Good idea GL. So, with them included, we wouldn't have to use as many squadrons. I was going to use Blue, Rogue, Grey, and Green. But now it just looks like I'll just have to use Blue and Grey. There are 6 Freighters, 4 Corvettes, 3 Heavy Lifters, a Dreadnaught, and a couple of other cargo carriers. We don't know how many fighter's we'll be expecting, but we suspect its minimal.". "Oh, so none of my squadrons are in it?" GoldLeader of course. "Not this time GL" said R2. "So, when is this supposed to take place?" asked Drewhead. R2 replied "If it maintains its current heading and speed, it should be there within 3 days. That gives you enough time to talk to Dan, right GL?". "Yeah, no problem." GL said. "Ok, is there anything else to discuss?" asked R2. No one had anything else. "Ok then, the meeting is ajourned. Meet you all at the combat simulators in an hour." said R2.

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GoldLeader got back to Falcon Wing HQ and into his very large and very good quarters. He was the richest man in the UPA. He wondered Hmm... who should I list in my will to give all this money too... Maybe Crusher, I'll put the burden on him to pay for all the drinks of all UPA members. He then got on the conn and contacted the JBC. He put in a request to speak to Dan. After a few moments, Dan answered asking "Hey GoldLeader, how you doing?". "Hey Dan, I'm doing fine. Guess what, you know that convoy you said you were going to bag? Well, we need some of those supplies also. We are planning to build our own shipyards. So, mind if we send two of our own squadrons to help out?" GoldLeader asked. Dan replied "Sure GoldLeader, no problem. Which two squadrons are they?". GoldLeader replied "Grey and Blue. I'm hoping you have Y-Wings or B-Wings to disable the convoy because if not, we'll send in Green.". "No no no, we have ions." said Dan. "Ok then, its all set. They'll meet you at the rendezvous point at 1300 hours 3 days from now." said GoldLeader. "Ok, see ya." said Dan shutting down his transmission. GoldLeader turned off his and then headed for the combat simulators on the UPA HQ. Him, R2, Drew, Farell, and Hacker we going to do some mission GoldLeader made up. GoldLeader went to the docking bay and entered the Falcon Claw. He turned on the engines and headed for the UPA HQ. He contacted the UPA HQ to tell them to pull him in. When he was getting out of the Falcon Claw, R2 and Farell was there to meet him. "Hey GL, I got here before you.". GoldLeader replied "Yeah that's because I was busy. Umm, Vapor kept asking me questions about Shadow Squadron.". "Sure GoldLeader, you know I got here first because the Aquila's Eye is faster than the Falcon Claw." said R2. "Yeah right, the Falcon Claw can outrun that piece of Corellian crap anyday" said GL. "We'll see about that." said R2. Farell was getting bored at this and said "Man, would you too stop, you're making me tired.". At last, Drew and Hacker arrived on a Lambada-class shuttle. GL greeted them with open arms, "What took you two so long?". Drew said "Sorry if my piece of crap shuttle is not as fast as your ship. I have to get my own transport.". GL said to R2 "See, he said MY ship. Mine is the fastest. The arguing continued as always and they all went into the combat sim and flew GL's mission. Of course, it had R2's ship self-destruct in it.

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It was three days since the Supreme Council meeting. The attack on the Imperial convoy was going to begin soon. Grey group was getting assembled on the UPA Ariana and so was Blue squadron on the UPA Peacemaker. In a few minutes they entered hyperspace to the rendezvous point where they would meet the JBC. After about 15 minutes, they reached the rendezvous point and they were greeted by JBC_Dan_Arms_. "Hey," said Dan "Are you guys ready to get this cargo?". "Always was." said Genie. "Yeah, l'm in the mood to kill some Imps." Hacker said. "Alright, sending you the cooridinates." said Dan. "Ok, we got em" said Hacker and Genie in reply. Dan said "Ok, get ready to enter hyperspace on my mark. Ready, lets go!" The ships from the JBC and the two ships of the UPA entered hyperspace heading to intercept the cargo.

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The fleet of JBC and UPA ships exited hyperspace in the Hoth system and waited for the Imperial convoy to arrive. It only took a couple of minutes because they already knew when and where they were coming. Dan contacted the convoy and asked "This is Commander Dan Arms of the JBC. Surrender your cargo at once or you will be fired upon.". A voice came in from the Imperial convoy saying"This is Commander Zinsto of the Dreadnaught Ghinsho. We accept your turns and surrender our cargo at once.". "Well, that wasn't too hard." said Hacker. Just then a VSD popped in and launched all its fighters, two squadrons of TIE Fighters, 1 of TIE Interceptors and 1 of TIE Bomers. "Uh oh, launch all fighter squadrons!" said Genie. The Dreadnaught launched all its fighters also, which was only 1 squadron of TIE Fighters. "Blue Squadron, engage the bombers, we don't want them trying to hit either of our capital ships." said Hacker. "Red Syndicate, get on those fighters and interceptors. Green Syndicate, disable that cargo." said Dan. "Grey Squadron, help with the fighters and launch all torps at that VSD." said Genie. Blue Squadron reached the bombers quickly. Hacker was locking his concussion missles on a TIE Bomber. He received a full lock and fired. His missle hit the starboard side of the bomber taking it and the bomber next to it. "Nice shot, Hacker." said Starbuck. In a matter of minutes, there was no longer a bomber threat. Blue Squadron then went on engaging the fighters. Meanwhile, Grey group was firing all its torpedoes at the VSD. Genie got the left shield generator and RealBlue got the right. The shield were out and Genie began his attack run on the bridge of the VSD. "Realblue, get behind me and fire if I miss, which won't probably happen." said Genie. He got a full lock on the bridge and pulled up and and then turned around just in time to see the torpedoes hit its mark. The torps went right through the viewport sticking out of the VSD and detonated right before it was about to come out the other side. The control tower burst into flames. "Ok, all remaining craft with torpedoes fire at that Dreadnaught. Don't destroy it though. Green Syndicate, can you disable it when its shields are out?" asked Genie. "No problem." Green Syndicate of the JBC was disabling the cargo quickly and most of it was disabled. The ships in Grey group with torps left fired very carefully and slowly decreasing the shields on the Dreadnaught. When it got down to 5% shields, they told Green Syndicate to start disabling it. Its shields were brought down and it was disabled in a few moments. They then continued disabling the cargo. All other groups were after the remaing squadrons of fighters. It was a evenly numbered match, which was bad for the Imperials since having higher numbers were the only way they usually won since they have no shields. It was really easy to take out the fighters. After only a couple of minutes after the battle started, a Dreadnaught was disabled, along with all the other cargo, and a VSD was destroyed. "It seems the Imperials underestimate the skills on the JBC and UPA." said Dan. The JBC launched their ships to go pick up there share of the cargo and so did the UPA. They both took 3 freighters, 2 corvettes, the UPA took all of the rest of the cargo, and the JBC took the Dreadnaught. The UPA was heading home and so was the JBC. Dan said to Hacker and Genie, "Great working with you guys, you are really skilled.". Hacker said in reply "Not so bad yourself. Hope to work with you again.". "Yeah, see ya." said Genie. "Bye" said Dan. They both entered hyperspace heading home to tell the good news to their bases.

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The UPA Ariana and the UPA Peacemaker dropped out of hyperspace at the UPA Base. Hacker said to everyone "We come bearing gifts.". "Hehe, good one Hacker." said GoldLeader "So, got the cargo?". "Yep, and a lot too. The shipyards we'll be sure to be constructed, and maybe there will be enough for something else." said Genie. "Something else, eh? Hmm...... Well, I have an idea, but I don't want to spoil it." said GL. "Ok, lets start making shipyards.". The pilots of Grey Squadron and Blue Squadron returned back home to the UPA Base and they celebrated. GoldLeader bought everybody drinks, of course. They were all begging him asking him what the new thing he was thinking of building was. "Well," said GL "Lets just say I won't have to buy drinks again after its built." They still didn't understand. "You'll find out someday." said GL. "OH!! I think I know what it is!!" said yoda. GL was fast with his response "Keep your mouth shut, yoda, or you'll be using that Force crap of your's to clean all the bathrooms on Falcon Wing HQ.". Everyone started laughing. It was once again another great day for the UPA.