Junction Storm Chasers || SO and HR Junction of Moorja and Terrijo

[Gavin Restur]

Equipment: Dual Blaster Pistols, Forcepike, Rocket Boots, Rebreather + Tubes, Misc.
TAGS: Glissara , Mercy , Corazona von Ascania , Aurelian Veruna
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As the volley of blaster fire started, his eyes would track where Glissara would cut and move to throw off his aim. At the moment, there was no focus on having accuracy, as he was currently trying to cover as much area as possible with blaster bolts. But, to the surprise of basically no one, the speed of the other was enough to avoid any direct hits from landing on her, with only the equivalent of a grazing wound landing. His hopes of ending this before it had begun were now ruined.

That strategy didn't work. It was time to try something else.

But, before he was able to do such, it was his turn to be momentarily on the defensive. There was a widen of his eyes as the trooper's body language suggested she was about to throw something, before spinning objects that he couldn't even identify due to their speed were now hurling towards him. He broke out into a sprint, running horizontally in a quickened burst of speed to avoid the first object that went for his leg. He skidded to a halt after, practically throwing himself back and rolling to avoid the second. However, it had managed to nick him on his upper arm, leaving a shallow, burning cut. He ended up on a knee after rolling backwards, wincing as he took a brief moment to stare at the wound. Looking back towards the trooper, after.

"Ain't you a quick one..."

Fortunately for him, the wound wasn't debilitating, so his arm still worked. He rose back up to a stand, transitioning from aiming his blasters from his hips, to extending his arms forwards and properly aiming. One of his blasters resumed fire towards the trooper, while the tip of the other began to glow a vibrant yellow, clearly charging something. He figured that, ironically, him properly aiming and shooting would mean he was even less likely to hit the trooper, due to her sheer speed. So, he was firing bolts towards her, not in hopes of hitting her, but to see if he could draw out a pattern from her dodging. After a few moments of this going on, the blaster that was charging something would shoot out a larger, more powerful bolt, aimed towards the ground of where the trooper would dodge into. The bolt would cause a small explosion where it landed, with the ultimate goal being to catch the trooper in the explosion, and launch her onto the floor.

 

[Glissara]

Location: Agriculture Guild Hall - Moorja
Objective: Neutralize the High Republic delegation.
Tag: Gavin Restur Corazona von Ascania Aurelian Veruna Mercy

Glissara’s ultra-augmented nervous system kicked into full drive, her subjective experience of time stretching and stalling as the gunslinger broke into a sprint to dodge her first vibrostar. In an instant, she shifted her attention to the weapon, establishing a mental connection through its data link. The first vibrostar’s kinetic rebounding system activated at her command, causing it to bounce off of a table leg just ten meters behind the gunslinger in a burst of antigravity, instantly refreshing its trajectory.

Only a split-second after the gunslinger had initially dodged it, the vibrostar that Glissara had previously aimed for his left thigh returned from behind him with its cutting mode re-activated, this time flying towards his lower back with blistering speed as he came up onto his knee after his defensive roll!

And through it all, the Shatter Vector had not broken her stride.

A snap of her head. Glissara’s subjective experience of time shifted once more as the gunslinger’s amber-hued bolts came rushing towards her in retaliation. Regardless of whether or not her first vibrostar was successful in its second pass, Glissara kept the same strategy of tightening and widening her movement arc at random to make her path into a dynamic helix that was hard to lead.

Unfortunately, as fast as the Shatter Vector was, she could not evade luck.

An amber-hued bolt zipped in at a sudden, unexpected angle, slamming into Glissara’s torso with enough force to momentarily steal her breath! Her suit visibly flared as the thermal dump saturated the integrated shielding grid, with the feedback surge causing a momentary flicker in her HUD and a sharp tingle to rush down her spine. The kinetic transfer was absorbed, but the jarring impact was felt in her teeth.

Her stride broke.

And Glissara staggered back, off-balance for a crucial moment!

Spoiler: Loadout

• Slipstream Zero Exoskin Mk. I
  
  • Arms
    
    • Modular Attachment Point - R
      
      • FAE/M-02 Energized Forearm Vibroblade Mk. II
  • Face Mask
• Glissara’s Enforcer
  
  • Attachments
    
    • 1-5x FAE/S-08 Electro-Sight
    • Phase I “Susurration” Anti-Sonic Silencer
  • Ammunition
    
    • FAE/AM-01-S2 Energy Weapon Cartridge - Ethaerium X Gas and CryoBan Coolant (20)
• Void Helix-type Aerial Vibrostar (10)
• FAE/MDE-01-S1 Semiautonomous Seeker Thermal Explosive (2)
• Miniaturized Infrared Smoke Grenade (2)
• Siqsa-S1 Semiautonomous Seeker Obscuration Canister (2)

 

[Helix]

Objective: Invest in better cybersecurity later
Equipment: Himself
Tags: Eloise Dinn ​

Helix surged forward as the Jedi caught the thrown desk, intending to give her no room to catch her breath.

One arm melded into a curved, sickle-bladed protrusion, like the limb of a predatory insect. It swung out in a perfectly-aimed decapitating arc... then went ever so slightly off-course as his focus was momentarily yanked away.

The awry blow slammed into an adjacent wall with the force of a charging Gundark, cleaving through the cheap duracrete rebar and creating a sizeable hole. More dust rained from the ceiling, and a portion of it began to collapse as the load-bearing wall exploded outwards into the next room.

Helix felt the intruder still prodding at his defenses, even while the one here was trying to fend him off. At least two, then. They'd coordinated well.

Helix was not quite so easily extinguished as all that, however. His presence was more of a physical corruption than a traditional virus, something that warped and subsumed the machinery (or organic life) that it came into contact with.

Nonetheless, he was a droid at his core, and a cautious one. The portions of himself within the system retreated and reorganized, attempting to find the interloper, but he'd been careful, left no direct way to touch and corrupt him.

Gradually, Helix's consciousness-fragment within the city's systems judged it wiser to evacuate them rather than risk even partial corruption at this stage. Clouds of fine nanites burst from any available exit, leaving the grid as quickly as they could. Their purpose had been served, and now, they were needed back at the core colony, along with the data they'd managed to siphon.

For his part, the effort distracted the colony, if only for the briefest of instants. Enough to ensure the continued existence of the tiny, defiant thing in front of him, and to prevent Helix from entirely sucking the city dry of anything valuable.

Helix lengthened both arms, before plunging them into the already-unsteady floor. A wave of jagged metallic spines, each nearly a meter long, burst from the disintegrating carpet, then rippled outwards towards the Jedi, spreading across walls and ceiling alike as he spread himself through the room's structure.

"Let's see just how fast you really are." The machine rumbled in his strange, echoing chorus of a voice. "Unless you're getting tired."

 

[Darth Nefaron]

ALLIED TAGS: Veradun Sharr, Darth Carnifex, Helix
ENEMY TAGS: Balun Arenais-Dashiell, Ala Quin, Jax Thio, Connel Vanagor, Aurelian Veruna ​

Nefaron's violent assault was all but overwhelming, much to the pleasure of the Dark Lord. His horrid grin all but showed that he reveled in the Jedi's suffering, even as he stubbornly resisted the power of the Dark Side. Yet Nefaron made a common, often deadly mistake in letting his guard down and allowing the boy to free one of his hands, even for the briefest moment, to unleash the perfidious power of the light against him. In an instant, the radiant power of the light side overwhelmed the Sith and scorched him like the rays of the sun, one of his pale hands consumed in burning pain, while he had to turn away violently to prevent any more damage to his already fragile form. The stream of lightning was halted as the Corpse Lord appeared stunned, hunched over with his back turned toward the boy.

A low, furious sound resonated from within the cloak, the Dark Side gathering around Nefaron like a storm.

Yet instead of lashing out, charging the boy with a saber in hand, the Terror Lord opted for his old tricks. One by one, the lights in the room shattered, bits of glass and metal thrown into the air as the pair plunged into utter darkness. The crimson blade of the Sith vanished, leaving only the chill that accompanied one so well versed in the power of the Dark Side.

"You are alone, boy. Alone in the dark, abandoned by your friends, and now you stand before the precipice."

The voice of the Sith echoed, seemingly shifting in the dark.

"I sense your power, so much strength and yet you could do so much more. Why have you not been knighted? Does your master believe you to be too weak for such a heavy burden?"

Again, the voice shifts, from one side to the other.

"You've wounded me. But such is the price of power, something you will learn when I drag you to Anoat and show you what it truly means to embrace the Dark Side."

There was a long moment of silence, then in a sudden rush, the Corpse Lord's voice appeared to be right behind the boy.

"But first I must break you!"​

Along with the fell voice of the Sith came the ignition of his weapon, raised high and now crashing down toward the Padawan with pure hatred and fury guiding the strike. Indeed, Nefaron wanted the boy, but if he insisted on resisting, he would at least show him what it meant to face a true Dark Lord, show him that no matter what his master taught him, he would always pale in comparison to the true nature of the force.