Galactica Firma (Started / Still Accepting)

[Quiksilver]

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Roy Orionis silently tipped the fire-drink down in his throat, reveling in the burning taste of Vegan alcohol. The Outer Ring bar might be a dingy, downtrodden affair compared to others on the city-world Plutus, but it certainly made a good fire-drink. Smacking his lips, Roy lowered the drink and surveyed the bar with the measured eye of a regular pilot used to closely examining planets on star-maps. Plutus was a pretty safe place compared to other planets Roy had landed on, but it never hurt to be careful- especially with Roy's history. Having royally screwed the Black Nova Pirates and living through their payback made you a little cautious. Erglics and humans mostly made up the bar, but there were a couple of Toggai jammed into the corner and a solitary Alphyn in a booth by the door. Some of the humans and all of the Toggai carried weapons, but they were nothing more than pulsar pistols. Other weapons were not allowed into the bar, a fact that helped Roy breathe. His energy shields were strong enough to take a couple of pistol hits in time for Roy to react. He was reassured by this fact.

However, Roy kept an eye on them all the same. His first mate and best friend Sparks had recently gotten up to go get more drinks, and Roy felt uneasy without his Architect friend guarding his back. He felt like he was just waiting for something to happen....something big.

[Time Psyduck]

High above Delmontey III, an antique-looking orbital station floated. It may have not looked it, but it was the planet's primary spaceport. Given that this planet was the most heavily populated one in the system, such an outdated station was even less impressive, but the planet below was a rural world, mostly inhabited by farmers. As a result, most of it's output was food to the city worlds, whilst what came in was mostly manufactured items from more heavily industrialized worlds. The space station only had one ship docked - a rather odd black and white vessel that looked as though it had been thrown together from spare parts.

In the ship's cockpit, a rather casually-dressed man was sat in the pilot's seat, a video channel open to the station's control centre. The co-pilot's seat was occupied by a young woman, who's clothing seemed rather more formal, but was in the same green.
[i]"Star Rose, you are clear to leave the station,"[/i] declared a voice from the control room.
"Understood control," the man replied, "disengaging docking clamps." He reached forwards and flipped some switches on the console in front of him. With a hiss, several clamps disengaged, and the ship drifted out, away from the station.
[i]"You'll be clear for main engines in 4...3...2...1...you are clear to use full power,"[/i] the voice continued, [i]"Thankyou for visiting Delmontey Station. We hope to see you again.[/i] As the voice spoke, the ship's rockets came to life causing it to accelerate away from the planet.
"Thanks to you too," the man replied before the feed cut off. Almost instantly another channel opened, showing what seemed to be some sort of bug-like creature, which was wearing some sort of armour.
"We've left the station," the man told the figure, "you can take the armour off now, Lep."
"I'll do it later," she replied, "aren't you wanting quantum drive?"
"Eventually yes, but we're not in a hurry," he replied, "we can wait, and ANNA can go and join you anyway," he pointed out. He turned to his co-pilot. "What're our stats?" he asked.
"Everything is at normal levels," she replied, stiffening up.
"Good, good," the man muttered, "now, why don't you head down to the rose and give Lep some company?"
"As you wish," the woman replied, before standing and heading out of the cockpit.

Less than ten minutes later, with a flash, the ship's Quantum Engines fired up, and it left the star system.

[Makο]

It was a tranquil scene. The Desert environment had nothing going on. Suddenly, a Human ran by. Panting, he leapt over a rock, tripping, doing a somersault before stumbling back up and sprinting away. He peeked over his shoulder, only to see a Large Purple-Blue Cruiser menacingly following him. Running low on stamina, he ducked behind a rock, trying to catch his breath. He could hear the crunching of Gravel. He ran out from his cover and sprinted towards no general direction. He could see his ship. He felt a rush of relief rush over him. Suddenly, he stopped dead. He fell to his knees and slowly looked over his shoulder, only to see a large Tranquilizer Dart in his shoulder. Just as his mind faded away, he saw someone walking up behind him, just as he faded away.



Fara'Gok walked up to his prey, satisfied by the result. He yanked the dart out of his opponents shoulder, and placed it in his ammo container. He lifted the bounty over his shoulder and began to walk towards a Transport Craft that was following him. Two people ran up to him.
"Captain, sir!" One of them said. he looked at the bounty over his shoulder. "Do you find some strange pleasure from shooting people?"
"Maybe." Fara' responded, smirking. "Anyway, go and hack our foe's ship. We will sell it for an extra profit." He finished and climbed aboard the Transport, which took off. The other crew member looked at his friend and said,
"Oh, our captain. Always looking for an extra profit."

[Frybread002]

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Walking among the vast city buildings of a planet that he didn't know the name of, Rey was running for his dear life. Since he was being chased by a group of thugs, who seen him robbing them. Using his natural speed, and agility, Rey was quickly moving through the crowd untill he couldn't run anymore and collasped.
After beig caught by the gang of thugs, Rey was "Roughen Up" and was beated nearly to the point he died. But intstead passed out. When he woked up, it was night and he looked into a puddle of water that was collected on the ground of the allyway he was dumped in. Within that reflection, Rey seen a bloody, and bruised face. Not caring about his well being, Rey just went to another allyway that he called "Home."
Which was just a piece of street that no one uses, a blakent he found on the streets for a doorway, and some news paper for a bed. Following his normal routine, Rey made a fire using sticks he found, and some old newspaper for the kindling, and made dinner.
After he was done, Rey just went to his bed, and collasped again. Out of exhuastion and pain. Falling asleep, dredfully waiting for tommorow too see what he could steal from any unspecting person.

[Premier Alexander Romanov]

When Rey awoke, someone was standing in his room, a paw firmly planted on his chest. The paw belonged to a black-furred leg, which was attached to an irritated-looking humanoid. The creature had wild pink hair, a golden corset barely covering a pair of D-cups, other golden accessories, a stylized loincloth, a strange black machete-looking weapon, and a pair of angry red pupils in two amber pools. The feline ears on top of the being's head were twitching, as if they were trying to hear something, and the alien's prehensile tail was wrapped around a bag filled with Rey's acquisitions from the previous day.
"Filthy, thieving Ndee scum!" "She" hissed, the creature looking and sounding like a female, but there were a few masculine traits to her that made him unsure. "Do you know who I am?"

[Frybread002]

((OOC)) Wow, it's funny, in KH I started the fights and you stopped them. What's the irony of this?

"Filthy, thieving Ndee scum! Do you know who I am?"

Awoken to a startle, Rey found himself still lying down, with a paw on his chest, and seeing how his race, and "Its" race had some bad blood between them. He knew that he was either going to die, or get badly beaten. Whatever the case, Rey was trouble.

Because of the way he was positioned, Rey was in no way of actually making a proper escape, but he noticed the "leg" and the way "It" was standing, where he did the unthinkable, and most dangerous esacpe attempt.

"Hehehe...I knew that the M'rie'au were even lower than the Ndee, but I didn't think they themselves would look through garbage for a fight." He scoffed sarcastically, while grabbing what he called a "Flash Bomb," ingited and threw up in the air. The result was that "It" was blinded, and he could run away. The draw back was that he was blinded too, since the flash bomb was too close to him. So he could barely tell which way he was going.

But with some luck, he made out of the allyway, but leaving most of his items behind. Such as his prized knife Rekki-Maru, and other supplies. Unfortnately, Rey was still in pain from yesterday's event, and couldn't run quite right. Making him limp while he ran.

[Premier Alexander Romanov]

Several minutes later, just when Rey thought he had gotten away, the creature landed in front of him, now holding Rey's knife, Rekki-Maru. "Nice knife. I will let you off with only one section of your body broken, and I will even let you choose, if you allow me to keep your precious knife. And I only wanted to punish you for pickpocketing me yesterday. One of the things you stole was my clan's emblem." The M'rie'au produced a large golden coin with an enhanced, more elaborate version of the design on her loincloth. This was given to me by my grandmather, which shi received from hir mather, who got it from hir mather." The use of hir words confirmed hir status as a hermaphrodite. "My mather died aiding Clan Og'gr'rao'an on Sphere 137, so my grandmather took the position of Chief of Chiefs back, until I took over from hir. This is the symbol of my status as Chief of Chief of Clan Tf'fen'alf'a'an, and if you take it again, I swear you will live to regret it."

[Makο]

Just as the Transport docked with The Torchlight, Fara' could see his Bounty's ship dock. [i]Ah, profit. It feels so good.[/i] He looked back to make sure his prey was still tied up. He was tied on the floor, with a scowl on his face.
"Hey, don't give me that attitude," Fara' said humorously, "Your just lucky that I wasn't ordered to fry you."
"That would be a relief to what I gonna be subjected to!" He yelled up at him. Fara' took his Shotgun and clocked his bounty in the face with the butt of the weapon.
"I don't give a crap. As long as I get paid, they could whip you all day for all I care."
"If I escape, mark my words, you will be dead!" Fara' just sighed and retrieved his Tranquilizer Pistol, shooting the Bounty smack in the middle of his forehead. He watched and chuckled as his pray nodded off. He sat up from the Pilots Seat and picked him up, swinging him over his shoulder. Just as he climbed out of the transport craft, he watched his Contact fly in the docking bay. He landed right in front of Fara', and climbed out.
"Perfect timing!" Fara' said, "Now, enough small talk. You owe me 2000 Credits. And I expect payment right now." His contact took out a small pouch and tossed it to Fara', who had already placed his bounty in his contacts ship. The contact then silently took off, leaving no trace that he was ever here. A crew member ran up to Fara'.
"Where to next, sir?" Fara' looked around, and pointed east.
"Go that way, for about 1000 miles. I'll tell you where to go from there." The Torchlight warp jumped off into the horizon.

[Quiksilver]

Sparks stood silently on the bar balcony, set several hundred feet above the ground level of Plutus, regarding the twin moons above with a almost-childish fascination. The beauty of the scene, with the moons and stars glowing bright in-between the spires of Terru, Plutus, cast a trance over the automaton. Sparks had never seen fantastical scenes like this back on Dyson Sphere 32.8, where the sky, itself artifical, had always been blocked out by ships and Architects doing yet more work. Sparks thanked however the hell was up there once more that he had finally gotten off that godsaken planet- not that it deserved to be called that. Sure, his new line of work was dangerous and all, but at least he got to see scenes like this...Wait, what was that?

Spark's photoreceptors narrowed. For most lifeforms, what he was looking at would be too far away to see. But Sparks was a Architect, an AI, and his limitations, in this area at least, were a little higher. What he was seeing was some feline humanoid threatening a Ndee, leg on chest. Spark's felt anger rise up within him. Anyone who had heard what the Black Nova Pirates had done to Jace Orionis and for what reason would feel the same towards any bully. This, Sparks decided, was a situation he needed to take care of. Sparks turned his head around, looking back into the bar. Music could be heard and Sparks knew Jace would be busy sidling up against any female he could for the next couple of minutes. Sparks would have enough time to deal with this. The automaton turned and walked onto a transmitter, transporting himself to ground level. Sure, he could've used a door, but who had the time for that?

...

After several minutes' had running, Sparks had appeared behind the feline, which he now saw was a M'rie'au. The scuffle had been moved to just outside the alleyway it had started, and Sparks saw the M'rie'au now had a knife. It was time to end this. "STOP RIGHT THERE!" Sparks demanded. "This fight will end...NOW!"

***

Through slitted eyes, Akkoro watched the droid leave the bar, through a transmitter located on the balcony. He turned back and looked around his empty booth, starting to get up and thinking, maybe it was time to go like the droid had done. The Black Nova contact obviously wasn't going to show it. Or had that droid been a worker for the Pirate and had gone to tell his boss he was here? Akkoro reached a decision and sat down again, He would wait just a little longer for this Black Nova Pirate. Besides, he had seen the credits being offered. He knew this job was going to be a big one.

[Frybread002]

[i]Wow, she takes great pride in her clan...But I can't let get to me. Right now, my only concern is Rekki-Maru...[/i]

[b]"Listen, even I could tell you would want to avoid a public confrotation. And even if you were to report to the police for theft, they wouldn't know how to handle me. Since they don't even know about the Ndee. The only people who know about the Ndee, much less me, are only the M'rie'au. So avoid the eyes of the press, and authorites, what do you want?"[/b] Choosing his words carefully, Rey paused, and continued

[b]"I know you wanted more than your Clan's Emblem, but even I wouldn't that foolish to steal it from a person who know's my face. But I'm not as stupid as you, to play falsely accuss. Besides, isn't that against your so-called Code? Or do you just wanted to fight me?"[/b] Smirked Rey, but was still catious, since he himself was no postion to bargain, or fight. So too ease the tension, and avoid dectation from the police, or any other type of government, he told the M'rie'au this through his mind. Since this was a skill that all Ndee have.

Altough the orgins are unknown, the Ndee have a legend of that their race created with the help of what they call "The Great Spirit." A being who influences all aspects of life, the Ndee were facing a crisis. Which was avoided when another supreme "Being" -who claimed the same Divine prowes as the The Great Spirit - helped the Ndee. In return, they wanted to know how to communicate with the Thre Great Spirit. But were declined. With the Ndee claiming that it was only a skill that was capable only to them, and other tribes like them. Seeing this as a act of betrayal, these "Beings" stole the Ndee ability's to talk. Making them mutes, and marooned them to another strecth of land. But after countless gernerations, the Ndee formed the power to speak through their minds. For others to hear them aloud, the Ndee were also capable of speaking through a individual minds too.

Of course this was only in legends, and it could not be proven scientifically, the Ndee are currently being taught to speak English. With Rey Mist being the very first one to master the langauge, but still has major problems with pronoucing words.

[Time Psyduck]

The [i]Star Rose[/i] shut down it's Quantum Engines as it came into orbit over Plutus. By ship's time it was still night, the pilot being the human female from before, seeming to be as fresh as she was when the ship had left Delmontay - 18 hours previously - despite having not rested in that time.

In one of the crew cabins, which was rather full of various items that most people would call junk, but Tim Jones knew either had more value, or could be used for various other more useful things, an alarm sounded. Tim himself sat bolt upright in the upper bunk, glancing at a small screen, and breathing out when he noticed the alarm was just his wake-up call, letting him know they were at the other end of the run. Quickly dressing, he headed over to the cockpit, which wasn't far from the cabin, a result of the ship's designer making as much room for cargo and passengers as they could. As he entered, the woman slipped into the other seat, leaving the pilot position open for him.

"Morning ANNA," he greeted her, "anything of note?"
"There was nothing outside of expectations sir," she replied stiffly, earning her a look from the pilot. "Oh, good morning," she added.
"I trust the alarm call was limited to the forward section," he added.
"Yes si-" she answered, catching herself. It had been three years since she had been installed in the [i]Star Rose[/i] as the ship's AI system, and although the biological crew had done there best to get rid of her formal and official behaviour, she still found herself slipping into it rather often. She didn't even know why she did, since her records from before that time were gone.
"So Lep's probably still asleep," Tim muttered, "then maybe we can get this load dropped off before she wakes up." He began to push various keys on a small side panel, and a screen blinked into life, a sleepy-looking official at the other end.
"...Morning," she yawned, "what can I do for you?"
"This is the [i]Star Rose,[/i] Tim answered, "We've arrived on a supply run, and wish to dock."

[Aesirson]

A golden, alien-looking ship landed smoothly in Temple II's docking bay. Temple II was one of the largest space stations in the known galaxy. The almost completely silent engines went quiet, and a woman that looked to be around 20 walked outside of it. She had long, blonde hair tied up in a ponytail, and her eyes was blue, almost artificial.
"Temple II. I can't recall I missed you..."

---And now for something completely different---

Lars sat in a bar in another city, another world. He was trying to pull off a song on his guitar, but it didn't work out very well. He was a bit drunk so to say. He started singing a little to the tones that he was playing, and when he really turned it up to eleven he yelled:

"[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZLvuO5Omp0&feature=related]BENZIN![/url]"

Some of the other people in the bar looked at him, but he didn't care, and only kept on singing. Suddenly he heard a little tone in his helmet, and the visor changed to show a message.

[i]Mr Lars, Skreech.

Kill Centaurion.

Will contact you when I hear about your progress.

//Anon[/i]

"Another day at work." Lars said with a dark and rough voice. He now stood up and slowly walked out of the bar. "And another day to die. At least it's a good day!"

[Quiksilver]

Akkoro watched impassively as the tall Ultgarian sat down in the booth across from him. The Black Nova had shown up only a few seconds ago, and already the brute looked ready to go. Akkoro waited for the creature to speak.

"Your target is near," The Ultgarian whispered gravelly. "The person in question is docking tonight, here on Plutus. We want you to take the ship, kill all targets on board, and then access the ship's logs. We want you to send all information the ship has registered for the last ten months."

"I am not a courier. Such a task requires both extra credits and technology for hacking into the logs." It was not a request; it was a demand.

"Both will be provided. A shipment of concussive mines are also waiting for you at the warehouse here-" The Ultgarian slipped a datascrip (A futuristic hologram used in the same way as paper) across the table.

Akkoro accepted the datascrip without comment. It wasn't until he had thoroughly examined it and memorized the address that he asked his next question. "I need information also. What shall I look for in the logs?"

The brute licked his lips nervously. "Any anomaly it has registered. We have information about a threat starting to expand in he fringes of Wild Space, and this ship has been in those parts recently. We want to know about this threat, by any means nessescary."

Akkoro inclined his head as a way of saying goodbye, and got up and started to leave the bar before a shout stopped him.

"Wait, don't you want to know the name of the ship?"

Akkoro turned back and smiled. "I already know it."

"It's the Star Rose."

[Aesirson]

By a coincidense and some luck, Lars knew that this Centaurion character would be on Plutus, so the Metal Queen made it's way there and landed smoothly. Lars walked outside it and looked around the docking bay. No unusual things here.

"Hey! You!" A man's voice shouted. Lars turned around to see an official looking person wearing green clothes. "Welcome to Plutus, Skreech. I hope you enjoy your stay. I'm going to inspect your ship to see to it that nothing illegal is there."

"And you think that there would be?" Lars said with a threatening tone.

"Of course not, but the USF demands that we shall look through all ships that docks here."

Lars grunted something that sounded like "fine" and then walked away. He didn't like the USF that much. LAways snooping around.

[Time Psyduck]

The [i]Star Rose[/i] glided into it's docking bay and came to a full stop, as access ports moved forwards to bridge the ship to the orbital platform. The screen blinked into life, to show a customs official, clipboard at the ready, waiting to board the ship. "I'm here to perform a full inspection of this ship, to ensure you aren't carrying anything illegal," he called.
"You're welcome to come aboard, but be advised that our main hold is under vacuum, and aft sections have a carbon atmosphere," Tim replied, before turning back to ANNA. "Head back and wake Lep please. I forgot about the inspection; I'll deal with this guy." The woman nodded and left the cockpit. Tim hit a button and did the same.

"I'm afraid we can't justify oxygenating the main hold," he explained to the official as he boarded the ship, "vacuum seals on the containers protect our cargo, and anything else goes into our secondary holds. The rear of the ship is crewed by a Diusianx, and the atmosphere there is set up for her. I can provide breathing apparatus for you," he added, opening up a locker in the wall.

The tour was relatively quick. Although the containers containing the food could not be opened inside the cargo hold, a quick call to the dealer who was buying the produce - an old friend of both Tim's family and the dealer on Delmontey that had supplied the food - confirmed that they could be checked upon transfer to his storage area, and he would take responsibility for them. Not that there would be a problem, since Tim and ANNA had overseen the packing of all of the containers themselves. The tour of the carbon-aired sections was quick as well - Lepidtra was already up and in her suit when they arrived, but the inspector didn't stay long, claiming he found the environment stuffy and oppressive, even with a full face-mask and oxygen tank.

Once the inspector was gone, it was a case of waiting for the buyer to show up and collect. ANNA stayed in the aft section to keep the Diusianx engineer company, so Tim was alone as he settled back into the cockpit, a book in hand.

[Quiksilver]

Akkoro watched the Star Rose "dock and lock", as the process of docking was known. By simple planning, Akkoro had found himself at Docking Port 32 ten minutes before the Star Rose touched down, and he greatly appreciated the forethought that had led to this. He was able to discover the layout of the porting area, the ship itself, and most importantly- where the escape routes where. Lighting a Delmonteian cigar, he pretended to wait for a transport while secretly surveilling the Star Rose. He watched as the inspector boarded the ship, and, conversely, left. Akkoro dropped all pretense and advanced on the cobbled-together cruiser. He knew, from his 'searches', that two lifeforms, one human, one Diusianx, would be aboard, along with a computer intelligence.

Akkoro was prepared to take care of them all.

It took only a couple of seconds to cross the docking platform and out to the port. The Alphyn glanced surreptiously around to make sure noone was watching, and then bended down next to the Star Rose's hull door and took out a V-shaped device. He planted the device against the door and flipped a switch. A few seconds passed and suddenly the hacking device beeped, and the door unlocked. Smiling coldly, Akkoro pushed it open and advanced into the ship proper.

[Aesirson]

Lars had heard quite a few things about the Centaurion guy. The best lead was that he was of the Alphyn species, a species not seen very often outside their own systems. Lars looked around, he didn't see any Alphyns... Most of the people around him was human, there was two Ultgarians conversing with an Erglic, a small group of Toggais argumenting with some human (police, judging from the looks) and there was also another Skreech, clothed in a red SuSu resembling an European dragon.

"The Prime Race will return, and they will bring the apocalypse with them!"

Lars turned around. A doomsayer, they had become quite common lately, due to the increase of World-Eater ships. Some even thought that the World-Eaters and the Prime Race was one and the same (a philosophy that Lars did not share) But there was something about the prophet. OH YEAH! She was an Alphyn! Lars walked up to her.

"Alphyn!" He yelled. It was well known that most Skreech had a hard time keeping their voices at a civilized volume. "I need some information! Have you seen another one of your kind around!"

The Alphyn woman looked at the Skreech with fear in her eyes. She nodded and pointed at the direction of the docking bay. Lars sighed. What a waste to leave the bay if Centaurion was already there!

[Time Psyduck]

Deep in the engineering bay in the [i]Star Rose's[/i] engineering hull, AKA the [i]Black Rose[/i], Lepidtra was doing some fairly routine work, that didn't even need the ship to be in a dock, but would speed up her checks later. ANNA was stood nearby, watching the readout on a screen. Suddenly, she felt something, a disturbance, as if someone was hacking into the ships computers. It faded almost instantly, but she sent an alert up to the main cockpit, to tell Tim that he needed to check it out.

A light flashed on a console, which caught the corner of Tim's eye. He checked the light which was blinking. [i]Potential Breach,[/i] he thought, noting the light in question was supposed to flash along with a steady light showing what was compromised. However, it was the only light flashing. Standing up, he picked up a small side arm from a locker by the door, and slipped out onto the main access corridor. There was only a small space between cockpit door and the corridor to the main entry hatch, but it was enough for him to stand out of sight. As he peered round he found what seemed to be an Alpyhn male, which was very odd, given that there was only supposed to be one person on this ship who even breathed the air in this corridor, and that was him. He stepped out, blocking the other person's path, and holding the gun in front of him. He didn't actually need it, but it was usually more convincing to the usual thieves than that 'I am psychic and I can fry your brains with a though.'

[Quiksilver]

Akkoro smiled at the human pointing a gun in his face. "Hello there, Tim Jones." He said pleasantly, knowing the use of his name would throw the man off. As would the next thing, Akkoro thought as he thumbed the switch concealed in his hand.

BOOM!!!

The first concussion bomb went. Suddenly, all lights went dark and the steady hum of the stalled ship died. Along the way, Akkoro had stopped by a fusion reactor outlet. One that connected straight to the ship's core. For a second, everything was dark, but Akkoro knew that emergency backup systems would soon come online. Now was time to make him move. Akkoro lashed out in the darkness, knowing his senses would lead him to his target. His first hand came up in a Krav Maga disarm technique, aiming to grab the gun and deflect the fire away from himself. At the same time, his other hand came up, aimed for the human's nose, trying to break it and sufficently shock the human enough into loosening his grip on the gun. Then Akkoro would take the gun for himself, and well...it would all go uphill from there, now wouldn't it?

[Premier Alexander Romanov]

"This is a great example of how little you know about us." The M'rie'au sneered as shi handed him his knife back. "Our Code involves replacing that that was taken from the universe by us with something of equal or greater value. This makes us great judges and merchants, according to the humans." Shi took her emblem, gave back the rest of the stolen goods, and helped Rey up. "Now I do not know about all of your things, but I did follow you and see what you have stolen after you took my clan's emblem. We are going to see how many of these things we can give back."

As this discussion was going on, Alpha Squadron, Fifth Fleet, was currently in orbit around the world Zheng Huo.
"Alright, Kerrigan, I want you to find this 'Tu'lo' and bring her to me as soon as possible. She's somewhere on that planet, and on the run. Get her to me in one piece. Understood?"

[Time Psyduck]

"So, you've done-" Tim began, but cut himself off when a blast ran through the ship, stalling it. Had he had the chance, he would have smiled, because stunning the ship would instantly engage the deadlock in the aft sections. The deadlock was one of a few secrets the [i]Star Rose[/i] had not yet been forced to reveal, at least not to anyone who'd managed to tell anyone else about it. It sealed every blast door aft of the main hold, and any section that didn't already have a life-form that needed the air already in there would have the carbon atmosphere pumped in, whilst the access corridor through the main hold was split into sections, with it's atmosphere dumped straight into space. It also disconnected the main cockpit from all major systems, and transferred them to either the engine room or the secondary cockpit. It was Lepidtra's ultimate defence, which Tim, in not asking for the manual door control codes, had made a weapon effective against himself. As soon as the backups kicked in the lockdown would be instantaneous, so all he had to do was give them that moment. He could well predict what sort of thing this intruder would try, even if he couldn't read his precise moves, so he forced the air in front of him to form a solid barrier to deflect him.

In the engineering section, Lepidtra and ANNA were very much aware of the power going down, ANNA checking the internal feeds. As the power returned, she found there was an intruder, and managed to find a video showing him facing off against Tim, which she showed to the engineer, still in her armour simply because someone might come aboard. She gasped, but set about assessing the damage to computer core. "ANNA, try and get the station control," she replied. She trusted Tim's ability to deal with this person, but they could have reinforcements, so she wasn't going to pass them up. She had already seen the deadlock complete, meaning she had effective control of the ship, and so it was up to her to do what she could to help Tim.

[Quiksilver]

Akkoro felt his hands touch the psionic barrier and he smiled. Of course, since he knew Tim Jones was a psionic, he had come prepared. "Very good, Jones." A voice seemingly said out of the dark. "Very good." And then suddenly, emergency lights flooded the corridor and Akkoro was gone. Little would Jones know he had used his hacking tool to disengage a bay door and use it to escape into a secondary corridor- one of few, unfortunately enough. Tim would soon be behind him he knew. And more things just kept piling it up- It was atthis point Akkoro found his first deadlocked door. "Damn. Well, looks like I'll have to get this open the old-fashioned way..." He muttered, and he quickly took out another concussion bomb and planted it against the door. Walking back a couple of paces, Akkoro detonated. The door was blown open in another blast of air, and Akkoro advanced straight into...a airless. Akkoro gagged and quickly pressed a button on his armor. A shiny glass helmet encased his head, and undeterred, he slowly walking into the airless cargo hold.

[Wuu.]

The Woodoo Soldat Mega was hovering above a small planet in the Far Rim.(The planet is called Ka'ar)

[i]Attention all soldiers, report for duty and proceed to the Pod Hall.[/i] An automated voice sounded through the entire ship, "So it's finally time to see what this planet is about..." Raeyon thought as he was looking at the planet from a window, and thinking how it would soon belong to The Black Nova Pirates. Raeyon turned around and walked to the Pod Hall with a rather slow pace, and he passed Ekko's personal room and knocked and strongly banged twice on his door, meaning he would have to prepare to drop. Raeyon arrived at the Pod Hall and saw that all his mercenaries where already there, and they saluted Raeyon in unison, Raeyon saluted the soldiers back and told everyone to enter their pod. Raeyon watched how everyone stepped in their pod and how the pod turned to stand-by mode, and waited for Ekko, and after a brief second of waiting he finally arrived. "What's holding you of entering your pod, Raeyon?" Ekko said with a smile, and locked his battle armour. "I was waiting for you to see you in your wackass outfit" Raeyon said mockingly, and pushed Ekko. "Haha, sure you do, Raeyon, well, what about we both enter the pod and prepare for total take-over?" Ekko smiled, and both got into their own pod. As soon as everyone's pod was completely shut, the Pod Hall immediatly became dark, and a voice started countdown. [i]PREPARING FOR LAUNCH. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, LAUNCH[/i] The pods where shot down to the earth with incredible force, but as soon as the pods entered the atmosphere they where getting heavily shot at by the anti aircraft guns, and before they even landed 1/4th where destroyed before they landed. "What the? This wasn't mentioned by the board! There aren't supposed to be anti aircraft guns!" He thought, and when his pod landed he stomped open the door and began assaulting the small base with the tactics made together with his soldiers.

[Aesirson]

"Understood!" Kerrigan said and nodded. She then turned from the Admiral and walked outside.

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Lars heard some noise from one of the ships docked in the docking bay and rushed towards it. It was useless to try to open it, since it was deadlocked.

"DAMNIT!" He yelled, and the inspector, standing not very far away, looked at him.

"Skreech. Do you have a reason for hitting that ships door?" He asked.

"YES!" Lars talked loudly, so loud that the ones in the ship could hear him. He then realized that telling this man that he was out to capture, or kill, Centaurion wasn't very smart, even though Centaurion was an assassin. "My friends inside and he's about to get killed!" A quick lie. Lars had not many friends except for the humans back at the place that he grew up, but he hadn't heard from them for a while.

"Well, if the ships deadlocked then maybe we shouldn't disturb the killing?" The man said, jokingly. "You're not a very good liar, SKreech. Besides, I don't like your kind."

'I don't like your kind'? That's not very nice to say. This human was racist, a trait that was common among humans, sadly.

"You will pay. Someday." Lars, for the first time in who-knows, whispered. He then turned to the ship again and kicked the door, which didn't do much good.

"Stop that immediately, Skreech!"

"SHUT UP!" Lars turned very quickly and the eyes on his suit was glowing red. "Remember when I told you 'someday'? Someday's today!" He then punched the man in the face, beating him unconscious.

[Time Psyduck]

"He's gone?" Tim questioned as the lights came back on. He dashed forwards and swung open the hatch in the hull, looking for the Alphyn. He wasn't there, but there was a Shreek, standing over the unconscious form of the inspector, was.
"Hey," he called, "did an Alphyn pass by here?" he asked, "Male, tall..." he heard a blast from inside the ship. "Nevermind," he added, ducking back into the ship, leaving the hull open in his rush. He pulled out a small communication device and activated it.
"Lep, ANNA, we have an intruder. He's done his homework, so be careful."
"Understood," a female voice came over the communicator as Tim entered the cockpit. Many of the lights and displays were dark from the deadlock, but some were still active, including the status reports, which showed a door into the cargo hold had been blown open. Fortunately he'd entered from an isolated part of the ship, which meant that section could be sealed, and should he get to the other end Lepidtra would almost certainly be in her suit, meaning him blowing the doors sealing the vacuum of the hold wouldn't make much difference.
[i]I didn't want to do this, but I guess it's worth a try. It'll mean a lot of cleaning up later though.[/i] "Lep," he spoke into the communicator, "dump the cargo."
"What?"
"He's in the main hold. Open the bottom doors, and everything in there will drop out. He's clearly got some sort of air supply, he'll be fine, but he'll be out of the ship."
"Undestood," the armoured figure replied, before pushing some controls. Along the length of the main hold, doors swung downwards, cubic containers tumbling downwards from the gravity the now-absent floor was creating.