[member="Macharius Solaire"], [member="Kida"], [member="WD-334"],
((Sorry for the wait, everyone!))
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WD, looking good."
HK greeted the other droid, his lieutenant with a cordial nod of his head, looking over the other two robotic guards he brought along with him, inspecting the escort prepared for them,
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Alright, have them leave their weapons behind, switch only to the arsenal they have built-in, hidden within their bodies, we want to look as if we came mostly unarmed. No need to push the organics too much, you know how trigger happy they can get."
The older droid explained, at WD's question towards Kida, HK mentioned to the girl he was guiding along by holding her hamd,
"
This is Kida, she is an orphan we have adopted. She is not as human as she appears, in fact she is both ageless and immortal, like us. I found her once in the forests of Endor, orphaned, and brought her with me to the Protectorate. The Jedi took her as guardians then but they too abandoned her and I found her once more amidst frozen wastelands of Midvinter."
HK looked to WD then,
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Now we are the closest thing she has to family left. She may be organic, but she is under our protection, Ultimatum already knows about her, but do not tell the Sparklords yet."
The Sparklords were the NPC council of ancient droids and the closest thing Metal Lords had to a central government, although they were judicial if anything else, and often at odds with HK.
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They would probably freak out if they heard I am trying to raise a child again."
That "again" part was probably worth looking into, but HK did not linger on it too much, hurrying WD, Kida, and their guards along into their shuttle.
"
Come on, we kept the Prime Minister of Denon waiting long enough."
And so they would climb on in into the Knight of the Eclipse, their black, sleek stealth transport, which would quickly lift off and sail away from their current flagships, piercing the black void of space between the Metal Lord fleet and the planet. As the shuttle flew away it was joined by two winged shapes, large, forged out of tough Duranium armor plates sitting on a skeleton of thick metal bones. They were
the Metal Dragons, elite heavy starfighter droids of Metal Lords, picked by HK as part of their representation and escort down to the besieged world.
It would not be too long after that for Macharius and other representatives to spot three shapes lowering down from the sky towards the parliament building. All three covered in black armored plates, one was a ship, the other two strange winged shapes of the Metal Lord starfighter droids. They would swoop down smoothly, almost gliding to the surface as they slowed down and landed before them. Neither were powering up weapons or even shields, the shuttle hissed as it begun to cool off and its docking bay opened, a ramp extending down to the ground. The Droid Dragons held their position on either side of the shuttle, glancing about to scan over the building and the representatives, their large shapes had two rotary cannons sitting on their shoulders, used for dogfighting the turrets were dormant right now, a stinger-like emerald crystal was embedded into their serpentine tails, waving back and forth idly sometimes. Their mechanical stabilization wings folded in and pressed to their bodies with a soft whirr, locking down their s-foils into a more manageable position.
From the shuttle the Metal Lord envoy would finally emerge, the Echani Droid guards brought by WD would come first, named so for the shields build into their bodies modeled after Echani designs, then HK would appear, holding onto Kida's hand as the girl was brought out next to him. He was mostly covered in the organic black armor of Vong origin, its armored plates seemed more like chitin or bone than metal. Macharius could tell he was the being he spoke to. The membranous chitin helmet would pull back, plates shifting and folding as the flesh peeled off and hid away, revealing the pale Phrik faceplate of the droid beneath. Behind him WD would have space to come out, and finally at the very rear the two Greycloak guards, covered in similar fleshy armor as HK was, however while the older droid was wrapped in a black heavy cloak, they wore grey ones.
"
Macharius Solaire, Prime Minister Of Denon."
HK addressed the man as he stepped down towards them,
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I am the Iron Lord Protector Above Abregado, HK-36, this is my adopted daughter, Kida, my lieutenant WD-334,"
As veteran of the One Sith Wars, there was a chance Macharius would have heard about the droid before, one of the more prominent commands of Protectorate back in the day, at one point he even managed to ascend to the position of the Lord Protector within the faction, their head of government. The droid lead portion of the reinforcements which came to Republic's aid during the siege of Coruscant, then the following attempts to take the planet back, and numerous other battles during the war. The droid finally introduced himself and his two companions, motioning to each of them before gesturing to the two Metal Dragons, each on the side of their shuttle,
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And Lord Admiral VD-38338 and The Ship Lord Of Tattered Hulls."
Each of the Dragon Droids would nod to Macharius in response at their introduction, HK himself would look to him with his glowing red photoreceptors,
"
We thank you for welcoming us to your planet without immediately opening fire."
