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In the blink of an eye the short skirmish was already over. Kaida's yellow lightsabre hummed as it scythed two raiders, bringing them the deliverance that only death could. The few surviving raiders tossed away their weapons and held up their hands in surrender. Since they were not fanatical zealots but simply criminal scum out for profit that was the rational choice for them.
Their treatment at the hands of the Eldorai would not be very gentle. "Take their weapons, cuff them and send them to base," Kaida said curtly to her Host Leader, which was the Eldorai equivalent of Lieutenant. "Report to Command that sector three is clear." As soon as she had said these words the daemons of the netherworld - in other words, her writer - conspired to prove her wrong because it had been decided that more slaughter was needed to provide some content for this post.
Abruptly a grinding of stone echoed through the hall, which instantly put her on edge. "It's one of the monsters. Run!" one of the raiders cried out in fear and immediately bolted along with two comrades. He did not get far because an overeager Eldorai soldier shot him dead. The remaining two were not any luckier for suddenly a monstrous roar rang out as a Chrysalide rancor appeared, towering over both of them. Saliva frothed from its mouth as it advanced, looking incredibly hungry and angry.
Maybe it had gone for a long time without food or the little firefight had woken it up and annoyed it. Either way, it would undoubtedly relish the chance to feed on the buffet before it since now there was plenty of food to be had between the surviving raiders and the Eldorai soldiers. The two unfortunate raiders were the first to die when the rancor simply grabbed them and, as they screamed in fear and terror, tossed them into its mouth. Crunches were heard as it munched upon their flesh. At the same time another rancor appeared from behind the group and a scream was heard when it grabbed an Eldorai soldier and ripped her body in two.
Kaida would have let loose an Eldarai curse, but there was no time for that. "Section One take front, Two rear. Spread out and fire. Unleash a shockwave in the rear." The droning whine of thousands of rounds smashing into metal and flesh filled the air as a shattercannon roared, immediately joined by a heavy bolter. The sharp crack of the gun firing was matched only by the percussive crump of the explosion a second later.
The mighty rancor was quite literally getting its insides drilled away and ripped apart. A searing blast of fire barbequed its skin and then it fell over, dead. Meanwhile the second rancor charged into the fray, apparently going straight for Kaida and the soldiers closest to her. Pulling upon the invisible strands of power she gripped a couple of them to pull them out of harm's way as the beast threatened to crush them, then let loose a powerful wind that slammed into the monster like a hurricane and brought it down. However, the beast was not so easily felled and so got to its feet once again and lashed out towards her with a mighty blow that would have smashed her skull but instead broke a solid wall of ice that had manifested around her.
As the ice wall crumbled Kaida was knocked to the ground and then abruptly the beast scooped her, exploiting her temporary daze. However, as it tried to pull her towards its mouth it suddenly cried out when its hand...and then its entire arm suddenly started to turn sluggish and freeze...very strongly. The coldness seemed to be spreading throughout its entire body as it felt itself going limp and becoming more and more paralysed. In a rage it howled and dropped Kaida, soon finding itself bombarded by a hailstorm of small rocks propelled at absurd speed by the power of an Angelii terramancer.
When its foot tried to crush her in a violent rage it was hit straight in the face by the explosive bolt fired from her bolt pistol. Getting up with a groan, cold steam escaped Kaida's mouth and gauntleted hand as she focused and drew upon the energies of her Sciia. Coldness spread through the beast as she began to induce frostbite. A signal was given to her fellow Angelii and the beast was struck by a powerful wind that brought it down. Oxygen and blood an failed to reach its brain as she exerted her will to freeze its arteries. Without blood being pumped from the heart to the rest of the body and with no oxygen being transported, the beast slumped over and died most agonisingly, joining its other brethren.
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In the meantime setting up a mining outpost was proceeding well. Siobhan, whilst in the middle of studying the paperwork involved with this sort of thing, heard that the Eldorai had killed a couple monsters. Requesting an update on the state of the unit, she diverted a couple reinforcements and medics down their way, then turned back to her business. The rig was being set up, so drilling had not begun yet, but all in all the basic structure of the outpost had been set up, to a large extent thanks to the use of ARGH droids and engineers that had already set up a similar outpost on Bespin before the Second Akala Crisis resulted in the Protectorate losing its grip over the planet. It would not be long before extraction of cortosis could begin.
In the blink of an eye the short skirmish was already over. Kaida's yellow lightsabre hummed as it scythed two raiders, bringing them the deliverance that only death could. The few surviving raiders tossed away their weapons and held up their hands in surrender. Since they were not fanatical zealots but simply criminal scum out for profit that was the rational choice for them.
Their treatment at the hands of the Eldorai would not be very gentle. "Take their weapons, cuff them and send them to base," Kaida said curtly to her Host Leader, which was the Eldorai equivalent of Lieutenant. "Report to Command that sector three is clear." As soon as she had said these words the daemons of the netherworld - in other words, her writer - conspired to prove her wrong because it had been decided that more slaughter was needed to provide some content for this post.
Abruptly a grinding of stone echoed through the hall, which instantly put her on edge. "It's one of the monsters. Run!" one of the raiders cried out in fear and immediately bolted along with two comrades. He did not get far because an overeager Eldorai soldier shot him dead. The remaining two were not any luckier for suddenly a monstrous roar rang out as a Chrysalide rancor appeared, towering over both of them. Saliva frothed from its mouth as it advanced, looking incredibly hungry and angry.
Maybe it had gone for a long time without food or the little firefight had woken it up and annoyed it. Either way, it would undoubtedly relish the chance to feed on the buffet before it since now there was plenty of food to be had between the surviving raiders and the Eldorai soldiers. The two unfortunate raiders were the first to die when the rancor simply grabbed them and, as they screamed in fear and terror, tossed them into its mouth. Crunches were heard as it munched upon their flesh. At the same time another rancor appeared from behind the group and a scream was heard when it grabbed an Eldorai soldier and ripped her body in two.
Kaida would have let loose an Eldarai curse, but there was no time for that. "Section One take front, Two rear. Spread out and fire. Unleash a shockwave in the rear." The droning whine of thousands of rounds smashing into metal and flesh filled the air as a shattercannon roared, immediately joined by a heavy bolter. The sharp crack of the gun firing was matched only by the percussive crump of the explosion a second later.
The mighty rancor was quite literally getting its insides drilled away and ripped apart. A searing blast of fire barbequed its skin and then it fell over, dead. Meanwhile the second rancor charged into the fray, apparently going straight for Kaida and the soldiers closest to her. Pulling upon the invisible strands of power she gripped a couple of them to pull them out of harm's way as the beast threatened to crush them, then let loose a powerful wind that slammed into the monster like a hurricane and brought it down. However, the beast was not so easily felled and so got to its feet once again and lashed out towards her with a mighty blow that would have smashed her skull but instead broke a solid wall of ice that had manifested around her.
As the ice wall crumbled Kaida was knocked to the ground and then abruptly the beast scooped her, exploiting her temporary daze. However, as it tried to pull her towards its mouth it suddenly cried out when its hand...and then its entire arm suddenly started to turn sluggish and freeze...very strongly. The coldness seemed to be spreading throughout its entire body as it felt itself going limp and becoming more and more paralysed. In a rage it howled and dropped Kaida, soon finding itself bombarded by a hailstorm of small rocks propelled at absurd speed by the power of an Angelii terramancer.
When its foot tried to crush her in a violent rage it was hit straight in the face by the explosive bolt fired from her bolt pistol. Getting up with a groan, cold steam escaped Kaida's mouth and gauntleted hand as she focused and drew upon the energies of her Sciia. Coldness spread through the beast as she began to induce frostbite. A signal was given to her fellow Angelii and the beast was struck by a powerful wind that brought it down. Oxygen and blood an failed to reach its brain as she exerted her will to freeze its arteries. Without blood being pumped from the heart to the rest of the body and with no oxygen being transported, the beast slumped over and died most agonisingly, joining its other brethren.
xxx
In the meantime setting up a mining outpost was proceeding well. Siobhan, whilst in the middle of studying the paperwork involved with this sort of thing, heard that the Eldorai had killed a couple monsters. Requesting an update on the state of the unit, she diverted a couple reinforcements and medics down their way, then turned back to her business. The rig was being set up, so drilling had not begun yet, but all in all the basic structure of the outpost had been set up, to a large extent thanks to the use of ARGH droids and engineers that had already set up a similar outpost on Bespin before the Second Akala Crisis resulted in the Protectorate losing its grip over the planet. It would not be long before extraction of cortosis could begin.
