Log:Expired Munitions

Expired Munitions

OOC Date: February 8, 2020
Location: Coyerti, Mid Rim
Participants: Elrych Cometburn, Tara Sur, Yuun, Aryn Cole

The sudden flash of ships arriving above the green emerald frontier world of Coyerti is probably the most ship traffic the planet's had in a few weeks. Near the head of the columb, aan ETA-2b Interceptor emblazoned with the New Republic phoenix angles down toward the planet. This fighter, known only as Spark 3 is piloted by the young doctor, Aryn Cole. The team that follows are the ones who answered the contract to help.

Aryn's voice comes over their encrypted channel. <<"Welcome to Coyerti. I know only this world is plagued with frequent rains and fogs, and beyond that it's creepy. It makes sense why the Imperials would have used it as a world to stockpile weapons. Climates like these are ideal, and easy to conceal beneath the stormy interference.">> She tucks her hair back and makes a flight adjustment when her droid tells her to. <<"Run scans and tell me if you guys pick up anything. We were supposed to get a message from the local nationals so we could get coordinates, but their line is cold.">> The agile fighter, Spark 3, rocks from side to side as it begins to enter the atmosphere.

Following in a fighter craft of similar design but marked on the IDC as 'Spark 1' is the shades wearing Jedi and Ace pilot of Black Squadron Elrych Cometburn. He has some music playing over the balled cockpits speakers, whistling along as he listens to tue comm chatter. <<"Creepy sounds right down our allie, Doc.">> He starts to scan as the nimble craft enters atmo as well.

Compared to the much smaller starfighters, the Jai'galaar enters the atmosphere more stably, although a lot less gracefully. Cutting through the skies like the slightly more aerodynamically one-winged brick it is, Tara lets the fighters go first. She's a ground pounder, not a combat pilot. From the added astromech station behind the Mandalorian's chair, Kate lets out a stream of binary. <<"Kate's picking up a distress signal, looks like it might be old Imperial encryption, but she can't quite crack it yet. Transmitting the vector to you.">> Tara reaches over to the navicomp, and hits the few keys needed to sync the data to the group's tacnet.

Flying his small freighter in following the smaller fighter craft. He didn't have any weapons on this ship and well it's showing he may need to upgrade soon. Quickly going over the sensors he does get, he broadcasts the comms to the other ships letting them also hear what he is getting from the distress signal.

<<"We have a propensity for finding these places, that's for sure.">> Aryn answers Elrych back. Their ships have broken through atmosphere and begin their descent through the cloud cover. It's evening time, so the ships' sensors switch to night cycle lights. Those in ETA-2b Actis Class Interceptors emit a bright blue light that shines through the clouds as they dip lower and lower. Yuun's comm chatter broadcasts to everyone else and Aryn frowns. She reaches out to try to get a better reading on the signal using her comm terminal, but to no avail. That is until Tara transmits her findings. <<"Thank you, I'm analyzing this now.">>

Aryn was an explorer after college and understanding maps and cultures is something of a hobby. So it does not take long for her to narrow the signal down to a point she designates. This point, if any looked at their maps, was near a mountain range where a large lake sat at the foot of the ridgeline. A village could be seen there, its night cycle lights on. This is the point Aryn marked.

<<"Coyerti flight control, this is New Republic Emergency Response Team One sent in response to your beacon. Do you copy?">> Static.

<<"Flight Control, this is the New Republic emergency response team, please answer.">> Static. Aryn reaches a gloved hand out to flip the switch back to encrypted comms. <<"I recommend we don our breathing masks until I've had a chance to run a diagnostic on this air. Cedar (her droid) has identified an empty landing pad we can set down on. Let's head there and investigate.">>

Aryn slides her mask over her face, covering both her nose and her mouth. She palms the front and blows outward before finally breathing in once the seal was made. A flip of a switch activates the breather, and fresh air is provided. "I should have put on lip balm.. these things can chap.." Aryn says, her voice now modulated. Cedar answers back with something unhelpful and Aryn chuckles. "Ha Ha, Cedar."

Spark 3 goes through the landing protocol, circling first before activating the repulsorlifts and settling down upon its landing skids. When Aryn's canopy rises, thanks to hydraulics, a ladder lowers at the back of the port wing and she climbs out of the cockpit and down. Her green and white BB unit drops to the deck with a THUNK, and begins to roll forward.

<<"Not like I was planning on taking my helmet off on this planet anyway. Following you in.">> Tara lets the fighters land first, before bringing the Jai'galaar in for a landing. The ship settles on its dampers, sublight drives faintly clicking as they cool.

Rising up from the pilot sheet, the hunter turns and slides down the ladder into the main bay of the ship, collecting her larger weaponry from a rack. Flamethrower, check. EE-3, Check. Force pike... check. <"Kate, say here with the ship, maintain comm contact. I don't want to get delayed if we need a quick dustoff."> The ramp drops just long enough for her boots to hit dirt, closing up and locking down shortly after. <<"I'm picking up some movement in the village, quick blips.">>

Elrych Cometburn brings his Actis in for a landing the disembarks after placing his mask on. He is wearing traditional Jedi robes, green for Corellian complete with second class blood stripes along the breeches legs. Hoping down he turns to his own droid, "Jeep her running Eggsy... just incase." He turns to look towards the city. "Its a ghost town..." He announces.

The landing platform they are on is ground level, lifted only enough upon stilts to eliminate the need to make the ground beneath the panels leveled. A single walkway provides a means to leave the landing area and enter the central starport hub. The hub is a large structure, roughly three stories in height and as long as a smashball field (100m). It's the only way to get into the city without having to scale protective walls and electrofied concertina wire. Aryn points at the walls in passing. "It seems the wildlife here is dangerous. They want to keep things out as much as they want to keep things in."

As they walk and pass through the automated doorways, Aryn is using a datapad to analyze the air. This takes a while to process, but what she identifies appears clear, until she looks at it again and spots the toxin. "Hmm, Lophrodeeciate. It's not near enough concentration to harm us, but in excess, this can be harmful to almost all sentient species on record. Depending on the exposure, and concentration, it can cause someone to lose their mind. It's deadly in the sense that.. people go beserk and tear each other apart."

Tucking the datapad away, Aryn sighs and unhooks the dull metal lightsaber from her hip. "I do hope I'm not forced to use this, but we'll need to reach a clinic so I can create an antidote. With any luck.. we can deploy it over the city."

"The question is.. where do we go from here?"

They stood at the center of an abandoned terminal. The eerie silence allowing the sounds of instruments to beep and the airducts to tick above. Lights and power were still on, but something felt off. The way into the village was marked by a sign further ahead, beyond a large terminal desk that was abandoned, and doors that were currently closed and caged like the starport had been shutdown for the night.

Elrych Cometburn unhooks his own black and gold trimmed blade from his belt beneath the comfortable robes of his cloak. At the news reguarding the toxin He nods, "Best to just keep it on at any rate..." He really didn't have plans to go insane today but... stranger things have happened.

<"Kinda reminds me of Lok. Lizards there big enough to need turrets to deal with easily."> When Aryn identifies the toxin, Tara is extra glad that she's operating on internal air. <"Berserker weapons. Why am I not surprised..."> Since the saber's out, the hunter draws her twin blasters as well. Better safe than dead, after all. <"We want to have a droid hack the doors open, or should I get to cutting?">

Having taken with him a rebreather with him, Yuun walks off his ship and locks it down so that it can't be stolen. He moves to catches up with the others, he quirks a brow as he notices a few people rushing towards landing pad, "We may have some company." he says to them as he moves to stand with teh group. He's not seen a Mando before until now he smiles and bows his head to Tara. "Hello." he says. He tigthens the gloves on his hand, looking out int he direection of the two individuals coming. "Would the hospital have better rebreathers for us?" he asks Aryn.

When they get to the gates that block the front doors (think pawn shop cages locked in place), the company that Yuun had brought up arrives at the glass doors. Almost instantly, the glass shatters as they reach inside with their hands, screaming at the tops of their lungs and rattling the cage. At first, it's just one person, but then another.. and another.. and another, and soon there's a crowd of people trying to bust open the cage and get inside after them. Aryn takes a timid step back, her free hand opening and closing, indicative of her nervousness. It's to Tara she speaks. "I'm not sure we want to go out that way. If we have any hope of saving this village, we should keep them contained outside so we're not forced to fight them. Those are mothers and fathers, kids even. I could not live with that on my conscience."

Aryn looks around and points toward a lift that goes to the rooftop. "I'm not certain the hospital would have better rebreathers, but they might have the elements I need to make a cure.-- Come on!"

At the rooftop, the doors to the lift open briefly emitting the sound of pleasant music from their ascent. The top of the three story starport hub provides a good view of the village below. A crowd of crazed people fight to get inside the front of the hub. The group can hear them screaming from above. There are taller buildings in the village, but none are near tall enough as the one they are currently on.

Night has set fully now, and the streetlamps turn on. The electric hum of the city is running fine until suddenly it all cuts out at once. The lights cut out, the power dies down, the lift turns off, and all at once.. the only sound is that of the gate below losing its integrity with no power to hold it, the night song of insects, the screams of invading people, and Aryn's heart rate rising. "It's been made worse."

Aryn looks over the edge before casting her cape back over her shoulders. "Find the hospital and a route to it. We cannot stay up here forever.."

Elrych Cometburn jumps slight as the glass shatters and the arms start reaching through. He keeps his saber off though, echoing Aryns sentiments about having to fight them. "Only if we have to.". A top the hub, the shades wearing Jedi moves towards the edge and looks down. "Not promising..." He mentions before looking up. Taking out his datapad he scrolls through some local information. " Hospital is at the other end of the village. Single story. Can't miss it... or you can just its marked like all tye others."

<"Good point."> Tara flicks her blasters to stun, returning Yuun's greeting with a nod before heading off after Aryn. On the roof, she scans the city, gaze landing on the hospital shortly after Elrych points it out. When the lights go, her HUD helpfully kicks in, rendering the city in the slightly grainy greyscale hues of night vision. <"Yeah, I see it-"> The hunter's threat warning system goes off, HUD lighting up like a life day tree. <"Snipers! Get down!"> Target brackets appear, her helmet's systems getting a lock on them, just before the hunter drops into cover behind an air handler, pulling whoever's closest to her down as well. Bringing her left gauntlet up, a holo of the surrounding area shimmers into view, taken from scans during their landing. The snipers are marked as blinking red dots. <"Hope you all brought blasters, because I don't think they're within stabbing range.">

Yuun is listening but he than goes silent, he begins looking out towards the distance and he sees dark clouds coming in. His smile doens't face, though he knows things are about to get challenging. "Not trying to dampen things any more, but we have a storm roiling in on us." he says as he sees the lightning flashing off in the distance.

Yuun turns and looks to the crowd and he walks up to gate but not getting close to get grabbed and he focuses himself in the force, and the force exudes from him as he gives a calming and serene flowing from him to him and the others around him, reassuring them they can do this, also pushing it off to the crowd closing in on the gate, hoping to calm him so that the gates will last a bit longer. "When you're all ready, we should be going." he says in a calm manner.

"Yuun! We cannot go down there. Come on, we'll need to reach the other building." Despite the threat of snipers, Aryn bravely walks to the edge of the building and draws her S5 blaster; a gift from Lady Kilana of the Naboo. Switching the weapon to cable mode, Aryn aims it and fires a cable across the gap hitching it firmly to a wall. Switching the weapon's spool, the second harpoon loads and she fires it against a wall on their building, popping the spool free from her weapon like a slugthrower clip that 'CLANG's empty. A test for integrity shows that the cable is solid and Aryn slides the weapon back into its holster and bunches her cape to cast it over the top.

"Follow me down. We'll land on the next building and look for these snipers!" Using the cape, Aryn throws her weight over the edge and begins to zipline across, landing on the otherside in a tumble. Meanwhile, the snipers take their shots on the Jedi.

Tara switches to her carbine since they're out of pistol range, and pops off a couple of stun bolts before engaging her jetpack for a rocket assisted leap to the next roof. Fortunately, she makes it. Unfortunately, the snipers are either really lucky, or really good at their jobs. One bolt slams into her shoulder, and another spangs off her helmet, only failing to penetrate due to the silvery sheen of beskar revealed where the paint burns away. The hunter's combat roll on landing turns into more of an awkward tumble, although she quickly crawls into cover. <<"Shabla Mir'osiks!">>

Elrych Cometburn vanishes in a brilliant explosion as blaster bilt connects and erupts. The next moment he is seen sliding down the zipline seemingly unharmed in a very mystical and unnatural fashion. He rolls and stops with one leg out and one knee on the roof. His blue blade ignights, humming deadly. He looks towards another building, reaches out with his free hand, makes a sudden fist then yanks it towards him. Said sniper flies out as if attached to a robe at Elrychs had and slams violently into the railing.

Yuun heard Aryn, "I know, just trying to see if I can ease their minds is all." he says as he backs away. He looks up sensing the sniper shots coming in and seeing the shots missing him completely. He sighs a little bit. Though when the others begin getting fired upon, Yuun ignites his weapon, "Alright follow Aryn, let's move." he says as he watches Tara leaps into the air flying off towards the snipers and Elrych using telekinesis hurt one of the snipers. "Yeah, let's move Elrych." he says waiting for Elrych to go than he will follow behind him.

Yuun moves down the zipline next and as he nears he swings himself the rest of the way landing down and twisting so that his back is to Aryn and Elrych. He makes sure he gives them both space so that they can move around, "Where to." he says igniting his lightsaber. "I will cover you two hopefully our Mando friend will catch up with us." he says to them.

Blaster fire passes Aryn on all sides as she crosses the expanse and lands gracefully on the other side. She casts her cape back around her, the fabric steaming from the heat of friction. As the others land, Elrych responds using his influence of the living force to append a sniper from their nest and smash them against the railing. Their pained cries are heard over the abandoned city before thunder cracks overhead and lightning flashes.

A voice comes over the loud speaker. <"You've no hope of saving these people. This was an experiment, they are my test subjects. Just as they will not live past tonight, you will not either. I've ordered my men to engage and kill you all for meddling into affairs that have nothing to do with you!"

An alarm sounds along the protective walls of the city and lights begin to flash. Aryn runs and slides in next to Tara, taking a moment to tuck her bright blonde hair back. "Where were you hit, Mando?"

As Aryn tends to Tara, a computerized voice conveys. "City self destruct sequence initiated. 5 Minutes until detonation. Core Temperature rising. Danger: core temperature rising."

A door nearby opens and a group of five mercenaries emergy, each carrying the stun baton of the First Order. Electricity hums as they draw close. "Come to us!" One cries out. "We're gonna have fun with you, haha!"

Elrych Cometburn is thrown into the front of the line by Yuun. Thanks Yuun. " Woah woah woah there man. Thats not fair." Said to the shock please ke weilding merc after his bosses evil dialog. "Listen... this here is a lightsaber. We are three Jedi. Come on just let us by and stop this explode the whole city nonsense." despite his charming corellian smile and as unagressive a stance he could fet with a lit lightsaber... he wasn't overly convincing.

<"Right shoulder, and one rang my bell a bit."> Tara gestures towards the streak of bare metal across the right side of her head. The soothing tingle of bacta wipes away the pain just in time for the mando to draw both blasters and open fire on the attackers, letting the EE-3 hang from its sling. <"Flankers, behind! Oya!"> The heavy bolt from the Sentinel catches one merc in the chest and drops him with a hole straight through, the one behind the first catching a double tap to the gut.

Yuun shakes his head as he hears the person over the loud speaker, "This isn't what is needed." he says. WHen the men comes out challenging them and Elrych speaks about Yuun having him go first. THough when the mercs begin to challenges them, and Tara fires taking out two of the mercs, he sighs. "I like her." he says and leaping over Aryn and Elrych, Yuun lands in a roll with his lightsaber flashing rapidly in what looks like one swing, connecting with each trooper, getting past their defenses. "We have to move."

"Why kill all these people? Why try to kill us? You do this and you become a marked man. The weapons you used, we'll track them. We'll track them back to you and--"

<"That's enough from the little girl. Kill them now and begin preparations to leave.">

Sniper fire erupts from across the city. Blaster bolts rain inward on their rooftop, smacking up dust and dirt, and all sorts of debris. The Mercs that had charged their position were shot and cut down in a single assault leaving our heroes upon a roof with no bad guys.

Aryn turns to Elrych. "Elrych, we need you in the air. You're a member of Black Squadron.. maybe you can shoot these guys down and keep the weapon out of the wild?"

Aryn's hand comes up to her ear as she ducks behind cover. <<"Cedar.. -- Cedar.. tell the droids to bring the ships about. We need you guys here.. YES.. That means you're flying the bloody ships to us.-- Mother save us, I /know/ you can't fly all of them. TALK to the OTHER droids.. and be quick about it. We're getting shot up out here!">>

<<"Kate, get the shabla ship in the air! Bring it over here and drop the ramp, We can jump in! Maybe give us some supporting fire if you can!">> With the mercs on the rooftop dealt with, Tara switches back to her EE-3 and puts a bolt into the previously railing slammed sniper. No stun bolts this time, They'd tried to kill her. <<"I don't care if you're not allowed to harm sentients, I'll fix that later, but if you don't get the shabla ship in the air I'll dismantle you and sell you to jawas!">> In response to the latest shouted threat, the boxy wedge of Tara's ship lifts off, and starts heading towards the trapped team, rear ramp down.

"I believe Master Kenobi refered to this as Agressive Negotiations!" Elrych mentioned as he looked ready to deflect any blaster shots with his lightsaber. A glance to Aryn, "Good Idea...." He triggers his comlink, <<"Eggsy, lift off and get on my position as quick as you can... you'll be coming into a hot zone so be careful. They're, sort of, new."

Yuun nods his head, he looks over to Aryn and Elrych. THough before he speaks he is fired upon and his lightsaber blazes as he moves fast knocking blaster bolts aside quickly. He is grazed, but as he is grazed a small intake of breath is taken. He calms himself and channels the force through him allowing the wound to fade. If looked at, there is barely a scratch on him from the shot. "I swear I need to trade in my freighter."

Aryn moves her shoulder back pre-emptively as a sniper bolt intended for her misses and showers sparks over the side of the roof. "Mother save us.. we don't have long." She raises both her hands then, demonstrating some mastery over the living force. A sudden pulling gesture, and a Sniper is appended from their nest. They do not fall to their death, but they hang suspended by their tether over a mob of crazed sentients jumping up at them. Aryn turns then, hooking her lightsaber back to her belt.

"It's aggressive something, that's for sure. This is all madness." The ships arrive at about the same time, and the Actis fighters sally up to the edge of the building, their canopies popping up as droids gleefully greet their masters. Aryn steps into the cockpit of her fighter and initiates the drop of the canopy, sealing herself inside. A slap to her left brings up the shields. With the yoke in hand, Aryn pulls the ship away and reaches out to pull the accelerator which puts her firmly against her seat. <<"It's all you, Elrych. I'll run a scan to see if I can see them. I'm no fighter pilot though.">>

After a moment, the shuttle in question is rising up to head to the atmosphere and into the storm.

Tara's familiar beautifully ugly Mando ship hoves into view, spinning around so the boarding ramp's pointing down towards the roof. The hunter jets up to the ramp which is only about ten feet off the rooftop at the moment, before turning around to look at the droidless Yuun. <<"Jetii! Get in, I'll drop you off at your ship! Kate, as soon as he's on board, punch it!">>

Elrych jogs up to Spark 1 and hops through the canopy, extinguishing his blade and putting it back on his belt. <<"It's not that hard, Princess... Can I call you Princess? Actually that sounds kind of weird. I'm sticking to Doc.">> His music comes on almost automatically as he pulls away from the building and accelerates towards the rising shuttle. "Man this thing can move..." The Jedi sticks his tongue out as he comes in range, the tone for a lock lighting up the targeting rectical. He depresses the trigger on the Yoke... Scarlet bolts fly towards the shuttle, hitting it in the weakest point near the reactor. They ripped right through the shields. Secondary explosions rock it. It turns unnaturally and then starts to tumble before hitting the ground in a massie explosion. The Ace Pilot turns his head, flabbergasted. <<"I swear I was just trying to knock out the shields and disable it...">> Oops...

Yuun quickly runs deactivating his lightsber, they didn't have time to do what they needed to do or do they? WHen the Mando calls for him, he rushes towards the railing and using it as a leaping pad he leaps towards her ship, using the force to propel him high and towards the ship. He than uses telekinesis to pull himself to the landing ramp. He slaps the release to close the door, "I'm in!" he calls to Tara.

Tara is able to get Yuun to his ship in time while Aryn, who is monitoring the battle between Elrych and this shuttle, follows after the Ace pilot though not nearly as graceful as the Corellian. She watches the shuttle land down in the jungle then circles as rain begins to bead along her canopy. <<"Scans show no survivors Elrych, and it looks like the vessel is completely destroyed. If they had weapons on board that ship, they're in flames now.">>

The village behind them goes up in a massive explosion then, the concussive blast rocking Tara and Yuun's ships respectively as they got away safely. The Jedi all feel the sudden loss of life as the flames expand to the sky and color the mountain range in a hue of fire. Aryn frowns, but she accepts that there was nothing they could do to save them. Taking a measured breath as she angles her craft skyward, Aryn tries to stay calm.

<<"We did everything we could. There was no certainty that I would've been able to cure them either. Let's report back. Everyone.. may the force be with you.">>

When Aryn's Spark 3 made it out of the planet's gravity well, its s-foils folded to the wings and it shot into space in a sudden brilliant flash of blue.