Down with the Bourgeois! (ME Dominion of Onderon, Hex AA28)

[Stardust Solus Skirae]

Objective 2
[member="Beth Australis-Mantis"]

https://youtu.be/kVW5rjA5O7U

Stardust grimaced, she wasnt feelimg vwry good yet her cybernetica kicked in as she laid her head agaisnt the crate and peeked out...ten only ten? Must think everyone in the crash died...she ducked back in as she pulled her comm back up to her ear and listen as she ket a breath of relief out and spoke

thank the force and manda, I'll await your arrival kinda cant movee much possibly broken ribs legs... not sure just not up to 100%

She forced herself up now, readying her blaster pistol she took aim and watched the blaster bolt collide with the leader. Like ants without a trail they ran away as stardust chuckled and started opening fire on them sending them into even more disarray with the scattered cover being their only friend...

ya want some! Come get some! Nice fresh butt whooping served now!

A few the pilot managed to free himself, it was just her and him in the heart of it all, reinforcements were called in and were on their way now. Stardust poked out and fired scoring one in the chest as she heard the mans scream silenced by death.

Remnant drop ships began to land, letting more troops out as they began firing at the wreckage forcing stardust into cover once more as she squeezed in

reinforcements! We need to push these ferfeks back!

She called out and peeked out firing a shot before ducking in yet again as a hail of fire came her way

 

[Janick Beauchamp]

Objective 2
Location: Onderon
Allies: ME
Enemies: Corrupt FWC remnant

The logic bomb here would cause the reveal of the evidence being locked up about the corruption of the highest echelons of the Onderon government. For now, anyway, the aim was to steal all the files containing passwords so that she could act based on them, but here the two-factor authentication would mean that there were two files, one for each factor. A little cluttered but at least login credentials were separated. The question being: which encryption method do they use? she thought, while realizing that the passwords were encrypted. Stealing two files' worth of passwords was one thing, but decrypting them would require variable time based on the encryption method in use. If it's symmetric it would be different from an asymmetric encryption key. The one silver lining was that the usernames were ordered the same in both files, so she only needed the first passwords decrypted in that list to proceed further. And yet she ran those two lists of passwords through several decryption programs that differed only by the encryption methods, hoping that the fastest one would prove the correct method.

 

[Prazutis]

A'den listened to @yash mantis yell and A'den placed his hand on her arm to calm her down. calm down mand'alor, breath relax. A'den looks to the person yash was yelling at. listen, what sees telling you is truth, if you don't join the mandalorian empire we can't help you and we would have to sit back and watch you loose the beautiful place, now if you don't want that i suggest you listen to the mand'alor before I make you listen and trust me you won't like that, and I assure you it will be painful, I'm not a peaceful person nor am I a patient person, so sit down, shut your trap and listen to yash.

A'den stepped back probably overstepping his boundaries but he hated seeing yash like that and A'den has always been known to get business done, A'den wonders if that's why yash brought him with her for this one. A'den didn't dwell on it that much and waited for yash to continue as A'den continued to mlnitor his scanners and watching everyone with his HUD hidden behind the custom skull T visor of his.

 

[Yasha Cadera]

“Does this look reasonable to you!?” Yasha pointed directly at the footage from their operatives on the streets of Onderon. Slavery, unfair imprisonment, execution without trials, the current ‘government’ of Onderon was nothing but a cabal of brutal slave keepers, taking power in a vacuum, while the noble clans who called Onderon home were nowhere to be found.

“The FWC kept these people well! They kept Onderon functioning and fair! This!? This is a cabal of rya-worms plundering hardworking people for their own gain! Bloating themselves on.. drinks and tax credits!” Yasha took a shot to the shoulder from one of the firing guards, absorbed in her armour.

She didn’t flinch.

“No. I’ve spent months working every angle I could to keep the citizens under our Empire as comfortable as I could. I never took a single credit for myself. Not one. I’ve slept in the barracks, eaten with our vode, used every inch of resource I had to rebuild Manda’yaim and give the Vode a future beyond farming dust… this is Onderon! This was once our shining Capital! This was the planet of my daughter’s Sire, and they swoop in thinking… thinking they can…. negotiate for scraps!? The people are suffering now! Change must happen now!” Yasha’s booming and heavily accented voice raged through the space, a lull in the tumult.

“No. We are Mando’ade and these are our people. The Aruetii will not dictate what we can and cannot do to defend them. The Aruetii will not imprison, execute, enslave and degrade our People. Look, A’den. Look at what they are doing even to children. No. They swooped in during the rebellion, worked to overthrow the leadership and now? Now they cling to life like Anzati for a meal. I need you to protect [member="Cassiopeia Australis"], Ba’vodu. She and her babies need you to keep her safe…” Reaching her gauntlet to the side, Yasha called her hammer to her hand.

“… the rest of us have other work to do. Alkor. Skosk. With me.” The security guards around Yasha began firing at the Mandalorians, Ministers rushed toward exits, and pandaemonium broke out on Onderon. [member="Skosk Australis"] [member="Alkor Centaris"] [member="A'den Kyr'am"]

 

[Alkor Centaris]

Alkor watched as the cattle broke in every direction and screams rose all around him. Yasha spoke out passionately about the state of the planet, and armed guards filtered into the room laying down fire. He tracked them in his HUD, wary of each position as he ran an estimate on the distance between himself and each avenue of escape. One, two... four different hallways and doors. He measured out his throw and lobbed the first of several spherical orbs.

"Field test starting now," he called to the others, "get behind cover."

The little ball of glowing orange pulsated as it reached the apex of his throw and, right as it touched down, it sprayed its contents all over a handful of the constituents. "What is this?" they asked, "it's disgusting!" They stood for a moment trying to shake it off, but it held tight. "It smells like gaso-"

They never finished speaking before the wave of heat swept across them, and hellfire consumed their bodies. Flailing, ashen corpses ran screaming as they died, and they denied their former friends a path to freedom. The fire continued to burn, long after they were gone.

And Alkor tossed three more.

"Stay awhile," he called out, ramping up the volume on his vocabulator. "You wanted to negotiate, didn't you?"

[member="Yasha Mantis"] | [member="Skosk Australis"] | [member="Cassiopeia Australis"]

 

[Skosk Fett]

Objective: Follow the Mand'alor

Auxiliary Objective: Go Berserk
[member="Alkor Centaris"] [member="Yasha Mantis"] [member="Cassiopeia Australis"]


A stray politician ran for his life, after the mand'alor gave the word these fools would pay. One of them would learn what would happen when insulting a mandalorian's love. Like an angry mob lead by a famed citizen everyone snapped to kill these pathetic sods, the wrestler strength of the tank was incorporated to stop the coward from running.After this, the horned devil began making his kill. Grabbing the fool by the neck , the politicians neck could be heard cracking, as if it were bursting like a wind pipe. The massive horse hand of the angered Berserker squeezing down harder and raising the being in the air , "Make them suffer Alkor, lets make these officials shake in a puddle of their own making!" .

Never Insult a mandalorian's Cyar'ika , a massive neck would be completely crushed after a slow and painful death. The pale and dead body then thrown to the ground hard,a loud thump.The massive mass of muscle following Mand'alor The Infernal , "These sods are a waste of space, who disrespect our culture, and get rich doing this. They need to be purged !" . Anger channeled , the room permeated of the rising hatred flowing through the captain.

Lurking around and peering side to side, the warrior took cover behind Alkor. Shooting incoming guards to cover his two companions that had decided to engage the new enemy. The repeater spat out bolts of justice killing some of the opposition, most where pinned down and in place for whatever alky boy wanted to sodding to. The ballistics expert always carried a few explosives should the need arise, today the artist had three seismic, "However leave some for me vod!"

 

[Janick Beauchamp]

Objective 2
Location: Onderon
Allies: ME
Enemies: Corrupt FWC remnant

Encryption forced me to steal the password list through this backdoor, and wait a while before stealing a password: I now have a ping on the Triple DES encryption program, she thought, while she had one set of credentials, ready to use to infiltrate the system, and thus abort the other decryption programs. And also proceed to erase the whole contents of the journalistic news stories past the day of the Raxis rebellion, which she knew were fake news. The pink-haired girl was now realizing that, since they couldn't broadcast anything, the people on the other side were suspecting that the rebels have launched a ground attack, and/or an airborne one, on the premises, and, from what the security cameras showed them, from elsewhere in the ShadowNet, the broadcast station's personnel prepared to be fighting tooth-and-nail to defend the physical offices. A battle reporter was present to see the fighting erupt near the state media's broadcast station? Why is it that it is broadcasting on the ShadowNet? Yes, the jamming only affected one narrow band, but what frequency is that shadow journalist using?

 

[Gaia Sunaris Cadera]

Beth bit her lip nervously. She used her buy'ce to help her assess her situation. More dropships were coming in. That meant they already were calling for backup. Beth pulled back behind her cover, reloading her blaster. It would be hard to get them somewhere safe if more of the planetary forces showed up. Beth peered back out, aiming her pistol and shooting at several of the guards until she had to reload again.

"I can Force Heal some of your wounds when we get out of here," she relayed to Stardust through their comm systems. "More enemies inbound, it seems." She was sure Stardust knew this, but she still felt it necessary to provide some type of warning to the woman. It was always better to be safe than sorry!

Beth took a deep breath, reloaded, and went back to shooting as she carefully made her way through many different covers. She was about seventy-five percent of the way to Stardust before she was trapped due to the reinforcements appearing. She began to shoot over, one blaster hitting her shoulder but her armor absorbing the impact. The impact knocked her back some, but luckily she caught herself quickly. Beth took a deep breath, grateful she got her armor when she did.

"Stardust, how badly injured are you? They may just keep bringing more... We may have to make a run for it, somehow." She was trying to figure out a way to get them to safety. She could help her walk and block blaster attacks with her armor, but Stardust would have to be able to walk. Plus, they would have to move fast. If they backtracked the path that Beth came, they would be relatively covered by debris and other makeshift barriers, at least.

[member="Stardust Bloodstone"]

 

[Stardust Solus Skirae]

She forced herself to start moving through the wreckage, pulling her sabers out she turned them on in a dazzling show of black and white. She locked a few shots heading for her as she chuckled

it's a simply a few broken ribs nothing life threatening, we need to get out of here and find some place we can set up! Or least hold out till more help arrives

Stardust watched blaster bolts hit all around her, she couldnt help a smile as she slowly moved forward. She got so close she could see her vod before three shots nailed her in the chest slamming her to the ground as she lost her breath. She pulled herseld baremy into covering coughing as she checked her armor over. Didnt pierce but damn if it didnt burn a bit

I'm good! Ahhh bloody hell can confirm they did break a few ribs

It was worse then she thought but the shock was keeping the worst of the pain away. She used the force to bring her sabers to her and pulled her blaster pistols out and peeked firing on a group of them
[member="Beth Australis-Mantis"]

 

[Prazutis]

A'den understood @yash mantis's words and then watched her take a shot to the shoulder, A'den quickly drew his EE-3 and the east of the security guards started firing, 3 shots hit A'den in the chest but it didn't effect him due to his beskar, A'den then quickly took cover and begin firing back at the security guards. A'den nailed 3 of them killing them with head shots, A'den then saw [member="Alkor Centaris"] throw something that lit them on fire. A'den shouted to Yash asking where [member="Cassiopeia Australis"] was as he fired covering yash and alkor to make an exit. A'den then stood up and fired a toxic saber dart into a guards neck killing him instantly. A guard as well tried to sneak up on A'den but thanks to his HUD A'den saw him coming and turned and put his wrist blades into his torso then turned and fired at another guard hitting him in the heart dropping him dead. A'den then took cover and kept firing to make sure yash and alkor got out.

 

[Shia Kryze]

Objective: The Kill

'A war can be started or ended with one well placed shot'​

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Shia descended from the sky like a silent angel of death, the shrouds of her one-person drop pod peeling away to leave false signatures for air defence systems, her heavy armour was ill-suited to this role - she really needed to get fitted for a second suit, something lighter with stealth components, but a warrior made do.

She slammed down onto the roof of one of the tall buildings, her feet grinding holes into the ceracrete. Ducking smoothly into cover, she unlatched the immense rifle slung across her back and checked it's functionality, smiling a little at the winking green display.

This planet reeked of death, just and unjust - and now another killer was here to add to the tally.

"This is Shia, I am down and on target. Proceeding to hunt-point alpha for target acquisition. Anyone need a hand while I'm on route?"

She sprinted from the rooftop and look a long, quick leap from building to building, moving towards the way-marker in her HUD.

 

[Gaia Sunaris Cadera]

Panicked fat cats ran in all directions as the planetary government began to tumble and collapse. The deep centralization caused panic across the planet - the people realized they were being liberated from their essentially enforced slavery. All over the planet, HoloNet videos of riots, protests, and of people coming together to fight for a better life. To fight for their families. To fight for a life worth living for. They would no longer beg for breadcrumbs.

Whether they would succeed would depend on Mandalorian forces assisting them and continuing to eradicate the current corrupt government.

Yasha's speed was beautiful - and little did she know, it was recorded and broadcasted across Onderon and the Empire. Every soul who listened to the HoloNet, watched their news, read their datapads and newspaper, and so forth would see what she had said. Of course, the death of the ministers was not something that was displayed - just her heavy, intense speech. The Empire knew of her love for them and her devotion to helping her people.

In either case, Cassiopeia was crouched behind the desk, holding a blaster in one hand and her large, extended belly in the other. She really shouldn't be in this situation, but things had to continue. They had to secure the planet for the betterment of the people. Cassiopeia carefully watched as Alkor burned several of them. The smell made her stomach roll, but she stood up, as more guards filtered in. She shot towards them, staying low. Several of the guards began to run back out into the hallways, running away.

[member="Shia Kryze"] | @A'den Kyr'am | [member="Petria Breguet"] | [member="Skosk Australis"] | [member="Alkor Centaris"] | [member="Yasha Mantis"]

 

[Prazutis]

One other guards noticed [member="Cassiopeia Australis"] and raised his light repeating blaster at her head. A'den noticed this and ran for her and dove just as the shots went off, A'den successfully blocked the shots but got hit several times in the back and collapsed next to cassiopeia. A'den took a deep breath looking at her and weazed out hello ma'am, stay down A'den then took out a thermal detonator and tossed into the hallway where more guards were coming in. A'den stood up and covered cassiopeia as the blast went off killing a handful of guards.

Through the smoke A'den stood up drawing his westar 35 blaster pistol and shooting the last guards remaining as the room was on fire and smoking. Between A'den and [member="Alkor Centaris"] the two have destroyed the room. A'den made sure [member="Yasha Mantis"] was gone then looked back to cassiopeia.

The mand'alor ordered me to protect you and that's what I'm going to do, I'm getting you out of here, so let's go.

A'den offers his hand to her to escort her out of there.

 

[Janick Beauchamp]

Objective 2
Location: Onderon
Allies: ME
Enemies: Corrupt FWC remnant

"Time to perform some maintenance operations: it appears that, without wanting it, the ransomware was having some side effects"

Although the Mandos would, in fact, still need a local media station, especially since she knew the Mandos would leave the new administration to their own devices, it would probably be for the better to just wipe out the whole mainframe. But that's just the staffers triggering the logic bomb in the multipartite ransomware: it wasn't in fact a side effect of the ransomware. As the data was being erased from the broadcasting station's computers, wiped clean, Petria knew that there was no real effort on their part to get the ransomware out of the system; its shelf life was pretty much over once the erasure of the data was completed. And then there would be no trace left of the ransomware in question, so the authorities would be left to blame an internal mutiny or rebel elements for this cyberattack. With this cyberattack, she knew that their broadcasting ability would no longer be ensured but she'd rather check on the broadcasting system before she could remove the jamming on the antenna. The slicer knew as much: perhaps other media would take over, communal or private.

 

[Gaia Sunaris Cadera]

Beth moved through the wreckage towards Stardust as she moved towards her. She, in the meantime, shot at several of the remnants as they trickled in from the surrounding areas. They were doing good - headshots, shots to the chest, etc. They were incapacitating them and they seemed more hesitant to just run up to try to shoot them.

During her run, she got a strange frequency on the comms from Yasha. Was someone trying to reach her? A small alert popped up in her buy'ce, with coordinates on Dxun. She glanced towards the moon in the sky, nibbling her lip. Why would they get a distress signal from someone up there? It didn't seem to fully go through to Yasha, but at least it made it to her.

She quickly made up her mind that she had to check it out. Once, of course, she got Stardust.

They were close - only a few more wrecked barriers apart. She winced as she saw the shots nail her into the chest. She heard her voice through their comms a moment later and Beth breathed a sigh of relief. She saw one of the freighters landed nearby - she could get them both into that and they could get to Dxun. The plan formulated in her mind as she finally reached Stardust, helping her onto her feet and putting her arm across her shoulder. "I can heal you once we're in safety," she said towards the woman as she used her free arm to shoot at some of the officers that were running towards them.

It took them a few minutes, but finally they were onto the ship. Beth locked down the ship as soon as they entered, setting Stardust down softly. "Are you allergic to bacta?" She asked quickly as she reached into a secured section on her leg of her armor. The armor had come with auto-injectors of bacta - just in case something happened, they would be okay to last for a bit. If Stardust said she was not, Beth would carefully inject it into her near her ribs.

"Okay, let me get the ship going and I'll be back," she said quietly as she helped Stardust onto some type of cushioned cot. After a few minutes, Beth initiated the autopilot to go where the distress signals call where before running back to Stardust. "We're going to Dxun cause I got a distress signal on a private comms with my mom," she said quietly as she began to focus her Force ability. She closed her eyes, letting herself feel the Force. She always tried to never be disconnected from it, but she lost the connection during all of the running.

She let one hand hover over Stardust's ribcage as a bright, white light began to be emitted from her hand. Beth could feel the Force find each broken and fractured rib. She saw them, in a sense, and called for them to be reunited. With the assistance of the bacta speeding the healing up, hopefully, Stardust's ribs would be brand new before they reached Dxun.

[member="Stardust Bloodstone"]

 

[Stardust Solus Skirae]

[member="Beth Australis-Mantis"]

Stardust got back in cover, damn it hurt a lot. She felt herself already being but it was to slow to help now. She peeked out and fired again hitting a guy several times before a shot hit a thermal and took him and his buddies

yea! Eat fire! Your in my game now!

She got back, she saw Beth coming and made a attempt to stand putting a blaster up as she aimed and fired as they retreated. She took and took her helmet off as she looked to Beth

bout to get warm sorry in advance

She turned her head and focused the force takimg a deep breath as the air heated, she roared out as flames seemed to spout from her mouth towards the officers engulfing thwm as they screamed and fell cooked in their armor. Stardust let a breath out wheezing as she coughed and shook her head unable to speak as she was sat down. Feeling that relief she closed her eyes and nodded as she laid there taking a steady breath


Omce beth was back she looked to her and closed her eyes feekimg the healing working, she gave a smile

heh...something only those of light can do perfectly...dont ever dabble in the dark side...it is dangerous

 

[Gaia Sunaris Cadera]

Beth was... Surprised, to say the least, at Stardusts explosive fire-breathing fury. She stared at the woman for a few seconds before she could process enough to get her into the ship. Did she really just breath fire? Holy moly, what kind of Force ability was that? She made a mental note to ask [member="Stardust Bloodstone"] about what she did. Just wow, so awesome!

The ship was off to Dxun and for now, Beth was busy attending to Stardusts wounds. She kept her focus on mending her broken ribs, which was currently the most dangerous injuries to the woman. She could feel the Force regenerating the cells inside Stardusts bones. It slowly mended the bones inside Stardusts' ribcage, smoothing out the fractured ones. Beth smiled at Stardusts comment, "I don't think I can. Everyone says I'm really light," she shrugged slightly. Maybe it was her perpetual optimism. Maybe it was just because her Force signature was so strongly attuned to the light. In either case, the girl was washed and radiated in the light side of the Force.

In either case, some time passed. The ship had carefully landed. Stardust had been healed to the best of Beth's abilities. Beth had tried to heal the bruises and cuts, but she knew she got most of the ribcage injuries fixed. Or, at least, she hoped she did. With that, Beth reloaded her pistol and took a deep breath. She took in her connection to the Force for a moment, keeping it close to her. She looked to Stardust, "There was a distress signal... It was really weird because it went through my mom's personal channels? It was right around here, though."

With that, the woman and presumably the other would walk out of the ship. A small home was in front of them. Whos' home was it? Why was there a distress call coming out from it? "Be careful," she'd whisper. Bethy didn't know what exactly was going on, but she knew to be careful. Traps happened all the time.

Little did she know that it was actually [member="Kaden Mantis"], injured and recovering inside [member="Kad Tor"]'s home on Dxun. Beth carefully approached the front door, trying to peer in through any windows that the home might have had.

 

[Shia Kryze]

The target in the scope was a person - a living, breathing sentient - their name was Valarn Krill, age 47, one of the major backers behind the corrupt government that was running the planet into the ground.

Shia could see every pore, every drop of sweat, every heaving breath as he ran, panting, down the aerial walkway between his guards.

A good huntress knew her prey, they knew his habits, his two mistresses (one twi'lek, how determinedly unoriginal), his holdings on half a dozen planets and his ties to several criminal syndicates.

Did that make him a worse person than anyone else in the galaxy? Does selfishness and greed make you better or worse than semi-religious fanaticism?

Shia wasn't sure, if she was honest, but she was certain of one thing - he was not Mando'ade, he knew nothing of their culture and thus, in the end he was as disposable as anyone else. That she considered herself more disposable than the youngest, meanest or most criminal Mando'ade was beside the point. This man had poisoned lives and ruined worlds and for that, today, a reckoning was upon him.

"May your soul receive the reward it so richly deserves." She purred, the benediction much, much more than a simple statement as she wrapped her will tight and applied a tiny fraction of pressure to the trigger.

The shattergun was silent, the target in the scope exploded and vanished, dropping out of sight and one more keening soul was sent to haran, this time at her command.

The sick taste rose in her mouth warred with the thrill of the kill coursing through every vein and artery of her body, bringing her soul to peak of grief and joy nothing really matched - every time, from the first kill until (she hoped) the last - a huntress knows her prey, a huntress understands the price she and her prey pay.

But she still hunts.

 

[Janick Beauchamp]

Objective 2
Location: Onderon
Allies: ME
Enemies: Corrupt FWC remnant

"Come on, come on, come on..."

While the data in the state media's computer systems was being wiped out, the slicer watched carefully the data's deletion status before she could lift the jamming from the antenna, and that hopefully the rebels would be able to install new systems into the state media's mainframe as battle raged inside the media's offices. A little different from how it unfolded on Nibelungen, but this video feed meant that she watched live the battle for the media center. And then the all clear would be given to the rebels to install their homebrew broadcasting system into the mainframe, so that, hopefully, they would be able to make their broadcasting once the battle is over. For the time being the all clear is not yet given, but the wiping of the system's memories would, hopefully, leave the operating system mostly intact. Especially since an operating system, on its own, is rather harmless to either party. Almost there... almost there... stay on target! she thought, while the progress on the data being erased was clear to her at this point, and then the jamming will soon be lifted.

 

[Kaden Farr]

Kaden had passed out and lay on the floor of the home. His black beskar’gam was along the door. Anyone that knew him, or the story of him, would instantly recognize the fabled pitch covered black armor. For his own part Kaden could no longer move. It had taken everything from him to make it to his buy’ce. He was in desperate need of medical attention, and likely surgery. Both legs were broken, and they had been for some time. They likely had healed wrong which was why the could not support his weight.

His mind was black.

His heart still beat. It was strong, but fading.

Kaden Mantis was dying....

[member="Beth Australis-Mantis"] [member="Stardust Bloodstone"]