Originally posted by Ushgarak
Yeah, only Lurik had a chance, really.
~Damn. 😛~
Lurik stood silently in the shadows just beside R3, listening intently to the conversation between Xeth and the Commissar. He was listening intently because most of the information was new to him, and some of it had not before been fully disclosed to him, either.
Originally posted by Bespin Bart
"What was the motivation for the Cult?" Xeth asks. "Why suddenly step up the attacks? I'm the Techno Union couldn't motivate them as much as they are."
"The Cult's basic motivation has likely not changed. They are simply interested in accruing as much power as possible to help them meet their insane designs. The only question is what has made them so unafraid of reprisal that they have dared do this. This we do not know. But to be sure, the only motive they ever need is that they CAN."
"No, Kiu, I don't believe that Dark Jedi are involved," Xeth replies to Kiu. "At least, no in person. The Dark Side seems to surround the Techno Union at some points in time...this is one of those times."
"But nothing like my adventures against Kuylen all those years ago, but that's been over long since then!" He turns to the Commissar and Gralus. "Isn't that right? That Bureau is quite sure that they're dead?"
"Strange, though, that the Cult is picking up the pace, then," Xeth says, continuing the current conversation. "We will have to make sure that they CAN'T."
Very well then! Off to your various ships and off to Alzarius!
Where at this point you are joined in this thread by the Jedi mission also.
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ALZARIUS
Music: City in the Clouds
Alzarius is a warm, though not quite tropical, world. Out here in the sticks, technology isn't all it could be, though this place is the best of the bunch. You guys are actually expected to land at the orbital departure point, which is where the security commander will meet you. As the co-ordinating space station for the whole sector this is a very large station, probably the most important thing Alzarius is responsible for.
Of course, you guys might want to make your hellos at this point!
Xeth grins slyly as he steps down the hatch from his ship, a few spurts of steam accompanying him and his Renegade crew.
"Stay with the ship, R3," Xeth says to the astromech droid, who is locked in on the inside of the ship.
"Master Marcus! Vlad!" Xeth calls out, having just landed at the same time as they. "What a pleasant chance!"
Arken's brow arched slightly as he stepped out from the ship just after Vlad and Marcus had. His eyes drifting over to the group which seemed to be greeting them, including an odd looking one. "Master..?" he said with a hint of apprehension in his voice, not knowing the intention of the people they had just met up with. "I assume they are friends of yours?"