Private Raiding raiders

[Stardust Solus Skirae]

Slavers and pirates, two things stardust despised the most, one more then the other of course but both worked hand in hand. Stardust hunted these groups with glee ensuring slaves were freed and any slavers caught in her grip was eradicated and wiped from the face of the galaxy, it was no surprise she was on the trail of some particular slavers that had decided to mess with the wrong clan.

These ones shed beem tracking were a bit tricky, so she enrolled the help of some new vod to assist her in tracking and eradication of these damned slavers. The man was known as Kale Onara a true mandalorian if shes seen one, his face was a mystery as was he yet she knew he had a history going up against pirates and slavers so he'd be a perfect addition

Floating through space in her huttle she awaited his arrival before theyd begin their hunt for the slaver outpost among the asteroid field

 

[Kale Onara]

Kale Onara was excited for the first time, in a long time. He always enjoyed hunting pirates and slavers. Pirates like these had wiped his friends and family when he was young and he despised slavers on general principle. Not to mention there were perks at freeing slaves. Every so often, the slaves were actually kidnapped children from rich families and they were very generous with their rewards.

Arriving at the designated coordinates, Kale cut in his sublight engines and did a quick scan. The only contact was a shuttle. He maneuvered closer and pinged the shuttle for identification. "Ok now. I hope that's you Emerald Queen. I'm hungry for a bit of hunting today."

 

[Stardust Solus Skirae]

She waited, she knew he'd arrive for tbis killing slavers brought on a lot of benefits for everyone be it battle or credits. The darkness of soace was quiet around the shuttle just herself and her droid r8 who was monitoring everything. He beeped back that a ship had entered and opened up comms

Smiling she sat up and responded back

yes this is the emerald dragon, move into position so I can dock and come aboard weve a lot to discuss

 

[Kale Onara]

He smiled at the reply and brought his ship up close to hers. They maneuvered and mated their ships up. Once they had a hard dock, he made his way to his airlock. When the system showed all green, he opened the airlock and allowed her onboard. "Olarom ner vod (welcome my sister)." He said as he conducted her to his crew lounge. "Drink?"

 

[Stardust Solus Skirae]

The airlock opened and stardust stepped out, clad in her battlemaster armor, her helmet rested under her arm as she scanned around the ship for a second before she stepped on fully

thank you ner vod, I am happy you've accepted my offer for this run

She followed to the crew lounger, setting her helmet on a table and turned at the mention of a drink as she offered a bright smile

i don't see why not, the slavers shouldn't be coming through for another hour and a half plenty of time to brief you and get to know one another

 

[Kale Onara]

Kale nodded and pulled out a bottle of her favorite liquor along with two mugs. He set them on the table and sat across from her. He filled both mugs and raised his mug up, "Ibic cuyir te ara ~This is the Way~" He stated in a toast detaching the drinking tube and taking a long drink from his mug. Once he swallowed down the burning liquor, he sat back and regarded the beautiful green Twi'lek, "So what's the mission? Something about raiding slavers?" He asked filled with anticipation.

 

[Stardust Solus Skirae]

this is the way

Tihaar, ever since she became a mandalorian this drink had been a favorite of hers right alongside tea and wine. Taking a seat she lifted the glass and downed half easily before she cleared her throat and sat a small holoprojector out for him to see the image of a small freighter

indeed, this particular group ive been hunting since i saved my riduur from them

Her voice grew serious as she said that, eyes becoming cold and looked back to the image

word is their transporting some slave dancers to a party...but they've got a pretty high ranking man aboard as well. Primary objective is to capture him so i may question him, secondary is getting those slaves to vanquo so we may reintegrate them back into the normal world

She turned the holo projector off

anyone stopping us is to be considered marked for death, any questions?

 

[Kale Onara]

Kale looked at the projection, "Any word on fighter projection or escorts and crew onboard?"

He knew that the more accurate intel they had, the better chance of success.

"Also is it just the two of us or do we have any other help in this mission?"

His mind was already formulating attack plans and rescue strategies. All he needed was information and he would adjust his ideas as necessary. He was looking forward to adding to his trophy collection when it came to taking down his enemies.

 

[Stardust Solus Skirae]

two fighters, a wings so reports say, they believe they are safe and have a low chance of being followed....course we aren't following now are we? As for support its just me and you keeping the numbers down so it'll be easier to spring the trap, besides two mandos is more then enough

With that she brought out some projections, marking one as the shuttle and then his ship

plan is ill be the bait. This ship isn't tied to me in any shape or doem besides being bought, I'm going to run a emergency beacon make them think the engines are disabled and get them close...when they dock and latch on you'll come in and hit their engines

She said, showing his bill being gar out of radar range before coming in as small lasers fired at the pirates projection

kmces their disabled we board and act quickly finding our man getting him out then the slaves then we dash and leave the ship booby traped as no doubt they'll call for help...but when they come to help baboom

 

[Kale Onara]

Kale nodded as she gave him the intel he needed. As she finished talking, a plan formed in his mind. "Ok then. I'll wait at that position until you give me a signal to move in. I figure at that distance, using my SLAMs, it will take me 15 seconds to get within weapons range. I'll fire off two concussion missiles at the A-wings. At the very least that will give me time to make my run on the big ship. If the ship's shields are up, I can use a low yield torpedo to knock their shields down and strafe the ship with my ion cannon to disable it completely. Now if you want to keep that shuttle, it will need to be disconnected from the ship at signal plus thirty seconds at most and then it can make a micro hyperjump to a rendezvous where we can pick it up later."

As he spoke the holoprojection illustrated his maneuvers. "Now if the A-wings are still in the fight, I'll deal with them and then come back around and use a second docking port to board while you are on the ship cleaning house no doubt. I'll join you in securing the ship, we evacuate the slaves and the principal target back to my ship and take off after laying the traps. Sound good?" He asked looking at her.

 

[Stardust Solus Skirae]

Stardust rubbed her chin as she looked at everything as she nodded her head at everything and grinned, she'd be gifted a good warrior and tactician

the shuttle can be lost, if anything i want that to be what draws in the pirates rescue. Everything seems to be in place and we've thirty minutes till the ship should pass by. Get to your ship while I finalize everything here and prepare to...welcome them

She chuckled as she started off towards her shuttle and glanced back

impress me more kale and I think you might just be the first on my list to call to do these little strikes

With that she hopped back in and got busy making that emergency signal

 

[Kale Onara]

Kale nodded as she spoke and when she was done, she could hear the smile behind the mask as he replied, "Excellent. Ibic cuyir te ara. ~This is the Way~." He said before walking her back to the airlock. Once she was back on her shuttle and away, Davin piloted his ship to his pre-planned nav point where he brought his ship to a full stop. He sent a quick burst transmission to Stardust, "In position. Awaiting your 'Go' signal. Powering down. Out." Not expecting a reply, Kale checked to make sure his Concussion Missile tubes and Torpedo tube were fully loaded and ready before he began putting his systems on hot stand by to reduce his sensor signature as much as possible except his passive sensors to be able to detect their quarry when they arrived.

With all the systems powered down, his ship began to drift and since there was nothing else to do until their quarry arrived, Davin just sat in his seat in the cockpit and admired the starscape floating around him. Unlike most people, he actually enjoyed waiting at a time like this as long as he had something beautiful to occupy his time like the stars....or a lovely strong green Twi'lek Mandalorian woman...

 

[Stardust Solus Skirae]

she looked around her little shuttle, nothing special about it and absolutely no guilt in what she was about to do, moving towards the electrical systems she made a fist and punched into the circuits and ripped them out throwing her ship into emergency power mode. Chuckling she turned the emergency beacon on and turned on the message that would play

THIS IS OSIRIS AVERIN, WE NEED HELP IMMEDIATELY! MY SISTER AND I ARE STRANDED! OUR SHIP HAS LOST POWER WE ONLY HAVE EMERGENCY POWER PLEASE HELP!

The message would repeat on a loop with a five second delay, 30 minutes would pass between the start, finally a small freighter came out flanked by two a wings. At first they seemed to ignore the message but when they caught in it was sisters the a wings zoomed towards it as the freighter began to slowly come upon the shuttle, it took another two minutes before it docked, the pirate comms were excited! Additional possible dancers! Within a minute however there was panic as stardust gad rushed in with a ball of fire and got aboard

This would no doubt be the signal for kale

 

[Kale Onara]

Kale just sat in his pilot's seat admiring the stars and letting his mind dwell on that lovely green Twi'lek woman that he was working with. In fact, he was so deep in his musings, he almost missed the proximity alert as the target ship and the A-wing escorts popped out of hyperspace. He used his thrusters to orient his ship for its attack run and then waited for the signal. He grinned at hearing the slavers' signals go from excited to complete chaos. "Now Rascal!" He ordered his R5 unit to slam power back on his ship.

Everything powered up at once and Kale activated his sublight engines. As soon as he reached maximum sublight, he activated his SLAM and it lived up to his name as he was suddenly slammed back into his seat due to the sudden burst of acceleration. He switched his weapons to concussion missiles and watched the distance wind down quickly. The instant he was in weapons range, he deactivated his SLAM and fired a concussion missile at each A-wing.

As the A-wings began frantically trying to evade the incoming missiles, Kale looked at the scanners and noticed that the target ship hadn't raised its shields. He figured that his partner was creating too much chaos for any real coordinated defense. Kale switched to his ion cannon and strafed the target ship with four shots. As he pulled out of his run, he noticed that one A-wing had been destroyed but one other had managed to evade his missile.

Kale corkscrewed his flight path as the A-wing fired its lasers at his ship. A couple of the bolts connected with his ship but all that really did was soften his shields a little. Kale knew the A-wing had him beat when it came to speed and maneuverability but Kale had faith that he was the better pilot. "Rascal, control the dorsal turret and fire wide to get him to turn into us." Rascal beeped his affirmative and began shooting on the dorsal turret. Since he didn't have much in the way of crew, his little R5 had plenty of experience as a gunner and fired well placed shots that caused the A-wing to swerve in an arc that just barely brought him in front of Kale's firing arc. Kale fired off a volley though only one or bolts connected, it was enough to cause the A-wing to stumble as he tried to escape. Kale switched to concussion missiles again and managed to lock on to the A-wing just long enough to fire two more missiles. Once more, the A-wing went into evasive maneuvers to evade the missiles, but now the missiles had Kale's accurate laser fire to back it up. He managed to clip the A-wing once again, sending it into an uncontrolled spin that lasted long enough for the two missiles to finish the job. Kale swung his ship around and raced toward their principal target ship. A quick scan showed him a viable docking port and ordered Rascal to dock up with it as he opened an encrypted comm channel to his partner, "Emerald. A-wings neutralized. Docking in 10 seconds. What's your status?" He asked as he quickly sealed his armor and made his way to the airlock.

 

[Stardust Solus Skirae]

Ion fire collided with the ship, its engines sputtered and then shut off as it started drifting in the vastness of space. Inside was a massacre they first people had been slaughtered and before they could even attempt to unhook stardust like a viper shot into their ship and started tearing a path through the ship. Her head turned as she had gotten to a pause where the pirates ran to mount a defense

strolling along, they weren't prepared for a attack their guard was down heavily, enter in and prepare for some fun remember targets a Male rodian he is to be captured ALIVE so that I may question him

She was cut off as a blaster bolt pinged off a pauldron, turning she inhaled and sent a burst of hot flames towards them as she started walking towards where the bridge should be located

 

[Kale Onara]

"Copy that. Breaching now." Kale replied. He felt his ship mate up to the target ship and Rascal gave him the signal that they had a hard dock. Kale opened his part of the airlock and used a manual override to open the other side. As he entered, Kale switched to thermal vision since the lighting was down inside the ship and drew one of his modified DH-17 blasters. At first was actually very quiet but rounding a couple of corners, he ran into a quartet of pirates, two Humans and two Aqualesh who appeared to be running in a panic. Spotting another person they didn't caused them to shoot in a panic. Kale dropped to one knee and four well placed blaster shots put them down for the count. He opened his comm as he advanced, "I've boarded from a rear auxiliary airlock and I'm moving forward, clearing as I go. Not many around though. Thanks for leaving a few leftovers for me." He laughed as he reflexively grabbed the wrist of a pirate that suddenly appeared around another corner. He flipped the pirate, another Human, onto his back and put a blaster bolt in the pirate's head for good measure, "No sign of the primary target as of yet." He kept his comm line open so they could talk as they continued clearing the ship.

 

[Stardust Solus Skirae]

not exactly sure its leftovers more as their sorta running for their lives which ya know is kinda smart

A big hutt stood in her way, squealing at her as it charge, behind him was some humans and twilek taking aim for her. She reached out with the force and picked the hutt up and threw him into the group followed by a stream of fire into the group as she continued towards the center

he's likely holed up in the bridge make your way there

 

[Kale Onara]

"Copy that." Kale replied as he finished sweeping the Engine Room, "FYI, The Engine Room is secured. I'll have Rascal start laying the trap for any incoming reinforcements. I'm working my way forward to the Bridge now along the starboard side. I'll be there soon. Out." Kale relayed his orders to his R5 astromech before slowly and methodically made his way forward to toward the Bridge. He remembered the central principle that his teachers taught him about movement, ~Slow is smooth and smooth is fast.~ He thought to himself. With the exception of the occasional mouse droid, Kale's scanners didn't pick up anything moving around as he made his way forward toward the Bridge. ~Looks like my partner is having almost all the fun now.~ He thought to himself as he weapons fire and screams in the distance.

 

[Stardust Solus Skirae]

copy that kale, make sure and make it subtle...mandalorian subtle

There was a dark laugh from her as she started approaching the bridge, however something didn't seemed right. Stepping over a laser sensor she cursed as two defense turrets popped put from the ceiling and began to light up the hallway, a few bolts hit her armor as she ducked into a little alcove as she checked herself and cursed a little as she peeked out

we've got a problem, they've sealed theirselves in and we got turrets blocking our path

 

[Kale Onara]

Kale stopped in his tracks when he heard Stardust's report. He heard a thread of pain in her voice so she had to have been hit a time or two. He frowned but let it go since she still sounded strong. Kale hunkered down near where the turrets were stationed and opened a comm channel, "Copy that. Stand by." Kale switched frequencies on his comm unit, "Rascal, do you copy?" When he got his astromech's acknowledgement, Kale spoke, "What's your status?" Rascal beeped at him and the translation appeared on his display, "Reactor is rigged for overload. Set to begin when we arm the trap after we leave. Orders?" Kale smiled. He loved the little astromech. Yeah sure usually he was a little pain in the sheb'ika but when they were on a job, the little astromech was all professional, "Outstanding. There are security turrets and a big blast door blocking our access to the bridge. Get rid of them and then proceed to locating and freeing the prisoners on the ship." Rascal acknowledged and cut the comm.

Kale switched comm frequencies again, "Onara to Emerald. Rascal is working on the turrets and the blast door. Should only be a moment and then he'll get to the prisoners while we finish things on the bridge, understood?"