Public Beneath The Shoals

[Halitus Veikis]

Location: Manaan
Date: Post 900 ABY
Time: 1300hrs

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Veikis’ ship fell from the sky, and its black onyx haul sank beneath the waters of the planet. The inside of the ship creaked from the pressure, his eyes closed as the glass began to crack like webs painting an ice canvas. The First Son allowed the vessel to become a tomb as the haul broke open with a great puff of bubbles and water poured inside. Unmoved, Veikis was motionless aa the green lit waters rose up from his boots to his waist and then his shoulders. Still nothing, not even the cold of the waters stirred the First Son.
The vessel then made a great creaked as something began to pull it, something in the dark of those depths. The ship was tugged by something and pulled to edge of a cliff, there a facility towered with many white flood lights. A mantis shaped vessel made its way passed, it had a tail that oscillated like many tentacles, when it came to a stop and its lights turned on to Veikis and his sunken ship.

 

[Kebii'kara Solus]

CURRENT QUEST - Manhunt on Manaan
Immediate Goals -
1: Find and Secure your quarry.

FRIEND(s) - N/A

FOE(s) - Veikis

TARGETING ACTION(s) - Veikis

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Kebii'kara of House Solus wasn't a vengeful woman - not normally. But after the frank cluster-kriff that occured on Tatooine, she was glad that she could make an exception to the stringent and passive tenants of the Sunstar Order. She was the reason Veikis' onyx vessel plunged headfirst into seawater, the bolts of the Sojourner striking true in the relentless pursuit of her quarry. Yet even in her single minded focus, the Lasat couldn't forget why she was doing this - apparently Kuwana Ishaati had made some acquaintance with Dark-Sider, and he wasn't as large a contributor to the headache that occured at Anchorhead. As such, while she was responsible for the downing of Veikis' vessel, Kebii'kara Solus took little pride in the situation - Veikis was a being who was misguided, lead astray, a Dark-Sider rather than a manic Dar'Jetti, he did not bear the guilt of his own actions in service to the Dha'naast, or his own twisted sins.

When the patrol boat skimmed the waters of where Veikis should have been, she found nothing. Not wreckage, not a Force trace, just... nothing. Hunching over the control panel, Kebii'kara squinted in mirror of the pale-scaled drakeling atop her helm, and the drakeling's presence was enough to prevent her from throwing her helmet in frustration.

"Where the kriff are you...?" she wondered aloud to no one in particular.

 

[Halitus Veikis]

The First Son was laying on a table, his outer robe taken off and his ligjtsaber was held in the hand of a Shelkath, who with some guards stood in the room as they waited for him to awaken.
The lightsaber hilt began to tremble, rattling in the fishy hand of the Shelkath who looked at the weapon when suddenly one pf the guards of levitated next to him and began croaking as it grabbed at its short neck and its webbed head was forced back. The lightsaber flew out of the Captain’s hand and the blood blade ignitedd and speared the orher guard who fell with a molten hole in his chest that fastly turned to black with a puff of smoke. The Capt drew his blaster, his arm freezing and then arching to his temple, he letting out a clicking cry, the sound of a blaster firing filled the room. Rising up the First Son looked upon the felled in their scales. There was no remorse, he took his cloak in one hand and rolled it over one arm as he clipped his lightsaber hilt to his belt.
As he took a step he saw a tentacle of blood orange, it was as if it was in the room. He closed his eyes and then opened them to refocus. The image was gone. Veikis tried to remeber what transpired, he recalled Kebii'kara Solus was in prusuit and had knicked his wing with a well placed shot from her cannon The rest was a haze, especially how he had ended up here, in a facility, when he should be at the bottom of the sea.
There was somethong faint, he remebered in his unconscious state seeing candles of blood orange in a cave of jade light. The tentacle he had just seen matched them, but what all this meant was a mystery. The pressing matter was that he was on Manaan, and Kebu could still be pursuing him. He was rather flattered the Lasat had taken an interest in him considering all the chaos ok Tatooine. He did not quite fathom her eccentricities, she was adorned with Mando armor and yet she seemed to have a unique connection to The Force. He was rather certain she was not a Jedi since neither Tia Moonrus and Kuwana Ishaati acknowledged her as one.
The First Son decided it was tije to explore. When he exited the room he was in a hallway with translucent glass arching arouhd him in an oval pattern. He could see into the ocean, some Firaxen sharks swimming by. Their menacing shape would have frightened those with less fortitude of spirit. For Veikis they were beautiful, a primal predator that he sought to be in combat. Some of those mantis subs dsrtss past with their flood lights, there was another vessel he saw searching the area, he felt a presence, a familiar one, which meant she probably could feel him too. He decided to make haste through the tube of glass and get out of sight. He did nor want to revisit drowning again.