Competition: Don't Touch the Ship

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Don't Touch the Ship

Just as Han Solo had the Millenium Falcon, many Brotherhood members possess their own unique ships or vehicles near and dear to their darkened hearts.

In 250 words or more, tell me a story relating to a vehicle your character possesses, be it a star fighter or a warship or even a speeder bike. The story can be about how you got it, how you lost it, or an action-packed adventure you survived. You can make it dramatic, comedic, or actiony, just as long as you tell a good, creative tale.

Competition will be judged based on the Fiction Grading Rubric. Winners will receive 2nd level cresecnts.

Competition Information
Organized by
Raider Jon Silvon
Running time
2016-08-24 until 2016-09-13 (21 days)
Target Unit
Entire DJB
Competition Type
Fiction
Awards
Second Level Crescents
Participants
21 subscribers, of which 8 have participated.
Results
1st place
Seer Xolarin
Member
Seer Xolarin
File submission
Xolarin-AOK-Wing.pdf
Placement
1st place
Member
Krath Adherent Edema R'uh-Kalinor
File submission
Don't_touch_the_ship.doc
Placement
2nd place
Member
Padawan Tisto Kingang
File submission
DontTouchtheShip.pdf
Placement
3rd place
4th place
Dylan
Member
Dylan
Textual submission

My ship...it was third-hand, one that I had found, abandoned, and taken for myself.

A nice one, too; a KR-TB "Doomtreader" star ship called Hell's Anvil that had once belonged Montross, a Mandalorian–turned–bounty hunter who had been a candidate for being the template the Republic's Clone Army. I'd found Montross's body (what was left of it) as well as his ship on Kohlma, a graveyard moon of the planet Bogden, where Montross had died.

The ship's log explained quite a bit to me on why it was there:

Seemed Montross and another bounty hunter named Jango Fett had both been selected to participate in a hunt to capture or kill the leader of something called the Bando Gora cult, Komari Vosa. Montross fought with Jango Fett on Kohlma and was defeated, before being torn to shreds by the Bando Gora. And well, the dead had no need for possessions...so I took Montross's ship.

Montross had gutted the interior, rearranging it to suit his tastes. The ship featured two aft-mounted Dyne 427 radial atomizer engines, not to mention two custom Keizar-Volvec KV4T8-i sublight engines on the tip of each wing. Montross also installed a Longe Voltrans tri-arc CD-3.2 hyperdrive, a double plated durasteel hull, and a multifaceted deflector shield array. Hell's Anvil was armed with solar ionization cannons, which evaded conventional deflector shields and melted durasteel.

Seeing as how he'd been a Bounty Hunter, Montross had removed most of the interior, and added prisoner cells, making use of the craft's large cargo hold. These holding cells were placed near the open hatch of the engine room, making the prisoners very sweaty and uncomfortable. Along with that, the craft's former owner had stripped the interior, removed the stations for the copilot and navigator, and installed a hydraulic pilot's seat that would allow him to access the ship's large computer array.

It had been my "mobile home" for a while now. This freighter produced by Corellian Engineering Corporation.

My ship...Just as Han Solo had the Millenium Falcon, I possessed Hell's Anvil, and it warmed my heart. It was ironic I had taken it, since Montross himself had killed the original owner of this KR-TB Doomtreader, who was wanted for a large bounty, then took the ship for himself...what goes around comes around, I guess. So that's why I say the Anvil is third-hand. I'm the third owner it's had.

The fates of it's owners before me might make anyone else nervous, but I'm not superstitious.

I love this ship. And that will never change.

Placement
4th place
5th place
Mauro Wynter
Member
Mauro Wynter
File submission
Resolute_Trader.docx
Placement
5th place
6th place
Remurr Hijaa
Member
Remurr Hijaa
Submission
Remurr Hijaa opted out of publishing his submission.
Placement
6th place
7th place
Benn Nevis
Member
Benn Nevis
File submission
My_personal_speeder_is_a_vintage_two_door.doc
Placement
7th place
8th place
Jon Tin'Kodak
Member
Jon Tin'Kodak
File submission
doctor_a_03.jpg
Textual submission

I remember like it was yesterday, i was planing to meet a hutt name Nemro, one of the biggest crime bosses on a planet called Hutta. I was of course flying my best ship, the XS Stock Light Fighter, one ship i'll hate to get destroyed. As i was of course flying, I notice something, an Imperial Star Destroyer. "What...what is the Imperial doing in Hutta?" Of course i ask myself. When i thought it was an easy breeze, 4 TIE Fighters zoom right at me "Look like this won't be easy." I said, before my ship getting shot once "HEY, WATCH IT" I quickly blast one of the TIE Fighters, and zoom to take the rest out. Taking out one by one, i finally zoom to go to Hutta, finally escaping the Empire. I got paid and first thing i did was fix that spot the TIE Fighter has shot.

Placement
8th place