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Astral Chaos, Coruscant orbit to hyperspace


As Randal manipulated the control yoke of the Astral Chaos Melissa busied herself with her task of keeping the forwards shield strength up, even as the little freighter rocked from turbolaser fire. The starscape outside of the viewport was filled mostly by the huge bulk of the two gunships, the flashing of laser fire lighting up the cockpit. The view was replaced by the brightly lit city surface of Coruscant as the freighter spiraled on it axis.

At Randalls command, she reallocated the shield power from the forward emitters to the laterals and feed them every ounce of power they could take and then some. But no mater how much power she feed to the generators the little ship it could only shrug off so much until it was overwhelmed from the two capital ships onslaught of laser fire. The pursuing Aureks had split into two groups attempt to cut the Astral chaos off as it neared the aft of the two cruisers, with one group of fighters tarring into the rear of the freighter.

Red lights lit across her board as a blast riped into the port sub-light engine and Melissa shut in down and activated the fire suppression system. With the loss of power, the shield strength started to fall more quickly, forcing her to sap power from other ship systems. Her stomach tightened as Randall flipped the Astral Chaos and demanded all power to the engines, her fingers flying over buttons, pumping all power into the sub-light drives and the ship soared up and away from it’s pursuers.

Only a handful of Aureks were able to follow his maneuver, firing at the fleeing freighter for what seemed like an eternity. Finally, Tee-9 chirped and the green light signaled that the Astral Chaos was clear to make the jump to hyperspace. The long lines of starlight spiraled and merged into the milky blue-white tunnel of nothingness that was hyperspace.


“Haven’t had that much fun for a long time.” She laughed and slapped Randall on the back. “Damn good job flying there, thou we did take a few good hits.” She gave the red lights on her console a glance, unbuckled herself and stood “You might want to go talk to our passenger, Her names Saria and she says she wants to go to Lyra to see her sister Sarah. I’ll take T-9 and go look at that damaged engine.” She said over her shoulder as she left the bridge with the little droid in tow.

Saria stood up and shook Randall's hand. " Thank you, Randall. I'm sorry I had to come along at the last minute like that, but I figured Melissa had a ship and hoped to catch a ride to Lyra. Again, thank you for letting me tag along. "

She paused for a moment, looking at him. " You weren't hurt in that fight earlier were you? I'm a healer, and I'm more than happy to help if you need it. "

" I should be fine with that. " Saria said. " If you don't mind me asking though, how did you and Melissa get together? Until I saw her at the temple, I had assumed she was still in exile.

(( Wow i step out for a day. ))

Serenno, Carannia. The place was high brow and full of the rich and snobbish. Volgen walked with Sonya as they had just come from a well hidden weapons shop.

" Gray you read me? " Volgen stated as he walked down the side of the road getting strange looks from the locals.

" Loud and clear boyo. "

" So I found the shop. Got the things on the list you suggested. You didn't tell me we would have to deal with Neimoidians. They give even me the creeps and did we HAVE to come here. If they stare any harder I wont be held responsible for my actions. "

" Hold on. Your kind is not seen much. Your rare, plus we are out gunned here. We would leave with more holes then any thing else. "

" Hrmm. Sonya did you get what you needed? "

The engine room had seen better days indeed, half the sub-light engine instrument lights were un-lit, and the rest burned a steady angry red or flash amber. Smoke still hung in the air as the fans labored to clear the air. Melissa had one of the access-grading floor panels removed and was deep in the bowels of the Astral Chaos, at the edge of the opening lay a tool tray containing numerous hydrospanners, posit the opening in the engine room floor T-9 sat plugged into one of the ships data jacks twittering and beeping away.

“Alright, how about this one?” Melissas voice carried up through the access opening along with a plum of steam and T-9 beeped again.

Siren was pleased to see that Marr agreed to submit to Demaia's rule, and while she didn't agree with Demaia's torturing of him, she was in no position to argue against. She simply deffered to Demaia's judgement. If she believed Marr was useless, then he was useless.

It was a shame when Marie defied her too. She had potential, but when she joined Marr in carbonite, Siren could only pity her for her foolish decision. She spent the next while getting a better look around the ship, at least as much as she was allowed to see of it. She checked on the harem that was once hers and saw they were doing well. Just then, a soldier came to her. " Our Lady desires your presence. " Siren acknowledged the soldier with a nod and followed him.

After making her way through the ship, she came to the bridge. She approached Demaia, then gave a bow. " You wish to see me, My Lady? " she asked.

" Well, My Lady, as it so happens, while I was on Lyra, I had a message sent to my sister, Saria. I invited her to come see me and see that the Sith here are simply trying to bring prosperity to the galaxy. The true intent, however, is to show her the Dark Side and have her embrace it as I have. " Siren said.

" She should be arriving at Lyra any time now if she got my message, and if you would be so kind, My Lady, I ask your permission to bring her aboard the Star Empress. I will show her the error of the Jedi and have her embrace the Sith. She will find her place alongside myself, serving you. If she should refuse, well... your word is final, My Lady. "