Open Forged Bonds

[Sace Vsil]

The sky of Sluis Van was reflecting from the sun that it circled. Sace never noticed how beautiful the planet line was. Whenever he went off planet it was to make a quick getaway and race a starfighter somewhere off-world, usually some seedy planet like Nar Shadaa or Servecos, but this time...it was different. Still feeling enraged after his last bout with his own father, Sace would not be returning home. So he flew the Corellian YT-7130 Light Freighter with a busted Delta-7B Aethersprite-class light interceptor attached to its hull and flew towards the Inner Rim. Sace could feel the tension from the argument slipping away, something about the stars and flying through space washed over the serpents mood giving way to whatever was needed to calm himself and bring inner peace. Though he knew that back at home, if his father was even still alive, he had created enough tension to never be accepted back.

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"We have Jedi in our blood...not just pilots or mechanics." Sace murmured underneath his breath.

Sace slipped the freighter into hyperspace and flew as far as his fuel tanks would let him.

Leaning against the control panel in a bored fatigue, it had been days since he left his home. What expired rations were still on the ship were running low and he wasnt sure how much further...or even where he needed to go. He wanted answers...answers to himself. Am I destined to be a mere pilot?...or mechanic? Or is there something else out there for me? Sace slithered out of the cockpit and headed for the muster room located in the center of the freighter. He looked around...

"This place is a diseassster"

He lifted a compartment, relieving the pressure of a bunch of junk that came crashing down on his head and knocking him back to the floor. Scratching the bruise on his head, he rolled over to get back on to his coiled tail to see what came crashing down. Among mostly junk was a black and purple R8 series astromech droid. Wondering if it worked, Slace flipped it on every which side looking for how to turn it on...

**CRASH**

**THUD**

The freighter came to an immediate halt after being forced out of hyperspace, now drifting somewhere just inside the Inner Rim. Sace rushed to the cockpit to see what was wrong. He saw nothing out of his front viewport...but further inspection of his monitors he noticed another ship was right on top of him...

"Ssshit....piratesss..."​

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[Soren Rel]

Soren Rel had been finished his business in the outer rim and was beginning to make his way back home to Yavin. He hated long stints in hyperspace but there was no escaping it in the cramped fighter.

He had just nodded off when a sensor alarm went off. His astromech droid beeped at the incoming distress signal. "I know. I see it A-7," he said, staring at the pulsing blip on the scanner display.

"Alter our course. We can be there in a few minutes," he said as he shifted back upright in his chair. The droid beeped out a protest that they should call for help. "No one is around, A-7. They may need our help now. Send out a broader signal though just in case." he replied.

A moment later they dropped out of hyperspace, seeing the pirates swarm the freighter. "Open a channel," he told the droid as he pushed the thrusters. "Looks like you could use some help," he said over the comm channel to the freighter. "I am coming up behind you now," he said.

Two of the pirates broke off, flying towards Soren. "Here we go." he said to himself, taking in a deep breath. The two parties exchanged fire as they moved towards one another, Soren rolling right at the last second.

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[Sace Vsil]

Sace dropped the droid he was inspecting and slithered back into the cockpit, unaware that the droid had been activated from the fall. Sace knew it was a possibility of running into unsavory characters like these, just hoped he would get lucky.

~"Looks like you could use some help"~

"I sssure can!" Sace respoinded on the same channel.

Sace noticed something on his control panel...his starfighter was activated. Hmm...maybe theyre after the fighter...pretty useless, that hunk of junk could barely fly. Running back in towards the freighter, he headed for the docking port in an attempt to save his only fighter that had been in his family for generations.

Weird...the whole thing is powered on. Sace slithered up to the cockpit to see if there was anyone inside trying to steal it...nothing. "Well...might as well give it a sshot!" He said before entering the cockpit and flicking switches to detach him from the freighter. He'd be flying with one engine as the other was blown and billowing smoke.

The cockpit was rattling from all the miniature explosions coming from his port engine. “This is gunna be tricky... Letsss hope this thing still has firepower.”

Letting loose from the freighter, the Interceptor broke away and zoomed straight tilting toward the port side. Sace was going to have to fly tilted. Shots zoomed over his canopy already starting the firefight. Sace was quick to react and maneuvered with such tenacity that it caused the pirate to overshoot...giving Sace an opportunity to move in behind. And so he did, pulling on the trigger of his blaster cannons and letting a few bolts fly directly into the opposing fighter's engine sending it ablaze.

 

[Vayla Mirana]

Spoiler: Music OOC

She had been pursuing them for hours on end. They weren’t going to get away from her this time. Not with what they had taken from her. There was just no chance.Vayla Mirana was going to catch her prey. These pirates had taken something from her and she was going to get it back.

“Hold on, Panda!” The Jedi Knight called to the empty air of her cockpit. Her astromech was somewhere inside the belly of the pirate vessel. He was not forgotten. His friend was coming for him. I’m coming for you, Pan, so hang on!

Vayla navigated her starfighter between the stars, exiting hyperspace at a moment’s notice after her quarry did the same. Evidently, the pirates, oblivious to their pursuer, had found a prey of their own, but more than.

The Knight’s sensors picked up yet another ship, this one clearly aiding the freighter that had fallen under attack, before the latter released an interceptor of its own. Well here we go, Vayla bit her lip. No matter. I’m getting my droid back one way or the other.

So her fingers found the triggers of her cockpit and let loose a barrage of bolts upon an enemy starfighter as it engaged one of the other elements. The latter would not have to fend the former off for long before Vayla’s bolts would smack the rear of the pirate fighter and blow it up. I’m coming, Panda.

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[Soren Rel]

Blaster fire shot past Soren's canopy, uncomfortably close as A7 let out another round of worrying chirps. Soren rolled hard to the left, firing as he did. He thought he might have clipped one of the wings of the attackers but he wasn't sure as he scrambled to get out of fire himself.

The freighter was damaged but it lurched to life, managing to get behind one of the fighters which exploded a second later. Still catching fire from behind, Soren swung around and punched the throttle forward, trying to buy some space as he headed back towards the freighter.

He fired, ending one of the pirates attacking the freighter.

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[Sace Vsil]

The Sluissi, perfectly snug in this fighter, realized quite quickly that there were more than just a band of pirates here to raid his freighter. He realized that they too were under attack, from multiple assailants. The Sluissi would only hope that they would end up turning on him. Afraid to open up a line of contact in fear that the pirates would intercept, Sace stayed on course, trying to get his smoldering engine under control and back in to the firefight.

His central hub buzzed...**Missiles locked on: incoming**

"Oh kark..." The Sluissi muttered.

All of a sudden his engine stopped smoking, and his interceptor corrected its position, now flying straight and true. Sace could even feel the controls stop fighting against him and really take form. "Beep-Boop-Bop." Sace could hear chirping coming from his headset...he peered over behind him and could see the purple astromech droid sitting in its port. "Well I guesss I owe you sssome gratitude as well..." Now Sace was back in action, barrel rolling to the left to avoid the incoming missiles, purposely causing them to crash and explode into a small asteroid. More quick maneuvers led the fighter directly behind the one pirate who managed to get a lock on him just moments earlier. "My turn..." Sace let loose on his blaster cannons, fortunately they worked, and ripped through the opposing fighter, creating a firey explosion that Sace ripped right through.

Sace looked around to search for any more incoming fighters, though could only see the pirates main freighter and the other two fighters that had helped him stop the pirates.

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