Knightly Promise [OP Dominion of Kal'Shebbol]

[Aluk Magar]

@[member="Kaida Taldir"]
Well, the skirmish aboard the ship was coming down to an epic battle of the elements, aesthetic and colorful like Chaos, kind of like Disney's Fantasia, except with death and destruction.
As the Ice Wall began to to crack, the cryomancers wrestled Kaida with their sciia powers, attempting to keep it together or slow down its deterioration, freezing the incoming water as it seeped through cracks. Unfortunatelly, as the Omega soldiers began using the decreasing cover to resume firing, they did not had much time to keep up these games.
Terramancers once more joined the Cryomancers, strengthening the Ice Wall with bended metal and conjured rock supports, still, it was buying time at best as the Omega fire took its tolls, and their numbers were decreasing.

Meanwhile, the Fighting Pyromancer,
Well the first question would be how he survived so long and avoided being soaked with water. Well, majoring in Fire Shield, with minor in Sociology, and practicing it over and over finally paid off. As the water began closing in, he spun around, creating a semi-spherical shield of pure whirling arcanic fire around himself, the water hissed and steamed as it touched it, the bolts were either melted or spun out of trajectory as they grazed by his armor or missed him completely, somehow avoiding any major injuries so far.
However, he would not be able to either keep it up or his luck would run out eventually.
Either way, he had to do something. Taking his hands to his chest, he threw them out then, expanding his body as his fire shield shivered and exploded outward suddenly, the semi-sphere growing swiftly in the explosion as it attempted to consume as much of the Omega forces as it could.

Back in the Dark Eldorai ranks,
Aluk knew there was not much time for anything, therefore, he needed to come up with something, thankfully, during one of the metal bending of the floor, he saw a wire exposed. Smirking, he jumped to it, kneeling down by it as he motioned his fingers to it, closing his eyes and attempting to sense the electricity flowing through the wires, sending pulses across the electric system. He attempted sensing all the wiring in this section of the ship, the major outlets and consoles.
It was not his quickest ability, but it was first part of a bigger plan.
His goal right now was to use these pulses to pinpoint location of the Cryomancer Kaida and the Omega forces

 

[Tasgetius]

Tasgetius did have a defense for the Dark Eldorai whom seemingly was capable of turning themselves into a walking power station. It was his own armor. Now it wasn't as to say that the armor could handle a hit like that; in fact no one had ever thought of attempting to catch a lightning bolt head on in one of the suits. Rather it was because the Knights all wore the same armor, thus making it difficult to pinpoint whom was who within the armor. This was his defense as it was another Knight that the Dark Eldorai was screaming and charging at, though an idea had quickly dawned on Tasgetius.

Without a moment to lose he quickly grabbed one of the pails of water that a Knight had been taking to the civilians before it was left when the commotion began. Grabbing it and remember the conductivity of water; along with hoping that this crazy idea might work, Tasgetius quickly threw the full pail onto the Dark Eldorai soldier. Though should it not work he did have a back up as a Knight threw him a scatter gun; quickly training the weapon onto the Dark Eldorai as he caught it before pulling the trigger, sending a shot of shrapnel into the side of the Dark Eldorai soldier.

At that moment his communit in his helmet began to crackle to life, being informed that @Haven and some of her jet troopers were making their way over the rubble. Though it was helpful that @[member="HK-36"] and @[member="Moira Skaldi"] had managed to capture and secure one of the three tanks. At that moment Tasgetius would leave Haven and her troops to HK-36 and his friend. Tasgetius had his temple to clear out.

 

[Aluk Magar]

@[member="Tasgetius"]
Bucket of water, yep, the only true weakness of an electromancer.
The Dark Eldorai yelled and took in the pain and rage as he threw more lightning attacks at the Knight. When suddenly..
Splash
And then..
Zap
Split second it was over as the water caused the lightning attack to revert back against its user, making him the short-circuit and he was not even able to yell out, just hitting the ground, most likely dead, or really close to it.

Fortunately,
Plenty more Eldorai for quick-thinking challenges with their elemental antics. So, before Tas could get more comfortable, there was now a raging terramancer causing trouble in his proximity. His armor was thicker than that of usual Dark Eldorai, swinging a large hammer he was able of delivering cracks even to Knight's armor. He stomped, and a spiked rock flew from the soil, projected at a nearby knight. Turning to Tas, the Eldorai quickly delivered another stomp-stomp as a fissure would open up at Tas's feet, or feet of another Knight, breaking through metal and rock, threatening to pull the Knights in and trap them. In combination with that, the terramancer kicked up another spiked rock, like a sharp large arrow, projected at Tas/Other Knight.

 

[Haven Pryde]

Haven continued to use her acrobatics to get passed the terrain and slowly made her way toward the temple with her jet troopers following closely behind, she knew there was only one thing that could happen and that was they'd start firing on her as soon as she arrived at the temple but one thing was for certain... She had no idea they captured one of her tanks.

@[member="HK-36"]

 

[Moira Skaldi]

@[member="HK-36"]

Moira would have clearly liked to process someone and probably looked as close to sulky at being denied that chance, but then her eyes flashed red behind her human irises at the suggestion. While not a certain battering ram - who in her opinion in any case was highly overrated, something only confirmed by the Protectorate turning into a family business overnight - she liked the chance to cause mayhem and terminate organics. There was only one whom she did not feel the instinctive urge to process and she was not here. "Yes, let's go," she said flatly and quickly boarded the tank, taking the controls for the heavy laser cannon, while HK presumably drove it. Once they reached the pirates she would smite them with a volley of death.

 

[HK-36]

@[member="Moira Skaldi"]
HK sat in the driver seat, pulling on levers and pushing on pedals, watching through the instruments where they were going and positions of Haven's forces moving.
In the back of the tank, the bounded and gagged prisoner tank crew were wiggling, trying to do anything to get out of the position but unable to.
"They came in our range!"
HK announced to Moira, pushing in the energy shell for the tank's gun and locking it in place.
Fun Fact, the writer of HK grew up on a Polish tv series Four Tank Crewmen And A Dog, which was all about adventures of wandering Polish tank and its crew, plus their pet dog, during WW2, so this is like the coolest thing right now.
He kept flicking switches, preparing weaponry as he stopped the tank, facing the Fortress, but also Haven's crew who were charging at it.
Moving up from the driver's seat to the tank's anti-infantry repeater, he cocked it and put his photoreceptors up to the viewing screen, calling out to Moira
"Ready whenever you are!"

 

[Haven Pryde]

Haven could hear the sudden warning of danger as she was vaulting over the debris and large rocks that were set up to bar her path and looked to the path that was heading into the temple ground, something was either heading straight for them or waiting for them, something massive... as she heard the sounds of the explosions behind her she rested her thoughts and paid more attention forward.. she knew that soon her own infantry would be getting through since they are using explosives to blast the rubble away from the road and slowly making their way to the temple grounds.

As she continues to walk she comes into range of @[member="HK-36"] and his newly acquired tank for a split moment and then ducks behind a big rock and waits for a moment while she tries to think up what to do next, she then catapults herself into the air and leaps to the side of the tank and tries to get its attention so her own unit could get to the tank and lob in a couple grenades.

@[member="Moira Skaldi"]

 

[Moira Skaldi]

@[member="Haven Pryde"], @[member="HK-36"]

"Dramatic leaping. Target her with the repeater." The big cannon of the tank would not be the ideal weapon to use to shoot at a moving infantry target, especially one flipping and leaping around like Haven. Personally Moira preferred to get more physical - in the sense of beating the crap out of someone. So while HK was at the controls of the repeater, with an energy shell loaded in the cannon, she took aim at Haven's minions, her jet troopers, locking the target in place. She was not an organic and as such free of their weaknesses, she could calculate and process at an alarming rate, and so she squeezed the firing button and an energy shell shot out of the cannon with unerring accuracy, steering straight for the troopers. The mayhem would be most satisfying.

 

[HK-36]

@[member="Moira Skaldi"] @[member="Haven Pryde"]
"I am on it."
HK responded, with one hand squeezed the trigger as the repeater began stuttering, he kept the weapon still in his mechanic grip as with the other hand he reached to the metal cover that led to the tank, in case he needed to use his mechanical strength to secure it, or if he would be needed to swiftly jump out and engage Haven or her jet troopers.
He did wonder where @[member="Syn"] and @[member="Iella E`ron"] were, they were supposed to engage Haven's troops but it seems they have fallen behind.
Either way, HK knew his way around the guns, like Moira, he was much more accurate than any organic, and he was gunning with the repeater for Haven while Moira aimed a shot from the main gun at her troops.

 

[Syn]

@[member="Haven Pryde"]@[member="HK-36"]

Syn was around and moved, seeing Haven attacking the tank. His voice came out while he looked towards Iella dropping the cloak and letting the interlocking blades activate with a duel snap hiss. Flashes of white and black slashed into soldiers coming while he sent a solid shadowstrike at her face letting the force distort the air into a semi solid dot then release. "Iella move aid HK." The main guns from Moira were what Syn heard before he jumped back and threw a saber into a man. The jedi master landed away and rushed grabbing one of the troops to use as a personal shield. Yeah it wasn't going to be pretty but a rebel force could be an issue down the line.

 

[Haven Pryde]

The booms of explosions could still be heard but were much closer now and as Haven was attacked by the Jedi she looked at him and watched as he attacked her own troops and then smirked, this Jedi Master would be a handful for her and definitely would be an odd possibility for defense.

As she watched she looked at her own being fired upon and then leapt after @[member="Syn"] while using her own acrobatics to draw the line in battle, as she drew closer to the Jedi Master she did a flip and slashed at his arm that were to grab for one of her troops to slice it off and then landed some paces from him, she had thusfar protected one of her own and as it was this Jedi Master was not getting a freebie.

@[member="Syn"]
@[member="HK-36"]

 

[Tasgetius]

The force was one thing, something that was simple enough to deal with. These freaky weirdos though with their throwing around the elements was just unnatural. With a heavy sigh Tasgetius quickly rushed towards the charging armor clad enemy. A quick roll forward resulted in grabbing the wrist of the Knight pulled into the fissure and yanking him out just in time before it shut closed. One Knight was smart enough to push the Dark Eldorai soldier he was fighting into the rock spire that was forced up, impaling his enemy upon it with only just enough time for him to narrowly slid under it; though the spike that pushed through the soldier still managed to hit the Knight's helmet. The second spire though was more on target as it struck a Knight, taking his life. Though with their last breath the Knight managed to fire off a rocket which screamed at the Dark Eldorai, slamming at its feet.

Tasgetius took a quick moment to look over the armor before he rushed forward. Another Knight throwing him a deactivated mine as he moved towards his enemy. At the last moment he slid between the armor clad being's legs. Priming the mine and smacking it onto the inner leg of the beast before he rolled forward. Jumping out of the way just as the mine detonated. Hopefully it was enough to take off the beasts leg or at least cripple the damn thing. If that didn't do it there was always the chance of the second rocket fired from a PLX would do the trick as it screamed through the air to strike the being.

As he tapped the side of his helmet he leveled a scatter gun at another Dark Eldorai soldier that rushed up to him. Pulling the trigger and sending the soldier flying as he looked towards the other Knights. "Omega Protectorate forces. We have enemies inside of the Fortress and pirates moving to attack. We are requesting cover and reinforcements."

@[member="HK-36"] @Haven @[member="Aluk Magar"]

 

[Aluk Magar]

@[member="Tasgetius"]
The terramancer was flat on his ass and a trip mine slapped to his inner thigh by Tasgetius the Knight. It exploded, of course, but it did not take off his legs clean off, although judging by the painful screams, the torn and twisted armor, and charred, cleaved thighs, he would be out of the fight for a bit.
In the mean time, another Dark Eldorai stood up the line to take a hit at Tas, judging by the fact that his sarix was covered in twisting arcanic flames, this warrior was a pyromancer. He took a swing at Tas, motioning with his hand outward to the Knight, attempting to hit him with a telekinetic blast, originating from the anger and fury the warrior tapped into, and swinging the vile flaming weapon, cursed Darken Eldorai arts running through it as the flames of the weapon extended forth and lashed in another attack at Tas, much like that fire whip Balrog used against Gandalf.
The good thing was, the Eldorai presence in the skies quiet down, at least for now.

 

[HK-36]

@[member="Tasgetius"] @[member="Haven Pryde"] @[member="Moira Skaldi"]
"Roger that, Tas, I will relay your message to the rest of the forces."
HK responded from the captured Tank in between the stuttering shots of the repeater, still aimed at Haven, doing his best to not hit Syn and Iella.
In the mean time, he also pushed in another energy shell into the barrel of the main gun, cocking it and flipping arming switch as he called out to Moira
"Armed!"

 

[Moira Skaldi]

@[member="Haven Pryde"], @[member="HK-36"]

"Acknowledged," Moira said emotionlessly, though she was eager for carnage as HK loaded another energy shell into the cannon. Apparently the rogue force was still hopping around and the Jedi friend of HK had joined the fray. This suited Moira just fine, she had a tank cannon to fire. So she took aim once more, she had superior calculating power and could aim more accurately than any organic being. So aim she took and then she fired, a high powered energy shell shooting out of the cannon and travel at high velocity to blast right into the ranks of Haven's troops. It would be a beautiful explosion.

 

[Haven Pryde]

Haven watched as another shot was fired at her own troops and she quickly leapt into the air and used a force push at the energy and attempted to push it back at the tank, as she came back down she flipped and used another force push at @[member="Syn"] trying to knock him off balance, shortly after she used the force push she went straight for a force pull to plant him into the ground and the leapt one last time toward him and sliced through the air at him trying for a wild slice at his head.


@[member="HK-36"]
@[member="Moira Skaldi"]

 

[Syn]

@[member="Haven Pryde"]

Syn remained planted, she was trying to force it both ways and the jedi master surrounded himself with the force as he held the two blades. This was the moment in a fight you lived for. Being in the thick og things and the thrill, now he breathed deeply letting the force flow into each muscle. If she wished for a fight h could give it to her and took off, straight forward using the wraith forearm bracers to block the blade and give a surprise. The blue painted cortosis bracers were imperial knight style allowing for one thing. Lightsaber combat to be changed if you weren't paying attention. His forearm came up exposed to the blade letting it strike him. Letting it send the energy feedback that would disable the saber for several minutes as cortosis did.

Then he let the thrill of battle come opening fully that invisible bond with Iella that let them coordinate, that let them feel each other and he slashed to match the creature of serapin it was named after. To match the juyo for speed of his strikes and ferocity at each one became a fluid strike into the next. Left hip, right shoulder, left shoulder, center mass, throat right hip, bisect, the jedi master let the force flow through him to enter this combat stance and move at increasing speeds.

 

[Coci Heavenshield]

She heard the order to go aid HK, which she did without word. Syn has now engaged the Pirate Queen and Iella ran to the position of the tank. The majority of the action is around the Temple grounds it seemed and she knew they would have to move to there. But first the pirates and the troops. She moved quickly in front of the tank making sure she was not in the path of the guns. Running forward Iella, ignited her saber.

The rapid fire of the blaster volley came in her direction, she summon the force around her and opened up senses to move through the environment. She could feel all the living beings in range and the force sight allow her the ability to sense events slightly before they happened. This make deflecting the blaster volleys easy and she quickly moved toward the troops and engaged with her blade. Taking down as many as she could to distract the battle in two fronts.

She felt the thrill come from Syn, she smiled and sent her own sense back to him. He is in his element.

@[member="Syn"]
@[member="Haven Pryde"]
@[member="Moira Skaldi"]
@[member="HK-36"]

 

[Tasgetius]

While there wasn't enough time to entirely dodge the force burst, there was enough time to grab a nearby Dark Eldorai; which is exactly what Tasgetius did. Putting the Dark Eldorai between him and the one that was now spewing fire of all things, he felt the body of the soldier impact him before he was thrown back. The body shield though worked as planned, with only Tasgetius needing to throw the Dark Eldorai off of him as he sat up, his eyes focused on the one spewing around fire. Lucky enough he was now further than where he started, and out of range from the fire like whip for the moment. Taking a moment to figure out what to do with this one, he looked to his left. Smirking beneath his helm before he pushed himself up and rushed towards what he needed.

Quickly grabbing the tube that had been set aside as a replacement should one of the other mortars become damaged; Tasgetius took a knee as he set the tube and aimed at the Dark Eldorai. A heavy slam of the mortar round onto the ground next to him before he tossed it into the tube made for a makeshift rocket. Although it was certainly something to not try at home as they say. Tasgetius though didn't bother with making sure the round struck as the mortar shell came whistling out of the tube. Without a doubt it would explode the moment it came into contact with the fire being thrown around; with it being hoped that it at least reached far enough to cause some damage to the Dark Eldorai.

Tasgetius had other problems to deal with as he quickly spun from his kneeling position. A heavy thud; like knocking on a hollow tree trunk filled the air as the mortar tube was turned into a makeshift weapon. The heavy tube slamming into a Dark Eldorai's head before Tasgetius dropped it and moved on towards the walls. Grabbing another scatter gun along the way as he rolled forward and came up between two Dark Eldorai; placing two shells of shrapnel into their chest before he pressed on.

@[member="HK-36"] @[member="Haven Pryde"] @[member="Moira Skaldi"] @[member="Aluk Magar"]

 

[HK-36]

@[member="Haven Pryde"] @[member="Moira Skaldi"]
Considering the shots from the main gun were most likely energy blasts rather than shells, a force push would probably not work on them.
Even if they were shells, they probably wouldn't be able to just be deflected back at the tank, although their trajectory could be affected to miss Haven's soldier, which was most likely caused by the push delivered to it.

But still,
Their efforts so far, the jet troops of Haven would probably take all kinds of casualties from the fortress and the tank gun combined.
HK loaded another energy shell, cocking it and arming, as he called out to Moira.
"Armed!"
He reached to one of the large metal crank that controlled the rotation of the tank's tower with the main gun, rotating it quickly to get the tower aimed in the direction of the pass through which the rest of Haven's forces were digging their way through.
"We have the jet troopers thinned down by now, but there is more company coming!"