The Rebel Faction

The answer is no Dolash - the battle is over and your men are casualties of war. Their ending is not assumed and will be mentioned - but their fate is inevitable. Your men are running out of their oxygen and would have to breathe via the ship's atmosphere. However given the fact that they are pinned in place via grav traps, my men are picking them off and using concussion charges - your part in the rp is over. You are more than welcome to try and find them but you cannot.

Period.

And no your agent cannot get aboard because he is not an Imperial officer and does not have access to Imperia;l ships - he is not even in orbit!!! And yes, Corellia is an obvious choice but your men could not within light years of it - as you said yourself it is a fortress world. Again - ships are arriving all the time. Given the vastness of the Empire and the array of warships at its disposal, no one would be able to pick it apart at a glance from the hundred other battleships nearby.

Dolash.... let it go man.

Oh come on, it's completely against the point of the Coalition to just 'let it go', we're supposed to be about not letting it go, about fighting the Empire to the last, about making every effort, about not giving up like everyone else does when faced with the Empire. The Empire has sacked countless planets, slaughtered countless armies, they've committed more then enough evil deeds to clearly define their ideology and character through their actions. The Coalition hasn't, though. We've talked big and planned big but what has it amounted to? If I don't go after these men with every option available to me (And I have options, enough of this defeatist 'oh, it is now officially hopeless' stuff) then what's the point of proffessing to be some great paragon of virtue if we never follow through when it matters? I had to do that with Kiyar, and it really depresses me and makes me feel lousy to think about that - Ahnk said to hold off on my counter-offensive until after he'd done some story thing, which he didn't do, so the Coalition did nothing and now I feel foolish, waiting for the cue to attack that never came.

So that means I will not simply let it go or give up on it, Regrad can, would, and will take every action he can with regards to the situation, and I will not be dissuaded. If the manner in which I try to accomplish this is in question, then question away, and we shall debate, but I will not give up because people disagree with the principle of why I am choosing to continue this issue.

Realistically, Dolash, there is little you can do. Even if you do find out where the captured soldiers end up, how do you propse to save them? I guarantee they would be held somewhere that is very heavily defended - II is based on Yaga Minor, COMPNOR on Mechis III, etc. Even if you found the location of the captured, the only real way to free them would be to launch an attack on the planet and go after them.

If they're being held on Yaga Minor (for example), you wouldn't even be able to reach the surface without a Corellia-scale war fleet. Hardly a worthy expense for the lives of 200 men.

Not to mention that the attack would probably trigger a full-scale war against the Empire.

I think your desire to keep with your soldiers is admirable, but realistically any commander would have written them off as casualties of war. And like it or not, in a battle where are casualties.

OOC, I think this argument stinks of you wanting more, more, more. Telan retreated, you won the day - I think he deserves something.

*Rolls eyes* Yes, that is exactly it - damn my greasy, greedy hide for roleplaying instead of thinking of this as a tactical game. How dare I always want more - and oh so conveniently made a character who would condone this kind of action? Shame on me. You do not 'trade' for victory. I was offered no consolation prize after the battle of Corellia - in fact, I got to enjoy the privilege of having a pound of flesh taken from the Coalition in negotiations. The argument that we should get a 'fair trade' had little traction there, because it was in the character of the Empire to take harsh demands from it's foes. The argument, therefore, that you should get a 'fair trade' in the form of me just giving up on my men (Which is not in the Coalition's style to do, no matter what you might think of as strategic or acceptable losses) has little traction on me now.