Sic transit gloria mundi
[member="Keira Ticon"]
The dear reader may be justified in wondering what this title has to do with the thread topic. Alas, this writer is not good at coming up with titles. Rest assured, star brat shall not appear and force a red-green-blue ending on us.
Hopefully.
Without further ado, the Ardarvia, a frigate with some guns that served as the Firemane power couple's command ship and mobile home, emerged from the depths of hyperspace, manifesting in orbit above the world Echoy'la. It was a planet with history. Fairly recently discovered, it had been lost to Primeval during Akala's mad rampage across the stars. But now the Mandalorian Crusaders held sway here, having claimed the world as their capital during their Reclamation campaign.
Today, Siobhan Kerrigan had come to visit. The Countess stood aboard the bridge as the stars blurred around her before the ship appeared in real space. Her long red hair cascaded about her shoulders in a true mane that framed her viciously scarred face, hands were clasped behind her back, her stance radiated authority, dignity and more than a little haughtiness, though her eyes betrayed curiosity as she took in the myriad celestial bodies that dotted the cold void.
Truth be told, it was a new experience for her since, so far, she hadn't interacted with the Crusaders. The two Mandalorian factions had almost come to blows in what would have been a probably self-defeating, pointless struggle over who should sit upon the Iron Throne and wear the crown of Mand'alor, before both had joined forces and delivered the death blow to the Republic at Kashyyyk, ending a nation that had been dying for more than a decade.
By now a change of the guard had occured, and a woman by the name of Keira Ticon was anointed as leader of the Crusaders. Of her, Siobhan knew only a little, though she recalled hearing the name during the Republic's so-called Red Dawn crisis, when the media had branded her as 'Lady Vader' for commanding the Lasedri régime's clone army.
Siobhan had her own thoughts about that particular episode, some of which deviated from the mainstream. Much later, Ticon had participated in the negotiations following the Roche Invasion, and in the process she and her clone troopers joined the Mandalorians. It probably said a lot about her as a commander if the soldiers were willing to follow her into the embrace of the Resol'nare and later fight against their former comrades in arms, at least the Countess thought so. Beyond wishing to seek to expand her business, she was interested in meeting this enigmatic woman.
A helmsman infomed her that the appropriate clearance codes had been transmitted to the Mandalorian authorities. Owing to its importance as a capital world and as an, albeit limited, source of beskar, Echoy'la was under heavy guard. Assuming she received permission, the Countess would soon be on her way planetside aboard a shuttle flying Firemane colours.
The dear reader may be justified in wondering what this title has to do with the thread topic. Alas, this writer is not good at coming up with titles. Rest assured, star brat shall not appear and force a red-green-blue ending on us.
Hopefully.
Without further ado, the Ardarvia, a frigate with some guns that served as the Firemane power couple's command ship and mobile home, emerged from the depths of hyperspace, manifesting in orbit above the world Echoy'la. It was a planet with history. Fairly recently discovered, it had been lost to Primeval during Akala's mad rampage across the stars. But now the Mandalorian Crusaders held sway here, having claimed the world as their capital during their Reclamation campaign.
Today, Siobhan Kerrigan had come to visit. The Countess stood aboard the bridge as the stars blurred around her before the ship appeared in real space. Her long red hair cascaded about her shoulders in a true mane that framed her viciously scarred face, hands were clasped behind her back, her stance radiated authority, dignity and more than a little haughtiness, though her eyes betrayed curiosity as she took in the myriad celestial bodies that dotted the cold void.
Truth be told, it was a new experience for her since, so far, she hadn't interacted with the Crusaders. The two Mandalorian factions had almost come to blows in what would have been a probably self-defeating, pointless struggle over who should sit upon the Iron Throne and wear the crown of Mand'alor, before both had joined forces and delivered the death blow to the Republic at Kashyyyk, ending a nation that had been dying for more than a decade.
By now a change of the guard had occured, and a woman by the name of Keira Ticon was anointed as leader of the Crusaders. Of her, Siobhan knew only a little, though she recalled hearing the name during the Republic's so-called Red Dawn crisis, when the media had branded her as 'Lady Vader' for commanding the Lasedri régime's clone army.
Siobhan had her own thoughts about that particular episode, some of which deviated from the mainstream. Much later, Ticon had participated in the negotiations following the Roche Invasion, and in the process she and her clone troopers joined the Mandalorians. It probably said a lot about her as a commander if the soldiers were willing to follow her into the embrace of the Resol'nare and later fight against their former comrades in arms, at least the Countess thought so. Beyond wishing to seek to expand her business, she was interested in meeting this enigmatic woman.
A helmsman infomed her that the appropriate clearance codes had been transmitted to the Mandalorian authorities. Owing to its importance as a capital world and as an, albeit limited, source of beskar, Echoy'la was under heavy guard. Assuming she received permission, the Countess would soon be on her way planetside aboard a shuttle flying Firemane colours.