Public Routine Patrol

[Dayjer Haspar]

Location: Corellian Sector

<Alright, keep it tight, easy to get bogged down in the civilian traffic.>

Dayjer’s order goes over his comm to the three other X-Wings in his patrol, as the flight weaves through the near endless stream of freighters and yachts that clogged the space lane. These patrols were almost always boring, aside from the occasional smuggler that they manage to spook, or even more rare pirate raid, it’s almost always the same, a long, easy flight through, generally, open space. The last part was why Dayjer always volunteered for the Corellian patrol, the extra traffic gave him some form of challenge, enough to alleviate the boredom.

<Why do we even bother, Gearbox? What’s the point of these patrols?> one of his wingmen asked.

<Because, Ringo, it’s better to be ready for anything, and nothing happen, than to be ready for nothing, and anything happen. These patrols allow us to respond to small threats ourselves, while being able to report bigger ones to command, so more forces can be mobilized.> Dayjer responds, banking his X-Wing to avoid colliding with a bulk freighter. Ringo was right, in all his years of service, all the flight hours he logged on patrol, he could count on one hand the number of times anything exciting happened…

 

[Dezik Agorr]

Location: Corellian Sector
Objective: Sneak out of Alliance Space
Tags: Dayjer Haspar

Mercenary work is never easy, from untrustworthy clients to bad intel on missions, there was always something to be worried about. The thing that Dezik hated most though? Government oversight. The Alliance was a no go zone for the Adjudicators, an Alliance Peacekeeping certificate which allowed bounty hunters and mercenaries to operate was something that the Adjudicators didn't possess. It's not that they didn't want to the work that they could get in Alliance space, it's that for the past decade the mercenary company had been one of Marlon Sularen's top enforcers, at first fighting a shadow war in Alliance space against his rivals then openly fighting Alliance military after Sularen fled Byss and sided with the Brotherhood of the Maw. Even though the Adjudicators had ceased all work with Sularen and the Maw, their association with him and his organization made them keen to avoid Alliance law enforcement whenever possible.

The Blue Star, a modified and up-armed T-60 Freighter moved slowly along the spacelane. They had just completed a mission hunting a runaway Nemoidian financial administrator looking to sell information on a Trade Baron to competitors on Aargau. Unfortunately for the ex-administrator, he met a grim end in the vacuum of space after being hunted, boarded and jettisoned out of the airlock of his ship by Dezik and a squad of marines on the Blue Star who had been hired to silence him. But while their mission had ended in success, their hunt led them into Alliance territory and Corellian space, and their ship which was covered in carbon scoring and overheated weapons from attacking the Nemoidian's vessel, stuck out like a sore thumb as they tried to sneak back out the system.

"How long until we clear the system and can make the jump?" Dezik asked leaning over the pilots console.

"At the rate we're going we'll be here for another half rotation." the pilot said to the Sergeant.

He turned his head around to one of his men who was slicing into a console with a fusion cutter. "And our transponder? You get that working yet?" The man continued slicing until Dezik tapped him with his boot.

"This is delicate work so don't disturb me. Whatever ship those bankers in Aargau gave to our man packed a punch and rocked us real good." he said before getting back to his job.

This wasn't looking great and what was even worse was as Dezik looked out the viewport he made out 3 X-wings patrolling the space lanes and heading in the general direction of the Blue Star. Maybe Dezik would get lucky and they wouldn't pay much attention to The Blue Star.

 

[Dayjer Haspar]

Dayjer was a little ahead of the other three fighters, scanning ships as he went by, mostly just to pass the time, not expecting to find anything, until one ship in line pinged on his scanner, upon closer inspection, it showed that their transponder wasn't functioning, should be routine, he comms the others in formation as he maneuvers around to the craft.

<Unidentified craft, your transponder seems to be non functioning, everything alright?> he comms on a hailing frequency.

Dezik Agorr

 

[Dezik Agorr]

Location: Corellian Sector
Objective: Sneak out of Alliance Space
Tags: Dayjer Haspar

It was as if the whole cockpit of the ship stopped to stare at the X-Wings as they approached. All his hope of an easy way out of the System was dashed when the pilot's console lit up and flashed indicating an incoming transmission. Dezik then had to watch helplessly as the X-Wings broke off from their patrol route and around the freighter. The pilot gave Dezik a nervous look before opening the transmission and the voice of the Alliance pilot filled the room.

<Unidentified craft, your transponder seems to be non functioning, everything alright?>

Dezik shot the man who was fixing the transponder a glare and all he had to offer back was a shake of his head. The attention that he so desperately wanted to avoid had been brought on them. Yet maybe he could still talk his way out of this, after all, it didn't seem like the Alliance pilots suspected much.

Dezik took his helmet off, leaned over the pilot and tapped on the comm link. <"This is uh, Blue Star to Alliance X-wing."> he said hesitantly, he hadn't really prepared much. <"We're having some malfunctions with our transponder unit. Hyperdrive spat us out in an asteroid belt and it roughed up some internal systems is all.">

He released the button and turned back to the technician "We need that working now." he said erratically.

"No promises. We might need to start thinking of an alternate way out." the man replied. He was right but those weren't the words Dezik wanted to hear.

 

[Laphisto]

Corellia. It had been far too long since he had last seen the planet, but it hardly changed in the last five thousand years or so since he had been there. Arrived through hyperspace in a Forray class Corvette, one of the first ships of its line that had undergone production when the Lilaste Order began to manufacture ships on mass. He had chosen to arrive at this place in a low-armed vessel for the sake of being conspicuous, lest he arrived in a large warship and have every alliance fighter and or frigate in the area attempt to engage him in battle.

" Captain, keep our course, keep weapons offline but leave the Tibana banks charged," gripping his chin in thought, he would perk his lone ear looking over and raising a brow as the navigational officer spoke up. It seemed when they left hyperspace. They dropped out rather close to an altercation that was currently going on. Haven dropped out roughly seven-hundred meters away from the Bluestar and the xwings. The Corvette was far from your standard vessel and was quite clearly a warship, as indicated by the serial numbers, emblem, and the number of weapons littering the hull.

" just keep moving, pretend as if we don't see them, if they don't hail us, then we can move on by with no problems, this traffic stop is of no concern to us." in truth he had no idea exactly what alliance law was nor if his ship was currently breaking any of those laws, all he could do was hope to be ignored

 

[Dayjer Haspar]

The arrival of the corvette had put Dayjer on edge, as he switched over to the group’s secure channel.

<Keep an eye on that Forray, but don't engage.> he orders

<Copy that, Gearbox.> one of the pilots reply as two X-Wings break from the formation.

Back to this the Blue Star, <Thats unfortunate, do you require assistance?>?he asks, still uneasy.

Meanwhile, the two X-Wings that broke formation approach the Forray, keeping their distance and not hailing.

Dezik Agorr Laphisto

 

[Dezik Agorr]

Location: Corellian Sector
Objective: Sneak out of Alliance Space
Tags: Dayjer Haspar Laphisto

So far so good. The new corvette appeared on the Blue Star's sensors but Dezik payed little attention, when analyzed the ship didn't appear to be a Galactic Alliance vessel. He also still had to wriggle his way out of the impromptu inspection by the X-wings and as his mother always said, one problem at a time.

<"Uh, no need officer, we should be able to so-"> he was interrupted by a sparks that sprayed across the cockpit from the transponder terminal. Dezik didn't even want to look over to see what was going on with the transponder but something told him that it wasn't going to be working any time soon. He took a sigh before continuing to speak with the X-wing's pilot. <"We may not be able to get our transponder working again but we've got places to be and don't have time to stop for maintenance. I know we need a working transponder but uh, I'm sure we can work something out."

The pilot turned to Dezik with slight shock on his face. "Was that an attempt at a bribe?"

Dezik shrugged. "I left it to their interpretation."

"Well it's not coming out of my paycheck. I've got a bonus from this job and I'm not funding some orange jumpsuit's next holiday." Even in an inspection by Alliance pilots money is at the forefront of everyone's minds. Such is the way with mercenaries.

 

[Laphisto]

" sir we are being followed by two x-wings they have yet to hail us should we power up shields?" although it was worrisome to have the ships on their tail, he would shake his head gently, the ship was plenty prepared to take on two measly fighters if it came to a skirmish. at the very least they could hold them off long enough to ensure a hyperjump to safety, they were cautious, nothing more.

"negative keep the course and try and bring us to the rendezvous point; if need be, we may need to either blend into traffic or shake the fighters on our tail." he would grip his chin in thought momentarily with a small frown when the decision to sell some of the Lilaste orders equipment was made to help provide funding for the fledgling faction. and so most of their cargo consistent of weapons

 

[Dayjer Haspar]

Dayjer rolled his eyes within his cockpit, he wasn’t law enforcement, and he had no inclination to fill out the reports associated with detaining the vessel, he does run the vessel name: Blue Star, through CorSec, just to be thorough.

<Roger that, Blue Star, see to it you get that repaired, I won’t hold you up for it though.>

He checks for a response from CorSec, seeing the response, he sighed, he had to babysit the ship a little longer, seems CorSec wanted to question the crew about some incident or another.

<Actually, Blue Star, I’m being told some folks at CorSec need a word with your crew, so looks like you’ll have some time to get that transponder going.>

Meanwhile, the other X-Wings continue to tail the Forray, as long as it showed no hostility or any other reason, they wouldn’t engage.*

Dezik Agorr Laphisto

 

[Dezik Agorr]

Location: Corellian Sector
Objective: Sneak out of Alliance Space Blast out of Alliance Space
Tags: Dayjer Haspar Laphisto

Dezik had his head dipped as he heard the words come through from the X-wings. He smiled and gave the pilot and gave the pilot a pat on the back. His heart dropped when Dayjar rescinded his words. CorSec, of course CorSec wanted a word. If he could guess, it was something to do with the Nemoidian's ship they left damaged and adrift in their space and their proximity of the Blue Star to it when it went dark.

Agorr hated CorSec, his father was an officer and condemned Dezik to a life in the underworld after he found out his mother was pregnant. If he could guess, dad was lounging in some pent house, spending the rest of his days living off a fat pension and bribes he took to look the other way. Maybe Dezik could talk his way out of CorSec like he was doing with the Alliance pilots. But he didn't want to risk it, and like hell was he going to leave his fate at the hands of CorSec again.

"Charge shields and engines." Dezik said with little hesitation.

"So we're making a run for it eh?" the pilot said with a smirk.

"Just do it." he replied.

Dezik pushed the commlink button once more to speak to the X-wing pilot. "Sorry about all the paperwork you're gonna have to get done after this." he said smugly before taking a seat in the co-pilot seat.

In an instant the T-60 frigate swerved starboard and out of the space lane and boosted forward, on a path straight towards the system's edge.

 

[Dayjer Haspar]

“Kriffin hell!” Dayjer exclaims <All ships, we’ve got a runner, Ringo, with me, Slinger, Stinger, move to intercept, it’s the T-60 making for the egress point, fire only to disable, and only when clear, we don’t want civilian casualties!>

He punches it as his X-Wing rockets through the space lane, trying to regain lost ground on the Blue Star,

<R6, reroute auxiliary power to engines, give me everything you can!>

*After a series of twills and beeps, R6 does as he’s told, and Dayjer slowly begins to gain ground on the Blue Star, Ringo struggles to keep up while Slinger and Stinger break off of the Forray to attempt an intercept course.

Dezik Agorr Laphisto

 

[Dezik Agorr]

Location: Corellian Sector
Objective: Sneak out of Alliance Space Blast out of Alliance Space
Tags: Dayjer Haspar Laphisto

The shipped rocked left and right as the T-60 flew to avoid the X-wings. The pilot tapped on the console as he flew the ship, a display lit up showing the radar with the X-wings closing in on the T-60. "They're gaining, we're fast but we're not X-wing fast." he said. Dezik studied the radar, open space against snub fighters wasn't exactly a fight he could win.

In an instant he tapped on his own console, bringing the twin blaster cannons to power. "Bring us close to one of the space lanes, let's see if we can lose them in a bit of panic and debris." he replied.

The Blue Star swerved back into a space lane filled with slower moving cargo ships and immediately began opening fire on everything in their path, sending debris flying out and ships streaming out of the lane in every direction to avoid the blaster fire.

"When can we jump?" he asked inbetween shots of the cannon.

"We just got to reach the edge of the system and away from all this traffic. Nav says we stay on this course." he replied

 

[Dayjer Haspar]

Dayjer expertly maneuvered through thd scattering ships, trying to get a lock with his targeting computer, until now, he’d had no intentions of firing, but the moment they started attacking civilians, all bets were off, he just needed to get a little closer. He wasn’t going to risk hitting any civilian craft, if he could disable the ship’s engines, a CorSec patrol could board it and deal with the crew.

He acquires a lock, and fires a short burst of laser fire, which simply bounces off the craft’s shields, maybe that would be enough.

<Blue Star, cease fire on civilian craft and power down, or my next shot will do more that drain your shields!>

He toggles his torpedo launchers, and acquires a lock, he had no intention of firing yet, but they didn’t need to know that, all they needed to know is he had a lock and could do it.

Dezik Agorr Laphisto

 

[Laphisto]

As the Foray class vessel continued its path, he sighed in relief when the tailing x-wings began to pull off and chase the freighter, which he wasn't expecting with the sudden jostle of the ship coming under fire. With the shields, the strikes that hit the hull seemed to be okay. Still, when one lucky shot struck one of the LO-21H turrets, it incited a chain reaction setting off the Live rounds and sending Shrapnel flying all around the vessel and into nearby ships. As the live rounds began cooking off, alarms would blare within the cockpit as safety devices engaged, venting all live rounds from the gun into the emptiness of space.

" Damage Report?!" turning to his navigational officer, the Kiev'arian would grumble, ear pinned back on his head," sir, we were fired upon by the freighter. It seems the x wings have begun engaging. In the initial blast, one of our anti-fighter weapons began cooking off, and the safety device kicked in and prevented further damage. The freighter is still firing upon civilian vessels." with a frown, he would grip his chin in thought. This wasn't his fight or his problem, but his moral compass told him to intervene if innocent people would get hurt. Besides, it wouldn't hurt much to have a favor owed by the alliance. " Understood, Lieutenant. Push the engines forwards, raise the shield, and arm weapons. Push us into range of that freighter and open fire on their engine systems."

Within a moment, the Foray would shift its direction engines at full power and push its way towards the freighter, weapons armed. And once in range, the underside cannon would begin firing slug rounds at the ship's engine bay