Flashpoint: Roche

[Lord Ghoul]

NICKEL ONE - MUNITIONS FACILITY
@[member="Darren Brunswick"]

Shorn snapped. The floodgates of his anger released and he drowned in his own rage. Derriphan fueled him with its terrible goading that prodded and pushed, but now the Senator truly sent Mikhail over the edge. And into madness. A horrible light came into Mikhail's eyes, hidden beneath his helm.

He strode down the stairs, his hate building within his stomach, clenching and tightening and threatening to burst. Derriphan craved blood. Gathering his terrible might, Mikhail walked right up to the blast doors and peeled back the opening previously made by the rocket launcher. He shoved his way through and resumed stalking, his anger continuing to build like a terrible thunderhead turning into a typhoon of insanity.

Consumed by anger as he was, Mikhail's powers were pushed to their pinnacle. He raised a splayed hand and lightning leapt forth, electrocuting the remaining verpines with before he lifted them all in the Force and sent them crashing into the ground at Darren Brunswick's feet. Yellow blood spattered the permacrete.

No sense of sympathy or remorse echoed in Mikhail's all-too hollowed heart, now filled with blinding hatred. He felt derision and disgust at this pitiful man. The Senator threw every offer of an end to the violence back in Mikhail's face. Hot boiling wrath spilled over as lightning crackled around Mikhail's outstretched hand, pointed right toward the Senator. The man wished for violence? Mikhail would give him his fill. His cup would runneth over in blood and Mikhail would be gladdened to watch the man swallow the bitter drink of despair.

"Enemy? Have it your way," Mikhail said.

The Sith no longer cared whether or not the inhabitants responded. He would kill them all! Anyone and everyone in his path. Madness gripped Shorn and he felt the twisting sense of utter rage drive through him.

Shorn whipped a hand through the air. A deleterious backhand in the form of a raw telekinetic shockwave shrieked toward Darren. Mikhail would smite him.

 

[Atrum Voidlighter]

@[member="Zaiden"]

He felt the pull and used it to bring him forward into a run, undoing the bindings that held the chest piece on and letting it pull free of his body, revealing the light armor he normally wore underneath. The pants were a little trickier. As he ran, two saber hilts flew to his hands, igniting in violet blades. He threw himself into the air, somersaulting over the Sith and holding his legs rigidly outwards as he brought the blades just close enough to cut into the armor on either side of them and using the Force to force the metal apart and away from him, the pieces of armor clattering to the ground where they were left.

"Thank you, you have been most helpful." He shut off his sabers and returned them to his belt for a moment as he worked, undoing the bindings that held the arm portions of his space armor on before shaking his arms to have them fall free. "I suppose it's good for me that space suits are segmented like they are, eh?"

 

[Davin Jusik]

@Selena Haylcon

Monty nodded and hopped into an open fighter, starting it up and securing the S-26 in the fighter's compartment made for storing a weapon of such size. His atmospheric suit provided him some comfort in case of a breach in the aging fighters.

 

[Caulder Dune]

NICKEL ONE - SURFACE STATION

@[member="Jesta"] | @[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]​

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Cloaked from sight and from the force, the group of five Sith assassins snaked through the surface station. There was no sound nor subtle hint of their presence. Any lookouts Jesta posted would fail to detect the slightest anomaly. The Sith were utterly uninhibited as they moved through the station, avoiding crowds and soldiers with ease. This was what they were trained for from a very young age- it would only come as a surprise to those unfamiliar with the ways of Umbaran Shadow Assassins. Soon enough they found who they were looking for- a Verpine wearing the clothing described and a lone, feline-esque humanoid with a blaster drawn. They weren't exactly making themselves conspicuous. They were heading for the landing pad, no doubt. Tyrin dispatched his orders to his colleagues telepathically, invigorated by Sith battle meditation.

Rorg and Sept, circle around and wait. Once me and Slyis engage, you follow up from behind. Dece, cut ahead to the landing pad. Sneak inside the control station, override the turrets, and fire on any ships that try to land. Unless they're ours, in which case, don't.

His accomplices made telepathic note of their affirmation, before breaking off in pursuit of their respective goals. For now, Tyrin and Slyis lingered behind Jesta and his charge. Tyrin would need to wait for Rorg and Sept to get into position before engaging. This was going to be tricky, but it was going to be swift and efficient if it went as planned. Then again, nothing ever went as planned.

Squad Status:​

Tyrin // 01: 100% Fresh​

Rorg // 02: 100% Fresh​

Sept // 03: 100% Fresh​

Slyis // 04: 100% Fresh​

Dece // 05: 100% Fresh​

 

[Matreya]

(@[member="Atrum Voidlighter"] remember to tag where you are so everyone else can know)

THE VAULT

Zaiden shrugged, "Wouldn't know. I use my own armors for all purposes." With that he spun and threw a powerful kick at his enemies head, it was force enhanced to the point it could crush his skull with contact.

 

[Jaxton Ravos]

Da Vaulteroid - Outer Labs

Jaxton hoped that the masked Jedi had been doing well, but continued onward into the asteroid known as The Vault, eventually finding some labs near the center of the complex. They were large, complex, and he could tell he hadn't really made it to the meat of the laboratories yet. As he went deeper in he found various parts and machinery, perhaps part of this new power generator he had heard so much about. Oddly enough he had seen no hair no hide of the Verpine since he passed the Sith, though Verpine didn't have hair or hides in he first place. As he continued onwards he heard a small, electrical whirr, almost like a hum, and then ignited his lightsaber as a pair of Magnaguard droids attacked him from different hallways, and ambush. No wonder he hadn't seen any of the bugs around.

 

[Jesta]

'Jesta two assassins are making their way to a landing pad. The other one is right behind you. They also have cloaking devices.' Brutus informed. Jesta sighed and turned his head to look around. First thing he saw was one person walking in route he was in a sprint. "Well then switch to plan B." Jesta laughed, holding his blaster Jesta commed in. "Ladies in gentleman things are about to get complicated." Jesta said out loud, twisting around Jesta moved the rep behind him and pointed his blaster directly at the one following him. "Helllllo." He said before blasting off several shots towards the arms legs and body of his stalker. "Take out the other two brutus. They obviously dont know anything about thermal snipers." Jesta whispered. Brutus began to snipe the cloaked assassins.


@[member="Tyrin Ardik"]

 

[Wolan Tsomcren]

HALF-MOON DISTANCE FROM THE IMPERIAL FLEET - SPACE

Wolan, seeing that his attack on the Imperial flotilla was going to amount to nothing, began a different strategy. He would help Selena Halcyon's attack on the Research Facility. Not only that, he'd bring an entire capital ship with him

''Fighter squadron, RSS Surprise, new target. Join up with Halcyon's squadron and prepare for an attack. Have the Surprise provide cover with it's flaks''

All the squad rogered, and the squadron swung 90 degrees, attempting to join up on Halcyon's position.

 

[Sarge Potteiger]

Nickel One - Surface Station
@[member="Tyrin Ardik"]
@[member="Jesta"]
@[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]

OOC: I figured I'd jump in here, just to even things out a little. This thread is moving too fast to read all of it >.>

Sarge was tracking the Republic agent and his charge, hidden from sight and detection by the camo-cloak he wore wrapped around his shoulders and over his head in a hood. Sniffing the air, his lips curled faintly upwards in consternation.

Someone was here. Somewhere.

Dead to the Force as he was, he had little to fear from Sith sensing him. Footsteps so unnaturally quiet as to not even be audible the man does a slow 360 to take in his surroundings. In his hands was a blaster rifle with a thirty centimeter bayonet, but it was pointed at the ground so as to not give him away.

Where Sarge was a lone predator, he had the nagging suspicion that whoever else was with them... they operated as a pack. Two separate styles of hunting were about to meet, head on. This would be fun.

Suddenly, gunfire.

Appearing like a wraith from a nightmare, Sarge grabbed the Republic rep and pulled him from the line of fire. No thermal image of him was going to show, and all the Sith were going to have to show for his arrival was a flash of black carapace armor that had vanished as quickly as it had arrived.

Jesta and the others could fight the assassins. Sarge would protect the rep.

 

[Darren Brunswick]

NICKEL ONE - MUNITIONS FACILITY
@[member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""]Mikhail Shorn

"Freedom, my friends! Peace,and prosperity! The Galactic Republic can guarentee you this" yelled the senator to the Verpine inside the facility. Out of the corner of his eyes, Brunswick saw that the Sith Lord seemed to have disappeared from view. What was happening inside the munition facility was quite interesting. The Verpine inside seemed to have divided themselves into two groups. While one side of them looked convinced to join the Republic by what the senator had said, the other side seemed to be determined to remain loyal to the Imperials. A fight seemed to have broken out between the two sides. The senator would've kept watching if the Sith Lord hadn't suddenly shown up, peeling off the blastdoor entrance like a piece of rubber. As the Sith Knight stepped out into the grounds of the facility, the Kuati senator could tell that his enemy wasn't looking too happy.

Right. So 'not looking too happy' didn't seem to correctly describe the radiation of rage the Sith Knight seemed to be giving off. Darren Brunswick watched in utter shock as the Sith incinerated the surviving militants of his group with Force Lightning. With a flick of his hand, the Sith Lord had sent their dead bodies to right infront of Brunswick. Yellow blood seemed to color the ground infront of him as the Sith looked at the senator with menace.

"Enemy? Have it your way," said the Sith. The Sith Lord then waved his hand, and the next he knew, Brunswick was flying about ten feet in the air, then landed with a bone-shattering crunch on the hard ground. Gasping in pain, the Senator of Kuat knew that he had broken quite a few bones. His head felt light, and his vision was blurring again. Clutching his stomach however, Brunswick managed to slowly stand to face the Sith Lord. "I'd surrender if I were you..." he gasped, pointing behind the Sith. And behind the Sith, about two dozen or so Verpine were standing with their blasters aimed at him. Brunswick could recognize some of them that had looked persuaded by his speech.

 

[Rekali the Hutt]

Nickel One - Streets of the City

Ardak sped in his speeder along the speedy city roads, causing quite a raucous in the normally perfect Verpine skyways. He wondered what it would be like to have a hive mind, knowing the thoughts of everyone. It must have been awfully horrific, he couldn't have imagined sharing a mind with the peaceful botanists, scientists or doctors of his people. Such 'flowery' thoughts would have driven him insane. Ardak understood their place in the galaxy, but couldn't stand the business himself. Ardak looked down for a second at his datapad, and realized he still had a few kilometers to go before reaching the Republic-friendly rail car and hangerbay.

"FIERFEK!" He cursed, and increased his speeders velocity past it's already illegal levels.

 

[Atrum Voidlighter]

The Vault
@[member="Zaiden"]

The instant his opponent swung his leg out to kick him in the head dropped, using his left hand and foot for support he kicked out with his right in a similar attack to his opponent. His Force-enhanced kick had a different target, though. His opponent's knee on the leg still planted on the ground. It would not be a lethal attack by any means, but having your knee broken backwards did tend to take the fight out of a person.

 

[Soeht]

Nickle One - Surface Station

The exchange between the Sith and Republic forces in the Garden Dome was quick. Darth Apparatus managed to keep himself from being harmed. Yet, with the collapse of the Garden Dome, Darth Apparatus quickly escaped the area. He left Mikhail to whatever fate the Sith Knight had before him. Boarding one of the rail trains on the asteroid, Darth Apparatus traveled to another part of the asteroid in pursuit of his target.

In time, Darth Apparatus arrived at the station that @[member="Tyrin Ardik"] just departed on foot from. It seemed as if the Sith Lord pursued @[member="Jesta"] and the Republic's Verpine ally.

With a helmet over his face this time, Darth Apparatus stepped out of the train to follow Tyrin. He ignored the Verpine mechanic and made tracking down the Republic-allied Verpine his sole goal for the moment. He certainly would have gathered more attention than the cloaked assassins - if they were not discovered already.

 

[Ashin Varanin]

THE VAULT
@[member="Darron Wraith"]

Bitter, direct indignation boiled in her, and Sith arts of her subconscious turned that into uncomplicated power on a grand scale. She refrained from manifesting it as light or fire or electricity. Instead the power merely waited.

"But there are civilizations and peoples that are not mature enough, not ready to use their agency. Leadership by example is only one facet of leadership." Her voice was tight, tense, sharp all out of proportion to her words. "When I was a Jedi Knight, when I was first poisoned, I came back to the Jedi Temple and found the Order's best healer, Boolon Murr, growing a garden. He was pruning, Darron. Setting up trellises. And I knelt with him and worked on his garden, and he told me that the plants grow according to the structure you give them. He showed me a huge plant, a bush, and together we trimmed it down until it was little more than a stump. It looked pathetic. And he talked to the plant." She was virtually trembling with rage now, disproportionate to the topic at hand. "He said to the plant, 'If I let you go the way you want to go, you'll never amount to anything.'

"That's the Republic. Wild growth, no direction, no fruit. Because there is no gardener to trim away the dead wood, to prune the tree when it grows in the wrong directions. Boolon Murr taught me that."

Lightning began to spark around her free hand as she remained in an unflinching Shii-Cho stance.

"You come here and tell me I've been corrupted, I love power, I conquer for the sake of evil, I stand here because of pride. You don't know my heart, Darron Wraith. You have no idea how much I've sacrificed. When I came to Boolon Murr to be healed, he told me it was beyond him. And then he stood there, staring at vines on a trellis, and he told me a prophecy. He told me that I could save millions of lives if I was willing to be despised, reviled, hated, even by myself. And I have saved billions, Darron. His prophecy has been fulfilled more than he ever thought possible.

"I have been Ulic Qel-Droma. But I succeeded where he failed. And you stand here and tell me how far you think I've fallen from my true purpose? Feth you to Chaos, Darron."

Lightning snapped out at him, a storm that converged on him from all sides, like claws. An old trick from Velok.

 

[Adonari Cinn]

Asteroid Field - Nickle One
@[member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""]Tyrin Ardik

In the blink of an eye orders changed, such was the way of war. A'donari heard the message Darron had sent out on his communicator and realized where Jax had gone. His mission had changed now as well. Pealing to the left while dodging asteroids and blaster fire A'donari moved towards the capital city, Nickle One. The battle was beginning to ravage through the asteroid belt as fighters engaged one another. Allowing the force to guide his flight he found himself approaching the Capital Asteroid. With the aid of the force masking him he found his way to the surface station's landing pad. He swooped down preparing to land before he saw his ship being fired upon in his mind through the form of a battle precognitive vision. Opening the cockpit and releasing his safety harnesses before slamming on the throttle A'donari leapt from the ship towards the Asteroid using misdirection while masking his energy the best he could.

 

[Selena Halcyon]

En route to Roche Hive Research Station
@[member="Monty Jusik"]

The team flew high over the battlefield. It took longer but given that a significant portion of the stealth capabilities of the StealthX came from its visual form it was a wise decision. It would keep them away from the majority of laser fire, and if any stray shot came close to them it would be significantly weaker. It was also good because another team was moving to the research station, but their trajectory was one on a lower baring. The Republic forces were covering all facets of the battlefield and about to lay down some pressure on the Sith Forces.

From what Selena could tell, this was going surprisingly well for the Republic. Losses seemed minimal. Word was that the Sith loyalist Verpine leader was escaping with the Sith, but on the plus side their own representative was doing well. Regardless, much seemed to be working out well. The Vault was still something of a question mark but the Republic was starting to get more forces over there to secure it. Really, it looked like the Republic was covering all fronts well and with tenacity.

The team reached a high point and began to move towards the roche hive research station. The coating of asteroids around it would make the approach hard, but fighters were plenty maneuverable. The defenses were thick though. Getting onto the asteroid would be difficult. Shields could be dropped rather efficiently if allowed to get close enough. Few torpedoes, break without fire, use the asteroid to mask their already hard to track movements and golden. Using the force Selena impressed upon the minds of the pilots, Try and gain a position amid the asteroid field near the shield generator. Time a missile strike on three clicks, then break out of the asteroid lining. Their weapons will find themselves shooting asteroids and not us. Once things die down we will look for insertion. Remember, no comm or we will be noticed.

 

[Kiara Alanna Decoix]

Nickel One- Surface : @[member="Tyrin Ardik"]
Tyrin was not the only one with assassins it seemed, Kiara who began her Sith training as an assassin had begun her own flock under the same training. Except they were taught the subtleties of cloaking themselves and remaining unseen and heard without the force before they were permitted to learn the force route. As such they moved with almost a militant precision, no need to speak as everyone knew what they were here for. Her assassins held no specific mission besides death, and as she sat watching @[member="Darth Apparatus"] make his way through the area she stopped for a second nodding to her people who would be aware of her presence only through the link that connected them. With that the entire group would disperse to back up Tyrin's assassins, and whether she couldn't or merely didn't want to she had no idea where he was. Her hazel eyes scanned the area and with her force sight she gained clarity over the area, she grew a smile on her face walking up besides Tyrin.

"You've trained your assassin's quite well. I'm sure your contribution today will be well known among the Sith." It was a rare complement from the Sith Lord as she now stood next to him pondering just what he had planned. Of course their meld kept her words inside their heads but still she didn't want to try to pry into his mind, volunteer information was always better than what was en.

 

[Nisha Decrilla]

The Vault - Outer Labs

@[member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""]Atrum Voidlighter @[member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""]Zaiden @[member="Jaxton Ravos"]

Anaya was away from all of them before Ashin gave her command, calling on the force to give her speed. She needed to avoid unnecessary conflict. Thankfully for her, Zaiden caught up with her fast enough, drawing the attention of a Jedi. Anaya hovered her eyes flicking from each opponent. before she made the silent decision to avoid the fight.

Let the Hand deal with them. With any luck they would kill him, so she wouldn't have to later. With a small bow and a smirk, she ran on. sliding to a halt as the familiar snap hiss caught her ears. Her lekku twitched as she pulled her sabers from her belt before moving onward and pausing at the sight in the corridor before her. A familiar blue haired zeltron stood in her path, battling with magnaguards.

They blocked the corridor and her path to the centre of the vault. Problem.

Running forward she slid to the ground sliding between the legs of one droid as it swung a high attack at the zeltron, coming to her feet smoothly she ran on. The droid gave a wail of surprise and stopped its attack to follow her as she continued her race.

Problem solved... Almost.

 

[Matreya]

THE VAULT
@[member="Atrum Voidlighter"]

Dropping his outstretched foot, he blocked the incoming kick with another of his own. Lightly kicking off the ground, Zaiden threw a powerful slash with his Longsaber at his opponents face while his other hand reached behind himself calling for the Shadow Spear. When he caught it, he spun it around to bring it in a downward slash as well.

Leaping back without checking to see if his blows landed, he called forth a massive cloud of shadows that enveloped the surrounding areas, "Can you fight in pitch black? The Shadows are my home!"

 

[Figure In White]

Moving Towards The Generator Asteroid
@[member="Seth Shorn"], @[member="Iron Maiden"], @[member="Velok"]

"Too far on the extreme of the beams range, sir. They broke free."

"Hmm... They'll make it to the enemy fighter lines before the C1's caught them. Alright, back to the original plan."

"The areas communications are jammed. We can't signal the Republic's forces."

Kamon scratched at his chin and then reached through the meld with his mind to find @[member="Iron Maiden"]'s mind aboard the command vessel in the group traveling in the plane below him. He touched her mind, so that he could speak with her outside of the confines of communications technology.

We're going to approach the Imperial defensive lines for a quick skirmish. Suggested line of attack, if you want to get to the planet, send the smaller asteroids at the other asteroid. Our scanners read it as shielded, but perhaps the shields can be overloaded. If you acknowledge, fire over my bow.

Ceasing his contact, he surveyed the rest of the area and then walked over to comms.

"I want the IFAS's formed in tightly, but staggered in the vertical plane with a slight overlap for extra shield protection. Move to the enemies left flank, just outside of their range. Keep the fighters in close so as not to get caught by enemy fighter craft."