Xavier continues to look on the horrific scenes of death. "Are you a coward Udeld?" Xavier queries. Perhaps seeing a bit of confusion on the little man's face Xavier will elaborate, "You most likely are right. They probably don't deserve this fate. In fact I was thinking of not opening the gate and helping them fight of these savages but I had to be true to myself and make a decision I chose coward. I mean if you feel so strongly about this I will let you pick up a blaster and you can help defend them to the death. We will even make it a quick death, payment for the help you've given us. Still I don't think you will pick up the blaster. We think you've already made your choice. We think like ourselves you don't want to die just yet."
Xavier now stands up to his full height to tower next to Useld, "So Hero or Coward? Which is it little one?"
Xavier will use Sense to gauge academics reply.
You manage to kick him fairly hard and trip him up, but difficult to one-shot a Named Character, even if Useld isn't the combat sort. He stumbles and flees off into the colony.
By now, alarms sound throughout the colony.
The Nokros-An have made it through the gates, their warriors starting to spread out and invade. Bringing up the rear, a small contingency of warriors sporting those energy swords escort a hunched old man.
"I've lost contact with the others," Rand informs you. "Something has happened at the starport. It will require our attention, once the Nokros-An overrun the colony."
Rand eyes the old man coming in with the Nokros-An.
"And make sure nothing happens to him, either. He may prove important."
His black pool eyes return to you, unsettling as always.
"But first, kill the Captain and the Governor. No survivors."
Xavier looks over his shoulder to look at the old man.
"Who is he?" Xavier asks politely.
At that last comment Xavier's darkside let's loose a murderous smile in Xavier's thoughts.
It chants to Xavier multiple times, Time to maim, time to dance, time kill, let us have some fun
Xavier listens to the song in his head maybe even slightly nodding his head to the tune.
"Rand," Xavier finally says. "There are times you make sense and I think this is one of them."
Xavier leads the charge to in front of the old man killing anything and everything in his path looking for the good Captain and Governor.
"The eldest member of their tribe," Rand says, simply. "Save your talents for when they will be most useful, Xavier. I don't need you getting shot up."
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Throughout the colony, klaxons blare and people flee from the oncoming Nokros-An. The indigenous warriors sweep through recklessly, more accustomed to fighting in the jungles than conducting urban warfare.
Aside from the general chaos, two major situations arise in the fighting:
The militia offers steady resistance, relying on their knowledge of the colony to hold their battle lines. However, civilians flee in the direction of the starport, distracting the militia from focusing on the battle at hand so they can coordinate an evacuation route. They manage to stall the Nokros-An, but further pressure on the troops defending the escapees might break their resolve.
Additionally, the Nokros-An reach an obstacle on their march to the Governor's tower. Lacking anything heavier than their powered needle guns, they cannot punch through sturdy cover and they have no way to combat a pair of anti-personnel walkers that the militia just deployed. Vehicles cannot navigate the jungles of Vorkuta, but they can march through the streets of the colony just fine.
Rand will coordinate the invasion and battle, rather than take part in the fighting, now that the Nokros-An have breached the walls.
Xavier, you break away from the main surge of the indigenous warriors and head for the makeshift evacuation routes, where some officers within the militia have set themselves up on rooftops and are coordinating efforts to get civilians the hell out of there.
In order to disrupt the steady flow of evacuees, you need to either block the route to the starport or kill the officers quickly.