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Tacticus sat in the back of shuttle close to his squadmates simply staring into the floor expressionless and motionless. Sura had decided it best to give the kid some time to process his best friends death by himself. Besides she had some burns from bullet grazes on her arms that she needed to tend to. Solares however decided to get over to the window and look out towards the station. Thus being the first among the Turians to see the carnage. "By the spirits they blew it up! Did they blow up the cruiser!? It's game over man, game over-.."
"Quiet down Solares." Sura said making her way up behind him and putting her hand on his shoulder to calm him down. She looked intently out the window for a few moments at the wreckage. "I don't see the Intrepid anywhere in that mess. She may have gotten out, which means we arn't quite dead yet. I would also suspect that a fleet will be organized within a few days when the Hierarchy realizes there is no response from their troops. Week maybe before they send a recon frigate through the relay, well, assuming that execution video hasn't already hit their desks." Sura grabbed a hand hold in the ceiling and looked back at her troops, most of whom were applying medi-gel to themselves for minor burns and atleast two bullet holes. "We should probably head planet side and see if we can get a communication uplink strong enough to broadcast to the system, see if we can't get in contact with our boys." She turned to head to the cockpit to tell the pilot but the ship shifted and started moving towards the world before she could even tell them. Hopefully the Humans had the same idea at this point but knowing them they might just go to ground as soon as they hit dirt. Sura decided to shelve that idea until they actually got down to the planet though, no need to start an argument in a tube hovering through the vacuum of space.
Sura decided to make her way down the line of her cabalists making sure they were all good to go once they got off the shuttle. Luckily it worked out that Tacticus was at the end of the group. He was just staring at the ground not moving at all like he was in shock. She forgot sometimes that not everyone in the squad had seen combat before. The dead blank stare was not something that she was unfamiliar with. It was a common response to seeing your friend's head get blown off. Still leaning on the ceiling but standing in front of Tacticus she spoke "Hey Cactus, you dead or are you alive?" Tacticus didn't move at all so she grabbed his shoulder and shook him a bit. "Hey, you don't get to check out soldier."
Tacticus jumped a little bit as he looked towards the hand that had grabbed his shoulder. His eyes took a moment to focus on Sura before he was able to stammer out "Yes...good sir, I'm good, sir." Tacticus realized that he had zoned out thinking about Numso for a minute there. He blinked his eyes to get the dried blood off his eye lids quickly before moving his still wet hand up to his eyes to try and clean them out. He ended up just mostly covering his face in more krogan blood and just elected to stop trying as he was only making it worse. "Do we... are we heading back to the fleet sir?" Sura simply shook her head no. "The planet then right? Maybe the uh...locals are still willing to help?"
Sura removed her hand from his arm shoulder and responded to him. "We'll work on that once we get planetside, don't worry about it. Get your head clear, Numso embodied the spirit he's fine now. But we still have to get out this, be ready to move once we hit land." Sura hit Tacticus on the shoulder with the bottom of her fist lightly and turned around to be greeted by the Human that had almost killed them all earlier. Sura accepted the chocolate from him and was hesitant for a moment as to what to say. "Thanks Human." She quickly divided it up evenly among her troopers and even gave some to their diplomat. She figured that this may be the last sweets any of them saw for awhile may as well enjoy them.
Tacticus was given the chocolate and to take his mind off the death he had just witnessed he poured all his concentration into opening the candy carefully and deliberately. He even made sure to bother breaking it along the lines. He passed it into his mouth past his mandibles and worked with his razor sharp break down the candy. It would keep his mind off it for the time being but Sura was right, he was alive, atleast for the next few minutes. He could grieve later, there was still a job to do. He sat upright on the bench and hit Tuvea in the side of her arm with the back of his hand. "How long do you think this stuff has been sitting in here?" Cactus tried to say with a more light hearted tone.
Tuvea quickly responded "I don't think I wanna know." This got a half chuckle out of both of them.
"Quiet down Solares." Sura said making her way up behind him and putting her hand on his shoulder to calm him down. She looked intently out the window for a few moments at the wreckage. "I don't see the Intrepid anywhere in that mess. She may have gotten out, which means we arn't quite dead yet. I would also suspect that a fleet will be organized within a few days when the Hierarchy realizes there is no response from their troops. Week maybe before they send a recon frigate through the relay, well, assuming that execution video hasn't already hit their desks." Sura grabbed a hand hold in the ceiling and looked back at her troops, most of whom were applying medi-gel to themselves for minor burns and atleast two bullet holes. "We should probably head planet side and see if we can get a communication uplink strong enough to broadcast to the system, see if we can't get in contact with our boys." She turned to head to the cockpit to tell the pilot but the ship shifted and started moving towards the world before she could even tell them. Hopefully the Humans had the same idea at this point but knowing them they might just go to ground as soon as they hit dirt. Sura decided to shelve that idea until they actually got down to the planet though, no need to start an argument in a tube hovering through the vacuum of space.
Sura decided to make her way down the line of her cabalists making sure they were all good to go once they got off the shuttle. Luckily it worked out that Tacticus was at the end of the group. He was just staring at the ground not moving at all like he was in shock. She forgot sometimes that not everyone in the squad had seen combat before. The dead blank stare was not something that she was unfamiliar with. It was a common response to seeing your friend's head get blown off. Still leaning on the ceiling but standing in front of Tacticus she spoke "Hey Cactus, you dead or are you alive?" Tacticus didn't move at all so she grabbed his shoulder and shook him a bit. "Hey, you don't get to check out soldier."
Tacticus jumped a little bit as he looked towards the hand that had grabbed his shoulder. His eyes took a moment to focus on Sura before he was able to stammer out "Yes...good sir, I'm good, sir." Tacticus realized that he had zoned out thinking about Numso for a minute there. He blinked his eyes to get the dried blood off his eye lids quickly before moving his still wet hand up to his eyes to try and clean them out. He ended up just mostly covering his face in more krogan blood and just elected to stop trying as he was only making it worse. "Do we... are we heading back to the fleet sir?" Sura simply shook her head no. "The planet then right? Maybe the uh...locals are still willing to help?"
Sura removed her hand from his arm shoulder and responded to him. "We'll work on that once we get planetside, don't worry about it. Get your head clear, Numso embodied the spirit he's fine now. But we still have to get out this, be ready to move once we hit land." Sura hit Tacticus on the shoulder with the bottom of her fist lightly and turned around to be greeted by the Human that had almost killed them all earlier. Sura accepted the chocolate from him and was hesitant for a moment as to what to say. "Thanks Human." She quickly divided it up evenly among her troopers and even gave some to their diplomat. She figured that this may be the last sweets any of them saw for awhile may as well enjoy them.
Tacticus was given the chocolate and to take his mind off the death he had just witnessed he poured all his concentration into opening the candy carefully and deliberately. He even made sure to bother breaking it along the lines. He passed it into his mouth past his mandibles and worked with his razor sharp break down the candy. It would keep his mind off it for the time being but Sura was right, he was alive, atleast for the next few minutes. He could grieve later, there was still a job to do. He sat upright on the bench and hit Tuvea in the side of her arm with the back of his hand. "How long do you think this stuff has been sitting in here?" Cactus tried to say with a more light hearted tone.
Tuvea quickly responded "I don't think I wanna know." This got a half chuckle out of both of them.
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I shall again do this @CQBEXPT come back or I'll move on without your sorry ass.
whoops
Vale had half a mind to interject and tell the ISB agent exactly how useless that borderline Hutt mound of flesh was. But she decided against it seeing as at least the Hutt's were competent. "Emperor protect, agent." Vale settled on a more common saying as apposed to getting colorful with her wording. She turned the data device over in her hand just to try get what the agent could have put in such a small device. She turned to one of her stomtroopers and spoke to him with a more loose tone than she had been speaking to the agent with. "Get Lieutenant Thule on the horn, I have an assignment for him." The stormtrooper nodded with a "yessir" before keying his comms and informing dispatch of Vale's task. She looked around the hall and thankfully saw no one she hadn't been expecting. The Governor was known for being impulsive with his invites, especially to an event like today. One of the most notable features perhaps of the guests was that almost none of them were aliens. That being said there were a few but all of them were local power brokers that the Governor kept around incase he needed to go over Vale's head to do something.
She pocketed the device and made her way over to a serving droid and picked up a favorite drink of hers that she made sure to have stocked for these functions. Unfortunately, it was Gardulla with the mind-altering properties stripped from it. She had been told before that the drink was an acquired taste but she had enjoyed it since she first had it. At the very least it would make some of the other guests feel more at easy around her given that the troopers were flanking her. She supposed her job was to be diplomatic until dispatch informed her that inevitably something had happened. Which was not to say she didn't have faith in her machinations but given the amount of moving parts tonight anything was possible. At that moment she received a communication from her Captain, whom she had given charge of the micro-managing of the defenses for the night. "Good Captain, inform all guards at the entrances to tell any fans of the Governer's to move away from the entrances, all attendants are here. I'm taking Thule from your defenses for task, make adjustments accordingly. Lastly, stay near the Governor and keep me updated on what he does throughout the night." She took her hand off her ear piece and made her way towards the owner of one of the pod-racer teams.
Sarrus finished his full bodied laugh by grabbing the star pod-racers arm to steady himself. He made sure his other arm was held out to the side to keep his drink from spilling. "Ah, but if you had lost I would have to buy another racer to cover my losses!" The pod-racer was of local fame primarily for his feats in the races last month in which he had beaten the Governer's sponsored team. Oddly enough Sarrus felt like betting against himself for once. He was now in talks with his current team to "steal him away" quite literally. The pod-racer gave out a half fearful smile and laugh knowing that Sarrus was talking about having him removed permanently from the circuit if he had lost his last race. Choking out his laughter with a gulp from his goblet a particular uniformed officer caught his eye. He turned back quickly to the group of businessmen and pod-racers surrounding him. "If you'll all excuse me I have some other bussiness to conduct tonight. To the Emperor!" He raised his goblet up and the rest of the group followed with his saying and action. They all then took deep drinks and dispersed as the Governor moved towards the obvious ISB agent in his midst. He then turned to Vale's captain Tucker. "Leave us, tell Vale i wish to speak with her." Sarrus said in a rather serious tone.
He then turned with his stormtroopers towards the ISB agent he saw wandering the hall. He made his way over to her as quickly as he could without looking suspiciously eager to meet the agent. As he approached he put back on his usual jovial persona. "Ah agent! I was not aware that I would have the pleasure of speaking to a member of the bureau tonight! How may I be of service to the Emperor today?" Sarrus was entirely unaware that an agent would be arriving. As far as he knew there was no reason for them to be checking up him unless they suspected his...escapades. Whatever the case it was his imperative to find out what she was doing here. "Actually hold that thought, let me get your a drink I'm sure you've been traveling for a time to this glorious world." Sarrus had one of his troopers signal a server droid to join his side and hold up a plate with several different colored drinks placed apon it.
She pocketed the device and made her way over to a serving droid and picked up a favorite drink of hers that she made sure to have stocked for these functions. Unfortunately, it was Gardulla with the mind-altering properties stripped from it. She had been told before that the drink was an acquired taste but she had enjoyed it since she first had it. At the very least it would make some of the other guests feel more at easy around her given that the troopers were flanking her. She supposed her job was to be diplomatic until dispatch informed her that inevitably something had happened. Which was not to say she didn't have faith in her machinations but given the amount of moving parts tonight anything was possible. At that moment she received a communication from her Captain, whom she had given charge of the micro-managing of the defenses for the night. "Good Captain, inform all guards at the entrances to tell any fans of the Governer's to move away from the entrances, all attendants are here. I'm taking Thule from your defenses for task, make adjustments accordingly. Lastly, stay near the Governor and keep me updated on what he does throughout the night." She took her hand off her ear piece and made her way towards the owner of one of the pod-racer teams.
Sarrus finished his full bodied laugh by grabbing the star pod-racers arm to steady himself. He made sure his other arm was held out to the side to keep his drink from spilling. "Ah, but if you had lost I would have to buy another racer to cover my losses!" The pod-racer was of local fame primarily for his feats in the races last month in which he had beaten the Governer's sponsored team. Oddly enough Sarrus felt like betting against himself for once. He was now in talks with his current team to "steal him away" quite literally. The pod-racer gave out a half fearful smile and laugh knowing that Sarrus was talking about having him removed permanently from the circuit if he had lost his last race. Choking out his laughter with a gulp from his goblet a particular uniformed officer caught his eye. He turned back quickly to the group of businessmen and pod-racers surrounding him. "If you'll all excuse me I have some other bussiness to conduct tonight. To the Emperor!" He raised his goblet up and the rest of the group followed with his saying and action. They all then took deep drinks and dispersed as the Governor moved towards the obvious ISB agent in his midst. He then turned to Vale's captain Tucker. "Leave us, tell Vale i wish to speak with her." Sarrus said in a rather serious tone.
He then turned with his stormtroopers towards the ISB agent he saw wandering the hall. He made his way over to her as quickly as he could without looking suspiciously eager to meet the agent. As he approached he put back on his usual jovial persona. "Ah agent! I was not aware that I would have the pleasure of speaking to a member of the bureau tonight! How may I be of service to the Emperor today?" Sarrus was entirely unaware that an agent would be arriving. As far as he knew there was no reason for them to be checking up him unless they suspected his...escapades. Whatever the case it was his imperative to find out what she was doing here. "Actually hold that thought, let me get your a drink I'm sure you've been traveling for a time to this glorious world." Sarrus had one of his troopers signal a server droid to join his side and hold up a plate with several different colored drinks placed apon it.
I mean, anything that get's Vebra in a usable position lol.
So... I guess it's over? Why?
Whoops, hold on an hour or 2.
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Trust them, they benefit the empire.
YOUR NOT MY SUPERVISOR!
Vale nearly flinched at the idea of having to enter the bowls of the Governor's palace. She of course occasionally had to enter the immaculately kept palace for various purposes but the Governor had a nasty habit of knowing when she would have to talk to him and would typically have the most vile things occurring while she attempted to discuss actual issue with him. She figured this was mostly on purpose to keep the colonel "in her place" in regards to him showing what he was willing to do. While she expected this occasion to not be like that the last thing she wanted to happen was for her to get a favorable first impression of the Governor. Vale also wondered where this agent got the idea from that she would be working with the Governor at all, let alone closely. "Yes, truly a magnificent day to be the enforcer of the Empire's will." Vale said allowing her self to atleast for a moment believe that "serving" the Governor somehow furthered that end.
Before Vale was able to get a word in to perhaps suede her otherwise the agent made the power move and began walking. Realizing that she had no other card to play that would get her out this she began to walk with the agent in stride as the Governor's shuttle lifted off in search of another place to park. "As you wish, though I must inform you he doesn't actually know you were arriving. He has had a moratorium on all non-emergency information being brought to him for the last two months, citing his needing to make preparations for today." Vale in truth didn't actually know what the Governor had been doing inside his palace the last few months, while she had been making sure to personally read and approve all his materials requests she hadn't actually figured out what he was doing exactly. The supposed moratorium was also somewhat of a half truth, he had stated that nothing tagged as "non-priority" was to be brought to him. Though there was no reason an ISB agent should be tagged as priority now should it? Afterall, if the Governor was acting accordingly why worry his balding head with it?
Returning to the agent's new request for a status update however was much easier to be truthful about. "I'm sure you've read the monthly reports, so to spare you the history up until now things have been relatively quiet. Our mining output is set to exceed the new quotas for this month by over 13%, the newly opened AT-AT factory is set to ship off it's first non-local production line before the end of next month, three raids have been conducted in the last two weeks of suspected dissenters in preparation of today's events which revealed that there was infact an attack planned on the palace today. Though we believe that cell to have been thoroughly stamped out I have taken the liberty of increasing security on the highly unlikely event something should happen; seeing as we have both local businessmen and people of system wide importance attending tonight I have several prepared multiple contingencies for both defense and evacuation. Getting back to more planet-wide events the construction of the Golan station has been proceeding smoothly and without any incidents. It will be able to begin resupplying cruisers next week and the following week it will be able to service Venator-class vessels, with support for newer star destroyers coming the week following that. We also...." Vale was suddenly interrupted by one of her lieutenants reporting that unknown stormtroopers using the agent's shuttle had dropped off their first load of equipment.
"Excellent, prepare for more equipment to arrive and double the manpower to the landing pad. Vale out." Just as Vale was about to apologize for the interruption another Lieutenant chimed in saying that all fortifications were completed on the northern wing of the palace. She acknowledged this and remembered that they had had a hard time properly securing one of the tunnels the Governor used to move supplies in and out of the palace. However she elected to not continue with the updating of the agent as they neared the door that lead out of the hanger. There were two of the Governor's stormtroopers waiting on either side of the door, the fact that they had Imperial insignias stamped in black on their shoulders made it clear that they were different from the rest of the troopers they had encountered. The Governor had decided to differentiate his guard from the rest of the troops in more than one way but this was the most readily available example. The stormtroopers stepped in front of the door as she approached and the one on the right spoke up.
"Sir, your guards are not allowed beyond..." Vale cut the trooper off before he could finish telling her that the Governor's standing orders were not to let in any of her own guards.
"Tonight that has been waved. Radio operations and ask if you wish, Governor's orders for the night." The trooper quickly radio'd control which just so happened to be in a hardened bunker deep in the earth beneath the palace to confirm the orders.
"Apologizes sir, your men are cleared." The troopers moved to either side of the door and it slid open as they approached. She was glad that the Governor had actually called that in for the day, seeing as all of his men had been moved off the walls and into the palace itself he knew his men vastly outnumbered any guard force she could bring in with her. After passing through the doorway they found themselves in a 3 meter long bare metal hallway which then ended with another door but this one took slightly longer to open. The extra thickness on the door was obvious as they passed through that breach as well and into the palace proper. The palaces walls rose several stories above them were coated in all types of art from Coruscant and plated with some sort of gold. There also happened to be many evenly spaced smooth columns going in every direction. They were obviously less for support and more to fill up some of the vast hallways. While they were currently at the top of a T-section of the hallway it was quite apparent to Vale that they needed to go straight as that is where the music that was lightly echoing the halls was coming from.
"As you can tell the Governor separated his guardsmen from the rest of the military when his previous subordinate attempted a coup. This can make coordination with him... difficult at times. For the time being your troopers will be allowed within the palace but once you meet the Governor I'll have them cleared to have full access to the planet. Another thing, may I ask your name agent?" Vale said all of this with the due respects a commanding officer of her's would deserve even though she suspected her rank wasn't actually higher than hers. As both pairs of their troopers synced up with their walking speed Vale took pleasure in the fact that her troopers atleast appeared as trained as hers.
Before Vale was able to get a word in to perhaps suede her otherwise the agent made the power move and began walking. Realizing that she had no other card to play that would get her out this she began to walk with the agent in stride as the Governor's shuttle lifted off in search of another place to park. "As you wish, though I must inform you he doesn't actually know you were arriving. He has had a moratorium on all non-emergency information being brought to him for the last two months, citing his needing to make preparations for today." Vale in truth didn't actually know what the Governor had been doing inside his palace the last few months, while she had been making sure to personally read and approve all his materials requests she hadn't actually figured out what he was doing exactly. The supposed moratorium was also somewhat of a half truth, he had stated that nothing tagged as "non-priority" was to be brought to him. Though there was no reason an ISB agent should be tagged as priority now should it? Afterall, if the Governor was acting accordingly why worry his balding head with it?
Returning to the agent's new request for a status update however was much easier to be truthful about. "I'm sure you've read the monthly reports, so to spare you the history up until now things have been relatively quiet. Our mining output is set to exceed the new quotas for this month by over 13%, the newly opened AT-AT factory is set to ship off it's first non-local production line before the end of next month, three raids have been conducted in the last two weeks of suspected dissenters in preparation of today's events which revealed that there was infact an attack planned on the palace today. Though we believe that cell to have been thoroughly stamped out I have taken the liberty of increasing security on the highly unlikely event something should happen; seeing as we have both local businessmen and people of system wide importance attending tonight I have several prepared multiple contingencies for both defense and evacuation. Getting back to more planet-wide events the construction of the Golan station has been proceeding smoothly and without any incidents. It will be able to begin resupplying cruisers next week and the following week it will be able to service Venator-class vessels, with support for newer star destroyers coming the week following that. We also...." Vale was suddenly interrupted by one of her lieutenants reporting that unknown stormtroopers using the agent's shuttle had dropped off their first load of equipment.
"Excellent, prepare for more equipment to arrive and double the manpower to the landing pad. Vale out." Just as Vale was about to apologize for the interruption another Lieutenant chimed in saying that all fortifications were completed on the northern wing of the palace. She acknowledged this and remembered that they had had a hard time properly securing one of the tunnels the Governor used to move supplies in and out of the palace. However she elected to not continue with the updating of the agent as they neared the door that lead out of the hanger. There were two of the Governor's stormtroopers waiting on either side of the door, the fact that they had Imperial insignias stamped in black on their shoulders made it clear that they were different from the rest of the troopers they had encountered. The Governor had decided to differentiate his guard from the rest of the troops in more than one way but this was the most readily available example. The stormtroopers stepped in front of the door as she approached and the one on the right spoke up.
"Sir, your guards are not allowed beyond..." Vale cut the trooper off before he could finish telling her that the Governor's standing orders were not to let in any of her own guards.
"Tonight that has been waved. Radio operations and ask if you wish, Governor's orders for the night." The trooper quickly radio'd control which just so happened to be in a hardened bunker deep in the earth beneath the palace to confirm the orders.
"Apologizes sir, your men are cleared." The troopers moved to either side of the door and it slid open as they approached. She was glad that the Governor had actually called that in for the day, seeing as all of his men had been moved off the walls and into the palace itself he knew his men vastly outnumbered any guard force she could bring in with her. After passing through the doorway they found themselves in a 3 meter long bare metal hallway which then ended with another door but this one took slightly longer to open. The extra thickness on the door was obvious as they passed through that breach as well and into the palace proper. The palaces walls rose several stories above them were coated in all types of art from Coruscant and plated with some sort of gold. There also happened to be many evenly spaced smooth columns going in every direction. They were obviously less for support and more to fill up some of the vast hallways. While they were currently at the top of a T-section of the hallway it was quite apparent to Vale that they needed to go straight as that is where the music that was lightly echoing the halls was coming from.
"As you can tell the Governor separated his guardsmen from the rest of the military when his previous subordinate attempted a coup. This can make coordination with him... difficult at times. For the time being your troopers will be allowed within the palace but once you meet the Governor I'll have them cleared to have full access to the planet. Another thing, may I ask your name agent?" Vale said all of this with the due respects a commanding officer of her's would deserve even though she suspected her rank wasn't actually higher than hers. As both pairs of their troopers synced up with their walking speed Vale took pleasure in the fact that her troopers atleast appeared as trained as hers.
There. Jacob is now officially confused. And a little nervous.
Something tells me Vale isn't gonna like what's in those crates.
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