"What? No kiss goodbye? A disappointment, captain" She smiled and spun around, walking up to the red trooper that was to escort her to the refresher station. She ran her fingers gently over the visor of his helmet and started walking. "Here, boy. We have orders to undress me" She mockingly uttered and started walking. The trooper stopped her and pointed in another direction. "Right. That way. I knew that" She said and turned to walk there instead.
*
"I intended to" Banis said as she watched the admiral that had entered. She turned to Daran and nodded at him "You may do as you wish for now. I have no current plans for you" She said as she walked in the direction of Vassisk.
*
Throttle even thoug unconcious could feel the needles and knives that was treating him. He felt them, and even though he was unconcious, his mind was not. The touches of the cold items brought back memories. Memories prefered forgotten.
Back at Nar Shadaa, Throttle had been captured to talk about the at the time nearly unknown Sith Lord. Days of torture and days without sleep did not reduce his mental stability below normal even for a second. His mind was reminded of that event, for to torture him, they indeed used the same type of medical equipment- only to do the reversed effect of what they were doing right now.
Throttle screamed on the inside. Not out of the pain, but out of the memories. As that happened, his pulse raced. He remained of course unconcious, but that did not stop his heart and mind from acting when the body could not.
*
"This is enough. The grand admiral is located on a jungle moon of Endor by the same name. The charts has been inserted to the craft, and the hyperdrive is ready for usage. Whenever you are ready, Duke" a mechanic said. The incredibly tall man nodded in silence as he entered the craft. Before entering it completely, he turned to the mechanics "This is a tough matter. Tell your master to not wait up"
The Calamiri cruiser dropped out of hyperspace with the pirate ships nowhere in sight. "What happened?!" The captain asked, as he stared out the forward viewport. Just ahead was a white dwarf star, and an ancient, battered planetoid, its atmosphere long swept away in the mists of time. The captain of the vessel turned to his navigation officer. "Where are we?"
The navigation officer looked up from his post. "We have been pulled out of hyperspace by the planets mass shadow, sir. The system is designated as X-92699, it is a dead system on the fringes of Hutt space. One large planetoid, an asteroid field, and a white dwarf star. We do not have any further information on this system."
The captain turned to look out the bridge viewport as a flicker of light gave way to 12 X-wings as they were pulled out of hyperspace. "Scan the system for activity, we must find-"
"Captain! I have a fleet of ships bearing 119062 mark 4, they seem to be in the sun's orbit just at the far edge of the asteroid field."
"Ship classes?"
"Unknown, the sensors rate them cruiser-cass to battleship-class at best. Judging from their sensor echo's, only a few are drawing power."
"It's the Katana fleet all over again." A crew-man joked.
"Helm, take us in for a closer look." The captain smiled. "Continue scanning for the pirate ships!"
"Yas, sir."
The Calamiri cruiser and squadron of X-wings approached the sensor readings.
"We are picking up several distinct power sources, two in the largest ship and one in one of the cruiser class ships."
The captain nodded. "Send the fighters to scout ahead. Prepare a boarding party."
the ships floated around the planet which had been dead for tens of thousands of years old. there were no apparent lifesigns on the ships, no lights were on, the only thing that was on were the barely powered sublight drives. the ships ranged from 10,000 years old to modern ships, except for two that would only be found in records predating any hyperspace technology.
despite the lifelessness of the ships there was an unbearable dark side presence, not only coming from the ships but from the planet aswell.
~the two ancient ships, notice the gravity ring thing~
Naria had a look around, at the various outfits that the room had to offer her. The guards kept a steady eye on her, but she didnt mind. She was after all a bounty hunter. Never to be trusted, she believed the words of tha galaxy said about them. She instead tackled the stares with a smile as she walked past a stormtrooper armor. She halted and had a look at it "How would this look on me?" She asked, not expecting an answer. There was a certain touch of good looks to it. Although, it did limit movement quite handily. "Perhaps with a few modification" She said and took a suit from the rack.
She gestured the guards to wait, but didnt expect them to listen to that gesture either, as she took the suit and walked around the corner. She laid it on the ground and pulled one of her vibro blades. She then brought up her blaster pistol and started working on the suit.
It took her around 20 minutes or so until the work was done. She had taken pieces from other outfits as well and mixed as well as modified it all into a suit of her liking. She then changed to her new outfit, taking the robe and belt over her shoulder as she walked out to the troopers stationary with her. "There we go. A suit for me" She said with a smile, as she exited the room, patting a trooper on the head as she did.
Her suit had still the touch of a stormtrooper. She had however removed the center plating of the armor, stomach area mainly all the way down to the waist. She had smoothed out the upper torso regions as well, allowing her to bend freely forth and back in the suit- which would be something she couldn't do before. She also removed the outer plating of the shoulders to grant her arms movable access. The uncomfortable waist plating had been replaced with leather and she wore her heavy boots after having removed the foot region of the stormtrooper armor. The same with the gloves, where she had removed the original armor gloves and was using her own leather gloves.
She walked then trough the ship, escorted by the soldiers of course, until she reached the turbolift that was supposed to take her to the bridge. She entered and the elevator bolted of. Not that she could think what was the problem with her previous outfit, she doubted he would have any complaints with her current one. She had her robe and old belt over her shoulder as the turbolift halted and she walked onto the bridge of the ship, looking around with a smile. The stormtrooper helmet did she have under the arm that did not hold her robe and belt.
"Honey, I'm home" She uttered with a grin.
*
As the ship traveled trough hyperspace, Duke was reading trough all information necessary on his target as well as the Imperial Alliance and their ships. He was looking at various holographic images of the grand admiral as well as the other commanders of the fleet. Why he did all the research, no one really knew. Following plans and using strategy was never quite his style. He could in nine cases of ten get his job done with a simple charge.
((that would look very torn up, mottled up, and thrown together.))
gren sighed, lookig at vassisk. he whispered "have you recieved any reports on the status of hoth, and rerplacement of the depth charges in the asteroid field in particular?"
the droids took notice of the dark troopers, before all changing their view to banis, before finally spotting jacen. for a moment they seemed to shift position as if to face him.
Aww man, I got major writers block.... 🙁 ok then))
Thrawn looked at Jacen, his glowing red eyes burning into the Jedi. "Good evening Jacen, and," Thrawn glanced at Banis and then Daran, "greetings Darth Banis, indeed it is a honor for you to grace us with your presence." From his simple glance, he had gauged her personality, could tell her stlye, he knew she wasn't foolish, stupid, brash, or tactfull. "Well, Jacen, what shall we talk about?" Thrawn smiled, though it was completely mutual.
Thrawn raised one blue black eyebrow. "I'm sure you were, tell me Jacen; what would an Alliance with your faction gain for us?"
Admiral Vassisk leaned over to speak quietly with Gren. "Last report I recieved was promising. The defenses around Hoth have been quadroupled and we have a few suprises for potential attackers. A few tests were carried out by Admiral Marcell, he reports the ASC homing bombs work well, we'll talk after this." He glanced at Jacen's men then relaxed into the chair a little.
Darth Banis nodded to the admiral as he had greeted her utmost respectfully. She held her arms crossed where she leaned towards the wall and watched the discussing parts in the matter. She turned to Jacen with her head as he brought up the Sith. "Your statement is based on desperation, Jacen. It is but your assumption that what you have to offer is greater than the offer of the Sith. Blindly claiming that your offer is greater than that of the Sith is very naive. You do not know what we have offered, what we can offer or how strong we are. You only assume"
With those words, she backed away from the central regions of the room and leaned back on a wall again. She did not expect an answer. She did not wish to open a debate. She wished to only speak her mind in the matter. Fighting beside the Mandalorian would be a fascinating thing. If nothing else, she would be interested to see how much exactly they diverted from her expectations.
*
Naria had a look around, but found no captain. She gave out a sigh, but smiled non-the-less. She walked out onto the bridge and had a look around. "So this is how it looks like? Chaotic" She said with a grin. She walked past the crew members, walked up to the chair of the captain and had a seat. "This sure beats the freighter"
"High Prophet X'tus Mirag. The ships have reached Obroa-Skai. We are working on immediate descend. We will strike the habitants and claim the library before the people will realise what happened"
The holographic image of the human speaking was flickering inside the council chamber of the Disciple of the Sith's headquarter. The councilmen started whispering to eachother, privatly discussing the so far successful approach. They started discussing how much one could learn with all the knowledge stored. X'tus nodded too in pleased approval.
"Very well, you may proceed. But do not fail us, Mala"
"I will not, High Prophet X'tus"
"I know you wont"
The skies of Obroa-Skai was soon filled with blackening shadows. Upon a gaze upwards, from the sky rained shuttles like meteors and just like a meteor they made impact with the grounds hard. As they cracked open, soldiers with blaster rifles charged out.
"We were successful with hiding our approach. By the time they've realised what happened, we have gotten what we wanted"
Mala, the female human, grinned as she exited one of the shuttle and was speaking to one of the other commanders.
"Make no delay. With these numbers, we are no match if their primary fleet come. Attack the library, claim it, and then fall back to the ships"
Originally posted by NozdormuA fully equipped sector base defended Obroa-Skai, ten thousand troops, a thousand AT-ST's, five hundred AT-AT's, over two thousand TX-tanks, and various other defenses. The ground turrets surrounding the library opened up on the troops, with a few patrolling scout walkers and tanks, which fired upon the shuttles. Alarms started blaring and the nearby garrison base launched two squadrons of X-wings, two TIE-Defenders squadrons, and fifteen Stormtrooper assault shuttles. They were sent in to support the two-thosand five-hundred troops defending the library.
"High Prophet X'tus Mirag. The ships have reached Obroa-Skai. We are working on immediate descend. We will strike the habitants and claim the library before the people will realise what happened"The holographic image of the human speaking was flickering inside the council chamber of the Disciple of the Sith's headquarter. The councilmen started whispering to eachother, privatly discussing the so far successful approach. They started discussing how much one could learn with all the knowledge stored. X'tus nodded too in pleased approval.
"Very well, you may proceed. But do not fail us, Mala"
"I will not, High Prophet X'tus"
"I know you wont"The skies of Obroa-Skai was soon filled with blackening shadows. Upon a gaze upwards, from the sky rained shuttles like meteors and just like a meteor they made impact with the grounds hard. As they cracked open, soldiers with blaster rifles charged out.
"We were successful with hiding our approach. By the time they've realised what happened, we have gotten what we wanted"
Mala, the female human, grinned as she exited one of the shuttle and was speaking to one of the other commanders.
"Make no delay. With these numbers, we are no match if their primary fleet come. Attack the library, claim it, and then fall back to the ships"
In orbit on the other side of the planet, two Imperial class-II Star Destroyers, three Calamiri cruisers and twenty-four squadrons of star-fighters careened around the planet. Eighteen squadrons of X-wings, and six squadrons of B-wings flocked in over the sky, lasers burning through the air at the shuttles and support ships.