Topic: Old Republic RPG

Faux watched the explosions with intense fascination, the ground shaking violently as the mines were set off in a deafening chorus of smoke, fire and spraying dirt. The padawan wondered to herself how hard it would be to set off a mine using the force... A flock of strange bright blue birds soared into the sky with the thick towers of rising smoke as they were disturbed from their perches in the surrounding trees.

"The Republic will see that for miles." Faux told herself quietly, transfixed by the second round of explosions set off by the heavily armored tank. She turned her head slightly toward the Mandalorians next to her with a confused look on her face, "You aren't afraid of them at all, are you?"

"No we arnt" Said a Mando trooper next to Faux. "Why would we be, they have no honor and attack like cowards."

HK was watching the republic troops through his tri-light scope. "Statment: Oh, must this take so long? Query: What's this? Answer: Something has tripped my short range sensor beacon. Anticipation: Ooo, I am sparking with exitement, I do hope there will be a violent exchange of gunfire."

((*coughattackthemandoscough*))

"Shh, men, here they come. Ready your weapons" the captain whispered. "I have a visual of a downed republic ship, safety off! What are your orders?" Tarritt said. "Wait. It might be an ambush, proceed." Mandalore replied. "I' Sir, arming weapons." "Watch the Jetti, she might try something stupid." Shion said.  ZZZZKK......TA-KOW! No sooner did Tarritt close the hatch on his tank, a high-powered round ripped through the viewport, grazing his side. "Open fire!" The republic captain stood up and shouted.

Territ looked down at his side, he was shot. Territ aimed his tank cannons up to the top of the cliff and fired. Tanks from all over the Mando army fired at the top of the canyon. Territ was bleeding badly.

HK draged his huge rifle back into the small cave in the outcropping. "Irritated Statment: Drat! I missed the meatbag's primary vital organ by nearly five centimeters! Resignation: I may never for give myself. THOOM! BOOM! KRA-KOOM! the cave nearly collapsed from all of the tank fire.

                                                                                     (Journeyman Protector! Yes!)

Shion was on her feet in an instant, activating the shielding on her armor and raising her rifle. The tank kept rolling, which did little for her aim. Peering through the scope she began search for the offending soldier. A flash of firey orange caught her eye and she focused on what looked like a droid.

((Rev, I'm going to wound HK badly enough to screw with his memory, but not badly enough to kill him, that way he can become a bigger part of the storyline. If you have any objections to this, I will glady change my post. Just let me know.))

"Hold fire!" she shouted to the surrounding tanks. "HOLD FIRE!"

The tanks ceased their firing for a few seconds, allowing Shion to aim at the droid on the cliff. He was still just an orange droid-shaped dot, but he wounded Territ, and that was enough to make her scale the cliff and rip the thing to shreds with her bare hands if she had to. She grit her teeth, the anger threatening to overpower her discipline, and fired.

One orange dot came plummeting down, until its shape became clear. It was some model she had never seen before. But it snagged countless vines and branches as it came down, slowing its fall. It landed with fried circuits and a few dents. The techs would repair it and put it to use.

She dropped her rifle and it clattered away across the top of the tank. The hatch was covered in blood...

"Territ!" she barely restrained herself from shouting the name in panic. She jumped down, coming up behind him in terror of what she might see. It wasn't that she was a stranger to death. But it was -Territ.-

I was supposed to have his back, she thought shamefully.

"Territ?" she called again.

Territ winced as she screamed in his ear. "Stop shouting, Ill be fine." Territ said. Territ lifted his hand and looked at his wound. "Just get me a med pack." Territ groaned in pain and put his hand back on the wound. "Ill be okay Shion dont worry" Territ said weakly.

((She only shouted when she was outside the tank. She's a little psycho, but not dense))

Shion was subdued quickly. Stupid, she thought, stupid, stupid... what was she thinking, showing concern for him? He didn't need her to worry about him, he needed her to keep that from happening!!

Wordlessly she pulled a medpack from her belt and handed it to him, then departed, still in silence. As the techs began patching up the droid, she sat on top of the tank, closing the hatch behind her. She couldn't let that happen again. Her eyes were glued to the scenery, looking for any possible ambush, for anything that might suggest further danger. Besides, the more she thought about that, the less she had to think about her dishonor.

Territ appiled the medpack to his wound, he wouldnt let Shion see how bad it was a couple more centimeters and he wouldve been dead. He groaned a bit from pain then rested in his tank.

I was gonna have HK zoom in with his sniper rifle at the Jedi girl, and then realize she was his objective, then start firing on the republic troopers, as they are disposable. After they were killed, HK would join the Mandos as an "ally" HK is really far away, these are the rounds his super-sniper rifle fire:

Looks Something Like This Gun:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/38/Ntw-20.jpg

http://www.quarry.nildram.co.uk/NTW20mm.jpg

The Bullet It Fires: (the biggest one in the middle)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/71/50BMG_size_comparison.JPG

KLABAM!!!! The escape pod that Revan and Bidlo were in crashed down into a the midst of a big battle between the Mandalorians and the Republic.
"Ughh!" Bidlo shouted as he was thrown out of his seat and into the wall. Revan and Bidlo exited the pod while the Jedi deflected the blaster fire.
"Run to that cave! I'll follow!" Revan commanded. Bidlo dashed into the cave as quickly as possible while Revan followed. Inside, Bidlo found an assassin droid.
"Exclamation: Die, meatbag!" the droid shouted as it aimed it's sniper at Bidlo.
"HK-47, this is your master ordering you to stop!" Revan said.
"Question: Is it really you, master? Expression: Master, I'm delighted to see you! Now we can slaughter some meatbags together. Like this one over here." HK-47 said, gesturing at Bidlo. Revan told HK that Bidlo was on their side, and that they can kill some Mandos together.
"Statement: Lets go kill some meatbags." HK-47 replied. Bidlo was finally going to get his revenge.

((Ah, I see. Well, okay, let us say HK didn't drop out of the sky, pciked off a bunch of troopers (and almost Territ) and then feigned injury to get Shion and the tanks to back off. Is this agreeable?))

Okay, fine with me.

Shion had put her helmet back on... a bad sign, as she only did that when she meant business. With its gadgets it would help her keep an eye on the landscape, and it would keep out whatever prying gazes there might be.

She looked up to the cliff again. She hoped that droid was quite dead.

Territ drove the tank threw the cannon, his side giving him much pain but at least it was healing. He looked at Shion then he looked down at the tanks controls, he pushed a button and three scout droids flew out of his tank to scout the area and make a holo map.

A thought occured to Shion as she watched the scout droids fly off. A scout, someone who could seewhere they couldn't...

"Hey, Xondra!" she called. She helped the Jedi up on the tank, then looked her in the eyes, perfectly serious.

"You Jettise claim to 'see through the Force,' right?" she asked. "I need you to use this Force of yours to scout up ahead now and then, see if you can sense anyone. You probably don't give a damn about us, but we have a lot of respect for you, and if we get ambushed you could get caught in the crossfire. Will you help us?"

HK laid down with his sniper rifle and tageted one of the republic troops from his position behind the Mandos. "Apology: Forgive me, master". TA-KOW! The trooper hit the ground like a sack of lead. Shion jerked around to see who had fired, knowing that it could not have been one of her squadmates.

Shion grabbed her rifle and stood firmly between Xondra and the direction of the shot. Cutting the com to Territ so he wouldn't hear (he had enough to worry about), she shouted at the unseen enemy with a fury she had been just waiting for an excue to unleash. "Show yourself!"

HK stood up and walked twords Shoin. "Statment: Hello there, meatbag. Query: Shall I shoot something for you?"

Shion lowered her rifle only slightly. What did it say?

And then the orange color registered with her and her rifle was back up, firmly pressed against her shoulder and ready to fire. "You already did," she growled. "My best friend's in this tank with a nasty gash in his side, thanks to you! And what are you getting at, shooting our prisoners?! What are you, some kind of haywire assassin droid?!"

"Answer: If you are refering to my unquenchable thirst for violence, no, it is simply my programming to do such. Supplication: I do hope you will forgive me, as I am just a droid."

Shion jumped off of the tank, rifle aimed a bit more loosely at HK-47. "You shoot another Mandalorian again and by Mandalore, I swear I will rip your circuits out with my bare hands if I have to!! Identify yourself, droid!"

"Identification: HK-47. Irritated Objection: What have I done to you to deserve this treatment? I am merely an assassin droid."

"You nearly assassinated my best friend," she snapped from beneath her helmet. "And then you assassinated one of our prisoners. So just whose side are you on, anyway?"

"Answer: I shall serve you, unless you would like me to hastily splatter your organic innards on the ground?......Master."

"Right..." she said absently. "Look, I'll point out the... meatbags... you can vaporize, okay? In the meantime, what model are you? Who's your manufacturer?"

"Identification: Systech Corporation Hunter-Killer Model 47."

((He's not Czerka, and droids can't lie, though they can withold information))

"Huh..." Shion said, lowering her rifle. "An HK, you say? Good. We can put you to use. Go find Mandalore at the front- he's the only one who can decide what you'll do in this army. After that the techs will check you out and you'll report back to me, got it? And don't go shooting anyone unless they're shooting at us, please."

Sorry, I meant Systech, I changed it. It's his alias, HK can lie.

Oh? I wasn't aware... hm...

Territ looked at the droid with confusion, suddenly his control pad beeped. "Finnaly" Territ pressed the blinking button and a holomap of the are popped up. "Notin much till the end of the canyon."

((Okay, everyone with the Mandos? Yes? Good.))

Shion returned to her perch on the tank with Xondra. "One more crisis avoided," she said with her usual cynical sense of humor. She looked at the hatch, then thought better of it. She didn't need Territ's droid when there was a Jetti around. "Sense anything yet?" she asked.

Xondra Faux slowly put her fingers on the sides of her head and got a faraway look in her eyes.

"Yes. I'm sensing...I'm sensing..." The padawan looked up at the female Mandalorian with a look of irritation, "That you're a complete idiot."

Faux put her hands down at her sides, and explained clearly, "I'm not a Mando, yet, Shion."

The tall padawan turned away, very, very tired from a long confusing day, and sat cross-legged on top of the tank, putting her hands out to try and meditate for a little more strength and peace of mind.

"I thought I already explained this," Shion said, her patience limited. Her voice was stern as she spoke, "Do you think a bunch of Republics aren't going to take a shot at us just because we have a few Jettise with us? Keeping yourself alive means keeping us alive too. Keeping them alive," she gestured to the Republic troopers marching along, giving dubious looks to the Mandalorians who offered them water along their trek through the hot jungle. The Jedi, the older ones, didn't seem to really be there, perhaps in some sort of walking meditation.

"Would you risk their lives so you could get away?"

Shion brought the focus back to herself, the T-shape in her helmet fixing on Xondra, like a statue of some sort of passionless diety, gazing down in heartless judgement. "I saw your face when your master died by my blade," she said. "I saw your eyes- like my own eyes, not so very long ago, when I met the Mandalorians on the same terms -and I saw that you're fresh. You've never faced death before, never seen the horrors of war. Don't abandon your comrades to that." The shame of Territ's injury came back to her suddenly, having felt the failure she was about to preach against. "Don't abandon those who care for you to that. We're warriors, Xondra... but we're not evil."

Territ looked at Shion threw the slit view in his tank. His eyes divereted themselves back on the road making sure not to crash the tank and kill several mandos. His stomach rumbled, he hadnt eaten anything for a long time. He opened a box next to him and pulled out a small rations bar and nibbled on that till they made camp and had a proper meal.

The padwan whirled her head toward the towering Mandalorian, unable to keep the flood of anger inside her in check, "And the Jedi ARE? The Republic soldiers are?! Perhaps the innocent worlds who refuse or are unable to fight back have some horrible plan to destroy all existence?!"

Faux exhaled and turned her head away, her voice still betraying the painful sea of emotions within her, "I have never tried to run away. "

She choked slightly on the words she tried to say, "And that was not my master you killed. That was just another 'Jettise' willing to give his life to try and save a few sentients."

The padawan tilted her head toward the other prisoners, "Just like all of us."

Then the red-head's fiery green eyes looked up at the cold T-shaped visor with lethal intensity, "Why are you fighting?"

Xondra Faux tried to sort out so many confusing questions.

Why do you kill my friends, my family, and then save me?

Territ looked at her and said from his tank loudly so the Padawan could hear. "For honor Young one." Territ swerved the tank left and right playfuly jerking Shion, Faux, and the other Mandos around.

(( Hahhah! Awesome Post V! I thought I had you guys for sure! ))

Faux tumbled and nearly fell off with complete shock, she frantically tried to grab a hold and then the tank straightened.

Honor.

Faux looked around at the Mandalorians closely...for some reason she couldn't quite remember the Jedi lecture on that topic. She'd have to find some way to cleverly get more information on the subject without the Mandalorians knowing she was at all interested. She sat straight again and eyed where the tank driver was to make sure he wasn't about to try anymore sudden moves...but all in all, riding on top of the huge, vibrating,  powerful tank of armored weaponry was...fun.

They certaintly didn't let you do that back at the academy. Faux hid her slight smile, and wondered where she had gone wrong in her training. Perhaps in the end, all the whispers she had heard all her life were correct after all...

GAH! Sorry, this post went screwy. I'll try again tomorrow morning. This is getting really good, you guys are awesome ^_^

HK-47 rode on the side of Territ's tank with Shion, and Xondra, Bableing on about how to get the most enjoyment out of killing a target, Shion and Xondra were quiet disturbed. They finaly changed the subject after asking about his rifle, then he went on and on about it. This was going to be a long ride for them.

Territ pushed a button and a small gun swirled around and hit HK in the head, throwing HK off the tank. "OFF MY TANK BUCKET OL BOLTS!" Territ hated Hk droid cause he got shot by him. Territ drove off leaving HK in the mud.

"Exclamation: Drat!" HK quickly sat up and fired his magnetic grappling at the tank, latching on. He retracted the cable and pulled himself back up onto the tank, mud spattered all over him.

Shion just laughed. Never a dull moment when Territ was around. She didn't like the droid, but apparently he'd checked out with the techs, so he was almost okay by her. Or at least he would have been were it not for the fact that he'd nearly killed Territ. Still, it was fun getting him mad. She'd learned that some years ago, hence a long and interesting friendship.

She pulled her helmet off just for the sake of catching the breeze when Territ sped up, laughing when he jerked the tank around some more, trying to throw HK-47 off. She didn't think the droid could hurt him inside the tank short of throwing a grenade in there, so she didn't worry. It was these sorts of moments when Shion felt alive... that was the other reason why she went to war.

"So, Territ," she said, relaxing a minute as HK fell off again. "You picked a name for her yet?"

Territ looked up at Shion. "Nope, havent thought of a good name." As Territ said this a Mandalorian on the front started laughing. Territ slamed on the breaks and that Mando flew off. "Whats so funny?"

"Nothing Territ" The Mando said as he climbed back onto the Tank.

Shion nearly flew off the front of the tank when he slammed the breaks on. It didn't bother her any. What did bother her was that the Mando up front was making fun of her somehow. She hastily snatched an overhanging branch and threw it at him, helping Territ's crusade in her own small way. And what WAS so funny anyway? Deciding what to name his baby was serious business! He couldn't be expected to make up his mind that quickly!

Territ smiled at the fact that the Mando was now all muddy and had a branch just hit him in the head. He looked up at Shion. "What do you think I should name it Shion?" Territ asked.

"I don't know," she mused. "I've never had a tank... name her for a woman you admire. My father's tank was Vhonte, after the heroine, for example."

The Mando in the front bursted out laughing again and this time Territ turn a small turret and hit the Mando in the head, knocking him off. Territ's tank hovered over him and sprayed the Mando with mud. The Mando got up and chased after the tank. "Hmmmmm...women I admire?" Territ said as he looked at Shion.