RPG Episode III: Rise of the Empire

[Tigervx]

[SIZE=1][COLOR=teal] 'Hmm, sticky situation ain't it? What should i do now. No other choose it appears.' He pulled out three concussion grenades out of his belt and threw them every which way out of the cockpit. He could here screaming and shouting as the grenades exploded. He set his visor to Thermal so the smoke wouldn't invertfear. He could here blaster shots ringing out around, the smoke was so thick thoughs Naboo Officers couldn't see a thing. He pulled out his clone rifle and blasted out of his cockpit, blasting three officers. He turned around to fire again, leaving a smoldering hole in him. Then another bounty hunter, not a Naboo officer pulled a gun to his head.

Abob: Thats enough. [/color][/size]

[9mm Avenger]

[COLOR=firebrick][i]Marth was jolted out of reading the Sith text by the deceleration from hyperspace, and the announcement of another ship jumping out of lightspeed beside him.[/i]

[b]Marth:[/b]A Y-2400...Called the [i]Scorpion's Den[/i]...Liscenced to one Xanko Hasek...His course parralels the Queen's...What do you think R3...Atack, or wait and see..?

[i]The R3 unit wihistled that waiting in ambush was a better tactic, because the Y-2400's intention was unknown..[/i]

[b]Marth:[/b]Coulden't agree more...Let me have manual control..[/COLOR]

[Juu]

[color=ff00cc] [size=1]"I'll pass." Celestine replied, looking away from the drink.

She walked towards the door, as it automatically opened in front of her.

"Stay here."

Celestine walked out, trusting Xanthia would stay behind. She headed towards her master's office, holding the key tightly in her hand. Although he would find out about it sooner or later, she decided it would be best if she held on to it for the time being. She shook her head and veiled her face with the hood once more. Celestine passed the halls, the corridor unoticed. She turned the corner, and pressed the key to her room. It was a windowless room, dark and lit only by a few candles and lamps across the celing. She quickly changed into something more authoriative, and perhaps something more fitting to be with a chancellor. Her cloak would make her far too obvious to the jedi. Once she was changed, she walked to her master's office, now dressed in more business-like garments from Coruscant. She bowed her head as she entered his office.

"I have a meeting scheduled tonight." He said, placing his hands together and rising from his seat. "Mace Windu and master Yoda will be attending. Obi Wan seems to have told them something Tryannous said. They are coming for inspection."

Celestine nodded. She knew she would be going with him. Her job was to play as one of his coucil during those meetings, under the name Nelinè Laradorie, from Naboo. She wasn't very fond of the name, but she agreed to do her part.

"Keep your lightsaber close." [/color] [/size]

[Boba Fett]

[COLOR=green]Abob fired a bright blue stun bolt directly into the bounty hunters head, dropping him instantly. Those customs officers had been stupid. Any officer worth his stripes would have scanned the enemy starfighter before surrounding it. Today it had cost the lives of seven customs officers.

Abob scowled, and then proceeded to disarm the bounty hunter. The man seemed to be a walking arsenal. Concussion grenades, darts, rockets, a flamethrower, a rope launcher and a blaster rifle. No doubt he was a bounty hunter. The question was who was he after? There were over a dozen senators on the larger ship, any of which could be the target. For now he would assume that this one was after Amidala, since he had targeted the starfighters instead of the larger ship. He must have known it was one of the senator's favorite ploys to travel as a starfighter pilot.

Abob walked to his temporary quarters in the customs ship and spent the rest of his stay on the customs vessel analyzing the holograms of the mysterious speeder pilot. The computer said he was a bounty hunter, and had a list of his kills, but had little other information other than the rewards offered. One thing was clear; this man rarely missed his target.

He instructed the Naboo security forces to detain the vessel on sight, then left the landed customs ship headed for the senators lake retreat. That was the safest place for the senator now.

The senator's bodyguard swiped his identity card into the datapad of a government official at the local speeder depot, and then selected a flash class speeder. It wasn?t heavily armed, but its speed combined with the light repeating blaster cannon mounted on the engine made it a lethal anti-personnel weapon.

The speeder and it's Omwati pilot sped off towards the Senators lake retreat, making sure he want being followed?[/COLOR]

[tursi]

Xanthia walked around the room, paceing back and forth. bored out of her mind. she sat on top of the table and started to see how many things she could levatate at one time, she started with her data pad, then a small bust of palpatine, and then a chair. soon enough she had everything floating except the table she was sitting on.

Xanthia: wow, this is lame.

She droped everything after rearanging the room, and opened her data pad. she typed into her pad. [I] r2-d7, FLY SHIP TO BAR, PICK UP MORE ALE FROM JOHN. BE BACK IN 3 HOURS. [/I] then she laid pack on the table and stared up at the ceiling.

[Hybrid]

[color=darkblue]Down in the scummy lower levels of Coruscant a figure known as Seth Wesell can be seen getting into his speeder, once the engine is fired up he speeds up into the bustling Coruscant traffic and makes his way to the docking bay.
Seth makes it to the docking bay in ample time considering the heavy daytime traffic, once inside he stops his speeder next to a ship called the "Predator" he presses a button in his speeder and a hatch at the back of the ship just big enough to fit his speeder opens, and he swiftly flies the speeder in and watches the hatch close.
Seth gets out of the speeder and settles himself in the cockpit and starts up the engines, when the ships engines and computer are both ready Seth pushes a few buttons on a nearby panel and a holographic figure can be seen and begins to speak,

"So...what have you been able to fine out about your missing sister?"
"I found out that she was working for a bounty hunter, I don't know his name, but I have a holopicture of him, I also know that she was hired to 'Eliminate' Senator Amidala." replied Seth
"Hmmm...well I can inform you that Senator Amidala is still alive and that she is no longer on Coruscant, no one knows where she has gone, but if you want to find her your best bet is to try looking on her home planet of Naboo." says the hollygraphic figure
"Looks like I'm off to Naboo then." replies Seth sharply.

The hologram disappears as Seth accelerates out of the docking bay and into space.
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[Yoda]

There she was... Naboo. Anyone could admit that this planet was exceptionally beautiful, considering it's importance. Normally planets such as this would have been turned into industrial havens, such a Coruscant and even Correlia to an extent. Xanko decided that Abob would probably keep all Senator's grouped for their safety. So, up on his computer, Xanko pulled up a list of all of Senator Amidala's most visited places, provided to him by the supposedly "loyal" Captain Panaka. A long list of places scrolled down his monitor.

He immediately cancelled out those too obvious or too big, like her house or the Palace. Then he decided to eliminate those to close Theed or any other city area. He was left now, with only three places. The middle one caught his eye... it was labelled simply "The Lake Retreat". He touched the screen with one finger, and a picture and description of this retreat appeared on his screen. It was a particularly beautiful place, the house was on the water's edge, there was a large span of water, and then two islands, one very large one covered in forestry towards the West, and a very small island in the middle of the water mass off to the North. [I]Perfect place to hide...[/I] Xanko thought... this was the place he would visit first.

[B]Xanko:[/B] Wait... what's this? An N-1 Starfighter.

It had come up on Xanko's scanners... someone was trailing him. It was quite a way off, and scanners confirmed the ship with that serial number had been reported stolen. However, nothing was known about the pilot. The ship had been stoled from Coruscant... how convenient.

[B]Xanko:[/B] I'll bet it's one of those damned Jedi. Well, if he upholds the law like he had done in the past, then he won't have a lightsabre... but that's not very likely, seeing as that is a stolen ship. Computer, deploy the decoy, and serial code him... this one's no pushover.

The decoy was a small device that carried an override code to The [I]Scorpion's Dens'[/I] serial number, and it would deploy at an adjacent angle to the ship, so to any scanner it would appear that Xanko had made a bank turn in order to lose any followers. Even a Jedi had to be within eyesight of it before he realised he had been tricked... which was plenty of time for Xanko to lose his trackers.

The decoy deployed from the ship, as Xanko accelerated the [I]Scorpion's Den[/I], bringing it into Naboo's atmosphere. Senator Osg wouldn't match much longer.

[Boba Fett]

[COLOR=green]Abob arrived at the Lake Retreat in time for dinner, and had the luxury of dining with the senators before arranging the security plans for the Retreat complex.

He had convinced the queen over hologram that he needed absolute control over the main island to effectively protect the senators until they could get transport to their home planets. He had bullied Senator Amidala into sleeping on the top floor, right next to the operations center. She would be perfectly safe here.

The security holocams had all been rotated to surprise any attempts at entering the compound undetected and random sentry rotation was in place. There were also probe droids patrolling the airspace above the retreat, and even the cleaning droids had been modified to report any suspicious activity.

Abob walked out onto the balcony and leaned against the stone railing as he looked down at the calm water below. The senator wasn?t happy with him at all. She knew that he had placed her safety the number one priority, to the extent that it left the other senators as bait for any attack. Provided anyone got into the compound undetected, they would only have to slip past two security holocams and three sentries to reach the other senators By comparison you would have to pass almost twenty holocams and six sentries, plus all of Reek squadron to get at Senator Amidala.

Abob walked back into the operations room and sat down in the commanding officers chair. Suddenly two hologram transmissions came in. He put the first one on hold, and then placed the second on the main veiwscreen.

[B]Abob[/B]: "Yes?"

[B]Naboo Security Officer[/B]: "The bounty hunter that attacked your starfighters has woken up, and hasn?t answered any of our questions. Would you like to interrogate him yourself before we send him in for trial?"

[B]Abob[/B]: "Definitely. I'll come down first thing in the morning."

He ends the first transmission and puts the second on the main viewer.

[B]Naboo Customs Official[/B]: "Sir, we detected a transponder signal identical to the one you notified us about, but we lost it going into atmosphere. It is safe to say your target has landed in your hemisphere."

[B]Abob[/B]: "Thanks for nothing. I'll have you demoted for losing that signal. You could have just cost the senator her life."

[B]Offical[/B]: "But sir! I tr-"

Abob turns off the hologram projector and scowls at the empty air. This was not good?[/COLOR]

[Tigervx]

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'It's time...' Kwaz started coughing horribaly. The guard for his cell was intreged and got off his chair.

Naboo Guard: You ok?

But Kwaz had no answer, he just kept coughing. Just as the guard was about to pop up a comm channel, Kwaz coughed up a vibro blade with it's sharp blade covered in a rubbery substance.

Naboo Gaurd: Wh-!

Kwaz had thrown the blade strait into the guards heart. The guard stumbled a bit before stumbling onto the ground. Kwaz swiped his key card and got out of his cell. He then took his blaster and headed towards the armory. when he reached it, it was guarded by two Naboo officers. He swirled around and faced the guards.

Guard 1: What th-!

Kwaz had blasted both of the guards and had swiped one of their cards and opened the armory. He grinned, there lied his Mandalorian armor.

Kwaz: And I thought their security couldn't get any worse.

He stuck on his armor and all of his weapons. A alarm sounded off, 'They must have found the guard, no matter.' He stepped out of the armor with his clone rifle to be met by 5 officers, he immidediatly started blasting them. The officers had horrible aim and missed him as he run across the hall. as the last guard was left with a smoldering hole in his chest, Kwaz rushed to the Naboo Inpound. He rushed in, firing at some lone officers in the hall. He finally reaached the compound and blasted the two officers guarding it, one in the head and the other in the heart. He used one of their cards to open the lock to find his starship.

Kwaz: This was easy, I thought they couldn't get any sloppyer then ever.

He rushed to his ship and took off as twenty officers flooded the bay...

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[9mm Avenger]

[color=firebrick][i]Marth stared at his instruments in confusion. The radar said the [/i]Scorpion's Den[i] had pulled a hard bank, but his Force scence told him that the pilot of the machine was continuing on a fast course to Naboo.[/i]

[b]Marth:[/b]R3, check for escape pods, or escape pod emergency beacons.

[i]The R3 unit did a quick scan of the area, turning up negative.[/i]

[b]Marth:[/b]Like I thought...A decoy...Put scensors in passive mode...We'll shadow him...

[i]The Y-2400 decended into Naboo's atmosphere, landing in a forest beside a large lake. Marth landed his ship in the water not far off shore, but too far for a normal human to jump to. Using telekenisis, Marth jumped to the shore, landing as gently as a feather. He crept up to the Bounty Hunter's ship, and watched the ramp open. He saw the Hunter, and his appearance shocked him.

The Hunter stalked down the ramp, wearing Madalorian armor. Unlike the garish colors of Jango Fett's suit, the Bounty Hunter wore black, red, and grey, looking the like the wraith-ghost of Fett.

Marth unhooked his lightsaber, and came up behind the ship. This Hunter was a danger to the Queen, and needed to be taken care of before he did any damage..[/i][/color]

[tursi]

Xanthia senced something happening out in the force. she sat up tring to home in on it, but she could find it. she looked around. this place was sending chills up her spine from all the dark energy. she sighed.

Xanthia: i hope celestine comes soon, she knows i won't stay in one place for long.

She sat around for a while. [I] r2-d7 will be coming soon. [/I] she might as well tell her, plus, she needed to go do more research while she has the time. she placed a holo cam up on the table and set it to record.

Xanthia: listen, i can't stay, i need to go back to the library for more research. i knoww you told me to stay here but you know me better than that, i can't sit in one place for long, that's why i'm a bad jedi. i'll be back soon, when you're not so busy. (she turned around) oh, by the way, i did a little rearanging, maybe you'll find the room more...(shrugs) enlightening.

She turned off the cam and left the message on the table. Then she ran out to go meet r2-d7 and get out of this place.

[Juu]

[color=ff00cc] [size=1]Well..erm... Tursi, you can't really reconize Celestine right now. o_o; She totally changed her appearance, and was in the room with Palpatine. Since she changed her appearance, she had to change her name for the meeting too. Only as one of Palpatine's coucil. Annd... Celestine's a little more dark/serious. ^_^;
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The Chancellor walked outside the door, Celestine following short behind. Stern faced, she walked amonst the other members of the coucil. Her hair was up neatly into a crossant bun, elegant, yet authorative. She knew her role as Nelinè, for she had played this role since the clone wars had begun. This was a simple task, even though changing her appearance took much time. It was fairly simple though. She would be from Naboo. A representative of the Chancellor.

Palpatine seemed much different than Darth Sidious. Many times she would find herself thinking of them as two completely different people. She was loyal to each. Celestine would protect him, even though she knew it was unnessicary. She knew of his powers. They were far beyong her own. No one else in exsitance would compare. Not even master Yoda.

She felt in secret that the young Skywalker was growing much stronger than her master. Inside, she knew her master felt it as well. That was why he wanted him so badly. Needed. He knew of his power, and knew how useful he would become to the dark side. They reached a ship on the docking bay of the rooftop, speeders racing down below. The meeting would start within four hours. The chancellor and the Senator Amidala were the most expected guests.[/color] [/size]

[Yoda]

[I]Xanko froze, both in shock and anticipation. He could see the Jedi behind him, one of the capacitites of the Mandalorian helmet was 360 degree vision. This Jedi was good, the first one ever to see straight through the decoy... a trick that he had used to lose even the great Sassae Tiin once. Both hands gripped his DC18, not nervously, bit firmly, ensuring no mistakes. Obviously the Jedi planned for a showdown, his lightsabre was already drawn... though not yet ignited. Xanko was not about to disappoint his new opponent, Jedi or not.

Xanko walked on a few steps, making Marth feel as if he had gone unnoticed, and he crept a few steps further also. Suddenly, Xanko turned, blaster raised, and he fired. Marth, amazed at the man's speed, ignited his lightsabre just in time to execute a block. However, two more bolts were already on the way, which Marth blocked also, as he started to rush the bounty hunter.

Xanko knew he couldn't let this man get close, or he would be in trouble... his weapon would get through his armour like a knife through hot butter. However, he kept firing for the moment, hoping to catch Marth with a bolt by surprise.

Marth could see the bounty hunter was good... any less of a person would have been long since dead. He wasn't simply firing bolts, he was trying to pick off vital areas... one bolt went to the kneecap, followed quickly he one directed at the heart. This meant that Marth was having to alter his course in order to get in a position to block. However, he was nearly on Xanko's position.

Marth drew within striking range, and slashed vertically, as if to take off Xanko's head. Xanko, in an amazing move that seemed impossible for a non-force user, dive to the left, straight under the strike of the Jedi. Then, igniting his jetpack, he took off into the air, continuing to fire at his Jedi opponent. Marth blocked while watching the bounty hunter intently.

Marth leapt suddenly into the air, straight at Xanko. It was simply to fast for Xanko to react to... Marth delivered a kick to Xanko's midsection, knocking his DC18 from his grip. Marth landed on the room of Xanko's ship on his feet, whereas Xanko landed on his back. Marth charge again, raising his lightsabre above his head to deliver the final blow. However, as he brought his sabre downwards, Xanko let his whipcord lose, and it wrapped around Marth's wrists. Their arms were so close together that it was basically like they were handcuffed together.

Xanko brought Marth's arms down to his side, the sabre missing Xanko's helmet by centimetres. He kept forcing Marth's hands downards, forcing him to strike the roof of the ship. The hard durasteel crashed against his knuckles with tremendous force, causing him to lose his grip on his lightsabre, and it rolled a few yards away from him. He went to call it with the force, but suddenly he felt the cold steel of Xanko's Westar 34 pressed against his temple.

This could go either way... Marth could call his lightsabre and hit Xanko before he fired a shot... but it depended on just how fast Xanko's reactions were. So, for now Marth decided to play it safe...[/I]

[B]Xanko:[/B] Tell me Jedi, why shouldn't I shoot you?

[B]Marth:[/B] I won't let you kill Senator Amidala bounty hunter... I won't allow it.

[B]Xanko:[/B] I don't think your in any position to make threats... but I'm not here to kill Amidala.

[I]Marth could sense that this man was telling the truth, he spoke confidently and clearly, with no alteration in his pulse...[/I]

[B]Marth:[/B] Then why are you here?

[B]Xanko:[/B] That's my business Jedi, and mine alone.

[I]A vibroblade suddenly extended from Xanko's wrist, and he used it to cut the whipcord binding Marth's wrists. Immediately Marth shot up, and called his lightsabre to him, but Xanko was already walking away. He picked up his DC18 at the edge of the ship's roof, and dropped off the edge. Marth ran to the edge of the roof, only to see Xanko speeding away through the forest on his speeder bike.[/I]

[tursi]

OOC: ok, fixed it juu. ^_^*

[9mm Avenger]

[COLOR=firebrick][i]Marth jumped off the hull of Xanko's ship, watching the Bounty Hunter cut a winding course through the forest, just incase Marth had decided to persue him.

Instead, Marth sat down on the damp floor, pondering what had just happened...And cursing his stupidity at the same time.

That Hunter had amazingly fast refelxes, and Marth didn't know wether the suit had inhanced the ability, or...The suit! So that's how Xanko knew Marth was behind him. As Marth rubbed his sore knuckles, he realised how impatient he had been. The Hunter obviously knew Marth was there, otherwise Xanko would be just another decapitated body. He must have had 360 vision..

Marth also wondered why the Hunter was here..Until he realised that Xanko hadn't closed the ship's entry ramp. Marth reached out with the Force, and saw that Xanko was long gone. The Marth deirected the Force to the ship, trying to scan for booby-traps. It seemed clean, though entry to the cockpit was guarded by a security pad.

Marth scoured the ship, finding nothing but weapons and armor chaches, holding cells, and the ocasional bottle of Coruscant Ale, which he helped himself to.

When Marth finally made it to the cockpit, he inspected the security pad. It used a key card, but there was also a number pad in the unlikly event that Xanko misplaced his card. Marth reached out with the Force to try to see which numbers Xanko had pressed, but so far, it was unused.[/i]

[b]Marth:[/b]*On commlink to his starfighter*R3, get over here...I need you to crack a code.

[i]A few minutes later, Marth's R3 unit acended the ramp, and pluged himself into the input. The R3 unit tootled that it would take a half-hour to crack the code.

Marth nodded, and went to the ship's galley, and looked through Xanko's fride unit, as he was suddenly hungry...[/i][/COLOR]

[Boba Fett]

[COLOR=green]Abob was awakened by the shrill scream of an alarm. It was then that he knew what he had forgotten. He always forgot something. No matter what he did, something [I]always[/I] slipped through the cracks. This time it was the alarm tones, he had forgotten to set each alarm to a different frequency. That would have allowed him and anyone else who heard it to know what was going on as soon as they heard the alarm, rather then reporting to the situation room for more details.

Abob slings his sniper rifle over his shoulder and stands up. The situation room was on a skeleton crew, so that more guards could be posted.

[B]Abob[/B]: "Computer, turn off alarm and send information on the source of the alarm to all security comlinks."

Everyone in the situation room listened intently to their comlinks?

[B]Computer[/B]: "The speeder seen on Coruscant has been spotted by one of our probe droids. The droid was destroyed before it could confirm its report"

[B]Abob[/B]: "Watch the holocams veiwscreens, I'll be back shortly."

He stepped out of the situation room and jogged down the hall to the Senator's room. He knocked on her door, and then was ushered in by the Mallastarian senator. Abob was astounded. All the senators were sitting in the room, being absolutely quiet.

[B]Abob (whisper) [/B]: "Senator Amidala, what is the meaning of this?"

[B]Senator Amidala[/B]: "We're easier to defend if only one location needs to be defended. I'm tired of you using them as bait."

[B]Abob[/B]: "Fine, I'll have a guard issue you a blaster pistol, and sun blasters to the others."

[B]Senator Amidala[/B]: "You don?t trust them?"

[B]Abob[/B]: "Not in the slightest."

He leaves the room, and then activates an energy shield around the room. He keys it to the retina scans of all the security personnel before heading back up to the situation room. It was going to be a long night?[/COLOR]

[Yoda]

[I]Xanko stopped his speeder bike quickly at the dock. Already a sentry was approaching. Xanko leapt off the speeder, and ran to hide behind the small wall beneath the balcony. The sentry passed, and walked to the edge of the steps, and pulled out a pair of electrobinoculars. He began looking out over the water, checking for any hostile targets. Xanko crept quietly up the stairs, and with one hand, he gripped the sentries chin and twisted it, snapping the sentries neck. Instant death...

He toppled the sentry quietly over the belcony and into the water below. It made a quiet splash, nothing that was audible over a few yards away. Then, Xanko ignited his jatpack, and shot up onto the ledge above the ground floor windows. He crept quietly to the window side, and checked for any approaching sentries. There were none at this time. With his laser-cutting device on his wrist, he unsealed the window jamb, and crept quietly inside.

He had a complete scan downloaded of the retreat, he was taking the most efficient path to the place where he had picked up the largest heat signal. Suddenly, another probe droid darted around the corner. Within a micro second, a scorching hole was in the droid's main body, and it crashed to the floor. Xanko knew he had to move know, security would pick up where this droid had gone offline.

He darted around the corner to the door of Senator's room. He approached the door... a retinal scan was required. A sentry walked quietly around the corner on patrol, he had barely noticed Xanko, when he grabbed one of the sentries arms and rammed his head against the wall, knocking him into a state of unconciousness.

He then pressed the man's face against the retinal scanner. It was approved, and the door opened with a quiet hiss. There was utter silence inside. Xanko pushed the guard into the doorway, and immediately a blast scorched through his chest. Xanko, using this momentary distraction, ignited his jetpack and darted into the room.

Immediately his scan picked up the Mallastarian target... he was in the centre of the bunch. Stun bolts shot past his feet or head, but they were all Senator's, none of them could land a decent shot, except Amidala... who happened to be the only one with a proper blaster.

Xanko raised his blaster rifle, and let off a shot. It hit Senator Osg square between the eyes, and then Xanko immediately turned and made for the door. Amidala was so astonished that she was not the target, that the shot she fired missed by some three metres.

Xanko landed on his feet just outside the door, just as Abob Ttef and two more sentries came rushing around the corner. Xanko picked off the one on the left, just as Abob fired a shot, which hit Xanko's blaster, ripping it in half. Xanko, who had little time to react, raised his arm, and the whipcord shot out, wrapping around the barrel of Abob's gun, which he then ripped from his grasp. It landed on the floor by the wall. Then, as the other sentry fired a shot, which missed Xanko by inches, Xanko fired up the jetpack again, rocketing back out of the window. Abob chased him frantically, furious, thinking that Amidala was dead. Xanko shot out of the window, and headed straight for his speeder, avoiding the many blaster shots aimed his way.

Xanko landed perfectly in a sitting position on his speeder, and rocketed back off towards the forest. Then he realised... the Jedi was probably still up there.[/I]

[Boba Fett]

[COLOR=green]Abob ran into the Senator's room to find her alive and well. Another of the Senators wasn't so lucky; a blaster burn was squarely between his closed eyes.

He then ran back to the roof of the operations room in time to see the general direction of the assassin's speeder. He fired up the Flash speeder's engine, and then flew it off the roof. The speeder wasn't made for this kind of abuse, but it survived the hard impact with only minor damage to the rear stabilizer. He had been very lucky.

The Naboo Flash speeder and its enraged pilot chased the other speeder through the woods until they came to a clearing, in which sat a spaceship. It clearly belonged to the bounty hunter, since he flew his speeder into one of the escape pod bays. Abob parked the speeder and got into the gunner's seat. He poured blaster fire from the light repeating blaster into the ship's vital systems, hoping for a lucky shot that would prevent the ship from escaping. Normally a spaceship would be invulnerable to small arms fire, but a repeating blaster might be able to do some damage.

He set the gun for auto fire, then jumped out of the speeder and headed aboard though the open boarding ramp. As he cautiously approached the top of the ramp, he though he heard the sound of a lightsaber deflecting blaster bolts...[/COLOR]

[Tigervx]

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Kwaz saw the assassination attempt and the lead of security going after the assassin. "Looks like its time for me to join in." He jumped out of his star fighter and proceeded to the senators retreat. He pulled out his clone rifle and stuck a optic scope on it. He scanned the area, only seeing guards. He shrugged and put his rifle back, and aimed his wrist dart gun. He saw three senteries at the bedroom of Amidala after the attempt, and killed them all with darts in the neck. He started sneaking over the building, avoiding patrols, and having to "deal with" sentries here and there. When he reached the Senator's bedroom and tugged the bodies into under the porch, he heard ten guards coming down. He hid behind the corner.

Guard1: What? Where are the men posted here?

Guard2: Maybe they went to secure the rooftop after the attempt.

Guard4: No, they where stationed here after the assassination attempt.

Guard1: Then what happened to them?

Kwaz: I did.

Kwaz swung around the corner and fired his Geonosian sonic blaster at the guards. The sonic blaster was not as powerful as a laser blaster, but it had a wider radius in hitting an object. It was also handy because it was made up of sound, not light, handy against jedi.
He fired three times, knocking all the guards back, some dead, some only unconcious. He then opened the senators door, only to be met by a blaster bolt.

Kwaz: I guess whoever is in charge of security isn't as thick headed as thoughs guards. But none the less Senator, i do have a job to do here.

He wipped around the corner into the door and blasted his flamethrower all around the room and jetpacked out. He did not care if he got his bounty or not, this was getting intresting anyways. He landed next to his starship, guards and speeders rushing over. He started off his starfighter and blasted off.


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[tursi]

Xanthia slowed as she came to the library, it seems that they were searching for something from the look of the command vehicles. She muttered something under her breath and raced down to the "bad" side of town, they always seem to have better fun there. She parked her vehicle, pulled over her hood, and walked inside. she sat down at the bar table and watched as someone sat beside her.

Man: there's trouble brewing...

Xanthia: and we get to stir the pot.

The man smiled and looked at her as she pulled down her hood.

Man: it's good to see you again.

Xanthia: same to you mike. so what is the news from the front.

Mike: they're having trouble in the senate, everyone's in danger, and it's like a living hell.

Xanthia: sounds fun.

Mike: you haven't decided yet have you.

Xanthia: geez, why does everyone bug me about that, no i haven't, i just don't have any intrest yet.

Mike: better have some soon, or you'll be out of the picture according to the plans being made.

Xanthia: oh yeah?, well what side or you on?

Mike: the senators.

Xanthia smiled and shook her head.

Xanthia: how about it? drinks on me.

Mike: sounds good.

She smiled at her old friend and the bartender gave them their drinks.

Xanthia: to live past today...

Mike: and into tommorrow.

The touched their galsses together and drank, forgetting about politics and such, because this might be the last time they would meet like this.

[Yoda]

This was getting a bit much... first the Jedi had been found in his ship, but now Abob had charged aboard. Xanko had made his way, firing with his single Westar 34, to the cockpit. With his free hand, he swiped that card, and darted into the cockpit. He spoke through his communicator in his helmet.

[B]Xanko:[/B] Lock down the cockpit, and activate level eight security measures immediately!

The cockpit door closed violently with a loud hiss, and now, the Jedi and the Omwati had about two seconds to get out before they were bombarded with blaster fire and poisonous gasses, which was more than enough to handle five Jedi. Xanko took great pride in the condition of his ship.

Xanko sat in the pilot's ship, and started up the engines. Scanners showed that a repeating blaster was firing at the ship's vital systems, but the shields were easily holding up. Xanko then closed the hatchway, if the two were not off the ship by now, then they would soon be dead. The ship glided into the air, and rocketed off out of Naboo's atmosphere.

Xanko turned on the ship's internal scanners to check for any life forms. There were none, both of them had gotten off the ship in time. The [I]Scorpion's Den[/I] moved into space, as Xanko began to set the coordinates for the jump back to Coruscant. All of a sudden, the comm. button started bleeping again... he expected it to be Palpatine. He pressed the button, but instead, saw the blue Omwati face of Abob Ttef.

[B]Xanko:[/B] Can I help you?

[B]Abob:[/B] That was a very arrogant act bounty hunter... arrogant, but brave.

[B]Xanko:[/B] Is this going somewhere Ttef?

[B]Abob:[/B] Just how far are you prepared to go for money Mr Hasek?

[B]Xanko:[/B] As far as my employers need. Nothing is above me.

[B]Abob:[/B] Good... then let me make you an offer.

Caution crept into Xanko's mind instantly, he had just infiltrated the lake retreat and killed a Senator, and within moments of this Abo was making an offer... it had ambush spelt all over it. But still, Xanko decided to play along for now.

[B]Xanko:[/B] Go on...

[B]Abob:[/B] Your a good fighter Xanko, very good... and I think you just saw that we're in need of men who can fight.

[B]Xanko:[/B] That is true... only you and the Jedi managed to stand upto me at all.

[B]Abob:[/B] So work for me... help me protect Senator Amidala. I must not let her die!

Abob's voice was filled with a sincerity and desperation that begged agreement. Still, Xanko was cautious about the whole thing...

[B]Xanko:[/B] I'll think about it Ttef. Keep your communication open, I'll contact you with my answer.

Abob's head nodded, and the comm. went blank. Xanko made the final adjustments to his ship, and made the jump into hyperspace.

[9mm Avenger]

[COLOR=firebrick][i]Marth stood in the clearing where the Y-2400 had once been, and looked over at Abob.[/i]

[b]Marth:[/b]Good to see you again, Abob...Who was he after?

[b]Abob:[/b]A Senator. Not Amidala, as you suspected.

[b]Marth:[/b]Yeah, I gathered that. Why in the name of the Sith did you offer him a job?[/COLOR]

[Tigervx]

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OOC: Ummmm, boba, where waiting for you too post. It's all circling around you now, and you haven't posted yet...

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[Hybrid]

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OOC: Sorry that I havent posted much, my PC was being repaired so I was using my brothers PC for awhile, and he would let me on long enough to reply to this rpg, but I got my PC back now so I can post when I want. ^_^
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As Seth ship enters Naboo's atmosphere, his computer detects a ship leaving and prepairing to enter hyperspace, Seth runs a background check on the ship, a holographic image of the ship
appears infront on Seth, and the computer starts to read out details:
"The Scorpion's Den, a Correlian Y-2400 freighter, registered to a bounty hunter named Xanko Elg'Hasek."

The computer then displayes a holographic image of Xanko and starts to rotate it 360 degree's.
Seth then brings up the holographic image of the bounty hunter that Zam had worked for next to the image of Xanko.
"Almost a perfect match, a different variation in colors on the armour, but that could be who i'm looking for..." Seth mumbles to himself.
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[Boba Fett]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Tigervx [/i]
[B][SIZE=1][COLOR=teal] OOC: Ummmm, boba, where waiting for you too post. It's all circling around you now, and you haven't posted yet...[/color][/size] [/B][/QUOTE]

[COLOR=green]OOC:

I know I haven't been here for a while, due to a multitude of homework assignments. Believe me, my lack of time on OtakuBoards has been a great annoyance recently.

Also, from now on OOC only posts are not allowed in this RPG. These comments and questions can be PMed to the appropriate party. If anyone breaks this rule, I will "ban" them from this RPG.

You have been warned...
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Abob ended walking back though the woods to the senator's lakeside retreat.

In the intense chase he had neglected to program the speeder's light laser cannon to shut off when it started to draw from reserve power. As a result, the speeder's power cell was depleted after its continuous stream of fire that Abob had directed at the bounty hunter's ship.

As he walked he slipped his miniature hologram projection unit into his pants pocket. He was utterly disgusted with himself. He had failed the Senator. Not only had there been another security breach after he had left to track down the perpetrator of the first, but he had failed to foresee the danger of the situation. She had never been in real danger, but her new double had nearly been killed. He was glad that she survived, since the Senator was very attached to her handmaidens. She was so overprotective that only one had died in her tenure as a Naboo diplomat, and that had been during Typho's watch. He wouldn?t let that to happen while he was in charge?

The forest was deathly quiet. The forest animals were all asleep in their small, ever changing territories. This small ecosystem seemed to be a smaller version of the galaxy. The strong preyed upon the weak, and only the ruthless survive. Every player in the deadly game of Vornskr and Ysalamiri had a unique role to play.

He was just exiting the forest and crossing the short stretch of swampland between the forest and the Retreat when something hit him. The beast, like a large, absurdly muscular dog, had sprung from the long grass and knocked him into the smelly mud. It had overestimated his strength, and continued through the air for several meters before landing. This gave Abob all the time he needed. Drawing his blaster pistol he sprayed the long grass with blaster bolts until he heard a yelp of pain, and then fired at that spot until his power-pack was empty.

He reloaded his weapon, and then cautiously moved in to inspect his kill. It was a Woolly Veermok, the most dangerous land predator Naboo had to offer. It was the leading cause of death among adventures and explorers on the planet, and the only reason he was still alive was that he wasn?t human. Being an Omwati made him unnaturally light, which had caused the Veermok to overshoot its target instead of pinning it to the ground. Good thing too.

He entered the Retreat, and used an access panel to cancel the red alert and begin the extended evacuation procedure. That would give him time to get cleaned up, and search the hull of the Senator's ship. He had a nasty feeling that the reason one or both of the bounty hunters had found them was because of a tracking device affixed to the hull.

An hour later, Abob stood on a hover disk that was floating next to the front hull portion of the Senator's starship. He had showered, changed, packed his belongings and recharged his weapons in preparation for departure form Naboo. Now, his tasks were complete. He had found a small tracking device attached the hull, presumably placed there by the bounty hunter. It was ingeniously designed to avoid detection, which was why his scanners couldn?t pick it up. Even when he held a scanner inches above it, the scanner registered nothing unusual.

He vaporized it with a micro welder, and then proceeded to check the rest of the hull while he waited for the Bounty Hunter to contact him with his answer to Abob's business proposition?[/COLOR]