Open Onderon Kang We Talk About This?

[Jana Kang]

"This is ridiculous," Jana sighed as she watched her shuttle land on the hotel's landing pad. She usually wasn't one for joining the social gatherings of senators after sessions. It usually involved tabloid nonsense and weird political fanclubs, neither of which she felt inclined to personally confirm the existence of. Still, the president of Byblos had been clear on the issue: 'Senate unity is most important if we are to defend ourselves against the Sith,' and she couldn't say he didn't have a point. It was distrust in the senate that paved the way for Palpatine to maneuver himself into becoming the Emperor. Perhaps attending socials was a way to prevent that in the future?

She made her way over to the shuttle and got in. It was a modest four-person one designed for short distances for people rich enough not to have to sit in landspeeder traffic jams. It would only take five minutes to cross most of the capital city of Iziz so she could attend the private penthouse gathering. Best part was this most likely would keep her from being stopped by the tabloid journalists.

The shuttle took off without much fanfare and aside from Jana there was only a human pilot that seemed not in the least interested in her. A true professional he reminded her of her seatbelt, opened the drinks compartment with a press of a button and started steered his flying taxi towards the city center.

"WHAT THE-" the pilot suddenly cried just before a heavy projectile hit the shuttle on the left side of the nose, forcing it off course towards the walls. Another shot disabled the engines and despite the pilot's best and most violent efforts he wasn't able to keep it from going down. Jana grabbed her seat and fastened herself tighter to her seatbelt, preparing for the incoming crash as the shuttle became a projectile of its own, flying over the walls and veering off into the jungle for the impending crash.

From the walls of Iziz, the Onderon Security Forces could only watch how the shuttle disappeared into the jungle and its location was only vaguely visible by a plume of black smoke..

A few minutes later confirmation would show on their communicators, "The senator from Byblos was on that shuttle." What the kriff was happening?
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OOC: Sector Rangers failed to respond to the threat in time and got nowhere in their hunt, thus Golly Gilly makes her move!

 

[Ceris Odrosess]

"Pleeeasssee can we go?" "No" "Pretty please?" "No" "Pretty pretty pretty please?" "No" "Super pretty please??" "No" "What about an ultra pretty please?" "No" For the past half-hour Ceris has been begging the Grand Admiral Brum to go to the social gathering of Senators. Since she herself didn't get an invitation, she would have to go along with Brum, but he didn't want to go. "Sir I just want to see Emryc for like 5 seconds nothing more." "You already got to see him for way more than 5 seconds!" "I mean like 5 seconds up close he was far away in the Senate building I could barely make out his face!"

Brum let out a sigh "If we go will we stop complaining?" "Yes!" Ceris exclaimed. "Good, that means you won't complain when you don't get your next paycheck." "Wait wh-" "NO COMPLAINING."

Another caveat to going was wearing the traditional military ceremonial garb, rather than her own dress. It didn't matter too much to Ceris; she would get her revenge by taking an hour to do her hair. Once everything was ready, they made their way to the party in their Eta-Class Shuttle. Besides Ceris and Brum, there were 5 other men on board; Brum always liked to have a security detail wherever he went, especially after the events that occurred at Denon.

"Hey do you hear that?" Ceris said, hearing the feint noise of shots being fired. Being in the military long enough makes one hypersensitivity to such a noise, even Brum picked up on it. "Open the ramp!" she ordered the two pilots. The entrance ramp slowly lowered, and a chilly wind blasted everyone. Out the back of the ship, way off in the distance, a cloud of black smoke plumed. "Fire in the distance!" she called out.

The Grand Admiral, seeing the cloud of smoke himself, began to take command of the situation. "Pilots, get us over to that cloud of black smoke. Contact the Onderon security forces and figure out what the hell just happened." He quickly pointed to two of the soldiers sitting by "Give the Captain and I your pistols." The two men quickly handed over their standard issue DC-17 Blaster pistols, but still maintained their Westar-17 carbines.

The shuttle grew closer to the site. "Admiral," one of the pilots called out "Onderon Security Forces just confirmed that Senator Kang has been shot down. They're sending a rescue team, but it seems like we are going to be the first ones to arrive!" As he finished they flew over the crash site. "The jungle is too dense, looking for a place to land!" the pilot yelled. About 91 meters away from the site was an opening and they landed.

"Secure the perimeter! Pilots stay here and keep the shuttle prepped in case we need to get the Senator out quickly, and inform the Onderon Security Forces we are moving in. Tell them to send more than just one rescue team. Captain, you're with me" Ceris, Brum, and 3 soldiers walked down the ramp and quickly patrolled the area. "Clear!" everyone called out one by one. "Alright, we move towards the site. Let's get Senator Kang out of here. Stay on your toes!"

They walked through the jungle swiftly, but precisely. They maintained 10 meters of space between each other, as to not get caught out as a large group. They crashed shuttle eventually came into their view, the and 3 Republic Soldiers quickly sprinted over to check for survivors. Both Ceris and Brum stayed in the jungle, taking cover. They were not wearing armor like the soldiers, and thus were more exposed. The Senator's shuttle was shot down, the culprits could be anyone. The 3 soldiers began inspecting a dead body that was just outside of the shuttle; it was one of the pilots. They quickly began to try and pry the shuttle's main entrance open and look for any survivors.

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[Livi Cross]

Livi found her presence on this planet pointless. This was well outside of ISC jurisdiction, but a bunch of rangers were temporarily stationed here while the President and the Governors were here. Of course, his Bastardcy Galek Ordalos likely assigned her here just to torment her. She had a pretty low key gig so far, mainly on standby in case any incidents happened. The most she had to deal with was dispersing crowds of fanatics that obsessed over the President. She didn’t see the big deal or why a political figure had such a pop culture following, but Livi mostly kept to herself.

She flexed her cybernetic fingers, adorned in standard issue armor and two blasters. They still didn’t trust her with a rifle, but there were other Rangers around her with them. It looked like another low key evening - some of the cops assigned to go ensure the President’s hotel wasn’t raided. Thankfully, she was on reserve duty, housed at a local Ranger station. The Onderon Rangers were nice enough, and didn’t seem uptight like most Rangers she met. While there was a sense of rivalry between FWA and ISC Rangers, it was nothing malicious.

The alarms blared as every Ranger comms channel exploded with chatter about a Senator’s shuttle being shot down. Livi sprang to her feet, rushing with a blend of ISC and local Rangers to board a police airspeeder to lift into the air and zoom towards the site.

“Ranger Squad 3 en route,” Livi spoke into the comms frequency Brum and his people were on, “What’s the situation? Is the Senator located?” They would arrive on site within five minutes.

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[Chysim Reech]

Chysim watched the whole thing unfold right before his eyes. Some shuttle was shot down out of nowhere- it flew right over his head before crashing into the jungle. "Shit..." He muttered as he sat inside his parked U-wing in shock. Then fire and smoke could be seen on the outcropping of the tree tops where the shuttle disappeared. "Oh shit!" He hurriedly got on his black T-80 Joben and sped off to the rescue. He wasn't too far away from the shuttle when a New Republic ship had come out of nowhere which seemed to deploy a team of sorts.

"Ey! Ey, you see that just now?" He called towards the group before stopping a ways behind them and put his hands up. He didn't want these guys to get the wrong idea. "Let me 'elp! I've got muscle." He offered, hoping that they'd let him join their little posse. Then he got a different idea, "Ey, you know who shot 'em down? I can hunt 'em and skin 'em for ya. But at least let me 'elp. I'm Bounty 'Unter Guild. Ain't no threat unless you got money on yer 'ead." He put his hands down, and smelled the air- all he could really smell was smoke, gasoline, and...what was that other smell?

"You got Quarren on that ship? It reeks." Chysim asked, his fiery eyes narrowing to slits. He remembered there being a bounty for some Quarren outlaw named Gilly- they were last seen on Onderon. It looked like the Sector Rangers didn't get the job done like Chysim thought they would- and now the Trandoshan felt bad because he had wanted to gut the squid-head himself. Maybe the occasion would arise today, if he got lucky.

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[The Storyteller]

They walked through the jungle swiftly, but precisely. They maintained 10 meters of space between each other, as to not get caught out as a large group. They crashed shuttle eventually came into their view, the and 3 Republic Soldiers quickly sprinted over to check for survivors. Both Ceris and Brum stayed in the jungle, taking cover. They were not wearing armor like the soldiers, and thus were more exposed. The Senator's shuttle was shot down, the culprits could be anyone. The 3 soldiers began inspecting a dead body that was just outside of the shuttle; it was one of the pilots. They quickly began to try and pry the shuttle's main entrance open and look for any survivors.

All was quiet as one of the soldiers inserted a security spyke on the shuttle's door. Maybe.. too quiet.

A single red plasma bolt screeched through the air and hit one of the soldiers between the shoulder blades. He wore a blast vest, but it didn't seem to help much as the force slammed him against the door and left a large wound of charred skin and cloth. Only a heavy blaster sniper rifle could ignore armor like that.

An eery laugh followed as the door opened to reveal an empty shuttle. Both the laugh and the sniper rifle were clearly Golly Gilly's trademark, but where was she? More importantly, where was the senator of Byblos?

Suddenly blaster fire erupted from the treeline towards the two remaining soldiers, pinning them down inside the shuttle as leaving it would no doubt be their end. The cruek laughing didn't stop, yet faded slowly while the soldiers were pinned down. They hadn't spotted Ceris, Brum or Chysim, but one thing was painfully clear: Golly Gilly was on the move.

If they didn't catch up quick who knew where she'd take Senator Kang.

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[Ceris Odrosess]

"Ey you see that just now?"

Both Ceris and Brum quickly turned around and pointed their blasters at the tall Trandoshan. "Back away or get shot!" Ceris called out the moment he asked 'Let me help'. He clearly wasn't a ranger or a part of the security forces, and neither her or the admiral cared about who he was or why he was wanting to help. "This is a restricted area leave now or you will be shot!" For all they knew, he could easily be a part of the group that shot down the Senator. They both kept their blasters on him

However both officers turned around upon hearing the shot of a heavy blaster rifle, but were shocked as more blaster fire rained down on the remaining two soldiers. "Odrosses, follow that laughter! I'll get in touch with the security forces and watch this guy over here." He turned back toward the Trandoshan and kept his blaster pistol targeted on him. Brum then reached in his own pockets and got a hold of his commlink. "This is Grand Admiral Brum" he responded to the ranger "My men are under heavy fire, and there is a Trandoshan trespasser. The Senator is missing, but I have my Captain tracking her down while we speak."

While the admiral spoke, Ceris already began making her way through the jungle. Running through brush and between trees, the laughter was nearby but she couldn't quite reach where it was coming from. She kept an eye out for any traps as she ran. There was a bit of pain in her heart having to leave behind the two men in the shuttle, but she had to rescue the Senator no matter what.

Brum glared at the Trandoshan "If you really want to help, go get my men out of that shuttle right now." He still kept his blaster pointed at him.

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[Livi Cross]

“Affirmative,” Livi commed back, switching to a different channel, “Need some more backup! Rangers on site are taking heavy fire!” She switched back to the channel with Brum as their speeder near the scene, but purposely stoppedfurther away. The goal was to keep the shooter from knowing there were more soldiers on the scene. Livi jumped off the speeder before it even touched down, rushing into the jungle with four men with her. Her focus was on the soldiers that were trapped in the shuttle and she turned to the other men, “Identify where the shots are coming from and lay down suppressive fire till you can get the soldiers out.”

Livi turned to the Admiral, looking from him to the Trandoshan on the scene, “You wanna help? Go help save those men from the shuttle,” She barked at the trespasser before turning to the admiral, “but Senator Kang is top priority for me,” With that she turned and began to make her way through the forest towards where Captain Odoress had ventured. The other four men were all creeping into the forest to try and take down the sniper. They had to take extra precaution in case Golly Gilly wasn't alone.

It didn’t take Livi long to spot the woman, though she did a double take upon seeing the dressy attire and lack of armor, “See anything?” She whispered as she walked deeper into the forest. Livi had better visibility through the HUD in her helmet, and she had her blaster out and pointed.


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[Chysim Reech]

Chysim let out an aggressive snarl as the two shithead Core Worlders aimed their weapons after he just offered to help. He had an alibi and everything- he had just been doing his daily video chat with his dad before his time ran out and Chysim watched the shuttle explode.

But before the Trandoshan could cuss the two unfortunately unarmored shitheads, they told him he could help! Sure he was bound to get shot at as the shuttle was being bombarded, but that was okay! Chysim stopped growling and smiled happily. He gave the two a quick salute before heading off toward the shuttle where the remaining two men remained with his DLT-20A blaster rifle slung over his shoulder.

He almost got hit a few times- his favorite hat getting blown right off his head. He snarled when he was forced to bear crawl his way behind the shuttle. Then, the Trandoshan cowboy dug his claws into the opposite shuttle door and pried it open. Of course, the men hiding inside shot at him. "Congratulations, shitheads!!" He grumbled as he threw in his Bounty Hunter's Guild credentials inside for the duo to look at. "You're being rescued." He scowled at the two who made quick apologies before another rain of hellfire oppressed their cover.

"Heads down! I'll draw their fire..." The lizard chuckled and slung his rifle into his clawed hands, taking aim at a few of the fools who tried to out snipe the experienced lizard. This was exactly the kind of thing Chysim was best at; Sharpshooting! He couldn't help but giggle as he picked off the assailants one by one as he aimed down sights. "BAM! Heheh, gotcha...BAM! BAM! Gotcha twice, little bugger...BAM! Dead, boy! Dead!"

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