I Reave and I Raid (RC+PIRATES V.S. NR)

[RC 212]

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Rendilli​

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FLEET

• Dreadstar III
• 5x Jast Kinetic Destroyer's

GEAR:

• Thor Class Armor-
• Twin Verpine Shatter Guns
• LJ-50 concussion Rifle
• Sawed off Shotgun W/Cortosis shells
• Jetpack
• DC-17 W all attachments handy
• One tub of peanut butter, one tub of jelly, one loaf of bread.
• Force Breaker Grenades, A lot

It had been a long time since his betrayal at the hands of the Silver Jedi. But RC was hungry. Hungry for blood. Long had he hidden in the shadowy fringes of the galaxy, but now there was new power rising in the core. With his Arch Nemesis the damned [member="Ayden Cater"] and his Omega Pyre gone, there was few to oppose the dreaded Pirate.

No Galactic Alliance to control the core, Sith running Rampant, and FO keeping to themselves. Perfect conditions for a storm, and a little bit of...

Reaving.​

The crew of his vessel the Dreadstar III had traveled up the Corellian run, and exited right outside of Rendilli.

As the massive ship tore from space RC watched their picket ships begin to come into orbit around the planet.

His droid mind had calculated the jump perfectly, with just enough space between them and the planet to unleash their Long range turbo-lasers, as well as the Mass Drivers.

"We're in range M'lord!"

RC nodded, laughing inside his faceplate.

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"Very well. Let's say hello to the Republic. Initiate Phase One of the plan."​

A cohort of TIE Interceptors streaked from their flanks, like flies drawn to rotting meat.

"Bring me some plunder!"​

Then the long range turbolasers opened up, blasting a heavy tattoo into the world below...

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That ought-ta wake them up​

 

[Yularen Nova]

Location: Rendilli System - Just behind RC's Fleet
Enemies: [member="RC 212"]
Allies: [member="Kaine Australis"]
Fleet: CDF Ascendant Justice Battlecruiser

A distress call had gone out from Rendilli several hours ago. They claimed an invasion force of several heavy cruisers had dropped out of hyperspace, but Yularen knew better. The Sith were far too distant to strike a planet like Rendilli out of the blue and the First Order were still licking their wounds after betting beaten back by the Outer Rim Coalition. He didn't have a way to prove it yet, but he knew it to be true.

These were pirates.

Yularen wasn't technically part of the New Republic's navy. In fact he was part of the Corellian Defense Force. But with one of the larger naval forces in the sector Corellian allies had been hailed along with, he'd heard, a portion of General Australlis' fleet. Corellia though, was much closer.

The CDF Ascendant Justice dropped out of hyperspace behind the pirate invasion. Yularen's eyes widened in surprise as readings came across the holodisplay at his captain's chair. Deck officers were shouting out numbers and ship types, attack vectors and the status of Rendilli's defenses. They were the only starship in the system poised to defend against the pirate invasion so far as Rendilli seemed to only have poultry ground to space turbolaser defenses.

A grimace.

"Launch fighters! Squadrons One through five! Target unknown heavy cruiser class, we need to find out what its capable of...Fire at will!" X-wings colored in the black and orange of the CDF launched from the hangar bays of the Ascendant Justice and its turbolasers moved into position to fire on the Dreadstar.

If he was lucky he might be able to destroy or disable one or two of the heavy cruisers, but he wouldn't be able to hold off the entire fleet with just the Ascendant Justice. She was a big ship, but she wasn't so big that she could take on 5 Kinetic Destroyers. She just didn't have the shields for that. As the first volley of green turbolaser fire erupted from the batteries and flashed over the bridge, he hoped to the Stars that Kaine arrived quickly.

 

[Abigail Meredydd]

Location: Kaine's vessel
Allies: [member="Kaine Australis"] || [member="Yularen Nova"]
Enemies: [member="RC 212"]

Abigail walked onto the bridge, dressed in light grey armour. She wasn't wearing a helmet, as it really wasn't necessary at all while she was on a friendly ship. She had come alongside Australis, at first to learn from an exercise, but that exercise had turned into the real thing rather quickly.

The sound of Abigail's boots sounded throughout the bridge as she approached Australis. She gave him a small bow with her head when he turned towards her.

"General Australis", she said before looking around the bridge. "How are we doing? Are we... battle ready?"

"I must admit I am not... used to being involved in ship warfare. My training mostly consisted of fighting on the ground... or inside the enemy's ship. But no big fights in space or anything."

She nodded slowly with her hands behind her back as she turned back towards Kaine. "I look forward to seeing how you operate. Perhaps you'll even be able to learn me something", she said before she briefly stuck her tongue out with a smile.

Then she sighed. It was clear her otherwise happy behaviour was now a bit more thoughtful and serious. A world was being attacked, and that on top of a few recent personal... events greatly troubled the girl. But now was the not the time.

They had a planet to protect.

 

[RC 212]

[member="Abigail Meredydd"] [member="Yularen Nova"] [member="Kaine Australis"]​

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FLEET

• Dreadstar III
• 5x Jast Kinetic Destroyer's

GEAR:

• Thor Class Armor-
• Twin Verpine Shatter Guns
• LJ-50 concussion Rifle
• Sawed off Shotgun W/Cortosis shells
• Jetpack
• DC-17 W all attachments handy
• One tub of peanut butter, one tub of jelly, one loaf of bread.
• Force Breaker Grenades, A lot

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The Scum wanted to put up a fight.​

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"Lord 212, the Enemy is closing. New signatures picked up to the rear."

Zazz was a good Pirate. The man had risen quickly through RC's Raiders. A cut throat Rodian, with a penchant for blood he was.

"Very well, tack port and present our broadsides. Order the Destroyers to lock in the coordinates of their planetary lasers. Continue the bombardment. Detach a special contingent of TIE's to deal with the planetary lasers."

RC watched as they swiveled albeit with extreme slowness. Their shields were still holding solid, soaking up most of the fire.

"The Republic must be soft, offering such paltry resistance. I miss the days of crashing into an Omega Pyre world and sending the whole place up in arms. Lt. Zazz prepare my drops pod, LAAT and a special squadron of Fighters. I'll also require The Wrecker to be loaded and ready."

"It'll be done M'lord."

RC nodded, then removed his helmet.

The grizzled face of Jango Fett seemed madly out of place in time. It was scarred beyond almost all recognition.

Then he proceeded to make himself a PB&J sandwhich, with Endor Whole Wheat Bread.

"That ship there, who are they?" He asked, pointing to the CDF with his Sandwich.

"I believe some Militia."

RC took a giant bite.

"Very well, continue destroying them. Let me know when my ship is ready."

 

[RC 212]

[member="Kaine Australis"]

FLEET

• Dreadstar III
• 5x Jast Kinetic Destroyer's

GEAR:

• Thor Class Armor-
• Twin Verpine Shatter Guns
• LJ-50 concussion Rifle
• Sawed off Shotgun W/Cortosis shells
• Jetpack
• DC-17 W all attachments handy
• One tub of peanut butter, one tub of jelly, one loaf of bread.
• Force Breaker Grenades, A lot

The assault on the Dreadstar hurt for sure. RC watched as the shields were easily halved by the tremendous beams of the enemy ships. He grunted and polished off the last of his sandwich.

"I hadn't anticipated the Mandalorians would arrive. As weak and pathetic as ever, trying to protect their precious Republic neighbors. Back in the good old days the Mandalorians Crushed the Republic, over and over."

"That still dosn't solve our problem M'lord."

"Surely you can't be so shortsighted Zazz. They've surrounded us which gives us a perfect opportunity."

"M'lord?"

"Bow up three and six quarters. Full speed. Ram the vessel above us. Also release all Seismic Charges."

"We'll destroy much of the ship."

"This ship is only a Symbol. Besides, she can take it. I'm headed to the Hangar."

To be real Admiralty was not RC's forte. It was something he'd sworn off since the Lords of the Fringe. Now CQB, that was his bread and butter.

"I shall depart immediately. You may flee when the Shields fail."

He trudged off towards the hangars, to where his vessel awaited.


They surged up, to ram the vessel above them. Then One hundred Seismic Charges were blasted out by quick deployment tubes. Things were about to get very interesting for all those whom had decided to surround the wily Pirate Lord's Ship.

 

[Abigail Meredydd]

Location: Kaine's vessel
Allies: [member="Kaine Australis"] || [member="Yularen Nova"]
Enemies: [member="RC 212"]


"It is... an effective weapon", Abigail commented on the show taking place before her eyes.

Abigail looked out the viewports with a troubled expression as she spoke to Kaine.
"A surrender from them would still save many lives, general. But I fear these men won't be willing to surrender, at least not until their loss is a certainty."

She then turned around towards Kaine, with a small smile on her face. "So then let's make sure their loss is, in fact, certain, shall we?"

Watching their opponents again, Abigail wondered who was inside those ships. Where they just... pirates? But what kind of pirates could afford to use such ships? Perhaps they were some kind of militia? But what was their goal? Just to... raid and plunder?

She sighed, lives would be lost today, without a true purpose. Just because one man had probably decided to launch an assault of Rendilli. Ah well, all Abigail could hope for now was that this fight would end as soon as possible.
In their favour.

"General", Abigail then spoke slowly as her eyes narrowed," they're doing something. They know something we don't. Something's coming."

 

[Yularen Nova]

"Sir..."

"They rammed Australlis?" the Quarth asked in disbelief. How did such a foolish man become the leader of such an impressive fleet of ships? And then he saw it. His deck officers saw it as well.

"Sir, they've launched all of their seismic charges!"

"Brace for impact!"

They weren't a small ship by any means. The Ascendant Justice was, in fact, the largest warship in the system at the moment. Its shields were at full and it had taken no damage or even fire from the pirate's ships. It was almost as if he was forgotten. But seismic charges were powerful, destructive weapons, capable of shattering large asteroids from single charges. If the readings were correct...Nearly a hundred of them had been launched from the unknown cruiser.

The blast shook the battlecruiser but save for a few spills the ship was relatively unharmed. The starfighters weren't so lucky. He was reading multiple casualties in squadrons one two and five with several of them also disabled. He cursed.

"Prep recovery crews. The pirates seemed to have decided to scuttle their only surprise, a very foolish mistake." Now all that was left was cleanup, and the Ascendant Justice was more than enough to handle that with the ships Australlis had brought.

"Move in closer, make sure all of their cruisers are in effective firing range. We'll finish this quickly and head back to Corellia."

[member="Kaine Australis"] [member="Abigail Meredydd"] [member="RC 212"]

 

[RC 212]

FLEET

• Dreadstar III
• 5x Jast Kinetic Destroyer's
• 4x Jast K Destroyers

GEAR:

• Thor Class Armor-
• Twin Verpine Shatter Guns
• LJ-50 concussion Rifle
• Sawed off Shotgun W/Cortosis shells
• Jetpack
• DC-17 W all attachments handy
• One tub of peanut butter, one tub of jelly, one loaf of bread.
• ForceBreaker Grenades, A lot

[member="Yularen Nova"] [member="Kaine Australis"] [member="Abigail Meredydd"]

(OOC: Tried to include everyone this post. Let the dance begin!)

Despite the Pirate Lords assurances that the ship would hold up, it in fact was not doing so hot. As the seismic charges exploded there was a brief flash of blue light and then the shield bubble of the DSIII collapsed in upon itself. RC felt as the cannons from the surface punched holes in their outer plating. Lasers ripped through now unprotected decks. Fuel tanks exploded, coolant lines were cut, and the reactor began to go critical.

"M'lord, we are losing her!"

"Order all hands to abandon ship. Death Squads get to my LAAT immediately. Let her go down fighting. Set all cannons on auto sequence to fire upon the Ascendant Justice until they cannot anymore."

"Aye Sir."

RC turned back to the pilot of the LAAT and nodded. The last of his personal Guard were loaded. It was time to do what RC did best.

Cause hell, and then escape!

"Launch us at once!"

They ripped from the side of the of the failing Dreadstar III, surrounded by what was left of their fighter ball. The rest were slag floating around in the void right about now.

"I like those cannons they have developed," RC said, pointing to Lady Abigail.

"Begin our boarding run."

Meanwhile behind them the Dreadstar continued to get wasted as she pumped out round after round from every cannon auto targeting Patriots Hammer. Her reactor was going super critical, and escape pods were streaming from her like wasps from a nest that had been stomped on.

"All Consorts, Initiate Phase II."

The Jast Destroyer armada begin to split up. One's shields failed, and it took a punch right through the core from a beam cannon. RC snapped a salute as she broke in half, and the reactor ruptured, causing another large scale explosion.

"Brace!"

The rest of the Destroyers shields held on by a thread. They began to scatter, using the planets gravity well to begin to slingshot to the other side of the planet.

 

[RC 212]

FLEET

• Dreadstar III
• 5x Jast Kinetic Destroyer's
• 3x Jast K Destroyers -1 This post

GEAR:

• Thor Class Armor-
• Twin Verpine Shatter Guns
• LJ-50 concussion Rifle
• Sawed off Shotgun W/Cortosis shells
• Jetpack
• DC-17 W all attachments handy
• One tub of peanut butter, one tub of jelly, one loaf of bread.
• ForceBreaker Grenades, A lot

[member="Kaine Australis"] [member="Yularen Nova"] [member="Abigail Meredydd"]

"We're being pursued sir!"

"No matter. Continue us on our present course. Order the screen to remain tight."

Another Jast Kinetic Destroyer took a devastating hit. Heavy beam cannons sliced crescents in her armor. Red hot ruptures and slag flash froze, along with crystalline O2 and moisture. Bodies and contrails from her garish wound streamed into space. On RC's HUD he noted they were operating in the red. They dove, and endless dive into the depths of the black.

Other Destroyers were a bit more lucky, their Captains redirecting weapons power to shields and engines, still scattering in all directions as fast they could. If tthey were pursued much longer, they'd be pulling their fleet apart into neutral territory. Exactly what RC wanted them to do...

"Another Consort has been lost."

Meanwhile the DSIII was still dishing out all it had. The guns thundered a final time, before they began to fire out of sequence, like pistons misfiring in an engine. RC watched as her super critical reactors melted down, frying coolant lines, and rupturing the length of her belly. Crack after crack appeared and then she went into a full meltdown. Thousands of cubic meters of Hyperspace fuel reacted, setting off a small supernova.

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They were literal meters out from the hangar bay now.

"Hopefully that catches whatever is left of the big boy. Brace once more and prepare for Glory!" RC barked. His hand locked into an overhead troop strap, and the other snapped a quick five point crash harness over his head.

The resulting shock wave was enough to push them into the hangar sideways. If Kaine had a high enough perception, he just might be able to make out the sight of a modded AT-TE clipped to the bottom of RC's LAAT.

Regardless, it was no graceful landing. They went skidding in, colliding with at least a dozen of so fighters. Smoke, sparks and alarms blared. A wing was sheared off. There was some secondary explosions as one of the fuel tanks on the starboard side lit up and caused a nice little detonation. Shrapnel and frag spiraled across the bay, cutting through machine and deck alike.

This is becoming a costly operation. He mused, taking two chunks through his left abdomen himself. Lucky for him, he was cyborg. But that was a fact few people knew.​

Body still operational.​

90% Functionality​

The AT-TE was still for the most part undamaged.

"Another excellent landing."

"All right then. Death Squad, get off my karking boat!" He roared. One hand hefted his DC-17m with the Grenade Launcher attached. The other ripped the buckled door clean of its hinges and Frisbee'd it into the nearest cluster of what he assumed was Marines.

"Leave no quarter! Take the ship!"

 

[Abigail Meredydd]

Allies: [member="Kaine Australis"] || [member="Yularen Nova"]
Enemies: [member="RC 212"]

She would have lied if she claimed it hadn't scared her. The AI was... interesting to say the least, and it's entrance was definitely unexpected. But did something that was supposed to help you really need to be so... unpleasant to look at?

"Lady Abigail?", she asked, suprised to see it's name. She dared not assume it was actually named after her, but it was funny to see a ship bearing the same name. "I'd hate to see something with my name fall to the enemy. We must make sure no Abigails will be lost today!", she chuckled, trying to make things a bit less grim.

Abigail quickly followed Kaine, making sure not to slow them down. They were in a hurry, as the ship that had fled from the enemy's main ship could still be a great threat to them if it wasn't taken care of.

Abigail accepted Kaine offer to help her reach the copilot's couch, giving the man a small nod as a 'thank you'. Following general Australis' suggestions, Abigail braced herself as the fighter shot away, ready to pursue the LAAT.

Seeing how Abigail had never liked the restrictive view inside a spaceship, she mainly looked outside her own field of vision through the Force, trying to keep the best view of their target as she could.

She rose a brow as she thought she noticed something on the bottom of the craft. Taking a second to confirm her suspicions, she spoke to Kaine.

"General, there's some kind of vehicle strapped to the bottom of that ship. Can't quite make out what it is, though. Didn't get a good enough look for that."

"Whatever it is though, it can't be good."

"Wait... General... that ship!", Abigail exclaimed as she noticed one of the bigger ships growing weaker as it was nearing it's end. "It's going to-"

She couldn't even finish her sentence, as she was cut off by the sight of the ship exploding. "Oh come on... brace for impact!", she told Kaine as she tried to prepare herself for whatever kind of blast was coming.

 

[RC 212]

FLEET

• Dreadstar III
• 5x Jast Kinetic Destroyer's
• 3x Jast K Destroyers -1 This post

GEAR:

• Thor Class Armor-
• Twin Verpine Shatter Guns
• LJ-50 concussion Rifle
• Sawed off Shotgun W/Cortosis shells
• Jetpack
• DC-17 W all attachments handy
• One tub of peanut butter, one tub of jelly, one loaf of bread.
• ForceBreaker Grenades, A lot

[member="Kaine Australis"] [member="Yularen Nova"] [member="Abigail Meredydd"]

They had a solid foothold now. RC reached above him and deactivated the clamps from his Bird. The war-machine tethered under it made the deck-plates groan as its final weight was distributed. A fully armed and armored. AT-TE, with some custom flair to it.

"Hop on boys."

He slid into the thing, and several of his Death Squad followed.

Then it powered up, ancient servos whirring and moaning.

The Wrecker, he called it.

Several more hopped onto the vehicles sides, firing with their primary arms as their off hands held on.

"Time to spice things up a bit."

He pressed the control stick, and the beast lumbered backwards, ripping free of the landing craft. It crushed man and machine alike under its thundering feet. Rc depressed a button and launched a small missile, which detonated on the opposite wall, punching him a nice little door into the main drag.

"Onwards."

The AT-TE lumbered through, ripping beams and steel that got in its way. Then they were in the main hall, headed for the bridge.

"Stay alert. Doubtless they have some sort of anti-boarding measures."

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They are Mandalorians after all.​

He couldn't wait to see.

 

[Abigail Meredydd]

Allies: [member="Kaine Australis"] || [member="Yularen Nova"]
Enemies: [member="RC 212"]

She was impressed by Kaine's ability to safely manoeuvre their ship, despite the explosion. And while she hadn't doubted the general's abilities, she still let out a small sigh of relief when he docked the ship.

"Ever the gentleman, eh?", Abigail smiled as she gladly accepted Kaine's help to get out of her seat.

After having walked with Kaine towards the console, Abigail watched it with great interest and concern. It appeared the intruders had safely made it onto the Lady Abigail as well. And then there was that vehicle Abigail spotted earlier. Despite the ship's defences, she wasn't comfortable about the situation.

She turned towards Kaine with a thoughtful expression when he asked her whether she wanted to go or not.

"While I wasn't really hoping for a fight," she sighed," they're here now, and they're also armed. We need to do our best to prevent any damage and losses as best as we can, and the only way I can see us doing that, is by stopping them ourselves."

She paused for a bit, slightly biting her lip as she thought about what to do.

"Look. I have confidence in our skills, and it is vital we stop the current threat on board as soon as possible. I won't allow anything to be damaged or anyone to die because we refused to interfere."

She nodded towards Kaine and started walking away from the console, showing she meant what she said about taking action. While walking away, she turned her head to look towards Kaine as she spoke. "Besides, you didn't just play the heroic pilot just to be able to watch them tear through the ship, right?", she said with a smile as she turned her attention forward again.

 

[RC 212]

FLEET

• Dreadstar III
• 5x Jast Kinetic Destroyer's
• 2x Jast K Destroyers -1 This post

GEAR:

• Thor Class Armor-
• Twin Verpine Shatter Guns
• LJ-50 concussion Rifle
• Sawed off Shotgun W/Cortosis shells
• Jetpack
• DC-17 W all attachments handy
• One tub of peanut butter, one tub of jelly, one loaf of bread.
• ForceBreaker Grenades, A lot

[member="Kaine Australis"] | [member="Yularen Nova"] | [member="Abigail Meredydd"]

OOC: Waited bout two days. Gonna move along. PM if there be any issues matey!

Another Jast Destroyer went down. RC heard the message in his helm as he operated levers and pedals with abandon.

Good thing I didn't pay them too well.​

The rest of the cretin Captains were still fleeing, and rightfully so. They'd be able to get outside the range of the enemies gravity wells soon enough where they would jump away. Which meant RC was running out of time.

They smashed through another wall, making their own route through the vessel. RC decided the best course was to handrail the main hall ways, rather than go directly down them. That meant they were moving room to room,, using the Wreckers munitions to punch holes in the bulkheads as they moved on. They were making decent time....

"Soon we'll have ourselves a nice lil' new ship men. But it'll be a fight to the death to keep her."

One of the Death Squad troopers snapped off a trio of rounds, splattering a Marines head all over the wall.

Then he ejected his slugthrower cartridge and rammed a fresh one home with a nod. Curiously enough they were all dressed in black Supercommando Armor. A throwback to the days of the original Deathwatch back when RC had been a Mando'ade disillusioned with the current state of Mando affairs.

"Fair enough. When isn't it boss?"

"Seems they've allied with the Republic and gotten some of their war vigor back. A shame it's wasted on pathetic bureaucrats,"

"Long as I get to crack skulls, I don't give a kark."

They sailed another rocket from the modded main turret through the wall of the mess-hall, and smashed through.

"Din Dins Ready boys!"