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First Reply Selling Looted Technology

Sᴛᴇᴀᴅʏ ᴛʜᴇ Hᴀɴᴅ ᴀɴᴅ ᴛʜᴇ Mɪɴᴅ Fᴏʟʟᴏᴡs

Jedi Knight Dark Forces II - Reimagined
Location: Rimmer's Rest - Nar Shaddaa - Backroom Storehouse
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Stolen Products Available: Osmium-class Hyperpath Engine 2x, Gene Sequence Modulator 30x, Synthetic Catalyst 30x, Ordinance Launcher Blueprints 2x, Boarding Drones 30x

The atmosphere inside the storehouse hidden deep in Rimmer's Rest hung thick with recycled oxygen and the sharp bite of industrial lubricant. Slivers of Nar Shaddaa's neon skyline bled through hairline cracks in the durasteel walls, splashing erratic streaks of electric blue and sickly pink across the stacked crates.

Medrol stood motionless at the center of it all, a black and gold specter. His matte armor drank in the crimson backlighting from the arched alcoves behind him, the helmet's twin antennae rising like blades above a blood-red triangular visor edged in cold yellow. A heavy midnight cape draped his shoulders, pinned at the throat by a stark white skull emblem that matched the one emblazoned across his chest.

One gloved hand rested on the grip of a heavy repeating blaster angled downward. Not a single unnecessary movement only the quiet, calculated presence of a man who had traded Mandalorian honor for the Dar'manda Gunrunners. Nar Shaddaa had never recovered from the Black Sun Syndicate's collapse.

In the power vacuum that followed, Medrol had carved out several sectors for himself, backed by the fractured remnants of the Hutt Cartel though their support came at a merciless price in tribute. To feed their appetite, he had arranged tonight's meeting with a prospective buyer interested in the premium ordnance he had stripped from an under-defended Trade Federation freighter that wandered too close to the Smuggler's Moon.

His helmet turned a fraction as the massive blast doors hissed open from the main cantina area.


 
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Saram Kote

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G-02H/S Shev'la'galaar-class Heavy Stealth Gunship Galaar 1-1
En route to Roche, Redirecting to Nar Shaddaa

Davaab had been on three deployments across a not insignificant reach of space virtually one after another, even Saram was looking forward to unwinding a little once they got to Roche to resupply. The rammikade of Davaab squad were pulling the last dregs of their supplies from secure storage containers as Saram read the priority redirect notice for the second time. Some di'kuthad made the mistake of stealing from the Trade Federation, and unfortunately for them, her unit was close enough to respond. To their credit, the Trade Federation had been quick to respond, and between the company and the Trade Federation they'd tracked down the stolen cargo before long.

As their gunship broke through the planet's atmosphere under full stealth, burning as fast as Rav could push it without compromising their stealth profile, for once the cabin was quiet. Well, relatively quiet. "Who's di'kutla enough to steal from the Trade Federation again? "asked Ran, her 2IC, their tactical plan fresh on his mind but the details still a little foggy evidently.

"We're not quite sure yet," she responded as she checked the magazine she'd loaded into her rifle only moments ago, ret'lini, "We'll just have to ask them when we're shooting them in the face and getting our client's cargo back." She was of course, joking. Depending on how this went, they could probably do a little digging while they were there. Depending on, of course, who had the cargo and how much of a fight they were going to put up. Shame too, Rimmer's Rest, had a decent collection of gal.

Ran snorted in response. The cabin lights shifted to green a moment later, cutting off further conversation as Rav's voice cut in over the intercom, "We'll be over the target in two minutes." Without further prompting, Davaab stood to their feet without missing a beat. The squad's medical interface on her HUD showed that they had all taken a dose of stims, not that it was going to make any of them jumpy. The bright lights of the smuggler's moon shone below, and just as they had every other time she had the misfortune of being here, they only served to remind her how many unfortunate shabuire might be desperate enough to get between her and hers and their objective for the chance at a paycheck.

Without needing to prompted, one by one the other rammikade of Davaab tossed themselves out into the brightly lit sky, visible only as outlines on her HUD for the most part. Her HUD of course picked up ever the hint of an oily strain in the vague shape of a human, but she had enough kit in her buy'ce to lift some of the aforementioned unfortunate shabuire down there out of generational poverty. Saram took a breath and leapt off the ramp when it came to her turn, joining the others in rough loose formation as they fell on invisible wings of fire.

Green status signals flashed in series, outlines shifting as her vode readied weapons. Davaab quickly separated into two fireteams, Ran leading one and her the other. Ran's fireteam was supposed to wait for them to deal with the posted sentries so they could work on a way in without blowing the cargo to haran and back. Targeting solution appeared on her HUD as Anila, Rusana and Janar aimed their weapons.

"Tra'cyar," she whispered into her buy'ce's mic. Barely a heartbeat later, she squuezed the trigger on her rifle, sending a massive APFSDS round at one of the sentires stationed outside. Another heartbeat and between breaths, her rifle spat again, this time another sentry. Anila and Rusana's rifles silently spat SLAP rounds at a pair of sentires as well. Vikhar's verpine shatter flechette launcher silently added a pair of guided flechettes to the opening salvo. "Comm jamming," she whispered unnecessarily over both squad comms and to their gunship, armor-mounted vid-vox scramblers and comm jamming tuned security blades going live. A moment later, the Hyperwave Beacon Scrambler on their gunship overhead went live, an estimated area of effect appearing on her battlenet generated TACMAP.

 
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Jedi Knight Dark Forces II - Reimagined
Location: Rimmer's Rest - Nar Shaddaa - Backroom Storehouse
Attn: Saram Kote Saram Kote

Stolen Products Available: Osmium-class Hyperpath Engine 2x, Gene Sequence Modulator 30x, Synthetic Catalyst 30x, Ordinance Launcher Blueprints 2x, Boarding Drones 30x

The blast doors groaned open, admitting a wiry Rodian whose scarred mandible and dust-speckled cloak still carried the grit of Tatooine's dunes. Emon slinked inside, bulbous eyes sweeping the stacked crates before locking onto the armored figure at the center of the storehouse.

Medrol did not move from his spot, as several Gank henchmen, hulking cybernetically enhanced killers armed with Concussion Rifles, stood motionless in the shadows around the perimeter, their unblinking optics fixed on the newcomer.

Emon approached with careful, measured steps and offered a shallow bow. "Medrol," he rasped through the translator clipped to his neck. "My associate sends his regrets for not coming in person. Word is you've got premium goods, Osmium-class Hyperpath Engines, Gene Sequence Modulators, the works. Straight from a Fed freighter. Risky snatch."

Medrol's helmet tilted a fraction. The red triangular visor reflected nothing. "They arrived on the market yesterday," he stated, voice flat and metallic through the helmet's modulator. "Stolen before the Trade Federation could tag them. Continue."

Emon rubbed his clawed hands together, circling a crate still marked with faint Trade Federation stenciling. "Impressive haul. My associate offers five hundred thousand for the entire lot, engines, modulators, catalysts, blueprints, boarding drones. All in." Medrol's armored fingers tightened once on the blaster grip, the only outward sign of movement.

When he spoke again, the words were laced with venom. "Five hundred thousand is an insult. Those engines alone are worth that on Coruscant. One-point-two million. Or I sell to the Pykes. They pay in spice and silence." Emon's gaze darted sideways, weighing the absurdly high demand for goods that still carried corporate recovery beacons.

A sudden static hiss sliced through the air as the wall-mounted comm panels went dead. The holographic display above the crates flickered once, then vanished. Emon's portable unit buzzed uselessly in his palm, spitting only white noise.

"What in the voids?" Emon snarled, tapping the device. "Network's down. Jammers?"

Medrol's helmet turned toward the hidden control alcove where Saram Kote Saram Kote had just triggered the blackout. His voice remained level, colder than the durasteel walls. "Interference." He raised one gloved hand in a single, precise gesture toward the two nearest Ganks. "Junction tower. Now. Kill anything that moves and restore connection."

The Ganks' cybernetic servos whirred as they disengaged their rifle safeties and lumbered toward the side exit, vanishing into the shadowed corridors of Rimmer's Rest without a word. Medrol's red visor returned to Emon, unblinking.


 
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Saram Kote

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Watching the sentires go down, she knew it wasn't going to be long before they put two and two together and sent reinforcements. After all, if they had the gett'se and capability to steal from the Trade Federation, then they couldn't be total di'kute. "Ran, wall?" she asked as she checked her HUD for any sign that her beskar'gam's state of the art detection suite had picked up any sign of hostile contact.

"Working on it, wall's a little thicker than we'd hoped," replied Davaab's 2IC. The TACMAP refreshed, showing TWT-01 Thermal Well Tape affixed to the wall. That was when her armor picked up the hostile contacts. Ganks, it seemed. Well, shab, that complicated things a little. She marked the area for suppressive fire from Vikhar while she, Anila and Rusana kept their weapons trained on the entrance.

The moment the Ganks croseed the threshold, Vikhar opened up with a hail of GVSR-FAC Guided Flechette cannisters. With barely a few fractions of a second's delay she and Rusana put GVSR-SAMR Guided APFSDS and GVSR-SR Guided SLAP rounds from their AMR-4M Verpine Shatter Anti-Materiel Rifle and BR-6B Verpine Shatter Battle Rifle respectively at the pair of Ganks.

Ran's team in the meanwhile finally got to detonating their explosive charge. The hissing of the Thermal Well Tape was easily audible to her helmet's finely tuned audio pickup arrays over the whisper quiet Verpine Shatter weapon discharge and the quiet chaos of the city in the background. In a moment they would likely be in, and they they would see if these two Ganks were all they would be their biggest concern today.
 
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Jedi Knight Dark Forces II - Reimagined

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The two Ganks had a micro-second to react as Vikhar's GVSR-FAC round detonated mid-flight with its characteristic soft thump, the first Gank optics already flaring red in threat assessment, snapped his Concussion Rifle in a blur of cyberneetic speed. He squeezed the trigger even as the guided flechettes began their final course corrections.

A shuttering cone of compressed energy ripped from the weapon, the shockwave slamming into the incoming cloud and deflecting a handful of micro-flechettes wide that made a serious dent in the side of the cantina wall. Several still punched through, one tore into his shoulder in a spray of sparks, another shredded the synth-flesh over his left thigh plating.

The second Gank, reacting a half-second slower, roared a mechanical, guttural distortion and opened up with both barrels on full auto. Concussion blasts hammered the corridor walls, cratering durasteel and sending shrapnel ricocheting in wild arcs. One bolt clipped the lead flechette swarm, scattering more of the baradium darts, buying his partner an extra heartbeat.

But the microcomputer in Vikhar's canister had already designated both targets. The surviving flechettes adjusted in flight, stabilized, course-correcting and slammed home. The first Gank's rifle clattered as his right arm locked up, servos seizing; depleted baradium darts punched through optic lenses, cranial plating, and coolant lines in a violet gush.

He dropped to one knee, still firing blindly until the second volley shredded his neck actuators and he collapsed forward, rifle smoking. The second Gank staggered, chest plate holed in half a dozen places, but his cybernetic rage kept him upright for another two seconds.

He managed one final, defiant burst, concussion screaming past the breach before the last of the flechettes found the gaps in his armor. Joint seals ruptured, synthetic muscle tore, and he toppled sideways into the wall with a metallic clang, optics dimming to black.

Medrol registered the brief exchange through his helmet feed: the Ganks had bought perhaps three seconds of chaos. Enough to confirm the attackers were using guided munitions, and that they weren't amateurs. "They're here for the tech! We're kriffed!" Emon shrieked and flattened himself behind a cargo drum, claws fumbling for a tiny holdout pistol that wouldn't scratch beskar.

"Stay down," Gra'Tracyn ordered, voice flat through the modulator.

 
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Unfortunately for the Ganks, they weren't up against regular troops. Strill's elite covert ops commandos were kitted out with some of the finest kit that money could produce. Armor and augmentation enhanced reflexes made avoiding incoming fire a chore at most, even when fired by skilled, augmented hands. Concussive waves harmlessly rebounded against composite plating. Camouflage suites flickered, revealing phantasmal figures for a moment before flickering back into function.

"Alor, we're in the back, that's a lot of shabla cargo," came the response from Ran as he and his fireteam filtered into what was presumably the back of the cantina to begin what was sure to be the arduous process of actually liberating their client's cargo. Ideally, every one of their client's shipments would have a naval escort, but they sure as shab didn't have enough ships for that. More accurately, there was no way one client could afford to pay for that.

Saram marked a new nav point at the entrance to the cantina before leaping off the perch she was occupying only moments earlier. She, Vikhar, Anila and Rusana quickly leapfrogged toward the entrance of the cantina. "Distraction in a moment, you can't miss it," she commed back as she used the probe attached to her gauntlet-vambrace unit to take a look at what was happening inside the cantina. Using sensor fusion it integrated information from normal light, ultraviolet, and infrared telescopes, meaning the picture-in-picture feed in Saram's HUD had no problem picking heat signatures or seeing in odd lighting conditions.

Using the information they gleaned, Saram and Rusana breached first, Verpine Shatter Battle Rifle and Verpine Shatter Anti-material Rifle up and spitting guided SLAP and APFSDS rounds through the limited available cover at anything that dared raise a weapon. Anila and Vikhar followed, AR-2CQB Verpine Assault Rifle and FL-01 Verpine Shatter Flechette Launcher keeping pace with Guided SLAP and Anti-armor Sabots respectively. That was until enhanced senses and top of the line armor senses picked up on Canm-Bulnu Bi Canm-Bulnu Bi 's presence. "He's mine," she declared over fireteam buy'ce-to-buy'ce laser comms. A series of acknowledgement signals flashed in her HUD.

"Well vode, this is what happens when you're out of the dating game for so long," chimed Viraen over squad comms, no doubt aware of the situation thanks to the 'Manda' battlenet link they all shared. Saram was lying if she later said that she didn't want to empty her magazine where it would probably hurt a little more than elsewhere at that moment. Thankfully for Viraen and her ammunition bill, she was both unwilling and for all intents and purposes unable to do so.

"Vod, with respect, usen'ye, not the time," chimed Ran in response.

Saram didn't stop to thank him, instead she disengaged her armor's cloaking device, selecting the shield generator from the list of subsystems. The generator hummed quietly as it attempted to draw power from her armor's reactor to power its suite of functions. "What's the matter shabuir, don't like it when they shoot back?" she taunted, her rifle up and at the ready, at no point giving him the illusion that she wasn't ready to put a round in him if she needed to.

 
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Jedi Knight Dark Forces II - Reimagined
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He stood motionless as the shimmering cloaking field around Saram Kote Saram Kote dissipated, unveiling the Mandalorian in her full splendor. In that moment, he recognized that he was not merely up against a formidable adversary, but a fellow Mandalorian whose skills either matched or exceeded his own.

While a Strill fireteam armed with cutting-edge weaponry would spell doom for most, he viewed them merely as hurdles in the path of the Dar'manda's ambitions in this region of Hutt Space. "Emon, crawl. Now," he instructed, his voice adopting a mechanical rasp that left no room for delay as the Rodian followed his commands without hesitation, hold-out blaster in hand.

As Saram leveled her rifle, Gra'Tracyn's HUD painted the room in high-contrast thermal and motion vectors. He knew the Verpine shatter firearms were nearly silent and impossibly fast, relying on magnetic acceleration to hurl projectiles at hypersonic speeds. He didn't need to outrun the slug; he just needed to even the playing field.

With a swift flick of his wrist, he deftly retrieved a Gravity Grenade from his belt, its clip designed for quick release allowing him to position it precisely on the floor between them. The countdown began, six seconds ticking away, providing just enough time for him to deliver a stark warning.

"Even with all that advanced equipment, at this range, we will both be subjected to crushing gravity," he stated, his voice steady. He gestured toward the remaining Gank henchmen, who were strategically placed beyond the impending blast zone, their rifles poised and ready.

"You might kill me in one pull of the trigger, but are you prepared to die here as well." The threat hung in the air, underscoring the reality that despite Strill's superior technology, the concentrated firepower of the Ganks at such short range would be more than sufficient to obliterate them while they were immobilized under the intense gravitational force.

 

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"I see your friend there," said Saram, the outline of the crawling Rodian visible on her HUD behind cover. "He can stay there if he prefers" she added, deadpan. That was when the Gravity Grenade landed between herself and the other presumed Mandalorian in painful slow motion. These days of course, you never knew. Even with all the detection equipment she had on her person, she didn't have time.

Her hand fell from the grip and she quickly raised her hand and fired her TBP-01V Tractor-Pressor Beam Projector at the grenade, with the aim of sending down the corridor at the Ganks. Seconds. How long was the fuse? Who the shab knew. "Option three," she spat, fatigue somewhat edging into her voice as oxygenated blood rushed to stretched muscles as fast as they could.

Saram adjusted her stance, grasping her rifle's grip and bringing her heavy rifle back up again. "Alor, we need just a little bit more time, some of this cargo is heavy," chimed Ran over the squad comms. Saram spared a moment's gaze at the 'Manda' battlenet's interface; Ran and his fireteam were still pulling some of the cargo out of the cantina's backroom. Their gunship hadn't come in yet, so the cargo was still out there. Regardless she needed to buy them some time.

 
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The Gravity Grenade was skillfully redirected by Saram Kote Saram Kote using her TBP-01V Tractor-Pressor Beam Projector, steering it away from both of them. Gra'Tracyn adjusted his position slightly, aided by his HUD, which provided real-time guidance on where to move to avoid the impending gravity trap. As the grenade flew past him, it hurtled toward the Gank henchmen behind, creating a moment of tension in the air.

A powerful resonant hum reverberated through the deck, signaling the activation of the grenade down the corridor. In an instant the cybernetic killers were sent crashing to the ground, their mechanical limbs rendered useless, servo screeching in protest as their rifles clattered ineffectively across the duracrete floor.

He recognized the harsh truth of his predicament: this was a fight he was unlikely to win. With a full fireteam encircling the building and a gunship hovering above, relinquishing the cargo seemed the wisest choice to avoid further conflict that could tarnish his standing with the Nar Shaddaa Cartels. Yet, the notion of surrender felt alien to him, a concept that clashed with the Mandalorian principles instilled in him throughout his training.

"Vi Kelir play te geroya gar ara then scum" He growled, his voice a harsh, mechanical rasp that reflected his unyielding determination against insurmountable odds. With a roar, his jetpack ignited, sending a burst of blue-white flames behind him as he surged forward in a blur.

In an instant, he closed the distance to Saram, his gauntleted fists leading the charge. He aimed a thunderous right cross at her helmet, intent on dragging the battle into brutal, close-quarters chaos, hoping to take the Mandalorian leader down with him.

 
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Saram quickly let go of her rifle, letting it hit the deck with a clang. Her enhanced reflexes rendered her opponents' moves into virtually slow motion for her. They couldn't however buy her time. She used precious seconds to kick the rifle away moments before hist fist smacked into her helmet, jarring her. She felt the impact in ring her head, jarring her reinforced skull. What the haran else did she expect from another Mandalorian. "That was a good punch," she taunted in Mando'a. "My turn."

She struck out with a vicious attempt at a rocket-burst augmented leg sweep to attempt to throw him off balance, and then taking advantage of her enhanced reflexes she put the remainder of her momentum into a quick jab to the torso with her knucleplate vibroblade extended. She was hoping the blade would find purchase between his armor plates and taste blood rather than skip off the man's plates. This shabuire just didn't seem to take the hint.

Next measures she took were going to have to be more forceful if he kept this up. As much as she wanted to not have to kill another Mandalorian despite everything, she very much doubted the Trade Federation wanted him alive. Rangir, she was going to try to keep him alive as long as they could both keep up this little dance. Hopefully he would be smart and realize that as fun as this was, it was all over for him, one way or another.
 

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