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Post by Odan Thos on Jan 20, 2010 23:22:32 GMT -5
The Twilight exited hyperspace on the outskirts of the Utapau system. Samantha was setting at the controls, having been woken up just fifteen minute prior to the ship needing to exit hyperspace. The ship could have done it on its own, but Samantha always preferred to be in the cockpit when it happen.
Samantha punched in new coordinates and set a path towards the planet Utapau. She figured that she would head first to the capital city and check in with the police. The government most likely be best source of information should they have been killed or arrested. Once the course was set she headed down to the storage area to dawn her armor and get Akira some proper weapons.
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Post by Zero on Jan 21, 2010 1:08:40 GMT -5
Akira was in the hold, getting use to the armor. Samantha helped her better fit the armor, and changed some systems to better suit Akira. The armor worked like a charm now and she felt much more comfortable in it. It was still a little to responsive for her, but she just needed time to get use to it. When she heard footsteps moving around the ship, she knew that they were out of hyperspace.
Akira fallowed Sam's force presence to the storage area nearby, to once again thank the Mandalorian woman, and to perhaps get some weapons besides here lightsabers.
Hey, thanks again, Sam. It gets easier and easier to use with each passing minute. [/sub] |
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Post by Odan Thos on Jan 21, 2010 1:32:02 GMT -5
Samantha smiled as she walked into the cargo hold and reached into a weapon locker and pulled out a DC-15s blaster pistol from the locker which was full of guns. Samantha had been a bounty hunter for nearly five years, one thing she learned was you could never have to many backup weapons. She strapped the DC-15s to her flight suit in a special place which had enough room when she put on her armor. "Well I am glad to hear it, but don't become to dependent of the armor." She said as she looked into weapons locker. She pulled out one of her DC-17m ICWS along with a case of the attachments. She also removed a DC-17 blaster pistol and four stun grenades and several extra power cells. "Sense your armor does not have any built in weapons you need some. I believe this assortment well fit you best. If you would prefer something else, just dig around in the lockers." She said as she set them out for her and opening the other to lockers. She was not sure if she would like the selection or not, but it would show her if she was speaking her mind more. "Wars are won with by logistics, battles are won with tactics, and fights are won with skill and firepower. Or that is what my father would always tell me." Samantha said quoting her father. "You can use a blaster right?" She said jokingly, knowing the Jedi often considered such weapons to be uncivilized.
Once she had laid out the weapons for the young lady she continued to put on her own power armor. Once the armor was on a small compatment on one of the left leg open up and Samantha slid in her light wipe. On the other leg she slide in a combat knife. She were back-up weapons for the most part, she much preferred range weapons that were already built into her suit. She then looked up at Akira through her helmet. "Ready for some fun?" Samantha said light heartliedly as she walked back up to the cockpit.
Once they had reached Utapau's orbit ATF contacted them. Samantha flipped open the communication line and routed right into her helmet mic. "This is Samantha Aran on board Firespray-Class Patrol Craft Twilight. I am requesting permission to land at Pau City. I the reason is I am looking for some friend." She said. It took minute before ATF got back to her, but they gave her permission to land at docking port A4-B. Samantha confermed the pad and began her landing descent.
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Post by Zero on Jan 21, 2010 2:06:26 GMT -5
Akira took the DC-17m, loaded the 60 round magazine, and held it in a ready position, a small smile on her mouth. She looked nothing like a Jedi right then.
I can use a blaster just fine. I ran from the Jedi years ago, so I learned how to fight, and now I will need to use that skill, and I will learn how to like it.
Akira placed the rifle on her back, where it was magnetically bound, took the blaster pistol she was offered, and the extra power cells and placed the pistol on her thigh, and power cells on her waist in easy to reach pockets, and the placed the grenades on the back of her waist, out of the way. Now, at least while her helmet was on, looked like a hardcore mercenary or Mandalorian. She hid one of her lightsaber on her waist, and went up to where Sam was hiding in the cockpit. She held out her second lightsaber to the Mandalorian woman.
Their useful, even without Jedi training. It may come in useful for any situation. [/sub][/b] |
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Post by Odan Thos on Jan 21, 2010 3:29:01 GMT -5
Samantha looked at the lightsaber and chuckled quiet to herself. She opened her left leg compartment and removed her lightwhip. She pulled it out and using the length adjuster slowly so that whip extended the gold beam to a length of a few inches. “I got my own thanks. It took years to get this thing down; I may as well use it.” Samantha said as she deactivated the light wipe and returned it to her leg storage unit. However Akira with her Jedi training may be able to help tune the lightwhip. She after all obtained the weapon after defeating a Force-user from the planet Dathomir which carried it.
Samantha practiced with the whip nearly every day during the time she set aside for weapon training. It took a lot of work to learn what movement of the finger, wrist, arm and body correspond to what behavior the whip produced. She had the power nearly drained when she did the training in order to not cut herself apart, but she had burnt herself more times the she could count. But after three years, she was finally able to wield the weapon based off of muscle memory and a little bight of luck.
Samantha brought the small craft down on the landing pad and walked off the ship sure that Akira would be following. She walked over to the control pad and entered her account information. She knew ways around not paying for use of spaceport facilities, but most of the time she simple paid to avoid hassles. She turned to Akira. “I think the first place we should go is the police station. If they have been involved in anything illegal or even killed they would know about it.” Samantha said. She wanted to hear Akira’s opinion on the matter. While Akira was here to learn from Samantha’s example; Samantha wanted to be involved. One did not learn to shot by just watching your father do it, you must take the weapon into your own hands.
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Post by Zero on Jan 22, 2010 0:27:15 GMT -5
Well, looks like your set.
Akira smiled and hid her lightsaber near her other one, and sat back while Sam piloted the ship down to the planet, and eventually landed at a space port, after paying her way in. It was always easier to do that rather than haggle or just not pay and get into some serious trouble. When Sam spoke her thoughts about where they should go first, Akira cocked her head in thought.
That seems like a good idea, but going to a shady cantina sometime may help, also. I may be able to sense something from Clan Skirata if they have been there, and a bartender always knows more than they want others to think.
Akira donned her helmet, hiding her face and hair. Now she was inconspicuous, and the voice synthesizer, she could sound like someone else if she didn't want to be known as a woman. That was always useful. She didn't have it on when she spoke again.
Doing both may increase our chances of finding Skirata Clan quickly. [/sub] |
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Post by Odan Thos on Jan 22, 2010 1:03:04 GMT -5
Samantha smiled and looked at Akira. She did not have the her visor completely tented so one could see her face under it. "Okay, I will head to the cops and hit them up for some information. You can hit some of the cantinas and see what you can dig up. Please keep an open communication channel at all times and if you get anything share it right away. I am on channel seven." Samantha said as she looked Akira right in the visor. There was a slight smile on her face at the simple thought of two women walking around in power armor which made them look more like guys then girls. It would be are rare site to be sure.
Samantha tented her visor as she walked, making impossible for people to see her face underneath. "Access HoloNet. Download map of Pua City, locate law enforcement headquarters." Samantha stated to as a small image of the city appeared on the right side of her HUB showing her were she needed to go. It turned out that it was on the other side of the sinkhole three levels up. "Just my luck." Samantha said to herself as she activated the flight system of her suit. The Repulser pack lifted her off the ground and she fired her thruster, launching into the open air towards the other side of the sinkhole.
Samantha did not worry about leaving Akira behind. Sure she was suppose to watch and learned from her, but this mission had a time dependency to it. There was no clue what happen to the members of the Skirata Clan and a minute may make the difference from a live member or a corpse. Anyways Mandalorians were independent warriors after all, and while she was sure Akira could handle herself she could keep track of her through the radio communication. Samantha just wondered how she would get information from the bartenders; would she use the Force? It did not really matter to Samantha what form of persuasion she did as long as it did not get her in trouble with the law. Last thing she needed was to bail Akira out of a jam.
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Post by Zero on Jan 22, 2010 1:52:18 GMT -5
Akira nodded, then left the ship ahead of Sam. She didn't worry about blending into the crowd, and if she walked into someone, or vise versa, they just walked on and minded their own business. For now, Akira needed to find a nice bar to get information.
It took her a half hour of wandering to get to a nice shady looking bar, and indeed it was shady inside. She made sure her voice synthesizer was nice and deeply male before she walked up to the bartender, sat down at a stool, and tapped her knuckle.
Hmm. What will you have?
Information. Think you can help me out?
Not sure how much my mind can help you. My memory Isn't as good as it use to be.
I'm sure your a bigger help than you think. I'm looking for a Mandalorian Clan Skirata.
Akira quietly placed a few credit chips on the counter, which were quickly palmed by the bartender. What he didn't know what that those credits were very low, and some simple mind manipulation made them seem like much larger increments than they really were. Akira smiled under her tinted mask and waited.
Last I heard, there were some people with that name, but they were being tracked by a Hutt crime lord. I thinks that's it.
You think? How about you try harder.
She slides two more chips over, which were quickly palmed. She hoped that Sam was getting her job done on her side. So far, it seemed as if she was getting quite a bit of information out of this one guy, so he must know more than he said so far. [/sub] |
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Post by Odan Thos on Jan 22, 2010 14:35:07 GMT -5
Samantha landed near the front of a large wall which was no doubt the station. The place was rather large and would easily be defended against an assault. What was nice was the fact that the Pau’ans were nearly the same height as she was, all the doors were larger.
Samantha walked into the law enforcement station and looked around. An Utai officer walked up to her and looked the power suit up and down. "Excuse me sir, I must ask you to disarm. Weapons are not permitted in the station." The offer said as he looked at the massive cannon on the right arm.
Samantha detented her visor and looked at the man. The man look shocked. "My name is Samantha Aran. I am a bounty hunter and I cannot disarm. My weapons are built into my armor. Now, I just need some in the know to answer some questions for me." She said polity.
The officer looked at her and swallowed. "If you well wait outside Miss Aran, I will see if I can find someone to talk to you." The officer said as he looked up at the women. Samantha nodded and walked back out of the police station and stood just to the right of the main entrance. In a few minutes a Pau’an officer walked out of the station with a portalble terminal. “Miss Aran I take.” He said looking her right in the eyes. “I am detective Lu’Sar. What can I help you with?” He said politely after a slight bow.
Samantha looked at the Pau’an and returned the bow. “I am looking for information concerning a group of Mandalorians from the Skirata Clan.” She said politly.
The officer turned to the terminal and punched in a small pieces of information Samantha Provided. “Well, four Mandalorians of that clan arrived three months ago. They worked as security for one of our R&D facilities up until two weeks ago according to tax data.” The officer said. “It is also suspected that they were involved in the shoot out that occurred just nine days ago. No Mandalorian bodies were found, but three Trandoshan’s were found dead from high powered blaster. The power outputs of the blasters use matched those register by the Skirata Clan. And that is all I have on them.” The officer said.
Samantha looked at him a little worried; why the fuck did they get into a shootout with Trandoshans. “Any information about these Trandoshans? Were their more than three?” She asked. She already knew the answer, they were hit men sent to capture them, but by who.
The officer looked at the terminal for a minute or two. “No. They must not went through any checkpoints or landed at any spaceport. However by the amount of blaster damage we estimated that theirs was ten to twelve people shooting at the four mandalorians.” He said reading the report on the incident.
Samantha nodded. “Thank you for your time officer.” Samantha said with a polite bow. She turned and walked off, once again tenting her visor. She then activated her communication protocols and contacted Akira. “I got a little information but not the whole story. Seem the Skirata Clan had a run in with some Trandoshan Mercs. It is assumed they were captured and hulled off somewhere sense no corpse were found with the dead Trandoshans. But there are no clues were the Trandoshans would have taken them or even who hired them.” She said waiting to see if Akira found something which may point them in the right direction.
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Post by Zero on Jan 23, 2010 15:43:01 GMT -5
The Bartender was leaning on the bar, tapping his fingers and trying to see through Akira's visor, and failing horrible. Akira wasn't moving an inch, but just looked right back. Eventually, the bar tender shifted and sat back
The Hutt, last I've known, was hiding out on Tatooine. You will have better luck trying there.
Thanks. If that proves to be false, expect a second visit from me.
Akira stood, and left the cantina, heading on her way back to Sam's ship, which was when she was contacted by Sam. When Samantha was done talking, Akira spoke what she found out.
Some Hutt was after Clan Skirata, and are most likely on Tatooine. That would be a good place to try and find them. Those Mercs were probably hired as bounty hunters. I'll meet you back at your ship. We can keep planing from there. [/sub] |
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Post by Odan Thos on Jan 23, 2010 21:50:04 GMT -5
Samantha activated her flight system and took back off towards the ship. She did not know who she ever got anything done without it. Once she landed she activated her ship using the Slave system built into her Armor. She looked back at Akira as she walked up. "Good work your hunch about that Cantina was a good one. I guest our next stop is Tatooine." Samantha said as she walked on board the Twilight. She had to strip out of her armor before taking off, it was great in a fight but just no good for sitting around in.
Samantha walked into the cargo hold and quickly took her power armor off. It was a fairly easy process. First she deconnected the APC Array from her right arm, then removed her helmet. Once the helmet was off, the chest and arms disconnected from the legs and she slide out of it. She then lifted herself out of the legs and connected the two halves. Once done she used the a small crane system to place the armor back into its storage unit. It did not take that long, only about three or four minutes. It was not something someone would want to have to do in a hurry but most of the time it did not matter. She did however always wonder if their was a faster way.
Once completed Samantha headed up to the cockpit and took off. She headed out of the atmosphere and once she was clear of all the gravity wills in the system she jumped to hyperspace towards Tatooine.
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Post by Zero on Jan 23, 2010 22:06:43 GMT -5
Akira held up a single hand in greetings as she walked up to the Twilight. So far, they knew the planet, now they needed to hurry and get there before the Hutt did something them. Akira made sure that her voice synthesizer was off before speaking.
Its always good to play off of one's hunches. They can be quite useful, and may be the force telling you what to do.
Akira fallowed Sam into her ship, then started to strip off her armor. As she was still new to it, it took her a little longer than Samantha to do. She wasn't fully stripped of it until after they entered hyperspace. [/sub] |
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