Outer Sectors Chapter 20: Now the Story Starts Again...

[Mike Mar]

5 ~ Jansen
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Outer Sectors Chapter 20: Now the Story Starts Again...


LT Mike MAR marched at a good pace toward meeting room number 11. He had Sub-Lieutenant Viktorov assembled his Squadron pilots for a brief meeting. Psi had received a whole bunch of new pilots that needed to be installed in their new quarters.

As soon as LT MAR crossed the meeting room's door. SL Viktorov called the room to attention. Everybody stood up and waited for the LT to arrived at the end of the huge meeting table.


"At ease , pilots." He ordered.


"I am glad to see all of you today. Welcome to Psi Squadron for all our new members. I have received news from Captain Wedge that the Nemesis will depart shortly to continu our fight against the Rebels.

It is a good news. But we are not prepare yet! Many of you are used to piloting TIE Bombers. The TIE Advance is a very different craft. You will need to spend many hours in our combat chambers to familiarize yourselves with this incredible fighter.

I have put Sub-Lieutenant Viktorov in charge of your crush courses. You will move your personnal stuff in your new quarters as soon as we are done with this meeting. Then , right after lunch , you will head to combat chamber number 4 where we will meet and start your TIE Advance basic training.

Also. You will be assigned as co-pilots to pilots that are already flying the Advance fighters. You will spend a lot of time with them for the next two weeks , so make sure everybody is confortable in their quarters.

We are one team gentlemen. Do not failed me , pilots! Because if you fail , surely it's because you are dead!

Dismissed!"


The pilots stood up and turned toward the exit.


On their way to their quarters , 2LT Tornado and SL Viktorov talked about LT MAR's "way" of welcoming them.


"Geez. He's he always that cold?" Tornado asked.

"He's colder when he's out there." Viktorov pointed at empty space throught a viewport.

"No kidding!"


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A couple of hours later.

Gimel's former pilots rejoined the others in Combat Chamber 4. Surprisingly , all the other pilots were there and already fighting in the Sims.


"You're late!" LT MAR exploded.


All the newly arrived pilots were already sweating because they had found out that their personnal items didn't arrived on time , that their quarters were the fartest from this combat chamber , that their food took longer time to cook than usual and a couple of other bad stuff that made them come to the chamber at the last minute.

Well , they thought they were at the last minute. From the look on the LT's face , they all felt like they were late. Very late... maybe they would have to reajust their room clocks...

But nobody complained. Even if most of them hadn't had enought time to eat and relax. They were almost as stressed as they were back at their first days in the Academy with their drill sergeant.


"OK , gentlemen. Seeing that you are already 15 minutes late , you will now enter the sims without further delays. SL Viktorov , who was waiting for you , will load the simulations up and you will do your best without any specific informations on how the TIE Advance flies. Let's see if some of you can fly these babies without a proper training! MOVE IT!" LT MAR spitted while yelling the last order.


Viktorov added his own voice.


"MOVE IT! MOVE IT!"

MAR looked at 2LT Tornado before he entered his simulator. He waited for the others to have closed their canopy then called him.

"Tornado! Get down here! You don't need to do this. Come look at the screens from here."

Tornado knew in what MAR was getting his boys into , then gave a large smile to the LT.



Ensign Tanner was pinned back when the simulator's G force didn't compensate for the TIE Advance quick departure from the launch pad. As were all the pilots... in today's sims. He tried to recover as best as he could but his arms just couldn't lift enough for him to get a hold on the G Force compensator button. His TIE went in a unstoppable spin in empty space. His stomach was going crazy and was making strange noises as the first minute passed. The next thing he felt was his cockpit shaking hard on the laser hits he was taking from a whole bunch of simulated X-Wings. He was loosing his breath and he felt he would loose conciousness if his TIE sim didn't fall apart. Then everything went black and his canopy oppened with all the other pilots laughting at him. Including LT MAR.


"Welcome back Ensign!" MAR couldn't stop laughting.

Tanner felt all dizzy and couldn't stand up.

Viktorov added.

"Man! You really are tough! 1 minute 18 seconds at that G Force , on a spin. Wow!" He tapped Tanner on a shoulder then tried to lift him out of the cockpit.

"Great job , pilots! You are NOW officially PSI PILOTS!" LT MAR congratulated all of them.

As the rest of Psi did after him.


"Everybody at the lounge! First round on me!" The Lieutenant added.

"If they can make it there ,sir." Tornado smiled back at MAR.