The Midnight Man
Vengeance
Objective 1: Spaceport
-Station Juliet, Warehouse 04
-Disrupt Local & Orbital Comms
Allies: Corellia, SJO, Republic
Enemies: Imperial Scum
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The rear entrance to the warehouse was more a shipping dock - an entryway, with access by a long ramp for transporting boxes & equipment easily. The alleyway behind the long line of storage bunkers was often used to line up transportation vehicles, which were laden with supplies... One of the ways the Imperials had been noticed, is that standard shipments weren't being accepted into this particular warehouse recently.
Sometimes, all it took was a simple change of every-day business. They couldn't have hidden long.
Vincent slipped around the side of the building, leaving the corpse of the Imperial in the dark. Powerful hands gripped one of the steel support beams set into the duracrete, and the wraith heaved himself up onto the brightly lit loading dock, springing easily into cover behind a crate marked "Fragile"; the wooden walls of the container were worn & weathered, as-if it'd been forgotten. Only a few paces away, an entry into the warehouse waited, lonely and silent...
But his instincts told him to wait. Be patient.
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Tiem was getting bored. All this sitting... for hours, the sitting... Essentially, he was just a glorified operator. Couldn't they find somebody else to man the radios, while he tackled the more exciting jobs, like perimeter security? At the very least, it would have given him a chance to take a potshot at a stray dog... or a vagrant. It wasn't like they were expecting anyone to hit them here. The Imperial Occupation had been sudden & violent... These Corellians were terrified of them, and the warehouse he and his team had occupied had remained untouched. The blonde-haired man rubbed a rough hand over his cleanly-shaven chin, then made a decision & stood.
"Going out for a Cigera. Watch the radio, yeah?" He spoke to one of his fellow troopers, and the bald-headed man squinted but said nothing. Tiem walked out of the office, leaving his carbine... he still carried a holstered blaster and his issued fighting blade, which he didn't expect he'd need.
He took the stairs to the first floor, crossed the large expanse of space filled with shipping crates (which he & his fellows had already raided), and entered the dimly lit hallway leading to the loading dock. "Going out?" A voice caught Tiem's attention as he passed an office, and the blonde-haired man turned, laying eyes upon one of his shorter comrades, Trooper Rylen. Rylen was the group's designated marksman, and the sniper gave his superior a grin. "Mind if I join?" And then, he was up and in the hallway without waiting for confirmation.
Tiem rolled his eyes... but followed anyway. He was already pulling two white cylinders from the pack in his breast pocket. Rylen always smoked other people's cigeras - never his own.
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The door to the loading dock swung open, and the sound of loud conversation carried on by a single individual signaled the killer that his patience had paid off. He didn't need to peer around the crate to know there were two men... with one of them, doing all the talking. A few heartbeats passed until the sweet scent of tobac wafted through the air.
"-ven if they do come, what'll they do? We can call air support which'll be here in minutes. I tell ya, this has been one of the easiest deployments yet!"
"Rylen."
"Hell, I don't care what the rules of engagement are... I just wanna shoot something. Aren't you bored, Tiem?"
"Shut up, Rylen."
"Nahh, nahh.. Come on, let's see if Farkas has seen anything moving near the fence. Maybe there's -"
Rylen had pointed back toward the rear of the building with his left hand. Both he & his companion had their backs to the entrance... and were so distracted by the shorter man's excited speech that they heard nothing until it was too late. Closing his fist over the shorter man's wrist, Nyax buried his right elbow in the man's floating ribs, feeling a bone-deep crack as a rib shattered under the sudden assault. Using the sudden change of momentum, the boogeyman stepped in, twisting the man's arm and simultaneously attacking his fellow - the taller, tow-headed man with the cigarette between his lips. Nyax' other hand struck the silent trooper in the throat with a violent chop which saw the cigera fall from numb lips. He wouldn't be saying anything, now.
The shorter man's arm was used to control his fall as Vincent arrested the trooper's momentum with his foot, sending the man sprawling to the duracrete. The woosh of expelled air from the broken rib was cut short as the shorter Imperial's head struck unyielding stone.
He left the body there, reeling on the man named "Tiem", drawing a sharpened blade from within his coat and stepping forward, pinning the Imperial's skull against Nyax' own belly while he drove the blade downward, into the rear of the man's skull. There would be little blood, and the assassin was completely in control.
-Station Juliet, Warehouse 04
-Disrupt Local & Orbital Comms
Allies: Corellia, SJO, Republic
Enemies: Imperial Scum
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The rear entrance to the warehouse was more a shipping dock - an entryway, with access by a long ramp for transporting boxes & equipment easily. The alleyway behind the long line of storage bunkers was often used to line up transportation vehicles, which were laden with supplies... One of the ways the Imperials had been noticed, is that standard shipments weren't being accepted into this particular warehouse recently.
Sometimes, all it took was a simple change of every-day business. They couldn't have hidden long.
Vincent slipped around the side of the building, leaving the corpse of the Imperial in the dark. Powerful hands gripped one of the steel support beams set into the duracrete, and the wraith heaved himself up onto the brightly lit loading dock, springing easily into cover behind a crate marked "Fragile"; the wooden walls of the container were worn & weathered, as-if it'd been forgotten. Only a few paces away, an entry into the warehouse waited, lonely and silent...
But his instincts told him to wait. Be patient.
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Tiem was getting bored. All this sitting... for hours, the sitting... Essentially, he was just a glorified operator. Couldn't they find somebody else to man the radios, while he tackled the more exciting jobs, like perimeter security? At the very least, it would have given him a chance to take a potshot at a stray dog... or a vagrant. It wasn't like they were expecting anyone to hit them here. The Imperial Occupation had been sudden & violent... These Corellians were terrified of them, and the warehouse he and his team had occupied had remained untouched. The blonde-haired man rubbed a rough hand over his cleanly-shaven chin, then made a decision & stood.
"Going out for a Cigera. Watch the radio, yeah?" He spoke to one of his fellow troopers, and the bald-headed man squinted but said nothing. Tiem walked out of the office, leaving his carbine... he still carried a holstered blaster and his issued fighting blade, which he didn't expect he'd need.
He took the stairs to the first floor, crossed the large expanse of space filled with shipping crates (which he & his fellows had already raided), and entered the dimly lit hallway leading to the loading dock. "Going out?" A voice caught Tiem's attention as he passed an office, and the blonde-haired man turned, laying eyes upon one of his shorter comrades, Trooper Rylen. Rylen was the group's designated marksman, and the sniper gave his superior a grin. "Mind if I join?" And then, he was up and in the hallway without waiting for confirmation.
Tiem rolled his eyes... but followed anyway. He was already pulling two white cylinders from the pack in his breast pocket. Rylen always smoked other people's cigeras - never his own.
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The door to the loading dock swung open, and the sound of loud conversation carried on by a single individual signaled the killer that his patience had paid off. He didn't need to peer around the crate to know there were two men... with one of them, doing all the talking. A few heartbeats passed until the sweet scent of tobac wafted through the air.
"-ven if they do come, what'll they do? We can call air support which'll be here in minutes. I tell ya, this has been one of the easiest deployments yet!"
"Rylen."
"Hell, I don't care what the rules of engagement are... I just wanna shoot something. Aren't you bored, Tiem?"
"Shut up, Rylen."
"Nahh, nahh.. Come on, let's see if Farkas has seen anything moving near the fence. Maybe there's -"
Rylen had pointed back toward the rear of the building with his left hand. Both he & his companion had their backs to the entrance... and were so distracted by the shorter man's excited speech that they heard nothing until it was too late. Closing his fist over the shorter man's wrist, Nyax buried his right elbow in the man's floating ribs, feeling a bone-deep crack as a rib shattered under the sudden assault. Using the sudden change of momentum, the boogeyman stepped in, twisting the man's arm and simultaneously attacking his fellow - the taller, tow-headed man with the cigarette between his lips. Nyax' other hand struck the silent trooper in the throat with a violent chop which saw the cigera fall from numb lips. He wouldn't be saying anything, now.
The shorter man's arm was used to control his fall as Vincent arrested the trooper's momentum with his foot, sending the man sprawling to the duracrete. The woosh of expelled air from the broken rib was cut short as the shorter Imperial's head struck unyielding stone.
12.
He left the body there, reeling on the man named "Tiem", drawing a sharpened blade from within his coat and stepping forward, pinning the Imperial's skull against Nyax' own belly while he drove the blade downward, into the rear of the man's skull. There would be little blood, and the assassin was completely in control.
11.
Cleanup was quick - both bodies, tucked behind the crate their killer had used for cover moments before, then covered by a tarp which had been protecting an open container of oxy-tanks. In the shadows, curled up against a wall, the huddled mass appeared to be a pile of refuse, and would be easily missed.
The wraith had come prepared, drawing a compact pistol from behind his back... then, slipped silently into the building through the door the two men had used earlier.