Event || The Empire Strikes Back

[melodiesmods]

Characters: Everyone participating in the event
Where: Aqures Ixen
When: July 27th to August 02nd
Summary: The battle for Aqures Ixen is about to begin! The Heroes of Light are going to do their best to defend Aqures Ixen, but will this be enough? Feel free to participate and reply to appropriate threads. New top-level threads will be posted regularly as the battle progresses.
Warning: N/A, will be updated.

July 27th || Mingle
July 28th || Bomb Defusing / Imperial Assault
July 29th || Mingle / Attack on the 13th District / Aerial Battles / Imperial Camp
July 30th || 14th District on Fire / The Hospital / Mognet Office Attacked
July 31st || The Fire Spreads / Betrayals
August 01st || The Second Wave / Ultima Weapon
August 02nd || Final

Comments

July 29th || Aerial Attack

[shinrasfinest]

[Tactically speaking, losing the 12th District may yet have to be a sacrifice made if they were to safeguard the rest of the City but considering the army has spent the time since the battle started sweeping the district and forcing ground troops toward the 13th it would be a sore loss indeed. Not to mention the 1st District which would then be laid bare to any further advance...and the ground bases would be effectively cut off from each other.

But an airship ploughing into the side of the Castle was not an option, either. It'd be like impaling the heart of Aqures Ixen at this point. The destruction and the chaos that followed it would be pandemonium.

There isn't any time for a choice to be made though which is why the Esdham ship has to veer hard up and away from Ales' flight path as the smaller craft picks up speed. The bridge has to be turned away due to the maneuver; which it could be argued, is probably just as well.

Not that the god-awful scraping that followed would put any of the crew's hearts to rest.]

July 29th || Aerial Attack

[umslay]

[The crew member bangs on the door, demanding Ales to stop. It's no good. The pilot has purposely pushed a table in front of the door for extra security measures. The airship continues upward as the Imperial ship tries to escape. He won't let them.

The captain is called over, and with the help of several soldiers, they begin attacking the door with their axes. A few give up, knowing that it's only a matter of seconds until the two ships collide.

A tremendous cacophony including scraping metal, broken wood, and exploding engines comes from above the 12th district. Ash and mechanical parts fall from the sky, damaging a few small buildings, but nothing close to the destruction that would have been created if the airship crashed itself.

Nothing remains of either ship.]