Free Peoples Navy VS Pirates! (Open)

[Jada Raxis]

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Free Peoples Navy​

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Outer Rim, near TGE​

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(OOC: Feel free to jump in wherever. As a Smuggler aboard the fleet, officer, Pirate whatever and wherever.)​

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They had run for day and nights since leaving the Free Worlds Coalition. After a crushing defeat at Rothana and her becoming de facto Admiral of the Free Peoples Navy, she'd done a stint in the core. But things were heating up for the beleaguered fleet. They'd run out patience and decided the core was no longer safe with the Mandalorian and Sith presence so near.

They were threading a needle now, on their way to re arm and refuel in Outer Rim Coalition space when she felt it. A rumbling that hit the ship. All about them turbo-lasers were smashing the Cruiser they were on, ripping shields and components from them.

Her boots thundered through the halls, carrying her swiftly to the decks where her companion Ralston was waiting. Clad in her white space suit with armor plates, a vibro blade and her shock gloves she entered the bridge to find a crew beleaguered and haggard.

"What the hell is going on?"

"Pirates! a big Venator, and theyre on us!"

"Where's the rest of the fleet?"

"Slagged. The initial attack took them out!"

She felt a lead weight drop on her in the force. The loss of so much life, and some very important noblemen from Rothana was a serious blow to them. They'd need to deal with that later though.

She re-adjusted her helmet and shock gloves.

"Send them a message! Activate distress beacons and sound surrender."

"Are you serious?"

"Yes we can't win a stand up battle ship to ship. We'll have to goad them onto our vessel and then dispatch them."

Ralston drew his .44 Revolver. She rolled her eyes. Guns again.

"Well? What are you waiting for dude?"

Ralston whirled to the Ensign with tattered unfirom and bags under hsi eyes.

"Send it. Alert the ship we are at threat level alpha. Fight to the last man!"

"Aye sir."

"C'mon lets go!"

They thundered out, towards the main airlock....

 

[Brandon Murphy]

Brandon and his ship, Aiur, was in hyperspace flying smoothly. Signals started to beep and all alarms were going off. Brandon hopped from his chair and read the problems, there was something in the way of the hyperspace. Aiur was quickly pulled out of hyperspace and put into a large battle-zone.

"What the Kriff is all this?"

He swerved the freighter away from the fight, but the speed on this ship is not fast. Luckily, it seemed one of the ships stopped firing and one of the cruisers gave up. Just when Brandon was about to go back into hyperspace, the ship rumbles, he was caught into a tractor beam. A transmission from the pirates popped up on his holo-projector.

"Your ship is now ours and all your cargo!"

"Hey! Hey! We can sort something out!"

"There is nothing to sort out! All hail the..."

Brandon fired his blaster at the holo-projector, this was upsetting to him. The ship had many smuggling compartments, but he just had a conversation with one of them, they would know he was hiding somewhere in the ship. If they decided to just destroy the ship, Brandon would be a goner. He sent an emergency signal on all frequencies of what had just happened to him, hoping someone can come help or the police came. Luckily he was only smuggling power cells and not spices at the time.

Once his ship was in the Venator's main hangar, pirates came inside the ship and took Brandon to the brig. He was surprised to find a small army worth's of prisoners in the brig.

 

[Jada Raxis]

[member="Brandon Murphy"]

Last Free Peoples Navy Cruiser: Airlock

They were almost to the airlock when her helmet crackled.

"Hey Jada?"

"Yeah?"

"Looks another ship nearby just got scooped up."

"Copy, anything else?"

"Distress beacon, same as ours. Might have taken em prisoner."

"How long till they dock us?"

"Two minutes."

She turned to Ralston.

"Use whatever you got to dude. Even your damn gun if you need it. You there, me here? Bridge, set marines at every bulkhead. Don't give up the ship. May the Force Be With you."

"And with you, bridge out."

She took up her position, crouching behind a nearby pannel hands flexing the fingers of her shock gloves. Any second now the airlock would cycle. /she breathed deep, drinking the void in like a cup filled with molasses. That familiar Raxis blood felt hot thumping through her veins....

 

[Brandon Murphy]

[member="Jada Raxis"]

Brandon turned to the other prisoners, all types of people were kept down in the brig. There was weak, old, strong, and even criminals locked up. An inmate, looked like he has been here for weeks, was thrown into the back of the same cell.

"How did you end up here and what is your name?"

"My name is Ezekiel Barsona, and I am just a merchant, but they captured me anyway. They even threatened to sell me as a slave on the backwater worlds."

"So what is happening right now?"

"I overheard the guards say it was just plain luck and wanted to intensify their cargo hold."

"How many prisoners are down here by the way?"

"About 400-525 prisoners. They ran out of space and locked people up in crates down in the cargo hold. Also most of the innocent prisoners are being used as janitors and servants walking around the ship."

 

[Jada Raxis]

[member="Brandon Murphy"]

Last Free Peoples Navy Cruiser: Airlock

The first two pirates to come through the airlock met her fist. A double tap, a clench and then a knee to the face. She went in hard, a ball of jabs, hooks and uppercuts. Energy sparked from her shock gloves, the high voltage cooking flesh with an acrid smell. The sounds of thunder and whining of the capacitors mixed with the reports of blaster fire in the halls.

She amplified her speed with the force, tearing a hole through the center of their ranks. They were in the docking tube now, under her relentless assault. A stray bolt caught her shoulder, singing the armor and then another and another as they began to open fire.

Frak....​

She raised her gauntlet, triggering her energy shield to absorb the blasts. Ralston fell in behind her, and began firing, the booms of his .44 Revolver rening flesh and bone.

"Plan?" He asked between shots.

"Get over there. Rescue whoever we can, maybe scuttle the ship?"

"We could steal it ya know."

"We need more hands for that. On three?"

"Yep."

Her Drone detatched from the back of her armor, discklike and whirring it soared over the heads of the mob, lacing them with blaster fire. She dipped her arm, snapping the shield off and continued to press, reaching back for her double ended vibrosword, breath coming now in heaving gasps....

 

[Brandon Murphy]

[member="Jada Raxis"]

Brandon was just about close to falling asleep, when he suddenly hear blaster shots. One, three, then ten bodies fell on the floor, each covered with blaster shots. A squad of Free Peoples soldiers came in and searched the brig.

"Hey! Hey! Get us out of here!"

One of the soldiers came over and shot the lock with his blaster, opening the cage. They eventually released the rest of the prisoners in the brig and we all began heading to the other still locked up prisoners in large groups. The Venator had stolen many weapons and left them out all over the ship with little security. Prisoners were quickly armed with blasters and armor.

The whole ship was in a riot and most of the ship's security was battling the Free People's soldiers.

 

[Jada Raxis]

[member="Brandon Murphy"]

The Pirate Ship: Airlock

They mad quick haste through the crowd. Jada reckoned shed crushed about a dozen windpipes on the way. Were she a Jedi she might feel bad, but not for these folks.

They Deserved it.​

"Looks like the whole ships in a riot!" Ralston remarked.

She launched another jab, right hook combo and finished with a boot to her adversaries chest, high voltage from her gloves putting him down hard.

The energy shield was still absorbing shots like a towel dropped in water, a blue bubble encasing them both.

She nodded.

"Sounds good, let's take this thing over then!"

She sent a signal to her drone and patched into the ships intercom system. Not the most secure way, but it'd get the job done.

"Attention Prisoners. This is Jada Raxis, De Facto Admiral of the Free Peoples Navy. If you want to save your skins and get out alive, make way for the bridge, our marines will intercept and we'll take the ship. No quarter! Happy Hunting."​

"Niiiiiccceee."

"Ya like that?" She asked as Ralston put another round between a savages eyes.

"Yuuuup. Lets go!"

 

[Brandon Murphy]

[member="Jada Raxis"]

Brandon Murphy ran as fast as he could to his ship and shot any pirates in his way. He promised a free exit ticket to a group of other prisoners if they helped him escape. They easily made their way to the main hangar and found Murphy's ship.

"We found the ship now what?" asked a member.

"Can't you see? The whole ship is in a riot! Let's steal some rare stuff and put it on the ship before leaving!"

The prisoner group began stealing anything valuable and placed it onto the Jast 3 Freighter. However the ship started to beep!

"Alert! Alert! The main reactor is on meltdown! T-minus 10 minutes!"

 

[Jada Raxis]

[member="Brandon Murphy"]

The Hangar: Pirate Venator

On their way to the bridge they had to cut through the hangar. Jada's shield failed and she growled, casting up her arms and channeling the force. Now with a force barrier in front of outstretched palms she moved it back and forth, deflecting stray shots into bulkheads and bodies. Through the carnage she caught sight of a familiar vessel.

One similar to her own Jast 1, the SS Quantum Runner.

"Hey there!" She shouted to Brandon and crew, deflecting another barrage as Ralston, reloaded, jamming a fresh set of rounds into his .44 Revolver.

"Gunna join the fight?"

 

[Brandon Murphy]

[member="Jada Raxis"]

The ship was already prepped to get the hell out of the hangar. The crew looked at Brandon once they heard Jada's ask for help.

"Arrgh! Fine! You two get the explosives from the ship and give them to Jada's soldiers. The rest, get the heavy weaponry from the back and begin acting as reinforcements! Remember we have 10 minutes to get off the ship before the main reactor explodes!"

Brandon picked up his blaster and started blasting away at the pirates.

 

[Jada Raxis]

[member="Brandon Murphy"]

The Hangar: Pirate Venator

"Whoa wait what? This things gunna blow?" She asked, moving up beside Brandon, lips pressed to their teeth as she held the force shield up around them. Her temples had begun to throb from the strain, body aching.

"Ralston round up as many as you can."

"Not gonna make it in time Jada. Too busy dodging blaster fire!" He shouted back, snapping a fresh cylinder of round into his revolver with a wrist flick.

Chit. He's Right. It'd be us or them. There has to be a better way.​

She turned her head to glance at Brandon, pushing the shield out farther and feeling her whole body ache under the power of the force channeling into a huge bubble of blue and emerald around them.

"Hold them off I have an idea."

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Ten minutes??​

She activated her voice link to the saucer looking drone that hovered over her left shoulder.

"Plug in, run diagnostic. Shut down reactor with emergency override and vent it into space!"

The drone zipped off to find an outlet. The fire fight raged on.

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Nine minutes....​

 

[Ayy'Seela]

Ayy was taking a short break near an asteroid field when a distress beacon flared up on her comm channels, along with a lot of chatter from one area. Picking up her headset as she piloted her YT-2000 freighter towards the zone she tried to contact anyone on any comm channels, as she flew into the battle, noticing two capital ships going at it. "Attention crew and combatants of the... Free Peoples Navy? Hm okay, I have picked up your distress beacon's signal, please respond. The unregistered Venator class ship appears to be having reactor malfunctions, I am available to start slicing the systems to shut down and restart the reactor, or evacuate your troops if you can clear a space for my ship to land in the hangar of the Venator class ship." she then starts trying to dodge the turrets of the ship, hoping somebody onboard that ship got her message.

 

[Brandon Murphy]

The communicator inside Brandon's ship was on all frequencies and overheard Ayy'Seela's message. Brandon ran to the holo-transmitter and yelled!

"Hurry! The hangar is already cleared and we have established a perimeter!"

Jada and her soldiers were continuously firing against the hordes of pirates. While his own crew was trying to set up several explosives and blow up the main fuel line.

"Jada do you a plan yet? We have my ship in the hangar, your capital ship attached to this venator, and a light freighter coming in!"

 

[Jada Raxis]

[member="Ayy'Seela"] [member="Brandon Murphy"]

Hangar: Pirate Ship

That was a doozy. Her own ship was attached, and they were in a rock and a hard place. There could be no evacuating, without risking the last of the Rothana Refugees dying when the Venator Exploded. It would take too long for Ayy'Seela to slice and restart the Reactor before it blew.

And if they vented it like she planned, then life support and all systems would fail.

"Either the reactor has to go, or we all die. That's the plan," She replied, pressing her lips thin and clenching every muscle in her body to keep the shield up. She had no idea how far her drone had gotten into the system yet, and hadn't the time to even check her faceplate.

"As soon as the reactor goes, we need to bail from here!.

"We need better cover," She gasped, feeling her concentration slip.

"I can't hold the barrier forever!"

Eight Minutes....​

 

[Ayy'Seela]

Ayy noticed the difficulty of getting to the hangar like this, but CEC ships were nothing if not agile, weaving through between the two ships she caught the last of the communications. Seems evacuating people wasn't an option but they needed more ground, perhaps it was time to bring out the heavy artillery. "Copy that, stand clear from the landing area and away from the blocked corridor. I'm bringing the heat for ya." she swings the ship into the hangar, landing gear setting down just in time for the ship to slide to a halt behind the force shielded group as Ayy swings her chair over to the turret position, using the anti personnel laser turret to start laying down covering fire on the group of pirates that was making progress so difficult, her shots surprisingly accurate, almost too perfect for a standard spacer, adjustments being made as the pirates got back into the hangar, making sure to keep them at bay. "You better think of something soon then because the old girl may be CEC, but there's only so much fire I can take before I can't get out of this hangar again." she said as a blaster impacted on the cockpit, making her recoil from it.

[member="Jada Raxis"] [member="Brandon Murphy"]

 

[Brandon Murphy]

Shoot, running away was not a solution now. The Venator is too close to Jada's ship and the other ships can not sustain any further damage.

"We need to access the bridge and shutdown the reactor from there."

Brandon quickly grabbed some grenades and and ran to Jada's position. He helped push the pirates further back into the hallway. Suddenly an explosion from the left side surprised everyone! A whole group of escaped prisoners had accidentally made their way to the hangar. Luckily, the trip to the bridge is only 3 minutes long, its just the pirates that are blocking the route.

[member="Ayy'Seela"]
[member="Jada Raxis"]

 

[Jada Raxis]

[member="Ayy'Seela"] [member="Brandon Murphy"]

Taking the bridge and shutting off the reactor, or at least breaking them away from her own Cruiser seemed the best option. Three minutes felt like an eternity. She followed Brandon's lead, motioning for Ayy to come along. Together they smashed and blasted their way through Pirates.

Her shield now recharged and she depressed the button on her gauntlet, letting it blossom to life, crouching like a centurion behind the blue disc. Then she charged, power of her leg muscles enhanced by the ripping currents of the force, and bowed through the throng, creating a gap, sending bodies impacting bulkheads with sickening cracks.

Tank time baby.​

Her right gauntlet activated, another shield, except when she raised it, this one fired like a boomerang disk, bouncing against bodies, incapacitating those it touched with a nasty shock. Jada finished another Pirate with an uppercut that sent volts from her gloves right to his chin. He fell back, in a coma.

"Ayy got explosives? Blow the door!"

Two minutes left. She checked on her drones progress. It was gonna be a tight call. Either way one of the two should be able to pull it off...