Dev Shadows of Atrisia

[Junko Ike]

She could see an example of that with zerltron teenagers who were dressed in Atrisian garb... their hair straight and oiled.. with beads of kyber in it. THei kimono's solid in colors but accenting their skin and hair colors... their bodies moving to the music that was being played and the scent of pheromones and flowers were in the air... beautiful, prepared and attractive. She could see twi'lek keisei as well who were moving with the music and their lekku twitched to it... their colored bodies giving a flare as they wore floral kimono's... "WOnderful." THey all looked pretty and the dream of inclusion happening organically with the refugees children was becoming a reality in many of the cases.

She was able to see many more things that were being worked on here... the interest in it attracted attention from some of the Keisei who were older and overseeing as they bowed welcoming her. THey were always hospitable and Junko had spent all of that time with their elder becoming friends... or as close as one could with the secretive group... still they communicated among each other and recorded the history of Atrisia.. from its most ancient roots... to now and knew the secrets of millions of rulers, lords and ladies. They presented much more here though as she could see the Gado with them who served as guards.

 

[Junko Ike]

THe Gado Keisei were maybe some of her favorite as they were considered the tougher Keisei... some older and more edged but they were every bit as beautiful only these ones looked like they would kick your butt if you disrespected them or anything that they were doing. It painted a picture that helped in a lot of ways and she was trying to figure out a lot more of it. Junko was letting the sight of their guards distract her for important reasons.. largely she wanted to put off going to sleep at least for tonight.. they were going to be facing off against problems as it were in the morning and she needed to not distract herself with fretting over it so stay up and sleep peacefully.

She stayed there finding the entertainment.. dancers and everything that they had going before she was having the chance to head into the palace for herself. She could see Norimitsu who bowed and went towards her wing of the palace. The Emperor and empress had already taken off and JUnko was alone with her handmaidens when she went to sleep and planned mentally for what was going to be happening tomorrow. Driving out to the village would be easy enough.. the woman from the village was here with them protected just in case but they wanted to ensure she was safe. THe jedi princess wanted to speak with her in the morning though as her mind bblanked and she went into a restful sleep.

 

[Junko Ike]

Her sleep remained uninterrupted and enjoyable.. allowing the force to refresh and regenerate her body as it guided her meditations and thoughts... the jedi master was meditating internally. TO herself it was a way to remain focused on what would be coming but she knew there were a lot more dangerous things happening aas she felt something shift in the galaxy... a hunger pang in her stomach and there was something there but she wasn't sure... it was familiar to her. Her eyes fluttered when she was sensing it in the force... other jedi might have been able to but there was a darkness to it and someone had awoken it back into the galaxy again.

JUnko shot out of the bed though and she was in a cold sweat... her attention going around the room as the gnawing feeling in her stomach was something ravenous.. she was moving now though when she went out of the bed and to the massive mirror looking at herself... the full length allowed her to take herself in and she looked paler then usual.. all of the blood draining from her face and body it seemed before she got dressed and got some food. She was eating bu the taste wasn't there with the fruits that she knew were ripe and freshly cut by her handmaidens.. they were prepared for her to give her the best.

 

[Junko Ike]

Her mind was distracted during the meal and afterwards... she could feel it in her head still a lingering shadow of something was there.... and here on the world there was something twisted now... a gnawing feeling at her gut that had been brought to bare. It was not mythos or something new.. it was an old growth.. an old threat or something here on the world and the village she was heading to would lead the way there. With everything ready though she had some soldiers and her handmaidens... different ones who were better suited as bodyguards compared to her ones who attended to her but still they worked in much the same function and as body doubles.

The villager who was leading them also served to guide them across the counrtyside.. they had one of the military escorts with an AT-TE style Atrisian tank.... the newly designed and overhauled walker could also become a faster moving juggernaut when they needed it and it had warbots for protection.. if they were going against bandits and ones who were attacking... protection and a strong force was important. Junko looked at more of it as she was in the smaller chamber of the walker but it served like a mixture royal bedroom and safe room.. a concession on her part to her guards.. she would be here in case of bandit attacks but she could see everything with the hardlight display.

 

[Junko Ike]

Junko was checking on many more things that they presented... she wanted to get out but approaching the village she looked at the screens... "SOmething is off." She said it and had a look on her face wanting to check it over but couldn't figure out what it was that was causing more unease. JUnko then moved when she looked at the displays sending drones out and directing the bots to start setting up barricades around the village at a distance. IN the rice patties where they could do it and she opened the hatch. "Princess no." JUnko stopped but was there crouched low to the walker as everything was quiet and still.

SHe could see the village and they were about a kilometer away from it... the rice patties offered a clear line of sight for them as there was trees and brush within the village itself but largely nothing else. THe war droids were going to work quickly deploying barricades from the walker to surround the village.... "It is too quiet.. for a village with people it should be bustling and if they are farmers then they should be around." SHe held a hand out looking at everything and there wasn't anyone to be seen when shield domed section were starting to be set up with the barricades to keep anything that might be there within. THe drones were scouting for them.

 

[Junko Ike]

Junko could see a lot more though.. further with the force as it didn't seem like there was anything in the village.. it was just... quiet. SOmething that screamed trap and danger in every way but they would need to proceed ahead as the droids finished with the barricade around the village and activated the shielding. Almost immediatly there was a difference in the air quality and the sense of foreboding... they had the droids take up positions like defensive platforms around it at the key points and activated the barrier defensive measures which functions like high powered lightsabers.. able to slice through anything that came near them.

JUnko was looking at more as they thankfully had more droids that could be deployed and biots from the walker... her guards were setting up additional defensive measures that the barricades like drones to scout and create a real time map of where they were... the scythe for defensive measures was also deployed and ready so things being flung at them could be struck down. With the barricade defensive wall it would aalso electrify the area around it in a ring as they were setting up the spikes to it and slowly marching forward making different layers to it. She wasn't about to slack on measures to protect them when they could have this as well as floating lotus mines.

 

[Junko Ike]

"We have secured the perimeter of the village princess." Her lead guard was there and they had their weapons drawn.. with how quiet it was nothing had appeared visually or on their sensors while they had been there looking at everything. With no signs of other people they were going to proceed with caution and JUnko had slid her lightsaber into her hand. She motioned with one hand and the villager who had led them here was with them as she started walking towards the village. THey were moving through the rice patties as the air seemed more heavy and JUnko's thoughts were coming to her as she reached out.

"Stay close and in contact." SHe confinirmation from the others as they were moving quickly forward and into the village she had her attention on the different buildings. THe first ones were overgrown living modules that shouldn't have been allowed to happen.. with most care and well just how long they would have been there they would have not been able to get overgrown like that with ivy like plants. It seemed to be moving like a creature was in it when they observed but stopped as they got close and Junko reached out with the force sensing around the village while sending a seeker drone into the buildings between the overgrowth.

 

[Junko Ike]

"It wasn't like this when I left." She said it and they were walking as Junko checked on more of it.. the mini drones flying around and giving them a full display to go over everything around them. There was something strange about the growth but they weren't able to make it out yet as the droids on the perimeter started firing in the distance and reports of movement came to them as some of the guards moved and directed the drones. The rice patties were covered in fog and the water was sloshing around as she could see it and something was striking the barricade but they were holding up as it cut things with lightsaber like beams of plasma contained between them.

"SOmething is there." It didn't look like a person and as they moved quickly the smell of ozone was there.. strong as it looked and was hard to make out what they were seeing exactly. It looked like a clumpo of moss, overrgrown weeds and leaves... but the scream was loud as it seemed to be hurling itself at the barricade and scythe that was slicing through it. The electrical grid was arcing to it and holding it in place while the wardroids fired into it from the other side. Junko motioned for them to stand back. "Switch to flamethrowers." She said it and felt something look over at her in the force before she saw the peak like mouth scream again at them.

 

[Junko Ike]

They switched quickly with their guns and the wrist weapons on the armor... the Atrisian equipment was a nice benefit of that but she could sense more things around them. JUnko had hert lightsaber ready as it ignited and the curved hilt shone with an amber colored blade... the snap-hiss seemingly much louder beto her ears as whatever this was moved away but it was not bburning.. the steam of it from the flames trying to melt the moss that was water logged.. she could see and understood. "It is soaked... switch to cryo and freeze the water." She said it and the first sprays were coming as they froze parts of it and others fired to shatter the pieces off.

She was looking as more screams came and the drones were reporting movement around the village behind them. THeir guest seemingly had run off and now the thought this might have been some sort of lure was in her mind as JUnko moved and slashed an appendage that came around and at her. THe barricade would hold as through the small gaps the wardroids were setting up additional defenses and firing shots to plug the gaps. Containment was now the most important before they were heading forward an aarea they could get a clear line of sight at everything and deploying barrier spikes with an electrical field.

 

[Junko Ike]

SHe was watching them and moving with the force.. her amber blade gleaming as it sliced into the creatures and she could see it starting to regenerate... \i9t was split in two and each side was becoming its own when it screamed out from the electrical attacks. The war droids were working and JUnko directed them to better attack and contain as they were trying to find a better way. THe flame units worked somewhat but it was waterlogged and the cryo helped somewhat as they froze and shattered sections off of it. She needed a better solution as there was reports of more contacts... not more creatures but they seemed to be controlling the villagers.

They would need to look for ways to try and save them but from the sounds of it they had been partially desiccated and drained of fluids as the plants were just controlling the bodies. Junko stopped for a moment and motioned with one hand for a drone to come in and it attacked as her mind raced thinking of what they could use aagainst these things. THey needed to break them down without just making more of them with division. "Use shifter rounds." The microgravity shots were designed to break down at the molecular level and reduce it to dust... and from there it was just going to shift as they switched over and started firing removing sections of the plants.

 

[Junko Ike]

The process of firing the slugs though was slower going compared to how one might think it was even with the assault rifles that were standard issue for Atrisian soldiers. Junko sliced with the lightsaber before she moved back and used the force to send the waterlogged thing into the air for more of the soldiers to converge their fire upon the sections of its underbelly. The jedi master seeing it disappear before they were moving back and around to make a defensive area taking smaller shots at some of the things coming towards them. THe villagers that looked half mummified but all corpsified and trying to attack them.

"FOrm up." Junko said it as thhey moved and rallied into a larger group near one fo the buildings. The drones using flame units when they were setting up scythes outside attaching them to the wall and it would serve to slice through these things... the walls getting barricades set up to reinforce them on the inside as the windows got shield gates set up for defensive purposes leaving the one main entrance to them. Junko motioned a few of the handmaidens who were with them inside and they had weapons drawn and ready... jar'kai blades at the ready for anything that might come their way beforre they closed it with the shield gate acting to close the box around them.

 

[Junko Ike]

"Do we have an idea what these things are princess Junko." THe one soldier said it while remaining there and deploying one of the ablative wall coverings that they had. Nothing snide... nothing to question her ability just curious wonder and Junko nodded. "I have a theory... but it is not one that is going to be liked and one that could be more dangerous." SHe was listening to them all be prepared as they set up more defenses like scythe weapons and shielding gates over the vents. ANything that was within the building was being covered and drones werre being placed as well as mines within the vents themselves should they be breached.

JUnko though looked at them as they seemed ready and willing to listen. "I am wanting to say drengir... based on the look of them and description of the creatures." She knew them from jedi records and for the most part they were quiet... able to survive for who knew how long in a state of hibernation without a progenitor to control the hive mind... which meant that if they were drengir then someone had awakened the creatures. "THat does not sound like it is going to be a good thing." JUnko nodded and aside from cleansing this area they would have to make sure no trace survived here or on the colony worlds.

 

[Junko Ike]

"It won't be a good thing... these creatures are dangerous and smart... worse tough to kill." She said it but they were keeping at it as the reports and drones were in position and their reinforcements that had been called in were coming... some there along the barricade as airships let them rain down and create a superior force. The skies of Atrisia filled with three of the large airships that had the flame and plasma projectors able to to contained by the barricade and shielding being projected. The heat would eradicate everything around them and the area as JUnko thought about it and what they would have to do with it as glassing even a small section of the world would be dangerous.

"Princess we are moving into position." She heard the voice and her interface updated showing movement but also what they were planning as they reinforced the shielding in key areas and got one of the projectors directed onto their building. It was a smart play as she could see the heavy planetary grrade shielding being projected around them with a large blue hue. She coluld see movement on their scanners but not on hers as they were more using visual scanners from the underside of the ships and providing to them more information. "Commence operations, it is not going to be pretty." JUnko got looks but well a fast response to the drengir was important and this was something that would function to incinerate everything of them.

 

[Junko Ike]

The drastic measures being taken would be noted by several reports but Junko was looking at it on the screen from the drones as the plasma weapons were unleashed upon the village. THe sounds of screams from the creatures enough to get her attention and there was a deep bellow in the force as the resounding sounds of meat and harvest... the force scream was in her head as Junko went to her knee and one hand touched the floor... there was a hive mind and she could feel it screaming out for others... more creatures that would be dangerous here since someone had awakened them all.. she could feel more of it and connected as she was standing amid roots.

She was looking at it and she hadn't been transported.. she had been invaded mentally as the screams for meat and pain were there but there was something more... she could see... no feel someone further in the distance... a presence she hadn't felt before but it wasn't drengir... her attention though was on the roots and everything they brought... she dodged one coming at her and then was moving into the root mind further and further. JUmping up and climbing before kicking off and twisting in mid air to avoid one snatching her as mentally she knew it would not be a good place to get grabbed and dragged further into whatever this was.

 

[Junko Ike]

Junko was allowing the force to guide her as she avoided arms... appendages that were swarming around and trying to grab her to take her in deeper and towards it.. she could feel something oppressive on her mind as it was the root mind.. her thoughts becoming something that she knew but she was digging herself in to fortify her mind. Then her mind was back and her own as she stood there and was being shaken by her handmaiden.. they were standing at the ready and three hours had passed with her in a trance as Junko stood there covered in sweat that was soaking into her robes. She could smell the sweat but moved finally with the strange breeze there while nodding.

"I am okay... I am alright." The jedi princess said it as she got some water and took it to allow herself to breathe out and then in.. she was looking at what was around them here and everyone looked alright. Her yovshin and handmaidens were set up and all of the drones were reporting from the barricade as the shielding held out and thanks to a projector she knew they had been working as outside the visual looked beautiful and scary at the same time. SHe could see the lechatelierite as it swirled... the top layers taking the plasma from the cannons within the shield barricade and from it becoming molten as the drengir literally melted into it... the swirling glass so hot nothing could survive it.

 

[Junko Ike]

"It isn't really glass." JUnko turned to look at her handmaiden who stood there watching it on the screen. "It is just everything melted together and broken down to its base molecules... then swirling together in a slurry of whatever you want to call it. THe smooth effect though when it cools.... will take years and look like glass to many.. it might be sold as it as well but glassing a planet even on a small scale like this is... dangerous as terraforming means you need to get past the top l;ayers and down deeper into the base soil to find something rich in life again." JUnko looked at her and she had the knowledge at least which was good and it would help.

"Yeah glassing a world isn't something we wanted to do but the drengir pose a threat and one that can't be allowed to take root and spread... something woke these ones up and if we go by the jedi records that we have access to it means something has awakened a progenitor of the species... the root mind could be spread across a thousand worlds just coming out of its slumber and feasting upon others.. we only have the benefit of means to barricade and section off areas of the planet... others might not be so lucky and if they have spread this fgar into the core even in ancient times... that could pose more of a problem."

 

[Junko Ike]

Junko was left standing there as she watched it all and her attention went to more of the details.. she was taking in the sight of it and what would become glass was looking beautiful... even the plasma as it was finishing looked amazing compared to some of the things she had seen and the shimmering of the shielding barricade around them as the world armor protected the rest of the planet from anything getting past it or escaping the bombardment.. that included them as the projected shield was nearly covered with sloshing slurry of everything above ground. THey had a means to get out but it wasn't as good as it could have been.

THey would stay here a little longer but JUnko was seeing the drones as they exited the vents to the outer area and were getting the scans... the readings showed an intense amount of radiation which would need to be dissipated with the control stations much like the spores in the air had been. THe containment of the drengir had been most important and so far nothing was coming up as living which was a good sign of what they could not survive in the need for future reference. Glassing even a small area couldn't be the solution to the problem if they were encountered and on worlds that were not as controllable in the situation as Atrisia.

 

[Junko Ike]

THe building they were in would have to serve them well.. the droids were setting a time table for how long it would take to cool which would be years.. the surface was just so hot but they were working on it and using heavy cryo and vacuum energies exhaust which saw the surface aand glass rapidly cooling as it washed over and made the shields shimmer. She was getting reports from outside the barricade that many others had seen it but the information was vague... for now. JUnko was sending a message to the emperor and empress that they were fine but the threat posed by the drengir was such that they had to act quickly.

The message would have to be given to the people and if they were lucky well that would serve the proper purpose. SHe would have to reassure the people sure but being transparent about what was happening here would only serve to help them should any of the drengir have manaaged to get off of the world or out of the area... from what she had been able to see it was aa small amount that was using the village to lure in food and taake it over. THe isolated naature allowed for them to do a lot which would only serve the Atrisian people in making sure that they were isolated as well and clean up could then be done with caustic and flame or cryo weapons.

 

[Junko Ike]

JUnko was moving though when the sensors indicated they could and getting up and to the roof as she started cutting it with her lightsaber served a better purpose. The others held the sections of the roof to prevent it from dropping on them and she took out sections for everyone to use and stack so they could climb up easier. Once on the roof they were met with another airship this one smaller for transport as she could see the molten surface of the village. It might not be the best and it all looked like a swirling mass of purple and blue but it also was something that could be eventually used again. For now it would serve as a reminder of the dangers posed by the Drengir.

"Princess we should go." She heard it and stepped up looking out on what was left and the shimmering of the barrricade could be seen. THe sensor data from the drones they could use to track and find anything that was drengir leftover if it was but the one who had lured them here. "The one who followed here... have we managed to find them they disappeared when the attack started." She said it and the one yovshin looked at her with a look. "THe drones found something... a small well below that was filled with bodies from the village.. she appears to have been there the one that was leading us here just a ploy used by them which remains consistent with rumors of them.

 

[Junko Ike]

Junko was standing in the airship as it was rising above the gases and through the shielding canopy that would prevent the expelled air that was toxic until the cleaners and purifiers were able to completely sanitize the area. She was able to see from the drones the bodies that were being eaten and absorbed by the drengir with a sadness in her heart as it pained her but there was also the danger of it.. the creatures knew how to use the things they took as a lure to get more to them... in this case force uisers who could influence if they had been powerful enough but they didn't seem to understand Atrisian ideals or the new policies.

"Looks like these thing underestimated us." She doubted they would be able to do anything but it waas confirmed from scannerrs that they were taking out all traces of the creatures.. these things were not something they wanted to leave to chance and the area around here would need to be searched with the new sensor data to try and find traces of them. Biological samples would have to be searched for as well with Jun-la's that could find just about anything in the galaxy and on this world it would be beneficial. If there were houses or other villages they would have to search those as well and make sure the people were safe. "We have a lot of work to set in motion and protect the region."