Ask Nar Shaddaa Home Cleaning: Expanding Horizons

[Xol Zaa Fenn]

<|:|>DEBRIEFING: Quarantined within the edge of the perimeter set by our droid forces is a droid factory, while it has some infected as usual...This one also has many droids within it, droids infected by some sort of dataplague that makes them violent against sentient, fleshy beings. The reason the place isn't riddled with infected is, in fact, because they keep killing them! However, these droids are still a problem and need to be dealt with in order to take a hold of the factory, if we do so, we have yet another place where we can repair and produce our security droids located nearby and making the safe zone...Safer. END TRANSCRIPTION <|:|>

Droids were never a problem for Xol. Hence the ID-21 Seeker droid that hovered close behind him as he stealthily crept towards the creepy looking warehouse turned droid factory. This job was hopefully going to go smoothly with the assistance of Shaddaa Legend, Gareth Gin, himself. There was a new guy Xol never heard of that was tagging along as well, so hopefully he proved to be more than just Zombie Bait.

Xol chuckled at the new nickname he just came up with.

<"Alright...so how are we going in? Infected are inside as much as they are out so we should keep things quiet and subtle. Kill too many of the droids and the undead outnumber us. Kill too many of the undead and the droids outnumber us."> Xol explained, making sure Punchee didn't scan any incoming infected. This job might have seen simple at first, but now that the Tognath was weighing in their options it slowly became more and more of specialty job.

<"We go in quiet, carefully eliminate everything that moves, then quietly get out. Deal?">

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[Seyd Mac]

At first glance, this job seemed like a smash and grab operation. Send in the meat heads and snipers to clear out a cache of enemy droids. That only worked if you sent an army to fight an army. A quick glance around proved that they were outnumbered greatly and would need to think about this a bit harder. Seyd was brought along because he was a proven slicer who could help with a dataplague issue.

"No offense, but not a deal. You just said it's trouble to kill a bunch... then said we go in and eliminate any we find inside. We need to remove all the droids and we should hopefully survive doing it." He rolled his eyes a bit, hidden from Xol as he turned away and held his datapad to his face. "Bring me a droid, intact... mostly at least. If I can figure out how to break the dataplague... well you can put two and two together I hope there."

After trying his best not to talk down to Xol too much, he turned to the boss man himself with a few notes on the datapad screen. It might not mean much to someone who isn't a slicer though. Seyd pointed to a few key spots and mentioned a worm to root out the dataplague like a termite colony eating at a log. Hopefully, each droid captured could become a member of their new army. They just needed enough to distract and support their own attacks really. As long as the pair of fighters didn't get too ambitious and destroy the first few...

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[Gareth Gin]

The White Lion of Zaa Fenn stood completely armored and in front of the other two members of the family, arms crossed as he scanned the factory ahead of them. What Xol said was mostly correct, going in guns blazing was not the way to go, it would attract too much attention. That being said, silently taking out every single droid and infected? Not a good way to go about it. Of course, Xol didn't really know who his other partner was, so he didn't know what was the best way to go about it.

"While you are right about going in quietly, Xol, the reason I brought Seyd is...Well, because of what he said, quietly killing every single droid and infected is gonna be too difficult to do for it to be worth it, Seyd needs to get a hold of that dataplague...But I know a way of taking it a step further" Gareth whispered to the other two with a smile under his helmet, he was not a slicer expert himself, but he was now more than used to working alongside slicers, he knew how to lead them now, experience really was the best tool in these kind of situations.

"The dataplague makes them hostile to fleshy beings like us...But they aren't completely feral, if they were, they would've run out of energy a long time ago, at the very least they are maintaining the factory and charging themselves back up" The Miralukan explained before turning his head towards the slicer "Once you've come up with a counter to the data plague, we are gonna get to the core of the factory and make sure you spread it to every single battery charger in the factory, after that, it will be a matter of days before the droids are back to their senses and they liberate the place and join us on their own, understood?" If there were no questions, Gareth would lead forward, using the force to have a feel of the best route to sneak inside the factory. A vibroblade in hand as he understood that his gauntlets were not the best when it came to dealing with infected and similar.

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[Xol Zaa Fenn]

The day just started and Xol already wanted to bash heads in after the new guy spoke down to the Tognath as if he was a child. How dare the greenie disrespect his elder! Xol began muttering threats about gutting the human like a Nerf, but before he could get to the best part of his slurred speech, Gareth stepped in.

So the job was a slicing opportunity instead of a gunslinger's venture. Xol was good with code, too- why did Gareth think Seyd was better? Xol was older and had more experience- he reprogrammed Punchee and without his skills in decrypting tech, his little front with the Bounty Hunter's Guild would've ended a long time ago. Xol clenched his fists, but instead bashing Seyd in the face, he drew his DE-10s and kept them at the ready as he prepared to jet-boot his way over to the warehouse roof where he spotted a small opening for him and Punchee to get into.

<"I'm killing infected then, and only droids who pose a threat. I'll have Punchee deactivate droids to save a few of them for us to work on. Might deactivate Seyd, here, if I finish with the undead and get bored."> Xol grumbled to Gareth as if the slicer wasn't even present. <"Don't get in my way, Hot-Stuff."> The Tognath glared at Seyd before gazing back at the warehouse. He could hear the moans and groans of undead going up against the blaster fire from the frenzied droids.

Xol didn't like the feeling of being replaced- especially when it came to Zaa Fenn. He'd given his all for the Crime Family and Xol wasn't going to be set aside by some meat-bag who came to play tag with the undead in a suit.

<"Let's get this over with. Quicker we're in it, quicker we're out of it.">

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[Seyd Mac]

A smile, or maybe more of a smirk, crossed Seyd's face as he listened to Xol complaining. He knew that the Tognath wasn't a fan of him, and knew speaking against the plan would likely result in this reaction. In this business, you often had a short career if you never showed respect. Seyd gave a nod towards Gareth to show agreement to the plan. The big boss here seemed to have the right idea. Brutes with a temper would only get people killed. A stealthy hack was the way to do it.

"A quick survey shows these patrols have two droids working together. If we can work together, maybe a stretch for some of us here it seems, we can take them out quietly enough to practice on them. Going out and attacking will get us killed or fleeing from an army." Seyd slid his datapad around for Xol to see it as well. "This is the worm program, I have a plug on this datapad to interact with droids or whatever other dataports are inside. Might have to tweak it once I see the actual dataplague... but it's a start."

Seyd made sure to speak a bit slowly for Xol as it seemed the brute knew nothing beyond attacking. A clear sign he would always be a pawn and never rise up. It was pathetic that Seyd had to consider him an equal here. The Slicer knew for sure he was better than him. He figured he was better than everyone, but just didn't have the spoon fed opportunities.

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[Gareth Gin]

The Miralukan was amused by the bickering between the two people that he had brought along for the mission, now that he was the leader people really wanted to impress him, huh? "And Xol, you are the backbone of this operation, you can kill and slice, so you'll be killing and slicing depending on how the situation develops, if I can't take care of a problem, you'll do it, and if Seyd is occupied and we need slicing, you'll do it too, I'm counting on you" That being said, the White Lion of Zaa Fenn didn't want Xol to end up shooting Seyd in the back, so he figured he'll give Xol encouraging words to keep him happy and less trigger-happy.

Using the force to augment his sight, Gareth could see plenty of entrances inside the factory, a broken hole in one of the walls being one of them, there were some infected behind it, but not enough as to make it a problem. It was certainly the better option in comparison to the main entrance which would be pretty much impossible to get through without catching the attention of plenty of infected.

And so, Gareth led them to the hole and went through it first, blade thrust deep into an infected's skull as soon as he got inside. There were a couple of infected near that would soon notice their entrance, but they could be dealt with. However, the group of three would realize just...How bloody the place was, some droids had taken out infected by blaster fire, but there were plenty of infected corpses dismembered and ripped apart by brute force. Not any droids though, as the infected didn't attack non organics, but the droids certainly attacked back. The only reason there were infected at all was probably because the blaster fire attracted them, if anything.

Off in the distance, a lone droid took shots at the infected far away, more coming over and then dying, it wouldn't take long before it came their way, but it looked like a good start for their droid operation.

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[Xol Zaa Fenn]

Seyd would've gotten a mouth full of blaster bolts if it weren't for the White Lion's interruption. Gareth was no leader of Xol's, and no matter how much he paraded around the galaxy with the banner of Zaa Fenn on his back, the Tognath never saw the Miralukan as anything more than a brute with brains. Even then, he proved himself to be one hell of a fool after the stunt he pulled over the holonet. Now targets that never existed were all over the underworld. Business got better for the Guild, but eventually those background checks would reveal all of Xol's wrongdoings and interesting affiliations.

Everything got tighter and Xol noticed that the fear Crymorah once held was now gone. The same went for the other Syndicates, hence Nor'baal the Hutt placing a three million credit bounty on the White Lion's head for the start of potentially the worst business the Syndicates have had in years.

Xol thought that the initial enemy was the Hutt Cartels. But after some recent employment and job opportunities, the Tognath Bounty Hunter saw Zaa Fenn's sterling White Lion for what he really was; a traitorous greedy fool ravaged by pride and ego so big, it could block out the dual suns of Tatooine. All the while, infighting began among his brothers and sisters and Gareth couldn't do a thing about it. Zaa Fenn was as good as dead and Xol was absolutely bitter about it. Akka had died for this family, and now her sacrifice- even Preef's sacrifice -was in vain.

After looking over Seyd's worm program, he gave the kid a simple nod of approval. He was good- mouthy -but good. Xol would've added a few tweaks to the droid functionality to give the monologued suits of metal some personality, but the goal of the job was to get the droids in line, not to make them more entertaining to talk to.

That being said, Xol proceeded to the hole in the roof with his jet-boots, giving Seyd and Gareth a malicious glare before setting out to do what he did best. Once through the hole, Xol made his perch on a metal beam that kept what was left of the roof together, silently moving above the bloody warehouse and it's unsuspecting undead inhabitants below. Dropping to a loft with a single infected staring at a wall, Xol swept it's legs out from under it and put a blaster bolt in it's head.

Now, a few more infected moved their attention to Xol, which was the distraction he needed for Seyd and Gareth to get shit done with little confrontation. The Tognath rumbled a dark laugh as he spun his dual DE-10s around his fingers all fancy like before jumping off the loft and blasting away at the intruding undead.

<"They've taken the bait- get your asses to those charging stations, or so help me, I'll gut you both faster than you can say 'Blood-Sport'."> Cursed the Bounty Hunter through his com before peppering another trio of infected with blue bolts until the all stopped their eerie twitching.

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[Seyd Mac]

"Lovely guy." Seyd mused towards Gareth as he maneuvered to watch the Tognath completely rambo off without the plan. "So... I guess we let him die and we go hit the target?"

The Slicer let himself laugh a little despite the entire operation being risked by that lurch. The lone droid likely wouldn't be an option anymore, they'd have to do it live inside the factory. He held his pistol in one hand and the datapad in the other as he went the opposite way from Xol's distraction to enter the building. There was no resistance on the way over to the central charging stations due to them all rushing to stop the new, loud intruder. In a way the new plan was working. Seyd was pretty sure the Tognath would get killed or maimed though.

Seyd found a nice nook with access to the computer console for the charging systems. He ported in the datapad and poked around for a bit. He hoped Gareth could be watching his back here in case a droid needed to charge and found them. That was likely going to happen due to the sheer number of them and chaos happening outside.

Clank. Clank.

A pair of droids were incoming!

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