WC Fanfic Ideas (Could use some help from LOAF)

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Concordia

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I've thought up some ideas for a fanfic...

All take place between WC1 and WC4... I'm not very fond of Prophecy, so I'm not inclined to make WCP stories...

STORY IDEA ONE: Takes place on a destroyer called the TCS-Lesnick (I'll have to clear it with Bandit LOAF-- I will give the ship another name if LOAF does not wish me to use his.). I want to name it after LOAF because he's basically the largest wealth of WC Information *bows humbly before LOAF* I have ever seen. I can change the name at any time as I have not begun writing yet...

The story takes place in 2665-2667, it's basically the story of a Destroyer's crew during the end of the Kilrathi war. TCS Lesnick is a Gilgamesh-Class destroyer led by Commander Cauffield.

The ship serves on it's own for certain parts (can destroyers run independant?), in others is working as part of a Cruiser Group (what do you call a group with a Cruiser, and two destroyers like the Plunkett/Murphy groups in WCP:SO?), works in a DESRON, and even serves in the battle of Vukar Tag.

The Vukar Tag bit is actually from the opposite point of view as End Run. End Run shows it from the Tarawa's point of view. The Lesnick is on the side at Vukar Tag... the part where the Confed Fleet swamp the Kilrathi forces (due to Tarawa's work). It would explain the battle in greater detail.


STORY IDEA TWO: "Concordia's Final Days"
This story takes place just after the battle of Terra. Admiral Tolwyn takes a new assignment at Confed HQ. The Concordia receives a new Battlegroup-Commander, new CAG, and a new Captain.

Concordia races out into deep-space tailing the remainder of the Hakaga task force and finishes her out with a vengeance for what they did to earth just a few months earlier. All is great, but not for long.

Concordia is falling apart at the seams from the constant beating's she's sustained over nearly 8 years of service and 4 years of constant abuse. Rather than return to earth for repairs, which she desperately needs, she's assigned rear-guard missions= patrolling "safe-sectors" for 8 months straight. The fighter pilots grow tired and restless, the crew grow worried that their ship might just fall apart as the seams.

History records TCS-Concordia went down over Vespus during a rear-guard patrol gone horribly wrong. The dreadnought fell prey to a kilrathi ambush. But the story reveals what actually happened. Concordia, being the only ship in range gave her all to stop a Kilrathi task force from unleashing devastating hell on a planet...

The story of Concordia's final days...

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-Concordia
"That's all Leftenant!"
 
Originally posted by Aries
both are cool ideas, expecially the idea about telling more about Vukar Tag
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I thought you guys would like that one more.

I could use some advice, and ideas...

-Concordia
 
Originally posted by Capn Johnny
personally, I'd be more interested in story #2.. I don't know why really..

-Johnny
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There is a certain charm to "Concordia's Final Days" isn't there?

-Concordia
 
The Warrior's Stand again

The story is called: When Honor and Duty Fail:

I’m not good with dates so bare with me.

Several months after the events of WC5, the Confed is in a state of panic. With the reports of the conflict endured by the Midway and her crew, the Confederation prepares for an inevitable invasion. Talks of negotiating with the new alien race are quickly set aside and the thrust of war is placed on the Confederation. Confed, in preparation for war does little to support the remaining factions of the Kilrathi, despite recommendations from mid ranking personnel. The Firekka, frustrated with the efforts of their Confederation allies seek to prepare for defense of their few worlds on their own.

Lieutenant Jason Phire, a lone pilot of the Black Lance forces has been running from his past ever since he took a Dragon Fighter and fled to live the life of a privateer. Ditching his dragon fighter in a battered abandoned outpost, he soon “acquired” a Galaxy class freighter ship named the Gallant. Hooking up with a Pirate Kilrathi Ral ’Gar and two shifty Firekkan merchants Tiik and Rika, whom all simply wanted to live out their lives, away from the glaring eyes of their pasts. It was not to be so.

The ancient enemy was even now starting to test the borders of the Confederation and peer it’s eyes on the first world to conquer and Firekka was to be one of the first. The Firekkans had the pilots but not the resources. The Kilrathi had the technology, but no means to mobilize it. In a mission of desperation The Firekkan government sought to ally themselves with the enemy whom years before would have wiped them out, the Kilrathi. With the crew of the Gallant struggling to fight the inner need to defend their own races, they once again become a part of the fighting they had left so long ago. With a new fleet in production and a secret super fighter called the Phoenix’s Claw Lieutenant Phire and his uncanny team prepare to defend the only home they could ever fight for. Freedom.
 
My Idea

Set in 2667, the story is set in the Enyo system around the time of Vukar Tag. The ship is the TCS Coureagous (CC-14), a Waterloo class crusier. After substantial losses in that area (Vega Sector), Confed command is forced to find anyone they can from the nearby planets, (in Enyo system0 The ship will have farmers and merchants onboard with some quick military training to get them prepared for operation. the fighter sqaudrons on the ship, the main one being the Minutemen, a reference to the farmer soldiers of the American Revoulution, are led by Major Jason Ross. The ship, along with her destoyer escort, the TCS Resillance, they must fight off a large kilrathi task force trying to stab into the heart of vega sector with a few beat up ships and some farmers.
 
:( don't try to hijack threads FoxFire (not to mention ones that have been dead for 6 months), start another one . . . your idea is original enough to be interesting (well besides the uber fighter thing), unwilling heroes and all.
Sylvester, just one response . . . :(

Concordia, I didn't see your story ideas the first go round, I hope you are persuing them. I really really like both of them. I think I'm more partial to the destroyer one due to two reasons.
1- your probably less likely to "step on the toes" of other WC canon info and have to spend less time researching, leaving more time for writing and more room for creative input.
2- I always liked the mystery of how the Concordia went down, kindof added to the mystique of the old girl. :)
Anyway, late in coming, but both ideas are really good.

C-ya
 
hijack threads? What the heck does that mean? We are all here to express ideas on stories, so why am I hijacking this thread? Uber? What the heck does that mean?

I'm not thrashing at you, but at least fill me in on all the hidded dos and don't. ......Hijack.....Pha
 
Hijacking a thread is when people come across a thread that has been DEAD for MONTHS and decide to add their own reply to the ALREADY DEAD AND DONE WITH thread, thus having everyone else shaking their head at said newbie's UTTER AND COMPLETE STUPIDITY.

I will give you the benefit of the doubt that you will know better in the future, as you have just turned 27 and you aren't as naive and stupid as the idealistic and enthuasiastic teenage losers who frequent the WC threads and try to write "fan fiction". And then they'll quit and fade away, after they burned bridges with everyone else in the WC fan community. Just like the rest of them.

Uber is super. As in you just taking a Dragon and go off with it. You didn't care for any considerations that a Dragon is utterly priceless or even bothered to consider the mentality of the Black Lance forces. You picked the Dragon because it was the badest-ass fighter in that era, and chose your character to be a Black Lancer because you wanted him to be equally badass.

And lastly, please ease off on your emotional "we're all to express ideas and differences of opinion!!!!!!!" pleas of tolerance and diversity. Your free speech rights do not apply here, an admin's request is law and if you try to protest against it, you'll be "swabbing the deck". But I am not an admin, but you should have already known that by reading the information located in the Chat Zone's FAQ.
 
Sighs.....ok...

Man o Man, Ok. Dragon Fighter….What else would “Black Lance” pilot be fighting in or flying away with. Also, the character ditches the Dragon fighter? Why ditch a priceless piece of hardware? Why does a rich man jump off a building? Why does a person who has it all sometimes wish for a simpler life? If the BL character really wanted to remove himself from his past, why would he dare to sell a Dragon fighter of all things? Wouldn’t you think someone would notice? Wouldn’t ANYONE ask WTF is this guy doing with a Dragon Fighter? Why a Dragon fighter? Why not? And who’s to say the Dragon fighter wasn’t torn apart, by someone who found it, in all the time Jason Phire was off in other parts of the universe? The Character may be a Bad-Ass but what things in a person's mind and heart can change that, or at least suppress it?

I’ve only given you guys a speck of the story, not the details of it. I wouldn’t make an unbeatable character with an unbeatable crew with Death Star guns, God-like Shields, and just an O’ so perfect and predictable story line. I am better than that. Problem is, there are few if not any original ideas out there. The real originality comes in the recombination, of plot, story, character, and a few unknowns.

I really enjoy the Wing Commander story and I still play the DOS version of it to this day. But I am not a guru on the WC universe. I will make mistakes in dates and maybe some technologies, but I would never write something so asinine that it might as well be tossed into an Archie Sonic comic. (personal grudge).

I thank those who give me hard yet constructive criticism. I appreciate that a heck of a lot more than people screaming, “YOU FREAKEN NEWBIE!” I’ll continue on in the manner I have in creating stories knowing full well, some just won’t like it. Thanks again.
 
Easy now. I think we just want to get across the point that using a Dragon to "get away from it all" in is probably not a smart choice. Confed would probably not rest until they had accounted for every Dragon . . . making life hard for your boy with the Confees. As to what else he could take on his journey, he could take absolutely anything the that the BL were using. Hellcats, Arrows (with or without cloaks) Razors, Thuds . . . or if he was smart, he would just take a shuttle that he could trade in to help pay for his life as a privateer (instead of having to leave the Dragon and somehow 'procure' a trip from an 'abandoned' outpost). If its just his mode of transportation to get away from the BL, why are you so upset about logical problems to its use?
Fighter development takes money, resources, time, and knowhow . . . Confed probably doesn't have the time- since for the past 10 years or so (since WC4 anyway) most of their resources have been put into developing the new line of fighters and capital ships we see in Prophecy and SO, the Kilrathi probably don't have the resources or money (which I'm sure Confed still has good tight grip on Kilrathi military development and research), and the Firekkans probably don't have the resources or knowhow-unless they've progressed by leaps and bounds in both military tech and social acceptance of space travel in the past 25 years. So unless, you want to include the Andorrans in your fiction (please God don't), I personally can't see a good way to develop an uberfighter.

C-ya
 
psych said:
Hijacking a thread is when people come across a thread that has been DEAD for MONTHS and decide to add their own reply to the ALREADY DEAD AND DONE WITH thread, thus having everyone else shaking their head at said newbie's UTTER AND COMPLETE STUPIDITY.

I will give you the benefit of the doubt that you will know better in the future, as you have just turned 27 and you aren't as naive and stupid as the idealistic and enthuasiastic teenage losers who frequent the WC threads and try to write "fan fiction". And then they'll quit and fade away, after they burned bridges with everyone else in the WC fan community. Just like the rest of them.

Uber is super. As in you just taking a Dragon and go off with it. You didn't care for any considerations that a Dragon is utterly priceless or even bothered to consider the mentality of the Black Lance forces. You picked the Dragon because it was the badest-ass fighter in that era, and chose your character to be a Black Lancer because you wanted him to be equally badass.

And lastly, please ease off on your emotional "we're all to express ideas and differences of opinion!!!!!!!" pleas of tolerance and diversity. Your free speech rights do not apply here, an admin's request is law and if you try to protest against it, you'll be "swabbing the deck". But I am not an admin, but you should have already known that by reading the information located in the Chat Zone's FAQ.
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If you're not a moderator, then what gives you the right to hurl personal attacks on another person's intelligence?

-Concordia
 
I actually just started a FanFic, it probably will never get finished, least of all put on any website. It is basicly for me and my buddies, it is actually bases on a WCRPG that I built for them, and an adventure dealing with characters they played.

I decided to do something simple, just have a CVE squadron, you know CVE, Cruiser, 2 destroyers, do the behind the lines raiding that made the Tarawa famous. Of course it would take place after the battle of earth, since I would rather use the more modern fighters (Although I have a great love for the older stuff, I always like the Raptor, maybe just the name.)
Its gonna have the atypical beginning mission success, then the "screwing" when everything goes wrong. Getting jumped by a carrier group that just happens to be there refueling or something, since I believe in action stations, something was said about Cat fleets having to go to bases to refuel and rearm do to these raids.
I was going to heavily develop characters in this story, and even have a crew member who was one of the first people recruited into "program" I need to do some research, but basicly, what made the Black Lance. It would mainly be for backstory so I could flesh the character out later, since he is one of the few who doesn't die.
I was really impressed with all the stories done in your guys' PBMs aside from the vulgarity, it makes it seem tasteless, I have always had the belief that the heroes, though not necessarily "faces", should have a moral compass, and the cussing and stuff be thrown in for dramatic purposes, or to show a character through language, that he is not what would be called a "face".
 
If anything, the vulgarity in various Aces PBMs (can't speak about other WC clubs... umm, do any exist, besides perhaps blacklance.org?) is kinda understated, compared to real world militaries. Bullets tend to make it pretty easy to use "colorful" language. ;)
 
While it does lend to realism, it makes the characters seem.............I don't know, I always have had the though of the "heroes" of the story rising above thier normal human emotions, well at least those bad kind lol. I have never been shot at before, but I have been in life or death situations, but I do have family that has been shot at, one of my uncles was a SEAL, he described it as surreal, like how Hans Krueger described it in actions stations, an odd sort of detatchment, time slowed, and you could make judgements quickly. The few times I have been in life or death situations, the first thing in my mind wasn't vulgarity, it was analyzing the situation. I can see cussing in a story if it was supposed to show the fury of a character over something.

But that is just me.
 
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