Fear Thee a Fire?

[Thaddeus Wyse]

Location: Phasma - Inbound for Thyferra.
Allies: [member="Darth Ophidia"] | [member="Leliana"]
Objective: Stay Alive.

"None." Skai retorted patiently and then waited to see if anyone else from their group would speak up.

None did.

Briefly the witch wondered if that was because of fear or because there truly no more questions to be asked by their entourage. It was her hope it was the latter, if there was one thing that could kill a mission before it started, it was ignorance. There were many variables left and it made Skai cautious. But not concerned or anxious, just... cautious about their walk.

After all, this wasn't her first mission and it wouldn't be her last.

If there was one thing that Skai had learned in her first few missions? It was that any plan had the tendency to be demolished in the progress... as life threw this and that at them.

Once Ophidia disappeared within the Force Skai followed suit. Focusing inward she followed the lessons Cerbera had instilled in her. She shrunk her presence to the point of a needle, but still remained visible in the spectrum for now. "Will Leliana join us?" Her mind did not brush Ophidia's. She had made that mistake with her own Master once... her skin had itched for days on end afterwards.

Some corruption was better left untouched.

Just the briefest telepathic message.

After all, Ophidia had not mentioned her at all, perhaps she was meant for a different mission? They settled down near the ridge and Skai looked up to the facility, through the treeline.

Barely visible, but the Pale had picked well... there wasn't a better approach here.

 

[Preliat Mantis]

Thyferra

The young Jedi listened to the elder Jedi, and felt the same dread as the object came towards the ground in which they stood on. He nodded his head. The scans would need to be widened, hastened- because the force was calling to Fel. It was telling him something was coming. Something malicious, something hateful. The young Jedi grasped the cloak that covered his body and laid it on the ground beside him, neatly. After sending a brief message to the local security forces via an open channel, Fel quietly sat on the ground, cross-legged.

He drew the force into him, reaching out with it, trying to see what lay beyond in the dark jungle before him.

 

[Peyton Steele]

It didn’t take much to get Peyton feeling good about everything. Sure, she had her in to the computer system of Thyferra, and was downloading all the data to be double-checked by her ship’s computer, but that wasn’t all she was interested in. The blonde was interested in the going ons around the bacta world. It was a place that many would come across, and that meant there were ships and leads she could chase down. The data was never bad. It was like that one person said, so many years ago and galaxies away, that you can’t stop the Signal. She wasn’t really doing much, but having navigation data was always fun to play around with.

Her directive, after all, was to keep things moving and protect the Alliance from threats that even they couldn’t see. Should something like, oh, the Sith Empire, show up in the suburbs of Thyferra, she wanted to have that data ready to go so that someone with more might than her could handle it. Sure, maybe that was shot calling, but feth it, if pirates showed up, she would want to let the boys down at customs and get the ball rolling on those folks to. Keep order in the Alliance, that was her mandate.

That and make sure her writer posts.

Just for kicks she started to view the data, seeing what ships were arriving, it would take her a little bit to decipher where they were all coming from. Leaning back, she pulled a mug of stimcaf from the prep station. Going to be a long day.

 

[Darth Ophidia]

Location: Hill - Approaching outpost.
Company: [member="Skai"] @Leliana Satwasin

Darth Ophidia appeared not to make notice of Leliana. Her eyes simply passed her and she did not give her orders. No, her orders were already given for reasons already explained prior to this mission. When Skai asked, the Pale looked at the Dathomiri and gave half a nod before returning her focus to the task at hand. Leliana was expected to be a ghost, to follow Ophidia without mention, and to air her master without direction without expecting to be aided in return.

If Leliana could not do this - if she could not keep up - then the apprentice would be left behind. Those were her orders.

Skai? Skai was not hers. Skai would be treated as an asset on loan, and respected as an object of Cerbera's will. It was a much different affair, truth be told. She would only break another's apprentice if they were too weak to do it themselves. Cerbera was not weak, nor was Skai.

The group halted as they approached the top of the ridge, and with a gesture of her hand she indicated for them all to take shelter. The Satwasin squeezed up in the shadows of trees, weapons shouldered. Ophidia herself squeezed herself up against the side of one of the tree trunks, her form melting into the shadows. Her orange eyes stared up at the top of the ridge, waiting.

For a minute, they waited before.

A figure on the hill: A sentry.

It would have to be disabled, and cameras shut down once they came closer. Now, the real game of stealth began.

 

[Leliana]

Location: Hill -> Outpost
Objective: Infiltrate the Outpost
Allies: [member="Darth Ophidia"] | [member="Skai"]

The moment Ophidia gestured for them to stop, Leliana slid into the shadows, hiding behind a nearby tree.

She had noticed her Master's passing glance, not pausing to acknowledge her presence as the Pale examined the situation before them. Leliana barely thought a second of it, sharing no words that were needed. A benefit of being Ophidia's apprentice, was the fact her orders and objectives were already known,

No need to waste time on the ground, not that the assassin was to do much.

Follow and assist, that was all. Only deviate if necessary, or another important target made itself known.

This was after all Leliana's first 'operation' as it were, working as part of a group rather than solo. There was no important objective placed on her shoulders, and in part; that human side buried within, frowned at the fact. But the years of training, and a focused mind brushed it aside almost immediately.

Even then, there were other ways in which Leliana could assist.
She muttered something under her breath, the mark covered on her left hand glowed slightly. With a soft 'pop', her familiar appeared on her hand. With a whisper, Leliana stretched her arm out and allowed the bird to take flight.

He would fly towards a group of birds nearby, rustle them into activity and distract the sentry before them. If the guard had sense, he wouldn't leave his post. But it would at least provide someone else an opening to get closer.

 

[Preliat Mantis]

Location: Thyferra Outpost
Allies: GA
Enemies: [member="Leliana"] l [member="Darth Ophidia"]
Objective: Endure


The darkness was growing. Something was off. Things were screaming in his head, a white noise filter that was creating chaos. His masters words rang in his head. He was searching for darkness, but that wasn't the way to do it. He needed to look deeper- look not at the darkness, but the light, and where the darkness was hidden within it. That is how he sensed the darkness. Still, as a young, unlearned man- he could only sense that it was there.

But that was enough for the Jedi to take action.

He stepped forward, as the bird passed over a nearby outpost. He turned his head towards the dense jungle, and the darkness within it. He rolled his armored shoulders, and removed the lightsaber from his belt. He turned to the guard at the outpost.

"Get help."

And with that, he activated his lightsaber- the snap hiss of his blue blade coming to life marking the beginning to a confrontation. The guard didn't argue- he ran off, presumably to either get away from whatever was coming, or to actually get help. Depending on his level of bravery and intelligence. Fel didn't say anything- he stood still, like a statue, drawing the force into him. Clearing his head and becoming statue-like.

 

[Tiland Kortun]

[member="Fel Drisk"] @Leliana @Darth Ophidia
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They had ignored his challenge, which was quite uncharacteristic of a Sith. First Order, perhaps? Or some of those involved with the Galactic Empire? Had their foes multiplied so greatly as he had been traveling? Tiland frowned and stood. There had been a ripple in the Force, one of the Light instead. Perhaps one of the apprentices. Tiland wasn't entirely sure.

So, he stood, and, staff in hand, hurried along through the jungle. Each step a syncopated rhythm of booted feet and wooden staff. Trees and branches whipped past him and pulled at his hair.

Urgency hastened him and he broke into a run. Which, if he had ever heard right, was quite the sight to see. An old man with flapping robes and flailing white hair streaming behind him. But, that was hardly the concern now. Soon, he reached the base of a hill and paused to catch his breath. An Alliance outpost stood at the top of the hill, if he remembered correctly.

That was where he had sensed the Light.

I have come to assist. What is the situation?

 

[Noah Corek]

Location: Omega Pyre Pharmaceuticals HQ
Allies: [member="Peyton Steele"] [member="Rick Kaloo"]
Enemies: @@Emilia Ravel [member="The Major"] [member="Therran Graush"]
Objective: Defend Omega Pyre Property and Personnel

The Sith really didn't expect that only a single old overweight security guard would be protecting the headquarters of one of the biggest cash flows for the galaxy's largest private military corporation, right? Because that was just wishful thinking. Forty of the best Pyre contractors were stationed there and ready for a fight, the Sith had just gotten to one of the entrances that was guarded by a civilian which was surprisingly cheaper than putting a contractor on the entrance.

It also just happened that the commander of the Omega Pyre was also taking a security tour of the HQ. So yeah when the Sith finally did reveal themselves they were gonna be in for one hell of a fight.