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Post by MikDaTv on Dec 13, 2008 1:21:37 GMT -5
The RNS Galactica exited hyperspace at the edge of the unexplored system. It's three stars played hell with the big ships damaged sensors but with Jor's guidance they were able to fly towards the systems center where the asteroid base was still floating freely. The Corellian Civilian fleet followed close behind. Nearly 200 ships of varying sizes and shaped, some armed, some not, all carrying corellian survivors who happened to be in orbit when the nuclear bombardment of their homeworld had commenced.
Galactica quickly docked with the asteroid facility and Captain Keyes ordered the crew to secure the area around the docking locks and prepare for supply transfer.
Jor was in surgery for 5 hours having dead muscle tissue removed from his body protomuscle put in it's place that would grow into cloned replacement muscle. He'd be restricted to a hover chair for the next few days and he'd be in constant pain, but Jor wasn't worried about it.
Dorian and the 12 members of his crew that had gotten out alive had went to the Galactica. Captain Keyes was glad to have them. He was running on a skeleton crew because of the refit and when the nuke had hit a lot of his crew had been killed in the bow and others severely injured. He needed replacements. After Jor's shining report about their professionalism during the Ilium battle he was more then happy to accept their offer.
Keyes asked Dorian if he would like to be the Mandalorians representative on the bridge, but Dorian refused. He knew the bridge was not where he belonged. His pride had lead him to try it once and he had failed so he gave the job to Genie Ordo, the niece of one of his fathers closest friends. Keyes accepted the appointment and assigned her as Galactica's special forces commander and combat air coordination officer.
She accepted her job with a little bid of disdane, thinking the job would pull her out of the fight more often then it would put her in one, but at Dorians insistence she decided to make the best of it.
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Post by Elifain on Dec 13, 2008 1:51:07 GMT -5
Elifain paced the hanger for a few while, waiting for his message to be recieved. He believed that a few more talented Mandalorian pilots, and soldiers could help out the rag-tag fleet that had now been formed to face off against the infestation of Sarah. He was releaved when only an hour after ariving at the dock, a beeping sound came from his Longsword, not far away, and when he got to the ships sensor pannel, he recognized some of the ships that had just exited hyperspace. He ran up, strapped into his com- consile, and said over team-com, Divine Retribution, this is Claw of mando, What took you so long Ner vod ? not slipping into laziness are you?
His taunt was met by an equily chearfull, Had to make some kind of enterence, and I brought some of the clan with me. Wheres the fight?
hut'uunla retreated out of the system, but we shall soon be on the hunt. He turned off team-com, and activated a com to the command deck of Galactica. We have more mando's coming in to join in the conquest. OYA He ended the sentense with one of the mandalorians favorite sayings. It literally could be translated into any number of things, but he chose the meaning "lets hunt!"
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Post by MikDaTv on Dec 13, 2008 17:50:03 GMT -5
Captain Keyes was the only officer on the bridge. Everyone else was busy helping reload Galactica's guns and missiles or finish off the repair work that had been going on during the refit that they had to cancel.
He ran to the comms console and responded to Elifain. "I hope these are people you can trust Captain. If our position is revealed we won't be able to get out of here in time to run."
Meanwhile, Jor and the few remaining pilots made there way to the Asteroid bases hanger deck where two squadrons of Aurek fighters and two Dragoons lay dormant. They were 15 years old and in disrepair but Jor figured if they cannibalized the parts they could make a good 13 brand spanking new Aurek fighters and one good Dragoon in about a weeks time.
It was odd that nothing here had been touched. When he left for the unknown regions oh so long ago the troops he left behind to guard this place must have abandoned it quick because most of the supplies were still here.
Elsewhere on the asteroid base, Dorian had found the armory. Racks of rifles lined the walls, enough to supply a small group of fighters for several months. It was enough to make Dorian smile. He had his clansmen quickly begin loading the rifles into transport safes to be brought to Galactica safely. He himself pulled out his datapad and started doing an inventory of all the stuff.
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Post by Zilfer Of Shadows... on Dec 13, 2008 20:05:13 GMT -5
Bermfad exited hyperspace and his sensors. It seemed he was floating around aimlessly for awhile before he opened up his communication systems and tried to see if there was anyone in the area.
"This is Bermfad, any Mandalorain friendlies be advised, that i have arrived in the system." said bermfad as he waited for a reply, drifting around occationally looking at his messed up sensors.
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Post by Elifain on Dec 13, 2008 20:08:59 GMT -5
Elifain smirked, as he heard Keyes response, and said, They are mando's, and they all know a mando's vengence. They will not give our position away, or attempt to betray us, or they will face the wrath of the rest. The next war you run into us though, you will never know. He had absolute trust in his brothers of the clan, and knew full well that the enemy was in for a surprise.
Just send us ahead of your fleet, and we will take out the enemy capitol ship if it is there. We will infiltrate the capitol ship, and take out its shields and engines, before sending out a signal for the main fleet. The last thing they will expect is an invasion from fighters, before the grand assult. He had quickly thought about the plan, and decided that if keyes would accept it, his group would split into 2 teams and take out the enemy.
His com beeped on another circuit, and he flipped over in time to hear bermfads voice. He linked it to main com, so he could await keyes response.
welcome vode, come to the sorse of this signal, if you can, and join the ranks. He activated a signal, designed to travel over teamcom.
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Post by MikDaTv on Dec 14, 2008 0:36:45 GMT -5
"Ok, i'll trust you, but i trusted the crew on the Polar Star and Patron Saint too and we got burned by them at Ilium." Keyes answered back.
He saw bermfads arrival in-system via the sensor relay they'd set up. He activated Galactica's Nav Beacon to give the ship a clear point of reference to navigate to.
Meanwhile, Jor was in one of Galactica's many computer rooms looking through their database on nearby planets that might have starfighters for sale or to give them. Most of the options were Republic in origin so they were tossed out the window first. If they made any appearance in a republic system they would be flagged by the military network, and then Polar Star would know where they were.
Centauri Prime was their best bet. It wasn't yet a member of the republic but it had an orbital shipyard and they had even been a contributing member to the design of Lysander class deep space carrier.
Compiling a list of possible locations for supplies, Jor finished up and logged off. He had another project he was working on in his spare time. Researching the Mandalorians. With a surprising number of the crew being Mandalorian now, Jor wanted to learn about their culture to some degree. He respected them a lot after flying with them at Ilium.
He'd only ever learned about their fighting abilities but he was slowly learning about their daily life and found it quite interesting. They were an entire people of National Guardsmen. They all had jobs, families, homes, but each of them were trained soldiers. It was quite extraordinary.
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Post by Zilfer Of Shadows... on Dec 14, 2008 1:21:11 GMT -5
Bermfad headed towards the nav beacon that had been activated. He proceeded with caution, there had been no communication with his ship. After coming into view of the Galatica he knew if they where hostile he was in trouble. He just hopped that they really where friendlies.
"I'm looking for Tracin'ya, you may know him as Elifain." said Bermfad as he waited for a reply. He sat back in his chair looking at the ships around that seemed battle scared. "what has he gotten us into this time...." muttered Bermfad to himself.
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Post by Dalazer The Blade on Dec 15, 2008 11:46:00 GMT -5
AAD-300 waked up from his 100 years length standby. "Advanced Assasin Droid activated." AAD-300 said.
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Post by MikDaTv on Dec 16, 2008 20:44:59 GMT -5
Jor, Captain Keyes, Genie Ordo and the other officers of the bridge and crew of the Galactica stood around the bridges elongated chart table.
"I've finished searching the database about the surrounding systems." Jor began. "I think Centauri Prime is our best bet. "Its close, it's not a member of the Republic, and it's got some Republic hardware on back order we could really use."
"Hardware?" Genie asked.
"Fighters. Some kind of new fighter that's been in development for the past 2 years in line with the Lysander. Since the Lysander is gone i figured it wouldn't need them. 2 full squadrons are to be delivered. Their date of collection is a week from now but the fighters should be finished." Jor answered.
Genie shifted her blaster rifle from one shoulder to the other. "So, how we going in?"
Jor smiled. "You don't understand. Just because they aren't in the republic means we get to steal from them and kill their people. I plan to go there with a couple of Dragoons and pilots, get the fighters and fly them back here."
Genie frowned and slumped her shoulders. "Ok, if thats the way you want to play it, Jedi."
Keyes tapped his academy graduation ring on the chart table to get attention. "I have a much more exciting mission for you Genie, but first i have something for you."
Keyes reached behind him and grabbed a small wooden box and slid it across the table. Genie opened it up to look inside. Within the box was the shoulder boards and insignia device of a Lieutenant.
"I'm stretching my authority as a Captain here, but i'm conscripting you and field promoting you to the rank of Lieutenant. That will give you some more respect from the enlisted crew." Keyes said as she pulled the uniform devices from the box. "I had them modified so you could apply them to your armor. I'm having several of them made for the Mandalorian Crew that have decided to join us."
"Thanks" Genie said without much enthusiasm in her voice. She wasn't that interested in trinkets for her armor.
Keyes smiled a little at her drab response. "Now, to your job. We're running low on ships. We're supposed to have 90 fighters down in the bay, and we have 15 scarabs a pair of Y-35s and 3 Aureks. Captain Miles O'Brien, a Corellian freighter captain has agreed to take you and a commando team on a three part mission."
Genie perked up at this, shifting her rifle to the other shoulder again. "Yes?"
"I had a Dragoon leave the system a short time ago and hyperspace out. They sat within range of the Ilium Holonet beacon for a few hours, activated their networks and accessed the holonet for a short time. They downloaded all recent pirate activity reports from various core worlds as well as worlds close to us." Keyes started again.
"Are you crazy!" Jor said leaning forward. "You may have just flagged our location. If the enemy can slice our shield systems they can hack our nav clusters. They can know anywhere that dragoon's been for the past 6 weeks or more."
"Calm down" Keyes shouted. "I had the pilots purge their nav data from their computers and plot the random jump and their jump back to here by hand. No information on our location was leaked out."
Jor calmed down a bit. He scolded himself for bursting out like that, especially at a command meeting like that. He'd been slipping lately. His usually firm control on his emotions had started to break since Kell's death.
Keyes gave Jor one last look and then continued. "Genie, your going to go to three planets where Pirate activity's become a serious threat, find the pirates before the authoritys do and take their ships. Whatever they have. We need fighters most of all but we'll take anything with guns we can strip or parts we can use."
Genie shifted her armor and smiled. "I'll take some brothers with me, we'll handle it."
"No," Keyes said. "I want a mixed group. Your people joined with us to help us, not do everything for us. I want you to select a team of both my men and other Mandalorians. Captain O'Brien is waiting for you on the flight deck."
Slightly disappointed at being restricted in her choice of a team, she was none the less elated at being given a combat mission. She turned and practically ran off the bridge.
"Jor, your mission is approved, get us some fighters." Keyes said.
Jor nodded and went down to his quarters to grab some gear. This mission would be an excellent cover for the real mission he planed on going.
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Post by Dalazer The Blade on Dec 17, 2008 15:42:54 GMT -5
AAD-300 walked to the bridge." Who is in charge here?" AAD-300 said.
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Post by MikDaTv on Dec 17, 2008 15:59:26 GMT -5
((OOC: How the hell did you get on the bridge of Galactica, the command center of a 1500 meter carrier? Or to an unexplored system without a space ship apparently.))
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Post by Dalazer The Blade on Dec 17, 2008 16:23:13 GMT -5
((OOc: Well This droid is looking for master and I'm little out now. (sorry about that, I had a fight in outside)And assasin droids are really odds...))
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Post by MikDaTv on Dec 17, 2008 16:27:02 GMT -5
((OOc: Well This droid is looking for master and I'm little out now. (sorry about that, I had a fight in outside)And assasin droids are really odds...)) not sure what planet your one, but here on earth we use this stuff called grammar and sentence structure. The only reason i bring it up is because my universal translator is having trouble with the gibberish you just typed up there. |
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Post by Dalazer The Blade on Dec 17, 2008 16:38:35 GMT -5
((OOc: Well This droid is looking for master and I'm little out now. (sorry about that, I had a fight in outside)And assasin droids are really odds...)) not sure what planet your one, but here on earth we use this stuff called grammar and sentence structure. The only reason i bring it up is because my universal translator is having trouble with the gibberish you just typed up there. oh Ok... What you say about that you bought that assasin droid? |
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Post by MikDaTv on Dec 17, 2008 16:45:38 GMT -5
((OOC: Ok, you know what, i'm going to just roll with it because i really don't feel like racking my brain trying to figure out what the hell your saying. Hopefully your RP posts make more sense then your OOC posts.))
Keyes to face the droid and raised an eyebrow. "I Am! What the hell are you doing on my ship?" He shouted.
The chief of the watch turned and ran to the front of the bridge. He began typing on his console, sending a message to the auxiliary bridge and began unlocking all the bridge consoles so the crew in the auxiliary bridge could take over, in case the main bridge became compromised.
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