Big Trouble (Battle of Mygeeto Fringe)

[sparrow]

(( Here's the thread JK told me to post in for fringers at the Mygeeto Battle. Here goes... ))


Aboard the Rancor, Felze watched the huge capital ships in the distance nervously. There has to be a reason that many big ships are gathering there. They can't be just hanging out for the fun of it...

Suddenly the sensors on the ship picked up something from behind. Something massive. Looking out the window, he felt his jaw drop and heart stop as a massive Sith fleet suddenly dropped out of hyperspace in unison. Dozens of ships, bristling with guns and cannon, like something out of his worst nightmare.

"Please tell me that huge fleet of Sith warships is just a figment of my overactive imagination,..." he muttered, turning to Lucky. "It's not? Bloody ----! Blood Kowakian monkey lizard -----!"

[werefox]

The sensors bleeped, blinked and wooped, warnings made the control panel look like a spice vision. Quickly Lucky started evasive action. Almost franticly pushing the buttons and justing the course.

"Please tell me that huge fleet of Sith warships is just a figment of my overactive imagination,..."

"How you know they are sith? If you want to take a seat, strap in and run the gun priority manually? or you can boot out in the escape pod and hope for the best."

This was more heat than she wanted. Should she bail or go for the medal? All in all she really needed the pay. And her client wouldn't like them failing.
"There is no neutral ground here, so speak your mind kid."

[sparrow]

"Well... unless someone happened to borrow a dozen or so sith-model capital ships, I'd say that that's a pretty safe assumption!" Unlike Lucky, Felze was standing and not buckled in, and one of her sudden maneuvers almost threw him off his feet. Quickly grabbing on to the back of a chair to keep his balance, he managed to sit down and buckle up.

"How good is the comm system on this thing?" he asked while taking out his computer. "Let's hope that they're in more of a capture mood than kill..."

[Leo]

OOC: Im gonna God-Mod a tad for the sake of the post. Im just gonna assume u guys follow me into hyperspace.

IC: In orbit over Korriban, the Black Moons sat idle, plotting their next move. The Shock Hammer Cruised parallell to The House, and the crews on each ship were creating alot of Comm chatter. Frogu was walking around in his cabin, munching on some tibrinian fruit, when his direct line to the holonet news network was activated. A holo-twi-lek beamed out of his situations table in the main hold.

This Just in from Mygeeto in the Outer Rim, a Sith Fleet has come out of hyperspace and is expected to engage in battle with an ESS planetary defence force soon. All non-combatant vessels are advised to clear the area. More on this story soon.

Frogu jumped to his feet. He had been to Mygeeto before, and he had stolen a great treasure from there. He had learned that the planet was a hub for jewelers. He imagined all the ships carrying tons of treasures being blown to bits, and he... reaping the rewards undetected. The little Frog creature ran to the cockpit, and found mygeeto on the Galaxy Map. He tackled the comm in excitement and said.

"CAPTAIN THERES A BATTLE ON MYGEETO! THE SITH ARE INVADING THE JEWELERS CAPTIAL OF THE GALAXY! !!! LETS GO!!!"

Without warning, Frogu initiated Hyperspace sequence for mygeeto, and Pulled the lever, Jerking the ship forward. The combat droids were manning their Turrets, and the astromech and Bzzt were secured. The Black Moons emerged from Hyperspace... and Frogu layed eyes on the fleets of the ESS and the Sith. a few noncombatants were zipping arround trying to egress. Frogu spoke into the comm.

"What do we do, cap?

[werefox]

"Well... unless someone happened to borrow a dozen or so sith-model capital ships, I'd say that that's a pretty safe assumption!"

"Makes me miss the Hutt's they are..."Lucky was accelerating, the hum of the engines increased in pitch. She added power to the rear shields and set the coarse for the northern pole of the planet.

"How good is the comm system on this thing?"

Lucky started to barrel roll to avoid any fire in the area.
"Its unmodified, But I made big changes to the engiene. So its faster than must ships of this model. And this is a fast model."

"Let's hope that they're in more of a capture mood than kill..."

"Lets hope they ignore us and go for the flashy lights. Either we do the job we came for, or we need to get our hands on something else of bigger value for our client. I don't feel like being Bantha poodoo, literally that is."

[A®heim]

The Shock Hammer pulled out of hyperspace behind the House. The "Black Moons" eh? Getting a bit bonded are we? I've spent more years than most of you have been alive in solitude, and yet... the idea appeals to me.

Rah gripped the wheel and eyed the Sith fleet far in the distance. So they had finally made their move.... Frogu was correct; this was a prime opportunity to make some money and establish a reputation. Kill two flits with one bolt as it was. Rah then noticed the ESS fleet assembled over Mygeeto. Excellent, the more occupied the two sides were, the more they could reap undetected.

The pirate unhooked the comlink from the rack above him and shouted his orders into it. Alright you ingrates, don't forget we are not here to fight in some petty war, unless of course you plan on being dashed into oblivion between the two fleets. Our purpose here is to pillage the fringes of this battle. Find the wrecked hulks and heavily damaged warships and finish the job. The bounty will be plentiful, so only gather goods that will fetch a high price. Let this be the first great movement of the Black Moon Pirates!

Rah grabbed the throttle and rammed it forward. Tssslk, who had been gazing intently at the radar was almost knocked to the floor by the sudden acceleration. Arm all weapon systems, I want the reactor overcharged to the very limit! Monitor capacitor conduit pressure, pray our patch job on it will hold. Initiate full scale scan. If anyone locates a suitable target point it out immediately! And most importantly, don't draw any fire from the war fleets!

[Catatafish]

"Aye, Captain!"

Loogark immediately manned the controls, diverting all available energy to the sub-light drives, and the main weapons and targetting systems. Whatever he could control from his co-pilot console. He didn't know exactly why, but he was actually enjoying himself, recieving orders from someone he barely knew. It was not just the promise of wealth and riches that drove him, but the Feeorin sitting next to him, who exuded such confidence and command capabilities, enough to make Loogark follow his instructions without question.

The screens before him lit up signaling the positions of most of the capital ships engaged in combat over the planet's surface. Almost all the larger ships boasted a large amount of fighters and bombers, yet there was one behaving somewhat... different. It was moving away from the battle, and displayed a weak starfighter escort. It was also obvious the pilot was intending to get by unnoticed.

"Captain, over there!" said Loogark pointing at the screen, to the only blip on the radar screen moving away from the agglomeration of ships above the planet. "There's one ship behaving rather strange. Shall we engage?"

[Leo]

Frogu's little heart was beating like mad now. He was maneuvering around, as dozens of Supply ships that he could easily board flew right under them, and away from the battle. The comms of the House were going wild. Rah talking, Loogark asking for permission to engage, the combat droids within the confines of his own hull doing the same.. it was too much. Without asking his captain, Frogu descended and latched onto a supply ship, greatly superior in size to his. It was a clumsy latching, the pilots were bound to know of his arrival. Luckily, Frogu had landed directly above the fuel hatch, and his systems showed a complete airlock where he had landed... perfect. He had made the mistake of opening the House's doors, right into open space. He held a button on his shipcomm, and said

"DROIDS TO THE ARMS ROOM!"

Frogu sprinted to the Arms room of his ship, and met his two HK combat droids there, standing at attention as usual. Frogu indicated which rifles he wanted them to take, and he took his blaster pistol and lightsaber and was out the door.

Frogu dashed to the hatch by which he would enter the ship he had latched onto. He was lucky that they hadnt made any sudden maneuvers yet in an attempt to throw them off, The pilots must have just felt a large shudder and were now inspecting the ship's systems. Frogu opened the hatch, and, using his lightsaber, cut through the hatch door, and, with his droids, he crawled through the fuel compartment , and used his lightsaber yet again to cut into the ship itself. The supply ship's interior consisted of one long hallway with rooms on either side. The empty cockpit was clearly visible at the end of the hallway, and he could hear four men shouting in the first room on the right . Frogu's heart raced again how could they not have heard his lightsaber cutting through their ship and into the main hallway? He listened in on thier conversation.

"THE RADARS DONT BLOODY WORK!" said one man. anotehr said "I DON'T CARE FIND OUT WHAT THAT WAS!"

Frogu motioned for his two droids to go in, and riddle them with blaster bolts. All he heard were the Four men's screams as the hearltess droids laid into them with their repeater rifles. The droids, for lack of another order, continued to fire, just mutilating the four men. Frogu said
"Follow"

he rummaged through every room, and found a jackpot of rare Items.. even a floor rugs made from the hides of Wookiees and Wampas. He found jewelery made from the finest electrum.. an extremely rare metal. Frogu got very lucky with this vessel. It had literally tons of rarities on it, ranging from food to weapons to droids to clothing. He didnt want to share it, but he knew he had to. He set aside his pile of two Wookiee Rugs, Two Wampa Rugs, four state-of-the- art blaster pistols, a very shiny service droid that had not yet been programmed, but rather sat there, and empty shell, and two steel crates of electrum jewelery. He reluctantly got out his Comm and said.

" Cap, I've hit the jackpot here, I can't bring this thing into the Hammer's hangar because my ship is latched to it. You need to board captain this is an insane amount of loot. "

Frogu tingled with excitement... he loved this job.

[avoim]

After hearing that Frogu had just found a ship with a large sum of cash and other kinds of loot. Avoim then boarded onto his ship, in his VacSuit, he then activated his comm and said “Frogu, if you re board your ship, I'll take that big behemoth out of the system, and hide it someplace rather safe, if you agree to that, I'll have captain Rah open up the Hanger doors, and I'll take over.”

Avoim then switched the Comm system over to speak directly to captain Rah Boralis and said “Captain, I want you to prepare to open the Hanger Doors, I might be leaving the ship in a minute.” Avoim then awaited some kind of conformation from both Captains.

[Leo]

Frogu scrunched his face up at Avoim's proposition. He brought his comm to his face as he motioned for the droids to load his share onto the House and trotted to the cockpit.

"Thats a negative Avoim. I'm loading my share onto my ship as we speak, and upon entry i ripped through the fuel ducts with my lightsaber, This junkers a loss. Ill put her to a halt, and unlatch from her, then ill guard while you board with the Hammer and take the rest of the loot. We dont want to keep this thing its a waste of time, credits, and space."

Frogu got lucky and hit the right button to shut down the ship's engines. After his treasure had been loaded, he climbed through the fuel ducts and back onto his ship. He took off and circled the dead vessel, waiting for the other black moons to board.

"You may want to dump the crew, i left their bodies in the first room on the right."

[avoim]

“Alright Frogu, Captain Rah, I still want you to open the Hanger Doors so I can go retrieve the loot from that hull, I'll grab as much as I can and bring it back here.” Avoim said whilst waiting for Captain Rah Boralis. Avoim began to prime his engines, shields and weapons, all so that he could be ready in case he got in a Fire Fight out in space. Once his engines and everything were all ready he made sure his VacSuit was ready, then he waited for Rah's go-ahead.

[A®heim]

The static on the com lines crackled. Apologiesss for the sssilenccce, but Rah isss no longer on board the Shhhock Hammer, he hasss elected to join you in the direct hunt and hasss left me in charge until then...

The blur of the Tear Runner streaked by Avoim's ship. AHAHAHA! Good to be airborn again! Hope you don't mind if I join you men out here. Just got this bird fixed up on the journey here and I thought it time to stretch her wings! The nimble craft banked around the Shock Hammer and ignited its booster launching it in the direction of the House and its newest catch. Frogu, next time, do not act so rashly. Do not forget that there still is two large fleets engaged in combat not 2 parsecs away. The last we need is a small republic patrol group to break off in response to any civilian distress calls. Next time, use your head and make sure the target is sufficiently crippled beforehand. Nonetheless, a catch is a catch. Tssslk! Open the Hanger doors!

Yesss sssir... Loogark, pull thossse two leversss on your right....

The Tear Runner pulled to a stop alongside the house. Come on now ya ingrates! Lets get this thing to the Hammer! Time is riches!

[Catatafish]

"Yeah, yeah... "

Loogark pulled on the levers to open the hangar doors, and checked the radar again, just in case the crippled vessel the Black Moons were looting, had been quick enough to send out a distress signal to the ships battling nearby. It looked like they were clear, at least for now.

The shistavanen then opened a comm link to both ships still inside the hangar and leaned his chair back, swinging around to face outside the main window, and lifting his feet up on the instrumentation. "I'll stay here and monitor how everything goes. Any incoming ships, and I'll sound the alarm, but we'll have little time to get the hell out of this place before the whole republic armada's on our hides. Stay on your toes!" Loogark then turned off the comm and swinged his chair around again, facing Tssslk. A wide impish grin drawn on his face...

"...And, the next time you give me an order, I'll boil you into soup."

[Leo]

Frogu circled the action as the Black Moons enveloped the now unmanned vessel, and took all of the treasure that he had worked to acquire. Did they appreciate the treasure as he did? or did they just use it to brag or to buy things with? Frogu knew they didn't keep it forever like he did. This irritated him. He picked up his comm and said.

"As long as we do our best to refrain from explosions or cannon fire they wont notice. Board, raid, leave. Thats the strategy. We need to hurry things up here Rah there are more juicy vessels approaching and im getting tired of guarding you. Take the loot and send that empty hunk of metal into space!"

Frogu was getting antsy... he had obtained great treasure within minutes of coming from hyperspace. He wanted more... now.

[avoim]

Avoim just launched from the Shock Hammer, when another small ship that looked to be loaded, entered the space around them. Avoim shot the engines and comm until they were both offline. He then docked onto the ship, and cut a hole into the ships docking bay door, he then quickly ran through the ship and cut through all the people on the ship, once all the people on board were dead, he started collecting its loot, he left nothing there, he took all he could grab and place on his ship; he barely had any space left in the cargo department to shut its door, he then got back into his ship.

Before he went to his ship though, he accessed the computer, and sent the ship flying towards the surface of the planet,where either it'd crash or one of the two sides would shoot it down, though he set it to slowly increase in speed. He had enough time to get to his ship undock and return to the Shock Hammer, where he'd unload his treasure, he then communicated to the rest of the crew “Guys I just got us a good hunk of treasure, I'll unload it then come to help take treasure off the other ship.”

[A®heim]

On board the Shock Hammer Tssslk glared at Loogark and let out a low hiss. Allow me to make sssomething perfectly clear to your ssspeck of a brain. There isss one being in thisss galaxssy that your captain sssincccerely trussstsss. Therefore, I would ssstringly sssuggessst that you treat me with a little ressspect. The Tulvaree gave a cruel smile revealing many rows of razor teeth before continuing. Asss for the sssoup, I wouldn't exsspect to tassste even ssslightly delisscious. However, I'm not too picky, you'd make a delectable morsssel...

A few hundred klicks away the Tear Runner screamed by Avoim's newest catch. Aye! Good catch boys, but it would seem that that last one attracted a bit of unwanted attention. Republic patrol boat, cmoing for us, weapon systems are armed. Plunder the rest from what we've rustled up, It's time I show you why I am feared across the galaxy.

Rah turned directly for the approaching gunboat and slammed down the throttle. The Tear Runner burst forward with numbing speed. In the cockpit Rah began to warm up the main capacitors for combat. The Thunder Spears required a lot of energy from the star fighter, it wouldn't do to have the conduits rupturing because of ill-adaptation to sudden increases in energy.

The small ship was rattled as a laser blast narrowly clipped the wing. Blast, they had already opened fire. Rah grabbed the controls and took evasive action, the Tear Runner was tough for a fighter but it wouldn't last many more hits like that. He would have to hit it hard and fast.

Rah picked up the comunicator with one hand while putting his ship into a tight barrel roll with the other narrowly avoiding another long-range turbolaser blast. Clip your fire men, just 'cause it's firing on us doesn't mean it isn't worth salvaging. I'm going to knock out its long range weaponry, Loogark, I need you to charge the Crown of Thorns and bring the Shock Hammer into range. We're gonna crack it open and scrape the meat from its scorched shell.

"TARGET DISTANCE: 1000 METERS". The targeting computer spoke through the din of the engines. ION CANNONS IN RANGE. Rah flicked a switch on the control stick. There was a high-pitched whirring as the topside ion cannon turret emerged from it's slot and primed for firing. The weapon gave off 3 quick reports as the trigger was pulled, hurling the shimmering blue spheres at the Republic gunboat.

The shots struck the craft spraying into spiderwebbing patterns of ionic energy upon its shields. The shields flared for moment and shuddered before falling. Now that the shields were down, the real damage could commence. "DIVERTING ALL CAPACITOR ENERGY TO THUNDER SPEARS."

The twin radial cannons on the sides of the Tear Runner began to rotate slowly and buzz, the tips emanating a bright green glow. "TARGET DISTANCE: 200 METERS" He was almost in range...
"100 METERS" Another laser bolt seared across the Tear Runner's wing scorching the hull. Just a little more... "THUNDER SPEARS IN RANGE" It was over.

With a subtle grin, Rah pulled the safety off the large trigger on the targeting array. Now his crew would see the fruits of his solitude. The pirate narrowed his eyes, lined up his trajectory on the Gunboat, and fired. There was a horrendous scream as the two great beams of green light tore from the sides of the fighter and struck against the armor plating of their target. There was a split second of resistance before the armor gave way and broke its bonds. The beams sustained their existance for only a few seconds as the Tear Runner shot by. Where the Gunboat's wing had once lain was a smoldering gash along the entire length of the craft, the remainder of the wing drifted slowly into the void detached from its mother.

The gunboat ceased fire for a moment, perhaps in shock, before returning fire on Rah. It was too late for them though. With that wing had gone their long-range defenses, and the whole time they had been occupied trying to hit the nimble Tear Runner, the Shock Hammer was bearing down upon them. Tssslk, Loogark, you should be in range by now. The target is crippled but it can still bite. Move to position 310 and finish the job!

[avoim]

After plundering several more small vessels that were fleeing the battle, Avoim got a Force Premonition, which was quickly followed by its arrival, a large cruiser republic cruiser with its weapons armed, had just jumped into the area. Avoim started to fly towards the Shock Hammer, and pulled out his comm, he then began to speak, with a frightened voice.

“Captain, Republic cruiser off the port bow of the Shock Hammer, I suggest you and all the other crew members return to the ship as soon as possible, or we'll come under heavy fire, I will try to use the force to increase the shields or to keep them off of us, but I don't know how long I'll be able to do that, please hurry.”

Avoim then put the comm down, and sat cross-legged on the deck plating, he then began to meditate, he went into a deep meditation state, where he kept the ship from locking on to the Shock Hammer or any of the smaller vessels, and he also used the force to increase the shields power, only allowing the crew to enter the shielding.

Avoim knew he couldn't keep this up long, the crew would have to hurry.

[A®heim]

((OOC: Leo, Catatafish, your absence saddens me. Therefore, Avoim and I have decided to end this thread and take us to Nar Shadaa to do some more recruiting. I'm going to god mod you two a lot in this post but you have to understand that it is necessary. You will remain with us in case you come back and I'll continue to tag you on to my future posts until the time of your return. Thank you.))

Rah was steering the Tear Runner clear from the gunboat when he received Avoim's message. The pirate glanced quickly in the direction indicated. Oh boy.... Rekh, Tssslk, incoming cruiser, redirect weaponry! Target position: 847, link all beam emitters, STOP IT IN ITS TRACKS! FIRE!!!

There was a low whine as 8 points in a circle around the Shock Hammer's hull began to glow dimly. The Tear Runner was shook by another blast from the crippled gunboat. Rah growled and turned his ship around again. He had forgotten about the gunboat and his shields payed for it with a critical blow to the rear rendering them all but useless. Frogu, get your ship out there. Jump out immediately, we will regroup on Nar Shadaa! As for this blasted gunboat...

Rah flipped a switch on the targeting array. The final missile deployed from the retractable racks. The gunboat was too close, and though it was damaged it could still pose to much of a threat to allow a retreat operation. "Target Locked." The computer gave the confirmation as the pirate pulled the trigger. The missile flared to life and began twisting its way towards the gunboat.

The bridge erupted into a great ball of flame as the missile impacted it. Several moments later another blast echoed through the void as fire spewed from various panels on the gunboat. Another, and another, each working its way further along the hull until...

Rah shielded his eyes from the blinding flash of light emanating from the imploding hull of the ship. Flaming debris rained past his cockpit, one leaving a dangerously deep gash in the canopy. The smoke cleared at last revealing the even greater threat. The cruiser was right on top of them and preparing to fire. In his last moments Rah saw a dozen turbolaser batteries aim in his direction. There would be no escape now. He gripped the controls and waited for his searing end.

Not 100 klicks away, the 8 points of light had become almost unbearable to gaze upon. With a sound like a lightning strike a crackling beam of blue light snapped from the topmost point to the ones next to it on either side. The link continued to jump down the ion emitters until reaching the lowest one. The final emitter shined with a light to rival the brightest suns of the galaxy illuminating the small battle in an eerie blue, casting long shadows on the cruiser and the fleeing pirates.

A noise as though the universe itself was being torn apart accompanied the brilliant ion beam as it almost instantaneously bridged the distance between the Shock Hammer and the cruiser. Shields fizzled away as the beam whipped deftly across the hull scorching through the armor plating like the fires of hell through tissue paper. Ion energy arced from the gash leaping from sensor antennae to weapon emplacement leaving desolation in its wake. The thousands of lights dotting the cruiser flickered and died out, the entire craft tilted in its path until it halted in its path too stunned to move on.

Rah laughed aloud at his providence. AHAHAHA! Great shot! That'll teach em to mess with the Black Moon Pirates! Bring the Shock Hammer around and open the hanger. The cruiser took that hit hard, but she'll be back online soon. We have to get out of here while we can.

The Tear Runner swooped into the hangar, the doors of which abruptly shut tight behind him. Rah stomped his way up to the bridge and for the first time in 200 years sincerely smiled to another humanoid being. The pirate picked up the com system and opened up broadcasting Frogu who had just jumped out of the system. Gentlemen, what we have done here to today is more than just pillaging. We have announced ourselves to the galaxy. We have proven that we are not your everyday bunch of rambling pirates. We are the Black Moons, we are a power, we are a threat, and we.....ARE HORRENDOUSLY OUTNUMBERED! Tssslk! Plot a course for Nar Shadaa! We have some recruiting to do....