A Cluster in Turmoil [ Mando'ade Dominion of Hapes Hex ]

[RC 212]

[member="Ardgal Raxis"] [member="Stardust Raxis"]

Jack stood silent and watched the conversation. He had his shotgun strapped to his back as well as a plain black jumpsuit over his body. The idea was to be able to transition in and out of spaces without his normal spacers clothes drawing the eye. But there was a new tool on his belt.

He had no armor for this one, nor his sword, which he'd surrendered to Vilaz until such time as his honor was restored. No he'd use force and kinetics to win this one.

As he observed Stardust he couldn't stop thinking about Gray. He as in effect missing, and it was disheartening that the last time they'd ever spoken they'd traded opposite opinions. Plus him losing his hand and all that. The warrior wizard couldn't help but feel a bit of pride, misplaced as it might be.

The Raxis Clan had been founded by him, and it had survived. Through the war, through the Crusades, even after the fall.

"I'm inclined to agree with Stardust. Let me shadow her in, we can use our combined... talents to track folks down."

Jack scratched his stubble.

 

[MoonClaw]

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[Elisea Apollodor]

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Post: 1
Objective: Provide Medical Assistance
Location: SLV Horizon, En Route to Hapes Cluster
Contacting: [member="Arisa Yune"]

Elisea Korrado sat in the swamp of the Horizon helping to organize supplies, the Horizon, the Kismet and the Dawnstar were on their way to the Hapes Cluster. They'd been given a brief on the situation and once more Elisea wondered about their state in the Galaxy. A galaxy that continued to suffer atrocities such as this, handing a pair of scanners up to one of the medics she stood up from the swamp and made her way to flight control. Adjusting her blue jumpsuit, the familiar white lotus logo of her order branded on the right shoulder, her name tag KORRADO over the left breast pocket where a few stims were clipped. "Korrado, we're just about in range for communications." The pilot informed her, and she nodded a moment and moved to work the holographic map. "Navcom ping up the nearest fleets, who's in the area?"

"Not sure yet, let me run the signatures against the database," the crew member answered.

The database had been the First Order's database but since Korrado had to read the manuals on the Steadfast's operations, she's had to rig up a way to update them for the OSL. So she hoped that these signatures would be in their database. She watched silently to see if their sensors would return with an answer. "Silver Jedi?" She questioned once the results returned all the while secretly excited that she had indeed updated the ship's firmware correctly. "Are we in range to hail them?"

"Just about," he acknowledged, "okay, here stand there and you should be able to get them on the line, just uh-"

"I got it," Elisea told him with a smile as she contacted the lead vessel, the Allegro. "Allegro, this is Elisea Korrado of the SLV Horizon. I've brought two additional ships, we're here to lend aid to the cluster. Any suggestions of where we might be able to lend a hand?" Then she waited, turning to the pilot and the navcoms crewmember, hands behind her back as she looked out over the viewport.

 

[Tanomas Graf]

I
Objective: I
Location: In Orbit over Hapes
Allies: The Imperial Remnant
Neutral: The Mando'ade, Order of the Sacred Lotus
Enemies: The Silver Jedi Order, [member="Dredge"], [member="Arisa Yune"]
Imperial Forces:

Spoiler

• Death Squadron:
  ​x3 Imperial II-class Star Destroyers
  ​IRV Avenger
• IRV Reckoning
• IRV Moonshadow

[*]​x6 Imperial I-class Star Destroyers

• ​IRV Basilisk
• IRV Conquest
• IRV Stalker
• IRV Vehement
• IRV Thunderflare
• IRV Implacable

[*]​x1 Conqueror-class Star Destroyer

• ​IRV Providence

Tanomas Graf's face looked as if it was made of stone, the color had drained completely from his face. Hundreds of thousands of Hapans were needlessly killed only to cause a minuscule amount of damage to some dark Force entity. Captain Huurlek could sense the man's anger from behind as he walked up to him. "Our turbolasers and the Conqueror-class had no effect on the entity. The only thing that seemed to halt its progress is killing its peons." The captain said, facing the Grand Moff.

Graf turned, his mustache ruffling in anxiety "Why would the Providence not have any effect on it? The kyber crystals that went into constructing that weapons should've wounded it, Director Caalgen told me himself what profound power they have in the Force." He pondered. His mind was made up seconds later; "Tell the Providence to fire again, full power ignition." He proclaimed, "And what about the Silver Jedi hailing us?" The captain asked but was cut off by the Moff "The Silver Jedi are a dead order, ignore them and continue with the operation: You may fire when ready".

A solid minute later, and green proton beams erupted out of the concave dish; converging into an invisible forcefield once more until it fired down onto the surface of Hapes again, targeting the precise point where the Sith Entity was reported. The Imperial Remnant had nothing to lose but reputation with the Silver Jedi by continuing their atrocities, and the Grand Moff was content with that. Besides, the civilians were already dead or dying.

 

[Desmond C'artyom]

Desmond listened to the com channel as the 705th was ripped to shreds. The stormtroopers were bold and well trained, but it twas impossible to contain such a horde when they have reached this stage. Aside from this the orders had come down through the chain of command. The conqueror was going to fire again. Desmond and purge squadron had been tasked with evacuating the remainder of the 705th before the weapon was fired. So the cadre of fighters and a pair of lambda class ships would descend through the stratosphere, their hulls growing red hot as they did. They breached the atmosphere and the dark clouds sent steam rolling off the ships super heated bows. Turbulence like AA fire wracked the squadron and Des had to force his Ion engine to stabilize by activating dual thrusters.

Finally they could see what had once been Ta'a Chume'Dan. The destruction was absolute. Not a single thing seemed to stir. It was as if god himself had smashed the once sprawling city with his thumb. Or more likely his middle finger. But, Desmond knew better. This was no act of god, but rather an act of the Imperials. Now that the act had been set, the stage was unfolded and all would dance to the Imperials tune less they wished to be obliterated again. Still despite the Imperial's obvious willingness to bomb the planet to dust their was still apparent resistance. Which is why the Imperials readied for another blast.

As Purge squadron flew closer to the 705th's position they noticed a massive creature. It looked like a beast Desmond had read about once. A hulking monster known as a Zilo beast. Whatever it was it was attacking Imperial troops. Desmond scowled and then hailed the rest of his squadron "Fire the proton torepedoes. Follow up with short burst from the turbo lasers. Let's end this ugly bastard here and now," He clipped in his rich Imperial accent. The Lambda craft landed on the planet below as Desmond and purge squadron unleashed the first of their torpedoes.


[member="Dredge"]
[member="Jaegis Volasses"]

 

[Jaegis Volasses]

This would have been Captain Jaegis' last stand, had the evacuation team not arrived in the split second.

Time slowed in a few mere seconds, as so much happened all at once.

The 705th had been cornered by mass amounts of infected individuals, almost reaching the hundreds in masses against the battalion of 30, and dropping fast. The beast, the thing of the force, the self titled 'God' was standing over them, shadowing he rubble and soldiers the Captain hid by. His men were being entangled by tentacles of blackness and thrown about like mere children's toys. It was disheartening for Jaegis to see. But it only made him fight harder.

An echo, like that of a gargantuan, deep barreled blaster boomed through the sky, and the red air above was suddenly pierced by green.

The Conquerer had fired again.

Panic arose within his squad, and the heart of the Captain.

They had been left for dead.

But another sound of hope soon growled from the sky, and a Lambda Class shuttle came from the clouds and landed only few yards away. Purge Squadron roared out of the sky and focused their fire on the great beast, giving the 705th the advantage they needed so desperately.

"Retreat! Fall back to the shuttle, we're returning to the fleet! Retreat, men!"

Captain Volasses roared to his men through the Holocom, and what was left of the 705th, a mere 12 Stormtrooper, battered, bruised, and covered in the blood of their allies and the enemy, tuned and fled the scene, towards the waiting Lambda shuttle and a guarding group of soldiers.

If Jaegis ever got the chance, he would personally greet and thank the leader of Purge Squadron. For he would live to fight another day.

The echoes of the Proton Energy Beam fired from the fleet boomed behind them as the ship left and jetted far from the firing zone. The destruction it caused wouldn't be enough to kill whatever entity Jaegis had just witnessed before his very eyes...

This was going to be one hell of a report.

 

[Eugen Aker]

Location: Hapes, Hapes Cluster
Objective: Rescue Ops, Containment of Imperial Remnant
Allies: Silver Jedi [member="Vitha Sat-thuron"] Hapes Consortium (what's left of it) [member="Soeht"]
Opposition: [member="Dredge"] (Minions), Imperial Remnant [member="Tanomas Graf"]
Neutral: Mandalorians [member="The Faithful"], Order of the Sacred Lotus [member="Elisea Korrado"]
2/38
It appeared that the Kaiju responsible for all the crisis on Hapes wasn't quite done, as a large corvette sized being manifested itself upon the ruined fields of Ta'a Chume'Dan. From her position in orbit, she could feel the Kaiju through the Force as well as she could view it on her feeds, a large twisted entity of pure darkness. In her mind, it existed as some nasty rip upon the tapestry of the Force. She could recall a time where she had been witness to such malevolence, on Kashyyyk where thousands had suddenly perished from an explosion of dark side energies. The destruction of the Hapan capital by the Imperials had appeared all for naught as the damn thing was still apparently alive and well. The Watchman gritted her teeth, anger rising at the recklessness of the Imperials.

On the surface, units of local security forces reported no effect upon the Kaiju with their weapons while it seemed to be able to harm them somehow. It appeared to be incorporeal, but able to manipulate its surroundings on the physical level. It was quite obvious that standard weaponry wasn't going to work here. There were enough Jedi with her that they could attempt to generate a Wall of Light to neutralize the creature, but she would only use that laborious technique as a last resort. The Jedi still had some tricks up her sleeve.

All she was waiting upon was word from the Imperial forces to coordinate, the unthinkable happened. The Imperials fired their superlaser again, while there were still people near the Kaiju. Locals, and their own men. Thankfully, the Rangers and Jedi she had just deployed were all still on their transports in the air when the Ta'a Chume'Dan was hit once more. Still, it was almost maddening to see the Imperials act with such little disregard. For several moments, she seethed with rage on her seat before issuing commands.

"...Have we received any word from the Hapan military?" she asked her senior comm's officer, voice strained by frustration.

"Yes ma'am, they should be entering the system any time now."

"Inform the Hapans that we will be engaging the forces of the Imperial Remnant upon their arrival. As far as I'm concerned, they appear to be the ones more wrecking more destruction to Hapes than this...thing. Share comm records and telemetry to show that we did attempt to hail the IR with no response."

If the Imperials of Kamino believed that the Watchman would just sit back and watch them rip through the Hapes, then they were in for a rude awakening. Their tactics weren't even proving to be effective, which led her to believe that there were other motivations for their continued attacks. Again, she had not forgotten that they were enemies of the Galatic Alliance, and the Jedi by extension.

"All units in orbit, begin withdrawl, let them think we're bolting. Those planetside, sit tight and stay in a holding pattern. Now, set course for Gallinore."

She would do well with the escort she had on hand, especially as the Hapans and Spacy joined her, but she needed to get the Allegro out of harm's way, as it was nothing but a liability in a fight. For now, she would park the carrier and other support ships on Gallinore, friendly with its leaderships from past encounters as a Republic envoy and bodyguard.

Altogether, her formation of ships would blink out of view as they made the microjump from Hapes to Gallinore, which served as the gateway to the interior regions of the Cluster. It didn't appear that the Imperial Remnant was actively targeting her ships in atmo, so they should have been safe until her return. It was to her benefit that the Imperial Remnant apparered to be underestimating the Silver Jedi's resolve.

Along the way, she finally received an update from the inbound Spacy units. They would be reverting at the entrance the Cluster within minutes. Wordlessly, she communicated with her fellow Kiribian cyborg commanders to converge with her on Gallinore. Once there, she was going to swap ships and assume command of the joint force.

 

[Soeht]

Hapes: Time to Leave

“Thanks,” Monika told [member="Jorel Imos"] as she took the comm device.

Still seated on the ground, Monika attempted to make a call. The device activated and gave the signal that it made a connection.

Ring. Ring. Ring.

Yet there was no answer.

Undeterred, Monika tried another contact.

Yet the device simply told her a connection could not be made.

Several more times, Monika tried to reach someone. Static answered her back.

The lumbering thralls of [member="Dredge"] [acronym="I want you to make contact."]got closer[/acronym] to Monika and Jorel.

Monika looked to Rand. Her eyebrows furrowed as a frown formed on her lips. One of her hands touched the ring on her necklace once more.

Then, Monika looked back to Jorel. She finally stood up, hiding the necklace under her shirt once more. She was a couple inches shorter than Jorel. A blaster strapped on her belt would clearly be visible. She held Jorel’s comm device out for him to take it back.

“You’re right,” she told Jorel, “We need to leave.”

 

[Bestala Vizsla]

Vena: An Unfortunate Situation​

Bestala boarded the same transport as [member="Titan Verd"] did.

“You look like you’re ready to take on an army,” quipped Bestala to Titan… While she was in fully Mandalorian armor.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if the Baroness thinks we’re trying to run a racket,” she added with a snicker.

The transport launched and departed for the planet’s surface. The destination: the Barony’s palace, where the Baron and Baroness of Vena resided along with their court.

“How long do you think it’ll take before we’re told to leave?” Bestala asked Titan.

 

[Zef Halo]

Hapes: About Time​

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[4]​

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She tried once, twice, three times and then Jorel lost count. Desperation was a hard obstacle to overcome but the agent couldn't blame her. Those on a death bed had given the privilege of time to their close ones to accept reality and say goodbye.

This Hapan was not graced with it. In a moment she had lost all she had ever had.

Truly, he did not know that as a fact but everything about the situation assured him that was the case.

Movement was caught in his peripheral vision and Jorel turned his head to see the crippling, inhumane figures that were closing in the distance. He was about to urge the woman to stop and move on till he caught her staring at the dead body of someone that had been close to her. The agent remained silent till she spoke and stood up.

Time to go.

"Let's go." He'd urge her to move and then move besides her. Their direction - away from [member="Dredge"]'s thralls.

Where to ? Anywhere safer. A ship preferably.

"Where are we most likely to find a spaceport that would have any ships remaining?" Jorel asked, glancing between the Hapan, the road ahead of them and the thralls.

[member="Soeht"]​

 

[Alasdair Sitra]

“Two minutes.” That had been General Aimos’ final verdict on how much time the Ruination’s Stormtroopers had until they would be dispatched from the ISD to the surface of Hapes Beneath them. “Two minutes and no delays.”
The Stern faced Imperial had given the order directly to his captains, among them the Stormtrooper designation RN-4655. There had been no questions as yet, none were necessary the tone of the general already indicating the seriousness of the task laid out before them. All they had to do was comply as fast as they were capable of.

Shuttles had been preloaded before the fleet had been dispatched from Kamino, the ISD Ruination joining them one jump short of the arrival system from their forward advances on the edges of Imperial space. As an active forward line star destroyer she was equipped for the worst and from the scenes appearing on the planet below the Ruination and her assigned sixty-first legion had taken a step straight into hell itself.

“Captain.” A stormtrooper, unmarked and undesignated due to RN’s current lack of Helmet and HUD approached with rifle already in hand. “We are loaded and ready for your mark.”
RN-4655 nodded and together with the stormtrooper headed off to the nearest shuttle that was already well primed and filling the entire hanger with noise to match the other compliment of transports.
His helmet was lowered over his head, the hiss of the seals making the suit airtight filling his ears moments before everything went quiet with the artificial surrounds taking over within his armour.

The shuttle rumbled,

The display showed them leaving the Ruination.

“Alert all Imperial Forces, we have dispatched. Sixty First Legion is heading planet side.”

 

[Vitha Na'iv]

Location: Hapes, Hapes Cluster
Objective: Rescue Ops, Containment of Imperial Remnant, Containment and rescue of civvies, deal with this monster, protect the city, act as quick reaction force for anyone who needs help
Allies: Silver Jedi, Hapes Consortium (what's left of it), Arisa Yune,
Opposition: Dredge (Minions)
Neutral: Imperial Remnant, Mandalorians,
Equipment: Bog standard blue bladed saberstaff, 30 IX-6 combat droids under her direct command with others landing in the immediate area to assist in saving and guarding civvies. Also will be controlling other IX-6 droids however they are free for any allied or neutral to use in order to combat this monster and it's zombie thingies. Two Saotome Gunship, two Saotome Multi-Role Fighters.
Post 2

Vitha watched as the laser came down for the second time on the city. The light from the blast was slightly darkened by the screen displaying it to the occupants of the gunship however it still lit up the inside. The shockwave rocked the formation but the pilots and thrusters automatically corrected to what little of the blast wave made it through the shields. Vitha shook her head. The destruction of the city was one thing in order to kill that monster however a second blast was clearly going to be somewhat useless. If it survived the first the second world only finish off anyone who may have survived and needed medical treatment.

The inship intercom activated and the voice gunner/communications officer came over it. "Commander message from the fleet. They will be withdrawing and have ordered us to hold. Also there appears to be several shuttles ahead of us, IFF is broadcasting they are Imperials."

Thinking quickly Vitha responded, "Copy that let's escort these ships up and put of the atmosphere. If the Hapens attack them I want to see the fireworks and it will get us away from that laser in case they shoot again."

The four SJO craft rapidly began closing the distance on the shuttle with the two fighters providing top cover for the gunships when a new transmission came over the comms. "To any surviving Hapen and allied commanders. This is Lieutenant Tenel of the planet's starfighter defenses, I'm holding the Imperials responsible for this mess. Engage and destroy or force Imperial Remnant forces to surrender that are planetside."

 

[Dredge]

Location: Hapes upper atmosphere
Objective: Rip Tanomas into tiny little pieces.
Allies: None
Playthings: [member="Tanomas Graf"] [member="Desmond C'artyom"] [member="Jaegis Volasses"] [member="Arisa Yune"] [member="Soeht"] [member="RN-4655"] [member="Vitha Sat-thuron"]

Mortals, they had little understanding on how kyber crystals truly worked. While the crystals were very attuned with the force, they were inherently neutral. At least that's how they started off at least. Kyber crystals gained their force alignment via their users, they communicated and gained their power that way. If a Sith held it then it was dark sided, if a Jedi held it the crystal was of the light. Now let's take into consideration the large amount of crystals it would take to fire off a proton beam of that size. It would be a crystal so large that it would be so attuned to the emotions and situation of those around them that figuring out what alignment would be easy.

Fear, dread, anger, sorrow, and regret. Regret that they had just iced an entire city for no reason, maybe Tanomas felt nothing due to him being a complete sociopath. But others, others aboard felt pain. Pain led to anger and anger to the dark side of the force. This was why the beam had such little effect on Dredge, Tanomas was essentially shooting a beam made of pure dark side energy at a creature made of ding ding ding, you guessed it. Pure dark side energy. Yeah it would ruffle his feathers, cause him to lose his astral form and reveal his squishy little nexus heart, but it wasn't going to kill him by a long shot.

So when the beam hit the planet there was another massive explosion followed by another shockwave, only this time it was worse. With the ground already in chunks and debris scattered everywhere, all those pieces of dirt and rubble would fly for miles. And once more Dredge would be lost in the explosion.

This time around though he wasn't going to come back as a massive Zilo beast sized entity. No he'd had enough of the shock and awe of holding a giant form such as that one. It cost way too much energy and he wasn't about to keep it up, not after what Tanomas had just done. He had given them the chance to escape with their lives and he had elected to ignore that. And you'd be right in assuming that kind of pissed off Dredge. Enough for him to no longer see clearly and objectively, he knew that he needed to be here on Hapes to further the spread. While it was doing fine on its own it still needed his help to not be contained by traditional measures, but he didn't care.

All Dredge cared about right now was burning each and every one of those ships.

So when the smoke did clear and the dust began to settle, what flew out of it was a cloud of pitch black smoke moving at blazing fast speeds. Its destination was none other than the Conqueror where Tanomas was sitting nice and pretty.

If the remnant had succeeded at anything right about now it was at making the force entity so upset that those bellow under his control acted more irrationally. Where they were once acting as one intelligent and cohesive force, now they were reduced to the intellect of a zombie simply trying to convert or feed. It would actually give people a chance at stopping the infection or at the very least slow it and get evacuations going while Dredge ripped the crew of the avenger into tiny little ribbons of flesh and gore.

"YOUR SOULS WILL BE MINE!!! Dredge's voice rang through the cabin of the star destroyer and it was safe to assume he was kind of pissed.

 

[Eugen Aker]

Location: Hapes Cluster
Objective: Locdown of Cluster
Allies: Silver Jedi [member="Vitha Sat-thuron"] [member="Lok Jorunn ] Hapes Consortium (what's left of it) [member="Soeht"]
Opposition: [member="Dredge"] (Minions), Imperial Remnant [member="Tanomas Graf"]
Neutral: Mandalorians [member="The Faithful"], Order of the Sacred Lotus [member="Elisea Korrado"]
3/38

[Hapan NPC]

While the Hapan military was still in disarray with its high command effectively eliminated, all their naval and army assets were still basically intact. Gradually, senior commanders and individual nobles had started to reconnect, thanks in part to the outreach by the Silver Jedi upon their entry into the system. The details of the attack were still foggy, but what was clear was that the Imperial Remnant would not be allowed to remain within the Cluster to continue their rampage across Hapes.

Ships from the interior regions would begin jumping directly to Hapes, or rendezvous at Gallinore with the Silver Jedi and the forces of the Kiribian Spacy. In the rim regions, battle dragons would begin to move into position to begin blocking passage into the Cluster, continuously deploying pulsemass mines along all routes into the Cluster, including old minor pirate routes traditionally known to few outside the Hapans themselves.

The sleeping dragons had awoken. All those wishing to do harm to the people of Hapes Consortium would now have to deal with one of the most powerful fleets in the entire galaxy, on their home turf, backed up by the forces of the Silver Jedi and the Kiribian Systems Union.

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Order of Battle (Hapan NPC Naval Assets)

At this point, it's mostly for reference for those who want to interact with the NPC forces. I'll be posting my personal comp in my next post as I engage the IR.

Type-D 505 Battle Dragon
Hapan Type-D505 Wyvern
Hapan Battle Dragon (Canon)
Type N909 Supernova Frigate
Type B606 Gamma Corvette

Type M-808 Terminus Starfighter
Type-M 808 Miy'til Terminus Starfighter
Type R606 Rlodnir Bomber
A-Wing (Canon)
B-Wing (Canon)
Skipray Blastboat - J Variant (Canon)


((OOC Note: For those who aren't in the system, or have reinforcements on the way for whatever, all routes are now covered by pulsemass mines designed to pull out non-HIMS equipped ships out of hyperspace.))

 

[Desmond C'artyom]

Desmond C’artyom watched as the troops loaded aboard the Lambda class shuttle and the ships took off towards space. The missiles had no effect on the creature other than pissing it off. “Let's bugger out squad!” Desmond cried into the comms. The beast was too much for them to take on and the blast was scheduled to fire any second now. They banked round the creature and took up positions on the Lambda shuttles tails.

Suddenly the blast lit the skies with the light of a thousand suns. Desmond was momentarily blinded and his TIE shook something awful. A large mushroom cloud rolled over them and through the haze Desmond spied several craft headed in their direction. It was the Hapan Navy. Desmond sighed in relief. The Hapans would never act against the might of the Imperials lest they wished to be destroyed. But, just when Desmond began to think them a smart people the Hapan began to fire on the Imperials.

“Purge squadron, break off from the Shuttles. Let us teach these men why you don't mess with aces,” Desmond said calmly. Three of the flight banked left, while three others banked right. The fighters banking right took a slightly elevated position, so as to attack the enemy from above. Desmond activated both his Twin Ion Engines giving him a tremendous boost of speed.

He finished his right curve and found himself just above the enemy whom were just now breaking off to engage. Desmond and his right wing swooped down and fired on them just as the left wing came at the enemy Hapan from the side. This all happened in a matter of seconds due to the TIE’s superior speed. The result was an arc of fire that was nigh inescapable.

[member="Vitha Sat-thuron"]
[member="Jaegis Volasses"]

Squadron:
4 TIE/LN Starfighters
2 TIE/IN Starfighters

 

[Tanomas Graf]

II
Objective: Commence Operation Grexit

Graf stared down at the scorched capital city of Hapes, a frown playing on his lips as he did so. He turned around and announced to the bridge at large "I want all of our ground forces packed up and returned to their ships. Have all ships in formation and prepare for the jump to hyperspace, our work is done here. You have the bridge, captain." He pronounced. Tanomas made his way to the blast doors of the bridge to leave, but he turned around just as he did to say one more thing: "Send out a transmission to the entire sector; 'The Empire has returned, and it will conquer all'".

It wasn't long before all Imperial forces had been loaded back onto their ship and returned to the fleet. The ten star destroyers' ion drives lit up and the fleet jumped into hyperspace; they managed to escape through a isolated route out of the cluster and were on their way to returning to Kamino and the Seat of the Empire.

 

[Ardgal Raxis]

Post: 2
Objective: 3, Bad blood
Allies: [member="Stardust Raxis"] [member="Jack Raxis"] [member="Vilaz Munin"] [member="Nolan Detta"] [member="Pykares"] @Anyone else going to kick Echani butt

Ardgal nodded with pursed lips at the statement made by Jack. In his mind, the score wasn't settled, but as for now, they had to rescue the survivors down there. It was the right call for Jack and Stardust to go down there first and scout. They had the Force, something the Vong had been sure to destroy from him, and in this case, it was the tool on hand, not the one he wanted to use.

"Go ahead, take a unit of Vode troopers with you," he said with a nod, "I will be sending my men planetfall in a few after you with exfil the moment you have a firm location for us to drop down into."

He ended the transmission before tapping out a second message to Stardust, one that she would receive personally:

I don't trust him. Be careful.

He watched as the two Force Users made their way to the surface of Tanaab. After a few moments more, he folded his arms behind his back and thought about the times long gone. Seeing them both stirred up things that Ardgal thought he had long forgotten. Memories. Family. It was hard to believe that he had at one point actually enjoyed such an amenity as love and care. But now? He doubted there was such a thing in his heart.

"Begin moving closer, prepare to make planet fall the moment we receive word," Ardgal said to the helmsmen. The Corvette he was in began to lumber forward, its hull creaking like the aching bones of an old man. There was definitely an need to replace it, along with the others in his small fleet there were held together by insta weld and sheer mando grit.


There was one final line of business he had to attend to. The general tapped on his gauntlet once more, establishing contact with their Manda'lore, Vilaz. "Su'cuy, My Lord, we have located the two sections of the downed Flotilla, we are preparing to extract all of the survivors," His next words carried just a hint of his doubt, "Jack Raxis is with them."

 

[Stardust Solus Skirae]

[member="Jack Raxis"][member="Ardgal Raxis"]
Post 2
Obj-3
She looked over to jack as she uncrossed her arms to roll her shoulders from the stiffness, she nodded to Jack then ardgal as the signal ended and she turned, before she did she got a message from ardgal as she looked it over and crises her eyes as she brought her pad up typing out to him only

I know, I'll keep a eye on him...the anger still isn't settled

She then moved towards the hangar as she looked to the vode troopers and nodded morning them to follow, she got on a drop ship as she looked at them and spoke

alright lady's and gentlemen, if you don't know a flotilla has gone down in two places, me and...jack raxis will search in the dark parts of the ship while you search through the more accessible places....find the survivors and if your attack give hell to the echani...no prisoners on this one this is personal

Stardust soon got a line to Jack as she then spoke

jack sending you the landing zone be advise seems like the echani are mobile and might have a bead on us prepare for a heavy fight

She said as she then ended it as the ship rocked and broke atmosphere, it wasn't even five minutes when aa fire started peppering them as the ship moved back and forth, stardust opened the back hatch as she looked out

remember kids, don't try this at home...yeeeehaaa!
Stardust pushed off the back as she fell down, she spun around before feet pointed down and she used the force to slow herself before smacking quiet hard into the ground, enough the ground cracked and she stood westars up and started firing at the few echani

 

[Nolan Detta]

Location Tanaab
Allies: [member="Stardust Raxis"] [member="Ardgal Raxis"] [member="Pykares"] [member="Jack Raxis"]
Enemies: Echani
Objective 3
Post 2

As soon as Nolan heard the news that a crash site had been identified as the missing flotillas, Nolan excused himself from Mand'alor's side and made for a drop pod. Once inside, Nolan stashed his railgun and hit the ignition. Altering the flight pattern minutely, making adjustments based on the chatter from Ardgal's men on the ground, Nolan was aiming directly for the Echani emplacement. One last adjustment and...

"Aaaaaahhhh....'crunch'....Oh my god, they're all dead! The feth just hit us?! Holy frak, it's a drop pod!!" The Exhani screamed and called from outside the pod. Nolan waited for them to finish their exclamations and as the ventured close to the pod to investigate, the door flew off the body of the pod, slamming into a pair of Echani, squishing them against a tree. From the pod, Nolan flew out, repulsor pack projecting him at a high speed, straight into an unprepared Paleface. Using the generator in his cybernetic hand, he slammed it into the man's chest and shattered every bone in his torso. He collapsed with a gurgle and last moan as the life was ripped from him. Turning, Nolan leveled the railgun on full auto and began swissing the cheese that were the remaining albinos.

"I've cleared an LZ For Raxis. Tell lord Rat tail it's safe for him to come down." He jested with a backwoods accent. Villas would know what he meant.

 

[Vilaz Munin]

Location: Heading for Tanaab
Allies: Mandalorians
Enemies: Echani
Objective: 3
Post: 2/20

"Ardgal, don't ever address me as 'my lord' or things like that. Call me by my name or 'sir'," the Mand'alor said to the Raxis clansmen before continuing his dialogue. It was a surprise to Vilaz that not every one of his followers knew of his biggest pet peeve while carrying the mantle of Sole Ruler, and that was being acknowledged in fancy titles. It made him feel superior amongst his comrades, a feeling in which he hated. While he did prove to be the strongest to rule them, it did not made him superior to his Faithful brothers and sisters. He was the same and equal to all of them; he did not have any special rights or privileges that others did not.

"Excellent work, Ardgal. You and Nolan will be with me. As for that...rat, make sure Stardust keeps caution vigilance on him. I don't want another Kashyyyk to happen," the Concordian said to the Raxis in regards of the flotillas and of Jack. What was going on with Vilaz on the day that he allowed Jack to be a part of the Mandalorians again? He definitely wasn't smoking spice cause he would have an argument with Bree on that, and not that he ever did smoke it. Maybe he got drunk? Another improbable factor because that would cause Briika lecturing him. So the million credit question was: why didn't he just killed him? That would've been too kind. Instead the Munin would make Jack suffer and bleed for his unforgivable actions.

"And tell Stardust to make him do lots of work with little water," he added that to Ardgal before he commanded all dropships and fighters to begin their descent for Tanaab.

"Our primary goal is to rescue our own. Do not go on the offensive. We will deal with these scumbags once we have all the survivors to safety. Understood?"

Everyone replied with a 'yes, sir'.

"Good, I want our pilots to focus on any batteries, vehicles, and any large movements of infantry. Dropships will form a tight perimeter on the flotillas. I'll see y'all on the ground."