77 Sunset Strip (Lords of the Fringe Dominion of Soledad)

[The Wrathful One]

With a jolt the Rakata fleet jumped out of hyperspace into the skies above Soledad. It was already in the process of being refitted with modern Fringe technology and schematics, and even a few Fringe model warships dotted the fleet. The Wrathful One hiss at the fleet between her and her wife. "I want all fighters, and bombers launched. Everything is to be destroyed that lies in our path. Nothing will separate us from Empress Shinju."

Walking over to her holo emitter the Wrathful One gave out her fleet orders. :icket ships form a wall in front, I don't want a single bomber to reach my ships. Heavy cruisers in Zeta formation focus your fire on the enemy capital ships. Carriers I want all flights launched and moving. Use the heavy gravitational pull to fool their scanners, and strike them from behind.:: Switching her comms over to reach the Fringe fleet she opened another channel to @[member="Dranok Lussk"] ::Admiral Lussk, my ships are coming in from the night side. If you you strike them from the side we will crush these pitiful fools who choose to defy us.::

She wanted to call down to her wife now, but that wasn't possible at the moment. If it gave away her position to the enemy the Wrathful One would never forgive herself. "Prepare the gunships for planetary landing. The first team to touch ground will get the first choice on spoils."

@[member="Dharma Vessia"]@[member="Shinjū Aÿasha"]

 

[Matreya]

Zaiden smiled, We'll see.. He wasnt into teaching his rarest ability, especially to those not his own students. But the man was an ally, at least Zaiden considered him one, since that day the fringe all trained together in the Arena. As he left his companions area, heading for the hangar specified, he readied himself by running over the plans for the future. It would be simple, have the men follow him and he would cover them with his Cloak..if all went well.

 

[Dharma Vessia]

--Outside of the Industrial Zone--​

Closer and closer they got to their first goal. Dharma did take the time to toss canisters of the yummy drug here and there. The gas got carried by the air to affect others around them or a little bit a ways. The aura of her madness was focus on by her to stretch out more and more. Those that had the drugs affecting them made the madness easier to take ahold of. For Dharma, she was taxing herself to push and still she had larger plans to stretch the influence of the madness.

Entering the industrial zone of Soledad’s capital city, Dharma stopped having canisters tossed about. The time had come to focus on the supplies into the water. In the creates were drugs with explosives, she wanted to use the water pipes to push the drugs through the city faster and explosives to release them into the air when their timers went off. Some damage had to be done so madness could fall over the city.

 

[Shinju]

@[member="Dharma Vessia"] @[member="The Wrathful One"]

Shinju continued to follow and looked up, she couldn't sense with the force but she felt something in her gut... Or someone, the wrathful one was not someone you crossed and with the proximity of Soledad to Rakata Beta their fleet invading was more then welcome. All the spoilers and having slaves that can become for much use. The idea of growing more slaves for this world to worship Dharma and produce for the empire to rebuild well had its appeal. Why waste the chance to use such a huge population keeping the ones grown here. It was why they were around after all to do as needed and seeing the industrial zone got Shinju all riled up. "The water treatment plant should be near the walls and one of the more fortified positions with attacks going on."

 

[Kayla Zorg]

@[member="Zaiden James-Greyson"]

Kayla was roaming the ship wondering where the bunkers were so she could plant a bomb on it and blow it into oblivion, she was aimlessly looking for a good time and so she wandered the thing while being assigned to her master for some explosive reactions for the total annihilation of the enemy, as she walked through the ship she decided to go find Zaiden, supposedly a god... but merely a mortal.

As she walked throughout the ship she wore a tight, form fitting pair of nylon-mesh pants with a tiger striped long sleeve shirt that ended above her navel and a pair of high heeled combat boots, she also had her make up on that was of clan colors, greys, blacks and purples.... she had grey and black eye shadow and mascara and purple and black lipstick.. her pants were black while her boots were grey and her shirt was purple and black tiger stripes.

As she walked toward her masters location, or at least where she thought he'd be she allowed her maddening appearance to show and then showed up near the ship in the hangar waiting on him to arrive, it wouldn't be long before he did....she hoped...

 

[Lucien Cordel]

"My dear friend I would love to" He said smiled before walking casually to take cover behind a beam adjacent to sargon.He slowly unclipped the saber in his hand and ignited it with a quiet snap hiss before slumping against the beam and diverting his attention to infiltrating the minds of the opposing force.It was not a stenus task as their metal defence buckled before his abilities.He stood,metaphorically, before their every being did he make the heart stop? , the lungs over work? It all seemed too predictable no instead his incapacitated the synapses and made new messages whispering dark nothings he smiled.He returned to consciousness untime to watch the group freeze s the commanding officer of the relevant squad caught sargon's grenade.Finished with his theatrics he turned to the optio "I hope the admiral in charge here has some good brandy"

 

[Darth Torment]

Isis stood as a grenade was lobbed into the small group of enemies and then caught one with her kinesis and held him in suspended animation above the others as she used her cryokinesis to sap the heat from the warriors body and leave him a cold corpse on the ground, she then heard the explosion and seen them all fly back into a wall dead... she smirked and looked back at them as she held her saber in her hand and started to walk toward the dead soldiers to inspect their weapons to see if they couldn't use them for themselves.

 

[Sargon Vynea]

With the first squad down Sargon moved around the pillar towards a turbolift and straight out sprinted for it. Pulling the trigger on his grenade launcher as he ran Sargon knew it would land in another squads general area and hopefully give him and @[member="Lucien Cordel"] time to reach the turbolift. Even as the grenade exploded behind him he hit the inside wall of the turbolift with a thud. Pivoting he went to a knee and started aiming for enemy infantry. "Lord Lucien, if he doesn't we will simply have to send him to the store for some."

@[member="Isis Fontana"]

 

[Matreya]

As Zaiden rounded the corner and into the hangar, he noticed his newest apprentice @[member="Kayla Zorg"] was waiting patiently. He appreciated the fact that she was the utmost willing to alter her appearance to abide by his clan colors, it meant she was truly wanting ro learn from the Legate. Climbing into the Devil's Shadow, Zaiden released his hold on his Force Stealth and Force Cloak.

"Mount up. We got a job to do. But Kayla whether you follow me, or take your own route, is your decision."

 

[Kayla Zorg]

Kayla heard him and got into the ship and waited for lift off, as it was they would be, from her knowledge, infiltrating a section of the government to take out the infrastructure or something like that and as it was she brought her grenades with her, a variety of them... as she sat there she waited for @[member="Zaiden James-Greyson"] to get them to their destination and waited with excitement to kill peoples in explosions.

 

[Matreya]

@[member="Kayla Zorg"] (lol we each get our own StealthX. Also, lets take 2 posts before we get to the planet)

Zaiden closed the hatch, beginning the ignition process slowly and precisely. It was a more and more memorized action than a planned motion. Soon enough, the sounds of his Legionnaires readying to depart as well could be heard over the din of his own engines. StealthX were fast, sleak and almost undetectable to any and all sensors. As such he believed none of the Fringes enemies would truly know of their plans.

Slowly his ship raised, angled properly and shot from the hangar and down towards their destination.

 

[Kayla Zorg]

(OOC: Lol! alright, I thought we'd take the same one, but this works)

As Kayla closed the hatch on her own StealthX she began to pilot it toward the planet, as she piloted her own ship she opened her own mind to the dark side of the force and made for it to be influenced by the sith side of the force, as she lifted off she quickly put in the destination settings and plotted course for the planet below. Kayla was new to piloting but also was not unfamiliar with how piloting worked and she did her best to pilot the StealthX to the planet while watching her masters ship lift off and follow her own.

@[member="Zaiden James-Greyson"]

 

[Lucien Cordel]

Lucien laughed at sargons comment and continued to do so as cleaved a soldier fleeing the grenade in two. He too left the safety of his pillar to journey to the turbolift. He sprinted forward cutting his way through enemies and then as the granade exploded he dropped an rolled carried by it's blast into the lift.as he rolled he cut through a number of legs.He stood up again in the lift,relieved that he still had some of his former vigor He turned to look out to the hangar and looked at the now legless squad flailing on the floor.They awaited just one extra occupant.

 

[Darth Torment]

After inspecting the equipment of the enemies she found a rare grenade launcher among the corpses and seized it and then walked over to the lift and entered into it with @[member="Sargon Vynea"] and @[member="Lucien Cordel"], as she waited for the doors to close and for it to take them to the floor that was their destination she held the grenade launcher in her hand and had her staff back on her back and awaited their floor to blow things up with.

 

[Arage Bao]

The more defenders they killed, the more arrived to take their fallen comrades places. It was frustrating and interesting at the same time, how could such a small outpost have so many reserve troops laying around? It was a question that needed answering and a plan had been made to do just that. They had to assume the defenders had a even more troops inside the walls of the outpost. And as such an assault could mean suicide, so they would have to do this stealthy. Just the way Jared liked to do things.

Stepping outside of his tent, he considered what he was about to do. This could possibly mean suicide for him and Jared never liked those kind of missions. He still remembered the skirmish were he had to pilot a ship to defend a Fringe-captured installation, he had barely survived that ordeal. But that was his burden, jumping right into the thick of the action, hoping to save as many people as possible. Which was the reason why he decided to do this, to spare the lives of his troops.

"Optio, assemble the best soldiers in our company and make sure they are ready. In 20 you will see the outpost's gates open, you will storm the complex and hold the beachhead long enough for our remaining forces to occupy the outpost. Are your orders clear?"

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"Sir, yes, Sir! Assemble the best and prepare them. Storm the complex and survive until reinforcements arrive."​

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"Nicely put, Optio. What is your name? If we survive this battle, you will be promoted."

"Sir, my name is Davron. Davron Oxur. Call sign: Foxtrot-238"​

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"Affirmative, soldier. Remember, you only have to succeed."

With a salute he sent his Optio on his way and then slowly walked to the outpost. The night was still young and pitch black, perfect for his personal mission. If one would have seen the face of the Prophet Knight they would not have realized it was a man walking calmly to a possible death.

 

[Dharma Vessia]

-- Water Treatment Plant within the Industrial Zone –​

Dharma waved on her minions to do their next task. Getting two gas canisters each, they moved down and went to the exterior of the water plant. As the gas began to fill the air around the structure and affected the guards on the outside, Dharma began walking down there while the drones slipped inside to release the next set. The walk down gave enough time for the drugs to affect the guard’s minds. This allowed them to start seeing inanimate object singing and talking from the aura that Dharma had been focusing on. Lovely things were telling them to do different self-tortures to amuse the objects while the singing objects were rapping about killing a hipsters to save your hood.

The minions kept moving through the building. Killing anyone that placed a hand on them, the others were getting their share of the gaseous drug. Dharma waited outside until the drones walked out with their empty canisters. She ordered them to go get the supplies. Back inside, screams and cries of pain were filling in the space that used to have the gas. The personnel inside were busy self-mutilating until death fell on them. With the crates and drones returning, they waited until silence fell upon the area even as Dharma focused on maintaining her madness aura.

Finally silence fall around them. No one was left doing wicked things to themselves under the influences of drugs and madness. Going into the facility, they went to work quickly. Dharma did take a moment to hop around in the pools of blood like water puddles. She giggled and squealed in enjoyment as she did the hopping and dancing around. Then she got back to busy. The drones were unloading the liquid drugs into water. The charges were added to send down the lines with the drugs in the water and in the canisters the charges sat in.

For the group, they were all told the next tasks even to Shinju. Two drones went back to protective mode while Dharma began to mediate on her aura. Pushing it out further, she wanted to push it to the limit and get all she could in the large city. Deeper in the force the nutty woman went and larger the madness aura grew. It was important even as the ground shook from explosion after explosion happened all across the city. Even the smoke from the explosions was misleading as it was laced with yummy drug to help weaken minds of those caught in the fallout. That eventually led to the city covered in the smoke laced drug with all the water lines destroyed.

 

[Shinju]

@[member="Dharma Vessia"]

Shinju breathed in deeply while the aura came they were making it work and they would have the area or as the walls started to talk with her it was all about the things done. The others continued to fight as they went through the facility taking it, the drugs needed to be in the water and now the other soldiers were enjoying the effects of being under Dharma's sway. The rest of the fringe could come in and do as needed to take the world with the fleets and they would have the drones facility. "This is Empress Shinju to all Fringe forces, we are about to poison the water supplies and begin preparing to take the city."

 

[Dharma Vessia]

-- Water Treatment Plant within the Industrial Zone –-​

Chuckling, alright she was giggling insanely as a minion had the system stop the water flow. The job was done and the last of the explosions happen. Her little minions that were not protecting her were releasing more of the gaseous drug in the water lanes to escape from the open lines. Dharma was focus on touching so many minds. It kept her laughing insanely. However, the laughter was result of pushing the loving insanity of her mad mind out. Influence fell on those in the city with the mind altering drug grabbing hold of their bodies. That fueled all affected to slip into madness and chaos started to rule over the city with the mad hatter having her tea party.

 

[Sargon Vynea]

With both Isis, and Lucien joining him on the turbolift Sargon hit the button to head up towards the bridge. If they could gain control of this ship they could reek havoc on the enemies communications, and IFF system. From there he could at least get an idea of what was going on with this planet. Even as the doors open communications started coming in about the second fleet joining Lord Admiral @[member="Dranok Lussk"]'s. "Well, it seems we have quite the affair going on wherever it is we are exactly. If I'm correct we will be on the same level as the bridge, but unfortunately a few hundred feet to run."

As the doors opened Sargon lifted his IWS and walked through them, and much to his surprise found a pair of dead bodies. "We are the only ones invading this ship right?"

@[member="Isis Fontana"] @[member="Lucien Cordel"]

 

[Lucien Cordel]

"Why run when ... " Lucien began as the pair stepped out "Oh how every interesting" Lucien said as he bent down to examine the body. They were dead thats all he could deduce, It was a shame he could have scoured their minds for information. He stood up and drew his saber "Perhaps we ought to hurry before they drain the brandy" Lucien smiled his face and voice masking his anxiety. They had not seen a second invasion party and yet clearly there was unless ... a coup, perhaps thats the answer.Thousands of possibilities floated around Luciens mind as he made slow precise progression, it was one of the consequences of being a governor, nothing was real until it was proved to be.