Deciding One's Future (Ask, Invite)

[Aussie Legend]

Cold air licked Eclipse's skin as the hangar bay finished re-pressurised and the large, metal doors clanked open loudly. He was alone in the hangar bay, only his starfighter lay dormant and bolted to the bay a few metres away, there was plenty of room for his guest to land in whatever ship he pleased.

The ship was large enough to serve its purpose, a meeting, for now.

Eclipse had extended the invitation for a meeting to a man named Shawn Mac'neal, a respected Bounty Hunter whom had heavy dealings with the Bounty Hunters Guild, exactly the man Eclipse needed to meet with.

Silently, Eclipse moved forward and leaned over the handrail that decended into the hangar bay, it was only a matter of paitence now.

 

[Arm514ve]

Shawn landed his customize star fighter in the designated hanger for the meeting with a person named Eclipse who specifically asked for him, Shawn found this type of circumstance odd since hardly anyone outside the guild knew of him.

As soon as the hanger doors sealed, and the hangar re-pressurized Shawn opened the cockpit to his fighter, and jumped down. His armors boots making a loud clanking noise as they meet the deck. Shawn scanned the hanger looking for the person he was there to meet. He saw another ship in the hanger so that meant his contact was there. He looked around the hanger further spotting a man on the catwalk above the hangar.

“Are you Eclipse’s?” Shawn said his helmet speakers amplifying his voice, so the man could hear him.

 

[Aussie Legend]

Eclipse watched silently as the ship entered the hangar and landed gracefully, a single man emerged, no doubt the man he had contacted. A smile appeared on his face.

They were in solitude, no one knew where this ship was.

Eclipse motioned for the man to make his way up the staircase as he asked the question.

"Yes, I am Eclipse, please, come."

With a slow pace, Eclipse moved over to a bench beside the small security droid he had found uses for many times.

"Please leave your weapons here, the droid will keep them safe and even inspect them for damage whilst we are meeting."

Eclipse had no doubt the man would be hesitant, but it was the Captains orders to let no weapons past this point. He motioned to the Blaster rifle lying still on the bench, it was his own rifle, upgraded with a telescopic sight and flamer, a very fine weapon.

 

[Arm514ve]

Shawn didn’t like the situation he was in the solitude of the location of the ship meant no chance of rescue or so they would think, Shawn had his BHG hunters license identifying him and equipped with a transmitter of his location, and with a flip of a switch on his armor can send a distress signal through his ship to any BHG member to pick up. It was one measure Shawn made sure to have on this meet mission, that and the heavy weapons of his fighter.

“Well that only seems fair.” Shawn said adamant as he placed his two pistols on the table. “Lead on, though if you may allow me to ask why did you choose me, as your contact for joining the BHG?”

 

[Aussie Legend]

Eclipse nodded and continued through the hallway, the droid scanning both himself and Shawn as they passed. The question was simple, yet there was no true answer, Eclipse had not cared which member he would contact, Shawn was the only name he could get a hold of.

"You are a skilled Bounty Hunter, are you not? I wish to discuss the Bounty Hunters Guild with a experienced member, such as yourself."

They came to a stop outside where the meeting would be taking place, possibly the only place on the ship large enough should anything go wrong.

The Airlock.

Eclipse swiped his hand across the small console beside the large door, revealing a decently sized table with a elegant seat on either side, Eclipse doubted this Bounty Hunter cared for luxury, but it was a decent thought.

"Please, have a seat, I must check that the ship is holding its position. It will only take a moment."

And with that, Eclipse moved onward down the hallway, eventually reaching the cockpit. Swiftly, Eclipse accessed the scan data from the droid moments earlier and looked over it, the man wasn't carrying any hidden weapons, but there was something else. There seemed to be a faint energy signiature emmiting from inside the man's armour, similar to that of a subspace transmitter. It seemed to be dormant for the moment, but the man could no doubt trigger it at any moment with a device either on his person or with his ship, which could mean putting Eclipse's life in danger.

No mistakes.

Eclipse moved over to the control console and flicked various switches, locking down any signals coming or going from the ship, killing any chance of a signal leaving the ship's sheilds. Of course, if anybody were monitoring a locator chip somewhere on the man's body, the jammer onbourd the ship will have locked the locators last known setting in place, meaning anybody monitoring Shawn's life would see no difference should his death occur.

No matter what happened.

After locking the systems in the cockpit down and activating the internal security systems within the ship, Eclipse exited the small room and made his way back to the airlock. The security systems would hopefully not be needed, but it was in Eclipse's nature to be safe rather then sorry.

 

[Arm514ve]

"yes I am a skilled hunter, and fair enough that you would want to know what you might be getting yourself into before joining a group."
Shawn followed Eclipse to the room that was more of an airlock, as Shawn could tell by the heavy doors that made up the entrance to the room.
"Take your time im in no hurry." Shawn said as he approached the closest seat and sat down.

 

[Aussie Legend]

Eclipse made haste back to the airlock and peered in through the door, Shawn had taken a seat and looked about as comfortable as possible in his bulky armour, his armour wouldn't help him much now.

As he moved toward the large, open metal door to the arilock, Eclipse slammed his elbow into the emergency seal on the opposite wall, causing the door to slam shut with a trumendus crash, leaving Shawn trapped in the tube with nothing but a table and two chairs.

Everything was going as planned.

Eclipse moved into the control room for the airlock and immediately disabled the door controls inside the airlock before swiftly pushing down on a throttle-like lever, which extended the airlock outward like a chamber, leaving nothing but space on the other side of the ceiling and floor should he attemp to escape upwards or downwards. There was little to no possiblility he would be able to destroy or even chip a hole in the blast doors, made of one of the strongest metals avaliable on the market.

There was no escape.

After the tube had preparded itself to jetteson what was inside, Eclipse put the machine on halt and opened the internal communication device.

"I'm sorry about this Mr. McNeal, but you have information I wish to obtain." Eclipse spoke into the comm connecting to the Airlock, which was stationed on the wall near where Shawn was no doubt standing.

"Co-operate and I will allow you safe passage off this ship, if not, I will find myself another member of the Bounty Hunter's Guild to give me what I want."

 

[Arm514ve]

Shawn didn't react at all to the closing of the air lock; he actually expected it that’s why he was wearing the armor. He looked around the room for a access point out and found one in the corner of the room on the floor but he was sure it lead to the vacuum of space so he didn't mess with it instead he went to the panel in the wall, where Eclipse was communicating through.

"You know I usually don't answer questions from people who lock me in a room, and don't leave me any snacks or a beverage to drink. That’s just bad manners."

As Shawn was talking he started to work on getting power back to the door controls since it was just powered down not damaged from what he can see.

 

[Aussie Legend]

Eclipse smiled, he did not care of this man's values, he wanted answers and he would get them.

"I would avoid fiddling with the controls in the room, there are security turrets ready to drop down from the ceiling and open fire the moment those controls are touched."

Of course, Eclipse was no fool, he knew how this game was played, every little detail had been perfectly set for this 'meeting'.

"Now, are you ready to co-operate?"

 

[Arm514ve]

((sorry but I don't buy that are auto turrets in the celling when there is a vacum above and bellow so there being any auto turrets in the celling, would be very unlikelly))

Shawn just shruged.
"Can't blame a guy for trying." Shawn said as he steped away from the console and started walking around the room to get the lay out of the room and to just make it seem like he had given up there was still the acces hatch that lead out side into space witch was no problem for him.

"well you got questions I got answers, though I have one for you before I answer any of yours. Again why did you choose me for this little trap of yours. I mean there has to be some reason, you can't tell me that it was just because I was the only one who agreed to meet with you."

 

[Aussie Legend]

((It's perfectly plausable, the auto turrets in within the ceiling, whether or not there is space on the other side of the ceiling is irrelevant.))

Eclipse smiled, there was no reason.

"There was no reason, you are a member of the Bounty Hunters Guild, that was all I needed."

He paused, if this Bounty Hunter was foolish enough to open the hatch in the airlock the result would be the same, he would be flushed out into space. There was no way the bounty hunter had more then an hours worth of air in his suit, if any.

"Now, the sooner you tell me what I want to know, the sooner I will allow you to leave unharmed."

He paused for a moment, fiddling with the ships jamming systems to extend the feild to compensate for any amount of distance the pressure would shoot his captive should the airlock be opened.

"Now, where are the main points of operation for the BHG?"

 

[Aussie Legend]

((Umm... You can't invite someone into my thread without asking me first, delete your post and leave please.))

 

[Arm514ve]

Shawn chuckled at the question for its abserdity "that's common knowledge. Bounty offices located on planets, Nar Shada, Corucant, Alderan. Just to name a few. If this was the type of knowledge you were looking for you didn't have to lock me in a room you could have just asked me."

Shawn said as he took a seat again getting comfterable, "Whats next?"

 

[Aussie Legend]

Eclipse nodded, he knew the main bounty offices, yet he had wanted to clarify just incase.

"I would like a complete list of all members you know of, full names if you please."

It was going smoothly, that was excellent, the sooner this ordeal was over the better.

 

[Arm514ve]

"Well thats a little hard theres so many members in the guild I can only remmber some of the higher ups and my trainner. my trainner was named Ares Varga, tough bloke drilled coutless things in my head and caused countless scars through the years. Then theres Ido Brintt, Bameiro Triball, Ari Youngblood, and the leader of the guild Gella Nekor, and lastly my Wife Mira Mac' Neal."

Though the last name was a trick name to see how much he actually already knew since Shawns wife was already dead, he used her name to probe for his own bits of information.

 

[Aussie Legend]

Eclipse allowed the recording software to pause then begin recording again as the list of names were spoken, of course, Eclipse also wrote all the information down in a small pad of paper in front of him. None of the names sounded familiar, excluding one.

Shawn's wife.

Eclipse hovered his hand over the large red button in the centre of the console, two words, 'Open Airlock' were written in large, bold letters above it. Yet he pulled his hand away, this man may still be of use.

"It would be in your best interest not to lie again, Mr. Mac'Neal, you should hope those names are correct, excluding your dead wife, of course."

Eclipse wasn't a moron, he had studied what was known about the man he had in captivity, and Shawn's wife was very much dead according to said information. He wasn't sure how, but he was certain she had passed away recently. A man walked into the room silently, avoiding noise as he moved over to Eclipse and took the list of names before leaving quickly, it wouldn't take long to verify the small list.

Eclipse had good connections.

Of course, the list of members wasn't complete, as Shawn had stated, he could only remember the higher positioned members of the Guild. Of course, there was no way to tell whether or not that was true.

"Now, if there are any other names you can give me I suggest you do."

 

[Arm514ve]

"Well thank you for letting me know you know more then you let on, Why don't you ask me stuff you don't know or that isn't common knowledge Eclipse. If you have none then push that button I dare you. Cause I assure you that everyone in the guild knows who I was meeting and would know where I went I have about another thirty minutes before I have to check in and a small fleet down your throat, if I don’t. So you have a choice space me now or we can finish this like gentlemen, after I check in." Shawn said annoyed as he leaned back in the chair and brought up pictures of his family in his suits HUD. He then flipped it off "So Eclipse what’s your choice? We going to finish this discussion face to face, well armored helmet to face, or you going to wait for my friends to arrive your choice."

 

[Aussie Legend]

Eclipse chuckled to himself a little, no matter how many people Shawn had told, it wouldn't matter, upon contacting him in the first place, Eclipse had used an alias, it was a little strange Shawn had not picked up on Eclipse's trail when they had first met on the ship, perhaps he thought it was a nickname.

"I guess we are done here," Eclipse began.

The trail ended here.

"Goodbye Mr. Mac'Neal."

Eclipse pushed his palm down on the large red button, opening the bulky metal door on the other side of the tube, creating a vacuum inside the airlock, sucking anything and everything out into space.

Slowly, Eclipse left the room, it was fair to assume the man was dead, there was no way he could survive in space, Eclipse had noticed no oxygen tanks on the man's suit, but the harsh gravity of the nearby dead planet would no doubt crush his body in due course anyhow.

Eclipse grinned wildly, another job well done.

 

[Arm514ve]

((ok Aussie one you didn't mention where the meeting was takeing place to begin with and I assumed it was empty space for one thing, for the fact there was no detail on whre we were at. and now you sprout this planet, which was not mentioned by eather of us in the beginning. which is a rules that you have now tossed out the window was describe the location it was at the beginning of the thread. Two you basically Gmoded and didn't give me time to escape or react so I am still postting since I can get out of it.))

Unbeknownst to Eclipse Shawn had already kicked his magnetic boots on and grounded himself to the floor when the airlock opened Shawn flipped the chair he was in over his head as it got sucked out with the rest of the contents of the room to make it appear he got sucked out with it. He keyed his armors link to the fighter, activating immediately do to the AI onboard being on stand by for any trouble the fighter immediately took off opening the two missile pods on the fuselage and fired 4 proton torpedoes at the door blowing it to open and before the fighter escaped to pick Shawn up at the opened airlock where he was waiting at the open doors edge it ejected the two wing mounted missile pods set to self destruct if any motion was detected in the hangar after the fighter left, and after Shawn was a safe distance away.

Shawn’s fighter stopped at the airlock and opened the cockpit canopy and Shawn climbed in as his two gauntlets opened revealing a pressure suit, underneath and changing into the fighters throttle, and control stick and the boots opened and became the fighter’s rudder control. "good job Mira" Shawn said to the ships AI as a line of text was displayed from the AI on one of the fighters screens, Shawn turned the ship and fired all the ships weapons into the blast door that was separating the airlock to the ship itself blowing it open, creating another hull breach in the ship, and with that Shawn gunned the ship away at full speed, doing evasive maneuvers and plotted his course into hyper space. ounce he reached outside the ships firing range. Shawn jumped to Hyperspace in route to Corucant.

 

[Storm]

((OOC: He said it was on board his ship in the first post. You chose to follow him to the airlock which, as that was not the location in the first post, wasn't a major problem. Ryan's asked me to watch this thread for him, and I don't see a mention of a "planet". Besides that, technology's not even good enough in the movies for a ship to fly itself to the hangar doors and pick someone up; if anything, that's god modding imo. As I'm no RP Admin, I'd suggest that you find one to overwatch this thread.))