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After our defeat over Sullust, the Avenger was transferred away from the front lines, to a remote forest moon named Endor. Once there, we were to assist in the construction of a secret shield-generator facility and support structures. The commander of the fleet conducting the project ordered the Avenger to provide reinforcements for the ground crews. This proved to be more complicated than the commander had likely anticipated. As much of our vehicular equipment had been rendered inoperable for some time in the fighting on Nar Eurbricka, Captain Erdbeereis sent only infantry reinforcements. But the forest floor of Endor is a maze of steep ravines choked with tangled undergrowth, and a patrol of infantrymen out in it would be nothing more than a pop-up target for all the Ewoks, Sanyassans, and other unholy creatures in that wilderness to practice on. The ground supervisor made the obvious decision: he transferred walker crews from construction to patrol duties. In order to keep the pace of construction up, replacement crews for the construction work were taken from among the Avenger's men. And, once again out of the command of General Brickdoctor, I found myself slotted into another pathetic position based on the presence of "Enlisted Specialist" on my record. I was selected to pilot one of the AT-CT walkers being used for the project. It wasn't that the job I was supposed to do was terribly complex - I was mostly there to supervise a couple of construction drones while they installed pre-fabricated segments of a landing pad. But did they really have to put me on top of the landing pad? When officers were going around finding men to work the walkers, we had been asked if we had previously piloted heavy equipment, and I had answered, honestly, yes. But piloting an AT-ST is usually a highly skilled task, even more so since this one was a one-man walker. The All-Terrain Construction Transport's tractor beam claws, which replaced the AT-ST's side-mounted weapons, were usually worked by a gunner, but this walker had been modified for a single-man crew. This meant that I had to operate both the claws and the legs at the same time. I'm not sure I actually accomplished anything of value up there, so busy was I trying not to trip over my walker's toes and fall fifty meters to the ground, where I could either be crushed in my walker or sucked up by a shredder. These were finally running again thanks to a little trouble-shooting from the boys at Hanger 29, and sure enough there was one prowling around the bottom of my landing pad, cleaning up the undergrowth and construction debris. Thankfully, I was withdrawn shipside before any any serious accidents occurred. Someone in Personnel had a job for me, it seemed. OoC: My first really original build in LDD - primarily I use the software for storing virtual copies of MOC's for later reference or prototyping a design before I break out the bricks. Big thank you to BEAVeR, who did the rendering on these shots - without his help I probably would have been stuck with using LDD screenshots since I'm both a somewhat slow learner where computers are concerned and a notable procrastinator. Edit: I thought I linked to the .lxf here back when I posted. Evidently not. Here it is: http://www.brickshel...ng_platform.lxf. And while I'm at it, here's the completed platform, without any vehicles, incorporating some suggestions from BEAVeR in his comment below and an idea for the sloped connection between platform and towers that I thought of a bit too late to incorporate into the final build: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Vargonius/SoNE/BigRig/completed_platform.lxf.
