Glorified Theft of Darksaber Designs

[Andorreth Vikar]

Recently I'd been putting myself and my crew out there a little more for work. I'd received contact from an individual by the name of Sirius Nova contracting me to acquire either a Darksaber or the designs for it. After receiving the message I'd had Jax plot a course to Mandalore and after initiating the jump I'd gone to the armory to grab my gear. I'd checked how long it'd take to come out of FTL into Mandalorian space and rigged the ship to engage in stealth as soon as we entered the system. As I sat in the training room with my datapad I began looking into the old museums and temples left standing on Mandalore.

The idea I had was to simply enter the system in stealth and land on the planet. After making planetfall I'd go with Crosswire into a temple or museum and either take the item itself, or get Crosswire to download an original copy of the designs. In any case it showed we'd take thirty minutes to reach Mandalorian space. For now I'd spend the time researching how to deal with getting inside these Temples...

[member="Sirius Nova"] - [member="Trelock Relon"]

 

[Sky'ito Yumi]

Mandalore was not a place she visisted often as her travels usually led her to far flung corners of the galaxy in her serch for Africans and other valuables. On this day in particular she had decided that returning to civilisation every now and then would be a good idea, even if said space was ruled by Mandalorians.

Still being one to seek knowledge She had decided to visit the museum on the planet and find out a but more more on Mandalorian culture and history, partially to avoid a certain bounty hunter who would never go near the planet as well as for personal enjoyment. Landing her ship on the landing pads she disembarked taking in the surroundings, she was wearing her normal suit with a kinetic vest over the top, she had decided to keep her sabres in the ship and only carry her blaster pistol for he time being. To most she would look like a smuggler of sorts or a merchant.
[member="Andorreth Vikar"]

 

[Andorreth Vikar]

I'd been going over schematics for the temples on Mandalore when I felt the Salvation pop out of FTL. Next thing I heard was the stealth drives coming online. Looking at sensors I saw that we'd exited FTL while moving into a low orbit, as it was now we were nearing the surface about four miles away from one of the larger temples. Checking over my armor briefly I made sure all my weapons were locked in place and that everything was ready to go. Rather than loud and proud I'd be taking my crossbow, modified blaster pistols, an assortment of blades, and my modified Wraith blaster rifle. I had an assorted set of grenades as well specifically geared towards stealth operations.

After ensuring all my gear was locked and loaded I headed to the hangar where I slung my leg over one of the stealthed swoop bikes. Pulling my helmet on I felt it click into place and watched as the HUD flickered to life. As we were making landfall I hit the lever that'd lower the hangar bay ramp and engaged the engine of my swoop. Rocketing out of the hangar towards the nearest temple hopefully this would be a fairly straightforward mission....

[member="Trelock Relon"] - [member="Sky'ito Yumi"]

 

[Darth Ronan]

The Sith was very familiar with..Mandalore. He might hate Mandalorian's but he still had business to do there. The Sith's ship slowly entered orbit, Ronan slowly suppressed a sigh from his body, he was to retrieve or try to protect the Darksaber Schematic's, He had been tasked to do this by other fellow sith, The only reason he took up the job was to get some action, As Ronan moved, his lightsaber's swayed at his waist, He slowly went to the cockpit sitting down next to the wheel. Ronan started to enter the planet's orbit, as he went down he saw the many sights of Mandalore, Ronan wasn't really known on Mandalore.

Ronan tended to stay away from Mandalore so he didn't kill alot of the Mandalorian's that inhabited the planet. In his own mind, they should all die, die a painful and slow death- but hey, That was Ronan, other people had opinions. The Sith's ship slowly came into the Planet's hanger touching the floor, he put it into a hover mode or state and went to have the leg's go down, once both were done he would return to the cock pit and land the ship.

The sith opened the Ramp, it unsealing with a white vapor coming from inside, he slowly walked down, his footstep's slightly vibrating the floor as he went. He was stopped by two Mandalorian Guard's, they checked his ID and such, Ronan was glad he had hid his saber's before coming to Mandalore, Any Jedi, Or sith that didn't were imbeciles. Ronan continued once more before another Mandalorian approached him, Ronan was growing tired of this nonsense, The Mandalorian was jerked and thrown onto the wall by the force, Ronan didn't even have to raise his hand nor tune into the force with it, That's how talented and gifted he was with the force.

Ronan continued past the current checkpoint's, Ronan checked his surrounding's and equipment to make sure he had everything on him, The Sith put his lightsaber's back up his sleeves, If anyone were to see them on his waist, they would most probably take them, Though he also had some Jedi Lightsaber's inside his robes and some Mandalorian item's from various leaders. Ronan slowly used the force to feed off of the darkside that surrounded the temple that he was suppose to go to. Ronan grinned something that was rare in a life time, Ronan began to make his way to the temple seeing a Smuggler rocketing to where he was suppose to go.

Ronan drove himself deep inside the dark side, summoning force speed to him, He was fast, almost as fast as that speeder, He continued to run to the temple he felt with the dark side, He finally reached it standing at the entrance.



[member="Andorreth Vikar"] [member="Sky'ito Yumi"]

 

[Andorreth Vikar]

As I'd been riding towards the temple I picked up a blip on my bikes' scanners. Sighing I saw it was someone simply running to keep up with me from what I'd learned of The Force that was something one could do. I also picked up an inherently dark vibe from whoever it was...Jerking my bike to the left I noted whoever it was had been making their way to the temple as well. Fierfeck'la Osik! Well I guess it was too much to ask for it to be an easy job.

Flicking a switch on my bike I turned the stealth field on and made my way back to another side of the temple. Once I'd stopped I grabbed a few things from a compartment on my bike and ensured the power supply would continue to run the stealth field. Grabbing some fallen debris I placed branches around the bike and notched some of the branches with a knife. Securing the items on me I strapped a sound dampening stealth unit around my waist and activated it. Grabbing the rest of the grenades I'd brought I strapped them to my belt and various points on my armor.

Making my way to one of the ravines around the lower section of the temple I looked up then back down and saw several potential ingress points. Aiming my line launcher at the hard stone by my feet I shot the line into a ledge and began repelling down. After coming down by a mesh metal grate I looked for any bolts holding the grate in place. Finding one I ejected a small buzz saw from my left gauntlet and began to cut through three of the bolts. I watched as they fell to the ground several stories below me. Retracting the tool I pushed aside the grate and hooked my right hand inside the frame while bracing my left foot against the opposite side.

Retracting the line back into my gauntlet I slipped into the depths of the temple and hopefully I could find some useful intel and perhaps valuables along with the saber or saber designs. Hopefully this mission I was being paid for wouldn't need to resort to blaster fire...

[member="Ronan Xilo"] - [member="Sky'ito Yumi"]

 

[Sky'ito Yumi]

The trip to the Temple was relatively quick despite some security, she had played of being a historian of sort and was allowed through security with a sound knowledge of Mandolaoiran History and customs, despite the choice of transport, which was an old refurbished Jedi star fighter. She acted casual while making her way towards the temple, window shopping on some merchandise, making a mental not to check out a few stores on the way back. Coming near the entrance of the temple she was greeted by the site of a cloaked man, black and red, flowing from head to waist with a hood covering any facial feature for the time being, but non were needed to recognize this man.

Though it had been a while since the Korriban Incident the look, feel and general appearance of the duel saber wielding man was still fresh in her mind once she saw him. This begged the question, why were they here, how did they get on world, and what would they do once he noticed her, chances were Sky'ito would still be a recent memory but the reaction could vary considerably. She had regretted not bringing her saber along because of this new development.

[member="Andorreth Vikar"]/[member="Ronan Xilo"]

(OOC this post is a bit short mainly because I'm not sure what else to write)

 

[Darth Ronan]

Ronan looked at the temple front, he slowly sighed he felt the wall infront of him, slowly tracing his finger across it, Ronan wanted to retrieve..the Darksaber or the design's for himself, He wanted to add a new trophie to his collection..without killing anyone today. Ronan felt a presence behind him, He slowly turned around looking at the person. Ronan's memory started to flood in, It was the girl back at that Temple. Ronan sighed before making direct eye contact with her.

"Is there something you need?" The Sith asked non-nonchalantly, He didn't care for any formals as of currently, he slowly crossed his arm's, his robes folded over his red eye's glaring from under his mask as he did so.

Ronan turned back to the temple, He went deep inside his conciseness, Pulling the dark side from him, into the wall, The such wall only moved a bit, Ronan sighed, knowing you were to be a Jedi to open it, "Hey, Kid" Ronan said to [member="Sky'ito Yumi"] "Can you open this? You walk the line between Jedi and Sith right? You should be able to get this open, And if you do, I'll reward you with what you ask." Ronan said with a cold chilling voice.

[member="Andorreth Vikar"]

 

[Andorreth Vikar]

From the get go I'd been on edge about this mission. As it was after I'd made my way into the drainage ducts I'd taken several minutes to enslave the security cameras. Now I'd be able to watch my back while still going about my business once I got inside the temple. The alarm systems had also been rigged in an interesting way but I'd enslaved them by sections of the temple. I'd have to keep in mind which section was active at what time. My datapad in my left gauntlet had made it possible to jack into these things, I'd have to buy Crosswire a bottle of whatever he was drinking when I got back for loading up the programs to make this possible.

Now that I was underneath one of the more isolated parts of the temple I began working on the infiltration part. Checking my HUD for an entry point I saw there were several to choose from. One in the refresher, one in a security office that was currently empty , and one in an old, downtrodden part of the temple by what appeared to be some type of meditation grotto. As it was the security office was too risky guards could come back at any moment. The refresher would likely draw attention if I made my ingress that way so it seemed the meditation grotto would be my way in.

Moving through the drainage ducts I traced the schematics to the meditation grotto and began looking for the entry point. After looking at the schematics I saw a waterfall inside the grotto. Which meant there was a water accessway... Moving slightly more down the ducts I saw what appeared to be some stone with traces of water drainage there. Doing a quick check with the sonar settings of my HUD I ensured there wasn't water rushing by that'd sweep me away. After determining that I pulled a thin roll of det cord from my belt and twined it to one of the small micro-mines I'd kept on my belt. Setting the timer for thirty seconds I ensured it was acid in the mine and triggered the countdown from my datapad whilst pressing myself against the opposite wall. Acid would mist out and coat the det cord using it as a guide to cut through the solid stone. A micro explosion would propel the stone forward just enough for me to simply walk through the opening.

The seconds counted down and finally my HUD registered acids. Moving further away I waited as it cut through the stone and then three small pops as the hardpoints were broken and the stone fell inward. Waiting another few seconds for the acid to clear the air I made my way through the door I'd made, next would be the water drainage tubes. I'd have to go up through them and get out into the grotto before they flushed again. Checking the schedule I also made it a point to check the cameras. Well....that was interesting, someone in dark robes seemed to be attempting to coax another traveler to open the door for him or her. Well since that person was likely the one who'd been running to keep pace with my swoop odds were they were a Force user. Intriguing that they couldn't get in without help...

3 Minutes to get through the tubes...cycling my rebreather filter on I readied myself to enter the tube hopefully I could make my entrance without having to stay in the tubes through the next flush cycle...

[member="Ronan Xilo"] - [member="Sky'ito Yumi"]

 

[Sky'ito Yumi]

She was slightly shocked by the calm manner in which the Sith talked to her, the last time they had met he'd been madly trying to kill someone else, but then again the person he attack was provoking him, perhaps this Sith was not as bad as she. Though it was also probably more calculated move, trying to kill her in a place full of people that hated both Sith and Jedi was not a smart move, the statement 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend" seemed to be what he was going off of, for the time being. She continued to walk up the steps as a dark force emitted from the man was surprising familiar, it appeared as though he was trying to open the temple, which not surprisingly didn't work, his next actions were even more strange.

A Sith was asking for help, although he stated in a allusive way, it was definitely something she would never imagine happening, she pondered weather to help them or not, but in the end her curiosity about the dark side got the better of her. The Korriban incident robbed her of gaining a teacher in the dark art, so such an opportunity was not worth passing up. "Okay ill help, and yes I'm fairly certain I can open it", coming close to the door she pulled on the light side of the force, calming down and relaxing, raising her hand he felt though the doors, the force guiding her movement, she didn't force any more power then necessary and slowly the door started to open.

The process was a bit slow but never the less the temple door were now wide open, breathing out she opened her eyes, admiring her handy work, before entering the temple she look back at her 'companion'. Sky'ito waited for him to make a move, she was here for just knolwdge, and maybe a few personal item, and accidentally getting the Sith angry was not something she wanted to do especially if they were willing to teach.

[member="Andorreth Vikar"]
[member="Ronan Xilo"]

 

[Darth Ronan]

The Sith continued to wait he put his hand's inside his robe slowly looking at the wall his eyes glaring at it, A Jedi- Had to open it, Or a Gray Jedi, Hopefully this girl would tend to be useful to him, Ronan sighed something he couldn't do, he chuckled slightly, Ronan watched the girl walk up the steps as his very large Dark Force emitted from himself.

Ronan had never asked for help alot of the time, It was very rare to see a sith or just to see Ronan asking for help. "Okay ill help, and yes I'm fairly certain I can open it", The girl said to Ronan, He nodded slowly waiting for her to work her "Magic" Ronan watched her open the door, It brought back slight memories when he was in the Jedi Academy, Which he hated and disgraced, HE would never forgive himself for doing so.

The Process was a bit slow to Ronan but soon enough the door was open, Ronan spread a smile across his face more of a grin,"Good job, You have potential.." Ronan said with a grin, "If you do more good, You might have a master soon." Ronan said hinting to a certain person who might be looking for a apprentice, "Follow me in." Ronan said walking into the dark abyss of the temple.

"Alright..As your first..Task to prove yourself more, I want you to find me a way to these..Darksaber Schematics. If you do, You'll be a apprentice of mine, I might even teach you as a Sith." Ronan said to the Girl, Ronan knew where the Schematic's were, HE just wanted the girl to find them for him.

[member="Sky'ito Yumi"][member="Andorreth Vikar"]

 

[Andorreth Vikar]

As the tubes finished cycling I popped the seal on one and triggered the mag-locks on my boots. Climbing I realized that the Force wielder had made his way inside via help of the young woman. Well....Osik, if they had already begun making their way inside I'd have to work smarter and faster too. Ascending through the tube I began filtering the schematics in a tactical mode, as I reached the first level of the tube I climbed faster noting the countdown timer in my helmets' HUD. One minute to go... Finally reaching the access door I opened it and popped the seal emerging into the meditation grotto. Closing the door securely I triggered my suit controls stowing the rebreather mask.

Looking at my HUD I realized that I was in the lower levels, made sense actually as I'd come up through maintenance tunnels. So since I was in a meditation grotto this would also serve as my covert egress route. With the stealth belt still active I made my way outside the meditation grotto and took a left. Even if they were inside it'd take them time to make it down to the lower levels, moving quickly I made my way to one of the data archives. Once there I accessed a terminal via the codes Crosswire had loaded in my datapad to worm into secure networks. Typing in my search queries I waited as it scanned the relevant data, screens flashed by with all sorts of data until finally I found what I was looking for. Saber designs, ancient ones at that this boded well for me so far...

Though odds were that there'd be some extra guards in that section too... that was fine I could lay a few traps after simply gassing them into unconsciousness. If the people coming into the temple were Force users they'd sense them. I tied the search query results into my helmet to run several more remote searches as I went about my primary mission. Dashing back out of the records room I headed to the location that my search had mentioned. Sure enough there were actual guards here with electro-staffs too, launching my line at the ceiling I made a discreet ascent before looking them over to ensure they weren't wearing filtration masks. Then I simply dropped a misting grenade that began releasing a potent knockout gas down on them. They were out by the time five seconds had passed and I dropped back down from my perch retracting my line as I moved into the room they'd been guarding.

There were multiple antique weapons in here but I simply wanted the designs for two of them. I could care less about what I'd been paid to retrieve. There were locked racks underneath the exhibits though... After simply using acid to eat through the locks I pulled the drawers open to reveal a set of sabers though not the one I was after. Crap, that was....unfortunate. Grabbing the set of old sabers I clipped them to my chest-plate. Well as I was in the weapon room I could always look for the actual item I was being paid to acquire. Now I had to figure out why it wasn't in this room...Osik! Odds were that this was a trophy room of captured weapons, in which case....Oh, well then I'd made a slight over-sight...I'd need to look for Mandalorian antique weapons. Running another search as I moved back out of the room I punched each of the guards once for good measure. From the reports I'd sliced already the person in the armor I'd seen outside had already assaulted several guards at a landing platform. This would at least keep him busy for a bit if he was discovered making the same mistake I had with the sabers.

[member="Ronan Xilo"] - [member="Sky'ito Yumi"]

 

[Sky'ito Yumi]

The Sith way of complimenting here would probably sounded creepy to most people, but she got a distinct feeling it was more of encouragement to continued performing well, it seemed that they were fairly eager to acquire a loyal tool to be used for what ever mean's necessary. The next task offered though might have been a bit more difficult, walking in she mulled over the possible places the dark sabre schematics could be, the most obvious place would to look through the archives and find the desired sabre schematics, the other option would be to check out the exhibits and find the actual real life version of them.

The archives would be the easiest out of the choices made, but she had a seeking supervision the Sith was after the real deal and this test would let him know if she was capable of committing very questionable acts. "The dark saber is an ancient weapon's of the Mandaloirans, as such it would most likely be on the lower levels, not in a Trophy exhibit, but in the antiques room, seen as it has been passed down through the history of Mandalor". the exact location would probably elude her as she did not come here for that specific weapon, but still such a blade held a lot f significance for the warrior culture, and it would only logical for it to be placed in a secure but worthy location.

She began making off in the direction leading to the lower levels, making sure to be careful of any security guards or trap, reaching out with the force she noted the presence of at lest two guards not far away, before reeling back slightly as their force signature started to wain in a sorts. "I have a feeling that we are not alone", if the Sith was here for the dark sabre she had to conclude other would be as well, why did the galaxy constantly screw with her?

[member="Andorreth Vikar"] [member="Ronan Xilo"]

 

[Darth Ronan]

The Sith slowly peaked a smirk, wondering if the girl would fail at her next task, it was the most obvious of task's, Hopefully this girl would not fail, He hadn't had a student in a long while, and he wanted to spread his technique to this girl.

. "The dark saber is an ancient weapon's of the Mandaloirans, as such it would most likely be on the lower levels, not in a Trophy exhibit, but in the antiques room, seen as it has been passed down through the history of Mandalor" Ronan nodded still following the girl, "I require this Darksaber for..my teaching's, it Might prove useful against a Certain Mandalorian I dislike." Ronan said refferncing to the Mandalorian Bounty Hunter he had met at the Temple.

"I have a feeling that we are not alone" Ronan listened before speaking up "We will sneak past them, It is fairly easy, Use Force Cloak, If you do not have it, stay behind me. You will sense my force power, Just sense that and follow the scent of my force power." Ronan said he used the force to conceal himself, He slowly turned invisible, His force scent was still traceable, Ronan started to make his way past the guards slowly, "Stick to the shadows.." Ronan said. "Once we are clear you will continue to lead the way" Ronan said

[member="Sky'ito Yumi"][member="Andorreth Vikar"]

 

[Andorreth Vikar]

I knew that I'd have to move quickly, I could already tell from the camera feeds and sensors that whoever the man and young woman were they were making their way towards the same place I was. As much as I didn't want any serious injuries to anyone I couldn't afford to allow whoever it was to reach the Mandalorian armory first. Taking a deep breath I triggered a series of floor sensors into active mode alarms and tied it into the security droids network. If they stepped on the floor sensors they'd at minimum have to deal with droids. Moving towards the armory I decided against going into that one, crap.... Quickly going through the list of armories on this level I saw there was one armory that was reserved for Mandalorians.

Smiling I headed that way and slipped a ring I'd been given by Celiana over my left index finger. Finally reaching the Mandalorian honor guard armory I looked at the keypad and simply pressed the signet ring against it. Then keyed in the code I'd been given by Celiana, the door opened and I slipped through. Smirking I walked over to the computer terminal and began a download of the weapon specs inside the armory I was standing in. Glancing at the weaponry I saw the same style of sabers I'd picked up earlier, removing the ones on my chestplate I placed on a readout panel and downloaded the spec on them. Looking through the racks of weaponry I grabbed hold of a matching set of sabers and after looking them over I ignited them. Two blazing aqua blades flicked into life, crackling electrical energy closer to the hilt and along the blades.

There was something about these blades in particular that felt like they belonged in my hands...Placing them against my chestplate I locked them in place and began looking for the blade I'd been assigned to retrieve. In my opinion I could simply find the designs, possibly an actual physical version of them and leave without disturbing the people I'd tried to avoid so far. For now though I still had to actually finish the download of weapon specs and see about a physical version of the darksaber and I still had to avoid the two I'd worked so hard to avoid....Well hopefully my luck would hold...

[member="Sky'ito Yumi"] - [member="Ronan Xilo"]

 

[Sky'ito Yumi]

We will sneak past them, It is fairly easy, Use Force Cloak, If you do not have it, stay behind me. You will sense my force power, Just sense that and follow the scent of my force power."

"I do not know force cloak yet so ill stick to your shadow", spending more time studying and combat practice left her arsenal of force powers relatively lacking, this furthered her willingness to corporate with the Sith as he would be able to teach her skill the Jedi could not. She gave a slight nod indicating to begin the force cloak and once it was ready, started to follow close behind the Sith, making sure that she felt his dark presences as it indicated that she too was being encompassed by its ability.

They made their ways further into the temple, silently with out a sound, the dark corners and empty halls hiding then even more, soon they came to an open room, two guards lay on the floor, still emitting a light force signature indicating that they were skill alive. Even though this made the mission easier it also meant who ever was also after the sabre already checked the room in question. "it seems as though some one beat us here, if they do not already have the sabre's they will know where they are, and be a few steps ahead of us"

The fact that the allusive thief in question didn't seem to have left any traces besides a canister, which she assumed was a gas grenade, put her on edge, this person was a sneaky type, and might be the type to avoid combat while using trap as a hindrance.

[member="Ronan Xilo"]
[member="Andorreth Vikar"]