Battle Royale (Open to starfighter pilots)

[Serah Oricion]

Yusan smiled as he let his ship sit still for but a few more seconds, speaking through those seconds before his ship lurched forward in to hyperspace. His words were over an open channel and he breathed in before sending his ship right towards Dromund Kaas. "Well, it was good talking to you all, and Mister Merrill, meet you on the other side." With that his ship did as it should, heading right for the inputted coordinates.

(Sorry for the late reply, forgot all about this for a moment there.) [member="Jorus Merrill"]

 

[Jorus Merrill]

[member="Yusan Fenn"]

The title 'Lord of the Hyperlanes' wasn't an expression of dominance over territory. It had more to do with Jorus Merrill's very specialized skillset. A Warden of the Sky who had trained under two Duinuogwuin, the star dragons who could jump to hyperspace using the Force, Jorus had devoted his entire effective Force career to instinctive astrogation. To the point where he could bend his hyperspace trajectory without dropping out to reorient, track people by instinct, find safe new hyperlanes, boost the speed of his hyperjumps by a significant degree, even throw starships into hyperspace without a hyperdrive.

As Yusan reoriented to jump, Jorus sent a message, likewise reoriented, and jumped. Both ships had a Class 2 hyperdrive, so there were no issues with overshooting. He made the jump purely by instinct, the same instinct that had carved the Mara Corridor onto the map of the galaxy. This, right here, was what made Jorus Merrill a Master of the Force. He couldn't lift a pebble, swing a lightsabre, make a spark, or trick a mind. He had sacrificed every 'Force power' known to man to develop his skill in instinctive astrogation.

So when Fenn dropped out of hyperspace over Dromund Kaas, Jorus dropped out simultaneously, right behind him. A laser bolt slashed out in an attempt to take a wing off the crippled ship. Meanwhile, the message he'd recorded during the hyperjump was broadcast to the local Mandalorian forces.

"As cleared by Field Marshal Monroe, I'm pursuing a posted bounty on a man who runs with pirates. Nothin' to see here, folks."

Another signal went out. In about five minutes, spurred by good local positioning and a very, very fast hyperdrive, the Absolution would show.

 

[Serah Oricion]

Yusan flinched as the wing was hit and he looked over his shoulder, even more so he heard the messages. "Runs with pirates, last I checked Aedan Miles was a general for the Mandalorians... well fuck this is going to be fun to explain when I get home." Yusan knew he was dead in space and as a last ditch method he sent an open channel to anything that could pick it up. "This is Yusan Fenn, former Vice Chancellor of the republic, if any vessels are in the area that understand that a Vice Chancellor is not a pirate, then perhaps a little aid against this bounty hunter would be greatly rewarded. [member="Jorus Merrill"]

 

[Jorus Merrill]

DROMUND KAAS SYSTEM - AWAY FROM THE CACHE RACE
Far as Jorus was concerned, [member="Yusan Fenn"]'s best move might not have been to identify himself as someone with an outstanding five-million-credit bounty, thus validating the important bit of Jorus' claim. Jorus didn't anticipate the Mandalorian planetary defense forces trying to snipe said bounty; they had better things to do. And getting Republic-friendly folks here within hours wasn't especially probable. Regardless of what Fenn tried, the ship that Jorus operated from, the Lucrehulk core ship Absolution, would be here in four minutes.

 

[Serah Oricion]

Yusan sighed and sat back in the cockpit, his eyes staring at the arrival of the lucrehulk before he cursed once more. Keeping his suit sealed and read incase his need to remove himself from his fighter he also grabbed his saber. If they wanted him alive then he would not deny them that, but he was not going to make it easy for them at all. [member="Jorus Merrill"]

 

[Jorus Merrill]

[member="Yusan Fenn"]

DROMUND KAAS SYSTEM

DIFFERENT SYSTEM FROM CACHE RACE

The Absolution dropped out of hyperspace nearby, broadcasting a neutral IFF. Former flagship of the Rebel Alliance, stolen from the Fringe, modified by Silk, it mounted (among other things) some very powerful capital-grade ion cannons that fired beams as big around as the main hull of Yusan's crippled, immobile ship. Those ion cannons fired as one, consistently, in an attempt to disable the motionless starfighter. Niathal-class shuttles slashed out, very fast, and fired disabling mag-pulse warheads. The plan was for the shuttles to get the fighter in tractor beams, then tow it through hyperspace to Nal Hutta for Black Sun.

 

[Serah Oricion]

Yusan braced himself, Ion and Mag pulse hitting the already weaponless and engineless fighter that sat there taking the hits, soon all systems died and Yusan sat there, using the Air reserves to keep him from suffocating in the ship. This was boring but he would wait and if he had to he would put himself in a induced coma to keep from using to much of the reserves. [member="Jorus Merrill"]

 

[Jorus Merrill]

[member="Yusan Fenn"]

As planned, the large shuttlecraft took the crippled and disabled starfighter in tow and vanished into hyperspace, bound for Nal Hutta. Jorus, for his part, had certainly lost the Corusca gem cache race, and opted to return to the Absolution.