Imperial Mission Tomb Robber

[Darius]

R8 sprung to life in a series of beeps told to probe that his owner just stepped out but would be back in the next few hours. R8 went off on his own business fixing random things on the ship, the droid would never consciously give up his real master, he would keep to the plan, and blow the Sith murderer sky high along with half of Mos Eisley, it would be a fitting memorial to his masters dumb, but useful friends.




Barrel was a good ways away by now, when he received the encrypted transmission. "Good keep it up, the Sith are smart, but not patient, by the time they figure out whats going on they schould be in range, blow the charge after that ." R8 rambled off an acknowledgement and ended the transmission. Barrel had made his way to the other side of the settled area of the planet, and was not in the process of bartering his way onto an uncharted transport. this proved relatively easy as the money from his ship and droid were substantial. Barrel would have to wait one more day before he would be able to leave the planet, he decided to find a dark cantina and make himself scarce for the rest of the night.

 

[Miranda]

Liina's datapad lit up with a computerised glow and as she gazed at it the transmission feed from the first probe-droid's camera displayed an R8 series astromech droid within the thief's ship, but no sign of the man himself.
She had asked around at a few of the bazaars and stalls to see if anyone knew the man, or had at least seen him. But no one seemed to want to talk, or perhaps it was just that a human face was so unrecognisable and indistinguishable amongst the hundreds of patrons and miscreants that flocked to Mos Eisley on a daily basis.
The Sith acolyte was almost at a loss for what to do, and then, she decided she would play along with the game that the robber had obviously set up for them.

"I think we should go inspect the ship...no doubt there will be a trap waiting for us, so stay alert. His trail is still warm, but we will lose him if we don't hurry. Perhaps that R8 unit will prove useful."

With that Liina Husska advanced through the market place, down a side alley and out into a plaza sprawling with ships and traders. She tracked the beacon signal to the thief's now abandoned ship and stood a moment, gauging the situation. She assumed he would most likely use explosives, or a deadly gas if he were smart.

"Hmmm...what to do, what to do Fawn", she muttered absently as her eyes inspected every inch of the ship.

 

[Syn]

Fawn looked at the ship and Liina as she spoke with a grin. "I think it being a trap is correct, he is either going to kill us or try and run while we waste time searching. We should find a...." Slowly Fawn's voice trailed off as looked around and grinned seeing the man in charge of the dock and she gave Liina a pout as she pointed and spoke. "Can I .. come on can I just a nick just a slice........... just an ear and he'll tell us where our prey went. Oh he'll tell us everything."

 

[Darius]

It was the next day, Barrel awake in a fight slashing his dagger blindly out in front of him, the first thing he thought about was his own ship and it's current state, he wondered if the aggressive Sith had taken the bait, but that not to be true as he would have heard the explosion. What ever had or would happen, it didn't change the fact the he needed to get off the planet as soon as possible, he could not be sure the Sith followed him, but common sense told him that he was still screwed. Barrel made his way to the proper space port cloaked, there he met up with the captain of his hired transport. "where are we headed?" Barrel inquired, and man with a datapad walked up to him and the Captin he didn't look up ,he just mumbled under his breath, like he was under the things control, " Dagro, deep in the mid-rim, nice and quiet, schould suit your needs."

Barrel and the captain entered the ship, the burly but nimble star ship took off and exited it's atmosphere on it's way to the next destination.

 

[Miranda]

Liina regarded Fawn for a moment and then continued to assess the situation. This mission certainly wasn't going as smoothly as she had hoped. But she relished the challenge it had inspired.

"The mistake that our little thief has made...is that he has left his personal droid behind. Whatever the trap is, our probe didn't set it off. I'm going to hazard a guess and say that it is set to trigger on us. Now, we're not idiotic enough to wander into such a game."

With that Liina nodded to Fawn, "interrogate the dock master...find out where the thief was headed, and do not snuff him out until you have all the information we need. I'm going to bribe some poor sap into retrieving the astromech. Do what you must Fawn, but remember...the trail is growing cold, we need as much information as possible."

The Anomid Sith then stalked down the boulevard a few meters and engaged a few Dug that were squabbling over plates of meat and fruit. She tossed some credits down onto the table and instructed them to enter the ship and retrieve the droid, telling them that some security alarms would sound if she were to enter the ship, but that they would be completely fine. They fell for the ruse.
Within minutes the few Dugs emerged from the ship carting the R-unit droid out of its hold and they set it down several meters from her and Fawn. She couldn't be too careful, the droid itself could have been rigged to explode. At once she programmed the probe-droids to tear the little astromech to pieces and analyse its memory and processing units. The droid beeped and wailed in what Liina assumed to be a digital version of pain.

A few ships shot off into the skyline at the docks, and then Liina had a most brilliant idea.

"When you're done questioning that fool, I think we shall check all the docks for ship records and destinations. If someone can identify the thief... then we can track him. I have a feeling that he will have fled this world as soon as humanly possible. He is a criminal after all, and that's what they do best."

 

[Syn]

Fawn looked at Liina and grinned as she hopped up and down with her hands in front of her as she stopped and walked over to the dock master zipping down her bodysuit into a very low line to her navel and nearly letting her chest be bare as she sidled up to the man and spoke low in his ear licking the lobe and placing a hand on his stomach as she grinned and pushed him against the wall letting him put his hands all over her as she spoke with a laugh. "He says partner that he saw the man go towards a cantina but doesn't know which one." Slowly Fawn pulled away as she shook her finger and grinned moving back to stand by Liina as she spoke looking at the man and coming behind but not touching the other sith. "Now now for helping you can have me but if you get his picture and send it to all the dock workers and captains you could have us, and my friend here.... she has no gag reflex." With a wicked grin Fawn winked to Liina as she walked back over and tickled under his chin as he went to go and do what she wanted sending the picture of the thief to the other docks with a warning that the sith will target whoever takes him as she looked at Liina when they were all alone. "What you said don't kill him. So now we'll have a picture and a warning sent to all the people in Mos Eisley. So come my dear let your hair done. You might like it.. or I could just tear him apart for laying a hand on you the dirty pig."

 

[Darius]

Barrel finally made it to Dagro, for a mid rim planet it was very remote, not many settlements around, easy to just disappear into the wilderness. After the ship had landed Barrel Paid the Captain, and gave him a little extra considering that he now had Sith assassins after him, he didn't quite tell him that though.


Barrel had to figure things out, what would his next move be, if he went to Naboo he would get his money , but they would still hunt him down anyway for putting them through all this trouble. In his head Barrel was already dead, so he might as well have some fun while he still had arms. He decided to make a plan, he knew of a large group of Danteen refuges, who considering there history they would have no love of the empire or the Sith, he didn't want to get them involved, but perhaps they would be able to help each other. The first night on the planet was quiet, something he was not used to, he only came to planets like this one when he was in real trouble, which didn't happen too often, he didn't find situation that a few thermal detonators couldn't solve, but these Sith were an entirely different type of enemy, he couldn't fight them face to face like he wanted to. Time for now was on his side as he prepared his next batch of tricks.



R8 lay in pieces, coming on and off line his visual sensors barely picked up the people in the area, but he knew they were around, his sonar sensors still picked up a few people close to his body. R8 tried to move, but he was missing his legs, he tried to send a message to his master, but he was too far out of range. He only had enough power of one more thing, and that was to activate the bombs in the smugglers compartment. Though they did not fall for the trap outright, it would be big enough to tell them that he meant business at the least, if they wanted him they would have to chase him, maybe they would get tired and give up, they both doubted that, R8 did generate the odd for that happening but as usual his master wanted no part of the numbers.


((sorry for the Gmodding, I edited it all out, if there is anything else let me know.))

 

[Miranda]

((sorry for the delay in posting! I totally forgot about this thread lol!))

Liina watched as the little R-unit droid was ripped apart before her eyes, the Probe-droids were menacing and ruthless, as their programming dictated. Sparks and wires and plugs and gears flew and erupted from the astromech with a brutal beauty. Liina smiled to herself and then, once the Probes had gathered as much information as they could, she commanded them to return to their ship. She then turned her eyes to Fawn and began to speak.

"Do what you wi---"

And then suddenly her words were cut off abruptly and completely muted by the roaring furious explosion that tore through the thief's vessel.
It was chaos, the ship burst as if several folds of reality all ruptured through the docks to gain advantage over each other. Flames shot skyward and the blast pushed outwards like a giant fiery blooming flower.
Liina had only seconds to react, she used the Force to speed her movement and flung herself into a deep archway of a building, removing herself from the enormous blast radius of the ignited thermal detonators. She held herself to the ground as the chaos spilled forth, protected by the hard stone walls of the building.
Dust and sand and debris flew everywhere with idiot, swift-motion grace. It was absolute destruction.
The docking port where the vessel once stood was now a black and fiery ring of devastation, the ship itself was now a charred empty hull. The two Sith had been extremely careless...

 

[Syn]

Fawn was going to say more as she felt and saw the explosion and ran with Liina using the force and grabbing the dock worker as she used him like a shield and slid into his office closing the door with a hiss before she hid under his desk and held the man infront of her, his desk was metal and the stone helped protect her as her teeth rattled and Fawn hissed looking at the mans contorted face and she smelled thhe flesh burned on his back as the blast subsided and she pushed him away crawling out of the office and looking over at Liina as she spoke with a sneer on her face and her eyes burning yellow. "Now can I eviscerate them all, we'll find out where he is going."