His Shining Helm afar was Seen (Open)

[Ultimatum]

Ultimatum was glad that the organic was so willing to take up his part of the mission. He planned on joining him once he had finished dealing with the government. It was a question of how willingly the local organic leaders would separate with the land required for the factory and mining facility. After dealing with the political leaders, he assumed that there would be some real owner of the land, more physically in control than the politicians who sat in their chairs, that he would need to persuade.

He arrived on planet a bit before [member="Garoth Ursull"] did, partly because the city was closer to the ship in orbit. He was being welcomed by a number of organics when the call came in over the comm. "One moment." He said simply to the organics in the committee. He turned and spoke over the comm next, "I read you loud and clear. Remember, any locals give you trouble, do not kill. You may debilitate or otherwise incapacitate them, but I do not want any deaths. From my studies you may want to try some of the caverns. If you come across any of the local underground dwellers try to negotiate. Alright?"

[member="TWD-73"]

 

[Garoth Ursull]

"Roger that" Garoth put the radio away. Looking at a hologram of a map, the mine location with the caves werent too far away. He walked in that location expecting to found a tribe of coways near. It would provide them with local information, aside from the known. Mara and Vanadis follow him from behind distracting themself with the flora and fauna of the forest. Seven hours until dawn. Mara opened his mouth "Dad do you know..." "Im not your dad. He is probably dead or being a slave with those pirates that attacked your ship" The sisters stopped at the same time, surprised by the answer. Garoth hear that they werent walking and knew that he hit a sensitive spot.

He heard two lightsabers turning on, an orange and green light appear from the side "You shouldnt had said that" "You freaking bast..." Breath. Exhale. They were three meters far from Garoth, as he turned to them. They stopped screaming at him when they saw a face transition to i dont care to angry "You didnt, as you would attack me and stabb me from behind" He raised his hands, throwing their weapons away using the force. Their force knowledge was the same as a padawan. Both of them tried and failed to grab their hilts as Garoth run towards Mara and Vanadis. He force pull them and instead of the beating they thought they would get, there was only a hug.

"Im not your father and sorry if i said those thing. You will call me anything else except that. If your parents are slaves, i could search for them, but i wouldnt know where to start" They didnt knew what to say or how to react. It was the first time they saw Garoth doing something like that. He stood up "Grab the hilts, its still a long way to go. The rest of the trip was in silence until they reached the outside of a small village.

"Ultimatum, you know their language? Try speaking with them" an adult male approached to Garoth, with a spear in hand. He could sense a couple of them hiding somewhere on the trees. He raised slowly his radio.

[member="Ultimatum"]

 

[Ultimatum]

"As I said before, we just want to set up mining and factory facilities. I do not want to force any part on your government." He spoke to the organics as they asked him questions before the committee brought him before the real rulers. They asked a few questions and Ultimatum stayed quiet for a moment, just to let them believe he was thinking on how to answer, "Yes, if the facility is left alone I will produce equipment that you and your people may use. And there will probably be shipments coming from Mustafar occasionally with resources that the facilities may require. The necessary paperwork and payment will be prepared before the ships arrive if you are concerned.... No I will not interfere with internal affairs so long as they do not create a direct effect on the facility. If you decide to go to war with the natives I may step in, but if a galactic power decides to invade I will not intervene. I will attempt to maintain the peace as far as I can, but nothing more. No, it is no- One moment."

Ultimatum heard the transmission from [member="Garoth Ursull"] and wondered if he could even speak the language. He had access to a number of languages, he could use, but nothing compared to the massive collection that protocol droids had. He sent a message over his connection to Legion back on Mustafar, it took a few moments. "Legion, require language of the Coway." The necessary information came as an electronic package, easily accessed and loaded into his audio output. He spoke over the comm to the Coway near Garoth. Ultimatum spoke, telling the Coway that this man needed to see the chieftain and to treat him as a respected guest. Ultimatum then spoke in basic to Garoth, "He should take you to his chieftain, that man should be able to speak some Basic. He probably has to deal with enough outsiders to have learned a decent portion of the language. Be respectful, these are our hosts on this planet and we do not need to anger them. They may wish to test your mettle so that you can prove you are worthy of speaking, in which case do not kill your competition. That is not part of their culture. Okay?"

 

[Ultimatum]

Ultimatum turned his attention back to the people speaking to him. "Apologies. Having to deal with the Coway for the mine portion of our plans. Back to where I was, no it is not an invasion or take over. This is just a business expansion. Your masters will retain their power and I will play no part in the politics. My facilities and their occupants will remain to themselves, unless you would like to use them as occupational opportunities. I will pay what is standard for similar jobs. If needed I can have the factory supply some products for local use."

There was a few minutes of silence on Ultimatum's part as they spoke with their superiors over the holocom. He looked outside and noticed the same cafe they had passed three times before. Almost all the people were still there, they must be stalling for time for whatever reason. It was only a few seconds later that he thought he saw an answer. Down one of the alleys were a few people seeming to ruffle through the bins, but he noted a rather unique shape of a repeater. A coup? Or perhaps an assassination attempt, political agenda?

Ultimatum forced himself to relax, as he activated the switch that would send his pistol into the palm of his hand perfect for beginning a firefight. He made sure it was on tranquilizer dart. He counted how many there were, five diplomats, one driver, and an armed guard. Seven shots, one less than he had in his gun. He could only mess up on one shot before having to reload. Not a good thing.

"It is alright, I understand that leaders need time to think and discuss. I just hope that everything will be alright, I really have no harmful intent. I hope you understand that." He hoped things were a little more promising with [member="Garoth Ursull"].

[member="TWD-73"]

 

[TWD-73]

"Alright, it seems they don't trust us already." TWD murmured. He then slung his blaster over is back, walking over to [member="Ultimatum"] . "So, what are we doing now?" He asked the taller, sleeker droid.

 

[Garoth Ursull]

"Oh thank you for the invitation, we would love to eat some of your food" denying a meal would be an offense. He just wished that the food didnt have any disease in it "I dont know if you could give me information of any outlaw you have. We can create a good relationship if i resolve your problems..."
For being a small community, they got a hole group of bandits in the area. The good knews is that they only used spears, axes and bows "Only two locations. We are going to split out. Mara and Vanadis go to the second location"

An hour of walking took him to the location. The cave had some skull as decoration and some graffiti in the walls. Some coways with tattoos receive him "Alright so you surrender and i wont kill you" some of them didnt understood the language but were still mad about the presence of the newcomer. Others have their hands close to their own weapons "Lets teach them why the force users are better" he took out his dark blue lightsaber and turned it on. This was going to be a long day.

[member="Ultimatum"]

 

[Ultimatum]

Ultimatum nodded to the droid. This was not good. Whatever was going on, it did not seem to be safe anymore. "We keep calm and be ready for a fight," the droid whispered back before turning his attention back to the organics. They looked calm, maybe they did not realize he had seen the down the alley, or maybe they were not aware of it at all. It would only be a matter of time.

Ultimatum spoke quietly, "I have the resources necessary to construct the mine and the factory. All I require is the space and time to work." One of the people nodded absentmindedly as most looked outside, as if waiting for something. Ultimatum shook his head slowly, hoping that [member="TWD-73"] was ready for what was probably going to happen. They passed the alley again, but this time the people in there were ready. The heavy repeater began firing, twenty blaster bolts flew and struck the side of the vehicle Ultimatum was on.

One or two of the shots were absorbed by the frame of the vehicle, but most punched through and hit the droid's Phrik body. He was glad that it was not an ion weapon, otherwise he might have been worse off. As it was, his right eye had been blown out and his right arm had been severely damaged. The pistol flew out of its compartment and into his left hand, this he brought up and around aiming towards the attackers, just as a larger projectile was fired. It must have been a grenade or anti-armor weapon. It struck the side and caused the entire vehicle to flip and roll over.

Ultimatum lost track of his droid ally as he tried to crawl out of the vehicle. What he did notice was a few of the organics were unconscious. He hoped it was going easier for [member="Garoth Ursull"], it was getting lively here.

 

[Garoth Ursull]

"You damn bastards!" having one hand blaster and his lightsaber gave him an advantage. The only problem was keeping up against dozens of bandits. The laser stabbing or slashing the meat of the coways smelled nasty. An arrow flow near his ear.

Garoth was close to a cave, surrounded by trees, bushes and raging coways. Of course some lifeless bodies were in the floor "Who is next?!" screamed. One coways went for a full stabb with his axe, but Garoth cut it and split his head doing a slash up and down. Breath. Exhale. Going for a full force push as the bandits run. Every one went through the air and into the ground.

Garoth kneel to the ground, tired and almost without the strengh to keep the fight "You are old" Garoth smiled hearing Vanadis from his back and the sound of a lightsaber turning on was majestic "And you dont know how to ask for help" said Mara. The two started swinging their weapons like dancers, coming closer to the enemies

Some of the bandits got away, leaving the cave alone "Good job. Now lets get to the location of Ultimatum" Garoth sat a little tired "Alright but there is some rare goods here" said Mara "We can always come back, now leta go"

[member="Ultimatum"]

 

[TWD-73]

Sparks flew out of TWD's crumpled head as he lay on the ground. He was unmoving, as if dead. He might as well be. One of the attackers had an ion blaster, which hit him right in the chest. And then the vehicle flipped over, and TWD was pretty messed up from that. One of his circuits was destroyed, another damaged. His lower half was completely cut off, and he was surely to die. [member="Garoth Ursull"] [member="Ultimatum"]

 

[Ultimatum]

Ultimatum fired off three shots towards the alleyway before looking around his ally. It took a few moments before he saw the half body of [member="TWD-73"] and Ultimatum immediately moved to it. There was a lot of external damage, it would be difficult to rebuild the droid completely given the current circumstances. He could at least stabilize the condition and perhaps give him a basic repair until they could reach a more suited area.

He started by moving the main chassis from the chest, the wiring was quite outdated and would require some work before long. He looked for the important wires and began repairs. The first step was to ensure the wires that did not appear broken were in good condition, relatively speaking. Next was making sure the major components could function, which some of them seemed damaged. He tried to remove those that were less important that were beyond damage and circumvent those that would only waste energy. The connectors to the legs and the pieces that took power to the legs were removed and Ultimatum used them as basic replacements for other parts. It took only a minute with Ultimatum's hands moving quickly and efficiently. He connected his own powercore to the droid in the hopes that it would at least supply enough power to get him running properly again.

While this was going he sent two messages. The first was to [member="Garoth Ursull"], "Garoth, we need you back here now! As fast as you can and be ready for a fight." The second was to the Fate, "Move now. Hostiles nearby, civilians in the area, heavy repeater and some form of grenade launcher. Pinned behind wreckage of vehicle on street four following main route to central building, there are injured friendlies and organics nearby."

With that the Fate was flying in less than a minute. Heading to the surface it would still take time to get there. But when it did....

 

[Garoth Ursull]

"Is that smoke coming from that town?" "I heard a explosion from that direction" said the Sisters on top of a mountain, close to that village "That is Ultimatum rendezvous point. We need to hurry up" from the last battle, Garoth had bruises and scratches in both arms and legs. The armor on his chest had cuts and even a blunt that was left from a hammer.

"Are you really alright?" said Mara worried about his tutor health "Keep asking and i will make you walk a thousand miles" "Like the song? How romantic" said Vanadis as a joke. There were no guards on the borders of the town so entering was easy. The problem was killing a group of armed coways with bombs and maybe blasters.

"Mara, need you to take out the snipers from every building. Vanadis and i will be punching our way into the lines and see if we can help Ultimatum" that being said they moved like it was no linger a practice. Mara moved through the buildings without drawing the attention of no one. Garoth and Vanadis pushed their way into the first coways behind a buildings with hand weapons. The force users moved forna silent stabb and hide the bodies.

On the other hand, Mara climbed into the roof and cut the head a coways with a snipers blaster "Got a sniper. Three enemies walking into your position" she fired to the chest on one of them as Garoth and Vanadis used that distraction to engage "Two, none. Street clear. Moving onto the next" after that she took the sniper and jumped to buildings as the other two walked through and alley.

"I got Ultimatum on sight. There are a lot of enemies in the middle" reported the assassin crounching, looking though the sight of the weapon "Cover us. Vanadis, go crazy" that being said, Garoth turned his lightsaber and Vanadis got ready with her own. With a swift move they make a run against the lines of enemies

[member="Ultimatum"]

 

[Ultimatum]

Having completed about all the work he could, Ultimatum decided that if [member="TWD-73"] then he would. There was no way he could increase those chances by sitting here and only firing defensively. He needed to take the initiative. Disconnecting his power from the droid's, he stood, firing a quick three shots at the organics he targeted. His sensors indicated two hits and a single miss. Two shots had struck the same person, one striking the head and the other into the chest, sending the corpse backwards into a wall. Ultimatum took cover behind the vehicle again as he began getting an updated scanner reading, the Fate was close enough now to send reliable information. Uploading this into his main vision areas he began firing at the organics closest and least covered. In the process he felt the impacts of blaster fire on his body, they would leave nothing but blaster scoring, his armor was made for this.

Ultimatum saw the lightsabers charging into one of the enemy ranks. That was probably [member="Garoth Ursull"] and his children making trouble. Good. He sent the information back to the Fate so that they could choose a safe target of enemies. The repeater armed person seemed to have disappeared, probably that had been part of the attack that had been sent away as soon as their part of the mission was done. It did make him wonder about who put the plan together, who was backing this attack. If it were the government then that told him they were not going to accept him, but it could be some rogue group. When this was done he would try to find out more.

The sensor readings showed no more than two dozen enemies throughout the area. That was visibly armed, or fighting organics that were not identified as friendly. About a half of that number was being dealt with by the Force users. A few of the organics were spread about as cover, snipers and hidden inside the buildings, but duracrete did not stop scanners from a starship and they were as visible as if they had been out in the open to the Fate. Ultimatum had ordered against the use of any of the ship's main weapons, they were too dangerous in these enclosed areas, especially because it was possible to accidentally hit civilians. The ship found a cluster of enemies moving down a side alley, trying to reach a point behind the vehicle and thus catch Ultimatum off guard. They did not get far after being seen. The Fate's side door opened and the heavy repeater opened fire into their number. AU-01 kept firing, even after all of the enemies had fallen to the ground.

 

[Garoth Ursull]

The dead of innocent didnt affect Garoth but the girls always ordered him to safe everyone who could, avoiding collateral damage. Ultimatum just ordered his ship to start firing big groups of enemies. Maybe guiding himself with the same rule of control "Mara move your position, remember to change of place every thirty seconds" said to the radio while standing inside a building.

Vanadis was guarding the other side "If we arrive to the location of Ultimatum..." "I will tell you one thing about war. Once they find the lifeless bodies of their friends, the morale will stay at low and then come retreat. The good thing is that ive been cutting legs or arms but not all the members" one block more, he saw his boos trying to approach him but there were a few enemies "Maybe they didnt knew they were the third part still alive. Those types of information really depressed a hole squad. Three bodies felt to the ground, on the wall beside him "Raiders? Thank you Mara." said Garoth

After that, he made a quick ran until position himself beside his boss. Vanadis went to hunt the ones about to retreat and capture them for torture,in an attemp to know the truth "Whats the plan?!"

[member="Ultimatum"]

 

[Ultimatum]

Ultimatum watched as the Fate pulled away from the alley and began hovering over the damaged vehicle. The scanner readings were more directed, searching for any closing enemies, though most seemed to be fleeing or otherwise occupied. Ultimatum stood and began looking over the damage to the vehicle as [member="Garoth Ursull"] came alongside. "I think we will have some breathing room. We must not jump to any conclusions. For starts if you have no objections we will be evaced to a safer location, some of my droids have already been sent to set up a safe camp a few kilometers from the city. There we will contact the the government and find out if this was a sanctioned act. Could you find perhaps have one of your children collect a few of the blasters? Their make and model should give us an idea of where these people were armed." Ultimatum was scanning the vehicle and gathering data from it. As well as alerting the emergency medical personnel about wounded. They would be staying up late tonight, more than likely having to take care of all the victims, some of whom would not survive.

 

[Garoth Ursull]

Mara took out the sniper blaster and kept it as her own weapon. She jumped down and walked towards the group. Vanadis put her lightsaber away and strecht her arms, Garoth did the same "If you need witnesses i just left this idiots alive" said walking a few meters down the street. The force user raised his hands and force lift two soldiers, one without an arm, the other without a leg "I think Mara left some like this in buildings.

Enemies of course, not civilians" said throwing them to the floor, unarmed. The cuts from a lightsaber sealed any wound from bleeding, and the good news were that the coways werent fainting of the pain. Mara and Vanadis did the same, walking towards enemy survivors and bringing them to the rendezvous point. The two werent going to kill someone that already surrended, but only if Garoth command it "What do you want to do with them?" said expecting his answer.

[member="Ultimatum"]

 

[Ultimatum]

Ultimatum was glad to hear that they had not attacked any civilians, at least intentionally. He knew that occasionally collateral damage was an unintended mistake that had to be dealt with. Any weapon was capable of killing something other than the target and thus collateral damage was always a possibility and a concern. Ultimatum was working on ways of at least lowering the possibility, as much as he could.

The Fate came down until it hovered half a meter above the ground and Ultimatum pointed to the craft, "We'll take them with us. Set them aboard and let MU-01 take care of them until we reach the safe zone. We will be leaving soon, get everyone here now." Ultimatum turned and lifted the damaged remains of [member="TWD-73"] to bring with them. The droid could be repaired, it was a matter of keeping an eye for any signs of returning consciousness and repairing what they could while waiting for it. Ultimatum gently lowered the damaged droid onto the Fate, MU proceeded to move the droid away from the side to allow others into the craft.

[member="Garoth Ursull"]

 

[Garoth Ursull]

Garoth strecht his arms "Alright bring them to the Fate" "Okey" said the two sisters, raising the captured enemies using the force. Some of the coways tried to crawl away, but couldnt run away. After less than half an hour, the were at least ore than a dozen of coways on the hangar bay, with Mara and Vanadis keeping an eye while Garoth aproach to Ultimatum "How do you want to address this matter? I wont be taking care of some idiots" said looking with hate to the survivors. He knew about torturing so it would be a dirty job. And the worst was when they started crying, once some idiot throw up of fear. Since then, he never hurt anyone unarmed, but he could always go back to the same old ways.

[member="Ultimatum"]

 

[Ultimatum]

Ultimatum was glad when they had all boarded the Fate, it was a tight fit, but everyone was aboard the smallish ship. The ship lifted off as medical teams began to show up at the place to treat any of those that were still there and wounded. The droid was glad that they were out of there, it was too tight of an area to allow maneuvering in an effective manner, further the enemy could set up ambushes that would be unseen by him. They knew the area too well.

He looked to MU-01 and was surprised to see that there were Coways in among the wounded humans. Well that meant that they were likely hired thugs, either that or there was something more going on here. He did not understand fully, and for that reason he needed the captives to speak to. They had nothing to gain by struggling against him, they had to know they were beaten, but then some organics were very stubborn. Time would shake them, as it did the very foundations of the world.

He looked to [member="Garoth Ursull"] and replied to the question, "They will be treated by MU until I have questioned them. Between all of them there should be enough information to get a basic idea of what is going on. When that is done, they will be sent back to the city's hospital and our attention will be turned to the governors. There should be no need to torture or anything of that sort. Understood?"

 

[Garoth Ursull]

Garoth didnt liked that decision but he kept it to himself "Alright, i will kept an eye to the prisoners" said walking to Mara and Vanadis. The first was on her knees taking care of the wound of some prisoners with bandages of her own while Vanadis assist her, healing them. Garoth didnt remember the last time he saw kindness in his true form. The trips alone being with the crew of a pirate ship through space was the only thing he knew. The force user closed his hands forming a tight fist "You need any medicine?" "We could use some against the infection" said Vanadis. Garoth came back with the medic kit. The Sisters took it and return to the prisioners. Garoth stood by with the lightsaber in hand, laying in a wall. He forgot to take out his armor, it had many scratches and hits that protect his body.

[member="Ultimatum"]

 

[Ultimatum]

The Fate soon landed at the designated position, Ultimatum stepped out of the craft and began moving the wounded into a makeshift hut. There were basic cots lying inside where MU-01 could take care of the wounds and they could also be interrogated in shade. In another tent was the communications system by which he would contact the government. First though, the prisoners had to be moved inside where a more extensive healing procedure could be completed. There were bacta bandages, pain killers, and surgery equipment.

The droid did not concern himself with the thoughts of the organic who was helping him. Whether or not he wanted to kill or endanger the prisoners was not Ultimatum's major concern. His biggest worry was the job, to get a foot into the system and to set up relations with the locals. So far that had not gone well. What should have been a mere hour or two of saying nice things and promising to take care of the locals had become a two hour fight. "I will take care of the interrogations, go back and see if you can get the local Coway to side with us. It should be relatively easy, they are not overly fond of the other organics of this world and if they hear that we are being attacked by them, they may just agree to help how they can."

[member="Garoth Ursull"]