Little Black Box (Salvage/Reconstruction)

[Thane Drexel]

Location: Dry Docks over Geonosis

Thane Drexel, Benefactor to the Alliance, was looking over the teams that moved in on the derelict Antilles SD. Captured in the fight against the ACA. He tasked engineering teams with finding the black box in the command deck of the ship. All of the surviving crew members of the ship were being held until the location of home could be located. Once this happened, they'd be returned to their familes.

For now, the ship was being repaired and refitted to Rebel specifications. Adding the new ion cannons* that had recently been developed. With the damaged ship in hand, it was the gosl to find who the Alliance had faced, and find their tactics.

He hoped he'd not be alone on this refit. It was a long and boring process. He'd need some friends to occupy the time.

Antilles-http://starwarsrp.net/topic/27356-antilles-class-star-defender/
*http://starwarsrp.net/topic/55355-scion-20m-mounted-cannon/

 

[Davin Jusik]

Max looked over the damaged ship and gave a low whistle at the extent of the devastation those corporate stooges had caused. The Director wore his Naval Uniform that designated him as a Lieutenant in the Star Fighter Corp. Due to the autonomy of his cells he was rarely called upon to do anything that physically required him to be present. He mostly sent orders via computer or datapad and called it a day. Or filed through reports.

He'd joined the Navy to give him something to do and hide his true status.

"Nice bit of hurt the bastards put on it, eh?" Max said to [member="Thane Drexel"] from behind sunglassed eyes.

 

[Krasnaya Xue]

Krasnaya was no less than eager to take a step aboard the vessel before her. She had been on the Skywalker (before it too was nearly annihilated) during her daring attack run that had left the Antilles-class destroyer in the condition it was now in. The Rebels had only survived the recent battle at Geonosis--not achieved victory in an overwhelming sense. But it was simply enough to be called a victory, and she would. They had been outgunned and survived, and that was what mattered.

"Benefactor Drexel, this is Admiral Xue on approach," she announced over the comms as her shuttle neared the battered hulk of the 'Ghosts of Corellia' flagship. The Alliance had a fairly solid theory of who had been in charge of the mercenary forces that had joined the ACA, but confirmation had not yet been obtained. Even today, she was more often thinking about the stealth ship that had come out from hiding to attack them than the star destroyer they had come to salvage. It was a very unique and distinct design, and with a little bit of intense research, she hoped the Rebels could identify who it belonged to.

After latching on to a docking port, the Admiral of the Red Fleet stepped aboard the Nine Hells and took a moment of pause to examine the hallway. It was perhaps not as pristine as it had originally been, but it was still, without a doubt, one of the more polished ship interiors she had tread. This was no typical pirate vessel.

"Benefactor?" she called as she meandered through the corridors.

[member="Maximilian Vinticus"], [member="Thane Drexel"], [member="Wan Min Brightsky"]

 

[Thane Drexel]

[member="Krasnaya Xue"] [member="Maximilian Vinticus"]

He had not gotten used to his title yet, and hearing it from the Admiral made it sound even more strange. Not weeks ago had he been Captain. But the times shown had rendered his need to fill the role necessary.

"Glad to have you Admiral Xue, we are on the dry dock, we will join you shortly. The crew chief should be on the bridge. It has been sealed from the vacuum and is safe to poke about." Thane spoke into the comm. Turning to Max...

"Those bastards were the Admiral and myself, Maxy. This ship had fought alongside the ACA. We punished the Mercenary fleet for their mistake, but the Skywalker was all but lost in the battle." He pointed to the second dry dock where another ship was being repaired.

"Let us join the Admiral onboard. The black box should be in the bridge and then you can get your sticky fingers all over it. I am looking to use this against the ACA the next time we met."

Thane turned and walked for the nearest docking tube to enter the ship that almost killed his admiral.

 

[Davin Jusik]

[member="Thane Drexel"] [member="Krasnaya Xue"]

Max chuckled at the man's comment before following the pair into the vessel. They'd really done a number on the thing. He looked critically about the damaged vessel.

 

[Wan Min Brightsky]

[member="Thane Drexel"] [member="Krasnaya Xue"]

Admiral Brightsky looked over the shattered form of the Antilles-Class SD in spacedock and shuddered at the memories of the space battle. She remembered watching from a distance as the star destroyer that now sat before her in the dry dock fired back in anger at her fleet. Now, it hung in space lifeless and awaiting the swarms of repair crews that would bring it back to life as a weapon of the Rebel Alliance. While she was all in favor of giving her fleet as many new weapons as possible, this one seemed a bit too...grim for her likings. The pile of dead that had fallen in order for this ship to be where it was made her shudder as she looked at a particularly nasty turbolaser hole on the hull. She thumbed her comm.

"This is Admiral Brightsky to Benefactor Thane and Admiral Xue. I'm here. What's the story?"

 

[Thane Drexel]

[member="Wan Min Brightsky"] [member="Maximilian Vinticus"] [member="Krasnaya Xue"]

Thane looked at his comm as Brightsky radioed in.

"We are playing with our new toy. Once it's redurbished, we can use it to pay back our friends in the CIS-ACA-TU or whichever acronym they're going with now. They will get to see what real engineers can do and then take the fight back to them. Meet us on the bridge of the Nine Hells."

"Maxy, get to the black box and use whatever you need to unlock it's secrets."

"Admiral Xue, anything fun in there? Captain's quarters?"

 

[Thane Drexel]

[member="Wan Min Brightsky"] [member="Maximilian Vinticus"] [member="Krasnaya Xue"]

Thane arrived at the bridge and with the crew at work, it was quite noisy. This allowed him to walk up behind the Admiral and surprise her. Or try.

"Boo!...Isn't she lovely?" He asked to anyone and everyone, "And the ship is cing along nicely too."

Thane stood next to Krasnaya and peered at the consoles all around as they were being repaired and rebooted. Once Max got the black box, the Rebels could implement their own box and protocols to run the ship. It would be a grand vessel that Thane was going to claim as his own. It had tremendous fire power and great armor. It had taken the entire Rebel fleet to neutralize this ship during the invasion, it would be a good ship for the Benefactor to use...

Acuired in the invasion, but Nine Hells was an inadequate name. He would rename this SD "The Iridonian Car Bomb"

 

[Lief]

This Thread is being Archived, as the ship in question was never obtained.​