Leaving hyperspace Gra'tua allowed himself to relax somewhat, they had managed to get through Saleucami space without too much trouble, upon entry he had simple assured the local forces that he was Mandalorian and neutral in the greater galactic conflict and that if they were smart they would allow them passage unless they wished to have the Mandalorian clans back their enemies. Kashiir approached them, "We are now at the edge of Hutt space, I would advise to go around it, following the route directly to Teth. I would be... unwise in my opinion to startle the Hutts with two warships traveling through their domain."
Gra'tua nodded slowly, "I suppose you are right, but we are here to assist Lena, so it is her call to make." He turned to a communications officer and got his attention. "Contact the Shadow's Regret, let's discuss it with Lena directly."
She accepted the incoming hail and looked upon the visage of her fellow sith, she smiled. "Gra'tua, you keep surprising me, I expected you to blast our way through, not using words to persuade them." She left out that she might have contacted some of the CIS command through her channels that she knew someone very high and in the Chancellors office but his own attempt to allow them go through was also helpful in it's own way. "I assume you call to discuss where we go next?"
"Indeed, I dislike going through Hutt space so my man Kashiir here." He gestured for Kashiir to approach so his image would be broadcast to Lena as well. "Suggested to just go around Hutt space, takes a little bit longer but we won't have to deal with any of the Hutt clans or other organizations making their base in that space."
Lena thought it over, she had some contacts there but in this case, it might be best to stick to the regular routes. "I concur, best to stick to the edge of Hutt space, who knows what we might encounter on the way there. It is a favourite holding ground for pirates after all." She mused out loud.
He laughed in response, "If you say things like that I might reconsider, this journey has been... well not boring... but I could use some excitement." He smirked behind his mask.
Gat: At roughly the same time both vessels picked up the approaching flarestar class shuttle on their sensors, the vessel appeared to have the markings of the Ohnaka Gang painted on the top, but both had been scuffed so as to be barely recognizable.
Lena frowned at the interruption but asked to have the ship brought up on a screen so she could take a good look at it. Raising a brow as she recognized it by it's markings, it belonged to the Ohnaka Gang but it also had the unique markings of one particular person, she decided to hail it. "Shahan Alama, this is Lena. Fancy meeting you here."
When Gra'tua was informed it was a pirate vessel he was already about to order weapons to be armed for some target practice but when Kashiir warned him Lena send a hail he delayed those orders, frowning as he waited what might happen.
The line was silent for a moment before Alama's voice came back over the comms. "Lena," The Weequay bounty hunter said in a cheery tone. "A little mynock told me you were in the sector. Thought you might be interested in helping me with a mark I've been tracking?"
Lena shook her head, this Weequay always was familiar but she did not mind, he knew when not to ask questions, this is why he was still alive after all. "I think I can help, I am not travelling alone however, but I think that is actually better, more help, depending on who or what you are hunting?"
"Well its not so much the who I need assistance with, if it was just the guy I'd be fine and you know I usually work alone." Alama said with a small chuckle. "You mind letting me dock to give you the details, invite your friend too, their ship looks like it could deliver a small beating, that could be quite handy with the mark I'm after."
She was intrigued now, "I see, you are cleared to dock then." With she ended the hail and then resumed her conversation with Gra'tua. "My apologies Gra'tua, the man aboard the approaching Flarestar is a contact of mine, apparently he has a proposition for me, which might benefit you too, if you could come over we can see what he has to say."
"A proposition you say? Well I suppose there is no harm in listening to it, expect me shortly." He turned to Kashiir, "Prepare me a Kalikir, I will visit Lena's ship and see what this contact of hers has to say."
Alama brought his flarestar in smoothly to land on the Shadows Regret's hanger deck, making shure to lock the attack shuttles systems, more out of habit than any lack of trust, before powering the vessel down and walking down the cockpit ramp to find lena.
Lena nodded to the Weequay bounty hunter and then watched as Gra'tua also arrived. "And there is my other guest." She waited for Gra'tua to join them and then she gestured. "Gra'tua, Mandalorian clan leader, meet Shahan Alama, bounty hunter."
He clasped his hands behind his back and studied the hunter for a moment before he nodded, deciding to go straight to the point. "Lady Lena here tells me you have a proposition?"
“Direct aren't you, a man after my own heart.” Alama said with a slightly mocking tone. “Alright whatever. I've been tracking a mark for the past few weeks, finally found where the guy has been working from. Problem is he's running a battlecruiser, bit more than I can take on with my shuttle.” Alama said as he looked between Gra'tua and Lena. “I don't suppose we could take a seat somewhere a little less, informal, before I give you all the details?”
Lena hid a smile and gestured for both of them to follow and to cut off any rebuke from Gra'tua that might be coming. "I think the officers lounge will do nicely." Moments later they were all seated and she even had provided for some refreshments. "So... a battlecruiser? You must be hunting someone interesting, who is it and what has he or she done to get a bounty?"
Alama leaned back in a chair and popped his feet up on the chair next to him before he answered Lena's query. “The who is a former captain in the Black Sun by the name of Tej H'darr that somehow got his hands on the battlecruiser he flies and decided to go solo. Black Sun in particular didn't like that, specially seeing as he stole a large sum of credits from them on his way out the door.” The bounty hunter took a drink that was offered by one of the zeltron women that had brought the drinks and took a long drink before continuing. “Course if it was just Black Sun the bounty wouldn't be as high as it is. Tej fancies himself a pirate and has been attacking pretty much everyone except the republic and CIS since he split, so the whole syndicate is on his ass by now as well as a number of more legitimate corporations.”
"Well that explains that... and I guess you have tracked him down near here and then saw me exit hyperspace and figured we could help out?" She said with a smile as she sipped from her drink.
“Not exactly,” Alama replied. “Found Tej's home base a few days ago, its in the next sector over, knowing there was little I could do on my own I reached out to a few contacts and a mutual contact of ours told me you were headed this way. So figuring you'd pass though Boonta I came here to wait.”
"I see..." She murmured to herself and then looked to Gra'tua. "Well you wanted excitement, so what say you? Shall we take this task?"
He chuckled and shrugged, "Well it sounds exciting... but we also have to worry about what awaits us at our final destination in this region of space..." He looked at the bounty hunter. "What does this pay exactly? Credits does sound nice."
“Well, the bounty is at present the bounty stands at three million credits, minus my 30% finders fee naturally.” Alama replied casually.
He blinked behind his mask, "That sounds... like a adequate amount of money... I am in."
Lena rose a eyebrow. "You want us to fight a battleship, perhaps you should only get a 15% finders fee, me and Gra'tua here will do most of the fighting after all fro mthe sound of it." She said, beginning to haggle.
Alama smiled as he took another drink. "And how will you find Tej without me, I'm one of the best trackers around and it took me weeks to locate the slippery Manka cat. without me there is no bounty for you to collect." He took another quick drink, draining the glass, before sitting up straight. "You haven't done wrong by me in the past however so for you Lena I'd be willing to drop my fee to 25%"
She grinned, "You still need us for the heavy fighting, 20%."
"Too true," Alama replied, "My little shuttle doesn't stand much of a chance against Tej's battlecruiser, and while the bounty is for the man, he is rarely seperate from the vessel. Alright, I accept your 20%."
He let out a grunt, "Well the if the negotiation phase is over with... shall we pay a visit to this Tej?"
Lena nodded, "You can stay aboard my ship Alama, with me on the bridge while you lead us to Tej's location. Do you need him alive or dead? And if the latter recognizable or will ship sensor logs suffice if his ship is disintegrated or something similar?"
“Well there’s a four hundred thousand credit bonus if he is brought in alive.” Alama answered with a shrug, “But disintegrated works too so long as it can be proved he's dead one way or another.”
"Well I heard enough, I will be on my ship Lena, I think it's best we keep a line of communications over, send me all the details you can about that ship and one of my people might see if he can spot a weakness of sorts." With that he nodded his head respectfully at Lena and left for the hangar to return to his ship.
"We'll stay in touch." She said to the Mandalorian sith lord's back and then turned to Alama. "Let's head to the bridge and prepare for battle."
Alama stood and followed Lena to the bridge, opening a data link to his shuttle so he could transfer the related intel he had gathered to Gra'tua's ship from the comm station on the bridge. included were the location of Tejs base, which he also gave to Lena's navigation officer and specs for the battlecruiser, a little dated as they didn't show any modifications Tej might have done to the vessel but they were pretty close.
Some time later they were en-route through hyperspace and Gra'tua let Kashiir talk, both to himself and to Lena who was listening in as he relayed his findings after some study of the data provided. "Hmm we shall keep that in mind then, you have done well Kashiir. Perhaps we can lure it to power one side and then quickly move out of the way so it will have wasted charging it's weapons while we attack the undefended other side."
"We will see, best advice I am hearing however is to just keep away from it's broadsides. I can prevent it from escaping to hyperspace." She paused and listened. "I have just been informed we are about to enter the system, good hunting Gra'tua." She said and then turned back to Verat. "Is my ship ready for battle?" The Givin nodded. "Very well, return to your station." She addressed her whole bridge. "Prepare for battle stations."
When the Shadows Regret and Kandosii Naast dropped out of hyperspace near the world of Akrit'tar, where Alama had located Tej's staging post the sight that greeted them was rather ordinary, and also fortuitous. A small space station sat in orbit of the barren world with a battlecruiser matching the schematics Alama had provided docked with it. They had apparently caught Tej in the act of resupplying or offloading plundered cargo. As sensors came fully back online however they registered a number of small craft being launched from the battlecruiser. Sensors registered them as common commercial Z-95 headhunters but detected no life signs in the cockpits.
Gra'tua turned to look at Lena with whom he was still on call and then nodded to Kashiir, the Chiss took the sign and turned to the bridge. "Charge weapons and bring power to the Hyper-Shield!" Weapons were being charged as orders came from the gunnery crews while the hyper-shield became active and was being powered up as well.
Gra'tua contacted the hangar bay. "Latesh, report."
The voice of the Chiss sith warrior came over quickly. "The Kalikir gunships are ready and filled alor, sixty commandos and twenty assault warriors ready to board if required. Myself, Talinna, Canderous, Magog and your illustrious guest Goran will be under overall command of Andrieke."
"Very well, I will inform the pilots to launch when a window of opportunity presents itself." He then turned to Kashiir. "Launch the squadrons, let them follow in our wake while we approach the cruiser from it's aft section, keep the broadsides away from us. I also want target solutions of our laser and flak weaponry on those approaching fighters, fire when ready." Kashiir nodded and gave the order, leaving Gra'tua to lean back in his command throne. "Lena your ship is slow but do try to catch up or otherwise offer support with your longer ranged weaponry if you have them."
She smiled, "I am aware of my ships limitations Gra'tua, we will follow in your wake and assist in what way we can with longer raged weapons, I am also launching squadrons that will join your own. And I have boarding craft ready with Noghri and several of my disciples and colonels."
The Z-95's slow as the Kandosii Naast approaches, outside of small arms fire and seemingly taking up a 'defensive line' of sorts a quick count reveals eight such squadrons were launched from the battlecrusier. Sensors on the sith vessels detected spikes in the Battle cruisers power levels as it apparently began charging its guns and shields, it was still attached to the station however meaning it was unable to manoeuvre and as such only about 25% of its main guns could be brought to bar on the approaching vessels.
Sarzum: Gra'tua watched the sensors, seeing Lena's squadrons catching up to his own fighters... catching up fast, her fighters were frightingly quick it seems. "We are in range for the spinal lasers my lord."
He looked up, Kashiir waiting expectantly. "Very well then... open fire, try target the engines... and Kashiir if our crew cannot hit a unmoving target then I will have words with them... Lena what you do with yours if they miss I leave to you." She just nodded and gave the response she would also fire her spinal laser.
While the Kandosii Naasts shots both went wide enough to miss both the battlecruiser and the station behind it the crew of the Shadows Regret were at least competent enough to hit the broad side of a barn, the blast however despite clearly hitting the vessel appeared to do no damage. It also appeared that clearing the cargo airlock was taking longer than it should have as the battlecruiser maintained its position with its engines powered down.
"The Shadow's Regret is lagging behind ,as expected and we are ahead my lord." Kashiir reported, looking as some people started to shout out. "We are in range now for our torpedo launchers and at the edge of our mass driver range, ready to fire."
Gra'tua growled, "They better hit this time... that was a shameful display before..."
Lena resisted a smile and calmly spoke to Gra'tua. "I suggest we also now bring our fighter squadrons into play?"
He nodded in response, "Agreed. Kashiir inform the squadrons to loop around attack the station, cruiser and it's fighter escorts as agreed upon." A moment later the fighters went off, two of Lena's interceptor squadrons still behind Gra'tua while the other squadrons traveled in a small swarm on a designated path. Lena's squadrons would prepare to attack the cruiser when in range while the mandalorian craft would attack any weapon points on the station. The interceptors would engage any enemy starfighters that would move in to intercept the attacking starfighters and bombers.
While he saw this both sith vessels opened fire once more.
The second shot from the Regrets spinal turbolaser managed to repeat their earlier successful hit though once again there was no visible damage from the strike. The two hits that followed from the Naasts spinal guns however visibly shook the battlecruiser and large spikes were detected in the cruisers power generators as the deflector shields flared into the visible spectrum. As impressive as this was the followup shots from the Naasts mass drivers followed a similar trajectory to its original spinal shots and the ordered torpedo's never launched, instead they had misfired in the tubes and would need to be cleared before another volley could be fired.
At this point a number of small explosions were detected on the far side of the battlecruiser as apparently tired of waiting, the cruiser destroyed the cargo airlocks connected arm and powered its engines.
Gra'tua raised his eyebrows, "Well... this pirate is eager to get away from it's station, willing to attack it to get loose, Kashiir, also make a note, whoever is responsible for the maintenance of the torpedo tubes... tell him he is now in charge of the ship latrines. Inform my squadrons, ignore the station, focus on the cruiser alongside Lena's squadrons." The orders were relayed and then Gra'tua simply smiled when he heard they were now in range with their heavy weaponry. "Fire."
"Missiles are just barely in range, launch when you have your target, align target vectors and..." Lena barely listened to it all, she did not have the mind for these things like Verat or even Gra'tua and just hoped her crew would do their best to carry them all through this event.
Apparently the Regrets spinal gunners were getting complacent and one of them spilled their cup of jawa juice on the targeting controls and in their rush to clean up the shot was taken and was well off target. Thankfully the targetters fast clean up prevented any damage to the controls themselves. In direct contrast the gunners on missile control launched a flawless volley that passed within a few dozen meters of the Naasts bridge tower as they shot past the mandalorian warship and streamed towards their target on a shockingly accurate course.
The Naasts spinal gunners were apparently figuring out how to get a target lock rather quickly, that or being closer was helping more than it should have, as the vessels spinal guns spoke again they slammed into the cruiser and once again caused the shields to flare and the power to spike but strangely damage was minimal again. The Naasts heavy turbolasers erupted with a scattered array of fire that ultimately did nothing but put on an impressive light show while the Mass drivers followed suit of the torpedoes earlier and misfired, one of which took out the end of its barrel which would make targeting with it tricky until repairs could be made. The Ion cannons however stopped just short of overloading when they suffered a similar misfire, 2 batteries had their circuits heavily ionized as a result and would likely need some serious polarizing when the battle was over before anyone dared try firing them again.
Six of the Z-95 squadrons began moving toward the Naast as the Regrets missiles were detected before they made a sharp turn and began heading back towards the battlecruiser, intending to stay just ahead of the Naasts anti fighter weaponry while the remaining two squadrons took up something of a guarding position towards the cruisers rear apparently having detected a large mass of strike craft heading around the battle zone. The cruiser on the other hand opened fire with its broadside of heavy weapons at the Naast having focused on turning over speed as it cleared the station in order to play to its main strength. Several batteries on Heavy Ion cannons and Turbolasers lanced out towards the Naast.
The fire from the turbolasers rained down on the Naast joined by the second ion barrage, damage aboard the Naast is negligible aside from a 5% drop in hypershield strength. The first Ion barrage however failed to fire at all revealing that the previous spinal turbolaser strikes had stressed the vessels power conduits as they strove to keep power to the shields of the cruiser.
At this point a powerful jamming signal spread across local space, likely emanating from the battlecruiser filling comm channels with white noise.
Gra'tua cursed as he saw the missiles fired from Lena almost impact on his bridge, at the same time the enemy cruiser opened fire but the damage was wasted against his hyper-shield. "Lena, are you trying to..." He trailed off as the communication suddenly was terminated and noise erupted over the channel. "Turn that off! Are we being jammed?"
Kashiir nodded with a frown. "On all frequencies, we no longer can contact Lena or our starfighters, or the enemy cruiser for that matter."
"Hmm, a shame, well the fighters have their orders, resume firing on the cruiser, I want more than shield fluctuations this time, I want to see those shields gone." He said with determination, then with a hint of anger. "Assuming my gunnery crews can actually hit something!"
Lena blinked as communication faltered and turned to Verat. "What is the meaning of this?"
The Givin was already looking for the cause, "We are being jammed, interesting, he was a pirate so such equipment would be useful to him, if we can destroy the communications array then the jamming might be lifted."
Lena nodded, "Do it."
The Naasts gunners once again show their superb training... or lack of it as the remaining functional ion cannons, the mass drivers and the spinal turbolasers manage to miss the battlecruiser completely, the shots sailing under the large vessel. The heavy turbolaser batteries however tried to pick up the slack and delivered a withering barrage against the cruisers shields but registered little effect. While a volley of torpedo's from the freshly cleared tubes headed quickly towards the battlecruiser.
The previous volley of missiles fired from the Regret homed in on their target while the six Z-95 squadrons that had broken off previously tried to intercept them, they succeeded in stopping two of the 4 while the sixth squadron managed to shoot two of its own members instead. The remaining two missiles struck the battlecruiser with solid hits to the rear section causing one of the six primary engines to flicker and die reducing the vessels overall maneuverability.
Another volley of concussion missiles launched from the Regret but sensor analysis of their flight path showed they would be highly unlikely to strike their target. The spinal turbolaser and mass drivers however did manage to strike out with success as they impacted the battlecruisers shields and caused them to flare as the previous strikes had the sensors on the Regret began showing curious data about the battlecruisers shields as the strikes hit as they flared power conduits right across the impacts side of the cruiser surged while there was almost no power activity on the far side of the vessel to speak of at all.
The two squadrons of Z-95's hat were standing as a rearguard put power to their engines and started racing towards the oncoming mass of strike craft despite they being massively outnumbered. Trying to compensate for its damaged engines the battlecruiser gained more distance than turn rate in along their planned course and as a result one of its turbolaser groupings was unable to be brought to bare. The remaining however continued to target the Naast. However only one of the heavy ion groupings managed to score hits dropping the Naasts hypershield by a further 5%
Verat studied the sensor data on the enemy vessel, discovering something. "No power..."
Lena frowned, "What was that Verat? I did not hear what you said."
Verat turned, "There is no power activity going on on the other side of the ship... not just no weapons charged, but no power that might implicate that the shields are active on that side as well, if we could strike there now, we might deliver some serious damage."
Lena frowned, "But we do not have the speed for it... or can contact Gra'tua or our squadrons with thise... resume firing on the communications array and report to Gra'tua at once when able." She resumed studying the battle as best she could herself.
Gra'tua was staring daggers at Kashiir. "Care to explain the ineptitude of my crew?"
Kashiir coughed, "We have never... actually had a real battle with this new ship since its construction my lord. Most of the weapons we are firing for the first time since their installment."
Gra'tua growled, "Apology, for the moment, accepted, now have them hit something we are practically on top of it now! In fact... FIRE EVERYTHING!" The last two words he screamed in frustration at his crew, glad at that moment communications with Lena's vessel had failed.
The spinal Turbolaser on the Regret flashed the shot going clean over the top of Tej's battlecruiser the mass drivers had more luck as they impacted on the shields near the location of the battlecruisers comm array but alas did no lasting damage while yet a third volley of missile was launched though sensors showed they would be unlikely to hit the comm array, though they might be lucky to strike elsewhere on the ship.
Of the Regrets launched interceptors that had moved to engage the two squadrons of Z-95's 1 scored a brilliant run and reduced the squadron it faced by over 50%, the squadron it was partnered with however had less luck.
The Naast was showing the error of not having been through a proper shakedown cruise apparently as even at close range the spinal turbolasers missed, the remaining heavy Ion cannons missed, the lighter ion cannons had half its batteries follow the same path as the two heavies did previously 1 of the laser cannon batteries overloaded and all six of the flak cannon batteries spontaneously exploded in a dramatic display of engineering incompetence.
On the other hand the mass drivers and light turbolasers scored average hits causing the shields to shine while the heavy turbolasers caused the sensors to start registering the same high spikes in the power generators that had been detected before as power surged along the impacted side of the vessel. The biggest success came from the torpedo operators and a few of the laser cannon crews, with the anti-strike craft weaponry in range the Z-95's started taking evasive action to avoid the incoming fire and as such did not have the opportunity to try and intercept the proton torpedoes fired previously or the new volley, both sets of torpedoes struck the vessel with the latter pair damaging a cluster of the battlecruisers anti-strike craft weaponry and disabling a second engine.
As the two attacking squadrons of Z-95's tried to retaliate against their much faster and better armed opponents they were quickly overwhelmed. The remaining three that had been intercepting missiles retreated closer to the battlecruiser and took up station to try and shoot down further missile strikes as best they could.
The battlecruiser on the other hand opened fire in much the same way as the Naast had firing every anti- capital ship weapon it had at the self damaging mandalorian vessel. Some of the gunnery crews joked that they didn't even need to fire and the enemy would destroy themselves.
This did not however stop the heavy turbolaser crews from delivering a devastating barrage of fire upon the Naast causing the hypershield to drop below 80%. at least one set of the heavy ion cannons managed to stay on target dropping the hypershield by a further 5% with their assault. Of the light turbolaser cannons one set blew out its own power relays as a surge of power rushed by to feed the shields in that sector while the other three sets failed to do more than impact shields or go wild and have little to no overall effect. One of the light ion sets also scored solid hits and weakened the hypershield further.
Kashiir turned to Gra'tua, some worry now appearing on his face along with a bead of sweat. "The.. ah, flak batteries are gone my lord, all six of them. But we are now practically on top of them now."
Gra'tua stared hard at Kashiir and nodded, "Very well... I accept my part in this disaster... nto wanting to give the ship a proper shakedown cruise... but Kashiir, if we get through this... I will hunt down the contractors that installed them." He gritted his teeth, "Continue as we are headed and keep firing with what we have, ignore the fighters, they are occupied as it is." He said looking at a hologram scene of the pitched dog-fighting taking place around the ship. He frowned and then turned to Kashiir, "What is the station doing..."
"We are now in range with our heavy weapons, shall I continue to target the communications array?" Lena nodded in response studying the scene, while Verat gave the order to keep firing.
The Naast continued to unleash upon the battlecruiser, except for the ion cannons which for some reason sat dormant, perhaps their gunners were timid about what had just happened to the flak cannons happening to them. While many of the weapon shots continued to miss the target they were much closer than previous misses with the Heavy turbolasers doing the majority of the work while the mass drivers contributed their firepower to the effort. The laser batteries in the mean time fired a devastating barrage into the interceptor melee, somehow managing to avoid hitting friendlies in the process.
More strikes from the Regret quickly followed as the spinal turbolaser and heavy turbolaser batteries concentrated their firepower on the comm array the focused power managing to slip a few shots through the momentarily weakened shield before power could surge along the ship and close the gap. The white noise jamming the comms began to clear ever so slightly as those few lucky shoots managed to damage if not disable the battlecruisers comm array, communication was possible now, but it would be patchy at best.
As the Z-95s began to get overwhelmed the battlecruiser opened fire with its own laser batteries against the enemy interceptors as it strove to keep its broadside on the rapidly closing mandalorian vessel. Between the firepower from the Naast, Lena and Gra'tua's interceptors and the battlecruisers own batteries opening up the Z-95's were quickly lost. Their sacrifice was not in vain however as one of Lena's interceptor squadrons obliterated by the barrage of laser cannon fire and a second reduced in numbers by a third.
The battlecruiser also continued its barrage of the Naast with every capital class weapon it could bring to bare on the vessel, hoping to slow or stop its present heading. Approximately half of the heavy weaponry fired had an effect the heavy turbolasers and heavy ions combined reducing the Naasts shield by an additional 10% while the light turbolaser batteries did little but impact upon the shield or fly wide of the target.
"We have limited communications back my lord." Kashiir reported, "It seems Lena found the source of the jamming and has delivered some damage."
At that point point Lena's voice came over. ""Gra'tua, no power *---* the other side *---* the vessel, none *---* its weapons, *---* shield make it *---*, strike with everything *---* can, now!" Came the garbled message.
"We need to have those lines of communication properly restored... are we in range of the other side of the cruiser?"
"Not exactly but the squadrons are making their attack runs now."
Gra'tua nodded, "Very well... launch the boarding craft."
Down in the hangars the boaridng parties were waiting anxious and then a alarm was heard and they made sure they were strapped in secure and were launched. In total there were 4 Kalikir Gunships and all 4 sped to hull points i na attempt to to latch on and start cutting through the hull.
As the Naast passed under the Battlecruiser its mass drivers reoriented to follow the target and opened up with a shocking result, it appeared they fired on a weak section of sheild as there was very little resistance to their barrage as the projectiles sunk into the battlecruisers hull with devastating effect. The following proton torepdos seemingly finishing the job as sensors registered multiple secondary explosions and a dramatic loss in power across the vessel as the hypershield protecting it simply vanished.
The following strikes from the Nasst and Regret tore into the vessels far more standard and weaker sheilds dropping them to approximately 20% and on the edge of failing themselves while doing numerous secondary damages to the battlecruisers systems including the comm array which was vaporized by a stray shoot.
Gra'tua watched the display and smiled for the first time since the engagement, "Extra black ale rations for the Mass Driver crews Kashiir..."
"Well, that was impressive." Came the voice of Lena, "Their shield, their hyper-shield is gone and so is their communications array as you may notice Gra'tua." She studied the scene, "What do we do next?"
Gra'tua laughed, "Watch me... Kashiir tell the bombers and starfighters to break off their attack run and disengage, disengage! I want tractors on that cruiser and lock ourselves against it now! All troops report to whatever airlocks to board that cruiser, I will be with a boarding party myself." He stood up and stormed off not bothering to wait for any of Kashiir's warning about this.
The chiss just watched his lord go and then turned to Lena, "I.... yes, another challenge I suppose." He turned away from the hologram of Lena and addressed the bridge crew. "Carry out your orders... and may whatever gods or the force be with us..."
With its hypershield down and the Naast out of the arc of its powered weapons the Battlecruiser began firing on the Regret with its heavy weapons while it started the process of transferring power for the lighter weapons to the left side in an attempt to keep up the fight against the Naast when it reemerged. Unfortunately most of its fire impacted harmlessly against the Regrets shields or missed entirely with only one of the ion groupings having any effect as they dropped the regrets total shield strength by 15%
Kashiir winced when he heard that the operators failed to get a tractor lock and shook his head, he already had doubts it would have worked anyway, comm reports did come in from the Kalikir gunships, successfully attaching themselves on the hull and cutting through and within moments the force of Mandalorian Commandos, Assault Warriors and their designated commanders were aboard.
Andrieke taking command of the operation. "Goran, Talinna, Canderous and Magog with me and twenty of the commandos. We will head to the bridge." She then turned to the chiss sith warrior. "Latesh, you and Bo divide up the remaining 40 commandos and head to engineering, make sure it is ours! A squad of assault warriors remain here with each ship to make sure we have a ride off this ship if things take a turn for the worst."
It was possible the worst idea his lord had ever done but he cleared his throat. "Continue working on those tractor beams... we shall not fail our alor and master." He gulped, and hopefully not damage the ship while doing it.
Meanwhile the boarding parties already in place went in search of their objectives, one main group heading to the bridge whiel two others were headign for the engineering section to shut it all down.
Lena watched with concern, "That Gra'tua is a madman at times... Verat we stay where we are, open fire on the far side of the cruiser so we won't damage Gra'tua in the crossfire."
The Regrets spinal turbolaser and mass drivers continued to lash out at the battlecruiser with deadly aim as the mass drivers brought down all but one of the primary engines and the spinal struck the hanger bay the Z-95's had launched from causing a rapid decompression of the bay as the air shield failed. The heavy turbolasers strafed the battlecruisers weapon emplacements and knocked out several batteries of heavy ion cannons which the concussion missiles... well three of them exploded in the tubes as the launch doors failed to open properly while the 4th slipped free of the tube but lost thrust a few moments later and began drifting.
As the three teams spread out they encounter battle droids at numerous points of the vessel, the bridge team eliminating the first group they found with little trouble and were only held up when 4 destroyer droids presented themselves at the end of a corridoor leading to the bridge. The 4 droids opened fire down the corridor suppressing the team around a corner. the schematics had shown this was one of the few ways to reach the bridge and that going around would likely give them time to fortify the other access points.
The Battlecruiser kept up its volley of fire at the Regret but the battle was taking its toll on the cruiser and none of its shots were terribly effectual.
Kashiir saw this method of boarding was just insane and would ultimately do nothing, perhaps even damage their ship! "Ignore lord Gra'tua's last order, move to the other side of the cruiser and open fire with all but the heavy weaponry."
Meanwhile aboard the cruiser Andrieke was vaguely listening to reports from the other two boarding parties, what was currently the problem for them however were the destroyer droids blocking their path. "Canderous go, Commandos, throw in some droid poppers!" As the commandos reached for the anti-droid grenades Canderous got out of cover and opened fire with his modified heavy E-Web.
Lena saw what her own missiles had done and cursed softly. "Stop firing, we will either do more damage to ourselves or we might hit Gra'tua... activate the Gravity Well generator instead."
Noticing the Regret cease fire that weapons that could be oriented to fire on the ventral surface of the battle cruiser started firing on the Naast once more, they were few however and little damage was made besides some chance hits against the turbolaser batteries during a momentary cycle of the Naasts hypershield. The Naasts ion cannons however countered with brutality and soon even the few guns that could still fire on the Naast were disabled.
The boarding teams were having mixed luck in the mean time. The engineering teams were more or less stalled by the defenders with Bo's team being pushed back somewhat. The bridge Team on the other hand were much more successful, the commandos deployed the poppers with a skillful action that would have put many lawn bowls professionals to shame and Canderous managed to keep the droids distracted long enough for the poppers to go off before slagging the 4 disabled droids.
The Bridge team advanced some commandos taking time to make sure the destroyers were properly executed they were nearing the bridge at a steady peace when the leading warrior stopped the advanced and motioned for Andrieke to come forward and witness what lay ahead.
She frowned upon seeing what was waiting for them, fortified positions in front of the security door leading to the bridge, Destroyer Droids, B2 Battle Droids, as well as a mix of the first sign of organic crew... and a spider droid.
She turned back to the group. "More droid poppers, Canderous, Talinna, see what you can do about that spider droid, everyone else... blast away at any hostiles." She said while making sure she had both her blasters in her hands. Talinna was nervous but then tried to put soem determination in her steps as she saw about perhaps force crushing parts of the spider droid so it wouldn't be a threat.
An enterprising crew member with a highly modified sporting rifle took aim on Andreika as he stepped out to try and put down some of the defenders, Magog, Canderous and Goran all pick off a few targets with their own fire, canderous sufficiently distracting the spider droid enough that it took a step back and knocked over a B2 behind it. The B2's wristlaser went off at an errant signal and destroyed the servo on the leg that had knocked it over rendering the spider droid immobile.
Meanwhile Talinna's efforts were... well... unnoticeable. While the commandos droid poppers failed to rach their targets and went off harmlessly in the no-mans land between the two sides. The Defending B2's returned fire succeeding in little more than flooding the corridor with blaster fire and suppressing the commandos. Then the crew member with the rifle took their shoot. Which dropped Andrika's personal shield with a single well placed shot.
Andrieke's eyes narrowed as she picked out the one who had shot her and fired several shots in his general direction. "Press forward!" She shouted while the commandos tried again to be a bit more effective and everyone else continued what they were doing. Canderous seeing the spider droid was immobile gleefully advanced relentlessly, squeezing the trigger of his weapon the entire time.
Meanwhile out in space Lena watched what was going on, her ship and the Kandosii Naast had stopped firing for the time being. "Make sure we move behind that cruiser, if Gra'tua deems he needs reinforcements for his boarding parties then he can call for such aid." She crossed her arms and smirked at Kashiir's holographic form. "Though I bet he would prefer the 'glory and honour' all to himself and his mandalorians?"
Kashiir smiled ruefully, "I think we are doing fine, I am monitoring Andrieke, our commander of the boarding parties, on the comms, she is nearing the bridge it seems. I will let you know if we need assistance."
The two engineering teams made some headway towards their destination, albiet no thanks to their leadership. At the bridge however the battle between the troops under Andrieke and the bridge defenders was heating up. A few destroyers and a B2 or three were disabled by the droid poppers while Magog and Goran took another B2 each. Talinna on the other hand had the most success as her assault with the force caused the spider droids legs to crumple severely limiting its field of fire.
Hearing the Droid Poppers were now all out Andrieke just smirked, "Up close and personal! For clan Gra'tua!" She shouted still firing her blasters while the commandos followed suit, either using blasters or the special weaponry of flamethrowers and toxic darts.
Magog and Goran were fighting side by side, the Mandalorian doctor flanking the guest to the clan as they fried and advanced step by step. Elsewhere Canderous was laughing as he kept up the stream of fire while Talinna decided now was the time to bring up a bubble of force protection around herself and moved her attention to crushing any remaining destroyer droids.
Despite Andrieke still not having much luck hitting the target of her enmity the Commandos following her lead proved they could shoot as well as throw poppers. As the majority of the B2 droids fell under their fire. The Spider droid, down but not out, fired its weapon in an apparently vain attempt to take down some of the attackers. The shoot hit one of the fortifications the organic crew were using and exposed the sheltering beings to mandalorian fire. The back blast from the shoot also did severe damage to the barrel of the droids blaster rendering it inoperable.
Tilanna found herself the target of the self same sporting rifle wielder that had previously popped Andriekes shield, the result was much the same as no sooner did she raise her barrier of the force to protect herself, than she felt it disperse accompanied by the bright flash of a blaster bolt bare inches from her face. Canderous on the other hand was having great fun as the power of his weapon dropped the shields of a destroyer droid with its sustained fire and destroyed the destroyer in short order.
Aboard the Naast Gra'tua received a small data burst from a crew-member on the bridge, a simple text message encoded for the sith lords personal communicator. It read simply; 'Kashiir is disregarding your orders my lord.'
Gra'tua looked at the text. "HE DID WHAT!?" With a growl he stormed away fro mthe troops ready for a boarding opportunity that would not arrive it seems as their alor headed to the nearest elevator to return to the bridge.
Andrieke saw they were making progress and decided to try something, shouting out to the defenders. "Lay down your arms and surrender! Or face the wrath of the Mando'ade!"
"Get slimed!" The man with the sporting rifle shouted back.
Not particularly fond of that answer Andrieke, Goran, Magog and Canderous turned their weapons on the man with the sporting rifle and fired.
Talinna had her eyes wide and quickly put another bubble of protection around herself, hoping this one would last longer.
Between the combined firepower of Canderous, Magog and Andrieke's shooting the man with the sporting rifle promptly found a lot of carbon scoring on his respectable looking armour and a few large-ish holes where his chest used to be, he only had a few moments to notice this however before he expired and dropped like a sack to the decking. The commandos meanwhile mopped up the remainder of the B2 and all but 2 of the organic crew while the spider droid, still functional if not useful as a weapon any longer, rotated its head too and fro in an idle fashion. Its barrel, or what was left of it manage to trip up the last remaining destroyer droid which was quickly dispatched by the watching commandos before it could rise and raise its shield again.
The two living crew wasted no time in following Andrieke's previous command to throw down their weapons and surrender, especially seeing what had just happened to the man that was obviously leading them.
The engineering team under Bo was making good progress in the mean time and were almost at their goal, like the bridge they had come to a fortified position baring the entrance to engineering but the commandos were making quick work of the defenders, again no thanks to their leadership. Bo in an attempt to lead a charge caught a shot to the leg causing her to stumble in the attempt and land on the deck as the defenders and commandos traded shot over her head.
Andrieke walked calmly towards the incapacitated spider droid and put several shots in it's armour before turning to the crew of the ship who surrendered, "What awaits us on the other side of that door." She said gesturing to the security door to the bridge.
"Ah... " one of the two began stuttering before the second punched him in the arm with an angry look in his eyes.
She raised her blaster and shot the second in the face. "You were saying?" She asked the one who had begun to stutter.
"The Captain and a skeleton bridge crew!" the crewmen blurted out almost immediately, there was a clear dark stain spreading down the side of his pants leg in the meantime.
"Your cooperation is appreciated, stand aside." Two of the commandos shoved the crew member out of the and Andrieke knocked on the security door while looking for a itnercom or some other means to communicate with those on the other side.
A holoprojector at the top of the door flickered to life and the image of Tej H'darr appeared before the strike team. “I don't know who you are, nor do I really care. But would you kindly get off my ship and withdraw, you've caused a considerable amount of damage as it is that will take me months to fix.”
Andrieke stared at the hologram, "I am a warrior of the Mando'ade, we do not withdraw that easily, I am giving you this one chance to surrender with some grace and dignity or we burst through and take your bridge by force, you know you have been boarded, you cannot escape due to one of the vessels attacking you having a gravity well generator and last I heard your defenses are down to the weapons of our ships, so as I said, one chance to surrender."
The holographic image started laughing at the speech obviously highly amused by it. After a few moments Tej quieted and spoke in a very serious tone. “And this is your last chance to get out of here with your lives. You see I will not allow you to take me back to the Black Sun.” He turned to someone outside the image for a moment and gave an order. “Tractor beams now! And start the failsafe.” he turned back to look at the holo imager with a dark smile on his face.
One of the two tractor beams targeted at the Naast latched on while the other emitter simply exploded apparently having suffered damage during the battle. Both beams targeting the Regret however locked on holding the vessel in place.
She shrugged, "I see... does your crew, who are not wanted by black sun, share this suicidal conviction of yours? If any of you can hear me over there, we will spare your lives if the captain is handed over to us, preferred alive, but dead and recognizable is acceptable as well." She then turned to Talinna. "Use your universal cutting tool." The sith disciple nodded and activated her saber, approaching the door with determination.
"You waste your breath." the holoprojection of Tej H'darr replied, "You've had your warning, now leave if you'd prefer to live."
Meanwhile on the bridge, Gra'tua stormed on. "Kashiir! How dare you-"
"Not now!" He shouted, not caring at the moment. "We are caught in a tractor beam and I need to focus on whatever plan these pirates are up to."
"Who are you to talk to me like tha-"
Gra'tua began but a furious Kashiir turned around to face him. "Captain of the Kandosii Naast, appointed by you to be the master of this ship in battle, you give suggestions but I give the orders in a space battle, as laid down by you now shut up! My lord."
Lena blinked, "So... we are being held by that ship... and you are telling me explosive devices are being armed, as well as the reactor is showing signs of activity which you guess would be a overload?" Verat nodded. "I see, Kashiir if you can hear me over the argument you have with your master, I kindly request your squadrons destroy those tractor beams."
Talinna started cutting and Andrieke shook her head, "You are a stubborn one, alive you can still grovel your masters for forgiveness and your life, dead you are just that, dead. We plan to take you alive, you are perfectly willing to blow yourself up?"
She then turned to Goran, Magog and Canderous. "Take half the commandos and return to the ships, she then called out to Bo and Latesh. "Progress updates, where are you both now."
"I don't grovel." Te'j H'darr replied before the holoimage flickered out.
Kashiir stared his master down for another second before turning back to Lena. "Certainly, inform the squadrons to make attack runs on the tractor beam emitters." He then turned back to Gra'tua, "Can I resume doing my job?"
Gra'tua growled, "For now."
"Thank you." Kashiir looked aroudn seeing most of the bridge crew staring at him. "WE ARE IN A BATTLE! Get to work!"
Andrieke finished listening to Bo reporting heavy fighting at engineering and then from Latesh that she was still far out, ordering Latesh to withdraw she urged Bo to keep pressing forward but to leave the engineering crews alive. She then turned to Talinna, "Almost through?"
Bruised but still alive Bo followed after her men into engineering after they, her men, took it by swift storm, looking at the captives she then gestured to the generators. "Power down the reactors, keep gravity and life support systems intact but weapons, shields, anything that might be charged to blow up the ship, turn it off if you want to live."
The engineers looked at one another, clearly worried but apprently resolute not to do anything to help the attackers.
Bo frowned, "Do you all honestly want to die like this? Going down with the ship with a condemned man?"
"W we... we cant..." one of the engineers replied, "H'darr holds our lives in his hands..." as if to emphasis the point th engineers head promptly exploded and the other 4 started cowering more than they already were
She looked unfazed, "I see. If that was the case why aren't you lot dead like that one." She gestured to the headless corpse, "This is a intimidation tactic, if you lot value your lives then take a chance and stop this reactor overload that's building up, show some damned courage. Or do you prefer if my people start shooting you four with ion weaponry?"
After a few moments one of the engineers stood up and moved towards the master control console for the reactor... surprisingly to the other three engineers his head didn't explode...
The reason for this was likely because the security door to the bridge was showing a large molten core on the bridge side o the door, it wasn't supposed to be doing that and as a result H'darr had taken up a defensive position behind a control console while the three officers on the bridge did likewise, all they had to do was hold out until the failsafe was ready... or get themselves killed in the fight, they had resigned themselves to death either way.
As the door opens Talinna steps through the door she opened, lightsaber lit in her hand reaching out with the force to lift up any bridge crew she could see while Andrieke and some commandos burst through behind her.
Andrieke saw that Talinna lifted two people in the air, the bounty not among them and she shouted out. "Your bridge is breached, we have a force user with us, just surrender already with some dignity remaining, if not you then maybe some of your officers." She raised her blaster towards Tej but did not fire, "Or are they afraid of exploding heads, how interesting that not all the engineers my commander encountered were killed, such a cowards tactic to keep your crew in line!"
“I needed their knowledge of this ship and they weren't going to work for me willingly.” Tej replied with a shrug while he stayed crouched in cover.
"Your fellow officers included? Will they be interested to hear that some engineers are not suffering a case of exploding heads and are in fact working on neutralizing your failsafe?* Andrieke replied, watching for any move of Tej, her blasters switched to stun. "Surrender and you will have some good last days, unless you can somehow convince your former bosses to spare your life with whatever deal you come up with before you are handed over."
“Bastards...” Tej muttered as he glanced over the cover for a moment at a console near the rear of the bridge. “Well... “ He said a moment before he nodded to the other officer not floating in the air. The two of them leaned out of cover together and opened fire on Talinna together. Tej's shot marks its target and drops Talinna's force protection but the officers shot misses and fails to take advantage of it.
Andrieke and the commandos took that cue of opening fire on Tej and the officer who had just opened fire.
Their shots failed to hit the targets however as the two of them ducked back into cover as the mandalorians opened fire. Waiting for a moment of 'less' shooting happening the two popped out again at different points of their cover to take additional shots.
Talinna felt her instincts warn her and dropped the two officers, whipping up her blade at the same time to quickly deflect both blaster shots heading her way, the officer got hit by his own blastershot and managed out a surprised grunt before dropping to the floor, Tej had more luck as he got over his surprise and dived out of the way, exposing himself.
With a snarl Andrieke drew a knife and dove towards Tej in a attempt to subdue him while the commandos surged forwards to subdue and capture the other two officers.
Talinna meanwhile felt stronger in the force... but not stupid as she tapped into her reserved and once more put a bubble around herself while she too approached Tej.
As she approached Tej Andrieke called out to him as updates were given to her. "Your engineering deck ahs been taken, your reactors are being turned off and our ships are getting a safe distance away, you even give us a glorious death in battle, you are finished!"
“Poodo!” Tej said as he raised his blaster and snapped off a quick shot at Andrieke as best he could. The shoot glanced her armours shoulderpad but otherwise did no damage.
With a hiss she closed the distance and at the last moment dropped her knife and punched Tej between the eyes and again and again till finally his head rolled back she saw the other officers were subdued as well and marched towards them, Talinna approaching with her lightsaber still active. "Right your captain is down, a fellow officer of yours dead, your engineers are working for us, now you lot turn off that failsafe or we shall show you how deadly that blade of this force user is." To emphasize the point Talinna approached and let the saber hover over their heads. It did not take long for one of them to break and quickly deactivate the failsafe. "Good." She let out a silent sigh of relief and contacted the two sith observing from space.
"This is Andrieke, the ship is ours, I repeat the ship is ours."
Kashiir closed his eyes and slowly turned around to watch his master, fully expecting some kind of reprisal but he was shocked when Gra'tua just let out a chuckle. "Well done Kashiir, you have a good head on your shoulders, be sure to keep it." With a smirk hidden he turned back to Lena. "We have taken the ship it seems, I shall send some troops over to make sure it stays that way."
Lena nodded, "I must admit your Mandalorians have acquitted themselves quite well Gra'tua, do you mind if I send a craft to pick up Tej?"
Gra'tua shrugged, "Not at all."
Later, Lena walked down the corridors to the brig with the cell containing their new guest, Gra'tua had kindly handed him over to her and now she was going to pay him a visit, and see if he was awake now after that one woman in service of Gra'tua, Andrieke, had knocked him out. When she entered and approached his cell, she saw that the human male was sitting upright, her hands clasped behind her back she coughed to get his attention. "Hello, and welcome."
“So my captor has come to gloat then?..” Tej said as he studied Lena. “What happened to the Mandalorians? You don't seem to fit with them...” he said after a few moments with a look on his face that made it appear he was figuring out a puzzle.
"They are in the service of a friend of mine." She simply said and studied the man, "And I am not here to gloat just... trying to sate my curiousity, wondering what kind of man it takes, to turn his back on his organization and go rogue."
“Why do most people do what they do, Money and Power.” Tej replied with a bored looking shrug as though her explanation had taken all the fun out of the previous puzzle.
Lena looked dissapointed for a moment, "So not a difference of opinion or of creed. You just wanted money and power?"
Tej leaned back against the rear of the cell and laughed a rich and clearly amused chuckle. “Does that surprise you, were you expecting some lengthy tale about how the black sun tortured and murdered my family in an effort to have me fall in line, or how I started out in the slave markets before rising to where I was in their ranks ad was angered by how they endorsed slavery. Or perhaps you expected me to spin some tale of love for an honest woman that ran afoul of the Black sun and was executed despite my pleas. Is that more what you were expecting to hear?”
Lena tilted her head and then shrugged, "I suppose not." She frowned, "Why the bombs in your crew? Were they loyal to Black Sun or were you just incapable of controlling them by your own means or charisma?"
“They were pretty simple really, they were the ships original engineers, part of the team that designed and built it, they didn't particularly wish to come along willingly when I was tasked by black sun to steal the ship, after I took the ship for myself I needed them to maintain it. The explosives were a simple and effective tool to ensure their cooperation.” Tej replied.
"A tool, if I loan the words of my friends among the Mandalorians, of a coward and petty little man." She sighed and turned away. "Enjoy my hospitality while it lasts, I think I have heard enough." Two noghri who had been waiting in the shadows now stepped into view, silently staring at the prisoner while Lena started walking away to find the bounty hunter.
"Could I at least get a decent meal!" Tej shouted after lena as she left.
She ignored him as she continued walking, when it was time for his meal he would just have to eat whatever it was.
Alama waited at the enterance to the detention block, casually cleaning under his fingernails with a small knife he kept on his person while he waited. Looking up at the sound of footsteps he saw Lena approaching the and the knife pomptly vanished into his clothing. "Curiosity sated?" he asked casually.
She nodded slowly, "It is, just curious why one would turn from a organization, knowing they must have wanted to hunt him down for such desertion. Do you require assistance, getting him transferred to your shuttle?"
“If you could loan me the use of a med sled to get him to the hanger, I'll just stun him and keep him sedated for the trip to his reunion with the Black Sun.” Alama said as he patted the blaster on his hip. “So I take him in, collect the reward and then wire it to you minus my 30% then.” Alama said with a smile. “Its always a pleasure working with professionals.” he then added.
Lena raised a eyebrow and waggled a finger. "You are mistaken... it was 20%, though I think, because of the trouble we went through, not to mention that they had somekind of failsafe in place and almost blown us up me and my associate need some more compensation, so maybe you should get 15%. Especially if you are trying to cheat us, hmm?" She smiled, crossing her arms.
Alama had the good grace to at least look taken aback as he put on a mock pout. “20% are you sure.” He said before he started to grin. “Well can't blame a guy for trying surely. 20% is fine, after all if it were me I'd have shot the guy rather than taking him captive in the first place, but since your friend went to the trouble of taking him alive I won't take my cut out of the bonus, is that acceptable?”
She mulled it over and the nodded, "Acceptable, pleasure working with you again... one last question, I don't suppose you might have heard about a CIS expedition heading for Teth? Perhaps offer us some information? Since we are such good friends and business associates after all." She asked casualy.
“Can't say I know much about the movements of the CIS I'm afraid, not unless there's a bounty attached at least.” Alama replied. “If I were to hear something though what might it be worth to you?”
"Depends on the information, but I always pay my debts." She said with confidence.
“Then I'll keep my ears open and pass along anything that may be of use.” Alama said with a slight but flourished bow. “So then,” he added as he straightened. ”A medsled?”
She smiled and shook her head at his antics and called up the medical bay for a medsled to be brought to the brig, but without any medics. "Just make sure it has straps to secure the prisoner." She finished saying and then turned back to Alama. "It's on the way, I also will have some of my Noghri assist you. But the moment you stun him, he is your responsibility."
"I'd prefer a carbonite gun but they're not cheap to get ahold of, Stunning and keeping him sedated for the trip works just as well really, just needs a little more monitoring." Alama said as he started heading into the detention block. "Don't worry though, I'll make sure you get your credits." he said as he smiled back over his shoulder at Lena.
She watched him go, shaking her head, this had been a pleasant, but perhaps costly diversion, though she hoped violence was not required at Teth, on that note she contacted Gra'tua, his voice coming to her a moment after the request. "Ah Gra'tua, how goes it?"
"Very well, I finished transferring the troops that will make sure the crew aboard my new ship stay in line, they will limp back home as fast as they can, wish we could stay put and conduct some repairs here and there but we are still good to go if you are." Gra'tua replied, eager to continue the journey.
"In that case, let our navigators get together to calculate a joined hyperspace jump towards Teth and continue on our journey." She smiled and finished the call, heading to the bridge to oversee the flight.
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Summary:
360 SP reward, split into 2
Gra'tua Ship gained
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Hypershield need extensive repairs, SP and time to get it fixed or upgraded.
