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Post by Cyberguy on Dec 6, 2006 19:15:41 GMT -5
It seems as if the Network has found out every possible way in the galaxy to make money. And so, when they looked upon Kashyyyk, they saw only the worth a wookiee had as a slave. And Kashyyyk had a lot of Wookiees on it.
The slaver camp consisted of a large Network-controlled spaceport, designed to transport wookiees off the planet. Surrounding this spaceport were a series of smaller facilities, where slavers, working out of smaller camps planet-wide, brought their wookiees.
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Post by The Conman on Dec 6, 2006 19:30:21 GMT -5
((OOC: Gotta go for a bit, I'll be back on in about an hour))
Arili and Holt snuck up on the camp and stopped and crouched down just outside of their lights perimeter. Arili pulled her small (insert swu = monocular you see army doods using) and looked around the camp. She spotted one of the places that looked like a holding cell, and its guard. A Twi'lek male guard...looked to be in his mid 20's. Arili looked over at Holt.
Here, take this, and this.
She said, taking off her utility belt and saber.
I am going to go take care of the guard. When thats done, go in and I'll follow. He won't though, I guarantee it.
She said.
Arili had dressed like a mechanic for a reason, she could pass herself off as a Merc quite easily. That, and that Male probably hadn't seen annother of his species for quite awhile, something that would work to Arili's advantage.
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Post by Cyberguy on Dec 6, 2006 19:41:40 GMT -5
Holt took the items and nodded. Arili never ceased to fascinate him. She had her lightsaber, her combat skills, The Force, all at her disposal. And yet she still had one far more powerful weapon that Holt would never have.
While she walked off, Holt surveyed the area, preparing their entrance. The spaceport seemed easy enough to get into. And it should be even easier, since this would be his seventh time breaking in.
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Post by The Conman on Dec 6, 2006 21:53:09 GMT -5
Arili snuck towards the entrance. The guard was walking towards the other end, and she took advantage of her force skills and made about as much sound as an average cat. So, basically, none.
Arili snuck up behind him, using the force to keep his attention occupied on something else. She gently touched the base of his leeku, and moved down them to the tips. He didn't spin around, but, in Twi'leki, said.
I didn't know there was annother here
Arili spun him around and pushed him into a nearby open holding cell.
* 5 mins later *
Arili pushed the man off her and got up from the cage she had pushed him into, putting her top back on in the process. Not even looking at the man she had just knocked out.
She looked out, watching for Holt.
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Post by Cyberguy on Dec 6, 2006 22:42:41 GMT -5
Once Arili had distracted the guard, Holt began to make his way up the same path Arili had taken, quickly passed by the holding cell, and made it to the side entrance. Once at the door, the Knight placed his palm up to the magnetic locking mechanism and blinked.
In the next instant, the lock, as well as a good portion of the door itself, blasted itself out from the frame, falling inwards into the building. Silently, of course. At this point, the door, according to protocols, slid open.
By this point, Arili had poked her head out of the cell. Holt turned around and tossed her items back at her.
[glow=white,2,300]"Let's you try and keep these on until we get out of here..."[/glow]
He remarked, noting the slight changes in her clothing.
[glow=white,2,300]"Well, come on, now. We've got about five minutes before somebody comes by and checks this out."[/glow]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Meanwhile, further inside the base, Netren Ryyto, the commissioner of the spaceport, watched the scene that took place outside, with great intrest, on a viewscreen. He sighed. This wasn't his first time dealing with a break-in. It wasn't even the first time he had dealt with Holt breaking in, though he never knew for sure that it was Holt. Normally, the Knight had come at night, but now there was an obvious rush. Ryyto recognized this, and wondered to himself what was so important that these two were rushing to get in.
The scruffy-looking man turned around and entered a command into a wall panel. He had his suspiscions about these two. And he was going to find out for sure who these people were...
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Post by The Conman on Dec 6, 2006 23:12:11 GMT -5
Arili caught her stuff and put the belt back on and held onto the saber. She smirked at Holt's comment. Arili caught up.
So, how deep into this place do we need to go exactly?
She asked. Knowing from experience that these Slavers would be all over them in a matter of minutes. She wanted this to go as simply as possible. But, as was becoming the norm with Holt, nothing was simple.
((OOC: Going to bed, really tired, sorry for the short post))
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Post by Cyberguy on Dec 6, 2006 23:24:38 GMT -5
Holt nodded to Arili.
[glow=white,2,300]"Well, they like to keep the hangars in the very middle. But luckily, we don't have to. There's another hangar on the outside. We just have to go through the building to the other side. It's only accessible from the inside."[/glow]
Holt the turned down the hallway and began walking. Meanwhile, a few dozen feet down the hall, a set of blast doors closed. Once the two had gone a bit of a distance down the hall, another set on the once opened end of the hall closed.
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Post by The Conman on Dec 7, 2006 16:02:00 GMT -5
Arili took note of the doors closing. She stopped when she saw the far end ones close. No point in continuing to walk, whatever was going to happen was going to happen, regardless of where they were located in the hallway. Arili started relaxing, She closed her eyes and started clearing her mind. To her experience, whenever one got closed into a hallway, they usually sent some sort of firing squad to try to take care of you. She controlled her breathing, then opened her eyes once more, and looked at Holt.
From the confidence that he took in breaking into the complex, she gathered that he had been in a few times before. And since he was still alive, gotten out as well. So either his, and by association, her , number had come up and this was the one time that they had detected him. Or , it was normal.
This is normal?
She asked simply.
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Post by Cyberguy on Dec 7, 2006 16:50:19 GMT -5
Holt motioned for them to continue down the hall.
[glow=white,2,300]"Is anything? Besides, I'm pretty sure two Jedi can handle whatever we run into in here. We need to keep moving if we're going to make it to Corellia before the whole imperial fleet arrives..."[/glow]
He said, before making the rest of the way down to the blast door. Once there, he motioned towards Arili's lightsaber.
[glow=white,2,300]"Care to do the honors?"[/glow]
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Post by The Conman on Dec 7, 2006 17:31:03 GMT -5
Alwyas
Arili replied, activating her saber and stepping up to the wall, plunging it in in one swift motion. She started from the bottom and worked her way to the top. She initially had to dodge the dropping molten metal , but resorted to just force pushing it out the other side of the 2 cm wide slit the saber was carving. It was slow going, but after about 5 minutes the large chunk of the door fell into the other side of the door, with a satisfying thud.
Arili stepped to the side, and looked at Holt. Grinning.
I don't get to do that very often anymore. Care to lead the way?
Arili asked.
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Post by Cyberguy on Dec 7, 2006 17:42:41 GMT -5
Holt grinned.
[glow=white,2,300]"Just try to keep up."[/glow]
He said, before bolting down the hallway, which encircled the entire facility, at an utterly amazing speed, even for a Jedi...
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Post by The Conman on Dec 7, 2006 18:07:12 GMT -5
Arili bolted off behind him. He could move, that was for sure, and she was keeping up...barely. They ran around the semicircular hallway for what seemed to be an eternity. The facility was one of the largest slaver facilities she had ever set foot in. Blast doors, Hangar Bays? These guys had come a long way in 20 years, that was for sure. The Regency had to have some sort of hand in it, it made way to much money for them to stay out. This facility proved that. She hoped the salvers had something faster then a freighter to for them to escape in. They defiantly had fighters, and Arili didn't want to have to fight them off in a Freighter if it could be helped.
She was about 10 feet behind Holt.
Holt, where is this hangar?
Arili said between breaths.
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Post by Cyberguy on Dec 7, 2006 18:44:57 GMT -5
Holt stopped. If Arili continued, she would have run into the back of him.
[glow=white,2,300]"We're here."[/glow]
The Nelvaan said, holding up a palm to an empty stretch of wall, pushing the hidden door inwards, revealing a hangar filled with various ships, each belonging to one of the hundreds of slavers on this planet. Holt stepped into the hangar and walked up to the nearest ship, an older fighter, not very impressive compared to the rest.
[glow=white,2,300]"This one's next in line for takeoff. Think they'll notice if we tag along?"[/glow]
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Post by The Conman on Dec 7, 2006 18:59:24 GMT -5
Arili barely managed to not run into him when he stopped. The door opened and he approached a nearby fighter. It was older, but it would get the job done.
Maybe...maybe not. How long has it been since you've flown anything anyways?
She asked, heading for the front seat. Arili was a trained pilot ( as were most Jedi), with 26 kills on Rilia against the Morqui. Some of those as recent as 3 months before. She didn't really make her flying an option, as she got up into the fighter and sat down in the cockpit, looking at the controls and spinning up the engines while starting the startup tests on the rest of the fighters systems. She didn't do backseater.
Well, get in!
She said to Holt, waiting for the Nelvanian to get in.
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Post by Cyberguy on Dec 7, 2006 19:21:34 GMT -5
[glow=white,2,300]"Uhhh..."[/glow]
He hadn't flown anything... ever... he had gotten to Kashyyyk on autopilot, and still crashed the ship into a tree...
Before he knew it, Arili was already in the cockpit. Holt leapt up in the air and landed behind her, just as a shorter man started running towards his ship from outside the hangar. Holt laughed before gently flicking his wrist at the man, sending him backwards into a tangle of feul lines.
[glow=white,2,300]"Well... Are we going or not?"[/glow]
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Post by The Conman on Dec 7, 2006 21:23:39 GMT -5
((OOC: Sorry about the response time, I got caught up in a discussion))
Arili finished the preflight on the archaic computer. She closed the cockpit and retracted the gear, the ship floating on repulsor lift.
Hold on.
She said simply, as she pushed the throttles to the "A/B" setting. She was pushed back into her seat with 6 and a half G's of thrust from the old fighter. As they streaked upwards Arili decided it would be a good idea to start maneuvering around, and put some serious distance between them and the Hangar.
The flight was bumpy, the humid atmosphere of Kashyyyk created some wicked turbulence at altitude. She thought it was going fine until she heard a Klaxon going off behind her.
Holt, whats going on back there? You gotta watch the scanners and the weapons, along with the reactor on this model. Is that the lock on alerter?
She asked in rapid succession. Arili honestly hoped that Holt had some experience in a fighter, if he didn't this had the potential to be a very short flight.
((OOC: I know hold hasn't got any experience in a but Arili doesn't know that...so this is going to be interesting. ))
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Post by Cyberguy on Dec 7, 2006 21:53:53 GMT -5
A single sound could be heard from the seat behind Arili. It was not a good one.
[glow=white,2,300]"Uhhhhh...."[/glow]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Pursuing the fighter was a small group of three mercenary fighters working for Ryyto. They had orders, and they were sticking to them. Currently, they were closing in from three directions at a controlled speed, so that they might each reach the stolen fighter in time. Just as they were within visua range of Arili and Holt, the voice of Ryyto came in on each ship's comlink.
"Return to base. Now. You don't want to follow that particuar fighter."
As the ships, confused, turned around, and returned to the hangar, Ryyto crossed to where he had been typing up a message along his direct link to the Black Orbital, which he had been instructed to never use. Ever.
Once he finished the message, he hit "send".
The message read as follows:
Sir, you were right all along. I've just had a ship stolen. By two Jedi.
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Post by The Conman on Dec 7, 2006 23:20:57 GMT -5
Arili was rolling the fighter and using the mirrors on the bar above her. She had to use the Mk.1 Eyeball, Holt had no idea what he was looking at. It looked like the fighters were peeling off. Arili had a bad feeling. Fighters don't just pull off, unless they are told to. For a good reason. She didn't like it.
Holt, whatever's flashing, push it.
She said, hoping whatever was flashing and making the noise was some sort of alarm.
Now, on the scanner, do you see any contacts. They will show up as small green dots with a triangle around them.
She asked. Arili made a mental note to give Holt flight lessons. She backed off the throttle, and headed for deep space. Arili knew they were being tracked. Nobody let a fighter go without a fight. Correllia was as good a place as any to loose them.
Arili looked at her instruments. Everything read Nominal.
Holt, do you know how to set up a jump?
Arili Asked, continuing on from the scanner question.
I can walk you through it if you don't. Its not hard. I just can't do it from my seat.
Arili's mind was racing. What she was doing was utter suicide. Flying a 2 man fighter with a passenger in the backseat, under combat conditions. Arili had one thought; put as much distance as possible between them and Kashyyyk.
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Post by Cyberguy on Dec 7, 2006 23:29:09 GMT -5
Holt looked around him. About seventeen lights were flashing. He frantically began pressing all of them, until one finally silenced the ship again. He looked at the scanner ad saw nothing ike what Arili spoke of. He looked up, having no idea what a Jump was. He nodded to her.
[glow=white,2,300]"No. Let's do it."[/glow]
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Post by The Conman on Dec 8, 2006 0:06:53 GMT -5
((OOC: last for tonite, be back on tomorrow)
Arili put the ship on autopilot, that much she could do from her console. She thought for a second. How was she going to explain how to do a hyperspace jump without the backseater having any seat time. She just figured she should do it how she did it, and she closed her eyes and went through the motions in her head, explaining to Holt as she went along.
Allright, on the console your looking at there will be some sort of Hyper Luminal Drive controls. It'll be near a number pad and say something like HLDS or HDCS near it. When you find the keypad, there will be an activation button and a locking button. You cant press the Activation button until it lights up. Now, this is where things get complicated.
The nav computer is just to the side of the scope usually, and its easy enough to navigate. The buttons on its sides correspond to functions on screen, you'll want to press the button that has the on screen designation of "NRST6", that'll lock the nav system onto 6 stars it recognizes. Once the bar finishes, it could take awhile, find the button with the "DEST" designation. On the keypad, type in "CORIA". You'll have to wait again, and once its done, the Lock light will light up. Push it. Then the Engage light will light up. DO NOT TOUCH IT, until I have lined the ship up, and when I say go, push it.
Arili paused
Got all that?
Arili knew it was allot for anyone to take in, but they needed to get rolling. She could have done it in a matter of seconds, but she figured that Holt had to learn sometime. And this was as good a time as any.
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