Coruscant Orbit- A Desperate Rescue
As the Clone Wars progressed, more and more ground-based legions found themselves pressed into space combat including the fighting force of the 501st. For months, every hour of downtime was spent in the simulator, preparing for what we would faces our enemies form a cockpit of a 170. Finally, the day came to earn our wings. The CIS had staged a daring kidnapping of Chancellor Palpatine and was being escorted from Coruscant by a fleet of Separatist ships. With only a few veteran pilots on-planet, many of the 501st were pressed into service to drive off the Seps, and buy time for a pair of Jedi knights to rescue the Chancellor. Only I and Cutter were pilots, guess Headshot didn't meet the standers. He is always hot head, wanted action without thinking of the risks. Honestly, blasting enemies inside the cockpit is not as satisficing as ground combat, but the exploding is amusing never the less. My ship felt unstable at first, but solid afterwards. Simulations never prepare you for the real thing. There was a banking clan ship making heavy damage to our assault, so I was ordered to enter the ship, and destroy anything of importance. They could of say to blow up anything in the ship, and I would have been happy both ways. That ship felled to it's demist after I was done with it. I would have liked to do some damage to the final one but the Chancellor was held prison in there. After disabling the final capital ship, General Kenobi and Skywalker took advantage of the opportunity we'd created, and rescue the Chancellor. Took all the credit, too.
They were really getting everything out of those troopers.
