[Rebel Mission] Trade on the Corellian Run

[CaptainWolfgang]

Dropping his blaster and placing his hands on the back of his head, Kalo slowly turned around and lowered himself onto his knees. "I would like to negotiate the cessation of hostilities aboard my humble freighter." he said, looking the Rebel in the eyes. "I am willing to issue an order for my crew to surrender and call off the approaching reinforcements." he was careful to ignore mentioning his cargo in the negotiations-- hoping to salvage some of his pay no doubt.

The last bit about reinforcements was more of a formality than anything, but Kalo did seem to recall his datapad promising a surprise. "Whoever you are, my bosses knew you were coming, and I'm the only shot you've got at surviving this trap."


As Botan's death and Snegge's anger sounded over his earpiece, he maintained a calm stoic face. This mission was a bust. Without Snegge, Zeerya or Botan, Captain Kalo had lost any chance at turning the tables. There was nothing left to do but hope his enemies killed Snegge and took him prisoner.

 

[Richie B.]

Jaleer was glad when he saw one of the crew members surrendering, though his right arm was still numb Jaleer could still use the lightsaber in his left hand. But the small victory was short lived when another member of the crew shot the surrendering member in the back killing her. Jaleer's face was shocked and horrified but quickly slamming Tyler with his body sending them both into the crew quarters safely away from the rain of fire. Jaleer had the strength for one last attack and prayed that it worked.

"Tyler, I'm going to send a force push at the her, do whatever you think best, but.." Jaleer's face fell, a dark and sad look was all Tyler would see from the young Jedi.

"I rather we don't kill her, there has been enough death today." Jaleer took a deep breath and on shaky legs stood, his leg was brushed by one of the bolts, but Jaleer didn't have enough energy to heal it and attack.

Jaleer than slowly hanged onto the wall than putting away his lightsaber he took a step of faith and going into the open hallway fired his last attack at the shooter. It would send everything in front of it backwards but by the time it made it to the shooter it would cause her to maybe fall down but it would be too weak to do any serious damage.

 

[blstrgmr]

Prospero felt the force of Jaleer's body throw him sideways into cover. It was likely Prospero would've reacted in time, but the boost helped, and struggling against it would've ended badly anyway. Since the armored enemy was shot down after an attempted surrender (Prospero would've dropped them anyhow), it was apparent that the woman might be out of crew. However, she also looked like she could be the Captain, their objective. They hadn't received word about whether the invader was a counter-entry or their target, so he'd have to hold off on a shot.

After this force push would, hopefully, makes its mark, Prospero would rush out, keeping low and attempting to slam a large and meaty fist into Snegge's chest. Hopefully just to get her stunned long enough to pull the gun away from her. The sniper wagered his armor could probably take one or two hits before it breached. For now, intimidation would be needed. Non-basic languages usually helped. "OHK DAN JI VIKESIO!?", He would shout in Ryl, roughly translating to asking if she was the captain.

 

[Taruna]

"This is your lucky day," Jennifer answered, keeping her heavily modified blaster pistol on his chest "We only came for your weapons and technology for the Rebellion. The rest of the cargo and your ship will remain yours." she paused and lowered the blaster only so far that she could shoot him faster than he could do something stupid "Give the order, and this can end without further bloodshed" unfortunately, Jenny's headset did not yet give any information, so she could only hope that the other two would stick to their orders and try to avoid killing, although not over the expense of their own lives.

Being a non-force user, Snegge was of course hit hardly from the force push, slammed against the now again closed but not locked door to the cockpit. While she still tried to get up, there was ample time for Prospero to close in without being shot at and the hit made her drop the blaster rifle anyway. It was clear that she did understand Ryll as Snegge's hateful eyes looked into Prospero's and she hissed "Go and make a spacewalk without suit". She was a little crazy, furious and out of her mind right now, but her training would forbid her to give away any useful information to the enemy. At all. Also, her belt was actually equipped with a detonator, her own little perverse idea of fouling the attack if all else failed and her hand already moved to the detonator on the left side of the belt.

 

[CaptainWolfgang]

"Snegge, this is your Captain speaking." Kalo said over his earpiece, looking up at Jennifer as he spoke. "Cease hostilities immediately. We've lost, use your goddamn brain for once. You can't avenge Zeerya if their Captain orders her man to shoot you in the head. I've just negotiated away our weapons, but I've hidden a bomb on their ship. I repeat: CEASE hostilities or you won't be able to take them down." he lied, playing Snegge's need for vengeance since that seemed to be the only angle he could work. After he sent the message, he muted his mic for a moment, so Snegge couldn't hear what he was saying. "Honestly, this chick has been trying to kill me the entire trip, and just killed my best man, so the second you have her in chains, would you kindly have your man put her down for me? I'd appreciate it. Call it a modest Captain's proposal?"

 

[Richie B.]

Jaleer slowly began to walk towards tyler and the last crew member, when he notice she was going for something with her left hand. Jaleer was scared and worried if the crew member had anything up her sleeves tyler might be in danger, this gave him just enough fuel to grab the crew members hand with the force but it would last just a moment Jaleer was already spent and wouldn't be able to do anything else.

"Tyler she is reaching for something." Jaleer yelled hoping the sniper would see her hand was reaching down towards her belt, but Jaleer couldn't hold on to her hand long and after a few moments Jaleer nearly fell down and was force to lean on the wall of the ship watching Tyler and the last crew member hoping for the best.

 

[blstrgmr]

Prospero took the sudden lapse of motion that Jaleer had caused to put all the circumstances together. A secondary trigger, another detonator perhaps, maybe another explosive hidden somewhere? Didn't matter. The sniper would reach down to her gear belt, and using his simple brute strength, tore it away from Snegge's body and tossed it down the hallway. He shouted again about asking her if she was the captain, and seemed to express doubts that she was.

"OOTAY OHK KORJIN?!", he began shouting, the rough translation asking simply "where are they?". Every time this question was spoken, he'd slam a fist into the target's body, or lift and throw her into a durasteel wall that made up the inner hull of the ship's hallway. Now was not the time for finesse, there was no time for a "good cop". Prospero's language was a little shoddy, so he simply drew his gun, took a number of steps back, and aimed it at her. "Five seconds!"

 

[Taruna]

This was the time where the interruption script ended, the sniper had active and thus signals could once again float through the space uninhibited.
Which meant that the remote control of the small bundle of concussion (read: stun-) Grenades received the signal to go boom and the belt, rigged to explode decided to do so too. Since the both of them exploded at the same time, yet in safe distance to the three no one got killed but still the sudden raise of pressure was enough to knock out all three of them for a moment.

Snegge did take the blast the least best, her body would lie around with the typical symptoms of death by pressure, botan was somewhat protected by the armor and did survive, but is still unconscious.

On the smaller ship, Jennifer's joy over the ability to hear again was swiftly killed by the well known sounds of distortion in the com caused by the explosions. Raising the BLaster pistol to Kalo's head and looking at him with narrowed eyes she asked in a voice not unlike ice "What the hell did you do?"

Still, Kalo could sense that she simply was concerned for any more deaths and was apparently one who was decidedly strictly against killing unless absolutely necessary. He still would have to be cautious, since the aversion did not mean she wouldn't do it if need be.

[For further information see OOC thread]

 

[CaptainWolfgang]

Kalo gritted his teeth and forced out the most innocent looking face he could. "THAT might have been my fault." he started to say, recognizing the sound of a flurry of concussion grenades in the distance. "We really should go make sure that everyone is alive. If my crew is still kicking, then they wont know not to open fire unless I'm with you, seeing as the comms are down." He took his hands off the back of his head and instead held them in the air. "I'll go in front of you like this, I'm not up to anything."

 

[Richie B.]

Jaleer's eyes increased when Tyler began to beat the defenseless crew member, Jaleer was leaning on the wall of the ship but started to use it to get closer to the pair, now that Tyler slammed the crew member into the wall and was pointing his pistol at her face.

"Tyler drop it, and leave her alone she is defenseless!" Jaleer said but his face was showing the strain on his face, sweating and now coughing after speaking.

Jaleer had push himself thankfully the excitement of the action kept him moving during the mission, but now with nothing in danger, but Tyler who was threatening the crew member. Jaleer was feeling how much energy he used and how little he has left.

But when the grenades went off Jaleer was thankful that he was leaning against the wall. Jaleer just fell down and took several minutes to finally get everything together but Jaleer now didn't have the energy to get back up and looked over to Tyler.

"You ok? Tyler speak to me." Jaleer was worried hoping his partner wasn't injured.

 

[blstrgmr]

Prospero picked himself up off the floor, his legs and sense of balance completely decimated by the grenade going off. He felt a sharp pain in his lower abdomen, somewhere on the left side. A large piece of shrapnel was buried in his flesh, but didn't quite make any sort of exit. The sheer force of the grenade must have ripped up part of the metal plating of the floor beneath it. No point in letting it stick in there. The sniper reached down, bit down, gripped it, and yanked it out. A bit of a grunt and some bloodflow, but it wasn't too bad.

"****. Signal must've been on a repeater." Prospero grunted out, working his way to his feet and standing up, bracing against the wall. Pistol still in hand, he took aim at Snegge and pulled the trigger of the blaster twice. If she was the captain, she wouldn't have tried to detonate herself. He pointed the business end of the pistol at the armored body of Botan and pulled the trigger twice more, aiming to more bolts through their helmet. Double taps were necessary.

"Yeah, I'm good. Just a bit shaken. You clear?" He'd ask and then key his radio, finally getting the signals. "Captain, come in. Got concussed to ****all and I think my ears are bleeding, but the target's clear. No sign of the HVT. We're gonna start putting the freighter into retrograde and get us not going towards the sun as fast. Come pick us up, over."

Prospero hauled himself to the Captain's chair, an incredibly hard task for him, but he managed to pull himself into the seat and fiddle with the controls enough to turn them around and get ready for pickup. He'd also eventually locate the buttons to reseal and pressurize the cargo hold.

 

[Taruna]

Jennifer, hearing all things they did over the com now shook her head and only go close enough to Kalo to remove the blaster out of reach "Damned idiotic trigger-happy noobs" she uttered, carefully watching that the com was not open "Grab that medkit there on the wall" she told the other captain "Your crew is dead. I assure you this was not within our mission parameters and the two of them will be dealt with the authority. We will take what we came for and leave some parts as compensation. We are not supposed to annex this freighter, just get the cargo" Jenny was angry. She actually had slight hope to make one or more of them being a little more leaning towards the rebellion, but these two just waltzed in and killed of all the crew they could find. No wonder the Rebellion did not get off their feet.

She then put her finger to the sender of her com, still keeping Kalo in her sight and the blaster in his direction in case he was overly attached to one of them she spoke "Great job killing them, despite the mission parameters. I have the captain here and if anyone of you even think of shooting him I will behead you myself. We're on our way, including medical supplies. Stay put and we will take care of this asap."

Then, she closed the com and looked a Kalo a moment "Captain to captain.. Can I trust your word that you will not try something stupid tho further derail this? Or do I need to use these handcuffs here in my belt?"

 

[CaptainWolfgang]

"...My crew is dead." Kalo echoed, somewhat sadly. Sure, Snegge was treacherous and Zeerya had threatened to kill him, but he did feel responsible. While it's true that he had intended to kill Snegge himself, and had orchestrated Zeerya's death, losing everyone against an attacking crew while he suffered only minor scrapes and burns was almost degrading. Maybe if he had stayed on the ship and not tried to risk so much, they'd still be alive. What an absolute waste.

He pushed his personal feelings aside and stood up, grabbing the medkit.

"The moment I saw my crew I assumed it was an Imperial job. They don't really tolerate failure, especially when they find out that I faked my credentials. It'd probably be best if they thought I died in this attack too. If I leave in that freighter, I'll be hunted." the Shirtless Captain explained. "The only way I'm walking out of this alive is on your ship. So I'll play nice if you can promise to drop me on some world far away from this business."

Now might not have been the best time to make demands, but Kalo could tell that Jennifer felt at least somewhat bad about the slaughter of his crew. If he was going to negotiate, it had to be while she still felt any sort of shred of respect or sympathy for his situation.

 

[blstrgmr]

Prospero paused a moment and thought out the controls of the ship, swinging it on an auto-pilot course to dock with their Captain's vessel. There was plenty of grilling over the comms, mostly pointed at them. He sighed and listened a moment. It was necessary, what they did, in his eyes. It was for numerous reasons. There wasn't an ounce of hatred directed at his targets, only a professional ambition. And maybe something else. He looked over to Jaleer. Jedi, check on the armored one. My shots might not've penetrated the helmet. Do a vitals check." After all, his blaster had been rather weak, compared to the ballistic rifle. The sniper felt comfortable enough with the situation to not simply triple tap them.

"Docking in three." He changed the frequency to a more direct, closed frequency with a flick of a dial. Directed at his Captain, he only spoke: "We need to have a talk after this. Privately." He was unsure about her ramblings about the parameters. The primary objective was the cargo, the secondary the ship, and there was no mark about killing...for or against. He'd settle things later. Right now, he needed to make sure the wound he currently had didn't get worse.

The light blinked on that the whole ship had resealed. "Coming to meet you at the airlocks." Prospero held his side with his left hand, and made his way back the path they came in.

 

[Richie B.]

Jaleer was beyond angry, Jaleer wanted to smack Tyler across the face, unable to stop the man from firing two shot into each of the crew members trying his best just to regain enough energy to stand up straight. Once he could Jaleer hear Tyler saying to check the armored one saying that one might still be alive, and Jaleer did walking up to the armored one and sitting down. Jaleer looked and used his senses an found that the armored one was still alive but they was a lot of damage.

Jaleer stood up and ignited his lightsaber standing protectively over the body.

"I sense that this one is still alive, and guess what? We are going to keep it that way. Do you have any compassion within that thick head of yours. No mercy? The things that makes us better than the Imperium, I came here hoping not to kill anyone but apparently all but one of the crew and the captain is alive. Now I'm going to heal this one. You can tie this person up if you want but they are leaving here alive." Jaleer was pissed not liking Tyler for his willing to kill and than to shot at a dead body just in case.

Jaleer had only one arm so he was forced to put his lightsaber back to heal the armored one, it took Jaleer what little he has left but he did his best, the woman would survive if Tyler doesn't try anything. Jaleer quickly grabbed his lightsaber though he was not tried again he will protect the woman with his live.

 

[Taruna]

"Understood." Jennifer answered and noticed that this was a private channel. She neither did have to guess what this was about, but Jennifer had a clear aversion against unneeded killing. And she intended to clear that in a private conversation, she already more then just bent the rules by yelling at them. Not to mention thiswas not quite professional.

When the two where half trough the cargo bay, Jennifer saw the sniper arrive and whispered to the other Captain "take a look at yor crew" ansd then opened the Com to tell Jaleer "The captive Captain is about to come forth to you to check jn on his crew. Make sire he doesn't get any weird ideas" and pointed Kalo with her blaster pistol into the direction.

Then, she mentioned Prosperos to get down on one of the smashed cargo boxes and begun to tend to his wound, firstly by checking if there were any splinters remaining, then pulled out a auto-syringe filled with Bacta. "Here, that'll help quickly. Leave the standart treatment for the others"

Sure, she could have done so with the Medkit, but he actually did his Job and put his neck in the line, and their differences about killing would not change the fact he was a fellow Rebel.

 

[CaptainWolfgang]

As he passed through the cargo hold, Kalo only gave Zeerya's corpse an unemotional glance before moving on. He gave a courtesy nod to Prospero as he passed, and approached the hallway where Snegge and Botan lay on the ground at Jaleer's feet.

The Captain paced over to his fallen crew. Snegge had faced a pretty violent end it seemed, not that he had cared much. Kalo absentmindedly kicked her boot and knelt down next to Botan, signaling to the Jedi that he was going to check on her. Not wanting to let Jaleer see her face, he sat down beside her and leaned over it before popping her helmet off. Botan probably wouldn't want to have her helmet taken off around these people, but considering the damage she'd taken, he had to be sure that her head wasn't bleeding too profusely.

He wrapped her face in bandages, only leaving open spaces for her eyes, nose, and mouth. After she was covered, Kalo gave her an injection of bacta. Any work on the shot to the back that Snegge had dealt would have to be done in private. The bacta would probably help already, and Kalo wasn't about to jeopardize her identity more. He wasn't sure why-- but it seemed like what Botan would want.

 

[blstrgmr]

Prospero would sit down on the cargo crate as the needle went in. He winced slightly, mostly because the area around the wound was still sensitive and in pain. "Don't bother with me, it's just a flesh wound. I'm still capable. Sort of." After the injection was finished and he could feel the sealing of his wound start to emerge, he'd stand back up. As Kalo passed with a nod, Prospero would only return it. It was a professional gesture, one that the sniper could respect.

"I'll be aboard our vessel when you want to talk. The Rebellion could use another freighter. Perhaps you can ask Jaleer to pilot this one and follow us back. Your call." The sniper walked himself back out the airlock into their Captain's ship, readying himself for the rather loud argument that would probably occur later.

 

[Richie B.]

Jaleer moved out of the way when the captain signaled him to do so, giving him space he moved a bit closer to his group. Hearing that Tyler had suggested him to fly the ship, Jaleer paled a bit, but tried to keep his face neutral. Jaleer had only learned how to pilot a ship when he and the padawan he recruited stole a ship on tatooine though he is no expert he knew how to pilot a ship sort of, but with his arm the way it is, even if the effects were starting to fade made it hard for him to pilot the ship.

Yet Jaleer wouldn't complain if they gave the join to him, and waited for them to be finish before mentioning anything. Hoping the force would be with them and keep everything from falling apart. Deciding to head back to the injured crew member and the captain hoping to help out a bit more though he was still tired and beginning to sweat a lot in his armor. Taking off his helmet, Jaleer stood behind the captain his lightsaber on his belt and the helmet on the floor Jaleer tried to make his right arm seem relax rather than limp.

"Let me check the back, I can heal the damage the best I can." Jaleer said getting closer and kneeing down next to the captain

"An I am sorry about the deaths, it was never my intention for anyone to die today." Jaleer said softly and low, hoping that Tyler and his captain didn't hear, he was being honest and wanted the captain to know he was sorry.

 

[Taruna]

Jennifer looked back and followed prosperous with her eyes and once again activated her com "Jaleer, please put me on speaker, so that the other captain can listen in" and as soon as he did so she announced "your task will be to accompany the captain to his bridge and make sure he follows us to the Dropoff point. He is under Arrest, so if he tries anything at all, do not hesitate to kill as necessary, otherwise he is to be treated with respect, but upmost caution.

Then, she turned toward the airlock. There was a Conversation to be had, and Jennifer was not looking forward to it, but would not shy back of it either.