Mercenary Crew: Age of the Rebellion

[Rexraptor2000]

Ulim nodded at Raze's request, getting up from his position to follow the sarcastic Zam. He stopped when Rita stopped and talked about footsteps, but dismissed it. He followed them into the cockpit and stood over Zam, handing him the datapad he was reading from and said "Give it back once you have downloaded the data."

[ForceFightWMe12]

"Awww, you know you love me, Raze." Travis said, grinning as he came up behind her and put his arms around her shoulders. His smirk widened as she rolled her eyes, pulling away with an 'ugh!', before he turned to this 'Otaktay'.

 

"So, bug-man wants to speak Basic? I think I could manage that." he stepped back as the alien roared and struggled to lash out, his movements hindered by his bonds. His smirk didn't fade for a moment. "Ah, you and I could have some fun, mate."

 

((Iiiiiitsy-bitsy character control here, sorry guys. I don't think it would be too out of character here though <.< Lemme know if it is))

[JasraLantill]

Raze's eyes narrowed at Travis' comments and she smacked him on the back of his head, not that hard, but enough to mess up his hair. "Travis! Would you stop baiting him and being such a...!" Her jaw set as she stopped herself from finishing her sentence. There were some things that a captain just shouldn't say in front of her crew.

 

"See?" she said, turning to Otak. "It's not just you. Travis makes everyone feel like they want to kill him."

 

She glared at Travis. "Just...." She waved her hand at him to get out of her way.

 

She went over and opened up one of the med-bay's storage units. "Travis, you said heat weakens the elastoplastacrete, right?" she asked while rummaging around. "Ah." She removed an instrument. "This cautery should should do the trick. Maybe not as fast as a plasma torch, but definitely safer."

 

"Travis, go and make up that translator. In the meanwhile, Bif and I will get Otaktay free enough for him to use his wrist panel thing."

 

She grinned at Otak. "And then we can have that chat."

[steven]

John peeked into the Infirmary to see how the alien was doing. "Hey, I was wondering where I put that." John said, refering to the instrument in Raze's hands "What you doing with it anyways? The only good thing I use it for removing compnant from the ship's central heating unit."

[JasraLantill]

"Well it should work just as well for this task," Raze replied to John as she switched on the cautery. When delicate tip glowed blue, she began to cut through the goo that surrounded Otek's lower arm. In a few moments, it was free.

 

Raze stood back immediately, warily eyeing Okek, and hoping that she hadn't foolishly misplaced her trust in the alien's promise.

[Master_Archon]

Otak launched forward with his arm, but stopped it short of Raze as she backed up. He made a fist, then opened it, then made a fist again, he did this several times, then stopped.

 

"[sorry, instinct,]" he said in his language. He noticed his wrist blades were still out, so he retracted them. He tryed sitting up, forgeting that there was another bond around his chest, he was pulled back down to the table, hitting his head on it as he was pulled back. Otak grunted, but ignored it, he turned his attention to his left wrist, which had his computer panel on it.

 

He opened the panel, the small set of square screens, with red symbols, which was really the Yautja alphabet. He pressed only a few buttons on his panel, the monotonous voice coming out of his suit once again.

 

"Thank you, I, can't, say, I like the, position, though. Well, what to, ask, or, should I, say, be asked?" He questioned.

[JasraLantill]

Raze looked with interest at the device on Otek's wrist. She'd seen many different types of alphabets in her travels, but she didn't recognise any of these characters.

 

"Well," she replied, "the first thing you can tell me is why you were banging on my ship like a maniac when we first saw you." She eyed him, still a bit suspicious of his intents, but committed to trusting that he wouldn't attack. "Tell me that and I'll consider cutting the rest of your bonds."

[Master_Archon]

Otak stared at her for a moment, then turned and typed something in again.

 

"I, was, hoping to, get, the captain - you, obviously, to come, out, so, I, could talk, to, you, and get, a ride, offworld. I was in, a, hurry, because, I felt, that, I, was, being, stalked, as you, soon, found, out, afterwards." He said explaining as best he could the reason for banging on her ship.

 

"I, didn't, bang, that, hard, you know," came a second comment. "I'm, rather, wanted, on, this, world, but, I shouldn't, say, more, you might, get, funny dreams, of grandeur. I, personally, would, not, let you, turn, me, in." He commented darkly, though you couldn't tell from the one tone voice coming from his suit.

[steven]

"Isn't he a charmer," John said sarcastically "What we going to do with him? Leave him here or the next planet0 we get to or..." John asked the captain, leaving his sentance open ended incase the Captain had something else she would like to add.

[JasraLantill]

"Charming, indeed," Raze said quietly to John. "Just like Rita. But don't tell her I said that."

 

Turning back to Otak she said, "My bounty hunting days are long over, Otaktay, I can assure you. So, all this mayhem... because you just wanted a ride?"

 

Raze took a moment to consider her options. Stolen merchandise as cargo was one thing. A dangerous (and quite possibly still wanted) fugitive passenger was quite another.

 

On one hand, if she agreed to take him aboard there was the chance of whoever was after him to come after her. And, there was always the possiblity that Otak might fly into another rage if if she refused him. She didn't fancy that.

 

On the other hand, if she left him here, he could always blame her for the disappearance (or murder, if they found the head and body) of the mercenary/hired thug that Otak had killed in the landing bay assigned to her. And she didn't fancy that either.

 

But if she did take him along, she'd have to justify it with her crew. If Otak had something of value to pay his way, that might do the trick.

 

"I don't normally take on passengers," she said slowly. "If I do decide that you can stay aboard, how were you planning to pay for your passage? And where were you planning on going?"

[Master_Archon]

Otak typed something in, "I, can, say, I don't, have, any, credits...but, I might, have something, that you, personally, would like."

 

"I, will show you, what, I, have, that, I might, be able, to pay, with. I, won't tell, you, what, though, unless you, free me...then, I'll show, you." Came a second part to his answer.

 

He continued to type, "as, for where, I want, to go, personally, Utapau...but, any, ship, sustaining planet, will due..." he paused, thinking for a moment, "except, here, and Corellia," he finished. He swivelled his head around, taking another good look around the room. None of his gear, not even his trophy sack could be seen, and the only ones in the room was Raze, Bif, and some unknown man at the door.

 

He let out a low growl a the man at the door, then said in his tongue, "[nosy people...tease me when I'm not around, I've been harassed enough with my time in this galaxy...]" his sentence trailed off.

 

Otak sighed, "[no one respects a Yautja in this galaxy, and that was the last thing I had...respect, now I've lost that as well....a great warrior, a great hunter, now a caged mongral, I have nothing but my belongings...well, not anymore..." Otak jerked his head up, as he realised that he was slipping into a state of depression, and also realised no one could understand him, well, except Bif.

 

He let his right arm fall, which he had held over his stomach to type; and he turned his head to the right, and looked at the wall, taking a deep breathe as he thought to himself, and waited for Raze to respond.

[JasraLantill]

As Bif translated Otak's own language into Basic, Raze began to feel sorry for the alien. Stranded in a strange place, unable to effectively communicate with the locals, losing his cultural identity and pride, detained by goo on a med bay table all from a simple misunderstanding of his intentions and...

 

Oh no, Raze thought. Not 'Guilt' again. Anything but Guilt.

 

"Well, you seem genuine enough to me...," she heard herself say.

 

Don't do it, Reisa! Guilt is not your friend...!

 

"And I suppose I need to release you no matter what the value of whatever it is you're planning on offering to pay for passage." She began to cut away the rest of the goo.

 

Sap! Softie! her inner voice yelled at her.

 

"Just as long as you don't go flying into a rage over words that anyone happens to say to you," she warned. "My crew aren't exactly... well, they can be brusque at times." She looked at Bif. "Droids excepted," she added, not wanting to offend the android.

 

Ugh! Too late. Guilt won. Again.

 

The last of the goo was cut away. "There. You're free." She gave him a slight grin. "I think Bif stowed your gear away in that locker over there." She pointed to the locker in question. "Let's see what you have in mind to pay with, Otaktay."

[steven]

John drew and activated his ZAT gun. "Just a precaution. Don't want you killing anyone, now do we?"

[JasraLantill]

Raze glanced over at John and held up a cautionary hand in his direction. "Careful, John," she said to him. "We don't want another 'misunderstanding' happening."

 

"He won't attack you. I promise," she said to Okak. Then over her shoulder she said, "That's for defense only, right, John?" She nodded at the storage locker that had Otak's things in it. "Go ahead, Otaktay. Get your things."

[steven]

"Is it safe to just simply give him his things back? I mean I saw how sharp that blade on his wrist weapon was." John complained.

[starmark2k]

"No problem big guy, It'll only take two secs" Zam replied to ulim taking the data pad. He grabbed a data cable and pluged the PAD into the main navigation console and began the download. Afew moments later the download was complete and zam unplugged the pad and gave it back to ulim. Zam then began to plot the course they could take to coruscant which would avoid the imperial patrols and sensor grids. It only took a minuet before he found the quickest route and would ony mean they needed to drop out of hyperspace three times.

[Master_Archon]

Otak was surprised if anything, this woman, this, 'Raze', was showing respect to him, if you could call it that. 'Wow, I've found the closest thing any human will get to being a Yautja, in this woman, she's very...honorable.' He thought to himself, he felt a whole new respect for her now.

 

He got up off the table, towering over Raze, he stretched. He started bending down, backwards, to get the cramps out of his back. Then he started flexing his muscles, his arms, legs, chest, so as to get the stiffness out, and his blood flowing again.

 

He stopped and stared around for a second, for some reason he felt...embarassed. He scratched the back of his head, and turned around nervously to the locker. He aproached it, then opening it, he found all his gear in it, like Raze said. He started putting his weapons back in the positions he had them on his body.

 

He took his blaster rifle and pistol and set them on the table, they were the only non-Yautja weapons he had, but he held more value to them than his own weapons, why is another story.

 

He took out a large sack, it was made of some wool-like material, only brown, and fiberous. He picked up several small sacks as well, made of a finer cloth material. He reached into the large sack, and pulled out a net-like sack that was the same size, it's contents clattered as he pulled it out. What was inside would have probably sent chills down most people's spines. There were skulls, lots of skulls; human, zabrak, wookie, rodian, an unknown species to this galaxy, known to him as, Kiande Amedha. He even had a Yautja skull in the sack, where, or how, or why, was also another story.

 

Most of the skulls were still attached to their spines, but they weren't gruesome, they were very clean, and well polished. He typed something in to his wrist panel.

 

"I, have, some, animal, skulls, in, the mesh - sack, that might, be of, some value." He opened the two smaller sacks, one practically spilling out with cryoban grenades. He pulled out of the other sack a long chain, made of pure gold, with a pendant that was inset with small blue crystals in a circle around a large Krayt Dragon pearl that had a violet tint, making it seem like ivory in one type of light, and almost ebony in another light.

 

"I don't, know, if this, is of, any, value, but I've seen, woman, wear these, things...they, seem, to like, them, alot, and, I thought, you might, like it too, maybe, enough, to give, me, transport, offworld," he said, shifting it in his hand, turning it, trying to see why it was so valued by woman, and people in general. He thought it was shiny, and beautiful, but he didn't quite get the concept of it's charm on people.

 

He held it out towards Raze for her to hold.

 

((I'm assuming gold is valuable in the Star Wars galaxy, because I don't know what metal they'd have that would be like gold, valuewise.))

[steven]

"Ohh, shiney." John said looking at the pendant, he then said in Huttese "Boss, I can sell that pendant for more than 50,000 credits, just thought I'd let you know."

 

"Anyways," John asked Okat, in galactic basic, "You a hunter or do you just collect random skulls?"

[JasraLantill]

Raze held the pendant up to the light. She'd only seen two Krayt Dragon pearls in her lifetime, and this one was far superior to either of them. When John mentioned in Huttese that he could get 50,000 credits for it, she merely nodded. "At the least," she murmured back in Huttese. "And he is definitely a hunter to have captured this from someone."

 

"I don't think any animal skulls will be necessary," she said politely in Basic to Otak. "This is quite... sufficient." She looked away from the beautiful pearl back to him. "You are welcome to travel with us, Otaktay, but I hope you understand I have to deliver my cargo and honour the agreement I made with my client first. It'll depend on what sort of information your friend Ulim gathered as to what course my pilot will set, so I'm not sure if we'll be passing by Utapau on our way to the Core. But if we do, we'll drop you off. Otherwise, it would be a longer journey for you." She paused, looking once again at the flawless and unusual coloured jewel, before holding it out again for Otak to either take it back or indicate that it was now hers to keep. "The decision is yours."

[Master_Archon]

Otak looked down at the pendant in her hand, he had little sentiment towards it, though he would miss it. He stared at it, memories flooding his mind, he remembered saving a young girl from a man trying to do something to her on Corellia, though he wasn't sure what; he knocked the man out, finding him a scum, and dishonorable prey, he remembered she was scared of him at first, but eventually that passed, she took him to a restaraunt because he hadn't eaten in awhile, his first time at a restaraunt. After that she seemed, happy, and she thanked him by giving him the pendant. Little to his knowledge she was the daughter of a well known, and rich entrepeneur.

 

After time he slowly closed Raze's hand with his own, his hand nearly engulfing hers. He pushed her hand and arm back towards her, and he typed something in with his mandibles.

 

"Keep it," he said, or typed. He let go and pressed a couple switches on his wrist panel, a recording played, it was the sound of a young girl's voice, "'no, take it, besides, it matches your eyes.'" Said the cheerful and innocent sounding girl, he remembered that he had taken his mask off for her, gave her a bit of a shock too, her knight in shining armor had mandibles and scars on his face, probably not what she expected.

 

He typed something in, "this, is all, I need, to remember, it, by," he meant indicating the recording of his encounter, and then he pointed to his head to indicate his memory. "I'll wait, if I have, to...just, as, long, as we, make, pitstops...I need open space, every, once, in, awhile," he indicated.

[JasraLantill]

Raze nodded. "Don't we all," she agreed. "Well, since Bif has tended to your wounds, I'll have John show you to your quarters." She turned to John. "We've got two spare rooms. Let him choose which one he wants."

 

She turned back to Otak, and grinned. "Welcome aboard. I suppose I should go and inform the rest of the crew that we've got a passenger. We'll be taking off soon."

 

She left the medbay, and headed towards the bridge where Zam was prepping the ship for launch, and, as expected, Ulim stood watchfully behind him in his usual spot.

 

"We've acquired a passenger," she said to Zam and Ulim. She held up the Krayt Dragon pearl necklace for the both of them to see. "A paying passenger," she added. She looked over Zam's shoulder. "Take off whenever you're ready. I'll go find Rita and tell her the news. The last thing I want is her, or Travis for that matter, to antagonise our 'guest'."

[ForceFightWMe12]

Travis sat, looking at the device in front of him. It was a chunky bulk of scrap metal, but it would have to work for now. The 'translator' he had been able to peice together was more or less functional, once he found the proper files to load into it. At the moment, it was completely useless, having no information on either Basic or whatever language the bug-man in the medical hold spoke.

 

The files on Basic would be easy enough to aquire. He knew that the ship's computer held several language files and translations in its memory to dissect typed out messages. Files that would be easily imported.

 

The files of the mystery dialect would be much more complicated. From what he saw, Bif seemed to be able to at least comprehend what the thing was saying...perhaps he did have some kind of understanding of the language. If he did, he would just be able to more or less copy/paste the information into the memory banks of his creation and tah dah. Instant translator.

 

He stood up, twirling his ball of elastoplasticrete on his finger. Time to see if this thing really did work.

[starmark2k]

"Well if you want to prevent that wouldn't it be wise to you know... leave without having Travis on board..." Zam suggested turning to look at Raze. "or better let take off and let him walk out of the airlock... oh yeah we can leave now, our course is a couple of days and we only need to drop three times"

[ForceFightWMe12]

"You know, I'd have no problem pushing you out of an airlock either, Zam, but you don't see me making plans." Travis said as he entered the cockpit, "Now get out of the way, I've gotta download some files from the ship's computer."

[Master_Archon]

Otak watched as Raze left, then turned to the man, John, and typed something in, "put, the gun, away, and, show me, to, a, room...I'm tired." He stated.

 

He turned and put the mesh-sack back in the fiberous sack, and tightened the thong to close it. He then closed the smaller sacks in the same fashion, and tied them to his waist. He tied the larger sack around his neck, and it hung from his back.

 

He picked up his blaster rifle and pistol, and turned back to John, and typed something else in, "you, might want, to, find, a, less, used, language when talking, to her, next time...I've worked, for, Hutts, before...there, language, is, annoying, but I, understand, it." Came the message, revealing that he had understood what they said about getting 50,000 for the pendant.

 

He stood by, waiting impatiently for this, John, to show him to a room that he'd like.