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The Raid of the Tython Pearl

Draconis Caesar

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The Tython Pearl
Golden Company Initiate Draconis

Draconis sat with the Third Cohort as they secured the room. He was outfitted in simple gold painted durasteel armor, a energy shield's faint glow illuminated his frame casting a strange aura from his form. He held his sword pointed boredly towards the ground, his other hand grasped a blaster pistol. He was in maneuverable armor and the energy shield was of the higher end quality. After his last battle with the Golden Company, he had seen the wisdom in purchasing higher end gear. His last battle he was but a simpering youth, now, now he had a fight under his belt. He was by far no seasoned vet, but at least he had killed a man. He was growing tired of waiting, he and the third had sat up here dawdling there thumbs for the past hour whilst the ship erupted into chaos. People charged to and fro and at the sight of the armed mercs they ran the other way, opting to find shelter else where.

Meanwhile Draconis listened to his comrades speak of the conflict over comms. While not so much had happened he still longed to see his enemy driven before him. With his first fight he had found something peculiar out about himself. He found that he relished in the kill. What it meant for him, was a fountain of credits, praise from his comrades, and the honor of another life taken. He wanted to go back to that first day, he wanted to relive it over and over again. So glorious was it seeing the enemy fleeing before him. Undoubtedly his comrades felt the same, but they were worn down with the weight of to many years following orders. He however was still but a young buck. He still had aspirations and he was dead set on becoming Sun Guard. He would prove his worth to their leader, to his comrades and to his enemies... He promised that no matter whatever obstacle lay in his path, it would prove no obstacle at all.

A man emerged followed by a Thyrsian like Draconis's own self. The armor of the Sun Guard was unmistakable on him. He was a warrior tried and true. A veteran of probably more battles than Draconis could ever hope to experience. Draconis stared at the HVT as Khyros delivered him unto the safety of the Third Cohort. His hands grasp on the hilt of his blade tightened and he felt a pit form in his stomach. He would not sit idly by while his comrades took all the spoils and glory! He may have only been an initiate, but he was a warrior all the same! He'd be damned if he was going to miss out on the hunt of a lifetime. On the rapture of battle. He took a spiteful look at his Cohort commander and shook his head. Sheathing his sword he marched out the room and followed in Khyros's footsteps. The Cohort commander put a hand to a comrades chest as he made to reel the young buck back in, but the commander knew, this was to be a bloodying, so he simply let Draconis go.

Draconis made his way through the ships decks, sneering at the cowardice of it's patrons. He was disgusted by them. Surely they knew if the pirates wanted them dead most of them would be so. Still they fled like rabbits with the scent of wolf on the wind. Perhaps they did smell a predator on the wind? For true, Draconis would show the interlopers no mercy. His hand tightened on the pistol and he began to jog down the hall. He spotted [member="Khonsu Amon"] and [member="Khyros Tani"] near the entrance to the Atrium and he smiled. He had begun to worry their would be no kill left for him, no honor. He stared at the pair unsure as too how they would greet him, but confident that whatever the case was, he would have many spoils after the battle was over...

[member="Ronak"] I [member="Mav Vohaloveer"] I [member="Kvelduf Ioscyn"] I [member="Roslyn Thorn"] I [member="Nej Tane"] I [member="Aulkren Yoso"] I [member="Amea Virou"] I [member="Sabetha Tag"] I [member="Hira Mitsae"] I [member="Farah"]​
 

Hira Mitsae

Ain't No Rest For The Wicked
[member="Sabetha Tag"] | [member="Amea Virou"] | [member="Khyros Tani"] | [member="Roslyn Thorn"] | [member="Khonsu Amon"] | [member="Farah"] | [member="Mav Vohaloveer"] | [member="Nej Tane"] | [member="Draconis Caesar"] | [member="Ronak"] | [member="Aulkren Yoso"] | [member="Kvelduf Ioscyn"]

Everything was going smoothly.

Booty was being distributed, dropped into bags, the whole mick-mack. Hira thought it was boring and (low-key) was annoyed Sabetha had been right about it. Peaceful, relaxed, not even a little exciteme- from one moment to the next everything turned to absolute chit. Hira could only watch impassively as some guy overhead went full-scale mandalorian on their asses. First flying off in the air, dropping two guys without dropping a sweat and then... speeding away before disappearing out of view.

Things were silent for a moment as everyone processed this unexpected chain-of-events.

A beat.

Then- "Told ya chit was gon' turn weird, red." Hira drawled out sarcastically before sighing. Once more a button was pressed to amplify her voice. "Whoever takes out that dude and brings me his head is gonna get a bump in their commission."

That was mostly meant for the pirates still with them.

But maybe, just maybe, some of the more enterprising and mercenary of the individuals would get gun-ho about it too. Who knew? Hira turned around... and noticed a threesome of stragglers at the entrance of the atrium. They looked distinctly more armored and weaponized than these idiots. She squinted at them, slowly stepping off her platform and kicking it over. "So, remember when I said you jinxed us?" She called out over her shoulder, before amplifying her voice a third time.

"I assume y'all ain't here to give us y'alls legion's worth of armor and weapons?"

Was worth a try.

Sabetha didn't want a massacre after all. Hira grinned at the prospect of it.
 
Inevitable irony of life, meet Amea Virou. Amea Virou, meet the inevitable irony of life. As if on command she felt her heart sink as the blaster bolts started to roar through the sky with an uncanny precision. Truly she had tried to be good and not follow the impulses that had begun to ripple through her bones, but inaction was always another man’s opportunity. Amea’s brows furrowed at the approaching man who still seemed oddly interested in collecting on what the others had, capitalizing on the moment of terror as the passengers quietly calculated their odds of survival.

All she needed was an opening, and she knew very well that she had one coming her way with a lazy strut. She gave the force a subtle pull to throw the pirate off his feet before she closed the distance. The gentle pull was followed by a not-so-very gentle punch across his cheek. Amea tried her damndest but habit of work had her applying a push on the follow through. The crack of his jaw turned into a snap of his neck.

Locking onto whoever was closest to her Amea felt herself blanking out, reaching her zone as a single pellet threw itself across the room from the barrel of her gun with a muted ‘thwap’. The projectile sparkled with electricity as it came hurling towards the brawn of the crew. No doubt [member="Hira Mitsae"] wouldn’t appreciate the gift.

Amea didn’t care. Caring came later.
 
Things went from a drawling sort of 'this is fine' to 'THIS IS NOT FINE' in very short order.

Honestly, by this point Sabetha should know better than to be optimistic about things going the way she hoped they would.

Any single thing might have been fine. But the combination of factors took a situation that could have been a calm, orderly looting of people's jewelry and purses into an explosion of chaos. Honestly? Sabetha blamed them. Disintegrations and flying through the air? Opening fire in the crowded atrium?

Small comfort, knowing that whatever bloodshed occurred, it was squarely their fault.

She'd tried.

Why did people insist on lives over cash? She didn't get it.

And here she'd been, worried about Hira.

"Why do people gotta BE like this," she muttered to herself.

Things had gotten tense with the first shots fired, like horses ready to bolt. The next shots broke that tension, along with the self control of the crowd. Standing up on the table, she made quite a target, and it was only luck that had meant she wasn't. The screams as the crowd lost it filled the atrium, and she lost track of Hira almost immediately.

"Karking chit," she muttered. "Thorn!" She barked. "Toss your sack to Tin over there and clear us a way out!"

Sometimes cut and run was the only options. But with a sinking feeling, she realized that the way they had come was blocked by a trio of.... gold... armored.... Okay the Captain had picked VERY poorly indeed, because she'd bet credits to durnis those were motherkarking Sunguard.

"Okay so NOT the way we came!"

She stepped down from the table onto a chair, one foot pushing on the back of it and tipping it, riding it down to the floor as it fell over. She drew twin blasters from her belt, already set to stun. Her thumb hovered for a moment over that switch, contemplating changing it, but in the end she left it. Where the kark had Hira gotten off to?

Shifting through the panicking crowd, Sabetha headed toward the bar. There would be a service exit there, see if she could secure it if Thorn didn't find a way out. Most of the people in the atrium were running scared, not sure who was there to protect them and who was there to rob them. A handful of people however kept their cool. Sabetha was surprised to find that one of them, she knew.

What were the chances that the man who's painted the corridors with the blood and brains of the last crew she'd run a job with was sitting between her and what she hoped was a door out of here. Where the HELL had Hira ended up in this mess?

"Blue ain't your colour, luv." She approached carefully, blaster aimed.

She didn't hold a grudge. But she also knew just how dangerous he was.

[member="Hira Mitsae"] | [member="Amea Virou"] | [member="Khyros Tani"] | [member="Roslyn Thorn"] | [member="Khonsu Amon"] | [member="Farah"] | [member="Mav Vohaloveer"] | [member="Nej Tane"] | [member="Draconis Caesar"] | [member="Ronak"] | [member="Aulkren Yoso"] | [member="Kvelduf Ioscyn"]
 
How did that old saying go?

When it rained, it poured.

Hira's first shot had set the scene, filling the crowd of civilians with tension. Wanting nothing more than to run, but too scared. But then the mysterious jetpack man decided to add more fuel to the fire.

The tension was a simple snap away from breaking free.

"I ain't gonna complain though!" Her response to Hira's initial comment.

Roslyn looked over to the pirate, catching a glimmer of gold in the direction she was looking. She felt her heart skip a beat, thoughts running through her head. Roslyn didn't miss a beat as she suddenly tore away from her job and headed to the woman's side.

"That." She waved her blade-wielding hand towards the three Thyrsians at the entrance. "Is big trouble, they're karking Golden Company, Sunguard."

While it was Roslyn's first time seeing them, she had heard plenty about the mercenary group. She had kept tabs on what was happening in Sith Space, primarily because she knew Roth was still there, somewhere. And it was hard to not hear about the Golden Company's exploits working for the Sith.

But her focus was diverted when she felt something, a crack in the air that was heading in her general direction. Her senses, the Force, flared out in danger as something came from behind. Roslyn looked back, just in time to see Amea Virou's projectile.

"Duck!" Even though it was for Hira, Roslyn ducked all the same. She tried looking for the source, but Sabetha was quick to start barking out orders.

"Thorn!"
"Toss your sack to Tin over there and clear us a way out!"

Roslyn didn't have to be told twice, throwing the sack over to Tin. She watched as Sabetha initially made her way towards Hira, only to pause at the sight of the trio blocking the entrance.

All hell had broken loose with that last shot. The crowd was now in full panic and making a run for any exit they could find. It was pure chaos, and Roslyn would've paused to admire it if she could. Instead, she began looking for a way out. As much as she liked to revel in the madness, a cut and run strategy was their best option.

Though before Roslyn could get far, one of the ship's security had intercepted her. Rifle raised, he fired a blast towards her. Roslyn quickly sidestepped, the man's aim was terrible. She was quicker on the draw, pulling her small blaster out and firing three shots before he could fire again.

All three struck the man in the chest, killing him.

[member="Sabetha Tag"] | [member="Amea Virou"] | [member="Khyros Tani"] | [member="Hira Mitsae"] | [member="Khonsu Amon"] | [member="Farah"] | [member="Mav Vohaloveer"] | [member="Nej Tane"] | [member="Ronak"] | [member="Aulkren Yoso"] | [member="Kvelduf Ioscyn"] | [member="Draconis Caesar"]​
 

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