Onyx 7

[Tera Highwind]

Well, weren't they eager campers? The entire squadron, such as it was now, went rushing out of the door, dogpiling towards the fighters in the hangar as everyone rushed on to...well do what? It wasn't like the ships were going to get away from them, and the exercise could surely wait a few seconds. Still, As Tera bobbed along in their wake the green-haired woman found her light eyes dancing between her teammates, observing their reactions. It was telling, from the bright eager enthusiasm of the young pilot, Cody, or the single minded focus of their new commander as she drove straight to her X-wing, she was going to be very business focused. The most telling reaction though came from their Corellian XO, she did not seem happy with the ground crew who had been mantaining her fighter, so she liked those little tweaks. Well, the best way to know them, that was to get in and actually fight them in the sim.

Adjusting her path to the side Tera approached her own machine, nodding amicably at the mechanics working around the other fighters as she approached in silence. Raising one hand the woman ran her hand over the cool metal of the fighter, walking around the machine, her eyes dancing across the armour plates as she completed a circuit around the machine. It wasn't that you could always spot any problems, but it was a ritual she'd had drilled into her, you never knew what your eyes might spot. This time however, there was nothing, no problems that lept out of her as she dropped into the cockpit, fingers running through the startup checklist, the cockpit thrumming to file around her.

"Kids huh XO?" a smile touched the woman's lips as the image of the battlefield appeared around her, "You'd just tempting me to cut in and make it a threeway."

[member="Freja Liekvold"] | [member="Cody Beamont"] | [member="Allyson Locke"] | [member="Aubrey King"]

 

[Aubrey King]

It wasn't long before Locke herself was challenging Aubrey to the duel. Her thudded loudly, but purely from excitement now that she was in her element.

"I wouldn't mind a dance. Show me some of those Rogue moves."

Highwind interjected after being called a kid, but she did look pretty young as a Lieutenant Commander. Meanwhile, Aubrey was just a newly minted Lieutenant. Maybe she was doing something wrong as it came to the rank game.

"Oh no Highwind, I have this."

She toggled the controls to alter the settings of the sim. Now everyone would be spawning in with a vanilla X-wing, a T-65XJ3 to be exact. It would put everyone on an equal footing with a basic snub fighter, so that they would have to rely more on their skills than tech.

There was a flicker in the hologram as the display changed, surrounding her in the blocky cockpit of a classic X-wing. She leveled out, then gently turned into a wide orbit around a mountain, waiting for Locke to appear. She had seemingly left herself open for attack taking such a posture, but her brown eyes flicked back from the glass displays to her canopy, on the lookout.

[member="Freja Liekvold"] [member="Cody Beamont"] [member="Allyson Locke"] [member="Tera Highwind"] [member="Cassius Droma"]

 

[Allyson Locke]

As the simulator loaded in, Allyson frowned seeing that she wouldn’t be able to play with her toys that she had recently gotten. How rude. Leaning back into the cockpit of her fighter, she pushed a few buttons and fixed some of the settings. The almost third person view of the cockpit faded and Allyson was left with the open scenery. Monitors and the like were patched in and she had a good understanding of what was around her.

“Jeez Commander – no toys this time around eh?” Allyson complained knowing and feeling the clunk of the older model. She did prefer the new stuff, but Aubrey’s idea to level everyone out was a wise choice. Continue to fiddle she smirked hearing that Aubrey was willing to duel for the most part. Allyson’s ego would probably get the best of her in this scenario since she knew she couldn’t fiddle with it and if she used her technomancy it would end her messing with the simulator.

Another frown as she leaned back and the craft took off, zipping around searching for the target. She didn’t answer Aubrey’s comment about the rogue moves just yet, she smirked and wondered if her next comment would be crossing the line with the commander. Allyson had to find her boundaries still, “I’ll show you some stuff, just gotta promise not to fall for me.” A soft chuckle trailed until the comm was shut off between them. Allyson needed focus and keep herself in check. The mountain came into view and her fighter quickly dropped behind it after seeing the Commander’s fighter just out in the open. This felt like a trap, but Allyson was confident with her skills and decided to take the bait.

Moving quickly around the mountain, two proton torpedoes were fired towards the single fighter.

[member="Aubrey King"]