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

[member="Mia Monroe"]

"It's salvagers same as us. No reason to fire on'em unless they fire first."

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

The Gypsymoth nestled up to the Saelari Medical Centre's starboard side, opposite Deagan. Two symmetrical drives could theoretically jump the decommissioned station if the crew got interrupted before all four were in place, though Jorus wasn't wild about the odds. He'd kicked two of the drives -- self-powered, comm-coordinated -- over to Deag and the Valkyrie, to install at port and bow, while Jorus handled starboard and stern. Hydrospanner in hand, the space-suited navigator got to work bolting one of the bulk freighter drives onto the medical station's armor plating.
 
[member="Jorus Merrill"] [member="Siobhan Kerrigan"] [member="Mia Monroe"]

Decked out like a dressed Dantooine turkey for Life Day in his space suit, Deagan quickly went to work. Portside came first. Hydrospanner in hand, the Zeltron went through a series of curses and self-pep talks while he went through it.

"Ya'll keeping an eye in the sky there?" he'd ask through the comm in his helmet, the big dome panning over to glance every now and then towards the direction where the massive salvage vessel was at.

"Don't want to end up having to do a surprise dance down here." he'd joke, first working through the wires he'd need to connect and then jury rig.

"I ain't got my dancing shoes on, ladies and gents."
 
[member="Deagan Hunt"], [member="Jorus Merrill"], [member="Mia Monroe"]



As the saying goes, there were heavy risks...but the priiiize!



Siobhan would probably be inclined to agree with Mia - and not just because of her beskar bones! - when it came to the massive salvage ship. Who knew, it might suddenly unleash a swarm of fighters or something. But it was not her call and in any case she was terribly distracted at the moment. In the sense of being occupied with chucking big rocks. The Gypsymoth had nestled to the Saelari's starboard side, Jorus and Deagan were getting to work with installing the hyperdrives. So far they had not been disturbed, though Siobhan was not wild about the odds of things staying that way. After all, no plan survived first contact.



Anyhow, she was otherwise engaged. A couple rocks had been tossed out of the way, but there were still more to go for them to have a clean lane. Now having seemingly blotted everything out around her, she had reached a state of full immersion. She was the Force and the Force was with her. Well, that was obviously not accurate and even in her most egotistical, vainglorious moments she would not presume that, as glorious and exhilarating as the Force-induced rush that was now coursing through her body felt. Still the sheer power felt...amazing. Concentration was etched across her features and by now it had reached a point where exerting her telekinetic will was becoming painful but she persisted.



As she so often told herself, pain is just weakness leaving the body. Her breathing had become more laboured and it was quite accurate to say she was panting as she caught her breath. As her invisible fingers curled around rocks and tightened, massive invisible chains wrapping around them in an powerful embrace that refused to yield, her flesh hand likewise unconsciously balled into fist, so tight that her knuckles turned white and her nails drew blood as they drove into her flesh.



She could feel the power. Indeed it seemed like she could taste it as she drew upon the energies of the Force and greedily lapped at them. Her head throbbed painfully and she threatened to lose her balance though she caugh herself before she could stumble. Too much power inside her and she would combust like a steam engine, or so it felt to her. So she let it all out, unleashing an enormous tidal wave of power much like the eruption of a volcano. The Sigil of Hope that she wore around her neck pulsed strongly, the pendant serving as a force battery that fed her the energy she needed to keep going even as her own was diminished, all being poured into one motion.



That of throwing rocks. Granted not all of them were that big. Presumably many of them would be comparatively small, but nonetheless. The one the Bando Gora Reavers called a Chaos Goddess gazed across the vast emptiness of space and beheld obstacles in the form of rocks. She found that this was displeased her and so in her mind she spoke: Let the rocks fly: and fly they did. Overwhelmning ripples were felt through the Force amidst the outburst as rocks were violently thrust into motion and tossed as if she were a catapult and they massive boulders.



It was in moments like this that she found herself believing her own legend. Little could she know that she would soon be painfully reminded of her mortality and pulled down from her pedestal, but that was not for today. In this moment she felt indomitable, like a goddess of battles, even as she felt herself tiring and gripped a beam above her tightly to provide support so that she might not fall. She pushed - in as much as saying it was a force push could do the monumental effort justice - and rocks flew at her command, blowing a path free as they were thrust. The Chaos Goddess' lips curved into a thin smile even as she had to struggle to keep standing.
 
[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"] [member="Deagan Hunt"] [member="Mia Monroe"]

Right now, there was a small but significant chance that the many Sith of the system were detecting the disturbance in the Force that was Siobhan Kerrigan shifting asteroids. But Jorus had it on good authority that Force senses didn't work too well against the metaphysical equivalent of light pollution -- the anxiety and uncertainty of a recently conquered world, of a recent battlefield. With so many Sith operating here, too, the place would be reverberating with Force 'noise'.

And nobody had ever accused Sio Kerrigan of being a Lightsider.

He hydrospanner'ed faster, checking in with the 'Moth at frequent intervals lest Sith patrols or the other salvager start making noise. In due course, the first drive was installed on the starboard side, and he re-boarded the freighter to head for the next.
 
So far so good, Deagan would muse to himself as he finished rigging and installing the drive onto the port side. His body would float along, securing his hydrospanner by his hip before taking a hold of the second drive on his way to the Valkyrie.

"How's it lookin' out there?" came his query, guiding the drive along in front of him. "Got any surprise visitors from that salvage ship yet?" He'd hug the station, until the YZ-1200 came into view. Sliding it inside, he would secure it before roaring up the freighter.

"Alright, here we go,"
 
[member="Deagan Hunt"] [member="Siobhan Kerrigan"] [member="Mia Monroe"]

The final hyperdrive was bolted into place, and Jorus re-boarded the Gypsymoth via a force tube. He stripped off his frost-laden suit in the airlock and headed forward. "Beyyr, how's our exit vector lookin'?"

"Rorworrrrrr."

"That good, eh?" He raised his voice so Sio could hear him as he clambered up the steps to the cockpit. "Nice work, Kerrigan."

He settled into the seat, noted that Hunt had finished his part of the work, and turned his attention to the remaining salvage ship. It didn't have, so far as he could tell, a clear line of sight on the hyperdrives. He toggled the comm. "Salvage vessel, this is Captain Jorus Merrill of the Gypsymoth. You've had your snack; disengage. There's about to be hyperlight."

Fingers crossed as to whether his name and his ship had carried this far Coreward from the Mara -- but the salvage ship broke away within ten minutes, after a clear and grudging acknowledgement. With a final signal to his associated ships, he hut the button.

Around the edge of the decommissioned Saelari Medical Center, bulk freighter hyperdrives roared to life in unison. The station leaped to hyperspace at an effective Class Five past lightspeed, bound for nearby Anaxes. Jorus punched the Gypsymoth's controls, and the YV-929 jumped in the wake of the immense hunk of junk.
 
[member="Jorus Merrill"], [member="Deagan Hunt"], [member="Mia Monroe"]



Siobhan was by now slumped in a chair - clearing asteroids was tiring and stuff, as can be imagined - when she heard Jorus' voice as he returned to the cockpit. "Thanks. Was fun," she muttered as she rubbed her forehead to nurse a terribly annoying headache that apparently had not realised that it should really leave her alone and get lost.



The Force rush was wearing off and she was slowly coming down from her high. The most pertinent question obviously was: Where had she put her magazine? It had contained so many interesting and tremendously educational articles! The salvager ship broke away from their prize and in a flash the Saelari Medical station, the largest space station in the Galaxy - 7000 m long - leapt into hyperspace and vanished from the Coruscant system. She allowed herself a smirk of satisfaction as she leaned back into her seat and the Gypsymoth likewise made the jump.
 
Satisfied that the salvage ship wasn't putting up a fight, Mia attached to the station hitching a ride to Anaxes. Not exactly the best lpace for ther to be, but so long as she kept her nose clean and her face hidden she'd be fine. All of it seemed to be a tad too easy, but she wasn't about to complain. Kicking up her heels she began to hum as the stars stretched into lines.

"What are you gonna do with this hunk of junk anyway?"

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

"When it was active, this thing was worth hundreds of millions. The Republic's made it pretty clear to me that it'll pay to get it back so they can refit it. It was decommissioned because of its distance from warfronts, but the war's right here now, and the casualties are pilin' up." He tossed a two-fingered wave at [member="Siobhan Kerrigan"] as she and her educational materials retreated from polite company. "Bottom line, Mia, the Republic will pay a really stupid amount of money for it, and it'll help shore up this warfront against the One Sith. First thing I've done halfway right since signing up with that misbegotten crew."
 
[member="Jorus Merrill"], [member="Mia Monroe"]


"Probably the only good thing wth Saelari's name on it," Siobhan commented after she had finally found her magazine. Ironically enough back when Aurelia was chancellor Siobhan had liked her. This had changed a lot after she had become the Protectorate's Chief Minister. "We get paid, it's an asset against the One Sith and they're 'all-powerful' Dark Lord, who by the way I still think is a fraud, and we got to really troll them by seizing it right under the noses. Win in my book. Well, you had me at trolling them," she rubbed her head slightly since the bloody headache had still not gotten the news that it was not wanted.



"Sod it. I need a fething drink." Countess Kerrigan was being totally ladylike and as usual a poster child of decorum!
 
Mia clicked her tongue, certain that if Gilamar caught wind of her helping out the Republic in anyway, be it against the Sith or not, he would be far from pleased.

"Misbegotten is one way of putting it." she grumbled in response "If anyone asks I was never here, Mand'alor will have my head if he knows I'm helping the pubs out."
 

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