Captial Building

[Blood Bather]

Caleb smirked.

[glow=gold,2,300]Yeah, I'm still a sith lord. I just thought I'd come here to Taris and have a friendly talk with Jedi Master Kento. I was thinking he could give me some pointers for the next time I tried to take over the galaxy. [/glow]
Caleb, putting his kidding aside, answered Riko's question sincerely.

[glow=gold,2,300]No, I am no longer a sith lord. I, for one, learn from my mistakes. But unlike Gabriel, I shall not turn my back on my people. Soon, the elders shall all destroy themselves and new ones shall rise to replace them. I already have influence over all of the liable candidates. I'm thinking that when the time comes, I can steer my people out of the dark void that is the ways of the sith. [/glow]
Caleb then thought more about what Riko had said.

[glow=gold,2,300]So, you killed Maknus? That will be a serious blow to the regeneration of the sith, but I sense that it shall not prevent it.[/glow]
Caleb then remembered back to when they were on Mon Calamari.

[glow=gold,2,300]You didn't finish Kross, did you?[/glow]

[AG]

Riko looked down to the floor guitily. He never had the chance to finish him off when he easily could have. The memory of its concequences pained him.

[glow=blue,2,300]I couldn't.[/glow]

Riko paused at this. For the first time after hours, tears began to fall from his eyes. Why hadn't he tried to stop Logray from rushing to Korribban?

[glow=blue,2,300]I wanted to though. Master Logray told me an even greater danger roamed in the horizon. He brought me to Korribban, and brought himself to his own demise. The only thing that consoles me is that he is now in a far better place than where he died. If I hadn stopped him, perhaps what happened recently would never have taken place, and Kross would not be the Dark Lord, but Maknus, whome I know now that I could've defeated anytime.[/glow]

Riko started for his ship. He had something to do that could mean the change of the galaxy's fate.

[glow=blue,2,300]There is still a chance though. Now Maknus is dead and you are with us, Kross is the new Dark Lord of the Sith. He is bound to show up at one point. And I will be waiting.[/glow]

Riko disappeared into the interrogator and entered its cockpit. The engines whirred to life as Riko called upon the Force, harnessing the connection between him and the two Jedi down below.

Master Logray was fond of magical spells. He tought me how to make time in one room much longer than what it is outside. I will use that spell in one of the training rooms of the new Jedi Temple. I think I know a way to defeat Kross once and for all. I shall see you again tomorrow.

The interrogator sped off into the sky, headed for the Jedi Temple.

**move to the Jedi Temple**

[Blood Bather]

Caleb decided to close his mind from the subject of Riko not killing Kross. Instead he thought more about the last time he and Kross fought.

[glow=gold,2,300]Kross.....he's not really a sith. What could he be planning?[/glow]
As he pondered this, Caleb decided to take a longer, but easier route to the jedi temple.

[Starlett]

Shaye followed behind Kento and said nothing...she just listened...

[jokannjaga]

*****Hideous from Taris******


Hideous was now walking up the Employees entrance to the Capitol building looking like a middle aged female human in housekeeper’s uniform. The vibroblades tucked neatly into his boots again disguised from anyone seeing them.

The building had metal detectors that would find his weapons but he already thought around that trick, and summoned a Force storm about the entry way. The wind began to blow hard in all directions and debris was flying thru the detectors setting them off all the time.

The closer he got the more upset everyone was getting at having to be hand swept fro objects. By the time Hideous arrived at the gate the security was fed up also. He waited in line for a good 5-10 minutes before they finally gave up searching everyone and let them all pass until the storm cleared.

As passed by the guards they were all commenting on how weird a storm this was, it seemed to be just over the capitol building and down the street only a little ways.

Hideous simply smiled affectionately at the guard as he let her by and into the building.

Once inside he knew it would be easy to get into the computer center. After all his Master did have connections all over this galaxy.

He walked right up to the Computer center entry point and waited until a protocol droid passed by. The same model that was just brought out by a new company on the outer rim, the droids were very effective and very good at their duties. With a simple nod and handing of a data pad he was allowed into the center by the protocol droid. The droid then went and made sure no cameras were on the computer center at the time of arrival, but would activate them as he exited.

Once at the terminal where no one could interrupt him and his work, he began to slice into the network.

It was just mere minutes before he was inside the network and looking at all sorts of private data by politicians and lobbyists. After copying several of the items into his own data pad he set to work on downloading a letter from an anonymous person with in the Jedi temple. The letter reads:

To the Taris Security Department:

I must keep my identity secret and I do apologize for breaking into the Capitol to get this to you, but it is very important and disturbing as well. In my time as a worker in the Jedi temple doing odds and ends kind of jobs I have discovered that their a great many secrets being withheld from us.
I learned that the Jedi and Sith are in fact the same thing. They are playing up this War to get temples and headquarters all over the galaxy so they can all take over. I found by accident this holo recording from a Jedi Master that is suppose to be dead. It is from a Riko Fultyre to the Jedi council here yesterday. I could not create a duplicate of it for I am no Jedi and you must be to do anything other then read of their net, but I wrote down how to get to the message and I am going to tell you it now as I wrote it down word for word.

“Greetings Council, I have seen the holos of my demise and I am happy to report everything is going according to plan here on Coruscant. The plan goes as we had foreseen, the next phase shall begin soon with an attack on Taris and the Sith, *he laughs* taking over the planet and forcing you to move on. This will begin our next campaign on Muunilinst if you wish to keep to plan. Is Taris still giving us aid in the way of credits and supplies? I would think we suckered them enough to do it forever. I think our estimate of complete control of the Galaxy will be achieved sooner then we had thought. Their was an uprising here and on a few other planets but they crowd was taken care off and put out of their misery. I shall report back in one standard week to see how things go on Taris. May the Force be with You.”

There was also some other things I found here in the temple you should be made aware of. They have a weapons cache here that you understand to be confiscated materiel and will never be used in any way other then defense of the temple? Well the numbers are not matching up with what I saw here. I saw a single room half filled with blaster rifles and pistols. The numbers should be higher then is reported, and some or rather most of the weapons are illegal disruptor type style. Please you have to do something, I can no longer sit back and let this happen. I wish I would have found this out before but I was not allowed access to these areas before.

Sincerely,
A concerned being.

After entering all the data so it could be traced back here when it is necessary for them to confirm someone did put it here he sets it on a delay to be sent. One day should be enough to get in and alter the Jedi Temples computers also.

With all that done Hideous still in disguise as a woman leaves the computer center quietly and in plain view of the cameras watching. He walks out of the main entrance for employees once again just a few hours after arriving.

He had done what he was suppose to, obtain information on the people in charge, input the data on the computer, and make sure someone can place a woman there when it was done.


****Moves Darth Hideous to Jedi Temple on Taris****

[jokannjaga]

The Senate was in emergency session over what to do about the Jedi.

The senate was split on how to deal with the situation. Half of them beleived in the nature of the Jedi, the others believed the evidence in hand as to what the Jedi were truly like.

It was decided that the Jedi must come and try to talk to them and clarify the situation. A person was sent to the Jedi Temple to bring back a Jedi Master to talk to the senate about this issue. Utnil the Jedi arrived they were in recess.

[|[JK]|]

Chirs arrived at the Senat. He was not a master but he would still be here to atleast watch the proceedings. See if there was anything more he could do to preserve peace on the streets of Taris. He pased the hallways waiting to hear what Master would show.

[jokannjaga]

A elder man dressed very elegantly walked out to meet to the Jedi Chris.

We were hoping for a Jedi Master, but please do come in and try to explain what has happened here today and the past few weeks in the Galaxy.

He lead him into the Senate chambers, and right down front of the 75 senators in their palces behind him, and a panel of 9 in front of him.

The one in the middle simply started talkign even before the Jedi had a chance to sit down.

Jedi iam going to make this simple right now. In the past week or so we have heard many disturbing rumors abotu the Jedi. and We here are split as to whether or not to believe them. It si your Job right now to make us believe your side or to simply leave Taris before we call out the Military to force you to leave. You will begin by telling us how all those weapons were in your Temple, then tell us why there was an attempted smuggling of more weapons, followed by explaining Master Riko's holo vid, and then tell me why Master Kento killed all those people on Muunilinst.

The elder stateswoman who just spoke sat back and waited, as did all the rest of the Great Hall. It was dead silence in there.

Your datapad goes off telling you that you have recieved something. When you look down it reads:

Dear Master Jedi,

I am just one of the Senate here but there is something a miss and we need your help. There are many questions we need answered now and we hope you are going to be able to answer them. But you are in more danger then you know, Jedi. It was a mistake coming here. The vote will not be split long for there were back alley deals done in order for it to appear a deadlock. You are being ambushed Jedi, explain quickly and efficiently or your words may turned against you. But if you need a friend and need the evidence we have all you have to do is ask.

Sincerely,

Senator Marik Telon

[|[JK]|]

He noded at the council woman. He glanced at his data pad read the information then returned his gase to the senators.

Council, I realize that there is much nformation stacked against us. But you must ask yourself something; for years the Jedi have lived in peace with your planet and your goverment helping your civilization thrive and grow. Even now the Jedi are helping end the Gang wars that have interupted your streets for many years. Now, all of a sudden, there is all of this outragous evidence stacked against us.

The Jedi are protecters of peace and Justice in the galaxy, and we are not soldiers. We have no need for these weapons that were smuggled into our hanger without our knowlage. If I am correct you did not find the captian of the vessel that held the weapons. Your answer to the smuggled weapon lies with the captian of that ship.

[yasser]

The view from the screens of the senate was enough to drown the more weak hearted members into full panic as Clone Troopers tried to usher the officials out to their transports.

Suddenly the din was put to an end by a sudden crash made by a Patriot walker as it kicked the large doors in. The clone troopers fired immediately as the enemy was on their site, but their remains were sent flying out the windows due to the force of the return turbolaser fire.

The Patriot walker entered followed by seven more and stood in two columns as another fighure entered, a Dark Trooper wearing special insignia and a slight crest on his helmet: General Massacre.

[glow=orange,2,300]To the left side of the room, now.[/glow]

Affirmative

The Patriots forced the government officials to crowd into one side of the room, and the walkers stood at a row facing them. General Massacre walked up to the holovid where Zoth's huge figure appeared.

[shadow=maroon,left,300]Report Status[/shadow]

[glow=orange,2,300]Clone Forces have been defeated in head to head combat. Minimal losses.[/glow]

[shadow=maroon,left,300]My little fighting force has proved effective. Patriot. Open fire.[/shadow]

Affirmative

[shadow=maroon,left,300]Massacre, continue elimination of the populace, and expect full scale retaliation[/shadow]

[glow=orange,2,300]Sir[/glow]

Massacre banged his foot as salute to the hologram before him as it disappeared, then stepped over the bodies of the dead senators as he left the chamber, followed by his bodyguard of eight Patriot walkers.

[yasser]

Ragab sprinted, boosted by the combined support of The Force and his bionic suit, till the capital building was in sight. The scene at it's yards, however, was more spectacular.

The advancing cohorts of Nova Legionnaires were already closing in on the Capital Building in a powerful pincer attack. Supported by the Excaliburs as they closed in, the Legion had the effectiveness of a war machine, mowing down the once feared Dark Troopers with their advanced weapons and, more importantly, the will of a simple man to survive in the face of tyranny.

Ragab's comm bleeped.

[shadow=black,left,300]Where are you?[/shadow]

[shadow=navy,left,300]Right outside the building.[/shadow]

[shadow=black,left,300]I'll burst trans you a signal of my location. I'm infltrating the building to face Massacre.[/shadow]

A signal appeared on Ragab's GPS screen showing Osman's location on the side of the building. Ragab leapt, followed by Oligio and Katana, and landed before Osman, who was alone.

[shadow=black,left,300]Now get ready...[/shadow]

Osman aimed his railgun at the door and fired, the target flying away and exposing the council chambers.

The four entered, shocked by the myriad of corpses littering the floor and alerting the eight Patriot Walkers that stood guard. Ragab stepped forward.

[shadow=navy,left,300]We'll handle this. You find Massacre.[/shadow]

Ragab charged the walkers as Osman ran to the nearest room. He went under the first walker, slicing it's leg off with all his power while a second one fired it's proton beam at the Jedi, who used Nova Vanquisher to redirect the beam straight to its firer, destroying it too...

----

Osman entered the room he ran to when Ragab started fighting, and saw the General looking out the window. He aimed his railgun and cocked to get his attention.

[shadow=black,left,300]I'll ask you once and only once: where's Zoth?[/shadow]

[jedimastah009]

Olligio used the force to propell himself at the patriot walker, He cut off its main laser and landed on top of it. He took his lightsbaer and jammed it in the top, meilting most of its main opertating circutry. The patriot walker stumbled and fell and ollligo Flipped off. landin in frontof another one. The patriot walker tried to jump over him, To get to ragab, but olligio Swung his saber up and melted one of the legs off. As it landed, it lost balance and fell to the ground, exploding. A patroit walker came up behind ragab, pionting his lasers at his master. Using all his might, he lifted the other walkers leg using the force and hurled it at the walkre behind his master. It was a little low, but if his master got out of the way, it would destroy the walker.

Mastah! look out!

[yasser]

Ragab looked up and noticed the Patriot walker flying towards him, and grabbed it with his hands, then jumped high into the air and slemmed it on the walker that was aiming at him, obliterating both.

[shadow=navy,left,300]That's how its done...[/shadow]

---

[shadow=black,left,300]You singin or not?[/shadow]

Osman had his sights aimed on General Massacre, who still didn't move yet. He then turned.

[glow=orange,2,300]Has your grandfather taught you nothing?[/glow]

Massacre pressed a button on his palm, but Osman noticed and jumped out of the way as the mine he stood on ignited, engulfing the room in smoke.

Osman got up and turned on his heat sensors, keeping his artemis blaster and thermoblade at the ready.

[shadow=black,left,300]Come out, wherever you are...[/shadow]

[jedimastah009]

Olligio Flipped towards his master and Landed in front of him.

Mastah, there are dark troopers entering the building, i can feel them

[Katana]

Katana could sense Zoth, not like it was difficult. That blight was a beacon to any force-sensitive person. She saw Ragab run into the next room, and then heard that voice, the one that was already getting too old. "'Mastah' this, Olligio." Katana laughed. "Ugh. I've got issues."

Something close drew her attention, though she knew not what it was. She kept the comfort of her lightsaber close, letting a small level of fear and nervousness in, focusing her emotion on the immense battle that would soon be over. AS she walked down the oddly empty hall, her footsteps echoed throughout the Capital Building. Katana couldn't help but admire the architectural wonder that the building was. As she marveled in to glory of the building, eight shadow troopers emerged from Katana's right. "God damnit."

Hello, boys. Ready to die? This really is getting old, you know.

She was prepeared. She took her stance. Katana held her blade in a very Soresu-esque pose. She held it high in her right hand coming over her head and pointing at her enemy. Her left hand was outstretched, ready to take down any challengers.

I have you single file. Even surrounding me, you wouldn't stand a chance. How about this. I'll give you one shot. Shoot yourself. End the pain.

It seems that shadow troopers are inable to heed warnings. The first charged, and met his end abruptly. Katana plunged the length of her saber through his neck, and twisted. She then pulled the blade out, and used it to spin and split the initial shadow trooper at the waist. Katana stayed in motion, rotating into the next trooper, taking off it's right leg from the hip, and then stabbing straight through the chest. Katana moved around, spinning around the falling body of the shadow trooper. She jumped, cutting the third from pelvis to cranium, a truly undignified death, and finally met the fourth tropper on the way down, erasing any notion of a head that the trooper ever had. Katana moved through the final four like a hot knife through butter. She finished them off, and decided to leave her lingering curiosity for another day. She ran back to Ragab, apologising yet again.

[Phoenix]

Kalo had landed early in his Nova armour suited for his race, his tendrils sticking out the back of the helmet and the visor just normal for his eyes could adjust quite easily. Nevetheless, the Nautolan jedi couldn't help but feel that he was truly a soldier now and no longer a jedi but deep inside he heard the force's roar and his spirit was empowered with it. As he leaned out one of the Nova dropships, he tensed his muscles as he approached the Capital building. The dropship made a quick dash to the side of it and he leapt headfirst crashing through the window, rolling back to his feet with Nova Trident by his side. He sliced the closest Dark trooper in the mid section, injuring him followed by striking him in the back of the neck once he was bent down, vanquishing him.

Kalo span a total of 180 to his right and with his left hand he summoned the force and channeled it into his enemy, pushing him into the wall. He then turned and delfected a spray of blaster fire originating from one of the Cyborgs within the room. He sped fowards, slapping the enemy's bolts aside until he sliced upwards into the Cyborg's gun, severing it in two. He then span around and kicked the trooper in the gut with the force, pushing him back a couple of feet. Kalo span his blade around in a full verticle circle and finally came in contact with the Cyborg's head.


Kalo had been successful in clearing the room, he went back to his point of entrance and contacted the dropship full of Nova soldiers with the comm on his arm. Eventually, Kalo had a group of soldiers behind him clearing the Capital Building, they would complete their objective before helping with General Massacre, though Kalo could sense through the force that Osman was dealing with it and that it was truly his own battle and no one else's.

[jedimastah009]

Olligio saw kalo enter the capitol building. He flipped off the blacony and landed on top of a patriot walker. He used the force to rip off its top and frontal lasers and threw them at a squad of dark troopers, crushing them. Olligio then backflipped and landed behind the patrtiot walker, and using the force he triggered one of the remaining lasers and it blew holes in about 15 dark troopers.using his lightsaber, He cut a hole in the walker and tossed a grenade into it. He ran away, Holding his lightsaber out to block a blaster bolt while running. and then the walker exploded from within, and the legs topppled over. Olligio ran into the battle of Nova and dark troopers. He lashed out with his saber and cut a dark trooper across the chest. The troper fell to his knees and then on his face. As Olligio ran towards Master Kalo, He blocked two blaster bolts from behind, but the bothan jedi was whacked with the butt of a dark troopers gun in the head. Olligio fell at kalo's feet, unconscious as the dark trooper was beheaded bya stray peice of scarap metal.

[Halcyon]

Roth sprinted forth placing his saber over Olligio's head and swinging it straight up cutting off the Dark Troopers arm at the elbow, before blasting him back with a powerful Force Wave. He looked down and quickly analyzed him for any serious injury. The bothan seemed alright, it was only a minor injury.

He locked eyes with Kalo and nodded before moving farther into the building. Roth was one who stood out in the group, being that he had refused the Nova armor. Most of the other Jedi who had come along had chosen to wear much like Kalo, but Roth had denied it. He had the Force and that was enough to protect him.

The door up ahead was sealed shut and probably magnetically sealed to prevent blasters from burning through. He swung Redemption and drilled a hole through the wall slowly cutting it open. Instead of going right through as the probably where expecting he found the door in the Force and gave it a telekinetic shove and straight through the line of enemy troopers. He wasn't quite sure how many there were. Of course he didn't really have time to count as the shooting started up again...

[Jenno]

OOC: Sorry for the short post, I'm in the middle of an essay

IC: Jenno was a blur, a blur in the force and a blur to those around him. After speeding past some Jedi and Nova Legionaires, Jenno witnessed his previous master enter another room through a freshly made entrance. As Roth entered and came upon fired as he began to slaughter the waiting Dark Troopers, Jenno saw his opportunity and entered through the doorway, with a swipe of Green Dragon a Dark Trooper fell to the floor as he tried to flank Roth. With the element of surprise gone, Jenno was fired upon by many of the Dark Troopers in the room. As he went on the deffensive, deflecting the shots away from his body, he sensed that Ragab had the battle here under control. However, there were other buildings that needed resecuring, such as the Jedi Temple. It was crucial that they retake the temple quickly, otherwise the Troops there could prepare a strong defence and lives would be lost. Jenno would wait until they were safe until he brought the point up. He remained on the defensive, focusing on deflecting the shots away from him and back towards the Troopers from whose guns they shots were coming from.

[yasser]

Ragab had Nova Vanquisher and Nova Tyrfing on, twin blurs of pure light that ripped through the dark exoskeletons of the Dark Troopers and any of those who charged in his direction.

However a shadow trooper managed to stab his sabre into the side of Ragab's thigh, and seconds later after Ragab chopped its head off his shoulder was pierces by the thermoblade of another Dark Trooper who in a heartbeat also met his end.

But the knight knew better that to show pain, especially in front of his padawan. He remembered from his training: pain is not a vice, but a sign to wake up. The knight ran to one of the corpses of the destroyed Patriot Walkers, painfully picking it up and using The Force to activate its rapid fire torpedo tubes.

The swarms of Dark Troopers were ripped apart by the waves of fire emitted by Ragab's makeshift ballista. In less than a minute Ragab dropped the weapon.

[shadow=navy,left,300]Area clear.[/shadow]

On finishing his sentence he gave in to the pain, dropping to the ground senseless.

---

General Osman continued the search for the crafty general, and suddenly the windows crashed and enetered one of Osman's commanders, a former SKS member called Claudus, carrying his favourite weapon even before the legion was formed: A huge gatling turbocannon, capable of over 2000 rounds per minute.

[shadow=black,left,300]Good you arrived, help me with his guy[/shadow]

Claudus, mute as he was, simply nodded, and the next second the walls were quickly being dotted with gatling fire, and in no time a cloaked figure jumped out of the upper part of the west wall.

General Massacre's flight was short lived, for he was cught in midair by Osman who quickly had him in a submissive position.

[shadow=black,left,300]Claudus, dismissed. Now sing Massacre, where is Zoth?[/shadow]

The Dark General remained silent, retaining the frozen calm Osman saw in all the Dark Troopers. Suddenly Osman began to notice his heat signature dropping.

[shadow=Black,left,300]NO! Tell me where ZOTH IS NOW![/shadow]

But it was too late. General Massacre was dead. Self Terminated. In the same time Osman noticed the sounds of gunfire stopping outside, followed by a loud, victorious yell from the legionnaires. At least we won the battle, thought Osman, and beagan to walk out.

[shadow=maroon,left,300]My little diversion worked beautifully. What's better is that the Jedi even fell for it...[/shadow]

Osman did not speak back but turned and fired his railgun, the projectile speeding through the neck of General Zoth's hologram.

[shadow=black,left,300]You sick demented maniac, you're no grandfather of mine!! You eliminated two thirds of Taris' population and hundreds of Jedi in the temple, and you call it diversion?[/shadow]

[shadow=Maroon,left,300]You forgot the first principle I taught you boy: never show your emotions, and more importantly don't follow them. You also forgot the second: the ends ALWAYS justify the means.[/shadow]

[shadow=black,left,300]What possible end justifies this?[/shadow]

[shadow=maroon,left,300]I'm giving this galaxy back to the ones who deserve it, the ones who will bring the old values back in their most glorious form. While you impotent do gooders sit and gratify yourselves in your 'victory', Coruscant is burning.[/shadow]

Zoth's hologram disappeared.