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In the Presence of mine Enemies (open to spacer techs)

Slums of Metellos

It didn't seem right to manhandle gear like this, expensive gear, shove it under a tarp and hope for the best. Didn't seem right to be focusing on big picture things while surrounded by something like a trillion of the poor. But as the speeder convoy began unloading the cargo of bulk freighter hyperdrives into the Gypsymoth's port bay, Jorus prepared himself to leave this world behind like all the others. Because he was really good at finding new worlds, new situations -- and time had proven him not all that great at resolving them.

He'd put out a call through local channels -- experienced spacer techs wanted, high payoff, one job, no details. If nobody showed, he'd pull this one solo, or call in some old Rebel Alliance associates.
 
[member="Jorus Merrill"]


Spacer techs might not have showed up just yet, but Jorus would not have to wait long before an old associate showed up where the Gypsymoth was sparked. An Adril-class starfighter, Firemane design, named after the Eldorai Jedi Knight Adril Tythorin, had touched and soon Siobhan Kerrigan was there. It could safely be said that she and Jorus went way back, having both bled for Omega fighting Eriaduan dictactors and Bando Gora Reavers, then later on joined the Rebel Alliance.



"I grew up in a place like this, you know? Hard to imagine now I guess. It was...a hell of a lot less crowded, but same gist," Siobhan spoke as she reached him. No shiny clothes or the accessoires her aristo self so loved, she was dressed for practicality and nothing but that. Anything else would be tremendously foolish on a planet like Metellos, where hope died. "Been a while since the big convocation thing. Thanks for the invite by the way. Had fun lifting rocks."
 
[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]

"Never thought I'd peg you for a master of understatement, Sio. I heard you went for like six Muntuur stones." He chuckled. "A month ago I woulda said 'what's a Muntuur and what's so important about its testicles?' Then I went and got educated.

"But yeah. There's nobody I'd rather have at my back for this one. Crew like this, always the chance of doublecross, and you are very, very good at stopping doublecross. Then there's the whole boarding and getaway issue...bottom line, glad to have you aboard. Once a few more trickle in, I'll run the briefing."
 
[member="Jorus Merrill"]


In response Siobhan chuckled. "Education? Hah. Tegs...got me to try that. I actually use big words sometimes. Hmm. Too much and people will expect me to do my own paperwork." She still did not know which fork to use though.



"That I am. Well, glad to be here. We are the best boarding team after all and I brought plenty of toys. You need something big blown up shoot I'm game." She looked around, giving the Gypsymoth a good one-ove. It was nice to see the old girl again up close. Briefing would come soon, so she did not push. "So, anything new on the get three Jedi Orders to work with one another now that the One Sith and their omnipotent 'Dark Lord' swallowing up planets front? The convocation had less 'my Order is more light side than yours' posturing than I expected."
 
[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]

"That's 'cause I made it pretty fething clear to all involved that 'you're not true Jedi like us' would get'em kicked out of the only meeting where anything substantial was happening. Got some real honest-to-gods battles to fight, Sio. I ain't got time for the cosmetic ones.

"As for cooperation, who knows. Closest thing to progress is me making a bridge of sorts between the Levantines and the Republic's Jedi -- but the gap's widening 'tween us and the Silvers, and there's some that don't see a way to narrow it without compromising standards. The One Sith are gatherin' steam. I may roll with crews I didn't used to, but I haven't run into them yet short of Fondor. Gotta tell you, not looking forward to rematchin' Zambrano, shotgun or no shotgun."
 
"Well, you do have a knack for jumping from the frying pan into the fire, mate," would come the drawl of amused sarcasm from behind [member="Jorus Merrill"] and [member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]. It's origin? One tall, scruffy faced Zeltron with a scoundrel grin and boasting his Kerrigan coat to boot. The thin brown cheroot would hang at the corner of his mouth, unlit for the present time as two thick coral fingers would pluck it from between his lips.

"I wouldn't put it past you to get into a fisticuff fight with that shotgun again," That cocky swagger closing the distance between them before halting beside the punter of fiendish otherworldly monsters. His attention would draw over to Jorus, light hearted appreciation at being able to see that the man was still in one piece.

"Been a while, Merrill." he'd say, extending his hand in greeting. 'Course, rake that he was, his attention also went back to Siohban. Laughing cobalt blue eyes would dance over Siobhan with an appreciative wink. "Siobhan... beautiful as ever."
 
[member="Jorus Merrill"], [member="Deagan Hunt"]



"If a latter-day, holier than thou Halcyon had shown up I'd have tossed her out of the airlock myself. I remember Fondor. Was at Coruscant as well, bit away from the big showdown though. Would not mind a rematch with Zambrano - I don't like leaving a job unfinished," she said grimly. Not to mention the whole mind invasion thing. People trying to claw their way into her mind made her angry.



"Still find it a bit hilarious that Sith Emperors are bowing to some supposedly 'omnipotent' Dark Lord no one's ever seen. If you ask me he's a fraud they're using as a PR icon. Still, they're gathering steam. More organised than the Empire's ever been since Roche. If I were Fringe I'd be a tad annoyed about them cutting off my northern expansion. Then again, so many One Sith seem to have dual citizenship over there." Conversation was cut short when a tall, scruffy faced Zeltron dressed in the very shiny, very awesome Kerrigan Coat joined the party. Fighting Lotek'k had been fun, and extremely painful.



"Barking up the wrong tree here," Siobhan said goodnaturedly, though she did have a tremendously high opinion of her looks. "Friend of yours, I take it?" she asked Jorus.
 
[member="Deagan Hunt"] [member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]

Jorus' opinions on the subjects of Sio's discussion were cut short as another familiar face arrived. Jorus shook the proffered hand. "Deag Hunt -- it's been too long. Welcome to Metellos. The Valkyrie's pretty much exactly what we need."

He stood at the edge of the boarding ramp, a busy spaceport all around. A few more might show up before kickoff, so he stayed here; it was too loud for eavesdropping, and he turned away in case of lipreaders.

"Alright, folks, here's the mark. Coruscant's the sixth planet in its system. 'Tween the ninth and tenth is an asteroid belt, and buried in that asteroid belt is a decommissioned derelict, Saelari Medical Station. Seven klicks long and wide, four and a half tall. Far as my sources can tell, the One Sith haven't made a move toward it -- it's out of the way, tricky to get to, and it's been abandoned for about four administrations now, all the good stuff stripped out. We're going to steal it. I've got a cargo bay full of hyperdrives, linked ones with self-contained power supplies. My plan's this -- we exit hyperspace reeeal close to Stentat, the eighth planet, a gas giant with twenty-three moons. This time of year, Stentat's pretty close to where we're going. We lose ourselves in the moons and the gas giant, then head for the asteroid belt at the system's edge. We'll be avoiding everything remotely important, and our ships are small; odds are, we won't be detected at all.

"We get to the station, budge a couple of asteroids out of the way, and install these four drives around the perimeter of the station. Then I press a button and the whole station jumps to Anaxes.

"Any questions?"
 
"You're killing me here, darlin." Deagan would say with a feint expression of hurt. Hands would cross over his heart, as if her forgetful comment had struck true. "I thought what we had was special."

That's when Jorus gave them the down and dirty. A low whistle would fall from the Zeltron's mouth at that. The man certainly did not go for half measures. Granted, the thought at absconding away with an entire goram space station was enough to get his fingers twitching in anticipation. The risk involved -- the credits.

A crooked grin would perk at the corner of his mouth, the same little mischievous boy smile that would make them sapphire eyes sparkle. "And just how do you figure we are going to casually move astero--" he stopped halfway as his attention would fall to Little Miss Asteroid chucker. That dark brown cheroot would end up pointing towards the woman he fought beside with to battle the big bad not too long ago. "Let me guess. Going to do a little grav ball action? Just this time the ball is an asteroid or two?" he would ask, half joking and half serious.

"Just how are we planning on spinning this crazy into a measure of reality?" he'd tack on right after, hands patting over his chest, pockets and finally finding what he was looking for within the inner pocket. A lighter. Enter a flash of flame and a quick drag and he was in business.
 
[member="Deagan Hunt"]

"I've got the course options - about four of'em, sometimes more, sometimes less depending on what phase of the approach we're talkin' -- depending on circumstance. I'll send you the coordinates once we're underway, and if you see alternate routes that'll work better -- a straight approach from the Oort Cloud, maybe -- we can take a look at that.

"I've timed the hyperdrive installation, and I'm betting I can do it, with the 'Moth cloaked, in about two hours -- less if you're lending a hand, though it's your call whether you want to do that or help Sio using your tractor beams."
 
[member="Jorus Merrill"], [member="Deagan Hunt"]


"You want to sneak in with the 'Moth and steal the biggest space station in the Galaxy. named after ol' Aurelia, who by the way annoyed me to death with endless yammering and never stopped sulking about not being made Exarch?" Siobhan asked rhetorically, her lips curving into a thin smile. It meant annoying a bunch of people she really liked annoying.



"Sounds fun. Count me in to grav ball a couple big rocks around. Unsurprisingly." Now that she thought back to it she remembered the Zeltron scoundrel had been there during the battle with Lotek'k. Which, as has been said, had been fun. Even though it had resulted in her getting almost killed and then healed by Sith magic, which had hurt just as badly. She had gotten an awesome coat out of it though.
 
[member="Jorus Merrill"] [member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]

"Go tsao de," would come the heavily amused curse from the Zeltron, a stream of smoke rising in short puffs as the man would rub the stubble over his square jaw. Oh I am probably going to regret this. He had a feeling about it.

Feth it.

He took another deep drag, sapphire-fire eyes dancing with a wicked light. "I've an itch to do some tinkering, mate." smoke would sting his eyes, but that cock sure assurance would shine through.

"So when do we start this dance?" he'd ask.
 
"If we're talking about dancing already, I must have missed the interesting bit of the party."

"Alright Legs." she greeted Siobhan with a grin, her face all to familiar these days "Figured you'd be here."

Her eye flicked to Jorus, grin fading slightly. Last time they came face to face was before she'd gone and got herself tied up by a sith again. "Jorus," she inclined her head "Its been a while. What are we stealing?"

[member="Deagan Hunt"][member="Siobhan Kerrigan"][member="Jorus Merrill"]
 
[member="Deagan Hunt"] [member="Siobhan Kerrigan"] [member="Mia Monroe"]

With a grin, Jorus explained the plan much as he'd just done to Sio and Deags, then glanced around. "Think it's about that time. Convoy up. Short jump ahead. I'll send the coordinates -- reversion at the edge of the Coruscant system, in the outermost gas giant's moon system. That and the giant should give us enough cover to get to the asteroid belt without setting off too man alarms. We'll look like a little salvage/mining convoy, pretty common in the outer regions of core systems, and the One Sith apparently aren't bothering commerce too much."

In due course, the Gypsymoth departed Metellos, and exited hyperspace in the shadow of the gas giant. Jorus refrained from using the cloak, based on gut and nothing more. Appearing and then vanishing instantly was a bad plan; there could be sensors anywhere in these moons. From there, his course would bend toward the asteroid belt and the space station.
 
[member="Jorus Merrill"] [member="Mia Monroe"] [member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]

The Valkyrie was on the Gypsy Moth's engine wake, and from the bridge of where he lounged on his pilot's chair, Deagan could watch the trail of mynock's trying to catch up with the Warden. Beyond that were the slow dancing shadows of the asteroid belt.

He opened an encrypted frequency. "This is your Captain here in Heavenly Starlines, where we are always ready to provide that right touch, to get you where you need to be." there was a notable amount of amusement within that drawl as his voice would carry to the rest of the ships. Ever the one to bring in a measure of lighthearted cheer, the Zeltron continued on.

"Tips are appreciated, and at the end of this little endevour, you will find a compartment for you to grant me with your generosity." the sound of a couple of credits shaking in a glass jar could be heard in the background. It was now a measure of figuring out which asteroids they would start tugging first while Jorus and him went in to wrangle a station.
 
[member="Mia Monroe"], [member="Jorus Merrill"], [member="Deagan Hunt"]


The already cool plot just got a lot cooler when the Liberator joined the party. Siobhan did not mind the nickname, for she was of the belief that she had nice legs! Unfortunately, our merry band of adventurers had some work to do, so the time where she could admire Mia's...beskar bones was cut short.



So off they went, leaving the impoverished slumd world of Metellos that reminded Siobhan more of her birthplace than she was comfortable thinking about, behind them. On their noble quest to pull off a heist of colossal proportions. A short trip through the depths of hyperspace later they had emerged into real space, the shadow of the gas giant obscuring the approach. Far away in the distance lay Coruscant, the grand ecumenopolis that was now under the jackboot of the Sith since the Jedi Temple had been turned into a big pile of rubble. Speaking of which, Siobhan was still certain that the Dark Lord was a Wizard of Oz figure. Or rather just a holoprojection. Perhaps one day the Goddess of the Vahla would enlighten her as well!



However, as romantic as swooping down to help plucky rebels who might be lurking in the undercity, they had something else to do. Siobhan was at the cockpit of the 'Moth' as the vessel began its approach. She was only an average pilot and trying to fly her own craft after grav balling big rocks did not seem the brightest thing in the world, so she was quite comfortable with taking a lift on a ship that had gone toe to toe with Bando Gora and Sith battleships, unleashed an enormous payload of concussion missiles on a Templar Citadel and was piloted by a guy who could jump to hyperspace by using his brain. Which was something she did not quite understand but was terribly cool. So she had been spending her time doing terribly productive things, like studying a fascinating magazine called Flames of Ashira, which was very educational!
 
[member="Mia Monroe"][member="Deagan Hunt"][member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]
Reversion put them in the moon system and the general mess around the gas giant. Stations of varying degrees of antiquity had piled up between here and the asteroid belt.

As they drew near the belt, Jorus felt his gut go tight. "Folks, looks like weve got a wrinkle. Big salvage ship attached already. This aint a time to respect their claim. Let's get installing the drives and clearing the lane."
 
"Go tsao de," came the muttered curse, but none the less, Deagan did as he was told.

"I've a bad feeling about this," would come the classic Corellian notion of forewarning, the Zeltron guiding the Valkyrie to follow the Moth nice and tight. With luck, whatever kind of space apes that decided to stake this claim first wouldn't notice them too soon. Here's hoping to horrible sensors, he'd muse.

First order of business were installing those drives. Taking a more wider angle far and away from the massive salvage ship, Hunt would soon dock the assault YZ-1200 freighter along the portside of the space station. Wouldn't be long for the smuggler soon found himself muttering that things were about to get interesting.
 
[member="Jorus Merrill"], [member="Deagan Hunt"], [member="Mia Monroe"]


As they came out of reversion in the moon system they bore witness to a mess that could be best described as a technological graveyard. Ancient stations from a bygone ages were derelict in space, almost as if someone had decided it would be a smart idea to set up a floating museum along an asteroid belt. Then again, the One Sith fleet at Carida had consisted of museum pieces as well, though word was that they had since moved on and pumped out new designs for the glory of the Dark Lord rather than relying on Clone Wars era goodies.



Regardless by the time reversion had been effected Siobhan had put down her very educational magazine - it came with nice pictures! - and gotten up in the cockpit, staring out of the window as the 'Moth and the Valkyrie made their approach. A massive salvage ship was attached already, but they would not be denied their prize. Jorus and Deagan could look towards installing the hyperdrives, for she was not a particularly tech minded person, though by necessity she had some idea about how to keep her bionics fixed up.



No, she would be focused on something else entirely: Making a door through the asteroid belt. That was a very simple, concise and straightforward way to describe things. Probably also a rather accurate manner to sum up her personality. But then there were times where brute force in form of a good, hard punch could be terribly useful and generate an unstoppable force. When all was said and done Siobhan's use of the Force was primitive, brutal and unrefined. Truth be told, her fighting style lacked originality. Accompany her on a couple skirmishes and chances are you would have figured her tactics and powers out. Her repertorie was rather limited and, operating on an 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' principle, she tended to just continuously train in the use of the same powers rather than seeking out new ones. She was also, without wanting to be vain, an apex telekinesis master, one of the most powerful in the Galaxy.



Yoda had once said said something to the effect that size matters not. It was very, very doubtful that Siobhan would have lasted long in the Old Jedi Order, but when it came to her employment of telekinesis that line was literally true. So as the asteroid belt - when it came down to it they were just big rocks floating around in space - spread out before them she focused, blotting the hum of the engines and seemingly everything else out as she drew upon the Force, drawing in an absurd amount of energy that made her feel like she might burst. Power! Unlimited power! Well, obviously not, but for a few moments at least it felt like that as she went on what could be considered a force rush that engendered an almost intoxicating sensation. Power to crush durasteel with her mind and wreck havoc with battleships, though contrary to popular belief she could not chuck a Lucrehulk without being ridiculously super-empowered.



"Making a door." Jorus wanted his lane cleared and she was all too happy to oblige. The sensation of being so filled with power felt...good. Siobhan had always sort of been attracted to it. But it was wielded for a purpose, or so she told herself at least. So she turned her gaze outward and visualised a couple of asteroids, big rocks floating around in space, and stretched out with her mind as she exerted her telekinetic power to give them a shove. An immense concentration of aphotic energy rippled through her as she manifested gigantic, invisible telekinetic fingers that enclosed around an asteroid, the ironclad grip tightening with every moment as she wrapped them around it in a strong embrace.



Beads of sweat dripped down her face and back, exertion as etched over her features as she focused, though a most annoying headache was starting to announce itself. Powerful ripples could be felt resonating through the Force as she gave the asteroid a thrust, effectively turning herself into a telekinetic catapult and shooting it like a boulder across the vacuum of space. The enormous rock moved and was sent crashing into another asteroid that blocked their path. She shook under the pressure and gripped the bulkhead with her organic hand but pressed on, an epic shove of Force energy sending the rocks flying through the field at tremendous speed.



As Deagan had said, it was like playing grav ball, the ball just happened to be two asteroids. She took a breath and briefly the Sigil of Hope pulsed, then one last rock was put into motion as a super-empowered shove slammed into it with such force it seemed to heave under the ridiculous amount of overpressure being generated amidst rocks colliding. In space, no one can hear you scream, though it is often potrayed to the contrary for dramatic effect, and so crashes that were beyond sickening being heard as rocks collided were probably just a product of her own, at times hyperactive, imagination.
 
The hum of the tra'galaar's engines was soothing as she moved alongside the Moth and the Valkyrie, eyes flicking between sensors and her own eyeballs as she scanned the area and had a look at the competition. Salvage could be a rough business, specially when you were faced with a prize like this. If you had bigger guns, likeliness was you'd keep your prize, but big guns were not enough to discourage a crew like this.

"Well, it wouldn't a real party without a fight now would it." She mused with a smile. Hair rose on the back of her neck and a light flashed on her sensor array, advising they were being scanned. "As far as they are aware we're not a threat, but I'm betting they've got someone in the control centre. Want me to go greet them once we're docked?"

[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"] [member="Deagan Hunt"] [member="Jorus Merrill"]
 

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