Imperial Knights - Prisoner Transfer, Rescue Attempt

[Zach]

Details have been discussed over MSN regarding a planned rescue attempt. Final word is still awaiting confirmation from Prospero, but so far it's been established that the Chiss are transferring the Imperial Knight prisoners from Homefront on Seoul V. The captives are currently being held on Yashuvhu (unless there was a previous location that was mentioned), and are going to be transferred to Csilla. The information regarding the transfer, including the date and scheduled hyperspace stops aren't available as public information, but it wouldn't be incredibly difficult to find out.

The transfer convoy will be leaving Yashuvhu and jumping three more times before arriving at Csilla. The first jump will land in the void of space between Yashuvhu and Copero. The Second jump will land at Copero. The third jump will arrive at Cioral, and the final jump will arrive at Csilla.

If the remaining free Imperial Knights follow through with a plan already worked out, the easiest target will be the first jump, without the aid of a space station or defensive fleet to aid them. If they miss their window of opportunity, they will have three more chances to intercept the fleet between hyperspace jumps, at a riskier cost.

Discussion is welcome. Questions and concerns will be addressed.

 

[Veritas et Lux]

Chance of death or capture?

 

[Bad Wolf]

Kerne was monitoring the Seoul V attack and would have logged said hyperspace jump before continuing salvage operations, at any rate it wouldn't be hard for him to guess a route back to Csilla possibly miss jump one and snag them up on Jump 2....

 

[Orphen]

If they managed to board the right Ship, Ethan's blatant skills in force navigation/ piloting could lead him to intercept their hyperspace route without the need to follow one himself.

 

[Dmitri]

I would be surprised if the Chiss would transport all the IK at once. More than likely they would do at least two trips, so the IK could free some, but not all. However, I'd have no qualms about if they do free one convoy, that we maybe let all their PCs be on that one.

EDIT:
Also, we may need to realize that whoever is in charge of those prisoners (on the Chiss' side) may not survive, whether from the attack or by the Sith who may not be pleased by the escaping IK. Also, the IK being bailed out will be a giveaway that the IK still exist.

 

[Shiuzu]

Not necessarily, anything played right with the right amount of deception, we just need to make it look like someone else bailed them out. I'm sure Pros has an idea, something along the lines of stealing uniforms of an enemy, leaving behind traces of non-IK splinter groups. And possibly even releasing a "video" afterwards of said non-IK group taking credit for the raid. It won't be the easiest sell but there's ways to cause doubt. And doubt is a powerful virus.

Edit: I have my cliche machine working full blast.

 

[Ender]

The GLF is suddenly afraid...

Also, Allen is up for this

 

[Shiuzu]

Fear is expected.

 

[BLADE]

Pass. For a whole bunch of OOC and IC reasons. OOCly we're still getting organized and some of our members are relatively green. ICly, we don't have the resources, the rationale just isn't there, the risk is too high, our cover could be blown, and so forth.

I'm also not sure what MSN conversations are being referred to as this is the first I'm hearing about it, but novelty is always nice, I suppose.

 

[Orphen]

Our mighty leader has spoken i guess :/

Fair call, i can see a lot going wrong if we attempted to mount a large campaign.

 

[Veritas et Lux]

We should though. Perhaps send a single Retinue? Jenna's would perform great. :CHappy

Heh, or at least, that's my opinion.

 

[Bad Wolf]

well My retinue is set up and ready to go, we have 3 Gravity field generators, and well for Odin's sake we're pirates, our Modus Operandi is to attack allies of the Empire, and Slavers, and well hell a Chiss prison barge is the perfect target, it doesn't say hey look the IK are still around, instead it goes, um **** we have pirates that know what the crap they are doing.

 

[Shiuzu]

I dunno Bad, I think we'll listen to Pros for now

 

[BLADE]

*Shrugs*

If you want to expand your retinue's resources on it, Bad, go for it. ICly and OOCly, I won't stop you. I just think it's a bad idea fraught with a whole buncha risks. But alrighty.

In any case, with any sort of mission like this, it's one retinue at most. And ICly, you can't expect ties or reinforcements or anything like that. Hell, ICly we don't even know where each retinue is most of the time.

 

[Sreeya]

Thing is, Syn was incredibly anal about what IK knew about one another. By extension, Sith knew IK info was under lockdown, even among themselves (which led to that whole fiasco with us not knowing about Homefront's location cuz the IK themselves didn't know exactly). If outsiders come in for the rescue, the assumption will always, always be that it's IK. The allies thing won't fly, nor would propaganda of someone pretending to be a third party. You gotta remember, that's the game Sith play and they'd see right through it. Pros is making the right call by not getting involved. It'll absolutely **** things up for IK, and I say that as someone supportive of Sith.

 

[Shiuzu]

Well if you guys figure it out right away that won't be any fun, haha.

 

[Raif]

any chance the captured IK could free themselves?

 

[BLADE]

Well if you guys figure it out right away that won't be any fun, haha.

But she does make a good point. Just as it is way too convenient for the Chiss to have this information so easily attainable (yay bait!), it is also highly unlikely that some random pirates would just come to the rescue. With other stuff like sabotage, murder, etc. there's any number of potential red herring groups out there. Not like the Sith are on everyone's Life Day's card list.

With this? Not so much.

 

[Dmitri]

Well, there is a way to lessen the likelihood of the IK being blamed through one method that could free the IK, but that would spoil the fun. I may tell Sreeya or Prospero later. :CSly

 

[Orphen]

Fair call indeed. I'm inclined to Agree with Pros. I WANT to believe that this rescue attempt was forwarded in the kind interest of adding to the cool story, involving people's captured PC's and alloting to the beginnings of a cool comeback for the IK. Not without a fight mind you... But as much as completely eleminating a faction is an achievement. That's one less perspective and dynamic to write from... burning bridges.

But it kinda has INESCAPABLE TRAP written all over it after the points that Pros made. Which i don't like. And if it is. It means the OOC release of the information on the mission was misleading, implying that compaditive attitude to exterminate a faction. If Ethan had his next fighter, i'd gladly join in, because i don't think they could catch him. But currently, if like three destroyer class dreadnoughts show up out of hyperspace with like a bajillion fighters spraying out everywhere. I don't think he could get away.