Under Pressure [GR Dominion of Bimmisaari/Charros IV]

[Kay-Larr]

Location:Bimmisaari
Objective: D
Allies:
Enemies: USS
Post:5/20

Kay continued going through the book, though she decided to play the part of someone that couldn't find what they were looking for. She tried to make herself look a little frustrated as she finally got to her feet and put the book back on the shelf. She was being watched, just like everyone else in the library, so it was best to be careful.

Not long after, she headed out of the library and walked along the sidewalk to the east wing. She hardly noticed when the strange man stepped in pace beside her, but there he was, like a ghost, silent, but there. He touched her arm, indicating that he was there and was going to take the lead, so Kay followed him.

They walked for five blocks before heading down the stairs towards an underground transport station. It was busy. Transports seemed to arrive every few minutes. As people exited out of one, the man took Kay's arm and pulled her inside, leading her towards the back. Once there, he pressed her up against the wall and then flipped a hidden panel on the side, hitting the button. A false wall soon appeared, sliding into place in a split second to hide them from view.

Neither of them could see anything, but it didn't matter. The man knew this all by heart. He whispered, "I hope that you're not afraid of the dark. Or claustrophobic. We'll be at our stop soon, so hang on. Oh, and be sure to mind the gap on your way out."

 

[Mantic Dorn]

Objective B
Post 8/20

Mantic started a slow jog down the narrow alley, he planned to move away from the main streets of the city in order to encricle some of the barricades that had been tossed together in preperations for the Republic assualt. He was not sure when it would happen but the plan was simply to be an irritation to the USS, every drop could contribute to victory.

Jogging under a few balconies Mantic frowned slightly. There was a shift in the force. He slowed down to a walk. A feint presence trying to hide? It could be civilians fleeing the expected bombardment? For now all was still apart from some half domesticated animal hissing behind a container. He could not stop to investigate everything though.

Shrugging it off Mantic continued forward, stil with a slight eerie sensation that he could not loose.

[member="Safiriel Bane"]

 

[Tanith Alde]

Objective: Kill or Incapacitate [member="Mantic Dorn"]
Post : 1/20

The Sith Stalker hugged the balcony from beneath it, her claws dug into the rockcrete to keep her hanging there. Below her in the street wandered the, until now, unsuspecting jedi master. She had cloaked her presence as best she could, using her sith skull-mask in order to focus her force powers further.

Like a thief in teh night she dropped from the ledge, landing behind the jedi in absolute silence. The first marning he would perceive, was the one given by her blade as it ignited and swung down in an overhanded strike

 

[Mantic Dorn]

Objective B
Post 8/20

With the ignition of the saber Mantic flinched. His precognition helped him to react and he tossed his shoulders, twisting his body to avoid the strike. Yet had it not been for his armor the cut would most likely have pierced him fully.
Sparks flew as the blade of [member="Safiriel Bane"] slashed over the Ultrachrome along Mantics left shoulder blade and down his back.

The hit barely penetrated his armor, cutting a slight wound into his flesh but the power of the strike forced him forward and with a groan he swung around, igniting his own saber.

With smoke rising from his back he tilted his head at the assassin. No doubt one of @darth feru s lackey’s he decided. The pain in Mantic’s back slowed him down and he had a stinging pain in his left thigh. But he would build up his force valor quickly, aiding him in keeping speed and vigor.

Without a word Mantic raised his free hand, and using a Niman based technique, he attempted to force pulle the assassin toward him and Mantics stretched out blade with the intent of having [member="Safiriel Bane"] impaled on it

 

[Tanith Alde]

Objective: Kill or Incapacitate [member="Mantic Dorn"]
Post : 2/20

The Assassin acted on an instinctive level now. It wasn't time to think or calculate, it was time to react. Using his own moves against him, the assassin sprang forward, the force pull augmenting it she narrowly leapt over the man, landing behind him. She saw the blade of his saber right before her eyes, and for a moment she was blinded. Landing without sight she lashed backward, her leg hopefully strikign him in the back of the knee, giving her time to roll forward and away, hopefully to regain her vision

 

[Ayumi Pallopides]

Objective D
Posts 3/20

Ayumi was keeping up with the books as she gave a nod of her head. The message was going out to the jedi so they could work on the projects within some of the different things. It gave her a bunch of the attention to the lower sections of it. She knew others were in here as well and they could do a number of things until she leaned back in her seat. Taking a few more notes onto her datapad before getting some more of the materials to go over. "Alright Leina, I am sending the second set of information and you'll have it for what you need." She spared a moment to wonder what Mantic and Thalia were doing but these were troubled times and Mantic one of the few force users she liked for being straightforward was busy.... THalia just kind of vanished into the political games on Hok.

 

[Alena Reckar]

Location: Bravo Company Staging Area
Objective: B
Allies: CSAF, The Galactic Republic military
[member=Commander Lusk]
Enemies: USS military
Post: 5/20
Notes: Thread will be serving as development for Improvised Designs LAAT-gunship and MAT-TE tank.

Alena nodded as the Republic commander finalized his decision. ::They're already to pass us by.:: Alena answered, verifying Able Company's position via her wristcomp. Returning her helmet to its place, she offered Lusk a casual salute before stepping away. ::See you out there, Commander.:: Moments later, Alena was stepping up onto the side rail of one of her MAT-TE's, Whelmer 1-1, clinging to a support grip above her head and cradling her rifle in her free arm. The remainder of the Company was held up inside the vehicles themselves, 28 to a tank. The lumbering beasts stomped their way down the MSR (main service route) on their way to the school, their mass driver turrets swiveling back and forth and the anti-personnel cannons on the fore and aft of the vehicle were twitching this way and that.
The battlefield remained quiet for the most part as the four vehicles headed toward the school, two abreast. Whelmer 1-1 and 1-2 were located with the rest of the Republic forces, Whelmer 1-3 and 1-4 were a block West, on the road running behind the hardware store where the Republic had set up shop. Larty air support could be heard in the distance, their engines thrumming peacefully in the sky above. For a time the only other sounds to be heard were random spats of blaster fire throughout the city, none of it close. Alena watched the road ahead from her position against the vehicle as it lumbered forth, shaking the ground with every step. ::Take a peek around the corner, 1-2 Dog, tell me what you see.:: Alena spoke to 1-2's driver. The pilot confirmed the order and moved his vehicle forward several steps, until his forward cannons had eyes on the school. He kept the weapons strafing left and right to avoid giving away the fact that he'd seen anything to the enemy that would undoubtedly be watching. He then turned his guns right and fired a spat of heavy cannon fire down the street, hoping to fool their enemies at the school that they had engaged a force in the direction away from the school.

 

[Alena Reckar]

Location: Bravo Company Staging Area
Objective: B
Allies: CSAF, The Galactic Republic military
[member=Commander Lusk]
Enemies: USS military
Post: 6/20
Notes: Thread will be serving as development for Improvised Designs LAAT-gunship and MAT-TE tank.

The ruse worked, the USS forces holed up in the area refrained from firing on Alena's forces, hoping to go unnoticed. ::1-1 Dog, move forward, take position at the end of the street, but keep cover to your left. 1-3 and 1-4, press forward as well, hit the building from your pos with repeating cannon fire.:: Alena felt her vehicle shake beneath her as it moved forward, appearing to act in support of 1-2's ruse as 1-2 kept up fire to the East. All else was quiet for several moments until 1-3 and 1-4 opened fire on the building from the West. The first shots came from heavy repeating cannons, strafing the walls of the school and blowing out sections of them. Transparasteel windows shattered and smoke peppered the side of the building. ::Commander Lusk, your boys are free to move, we have the enemy suppressed at the school site.:: Whelmer 1-2 ceased fire and turned to the task of moving North one city block to pull security on the intersection, as did 1-3 down on the West end. This set up a security cordon that surrounded the school block itself. CSAF Commandos left the safety of Whelmers 1-2 and 1-3 in order to provide security on the ground. Marksmen entered nearby buildings and set up eyes on the surrounding city where air support was unable to glimpse. Whelmer 1-1 and 1-4 kept up the cross fire on the building, putting down any overt enemy resistance and otherwise maintaining enough fire to keep their heads down and clear the way for Lusk's infantry to move. As Lusk's Republic soldiers would pass by, the rear hatches of the MAT-TE's would open and CSAF commandos would pour out to pull security in their stead.

 

[Commander Lusk]

Location: Bimmisaari Capital
Objective: Take the capital
Allies: The Republic [member="James Mathison"] [member="Alena Reckar"]
Enemies: USS Forces
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With Lusk and his men moving in the storm of clones rushed past the tanks and buried into the school through multiple avenues of attack. The men and women charged and entered the school to engage the enemy forces of the USS. With Lusk at the lead firefights began to break out in hallways, corridors, and in the quad. There was wall to wall and room to room fighting as the infantry did their best to clear out enemy positions.

Lusk who was in the admin office was crouched behind a steel desk loading a fresh clip into his pulse rifle. He leaned his head back and took a deep breath before popping up to engage with USS infantry who were down a hallway.

"Commander get your tanks and move them around the school! If they are going to hit us with a counter attack we can be ready and cut off the COP's retreat path!" Lusk said as he popped off a few more rounds.

The siege of the school was going well and now all they had to do was keep fighting and hope that if there was a counter attack the tanks could hold them while they cleared out the rest of the school.

 

[Mantic Dorn]

Objective B
Post 9/20

He had clearly underestimated his enemy. The assassin performed a complicated maneuver managing to avoid his lethal attack as well as turn it around in an attack.
He felt the kick in the back of his knee forcing him with another groan to the ground.

There he swung around himself on his knee with his his saber moving in a wide slash. It was meant to make sure he forced his opponent away. It was an necessary action though as [member="Safiriel Bane"] already had intended to roll away from him.

The assassin was a skilled fighter and even though Mantic was a warrior through and through he had faced sith assassins before. He did not want to take any chances despite that this opponent seemed to lack the same level of force insight as himself.

Mantic took the brief moment of pausing to stand up and holding his saber in both hands he seized his attacks and gathered the force around him. The time required to invoke force valor into his body. It was a technique to produce speed, strength and stamina on a level only jedi masters could manage. It would grant him a superiority for the rest of the battle and hopefully aid him to better counter the sith's quick and agile movement.

 

[Tanith Alde]

Objective: Kill or Incapacitate [member="Mantic Dorn"]
Post : 2/20

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Safiriel could sense the powers gathering around the master. Staying near him would mean certain death, she needed time, and space. Glancing about she made a split second decision, using a quick burst of force energy she launched herself partially up the wall, scurrying the rest of the way up using her claws and the handholds she could find.


Once on the rooftop, she stopped to meditate, trying to focus the force around her into a desperate odojinya "Kaei vire helfis etu kajis borqk e sen likt pust." Energy would gather and surround Mantic to embrace and break his awareness of the Force. When successfully initiated, this power summons strands of dark side power that wraps around the Force-user’s target, ensnaring him in a mesh of brilliance. The lattice of energy severs the connection between the Force and the trapped individual and saps the strength from his body. It was her only chance at defeating him

 

[Mantic Dorn]

Objective B
Post 10/20

With [member="Safiriel Bane"] giving Mantic the respite he fuled his power with the force, strength agility and stamina filled his body as he watched the assassin leap and draw herself up onto the near rooftop. Crouching his own legs sligthly he had no trouble pursuing her with a strainght jum, landing on his feet just meters away from her on the same rooftop.

She was a formidable assassin, yet it appeared she had too underestimated her chosen target. Mantic was nothing less then a product of the old jedi, molded since the age of four to serve as a warrior. His mind was clear and set to root out the darkness that had been thrown at him in the shape of [member="Safiriel Bane"] - she was not the first assassin that had targeted him either and he was becoming more accustomed to their methods.

Then he sensed a tingling sensation. She attempted a powerful trick indeed and Mantic had not expected him. Yet, he rested strong in the cradle of the force and for an apprentice to attempt severe the force from a master was a daring endevour. Mantic also carried his powerful artifact beneath his armor, empowering his mental defences against these attempts.
It lead to that the attack in itself barely touched the jedi.

The attack had an unsuspecting affect however, as Mantic had not properly attuned himself to the artifact it startled hmi with its power. Having it rush over him startled his mind and shocked his body. He stumbled back a step almost falling over the edge of the roof.

Barely in balance he managed by waving his arms somewhat to stay - but had lost his chance of a quick follow up attack.

It could be an opportunity for another attack by the assassin, or a moment best used to flee...

 

[Tanith Alde]

Objective: Kill or Incapacitate [member="Mantic Dorn"]
Post : 3/20
Safiriel did not have much time, if she wished to defeat her opponent. Igniting her saber as she rolled she dashed forward, intent on slicing upward with one saber forcing the master to block, while the other saber would whistle down past his defenses and sever his leg, which would have the added benefit of not only ending the fight, but launching the jedi off of the room and into the dark gutter down below.

Her opponent was of another caliber entirely, and she was fighting on borrowed time, she knew it. Every strike that landed was lucky, every hit she evaded was pure chance. And her luck would not hold up forever.

The assassin was testing her own limits she knew, one slip up, a missued form, an over-extension and she would find those limits, with disastrous result. Though augmented, atleast a small part of her was still human, and that human cide was attempting to compete with cruel, relentless steel.

 

[Mantic Dorn]

Objective B
Post 11

The assassin made a bold move and rolled toward him. It was a good moment of attacking with the jedi appearing somewhat disturbed an the to
[member="Safiriel Bane"] unknown artifacts power.

He desperately swung his saber downward effectively blocking her saber attack, once and twise. But the second attempt was a clumsy one and the force behind the strike forced him to stagger further back and as a result he tumbled over the ledge.

With a surprised face Mantic dropped from the roof and fell several meters down into the muddy alley bellow. He crashed into the soil with a loud thump accompanied with the ringing of metal hitting dirt.

He was by now returning control over his mind, but his body ached considerably. While his mouth formed a verbal "ouch" - his eyes fled upward to try and detect if the assassin would follow suit.

 

[Alena Reckar]

Location: Bravo Company Staging Area
Objective: B
Allies: CSAF, The Galactic Republic military
[member=Commander Lusk]
Enemies: USS military
Post: 7/20
Notes: Thread will be serving as development for Improvised Designs LAAT-gunship and MAT-TE tank.

Blaster bolts and explosions shook the building in which USS and Republic forces were engaging one another. Dense corridors and open rooms left plenty to be desired by the combatants themselves, though the Republic infantry advanced swiftly. Smoke drifted from shattered windows and lacerations in the building's walls. Lusk made contact with Alena to call for her vehicles to advance. ::We're holding a cordon around the block, and will press further North as your forces finish clearing the structure.:: She replied, calling Whelmer 1-1 and 1-2 to press forward half a block and redrew the boundaries of their local air support. 1-1 and 1-2 began lumbering forward roughly in pace with the Republic infantry sweeping through the school. As USS soldiers began pouring out of the rear and sides in retreat, CSAF soldiers on the ground took cover and picked them off, pinning their enemy between the blaster bolts of the Republic and the Verpine shatter rounds of Alena's own commandos. The MAT-TE repeating cannons lit up the ground as well, peppering USS soldiers attempting to escape the Republic advance.

 

[James Mathison]

Location: Klick from Schoolhouse/FOB
Objective: B
Allies: [member="Commander Lusk"] [member="Alena Reckar"]
Enemies: USS Forces


James followed the clones into the streets as the Chiss female departed for her tanks. Leaping to the rooftops, James could see the School was being prepared for their assault. This meant they knew the threat was imminent, yet wouldn't give the high value target up to the GR. James ignited his sabers and started hoping roofs to close the distance, he wasn't a range fighter after all. The clones broke through the first line the USS had set up, clearly these Militiamen were not trained in defense.

James followed a detachment of clones into the quad. the most open space for the Shadow to work. Bolts crossed every which way and some came so close as to scorch the robes James was wearing. He deflected what he could and dodged what he could not, his form, a blur of orange blades and Force Empowered movements, he was quickly thinning out the USS heard. Some hid behind a wall, using Shatterpoint, James pinpointed the best place to attack, and sent a Force Shockwave at that point, crumbling the wall on top of the USS troopers.

Commander, the Quad is ours, moving in to secure the rear entrances.

 

[Tanith Alde]

Objective: Kill or Incapacitate [member="Mantic Dorn"]
Post : 4/20


The Assassin tracked the descent easily, watching him fall. Now was not the time for another direct confrontation, already she could hear the sound of approaching feet. Slowly she slipped into the shadows, beginning to encircle and track her prey once again. Another opportunity would present itself as she pursued the Jedi, waiting for him to expend more and more energy.

And wherever the Jedi would go, she would follow. Quietly she slipped down a nearby wall, making almost no sound as she once again dropped into the alleyway below, keeping her target well in sight

 

[Ayumi Pallopides]

Weapons Warehouse

The sounds of the workers coming in as she looked over the Saotome engineers handling the major parts was a nice touch. A lot of things and laying out the assembly lines for the weapons to be constructed. She was walking through some parts of it while the warehouses walls and roof were being put up with droids preparing the reinforcements to them. All of their harder works for the weapons becoming something nice with a few of the things. "Continue the construction and start reinforcing the walls and roof of the warehouse. We'll get the doors on and the reactors a few of the things to have production start when we can. I don't want to waste time but don't endanger the workers understood?" She said it and the engineers were running the numbers and timetable with a nod of their heads. They could do just what they all needed.

 

[Darth Ayra]

3/20

Absolved by blood. That seemed to be a pretty dark and twisted saying to accompany a Jedi, but as Ella cleaved her lightsaber between mercs, pirates and the occasional soldier bread for the USS, it seemed fitting. As bodies fell beneath the repelling Bimms and the Jedi who had come to free them, the more blood stained the floor, edging Bimmisaari closer to freedom. Perhaps there was some truth in the Sith code.

Yet Ella was steadfast. Incredibly so, to the point, of narcissistic. Her resolve to defend democracy and free the Republic from their plight edged her ever closer to the darkness. It was inevitable. It seemed axiomatic to ignore it. She was destined to face the Sith. It eluded her, surrounding and cementing her place in the theatre of war. No, Bimmisaari and it's USS pretenders were nothing in comparison to the Sith Lords Ella had done battle with. And she would do battle with many more.

"To the tower," roared the Jedi, lightsaber in the air, a beacon and symbol of hope to the Bimms that had risen to repel their oppressors. Or was it? If the Republic was successful in it's operations, then it was just another world for the One Sith to target. And what then? Had Ella freed the Bimms from one invader, in order to meet the people- the very civilization- responsible for the Star Wars themselves? Such a debate could wait to be discussed on Yutan. Ella had a world's leaders to save.

 

[Mantic Dorn]

Objective B
Post 12/20

For the moment the danger seemed to be over. Mantic exhaled and slowly got to his feet. His body ached after the fall. The assassin had surprised him and given that Mantic had a few strokes of bad luck in the process it was an enough dangerous attempt that it had threatened his life.

He sensed the [member="Safiriel Bane"] for a while. She lingered nearby but he expected her to try and hide her force signature shortly.
It was a warning signal though that she was still around.

Gathering himself Mantic pushed away the irritation of his fumbling in the short fight. He focused inward to let the light warm his wounds and ease his movement despite the injuries he had suffered. Then he turned on his com.

He needed to warn the other jedi present - [member="James Mathison"] and [member="Ella Nova"]
He knew of two that had answered the Republic call to aid here and opened a channel to the both of them.

"This is Mantic Dorn. I have encountered a sith assassin insde the city, well behind enemy lines. I was ambushed but survived. The assassin is still out there."

"It was a slender female, human like and skilled in hiding her force signature. There might be more to the USS than we first suspected. Take precautions and be alert." he instructed.

Hopefully it was the last they would see of sith on the planet but he still did not know why she had appeared here. Was she entangled with the USS, had the USS connections with the sith?

He was hurt and considered turning back to the Republic lines, but not before he had patched himself up.