Star Wars: The Fall Of Coruscant (IC/OPEN)

[Anglo Saxon-Franko]

Saxon Lashrac
Jedi Temple, Coruscant

Saxon felt the presence of a jedi for a few moments before it was gone. He had dressed his wound that he had taken from a sith trooper that got a lucky shot off, then a scream filled the temple. Saxon's eyes darted from left to right, That doesn't sound good! That sounded like it came from deeper in the temple and that means the sith are probably here. Saxon jumped to his feet and charged deeper into the temple, if it was another jedi he was going to save the poor soul. Then an explosion echoed through the hallway, Saxon was sure that someone was deeper in the temple now and turned on his sabers. The temple was harder to navigate through now with all the rubble than it was when the hallways were clear. He almost tripped over some rubble as he was running down a hall then finally came up on a bounty hunter by the looks of it on the floor and some with near her. Ah shit! Well to late to turn back now, might as well try to save her! Saxon jumped inbetween the sith and the bounty hunter and got into a defensive stance, "Back away from the bounty hunter, though I am curious though, why are you attacking a person you hire to hunt people like me down?" Asked Saxon as he scanned the room to ensure he wasn't going to get jumped by another sith.

[Spindle]

Jedi Temple
Coruscant

Bella barely saw the Human Sith before the Bith went skidding off to one side and the grenade detonated, pinning the Human firmly in place. Bella used the reprieve to scrabble to her feet and hook her helmet up and back onto her head. Blinking a strand of hair out of her eye, she swayed slightly as she pulled out her pistols with trembling hands, glancing around.

Someone skidded to a stop in between her and the Sith with the screech of metal on stone and a whirl of yellow, lightsabres flaring as Bella looked on. He seemed to be wearing some kind of combat armour underneath Jedi robes which flapped like birds as their momentum carried them forwards while the rest of his body stopped. Bella faintly heard him say something about a 'bounty hunter' beyond the ringing in her ears. That would be her then.

"Thanks." She gasped weakly to the Jedi, eyes not leaving the two Sith, "Think we can take them?"

[Anglo Saxon-Franko]

Saxon still scanned the room, "Well if we can't its not going to matter. I'll handle the sith, you watch my back and make sure they don't get any help from troopers." Informed Saxon as he waited for the sith to make the first move. He wasn't going to leave the bounty hunter open to be a target, better to let the sith make the first move before he tries anything. Not to mention she seemed very weak, too weak to dodge sith. "I hope your not too weak to fight, if you get a chance, find a speeder. I'll cover you!" Informed Saxon as he scanned the sith waiting for a hint at their first move. Plus for all he knew, the temple was covered by sith troopers everywhere. There was something strange though, why didn't he sense any other Jedi in the area.

[Prolieum]

Resistance Base

Nightshrike read over the datapad, and found nothing he could use on Brightstar. Without comment, he turned to leave "I will expect the location of that cache within the hour." As he left though, one of the military men flagged him down. "Wait, mister! Or Ma'am, or... just wait! He pointed to the screen. New bounty just came in-650k for the Black Hand boss. You interested in that." No sign was given, by under the armor, Nightshrike's skim crawled. The Black Hand. They had carves their own little sphere of influence in the more lawless regions, mining and selling arms-arms to the Hutts, the arms that had gunned down his comrades, the people who he thought he could protect. He spun, and was looking over the man's shoulder in an instant "Where?" The man responded clearly unnerved. "Last known coordinates are here." He brought them up. Silently, the armored man left the room, heading back to his starship-he had a new target.

Coruscant

The first set of bolts came as a complete surprise, and almost a deadly one-the first shot went high, he deflected the second, and only barely nudged the third out of his path. Renewing the chase more warily, and dove to the side when the second burst came. His analytical Fondorian brain churned-that timing did not seen random. Testing a theory, he pursued at a full sprint, counting carefully, then leapt into a dive-roll, rewarded by the sound of bolts passing over him. He pushes himself, gaining rapidly, dodging a final volley, then skidded to a stop, the skrutch of leather on metal echoing in the hallway, as Joseph disappeared into the sky. Snarling, Zeres cut to the side, where a row of parked speeders lay. He leapt into the first, gunned it-nothing. Blast. A security system. He tries the next-same result, and same for the one after. Apparently citizens did not randomly leave their speeders unlocked, or the holokeys in the dash. Finally, he ignited his saber, plunging it into the control panel. Unsuprisingly, this did not cause it to start. Glaring, he hurled the sword at the fast-departing speeder, a burst of the Force driving it to stick, quivering out of the back wall. The soldier may rely on dishonorable ranged assaults, but he had shown skill in his rescue, and did not deserve the shame of losing his weapon. Grimacing, Zeres deactivated his saber. Now what?

[The Flutterlands]

Coruscant, Jedi Temple: Darth Malice

Darth Malice was going through such a high from the power of the dark side that it took a moment for the bith to notice Cess telling him to cease. He glanced at her with his now dark yellow eyes, still shocking Bella with his force lighting, before nodding in a begrudgent understanding and ceasing. However, Cess took him by surprise, not realizing the grenades, when she force pushed him into a wall with a thud. Groaning in pain, he looked up to see Cess stuck in place. Supposing that he should be grateful for Cess saving him, Darth Malice pulled his fellow sith out of the spot. The bith then slowly got up and looked upon the bounty hunter, now with one who he sensed to be strong in the force.
Finally. he thought, A jedi to feel the wrath of the dark side and fall by my blade.
Darth Malice grinned wickedly before getting into a position again. Like Bella before he grabbed Saxon with an invisible hand. However, this time, Malice began to try to slam him right and left into the walls several times.
"Want to join me?" Malice asked Cess, his yellow eyes glancing at her as he activated his lightsaber, "You get the bounty hunter, I get the jedi."

[Kyraina]

Tyran Pavish, Joseph Brightstar


Joseph was about to shoot a burst of bolts at Zeres, when he saw a flying metal spike coming at him. He dove to the bottom of the bed of the speeder, when he heard a deep thumping sound above him. He rolled onto his back and saw his sword embedded in the back of the cab. He yelled into his comm. "Pavish, are Benn and you ok?"

"Yeah, we are fine. The sword scared the crap out of me." Pavish replied over his comm.

Joseph nodded, stood up, took a grip on the sword, and pulled. The sword slowly moved out of the hole. He grunted as he kept pulling, and feel backwards as the sword came free. He shook his head and sighed. "Get us back to the temple. I need to scout around and find out the extent of the damage and if there is any information I can recover. Drop me off on the roof, and then find a place to hide till I buzz for you over the Comms." Pavish sighed and said "Will do, just be careful down and honorable in battle down there."

Joseph smiled and said "If I am ever either one of those on the battlefield, stab me, and throw me off the tallest building you can find. Honor doesn't matter to the dead, so why should it matter to the living on the battlefield."

Pavish shook his head and kept driving the speeder and circled around to the Jedi temple. Joseph drew his vibrosword and laid it on the speeder bed, and put his regular sword in his back sheath.

Pavish landed the speeder near one of the towers and Joseph jumped out. Pavish then took off and went a fair distance away and hid among the wreckage of some of the buildings.

Joseph ran to one of the edges of the temple, and jumped off the edge, and using a ascension gun repelled down the side of the Jedi temple. he landed on a ledge, and opened a vent that was near him. He climbed and made his way through the vent. He Kicked open the vent, drew his pistol and Knife and crawled out. Upon seeing no one in the immediate area. when he heard a metal grinding on stone. He ran towards the sound and came to the courtyard, where he was on a raised position above it, and where he saw two sith fighting a Jedi and a Bounty Hunter.

He ran till he came to a set of stairs and ran down them two at a time, arrived at the bottom floor, Pulled out his sword, walked out of the stair well, saw he was behind the two Sith and charged. He jumped and juked around obstacles in his way and covered the ground fairly quickly between him and the sith. He lowered his shoulder and ran into the Bith Sith that had a hold of the Jedi, knocking the bith to the floor, and Joseph put the point of his sword to the bith's neck. "I wouldn't try anything if I was you, one move against me and the tip of my blade goes into your neck, weather it's true my power or I'll drop it on your neck if attacked, your choice really." Joseph said flatly, He then turned to the Jedi, and Bounty Hunter and said "Get out of here, I'll have a friend pick y'all up." He said to them and then said into his Comm "Pavish, rush here fast. I got two friendlies for you to pick up. Meet us behind the temple."

Cess Payne

Cess was still trying to get free from the goop grenade, when the bith's force push force shoved her out of it. She hit a destroyed pillar, and sunk to the ground. She slowly got to her feet, and nodded at the Bith, then sent a force push, and force lighting at Bella. Both attacks went wide and was prepared to do so again, when she saw a blur come out of no where and knock the Bith to the ground, prepared to attack, but froze when she saw who the man that stood over. She froze because she saw the it was Brightstar, and two parts of her brain were warring over weather to attack or to run and hug him, and then kill him.

[Spindle]

Hallway
Jedi Temple
Coruscant

The Bith somehow extricated the Human out of the goop, leaving a small, odd-looking sculpture in an unpleasant shade of green on the floor. Perhaps it had been meant to be more of an attack, because she hit the stub of a pillar with obvious force and sunk to the ground silently. Bella felt a flicker of concern well up for the woman, before the Sith threw a bolt of lightning and a semi-visible wave of energy at her, both going wide. Bella's pistol was up and prepared to fire when something appeared from the periphery of her vision.

What appeared to be a Human careened into the Bith, knocking him over and, in a blur of movement, placing the tip of a longsword against the Sith's neck. For some reason the Human seemed to have frozen up and Bella let loose a fusillade of blaster shots towards her. The man turned to tell them to leave and Bella recognised his face immediately: Joseph Brightstar. The reason she was here in the first place. An amused grin touched her face, before turning sour when he told her to leave. There wasn't a chance in Hell of her leaving a fight that they were so close to winning.

"Not happening!" She called back, with a strength in her voice that her body didn't have, "We can win this!"

[Anglo Saxon-Franko]

Saxon lashrac

Saxon got up just as the Bith sith was slammed into the ground by another jedi. "Good, so I am not the only jedi left-Ah master Pravish always impeccable timing as ever, so you must be one of his companions." Informed Saxon as he helped the bounty hunter up and turned towards the frozen sith. He could sense the strong feelings she was having but to what he didn't know. "You are coming with us!" Barked Saxon as he walked up to Cess and hit her on the back of the head. Saxon picked her up and slung her over his shoulder and nodded to the man that was standing in front of him and started to head to the exit that would take them behind the temple. He had hoped this sith would tell him of the blockade or at the very least he could convert her to a jedi possibly. But he was going to ensure she didn't try to escape or kill anyone while they were trying to get information out of her.

[The Flutterlands]

Coruscant, Jedi Temple: Darth Malice

Darth Malice grunted in surprise as he fell to his feet from a human's push. He rolled over, only to find a sword near his throat. When the bith looked up only to find it to be Brightstar standing over him. His eyes turned to slits, knowing the human's ruthless fighting skills, matching his own. Malice glared at him as the brain in his cranium began to calculate a counterattack, before force grabbing the sword and sweeping Joseph off his feet with his legs. Getting up, Darth Malice grabbed Joseph's sword and activated his lightsaber, putting them both at the human's neck.
"Now one move from you, and your head goes off." said Darth Malice coldly, "I'd not move an inch if I was you."

[The Imperium Empires]

After the Evernote on Alderaan Arkius leader of the Infamous Black Hands ha decided to expand. With his huge shares he have managed to get npbecause of his hands in high places he expanded his armada. He built an entirely new fleet and got more troops for combat. This time though these ships were specifically designed for war. He also contacted the republic saying he was not attacking put of aggression but he fought the republic were going to be killed . He also announces if you take that bounty off me I'll stay out of the republics way for good.

[Prolieum]

Jedi Temple

With a snarl of pain, Shimera blazed into a pain-ridden consciousness, to find the hall in chaos. A Sith-Malice, he thought, stood pinning a Republic soldier, the Bounty Hunter was still on her feet, seemingly still against him, another Jedi had shown up-Cess had finally arrived-hmm. He sensed something from her, and swiftly looked back to the soldier. No. Him. He drew in a pain-addled breath, moving to his feet, his bound arm close to his side. This was the moment. Here he would forge his future, or resign himself to death-or worse. He raised his hand, pointed it at the fallen Republic soldier-and unleashed a blast of lightning directly into the unsuspecting Malice. "He is here!" he screeched, his words subtly pulsing with his formidable mental influence. The words themselves ought to be enough, but if not, this would push her over the edge. "The betrayer! You trusted him, loved him, yet he saw you as no better than the dirt of his boots-less! A whore, a moments pleasure. He took advantage of you, abused you! Now, the tide has turned. You have grown powerful, my apprentice, powerful enough to purge this blight from your past. Feed on your anger-strike him down, and the power of the Dark Side will be open to you in full! Never again spurned! Never again used! All that you have to do is what he did to you those years ago-burn away his heart."

[The Flutterlands]

Coruscant, Jedi Temple: Darth Malice

After being taken surprise twice in one day, which only increased his paranoia that the world is out to get him, Darth Malice opened himself to danger sense. He initially hoped to foresee any possible move Joseph could make. However, he instead got a vision of a force lighting attack from behind. In a swift move, the sith lord whiped around and flexed his lightsaber, blocking the foreseen attack, while keeping Joseph's own sword towards his neck. The bith's eyes widened upon seeing that it was Lord Shimera who tried to attack him. Deciding to leave Joseph alone for now, Darth Malice glared at Shimera with cold, hateful and betrayed eyes.
"Lord Shimera!" Malice shouted with venom in his voice, "What's the meaning of this?!"
The bith kept himself loosely in danger sense in case Joseph tried anything. However, he was furious at Shimera for what seemed to be treachery.

[Kyraina]

Tyran Pavish

Tyran Pavish fired up the speeder, and drove it around to the back of the Temple. Upon arriving where he was told to, He climbed out of the cab and waited. He then heard a familiar voice over his comm. "Well, it's been awhile Saxon. I figure would have been off-planet or in the underground by now. Just hurry up and get here." Pavish said as he stood beside the speeder.


Joseph Brightstar

Joseph landed on his back hard. He then smiled as Malice held the Lightsaber and Joseph's own saber to Joseph's neck. He then saw Malice quickly take his attention and the lightsaber from Joseph. Joseph slapped the sword to the side, rolled to the right, drew his knife and pistol. Leveled the Pistol at Malice, and pulled the trigger 3 times and then threw the knife at Shimera. "Bounty Hunter, if you think we are about to win here, then you are fooling yourself if you think 2 non-force users, and 1 Jedi Knight can beat hundreds of sith warriors. So get to the back of the temple and the speeder." Joseph said dryly.

Cess Payne

Cess started to stir when Shimera started speaking. She felt herself bent over in a odd fashion, along with lots of bouncing, and then realized that she was being carried over a man's shoulder. She drew on the force and unleased a force push into the man's back. She fell to the floor, climbed to her feet, and rushed back into the temple courtyard. She saw Joseph and then heard Shimera's word repeat in her head. She smiled and hit Joseph with Force Push, followed by Force Lighting, then drew a saber, activated it and threw it at Joseph


Joseph Brightstar

Joseph felt a heavy wave hit him in the chest and was sent flying. He slalmmed into a wall, and dropped the pistol. Not long after that he was intense pain as the lighting struck him, He yelled in Pain, and spun to the side, and the saber embedded itself in the wall beside him. He shook his head and looked at this new attacker and saw that it was Cess, "It can't be, you were suppose to be dead by the hands of the Sith and their Merc Allies." Joseph said as he slowly stood back up, drew his rifle, and sent several bolts flying towards the 3 sith

[The Flutterlands]

Coruscant, Jedi Temple: Darth Malice

Darth Malice sensed the attacks from Joseph. He turned around flexed his lightsaber several times, blocking the bolts from the pistol, before giving Shimera a rather brutal force push out of the way from the knife. The Bith then watched Cess, taking as what he considered to be Shimera's advice to her, attack Joseph with the force. Malice then watched as Joseph got up and spoke out against his attacker.
Interesting, thought the sith lord, These two most likely know each other. Apparently Joseph done something to Cess that ultimately led her to our side.
"You could have just said something." he said, blocking Joseph's bolts as he turned to Shimera, who have now lost any ounce of trust he could have for him.

[Spindle]

Jedi Temple
Coruscant

The world suddenly exploded into action. The Bith and the Human were in a scramble for dominance over each other, their situations reversing over and over again. As he called over to her to leave, the enormity of the odds hit her. He was right. The whole planet was covered in Sith and she couldn't fight all of them. Not at once, certainly. A hand went to her wrist, tapping in instructions for the Morningstar. It would be here soon.

The yellow-lightsabre Jedi had reached down and picked up the Female Sith, but the first thing Bella or the Jedi knew of her emergence into consciousness was when she knocked him to the ground, extricated herself and began to unleash her pent-up fury upon Brightstar. A frown creased Bella's face as she considered that. The two of them had history? He'd have to ask after that just as soon as they got out of here.

Bella exploded into motion, feet barely even touching the ground as she sprinted across the stone floor with her jump jets roaring, blasters up and firing at the female. Skidding to a stop next to Brightstar, she grabbed him by the forearm and began to run again, dragging him behind her, as a crunch heralded the Morningstar's arrival. The fighter shot into the hallway, tearing through the few remaining pillars and raising itself to the ledge the group was fighting on. Bodily throwing Brightstar across the remaining few feet onto a wing, Bella turned and slid to a halt to see how Saxon was doing.

"I'm not a bounty hunter!" She called behind her, to Brightstar, "I'm Bella."

[Anglo Saxon-Franko]

Saxon Lachrac
Jedi Temple, Coruscant

Just as Saxon was just about to respond when he was slammed into the ground, he had enough time to soften the blow before hitting the ground. He got up and saw Cess running back into the temple, "Damn it! I had to come back here to get my armor before I tried to get off planet. But we might need you, we have three sith in this fight again." Informed Saxon as he rushed after Cess and went back into the temple where all the fighting was happening. He got into the mix of it when he saw Cess throw a saber at Joseph, "Oh no you don't!" Barked Saxon as he sent a force push into Cess back and then activated his saber and got between The Morningstar and the two sith masters. "Not another step, you have entered sacred ground! You have killed innocents, the deaths of younglings and now this damned war!" Barked Saxon as he was getting angry now and that rage that he always kept within him was starting to seep out now. Then a fighter appeared, he saw the bounty hunter pulling Joseph on the wing, Saxon turned and started to sprint towards the wing of the fighter and leaped.

[Prolieum]

Jedi Temple

While Malice's reaction was not Shimera's primary plan, it fit directly into his second, allowing Brightstar the chance to strike back. Inexplicably, though, Malice defended himself with his saber against the bolts, freeing Shimera's lightning to dance across the Bith's body in sparking arcs. Malice then unleashed a telekinetic blast at Shimera, yet more pain to deal with-but it was worth it-he saw Cess engaging Brightstar-if she succeeded, this could be salvaged. A howl of rage tore from his lips, though, as the Mandalorian rocketed into the fray with incredible speed, somehow snatching Brightstar from the cusp of death. His lips twisted in wrath. The woman was incredibly durable, or perhaps it was her armor, continuing to fight after..

Shimera nearly threw himself to the ground as a starfighter ripped by just above him, spinning about just in front of the woman. An escape craft. Shimera shuddered. Not know. He would not lose this chance for his apprentice after years of goading, training, teaching. Perhaps he could not kill the Mando, but he could keep her here, his safety be blasted. Igniting his purple-bladed shoto, and locking in the blade, he hurled the item with all of his might-not at the woman, but directly into the small ship's exposed engines.

[Prolieum]

Outer Rim

Arkius had not been particularly difficult to find. Nightshrike knew the Hand better than he would have liked, but anyone with half a brain could have found them now-they were emptying their coffers producing warships, and just tracing them was child's play. The shift to industrial production was not an easy one, and the Hand needed workers, and experts fast, and were not being particularly picking about who they chose. Nightshrike had gotten himself shifts on several of the projects, hopping from one to the next, each time leaving a small prize onboard the in-construction vessels. Recruitment on the ground was nearly as large-bounty hunters, mercenaries, random kids off the street-Arkius wanted an army, and an army needed manpower. Integrated into this force, Nightshrike had all that he needed, information, location, trust. All he had to wait was for Arkius to make planetfall, and the bounty would be his.

[Winter Bastion]

Alderaan

Ra gave a slight smile. "Coruscant has lasted for millennia because it has been part of the Republic for millenia, Sith. The transports to the city come through our customs, our checkpoints, and are paid for by our people. The shippers are bulk traders and Republic-the latter will give you nothing, and the former know a bad deal when they see one. You Sith are rather infamous for snatching up a trader's property for the "Good of the Empire." Some will come, but not enough. Millions of ships come to the planet daily. Each one could have Jedi aboard, slipping onto your planet. The city is vast-too vast for you. Even now criminals will be seizing entire sectors, crime lords carving out little kingdoms. Your precious order will never come about, and you will drain yourself dry trying in vain. Coruscant is the centre of the galaxy, and all eyes watch the centre. They will see your failures-people starving, chaos reigning, the Dark Side impotent. What will you do? Empty your garrisons, pacify the entire planet? It would take tens of billions. Leave it be? The entire galaxy will see the inevitable outcome of Sith rule. Coruscant is a deathtrap. We have held it for millenia, and still struggle-you have held it for hours. Your choice lies before you-hold the planet, or keep your Empire. I suppose we will see if you value your bauble more than your survival.

Rising to her feet, the diminutive woman calmly left the room.

Amongst the Jedi, a pulse of rather un-Code-like anger could be cleanly felt. A young, black-haired woman's blue eyes flashed-Dar'Nala attempted to put a hand on her, but it was too late-the Knight drew on the Force and leapt forward with startling speed, saberstaff igniting in her hand, striking towards the Inquisitor.

Jurius watched as Ra left the room; the young Jedi had done so to forestall further debate. She was lacking in experience and knowledge of planetary affairs, but held a fantastic delusion of insurrection and would hear no contradiction. There was anger in her, and fear - he could sense it like the scent of blood on the wind.

And then there was a silent alarm through the Force that drew his attention to the impulsive Jedi leaping at him. Her anger was very apparent, on display for all to see. The sabrestaff ignited, flashing azure blades from each end. As the Jedi struck towards him, he struck back with brutal power. With a slight gesture that belied its strength, he halted the would-be assassin in mid-air, levitating her in place. The Jedi's momentum threw her limbs forward; she held her grip on the sabrestaff, but the wind was crushed from her lungs.

She gasped in a half-lungful of air before he closed his fist and, with the dark side of the Force, her windpipe. She dropped the sabrestaff then and clutched at her throat. She lashed back with a weak Force Push, but he casually batted the attack aside with his own counter. The Jedi's face began to purple and she thrashed, her feet kicking a bare span above the carpeted floor.

"Enough!" shouted the Chandrilan senator. "Please, I beg you! Stop this!"

Jurius turned to the man. "You're quite right, senator. I shall honour your request." With a vicious tightening of his fist, he crushed the Jedi's trachea and dropped her limp body unceremoniously to the floor. Shocked silence fell, underscored by the whispering escape of the Jedi's last breath.

The Inquisitor turned to his delegation. "We're done here."

[Spindle]

Jedi Temple
Coruscant

Bella's lips quirked into a smile as the Jedi launched his tirade at the Sith before them, holding a defensive stance between the two sides. His rage was something to behold: something very unlike how a Jedi was supposed to act. It was oddly amusing. Raising a hand, she beckoned him over to the craft, leaping onto the wing with a burst of her jump jets and letting off a barrage of shots at the Sith still on the ledge.

A whirl of purple shot past her, tearing directly into engine number three. The blade sliced through the metal without even slowing down, leaving a stripe of molten metal in its wake. The engine simply shut down with a sputter of coolant dribbling from the wound and the fighter itself listing to a thirty-degree angle. Its autopilot was smart but it wasn't an astromech droid: it couldn't compensate for something so drastic. Bella fought to keep her balance for a moment before vaulting into the cramped cockpit and running her hands over the controls. The ship began to stabilise itself and the listing decreased. The two remaining engines roared as blue fire shot from their nozzles.

"We're ready to go!" Bella called to the Jedi as the ship slid forwards and upwards, "Hurry up!"

[Prolieum]

Jedi Temple

Shimera snarled as he saw his still-active saber punch through the other side of the ship-damaging the craft's ability to fly, but not crippling it. He glared at the blade some distance away-his inability to use telekinesis was never more infuriating than now. He could use that fury. Gathering his anger, concentrating, then unleashing a blast of lightning-not in forks, but a single, concentrated bolt, as focused as he could make it, driving it into the third engine-but there was still one left. He bellowed to his apprentice- "Cess! Will you let him leave you again? Bring that thing down!"

[Anglo Saxon-Franko]

Jedi Temple

Saxon heard the bounty hunter, he sent one final force push at the sith and started to charge for the ship. He didn't exactly trust the ship would hold them if it took another hit, but he current situation with the sith didn't suit him either. So he had to pick the lesser of two evils, once he got close enough to the ship he leaped onto the wing and yelled, "GO!" The next engine that got his rocked the ship, Saxon slid off the edge of the wing, but gripped the edge and slowly pulled himself back up. One of the sith were yelling at the girl he had knocked out earlier to come after us.

[Spindle]

The Morningstar
Temple Hallway
Coruscant

Bella gritted her teeth as the deathly-pale Sith launched a bolt of corsucrating energy into engine number two, frying that and causing the whole ship to buck and writhe like it was alive. Fighting to get the ship back under control, Bella cursed and detached both of the now-useless engines before feeling the additional pitch of the Jedi landing on her wing and firing up engine number three as far as it could go. The ship vibrated like it was about to fall apart, but it held together as it slid shakily out of the Temple and made its unsteady way into the maze of buildings which constituted Coruscant.

Banking gently so the passengers on her wing wouldn't have to worry about falling off, Bella searched the streets below her for the speeder she knew was in the streets below. It was the sensors of the ship which found it, the heat of its engine standing out against the cold background of the city. Slowly landing alongside the speeder, popped her cockpit open and vaulted out to inspect the damage. It was nowhere near as bad as it could have been, but the fighter was noticeably lacking two of its engines and the circuits controlling engine number one were fairly well scrambled. It would be unwise to fly any further than they already had. Turning to the speeder, Bella hooked her helmet off of her head and clipped it to her waist.

"I hope you've got a way off-planet." She commented breezily, "Because mine's more or less shot."

[The Imperium Empires]

When Arkius discovered the bounty on his head he went into a rage of fury and tells his captain"
Kill all the workers now one of them is likley a bounty hunter " The captain orders the massacre of the workers leaving thousands dead. Luckily for Arkius he was no where near the production of his ships he had been producing ships on 5'differtn words and he had spent most of his recruiting efforts of mandalore. They were the galaxies most skilled non force using fighters.

[Prolieum]

Outer Rim

Death everywhere. Arkius's new troops, Nightshrike included, had been called in to storm the manufacturing areas, and to slaughter the workers-no reason was given. When the order had come down, Nightshrike had rushed ahead, outpacing the jeering and laughing walk of the swarm of mercenaries under Black Hand rule. At the shipyards, he had spread the news-most believed him, some did not-but those soon realized it when the first of the troops arrived, only to be cut down in the doorway by precise sniper fire. They could escape into the streets, but they were known there-they could be hunted down. They could flee to lower levels, and hide, but they would have no food, would be forced to come to the surface. Sides and bottom were out-the only means of escape, Nightshrike realized, was up. As the soldiers began to enter the area, the workers streamed onto the most-completed warships-the step-by-step assembly process meaning some were already at flight capacity, while others were still barely started. Bringing the ships online, in some cases with direct manual overrides and a bit of luck, and frantically shoving fuel into the reactors, the vessels began to rise-most of them, at least-the ships were being cheaply made, and were incomplete, a pair were still grounded. The advantage in firepower, though, had shifted. Low-powered laser shots rained from the sky, scything into the oncoming troops, until the last vessels successfully made orbit. The assassin ordered a microjump into deep space to allow the vessels a chance to regroup. After the arrival, he finally had a moment to catch his breath. The ships had been being manufactured on five different worlds. By all indications, the same scene would have been repeated on them. He squeezed his eyes shut. Again. Again the Black Hand had gone on a spree of murder-only this time, they did it directly. They had to be stopped. Not for the money anymore-but for what was right. He looked up "What now?" Silence, for some time, than a young woman on the right spoke up. "We do not know what ta' do. They're gunna kill us if we go back, and I got no idea how to run a ship." Another man spoke up "The Black Hand betrayed us! We should cut down the dogs, rip them to shreds!" "Idiot, none of us know how to fight back. Heck, half of us do not even know how to hold a blaster!" "We, we ain't just gonna stand around! We know how to run these ships, we know how ta make 'em work, make 'em fight-we just need someone who knows how to command." Nightshrike stood silently, caught in his own thoughts, until he noticed that the room had quieted, all eyes on him. "What?" "Yer the only one who knows how ta fight. You were on 'a his soldiers-ya know what yer doin' more than ta rest of us. Ya saved our lives." That was...unexpected. He wrestled internally-he could not lose so many again-but the Black Hand had forced his. They started this, slaughtered innocents-and now he was going to finish it. He nodded. "Revenge, then. Set course for the following coordinates. We are going to hit them where it hurts."