Star Wars: Underworld (game thread)

[Vesper]

Nikolaus Herzoag turned off the holographic projector and glanced around the crowded nightclub. Upper class, no death stick dealers, no drunks (well, no obvious ones) - on the stage a large woman in modsest clothing belted out an old Yon-Tenbet classic better then he ever had sung it. The news had been announced earlier in the day, the war was over - the Jedi had defected and betrayed the Republic. Palpatine would resume power for his life. Herzoag had hardly been suprised by much of it, only that it went unopposed and that most people bought the story. He took a sip of his scotch and glanced at the time, 5 more minutes. 5 minutes until his regime began to arrive. They'd be out of the system in half an hour.

Herzoag straightened his tie and buttoned his cuffs, checked his pockets for the phony warrants, and, reassured they were there. Sat back and waited. Thinking to himself how he would punish the person who called him by a name, and how he'd kill the person who would talk about their business before they got into the back room.

[92se-r]

Lorccan walked into the nightclub. Dressed as he should be for a meeting in this upper scale place, he only drew a few looks from the patrons. He walked up to the bar and ordered a drink, while In the background he heard a woman singing. She had quite the lovely voice.

Once the bartender gave him his drink he scanned the room. Then he saw him, Nikolaus Herzoag. Lorccan thought it best to keep his distance for now, seeing as how no on else had shown up yet. While Lorccan wouldn't be late for a meeting, he new better than to be the first to arrive. The higher ranking members took that as a sign of disrespect, and quite possibly a challenge, although he had no ambition to climb the ranks. He liked doing the dirty work. Hiding in the shadows and waiting for victims. He had always been well compensated by the organization, and he saw no need to start an unecassary rivalry.

He sat at the bar quietly, not looking in the direction of the table. He would be able to sense when the others arrived. Until then he would sip on his drink and listen to the music.

[Coltonxx]

Colton casually walked into the nightclub, Seeing a few of his "Co-workers" he didn't look around for too long. Colton looked at the time to see he arrived a few minutes early so he walked over to the bar and sat down. He ordered a drink and took a nice long sip. Colton avoided eye-contact with anybody as to not draw any attention.

Colton got up from the bar with his drink and walked over to the lounge area near the stage, He sat down on a couch and put his drink on the table infront of him, he checked the time, everybody should be arriving any second now.

Colton put his hand in his coat pocket making sure he still had his blaster there.

[92se-r]

Lorccan sensed Colton as he walked into the room.

'He's early', Lorccan thought to himself.

He saw Colton walk up to the bar in the corner of his eye, but did not make eye contact. Instead he sat and waited for the rest of the "associates" to arrive. What was taking them so long?

[Kommandant Felix]

Jamor swept into the room, quickly glancing at the patrons, sizing them up. He saw the boss, and a few others looking a bit out of place, sitting by themselves at the bar. Attaching himself onto a group of patrons so not to attract attention, he checked the time. The meeting would begin shortly. He wondered why nobody else had bothered to show up, but then came to the conclusion that they were already there. He decided to approach Nikolaus, and sat down with little more than a nod of greeting.

[Coltonxx]

Colton took his hand from his pocket and turned to see Jamor starting to head towards Nikolaus, Colton figured now was as good as a time as any, Colton stood up, took one more sip of his drink then went and walked past Lorccan and nudged him as he walked by to get his attention and kept walking. Colton went over to where Nikolaus and Jamor were and sat down on a chair opposite of Jamor and slighty nodded to both of them waiting for the rest of the regime to make their way over.

[Vesper]

Nikoaus skulled down the remains of his drink and simply indicated to the door to the backroom, "Colton, tell the Zabrak to guard the door."

[Coltonxx]

Colton nodded and silently stood up and made his way towards the bar where Lorccan was already walking towards Colton, Lorccan stopped infront of Colton, Then Colton said, "Heh, Look tough..The boss says your guarding the door."..Lorccan nodded and headed over to the door, Colton looked over at Jamor and Nikolaus and waited as they started to come down the stairs.

[Kommandant Felix]

Jamor looked over at the Zabrak distastefully. He really didn't like non-humans that much, he didn't trust them. Well, to tell you the truth, Jamor didn't really trust too many peoploe anyway, but especially non-humans.

He stood up, and headed towards the back room. If the boss wanted a Zabrak in on the job, well, he wasn't about to do anything to stop him. He would tolerate him for the duration of the job.

[Coltonxx]

Colton, Jamor, And Nikolaus slowly approached the door..Colton reached forward and held the door open for Jamor and Nikolaus..Jamor and Nikolaus stepped into the very private backroom, Colton nodded at Lorccan then stepped inside and closed the door behind him..The meeting had started.

[92se-r]

Lorccan watched as the others entered the door. He caught the slight glimpse of aversion coming from Jamor. It didn't really bother Lorccan though. He had put up with non-human prejudices most of his life, especially since the founding of the Empire. He shrugged it off. Nikolaus had hired him, in a sense, and it was only to him that Lorccan would really answer.

As the rest of the group made its way through the door, Colton nodded at Lorccan. Colton then slipped inside and the door shut.

Lorccan scanned the room, gently reaching out with the Force, trying to sense if there were any immediate threats. Finding none, Lorccan relaxed a bit and listened to the singer on the stage.

[Marko Ragnos]

Entering the nightclub, Xan Warsheld scanned the room. It was one of the usual upper-class clubs that he used to hang around back in the Tapani Sector. Now, he'd gotten tired of it. He walked up to the bar, and ordered a glass of Fondorian ale, his favorite drink.

The reason he was here? He had left his home sector with his best friend, Clod after being threatened by the Imperial Security Bureau. But, just two weeks ago, Clod was killed by Black Sun thugs, having insulted them. Xan was after vengeance. He was to avenge Clod, and after a few days of asking around, he was pointed to the Corzis Nostra. And he'd also heard that a cell of them were meeting here tonight... right now, actually.

So, taking a sip of his drink, he again scanned the room, looking for potential criminals...

[92se-r]

Lorccan had been watching the crowd for a few minutes, leaning against the wall by the door. Patrons were coming and going from the establishment and it seemed as if the night would be uneventful. As he was watching the crowds though, he felt a darkness enter the room. Granted the place he was in contained less than reputable beings, and more than a few were barely worth the air they were consuming. But one had something else... pain, deep seeded pain.

Standing up straighter and not leaning on the wall anymore, Lorccan began looking around the mass of beings trying to determine where it was coming from. He knew better than to search too hard with the Force, as it would no doubt draw the attention of unwanted people. Namely the Empire. Instead he tried to look at the faces of those around him, trying to get a sense of what each one was feeling. He didn't make a spectacle of himself, but rather casually looked from person to person.

[Coltonxx]

As Colton closed the door the loudness of the club was silenced, Inside the backroom you could barely hear any of the music or talking in the other room. Colton grabbed a chair and sat down at the table with Nikolaus, and Jamor and said, "I trust it's safe to speak now."

[Vesper]

"Where's Warsheld?"

[Marko Ragnos]

As he finished his drink, Xan had spotted an individual, standing out from the rest. And he stood by a door... he looked like a guard or something. Well, it was worth trying to get inside... leaving his bar stool, Xan sneaked up to the Zabrak from the left, and quickly sprinted toward the door, opening it before the bouncer could even see him.

As he entered, he saw a gathering of other figures. "Are you the Corzis Nostra," he asked.

[92se-r]

Lorccan didn't expect the bombrush on the door from the man that had just ran into the room. Lorccan realized that he had slipped while searching, something he would not do again. He didn't give the man much time though, perhaps only enough time to utter a few words before Lorccan ran up behind the man and tackled him from behind. As they fell to the ground, Lorccan kicked the door closed, flipped the man onto his back, and ignited one of his light sabers. The blade hissed to life and Lorccan held it only centimeters from the intruders neck. Having a meeting disturbed was something Lorccan knew Nikolaus would not be too happy about.

"You had better hope what you just did was worth your life," he gritted through his teeth towards the man on the floor.

[Marko Ragnos]

Xan flinched when he heard the familiar snap-hiss sound of an igniting lightsaber. Not that he had seen a lightsaber before, but the sounds of the lightfoils were the same. And lightfoils weren't that common outside the Tapani Sector. This had to be a Jedi, a traitor.

"Come on. Do it,Jedi," he said with amusement in his voice. After a few moments of waiting, he rolled to the right and got up to his feet. Giving the Zabrak a friendly gaze, he again turned to the others. "Are you or are you not the Corzis Nostra?"

[92se-r]

Lorccan nearly took the mans head off for calling him a Jedi. He thought better of it though, just in case. He let the man get up, but he kept his light saber on. When it came down to it, taking someone out with a light saber was quicker, cleaner, and quieter than using a blaster.

Lorccan quickly looked over to Nikolaus.

"I'm sorry sir, I don't know how he got past me. It won't happen again I assure you," he finished with a glare at the intruder.

Lorccan hoped in a way that Nikolaus would let him dispatch with this human. If not for anything else than to save some face. While Lorccan waited patiently for Nikolaus to speak, the hum of the light saber brought a soothing feeling over Lorccan.

[Vesper]

"Idiotic Zabrak filth" Nikolaus muttered to the other members of his regime, now numbering 9, only short of Xam.

"Let him in Lorcan" he said, speaking up so the Zabrak could here him.

[Coltonxx]

Colton laughed to himself because of what just happened, Xan took a seat then Colton leaned forward and said, "Now that we are all here..."

[92se-r]

Lorccan turned off his light saber and returned it to its hiding place in his coat.

Zabrak filth, the words ran through his mind.

As he stepped outside the room he closed the door. He cursed himself for letting someone get the better of him. He let the words spoken by Nikolaus feed his already growing anger. Although he had once been trained by the Jedi, he had come to know that the dark side did indeed have its advantages.

He stood in front of the door this time, watching the crowd.

[Vesper]

Nikolaus activated the holoprojector in his hand, displaying a hologram of a large atmopsheric orbital platform.

"This is our target, the Ranaltiir Orbital Platform - the center hub of all illegal trade and arms dealings in the mid-rim," he paused, "We're going to take it over," Nikolaus could see the stunned expression on the groups face, the platform was as heavily armed as a confederate fortress.

"But it's as heavily armed as a Confederate fortress." One of the group responded

Nikolaus cupped his hands near his chin, "Point being?"

[Coltonxx]

Colton looked at the holo-image and smiled, Colton leaned back in his chair and folded his arms into his chest and said, "Now this sounds fun, When are we doing this and how do we expect to get past the outside defences?".

[Marko Ragnos]

Xan frowned and changed position in his seat. "And while at it, what is their defenses," he asked, holding his head in his hands, fingering his earring.

[Vesper]

"Well for a start, enough heavy cannons to shoot down a Venator," Nikolaus sat back, relaxed, "the Confederacy captured it towards the end of the war to use as a staging ground. If there's anything there it will be shut down - unless the Hutt Cartell has already gotten there."

"And let's face it, the Hutt Cartell can't manage to put more then 100 or so men on that platform." He looked around at the ten men in the room. They hardly looked enthusiastic.

[Jedi Master Elad Kenobi]

Elad walked into the bar.
I'm to old for this stuff. He thought, But I need to aenge Maria, and thats what I'll do. A couple of weeks ago, his spouse,Maria, had been gunned down by street gangs.Distraught, he had stumbled around for a while to find the gang leader out of his mind with spice. He had let him die slowly. Like you had done to Maria, I know as her holo-comunicator had been left on as she'd been talking to me. Elad had continued using hit-and-run tactics. And I got them all. God-damn druggies. Well these guys can help. Aftr having made a name for himself on every outer rim planet there is as a bounty hunter, he had moved to the core to be hunted down by POLICE. He had no problem with Jedi, they were decent. but police... Just armed forces rejects. He hoped that his future employers(?)may recognise his name. If not, then a one way ticket to see Maria then. He downed a stiff drink. And knocked on the door.

[Vesper]

Nikolaus heard the knock and reached for his comlink, "Lorcan, show Elad how we treat people who arrive late."

[Kommandant Felix]

Jamor looked around at the collection of men at the table.

Too many of them are asking questions, he thought. In this business, you usually don't ask more questions than necessary. If the boss told them to take the platform, then that's what they are going to do.

Still slightly annoyed with recent events in the bar, Jamor frowned and rubbed his chin with his right hand.
There are too many people in on this operation. Somebody's liable to squeal. he thought. He would just have to be careful, and cover his back extra well on this operation.

Just then, a knock sounded at the door. He looked incredulously at the door, almost as if it wasn't real. Who in the right mind would show up late to such and important meeting?

[Jedi Master Elad Kenobi]

Elad put his helmet on.
Better to beb intimidating, He reasoned.
The door swung open.
"Sorry I'm late, me and a swoop gang leader had an appointment about my Maria. He had to meet the buisness end of my E-11."

[Vesper]

"I know you're late," Nikolaus said without turning to face the man at the door, "that's why Lorcan is going to cut off your left thumb."

[92se-r]

Casually walking in behind Elad, Lorccan shut the door. He quickly grabbed Elad's left arm, raising the hand to the ceiling. With his free hand, Lorccan ignited his light saber for the second time that night. With quickness, and precision, he glided his light saber through the man's left thumb, just as Nikolaus had asked. Lorccan watched as the thumb fell to the ground, and hit with a fleshy thump. Lorccan then raised his boot and came down with his heel on the stump. He ground it into the ground, making sure that a sickening sound made it's way around the room.

He hadn't noticed that he was still holding the man's arm in the air, the man desperately trying to reach where his thumb had been just a second earlier. Lorccan let the man's arm go. He then deactivated his lightsaber, turned on his heel that still had the thumb under it, and walked out of the room.

As he left, Lorccan felt an odd sense of satisfaction. He had been reproved for a mistake he had made earlier that night. There was little doubt now, though, that he had proven himself once again to Nikolaus. Perhaps the others would not share Nikolaus' view of Lorccan being needed immediately, but he would be sure to change their views. This was but one step in that direction.

[Marko Ragnos]

Xan sat with his eyes wide open. He was lucky that he didn't arrive too late, and he now understood how grim these people really were. Well, at least it suited him.
"Hehe, yeah," he said quietly under his breath, looking around the table. "So..." He again scanned the man with a lost thumb. "Now, what were you saying," he asked and turned to Nikolaus.

[Kommandant Felix]

Jamor looked once again with a slight amount of distaste at the Zabrak, this time, in fact, he left it plain on his face.
He may need that thumb during the mission. He should be lucky to be alive, much less in such a condition. That's what you get for being late, though.

He still disliked the Zabrak's cruelty. There are better ways of teaching a lesson without unnecessary bloodshed. The man had learned enough by getting his thumb taken off, and there was no point in grinding it into the ground. This would only serve to escalate tensions within the group.

Hiding all the disgust from his face, and all but forgetting the Zabrak, Jamor turned his attention to the newcomer.
At least he has enough sense not to say anything averse.
He then turned towards the boss and awaited orders.

[Vesper]

Nikolaus smiled sadistically at the thumb being grinded into the floor, he turned in his chair to face the thumbless Elad, who was crouched on the floor writhing in pain. "I'd have taken both arms but you need the right one to shoot, and if I'd taken the left I'd have only your ears and your genitals left for future punishments."

He swung back in the chair to face the other 9 soldiers, "Now, as I was saying, the most resistance we could face is 100 men from the Hutt Cartell, and I doubt they could prove much difficulty. Fact of the matter is hundreds of thousands of smugglers and dealers and buyers are passing through there a month and aren't being charged for landing there. All we need to do is establish control and wait for the ship of battle droids land to take control of the platforms. Another regime will be taking over management from there."

"My yacht will be at landing platform G-65 in half an hour," he gestured to Elad, who was just beginning to stand, "I strongly recommend that you don't be late."

[92se-r]

Lorccan stood outside the door. The lady was still singing on stage, but it was a more somber song.

Still, he thought to himself, she does have a beautiful voice.

[Vesper]

Nikolaus rose from his chair, the other 9 members rising after him. He walked to the door and stopped as he reached Elad, still sitting on the floor, he pushed his foot down on his neck, rubbing his face into the floor. "There are a few things you've got to learn boy," he looked at the others, "I don't take well to young punks who think they're smarter then everyone else. I don't take to people who are to wound up in their own business to be on time to a meeting - because, I don't take to that, I think it might not surprise you to hear that I have seen a lot of severed thumbs in my life. I know a synthiflesh glove when I see one." Nikolaus stood up and kicked the false thumb into Elad's face, he got the comlink and contacted Lorcan again, "This time sever him at the elbow."

Nikolaus squatted down once more, "Another thing to remember. First, whether you stay with the organisation or not, if a word of this gets out, we'll have you slaughtered and hung from the top of the senate rotunda. Secondly, a lightsaber can cut through anything." Nikolaus rose again and walked out the door, his coat tails passing over the corpse he had just trodden on. The other nine members followed Nikolaus out the door, the tenth lay sprawled on the floor, and turned on his side to watch them leave. The door slid shut as Lorcan entered.

[92se-r]

Lorccan looked down at the man on the floor. He didn't want to be too far behind the other, so he would make this quick.

He pulled out both lightsabers, ignited them, and took the rest of Elad's arm off in a scissor type maneuver. Only up to the elbow of course, as per Nikolaus' instructions.

He watched, and listed, and the man screamed in pain. Strong or not, lightsabers cutting through bone hurt. A lot. He turned and began following the rest of the group.

[Kommandant Felix]

Landing platform G-65 was not a nice place. It was in the middle of a Coruscant slum, a place that most sensible people with sense avoided.

I guess that makes me crazy, Jamor thought humorously to himself. He had done quite a few almost reckless activities to get him this far. Now, however, was when the real business began. He found it slightly humorous as well that such a yacht would remain untouched in this district, but it came as no surprise, for this was the territory of Corzis Nostra. Nobody messed with them, at least, not around here. He checked the time, and noted that he was a bit early.

No matter, he thought. After seeing what happened to the other guy, I guess it is better to be a little early than a little late.

With this thought and a shrug, he entered the yacht.

[92se-r]

Lorccan stood by and watched. He knew that the yacht was not for him to enter. He would have to fly along side in his P-38. He was to make sure that if the yacht was ever attacked, he would do whatever it took to defend it.

Lorccan wasn't sure if he was being paid to do a job as a merc, or as a babysitter. He shrugged, it didn't really matter, the money was good.

[Coltonxx]

Colton came down the platform towards that yacht, now dressed less classy in his usual attire..As Colton walked his long black coat bounced around the back of his knees swaying with each step.

As Colton made his way to the yacht he seen Lorccan standing outside the door, as Colton approached the door Colton stopped and adjusted the strap over his chest which held his vibroaxe against his back under the coat.

He then fixed his coat then stepped inside the yacht...

[Vesper]

The armed and armoured yacht took off from the landing platform with a violent roar. As they prepared to jump into hyperspace Nikolaus retreated into his private quarters at the back of the yacht, it served as a study of sorts, and was backed by a airlocked observation deck that had been open-aired when he purchased the vehicle. He locked the false warrants in the safety of the draw and sent an encoded message to Evzen informing them that as of 21:33 they will have made the jump to hyperspace.

When they entered hyperspace he locked the door and stripped of his suit. He approached the left wall and pressed a switch, and the wall panel slid up revealing a suit of phase II clone trooper armour, it had been modified, first to be shortened and fitted to Nikolaus' stockier frame, and second to be painted black. The helmet was extensively modified and reshaped, the mouth was cut out so as to provide room for an oxygen mask if needed, but primarily so he could speak uninterupted and breath easier. From the belt hung a dark grey leather kama. Along the rest of the wall were a variety of blaster rifles, pistols, explosive devices and vibroswords. Nikolaus dressed in the armour (but left the helmet on his desk) and attached a holster mounted sporting pistol to his belt and attached a compactable vibrosword into another holster. He strapped an A280 Blaster Rifle around his shoulder.

If there was going to be resistance on this platform he was ready for it.

[Marko Ragnos]

Xan rested casually on a couch in the lounge. It felt strange. Two hours ago, he was just a man wanting nothing but vengeance. But now... now he was a member of a feared criminal group, already on his way to his very first mission.

Sitting up, he ran his fingers through his long, brown hair and assembled it into a ponytail, before straightening his clothes. Clipping the lightfoil from his belt, he ignited it, spun it around, and turned it off again. He was ready.

[Coltonxx]

Colton was bored and was just pacing back and fourth in the room, He took off his coat and threw it on a table and sat down. Colton grabbed his blaster pistol from his belt and made sure everything was working, he was hoping he would get to use his dart launcher he had just put on it.

Placing his blaster on the table infront of him he grabbed his E-11 and his vibroaxe off his shoulder straps and placed them on the table aswell, sitting on the chair with stuff digging into you wasn't very comfortable.

Colton slouched back into the chair and closed his eyes..

[92se-r]

Lorccan wasn't very far behind the yacht in his P-38, just far enough to mask his ships signature. He knew that taking the platform would be risky, and probably one of the more dangerous missions he had been on, but he really didn't mind. It had been a while since he had been able to fight people one on one, and he was anxious to get back into the fray.

[Kommandant Felix]

Jamor looked up from the holodisk he was viewing. He found looking at the other passengers was quite amusing. Each had their own quirks, their own flaws, and imperfections. However, when put together, who knows, maybe they could pull this off. He grinned, and checked his weapons one more time.

It was almost time.

[Vesper]

Nikolaus sat at his office and pressed the button for the intercom, "In my office now, everyone."

[Coltonxx]

Colton kind of jumped as the intercom cam across the ship, "I guess I dozed off." He thought to himself..Colton stood up and streched then looked around to see people heading to Nikolaus' office, So he picked up his coat and put it on adjusting the sleeve and made his way over to the door.

[Marko Ragnos]

As Nikolaus' voice sounded through the intercom, Xan immediately got up from the couch, trying to strighten out his shirt. As the son of the High Lord of House Mecetti you got to look good. But Xan always did that anyways so...

Being the first to enter the office, the man nodded at Nikolaus, moving toward one of the walls, standing to lean against it.

[Kommandant Felix]

Jamor was second, immediately following Xan. He nodded a greeting, as usual, to Nikolaus and awaited further instructions.

[Vesper]

"When we land we're gonna split up into groups," Nikolaus said, placing his thumbs on his chin, elbows on the desk, "chances are we'll be greeted on arrival. We'll need to make that discreet so as not to cause alarm. Xan, Colton, you two will find the power control room, cut off the power being routed to the turrets. Kill anyone who gets in your way. Jamor, Lesees, you two will come with me to confront the administrator, Lorcann and Masis will cover us. I want the rest of you to clear out any filfth on this platform and to secure the generator keeping the platform afloat."

A quick buzz came from the cockpit, "Sir, we're about to exit hyperspace."

[92se-r]

Finally, Lorccan thought to himself.

Although guarding Nikolaus was usually an easy enough task, given that he was not a complete idiot when it came to self defense like some other crime bosses Lorccan had taken care of before, he was secretly hoping for some resistance on the way to the administrator.

He had never worked with Masis on a mission before, but knew that he should be able to trust him enough.

Lorccan synchronized his drop from light speed with that of the yachts.

[Kommandant Felix]

The yacht came out of hyperspace and immediately in front of the Ranaltiir Orbital Platform. As soon as the ship appeared, the laser turrets started firing at the yacht, which immediately started weaving through the fire.

Jamor looked cynically at the platform.
"Well, it looks like the Hutt cartel got here before us after all" he commented. Mentally, he added, It almost looks as if they were expecting us. I think we got a rat in our midst, or at least listening in on our conversations.
In the end thought, it didn't matter. They were part of the Corzis Nostra, one of the most feared groups in the galaxy. A route would soon be in order.

[Coltonxx]

Colton clutched onto his chair as the ship moved around dodging blasts, Colton said to the rest of them, "Looks like we got some resistance after all!"..Between sudden shifts of the yachts angle Colton had taken his E-11 off the strap and held it ready in his hands.

[92se-r]

The drop from lightspeed was bumpier than Lorccan was expecting. It seemed that as soon as the group exited they were under fire. Lorccan knew what he needed to do.

He broke away from the yacht, making sure that it had more than enough room to maneuver through the incoming defenses. He then pushed his sublight engines and sped ahead of the group, rolling and banking as he went hoping to attract more of the fire away from the yacht. He wove his way through the lasers and opened fire on a bank of laser placements. He was pretty sure that even his modified lasers would do no real damage, but he was also pretty sure that it would bring more focus onto himself. That should buy the yacht enough time to get close enough to the station to avoid the laser fire, and by that time he could easily rejoin the group.

He did a couple more straffing runs on the station, when he noticed a glimmer on the edge of the station. He looked down at his equipment and cursed under his breath. The signatures from the engines identified a pair of older V wings coming out of the hangar.

"How in the world did someone get ahold of those?" Lorccan spoke into the mic. He broke hard left on an intercept course. He knew how deadly the V wings were in the hands of a Jedi, but he highly doubted the pilots of these two ships were anything close. He flipped a switch, opening a small bay door on each fuselage.

[Marko Ragnos]

When Xan heard that he was working with Colton to take out the power control room, he felt relieved. He knew that Colton was a very good soldier, which he wasn't.

As the yacht got out of Hyperspace, it rocked terribly, probably hit by laser fire. The slimy *******s knew they were coming... running back to the lounge, Xan picked up his T-6 Thunderer blaster pistol from the acceleration couch. He was ready...

[Jedi Master Elad Kenobi]

Elad checked the synth-flesh arm.
"Cool. I need some Equipment." He met with the boss to be breifed in. He had some new-found respect in the boss.he had a way to find respect.Easily.
He saw a shadow by his Equipment.
"Hey, get away from there!"
The shadow dissapeared. With his doubts, he put his suit on and made for the Form-up zone. He wasn't late this time.

[Vesper]

"Pilot?"

"Yesir,"
"Take care of those fighters. Activate the extra cannons and prepare course to land."

Nikolaus rose from his desk and walked to the observation balcony on the rear of the study. He observed patiently as the fighters in pursuit were blown out of the sky.

[92se-r]

Lorccan was surprised a bit when the fighters he was pursuing were vaporized. He looked back towards the direction of the laser fire and saw that it had come from the yacht.

"Figures he would spoil my fun," Lorccan muttered.

"Hawk Blade," came the voice of the pilot.

"Hawk Blade here."

"We are preparing to land, follow and assist were needed."

"Understood," came the reply from Lorccan.

He brought his ship around, following the yacht once again. As they cleared the hangar bay doors, he reached out with the Force and activated the switch that engaged the blast doors of the hangar bay. It would take at least an hour before the blast doors could be reopened, but Lorccan didn't much like the thought of someone dropping the shields around the hangar as they all got out of their ships.

Gently Lorccan brought his ship down along side Nikolaus' yacht. He reached into a cubby on his left and put a wrist band on. He flipped a switch on the ships controls and the wrist band lit up with data from the ship. Lorccan powered down the ship, but left the passive sensors on. He looked down once again and saw that the data from the sensor scans was being fed directly to his wrist unit.

"Excellent," he said to himself.

He popped the hatch and climbed out of his ship. With both lightsabers in hand, he made his way over to the ramp lowering from the yacht.

[Jedi Master Elad Kenobi]

Elad stepped off the ship.
"Shall I take the left corrider?"
Elad was staring down two corriders.Suddenly, two merenarys popped from around a corner and opened fire. Elad hid around a corner and grabbed a thermal detonator.He mentally counted the seconds to the blast. Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, he chucked the detonator.
three, two, one, boom. No blast. A dud! He leaped round the corner, firing his E-11.They both went down, but the gun failed after 10 average power shots. Someone has messed with my kit! Elad raged at himself. I'll find out soon anyway. He reasoned. Well, Unto the breech once again... Elad thought, as he pulled his two DL-44 blasters.OCC EDIT: check my post before this!!!

[Vesper]

Nikolaus calmly placed the helmet on his head as he exited the yacht. Elad had already run off from everybody else. Wouldn't matter, worst case scenario he got killed, best case he took out a dozen or so Hutt mercenaries. We'd sorted out our plans without him anyway. He joined the others in front of a growing welcoming party, led by a hutt.

Just as well the warrants listed them as members of the Imperial Anti-Corruption Unit. Though he sincerely doubted that would have any effect.

[Kommandant Felix]

Jamor smiled and lit up his lightsaber. He may not be able to deflect blaster bolts, but he was skilled in the use of a lightsaber.
Perhaps that's why I was hired for this job, he mused. Maybe they want me to unnerve the enemy.
He saw the opposition squirm as he brought it up in a very Jedi-like manner.

"He's a Jedi!" one of the hutt mercenaries yelled, obviously panicking. He started to fire randomly into the fray, hitting just about everything around him.

Jamor ducked and rolled under a hail of blaster fire, most of which singed his body armor. Pulling out of the roll, he stabbed out, impaling a mercenary. Pulling off a quick series of moves, he slashed the man in half, and then cut off the head of the falling carcass. He then slashed out and dropped a couple more bodies. This was all that was needed. The rest of the mercenaries decided for a "tactical retreat", led by the Hutt.

Jamor stood, panting.
I don't know how Jedi can keep up with this stuff, he thought. He looked around quickly for any stragglers, and ran off in pursuit.

[Vesper]

"So much for a quiet entrance," Nikolaus raised his rifle in the air, adjusted the scope, and in two quick shots had the Hutt dead on the floor and blocking the escape of the other mercenaries. It started to rain, "Jamor, Lesees, Masis, Lorcann - come with me, Xan, Colton, start heading towards the power control station - it might take a while to get to it. Everyone else take care of this bunch and then spread out to spread their forces out." Nikolaus walked to the long corridor that would lead to the administrator's office. Corridor was perhaps not the most apt word, the whole station was a hovering connection of walled catwalks and black spiralling iron. He took one quick glance at the yacht, the co-pilot sat at the top of the boarding ramp - a heavy repeating blaster sitting between his arm and his waist. Just in case.

[92se-r]

Lorccan was impressed with Jamor's use of the lightsaber. Crude as it was, it had been effective in dispatching at least a few of the mercs. Lorccan waited patiently for Nikolaus to give his orders and then lead the group to where they were heading.

Although Jamor did not have the skills of a Jedi, he had a bit more respect for him now. At least he didn't kill himself with the lightsaber.

[Coltonxx]

Colton quickly trailed away from the group with Xan close behind stopping inside a hallway to check his datapad, Raising his datapad Colton studied the map of the station and figured out where they were going, Finally finding the shortest path Colton put the datapad in his coat and told Xan to follow.

After a few minutes of walking down long hallways Colton and Xan stopped as they spotted 3 Hutt mercenaries at the end of the hallway guarding a door.Colton stopped and looked at Xan and said, "Well it's about time we ran into somebody."

Colton and Xan slowly walked towards the door, They got about 30 feet away from the door until finally they stopped talking and noticed them, Right away they raised their guns and yelled over, "Hold it! What are you doing here?!"

Colton continued to walk towards them and said, "Oh just looking around."
The guards approached Colton and Xan guns raised, One of the guards approached Colton and said, "Well it's too bad you came around these parts..Cause now you get to die."

Colton turned and looked at Xan and said, "You here that? We're gunna die!"

Colton clenched his fist activating his vibro-knuckler, He raised his hand and before the guard could react Colton had already planted his fist into the guards head. The furthest guard shot a blast towards Colton but Xan grabbed a nearby guard and threw him infront of the shot.

Quickly Colton grabbed his blaster off his belt and aimed at the guard squeezing the trigger a shot flew through the guards chest
Colton put his blaster back on his belt and walked over to one of the corpses and wiped off his knuckler on the body.

[Jedi Master Elad Kenobi]

Elad kept running. He pulled out his comlink.
"Hey Colton, do you wanna bump up your body count?"
"Why?"
"Cus I ran into the Barracks level and I have no more blaster backs for my DL-44's."
"Use your E-11."
"Someone tampered with it."
"I can help you with your problem then. I have your location lock. 500 yards turn right and use the electronic lock pick on the first door you see. Trust me."
"OK."
Elad spun round to unleash a barrage of fire from the wrist mounted flame-thrower libarated from his time as a soldier. Using the lock pick he about made it into the room when he found the WALLS of weapons before him.
Pulling more than his fair share of weapons, he remembered something his old Mandolorian Commander had said about this model of space station
and went and typed in 4731.

The walls peeled away to show a Basilisk war droid.
"Baby, where you been all my life!!!"
He walked over to the controls.
Full charge as well.Outside, the guards were attemping to burn through the door. As Elad shot the door lock control, he opened up as he'd been trained to. Four levels below the shots were heard. Xan wondered what Colton was smirking at, as what sounded like Turbolasers opened up above them.
"Happy birthday." Colton muttered.

[Kommandant Felix]

Jamor looked up...and up...and up.

"What the..." he started to say.

He had about two seconds to dodge out of the way as a huge fist smashed down where he once stood.

He yelled into his comlink, "Some idiot let a rancor out in the station."

He dodged the rancors second fist, feeling the wind on his face.

"Why do Hutts always have a rancor?", he muttered to himself as the beast let out a ghastly roar. It seemed to be guarding the administration office fiercely. One of his comrades tried to run past it, only to be grabbed and decapitated by the rancors gruesome maw. It took a step towards Jamor, and he grimaced, for he knew what he must do. He turned to the rest of his crew, including his boss and fellow mercenaries.

"I'll lure it away from here, you go into the office", he yelled. He took out a blaster and shot the thing in the mouth. Forgetting all other prey, the rancor charged and Jamor ran down an alternate hall.

[92se-r]

Rancor, Lorccan thought to himself, it's always a rancor.

He had ignited both of his lightsabers, ready for some action worth his attention, when Jamor shot the beast in the mouth and ran down a side hallway. The rancor, now irate, let out a bellowing roar and chased him down the hall.

Lorccan stood and watched as they both disappeared. He closed down his lightsabers and looked and the administration office ahead. He hoped that someone inside would resist, at least a little bit. He could feel the surge of adrenaline flowing through him and he flet the Force come with it.

[Jedi Master Elad Kenobi]

Elad was having a hell of a time. Mowing down Mercinaries,until he heard a noise. A big noise. A Rancor noise. Elad found it trying to pummel Jamor into dust. He couldn't open up on the rancor, he would turn the hall into another Serreco,(Check Nar shaddar,KOTOR 2)and he would hit Jamor. He chose the mini-gun and opened up.(let you decide Kommandant Felix)

[Jedi Master Elad Kenobi]

Elad was having a hell of a time. Mowing down Mercinaries,until he heard a noise. A big noise. A Rancor noise. Elad found it trying to pummel Jamor into dust. He couldn't open up on the rancor, he would turn the hall into another Serreco,(Check Nar shaddar,KOTOR 2)and he would hit Jamor. He chose the mini-gun and opened up.(let you decide Kommandant Felix)

[Kommandant Felix]

Jamor thought that he had led the rancor far enough. He turned and ignited his lightsaber and brought it up in ready stance. Of course the rancor paid no attention and attacked him.

Hmmm...I guess I can't scare this guy...

One of the rancor huge fists landed a glancing blow on his left shoulder. Even though it just knicked him, he went flying across the room and hit the wall, hard.

Getting up with a gasp of pain, he dodged another fist, baraely missing his head. Awkwardly rolling out of the way, he suddenly felt himself being picked up by the massive behemoth, and brought towards the huge maw. Doing the only thing that he could, he brought his lightsaber up...and proceeded to cut the rancors hand off. Midway through, the rancor must have finally felt the pain and dropped him.

Jamor hit the ground, hard. Barely on the edge of consciousness, he knew he was finished. The rancor brought its fists up...and suddenly roared in pain as it was almost torn in half by some unseen weaponry. Suddenly , it seemed to get its second wind and started flailing around.

Things got fuzzy after that...Jamor noticed that things were unfocusing. He proceeded to get up, but a sharp pain prevented him from doing so. Suddenly, he heard a large boom and the floor beneath him opened up. Vaguely, he thought that the durasteel floor, that had barely stood up to the fury of the rancor, had finally given way. Jamor fell, and blackness enveloped him.

[Jedi Master Elad Kenobi]

Elad saw Jamor fall and gripped him through the the force. Setting him down gently on the deck, he pulled his blaster and ran to the distant sound of gunfire.

[Kommandant Felix]

Waking up, Jamor gave a little shout as he stared at the open jaws of the rancor. Pain arched through his entire body as he did this, reminding him he was still alive. It took him several moments to realize that the creature was dead, lying in 3 or 4 pieces next to him. Somebody had saved him from the long drop, that much was sure. He was somewhat grievously injured, but he could still fight. Feeling through the Force, he realized that the enemy forces were dwindling, and the battle was being won. Limping as fast as his legs could take him, he tried to reach the last pockets of resistance somewhere deep inside the fortress. This battle had gone on long enough.

[Jedi Master Elad Kenobi]

Elad ran a corner at a sprint and ran into a limping Jamor. pulling himself up, he heard thudding footsteps from around the bends of the fortress' maze. He looked at Jamor, signalling him to take the lead..