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Post by Odan Thos on Mar 6, 2009 23:19:25 GMT -5
The Air Traffic Controller in the hanger bay came over Jor's Radio. "Permission granted to land in the port hanger bay on level two Yun-Harla. Voyager out." The landing information was sent to the Yun-Harla and a message was sent to the bridge that Warmaster Jor was landing.
Another controller dealt with C-88. "Message rerouted to the bridge Warrior Recruite. You are clear to land in starboard hanger bay level one. Repair teams have are on standby. Voyager out." The controller sent C-88 message to the bridge and sent C-88's fighter the landing information. The data transfed to the fighter included which landing rack to use.
On the bridge, Angel got the two messages wirelessly at the same time a bridge aid did. She smiled, it seems like C-88 reckless behavior caught up with him. She was also glad that Jor was returning to the ship. "Captain, once our fighters get on board after the enemy is destroyed; get them on board, refueled and on alert should more enemies show up." Angel figured these would be her last order before Jor took command as the ranking Union officer. She could handle command very well, but if Jor took command she could put her greater abilities of programming and engineering to get the Voyager through its trial at a significantly faster. She had a feeling this was not the last time the Builders would show their ugly faces.
Meanwhile in space, the fighters mopped up the enemy fighters quickly. By flying in elements; if an enemy fighter got on the elements lead tail while they were dealing with another fighter, the wingman would fall in behind them and turn them into a debris field. They fighters flew in a massive cluster with fighters heading in all directions. Once all the Sith Fighters were all destroyed, the Voyagers fighters headed returned to the hanger bay and would be refueled and rearmed in order to be able to launch should the more visitors came through the anomaly.
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Post by MikDaTv on Mar 7, 2009 2:59:49 GMT -5
"Deck two, roger that Voyager ATC." Jor said and then turned off the com.
He shifted the Yun-Harla's coarse slightly until it flew into the Voyagers port side hanger bay on it's upper deck. The shuttle touched down and Jor powered down the engines.
He picked up his datapad and started making notes on what in the firing systems he wanted to change.
Mirror Jor on the other hand stood up and looked out the front viewport. "This ship... i don't think i've ever seen... this ship is huge!"
Jor put his datapad down and raised an eyebrow. "It's a carrier, it's supposed to be huge, otherwise it wouldn't be much good at it's job now would it?" He said matter of factly.
"No" mirror jor said. "i haven't seen a ship in my universe coming close to this size in... well, 80 years. The Corellians had some big ones that some other weird race had given them the nohow to build some ridiculously long time ago, without force powered hyperdrives even. But the Builderes destroyed all those ships because it threatened the infinite empire."
Mirror Jor looked across the flight deck as the fighters started coming in for landings. "Even when they were around, there was only two of them left, and those weird aliens that helped the Corellians build them were long gone. They were crystalline life forms that were destroyed by the builders, a long time before even the Corellians."
Jor stood up and leaned against a bulkhead. "So... wait. The Corellians had ships that didn't require the force to jump to hyperspace?"
"Thats correct" Mirror jor said. "They were given this technology thousands upon thousands of years ago by these crystal people. I never was that into it, i never thought it was important. We just ended up stealing Ratakan ships for our rebellion and the Corellians made good resistance fighters even without their larger ships."
Jor smiled. "yeah, that sounds like us. But the Builders... they don't have ships this size?"
"Nothing this size, or even close to it. That Interdictor that came through represents the bulk of the Builder fleet. thousands of them are in the fleet, and dozens are built every day in one of those damn star forges." Mirror Jor responded, his tone growing dark.
That statement raised a lot of questions for Jor, but he decided to let them slid for now so he could have a chance to show his double around. "Well then, let me give you a tour. Lets start with the Bridge."
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Post by Lord Xion on Mar 7, 2009 12:11:52 GMT -5
galera was flying through the air and saw that he was permitted to land. that was just great because angel would be talking so much trash when he landed. the sith fighter's left wing wasn't functioning right so he got to the deck as quickly as possible.
When galera landed on the deck he powered down the ship and the wings folded up and a couple of men ran up to the fighter and one handed him note pad. he guessed it was asking what needed to be fixxed. he marked down repair left wing, refuel, and inspect the engine.
Galera asked one of the men to tell him where he would find 'angel'. after the man gave him a series of directions, galera made his way up there as quick as possible. he wanted to check out the main computers and what not. the only thing that was on his mind was angel just layying into him and him having nothing to say. what a hell he had to go through.
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Post by Odan Thos on Mar 7, 2009 19:49:27 GMT -5
Angel stood on the bridge talking to the captain. "I am going to work on getting launch four and seven to rotate. You should also consider sending out a few Dragoons with some drones to test out the PDS..." Angel was about to leave the bridge when Jor and Mirror Jor walked onto the bridge.
Angel looked at Jor then the Mirror and back at Jor. "I guest you do got a story tell. Who is the younger, more dashing version of you." Angel smiled, showing that she was just screw with Jor. She stood waiting to hear this one, but she suspected that this other version of Jor was related with the Builder ship that she just blown to dust. She was going to repair some down systems; but this was a much more interesting situation.
Angel was in her black leather outfit with her blaster pistols in her leg holsters and her two Phrik knifes in either boot. She had left her other blasters in her room along with Tesla; her pet Ysalamiri. She had planned to drop off the blaster before going to repair some of the problems.
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Post by MikDaTv on Mar 8, 2009 2:21:19 GMT -5
Jor turned to his mirror self and smiled. "Yeah, why don't you tell the lady who i am?"
Mirror Jor gave a sarcastic smile. "He's a version of me from a universe where everyone appears 20 years older then the people in my universe."
Joe chuckled. "He's the alternate reality version of me where apparently babies rule the universe."
Jor took on a more serious tone and adjusted his belt a little. "Look at your sensors and you should see a rather interesting phenomena out there in space. According to my friend Six it's some kind of hole in time and space. My fiend here comes from it. Another universe, a parallel one to our own."
Mirror Jor shrugged his shoulders and flashed Angel a smile. "Someone needed to teach this universe how to have a good time, and since no one was here to do that the Force saw fit to bring me here." He winked.
Jor rolled his eyes. "don't, just don't"
"What?" Mirror Jor said. "I wasn't doing anything."
"She's a robot" Jor said flatly.
Mirror Jor raised an eyebrow then turned back to Angel, reaching out with the force, not sensing the characteristic life force from her. "...Oh"
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Post by Odan Thos on Mar 8, 2009 2:57:19 GMT -5
Angel looked at the two men, they both were defiantly Jor. When Jor started to talk about the Anomaly, it all started to make sense. She went back in the sensor logs of the ship and compiled the data and started to process it as a secondary function. She figured she would not learn anything new; she was a geneticist, not an astrophysicist.
She looked at the Mirror Jor and tried not to laugh. "Don't worry, it is a common mistake with this body. My sister designed these bodies for that very reason. Anyways; sense the older you isn’t polite enough to introduce me, my name is Angel." Angel smiled and pulled back some hair that was in her eyes. She was just joking around, but when her analyst showed her that the Ratakan ship stabilized the Anomaly before it was destroy, she became very serious.
Angel turned back to the older Jor. "Well, I do not like that other universe, I... I mean Celestial crippled the Builders twenty thousand years ago for good reason.” Her voice then showed a measure of concern. “Please tell me this Six has a way to close the anomaly." Angel was truly concern by the threat the Builders posed. Her memory of the Star Forge and its massive production capability told her they were a serious threat. Even worse, sense there was no Ratakan in this universe; it would be impossible to reconstruct the virus which made it so they could not manipulate the Force.
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Post by MikDaTv on Mar 8, 2009 17:57:10 GMT -5
"He thinks he can, but he doesn't have the gizmo required for it yet though. He needs to do some research and he can't give me a time estimate though." Jor said with a touch of hopelessness.
Jor and Mirror Jor said at the same time. "Why can't it ever be easy?"
The two Jors looked at each other, pointed at each other at the same time and opened their mouths to tell one another to stop that, but then caught themselves, and shut up.
Jor turned his head back to Angel. "Point is we might have some more eventually."
Mirror Jor nodded. "A lot more, they got them stupid Star Forges cranking out ships like crazy. they're having trouble finding crew to man them all so they started building robots and droid brains to work the fighter so the pilots can be used to crew the big ships."
"Yeah" Jor said. "We need close this area.... wait. Did you say Forge "ES"?"
"Yeah, they got four. One in their home system, one on the Coruscant Star, one on Corellia's Star and one that hasn't been finished yet in the Bilbringi system." Mirror Jor said. "What... the builders in this universe didn't have Star Forges?"
"They had one... it's been destroyed, for a long time." Jor answered. "Like is said, there are not Builders in this universe."
"Lucky you." Mirror Jor said, turning to look out the viewport at the familiar, yet totally different stars.
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Post by Odan Thos on Mar 9, 2009 2:24:23 GMT -5
Angel closed her eyes and tapped into the ships communications. As she did the communication officer slide back from the council as it flickered then seemed to redirect itself. In a matter of seconds all the communication protocols had been modified and a burst transmission was sent out towards the Kessel. Angel opened her eyes again and looked at Jor. "My fleet will take up a defensive position here and destroy anything that comes through that ripe. We will fight to the last to keep the builders out of this galaxy and they will recognize the senior Union officer as commander." Angel was dead serious; the Celestials created the mess by giving the Ratakan technology. It fell to Celestial; and now Angel to deal with the threat they posed.
The message that was sent had very specific orders to it, leaving no doubt for the ships arriving what their orders were. It read:
*To: X.O. Jarmor *Sender: Captain Angel *Authorization Code: Omega 113 Zeta *Priority: Level 1 *Subject: New Orders
The entire Maw Cluster Defensive fleet is to move at best speed to the Tishi System under combat condition. On arrival the fleet will take up defensive position around a Special Anomaly which is located at (953092, 100111, 54). Any ship the exits the Anomaly should be hailed once. If no timely response is give or a response proclaiming any connection to the Builders or Infinite Empire; the ship is to be destroyed by any means. The type of ship expected is the Interdictor Class Cruiser and Sith Fighters with numbers could range from one to thousands. No matter the cost; the Builders are not to gain a foothold in this universe.
The secondary objectives are to assist Union vessels and personnel along with the Chronos and the man named Six in anyway; cost is not an issue. Additionally, no non-union vessel should have access to the Anomaly.
The ranking Union officer in the Tishi system will be in command of the fleet when I am not present. This mission is of the upmost importance and more information will be provided on a need to know basest.
*End Transmission
She then commented on the fact of the Star Forges. "It makes sense Jor; this universe Jor, Celestial removed their ability to use Force base technology 10,000 years into their empire. That was 20,000 years ago. I am shocked they only have four." Angel had a matter of fact tone in her voice about it. She looked at the two Jors, wondering what was going through their minds. She did not show this; however, feeling that she needed to focus on the larger problem of the Builders.
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Post by Lord Xion on Mar 9, 2009 6:43:19 GMT -5
Galera was sitting on somewhat of a bench in a big room that angel was supposed to be at. it was a good thing she wasn't in his mind. he wanted to meet up with jor however so he wouldn't be stuck on this ship forever.
Galera was walking around the ship for a pretty long time hoping that he would eventually find them. this didn't work so well except he did find them.... after an hour of searching. the one thing happened that he didn't like. angel was standing across from jor talking. damn it. galera just had to embrace the impact.
Galera walked up beside the group and looked at mirror jor and said outloud "Hello angel and jor. angel i don't think you have met this man who resembles jor so much.. his name is Roj. no need to think me for the introduction. so what have you guys been doing?"
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Post by Odan Thos on Mar 9, 2009 9:49:12 GMT -5
Angel looked over at C-88; her face showed here level of irritation. “Shut up you dumb-ass. This is not a joking matter.” Angel took a breath; suppressing her desire to snap C-88’s neck like a twig. “We are discussing issues that a young hot shoot shot them up person like you would not comprehend. I think you should go play with that toy fighter you brought back while we grown-ups talk.” Angel tone was somewhat anger, but mostly just irritated by Cee.
She turned back to the Jors and took a breath. “Sorry about that. I have had it about to here with that Kaleesh.” She held her hand about two inches above the top of her head. “Also Jor; Parallel Universe Jor, if you ever want to get him back; just say that Galera is a girl’s name.” She smiled, they really needed a easier way establish which Jor they were speaking to. “Now where were we?” Angel stood with her hands crossed looking at the two men. She was just going to ignore C-88, not having the pacents or time to deal with a creature which was so stupid it almost did not classify as sapient.
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Post by MikDaTv on Mar 9, 2009 14:24:47 GMT -5
Mirror Jor was just about to turn around and punch Galera in the face but stopped when Angels started chewing him out. After a few seconds he leaned slightly over to Jor. "are you sure shes a..."
"Yeah." Jor said.
Mirror Jor raised an eyebrow "she seems so..."
"Yeah" Jor said
"Wow"
"Yeah" Jor said.
When Angel turned back to the two of them Jor pulled out a data pad and started writing. "With your fleet here watching the rift, that will free Six up to get back to Epsilon III for some research. I'm going to head back to Union HQ to dispatch the Cutter fleet here to Tishi to backup you."
He turned around to Galera and handed him the datapad. "Here's a written message, it's addressed to the chancelor of the republic. It has my electronic signature on it and it details everything that's gone on here for the past few hours. I need you to run back to the HQ now, grab one or two of the other recruits there as backup and then head to Coruscant."
Jor waited for Galera to accept the datapad before continuing. "That datapad needs to find it's way into the hands of the republic chancellor. This is a matter of Galactic scale and he needs to know about it. If you run into trouble, Lieutenant Drake should also be on Coruscant, you can contact him if you need help, now go."
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Post by Lord Xion on Mar 9, 2009 19:25:44 GMT -5
Galera was very pissed with angel. he thought that he had found his match(not the love type, but enemy type -.-) she was almost as cunning as him but galera was used to messing around with children that he assumed that basically everyone else is like that. well he might as well leave it alone but from now on mirror jor was going to be called roj just for the sake of being roj.
Galera looked over at jor and said "ya ya i guess i can take it, but i don't want to be on any mission with this wretch if you could make it so. i guess my ship is probably repaired by now anyway." with that galera took the pad and was off to the hq and then to coruscant.
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Post by Odan Thos on Mar 9, 2009 20:28:16 GMT -5
Angel drew her blaster and pointed at Galera in a fraction of a second. She drew it right as the door to the turbolift stated to close. When they finally closed she turned to her universe Jor. "I promise you Jor, one day that Fraker is going to go too far and I am going to kill him. It does not matter if he a member of the Union." Angel then placed her blaster back in her holster.
Angel took a deep breath, trying not to let her personality subroutine rule over her logic. After a second she spoke again. "Sorry about that; my programming is not as stable as Celestial, especially personality protocols. So what do you want me and the Voyager to do?" Angel did not need to be given orders, but she was part of a semi-military intelligent order; so she needed to respect the chain of command.
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Post by MikDaTv on Mar 9, 2009 22:08:19 GMT -5
Jor mulled this over for a second. "Might as well leave her here. Another Lysander couldn't hurt the situation and it'll give you some time to finish her shakedown under the protection of your fleet. Once she's 100% i'd like you to talk to your older sister about her experiences with the Ratakans. I've never even seen one so anything she could share would be helpful. I'm sure your second is a competent leader and the Voyagers Shipmaster is more then qualified for the job so they should be good hear alone for a while."
Mirror Jor raised a finger. "I actually have a slight request."
Jor turned to his younger looking self and raised an eyebrow. "What can i do for you old man?"
"I'd like to see if we can snag a small chunk of that Interdictor yall just blew up." He shrugged his shoulders. "I'm currently weaponless and i'd like to see what i can make from some Ratakan Star Forged metal."
"Weaponless? I gave you my lightsaber." Jor responded.
Mirror Jor opened his arms, palms outward. "What... the hell... is a lightsaber?"
"Are you kidding me?" Jor walked up to his mirror self and reached into his borrowed leather jacket, withdrawing the lightsaber from the inside pocket. He flicked it on, the green blade extending outward. "This is a lightsaber. You don't have these?"
"Oh, those." Mirror Jor shrugged his shoulders. "Only spice heads who know a little engineering make those and sell em to other lowlifes. they're way to easy to build and much to crude. We generally use blasters or other long range weapons for fighting nowadays."
Jor really couldn't believe what he was hearing. Apparently in this alternate universe Lightsabers weren't a force users weapon of choice. "Then what do you want a hunk of scrap metal for?"
"In my universe i made a sword myself using some metal from the renforcement in my home on Tishi after it had been destroyed by orbital bombardment. I'd like to make another one here from the remains of the first Builder vessel to be destroyed in this universe." Mirror Jor said.
"So you don't like plasma swords, but you like metal ones?" Jor asked.
"I like having a metal one with me, but normally i like to carry a pair of pistols i can hid under a coat or something." He said back.
Jor shrugged his shoulders. "very well then, Mss. Angel, if you wouldn't mind please bring us along side a hunk of Interdictor and get the tractor beams ready."
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Post by Odan Thos on Mar 9, 2009 23:36:48 GMT -5
Angel listened and almost laughed at Mirror Jor comment about blaster verse lightsabers. She would like that universe in that aspect. She also like duel wielding blasters, this helped to separate the two Jor in her mind. When Jor requested metal, the shipmaster did the order without needing Angel telling him. This freed Angel up to answer Jor’s original question.
Angel finally spoke up after Jor told her to move the ship. "No need to talk to Celestial Jor, I have all of her memories up to the point of my creation.” She spoke softly; drawing off memories and feelings whih were not her own. “The Rataka species was selected by the Architects to be their Builders. They were selected do to their connection to the mystical energy field which would eventually be called the Force. Through study I... Cele discovered nearly a hundred percent connection to the Force with the race along with an amorally high ability to sense and manipulate the perceptions of other organics. Much like you Jor, but they would used this ability to create fear amoung the enslaved.” She paused to let it sink in before continuing. “They were already sapient specie when Celestial discovered them but pre-space travel technologically. So we provided basic space travel, hyperdrive technology, and production technology in exchange for assistance with construction projects. As a safeguard we did not provide energy production capability to hold them back. This plan backfired however. We soon learned they had a natural aptitude to re-engineering technology; solving the power problem and even amplifying its potential using the Force.” Angel lowered her head, she felt the weight of responsibility that Celestial memory. It was Celestial that said the Rataka would be the best race in the galaxy to ally with.
She eventual continued. “The problem we did not see was their violence nature and desire for conquest. It was only in recently that Celestial discovered this was due to the fact they naturally gravitated what the Jedi call Dark side of the Force. The darker they got, the more powerful they became; until they finally turned on the Architects. They bombed the Celestial homeworld; destroying the crystalline rock structure that the Celestial population lived in along. It was then that she realized they had a single minded goal of ruling over all races and if they could not rule and control them they would destroy them.” Angel paused; she was transferring the information over to a datapad as she spoke and needed a second to finish the download. “In retaliation Cele abducting several Ratakas and started to experimenting on them at the Maw Fortress; she would eventually discovered that part of the mind which allowed the Rataka’s to understand and manipulating the Force. She then created a virus which would lobotomize that section of their brain and released it all over their empire. As groups slowly loss the ability to manipulate the Force, Civil War broke out. They eventually had a technological collapse and galaxy would soon forget about them. Other facts would be they tend to use slave labor, but to oppress the slaves they did not permit writing or allow them to be in technical positions. They were amphibian biologically, and thus water was still extremely important to them. Finally they were really, really good at solving problems with the Force, but not good at general engineering.” Angel did not really know what else to say. She had all that information along with detailed biological information she felt that might be useful to a datapad and handed it to Jor. By the time she was finished they were ready to track on some debris for Mirror Jor.
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