77 Sunset Strip (Lords of the Fringe Dominion of Soledad)

[Lucrezia]

Lucrezia stood with a smirk while she moved in the hanger. The others were going about doing their things and she was fighting. Avoiding the killing part but she was still making a dent in the enemy while she went about it letting the staff wrap around ones leg before pulling him close and inot her covered with a hiss from the small shocks that came from the armor. Sme impact pain but nothing to bad until she got to the door and looked in. "Come on people we need to get going."

 

[Tricia Kalamack]

"I am in the air" Tricia flew towards the city while she felt it, this worlds gravity was intense and strong compare to others while she had to admit to a little fun with it. A smile on her face at being able to pick up the enemy forces and throw them into the anti air weapon emplacements. It was wonderous while she say the armor that Dharma had created marching on the palace. They would tear the doors down and get the world.

 

[Ashin Varanin]

CAPTURED FLAGSHIP

The Force warped the air and light around her hands as she raised them high. The turadium safe trembled. A bolt popped loose and whined around the room until it passed through a bystander's shoulder and flattened itself against Ashin's palm. "Get him some medical care and get everyone out of here," she said through gritted teeth, as the safe began to warp in earnest.

Super-tough metal distorted under unimaginable stress, banging and vibrating against the bulkheads. She pried the door out bit by bit, alternately twisting and jamming.

At last, the decidedly lumpen safe cracked open. Warped pins and hinges rattled to the floor.

 

[Velok the Younger]

On the surface of Soledad, Rave was sweating under the heavy gravity. Her pay grade supported a grav-null belt easily enough, but gravitic modulation would negative effect her samples.

Soledad being a land of cloning cylinders, Rave had opted to try something new. Vials of the Zerek Strain rode in her backpack as she made her way unseen through the security of a cloning facility on the outskirts of a major city. The Force suggested options, moments when she could dodge underneath the lines of sight of security cameras or guards. She was small and could move quickly.

The plan was to use a few Spaarti cylinders to nurture, not a humanoid, but a single-celled organism. The Zerek Strain. And then use the tubes' filtration gear to siphon out the Sith Poison they produced.

 

[Shinju]

ENROUTE TO PALACE

Shinju continued to move forward as she skipped about, where some were finding the gravity intense it was amusing to say the least or would have been. The major thing about being from a planet where they engineer you was they made you for that planet and such gravity was an illusion compared to the rest of the soldiers... Hence her skipping and jumping. She could handle it while they stared. The other part was with her marching army and some of the fringe forces joining them she had to admit between the army of cannibals, rakata, fringe, drones and just general killers they had a force that might topple a centuries ol regime to install a new one. Oh she was excited and bounced up and down letting her boots land on the ground while some of the men hunched over. "Oh yay me we get to kill people come along all fo you."

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

IN THE FIELDS

Balaya spun around with the whips, the humming of the plasma slicing through the armor like butter and a grin was on her face as she moved jumping up in the gravity to come down heavy for a crater. Her rage building as she went faster and faster into the crowd using her size to over power the genetically engineered beings. Their uniform size something she could exploit as none were her size in the least. A full head taller only mattered if you were hiding and not wanting to disappear. Not that she needed to no her rage and force body were building while she fought at the gravity and bulked up. "Now your all going to die."

 

[Ashin Varanin]

The safe's distorted door yielded to her blandishments, like a man plied with liquor and thrones. It fell aside with an almighty clang, revealing aurodium ingots and corusca gems -- a fortune. She reached past them and pulled out a datapad.

"Coordinates. A redoubt, a bolthole at the farthest edge of the system, buried in a comet." She pulled out a comlink and contacted a goodly portion of her forces.

"This is Grand Admiral Karrde. Transmitting coordinates now for a high-security bolthole in a comet at the edge of the system. Expect heavy resistance. I'll be boarding the comet personally."

She made for her shuttle.

 

[Belle Morte]

Belle gave a nod as she heard the orders and looked about with all the stuff. Whatever the commander had planned for it she was curious and going now to have some fun. Her rage in check since no fighting beyond a few troopers. She didn't risk melting in her eye the implant at least but she did run the risk of being left behind while she moved. To catch up with it all. This world was both simple and complex... Crappy ships and basic weapons but then they had millions if not billions of tubes for growing people and making their own population which could fashion a disposable army. "All move to the coordinates."

 

[Aedan Miles]

@[member="Balaya Zambrano"]

Aedan Miles sat in one of hundreds of drop pods that had been launched at the planet. He and the remaining Cragmoloid troops he had were being sent in to assist the Lords of the Fringe with their mission here. So far their entry was going good his men were all prepared to go their weapons loaded and their extras strapped to bandoleers. As they came in hot Aedan activated a sequence that fired a single missile downward into the mass of enemy troops clearing a space for each pod that landed with a resounding thud shaking the ground lightly. There was silence for a moment before the pods opened to reveal Cragmoloid soldiers who poured out of them raining laser fire on the unfortunate opponents before them as they cleared the area around a quarter of the pods that held more supplies. Aedan Miles calmly strode from one of the pods and pulled his lightstaff from his back and ignited its twin silver blade spinning them lightly before he started to stride forward the weapon flashing and glowing as it sliced through a series of men and he barked out orders. "Get this area cleared I want those pods unloaded so that we have all supplies ready after we have a 30 meter perimeter set up. I want squads 1-40 to push out to the North and the East. Squads 41-80 to the South and west the rest of you prepare to get the heavy weapons out." The young man looked around as his orders were followed. Suddenly his com went off and he held it to his ear grinning as he heard that group 2 had landed at the palace and that so far it was clear they were beginning to move in to collect any valuables that they could get their hands on. He turned back to the fight as a lucky trio of enemy got through the groups moving outward and charged towards the young man yelling. He turned to face them as he let his mind go and channeled the force into his legs so that he was faster darting forward as he slashed out three times cutting through the three of them and coming to a stop as he looked around calmly.

 

[Lucrezia]

Lucrezia heard the orders, despite being a biotech suit the com frequency was still getting through and she moved spinning around as the arrest tentacles shot out to smack one of the Teryn's away with a grin on her face. Not killing him just knocking him out as she saw the commander and spoke mvoing near the shuttle. The helmet retracting enough while offering a smile. "Commander @[member="Ashin Varanin"] we can get there faster with Ishi one of the fastest ships int he fleet."

 

[Sala'dine]

Sala'dine heard the orders and gave a nod of her head in understanding. There was plenty she could do now while the majority of the Fringe forces assailed the Teryn fleet. Not much more though it was a little one sided since they had the beast in the astral horizon. Something that could cut through everything. Her eyes flicked over to the view port and she gave a nod while the commanders orders came. "Understood commander" A hand went out to tap at her chin as she gave a tight lipped smile. "Head to the coordinates and have as many forces as we can spare come with us. The Chimaera is the commanders so leave it out of the orders until she wants it moved. Head to the new coordinates shields double front and weapons ready."

 

[Ashin Varanin]

The Chimaera rendezvoused with @[member="Sala'dine"]'s forces en route to the comet. As the last dregs of the fight raged behind them at the planet, her starship pulled past the outer planetoids. The comet hove into view in due course, and as the Fringe starfleet approached, a flurry of powerful weapons opened fire from the comet's surface. Planetary ion cannons zeroed in on the Chimaera. Within moments, her beautiful flagship was dead in the water. The lights went dark, and this far from the sun, looking away from it, the only light in the bridge came from the incoming weapons fire.

"Ma'am? Can you...do something?"

"From here? I'm not that good."

"What about the suit?"

***

An antique, carefully refurbished set of Inquisitorius Dark Trooper armor surrounded her as she dove through space toward the comet.

 

[Shinju]

THE PALACE

Shinju moved as the drone armor moved with everything descending upon the place. Her saber activated in a snap hiss while she fed on the emotions coming from the ones suffering from the drugs and madness. She could taste the pain and anger but it wasn't enough.... No they needed to slaughter more and more as she sank the bloody blade into the door and it slowly started to glow. From faint dull red to cherry and then nearly white hot. The parts started to melt while she listened to the sounds of fighting and backed away pointing to the waiting sisters who crawled through screaming out at the melting metal on their hands. She could feel the pain and followed after them. "Kill everything."

 

[Ashin Varanin]

THE COMET

Detritus blurred past her or rattled off the ancient black armor. Rocky ice could depressurize her suit; she warded away the worst with telekinesis and instinct. Far and away, the same fragments blurred into a spiralling plume, the comet's tail.

Thrusters whirred to life, slowing her course as weapons fire flickered around her. She rolled and hit the comet's surface boots-first, protecting her suit with the Force. The surface fountained up silently around her with the force of her impact. She ripped open a nearby hatch, unloaded her suit's wrist blaster into a space suited face, and dropped into an airlock. It cycled closed over her, then opened to the side. She threw herself against the wall as fire rattled off her suit. A simple Force-push gave her some breathing room, enough to pull a lightsabre from her belt.

She got to work.

 

[Velok the Younger]

The cloning facility opened up before her, rows upon rows of Spaarti cylinders.

Behind her, Fringe forces were just beginning to punch through the outer defenses. Apparently this place was a priority target. This might have been a wasted trip, but she could still turn this to her advantage.

Weaponsfire rang out, and then Fringe soldiers poured into the cloning chamber. "Rave Merrill, authorization Blue, Rancor, Blue. As soon as this facility's secured, I need these Spaarti cylinders packed into your dropships for transfer to my facility on Endor. Get to work, gentlemen."

"Merrill, is it, ma'am? I'll call for an engineerin' team, and we'll get on this. Facility's nearly locked down anyway."

 

[Dharma Vessia]

Unlike the two posts this writer did before, there was no theme for the bulk of this post. We could do another Wonderland theme with Alice and her minions going after the red queen so Alice could rule over Wonderland. However, we will stick with the facts at hand. There were hundreds of drones that were reprogramed first by Dharma’s minions. They worked on creating a computer program to upload into the main system and have the other centers update with the new settings. Ones that would reprogram the drones and have them follow the same orders as the first group.

With the first wave and the others coming, the Countess and her forces in the Palace were not up for the drone invasion. The drugs and influence that Dharma focused everything on letting all see and feel in the reality she exists in all the time. So that meant, the Countess and the guards were seeing clams march at them with the Walrus and Carpenter. Instead of a meal, they had the clams attack. The guard shot many down but numbers were on Dharma’s minions’ side. The Countess and guards moved back as the drones (clams) came fighting. They were losing ground slowly and soon found they were stuck in the throne room.

Once the drones and minions ended the last guard’s life, the Countess was left and they quickly secured her. The two of Dharma’s minions sent word to the two that were left to project Dharma in her trance like state for expanding her madness. They had their orders for when this moment came. Taking out a small vile, one removed the cap to it and held it the opened vile under Dharma’s nose. The smell was worse than a dead, rotting rancor stuffed into a portapottie that sat out for three years under the two suns of Tatooine. That smell did the trick, and Dharma yelled while pushing it away. Before anything else was said, she darted out of the building for air.

After a moment, Dharma was updated and the three went to join the other two, Shinju, and mass drone army. Getting there to the place and seeing the Countess bound, it made her smile big. Dharma looked over the Countess for a moment longer. Then she spoke very happily. “See that lovely redheaded creature, you exiled her for not being perfect… let me break this little piece of news to you, she is and because of it. This world is mine now… and the non-perfect like you, Countess will feed my drones.”

Dharma in a blink of an eye had her saber igniting and swinging pass the Countess’s neck. Then she deactivated her weapon to hear the sweet sound of the woman’s head hitting the floor. “Drones… eat up now.” Dharma command while she walked over to Shinju, “My lovely drone, do the honors and broadcast all of Soledad is mine.” Chuckling after she spoke, it was followed up with her tell her other minions to have all drones hunt down and kill everyone that were not like Shinju or Fringe. There were other things needing to be done before she knew it was all hers.

 

[Shinju]

Shinju marched with the others and as they moved about it she had the entire army with her. All her sisters slicing and tearing into the guards while the cannon fodder the drones moved fiirst to be either shot down or overwhelm them with numbers. Her smile was more in interest when they had the countess bound and at their mercy. The look on her face disgust and the anger fed into Shinju. The hatred and everything making it quite a fun time until she saw Dharma was there. The master taking the Teryn's head with a laugh when the order to feed came but not for Shinju.

No she had the order to make sure all of her sisters and brothers knew what was coming. The nobels the ones who ran the world were going to be repalced for the time with the Fringe at least until things went back to working properly while the Fringe destroyed and broke the armies coming at them. Her smile coming as she gave a nod to Dharma, The woman had mentioned her being perfect and while she did agree the highest heresy would have been to say such here in the presence of the most skilled Teryn as it were. Now the most dead while Shinju spoke into a comlink.

"This is Shinju to all fringe forces, we have the throne room and have slain the countess, engage any forces using weapons while the labor force overwhelms. The programs are coming. Direct them as needed and use them for whatever projects you might need." A smil continued to play across Shinju's face at the thought of just tearing apart the other nobles but she turned to see @[member="Dharma Vessia"] and looked to the throne. The seat of power as it were while she moved. "Your throne my master."

 

[Tricia Kalamack]

Tricia moved in the air, the gravity of the planet something now that was messign with her while she heard the news and moved towards the fields were this drone army was attacking. There was much going on and she was rather enjoying the sight. It was the slaves getting their revenge or at least they were getting to fight against the ones who would use them for terrible things... Maybe. Her hands came out and she scooped up with the force several as she launched the enemy into with a laugh. She was getting used to the heavier gravity and the weight she had to deal with while smiling.

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

Balaya moved seeing the one pirate and dark jedi. There was plenty they could do as she spuning around and jumped up letting the whips slice through the enemies. Her face now one of stern thought at the best ways to tear itno the enemy and make the largest impact. A laugh rippled through her chest and into the sight and sounds of it all. They were not only turning the tide, now the one who led the charge Dharma had taken control of the palnets largest population. Sending it against everyone while the masses of drones descended upon them all. Balaya moving so her whips didn't slice them while she switched to a saber to slice ito the crowd and push the fringe forces forward to wards total victory.

 

[Belle Morte]

Belle had gone with the admiral and watched as she went after attacking the place. With dark trooper armor, it seemed every chance the woman got she was working to amaze and impress her people or inspire more loyalty. Something that she didn't need to do but Belle let a smile creep onto her lips as she moved getting to the bridge of her ship and speaking. "Make sure we have the commander covered but at a distance I doube she will need us but always good to make sure and see." Her face continued to light up at the sight that was becoming quite interesting. The rest of the fleet had moved on the mining and exploration ships. most not made for this long term combat.