Ask Another Alsakan

[Harleen]

Sneeve
Q-10​

Accordian

Another Alsakan..
The absolute chaos we reigned on them in Alsakan has proved to send waves through their organization, even though they believe it to have been the Sector Rangers who perpetrated it. Do it again, we have plenty of Sector Ranger uniforms, don them and viciously attack a listening post of theirs located on Sneeve. Light resistance is expected.(Self DM 2-3 participants.)
1: @Grace Zann
2: @Harleen
3: @Tysjor Maspat

Harleen was packed down with explosives, every hard point on her armour was fully loaded, and she had back up cartridges for each one, her Micro Missile guns were set and ready, with extra missile packs, she even had three plasma gernades hooked to her belt at the ready. To say she was excited was a bit of an understatement..

As she walked full of glee through the street to the rendezvous, she was almost floating on air, the Pyke commander Rafe had called for a full bore assault with no prisoners, this fit Harleen's MO very well, as her weapons usually didn't leave survivors, and on the rare occasions they did... well one almost felt bad for them..

Harleen's boss, @Grace Zann and one of the Pykes were supposed to be meeting up to kick off thus extravaganza. Harleen definitely looked a little silly in her Sector Ranger uniform with the badge hanging off the breast of her armour over top of it.

Heya Boss! Harleen would exclaim once she caught sight of the woman, running up to give her an embrace.

Once the Pyke arrived she'd offer him a bit more of a professional greeting, with her hand out to shake his, I'm Harley... she'd say, But you can call me Boomy.. she'd add, a nickname she'd earned from her brother that would probably make more sense to the Pyke in about ten minutes or so.

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[Grace Zann]

Grace was not use to the whole rough and tumble sector ranger look, but the outfit did provide her more protection than usual. Though it hand't been long since she slaughtered a crowd of enemies, she would be doing just that yet again. At least this time it would be mainly her and Harleen working the job. She was still trying to get use to the lumen's nickname boomy. It was sweet and endearing for someone as vicious as her.

Apparently, there were suppose to take on an enemy listening post for the pykes. It was one that wasn't too far from their scouting position either. The woman would look down at her uniform for a moment, and then gaze at her lightsaber. Maybe it would have been better to pretend to be a jedi... Maybe she could still pull that off.

The young crime boss would simply smirk as Harleen ran over to hug her. She felt it was kind of strange a mercenary would give her this much affection, but wouldn't dwell on that. "Good to see you again old friend... And who's the new guy." She would ask in reference to the pyke.

Their small group was on top of a cliff face which overlooked a metal box-shaped building some distance away. It had a large set of metal antenna attached to the top of the structure, a dead give away that it was a listening post...

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[Tysjor Maspat]

To Tysjor, Sector Rangers were nothing more than irritating gnats that occasionally got in the way of the syndicates. He avoided dealings with them as much as possible, unless it was shooting them down. Posing as three of them with his partners today to attack a listening post, however… he wasn’t against that.

For today, in addition to his Ranger outfit, Tysjor had traded his usual helmet for a more commonly-seen one to hide his face. He couldn’t think of any Pyke Sector Rangers that he’d ever seen. Maybe there were some, but just to be safe from suspicion, he’d decided that this disguise would be best.

Tysjor headed atop the cliff to see one of his partners embracing the other, and he would have wondered if he was in the wrong place if not for their greetings towards him.

“Tysjor.” He shook Harleen, or Boomy’s, hand and gave Grace a nod. Then he glanced at the building with the metal antenna on top of it. Well, at least they wouldn’t have to run around looking for the listening post.

“So, how are we going about this? We have a plan or are we going to do this the old-fashioned way and wipe that place off the map?” He looked over at the explosive-laden Lurmen.

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[Harleen]

Harleen perked up, I say we wipe them off the map.. she said giddiness coursing through her as she spoke, she looked over to @Grace Zann, they probably needed to leave at least one survivor to tell the story of what happened, but Harleen was too excited to care about that right now.

She would take a couple steps in that direction as if the decision was already made, but she'd wait for the others just to he sure, she was an excellent team player, but couldn't help her excitement when the option was presented to go full martyrdom..

 

[Grace Zann]

Grace would give the pyke a nod as she would turn to face the listening post below. There didn't appear to be any sort of heavy weaponry. No turrets or tanks. A frontal assault would work just fine for them if Tysjor had what it took. "I think I'll agree with Harleen on this one. The facility seems to lack heavy defenses, apart from the security detail on the inside. Taking them out should be easy."

The woman would walk to the edge of the cliff-side, and slide down to a slightly lower position. She was still well above the listening post, but would be able to get a better idea of the guards there. As one could expect, there were about a dozen or so patrolling the outside, with a couple snipers on the room guarding the huge antenna.

Maybe taking out the antenna would be a good first target, and she would state as much. "If we do attack directly, we should head for the roof. We can disable the listening post much faster that way..." She would point directly at the structure. Should everyone agree to the plan, she would politely request Harleen hit it with something explosive.

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[Tysjor Maspat]

Tysjor nodded at Grace and Harleen. Both made good points. “Frontal assault it is.” It would be simple but effective— the less complicated a plan, the less its components had a chance to go wrong. Besides, this wasn’t a stealth mission, and with the amount of explosives the Lurmen was carrying he would have been pretty confident putting his bets on this turning out the exact opposite, no matter how they went forward with it.

“If we’re going for the roof, we should clear out the tower first.” Tysjor stated the obvious. “A couple explosives should do the trick, but I can take out the snipers as, erm, Boomy handles that. Then we can head for the roof together.” He unslung the rifle from his shoulder, then clenched his free hand into a fist.

“It’s time they were reminded of how the Pykes do business.”

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[Harleen]

Harleen drew one of her micro missile guns and smiled widely, her sharp but small teeth showing happily. You grab the long barrel boys, I'll smash in that roof! Harleen said before she put her helmet on and pointed her whole body towards the building.

Just a second later after her HUD had done all the calculations for her the missile attached to the top of her jet pack ignited and flew out quickly, Harleen's own jetpack would fire up just a second later putting her not far behind the missile, though more upwards once the missile started to curve towards its target.

Once she was within range she pointed her free hand towards the roof top, and her wrist mounted rocket freed itself and began bellowing smoke on its trajectory toward the rooftop, Harleen then drew her second Micro Missile gun and began pulling both triggers, just as her jetpack missile made contact with the base of the massive antenna, until both were empty before returning them to their respective holsters.

The roof of the building would start to look like the surface of Alderaan, the original one..., with a mixture of small, medium, and large explosions going off in no particular order.

 

[Grace Zann]

Grace would nod and agree with the Pyke, as taking out the device on the roof of the building would be top priority. She would be quick to remake, "It just so happen taking out large objects is Harleen's specialty here." Of course, only moments later the lumen would fire off a powerful rocket that caused a huge amount of destruction to the facility. The entire kriffing roof was caving in!

Of course, the patrols on the ground would spot what appeared to be a group of sector rangers, and would immediately start blasting. Grace would grab her double-bladed lightsaber quickly, igniting it's yellow blades and sliding to the ground from the cliff with the force.

She would maneuver the weapon like a defensive sheild, repelling blaster bolts back at their original attackers. As Grace eventually reached the ground, she would make a forward charge for the guards while enhancing her speed with the force. She would dart to slaver after slave, cleaving heads from shoulders as she went.

The whole effort was quite draining on her however, and as she killed the last patrolling guard outside, the woman would find herself out of breath. "Well... That was exhilarating..." She would remark.

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[Tysjor Maspat]

Tysjor watched in satisfaction as the roof of the listening post caved in from the missile, exploding into flying bits of debris. As Grace and Harleen made for the outpost, the latter on a jetpack, no less, Tysjor stayed behind for a little longer to pick off some of the guards who were firing in their direction. One, two, three down, and when the sniper shots stopped, he too would make after the others towards the outpost. When his boots hit the ground, he drew his blaster pistols.

By the time he arrived though, Grace had already taken care of the guards outside at an astonishing speed, and it seemed like he wouldn’t need them after all. Before he could ask her how she’d done it though, a group of stragglers emerged from the smoking building, a couple of them armed.

He raised his pistols and fired off six consecutive shots, three on each blaster, and soon enough each of them would look down to find a hole in their chests before collapsing to the ground, either dead or close to it. For those who were still moving, Tysjor plugged another shot into their skulls just for good measure.

“Harleen?” He spoke into the comm on his wrist as he came to a stop next to Grace. “I think this place is ready to blow when you are.”

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[Harleen]

Harleen found herself a landing spot on the roof that hadn't collapsed yet, and heard a heavy creaking and moaning of metal, the massive antenna started to waver and began falling over into the building, Harleen watched with satisfaction for a moment before realizing she was on the building and it was coming towards her..

Harleen cursed and ran to the side of the building, activating her jet pack once more just before the antenna hit the roof and collapsed more of the roof into the building itself. She could hear screaming inside, and just made out three men inside the rubble.. activating her HUD and quickly scanning a set of four whistling birds loosed themselves from her armour and flew towards the man, embedding themselves in their bodies before exploding a moment later.

Harleen laughed and looked around, that shot was perfect.. she'd even earned a headshot.. with a whistling bird... but nobody had seen it.. Harleen cursed again before @Tysjor Maspat came over the comms, I'm always ready! She answered back, she had holstered her empty micro missile guns, which gave her free hands as she floated above the building.

Her hands moved quickly, one might have almost thought she had more than two arms as she picked three thermal detonaters and two plasma gernades, detonating them each and dropping them into the massive holes of the rood one by one. Following shortly thereafter by a symphony of explosions after explosions, for a quick second she could actually see the large green cloud of the plasma gernades. The Materiaalaankopen thugs had been playing back up singers as their screams had started and subsequently would cut off in different areas of the building.

Harleen winced as she took two light blaster bolts to the side of her armour, it had cracked it and she felt the impact, as far as she could tell there wasn't any bleed through.. yet.. they'd fired from inside the burning building, and Harleen simply leaned back and jetted away, coming to the ground a minute later near @Grace Zann. There's more in there somehow.. Harleen would say.

 

[Grace Zann]

Grace would give a surprised look after she had finished but with the outer guards. Half a dozen armed thugs came running out the building, but would be quickly mowed down by their Pyke ally. It appeared that the man did not notice her lightsaber, perhaps it was best that way... Then again.

Harleen began a symphony of destruction, dropping grenades after grenades into the now burning building of slavers. The screams of the Materiaalaankopen rung out for all to hear, but as her lumen mercenary returned to the ground. She stated things weren't over yet. There seemed to be more inside...

The doors of the building would burst open once more, revealing not men this time but around six B2-Series battle droids. Where the Kriff did the slavers get their hands on something like that!?

Seeing that there were precious few options, Grace knew she needed to use the force... "You may want to look away for a moment Tysjor... You're about to see how the Zann Consortium operates."

After saying this, Grace would raise both her hands towards the battle droids, who were all preparing their wrist-blasters for firing. Behind the group of them, the fire within the building still burned brightly. Exactly what a Shaper of Kor Var wanted to see. Reaching out with the force, the fire within the building would slowly begin to grow stronger and stronger. Eventually, a flaming explosion would erupt from behind the droids. A powerful torrent of heat and flame would collide against their backs, but the B2s were far from defeated. "Kriff..." She would mutter.

"Alright, maybe I should have tried something a little different..."

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[Tysjor Maspat]

The fireworks were really going off now, with Harleen raining them on top of the building. Frankly, he was surprised that the building was still holding up with the bombardment, and while he had been considering going inside earlier, it was a hard no now. They could only wait for whoever was inside to come out themselves, and right now it seemed they had some B2 battle droids to deal with.

“Oh no, I think I’m going to enjoy this,” he responded to Grace, his pistols pointed at the droids as the woman raised her arms. First a lightsaber and now the augmenting of the fire, Grace Zann was full of surprises. Unfortunately, while the flames might have incinerated any living being there, the metal armor of the droids were not affected.

“It was worth a try. We can do this the old-fashioned way, then.” With that, he got behind a nearby wall as they began to fire at the trio, and in between their blaster bolts, he aimed two shots at the part in between the nearest droid’s torso and legs. The top half fell off, leaving the legs still walking forward before they too fell to the ground. But that still left five more.

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[Harleen]

Unknown to any of the three insurgents that had been assaulting the building, there was about a dozen Materiaalaankopen men who were preparing to exit the building behind the droids before @Grace Zann unknowingly incinerated them. A glory she would never know..

Harleen had ducked for cover as soon as she saw the droids, she'd made the mistake of emptying her weapons and not yet reloading. As she hit her knees she pulled the spare missile packs out, yelled Reloading! and started reloading both of her Micro Missile guns, then slammed a new Missile cartridge into her wrist rocket device. This took a minute and allowed @Tysjor Maspat to take out one of the droids.

Now empty handed, Harleen did a cartwheel into the next set of cover, activating her kneepad rocket dart launcher, loosing it's entire payload, the four mini missile darts zoomed quickly across the battlefield crashing into one of the droids and exploded. It was enough to tear it apart, that was another one down..

 

[Grace Zann]

The woman would once again ignite her lightsaber, knowing that they were about to take a real beating. The droids would all bring their hands forward simultaneously, and begin firing a powerful barrage of blaster bolts toward their group. Grace would spin her blade like a windmill, deflecting several blaster bolts from the ground of droids. The rate of fire was nothing to scoff at however, and she knew they would be quickly overwhelmed if someone didn't act fast.

With her freehand, the woman would use the force to lift one of the droids off their feet. It would slowly but surly begin turning towards it's brethren, firing on the droids it stood beside just moments ago.

She knew it wouldn't be enough to take them all down, but perhaps it would provide a distraction. "I can only hold this for so long!"

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[Tysjor Maspat]

Harleen had taken out another one of the droids with her mini missiles, with Grace deflecting an impressive amount of blaster bolts while holding one of the droids up with the Force. Tysjor took the chance to reload his pistols, completing the task as quickly as possible to take advantage of their opening.

The remaining three droids had started shooting at their former ally, and when the fire was concentrated upwards, Tysjor fired another couple of shots to distract the droid on the left. It turned around to fire on him, but as it moved, the Pyke managed to score a shot into each of its eyes, disabling its photoreceptors. The droid turned around in a circle, firing at random and shooting down the droid next to it when Tysjor ducked his head.

After that, the Pyke took it down easily, with two well-placed shots at its torso and causing it to stagger backwards. Now, there was only one droid left on the ground, with the other in the air.

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[Harleen]

Harleen wiggled around her cover, pointing her hand at the last droid standing on the ground, a second later the wrist rocket jetted away, leaving smoke in its trail until it crashed into the chest area of the droid and exploded violently. Following the explosion Harleen let out an excited squeal, as she looked over to @Grace Zann.

There was still the matter of the floating one Grace was holding up, but @Tysjor Maspat and Harleen had pretty much dealt with the rest of the problem. With the blazing fire inside, if whoever was inside hadn't gotten out yet, they were very unlikely to survive. Given that all three of them were on the same side of the building some had probably escaped out the back, which was fine, they could tell the story of what had happened here.

Finish it off boss.. Harleen said, excited to see whatever feat of the force @Grace Zann would do to destroy this last droid.

 

[Grace Zann]

Seeing that her companions managed to finish off the rest of the battle droids, there was little need to keep this one around. The force wielder would pull toward herself, sending the droid flying at her. When it arrived however, the hunk of junk would fall on a glowing yellow blade. It would give a low hum as it powered down, defeated, along with the rest of the slavers.

The woman would smirk as she allowed it's powerless body to slump onto the ground. "Poor fools. They tried their best, but when it comes to the syndicates, they should have surrendered themselves..." It seemed like the job was complete, and the Zann Consortium had done what Rafe asked of them.

"Come on Harleen, I think we got em all. Let's go grab a bite. You're welcome to come along as well Tysjor..."

[EXIT THREAD]

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[Tysjor Maspat]

Another droid down, courtesy of Harleen, and that left just one for Grace. Tysjor watched in fascination as she drew the droid towards her onto her lightsaber. While he had heard of usage of the Force before, he hadn’t imagined that it was as powerful as it was. Grace had demonstrated that multiple times today. It would definitely be something to watch out for in the future, if he ever came to fight against a Jedi or a Sith.

“It was their mistake not to,” he agreed as he placed his pistols back into their holsters and stood up, stepping over what remained of the droids and ignoring the spattering sparks of electricity coming up from them. At the woman’s offer to join her and Harleen for a bite, Tysjor gave her a nod.

“After that… I am feeling a little hungry.”

[Exit character]

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