[member="Valiens Nantaris"], [member="Natol'ine"], [member="Delila Castillon"]
Location: Boarding the pirate frigate.
Objective: Kill bad people, free slaves, show off with cryomancy.
Kaida gave the girl - Natol'ine - a look as the dropship swept towards the belly of the pirate warship. Did she even have a rank? Admittedly Kaida did not expect much in terms of organisation or discipline from Kerrigan's company! That said, her personal files had mentioned something about a gift for air manipulation. That was something Kaida could work with.
"You have skill in air manipulation, so you can help me summon a storm," she said flatly, resisting the urge to point out that she ought to be addressed by rank. If the gentle reader were to presume that Kaida might be a bit of a queen, they would be correct in assuming that. That said she checked to make sure her bolter and lightsabre were ready, all grenades secured and ready to go. She acknowledged the transmission from Nantaris, but did not respond, for there was no need.
The Corsairs were prepared, having waited for the attackers to land. Now as the dropships touched down upon the ground they opened up a hailstorm of fire. Having taken cover from behind boxes and crates in the cargo hold, and from an upper gantry they opened up a hailstorm of fire, pounding the invaders with heavy blaster fire and grenades as they sought to keep them at bay. However, this was not the Angelii's first rodeo. Each and everyone of them was an experienced battle sister, driven by what in some cases amounted to religious zeal and devotion.
Onto the battlefield Kaida emerged, leading the charge as was her style in the Angelii tradition. Rather than the traditional sarix she carried her lightsabre. The yellow blade sprang into existence with a snap-hiss, reflecting blaster bolts and parrying slug rounds as she utilised the defensive motions of Soresu. Those blaster bolts that did get through her defences bounced off her armour or for the most part were absorbed harmless due to the powerful cortosis suit of armour she was wearing. Her troops were with her, with the backup being provided by the heavy weapons of the dropships, who began pounding the enemy defences with heavy laser fire and missiles.
"Understood," she spoke tersely as she acknowledged Nantaris' suggestion, then quickly went about passing out orders and getting her unit on the move. The Angelii had come prepared with mobile barricades that had been acquired from ARGH after its deal with Firemane, and now these were being quickly set up. Behind them those Eldorai soldiers more equipped for ranged combat using heavy weapons took up position, setting up e-webs and even two shattercannons. Across the battlefield the loud bark of bolters and the crack of shatter weapons echoed, along with the agonised cries of the wounded and the detonation of explosives.
One might remember that a shattergun was able to damage phrik, a metal so potent that a canister of it survived the original destruction of Alderaan by the death star. Now combine the sheer kinetic force of a shattergun with the firepower and ammo size of a minigun...well, suffice to say that destruction ensued.
"Suppressive fire!" Kaida barked out the order to the Eldorai taking up defensive position.
"You, with me to the left. We'll take the rampart. For Kaeshana," she motioned to another group. Her Taegis energy shield, though heavy to carry, sprung into action as bullets flew off it and her battle sisters did likewise, breaking up into small groups as they moved up the rampart before reassuming formation.
Jets of searing flame swept through the air towards the pirates to ignite them. With pyromancers working in tandem with those specialised in aeromancy, the blasts of flame were carried by powerful winds. In some cases corsairs found themselves gripped tight and thrust through the air as fire engulfed them. Corsairs, having realised what was up, sought to engage the Angelii as they moved closer towards the rampart! Heavy fire rained down upon the Angelii but they pushed forward, softening up the enemy ranks with intense bolter fire and elemental powers before hewing down corsairs with their sarix blades and sarzmigars. While sarixi could not deflect blaster bolts with the same precision as lightsabres, they were almost as deadly and ridded scum of limbs just as easily. The clash of blades were heard as sarixi met vibroblades and corsairs were bashed to death with shields.
A blaster bolts grazed Kaida's helmet, making her wince slightly, but she pressed on. Passing her shield over to a battle sister to cover her, she focused upon the molecules in the air and utilised her Sciia. Abruptly the temperature began dropping...a lot. The air closest to her chilled, then the coldness spread to freezing point. Abruptly, seemingly out of thin air, tiny, but extremely sharp icicles manifested. Icicles that were propelled towards corsairs at railgun shot speed and velocity. With such super speed that even the heaviest armour of corsairs was penetrated as they were shot directly through their helmets, chests and legs. Here and there Angelii fell to the volleys of blaster fire where their defences failed, but their battle sisters pressed on, spurred on by their sacrifice.
"Do it," she barked out a command to the terramancers and, covered by heavy bolter fire, they utilised their Sciia to manipulate the metal that was contained in the blasters and blades of corsairs, twisting and bending it so that it might break as their weapons in many cases were quite literally ripped apart. One corsair keeled over and gave up the ghost when an Angelii pyromancer harnessed her power to make his blood...quite literally boil to the point where he felt like he was burning from the inside out.
"Join me." She gave a signal to Natol'ine, as the corsairs began pouring in reinforcements to keep the Eldorai at bay, the first line of the enemy being badly diminished. It was time for a small storm. As a matter of fact, cryomancy could get rather nasty and had some rather handy area of effect tricks. Shielded by the covering fire from her battle sisters, Kaida focused and drew upon the tangled web of the Force as she sought to unleash the full power of ice and water, a powerful wind that with each passing moment would increase in violence and intensity and sweep towards their foes to rid the rampart of them, smash them into walls and crush them.
However, it was not just a wind, for with it came a numbing cold and a blizzard that lessened visibility along with an icy chill that put Hoth to shame. With the powerful storm would come the cold and the snow, all propelled at great speed as they would be sucked into a whirlwind. Needless to say it would become a good deal colder in the hangar. Moisture on the ground would be rapildly, providing a further impediment for the corsairs as the ground would turn slippery, and then eventually snow-covered. Presumably this would be a nice chance for Nato to indulge in some carnage by joining in and showing off her aeromantic prowess against the scum. The powerful, icy wind would sweep across the hangar towards the enemy, grabbing up pirates and swallowing them.
[member="Coryth Elaris"]
Meanwhile on the
Valora's Blade,
While her girlfriend was playing Ms. Freeze and indulging her desire to ice anyone who pissed her off, Jedi Master-Exarch Elaris was facing a rather different challenge. A challenge that, whilst obviously not on the same level as governing worlds and driving a plutocratic empire into actually moving forward, was no less daunting. Namely that of getting into a suit of armour that had been specially designed to accommodate her rather, ahem, tiny frame. However, she was a special snowflake and so no effort would be spared to aid her in this. And so even this task would be completed with typical Angelii efficiency by Wing Leader Taeris. Even if the aforementioned Angelii was a bit put out by the fact that the Seraph had designated her to be Coryth's wardrobe assistant instead of letting her join the strike force and kill pirates.
However, protesting and complaining was not an Angelii thing to do. The same applied to giggling at the adorable sight, and so she suppressed the strong urge.
"Of course, Lady Exarch," she said simply as she stepped in, finding that Coryth had already slipped into her tiny bodysuit. The awkwardness was sort of cute really, but the soldier elected to say nothing, instead quickly and professionally helping the lil' Exarch into her suit of armour.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oruCXGlleog
To visualise, the process sort of looked like that. Well, it probably took a bit longer and one imagined that Coryth would not be wearing a helmet. Still, once our dedicated Angelii Corporal was done with her, the Exarch would be properly kitted out and ready to face danger. By this we mean actual danger, not the buxom trade empress. The materiel used for the armour was rather light-weight since although creating a miniaturised beskar'gam for Coryth would have been terribly cute, it was ruled as impractical by the designers. Suffice to say it would allow her sufficient mobility to move, though in the eventuality that she ended up in a major firefight she would have to allow on her badass Force skills. Needless to say if Coryth ventured to the surface she would have an escort of warriors and thus arrive in style. No one doubted that the short stack of fire was a little badass and was thus very capable of protecting herself, but someone in her position was expected to be accompanied by minions simply due to her status. Especially since she was a redhead.