[IC] HCL 2: Twisted tinkers' triumph

[Tyki]

@supertinyking

"very well... you'll need to give a brief description of your previous employment though... just the normal things like teaching, farming, combat, etc." the soldier replies evenly, handing her the holo-list back

"i don't rightly know... give me a minute" she replies evenly, getting out a small metal disk and setting it on the table which brings up a nearly entirely holographic computer which she uses to verify things and do a bit of work that had started building up while she was away, the written language seeming rather elegant, the individual symbols for the letters coming together to form certain words which were their own symbols, and sometimes entire phrases beign reduced to a single symbol, leaving the language highly compact. "it appears we met your sith friends and they tried to kill one of our captains... her master had appearently said to make use of her and suggested handing her over to you but the acting sergeant chose to take her in instead... as for his other comment, i have no idea" she replies evenly, still typing away at what appears to be an invoice of some sort with image files of crates and shipping routes.

[supertinyking]

@Tyki

".....Student...combat....torture....." Malice says, slowly, and quietly.

".....I see. I insist you inform the sergeant who took her to get her here soon....or.....Raiden may take to it badly. Also, questioning her is a very bad idea of the current. She's...most likely unstable." Shepard says, standing up. He looks down at the Sergal Sergeant, as he starts to venture towards the landing pad. "...I do mean...extremely insist. Put whatever leeway you have into getting her here if need be..."

[Tyki]

@supertinyking

"very well. here's your ID, we'll have you on your way in a few minutes so go ahead and get some rest, directions to your temporary sleeping quarters are already coded in" the soldier replies evenly, slipping the small length of metal into a console before handing her a bracelet similar to his own.

"it appears that the questioning's already complete. she's been released for a bit of rest by the soldier handling her questioning. i can have her here within the day" the sergeant replies evenly, putting her computer away before getting up and walking with him to the landing pad. "If you have any meetings with the genocians, do try to mention us" she adds evenly before boarding the transport and returning

[supertinyking]

@Tyki
She simply sits on her bed, mentally shattered. Although, left alone to long, she'd end up chewing her own tongue off, the neural dampeners messing up her pain receptors enough to allow this.

"...Sigh......I wish she knew..." Shepard says to himself, as he awaits the sith's arrival. He stands there, rain falling as she leaves orbit, giving the scene a dreary look.

[Tyki]

@supertinyking

she's gathered after an hour by the same soldier, at least knocking before entering which would probably be something of a novelty for her. "you're shipping out in three minutes. get your things together" his voice chimes in through the door before his foot steps fade away, her bracelet already updated for her trek to the landing pad, the ship present there taking her to the clone world and leaving her there for the time being

[supertinyking]

@Tyki
She gathers what little things she owns, and is left at the clone legion's home planet, not to be seen again, at least for the first few weeks. Slowly, the clone legion seems to be forced into a isolationist policy by the geonosian empire's levying trade deals, but one of the stipulations foribly cutting ties with the sergals. Shepard appears to have his hands tied in the matter, as he's forced to comply. Soon, even the satalite orbiting the clone worlds are asked to be removed, as part of a geonosian trade deal banning orbital communication devices not of their own creation. The geos also keep tight lipped about any sort of deal they make when it comes to the sergals, being oddly aggressive against them, to keep them out of Geo business.

[Tyki]

@supertinyking

the sergals consent to the removal of the satellite on the stipulation that the genosians have it orbiting their home planet instead

[supertinyking]

@Tyki
The geos simply reply with no, and if more satellites are put into orbit on their, or the clone worlds, they are shot down, sent into black holes ect. Any threat of war is taken..badly, leading to the two nations showing some muscle, showing the sergals it would be a long, bloody war, that'd end with all three of them being extremely weakened. With Matt on the boarder, that may be a very bad idea. As such, a stalemate may be reached, Sergals on one side of the wall, the united federation on the other.

The main allies of the Sergals, oddly, are the sith. They apparently do not agree with anything bullying them, and actively help put up satellites to piss the geos off. At one point, the Geos attempt a hostile takeover of Korriban. It ends in massive deaths on their side, and a failed invasion, as soon the costs out weighted the gains, and the operation was canceled.

[Tyki]

@supertinyking

after the first satellite is downed, the geos recieve a rather simple message saying 'you will pay for that or your hostile actions will be recognized and the proper retaliation shall be meeted out. you have four days to respond with payment of four million tons of iron, one million ton of gold, and thirty tons of assorted gems consisting of; diamonds, quartz, rubies, saphires, and emeralds. failure to pay will result in a doubling of price every four days until the debt is payed.' with the price added onto itself for each satellite destroyed

[supertinyking]

@Tyki
"We will not pay at all. You're breaking our laws by sending them into orbit. Be lucky we aren't forcing you to pay fines for your insolence." The geos reply with said message, and ignore the sergals, again shooting down any sort of orbiting scanners, if relaunched. The clones remained tight lipped, possibly due to the large amount of geonosian ships now patrolling near their planets. Obviously, something was up, but any attempt to hack into Geo or clone computers is met with the origins of the hack being found, and bombarded with M-EMPS, ruining their technology on a planetary level...and extensive fines being levyed towards the Sergals, for such things as several million pounds of metals, and sergal workers.

[Tyki]

@supertinyking

the geo's find that soon after their aggressive stance towards the sergals, large portions of their empire data banks are corrupted and various planets experience power outages seemingly at random, even core planets suffering, their robots suffering drastic malfunctions, causing entire production facilities to go down in some cases while no outside sources could be detected, sergal stations not even found anywhere within geo space, though after a bit of exploration, then genocians would find themselves surrounded and barricaded, unable to expand beyond their current holdings and not even able to send ships out of their air space, the clones able to come and go though, showing that they were being treated favorably due to lack of hostility. The end result taking a good month before the genocian supply lines are completely cut off with no ability to even request the sergals move since they were literally on the border of genocian space. their colonies surrounding the empire and preventing travel outward

[supertinyking]

@Tyki
The geos begin to expand into new universes, something giving them multiversal travel. Soon, different methods of generating power are found, and said mysterious events that cause those outages wouldn't be able to be repeated. Soon, the sergal embargo of sorts would have no effects, other than wasting the sergal's time.

Shepard arranges a meeting between him and the sergal high generals, explaining important news needed to be delivered. When he arrives there, he'd look a mess. His muscual frame starved to skin and bones, his golden eyes blood shot. One of his limbs would be in a large cast of sorts, making him less than any sort of threat.
".....Hello...my allies. I've needed to tell you of something...we...the legion, discovered plans by the clone city on your planet, so long ago, that were detailed events of an invasion. We were afraid of retribution for these plans existing...so, we hid them. Our fomrer allies, the Geonosians, found them, and were using them as leverage against us to force trade rules. That is what has led to our current situation..I am..sorry. If you seek to punish anyone..let it be me. Kill me...tourture me...but do not hurt my people." Shepard says, looking around at the far more powerful people seated around the table. Any one of them could easily crush him in his strongest state, let alone this weakened, starved state. It wouldn't take much to kill him, but he shows exceptional courage in the face of possible death.

[Tyki]

@supertinyking

"at least ya had the stones to tell us" one of the high general says with a smile, wielding a large kinetic hammer and swigging at a great keg of an unknown alcohol while she sits in a relaxed position at a table off to the side from the rest.

"what dera means, is that; we did know that the previous clone empire was up to no good, and in fact the parties responsible for making that plan were thrown off the nearest, tallest building after they were discovered, the fact that you attempted to cover up for them was admirable in some ways. of course, this will come at an increase in taxes for future trade deals" kalus replies evenly before getting smacked upside the head by mute, nearly being knocked out of his chair as a rather sour looking sergal stares shepard down, stating dryly "you can seek pennance by joining in our fight against the genosians. currently we already have plans to achieve a slow victory with minimal losses, but with the clone's assistance we could win in half the time if that." with her arms crossed.

[supertinyking]

@kishin asura
Maka just sighs. "..It's boring here....I mean, I expected being dead to not be overly eventful...but..well..this...is......" Maka starts, not being at all entertained.

I open a portal, and leap though it, and the sound of a table being broken over someone's skull crashes though the portal. "WHOOO HOOOOO!" Some rather deep voice fellow says, with a slightly Scandinavian accent. "Shammy boy!" Gunner says, before punching something, a large amount of rubble passing though the portal.

[supertinyking]

@Tyki
"After we were isolated from you, the geos destroyed our military....our current population as a species....ten thousand...three hundred...and sixteen...." Shepard says, looking down at the table. "........they destroyed our cloning facilites....put us into forced labor camps...used us like lab rats for experiments. I was being tortured that entire time...I..am sorry...." Shepard says, before tears begin to hit the table. "..I've failed.....I am so sorry my people..." He whispers, being on the verge of crying, when he slams his head into the table hard enough to crack it down the center. "...Get me a jar of one of that mana mixture you add to...everything. I want to test something..." Shepard says, a odd tint of mad glee in his eyes.

[Tyki]

@supertinyking

"elaborate" the sour sergal orders evenly, her attitude incredibly heavily based in logic and distrust.

"hmmm... do you have any ships left?" kalus asks evenly, bringing up a small screen on the desk.

[supertinyking]

@Tyki
"They were impounded. the ship I arrived on was a salvaged go ship...and I'm thinking if it sorta boosts most things, maybe if I drink it it'll recharge my mystical abilities...which, would be nice. It would let me heal a hell of a lot faster." Shepard says, sorta holding up his cast covered arm." Shepard says. "..they even took Malice.....god, I do hope she's ok..." Shepard says, as if suddenly such thoughts returned to him. Slowly, a light of defiance, of passion, returned to his dim, dead eyes.

[Tyki]

@supertinyking

"if you still have people available to you... you could still be of use militarily" kalus says evenly, the sour looking sergal looking at him warrily and stating "no. no he cannot."

"high general halis, this matter falls under the jurisdiction of the economics division. not the military division. you have no say in the matter" kalus says evenly, derah laughing her ass off to the point she falls out of her chair, babbling "oooh! the queen's play thing grew some stones has he?! man they made a racket when they fell!" as she rolls around on the floor, quite thoroughly drunk. "come with me commander. there are a few things for me to show you" kalus says evenly, the high generals dispersing as kalus leads him out to a room that looks to be a cafeteria before typing away at a terminal and coming back with blue cookies with purple chips in them and a glass of opaque yellow liquid, setting them before him.

[supertinyking]

@Tyki
"....no offence, that drink looks like piss." Shepard says, eating everything else, but sorta eyeing the drink suspiciously. "If I do have any people left, we're moving...I don't want retribution, I just want survival for my people." Shepard replies, around a mouth full of chips. He slowly picks up the drink, and takes a sip. "...That's not bad." He says, before chugging the whole thing.

[Tyki]

@supertinyking

he finds the cookies to actually taste like lemonaide while the lemonaid tastes like cookies, sort of making his brain just shit itself and die in confusion, his theory proving correct as he can feel his mystical energy returning to him the more cookies he eats. "which is understandable, however, don't expect us to off free land. you'll be offered land of course, but... on a few conditions. are you familiar with the term; privateer?" kalus replies evenly, eating a burger with slightly blue meat, showing that they really did use mana as a preservative in everything though the ingredients in the cookies are questionable since, frankly, the only way the lable 'cookies' actually fit was because of how they looked.