Blue Sunshine

[Relina Zhan]

Location: Gallinore.
Time: 1320 hours local

"Blue Sunshine" (Nish)

"beepbeep... beepbeep"

Relina sighed and answered the comm in mellifluous Hapan, "Give me a damn break. I'm babysitting nuggets up here!" The type of call, she could tell by tone, was an alert, not a routine situation report or order from Command.

"Hierlark Base to Angel Squadron, we have a leaker, craft type unknown. He's crossing the Ceres Ocean toward our ADEZ, bearing vector 278. Major Zhan, your squadron is the only one close enough to make the intercept.... find out what he wants and ground him." came the reply.

"Acknowledged." Relina replied. She then addressed two of her Sqadron members. "Screech, Archer, go trail and stay close. The three of us will go high and make the intercept. All other craft stay low and out of conflict." she ordered.

"Yes, My Lady." came the sound of several voices almost in unison.

"Weapons safe, but don't get comfortable. Set S-foils to attack position. Angel Squadron will prosecute." She ordered. The wings of her Terminus unfolded from their sleek delta-formation to a forward-swept formation ideal for sharp banking in an atmosphere. Shields were raised, but weapons were not yet activated. The three fighters accelerated toward the unknown ship.

((Edit: I changed the name and theme song for the RP, since i found a better one for it. I use musical themes for my RPs. Also this will serve as Dev thread for at least three military-related submissions...))

 

[Lucien Cordel]

(One of Lucien's Characters)

This was going to be a fast simple raid. Go in recover the lost spice, find the imbecile who was supposed to be smuggling the spice break his legs and leave. Vex had procured for this mission a stealth ship off a shady guy he met in a brothel. He had reservations when he first bought the ship, I mean who sells a stealth ship from between two scantily clad Twi'lek dancers ... well vex would but that was a story for another time.

"Keep the flight path low, we don't wanna show up on their radar" Vex had instructed ... he remembered that much about preflight.

Thats when he had begun on the spice and spirits and much of the journey had become a blur of technicolour Jedi. He did recall that he thought they were still flying high but given his short stature everything was high to him ... He was high a lot too.

He came back to full consciousness when the pilot began screaming "We've been spotted sir ... they're talkin to uz"

"Well respond then , rudeness is never excusable " he had slurred in reply, He never was one for acknowledging issues.

"They is deploying fighters sir ... whats the plan?" The pilot was really rather stressed, he needed guidance but he had come to the wrong place.

Vex just shrugged "I dunno ... improvise" Vex was a terrible pilot but an impeccable lover ... spice and dancers preferably together. "Just get us into that base there's a peice of chit in there who has my spice"

[member="Relina Zhan"]

 

[Relina Zhan]

Relina, still speeding toward the unknown ship, opened a comm to hail the interloper. She began in Hapan.

"Unknown ship bearing vector 278, you are violating the Air Defense Engagment Zone of RNAC Heirlark. State your business and do not deviate from your present course. You will comply or be fired upon by order of the Queen Mother." She said, then repeated this in Basic, albeit with a Hapan accent.

She would bring her Terminus around in an aggressive J-turn to show she meant business. First step: deliver an ultimatum... check.

Her HUD started spiking the ship by radar, although the sensor-lock wasn't as hard as she liked. The tone was weak. This told her the ship was probably equipped with some sort of stealth system, not unlike the passive effect her own fighter's sleek profile and sharp edges in certain places that deflected sensor emissions away from their sources. If she wanted to guarantee destruction of this ship, she'd have to get closer than she preferred. Major Zhan hoped the strangers would simply comply and that there would be no need for an expensive fireworks show.

@Vex Tythion

 

[Lucien Cordel]

Vex looked up as a voice in a language he didn't understand "Kark ... The ghosts have come for me" He screamed. The the pilot explained that it was just the intercom. Annoyance rather evident in his voice.

"Oh" He replied as the voice spoke again in basic. Now he needed to concentrate,sounding high would only cause issues. He coughed and took a deep breath marshalling his focus. He responded in a gritty voice typical of the underworld populace.

"Dear, I'm here to do business and you and your guns won't stop me" He cackled and sat back to drink "The day I fear the orders of a hag is the day I retire" He slapped the arm of his chair, sometimes everything was too funny, much too funny.

The pilot turned , he could see the formation of [member="Relina Zhan"] 's fighters, they meant business. He hadn't joined up to get embroiled in combat. He had been promised an easy ride, it would have been nice to know he was to raid a military base. The ships were closing in and the pilot began to accelerate on a steeper downward trajectory. He would need to lose them alone, vex was being no help at all. He barrel rolled as they picked up speed, he didn't o this to escape he did it to scatter Vex's spice. The dwarf crime lord sighed "Your Improvisation is chit"

He hated to spill spice

 

[Relina Zhan]

Relina fired two shots from her dual link-fire laser cannon, the customary warning shot should the ultimatum go unheeded, at @Vex Tythion. She matched course sharply, keeping speed with the intruding craft.

"You will NOT deviate from your present course without our direction and escort. Set the ship down on platform three immediately and without further resistance or we will have no other alternative than to put it down for you." she said, again in accented Basic.

Relina's thumb hovered over the missile arming switch, prepared to fire, although she didn't really want to. "what is with this guy?" asked Screech, so nicknamed because he squealed during his Purgatory induction, which was found humourous enough to earn him the callisgn. He had yet to live it down.

"Who knows? Prepare for combat.... I have a feeling this one doens't take hints well." she replied.

 

[Lucien Cordel]

(1/2way )

Vex felt the ship jitter as shots rang out, he couldn't be sure but he guessed at least one struck the rear of the ship. The attacking ships followed their course, a sober man might see danger and surrender ... Vex had not been sober since he was 12. Be it spice or booze he always had narcotics in his system.

"Deviate, Deviate , Deviate " He roared at the suffering pilot in response to [member="Relina Zhan"] 's ultimatum. Vex didn't take instructions well, even from people with guns. "Lady, Putting me down seems a little forward we've barely met " He replied back to the Ducha smirking at his own low humour. Crudeness was Vex's second language. The pilot executed a barrel roll and continued down toward ground. The ship had taken damage and control was hard.

"We need to pull up, I think we should comply with her" The pilot shrieked referencing how very close to ground they were getting, very quickly they would be in range of ground batteries as well as the fighters guns .

"Nonsense, push on" He replied with a wave.

 

[Relina Zhan]

Relina watched as [member="Vex Tythion "]and company continued to defy commands. "Weapons hot. Angels, we are red and free." she said, arming her SRAM 9X concussion missiles. She would accelerate, beginning to bank nice and easy to make sure she maintained good tone on the ship. "Angel One, Fox three!" She said as she pulled the trigger. The hidden revolver-like cylinder dropped down only briefly to allow the missile to be fired before disappearing into the underside of the fuselage again, rotating a fresh one into ready position.

"Angel Three, Fox three!" Said Screech as he followed his boss's same movements.

"Angel Six, Fox three." Came Archer's reply. She had been quiet up until this moment. Her callsign was earned by making more than a few hail-Mary kills in combat.

The three missiles were fired, turning to track its target like a wolfpack. Relina kept her eyes on the target, trying not to leave gun-range.

 

[Lucien Cordel]

The missiles bombarded the ship. Putting it into a tail spin.

"Kark" He swore, This was bad very bad.

The pilot wrestled with the controls, trying desperately to pull the ship out of it's downward spiral, but it was too late much too late, they had come in range of ground artillery now, it was over for this ship Vex knew that, He tightened his straps and adopted a brace position ... This was going to hurt, this was going to hurt a lot.

The ship's tail burst into flames. The pilot began to cry, the ship was still going down and he couldn't stop it, he didn't want to die. Vex had his head down by his knees, he didn't want to look outside. He hoped they wouldn't land outside the base's parameters, if they landed in the base he might get out with the spice ... maybe. This was quickly becoming a disaster ... damn he wished he had more narcotics.

[member="Relina Zhan"]

 

[Relina Zhan]

Down below, the base had been tracking everything on radar and other sensors. Orders were issued to clear the airfeild, as the ship was deemed likely to land there. For the novices in training still in the air, orders had been issued to stay airborne pending containment after which they would begin landing them few by few in sequence.

"Splash one. Bandit shot down." Relina announced as she banked around sharply to confirm the kill. "Angels, break formation and conduct an airspace patrol. Make sure our ADEZ is sanitised." she ordered.

Meanwhile, she would follow closely behind the damaged ship, just above the better part of the smoke it was trailing, backing off only when altitude dropped below 500 metres.

"Woooooah. The Angels just bagged one! Did you see that?" resounded the comm chatter from the nuggets who saw the brief skirmish.

"That was insane! I wanna join the Angels!" Said another junior pilot.

"Good luck with that. I hear Purgatory is hell." Commented another.

Relina grinned at the commentary. "Cut the chatter, nuggets. If we start recruiting again, you'll find out what Purgatory is. Until then, just clock your flight time and make flying second nature to you." she advised.

[member="Vex Tythion "]

 

[Lucien Cordel]

Smoke filled the cockpit, the back of the ship was aflame and the pilot was fighting to pull the ship back inline. It was fruitless of course but Vex admired his grit. The base came into focus and still they continued to plummet They were not going to land smoothly, the pilot was going to die ... it was going to be messy.

"I can't control the ship no more ... we are going to die " The pilot screeched

"Well yes and no ... You're going to die, I have no intention of doing so " He smiled pack "Need any last words being posted around" He added with a callous chuckle

Then the ship slammed through the roof of a building. Vex remained braced ... the pilot practically exploded.

Vex's ears were ringing and his head span as he unclipped his restraints and fell to the ship floor. There was blood ... was it his? Probably not.

He pushed himself to his feet ... cracked ribs, torn shoulder ... Head wound. He felt the whole works, it was not going to be a nice day. He would worry about that later for now he had to hide, he staggered over to an air duct. Pulling against the grate. He heard movement outside. No doubt ships were coming, why couldn't this have been simple. He got into the vent pulling the grate back and began to crawl. He had no idea where this would go but he hoped he would find the spice and a way to escape before he found soldiers.

[member="Relina Zhan"]

 

[Relina Zhan]

A hole was created in one of the aerospace traffic control spires, one of its sensor arrays broken from the impact. This could take a week to repair. The first responders were the Base's Military Police and fire brigade. The MPs attempted to create a perimeter around the crash sight, calling in back up from the Marines stationed there. Up above, the pilots still in the air, Relina among them, circled the base as if to create a perimeter of their own when in reality they were just waiting for clearance to land.

"Check it out, Corporal. We'll cover you." ordered one of the XOs among the MPs.

"Yes, Ma'am." the Corporal replied, arming her blaster rifle as she approached the rear of the crashed ship. A larger male stood just off to the XO's left, taking an overwatch position.

Movement could be heard between the ship and... really? An air duct? Were they dealing with a kid or a smallish alien? At this point, no one knew nor cared. The male, a Sergeant, Took aim toward the source of the sound and followed it with the barrel of his rifle getting ready to open fire. "Ma'am, there's a bug in the vent duct." he advised, using military jargon.

"Squash it." the XO ordered coolly.

The Sergeant didn't reply verbally, but by gesture. He attempted to put a blaster bolt into the duct where he heard the sound of locomotion.

[member="Vex Tythion "]

 

[Lucien Cordel]

Outside the vent vex heard voices, no doubt military police or worse marines. Unfazed however he continued to drag himself through the vent. up above he could still hear the distant noise of fighters, he wandered just how much damage he had done, he hoped he had done something considerable both to boast his notoriety and to deal a blow against those who had inconvenienced him so. There was no time for a backward glance as he heard more movement behind him.

The sound of heavy steps preceded a blaster bolt, these people didn't mess around. the bolt careered over his head missing him by millimeters, no doubt he had a few moments before another bolt would follow and in those moments he would need to decide whether to crawl on or play dead, the secound way likely meant capture unless these soldiers were dumb. The first option was certainly the most foolhardy but with it came the promise of escape.

"Let it never be said that Vex Tythion is a coward" He mumbled to himself before continuing at a far quickened pace.

It was painful to say the least but notably less painful than a blaster bolt or the shame of capture.

[member="Relina Zhan"]

 

[Relina Zhan]

@Vex Tythion

The marine fired, putting a hole in the vent. There was a bit of smoke where the bolt pierced the thin metal veneer preceding the smell of fresh ozone. No noise apart from the impact and crawling could be heard. "Frak.." he swore, realising that he missed. He'd fire again, blindly leading the target where he thought he might be. Of course, it wouldn't take long to climb into the ceiling and work his way into the hall.

"The intruder is getting away..." he advised his superior.

The Commander got on her comm and ordered, in Hapan with a tone of urgency, to lock down their sector of the base. Meanwhile, outside, Fighters were beginning to be allowed to land, few by few.

(sorry about the delay... had another RP going and little time to bounce around. I'll keep up with this one.)

 

[Lucien Cordel]

(It's ok, You have the ten posts here I need I need, ask [member="Valiens Nantaris"] to pull the sub out of the archive and I'll approve it )

(I'm also repurposing this sub account so feel free to kill/capture vex )

Vex climbed from the vent slightly singed, his heads spinning as he stumbled down the hall ways. He hoped he could find his spice before the mp's found him, capture coupled with failure would be most degrading and he didn't need that sort of rubbish, his life was quite stressful enough as it was what with the mire of incompetence he was constantly embroiled in.

Hearing boots down the hall he dived through a door way. Hoping that his spice would be secreted here but given the lack of security he doubted it. Why could nothing be easy ?

[member="Relina Zhan"]

 

[Relina Zhan]

[member="Malcom Langly"]

The security systems of the base were activated as ordered while the last fighters above came in for landing. MPs and even stationed marines were on high alert, securing the crash site and spreading out among the base to effectively lock the place down. When the Angels finally landed, the very last last of them, Major Zhan got out of her Terminus and headed toward where the crash had been, letting the technicians at the landing pads bring it in for rearming and refueling.

Armed with her rapier and a repeater pistol, but still in her flightsuit, she intended to join a squad of MPs securing the outer hall leading to a break room. She boarded a lift that would take her up to the control room where the ship crashed. The spire itself was round at the top, dominated by the control room which had been partially obliterated by the crash. The vent the intruder had used lead into that break room, which she incidentally had to go through to get to the hall in question. This meant that as soon as the lift let her off, there was a man of smallish stature dropping out of the ceiling mere metres in front of her.

"Who the hell are you?" she asked, her hand hovering over her repeater pistol holstered at her right thigh. If this guy heard the comm chatter, he might recognise Relina's voice as the one giving orders to land the ship and the very same one who also fired upon and shot him down.