The First Harvest

[Lina Djo]

The expedition team was large, and noisy. The equipment needed for the harvest required a large team. Technicians and scientists chatted among themselves amicably, the excitement between them was almost palable. They had a four hour hike from the landing zone to the proposed harvest sight and that took them through dense jungle infested with Vornskr and ysalamari alike.

Mia stood with the head technician, a holo image floating from the small projector in her hand. "The amount of ysalamari we're going to have to harvest for this is huge Field Marshall." He said solemnly "It could have a severe impact on the species if we're not careful." Mia smirked behind her visor.

"So we'll be careful, this harvest site will be the first of many and we're not going to wipe them out from each location. We'll rotate, giving each area a chance to recover their numbers."

"What if they don't recover?" Mia sighed heavily then and the tech looked a little abashed.

"There is only one way to find out isn't there. Lets get this expedition moving."

She deactivated the holoprojector and moved away, leaving him to organise the rest of his group while she called together the team that would be escorting them. "Alright, I'm hoping that this group is large enough that the Vornskr will keep their distance. All the same keep your eyes open. I want people on each flank, some to scout ahead and some to bring up the rear. We need to keep the group tight together, any stragglers are at risk. Understood?"

@[member="Serock Hoath"] @[member="Cabur Aranar"]

 

[Ariella Garon]

Tamara looking on to the one in command of this opp oration, looking down at her weapon to make sure she double cheeked everything out. It hit her that she might have to use this weapon. The armor that she was wearing was that of a new recruiter so it sank of newbie. Not letting this thought keep her, in her mind these had given her a change this she was going to take it. It was at this time that she heard where she would be flanked out. Yes, ma'ma. feeling that she stuck out like a sort thumb, trying her best to get use to the armor only having limit time wearing it hadn't became her second skin yet. Even those she let out it felt to not have anyone look at her in any kind of way but a equal or she hope that was what they was looking at her as. @[member="Mia Monroe"]

 

[Aedan Miles]

Aedan Miles sighed as he stepped off the shuttle that had brought him here. Back on the one planet he knew for sure shut down his force powers. As he looked around he made sure that the helmet of his now customary red armor was secured properly as he hefted the large rifle he carried around these days it as well as a pair of pistols and a single vibroblade handled him well in situations like this. He looked around before he strode forward calmly the rifle resting from a harness over his chest as he saluted @[member="Mia Monroe"] lightly. "Field Marshal I was told you could use some help."

 

[Hira Mitsae]

Sometimes he wondered what he was doing with his life. Hunting for Ysalamdmfsaldfjwoeifj? Or however the hell they were spelled. Weird occupation for an exiled Warlord, who usually had filled his time with sacking cities and conquering.. well worlds. Then again, Mia had given him some sort of purpose, after the mess that was the CIS. Grand Marshal. Serock could not help but snort, who had he been kidding there. War was his job, but the bureaucracy that had filled that job.. it had been soul-crushing.​

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So there he stood next to Mia Monroe, former Mandalore and his rescuer of sorts. He took a last swig from his drink, and then removed it out of sight. The young lass did not like it when he drank on the job, hell she never liked it when he drank. Almost as if he had gotten a second mother in that girl. Serock was getting fond of her though, would never admit it obviously. But there.​

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“If I am going to get eaten by wolves, or whatever you call them. I am going to hunt you as a ghost. Just so you know.”​

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@[member="Aedan Miles"] @[member="Tamara Lynn"] @[member="Mia Monroe"]​

 

[Lina Djo]

"Vornskr, Serock. They are called vornskr." she shook her head. "If you're lucky, I won't feed you to them" She smirked then nodded to [member="Aedan Miles"] as he joined them, bringing with him twenty or so Legionnaries. With the people before her and her own protective forces, not including the expedition team itself, that took her body count up to forty. "General, glad you could join us. You'll be up front with us," she indicated to [member="Tamara Lynn"], and [member="Serock Hoath"] as well as six other soldiers.

"The rest of you fan out. No more than twenty five meters out at any time, keep the team in sight and keep in contact with one another. If it moves report it, don't shoot it unless you have too. We're not here to fight with the planet, we're here to make use of its resources, preferably in the long run. Those of you who are force sensitive, I'm afraid to say you're likely tot be the targets of any hostility, don't take it personally."

"We're ready Field Marshall." she nodded to the technician.

"Move out!"

[OOC: Sorry for the delay. The plan is simple, explore the forest and protect the expedition team. Feel free to throw anything in this that you want to make it interesting.]

 

[Hira Mitsae]

Serock grunted non-committal, and took another swig from his drink. Then finally checked his shotgun over, should be clear. Shouldn't be too hard of a mission, he had fought mammoths, wolves and bigger things with only a karking spear and maybe a couple of arrows. This was going to be easy. Or so he thought.

“Whatever, think I am going to capture one of those wolfies for myself. Might be a good pet, I will train it to listen. Gon be gud.”

Would be interesting to see if he could actually get one of those pups to listen to his commands. A wolf that hunts with the Force? Good thing to have watching your back.

[member="Mia Monroe"]

 

[Lina Djo]

Mia eyed that hip flask of Serock's wondering how pissed he would be if she destroyed. Odds put is rage levels at dangerous, so she opted to save it for a time when she wasn't preoccupied. SLowly the expedition began to move, a quiet hum of chatter buzzing through the scientists and technicians as they watched their sensory equipment. The soldiers were relaxed, Mia could hear the occasional bout of laughter form her vantage point ten meters ahead of the group. A hand reached up to activate her comm link.

"Thats it boys, you keep laughing so loud that we end up with a pack of vornskr to deal with."

"They're just mutts." Came back a exasperated reply, the fat that Mia wasn't within hitting range giving the initiate a touch more confidence. Mia smirked at his attitude.

"Clever mutts," she replied "Just like you. Now pipe down before I come and make you all pipe down."

She gave a side ways glance to Serock. "They aren't easy to catch, its on my to do list once this place is set up though. I'm hoping to get my headquarters set up here. Maybe get a breeding programme going. Can you imagine that? A vornskr for every Mandalorian?" It was a sight she would very much like to see. Force users were already hard pressed by the mandalorains, add the Bral and a whole host of creatures to be used against them and they didn't stand a chance.
[member="Serock Hoath"]

 

[Hira Mitsae]

Probably very pissed off, without drinking he would be sober. You did not want to meet Serock sober, honestly you did not want to meet Serock either way. The guy is a former Warlord, blood and pain was and is his business. Brutal and ruthless, those were the words you could describe him with, not really friendship-material.

“In another life, I once caught a saber-tooth lion with my bare hands. Think I can handle a pup, even if it hunts with your voodoo magic.”

Serock did not like the look Mia had when she was eying his flask, so he put it away. Just to be on the safe-side, they were in the middle of karking nowhere. A man's gotta drink.

“Don't think most Mandos have the patience to deal with “mutts”. Worthy dream nonetheless, it would give us an edge over the Republic and their brothel full of magicians.”

[member="Mia Monroe"]

 

[Aedan Miles]

Aedan Miles calmly strode forward with his group of Legionaries he had always disliked this planet for the reason that he lost his touch to the Force. Sure he could operate without it but it still felt like he was missing something whenever he was without it like he was less aware. To make up for that he was paying careful attention to the small things knowing that Vronskyr would come for him first sense well he gave off a good amount of force presence which would attract them. As he walked the young man absently checked over his rifle as if it was second nature.
[member="Mia Monroe"] [member="Serock Hoath"]

 

[Lina Djo]

Mia smirked "We have some of our own magicians." The witches aside, they had a good handful of there own force sensitives. The difference between them and the Jedi is that they wern't fancy with the way they used it. Most used it to enhance there strength in combat, Mia was one of the few who explored its other aspects and the original reasoning for that was so she could handle Velok. Now though? It was more a matter of she could.

"Field Marshall," the comm piped in her ear "We're coming up on the location, about half a klick ahead, Its a dense area, no doubt they'll be a lot of vornskrs waiting in the undergrowth for us."

"Roger that." Mia replied to the tech, before switching to the soldiers comm lines. "Coming up on our RZ, eyes open, voices down."

Whatever thoughts she had of continuing the conversation with [member="Serock Hoath"], vanished as she slipped her mind back into the plan. When the company came to a halt she gave them a signal to converge on her. "Aedan take your legionnaires and pan out two clicks in each direction. Serock you go with him. Kill any vornskr you come across. The Techs and I will be coming up behind you setting up barrier poles to get a fence going."

[member="Aedan Miles"]

 

[Hira Mitsae]

[member="Mia Monroe"] [member="Aedan Miles"]

From one second to another Mia turned back into the Field Marshal, authority air all over the place. It was pretty amazing to be honest, in my whole life.. there were only a few persons who could fit that glove so neatly. Mia was definitely one of them, changing roles of authority to familiarity and back on the fly.

I was gonna elaborate on that a little bit more, while walking towards the end-goal. But sadly those damn wolves started attacking Aedan’s group just then. We were already too far away from Mia’s group, so no help would be coming from there.

As one of those beast jumped at me, I crashed to the ground missing those big teeth on my neck by half an inch. My shotgun roared, as I took another one right in the side.

This was gonna be a long one.

...DAMN IT, WHERE IS MY FLASK.

 

[Aedan Miles]

Aedan calmly jogged off his legionarries following their boss into the under growth and spreading out. As Aedan slowed down he heard the man Serock jogging up after him just as there was a roar and three Vronskr seemed to launch out of no where at the young man. Stumbling back Aedan quickly drew his vibroblades and ducked under one of them as the other to impacted his body sending him stumbling backward into a roll as he almost reached out for the force. He remembered then that he was without it which was why he only had vibroblades snarling he kicked out catching a Vronskr in the head as he swung to his left causing the other two to leap backward and start to circle him. Struggling to his feet he looked around as his troopers fought back against their opponents starting to circle up into groups of four as they had been taught. Ducking back Aedan reached Serock and stabbing a sword into the ground offered the man a hand as the other sword flashed out to catch the Vronskr on the side as he kept them back for now. "Come on I need some help today."
[member="Serock Hoath"]

 

[Lina Djo]

"Don't let them surround you!" Mia yelled into the comm. Static barrier poles slid into the soft earth at ten meter intervals, Mia stood before the barrier as it raised, its energy raising hairs on the back of her neck. Technicians moved at the barries end, slowly edging forward, slipping more poles into the ground to extend the fences reach. "Rally Master?" she called to the head tech.

"We've got this, Liberator. Go help them."

She burst forward, shot gun coming up as she leapt a tree root removing a vornskrs head in a flash of gore. She kept up the pace, joining Aedan and Serock in a blur of motion. The shotgun erupted again, taking the one lurking behind them. "Do not let them past you!" She shouted at the two of them. One leapt for her face, aiming to seize a mouthful of her head. It got a barrel instead. She shrugged its limp from from the shotguns end.

"FORWARD!" she yelled, forcing the mandalorian line to move faster.

 

[Hira Mitsae]

Someone stole my damn flask, I needed that stuff to survive. Figurally speaking, of course. I shook off Aedan’s hand, ain’t in the need of a hand to stand up. Ain’t that old. I jumped back on my feet, right in time to punch one of those fethers right in the eye.

“WHERE IS MY FLASK.”

Frenzied, I jumped right on the back of one of those bastards, and start to choke him to death. Nails left marks on my shoulder, but I ain’t feeling the pain. I would pay for this later, but now. I just want my damn flask.

In my frenzy, I tore off the head of one of the vornskrs. I launched it at another one, who was trying to sneak up on me. Bastards took my drink, I am gonna kill ‘em all.

 

[Aedan Miles]

Aedan blinks for a moment before he chuckles and snatches his second sword back artfully spinning them as he darts off swiftly ducking left as he slashes across the throat of one of the Vronskr as he leaps backward in time to dodge two more. Looking at Mia he nodded once before he sheathes his swords and draws his pistols flipping them to stun he starts to fire at the Vronskr quickly watching as one of them drops stunned. Smirking Aedan continues to fire a stream of stun bolts from Vronskr to Vronskr hoping to knock some of them out so he could hopefully train them. [member="Mia Monroe"] [member="Serock Hoath"]

 

[Hira Mitsae]

My shotgun continued to roar, as I shot down one puppy after another. I got halted in my tracks though, when this gigantic piece of mutant ass jumped out of the woodworks. This ain’t no ordinary vornskr, that was for sure. Average vornskrs are like.. a meter in height, this thing though.. it was at least half a meter taller.

I gulped as it stared at me, I mean I ain’t an idiot. This dude totally didn’t have my flasket, and I was definitely considering running the other way. But hey, I am a Mandalorian! Whatever that means. Probably that I have to be courageous or something.

Gonna ask Monroe if I can’t be something else, at least that’s what I thought as I started cursing. I threw down my scattergun, and jumped at the mutant behemoth of a vornskr.

Yeah, I know. Looking back at it, it was pretty stupid. But come on, if I can tame this thing.. that would be pretty sweet, right?

I jumped on his back, and closed my arms around his neck. Choking him, ‘course I wouldn’t rip his head off. Don’t even know if it was possible, but I’d show this thing who is boss. One way or another.

 

[Lina Djo]

Mia smirked to herself as Serock raged about his flask, feeling its weight in her own pocket. Sometimes it was necessary to stir the pot a little. She'd give it back to him when this was done. She hadn't time to enjoy the little moment for long as the line of mandalorians pushed forward, the fence line growing as they did. Some vornskrs were beginning to decide there were easier prey around, turning tail and retreating from the mass. She froze when the mutant stepped from the undergowth, its belly rumbling with a low growl as it lowered its head, settling its eyes on Serock. Something moved to her right, muscle memory took over and she reacted without looking, scattergun blasting a crater in the flanking vornskrs side.

Then Serock dropped his guns and charged the beast. "Damn it." she muttered and ran after him. Someone had to cover his crazy butt. She flanked the beast, opening three fresh hols in its side. The her gun clicked on empty and she had not time to reload it. She dropped it and drew her beskad, the worn leather hilt comfortable in her hand. A paw swiped for her head as it simultaneously tried to dislodge Serock. Mia ducked beneath it raising her beskad to score a deep line of red in its soft pads.

 

[Hira Mitsae]

Shotgun pelts were all over the place as that beast tried to dislodge me with its bucks, then Monroe decided to start cutting the thing up while I was on it. Her big blade almost cut my arm in half, and I couldn’t help but shout at her while trying to keep my balance up.

“WOMAN. I AM ON THE DAMN THING, KEEP THAT SWORD OUT OF MY RANGE, DAMNNIT.”

In the corner of my eye I saw two more of the canine pups sneaking up on Mia, while she was trying to cut my head off.

“BEHIND YOU, MONROE.”

I couldn’t say anything more, because the beast then decided to throw itself to the ground. Probably frenzied because of all the shots in its gut, and the blade attack.

It trashed for a whole fekking while, but eventually it stopped it’s movements, only soft yelps coming out of it. Damn thing was hurt, it seemed.

“HA, SEROCK FEKKING HOATH. VORNSKR MUTANT TAMER.”

 

[Lina Djo]

Mia's big blade was nowhere near Serock, clearly he was being a drama queen. She opened her mouth to yell back at him but his shout of warning cut her off before she could. Spinning she caught the eye of the first pup who froze under her glare. She adjusted her grip on the beskad and set her feet waiting for the pair to make their move. For a moment the simply circled her, assessing their opponant, mre weary now they'd seen so many others fell.

The first lunged, jaws open wide to clamp around her forearm. Teeth ground against the beskar and she brought the hilt of her blade down upon its head. Yelping it let go, and scrambled away while its partner sought to bring Mia's legs out from under her. The blade snapped down cleaving through flesh and sinew and bone to remove its head. The first curled its lips back snarling, but unsure. Mia move sharply towards it, and it bolted..

The gunfire around her was beginning to die down. She looked at Serock, still clinging to his prize and shook her head, her hand moving to her ear to activate her comm link.

"Rally Master, report?"

"Wew just about there, ma'am."

"Alright, lets start closing the doors." she replied, the technicians beagn planting the barrier poles in front of them, to cut off the area. "Aedan, Serock, whatever your keeping get it out of this area now."


[member="Serock Hoath"] [member="Aedan Miles"]

 

[Hira Mitsae]

[member="Mia Monroe"]

From the depths of my jacket I revealed a collar, what? Don’t look at me that way, a man can’t leave the house without a proper collar. Who knows what needs collaring, I put it around the neck of the shallow-breathing beast, and ticked it on the head. It tried to bite me, so I roared and gave him a headbash.

That solicited a whine from his part, and then a soft whimpering. Never said I was a nice owner, I disentangled myself from the vornskr and took a look at its wounds. Mia really did a number at him, but he was a big monster. With the proper care, he would probably be fine in the end.

I took the leash in my hands, and tugged him to follow me, only thing he could do was limp carefully with me. He knew who was the boss here, pack leader yo.

“My flasket, Monroe. Before I start ripping more heads off.”

Call me a caveman, or a barbarian. But I have both eyes in my sockets, ain’t a wild guess.