Plunder

[Mad Dog]

[Fancybox2] ASK: Plunder

Hoth has been the site of many a battle in the past, countless men and women have died in its skies, its surrounding asteroid field littered with the carcasses of ships. It is in the field that we are sending you, we have heard reports of a group of scavengers who are finding nearly intact ships among the wreckage. You are to head to the field with our Kontti-Class ship and see what you can find.

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: Locate some of the damaged frigates which are still mostly intact and return them to Terminus.
SECONDARY OBJECTIVES: Try and locate the scavengers and bring them to our cause.[/Fancybox2]

Cade sat onboard the Kontti-class Fleet Replenishment Ship a small contingent of a Starfighters following slowly behind him. His mission today would be boring, he knew that going in. But he was still getting paid to basicly do not a whole lot, so Cade sidelined his contempt for boredom.

He'd arrived near Hoth about five minutes ago and was already bored out of his mind as the ship slowly combed the massive debris field that nearly created a ring around the planet. The Councillor had been correct, there were tons of dead ships here. Most of them torn to bits. A few only torn in half... this is hopeless... Cade thought. It was going to be a long day, of that Cade was sure.

 

[Brian]

Kriek was having a bad day. He couldn't get his mother and sister off his mind."What would they think about me joining a group of killers. I guess the killing is for the greater good" he thought. Kriek had to get that off his mind though he had bigger matters to attend to. This was his first actual mission as an Protectorate agent. To be honest though this was like his old job. This is how Kriek would get the rare medal for his blasters.

 

[Mad Dog]

Cade looked to his companion for today's mission. Cade knew very little of the Abrek, except that like his people they were natural born crafters and "refurbishers" Cade understood ahead of time that his companion today was unable to speak Galatic basic, thinking this would make for an extremely long trip, Cade craked open a bottle of Whiskey and after taking a very long pull off of it attempted to hand it to the... Amphibian? Reptile? Insectoid? Whatever it is, everyone likes whiskey.... He thought.

Cade glanced out the enormous transparisteel windows. There were asteroids here the size of the ship he was in, and the unsettling amounts of dead ships was concerning, The number of dead here must be extremely high...

 

[Brian]

Kriek took the bottle and drank from it. The effects were nice making him forget all of his troubles but it didn't last long maybe five seconds. So Kriek tried it again but this time he didn't feel the affects he just felt all his problems seep back into him like a sponge. Kriek was board so he started to take apart his blaster and put it back together. Kriek wanted to say something just to break the awkward silence and to test his wrist band translator but he would let the other guy speak first. Kriek was about to say something when he saw something in the distance ,a small object coming toward them.

 

[Mad Dog]

Cade was starting the process of drinking himself into a stupor when one of the bridge men alerted him that two medium sized BM-PST MK Xlll's were converging on his location,"Open the hail, these might be the men the Councillor was talking about." Cade said standing up from his chair.

"Hail is online sir."

"This is Cade of the Kjlljk Protectorate, we are here peacefully on a recovery and recruitment mission. Who am I speaking to?"

After only a shot moment a reply came back,"Bom’loo Ayafa" The voice said in a particularly identifiable accent.

"Jawas.." Cade whispered. His Jawa was rough, but he understood, this was a trading clan, though most Jawas were.

Cade responded in Jawaese trade speak, the rough translation being,"Day, we here looking to take dark ships pirate hunting clan. Assistance, and pay work for, Protectorate."(Being no real translation for Protectorate, Cade simply said it in a distorted and high pitched voice.)

 

[Wayrider]

Yong Ki, had just come out of hyperspace in the Hoth system. He knew he was here to pick up quantities of a salvaged equipment and or ships that were littering the astroid field around the planet. The Centaur heavy freighter that he brought had been upgraded with additional heavy plate armor a tractor beam for this project. He figured just the sheer capacity of its cargo area coupled with the fact that he could now tow a ship as much as ten times his own size with ease would make this an extremely profitable trip for the Protectorate. He brought with him additional consumable supplies for the two agents and their crews who had already been on site for a week or so. He also hoped they had had enough time to locate a sizable amount of material.

 

[Brian]

While the man was busy on the Jawas Kriek looked at the scanners to see the if there were more visitors around but he didn’t find any others however he found something interesting. He located a Liberator Class Cruiser and he told the man what he found. Soon after Kriek fired a marker torpedo. few moments later and the torpedo was attached. The ship was completely silent so he now had a ship.

 

[Mad Dog]

Cade continued to negotiate with the Jawas the two species both expert salesmen, allowed to Cade to take part in a favored pass time of the Squib, and the sale wars began, with expert twists of certain words and facts, adding in estimated numbers that Cade made seem to be factual he gained the strategic upper hand on the Jawas, and negotiated a deal,"Perfect!" Cade said, after he closed the comm link.

Turning to Kreik,"The Jawas have agreed to assist our cause, initially for a fee, then they want move to a serious employment within the protectorate. This is good news."

During Cade's conversation with the Jawas, Yong Ki had arrived on the scene,"Good, we need some more hands." He said moving to open a comm link with the Wookie. A moment later it came online and Cade spoke directly to Yong Ki,"Thank you for coming, there is an enormous amount if demolished ships here, it is unlikely we will find anything that can be fully restored, however we are here looking for massive amounts of metals, and fully intact pieces of technology. Those things appear to be here in waves." Cade said, motioning to the giant planetary ring comprised mostly of mangled ships, even though he knew the Wookie could not see him do so.

"We have identified an old Liberator-Class Cruiser and are moving to intercept. If the republic abandoned it here, it is likely in much less than working order, but it'll still contain the massive amount of metal it is composed of, and will hopefully still contain a number of working armaments and valuable pieces of tech.." Cade finished as he began to move the massive ship he was onboard.

 

[Wayrider]

I assume this is a catch what you can situation and only Mark that which you are actively pursuing. Sent Yong Ki.
Have we established a parking lot inside the radius of the ring yet? asked Yong Ki.
Sitting on the inner edge of the ring of debris and astroids Yong Ki began dragging out the smaller useful bits of technology as they came near his path in a matter of hours he had accumulated several drive engines and cannons as well as several turrets various shapes and sizes . All the while he continued to wait for the big item that he would need to find to make entering the field worthwhile.
“Icerider Should be here in a weeks time she will bring resupply for everybody and I’d like to have a full hold for her to take back with her.” Yong Ki sent to Cade.

 

[Rorren]

Karen said as he came through the hyperspace warp and into the barren fields of waste. Much like the surface, the area here was desolate, lifeless save for scavengers. The man had few cares or emotions, especially for locations, which made it all the more clear the disdain for Hoth stemmed from the large amount of pointless death found here. Echoes of war were beyond prevalent and one could feel it in the Force.

He almost felt like a Jedi in his thoughts, but Kaern had been making many strides with users of the light side who came to the Protectorate. The ex-sith had learned much in the ways of the Force outside of combat, whether or not he fully embraced them.

So why was the right hand man to the Grand Counselor floating in a head of junk and asteroids? Well, Kae'Tl was having a particular need in mind for their fleet, and she noted Kaern had not been out on a mission in some time...as his lover and defacto wife, she had about kicked him out of the house to send the man here, to make sure nothing got in the way of her final piece of the puzzle in acquiring her project's resources. An unplanned visit from the most direct enforcer of the council woman would have these men working at their highest degree, no doubt.

"This is SA-001, all Kjlljk channels report in on your finds and progress reports. I will be overseeing this operation...personally." The chilling voice came over the intercom of each Kjlljk ship running the correct frequency. The SA, Shadow's Agents, mainly just referred to as agents, as most weren't covert secret police or assassins within the Protectorate, but only on missions outside of its boundaries. But most agents ranked in the thousands, if not even millions with their code name. So 001 left very little to the imagination of who was in the ship.

 

[Mad Dog]

"Kaern..." Cade said, a little surprised. The Kjlljk Counsellor had been mostly MIA the last long while. Cade knew this mission was of importance, and that it was taking considerably longer to accomplish it's goals than what was initially wanted. Kaern had the direct ear, and various other body parts, of the Grand Councilor, meaning any mishaps would be directly reported.

"Councillor, it's good to have you here." Cade said over the comms,"We have just secured the assistance of a clan of Jawa scavengers, and are currently en route to a defunct Liberator-Class Cruiser. Its heavily damaged, and looks like its back half has been ripped off." He said looking out the bridge window at the ship.

The team of Wardens, engineers, and mechanics all set out to begin the ships retrieval, attaching fiber cords and towing mechanisms to the ship. By sheer happenstance, the freighter designated for towing the massive destroyed ship arrived just as the men were finishing the last two cable.

The freighter, packed to the brim with various other chunks of metal and recoverable technology, was definitely pushing it's capacity. Attaching the old cruiser and sending it on its way for its no doubt long and slow trip Cade said,"One batch of cookies and a loaf of bread on its way back to Terminus, anyone got eyes on anything else?" Cade said as he poured himself over the radar, searching for anything of size and differentiating between the earthen asteroids and various dead ships.

Before long he caught something,"I'm picking something up, by it's size, probably an old corvette." Cade finished, moving his massive supply ship in that direction. A single Piseas-class Attack Corvette was floating cold in the wasteland, it was almost entirely intact, save the missile or torpedo sized hole it had endured directly in its cockpit.

Cade moved closer, allowing his men to begin their work of attaching cables and cords. Cade opened up the comms again,"Yong Ki, I've got another one here, when your next freighter is full send it my way for towing."

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[Brian]

Krriek had just gotten back from attaching the cruiser when Cade located the corvette. Oh well thought Kriek back to the cables. He wondered how the other ship was doing and just who is this Kaern?

 

[Wayrider]

So Kaern had finally earned a kitchen pass and was allowed back out in the world chuckled Yong Ki. Opening the protectorate channel Yong Ki sent, “good then get over here and pick up this shit and, get it out of my way, here’s the coordinates, I have more than enough here to fill your ship and at the rate I’m pulling stuff out of here I’ll have plenty for Icerider when she arrives as well.” At just that moment his scanner picked up what appeared to be a Tanya class frigate announcing to his crew ,we’re entering the field we have a decent target.” Entering the astroid field Yong Ki got close to and then matched the speed of the frigate and then matching the trajectory of the frigate he waited to engage his tractor beam. When a path opened he then pulled it from the stream through that path. In and out he had managed to pull it off without a single even small piece of rock striking his ship.Attaching a magnetic cable to the frigate he then told it to his fluorine junkyard.

 

[Rorren]

"Jawas? And how much closer our we to our mission completion because of this alliance?" Kaern spoke seemingly to Cade, but left it open to the channel. The ex-sith was clearly skeptical of the increase in their workers. The man didn't particularly have anything against jawas, but he certainly wasn't especially for them. Jawa traders certainly didn't appeal to the man's sense of loyalty, and only one before had attained his trust in the Protectorate.

@Mad Dog

 

[Brian]

Attaching the cables to the corvette was easy compared to the Liberator so Kriek took some extra time evaluating the ship the only real damage was to the cockpit. Kriek notified Cade that in his opinion this ship could be ready for service in less than a day if at Terminus and probably in a week if the repairs were done here in the field. He added, "I'm pretty sure that we have most of what we need for these repairs on board. Give me two of the mechanics and we can probably be ready When Icerider gets here and can accompany her back."

 

[Mad Dog]

Cade had made two decent scores in a relatively short period of time, making this next short while a bit annoying to him. He'd watch as dead freighters would pass by, missing various pieces of themselves, and various other civillian craft in different states of disrepair.

Some time passed before the next Moon-class came to pick up the corvette, allowing Cade to move from his location and keep looking. It had been a while since he had found the corvette, and as Cade was once again poured over the radar he began to become bored, until he finally found a blip, a blip that may have been worth investigating.

Turning the massive fleet tender, Cade set off in the direction of the new blip. He soon discovered it to be the front, and bottom, half of a Marauder-class Frigate,"Not a big score, but I will take it." Cade said, mostly to himself, as he maneuvered the fleet tender towards the dead ship.

"Wardens, mechanics, and engineers prepare to disembark." He said over the in-ship Comms. His team had been ultimately successful this far, and Cade estimated his ship possessed the capacity to rig four or five more ships for towing before he himself would need to head back to Terminus.

Checking in on the other nearby Protectorate members,"Anything going on out there?" This was mostlly an outcry of boredom, but he did like the idea of starting a free flowing conversation. Cade then took a moment to update SA001 before returning to the conversation once again.

 

[Wayrider]

Yong Ki had added the front 2/3 of a Kontti class replenishment ship to his pile of scrap And was looking for more when he found the largest piece of debris yet. It was the remains of a Resolute class star defender. The ship had been split at almost the exact middle, And was folded back on itself along it’s Spine with the huge ship was cartwheeling through space. He immediately set off in pursuit being struck by smaller objects several times in his haste. Drswing close he matched it’s speed and trajectory and then engaged his tractor beam once again. As they spun along he located the best apparent escape route and then made for it. The giant ships massive weight taxing his ships capacity caused their exit to be extremely slow he was struck numerous times by additional debris one of the strikes opening a small breach in the crew quarters area. The ship immediately responded by blocking off the area and reestablishing it’s pressurization when they had finally exited the field and managed to tow the massive ship to his junk pile he then took time to assess the damage to his own ship he was glad to find that none of his personnel had been injured but his ship was going to take several hours to repair. Radioing his success to Cade as well as his failure Yong Ki and his crew set about completing repairs. As an afterthought he notified Kaern as well but didn’t bother to translate from Wookie to galactic
@Rorren

 

[Rorren]

Kaern almost felt like dropping a seismic charge just to abort the mission with what they had, call it a failure, and get to leave this Force-forsaken space wasteland. He would almost be subconsciously confirming the breathtaking updates now with little care, accidentally fooling several of the workers into believing the man spoke Wookiee when he confirmed the garbled growls of an excited Yong Ki when he headed for his new find. Kaern would certainly be having a talk with Kae'Tl when he got home...

@Brian

 

[Brian]

When Cade did not object Kriek simply collected 4 Mechanics and they loaded a shuttle with all the parts he believed they needed and they left forth e Corvette.
The next two days passed quickly first sealing the breach then bringing on systems one at a time. They then replaced he navigation computer and then were ready to bring the engines online. When the engines roared to life Kriek sat down with a sigh and nodded to the other mechanics. Then said," two days gentlemen not bad, no not bad at all. After a few minutes he got up and walked to the console and punched in the Protectorate Frequency he then announced,"Piseas 1 to Protectorate fleet we are on line stand by while we test weapons and the range of the drive engines."

 

[Mad Dog]

Spoiler: OOC

@Brian so we just shot ahead 2 days? And @Wayrider you'll have to change the Star defender, as there is only one of those.

After Cade's crew had rigged Marauder-class Frigate there was a long pause in his system of locating any major military vessal, and as such Cade had made the decision to begin poaching the smaller freighter class ships. Some metal is better than none at all.. he thought. While his mission was primarily to catch the larger military class ships and forward them back to Terminus for recycling, he figured there would be no harm in picking up some long dead freighters, especially since they hadn't found a noteworthy ship in nearly half a day.

Over the course of the next two days, as Kreik was repairing the still useable Piseas-class Attack Corvette, Cade had managed to haul out nearly a dozen(10) freighters, their makes and models relatively unimportant, as to them, they were just scrap metal, waiting to be torn apart and melted down for their fearless leaders top secret project.

Spoiler: Current haul

1X Liberator-Class Cruiser
1X Piseas-class Attack Corvette
1X Tayana class frigate
1X Marauder-class Frigate
1X Kontti class replenishment ship
1X (Whatever @Wayrider changes that star defender to)
&
10X Freighters of different makes and models.
For the sake of continuity:
3X Oceanspray Freighters
2X YG-300 Light Freighters
4X HLN-A02 Light Freighters
1X Voruda-class Heavy Freighter
Let's get like 2 more largish ships then get outta here.