Under Pressure [GR Dominion of Bimmisaari/Charros IV]

[Darth Ayra]

5/20

Ella climbed aboard the transport, tired and fatigued. Her Lightsaber hung from hip, deactivated now after spending long hours cleaving through varying faces and bodies. Lowering herself into a seat, the Jedi Knight immediately settled into meditation. Death was a constant in her mind at that moment, as it always was following battle. She would purge the negative emotions brought on by the takeover of Bimmisaari, before it broke her completely.

Taking off, the transport carried Ella and the surviving Republic soldiers to the Star Destroyers in orbit. Now that the battle was over and Bimmisaari was secured, they could all look forward to return to their homes. For Ella, she looked forward to entering seclusion on Yutan once more, with only Arsix was company, until the next battle came for. In seclusion, she would prepare for that battle, purged of the negative emotions that now plagued her.

FINISHED

 

[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.

CSAF's LAAT/i gunships swept through the area overhead of the Republic forces clearing trenches and USS weapons emplacements. Their composite beam weapons seared through the enemy ranks, cutting soldiers and vehicles to pieces. Several elevated positions were identified by CSAF pilots and destroyed with strafing fire from the forward repeating cannons, or demolished by mass driven missiles. Alena watched the developing battle from the momentary safety of tank she clung to as they approached the objective. Republic soldiers swept through trenches and barreled over USS forces barring their path, spreading like medicine through the infected bloodstream of a sick being.
:ut us down just behind the trenches.:: Alena ordered her pilot via internal comms. She crouched slightly as the LAAT/c gunship began to drop toward the ground, ready to leap from its outer plating and into the battlefield. The rear hatches of the MAT-TE's dropped open in the air. CSAF commandos began jumping from their troop bays within the tanks before they hit the ground. After their soldiers disembarked, the four gunships hovered some ten meters forward of the ground troops and released the mag-locks holding the MAT-TE's against their bellies.

 

[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.

The tanks hit the ground, shaking the earth. Streams of repeating cannon fire screamed from the gunships, warding off any attack from USS forces during these brief moments of vulnerability. Even so, before they were able to take off, one of the LAAT/c's was struck in the wing joint by an enemy RPG. The shields buckled and the vehicle banked sideward, crashing into the ground. Fire erupted as the fuel cells on that side exploded, embroiling the vehicle. Immediately, nearby CSAF commandos rushed forward under the cover of the deployed MAT-TE and worked to secure the pilots from the emergency access hatch at the rear of the cockpit. The pilots were taken into the arms of several commandos and carried to the rear hatch of the nearby MAT-TE for triage and treatment. The remaining commandos reformed and for the offensive push.

 

[Alena Reckar]

Location: Bravo Company Staging Area
Objective: B
Allies: CSAF, The Galactic Republic military
[member=Commander Lusk]
Enemies: USS military
Post: 8/20
Notes: Thread will be serving as development for Improvised Designs LAAT-gunship and MAT-TE tank.

Alena leaped from her MAT-TE as it prepared to drop into place on the battlefield, collapsing her legs and rolling on the ground before coming up on one knee. Her Verpine rifle ready, Alena dropped a pair of USS soldiers manning an E-WEB cannon as a squad of CSAF commandos surrounded her in a protective formation. The remaining commandos broke into wedge formations and began advancing, leaving the trenches behind as they began clearing further USS positions. Blaster bolts rained down on them from ahead, glancing off of the local shielding systems of the commandos' armor. Several commandos were killed or injured by explosives, but the overall force was able to take covered positions behind equipment, fortifications and vehicles. Whelmer 1-1 and its three brethren tanks loosed high-explosive airburst munitions at the enemy fortifications, rending their cover and killing pockets of USS troops using them as cover.

 

[Ayumi Pallopides]

Objective D:

Ayumi continued in the library, with all of the work they were doing she turned from delivering information to the jedi Leina and instead started working on some of the other technology and schematics for ships. A few ideas were coming to her but she wanted to get what information she could from the books here. More from the datapads they could work with as her thoughts went to what the Republic had going on or the small reports she was hearing in her ears. Fighting and some instances where it was getting dangerous outside but her security forces could move in if needed she just liked the idea of not having to pile them into a building as she was reading it. Finding most of the information intriguing but she was looking for more while going back towards the indexes.

 

[Ayumi Pallopides]

Objective D:

The index was what she wanted and the work for bioships that coud be used in ancient battles.... it took her a moment until she found the great hyperspace war. She was finding the information about the meditation spheres the most interesting but there wasn't a lot of information on them from the books. She would need to talk with some of the jedi or the force enclave to work towards getting that information to use. If they could get someone within the Repulic who used and was skilled at battle meditation plus something designed such as a sphere to amplify their skills over an entire sector of space it could help turn the tide if done right. She was thinking a skilled stealth ship for them to turn it all over.

 

[Travot Ravenna]

Location: Somewhere on Bimmisaari
Objective: D
Allies: GR
Enemies: None

[6/20]

"Jedi Knight Yua, you said," said the eldest Bimm, "my name is Elder Weh. Juon here is my personal bodyguard."

Yua trudged up onto the beach and abruptly stopped, "As in the Law Elders?"

Where have I heard that title before...Travot reached down to start grab his creme-colored shirt. That's it...the rulers of this world...but what is one doing over here? Shouldn't they be at their capital or whatever serves as their center of government? I mean, it's hard to find a place remoter than this on a developed world...Weh sagely nodded.

"Yes, though the title means little with the current USS occupation of our world."

Occupation? War? Undergoing isolation in preparation for the journey was supposed to prepare me for the psychological problems of exploration...not predispose me to become more of a liaibility to the Order...Travot reached out through the Force and felt seething discontent flowing out of Juon. Yeh seemed wary and hopeful, while Yua seemed unusually curious, though it was mixed with as much wariness. And what do I feel?

"It seems that we could be of better use to your world right now..."

 

[Ayumi Pallopides]

Objective D:

The library was proving most useful in the long run as the senator walked down the streets. She could work and help organize some of the larger things while her attention went to the different parts giving her attention. She could expand some of the plans they were doing and going out of their way to research for designing the best habitat for citizens to live. A better future as it were to understand and improve the lives of everyone not just the super rich, or create a massive block for them to houses several thousand at a time in an area and let them tower to the sky. it would be the beginnings of construction efforts and she was looking to work and build it all up as needed with Sasori and Denon.

 

[Eugen Aker]

Location: Objective-C
Objectives: Neutralize USS Fleet, Test New Capital Ship Design
Allies: Galactic Republic and Allies
Post: 7/20

A few more ships destroyed and disabled, and the remnants of the USS fleet was done. The next remaining officer in command hailed the Republic to offer their surrender. The Kiribian commander in charge of the group order a stop to firing, but had all ships keep their ion cannons primed to knockout the remaining ships if they decided to try something. The commander ordered all weapon systems to be powered down, and all remaining ships to be allowed to be boarded.

When it was detected that the USS fleet had complied with the commander's conditions, marines and assault droids would begin to be ferried out the ships under fighter escort. Between all the ships, it was a process that took several hours as the teams systematically assumed control of the key points of the ship like the bridge and armory. Crewmen were disarmed, and non-essential personnel were rounded up and put on lock down.

The Kiribians didn't stop there, but would also begin to deploy immediate medical attention to injured crewmates in tandem with USS medical personnel under their watch, wowing their one-time adversaries with bleeding edge treatments that put their own procedures to shame, which usually involved applying bacta in some form. The advances of conventional medicine in many civilizations had fallen to the wayside as healing substances like kolto and bacta became more ubiquitous.

USS escape pods were plucked out of space by recovery teams, their occupants immediately transferred to the detention cells of Republic vessels.

 

[Eugen Aker]

Location: Objective-C
Objectives: Round up USS POWs, Establish Blockade
Allies: Galactic Republic and Allies
Post: 8/20

With the USS fleet over Charos IV broken, Republic forces had established air superiority in the system. Republic and Kiribian ships spread out to cover the surface of the planet, lording over any the planet with the implicit threat of orbital bombardment.

What USS ground forces and sympathizers were on the ground quickly surrendered to the Republic as it was clear they had no chance without the aid of their fleet. As with the USS ships before, marines and assault droids were transported planetside to accept the surrender of USS and allied personnel, and begin the process of disarmament. From there, the USS POWs would be collected to be transferred back to their home system for further processing.

There were a few isolated incidents that broke out during the disarmament process, but for the most part, the process went smoothly. The soldiers and crewmen were sane enough to see that they face a hopeless cause putting up any resistance, while the treatment of the Republic was humane.

 

[Eugen Aker]

Location: Objective-C
Objectives: Round up USS POWs, Establish Blockade
Allies: Galactic Republic and Allies
Post: 9/20

The Anubis had been the Kiribian's first attempt at using biots on such a large scale, but the tests had gone well for the most part. Standard shielding schemes had proven to be insufficient during the time of the Yuuzhan Vong wars near the start of the millennium, and now Yaret-Kor had been made even deadlier thanks to advances by Kiribians on the biotech. Unlike most native shapers, they were not bound by the constraints of dogma when choosing different kinds of tech to meld in making their systems.

Still being a highly classified project, the Anubis soon withdrew from the scene with a small escort, heading home so that engineers from KSA and Panacea could examine the ship and pass it to the next round of testing. With the success of revolver system in conjunction with the long guns, the next phase would include the testing of some new munitions meant to even the playing field against behemoth capital ships that were in vogue right now.

 

[Eugen Aker]

Location: Objective-C
Objectives: Analysis
Allies: N/A
Post: 10/20

Never satisfied with victory, Kiribian analysts were already beginning to pour over the data as reports were being prepared for review. The blitz attacks had been successful in disorienting enemy forces, but the droid fighters being used didn't actually deal that much damage in their runs. That had come from the corvettes that had eventually joined in on the action. The droid fighters lacked the payload capacity to work well as a true bombing platform. The Spacy would need to come up with an in-house solution, or go shopping again for a new platform.

Coordination between the Kiribian Spacy and Republic military in the joint mission had been adequate, but the Kiribians had to go through the pains of verbally relaying commands through chains of Republic crewmen. Republic vessels could use more automation for smoother operation.

Meanwhile, there had been a total breakdown between the Republic and Rebel forces, the fleet remaining in the staging area. From that point, they would be deemed unreliable at best by the Spacy. A shame, for the paramilitary group had access to some choice bits of hardware.

The Anubis had proven to be a good supplement to the regular forces, quickly shredding through ships on its own with long guns. The success of the new vessel confirmed the Kiribian's decision to shift to more mass-bassed weapon systems over the usual bevy directed energy weapons.

 

[Jessica Med-Beq]

Location: Bimmisaari
Objective: E - Purchase of furniture
Post: 1/25
Allies: GR and friends
Enemies: N/A

It was not often that Ringovinda StarYards had to purchase new upscale office furniture, especially for the Gyndine and Hosnian Prime locations. Due to the turmoil in Gyndine the Hosnian Prime location will be prioritized for delivery. Thankfully Charzon heard of the Bimms' elegant furniture businesses but since the capital was a war zone, she had to land away from the capital in order to avoid the crossfire. Hopefully the natives would be grateful for Charzon's business. And she realized that paying 50 credits a day for using a landing pad was little, in comparison to the business she was to conduct on the planet. On the docking bay she had her trusty R9 droid ask for local information and whether they can go back to the ship for sleep.

"Welcome, traveler, anything I can do for you?" the stevedore in charge of the docking bay asked.

"Yes, do you know of any good, say, furniture shops around here? I would like to buy some furniture for a new location of my business on Hosnian Prime"

"Why?"

"Furniture on Hosnian Prime is overpriced, plus I don't like their style: too much of a pollution footprint. I was told by the Hosnian Prime management team that they'd want green equipment for their office supplies"

"Not only that, milady, but the furniture workers are well-treated: no child labor"

"One more question, before we head for the nearest furniture shop: can we sleep inside the ship?"

"Certainly"

 

[Dune Rhur]

Objective D (Post 1/20)
Charros IV
Allies: All GR members
Enemies: the USS

Communication would've been impossible without the protocol droid. The Xi Charrians spoke in a series of rapid clicks that he couldn't hope to replicate. It was fortunate that they literally worshiped high technology. They were very happy with the presence of the silver droid D4TO.

They were not in a capital city as Dune would've know it. Rather it was a sort of factory-cathedral hybrid. He found it cold and sterile even as one of a species noted for technology. The insect-like natives required no sleep just as he didn't.

Bith still spent certain time away from their labours. There were families and personal interests such as music to pursue. The Xi Charrians spent virtually every moment of their mature existence engaged in some form of work. Even his highly evolved mind couldn't fathom this.

It was efficient but lacked 'humanizing' traits. He reminded himself that he wasn't here to study the species. The negotiations were generally going well. Charros IV was eager to begin producing technology for the galaxy at large once again.

They were quite willing to produce for the Republic. The prices were far more reasonable than Dune had expected. There was still a bit of a problem. Charros IV wished to provide tech throughout the galaxy.

Xi Charrians knew the value of what they could provide. They also knew that virtually any world would want it. It was the Bith's job to talk them out of that plan. He had to make it lucrative enough to create for only the Republic and it's allies.

Insects didn't need to sit down and didn't have furniture. So they'd substituted a block of alloy as a sort of stool. There were no tables present as there were on many other worlds. It was merely himself with DT4O and the Xi Charrian representative in a side room.

That was another thing that was quite different. There were no aides or co-delegates here. This being represented the collective will of the world. Another benefit of being a hive-minded species.

It simplified things for the negotiating parties. There were no outside interests to worry about. No special groups or individuals needed to be appeased. It also meant that this representative held the final say.

No one else existed to appeal to. Any worker would simply tap into the greater hive-mind. They would then follow those unspoken commands to their own termination if need be. A very efficient system indeed.

Thus the Jedi found himself before his counterpart. It hadn't supplied a name because Dune couldn't have pronounced the syllables. It was merely a representative of the Xi Charrian species. But it was more than a 'mere' representative because it was effectively Charros IV.

 

[Ayumi Pallopides]

Objective D
[member="Dune Rhur"]
9/25

Ayumi was leaving the library while she walked. They had been working harder on many of the things around all of them. she wasn't opposed to the outside forces when something brush against her senses offering a nod of her head. She checked the taozin bracelet she wore to hide her force sensitive nature. It was great unles against people who knew how to sense through it a well as looking for her. Ayumi clasped her hands behind her back walking now when she spotted some of the others getting a raised eyebrow. Provided they gave all of the work that the senator from Denon could pull off, she was providing them with as many thing as they could for rebuilding or construction efforts. "A beautiful world."

 

[Jessica Med-Beq]

Location: Bimmisaari
Objective: E - Purchase of furniture
Post: 2/25
Allies: GR and friends
Enemies: N/A

"Oh and you should leave your weapons inside the ship, if you have any"

"Roger"

"Since you asked for furniture shops, may I recommend you the one near TKFC?"

"TKFC? Isn't that some... First Order fast-food joint? I understand we are not at war against the FO at this time, just that something doesn't feel right about a TKFC location so far away from First Order space"

And so Charzon found herself looking for a TKFC fast-food joint. The hatch above the Neimoidian Yacht retracted as she left the docking bay, and she asked the locals about TKFC. Nevertheless she rapidly found said joint, where a Bimm wearing a stormtrooper uniform, presumably an employee of the TKFC food joint, uses a megaphone to scream at the crowd massed in front of it, waiting for their chance to eat TKFC and fried chicken for most of them. Charzon, towering the natives, furred or not, drew their attention as she looked for furniture shops around TKFC. She never got the chance to eat at TKFC because it never got too far away from FO space, probably as far away from FO-land as Jakku, which is about halfway between Panatha and Lanteeb. But for a TKFC to open on Bimmisaari was at best a gamble as far as she sees the whole thing from there: their own logo is visibly using a well-known symbol of the dark side.

"Step right up: answer a set of questions about TKFC and win a free bucket of fried Endorian chicken!"

 

[Kahne Porte]

Objectives: Assist!
Allies: [member="Suravi Teigra"]
{1}

"Make sure everything is secured and locked up tight. With the over abundance of people here, things could tend to get sloppy. We don't need the survivors to try a coup here." The Jedi instructed to the Republic soldiers as he was helping with getting those in detention cells and the like. Kahne was a little late to the party, as very late from what he was told. However he was here now, and he would help as best as he could.

The Jedi would soon leave things in the hands of the captain here at the detention cells as he head further through the vessel as he would seek out the Senator from Kiribi. Due to his late arrival, he was left at a blind spot here and the only thing to do would be to ask. As he found her, the Jedi bowed his head politely and spoke. "Forgive my interruption Senator, my name is a Kahne, Jedi Master." The Jedi cleared his throat before he spoke. "I'm at your service if you need it, and I was wondering what the status was of the Republic forces ground side?"

 

[Dune Rhur]

Charros IV
Objective D
Post 2/20
Allies & Enemies: Same as above.

"Producing solely for the Republic and it's allies is in the best interest for the Xi Charrians," Dune was saying through DT4O. The insect-like representative remained silent. It's carapace had no visible emotions.

The Xi Charrians were incapable of expressing such things. Dune could still pick up a moderate sense of incredulity in the Force. The natives didn't necessarily believe his estimation of things. That seemed to be the sticking point.

He was being allowed to explain his position fully. That was a good thing. The hierarchy had had dealing with the Republic in centuries past. These had been profitable for Charros.

"It's quite obvious that the Sith factions cannot be trusted. Their record of oppressing native populations speaks for itself."

He continued.

"The Clans of Mandalore and this new so-called Empire might be your partner. As long as it's expedient to do so. They have not hesitated to take what they want and to eliminate whoever gets in their way. Look at the histories for proof. I should add a saying among humans 'the more things change, the more they stay the same'."

The representative was clearly listening as the droid translated. The hierarchy of the world was clearly listening too. He could sense the concentration of deep though replacing the doubt. One of the hive would certainly be examining their records.

 

[Jessica Med-Beq]

Location: Bimmisaari
Objective: E - Purchase of furniture
Post: 3/25
Allies: GR and friends
Enemies: N/A

Charzon was shown the bucket of fried chicken, as well as all other would-be contestants looking for a free meal: 14 pieces of fried Endorian chicken. That was a family-sized meal and could feed a family of seven Bimms, or two meals for a family of four Bimms. But will the bucket come with side dishes, too? Drinks? After what happened on Nal Hutta just before she went to Bimmisaari, she was wary of TKFC because she had a lackluster experience at Pizza Hutt. Not even Charzon, who towered nearly all the Bimms present, would be able to eat 14 pieces of Endorian fried chicken in one go. And one of those "a-little-too-short-to-be-a-stormtrooper" employees is apparently starry-eyed upon seeing Charzon, with all her bulk and height. That employee may have never seen Human females so tall at work, but probably because he didn't work at TKFC for that long. Charzon climbs on the restaurant terrace table, which was mostly designed for Bimms (and by Bimms):

"I will go forth and answer the questions"

"Our next contestant will now answer three questions about TKFC. What is your name?"

"Charzon"

"Our first question is: where is TKFC headquartered?"

"I'm not sure... Dosuun?" Charzon answered, with some hesitation.

"Correct. The second question is: which stormtrooper founded TKFC?"

"TK-421" Charzon showed a lot more emotion this time around when she exclaimed herself.

"Finally, which variety of chicken is in use by TKFC since 4 ABY?"

"Endorian chicken!"

"Congratulations, Charzon, you just won a free bucket of 14 pieces of Endorian chicken!"

 

[Dune Rhur]

Charros IV
3/20
Same Objective etc.

"At this point, the Galactic Alliance leadership is focused on driving the One Sith out of the Galactic Core. They are ostensibly a military based faction. Once they succeed in their goal, however, who can say. The trouble with militants is that, should you disagree with them, they resort to military means instead of democratic ones."

Dune was drawing to the end of his conclusions.

"We realize that providing exclusively for us may result in loss of profit. Therefore, we are willing to take this into considerationwhen negotiating payment terms."

The representative excused itself after thanking Dune. They wished to consider his words....