Hunting Shadows

[The Traveler]

[member="Darth Raijin"]
Quesh,



The deepest darkness of the venomous world had hidden for countless centuries a beast of legends and nightmares. A powerful monstrosity which fed off of the force and devoured force users, who was impervious to the manipulations of the art. Though their numbers unknown throughout the galaxy for of the creatures had been as active and as powerful as the Venomhide. A taranterek that would make the a rancor weep, that would send any fool running in fear. Unlike its wretched kin it never hibernated and only hunted, growing larger and stronger as its body consumed the toxic atmosphere of its home. Unbenownst to the creature its death was coming.


Phantom's Shadow

The Traveler stood upon the bridge of his peronsal transport, an unassuming vessel that was designed for speed and agility over combat. Lightning fast deployment and destruction was its intended mission and it would serve as a home base for he that has no name. His armored a cloak of obscurity and deception the Traveler watched as the dizzying array of hyperspace disolved and the planet belched forward.

“ Touch down in five minutes” the pilot said as the enigmatic hunter gently rubbed the hilts of his twin katana.

“ Excellent, soon we shall descend upon the planet like that which destroys. Much like the falcon who has spotted the field mouse we shall strike swiftly and justly, consuming that which we hold in our grasp” he said as he turned to the other assembled hunters in his vessel.

“ We must make ready, the atmosphere is tainted and the creatures aggressive. Death may take us today but we shall be reborn in the ballads of those who come after us. Conquering hero in our own Iliad, our odyssey must be complete as we severe the creature from the mortal plane. The Venomhide is a monstrosity created long ago during the Republic Cold War, and much like a relic it lies in wait to be found. It shall be found, it shall be destroyed and it shall serve us in death as we rebuild the flames of the Empire and bring the force zealots under our heels”.

 

[Raijin Arashi]

In orbit above Quesh, Raijin waited on his Nubian J-type Barge. He'd met the man who people often referred to as the Traveler before, and if he had to guess, his fellow Imperial Knight was probably doing some expositing for his hunting team. As much fun as it might have been to listen, Rai had spent the last couple of days in orbit around this ball of slime repairing what remaining damage there was from his little jaunt to Ryloth.

Exposition aside, Raijin knew a bit about terentateks. They were big, nasty, predatory beasts that were both created from and resistant to the Force. The nice thing about them was that, unlike ysalmiri, the resistance to the Force had nothing to do with whether the beast was alive or not. And so, their skin, tusks, and other bits made them pretty desirable for a strong enough hunter to take down.

When the Traveler's ship came gliding past, Rai began the landing sequence. Something fun was gonna happen, today.

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[The Traveler]

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The Phantom's Shadow touched down and the enigmatic Traveler, the phantom of the force tread quickly towards the acess ramp of the vessel. His team behind him armed for gunthak and ready for anything that this toxic world could toss at them.

The ramp opened and the dark one stepped out and began to survey the scenary, a thick miasma of poison coming up waist high. He wondered how anything that evolved to survive on this cesspit. How any living thing could tolerate such... dread isolation, such putrid venom from the womb of the planet. " Like a living nightmare, from the cradle to the grave. We shall seek it, we shall walk the path of the Exiles, we shall find the lair that which harbors that which is pestilence and in our wake shall follow the righteous fires of our cause." he cycled the visual spectrums of his lenses stopping at the thermal vision.

For a planet so toxic there was far more life then one could ever expect, including some of the most dangerous Rahkgouls in knonw existence. Smart, able to harness the art of the force and not to friendly to boot at that. If they encountered them they would add an element of danger that would complicate their quest, they would interefere with the Death of Venomhide.\

He activated his communications array " Darth Raijin, we have made land fall. My team will establish a quarintine zone at the LZ that we shall use as home base. I will dispatch scout probes who shall be our heralds and summon upon Death that which is vengeance, that which must follow and must destroy. Eternity will find us or we shall find it, to our destiny or to our destruction we must go forward into the miasma of hell".

 

[Marius Gihren]

Hunting was as old as most sentient life in the galaxy. Nearly every advanced civilization now were once nothing more than primitives using sticks to track and kill their prey. Even in the present day and age hunting was still a primary means of gathering food. Still though many hunted creatures not as a means of survival, but as way of testing themselves. The master simply known as The Traveler had made an offer to join him on a hunt for a dangerous monstrosity. The Terentatek, called by those who loved to perpetuated myths as the Jedi Killers. A silly title as just about anything that has killed a jedi could be labelled as that. As the young squire recalled the history of how the Jedi Order had actively sought to eliminate these beasts and rid the galaxy of their kind. It was because of these forays and the horrendous deaths that had occurred these beasts had gained such infamy.

Marius took the Traveler's offer up as a challenge of testing his will against such a creature. He had made sure to view it not as a sporting hunt, nor one of acquiring food, but a hunt of survival. Force users were food to Terentateks and because of that both of them would be predators. If he survived this ordeal having bested a beast or helped in doing so then the reward would be great. Not only self satisfaction of becoming stronger, but also the properties of the creature's hide could prove valuable to furthering counter measures against other force users.

A Sigma Class shuttle was the method of travel Marius had appropriated to join in this endeavor. He followed the Traveler down onto the surface and set the shuttle down alongside the other. He put himself on a comm link and made his presence known. "Masters, Squire Marius is here to aide in this hunt. Direct me as needed"

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