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[Ziso Kus]

Ziso stalked quietly through the halls. The vault had to be further within, according to the map she'd been able to wrangle from one of the Assassin droids she'd found. Ancient as they might be, they were still as lethal as ever. Perhaps the secrets within would allow her control over them properly, to use for her own work. Another right, and-

The world erupted. Or was cut. It took a moment for her cybernetically enhanced mind to catch up with what happened. The path was shrouded, deep under ground as any hidden vault worth it's salt would be. Then it was suddenly bright. Day. The path before her was gone- no, separated suddenly from the rest. Cut like a piece of paper under a pair of shears.

She blinked, once, twice. Then huddled more under her cloak to keep out of sight. Whatever delusions of grandeur she had fell to the wayside as she heard the source of the sudden devastation above. Nonchalant and calm. A metallic hiss escaped from her mask. Maybe she'd be lucky in being able to scavenge what was left.

Krasskorr the Maw | Meliant | Eurydice

 

[Lirka Ka]

CHANDAAR

TAGS: Kaelyr

A great many monsters now stalked the ancient halls of Xim’s hoard upon Chandaar - each looking to take their piece of the possibility that laid within and the distant prospect of Tira and its power.

Indeed, so great was this clarion call that even some of the monsters that laid behind the Sith Order’s Blackwall to the Galactic South had decided to make an appearance.

Well. At least one of them.

Lirka considered herself something of a purveyor of fine carrion at times. A tomb raider, scavenging for bits and bobs of power to feed the Once-Sephi’s shadowy dealings from worlds throughout the Galaxy. Korriban. Oricron. Rhand. The many unnamed rocks she had desecrated in her years stranded within Wild Space. Chandaar would join that long list. Between Xim’s ancient weapons of destruction and the endless potentiality of the knowledge within the vault, this place would make a fine hunting ground.

She arrived with little fanfare, skulking within the darkness of the approach. The core-ward Sith of the covenant were not her foes by any means - but they hadn’t proved themselves to be friends either. The manic paranoia of Lirka’s warped mind did not much care for variables she had little control over.

Breaching the vault, Lirka ran a clawed hand across the dusty surface within. Fascinating. With the rancorous roar of some great killer on the horizon and the thunderous arrival of other Sith, the hulking form of Lirka Ka kept a safe distance from it all. Far more content to take a leisurely examination of the ancient craftsmanship as if walking through a museum.

And besides, she’d rather have decent pickings of whoever got left behind when lives got claimed from the great myriad of killing machines that most certainly would’ve been left behind. Or whoever killed each other first. Certainly, she’d make better use of whatever bits and pieces left after this little venture than the rest of this lot.

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[Vector Monk]

Lysander von Ascania Seris Velmora

"Your pardon, lord."

Vector picked himself up off jungle soil and wiped the dirt from his knees. It would not do to grow lax in maintaining a proper grooming standard. When the Sith questioned him further, his eyes lit up and he grew more animated gesticulating when he spoke.

"The Rakatans never reached the glorious heights of the Sith Dynasties that inherited their legacy, but there is so much about their Infinite Empire that we still don't understand. Early masters of hyperspace there can be no doubt. We are still discovering lost frontier worlds with ruins just like these."

He didn't like the sound of Velmora's cryptic warnings about some kind of local predator. It was all Vector could do not to reach for the holster of the extravagant sporting blaster he carried on his belt. Always best not to give paranoid masterminds any reason to suspect he might wish either of them harm.

“When it comes, don’t slow me down. Nothing slows me until I am ready.”

"I wouldn't dream of it my lady," Monk looked scandalized by the very thought, "You can rely on me! My field research is often dangerous work."

Together they pressed on. Vector tried not to let the Sith's growing impatience dampen his spirits despite the very real threat their moods could pose. He thought he could see more signs of rakatan civilization ahead when something crunched under his feet and the archaeologist froze. Careful not to make any sudden moves, Vector turned to face the others.

"Acklay eggs," he whispered eyes wide with panic, "We've wandered into their nesting grounds."

 

[Mellia Raine]

BELAZURA
Anet Raine​

"Dozens, mostly staffed by hacks who wouldn't know fashion if it shot them in the face,"

Mellia checked her nails, and frowned, ever so slightly, at some indiscernible flaw in the art adorning them that only she could see.

Bah. Nothing to do about it now.

"I'm making moves, Anet. Aargau Medical went under when the Imperials lost the Core, and this new Covenant's selling assets off at bankruptcy prices. I thought I'd offer to cut you in."

In this, at least, she was being honest; and it was perhaps the most genuine display of sororal affection she had offered Anet in years. No ulterior motives, no petty sniping.

Not at first, anyway.

But now that she was here...

Well, what kind of sister would she be if she wasn't nosy?

"So,"

She shifted in her seat, posture straightening as her grin returned.

"Rakata, hm? On brand, I suppose."

 

[Tamsin Starfall]

Theme: Welcome To The Jungle
Tags: Varin Mortifer

Tamsin sat on nearby rock as the lumbering prat hacked away at jungle foliage. Not sure exactly why she always got to be his babysitter. He asked for probably the tenth time for her to explain the plan. She just signed and reached for the backpack that sat at her side and pulled from it a canteen of water and a granola bar. She began to unpeeled the wrapper.

"It ain't that hard dummy." She said as she took a bit of the granola bar. "We find the mind prison, we find the….." Damn that granola bar was good, she thought to herself. "We find what I guess you would call nerds in the prison." She looked at the granola bar almost impressed by how good it was. Before she could continue telling him the rest of the plan, he was already off another tangent.

He was now complaining about the insects. She half expected the demon to chime in her mind about how he was the only insect it saw. Yet no voice came, not even a stirring or sense the demon was awake. Not even a peep at the sound of obliterating a planet, which was seemingly a favorite past time of the demon. It was setting off strange alarm bells in Tamsin's mind that something might be amiss.

"Really this is the first tropical world I have been to, I think." She said as she took another bite of her granola bar then a sip from her canteen. "Not really sure been to a lot of desert worlds, a few ice worlds I love those, yet the majority of worlds I have been too were to war torn to truly tell what they were."

Her head turned slightly to the side as he spoke of Sinew who or whatever that was. She thought she heard something like a snapping branch off to her right. She smelled the air but smelt nothing but the jungle around her. Her yes caught something though just a blur in the distance through the trees she couldn't make out what it was. She squinted to try and get a better look but whatever it was, vanished.

She then turned as Varin proclaimed only one of them could fit. She gave him an odd look as she had no idea what the hell, he was talking about. Before her sights there was no slab of duracrete just more jungle brush. As she looked at him so did the six Gizka's that had surrounded her hoping for a bite of Granola. They too gave him a strange look like he was even dumber than he was.

"Is the heat getting to your brain?" That also led to another question. "Why are you hacking away at the bush? You could just do burning farts or fire breath…or whatever fiery crap you whoo-woo." At this rate they were never going to reach the damn city. "I mean I would do it but uh I can't do that fire stuff." Well, she could but it had catastrophic consequences if she attempted it both to her and those around her. She then pointed to the jungle before them urging him to continue on with the shoo-shoo of a hand wave as were hit wall there was now no wall.