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Jaster was leaving the camp when he heard the blaring of alarms, his guards were of course still by the vehicles that he would use to escape to his shuttle. His Annihilator Shuttle Was the only way for him to cross the Hutt border without being seen by Republic of Techie spies. He would not risk this again since they were both looking for a reason to excommunicate his organization from the buisness world as it was. The shuttle would then take him to a TC Merchant Ship where he would be smuggled out Hutt Space and into Republic Space.
First though he would have to get to his shuttle, and then await time to clear and take off for orbit where they would cloak.
He was just about to get in his vehicle when he noticed something was off, all the guards he had seen coming it, where no longer there. The security was lightened, so he could only assume his friend was attempting to escape. He would wish her good luck, but still was forced to keep his speeder unmarked so spies couldn't place him here.
"Let's head to the landing pad gents, we can wait there until lift off."
Jaster got in the Civilian Speeder and off they went, heading to the main gate.
Kay heard the muffled voice coming from her satchel as they ran. She pulled the commlink out just as the message ended. Was help arriving finally? For a moment she started to feel hopeful that this nightmare would soon be over. But that was only short lived as the slave camp's defences opened fire.
Kay's running slowed as she kept her eyes to the sky, wondering if she'd see an explosion soon. Their defences were better than she had thought. After all that she had done to thwart the Cartel, it seemed as though this time she was the one being thwarted. But here was Tiali, risking his life to help her to be free from Thraxis and the rest of the Jackals. She was going to owe him a lot after this. Him and everyone else that has tried to help her.
Vulpesen let out a loud growl as fire rained down on his ship. Turning it into a quick roll, he watched as the bithgt lights flash around him, glancing off his various shields. He had hoped the size of his ship would go unnoticed, but as he lacked stealth generators, he wasn't overly reliant on it. But thats why he came alone. Take a swat at a swarm and you'll hit a few. But good luck trying to hit that single fly. His ship rocked as more fire glanced off the shields. But that many guns did help. "Alright Ace, get ready for a hot drop. I'm taking Shadow with me!" As he spoke, he used the force to guide his saber into the cargo hold.
It was difficult as he also needed to focus on flying around the various bouts of laser fire, but Ace was there to help him with that and the job didn't have to be fancy. He caused a snap his and heard the shearing of metal as it turned to slag, then the clatter as a cage fell apart behind him. Calling his saber back, he nodded to Ace. "NOW!" They quickly transferred the shields to one spot while Vulpesen raced to the boarding ramp. With ace turning into a particularly large shot, Vulpesen opened the back of the ship, as well as his Veran Fox's Cage. The result would be an illusion planned to get Vulpesen out of there alive.
A burst of fire would fly from the top of the ship as the bolt hit, and a large flat piece of metal would come flying away from the ship's form as it spiraled down. Certainly a direct hit, and with the appearance of blowing off a substantial piece of metal. While this would appear to be the end of the ship and its crew, the illusion would shatter as just before the ship reached the point of no return, it would break out of the spiral and race back to the atmosphere, swirling erratically with shields full on the back.
As for that piece of metal, Vulpesen could hear Ace shouting curses at him from the atmosphere. It was one of their more dangerous plans and of course, the protective ashlan hated when Vulpesen took such risks. Especially when all that protected him from stray fire was the body of an Veran fox and the bottom of a cage, even if it had been a large cage. Hoping they would mistake him for simple flotsam, he waited until he would literally be below the radar to start using the force to slow their decent The strain was incredible. While very practiced int he skill, this was still the largest load he had to bear. Should he hit the ground, it certainly wouldn't be a soft landing, though luckily, not one that would break the bones of him, or his mount.
[member="Lady Kay"]
[member="Flannigan Mcnash"]
(OOC: Don't worry, wasn't expecting this to be easy)
Tiali looked forward at the door to the landing pad where his ship is located, "Over there."he picks up the speed to get to the door Placing the Twi-lek next to it softly.Flicking out his hands his two blades slide out, His hand goes to the doors control panel pressing the button to open the door.
Quickly and swiftly he exits the door "Excuse me men."as the guard's turn their attention to TIali. He raises both his arms to slice at the throats of the two guards. Both falling down to the ground with "thumps" pointing to his ship "Come on everyone on!"
After Tiali set the severely injured Twi'lek down, Kay knelt to check on her. As expected, the poor girl was dead. The trauma was just too much and help was too far away. She gently closed the girls eyes with her palm and looked up just as she heard the two thumps. There stood Tiali with blades out, blood dripping from them. Did he have to kill the guards? She had seen enough death already.
Kay got to her feet and headed to the ship, speaking softly to Tiali as she passed him. "The Twi'lek is gone..." She almost hated Thraxis for what he had done, but her first priority was her freedom. She could hate him later. Quickly she headed up the ramp, looking for the cockpit as she needed to send out a message to her friends and the ship would have better range than her comms. Was this the same ship that she had been in before when Tiali saved her from Thraxis months earlier? If so then she knew where the cockpit would be. Otherwise she'd just look through random doors.
What was that... laser fire...? An unidentified flying ship hurtling towards the planet..? Adam's scanners were going crazy, it was almost annoying.. But he went along with it. "Activate all systems.."
Somewhere deep within the planet a large amount of power was gathered, a sudden server room starting up, the electricity of the city above flickered for a moment and plumes of smoke rose from a far away landmark. Within the room servers were seen lining the walls, beginning to light up.. holocrons coming to life and depicting images of the planet, and then of the sky.. it moved to the object hurtling towards the planet.. it zoomed in.. "Relay information..." a cold robotic voice spoke, another voice spoke up, a bit brighter and higher. "Relayed, projecting image to main screen." the signal was sent from deep within the ground and to a relay tower before being sent up to two ships in stealth and most un-powered in the atmosphere, relaying them out now to @FlanniganMcnash
Meanwhile on the ground: ADAM began running the boot up Defense Programs, he sent OVERSEER on the mundane process of gathering information while he booted up the Titan program. "Send units out to targeted locations.." the cold mechanical voice rung out, ecohing through the bowels of the server room and the coolant tanks below. ADAM would probably have to deal with it himself, but he figured it was time.. He sent an equal amount of troops to each of the locations marked, East, North, West and south areas while he would takes the center panel to himself... At each of the pages he would send out ten B1-Battle Droids and an equal amount of B2-Super battle droids. Leaving GUARDIAN to oversee them. The Titan program had finally booted up and he was ready to connect. The servers hummed with energy and for a moment everything went dark for the mechanical monster.. but soon, two glowing sensors lit up with a blinding yellow light, within a room within the center base ADAM awoke the Titan, the large mechanical droid that served as his host body. The AI began marching towards the door, grabbing a large shaft and hoisitng it to it's shoulder, the cloak that had previously covered it fell off revealing the Jet Hammer that was often used in conjunction with this bot. He had equiped his Tri-shot to his wrist and was ready to move out. He tested his shield, it worked.. The Mk-1 Titan walked through the automated door and proceeded towards the exit, a transmission came in.
[OVERSEER]
The mundane task of viewing the wreckage was more than enough, floating in the lower atmosphere of the planet in an RRC - Exarch V1 the program received its orders and began relaying back information to [member="Flannigan Mcnash"] and ADAM, as well as sending a third transmission on an open wave that would alert the inhabitants of the base. It showed the wreckage and the turret fire that began taking it out, the camera following it from several different angels, OVERSEER began zooming in, following the trajectory of the flight path, reading the schematics of the ship and looking for any identification codes marked on it. A strange incident occurred, something seemed to have jumped out? maybe it was just scrap, either way it was OVERSEERS job to investigate it tracked the falling object with a ground-cam and as soon as the decent slowed it was obvious it was no debris. It took no time for OVERSEER to relaying this information back to ADAM and then to GUARDIAN before sending the transmission on a secure line to [member="Flannigan Mcnash"].
[GUARDIAN]
Simple commands, simple orders.. codes upon codes ran through the program as it commanded the battalions of droids to begin moving into location, it hovered on the other side of the planet relaying its signal through several points on the planet in it's stealthed RRC - Exarch V1. The troops would be in position before whatever had came landed.. Along hopefully with ADAM, Guardian attempted to send a command signal to ADAM, the registry set as [DROID] However it did nothing but rebuttal the system. the information relayed successfully and GUARDIAN sent out a small squadron of Droid Fighters after the falling ship to investigate.
[ADAM]
The information gain and relative time was more than perfect, ADAM had been standing at a crossroad and now took the shortest route to whatever had tried to land here... The Droids met up with him in the hallway, they would arrive shortly before the man landed due to their knowledge of the base. The B1's seemed to be tiny in comparison to the Large Titan that led the charge, the Lion's mouth on the wrist of the bot opened, the shield activated.. The defence peramaters began activating behind him, blast-proof doors sealed three layers thick and ceiling-mounted turrets sprang to life, cameras everywhere as well as pressure plates.. Nothing was getting in, or out of this building without ADAM's knowledge.. not today. The program file [TITAN] opened and he began running it, the gears of the large droid spun and sprang into life, steam escaped from the shoulders as the shoulder-mounted anti-personel rockets were fit into place. His sensors went into overdrive and the central processing unit kicked in, the in-take lines of coolant turned blue and seemed to chill the suit, the large hulking brute of a droid was steaming.. He stepped out of the last checkpoint and onto the location where the flesh-creature was landing... Ready, and waiting. He would say nothing, but stand there with his twenty droids behind him, hammer over the right shoulder of the gargantuan droid.
Tiali Looks to Lady Kay letting out a deep sorrowful breath "Sorry we couldn't save her." he quickly slides the blades back into there cases, turning he runs towards the gang plank of his ship quickly running inside heading straight for the controls.
Closing the gang plank with enough time for Visper to get aboard, if she wants. He activates the engines and pushes forward on the throttle, He falls back into his seat from the sudden force. He put's in the clearance codes for the Cartel system so they won't be shot at and begins to make his way into the atmosphere.
"We tried...that's what matters." She followed him into the cockpit and barely sat down before he punched in the codes and brought the ship high into the sky. She could have made a smart remark about him not giving her a warning first and letting her get strapped in, but they were on the run at the moment.
"Thank you for saving me. Again. The Cartel is not going to like you for a while. I'm sorry if you've lost your job over this." It was a crazy turn of events and she needed to know why he was doing this, why turn against his employers?
It was dark and dank with a claustrophobic feel and look about, the way can melded and formed around the space of the ship with grates leading to wire panels and terminals that shone a fluorescent green in the ship's gloom, susurration of the paper work and clutter that hung from the near by air-vent, than through a moment became a fierce rustling, tendrils of smog hung heavy on the floor coalescing around the ankles of those individuals aboard the ship.
"Ah," he paused taking a deep breath from his helmet drawing deep from his supply of his helmets air, he shook his head from side to side one might imagine from those small movements and mannerisms that he'd be smiling under his helmet. "Probably don't wanna breath that in."
'snap' the door of the ship clapped shut, plungeoning the ship into darkness only the soft glow of the terminals could see, and all was coated in thick blankets of fog that drifted down from the air vents. Coma gas is an odorless gas used to incapacitate most species of humanoids. Its use varied from riot control to full combat operations and saw widespread use throughout the galaxy. Various forms of coma gas were used in boarding harpoons by many pirates and privateer organizations, including the Rebel Alliance.
Tiali's Air supply quickly dwindled in the dim darkness of the ship until it was futile.
Don't breathe it in? So says the guy with a helmet to the lady with none! She held her breath like mist would and then got to her feet, hurrying towards the door, but only to see it slam shut. How the heck did that happen?
Now the room was dark and unable to hold her breath any longer, Kay felt lightheaded. "...Tiali?..." No! No! Don't go to sleep! That was all that she thought before she fell to the floor in a heap. Then there was nothing but a warm fuzzy feeling enveloping her like a warm hug. Such a happy place to be in before she fell unconscious.
"Mission a success." they moved into the center [member="Tiali Orazio"], ship. They'd look like a ramshackle beggars, or a useless drunks. Baggy pants and old dull shirts usually with two buttons missing, and around their waist was tied a wide black tasselled sash. With the occasional coat, but most importantly they wore a filtration system, a small device to funnel out the coma gas."Major Domo Mcnash, cargo has been secured.."
It was a coded signal, few knew about the plan and all things leading up to this, well they had gone the way he wanted. The appearance of Jaster of Clan Awaud, to the sudden rescue attempt. All leading up to loosing [member="Lady Kay"], and after all he couldn't be blame for whatever happened to her next, she was enjoying the hospitality of Hutt's afterall and was kidnapped, taken unlawfully from her close friend's. "Good begin transport."
The ship began to break atmosphere, hurtling towards distance stars, it was cloaked or at least the Cartel made it disappear.
