StarFields: Mercenary Crew

[starmark2k]

Here’s the Rp for the Starfields: Mercenary crew RP, You can still join at anytime and we’ll try to get you with the crew at the next convenient time, just post a character sheet here: http://lucasforums.com/showthread.php?t=176401 .

 

I’m going to start with a Brief-ish prologue and then I’ll start us off with a bit of action to get a nice bit of tempo in early.

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The Sun shone brightly drenching the deserts of new Sahara in heat an light, The large mountain caused the only shade for over a thousand miles. There was not a cloud in the sky and no wind blew to cool the air in the highest temperatures of the World.

 

A man and women ran in the afternoon sun towards the rocky elevations in cloaks the colour of the sand. They had been running for hours and it showed in the way they breathed deeply and the sweat that dripped down their faces. The Air began to feel like fire as they breathed and each step felt like they were running on a bed of knives and swords. The pain they felt would often make most people stop and rest for as long as they could, but they could not.

 

The cloaked Man and women had just gotten to the top of one large dune when the man tripped at the top and began to roll down the other side. The sand flew up above him as he tumbled down towards the base of the dune, his body curled and hand covered his face trying to protect himself from any harm. The women ran down after her falling companion while trying to stop herself from following him in his uncontrollable roll. The man finally reached the bottom and rolled a few more times along the flat bit of sand at the bottom. The Women ran up to him and knelt at his side pulling him on to his seat and removing her hood.

 

“Come on.” They women breathlessly spoke. “They’re behind us.”

 

The man tried to pull himself up with the aid of the women, but as he was up right and put preasure on his right leg he screamed out in pain and collapsed. The women reached back down to pick him up only to have the man push her hands away.

 

“Go!” The man ordered. “You have to get to the mountain.”

 

“I can’t leave you.” She sobbingly replied. “They’ll kill you.”

 

“And if you stay they’ll kill us both.” He said reaching into his cloak and taking out a small metallic cube. “Take it and go!”

 

The women reluctantly took it out of the mans hand and looked down at the cube. ‘How can something so small be so important.’ She thought when a slight buzzing noise could be heard in the distance from where they came from. She raised her head up looking up the dune her companion had just fallen down then back down at the Man, he reached into his cloak once again and pulled out a gun.

“Go, I’ll distract them.”

 

The women then stood up and turned around to face the mountain, she began to run as fast as she could away from the man. The man looked down at the gun as he heard the sounds get ever closer, his heard began to pound hard in his chest as if he was still running.

 

The noise came up close and then to a complete halt at the top of the dune he sat by, He raised his head up to look at the tip of the dune. The bright sun almost blinded him until a person stepped in front it creating his silhouette against the stars light. The Man raised his run up and pointed it towards the mysterious silhouette and pulled the trigger launching the bullet in it’s direction. The silhouette ducked down as the metal shard missed them completely, the man fired two more shots in the same direction.

 

The silhouette reached into the inside of what appeared to be some kind of drench coat and pulled out a pistol of their own. A split second later a bullet came down and impacted the man in his shoulder and caused him to drop the gun by his side. He screamed out in pain and reached over with his opposite hand in an attempt to stop the bleeding. Looking down at his shoulder he was completely distracted and did not see the silhouette slowly walk down the dune along with another person.

 

They reached the man and pushed him down onto his back forcing him to look up and into the light of the sun. He looked down at the two who had shot at him and could make out that one was a women and one a man. They both war long black drench Coats and dark sunglasses, the women was attractive wearing bright red lipstick and long flowing blond hair. The dark clothed reached down and began to pat down the injured mans clothes.

 

“Where is it?” The man asked calmly as he stood up.

 

“What‘s it?” The injured man laughed.

 

“Do not play the fool with us.” The women stated. “Tell us now peacefully or we will take it from your mind and that will be painful.”

 

“Go to hell.” He shouted with anger as he reached over to grab his gun, he pointed it up under his chin and pulled the trigger. The shot echoed through the desert and the two dark clothed people looked down at the now dead man.

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Jason Nasai laid on his stomach on the hard metal floor of the Shining Spears, his eyes closed and arms thrown above his head. The ship shook violently and Jason’s eyes quickly widened, He pushed himself up and ran over to the ship internal communication system.

 

“Cassie get down to the Cargo hold, Kane’s taken shrapnel to the gut.” Jason shouted into the comm before running to the bace of the ladder where a lash Ashokan man Laid holding a bloody cloth over a wound. Jason reached down to the cloth and took over from the other man.

 

“C’mon Tee, stick in there.” Jason told the Ashokan.

 

The Shining spear was evasively moving across the vacuum of space while it’s cannon fired upon two bird shaped spaceships. The jay bird vessel were Pirate ships and smaller than the Shining spear but still had two large rail-gun cannons fixed to the end of each of its wings, they were firing upon the Shining spear.

 

((occ- Tee Kane is the third gunner on the ship, but he’s been hit pretty hard and will die. How quickly I’ll leave upto steven. Atomic and archon, you guys have a Jay bird vessel each to destroy.))

[steven]

Cassie rushed down to the cargobay, but not before grapping her kit and setting her medbay to a quick disinfect protocole. She entered the cargo area and saw the injured Tee. After taking a deep breath she quickly examined his wounds, Not good, Cassie thought to herslef He's lost alot of blood, injuries are extensive.

 

"Tee, I'm going to have to knock you out," Cassie said, injecting him with a syringe "It'll help you with the pain and make things easier for me. I'll see you when you wake up." She then turned the Captain "Sir, help me in taking him to the Infirmary."

[Rexraptor2000]

Phoenix might have well been a cross between a machine, a leopard, and a monkey, as he moved at a million miles-per-hour around the ship, doing his best to make sure that everything stayed fixed. The monkey portion was crashing into walls as the ship maneuvered to evade the fighter guns, he was moving too fast to stop, and steaks of pain coming from his wounded leg caused to him fall. None of this slowed him down, but it did leave him with bruises and cuts that would defiantly be hurting in the morning.

 

Phoenix had been fixing a particularly unresponsive food dispenser when the pirates had attacked, and sent Phoenix into gibberish mode. He barely even noticed the other crew as he did circles of the ship, nearly crashing into everyone.

[Master_Archon]

Ciyagi was taking his sweet time getting everything ready inside his turret. He sat there flipping switches and turning dials as he hummed to himself while chewing gum.

 

Ciyagi slipped on the tactical visor for the turret's targeting system, and strapped himself in. taking the controls he wheeled around, opening fire as soon as he got sight of one of the Jay Bird vessels. The normal rounds could be barely seen as red dots streeking from the turret, while the tracer roundss, which came out once every tenth round, could be seen as white streeks well identified by those around to see them. But that didn't mean that they were any easier to dodge, a round's a round.

 

Several rounds penatrated the surface of the Jay Bird vessel, mostly in the wings, several hitting the rear of the main body of the ship. Black smoke could be seen chugging from some of the holes in the wings, while a trail of black liquid could be seen coming from one of the holes in the rear of the main body.

 

The smoke from the wings dissipated after some time, but the liquid kept flowing out. It was either fuel from inside the Jay Bird's reserves, or lubricant oil from some area in the engine housing. Either way, it didn't matter to him, flamable liquid was flamable liquid, one good shot to that stuff, and that birdie was roasted.

 

Ciyagi's pupils contracted into thin slits as he concentrated, opening fire on the ship. The Jay Bird, however, was not going to sit still, in took evasive meneuvers, all the while firing upon the 'Shinging Spear'.

 

Ciyagi followed the swerving vessel, firing the whole time, until the Jay got it's meneuver's wrong, and it swerved into his line of fire. Two rounds pierced it's front, near the cockpit region, while a third flew over the ships hull, into the stream of liquid.

 

But to Ciyagi's dismay, the liquid did not catch fire.

 

"Stupid rail-guns, can't get the rounds hot enough," he growled to himself.

 

Ciyagi thought for a moment, all he needed was a tracer round, which used similar techniques as flares did to light up, and flares could make flamable things...cumbust!

 

Ciyagi kept firing, aiming for the stream of liquid now, just above where it was coming out, the Jay Bird swerving away, now trying to go below the 'Shining Spear', where it would be a bit more difficult for the turrets to fire upon it. But before it could make it much further, a tracer hit inside the area where the liquid was coming from. Sparks could be seen as it struck inside the vessel, lighting the liquid ablaze instantly, and causing the entire trail of liquid to light up for a very, very brief moment, considering there was no oxygen in space.

 

The Jay Bird was burning insde now, it could be seen slowing down, until it finally caught on fire in the engine, then it went haywire and the engine blew out. The Jay Bird drifted for awhile before the heat finally caused the ammunition to go off inside the wings, and the Jay Bird finally blew to pieces.

 

Ciyagi sighed, his eyes dilating to normal now. He took the visor off, and unstrapped himself. He watched the Jay Bird's debree float farther away.

 

Ciyagi lifted his head up a bit as he heard the comm system come to life. “Cassie get down to the Cargo hold, Kane’s taken shrapnel to the gut.” A sad look flashed across Ciyagi's face as he heard who'd been hurt; he liked Tee, he was a nice guy, and he always awarded him with more gum if he did good in a fire-fight.

 

He got out of the turret, he was no longer needed, seeing as the other fighter was on the port side of the 'Shining Spear', where Tex was. He couldnt fire upon a ship that was on the port side, while he was on the starboard side.

 

Ciyagi trotted down the hall, stopping and bracing himself against the wall several times as the ship rocked from enemy rounds making contact, and Grace's flying meneuvers. Ciyagi entered the the Cargo Hold, looking over at Tee, who seemed asleep in the Captain's arms, the ship medic, Casandra, hovering over him with an empty syringe.

 

"Sir, help me in taking him to the Infirmary." He heard Casandra say.

 

"I'll help," Ciyagi called out as he trotted over to the knocked out Tee, grabbing his ankles and lifting them up, waiting for the captain to lift the other end. Even in this situation, he had an innocent, child-like smile on his face.

[starmark2k]

"Shien get back to your turret, we're still under attack!" Jason ordered as he grabbed His fallen gunners feet. Cassie and Jason both picked Tee up and began to take him to the Infirmary when they passed Phoenix.

 

"Phoenix get the Hyperdrive spinning for an emergancy jump."

[Master_Archon]

"Shien get back to your turret, we're still under attack!"

 

Ciyagi's expression became sad, "sorry." He apolagized, "but there's not much I can do on my end anymore, the Jay Bird vessel on my side was taken out, and my gun can't aim to port." He explained saddly, following them the whole time.

 

"But I'll go back to my turret," he moped, trudging off to his turret, turning back to take a glance over at Tee.

 

Ciyagi walked off, not bothering to brace himself when the ship rocked this time. He would get thrown against the wall, but he ignored the pain with a wince.

 

Ciyagi entered his turret again, sitting down in a huff. He didn't know why he had to stay in it, when the other fighter was on the port side of the ship, and he was on the starboard.

 

He slouched in the seat of the turret, watching as the stars went by fairly quick, the turning and jolting of the ship making them streak. He caught brief glimpses of the other Jay Bird, but they were just glimpses of it's wing tip, so he didn't bother to open fire, it would just be a waste of ammo and wouldn't do much to help if he did hit it.

[Rexraptor2000]

"Phoenix get the Hyperdrive spinning for an emergency jump."

 

Phoenix responded immediately, turning from his collision course into a wall towards the engine room with the Hyperdrive. This maneuver lead to him smashing straight into another wall, recovering from the blow, and then going through the hallways leading through the ship to the engine room. When he reached it, he found the Hyperdrive in the same shape he had left it: Dismantled, but only to the point where it was still operational. Of course, since he had only left it operational, that meant they were going to have to make a blind jump. Luckily, it would only take a moment to get it started since he wouldn't have to put in coordinates.

 

Phoenix let out a quick and sharp laugh as the Hyperdrive whirled to life. He then turned around and started to run, but crashed head-first into a wall. This caused him to black out for a moment before he recovered and began his sprint around the ship.

[Jedi Atomic]

(Are we in hyperdrive now?)

 

Tekla was facing an expert pilot, better than he had ever faced before. He'd fire a line along the ship and it would somehow evade his impossible to miss shot. "Damn well I guess I can't call it the impossible anymore." He continued firing at the ship hoping the pilot would make a mistake.

 

After a few minutes of firing one of the missiles from the Jay Bird, hammered the side of the ship near the turret window, making it start to crack all the way across. "That's not good." The window kept holding though, while he manueverd the rail gun in the direction of the Jay Bird.

 

Suddenly a bullet hit the wing of the Bird hitting one of the missile pods. The ship wing lit up in flames as the pilot must have been taught kamikaze mauevers, because as the explosion traveled across the ship from wing tip to wing tip, one of the missile fired out of the pod on the other side and headed straight to the turret window. "Crap!" Tekla took the visor off his head and pressed the lockdown button beside him as he jumped to the hard metal floor behind him.

 

A metal gate made its way across the turret area as the missile struck the turret window, shattering the glass and exploding all the ammunition inside the turret. The explosion from the missile and ammunition made a massive dent in the metal gate which is supposedly supposed to be impenetrable. The ship shook and then took off into hyperdrive(I believe). Tekla started rolling from hyperdrive and speed and finally stopped rolling at the hyperdrive room. He slowly raised himself off the floor and onto his knees, looking up to see Phoenix running toward the door. "Arggh that hurt." He stood up and faced Phoenix, "Hey Phoenix, your going to be hating after what just happened." Tex said as he wiped the blood from his cheek with the back of his hand.

[Grace]

"It's 'bout time you got that thing powered, Phoenix," Grace called through the intercom. "I'm good, but even I can't keep away from that many that long!"

 

She watched her controls carefully, as hyperspace was not a solid, proven method of transportation yet. Flicking a switch to her left and turning a dial fully to the right, she stared intently at the sensor screen at her right. "C'mon, baby... show me somethin'..." she murmured. Suddenly, it did, flashing a warning that an unknown celestial body was dead ahead.

 

"Oh, please, please, please," Grace murmured, flicking two switches forward and pulling a lever fully back to disengage the hyperdrive. Stars reverted to their standard specks and an unidentified planet loomed directly ahead. Breathing a sigh of relief, she switched on the intercom.

 

"Gentlemen... and lady," she announced to the ship, "we have come out of hyperspace without crashing and burning. Our present location will take a moment to discern. For the moment, I should advise against visiting the planet we shall soon be in orbit of... according to sensors, it's not very pleasant down there."

 

She set the sensors as far as they could go while finishing with, "Thank you for your patience, we shall soon be underway once more. This is your pilot, Grace Nasai. Thank you for flying Shining Spear Spacelines and we hope you'll choose us again, whenever the mood to travel strikes you."

 

With that, she switched off the intercom and hurried aft to see what happened to Tee. When she got there, her forehead wrinkled with concern. Turning ever so slightly to Cassie, she asked anxiously, "He'll be alright, won't he?"

[Master_Archon]

With the threat gone, and the the ship out of hyperspace, Ciyagi finally felt he could exit his turret safely, without worry of being tongue lashed by his captain.

 

He hurried into the medbay, just behind Grace. A look more worried than even Grace's flashed across his face briefly. As mentioned earlier, Ciyagi liked Tee, he was a fellow gunner, and the only person aboard who considered Ciyagi an actual friend, none of the others acknowledged that he was their friend.

 

So seeing his third and only friend aboard the 'Shining Spear' in such a state caused him quite a bit of distress.

 

"He'll be alright, won't he?" Grace asked Casandra.

 

"He'll be okay...he's gotta be okay," Ciyagi mumbled aloud, he had put no effort into hiding the distress in his voice.

[steven]

"He'll be alright, won't he?" Grace asked Casandra.

 

"He'll be okay...he's gotta be okay," Ciyagi mumbled aloud, he had put no effort into hiding his distress.

 

"I... I Don't know," She said quitely before carring Tee into her medbay before rushing everyone out and then closed to door. She then tired her hair back and put on a surgery outfit.

 

After five minutes of scilence outside the medbay, Cassie's voice could be heard through the intercom "Captain, I've been able to stop the bleed and sterolize the wound. It wasn't as bad as it first appeared however I am worried about a metticalic object I found near the wound."

[starmark2k]

((OCC- Well i was hoping the fight would last a bit longer but nevermind.))

 

Jason walked in to the med bay and looked down at Tee, his oldest friend. Tee was the first crewman Jason took on when he bought the Silent Spear, Tee was even his best man at Jason and Graces wedding.

 

"Grace, try and get us back oncource, we need to reach I.S.S 5 ASAP. Shien go and help her out." Jason said in a tone that grace would understand that he's just trying to get the two of them out of the way.

[steven]

"Captain, I need a few words with you in my... office. There are a few concerns I have about Tee's health," Cassie said quietly to Jason.

[Rexraptor2000]

"Hey Phoenix, your going to be hating me after what just happened." Tex said as he wiped the blood from his cheek with the back of his hand.

 

Phoenix's eye twitched as he stopped for a split second and said near the speed of gibberish "I will murder you later." Then he was off straight past Tex as he went to survey the damage, letting loose a gibberish/cursing stream as he say the dented blast door shielding them from the space that used to be a turret. There was nothing he could do now though, so he just went to repair everything else he could at the moment. He passed the area wounded gunner Tee was in and stopped to say a word of gibberish that sounded more like a word of sorrow before continuing on.

[Grace]

Grace caught Jason's tone immediately and tugged lightly on Shien's hand. "C'mon Shien. Let's go see if the sensors have figured out where we are yet."

 

She led the way forward to the bridge and bent over the sensor panel to determine what she could from it. Nodding slowly, she murmured a few things under her breath.

 

"ISS 5 should be..." she said thoughtfully. Then, she tapped on the panel, "... that way. Hope above all hopes the hyperdrive doesn't go tetchy on us and if it doesn't, we'll get there in... three hours? Yeah, three hours."

 

Settling into the pilot's chair, Grace glanced over at Shien and, as if to comfort the gunner, she said, "Tee's gonna be fine," but the way she said it almost sounded as if she were trying to convince herself of it. Shaking her head ever so slightly, she reached for the controls, gently guiding the ship around in the safest direction to ISS 5.

 

"Crew, this is your pilot speaking," Grace said into the intercom. "Hold onto something. We're engaging the hyperdrive." She flipped three switches and pushed the lever forward; the ship accelerated into hyperspace toward ISS 5.

 

"You can go get some rest now, Shien," Grace said, her focus mostly on her controls. "We've still got three hours 'till we hit ISS 5."

[Master_Archon]

((Erm, hyperspace is very inaccurate, so I think that she's taking a heavy risk. Here's the link to prove my point, Linkism.))

 

"You can go get some rest now, Shien," Grace said. "We've still got three hours 'till we hit ISS 5."

 

"I'm fine, I'll just stay up here and keep you company," he said rather saddly. "Oh, and please call me Ciyagi...I only like being called Shien in combat situations, or on formal occasions, Mrs. Nasai," he told her politely.

 

"So, um, unless we're going to a ball, well...." Ciyagi just shrugged, not in the mood to joke, he just smiled faintly and stared out the viewport with a distant look. This was a strange, and rare mood to see Ciyagi in, he was often smiling, or laughing, or eating, even in situations similar to this one. He was even known to smile and laugh during shoot-outs, as he often thought of jokes to himself while he was fighting, which often caused people to grow very disturbed; but most of the crew hadn't seen him do this before, except the captain, maybe.

 

There was a period of silence, before Ciyagi spoke up, "I like the stars...I find them beautiful, they remind me of...my mom...." Ciyagi paused, looking down at the console, saddly. "Do you like the stars, Mrs. Nasai?"

[Grace]

((She is taking a heavy risk, but they don't have much of a choice. They made a blind hyperspace jump away and they're certainly not gonna try going back the way they came. I figure there aren't any hypergates near enough to shoot for. So they have to take a risk.))

 

"I'm fine, I'll just stay up here and keep you company," he said rather saddly. "Oh, and please call me Ciyagi...I only like being called Shien in combat situations, or on formal occasions, Mrs. Nasai," he told her politely.

 

"So, um, unless we're going to a ball, well...." Ciyagi just shrugged, not in the mood to joke...

 

Grace smiled faintly as well, but said nothing further at the moment. There was a period of silence, before Ciyagi spoke up, "I like the stars...I find them beautiful, they remind me of...my mom...." Ciyagi paused, looking down at the console, saddly. "Do you like the stars, Mrs. Nasai?"

 

 

"I love the stars, Ciyagi," Grace answered softly. "It's so... peaceful out here."

 

A hint of wistfulness flickered in her expression. Much like Ciyagi had revealed a side of himself that few had seen, so Grace was doing now.

 

"Before this," she said softly, working with the controls, "before I was pilot of the Shining Spear, I lived a very different life..." She shook it off and smiled. "Nice to get away from the past sometimes, I guess."

[Jedi Atomic]

"Crew, this is your pilot speaking," Grace said into the intercom. "Hold onto something. We're engaging the hyperdrive." She flipped three switches and pushed the lever forward; the ship accelerated into hyperspace toward ISS 5.

 

"No! Not again. I hate hyperdrive!" As he flew down the hallway of metal and nothing to grab onto. He slammed against the hyperdrive room where he had just walked from. Hecrawled into the room and grabbed onto something as he slid along the floor.

 

"Hopefully this ends soon." as he hug the hyperdrive console.

[starmark2k]

Jason walked over to the door and closed it so no one else could here them speak. "Be strait Cass, is he going make it?"

[steven]

"By all means he should be," Cassie replied "I've done all the correct procedures, the bleeding has stopped and he be getting better however his heart rate is all over the place and..." Cassie cleared her throat, even with her short time here, she had became quite close to Tee, proberly because he was like her father, in personallity and looks. So it was hard to say what needed to be said "He's dying Captain and I don't know why. I think the metallic object I found inside him is doing it."

[starmark2k]

"Damn it!" Jason shouted Slamming his hand down on a nearby table sending a trey of medical instraments flying and then crashing to the ground. Jason stepped over the instraments and over to Kane's body,standing over it he looked down at Tee's hand and the wedding band on his finger. "He has a wife and a kid, he was going to settle down with them next month and now he dies for some damn Plants!"

[Grace]

((Starmark, if you or Steven have anything further to add to that conversation about Tee, you still feel free to do so. This is just what happens on the bridge over the next three hours ))

 

If Ciyagi had anything else to communicate, Grace would not have fully heard it. Now that they were in hyperspace, she had to concentrate all the more on what she was doing. If they hit a hyperspace storm, they'd be dead; the same thing went for entering a planet's gravity well.

 

Lines of concern mixed with determination crossed her face as she began murmuring things like, "Hyperspace storm... oh, good, dissipated," and, "Gravity well!", usually accompanied by a wince. Twice in the next three hours, she pulled the ship out of hyperspace to readjust the course. And one last time they came out of hyperspace.

 

Breathing a sigh of relief, Grace leaned back in her chair. Glancing around, she was startled to realize Ciyagi had fallen asleep in the co-pilot's chair. Deciding not to wake him just yet, Grace fired up the realspace engines. They were about a half an hour away from ISS 5 by standard propulsion... a decent amount, especially since hyperspace was so unsafe. Grace would not risk it again this trip.

[Jedi Atomic]

Tekla slowly walked down the hallway grabbing the walls trying to get to the bridge. Suddenly as he rounded the corner to the bridge the ship came out of hyperspace. Tekla not holding anything flew forward slamming into the bridge door. The door noticed him and slid open. Tekla fell down to the floor. He laid there for a minute with his eyes closed, then looked up to see Grace looking at him. "ugh.....Hey Tyler."

He slammed his head on the floor and fell asleep, since he hadn't fallen asleep for the past 20 hours, from fighting and hyperspace.

[Master_Archon]

Ciyagi's eyes snapped open with the noise of Tekla's head crashing into the bridge door.

 

"Ugh.....Hey Tyler." Came the groggy response, the fellow gunner falling asleep on the floor of the bridge.

 

Ciyagi got up, rubbing his eyes, he walked over to the sleeping gunner.

 

"I'll get him," he mumbled to Grace. With that, he bent down grabbing Tekla's arms, he picked him up with a small grunt, and carried him a short distance to an extra chair.

 

Ciyagi sat back in the chair he had been in, looking over at Grace, he gave a tired smile.

 

"We there yet, ma'am?" He asked Grace politely.

[steven]

Over the course of three hours, Cassie did everything possible to help Tee get better however his condition kept getting worse. The best thing Cassie could do is give Tee a painless death using seditives. After three hours Cassandra realised there was nothing else she could do, he had been poisoned by something that couldn't be cured on this ship. Best thing she could do now was to call the crew to the infirmary so they could be with him as he dies.