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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2018 4:51:35 GMT -8
==Pirate Raid SL== <<107 PP, N9 Sector, Interstellar Space>> Even the scattered return fire from the intruder was effective. It only took only a single shot to destroy the small drones. Of course, hitting one of the small & nimble objects was the real challenge. The random scatter of shots managed to destroy one of the drones by sheer chance, but there were still twenty three of them left. A group of six pushed after the now fleeing intruder, herding her onward with continual beam attacks.The remaining drones also split up into groups of six (though one group was already down one member). Two of these groups moved through access tunnels in the walls designed for their use in order to bypass the intruder & launch a pincer attack. The last group pushed on even further, setting up another ambush around the manual release, something she would have to pass in order to exit the ship at all, unless she started opening cargo bays.
Emma spared a glance toward the handle then, as scattered parts of the instructions were deciphered. There was little time to allow the remaining instructions to be translated. Emma ran across the hallway room. Her mag boots deactivating as she flipped back upright, before locking back to the floor. She grabbed the handle and pulled it outwards, the arm clicking into place as Emma fired another salvo of shots along the hallway. She rotated the lever ninety degrees in place, before sliding it down the channel.
She spun around then, several shots glancing off her armour as she came to a stop and fired several more rounds off. Emma knew she was surrounded. But it was now or never for the release. She turned back around and rotated the handle back ninety degrees, before pushing it into the panel. She started off at a sprint toward the front of the ship. Her mag boots deactivating a moment later before the thrusters in her suit propelled her forward |
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Post by House of D'Ordinii on Aug 2, 2018 18:18:02 GMT -8
==Pirate Raid SL==
<<107 PP, N9 Sector, Interstellar Space>>
A pair of lean, blocky figures dropped from hyperspace, sending out two ripples of hyperspace radiation that would be easily noticeable to the ships attempting to rob the drone shuttle of its cargo. The ships themselves would be too far away for accurate sensor readings for what type of ship, or even if they were heading toward the pirates. As soon as they dropped from hyperspace, they flipped over their own prows in a hard burn maneuver that would have killed any organic crew on board, they they not been equally devoid of life. Within moments, the pair of Crusaders were executing a hard burn toward the pirates, the final clock had started.
At the same tip, the GR75 suddenly engaged its maneuvering thrusters, it was certainly not an agile or fast design, but it was still an unexpected move. Within ten seconds, the ship had completely reversed the direction it was facing. As soon as it had, the thrusters kicked in, steadily eating away at the speed it had built up when first engaging in the drift across the gap. Likely, the pirate ships would be put slightly out of position due to this sudden maneuver & braking. It would have gone perfectly if the manual release hadn't been activated just as the maneuver was beginning. The manual release made use of a set of self contained repulsors in order to push the pod free of the Hull, regardless of any acceleration the ship itself might be pulling. Of course, the designers of the pod had never expected it to be used when the Hull was doing anything but speeding up, slowing down, or floating. While the Pod did manage to clear the hull without any damage, it was now spinning end over end & off from the cluster of three ships at a fairly impressive rate.
Inside the pod, two more of the drones had been clipped by return fire, taking them out of the fight. One in the ambushing group & another in the driving group. However, their attack was unfortunately short lived as the gravity suddenly shifted in the pod. For the first few seconds gravity seemed to pull in every direction at once, bouncing the drones off any nearby surface. A moment later however, it settled (at least near the release lever) with the wall closest to the nose being the new down. Unfortunately, gravity was now several times its normal strength. In all, nearly half of the remaining twenty two drones were too damaged, either from the initial bouncing or from the final crunch into the far bulkhead to continue the fight. The remaining eleven drones began to struggle to adjust to the increased gravity. Their programming allowed for that, but it would take a few moments for the automatic adjustments to kick in.
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Post by Luxeria on Aug 9, 2018 13:48:47 GMT -8
Just as Luxeria was passing in front of the ship, her sensors picked up the distress beacon from inside the ship. As she come to a stop, centering herself in front of the ship, she took notice of the slight fluctuation in it as she moved. It seemed the best place to receive signals was directly in front. And now Emma was in trouble.
She didn't get much time to dwell on the beacon, though, as Kyra started speaking. ::I have detected two signatures emerging from hyperspace. Currently, they are too far out to determine anything else. However, it would be wise to consider them reinforcements.:: Luxeria's hands tightened on the controls. The clock was counting down now. They had to hurry and get what they came for and get out before the additional ships could arrive. She started to activate the comlink to Emma when Kyra spoke again. ::The transport is moving.::
She didn't even let Kyra finish saying anything to tell her about just exactly how it was moving. "What do you mean it's moving?!" There was a slight pause before she responded back. :;Warning! Incoming object! Move hard left and drop now!:: The sudden excitement in Kyra's voice eliminated all questions for the moment as she did as she was told. All power being directed to her maneuvering thrusters, the ship darted left and dove downwards. She couldn't see it at the moment, but they barely missed being hit by the cargo pod. As the ship leveled off, she looked out and saw it floating off, spinning end over end. "Kyra, is that what I think it is?"
::Confirmed. That is the cargo pod the transport was carrying. When it moved, it made a nose up 180 degree turn. Either the force in it cause the clamps to give or a release lever was activated. On the plus side, we can let the ship go and work to load the ships if we can catch it and stop its movement. However, the two ships I detected coming from hyperspace are now heading this direction as the transport is heading towards them at maximum speed. We must extract Emma immediately.:: Luxeria grunted in frustration as she turned the ship around in a tight a turn as possible. Putting all power into the engines, she pushed them to give her all the speed she could. She had to get back to the front of the ship and warn Emma.
As she made her approach, she activated the channel to Jack. ::jack, this is Luxeria. Do you copy? We have detected reinforcements heading this way. With the ship turning tail and heading to meet them, our clock is ticking fast. When it turned, it lost the cargo pod and its moving on through space the way we were heading. If you have any ideas on how to stop it, you might want to start on that. I'm going to work on getting Emma out of there.:: She didn't wait for a response as she started passing the ship, hoping her message was received.
She was pushing her ship to get there, but was able to finally reach the front, allowing for her to send off a message to Emma. ::Emma, reinforcements are on the way and the ship is now heading to meet them. You need to get out of there now. The cargo pod has been released. If we move fast, we can grab it and unload before the ships reach us.::
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Post by Gráinne Mhaol & Fiach Dubh on Aug 11, 2018 20:49:34 GMT -8
A YT-1300 light freighter entered hyperspace trailed by a small shuttle and roared down the hyperspace lane like a cannonball
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2018 18:55:47 GMT -8
Emma had released the Cargo pod and had fully expected to have to exit the part of the ship she was currently in, to get to the goods. But as she sped toward the exit, she suddenly noticed the entire hallway start to speed past her. Sending her back into the hallway once more. She braced herself as the entire room started to flip end over end, bringing the floor up to met her boots, which locked onto the surface, securing Emma in place.
She watched, and dodged, the security droids as they started rebounding off the walls. Emma let loose several more rounds, as she made her way toward the entrance on foot. Her radio crackling to life as the thick armour plating of the GR-75 no longer encased the cargo pod. Luxeria's warning coming loud and clear over the radio then, urging her to get free of the main ship. Like her, Vasari must have assumed the hallway was part of the GR-75 hull. Emma activated her comm then
I'm in the cargo pod! Now get back here!
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Post by Luxeria on Aug 14, 2018 14:05:40 GMT -8
Coming through clearer than it had been since leaving the ship, Luxeria sat back in surprise when Emma responded. "Wait, what?" Her voiced almost echoed through the cockpit as the realization came through of her location. She hadn't expected Emma to already be in the cargo pod. "Damn it." Once again putting all she could into the maneuvering thrusters, the ship went nose up, performing the same nose up one-eighty degree turn as the GR-75 had. The very moment she was lined up with her previous course, she punched it and flew back to the pod. In the course of a few minutes, Luxeria had worked to push the limits of her ship's agility and speed more than she ever had. If anything, it'd help her grasp just what it could do if need be.
It took a few minutes to finally catch back up to the pod that was still spiraling. She hoped Jack was around and had an idea on how to get it stopped and stabilized. If need be, she could always use the Force to stop it but had no idea what would happen considering they were in a zero gravity environment with no atmosphere. For all she knew it would either not work or be difficult to utilize or control. If she was lucky, she wouldn't have to test it. Activating the comm, she finally responded to Emma. ::hang tight, Emma. We're working to get the pod under control. Standby.::
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Post by Jack Morgan on Aug 14, 2018 15:24:24 GMT -8
After hearing Emma coming through on the comms, saying she was inside the cargo pod. Jack quickly accelerated towards the pod only slowing down to match the speed of the pod once it was directly below the Renegade, Jack flipped a switch which activated the modified Magnet crane which had been mounted on the bottom of the Renegade. As the magnet crane activated it's magnetic pull grabbed the cargo pod and pulled it to the bottom of the ship. With the Cargo pod secured with the magnet crane, Jack flipped the comms switch so that he could inform his partners in crime that the pod was secured.
Cargo pod is secured, darling. I suggested that find a nearby planet so that we can unload the cargo and leave before anyone sends a search party out looking for us.
Jack began to look for nearby planets, or a hangar with enough room to unload the cargo.
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Post by Luxeria on Aug 15, 2018 8:04:45 GMT -8
Luxeria sighed with relief seeing Jack steady and stop the pod. Her ship wasn’t equipped for these situations. Never before had she even thought of becoming a pirate. Even more, her ship was given to her by her parents. It had the base weapons and luxurious amenities, but that was all. Perhaps it was time to get a new ship, one that would better suit her and current lifestyle.
When he came over the comms, she was quick to respond. ::We better make it quick. We have two ships inbound as we speak, no doubt reinforcements. I wouldn’t put it passed the idea they’ve already got our position and will be heading straight here to eliminate us and acquire the pod again.::
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Post by House of D'Ordinii on Aug 15, 2018 10:13:51 GMT -8
==Pirate Raid SL==
<<107 PP, N9 Sector, Interstellar Space>>
The pirates were far from out of the woods. For one, they were just over three quarters of the way across the gulf. Before they could escape to hyperspace, they would have to finish crossing it. Otherwise the natural ripples in this area would rip them apart. In addition, the two Crusaders were still closing hard, by this point, they would be drawing into extreme sensor range of the pirates. The last factor (at least in the space part of their operation) was the bulk of the pod. It was nearly sixty meters long, twenty meters tall & thirty meters across. The sheer mass meant that it would likely yank the grappling ship around for a few rough moments. As the pirate ship had thrusters &the pod was simply floating, the ship would eventually be able to level it out.
Between being slowed down by the pod & the distance left, it would be a race to see if they could reach the hyperspace lane & safety before the Crusaders came into weapons range. That, of course completely failed to take into account that the remaining eleven drones inside the pod were already regrouping to attack the interloper again.
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Post by Jack Morgan on Aug 15, 2018 15:05:32 GMT -8
Jack began to increase the Renegade's speed, as quickly as possible. He didn't want to be around when reinforcements arrived. Being a smuggler and out right outlaw Jack knew of a few abandoned stations that could serve as a place to unload the cargo pod, the closest one was on the other side of gulf which they still had about a quarter left to cross. The abandoned station could be considered a relic as it was left over from the Clone wars, it had been stripped for part long ago and at a passing glance it looked like nothing more than space debris. Jack however knew that a small number of Smugglers used it as a rest stop, to be more accurate a small scale black market and a bar. It wasn't as big or as fancy as the Smuggler's run but it would serve their purpose. Jack began to transmit the coordinates of the station to Luxeria.
I'm sending you some coordinates, darling. That spot should give us the time we need to unload the cargo pod and hit the hyperspace lane before any reinforcements find us.
With the Coordinates sent, Jack continued to make his way across the gulf towards the Smuggler's rest stop.
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Post by Luxeria on Aug 16, 2018 8:49:08 GMT -8
Luxeria watched as the coordinates came on screen. She began loading them as Kyra plotted a course. It wasn’t really necessary considering she’d following Jack, but should there be a reason to split up before arriving, she’d be able to find her way. ::Copy that, Jack. Coordinates loaded and course set. Let’s move.::
She then activates the channel to Emma. ::We’re on the move and should hopefully set down soon. What’s your status?::
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2018 19:13:46 GMT -8
As the Pod started to steady out, Emma made her way on foot to the airlock she had blown open to gain entrance to the pod. Thankfully the pod flying free had sent the droids into disarray when she had initially been heading here. She braced herself against the airlock door frame as Jack headed towards the smuggler's rest stop. This wasn't exactly how she'd planned to travel with the cargo. But she was just going to have to roll with the punches. She turned around and guarded the airlock door way, keeping the drones in front of her as Luxeria's message came through
Still alive, despite Jack's best efforts... I'm hoping we're not planning to jump to hyperspace while I'm still down here... I don't think I can hold all of these droids myself for too much longer...
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Post by Jack Morgan on Sept 2, 2018 20:25:19 GMT -8
Former Republic Space Station - Glory, now a rest stop for Smugglers and a small time black market, with a bar. Once they got across the last part of gulf Jack sighed with relief.Jack reduced his speed and began his approach towards docking bay 3, the only docking bay that wasn't being used for anything, Jack figured that no one disturb them there. Once inside of the Docking bay, Jack slowed right down and disengaged the Cargo pod from the Magnet crane. Jack couldn't really tell if the pod landed smoothly or not. He proceeded to land The Renegade on the right side of the pod. Getting up the his seat Jack looked at Crowdarr."Let's see if our passenger had a nice trip."Crowdarr let out a growl agreeing with Jack's idea. Both Jack and Crowdarr made their way through The Renegade and proceeded to walk down the loading ramp. Jack made his way over to the exit of the Cargo pod and banged on it twice with the bottom of his right fist. Crowdarr take up a position opposite of Jack with his bowcaster raised, just incase someone other than Emma exited the pod. Jack tap the comm link in his ear. "Ma'am, the Cargo pod is secured, Docking bay 3"Jack really hoped that the four of them could unload the pod and jump to hyperspace before any reinforcements began to show up. Since his employer wasn't one to kept waiting, especially with this job as it was a way to get in good with the Hutt Cartel.
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Post by House of D'Ordinii on Sept 4, 2018 5:13:13 GMT -8
==Pirate Raid SL==
<<107 PP, N9 Sector, Interstellar Space>>
If it were possible, the crusaders would be annoyed at their prey escaping to hyperspace before they could be overtaken. However, such things were beyond the drone warships. They would take some time to briefly visit several nearby systems in case the pirates made the mistake of stopping too near, but their search would prove fruitless.
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Post by Luxeria on Sept 4, 2018 13:36:15 GMT -8
Luxeria followed the coordinates Jack provided for her. It wasn't too long before they arrived at what appeared to be a run down space station. In some cases, it was a rather odd place to go to, yet, considering what they were doing and the time they had, it was more than perfect. Bringing the ship in behind Jack's she landed off to the side a bit before making her way off the ship quickly. The last she knew, Emma wasn't just lounging around and after the trip, there was no telling her current status.
Not even progressing to the end of the ramp, Luxeria grabbed the hydraulic lowering the ramp and used it to spin her around to the side quickly as she sprinted over to the container and next to Jack. Her lightsaber hilt was already in hand, ready for when they opened the doors to let Emma out. She wasn't about to be caught off guard.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2018 20:49:31 GMT -8
Traveling through hyperspace, while fighting a bunch or feline like robots in a cargo pod, that was strapped to another ship, was not on the list of things Emma had ever thought she would be doing. But as they finally landed in the Hangar Bay of the black market hub, she was able to finally mark it off her list. She had traded fire back and forth with her adversaries, managing to thin their numbers with lucky shots, or sending them hurtling out into hyperspace.
They, in turn, had roughed her up a bit. Her armour sporting several new dents, scratches, and scorch marks. Thankfully though, she had managed to avoid any fatal wounds.
As Jack, Crowdarr and Luxeria all banged upon the lower hatch door, Emma leapt out of the upper airlock door. Her suits thrusters activating enough to soften her landing upon the hangar bay floor just behind the group. She took a moment, before rising to full height and nodding at them all
Could you all please lower your guns, I've dealt with enough incoming fire for one day... Now let's crack her open and get that cargo...
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Post by Luxeria on Sept 9, 2018 12:49:29 GMT -8
Luxeria watched as Emma emerged from another section of the cargo pod, most likely the area she entered from. Lightsaber still ignited as the woman fell beside them, Luxeria kept herself prepped, expecting something else to emerge as well. She had felt something off with Emma while on the ship and her message sure didn't ease that feeling. Yet, nothing seemed to come out after the pirate. Taking a breath, she let herself settle as she deactivated her saber and put in back on her belt. "So who wants to do the honors?"
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Post by Jack Morgan on Sept 28, 2018 16:15:56 GMT -8
Jack and Crowdarr both lowered their weapons as Emma emerged from the cargo pod. Jack made note that the redhead sith was cautious, which was a good thing when dealing in unfamiliar territory. Fortunately being a Smuggler, Jack has came to expect the unexpected while doing a Job. When She posed her question, Jack simply bowed his head and stretched out his right arm.
"Honor is all yours darling."
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2018 11:23:41 GMT -8
Fine...
Emma walked up to the door, and yanked down hard on the release handle. The door protesting loudly as she forced it open, allowing them access into the cargo pod from ground level. She kept her rifle raised for a moment, before relaxing when no new tiny robots came flying out at her
Well that wasn't so hard, now was it? We better move fast if we want to get as much unloaded as we can...
Emma lead the way back into the cargo pod, a pair of lights on her helmet activating to allow her to see where she was going. With the cargo pod being almost the size of a freighter, they were not going to be able to get everything out of it. But she was certain they'd be able to get more than enough out to make a tidy profit
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Post by Luxeria on Oct 20, 2018 12:30:10 GMT -8
Luxeria watched as the door opened and followed Emma inside. With little light, there wasn't much she could make out except smaller containers. She wasn't much of a pirate, but she wanted to believe they hit it pretty good here. "So how about we start cracking these things open and see what's inside. I doubt we have a lot of time and we also don't want to waste space on things none of us really need."
That was a truth she believed. They might have escaped from their pursuers for the moment, but she doubted they'd be far behind. Her senses and instincts screamed that their time was ticking down quickly.
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