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Post by Kayen/Saul/Katarina on Mar 4, 2008 19:28:26 GMT -5
<enter from Korriban>
The silver Sith Infiltrator known as The Krayt exited hyperspace over the planet of Yavin IV, the lights of nearby stars reflecting off the body of the ship. Inside of the vessel its Zabrak Captain sat at the pilot position.
Kayen leaned forward and entered chemical compositions into the scanning equipment as the ship lowered through the atmosphere and flew low over the trees.
Kayen had heard the legend of the Heart of the Guardian from his father ever since he was a young boy. It was a lightsaber crystal, said to bring about the Sith domination of the galaxy. And, now it was greatly needed.
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Post by Kayen/Saul/Katarina on Mar 4, 2008 19:40:56 GMT -5
Leaning back in his chair, Kayen recalled something that he had heard recently from a drunk Rodian who had crashed on Korriban several weeks earlier. The Rodian had been begging for his life when he crashed, and in his pleas, he had told Kayen about the Heart of the Guardian that he had discovered on Yavin. Kayen had no idea if it would still be there, but he had to search for it.
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Post by Kayen/Saul/Katarina on Mar 4, 2008 20:38:55 GMT -5
After several minutes of flying over the planet, Kayen's scanners started to beep and Kayen turned his head to the screen. They had found the composition of the Heart of the Guardian somewhere below. Kayen ran his hands over the controls of the ship, bringing it around towards a clearing in the trees and then down.
The landing struts touched down on the grass and the ramp opened slowly as a pack of Woolamanders scurried through the trees away from the ship. Kayen stepped down the ramp slowly and looked around. His target was about 100 meters to the west. Pulling his black hood around his head, Kayen started through the trees.
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Post by Kayen/Saul/Katarina on Mar 4, 2008 20:52:41 GMT -5
Kayen had been walking for a few minutes when he reached a much thicker area of trees. He lowered his head and started to walk through the trees and underbrush, pushing through with his arms in front of him. Suddenly he heard a buzzing and watched as a brightly colored insect landed on his arm and teeth sank into his flesh. "Ouch!" Kayen smashed the creature on his arm.
He really should have read about the life forms of the planet, because within a few minutes Kayen had a huge swarm of the piranha-beetles flying around him, biting at flesh wherever it was exposed. Kayen screamed and started to run through the trees faster, but the bugs stayed on him. Plunging from the tree line with a swarm of piranha-beetles on him, Kayen dove into a nearby stream.
The beetles retreated from the water and left Kayen treading water to stay afloat.
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Post by Kayen/Saul/Katarina on Mar 4, 2008 21:06:37 GMT -5
Kayen looked around from the stream that he was in until he got his bearings and then he started to swim in the direction that he needed to go. As he swam, something nudged Kayen's foot and he quickly glanced around but he saw nothing so he kept going.
Suddenly a hardened but slimy serpentine body wrapped around Kayen, pulling him underwater. Struggling to free himself, Kayen opened his eyes to see the huge jaws of an armored eel closing on his head. Reaching up, Kayen's strong hands caught the sides of the jaws, but he was still losing air fast.
Kayen thrashed and kicked until he was able to get out of the eel's deadly grasp, still holding onto the jaws as he got a breath of air. Kayen wrapped his legs around the body of the eel and held on tightly as the beast attempted to buck him loose.
The writhing combination of eel and Zabrak suddenly bucked against the shore and Kayen rolled out of the water. He hoisted the eel with him and suddenly filled the beast with a jolt of lightning. With a dying shriek, the armored eel gave its death throws and went limp.
Kayen stood up slowly, dripping with water as he looked down at the body of the eel. He sighed and turned away and kept walking.
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Post by Kayen/Saul/Katarina on Mar 4, 2008 21:20:26 GMT -5
Kayen finally reached the general area where the Heart of the Guardian had been detected and saw a dead Rodian. He had been stripped to his skeleton by local scavengers, but he held a silver box tightly in both hands.
Kayen stepped to the body and broke fingers away from the box until he could free it from the grasp. Sitting on the ground under a nearby tree, Kayen opened the box to find... an indention where the crystal should have been!
"Arrrggghhh what the f-ck?!?!" Kayen yelled as he threw the box to the ground. The box hit the ground and flipped over to show a logo that said Yavin Station. Kayen's eyes examined the logo and grinned slowly as he stood up and hurried back to his ship.
When he reached the opened ramp of the ship, Kayen hurried up and hit the close button as he moved to the bridge and saw a colorful little monkey sitting on the top of the co-pilot's seat, a Woolamander. Kayen looked at the creature and rolled his eyes, suddenly sending a jolt of force lightning into the beast and frying it.
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Post by Kayen/Saul/Katarina on Mar 4, 2008 21:40:50 GMT -5
As the ship lifted off from the surface of the planet, Kayen sat there eating from the fried Woolamander that he had killed. He set the navigation system for a micro jump to Yavin Prime and waited to arrive.
When the Krayt came out of hyperspace near the space station, Kayen looked at the station, which had started to break apart from lack of repair. He brought his ship closer to the station and into the small hangar bay. After landing the ship, Kayen donned an environmental suit and cautiously stepped onto the station.
Life support had failed long ago and the station was literally dead and falling apart. Kayen lit the flashlight on the wrist of the suit and made his way through the halls. Every time he passed a door, Kayen forced it opened and gave the room a thorough examination. In one of them, he found a DL-44 blaster pistol and took it with him.
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Post by Kayen/Saul/Katarina on Mar 4, 2008 21:55:16 GMT -5
Eventually, he reached the last of the former crew quarters and forced the door opened. When the door opened, Kayen came face to back with a pair of Trandoshans also in space suits. The far wall of the room had been broken open and led into space. They had not yet noticed Kayen, but he saw one of them holding up a bronze colored crystal. "This is it, Lunk! We've found it! We're going to be rich!"
Kayen interrupted. "Thanks for doing the work for me..." Before the first Trandoshan could even turn around, Kayen put a blaster bolt through his back. The Trandoshan tried to scream but he tumbled out into space. The second one turned around and looked at Kayen, still holding the Heart of the Guardian in his hand as he begged. "Please spare me! We can split the profits... fifty/fifty even!"
"Give me the crystal and you may live..."
"Errrr ummm okay... okay....." The Trandoshan nodded and held out the crystal. Kayen took it with his free hand and grinned slowly. "I lied..." He laughed as he fired a kill bolt through the head of the would be thief.
After disposing of the second body like the first, Kayen returned to his ship and got out of the space suit before piloting the Krayt out of the hangar bay. After setting hyperspace coordinates, Kayen inserted the Heart of the Guardian into his lightsaber. He grinned as he thumbed the switch and one reddish-orange blade extended. Kayen laughed as he felt the power of the Heart of the Guardian flowing into him and then he deactivated the blade. One down... one to go......
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