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 Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 1:49 pm
Cloud City was once again privy to Kev'aa'nuruodo, this time with a large escort party. They burst in through the casino, marching straight through gaining many stares and raised heads. The stormtroopers managed to keep everyone in line however.
"Where is the administrator?"""" Vaan asked a dealer-droid.
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 2:23 pm
Elladan finally decided to act. "Transfer a message through the relay system to the Stormhawk. I'll set up a rendeveux with them."
"Aye aye."
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Several hours delayed, and a bit warbled, a transmission came to the Stormhawk's intel. It gave the coordinates to Wayland, as well as the highest discression.
Attention, CASD Stromhawk, this is Captain Elladan Kenet, current Govenor of Wayland, and high commander of Imperial Forces in the Wayland System. I hereby beseach a meeting of mutual arangement for both parties at this location. In highest regards, Elshaek'en'etnaruodo.
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 3:14 pm
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 4:38 pm
Over a green gem of a planet, the lambda exited hyperspace. Over a hundred years ago, one of hundreds, if not thousands of imperial experiments took place.
Ferno mused to himself as he was lowered to the steamy jungle planet. It reminded him of Yavin IV, almost, with its ziggurats and pyramids. But the buildings were designed for the same reason wookiees lived in trees; the undergrowth wasn't exactly safe.
And that's what Ferno was here for. Underneath one of the largest ziggurats lie a sealed off chamber, which at least according to intel, is to remain sealed. While the lifts that went down to the lowest floor no longer go down so far, and the bottom was filled up, Ferno pressed on. He'd have to travel down the side of the ziggurats, but he knew the location of a sliding entrance. Inside the pyramid, he'd find a prize he was searching for, useful only for a distraction of his main plans, but should his plan succeed, the galaxy would be thrown into complete chaos, and then control. Krayt would have his unified galaxy, and Ferno would not have to bother with simple politics anymore.
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 4:39 pm
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 4:59 pm
The dealer droid looked rather astonished and called for security. The same captain of the Wing Guard took one look at Vaan and silently cursed that he had returned.
"Hello again," the Guard said. "I forget your name, you were here some days back, weren't you not?"
Vaan stared daggers into the guard with his piercing red eyes.
"My name is Kev'aa'nuruodo, Imperial Intelligence. I am offering a 200 credit reward on anyoone who can give information regarding the "Community." " Vaan said to the watching casino.
"As for you, where is the administrator?" Vaan asekd the guard, softly now that they had moved to the security offices.
"Lord Veron is away on business. On Naboo, sir. Mistress Freya and her company are also away, to Gorwooken's homeworld on Naboo, I believe," the guard said.
"Yes.." Vaan said. "I don't mean any harm here, officer. I figured your intelligence would find two things: The Community, as well as someone called Eladan Kennet. Do you know anything of either of them?"
"Negative on the latter. And I know nothing more of the former than when we last spoke."
"Understood." Vaan said, getting up and leaving the security offices.
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 5:01 pm
As Rusty translated Sapphire's electronic response, Freya gave a smile to her companions before moving on. "Yeah, we, like, totally trashed some pirates for you guys!" she whooped. "But, as Gorry says, we're totally here for a favor. As you know, the Alliance has totally fallen, and we want to like, totally bring it back, 'cause that mega-dweeb Fel is totally taking everything over!"
"Our business on Cloud City is, like, totally hurt cause those guys are totally ruining business with their taxes and stuff."
With a 'harumph', Rusty chimed in. "You will have to excuse her, chief of the wookies. I fear that Mistress Freya is excitable. What she means to say is that our cause, the Community, is in need of aid. We seek to re-establish the Galactic Alliance."
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 6:16 pm
After several hours, the signal of their transmission was finally relayed back, signalling that the Stormhawk had received their message, and was only waiting to relate it to the senior officer. Pleased as he could be, Elladan conferenced with Sven briefly. "I'm not sure what may happen when they reply. I was discreetly banished from Cysilla, and the fact that I've done nothing along the scale of Thrawn may be scaring the Chiss Ascendancy. It's possible the Stormhawk may attempt to detain me."
Sven frowned. If the Chiss would be taken away, he was next up for captaincy, but it was not a job he wanted; he was content where he was. "What do you plan to do, then?"
"Continue with our schedule, Lieutenant. I'd like to see if my dear cousin's new warships will stand a new age. Is the naval port ready?"
"Yes, sir, 100% and completely manned. Production can begin in the next five minutes."
"Then do so. I want one of the new Acclamantors done by the time our guest arrives."
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Darkened Angel Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 7:36 pm
As luck would have it, Angel did not succeed in finding peace and quiet. Her random coordinates just so happened to send her into right smack in the middle of a skirmish between rival space pirate groups. Luckily, none of them could match her skills in space, and her gunboat blew all their fighters to bits. The ones that survived gave up on attempting to fight her and were allowed to go elsewhere unharmed. " Man, what does it take to go somewhere where people will just leave me alone? " she asked, irritatedly. R1 had been around for a long time, and had learned over the years to not answer every single question asked. He retained a memory file on what happened to him the last time he made a bad situation worse.
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 9:26 pm
Ferno descended quite a long staircase (he lost count after 618 steps) off of the largest ziggurat. Forced to land at night, to make sure he would not disturb too much of the populace or be stuck using the force for too long, he had to make the journey by night. The photoreceptors in his helmet turned on, as he made way through the jungle.
While a floating spectre is normally not seen on Gobindi, the mere presence of Ferno deadened the usually live forest. Not a single bird stirred, nor a predator moved, until Ferno had passed. At long last, he reached a section of the wall, which he laid a gloved hand upon.
Sliding ajar, the stone door no longer barred entry. Normal people would have felt the humidity of Gobindi (one of the most commenable features) suddenly become a vaccuum, and upon venturing further, would smelt the stale air. Ferno had no such perception, due to the garb he wore.
Several key turns and passageways later, he met with what could be said was a modern laboritory, but had been abandoned for over a century. Still, the secrets to a biological terror stood intact, in datapad format and in vials overgrown and dead. Snatching up the datadisks and one dead culture, Ferno exited much as he entered.
In orbit, he would placate the vial in a safer spot, then head for Kiva.
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 9:37 pm
For the next 48 hours, the Wing Guard ran search on anything having to do with Eledan Kennet and the Community.
Meanwhile, Vaan dealt with crooked spacers trying to get free credits. Only one person, walked away with 200 credits, revealing that the Community was a group of anti-Imperials.
The captain of the Wing Guard on the other hand, was forced to confront a Chiss Imperial Intelligence agent who was accompanied by four Chiss warriors, an Imperial Knight and two stormtroopers to reveal that Eledan Kennet was not in their records.
Vaan knew that Kennet would come up negative in their searches, it was only an excuse to untangle this Community mystery.
The Imperial boarding party thanked the guards and reboarded their gunboat.
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:07 pm
Des Voh Cale Darksun Link listened to them go and frowned. "They went the wrong way it seems." He muttered. He shrugged and stood, letting the fire die down. The Young swordsman walked to a cosp of trees growing near the river and, sizing up a sapling nodded and took hold of it. "Forgive the humble traveler." He remarked to the tree. "But this one has need of your services." With that he attempted to yank the sappling out of the ground. Several times. by the fifth he was breathing heavily and wiped his brow despite the bandanna. "Resilient. An admireable quality." He muttered as he rolled his sleaves up and tried again. After several more tries he succeeded in yanking the sapling out. The young man took the sappling back to his seat near his cooking fire and began whittling the branches, stems and roots off. "You are quite the humble traveler indeed Link."A human vocie said from above him. Teail was looking out over the water from the brigde, hands on the railing, his presense did not even exist, though it seems he had once more profected it. (( scream Read all my posts Kirflag!))
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:43 pm
((Ignoring Des last post...))
A shot from outside alerted Veira and Dack to the trouble outside.
They hastened to a window to spy an armed Mandalorian and the Stranger from before standing off.
"What the sith?" Veira remarked.
The Mando had missed, despite the short range. Where the man's head should have been was nothing more than blaster scorring.
The man in question stood a meter away, his staff gripped frimly in hand.
"Nimble bugger arent you?" The Mando replied.
"No, you're just slow." Link replied as he doubled his grip on his staff.
"Cocky b*****d arent you?" The Mando replied as he raised his pistol again.
Suddenly the young man was behind him, faster than the Mando coul pull the trigger. Link knocked the blaster out of the man's hands with a swift hard stroke of his stave. The Mando gripped his hand in pain as the pistol skittered into the darkness.
" This one would rather not have you be firing a blaster around. It could become dangerous, that it could." Link remarked.
The Mando chuckled. "Fine then." bladed hunter's claws ejected out of his Gauntlets. "Then lets do this hand to hand." The Hunter linged an swippe not at Link, but at his stave, cutting it down the center in a single clean stroke.
Link eyed the two sections of staff with a sign of worry. "This one regrets having taken his sword in for maintenance." He muttered as he took the ens up in a dual weapon stance.
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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 12:29 am
Attichituk looked at Freya, and the motley crew standing behind her. His gaze looked over Aurora and Sapphire, Freya herself, Rusty, and finally Gorwooken. His eyes lingered on the tall, scarred Wookiee before he looked to Freya again, saying "[You wish to reform the Galactic Alliance, you say? Why am I to think you can do it. A government is not easy to form, after all, and there are only five of you...]''
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