Defending a Dictator

[Audren Sykes]

Location: Almania
Objective: Defend Kuroth Streng
Equipment: Lightsaber | Vibroknife | Jedi Robes

Almania was a planet sandwiched between three major governments: the Silver Sanctum Coalition, the Primeval, and the Mandalorians, though the Mandos were a bit further away. As a result, they were a bit on the paranoid side. With the Primeval in play though, paranoia wasn't necessarily a bad thing. However, the planet was ruled by a military council, which was itself ruled by one General Kuroth Streng. Streng had reached out the Sanctum asking for help, as he'd been convinced there was a Sith out to kill him. The Coalition leaders had considered the issue, ultimately coming to the decision that having Streng fall would throw the military into a state of confusion - however short-lived - which would allow an opening for the Primeval to expand their border along Coalition territory.

Audren had been who they'd chosen to send. He was given clear guides - determine if the threat was real and stop it if it was. He'd been on mission for three days now, shadowing the General everywhere he went. There was the single exception of the refresher, which the Sephi examined beforehand. He even went to the trouble of sleeping in the same armored bunker, the same room, much to the General's chagrin. Apparently he'd had a bit of night life before, selected by his trusted advisers...the Padawan's presence curtailed that. Meanwhile, he'd been going over the evidence that Streng's intelligence teams had put together. The so-called evidence was circumstantial at best, but convincing enough for the Sephi to stay on task.

Because he was in close proximity to the ruler of the system Audren wore his Jedi robes rather than armor despite there being the potential for attack. He also carried weapons, which the bodyguards had objected to originally. They'd reached the compromise of the Jedi only having lightsaber and durasteel blade and not allowing him the blaster pistol he'd also brought. He disagreed with the decision but understood the necessity for it, and abided by it. After all, he could always summon one of the guards' blasters to him with the Force.

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[Ruby Wilded]

Location: Almania
Objective: Kill Kuroth Streng
Equipment: Krest's Sword | Songsteel Assassin Blades | MP-77 Heavy Blaster Pistols x2

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This target was difficult. On top of the swarms of police, military and all those check points around the city. He'd hold himself up in a fortified bunker surrounded by an army of soldiers and defenses. Evidently word of the hit was out and every precaution was being taken. One stroke of luck though, they didn't know who was after El Presidente. That let Ruby blend in pretty well with the crowds. So long as she hid her weapons or kept them stashed. Now she just had to formulate a plan to accomplish this task, alone.

Ruby was strategizing at a cafe. Sipping down drinks with enough sugar in them to melt a hole in a starship's hull. 'Direct attack is really the only way in. Can't sneak past them all with only two entrances in. And not like Ferus will lend me a barradium bunker buster'. It was risky. Suicidal even. Ruby had come up with a crazy plan though for execution of entrance. There was a lot of military hardware about to accomplish that. It was once inside fighting through the narrow corridors that would be the hard part. Ruby had invested in some new ranged weaponry recently that would help. The MP-77 Heavy Blaster Pistol, two of them. It was called the gun that killed a god. Supposedly it was the type the Devaronian hero used to bring down Akala in the Netherworld crisis. If that were true; it was certainly a well made weapon otherwise. Ruby pounded back the last of her drink. The sun was setting and it was time for her to get to work. A credit chit hit the table and the red girl was gone.

 

[Audren Sykes]

Location: Almania
Objective: Defend Kuroth Streng
Equipment: Lightsaber | Vibroknife | Jedi Robes

Though he'd been given no orders by the Council concerning the amount of help he was to provide General Streng, the Sephi claimed he had them. That meant he'd had to piece them out himself as well as apply them to each situation. From the get-go, he'd known that he couldn't help with military tactics - even if his advice had been useful - except when it came to fighting or defending from the Sith. No decisions on "police" actions, not a whiff of advise on matters of state. He could watch and learn of the military tactics, but he would give no weight to the rumor that Kuroth had a Jedi advisor. It grated at times, especially when real advisers recommended doing things in a needlessly violent way, but he held his silence.

Early after his arrival, Audren had performed a bit of scouting. Some of the soldiers had called it a 'penetration test' of sorts. Accurate enough. Starting from the outside, he'd worked his way into the bunker. Only the immediate bodyguards had known ahead of time what he was doing...and they weren't happy with the results. With the Force he'd been able to have the guards open the outer door, and he'd moved in. A light touch of the Force-based cables in a particular way could convince most to do what he wanted. He'd almost gotten to the bodyguards themselves when security was alerted, and it was clear he could have gone further had he brought weapons to play.

He'd recommended some changes at that point. The cameras on the guards outside had their viewing angles widened - didn't want someone threatening them from outside camera view. Droids were installed inside monitoring both the cameras and dedicated comm units, only they could open the doors. Guards and droids were stationed at checkpoints, with all of them reporting to a control station at regular intervals. At randomized times the control station would prompt for additional check-in responses from random locations. Additionally, a droid and technician team monitored all cameras. All soldiers went about their business armed with at least a blaster pistol and the computers were set to alert at the first sound of gunfire, with the exception of those in proximity to the shooting range. Rather than a single ready-room, alert teams were smaller and scattered throughout the complex to allow for a quicker response time. Though he didn't test them himself, the Padawan was assured that the vents were all too small to fit into, but even so they had laser grids inside the vents and the security grills were electrified.

Audren knew there would still be ways in, there were always ways in. His goal here was to make it too difficult to try, or to severely damage someone who did get in without authorization.


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