Exegol preplay

[bb8_dad]

The ships exited hyperspace, and Poe's first thought upon seeing Exegol was that it looked dead. It was the the ugliest thing he'd seen in a long while, and he wondered if it had always been this way, or if building a colossal fleet of Star Destroyers here had killed the place.

And when the ships dived into the cloud cover, they nearly ran into the Sith fleet. It was massive. Their triangled hulls were enormous, but they grew even smaller as their numbers seemed to stretch into infinity.

"Great dark seas," Aftab Ackbar gasped across the comm. "Look at that!"

"No sign of the Falcon or allies," Tyce said from her ship.

"Help will get here," Poe assured them.

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Re: Spaceships

[grenadesandohana]

Steve wasn't distracted. He was terrified, and a little bit pissed off, but not distracted. He shifted the ship again, lined the TIE up in his sights, and fired.

[heroic_jawline]

Steve grinned. "Nice to see you, Ant-Man. I've only worked with Wasp. She's from Tony's version of our universe."

[dishesonthetoprack]

"I bet she gets wings," Scott noted enviously, briefly curious about which Van Dyne was in the suit in that universe. (Or whether she was a Van Dyne at all? Maybe a Pym? Maybe someone new entirely?) "I think my Hank used to have one of those."

But then she got lost to the Quantum Realm, as one did.

[heroic_jawline]

"She does," Steve said with a grin as he used his shield to mow down a row of troopers getting too close. "They're cute."

[weetuskenraider]

Tahiri huffed briefly in amusement, then flung a hand out and knocked three troopers over like dominoes.

"Yeah, I bet. You know, I thought I was about as used to the timeline oddities as I could get after all these years, but I'm having a hard time wrapping my brain around, well, all of this one."

[dishesonthetoprack]

"I'm jealous," Scott admitted, flipping his visor back into place and pressing that important button on the palm of his hand.

By all appearances, he'd disappeared -- until he was abruptly his own size again, careening way too fast off of a nearby ledge with a kick that took out three troopers. Sweet.

[defenderofdesmoines]

But what if the turret listened to Annie's powers, too? Oh, no.

She remained unharmed, though this was stinging enough to really start to piss her off. She yanked energy from the turret before firing it back in a blast to take the thing out. Annoying.

The troopers were getting blasted, too, though not with nearly as much force as when she'd been levitating a moment prior. (Though, like, it probably didn't tickle, either.)

[unusual_sith]

Lana was briefly disappointed she'd never bothered to master throwing her saber.

She did, however, know how to spin up a whirlwind around one of the troopers and use them to knock over a few others.

[heroic_jawline]

Now that Steve knew what to look for--he'd gotten into a couple of scrapes with Jan in Tony's universe--he could grin and watch for Scott's impact on the field.

"They never see you coming," he teased.

[dishesonthetoprack]

"Except in very rare cases," Scott replied with a muffled laugh, because sometimes he was very visible, also. (And could the Wasp do that? Maybe wings were overrated when you could become Giant-Man.) "But I don't think this spaceship needs that kind of a weight-bearing test."

Re: Spaceships

[notagoose]

Goose whooped as the TIE fighter exploded, he also wanted to win this game of chicken.

“Goose we’re taking on a lot of fire power,” Alma warned, “our shields won’t hold,”

“It’s fine, look for an opening Alma we’ve got this,” Goose instructed as he kept getting closer and closer, not wavering from his determination to keep flying straight into the TIE Fighters, returning fire indiscriminately.

Re: Spaceships

[tros_npcs]

The TIE took a hit, veering off just in time to avoid hitting Goose straight on, but if Goose didn't move at all his ship might get clipped.

Re: Spaceships

[tros_npcs]

"Copy," Tyce said, trusting that, and maintained course.

Re: Spaceships

[tros_npcs]

This was apparently the wrong move for that TIE pilot, because a moment later it was blowing up after taking a direct hit.

Re: Spaceships

[tros_npcs]

They were definitely wings, and the pilot inside the TIE was suddenly flying a little wilder, trying to shape whatever he was off of the ship.

[solo_sword]

"Oh, there's parts I don't think you know, either," Jaina said, whipping around to lightsaber a trooper's blaster right out of his hand. She wasn't trying to show off, she was just really used to doing this.

[tros_npcs]

The troopers were flying back again, and a moment later part of the turret blew, sending fire raining down. Some shots were still able to make it through, but their aim was definitely going to be off from now on. It was a big something.

Re: Spaceships

[imafuturist]

"Sir, I recommend you disengage," JARVIS chimed in Tony clung like a spider monkey in a very high tech suit of armor.

"Doing fine, JARVIS," he ground out, digging his gauntlet into the metal of the wing. "Just... don't let Steve know about this, okay?"

And that was when he charged up the unibeam to burst out of his chestplate and into the cockpit.

Re: Spaceships

[notagoose]

“Incoming enemy vessel Goose,” Alma intoned and Goose saw just how close that TIE fighter was getting, dnd realised that he wasn’t going to be able to keep on that same path and broke off, his ship still getting slightly clipped in the process.

“Great howling hopping …” he was cut off mid swear as he tried to get his interceptor back on course so he could keep returning fire.

[tros_npcs]

From her left, another trooper took aim at her as she did that, hoping to take out the cause of all the chaos.

Or at least that part of the chaos. There was quite a bit going on up here.

[unusual_sith]

Lana reached out toward him without looking and made a pulling motion, hauling him up with the Force and throwing him off the side of the ship.

[stykera]

Stark didn't have his own ship, or enough familiarity with the ships here to feel comfortable taking a useful position on one. He was, he thought, more likely to be of use on the ground.

He'd given the orbaks a sort of longing look before setting off on foot. He wasn't charging in. He was going to be more useful staying back from the front lines. He did have his own gun, and a blaster, and he could provide covering fire if nothing else. And if anyone was injured he was hopefully in a good position to offer assistance.

Re: Spaceships

[sith_happened]

"And three, two, one--MOVE," Anakin called out, spinning his ship and firing.

Re: Spaceships

[grenadesandohana]

"Jesus Christ," Steve said, breathing out through his mouth to calm his nerves. "Okay. Let's go again."

He spun the ship and headed back into the melee.

[heroic_jawline]

"We who are running along this spaceship appreciate that," Steve said, punching a nearby trooper so hard his helmet kind of bent.

Way harsh, Steve.