[member="Avarice"] [member="Seydon of Arda"] [member="Xrawylz"][member="Osynth Obek"][member="Xer'ir"]
A ship descended through the overcast sky, a
Corona-class armed frigate. She'd spent some time in the Techno Union, enough to become acquainted with their allies' ancient designs. Close to four hundred metres across, saucer-shaped, infinitely alien. Grappling and capture capabilities. She laid out the basics of it to Seydon, voice tight with apprehension, then pulled out a comm linked to the old Sith Empire hypernet nodes throughout the Stygian Caldera. The comm's chronometer began counting down from twelve standard hours.
[member="Isley Verd"]
Planetary invasion in progress. Dromund Kaas. Perpetrators unknown. Deadline twelve hours. I'm currently with Seydon of Arda overlooking Hythe Park in old Kaas City. Preparing a welcome.
R.M.
Rave closed the folding comm and tucked it back into the pocket of her robes. "We have twelve hours," she said, "if their countdown is truthful and not a red herring. Give me a moment."
She shut her eyes and delved into time, into Aing-Tii flow-walking and her closely related mastery of aperion, to get a sense of possible futures. "Unless something major changes," she said, "nothing significant will happen until then. After that...blood and fire." She opened her eyes as the future-sense faded, and refocused on the tall, white-haired man beside her. "It seems they're being truthful. So. We have twelve hours. In the old days, I'd have said that's eleven and a half more than I need. So, let's see, what needs to happen. We need to give Hythe Park the means to defend itself, or create some kind of a barrier that will keep them from being attacked. A shield charm of that magnitude almost certainly can't be done; you'd need a Kressh Gauntlet effect with exponentially higher coverage area. Force shielding a city, in essence. Ashin Varanin once made one that could cover a subcapital starship, but even that was ambitious as hell.
"We have the potential option of taking that ship right there, then using it against the other ships. I think we could pull off the first part and probably fail the second, unless we somehow scare them away. Now, I've placed a call to a high-calibre area-of-effect mentalist -- do you know Isley Verd? -- but who knows if he can get here within twelve hours. So I may have to improvise.
"We might have the option of alchemizing that ship, or parts of it, in such a way as to remove the threat to Hythe Park. Warped circuits, that kind of thing. The risk is that they'd open fire or malfunction and fall on the city.
"Even together, I'm not sure we could physically move a ship that size. Let's take that off the table right off the bat.
"Dromund Kaas has certain areas, some of them nearby, where electronics just don't work. We could use that somehow, awaken it, stretch it up towards these ships. I've done some work with that aura." She patted her
sidearm. "Think ion discharge or electromagnetic pulse, but shields can't stop it. Only real issue is that the ships are directly over the settlements -- the falling thing. That, and it's a planet's worth of auras and ships. Hythe Park is too big to evacuate, even into something relatively theoretically structurally safe like Jurgoran. Uh, minus the terentateks."
Time remaining: 11:52:00.