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 Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 7:42 pm
By the time Lord Imperius' men steadied out their attack, both sides were taking losses. The Black Void was still untouched, no one daring to go near its deathly black gaze.
Imperius noticed that their was a large ship following him, a Delayla-class. His Defender being much smaller, he pulled an immelman and landed himself behind the ship. It was too hard to get a torpedo lock at the moment, and so he sprayed laser fire before barrelrolling starboard.
"Attention Starlancers," Imperius commanded, "Scatter yourselves, and inflict terror. Remember, your orders will surpass even a flight leader," he said, before looking to see where the Delayla-class went off to.
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Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 7:51 pm
Angel boarded the Sundered Rose and took off, following somewhat behind the Dark Lord's squadron. Seeing the Kapella, she recognized it as Neb's, and feeling him aboard through the Force confirmed his presence. " I... can't attack Neb. No, not Neb. He helped save me by showing me the truth, and for that, I can't fight him... " she thought, and stayed away from the Kapella. Instead, she targetted the next nearest Republic cruiser whose shields were out and began knocking out its guns. < Why are you holding back? You could easily hammer that cruiser with repeated laser fire. > " Can it, R1. If I take the time to take it out, rather than just take out its guns, that'll mean that much more time Phoenix doesn't have me watching his back. At least this way the cruisers themselves won't be a threat to him. " < Well then, who's watching ours? > At that precise moment, the Sundered Rose was hit by a few laser shots from behind and above, as 2 fighters were in persuit. One of them fired a concussion missle, but the turbolaser made short work of it almost on top of the fighter that launched it, causing critical damage to which it broke off, while the other continued. " No lives. I will not take any lives. " Angel kept thinking to herself, her Force side issues getting to her badly.
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Darkened Angel Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 8:33 pm
Cale bolted awake, drenched in a cold sweat.
he had had another memory dream. this one even worse than the last.
He rubbed his splitting head and groaned. "Ug...Never again will I mix joydust and wookiee wango."
The outlaw got out of his bunk onboard the Auric Runner and showered, dressed, took a few pills for his hangover and strolled off the ship, passing Cambot, who was in the process of fixing himself after yesterday's events.
"well, what to do today?" he pondered as he scanned the street. "maybe see what the CMG has for gargo deliveries." he shrugged and took off instead for a nearby bar.
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Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 8:37 pm
Bass awoke and got up from his bed."How long did I sleep for?"He mumbled and left the quarters,stepping into the crew lounge for a second to drink the rest of the Terisian ale left in the glass."Not too long I guess."
"Okay let's see what the current rumble's about."He turned on the holoscreen and flicked through bounty profiles."Hmm...wanna be,dead for sure,dead,dead....oh...what's this?Cale Darksun..that's quite a hefty sum ya got there.I could pay off any and all of the money I owe.I can get some much needed R n' R along with any expenses I might come across...mabey that's a bit of an exaderasion."He set down the glass and headed for the cockpit.
"Oz,we're going to Nal Hutta,bring your slug repellant your best blaster.Setting coordiantes and we're off."He set a hyperspace route for Nal Hutta and took a seat in the pilot's chair.
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Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 8:52 pm
As Cajin turned the corner, reaching the hallway leading directly to the bridge, he fired a couple shots, splattering several of the sentries as they rushed into the bridge and sealed the blast doors.
Cajin glanced around the smoking hallway, taking in the shattered security recorders along the ceiling, blood splashed around the recently closed blast door, smoke gently drifting about, he calmly slung his concussion rifle and thought I guess they're just sitting in there, screaming for help to come at me while I try get through. Not a bad plan, I suppose. Good thing for me I kept jamming the emergency lockdown in each room as I was going through the place.
Damn...that's a thick door. It'd take forever to get through it with my concussion rifle, if I could actually get through it.
Good thing I remembered to bring this along. he thought as he pulled out his Stormtrooper-issue fusion-cutting torch.
***
On the other side, the security personel apprehensively watched, guns at the ready, as a bright line crackled around the door in a large block. The bridge crew kept their heads down and tried to keep their minds on the difficult job of watching and directing the battle and their ship.
Then, the line stopped. They looked at each other, and steadied themselves for the inevitable attack.
***
"Heh heh heh." Cajin chuckled, from the corner of the hallway, as he loaded his last clip into his concussion rifle and leveled it at the door.
***
The security troopers waited, and then-
*bam**bam**bam**bam*
The door burst forward, splintering from its multiple score marks.
The troopers had been standing away from the door, ready for that manuver, and unleashed a storm of blasterfire through the smoke and wreckage of the door.
*bam* Splat.
They'd been ready for that, too. They hadn't been clustered together enough to all be taken out by the blast.
*thump* *thump* *bang!* *bang!*
They hadn't been ready for a flashbang and smoke grenades combo, followed by a laughing maniac striding through and laying waste to the dazzled defenders, the bridge crew, and the Captain, several times, in some cases.
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Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 8:57 pm
A few hours latter Cale walked out of the bar with a slight stumble in his step.
"Yep. One thing ya gotta admit about those greasy hutts." he muttered as he leaned against a building. "They know good booze. I've yet to find a disapointing bar on this swampy rock." he looked at the building and eyed a mirror.
"wow. for having a hangover I look good." slowly he dawned on him that he was staring at a picture of himself instead of a mirror. The picture had him with his origional hair color. his was still blond from the disquise on Borlieas. He still also wore the contacts that hid his green eyes behind blue. Then he realized it was a wanted poster.
Cale grinned and took a pen from his pocket. with it he drew a rather large handle bar mustache on his depiction, further bluring the distinction between the picture and reality.
"heh. always wanted to do that." he chuckled.
he flipped the pencil up, caught it and pocketed it as he continued on his way.
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Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 10:31 pm
The makeshift squadron left the Hope Eagle, flying a defensive perimeter about the frigate.
"Remember, boys and girls, the object is not to take on the Imperial fleet!" Mordranna cried out, even as she wished for an X-wing in the rag tag "squadron".
"Report in, Squires," came her command.
The sole B-wing was "Bones", with the A-wing duo being "Crimson Darts" and the Y-wings being "Gold Daggers", with her merely being Squire Lead.
"What's the plan, general?" inquired Crimson Dart One.
"Protection, and escort of any injured and civilians to Hope Eagle," She then called out to the Y-wings. "Gold Daggers, ready your ions!"
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Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 11:07 pm
After some time of knocking out one cruiser's turrets, Angel could feel the Light of the Force approaching quickly, and she recognized it as Modranna. She hailed her. " Mordranna... A shame we have to meet again under these circumstances. I don't want to fight you, but I must protect Phoenix. As long as you don't fire upon him, I will not be forced to come after you. And you have my word I will not take any lives. I'm only disabling turrets. " She hoped Mordranna would understand her position in this battle and not force her to do more than she has been.
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Darkened Angel Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 11:22 pm
Mordranna answered the hail. "Angel, we meet again,"
Squire Squadron still flitted to and fro about the Hope Eagle. "My friend ... it seems we're more or less on the same page. Of course, we fight on opposite sides, but our goals seem similar."
She then noted some escape pods ejecting from a fiery Correlian Corvette. "Crimson Darts - escort the escape pods to the Hope Eagle,"
Another Squire chimed in. "General! What about that Imp ship?" he asked, in regards to Angel's ship.
Mordranna sighed. "Listen up. We leave the Imps alone, and they'll leave us alone. The leader aboard that ship has given me her word," She then pondered Angel's words. "Do not engage. I repeat - do not engage!"
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Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 11:31 pm
"Alright...what to do now?" Cajin asked himself, as he looked about the bridge.
A few of the stations were smoking, but it was mostly intact.
Oh, and the bridge crew. Nope.
"Let's see..." he said to himself, as he checked the options available at the Captain's console.
"Well...wow, this Mutiny Protocol looks like it was custom built for this...gosh, they never bothered to think about this stuff, did they?" he said, as he looked through it. "But it needs the Captain's override."
He started slapping the Captain's chair, until a small panel with a thumbprint scanner slid out.
"Wow, he kept his factory standard. Now I just need to get past that thumbscanner." he said.
He picked up the Captain's thumb and pressed it to the scanner, and then put it in a small container on his belt for later use.
***
Around the ship, blast doors locked down, and tear gas poured out of vents. Battledroids were given new orders, to detain the crew and to end all resistance with extreme prejudice.
***
None of this affected the bridge or any of the nearby sections, of course.
Seeing that his efforts were quite effective in disabling the ship, he chuckled. "Whoops. I'm all thumbs today, it seems."
Cajin closed the blast screens over the bridge viewports, and started fiddling with the com and sensor stations.
"Great, great...there's ships flying everywhere, and I've never worked with this stuff before...that med frigate is still, they can patch me to whoever, I guess..." he said to himself, as he set up a tightbeam communication.
"Hailing Republic forces, this ship has been disabled. Got any suggestions?" he said, over the com.
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Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 11:51 pm
Aboard the Hope Eagle, the captain recieved an SOS from a disabled Imperial cruiser. "General!" he called out to Mordranna. "A disabled Imp ship is hailing us. What do we do?"
"Patch it to me," was Mordranna's command. She then heard what seemed to be Cajin's voice. "Do I even want to know what happened, Cajin?" she sighed. She then gave the Squires orders to finish up their escorts, and stand by.
She then commed Angel. "Hey Angel. It seems that one of yours is in trouble. If it's all right with you, I would like to aid them. Of course, you're welcome to assist us," At that, she then repeated her order not to, under any circumstance, fire upon the Sundered Rose.
"But, why, general?" the captain commed her.
"We cannot turn our backs on anyone in trouble," Mordranna replied instantaneously. "Not even Imperials."
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 12:33 am
Angel responded to Modranna. " That ship can cause problems for both sides in its current condition, so it looks like I'm going help. I happen to have a droid with me that's good with ships, keeps mine in peak form at all times. If I can get it to the bridge, it can probably move the ship out of harm's way. " She then flew over and formed up with Mordranna on the way to it. " Enemies we may be in this war, but that need not be forever. Someday, I would like to see you as a sister in arms, a fellow Jedi, because I wish to redeem myself for the lives I ended on Kashyyk. I may not have done it myself, but I was the one who ordered the attack. " After seeing the hangar of the cruiser through her cockpit, she boosted ahead and landed, waiting for Mordranna. " I don't wish to be a Sith any longer, but I cannot leave Phoenix. You see... I love him. He must be stopped, but I will not turn on him, no matter what. All I ask is that should he be defeated, he be taken alive. There is still good in him, and I believe he can be saved. " She wasn't worried telling that to Mordranna, despite knowing the love they had could be taken as a weakness. Inside, she just knew she could trust her.
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Darkened Angel Vice Captain
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