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Dominion Hyperlane Harmonics | First Order Dominion of Terminus & Saijo

Isobel Nakano

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Isobel went rigid when there was a knock at the door. "What fresh hell..." she wondered under her breath before addressing Auld Auld and Val Pellian Val Pellian . "I'll go," she said, standing and heading towards the foyer. She picked up her blaster on the way, holding it down but at the ready as she went to the door. She peered through the peephole. Even in the glasses, she could immediately recognize Aurelian Dash. Eyebrows furrowing, she undid all the locks and pulled the door open, waving Dash in before shutting the door quickly behind him.

"Come through," she said quietly, beckoning him into the living room. "I don't know if you've ever worked with Agent Crane?" she said, indicating Val. "And this is Gainsboro." Special Asset Gainsboro, Delilah Graham had called her. "Mr. Rogavald, for the purposes of this operation," Isobel introduced Aurelian Dash to the others.

"Agent Frost has made it to her room. No word on Agent Queen," Isobel reported. "What's your status, Mr. Rogavald?"

 
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DUSK ON SAIJO
MORALE: STRESSED
Grigory the Bear Grigory the Bear | Daal Daal

These moments were the kind that one would look back on when laying down at night, like the memory of a compound fracture that was confusing and painful. And that was assuming Sybil actually managed to get through the night.

“What?” She squawked —not unlike the throaty call of a crow.

Her auburn topped head canted left, then jabbed to stare right —in addition, up, a little bit, to the tree line.

A subroutine or two cycled, cogs shifting and patchwork repairs running overtime to make sense of any of what was happening. Was Grigory the Bear being sarcastic?

“So. . .” Sybil pointed down at the body of the person currently breathing in dirt, “Is this 'normal?'” She took another step and was now over this new person, looking down to examine what seemed to be a lush head of hair resting upon an orange scarf. “She will just. . . get up?”

Hold the line, thought she. If Obi Wan could get through his solo investigation on Kamino during the Clone Wars, then Sybil could close out this recon successfully. Unfortunately she didn’t know about this historical development. Nobody that was left in the galaxy did.


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"Da," Grigory said, nodding his massive head. "Low blood pressure. Stands up too fast and..."

He mimed something falling over with his paws, ending in a resounding clap that echoed through the trees.

"Happens all the time. No worries. Matryoshka is good cub, but had hard life. Still recovering, getting better."

The bear snorted, kneading the sides of his head with his paws, trying like hell to make sense of the situation. He knew enough to know he was out of his depth, and was honest enough to admit it. This was so far outside his wheelhouse, it might as well have been a different boat altogether.

What to do, what to do?

A part of him was tempted to eat this Ess and be done with it. That would certainly simplify things in the short term, but the long-term consequences could be dire. Everyone had heard, by now, of the First Order agent's rampage on Bespin. Someone captured and tortured one of them, so a comrade came through and slaughtered the lot.

Grigory could respect that sort of ethic, but that didn't mean he wanted to experience it first-hand.

Run and hide? Hard to do with the cub passed out. What's more, Ess didn't seem surprised by his appearing act. If she had the resources, technological or metaphysical, to know he was there, it stood to reason she could track him.

Bah. He needed more fuel. His brain wasn't evolved for complex thought, and thinking too hard burned calories like a blast furnace.

"I am starving," he declared. "Going to go make supper. Nerf steaks and sushi. If you come, I feed you, we talk. If not, I leave you alone. Need to get cub inside and warm either way, and she will be hungry when she wakes."

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Queen stepped through a little while after Schnapp.

Drink in hand.

But of course.

"Ah, darling, there you are. I was looking for you alllll over." Cassidy drawled lightly, before leaning in and pecking her on the cheek in quite the dramatic fashion. "So thrilling isn't it? But it's all the fashion to go by train now these days." He gently tapped his own commlink, sending an automated message to Isobel Nakano and the others in the suite miles away.

QUEEN. ARRIVED AT SUITE. SHOW IS READY TO START.

He settled his own bag to the side and locked the door behind them.

"All clear, I assume? Splendid." He took a sip from his cocktail, before offering Virginia the second glass and sat down on the bed. "I did some early reconnaissance. Three of the cabins are 'out of order', but I managed to sneak a peak. There are definitely security folks in there that have no business being in it. Most likely location for what we are looking for."

Another tap against the commlink and the intel was shared with Schnapp and Aurelian Dash, Auld Auld and the others in the suite. "That's the location, adjacent to the bar area. You need a biometric key to get through the doors."

A shrug.

"Shouldn't be too hard to grab ourselves one, no?"
 

Virginia Schnapp

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After working with Adrian Cassidy Adrian Cassidy in the run-up to this operation, Virginia was slightly less irritated by his demeanor than she had been at the start. Still, there was something about him that rubbed her straight-laced nature the wrong way. He seemed to be out for the perks, whether it was the expense account or the expensive liquor at the government's expense. It didn't edge into corruption territory, as far as she was concerned, but it felt like a shade of grey along the way to it.

And the presumptuous way he kissed her cheek made her want to knee him in the groin. But being a consummate professional, she refrained.

For now. The very thing that gave him license to do it saved him from her wrath;

"I told the porter to let you know where I was," said Virginia, adding with haste as a porter passed through the corridor outside their cabin, "sweetcheeks." She shut the door, sealing them into the room. She opened the channel to the others. "Have you had any luck cracking the schematics for the train?" she asked the control team. "It would be helpful to get an idea for ingress and egress routes besides the doors, if there are any."

"We need to wait until the train is underway before we get into those cabins," she said to Cassidy and the others over her concealed headset. But we could definitely snag an ID before that happens." The young agent perched on the edge of the bed and crossed her legs, running a hand through her hair to massage her scalp as she considered their options. "Any other security measures you noticed walking by? Retina scan or something?" Virginia sat up and once again tugged her hair back into a sleek half-up, half-down style.

 

Aurelian Dash

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Aurelian grunted in acknowledgement of the others. Crane. The man was a stranger to him, though it seemed the two knew each other. As he turned his eye towards "Gainsboro" he raised an eyebrow slightly. Interesting. The woman wasn't the usual drifter, at least by FOSB standards. Agent Dash had worked with the lowest of the low and despite her plain appearance - she wasn't it. Stepping fully into the room he glanced around. "Nice digs." he said, ignoring Isobel's inquiry. Having eyed the small refrigeration unit across the room he stepped past them all and began perusing its contents. A rather intrusive clinking and rattling of bottles filled the air followed by a somewhat triumphant "Ah ha!" from the unceremonious agent. Closing the unit and standing up Aurelian popped the cap of the bottle he'd grabbed off and rapidly drained it's contents. "Ahh." he sighed. "My status?" he asked. "Present and accounted for."

A wry smirk spread across his lips as he leaned up against the wall. "Holdover isn't for too much longer but so far everything's been quiet. The usual upper class comings and goings. Identified a few cars near the front and the rear that might be enough to draw the damn creature out of it's hole."

 

Isobel Nakano

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Isobel observed Dash covertly from behind the fray, her eyes narrowing.

Was it her paranoia, or was the man not himself? Maybe he'd had a few. Maybe the breakneck pace of their assignments was getting to him. She knew it was getting to her, too. Maybe she was imagining things, reading too much into things that she would otherwise find innocuous. She was anxious, to be sure. The notion of finally nabbing Harlow had her on edge. To the others, it seemed, this was just another assignment. For Isobel, this was personal. Perhaps too personal.

It was part of the reason she wasn't stationed on the train for the operation. The other part being that if Harlow took notice and saw any surveillance, he'd recognize her for sure. Some faces you just didn't forget.

Isobel touched her earpiece. "No joy so far, Agent Frost," she replied. "The Equatorial Express servers are remarkably resilient to hacking. It's almost like they have something to hide," she said wryly. "I'll keep working on it. Sorry." She muted her mic. "Hungry, Rogavald? We're ordering room service. Graham's buying."

 

Vhondryl Gallaer

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Vhon sat in the club with a hefty drink just as the music pounded, again, again and again. The bass reverberated throughout the walls and the floor. It tingled the bottom of the Keshiri's feet. She felt great so far, Terminal City was definitely not Avalonia and she liked that. It was dirty, it was nitty and gritty compared to the polished streets and towers. It was somewhere, where someone could get lost and no one cared. Vhon needed somewhere, where being a Keshiri wasn't like sticking out - or where people asked if she was some sort of Pantoran/Zeltronian hybrid, like what?
Here she was in the club, knocking back shots and then heading out onto the floor and just going with the flow. The beats were great, the bass especially when it hit. It didn't matter who she was here, all that mattered was that she had credits, and that - that made this little planet go round and round.
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Cierrol Harlow

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Smoke swirled from the end of the cigar Cierrol Harlow held in his right hand as he watched the dealer flip cards across the table to the players in turn. There were eight people sat around the Sabacc table, with another two dozen crowded around watching. This happened to be a particularly high stakes game of Jhabacc, so much that it had garnered a lot of attention on the casino floor and the crowd was chattering excitedly. The game was Corellian Spike. Just enough chance to keep things spicy.

Harlow had been playing for several hours and he was on a losing streak. He was down half a million credits, most lost to the grand dame opposite him, dripping in paste jewels and old furs. She smoked thin cigarettes in a large cigarette holder, and she wore gloves up to her elbows. He'd also lot a packet to the Sullustan on her right. Weird people, Harlow thought. Something about the flaps and the beady little eyes rubbed him the wrong way. Still, it was a free world and he couldn't jolly well stop them.

The dealer this round was a Duros who had won the last hand. Harlow took his first card, a red four. The next was a green five. He flexed his jaw and looked around the table. The grand dame bet ten thousand. The Sullustan called. A human man wearing an eyepatch called. Harlow called. The Twi'lek woman to Harlow's left called. The Duros called. The Zeltros woman raised another five thousand. The cybernetics-enhanced Chiss man tossed his fifteen thousand in. Everyone but the Sullustan called.

He was glad the grand dame stayed in. He wanted some of his money back. Harlow raised a finger at a passing cocktail waitress. "I'd love another old fashioned, if you would," he said, holding up a high-denomination credit chit, which he placed on her tray. "Appreciate it."
 

Vhondryl Gallaer

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The beat continued and Vhon kept dancing, and in all honesty, it was all she ever needed. A break from everything, so as the music kept going she kept drinking. She was sure her sister Ariadne Gallaer wouldn't mind having this one stumble home. There was an awfully nice-looking Mirialan dude in the corner and maybe that Human wasn't so bad. But at the end of the day, the club was her scene and she was going to be as awful at dancing as amazing as she was at drinking.
The unce unce unce unce, the pulse of the music combined with the thump thump thump, bong, thump, thump of the bass as it dropped and floor continued to reverberate so that you felt the bass in your body. Vhon knew for a fact she would be back at this club again the music was good, the drinks were better and as that sweet Rattataki woman passed Vhon by - there were some eye candy out here for both her and her sister. Terminal City, and Terminus might be a seedy part of the galaxy - but damn was it a great place to get lost.
 
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DUSK ON SAIJO
MORALE: STRESSED
Grigory the Bear Grigory the Bear | Daal Daal

All the resources technical, metaphysical, and psychological that Sybil had swirling about her cybershocked brain fueled on spirit chrome fumes provided little in clairvoyance to anticipate what happened next. They had been distracted, Bear and Major dancing around their presentations instead of just getting on with the business of working together to make any of these backwater planets safer, though that might be only in her case. Sybil was distracted, caught flatfooted and drilling those ocean eyes at the Unknown Bundle at her feet. Pondering.

Low blood pressure? These days? What kind of life of neglect were these two living while on Saijo. Conditions like these were easily treated in the galaxy, provided there was credit to spare. Were they poor? Refugees? Were they criminals on the run? Crazed monks? Force cultists and other misfits living the life of extremophiles were known to purposefully embrace hardship and destitution in order to grasp at some higher state of being. In her three years of life Sybil hadn’t personally encountered such practitioners in the wild. Her short life had been spent surrounded by doctors, surgeons, therapists, agency operatives, section management, officers, policy makers, diplomats, heads of state and the fools who fell into the category of enemy. All, naturally, in the name of the Free Imperial State. Perhaps that had proven too limited to her experience and understanding of the tyrannical oppression that was living.

Nevertheless, the sniper bolt —warbling green and in a long dash— sliced the air between the trees with a hiss. It punched the Major above her heart, vaporizing some millimeters of armor plate, singeing the skin beneath, and bouncing off the rest of the material skywards.

“!”

Great, the blast was defeated; the momentum wasn’t. Sybil rolled back once, twice, thrice breathless. Combat training or Almanian hunting instinct guided her into using the move to maneuver amongst the roots to avoid follow up shots. Now bedecked with twigs and dry leaves, the Imperial Agent tossed out a portable squad shield which activated between all three principal players, enveloping them in a sizable radius of protection temporarily. As the energy field projected and gooped down in a translucent haze the forest began to light up.

Multiple contacts in ranges from 30 to 60 meters opened fire in an ambush, seeming dead set on terminating the trio. They clearly weren’t military and disorganized, because any squad worth their salt would have opened on all three disparate elements simultaneously. Now, with the Bubble Shield pinging and panging as blaster bolts were absorbed, the loosely defined "trio" had a few moments: minding that two were now prone and one was now bearing the brunt of their collective riposte.

So many things Sybil had done stupidly today. As she drew one of her modified DL-44s free and did her best to breathe, she wondered how much worse things would get.


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Grigory roared.

Not in the sense that humans usually mean when they say someone roared. Their pathetic vocal chords couldn't dream of matching the primal bellow of fury that reverberated through the trees, rattled the glass in the nearby buildings, and made at least one of the attackers drop their blaster and flee in a panic. The roar wasn't purely aural, either. Pure rage and hate rippled through the Force, intermingling with the sound to create nearly a solid wall of anger that tore at both ears and minds.

"YOU COME INTO MY HOUSE, AND HURT MY GUEST!"

In a snap, the AK-141 was off his back and in his paws. He didn't bother to rack the bolt dramatically. No self respecting combat kodiak would walk around without a round in the chamber.

"YOU PISS OFF WRONG BEAR, ублюдки!"

He knew, instinctively, that their companion was going to be fine. He could smell the ablating armor, and while it sounded that she was out of breath, he didn't smell any blood or burned flesh. That wasn't the point. Grigory was a bear of the old world. When he offered his word of guestright, that came with obligations. First and foremost, anyone who he declared a guest was under his protection. He would fight for them just as he would fight for himself, or Matryoshka. This Ess hadn't initially endeared herself to him, but that was all out the window now. He didn't have to like a guest to take offense to anyone who would seek to harm them.

He emptied the magazine in a single long, continuous burst of thunder and fire towards the sniper. The chances of actually hitting the sniper were low, but that wasn't the point. The point was, it would buy them time. Rather than reload, he dropped it off the ground, and his brain arms grabbed a number of the cub's needles off his cargo harness. The implements were over three feet long, as thick around as a human's wrist, and were tipped by wickedly sharp points.

Grigory roared again, this time Forcefully enough to strip the bark off the nearby trees, and charged towards the attackers with reckless abandon.

 
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Something isn't right.

Daal's eyes slowly crept open to the silhouette of the strange woman approaching her.

It's not her.

Her thoughts were a blur, and she blinked slowly.

There are others.

Let me handle this.

The air began to fill with the greedy thoughts of would-be assassins, their sloppy strategizing and dreams of capturing a bounty. The bear had explained to her what the bounty meant, and she had a feeling that the people who had come for her in the past were of the same profession, or at least aspiring to do so. In the few brief seconds Daal had to string her own thoughts together, the flash of a blaster bolt had already lit up the air as it collided with the new acquaintance, who she couldn't quite discern the appearance of in the dark. It didn't matter, as she had already fallen to the ground.

They shot her.

"No..."

It only came out as a whisper, but she didn't want the woman to die, as she had caught bits and pieces of the bear attempting to be cordial, in his own way. The standoffish atmosphere from moments ago had dwindled, if only for a moment, and the sense of anxiety she felt had ceased before the newcomers had arrived.

The bear roared, as a blue haze filtered across her vision. Daal's green eyes stared up at the bubble falling over the unlikeliest of trios, glistening with an intense infatuation.

"It's pretty..."

It reminded her of the stars she had fallen in love with, the ones the bear had recently begun teaching her to navigate. The bear even had weird names for some of the shapes they would make, constellations he called them. She just liked how they shined, and the shapes he had shown her made it a game. Her pale hand slowly reached up toward the bubble above, hypnotized by the glow it produced.

They're shooting, get up stupid girl.

Let me handle this.


Daal's attention meandered back to the reality surrounding her, as blasters screeched and hissed, further lighting up the placid darkness that had originally surrounded them. The blasters were loud, and the sounds they produced were quite vulgar to her ears, which she covered only after gently sitting up on the ground.

"It's too loud..."

Then do something about it, stupid girl.

"I can't think like this."

She pulled herself up to her feet, unphased by how she was now covered in dried leaves and dirt. It wouldn't matter, before too long. Her scarf had come loose, so she tugged it away with her right hand and cast it aside to the ground. It was better this way, she was afraid of it getting stained. The burnt shade of orange made her feel better when she looked at it, and she nearly cried when her ventures in blacksmithing caused it to darken. Fortunately, the bear had stepped in to help her wash out the soot, but she did not think blood would come out so easy.

Daal's unassuming ivory face panned around inquisitively, and as she watched the armor-clad woman retrieving her blaster from her holster. The bear had reached for his own weapons, including the ones she had made for him. With that, she retrieved one of her own as she produced a 24-inch steel rod with a half-inch diameter, polished and sharpened to a point, and looped it onto what appeared to be a sickeningly colorful rope tied around her wrist. One of her sewing needles, as she called them, tied to a braided rope of armorweave material, provided by the bear.

Are you sure about this?

"They're trying to hurt us. They deserve it. Right?"

Is it time?

She was afraid now, her breathing had quickened at the realization of what was going to happen. She was visibly distressed, and rightfully so, as tears began to stream across her face and the look of shock took over. Her voice quivered.

"Yes."

Everything turned red in her mind's eye as her consciousness was pushed into the background. Her body shivered as a low rumble coursed through her bones before resonating into a high-pitched ringing. It felt like an unyielding amount of pressure was going to burst in her ears, and her now-adrenalized body began to take rapid, shallow breaths as the overwhelming coldness took over her. Blood felt like glass, tearing through her veins with an incomparable unpleasantness that went unnoticed by the the mind.

The bear had roared a second time, and this time, so did she.

In a flash, she had left the safety of the shield, rocketing across the ground contorted like a ragdoll toward her first unwitting victim. She shot straight past the first body, passing her needle through his torso before taking hold of it once again and slamming him into a tree with a wet thud as the rope tore out from the side of his ribcage, unveiling several meters of rope that unwound from her forearm. Blood flecked across her face, and she moved to her next target.

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Isobel's reaction was mostly delivered cool and calm. Respectable. Nevertheless, Auld decided to play demon’s advocate, because the candor of these agents wasn’t going to keep her entertained for long. They were too professional now and leaning further in that direction as the minutes ticked away; there had to be a wedge or shiv she could get in there to force hands. But how to proceed? How to affect?

She’d bide her time for now; see what she could dredge up for Graham.

This Dash fellow seemed to cut a fine jib. And it didn’t escape her notice that subtle glances, sharp, were shot out. No doubt there was some kind of cornerstone she could kick out. Exactly how to proceed for maximum impact escaped the Scoundrel momentarily.

“Why not push things to a conclusion? Bypass security systems. Knock out the track. Halt the train. Take over engineering. Disable power. Knock out communications. Feign a robbery. Get stuck in. Yeah, mission parameters are great and all, but nobody is going to complain as long as our Guy is caught. Nobody will even know this is an Imperial hit if we move quick; nobody is going to complain if we crack a few thugs. Subtle may be nice, but it's worthless if you lot get pinched. . .”

 
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DUSK ON SAIJO
MORALE: RALLYING
Grigory the Bear Grigory the Bear | Daal Daal

The first roar shook Sybil’s guts like she read about when studying audiovisual entertainment —in three years since her “birth” on Hoth she hadn’t been to a concert to experience it firsthand. This had to be like such experience. Fear was an understandable response to Sir Bear if you were against him; being on his side, however tenuously, recontextualized the sound to an invigorating boon. Her limbs got that extra hit of adrenaline and began to move faster than her thoughts as the Aspect of Imperialism in black boots went from poise to animalistic huntress, breathlessness forgotten in the beast mood demands of what was left of her brain that wasn’t synthetic.

The Other One had risen as well, possibly called to arms by the same cortex boost provided by the big shake. Here one second; ripping into the enemy the next second.

Behind them came more fire power from the flank. Not able to draw upon the Force at the moment, Sybil rose to face the attackers, stepping from the protective bubble as the brunt of the abuse finally overloaded the generator. A great popping sizzle lit up the forest with a dazzling flash of light, shrouding the Major momentarily as she took a position behind another tree. Eyes sharp, she used the interlude to return some blasts and add her own music to the Freakshow Orchestra. As if timed to perfection, Mister Bear let out another shout that shattered the fabric of their reality. Now some of the attackers had begun to break their line, inviting the Agent to draw her second pistol and move from tree to tree, eliminating anyone foolish enough to let their concentration lapse due to the violence. The battle was now met.


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Just how many of these guys are there? Grigory thought as yet another poor soul met his fate. This one, he didn't bother stabbing with the oversized needles. The poor kid, showing much more courage than common sense, and attempted to run up and stab him in the flanks with what looked like a kitchen knife. His bravery was rewarded by a backhand from a paw the size of a frying pan that took his head off at the shoulders. One second it was there, the next, it was flying through the trees, a look of shock and surprise etched onto the face as the light faded from its eyes.

They weren't professionals. Most of them weren't even talented amateurs. Some of them were just barely out of cubhood. He'd seen cubs and young adults pressed into service before, but they were usually poor, desperate things looking for a quick way to earn their next meal. These "fighters", for lack of a better word, weren't malnourish. Their clothing was clean, their gear was, if not top of the line military hardware, very expensive civilian versions of the same, and they fought with ferocity, not desperation.

Then it dawned on him.

Their attackers were likely the sons and daughters of the people he'd eaten over the last few weeks. Probably some nieces and nephews, younger brothers and sisters. No one was much over the age of 25, and none of them had anything like proper training. His best guess was that someone had gathered them all up and thrown them at him in the name of avenging their fallen parents. The mastermind must have known that most wouldn't be coming back. That was deliberate. Each and every one of them, potentially, had a claim to the remnants of the crime empire that had just been dismantled. Whoever was vying for the top spot was trying to eliminate potential competition, and a potential threat, at the same time.

It was very, very clever, and it sickened Grigory to his core.

This wasn't what he wanted. His purpose in life was to eliminate the bad people to give the good people a chance. He didn't exercise his right to bear arms because he wanted to kill grieving cubs, whipped into a frenzy for the sake of another bad person. It was wrong.

Something dark bubbled within him, a primal, righteous fury that turned the edges of his vision red and blotted out all conscious thought. He was in bearserker mode now, and had only one target in mind: the sniper. It had to be them. They had to be the one responsible. Well, Grigory was going to find them, and he was going to eat them from the toes up, and he was going to take a long time doing it.

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Isobel closed her eyes, suppressing an eyeroll, and moved past the group to the wall of windows that overlooked the cityscape. "I don't care how you do it, as long as you draw the bastard out of his hiding spot so we can grab him," she said after a moment. "I'm not the boss of you. Our job is to provide logistical support and monitor the movement of Harlow's assets and give you a heads up if there's a threat to your position on the train. If you decide to go loud, that's your business and you can take it up with your god or Graham, whichever you meet first." She flexed her hands in front of her, then folded her arms around her midsection. She looked glacial, but she felt hot under the collar.

Kriff it. I'm starving. She left them to their devices, padding into the foyer to pick up the comlink. She dialed the front desk and placed an order for some food, then drew out her datapad to monitor the feeds from her position on the small bench by the door. Nothing out of the ordinary had happened, but that didn't mean nothing interesting had happened. This was Terminus. Since she'd last been at her screen, over a dozen missing persons reports had been filed. Seven homicides had been reported. Three liquor stores had been robbed. An illegal speeder race had ended in a collision that killed two dozen and injured another fifty.

Ah, Terminus.

She couldn't wait to get off this hellhole of a rock.

A few minutes later, the door chimed. She once more peered into the peephole and, seeing the waiter with a rolling tray of food, opened the door while reaching for her handbag. She tipped handsomely and collected the cart, then secured the door and rolled it into the living room again. "I got sandwiches. Sorry, Crane, they were out of caviar."

 
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Daal's conscious self laid on the dark, damp ground of the prison she once again found herself thrown into by her own mind. There was nothing for her to do except wait out whatever was going on, and hope that the memories would not overwhelm her this time. As she laid there, staring up at the abyssal sky overhead, the faint sounds of screams slowly began to rise. They sounded distant, no matter, they always did. Her hand reached to wipe away a loose strand of hair that had started to tickle her face, but froze when she saw it was covered in blood. It had already started. She stared up at the sky, which in turn was now staring back at her.

In the forest, a grisly sight was quickly unfolding, as the body count quickly began to rise. After the first attack fell by her hands, Daal's body moved to strike again, and again, and again. These people did not move like soldiers, or bounty hunters, if she had been consciously able to see them with her own eyes she'd have thought them to be regular people. Another body tossed into a tree, an incomprehensible scream cut short, what difference did it make? They had come for a fight they would not be able to finish.

Another bolt from the sniper hissed through the air as Daal's body rampaged through the trees. The sniper was a good shot, and did in fact make contact with her forearm. Their luck ended there, as the momentum caused her to fall. The armorweave rope which had been wrapped around her arm stopped the shot, but the shot did not stop the target. From the direction she had fallen, another one of her needles was hurled through the air and embedded in a tree that was uncomfortably close to where the sniper had taken cover.

Undaunted, Daal's body continued on its destructive path through the would-be assailants in the trees as bones were broken, muscles were torn away, and organs were ripped from their bodies.

There was still work to be done.

The Major The Major Grigory the Bear Grigory the Bear
 
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DUSK ON SAIJO
MORALE: RALLYING
Grigory the Bear Grigory the Bear | Daal Daal

Retaliating against every attacker that had assembled for this massive ambush wasn’t Sybil’s calling in life. Far from other First Order troopers, she wasn’t keen on finishing this fight while the pain on her chest blossomed. That said, any of these attackers on the south flank that held their ground were carried from this reality to that hallowed state of lofty, infinite blackness.

Bolts struck kids in the neck, or upon the breast, or in one lucky instance right upon the eye.

As the skirmish died down and more and more of the people began to flee, Sybil started to double back over to the Bear and his Matryoshka, following the sound of chaos and screams they had laid out as a path. It was almost fully night now, making accurate detection difficult. She could not make out the details of the pair’s violence or murder craft, only that it was fast.

Shame that gusto could not be put to use under the flag of a nation.

She couldn’t criticize in that regard however. Better complete freedom under hardship than the Major’s cushy life of hypocrisy.


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Tir Grastis

ʟᴜʀᴋɪɴɢ ʙᴇɴᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴛʜᴇ sᴜʀꜰᴀᴄᴇ

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THE RED NEBULA

The gangster club was seedy, no doubt about it. Exterior was a mix of over-the-top decorations, just gaudy, and an attempt to be classy, but the designer had missed the mark completely and it all fell into a pile of chit. The only real benefit to the obscenely large number of glass windows, which showcased all the 'fun' inside for outsiders to see and be jealous of, was exactly that - you could see almost everything on that side of the building. It might have been appealing, but again, the club itself was just trashy in all the worst ways.

Sentients of all types were in and around the establishment. Club-goers, addicts, dealers, gangsters, almost painfully easily to spot each type; doubly so if you were trained to pick up on details like that. There was a pair of large bouncers at the entry, who stood in front of the doors, and a line to get inside to the right of the two. Weequays, but a bit larger physically, like they had been hitting the gym since birth. Didn't matter if your arms were larger than your head, everyone had weaknesses.

Needless to say, the wait in the club line had been enough to work Tir into a state. He stood patiently, or as well as he could manage after over an hour amid clubbers, and ground his teeth. Dressed more civilian appropriate, the FOSB operator stared at the bouncers, as he waited for them to look over and allow the next group into the Nebula. Tir was on edge. Not because he was nervous, not at all, but because he hated being in one place surrounded by mouth-breathers who only cared about how their dresses made them look, or how many cheekas they'd pick up.

At one point, a highlight for the last hour had been a young near-human woman who had knocked into the velvet rope and sent the stanchion toppling; one of the bouncers had sighed and walked over to straighten up the rope, to which the girl had been confused:

"Ohmygah, did I dooo that?"

Tir just stood there, blank stare, as he focused on breathing. The less he thought, the better it was. Focus on the mission, nothing else.

If I ain't inside soon, Dresden can put me out of my misery.

Tir knew the other FOSB member was nearby, in location and ready, but up until now it had been a matter of hurry up and wait. But, then the bouncers walked over to the line and lifted the velvet rope free of the metallic stanchion stands. Knucklehead one motioned for a group to enter, which included Tir as a solo act, and the Firrerreon let out a slow exhale as he stalked into the establishment behind a number of others. "About karkin' time..." He muttered, as he pushed through a pair of human males who were psyching themselves up with compliments about how good the other looked. It was all a lifestyle beyond Tir, he didn't do clubs, he didn't do dancing, and he sure as frak didn't do whatever the hell this place he had just walked into was...

The first thing to hit Tir was the music - it was so loud, especially to his heightened hearing.

Then the scents - there was so much sweat, vomit, and other things assaulting his nostrils.

And finally the sheer volume of sentients - so much movement, so many limbs and species, their number was astounding.

"I'm kicking this off now," Tir said seemingly to himself, though the small comm in his ear picked up his words clearly despite the environment. "Ain't waitin' any longer. Let's bring this guy out."

For a half-second, the Firrerreon paused and looked around the club. It had all the usual club interior you might expect. Bar, dance floor, dark corners, booths and an upper floor with protective railing for sentients to lean on and peer down. Lights, fog, over-loud music and obscenely priced drinks. No wonder gangsters did well when they got into the club owner game. Still, there was a point to the whole situation, and Tir had wasted enough time in the outside line, so that mean getting things started.

Dark eyes scanned the crowd. He saw a male Zabrak, tall and built dressed in pants and little else, who grabbed at another clubber with heavy hands and a creepy expression on his face. He seemed good enough. Tir walked through the crowd, out onto the dance floor, and approached the Zabrak. The Firrerreon glanced toward the large window to his left, which afforded an excellent view of the dancing from outside. With a smirk, Tir closed the gap and stepped up to the alien.

"Hey, get your meat-hooks off the lady."

"Scrat off," The Zabrak said, as he turned to Tir. "Or I break your face!"

"Huh," Tir nodded with a grunt. "Broken face? Works for me."

"Wha--?" The creeper started to say as he balled up fists and turned to Tir, but his words were cut off as the FOSB agent slammed his forehead into the sentient's nose. "Gah?!"

The nose was smashed flat, as a spray of blood escaped the guy's nostrils. Tir stepped back and shook his head, before he grinned and fell into a basic defensive stance, arms raised and guarding his head. The Zabrak recovered, they were a tough species, and bellowed as he charged the Firrerreon - and just like that, the scene exploded into violence, as a fight started between the pair - as the two came to blows, and fists started flying...

Hah, now we're talkin'!

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