Ask To the Victor Goes the Spoils

[Aden Archer]

Lantillies System
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The Bravebird - Aden's U-Wing he's piloting right now - would be zooming through hyperspace. This is a pretty big job. Somehow the Syndicates got a hold of shipping routes from NalTech for some of their shipments. And they are full of some high tech droids. Aden's has been sought out by the Five Syndicates as he is a capable pilot who get can nine Syndicate scoundrels onboard the ship carrying those droids and they can take it over the vessel and turn it around to whoever they see fit. Aden was promised a good sum of credits for services rendered, although he does feel a bit on the edge with this many syndicates people on his ship

Right now the bulk freighter called the the Good Fortune according to the schedule should be fueling at a space station in the Lantillies system on the way to Saleucami. Right now, the Bravebird would emerge from hyperspace. Through the canopy, the pilot would be able to see a fair distance a way the Good Fortune docked with with the Space Station. So they have arrived on time.

Aden has his normal gear on him, wearing his helmet right now, but with the visor up and rebreather off. He has his weapons in the cockpit close to him, once it's time he will be able to get them and go.

At the helm, the pilot would look towards who appears to be in charge of the Five Syndicates men "We are out of hyperspace Khalid." Aden would turn around and be steering the ship and accelerating forward, the target in sight. "We are on our way to intercept the ship, once they leave the station I'll get us through their defenses (if any) and once we land, we'll be able to go in fight their security inside and then take over the ship?" Making sure to go over the plan one more time. They aren't too far committed yet, they still have some time.

At this vector and at this distance, the freighter shouldn't pick up the Bravebird as a threat, yet...

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[Khalid Din]

Truth be told, when he had been asked to do some piracy stuff for the syndicates, Khalid couldn't help but feel quite hyped about it, with the amounts of holo movies about pirates that he had watched and the stories he had heard, he felt like it was quite a feat befit of dashing rogues, of course, he was both dashing and a rogue so he understood why the Hutts had chose him to lead the other thugs for this operation.

Khalid would be wearing his usual equipment save for the armor, having decided to instead wear a flight suit (You have no idea how long it took for him to find one that accomodated his horns) and a pirate tricorn because why the hell not. But while the now space cowboy was wearing the hat, he was not the captain of the ship, the Hutts had decided to hire a mercenary outside the syndicates to take care of the piloting, which was something Khalid could have perfectly taken care of, in his not so humble opinion, but at the end of the day leading the boarding action was just as cool, if not even more.

Khalid would nod as the pilot went over the plan once more just in case, making sure they all understood it, granted, it was a very easy plan but the men Khalid was leading were not exactly the brighest "Aye aye, capt´n" the Tiefling cowboy said in response with a smile on his face, his blaster in hand (but set to stun, didn't have a quarrel with anyone inside the ship they were about to board) and his Matukai gauntlets ready to knock anyone out cold "Let's git this party started"

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[Aden Archer]

'Capt'n' Now that Aden thinks about it, 'Captain Archer' does have a really good ring to it. Anyways, it is indeed time to get this party started. Aden sees the target and he's going for it, he would go full speed ahead. Getting a closer look at the ship. "Looks like a drone barge" those cargo ships that basically fly themselves to and from their destinations automatically. They look crude, but they are effective. It is convenient for shipping fleets to handle themselves. "Can probably expect a bunch of droid security on the inside. They probably won't be those NalTech droids, probably the shipping company will use different droids.

While still on approach, the Good Fortune would then leave the station. The Bravebird would still be a good distance away. They should not appear to be a threat still, but they can't dilly-dally around since the Good Fortune should be leaving to hyperpsace soon. But fortunately for them the drone barge has a higher class hyperdrive so it will take a while longer for them to go to light speed.

"I see it, the hanger down there" he would point through the viewport it's on the ventral side, facing forward. "That's our way in." It's just covered by a ray shield, the U-Wing would be able to get in.

The Good Fortune would draw far enough a way from the space station and the U-Wing would be closing in. Aden would get a hail from the ship. "Unidentified vessel, that is far enough close to us. Turn back your ship or we will open fire." Aden and Khalid would be able to hear. "Well, they are onto us, we are going in." the Bravebird would make a beeline for the hanger. The Good Fortune would start shooting the incoming ship with it's laser cannons. "Hold on" Aden would then attempt evasive maneuvers, dodging quite a few shots before one hits his shields, doing quite a bit of damage coming from a larger ship. The people on the ship could feel the impact as the ship rocked. Shields are damaged when Aden checked the damage, but they broke through.

"Alright, we are in" The seasoned pilot would then pull in the hanger, through the viewport he can see quite a lot of small droids heading towards the ship, firing blasters at the ship. Aden would then rotate his ship around with the port side facing the droids. "Got a repeater over there if you want to use it" to deal with those droids, Aden would nudge towards the pindel mounted FWMB repeater blaster by the door with an extended power pack. If the other syndicate men could open the door, the blaster could be used.

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[Khalid Din]

"Drone barge? that hafta make things easier." Khalid muttered after Archer informed him of what they were up to. Truth is, even if Khalid was working for the syndicates, he felt a bit uneasy about the high chance of the thugs he was leading slaughtering innocent people that were just carrying cargo they wanted. Droids he didn't mind turning into a mess, at least as long as they didn't develop any actual personality.

...Specially, of course, when Archer offered him something like a chance to make use of a repeater he got on his ship. He kinda wanted to get to it before but just thought it would be rude to use it without permission, so hearing that Archer gave him permission to use it filled him with glee. With a devilish smile on his face, Khalid put his hands on the repeater "Gladly." As the droids approached the ship and began taking pot shots at it, Khalid nodded at some of the scoundrels to get ready and open the door, a few seconds passing before it was opened "Howdy motherfuckers!" blaster fire would shred the droids that Khalid focused on, his aim true as he turned them into scrap. Of course, he couldn't destroy them all on his own, but the other scoundrels took care of the rest, they would make short work of the ones that approached the ship as Khalid had the time of his life with the repeater

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[Aden Archer]

While the tiefling and the syndicate scoundrels' were having the time of their lives shooting those droids, Aden grabbed his weapons that he had around him. Soon, all the small droids are all gone and there aren't any more coming this way. After the droids were all destroyed, alarm klaxons would start ringing in the ship along with overhead announcements with an automated female voice 'Intruder alert. Intruder alert at the hanger bay. All security droids mobilize to deal with the intruders' which will be on repeat. Not wanting to waste time, Aden he'd take initiative "Heres our chance, lets get to the brain in the ship's bridge and then turn able to turn this ship around."

Now Aden, holding a blaster carbine in hand, would now go to the far end of the hangar, open the door and then go down the corridor. There were metal crates in the hall. He thinks he saw the bridge on the top while the hangar is at the bottom, so they will need to go the length of the ship in addition to up. But before they could get too far, three large droids, flanked by two smaller droids, wielding light repeaters and blaster rifles respectively, came from two corners on the far end. With that, they would unleash a flurry of blaster bolts towards the intruders. Aden's instinct led him to duck down into the metal cargo crates, using those as cover. He did get nearly hit in the face with a shot, but luckily his quick reflexes let him just barely dodge it.

Looks like the security is more potent than Aden thought.

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[Khalid Din]

Khalid nodded as Archer gave orders "Ya'all heard 'im, let's make this hunk o' junk braindead!" Khalid said to the other syndicate thugs, who let out a couple chuckles before following Khalid and Archer, the Tiefling was getting the hang of leading other syndicate scroundrels, a bit of charisma and some humor and their morale would be kept as high as possible...Of course, the promise of credits was still the main thing that drove them.

And they would need them because they would find themselves at the end of the repeaters this time. Just like Aden, Khalid would find himself diving for cover behind a crate, one of his men being knocked out and probably killed by repeater fire as he took the bolts to the chest instead. The droids had an edge when it came to firepower...But Khalid doubted these ones were the intelligent kind of security droids, they hopefully could be fooled and played.

"Lemme distract 'em" The Tiefling cowboy said as he put his hand on the large crate he was crouching behind, calling upon the force to put his Matukai practices to good use. With a strength that one wouldn't expect from someone so light, Khalid would push the crate forward and towards the center of the corridor with him behind, gaining the attention of the droids as they focused on the moving cover before Khalid's men took the chance and brought down one of the droids, another of them getting wounded in the progress.

As if they were taking turns, Khalid became the one to take the chance and peeked over the crate, shooting at another of the repeater droids twice in the torso area before having to block a couple of blaster bolts with his Matukai gauntlets and ducking behind cover. Archer would have a chance to strike at the remaining repeater droid and with them out of the equation, the other scoundrels should have ample time to eliminate the smaller, less threatening droids.

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[Aden Archer]

Wait, this pirate cowboy can use the Force? He don't look like a Jedi or Sith? Wait, there is a bunch of droids with heavy firepower and this isn't the time to let his mind wonder.

The bigger droids... had a hard time using cover, but the the smaller droids didn't, they would take cover as well on their side. The Blackwell droids are smarter than than usual trash from Czerka or something. Aden would would fire two shots with his blaster carbine hitting the center of the droid's mass while it was distracted. One shot destroyed it's armor and the last one should have been a kill shot. With the droid heavily wounded, it would trigger it's final protocol "<Self-destruct sequence initiated>" It would then use it's jump boots to vault right over to them. "Uh oh"

Aden would put in a third shot but it's still trying to expode even though it would be sent crumpling down. "Get it away" he exclaimed in a panic, if the tiefling could do that push thing again to get the soon-to-be exploding droid away. But just in case, he will try running away the opposite way until he hears boom go off, or he if gets caught in the explosion. Either one.

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[Khalid Din]

Papa Din always told Khalid a very valuable lesson: For every two birds you manage to shoot down, a third one will crap on your head to balance things out. Well, right now the metaphorical bird that was the force probably felt really relieved as it had left the Tiefling cowboy with a self-destructing kamikaze droid looking to make him and everyone else pay for the droids they had managed to take down. Not only that, but the droid had vaulted over the crate and landed inbetween the cowboy and the rest of the squad.

"Shit shit SHIT" Khalid screamed as he panicked for a moment, he was a Matukai, hurling a droid using the force was a bit more complicated to him, it wasn't an application of it he used a lot...He could probably make himself faster but that would potentially leave the others to die...And Khalid may had been a cheater and an asshole (even if a quite looking one)...But he wasn't gonna let that happen.

Because mama had raised no bitch (And also because he wouldn't be able to get this done on his own)

Khalid quickly grabbed the about to blow up droid by the waist, calling upon the force to enhance his strength, which, alongside the fact that its legs would come off from all the shots, would allow the Tiefling cowboy to suplex the droid, which would hit the crate Khalid had been using as cover a moment ago. The droid would fall into pieces that would thankfully end up on the other side of the crate before Khalid hit the deck. The crate serving as cover as the droid remains went boom...At least this was another cool thing he could tell the next family reunion.

 

[Aden Archer]

Aden looked back and wondered if the force-using tiefling cowboy pirate would use the force to try to get away or push the thing away, but he just... did a wrestling move on the droid? Aden's jaw dropped as the droid was suplexed behind cover and left to explode ineffectually behind cover. "Wow, that was awesome!" he said to Khalid, smiling. He's never seen anything like that before. But then Aden was reminded there was a fire going on when a blaster shot almost hit him and he did a last moving of his head to avoid. That was close and he will make a mental note he shouldn't get distracted.

Quickly his smile dropped and then he would get behind a post in the hall way. Syndicates scoundrels were still laying down fire and the droids were still utilizing cover. Aden would then aim to flush the rest out, he'd pull out a concussion grenade and then throw it at the remaining droids, "Fire in the hole" The grenade would land well placed, the shockwave and flash can blind and stun even droids. It would knock them out of cover, exposing them. The smaller droids would be gunned down one by one, one of them would go down at the hands of the scoundrels, the remaining would be downed after two shots from Aden right in the chest.

There we go, the veteran pilot would make a sigh of relief, as this firefight is finished. "Alright, lets keep going, we need to go up". After going further down the hall, they would find the elevator. Aden would get inside, and once the tiefling and his men are in as well, Aden would push the button that gets them up. "Shouldn't be too far away from the bridge" now. Aden would eject the power pack from his carbine stow it away in his jacket, and put a fresh one inside. The bridge might be more heavily guarded.

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[Khalid Din]

Khalid looked around after hearing the explosion from the exploding droid...He was alive after that, good "All in a day's work" The Tiefling cowboy said with a confident smile, talking as if he had been very sure he would be able to pull that off: To be honest, he already thought he was a goner, but it was always important to save face...That move would be something he would need to tell his brothers need time they saw him though.

A well placed grenade and some scoundrels doing their work well enough later, the droid would be taken care off. Khalid would get to fully get up after that, taking a look at the heavy droids and then back at his men "Aight boys, want y'all ta take their repeaters, definitely better weapons than what you are usin' right now...And of course, if you survive, you can keep 'em" Khalid told the scoundrels who would now race each other to see who would take their weapons, a couple of them were wounded and possibly dead but so far they were doing very well.

Reloading his weapon before placing it on his hip again, Khalid would also take out a cigarette and put it on his mouth as the elevator went up and up "Well, chances are the bridge is very heavily guarded, try not ta destroy every single droid in yer path but rather advance enough ta take shots at the brain thingie, otherwise we might git overrun" Khalid explained as he lighted the cigarette, a bit of smoke filling the elevator before the doors would open "Let's go"

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[Aden Archer]

Up the elevator they go and then down the hall way into the bridge, there didn't seem to be any more resistance on the way to the bridge, so either they are mostly below deck or they are going to focus on defending the bridge and therefore the brain. The bridge door would open, then there would be a single Pantoran supervisor at the bridge manning the controls. Once the door would open, he would look back, panicked and afraid. "You... you. You may have gotten this far, but you will not get this ship. Droids attack" It makes sense as to why the droid barge would have a human supervisor on it, to just making sure everything goes smoothly, he was the only organic onboard that Aden saw.

From the left side and right side, four Sentry droids would roll on the ground from either side, four HW droids would float across from either side just below the ceiling. The bridge supervisor would then take cover by a console and then draw his pistol and start firing too. Suffice it to say they aren't going to let the scoundrel's take over easily.

Aden would quickly dash over to the left sides by some some of the larger instruments, he would be seeing a lot of blaster fire coming his way but he would narrowly avoid it throwing himself around. He would draw his carbine set it to stun, and then pop up and quickly try to shoot the supervisor as he would be attempt to take shots at him and before the other droids shoot at him. The two would mutually hit each other, one would hit Aden square in the chest, ruining his blastvest and he could feel burns where it left a mark, and sending him recoiling from cover. "Kriff' he muttered. The supervisor got hit by a stunbolt, he would be collapsed to the ground back first, but he would then start trying to recover, determined not to let his drone barge fail.


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[Khalid Din]

Khalid advanced forward alongside the rest of his men, his gaze fixated on the Pantoran who made some ludicrous claims about how they wouldn't get away with it "Now now, don't act ta hero...Nothin' good will come out of it for ya." The Tiefling said as he raised his blaster pistol and pointed it at the man...But didn't follow on it as droids began to come for them. The Tiefling would shoot down one of the HW droids before seeking cover, using his free Matukai gauntlet to deflect a couple shots as he did so.

After seeking cover, Khalid would carefully peek out and open fire, letting Aden deal with the Pantoran. The good thing about the sentry droids was that they couldn't really use cover very well: The scoundrels with the repeaters made sure they were either supressed or destroyed...At least until the HW droids forced them to stop shooting and seek cover. One of them in particular managed to shoot Khalid's blaster out of his hand "Sonuva..." The Tiefling cowboy muttered under his breath as he went back to cover, one of the HW droids hoping to fly over and finish the job.

However, as the droid flew over him, Khalid used the force to jump higher than expected and grabbed the droid, his weight making them descend towards the Pantoran's cover just before Khalid punched the droid over and over and over again, breaking him after a few of them. Now out in the open, Khalid jumped over the Pantoran's cover before the other droids shot him down, knocking him unconscious by throwing the destroyed droid at his head.

Not many droids left, but they needed to be taken care of...And more reinforcements would surely appear if they didn't take care of the mother brain "Aden, where's ta damn brain?" Khalid shouted from behind cover, half syndicate members taken out of the fight so far.

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[Aden Archer]

Aden had no intentions of acting like a hero, although this job will pay well, it's not worth potentially his life.

A lot of the droids were gone and their supervisor was knocked out, but then again the seemingly-rogue force-user was still kicking but half of other scoundrels were taken out, so the flying droids are practically trouble some, after he started shooting some made his way towards him. Aden popped out of cover after setting his blaster back to lethal and then fired some shots, the droids attempted evasive maneuvers, one shot clipped the one of one, sending it spiraling down, the other was taken down by one of the syndicates people with an attack of opportunity.

"Right in over there" he would gesture his head towards the large machinery towards viewport of the bridge. With the path clear now and the droids numbers reduced, Aden would go over to the the brain and then start typing on it's console, one hand on the keypad and the other on his blaster pistol. Going through the menus, he would go through the options, after sifting through he would find 'Security Droid Controls' and then hit the option for 'Stand down' but the droid brain would respond with a synthesized voice. "Authorization required. Submit retinal scan"

Uh oh, Aden it needs an eye-scan? Aden wasn't the greatest slicer ever and wasn't sure he could get past such a complex mechanization. But then he looked around and it dawned on him that the Pantorian might suffice. He seemed like he was in charge. "Just a bit longer" Aden said. The mercenary would grab the downed supervisor - a bit heavy because of the deadweight -, open his eye, and then put it through the scanner. "Authorization approved" With that, the droids would then cease fighting, dropping what they were doing in the next few seconds.

"Ugh. We did it, the ship is under control" Aden would breathe a sigh of relief, he would then clinch where he got hurt, even mitigated by armor still burns. 'You alright?" he would ask the tiefling-pirate-cowboy.

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