*he looks at the papers for a while as the transmission continues and the whole office room is in dead silence with only the ticking of the clock in the background.*
Alright Antares... we've done the background check on yeah before the comms. Looks like your all clear. Congratz on becoming a prospect. I'm sure we will be needing people like you on board with some more experience in the trades and business. Your application mentions you used to fly light fighters until you started going up in rank?
*There is a longer pause as he takes the application paper in his hands reading it over and over.*
We are gonna have to change that and make you familiar with light fighters again then. Before we consider the possibility of business, I need to make sure you can keep up with all of us. I dont care if you were born in one of them cockpits, you gotta awaken your "space legs" .. as you call it. Get the the leather jacket with the bottom rocker on the way out. You will be asked to commit to 8 hours in space with an unarmored arrow. You should be fine with those "space legs" of yours right? I wana see some proof.
Your task while doing the 8 hours is to go into those hard to fly in areas in space where larger craft would have a hard time maneuvering. The Badlands is a good example of this in New York. Do some flying in there and MAKE SURE you don't scratch up your Arrow. Fly at least 3 minutes without making a dent in your arrow at cruise speed. Other areas of interest are the mine fields around Arranmore Base in Dublin. If you do it right you can make it out alive from one side to the other and stay alive.
To make things clear, you are to find three other places maximum where you can show your skills as a LF pilot besides the ones i mentioned. A total of 5.
If its an asteroid field (with large sized asteroids, not the tiny small ones) like the Badlands, you are to fly 3 minutes without hitting a single large rock at cruise speed (the tiny ones that move dont matter). That will get you 2 million from me. IF you so happen to get chased by anyone while doing this then you may either cruise or thrust your way through while avoiding the gunfire and you'll get an additional million. Take a screen of the before and after with a time stamp so I know you did it.
If its a mine field (or volatile gasses) like the the one surrounding Arranmore Base, then you gotta go straight through it while staying alive. A prize of 3 million will help to pay for the damage to your arrow if you succeed. For Arranmore Base, take a picture of before, middle (at the station), and after. Oh, and fly at cruise speed. Only if you have to IN A MINE FIELD you may stop and get your shield up. I don't want recruits dieing on me.
Find 3 more places like the ones I have mentioned and do the same thing accordingly to what place it is. You should know them right? Keep in mind also that not all mine fields are possible to pass through. I just happen to know the one i have mentioned is possible.
You should be able to complete one of the places at least.
Good luck.
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Character Description: I was born in Texas's LPI Sugarland detention facility as "A Child of Mr. And Mrs. Smith" a phrase meaning a child of convicts serving life sentences. As a child of the "Smiths" you never find out who your parents were or what they intended your name to be, most of us drop the assigned name in favor of other names, me I decided to keep it. It lets everyone know exactly what I am... It's not like anyone ever called me by Henry anyway.
Even when I was just a tyke at the Houston Orphanage for Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrow they always called me "That Kusari Kid". On and on the nun's would lament, "Timmy's toy is broke, it's That Kusari Kid. The cooking sherry is gone, it's That Kusari Kid again. The boiler room exploded and burned down the orphanage!! It's that Damn Kusari Kid again!!" Well the name stuck and I became The Kusari Kid.
After the orphanage's boiler room explosion... in which there was NO conclusive evidence that I was secretly making illegal homemade fireworks in... the state bounced me from reform school to reform school each more strict then the last. It was during this time I got into the Houston biker scene. Here's a picture of me on my prized Ono Sendai Superbike X.
She was a beauty, could make it to 200 KpH in under 7 seconds. I won her fair and square in a poker game, the previous owner's claim that I had dragged him off and beat him with a baseball bat was just him being a sore looser. But with him being the son of some cop the judge believed him over my entire motorcycle gang backing my story.
The judge threw the book at me, he didn't even have the decency to have me serve some time in JuuVee, since I had just turned 18 so he issued a court order conscription for me. The ass drafted me into the military and if I were to get booted out I would revert to a 20 year prison sentence. What a bastard
Military training is just as bad as the holo's make it out to be, people yelling to loud right into your face, waking up at the butt crack of dawn, lousy food and you have to run EVERYWHERE. Although there are some upsides to it, regular access to military weaponry, you get to play with high explosives, they have the best close combat teachers and best of all the chance at flight school!
I had to clean up my act and be all, "Yes sir, No sir!" and play up at being the military's fair haired boy to get into flight school. Damn it was worth it for the chance to fly, upon exiting flight school I was granted the rank of Warrant Officer 2nd class and assigned my first fighter... which I promptly went AWOL with and fenced at the first Junker base I could find to get my Arrow.
Which bring us to now, I am on the lamb and need a place to hide and has the chance to fly and raise hell. I've been told that Funny Sunny is the man to see about that.
Why you want to join: I like beer, raising hell, disrespecting the Liberty Authority, and more beer. I LOVE flying my Arrow... where else would I want to go!
Name Your Arrow: Salty.Dog
S.K.Y.P.E. name: Unashamed_Nerd
Do you know how to do a barrel roll? I have pulled it off a couple of time, but it needs work.
Anything more that will make you a more valuable member to the club? ~ I have some experience with explosives and ordinance. Military weapons training and hand to hand combat. I am of Kusari decent that might help if we need to deal with them but I don't speak a lick of Japanese.
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Born to be bad huh? I see your following your parents footsteps? I don't blame you. I have a few problems with the Navy myself.
You said you got that ride from a gamble? Nice. Tough luck on the brat though. It also says here you know explosives and fighting... just dont blow up our clubhouses and you'll do fine here. Congratz kid, your a prospect. Get your jacket with the low rocker and get out in space for your 8 hours. Looks like you need it a bit.
You say you love flying the arrow right? And disrespecting liberty law? Heres a task for you while your out on your unarmored Arrow: Your task is to take a screen of every time you anger the Police and when you evade them. Make them chase you. For each time you successfully evade one of them I will Personally give you 2 million... 2.5 million if you make me laugh... and an additional 500k if it lasts more than 15 minutes until you either evade and loose them or dock (not on a freeport or junker base. I might get complaints.)
Take screens with a time stamp on before and after. You should at least once be able to do it. 5 times successfully max.
Think you can handle that? I gave this to a tough guy before. Lets see if your as tough as him.
Good luck
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I've been busy over the last week or so now with the Arrow. I rather enjoyed the death races we had at the first meet. Since then I've been taking time between business my own deals to get out in the Arrow for some high speed 'wingin' it' in some rough places. I did as you suggested, and hit up the badlands in the New York System first. Three minutes of straight up, no autopilot, hands on approach through the mess of black rocks and thick gasses. I must say, took not even a scratch on that one.
Then, I decided to head on over to Dublin and also tried the Molly Asteroid Field. I must say, that was a slight bit more challenging, to my surprise. As you said, I was able to make it out alive, but not without taking a few bangs along the way. Not to mention being shot at by the Molly's base on the way by. Still, I managed to get from one end of the field to the other in about three minutes, thankfully in one piece.
We've flow together a little bit since then, and you I'd have to say by now you are aware of my skills in this matter. All in all, I'm quite enjoying my travels in the Arrow. I'm thinking I may try to test its abilities to the fullest. I may have to get a few drinks in me, but I'm sure it won't be that hard to get riled up enough to poke fun at an LPI rookie, get him to chase me around New York for something to do. Don't worry, I'll send you the polaroids
And as for the Coronado Chapter leadership? Count me in, we'll get some young blood in and have em flyin circles around the LPI for sport.
Good job on your tasks and the 8 hours. Go get your armor. Get them and be proud! you lost your "virginity" and are a true member of the club!
As for the Chapter Leader of Coronado as i have suggested before, congrats on the placement. I see you've had some leadership roles in the past and this wont be new to you. I look forward to seeing you at work at this rank. Don't let me down.
Oh, and I owe you 5 million for the tasks. Remind me!