Dug in good

[Mid Samekh]

Malastare/M.G. Fuel Refinery "Base Alpha"​

19:38 local time​

It had been a day since the attack on the landing zone. The Mining Guild's landing went without a hitch the entire time and, while a few scouts were killed off, no Dug attacks were reported in whatsoever.

This gave the force more than enough time to get things in order. The unloading of the ships was underway. Scanners were looking deep into the ground for veins to tap into with the pumps. The Logos was lifted out the ground and its landing gear repaired. Now it was sitting properly and a crew was working on the damage done to the Cutter.

While that was underway, Mid was on the bridge of the Mining Guild Celtic-3 M&M heavy freighter arguing with the governor of Malastare. Dugs with weapons and gear used by Malastare's military was likely to raise a few eyebrows, so assuming that this was conspiracy to indirectly chase the Guild off the planet was certainly within the realm of possibilities.

"Look, we were attacked by Dugs carrying your weapons! My ship was shot out of the air and my crew injured by your missiles. Is it really that crazy to suspect you first?!" he shouted at the holographic image of the governor, who looked just as angry as Mid did. "I've told you twice by now that we have no reason to chase the Mining Guild off. Our economy grows from this partnership!" the stocky Dug's voice boomed through the speaker, distorting somewhat as he shouted.

Mid's golden eyes stared daggers through the Dug's image. "Then what? Who are these terrorists?" the Pureblood fired right back, folding his arms across his armoured chest. "As soon as I heard of your attack I've have my army look for anything out of the ordinary. They're a group of hard-headed radicals that believe this alliance would only cripple our planet. We have identified the leadership and they are in custody. We...persuaded them to hand over the location of their base as well as their numbers. Lucky for you that group you faced was almost the entirety of their group. Rather amusing if you think about it." the governor explained, finishing with a rather sinister chuckle.

"I would have my own army take care of them and save you the trouble...but as a gesture of good faith I'd rather leave that deed to you, Sith. Would that ease your mind of this conspiracy of yours?" he offered, picking up a datapad and tapping a few buttons. Mid eyed him for a while before speaking up. "Sounds like a plan." he said flatly. The Dug gave a nod and with a press of a button a notification popped up on the console with a location as well as various other details.

With that they ended the transmission and Mid looked the details over, stroking his chin spurs in thought. "What's your thoughts? Think he's telling the truth? Or simply trying to lure us into a trap?" he asked his companion next to him with a smirk, looking down at her.

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[Irolia Shen]

Irolia had listened in on the whole conversation, or maybe you would rather call it a yelling match? She stood leaned up by the ship's interior wall with arms crossed. "Wouldn't put it past them to double-cross us for some unknown reason" commented the blue-skinned Sith. "I say we go over there, find out if it really is a trap, murder them all, maybe torture some of them a bit and then if it really is a trap, we find those small shabs and murder them too" suggested Irolia with a shrug of her shoulders, leaving the bridge of the Mining Guild Celtic-3 M&M heavy freighter.

"I'll go check up on my squad, let's meet again in ten minutes time" called the Pantoran as she went through the double gate door, exiting the bridge. Irolia went over to her squad to get an update from her squad, she wanted to move out, so her squad needed to be ready. "Status captain?" Asked Irolia curiously. "Roc and Sapper are patched up and are placed in the medical room, tended by medical droids, the rest of Jen-Asha is ready to move out Ma'am" saluted the captain along with the three other remaining soldiers that weren't hit. "Go to this meeting location and wait for me there, Mid Samekh will be there as well" ordered Irolia and left her squad to go check on the two wounded men. Both were high of painkillers and would be ready after a day's rest.

She then finally went to meet with Mid and her remaining squad of soldiers at their meeting area just by the Mining Guild ship. If Mid already was there, she looked at him "Alrighty, let's find those shabs and be done with this mission" expressed the blue Sith.

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[Mid Samekh]

Irolia voiced her distrust and disappeared to go ready her men. Mid decided to get ready as well and left the room after copying the info over to his datapad. He slipped it back into a pocket and left the bridge.

Back on the Logos he looked the progress over and was quite pleasantly surprised over how quickly the ship was being fixed up. Apparently the damage looked worse than it actually was. In his room he checked his gear and made sure his ammo was stocked up. He holstered his pistols, clipped his lightsabers, sheathed his Sith knife and loaded his Lanvarok. He was itching to use the vicious weapon after not even firing a shot for so long. He slid his helmet on and donned the black cloak over his armour to cover him up. In the night sky it would certainly help keep a low profile to sneak into the camp.

He eyed the lazy Tu'kata sleeping on its back as always then gave a soft whistle. The monstrous creature sprung up and was by his side in a second. He gave it a pat on the head and led the way out. He reached the MG mining ship where Irolia and her troops were already waiting. She seemed eager to start the mission and her troops looked no different. Varpa gave a low growl as its burning red eyes looked the troops over. This was probably the first time many of these people have ever seen a Tu'kata, and its reputation wasn't exaggerated in the slightest.

Mid nodded and looked back to her. It's a-ways out. "I figured we could take some of those nice Ranger speeders the Guild brought along." he suggested. "We ride out until we reach a mile or so then we move on foot to keep a low profile. We can scout out the territory first then formulate a plan from there." he went on and with that he led the way towards the cargo bay of the vessel. Inside he mounted up on a 88-V Ranger and started it up. Varpa jumped up on the passenger seat and he looked back to Irolia. "You can hitch a ride with me, but he'll be sitting in your lap." he said with a smile clearly heard on his voice. The beast looked to the Pantoran with its tongue out of its maw and curious red eyes staring at her.

@Raven_41

 

[Irolia Shen]

Irolia was standing alone with her remaining troops that weren't hurt in the firefight earlier and checked that her quickdraw blasters were loaded, which her men did as well with their own. The Pantoran looked up just as she holstered her last blaster and saw Mid walk with an intriguing creature by his side. She figured it was a Tu'kata even though she's never seen one, that wasn't in scrolls from the Sith Academy. Irolia could feel its connection to the dark side and the pure raw strength that followed. What an amazing and powerful beast. Despite that, she wasn't afraid as must as intrigued by it. Her men, however, was not sure how to react to the great beast and just chose to not look at it trusting Irolia and Mid not to let it attack them.

"Sound like a plan" replied Irolia and followed the pure-blooded Sith inside the Guild's vessel and laid her eyes upon the 88-V Ranger vehicles. Her men mounted two other packed behind Irolia and Mid, two on each. The blue-skinned Sith rose her eyebrow at Mid's comment, "mhmm, you just want a reason to have me alone" replied Irolia with a smirk and turned her crimson red eyes back at the 'little' doggie in the passenger seat looking back at her. Irolia knew these cute puppies could be unpredictable and could take a limp if a person wasn't careful, so therefor walked Irolia without a show of fear to the Tu'kata.

"Wanna sit on my lap while your 'flustered' master drive us to our destination?" Asked irolia with a cheerful smile as she kneeled down to its eye level with both hands on her knees. She called Mid flustered because he had red skin and was meant more as a joking. The Tu'kata leaned its head to the side as if it was confused over Irolia's question and looked to its master as if to ask 'I'm confused, what should I do?'.

Getting its master approval, made it jump down, let Irolia get up behind Mid and then it jumped up on her lap, which just made it look like a big dog going on a vacation with its mom and dad. Irolia just smiled and enjoyed the ride, she had the Tu'kata on her lap and started to scratch it behind its ear, taking a chance that it liked getting attention. If it didn't, would Irolia pull her hand to herself and then just wait a bit bored until they would arrive.

When they arrived, let Irolia the Tu'kata down and then got down herself with ease. "Men, go ahead and scout out the area at our target destination" relayed she to her troops who just saluted and ran ahead of Irolia and Mid. "Ladies first" teased Irolia with a smirk and a rosed eyebrow as she bowed a bit just like a butler would do, leading a guest to a room.

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[Mid Samekh]

Mid smirked at Irolia behind his helmet. "And here I thought I was being subtle." he said jokingly. She looked to the Tu'kata behind him and his gaze followed. She spoke to the semi-sentient creature who looked on in curiosity. The beast looked to Mid and he could sense the creature practically begging for her to come along. He chuckled before speaking. "Kair forja iv karza j'us buti. Zemone, tegu ji nyuncazehara ant." he said casually in Sith. The creature made what could only be described as the demonic version of a happiness noise and jumped off to let Irolia on. Once she was in place Varpa jumped back up and sat in her lap, thankfully not hooking her with his razor sharp claws or poisonous tail. How he hasn't killed Mid accidentally yet is a miracle. She took the chance to give Varpa a scratch behind his ear and the creature leaned into it. As long as his master was happy with the female, he would be too.

With everything set Mid revved up the speeder and led the way to the rendezvous point. They stopped and Varpa hopped off, standing and sniffing the area with a low growl. Irolia ordered her men to go on ahead and Mid did the same to Varpa, letting the Tu'kata work as a blood hound to sniff out the Dug camp.

Irolia looked at Mid and joked, causing him to cross his arms and stare at her with mock authority. "Don't make me blush any harder, now." he quipped and walked out front, unclipping a lightsaber and closing his eyes to 'see' the world around him through force sight. He could see Irolia behind him as well as the squad out ahead. "Varpa likes you. Do you know how rare it is for him to like someone?" he commented as they walked. He figured some small talk wouldn't hurt. "If Korriban wasn't lost I would have said you should get one. They're fiercely loyal once you win their trust...and they make for good conversation if you're isolated." he explained.

@Raven_41

 

[Irolia Shen]

Irolia's eyes followed the large beast as it went up ahead along with her troopers, it truly was a sight to behold. Irolia just smirked, "if you blushed any harder your helmet would light up" joked the blue Sith with a blink and started to walk along with Mid. "I had a feeling, besides they're notorious for removing limps of people they don't like, guess I feel just a bit honoured" admitted the Pantoran girl while keeping an eye on the surroundings. "I have to agree, would have been fun to have a one for myself... well, I guess I just have to win over yours with love and threats," said Irolia jokingly and nodded him playfully with her elbow.

Truth be told, she wasn't sure if she even would be able to get one as from what she read about this giant beast, that one needed to be able to speak Sith. It was a language she didn't know, of course, she could learn, but that would require knowing one that could teach her. There was Mid of course, and that other pure-blooded Sith she met once. *Wonder what Hask is doing right now?* thought Irolia and looked up into the night sky. Last time she saw him, she kinda slept with him and parted a bit awkward. At least she didn't get knocked up with his offspring, oh boy that would have been a weird second meeting for them. *Hey, you remember me? We had sex that one time we both got really drunk... oh and this is your son!* Joked Irolia silently inside her own mind, which formed a little smile Mid didn't see.

Her mind, she had actually gotten better and she's gotten a lot better control over it, so she won't suddenly break down in the middle of a fight or conversation. Her nightmares though? Not so much, she still had those, unfortunately. Maybe that's why she didn't hear voices anymore when she's awake because they all moved to her nightmares when she sleeps. Irolia walked a bit in her own thought further down the path they were walking and was snapped out of it when Mid's comm replayed one of Irolia's trooper's voice. "My lord, this is Jen-Asha, we have located the enemy base and I've sent two to flank around for gaining more intel, over and out".

It didn't take both SIth long to get up the captain of Irolia's squad and Mid's Tu'kata, both were behind some very large rocky formations with a great overview of the enemy base. "Ma'am, my Lord" salute both troopers when Irolia and Mid arrived at their location.

@KinkyPrawn

 

[Mid Samekh]

She joked about stealing Varpa with love and affection which made him laugh. "Oh, feel free. If you can speak Sith then you can gladly take him...he is a handful, though, so be warned." he explained with a laugh. She couldn't know from only a few minutes with the creature, but Varpa was not only lazy as hell most of the time, but being semi-sentient it had a mind of his own...and he was extremely vocal at times. But despite the joking he would never hand that hound over. Despite being such a useless pet at times, he loved that beast.

After a while the commlink chimed in with one of her troopers relaying that they found the base and are currently looking in for more info. Mid gave a click of his tongue in response, then stepped up to a jog. Night was approaching which was completely fine for him. He had an idea of what they could do, depending on the base.

At the base the troopers greeted them and Mid motioned to follow as he sneaked up to the base. It was hidden well in a crater, which gave it excellent cover but left them vulnerable once found. Mid watched the camp for a few good moments. There were probably 100 or so Dugs down there. But they all seemed ready to go to their barracks. The three buildings that housed them were standing in a row with a fourth building beside it that seemed to be the armoury. A few ships were stationed close by with fuel tanks around them.

A smile spread across Mid's features and he looked to Irolia. "Now what could we do with several tanks and a few detonators?" he asked rhetorically. "I say we sneak into their armoury. Steal their explosives, then plant them on those barrels inside their barracks. One press of the button and they're toast. What say you?" he explained then looked back to the camp.

@Raven_41

 

[Irolia Shen]

Irolia took a binocular from one of her soldiers and did an overview of the base in the crater and saw what Mid pointed out. "Hm... a sound plan, though I rather torture them a bit first, truthfully I don't got the patience for so many, fine, let's just blow them up and be done with this place" agreed Irolia and gave her trooper his binocular back. The two troopers returned to back and got debriefed before they moved in on the base.

Doing dead in the night, moved Irolia, Mid, her men and Mid's hound down into the crater without being discovered, however, they did take out some lonely patrols around the perimeter of the base. They were a few open spaces between covers, but they managed to reach the base undiscovered. Kneeling down by the outer most building's wall, looked Irolia to her men, "I want two of you to get up on one of the ships and be our lookout and eyes in the sky" ordered the blue-skinned Sith, which the captain picked two that saluted and moved for a vantage point.

A short while after and a whisper of a voice came over the comms, "in position". "Right, let's move" commented Irolia and sneaked from barracks to barracks until they arrived at the armoury. The place was stocked up with everything from government authorized gear and weapon, to highly explosive anti-tank weaponry. "Damn, they're packing for war it seems, " expressed Irolia surprised. She had mostly expected it to be a few high explosives here and there, weapons and such, but this looked like something from a privatized army.

"Start planting those explosives around the place," ordered Irolia to the captain and the other soldier, which they did without question. Meanwhile walked Irolia over to a table with a lot of papers, documents and folders. She started to look around the table, looking from the folders and documents, "can't find anything about government aid or involvement... awh, I had hoped we could give them a visit" said Irolia disappointed and started to help with planting explosive around the base and especially around the fuel tanks.

@KinkyPrawn

 

[Mid Samekh]

Irolia agreed with the plan and soon they were sneaking around the place. Varpa stabbed a few Dugs with his poisonous stinger in his tail, Mid slit a few throats with his knife and in a few minutes they were at the armoury. Two men were working as overwatch for the Sith while they went to work on getting the explosives. Mid couldn't help but whistle softly at all the ordinance. With this much military grade equipment, it was hard to believe the government wasn't involved. "Well let's be thankful. It gives us more toys to play with." he quipped as he scrounged for any explosives. The troopers started to take the explosives and plant them around the 3 barracks buildings.

While busy with that he looked to what Irolia was busy with. He chuckled at her remark. "Well either they were telling the truth and all of this is stolen...or they were lying and funding this group. Either way, we don't have to worry for too much longer. In a few days we can pack up and leave the Guild. If they get overrun, it's not our problem." he explained to her. He didn't mind at all that they could go home so early. With almost every single explosive planted sneakily all over the place and a detonator linked to a switch, Mid ordered everyone to get to the edge of the crater.

He would wait until they all cleared the crater. He sat on one knee with Varpa next to him, overlooking the base. He got ready to press the button then he looked to Irolia with a smirk. He held the detonator to her then said. "Ladies first." he joked again.

@Raven_41

 

[Irolia Shen]

Irolia was sitting by the edge to the crater, dangling her legs carefree. Her men were kneeling behind her, overlooking the place with binoculars, checking if anything has changed or the Dugs has found some of the explosives. Luckily the remain Dugs were still sleeping, not suspecting a thing of what was about to happen. A smirked formed on Irolia's face, "such a gentleman" and reached out with the force, slowly levitating the detonator over to her own hand. Lazy? Yea, but she was relaxing and didn't want to move from her spot.

Looking down at the base as she leaned a bit forward and pressed the button. An enormous chain-reaction of explosions went off, first at the barracks, completely consumed by the fiery flames. Then the armoury, which in of itself already had multiple high-explosive gears creating a small mushroom-cloud. And then the ships along with the many fuel tanks. The among of shockwave those chain-explosions they release could be felt where Irolia and Mid was.

Irolia didn't say anything, she just sat there and watched the death and destruction unfold, closing her eyes, taking everything in as if she had been in a flower field. The blue-skinned Sith stayed a bit longer, watching everything in ruins, before she got up and walked back to the speeders with Mid and the rest, so they could get back to the Mining Guild. It had truly been an interesting day, to say the least. As they got back, got her wounded soldiers carried inside of Mid's ship, Mid and Irolia replied the last information the Mining Guild needed and entered Mid's ship.

~End Thread~​

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