Wearing:
Mercenary Dress
Armed With:
M1 Aegis (2)
Graverobber's End
"So you got that feeling too that war wasn't over?" Vera Mina asked
Nathan Bloodscrawl
as he kitted himself out for the mission ahead. The were aboard the hold of Vera's J-Type 327 Nubian, piloted by a soldier biot.
"It's
never over." Nathan asserted, using his father's technically unfinished armor, heavily armed already, his face completely obscured by a form fitting red helmet as he grabbed two life support packs for injured civilians. "Peace isn't a lie. But it sure is transitory."
"My thoughts
exactly..." Vera replied, emerging from the shadows in her red headed guise as a Chiss mercenary. The shapely android was clad in an armored white gown with matching gloves and boots, as armed to the teeth as he was.
"So why fight so hard for it?" The murderous Android asked.
"The alternative is
insanity." he replied. "Not that you are expected to understand, given your...
nature..."
Vera flicked glowing red eyes at him.
"I understand
much..." she responded in a deadly purr, slinking up to him. Naked hunger was in her eyes. Nathan pretended not to notice.
"It just seems to me like it doesn't bring much payoff." The Android pointed out.
"You think society is better in anarchy?" Nathan asked.
"No. But if peace is transitory, like you say, why artificially extend it past it's date of expiration?" Vera asked. "Even entropy ebbs and flows."
"Entropy has that problem of lasting too long when no one cares." Nathan replied flatly, cocking a shotgun. "No one ever mentions apathy as the real reason the Gulag Era lasted so long."
"Mass murdering diseases with no known treatment or cure do tend to turn "decent" folk into selfish bastards." Vera noted with a cold, self satisfied smirk spreading across ruby lips. "You can't
imagine how relieved I was, knowing you could
all become like me if the circumstances were right." the Android finished, winking at him.
Nathan didn't respond to the semi-playful barb from Vera as the ship intercom went off, the soldier biot alerting them that they were about enter the atmosphere.
"How does it feel, trying to save your people?" She asked as her hunger for blood began to build, her databases looping together highlights of pleasing kills prior to get her in the mood.
Nathan's fist clenched and her processors warmed at the pleased realization she had coaxed more emotion out of the normally stoic man.
"Those
Idolators are
not my people." he emphasized quietly as the ship set down on a landing spot, followed by over a dozen evacuation shuttles.
Vera could only laugh at this.
"I can hardly wait for the after action assessment of you..." she said in that low, seductive purr as they disembarked, going their separate ways in the wartorn streets. Already people flocked to their location...as well as drawing the attention of various enemies.
A weapon, one handed, and organic, slipped in Vera's hand as she scanned the area for hostiles, immediately setting herself upon a group of commandos. Nathan was going to be mister public relations and get people to safety. Leaving Vera to do a the fun stuff.
She set off, animal instincts and bloodthirst guiding her to a group of heavily armed scouts. There was no subtlety, no tact. This Chiss guise she used was for neither. Her lightsaber dashed through the flesh and armor of one Sith Soldier as the others opened fire. Her fanged teeth were bared as she ripped and tore into the squad, cutting off an arm, then a leg, then a head. Fangs bit into an exposed neck that had gotten too close. Her eyes went feral and she brutally thrashed the screaming soldier with her fangs still clamped on his neck, horrifying his remaining comrades to run, only to be pursued by The Android through smoke and the bodies of dead innocents.
She flipped and twirled through the blastershots of the remaining two, though one hit her square in the lower stomach and left a scorch mark, knocking her back momentarily. She drew a pistol and fired rapidly, forcing them to full retreat, one tossing a thermal Detonator to force her back and run to escape the blast.
Insulted by the delay on a ego driven level, Vera pulled herself up from rubble that had covered her, growling like a lion as she resumed her attack, on the soldiers, killing both with headshots just before they got clear of her weapon range and chuckled as they fell, deciding to find more Sith Soldiers to kill, very close by to
Inanna Harth
...