Automated Acquisitions

[Cyzyn-Itza-Rus Xho'thal]

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Location: Utapau, Outer Rim
Time: Afternoon
Participants: @Darasuum @Insalius
Theme: Nightmare <> Biometrix
OOC: here

The Farsight scouting ship had a multitude of uses. It had an auto blaster for defense, a data collection set up, lab, medical suit and communications coupled with long range sensors allowed it to be one of the best scout vessels on the market. Cyzyn-Itza-Rus had used the vessel's sensors on the surface of Utapau to find the exact location of what he was looking for. A warehouse built into one of the cliff faces. Inside resided hundreds of S1-Infantry Droids belonging to Blackrow Hyperlogistics. They had stockpiles of the automatons and it was the Tiss'shar's goal to take all of them for his own ends.

Getting into the secured facility would be no easy task. While Blackrow relied on the secrecy of its presence it also had auto-turrets and a skeleton crew of guards. It also meant they could activate the droids if necessary to defend the facility. It was like trying to steal the teeth out of sleeping Nexu.

For now they were not discovered. The factory seeming like the home of a dormant beast. The Pale Harvest, Cyzyn's ship, landed ontop of the cliff, allowing them the possibility of repelling down. The base of the canyon had varying depths of water. If they wanted to try and swim up to it they would have to traverse the waterways as well. Armed with a line gun added to his loadout the Sith wondered if his cohort was prepared for the infiltration.

 

[Christopher Harlow]

Seyfer was glad to be working with Cyzyn again, though he hoped that the new scratches on his body over his left eye and chest, as well as inner thigh, didn't make the Tiss'shar think any less of him. He'd gotten them fighting Nexu in an arena on Geonosis, working on turning that world to being Nem'ro's ally. The meeting with the Archduke afterwards, which lasted well into the next day, had seemingly gone very well. The work never stopped, though, and the Elensalite wouldn't turn down a request from a handsome man like Cyzyn when he needed it.

Besides his usual loadout, Seyfer had brought his own line gun and other items needed to make the trek down the wall and through the waterway. He wasn't just skilled with combat, as a Tactician he also had trained himself to be stealthy when needed. He would use all his expertise to help his friend without asking for a reward from the man, though maybe he'd be willing to be proactive with a different kind of reward than usual. Those kinds of thoughts were pushed to the back of his mind, though, as he needed to be serious for this task. Hopefully he'd be able to spill a little blood at some point, though. His sword arm itched and his blade thirsted.

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[Cyzyn-Itza-Rus Xho'thal]

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Cyzyn remembered the way Seyfer had effectivly used the close urban quarters on Eriadu against the smugglers. He had done well to eliminate them quickly and efficiently. Now they would have to do something similar and dispatch the security forces of the facility. "The plan is to not raise the alarm and dispatch existing personnel. If the alarm is raised they could activate the battle droids that lay dormant within storage. Since they are primarily why we are here I would prefer to avoid destroying them."

After speaking the Tiss'shar would sit down onto his knees in a meditative stance. Closing his eyes he opened up his will and reached out sensing what he could from the facility. He wanted to get an accurate reading of how many guards there were inside as well as their stance. The warehouse was large but would likely be mostly empty. If it were full it would have more security and be of a higher priority of Blackrow. It would also make it a more profitable acquisition. However there were other facilities in the Outer Rim that were just that and Cyzyn-Itza-Rus had picked this one because it had what he needed without the indulgence of being greedy.

Amazingly it seemed there were only two organic beings present in the facility. Then again a backwater planet that nobody really knew about did not warrant the extra protection when nobody should know about it and all the droids could be used as a reinforcement method. While Cyzyn did not see the guards at the moment, they were somewhere inside the warehouse, one in the bathroom, the other walking up and down the cargo containers inspecting them on his usual rounds. They were each equipped with a VZ-1 steady shot blaster pistol and wore a company version of the galactic marine BDU. They of course had a commlink to talk to one another but for them it was just another day. "Two living guards." He said simply, relaying the info to his partner. However he would not be able to sense any droids if they were active.

 

[Christopher Harlow]

While Seyfer was confident in his stealth abilities, a Tactician didn't go into a battle with only one plan hoping for it to succeed. Between possible sensors and the water below, there was a chance that something as simple as a slipped foot into water could cause him to be discovered. Luckily, he was a droid, himself. Something not out of place in a factory like this. He would try to be as stealthy as possible, yet if he failed, he would attempt to blend in. Lull the guard into a false sense of security, then strike when needed. He had just the ideas to, for different steps of the infiltration. First, though, he would have to get into the waterway itself. Dropping in to the bottom was no problem, it was when he was in the waterway itself that his original plan hit it's snag.

The waterway wasn't the most well-kept, and with Seyfer's increased weight for being a droid it was a simple thing for his foot to slip on some grime and send a loud splash echoing through the chamber. This caught the attention of the guard doing the inspection, who thankfully didn't radio and instead went to investigate. Seyfer wouldn't have much time, though, and stowed his weapons in a bundle on the ground. He made to look like he had only just arrived himself, only needing a good opportunity to strike. "Sir. A noise was detected. This unit came to investigate. This bundle was found. Standing by for investigation." He stood to the side, allowing the man to look at the wrapped bundle of various items. It was a trap, a simple one, that he hoped the man would fall for. A simple case of misdirection coupled with innocent curiosity. With this kind of waterway, strange things had to show up at times, after all.

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[Cyzyn-Itza-Rus Xho'thal]

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The descent from the perch would take Cyzyn-Itza-Rus a moment. He affixed his repelling rope and clips into the side of the cliff. His clawed hands could be used to dig into the stone but he did not want rocks to fall and cause a commotion below. The Line gun would remain on his back and be used for quick ascension or lateral moves rather than for moving downward. It was too high up for him to dive into the shallow waters below. Seyfer could walk in the water just fine though his presence was noticed. He moved down the cliff side so that he was perched on an outcropping like a gargoyle, waiting for the guard to come close. He was ready to leap upon the man if necessary though he was sure Seyfer had it covered.

The other guard was still inside. He was still enjoying a magazine containing some provocative pictures of exotic species in scantly clad costumes nobody would realistically wear. He was otherwise oblivious to the actions going on towards the entrance of the facility.

 

[Christopher Harlow]

The guard was suspicious, yet it was his job to be so. The fact that he took the droid's words meant that there were perhaps others like him assisting the guards of this place, good information to have. His usefulness done, Seyfer struck as the man bent down to look at the bundle of weapons. The human was very opposed to the notion of dying, flailing about even as Seyfer had his arm wrapped around his neck and was trying to snap it like a twig. Time after time he almost made a noise, or reached for his commlink, though in the end a simple snap made the form go limp in his arms. The Elensalite quietly lay the body down, allowing Cyzyn to look it over for anything he needed before preparing to throw it into the water. By the time it would decompose enough to float their work should be long done. Rearming himself, he would wait for his employer to advise how they should move on. One down, one to go, though there was still the chance for some droids to get in the way. Perhaps this guard had a kill switch for them?

@Darasuum

 

[Cyzyn-Itza-Rus Xho'thal]

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The man did not disappoint. Cyzyn-Itza-Rus watched as the life faded from the being. What the Sith would not realize until alter was there were an addition five guards on the inside. However they were not organic beings. They were sentinel S1 - infantry droids,. the very same type of droids that Cyzyn-Itza-Rus was here to collect. They did not seem to be alerted yet but that could be an easy alarm to trigger if the two infiltrators were not careful.

Moving down from his perch the Tiss'shar waded through the water. His long spinned tail moving above the water without touching it. He checked the corpse, keeping his senses open. There was only a handful of keycards for various access to parts of the facility. Considering only certain security details would be brought here in the first place the Tiss'shar wondered why they had an even greater level of security. It would have been better if they had more people guarding the storage.

The guard that had previously been stationary finished his business making sure to wash his hands. He exited the freshers and went on his rounds. He was not all too eager to be back on work but he did not want to get in trouble. He headed towards the security room with the cameras.

Cyzyn-Itza-Rus made his way into the waterway, making sure to keep to one side of the overhanging platform to stay out of sight. The water way was where the ships landed. The further they went in the more shallow it got. It was only up to the Tiss'shar's ankles towards the back. The rest of the rooms were up a series of stairs and in side hallways. Blackrow had used the space of the natural cavern efficiently, the being could admit they had some business sense in that department.

 

[Christopher Harlow]

Seyfer had learned much of the facility in just the one short kill he had made. Thanks to Cyzyn he knew there was only one more live person in the building, and thanks to the recently departed he knew that there were droid guards active as well. The cameras were easy to spot as he got closer to the complex itself, staying outside of their lines of sight, and once he had found his path he began to sneak his way in to the facility. Knowing the droid guards were active meant it was a simple thing to see them in advance and avoid them, the Elensalite making his way to the main control room. Facilities like this had easy to decipher layouts, as factories HAD to be efficient in that way in order to operate well. Every camera was avoided, every droid was avoided, and the most anyone would see would be a dark shadow fluttering occasionally as he moved. The last guard had just made his way back to the control room, the door staying open just long enough for Seyfer to slip in behind him. The man wouldn't even know what hit him. The kill would still need to be careful and quiet, though, as the control room wasn't devoid of it's own ability to detect intruders. He'd made it here with true skill, now he needed to end this with the same amount of stealth. He watched the man from a dark corner, looking for an opening.

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[Cyzyn-Itza-Rus Xho'thal]

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As Seyfer took the security control room Cyzyn-Itza-Rus would make his way over to the open space where the ships were located. They were behind hangar doors of the immediate opening to protect from the weather. He would need to open the physical doors before he could fly any ship out of the warehouse. The physical nature of the hangar meant that opening the doors would likely alert anyone and everyone in the facility there was activity in the hangar.

He would approach the small single person door from the outside and take out his lightsaber. He would press the weapon's emitter against the frame of the door and activated it. The crimson blade would spark for several moments as the man quickly moved the tool through the magnetic locks on the door, destroying them and essentially unlocking the door. Afterwards he would deactivate the weapon and stow it.

Luckly for Cyzyn-Itza-Rus nobody seemed to notice the brief sound of cutting through metal. He opened the door and looked through the dark hangar. It was inactive and the ships parked silently like animals waiting to be stirred from their slumber. The two infiltrators would also have to work on moving the droids in storage onto the vessels as well. If they neutralized all threats then it would be easier than trying to sneak out with hundreds of droids.

A single Y33 Orbiter sat in one corner, likely used by the staff to come and go from the facility on a day to day basis. On the far side of the hangar taking up a third of the space was a Kuat Drive Yards Enterprise Carrier. The Tiss'shar could already tell it was different from the common civilian transports. Stripped down somewhat for cargo rather than sentient passengers it also looked to be a little worn down and collecting dust. Hopefully it would be in working condition. They would need to do some shuffling though to get both his Farsight craft off the planet as well as the carrier. Perhaps programing some of the droids to work as crew might help. The Sith had a protocol droid and an astromech. Most likely there were one or two astromechs around the facility as well.

 

[Christopher Harlow]

The pornography would be the surviving guard's downfall. As he settled in to his seat at the desk, his magazine slipped and fell onto the floor. In a typical situation, this would mean just bending down and picking it up. Said bending, though, would be just out of sight of the camera. Just enough for Seyfer to take the lightsaber on his arm and dart forward, catching the man unawares. He jammed the end of the saber into the back of the man's neck, turning it on then off to kill him without waving around a silver glowstick for too long. The man fell, dead, and with him came his security credentials. Using the stolen commlink, which had all the system passwords saved in it, the cameras were the first thing to be turned off. Following that, a deactivate command was sent to the active droids as well as to the alarm and security systems. He would have sliced into the system using the spike on his armor, though that wasn't needed thanks to the now dead guard. Seyfer would have thanked him, if he wasn't dead. He brought up his own commlink, it's only frequency being that he used with his partner. "Guards are dead. Droids and security are deactivated. We should have free reign."

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[Cyzyn-Itza-Rus Xho'thal]

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The Tiss'shar went over to the Venture carrier in the hangar and had it open up. As he made his way on board he noticed where there would normally be passanger seats there was space for cargo and freight. Netting and securing straps were in place to keep crates and other items from moving around. This was even better, it meant that they would not have to deal with trying to get the droids to sit like normal people in these seats.

Seyfer called in over the closed communications link that the roaming droid sentinels they had suspected as being active had been neutralized. The last remaining life form also was killed and the security room in their control. He called back over the communication link in response. "Well done. Make sure that the recording footage is unrecoverable after we depart. In the mean time are you able to activate the droids in storage? I have found a ship that can transport them in the hangar." He wanted to have the infantry droids in storage move to the Venture carrier so that they did not have to move them individually. That could take ages if they did it that way and having a droid walk itself onto a ship was far more practical.

As he waited for the reply he would have the ship begin powering up for departure. It would need three people to pilot so he was on the look out for an astromech droid in the hangar. He made his way over to the maintenance side of the hangar. It was obvious it was seldom used and the only thing that had been bothered with was the Orbiter and even that was only the type of maintenance a college kid did to their land speeder.

 

[Christopher Harlow]

"Understood. Moving them out now." With full control over the facility, it was an easy thing to not only alter the security footage to wipe evidence of them being there but to also command the droids to stack themselves in the transport. The commands given, which would take some time to complete, Seyfer would take what credentials he needed and go through the facility to start clearing out any other evidence. Both organic bodies would be dealt with, the two men never to be seen or heard from again, and any blood and other incriminating aspects would be taken care of as meticulously as the last time they had to cover up a mass killing. At this point Seyfer could become a forensics expert with how much he was dealing with covering up evidence.

The thing that would probably cause a problem for them, though, was the lightsaber marks used by Cyzyn to open the door to the hangar. Seyfer stood in front of it, thinking on how they could cover this up despite it being a pretty big clue that someone had forcibly made their way into the room. "I don't think I can weld this back on and make it smooth, I may be skilled by not THAT skilled. Hmm...Perhaps destroy the whole thing? There's another ship here, perhaps it could have malfunctioned and exploded? Could use that to explain the deaths of the other two as well, as people try to rationalize things instead of assuming people vanished into thin air. Could serve as a good story for people to assume and throw them off our trail."

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[Cyzyn-Itza-Rus Xho'thal]

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What Seyfer said was appropriate and an acute observation. The Tiss'shar had been thinking along the same lines. There were power cells in the hangar so they could load them into the orbiter. Cyzyn-Itza-Rus would just need to prime a grenade or some charge once they were free and clear. He would work on the astromech droids for awhile making sure they were set to factory settings and not retaining any of their Blackrow protocols that could hinder them. "That is precisely what I was thinking." Just like last time on Eriadu, Seyfer and Cyzyn were of a similar mind.

"Have you checked the other storage logs to see if the company had anything else worth while here?" No doubt they had weapons and other equipment stores. They were likely out dated but could still be useful. It was better to have a suprluss of assets rather than a lack of them. So far Cyzyn-Itza-Rus was doing this so he would have a small droid army at his disposal. But there was still the possabilty of other loot that Seyfer himself could use for his agenda.

 

[Christopher Harlow]

Seyfer began to go through the facility's database, looking for any stockpiles of goods that might be useful. Seemed there were a few crates of Satyr blaster carbines and a similar amount of pilot flight suits. There wasn't anything else of note or value, and despite them being a bit old they seemed to be in decent working order. "Looks like some Satyrs and flight suits. Those could be useful, especially the suits. If you've got room, I'd like to grab a few crates of both. Or less, if you need more room for your droids. It's your mission, your needs come first." He wasn't about to ask Cyzyn to sacrifice what he had come here to get just to give the Cartel a leg up. He may be a gangster but he had his own personal ideals and honor. The darkness and pain in his soul didn't mind the lives he was taking or the damage he was causing, yet he wondered if one day those wounds would heal. If they did, would he feel guilt over what he had done? No, this wasn't the time for such thoughts. He still had work to do.

Following whatever Cyzyn said he could load onto the ship, Seyfer began to also set up the other craft to explode and cover their tracks in the process. He had a couple grenades on him that could do the trick, linking their activation to his commlink so they could be detonated remotely. It was the same trick he had used in haste on Eriadu against the slavers and it was a very handy tactic when trying to control a battlefield even after the fighting had ended. The shrapnel from the grenade would mix in with the rest of the debris from the explosion and the only thing they would find of the bodies would be their credentials and other access information that would be left behind, no longer needed. Even if something survived the blast, as Seyfer didn't have any fingerprints he was unidentifiable. The trail would end there, in mystery. Just as planned.

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[Cyzyn-Itza-Rus Xho'thal]

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There was enough space and no real need to let the stockpiles of weapons and gear go to waste. Cyzyn-Itza-Rus nodded and had the flightsuits and weapon crates gathered onto the ship. "You may want to remove the serial numbers on those blaster carbines when you get the chance." He said as a warning in case Seyfer wanted to use them on a job. The type of work the man did would not want the attention of intergalactic authority chasing after him.

After everything was loaded up the Tiss'shar opened up the hangar door so the ship could pass through. He would let his droids on the Pale Harvest know where to meet them after wards. With the Orbiter packed with the two guards and the explosives they would depart the facility. Out of range of the danger he would let Seyfer make the call that triggered the explosion. The damage would remove the lightsaber markings on the door and also make the method of injury and death on the guards undetectable.