Raid on the Nastroma

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one Immobilizer 418 Cruiser
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two longsword class gunships
one Katarn Boarding Shuttle.

The small fleet entered the binary star system, in this system was the desert world of Tatooine, Here is where the drop off point for the Nastroma was, The mission was clear. One crate, A crew of eight, All being accompanied by another ten guards, No one was to be killed and the ship left alone if Paige wanted a bonus, This was the best place for the ambush according to the datapad she was given.

Paige began thinking up the attack strategy knowing that most all Action VI transport had no weapons Paige wasn't worried about getting on board the ship just what will happen once she is-And the few other combat ready men-were on-board First thing would be to disable the guards without killing them that sounded a lot harder then Paige hoped it would be, Then it would be a matter of finding the right crate and for that she would most likely need a cargo chart of some kind listing what they have where, And then the easiest part pulling out, She still had time to think this through seeing how they arrived sooner then expected.

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The Action VI transport ship jumped into space at about the time Paige had predicted, Unaccompanied like She was told to expect, Paige checked the ships exact position so to know when to begin, And once it was activated the gravity well and give the order for the two longsword gunships to head out and make sure this wasn't a modified Action VI, Turned out the Nastroma didn't have any weapons which seemed a little off to Paige seeing how that made it completely unprotected, But it wasn't her job to ask questions.

"I'll be going in now, Make sure the no one interferes, That means the republic, or anyone one else unless there with the Omega group." She began towards the hanger where the four other soldiers that Paige hand pick were waiting, Also in there were three others in the ship they were flying.

On the short ride to the Nastroma Paige looked over the others who would be onboard the ship with her, "All right let me make this clear, No! killing what so ever, Do not kill the guards, Certainly do not kill the crew, The only time i"ll allow one of you to get away with the death of a Guard is if you had to or your own life would have been lost, But you never kill one of the crewmen, Understand?" they gave a "yes ma'am," and a nod of there heads, Paige then held her blaster into the air-it was a E-11 blaster rifle-and set it to stun indicting for them to do the same, Once all blasters were set to stun and Paige made it absolutely clear not to even use the varying grenades they might have she went as far as to take any grenades she may have and leave them on the shuttle, leaving her with the blaster rifle, A blaster pistol that Paige had owned since she could remember-it was a heavily modified DC-15s side arm blaster it was larger in size then most had twin scopes and also sported a liquid-cable shooter and enhanced fire power, And a basic Vibrosword.

The cutting into the ship had begun and they would be inside in only a few minutes Paige check over her things one more time before the pilot was done cutting then got ready for the battle that was about to come.

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The pilot made it all the way through the heavy metal material, And the moment the metal came down and flew in into the dark emptiness of space the air in the room they cut into started being sucked out with it along with papers, Holo recordings, And more, But once the ship plugged the hole with the airlock, The room was almost completely empty and it looked to be spotless, after enough time passed that the room should be full of air again Paige slowly and carefully moved out of the Katarn Shuttle ensuring there was no one in the room, Something she seriously doubted seeing how only moments ago all the air was gone and they would have been sucked out with everything else, But apparently the crow knew they were coming from this room and moved to other parts of the ship.

Paige moved her hand in a circle two fingers pointing upwards symbolizing the other men to regroup around her-which they did-she moved forward E-11 blaster rifle pointed ahead of her, She made another series of hand movements that she quickly went over in the shuttle with the other men and they clearly didn't listen seeing how the soldier had no more idea what she wanted then a new parent does a crying baby, She reached forward taking a Smoke grenade and two stun grenades from the man-they were the only grenades allowed during the mission.

Paige realized that she didn't have a mirror with her which was something she meant to bring, "You," Paige pointed at the person standing a few feet away, "Grab the mirror in the refresher and bring it to me." At first he looked confused but after a second realized what to do, He moved into the refresher and took the mirror from the wall-if it was weekended from the air being sucked out or not affected at all doe to being in a different room was unclear.

Paige took it from him and held it in the right position so she could see down the hallway, At first it seemed to be clear be as she moved it more and more two guards were there waiting for a clear shot both behind the wall to the right exactly across the hall from her, One fired and hit the mirror broking it, Paige threw a stun grenade down the hall then with there attention averted she peeked out and fired not trying to hit them as much as keep them there, which worked, both men were out cold.

"Tie them up and leave them in the room we just came from." Paige said walking out of the room, If there was anyone else down there they would be unconscious as well, She checked out the door that was across from the one she came out of, It seemed to be jammed meaning they could only go forward.

Paige moved in the middle of the hall, "You three move down there and check it out, Remember, No killing, You with me." She pointed at the one who gave her the stun grenades and moved left heading into the galley, Once the door opened a shot fired past Paige's head causing her hair to move it came so close, lucky again, The thought went through her mind faster then the slug that just wized past her, Paige jumped to her left behind the small part of the door that didn't open, Looking back she saw the soldier that was covering her back was hit by the slug-if he was alive or not she couldn't tell, Not knowing how many were there she didn't want to wast a stun grenade, Looking back Paige saw that the blast door down the hall was still fully shielded which gave her a plan.

Paige pulled out her DC-15 side arm blaster and aimed at the door firing once to test, Like she had hoped the shot came flying backwards reflecting off the door back in the galley though Paige knew the chances of hitting her target were low that wasn't what she was trying to do, Paige began firing a number of shots at the door most going into the galley-a few headed towards her-after firing what felt like enough she moved into the galley DC-15 aimed forward, As she thought the guard who shot at her ducked behind the counter to avoid getting hit which was human nature, She Ran over to the counter and aimed downward at the guard,

"Slowly drop the gun and stand up." Paige said quietly in a edgy tone, The guard obviously surprised did as she asked and got up hands in the air, Paige looked at him a moment then hit him across the face with the butt of her DC-15 taking him down cold, She used some spare things around the galley to bind him behind the counter.

"That's three down." She spoke to herself then moved to check on the man who was shot earlier.

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Once Paige went to check on the man who had be shot by the slug thrower she feared the worst it looked like a nasty shot and seemed to hit him somewhere critical, But upon a further investigation of his body it seemed he was alive and the slug just get him on his shoulder.

"Are you alright?" Paige asked him while helping him get to his feet, "Yeah good enough to continue the mission." there was clear pain in his voice and Paige knew bringing him would just slow down the mission.

"You stay here and keep our exit rout clear also watch the three guards who are down so far." Paige spook looking the man in the eyes making herself vary clear, She then removed her hand from his right shoulder-his good one-turned around and ran down the corridor making a left turn in the galley.

Paige passed blast door after blast door knowing they were not what she was looking for-and even if the cargo was inside it would be almost impossible to find the one package she wanted out of all the ones there, So Paige decided to save a life time and find the shipping logs that would be located in the bridge and so that was where she was headed. After turning another left Paige pulled out a comm-link and patched into the other twos frequency.

"Report." Paige said into the comm, One could hear blaster fire every now and then, This showed they were engaged in combat but-hopefully-trying not to hit with a killing blow, After a moment a voice came over the line.

"This is Morgan speaking, We've entered combat with the guards of the ship-three i believe- were need the cargo bay and more could be inside, The have us pined down, We need help!"

Paige thought for a moment the best way to reach them would be to back track and full speed it would be ten or fifty minutes but much faster then first stopping to get the cargo logs and the making a round turn at the bridge.

"Hold out i"ll be there soon then we can get the package and get out of here." Paige deactivated the comm-link and began running towards the bridge.

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Paige moved up to the ships bridge, She took cover behind one of the sides of the blast door then opened it, No shoots were fired blindly like the one guard did, That ether meant they knew better cuz it could be one of there own men coming or no one was even in there, She slowly peeked out to see the bridge was empty.

Paige put her blaster back in its holster and walked over to the ships primary computer and began trying to access the ships logs, After linking her datapad to the ship and starting a random password generator she ran out of the bridge and started towards the cargo bay, There was surprisingly little standing in her way, Which certainly meant they were held off in the cargo bay, That actually being a vary good idea considering no pirate with half a brain would cut into the cargo bay and that not every ship did that which meant they would be attack last and have good cover.

Once Paige heard blaster fire she began moving with caution knowing that this would probably be the last fight on the ship, She looked around the corner to see four men shooting at her three soldiers, They were clearly focused on them unaware of the number of invaders on the ship, Paige saw an easy salutation to this fire fight, She pulled the last stun grenade off her belt and threw it down the hallway, it landed a littler short of her target but it was good enough to catch three in the blast, it effectively knocked out the three guards and clearly surprise the other man, She quickly fallowed up the grenade with a few shots that incapacitated the man-he was will alive though.

Paige moved down the hall mindful to keep her head down, "Are any of you hurt?" Paige asked trying to evaluate there fighting force, There was a "No." from both of them.

"Just low on ammo ma'am." the other one of them added.

"Okay, Take what you can from them, Then get ready to move in." they did has she instructed and they all got ready around the door, Paige gave the mark and durren blasted open the door, Paige immediately threw her vary last grenade in-the smoke grenade-they moved in quickly taking down the few enemy's that were left on the ship, There were three two of which gave up there weapons, It seemed a little to convenient but they didn't seem to be holding anything back, Paige and the other three men waited for the ships computer to be cracked.

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After fifty minutes of waiting the information Paige needed had finely be transferred to her datapad, It detailed the exact location of everything this ship was carrying. However one item was missing and there was no mention of the package she was sent after, Which meant it was more likely they deleted it, But if that was there plan they should have deleted some more things so it wasn't so obvious.

"you!" She yelled across the room to Durren. "Come with me, The rest of you watch them." Paige along with Durren started towards the unmarked item, It was at the back of the cargo hold found in a large empty crate-no other items being marked in the crate, It was the place that never was. The only area on the ship without a file-they most of done a great job deleting everything about from the data banks.

"Alright, stand back" Paige said firmly as she moved in front of Durren. she used the same cracker program on the lock to the crate as she did on the computer but it didn't work.

"Forget it" She aimed at the lock and shot. The door open right up. "Stay here i"ll grab it and then we'll be gone." Paige walked inside the large crate, In which a much smaller box was located, setting on the floor, Paige crouched down and began opening the box to make sure it was what they came for. But before she could realize it a medium level explosive was set off.

The force from the blast sent Paige flying out of the crate blowing off her already robotic hand, Leaving substantial burning on most of her body, There could also be much more damage. The men Paige bought with her rushed to see what happened, Paige was drifting in and out of consciousness. All she could see was one of the men go into the crate, Two others helped her, and the last man watched over the crew and guards.

Paige opened her eyes to find she was fine. No wounds, No burns, And a flesh and bone hand. She lifted herself up and was surprised to see instead of a dark ship filled with people she hardly knew, She was actually inside a familiar house, She just didn't know exactly where. Lying on a bed Paige was already dressed in the clothes she was wearing before, Everything seemed to be in a grayish color though, And she couldn't quite remember what she was doing. The biggest question Paige had was. Was this a dream or a memory.

In the real world Paige's men grabbed the package which was moved behind the trapped steel box, They carefully moved Paige to the Shuttle and from there the Dagger, The acting captain set a course for Zeltros.