Author: Hello Everyone! I am a New Author and a very loving long-term Fan of the SW: ToR game and it's changes as a whole. Since i Love the story so much, but often find myself inspirationally lost (Since i have 0 motivation to farm Alliance stuff) I decided in those Loopholes i would start to Write my own story!
Thanks to a friend of mine i was tipped to This particular place, and i am LOVING IT! So, Let us get Going!
My Story will take Place During the Uprising of Revan in the "Shadow of Revan" Expansion, but after the Prequel-Build up, meaning after the main NPC's went into hiding. And of course, with an Alternative Universe-playing to insert all of my currenty counted 10 Characters, so for any newer SW: ToR Player who is not past Act 3 of the Prequel, i give out a MAJOR Spoiler Alert regarding the story.
Story Begins with my Main, the Male Trooper.
To Filter everything so people Keep a good overview of my story!:
Action
Names
"Unusual addressings"
Person: "Dialogue"
Person: Thinking
(Out of Story context, notes, Author's comments ETC.)
Trooper/Elara Ship in this AU Story! Future Ships will be revealed as the Story Continues
Last but not Least, I am not native in English so i might Mispell some translations. One example, i call the Havoc squad the "Chaos troop" Translated from the german "Chaostrupp" So forgive me if some Things make you cringe in reading.
It was a Normal Morning. Loud, Taxi's Horning and Whooping around everywhere. Who doesn't Love waking up in Coruscant!? Well, our beloved Trooper Blackbart, Leader of the Chaos-troop and an Officially Praised Hero of the republic HATES Coruscant. If it was not for the Criminally cheap Prices his "Patriotistic Services" And M1-4X's pushy beggings, Blackbart would have Bought himself a Silent Clan-sized Hideout Somewhere in the Outer Rim, where he could at least have a Good Night Sleep, due to not a single planet being so Metropolically Populated.
As Blackbart awoke, he at least had one reason to Smile. His wife and Second-longest Companion in his Journey to Heroism. Yes, ladies and Gentlemen! We are talking about the one and only Queen of Nagging and Melancholy, Elara Dorn!
She gave out a Slight groan, as if she felt him wake up and sit up, which of course caused their couply cuddle to break apart, and opened her eyes. As she Looked up into his eyes, they both started to smile, for no particular Reason. Love does These Things to people, i guess?
Blackbart: "Morning Sunshine. Slept well i assume?"
Elara: "You know me, Dear. I never have bad Sleeps. Ever."
Blackbart: "Well, once we have our Coffee, we should discuss how you can teach me to sleep peacefully under all this noise. Sometimes i wanna leave this planet for good JUST from all the traffic-sounds produced."
They both shared a hearty laugh together and got up. They had a moment of happiness, but hey, this is a story about ACTION! So obviously, someone had to cockblock their fun, ey?
This someone was none other than our overly-sympathetic Patriot and Mister you-had-one-too-many-coffee's Enerrgetic fellow Chaos Troop Member, M1-4X!
He waltzed into their room, which startled them of course. They at least finished dressing properly, so props to not getting caught in something embarrassing.
M1-4X Wasted no time and called them out to Briefing on their Ship, the BT1-Thunderclap.
M1-4X: "Sir! We have an Emergency Report coming in! Mister Jorgan was Checking the Navigation-Systems when suddenly a Moon called Rishi appeared on it, literally from nowhere. The coordinates were uploaded from an External source, we suspect someone is inviting us to this place, for a trap or a meeting!"
Elara: "This sounds definetly like a trap. Sir, if i may suggest to deny the idea you currently have plastered all over your face?"
What she meant with her sentence, for whoever does not get it. Blackbart LOVES running into danger. He is as Suicidal as he is heroic, figuretively spoken. Said trap made him almost literally beam up in happiness. Ever since Theron, Lana and Bowdaar Went into Hiding, Things were rather Poorly, the services of the Chaos troop were rarely requested, and if, then only for patrols and escorts which went smoothly due to noone having the necessary Cochones to fight with the Republics deadliest Elite 6.
Blackbart: "Prepare everyone for briefing! We are Parting to Rishi!"
Elara: "Sir, that is not a goo-!"
M1-4X: "Brilliant! The Major is equally enthusiastic to Slay some more Imperial filth! Onwards we march!"
Having said that, M1-4X and Blackbart Made their way To the Turbolift leading directly into the Hangar Docks, with Elara running after them with Worry plastered all across her Looks. The Major may be her Husband, but so the allmighty Buddha of Old-Earth's Records may stay with her nerves if she ever succeeds in Reasoning with him!
Minutes later, arrived at the Thunderclap, the Trio makes their way inside of it and close their Entrance!Exit gate.
Jorgan had already Started up the Ship's main Functions and Yuun took necessary Measures to prepare A Jump to the sector. Tanno was finishing with the Ammunition-stocking and the Weapon'cleaning. Noone wants to go out with an Unpolished empty gun, do they?
Jorgan: "Good, everyone is here now. If i may comment, i disagree to Visit Rishi. Tanno has some information regarding why."
Tanno: "Cap't, as much as i like to run in, kick ass and then create explosions while Walking away, Even I have my Limits as to WHERE i do that, and Rishi is above one of such Limits."
Yuun: (Direct translation from his Gand-language) "Our path holds no darkness, however. The river of fate flows with Gold and blood."
Tanno: "What Yuun basically said is exactly my Worries. Rishi is basically the place Pirates call "Home". Most of the intergalactic Gangs have their hideouts there, their main bases, or trade on These grounds. The second we step foot on this planet and even one soul recognizes us, we are gonna rise into the Most wanted 6 heads within 3 days, with galactic record-breaking Bounties on our dear Little necks."
Elara: "Imperials may have been one Thing, but Pirates just give more reason to say No."
Jorgan: "That is what i first thought, too. But then i let Yuun run Scans on the Datastreams that Uploaded the Coordinates, and they were mostly from Republican Coding. Hell, if i knew nothing better, i would tip my Guess on the SID. Which led me to theorize that this might be Theron inviting us. One way or another, we are in a Dilemma between Not going and absolutely getting our behinds moved instead of leading this discussion."
Blackbart: "Jorgan, Elara, Tanno. You all know me, and as much as reason says no, you Forget we are no ordinary Soldiers. We are THE soldiers. So prepare Hyperspace-jump, we are going to Rishi!"
And just like that everyone nodded their Heads and just went on as if nothing unusual happened. Tanno went back to the Storage-rooms to setup the Weaponry, M1-4X Monitored the Systems and the Ships weaponsystems, Jorgan flew the ship and Elara took herself a mental break inside the Ship's internal Infirmary. Yuun, of course, was doing his Seeker-things with the machinery.
Some minutes later, out of the Jump, the ship slowed down heavily and desceded towards Rishi. They luckily found an Unemployed place to park their Thunderclap, and from the looks of it, the landing spot also was not taken yet by any Pirating Crew. Lucky them!
At the exit, Tanno first loaded the Ion-shotgun for Jorgan (Author's Note: Yes, i am gonna give Every Chaos troop member his own style of weaponry, and since Jorgan seems like such a Rambo-ish guy i give him a Shotgun), The Blaster and the Carriable Shield-reactor for Elara, the Electro-staff to Yuun, Loaded M1-4X Full with mini-rockets, then gave the Major his Heavy Machine-gun, the Experimental Kyber. (Author's Note: Yes, the one that looks like a satellite disc).
Last but not least, Tanno took his own Rifle and a couple of Thermal Detonators and followed the Team out. All 6 Chaos troops were now Dispatched on Rishi.
Blackbart: "Alright, listen. As a group we might not have much success, so i say we split into 3 teams of 2 people. Elara will go with Yuun and try to find ourselves a place to stay, possibly near the Ship. Jorgan and M1-4X, you two will guard the Perimeter and set up defences. Use the new Turrets Garza gave us as a gift for saving Makeb's Population. Tanno, you will come with me. It has been a while since we two went out to wreak havoc, and i could use your expertise in the less-legal Things, seeing that this is literally a pirate-planet."
Chaos troop: "Roger that, sir!"
With the Orders given, everyone went out on their ways to do what they were assigned for. Yuun and Elara quickly vanished into the masses of people, M1-4X and Jorgan were getting into the ship to take out the New defence Turrets they got from Garza, Self-defence mechanism and an Automatically recharding Shield which charges via Solar power and stores the energy in Batteries Build on the Inside of the Turrets.
Said batteries suck up so much energy that the shield AND weapons system could function for 3 days under 24/7 activation before energy would run out, and due to Rishi having a fairly Slow Rotating circle, the turrets would never go out of energy. Their Hull was also Laminated with an experimental mixture of Metals which protects them from EMP's. They were the Ultimate security, but they were so expensive to Build that the Republic's Military funds could only get 8 of them Build, and Garza Gifted all 8 of These overpowered Plot-protected beasts to The Chaos troop.
Meanwhile, Blackbart was making his way towards the First few Bar's of Rishi, tightly followed by Tanno, who was keeping his guard up all-time incase they got ambushed by a greedy pirate who doesn't know it better.
It all seemed to go well, at first, when they suddenly got stopped by one of the Inhabitants of Rishi, a humanoid Species that resembled an Owl in it's basic Features, such as Face and instead of having arms they had Wings. Said Bird-man-Thing Looked awfully...lively, and energetic. Great, now it's Blackbart, M1-4X AND this Birdman.
Qaraah: "Hello there! I am Qaraah...one of the Native Rishii...You...must be from the Howling fury's! The most Well-known Pirate-crew in the Gorinth...where-ever that place might be!"
Blackbart: Play along i suppose? "Yes, i am it's current leaderposition. You dare halt my path!?"
Qaraah: "Oh god no, do not worry, Honorary Sir. But your coming here was awaited! There is this guy, Gorro, who really wants to take you on. He kept talking about your Arrival. Said he really wants to take you on."
Tanno: "Cap't, you sure you wanna cause a ruckus the second we arrived here? Rishi is much even for my taste, and i don't ever get fed up with a place."
Blackbart: "Where do i find this 'Gorro' Fellow?"
Qaraah: "Probably the Cantina 'Blaster's Path'. I mean, he hangs out there...a lot...most of his time, actually."
Blackbart: Thank you, i suppose. We shall get going now.
Having said goodbye to Qaraah, Blackbart and Tanno made their way towards the cantina, and as they walked, the amount of people giving them looks and dodging their paths to avoid being close to the duo increased by the second. Word travels REALLY fast, huh?.
The tension was getting immense once they made it to the Cantina. Seems like they were awaited by more than just Gorro. The whole planet seemed to know about their Arrival and their... supposted Reputation...?
Once they got inside the Cantina, the Duo made their way to the first Level below to the main Bar, where in one of the private rooms was, as expected, Gorro.
Tanno and Blackbart Both had a bad feeling about it. The room was stuffed to the can't-anymore with pirates, and not everyone seemed welcoming of those two. So Tanno Secretly placed thermal Detonators around.
Said thermal Detonators were remodelled by the Republic Military. They were so tiny you could barely see them from just a few meter's distance. They had the size of a Pearl, but were strong enough to tear down the room if necessary.
Gorro was meanwhile trashtalking about the Howling Fury's captain, which suppostedly was Blackbart. It was only after the Bartender pointed that the Widemouthed Rodian Noticed he was in Company of the very Person he just badmouthed with high nerves.
Gorro: "So you are the Captain of the Howling fury's, in the flesh?"
Blackbart: Sounds like some serious grudge. Wonder if, and where i met this fellow before?
Gorro: "You have been making pirates a bad Name, and can't even give the look to appear tough enough. You bring shame!"
Suddenly, a dozen of the pirates got up and drew their weapons, and just as they did, Tanno Detonated the thermal Detonators and caused almost half the room to come crashing down, the ceiling breaking down right to the pirates, burying them alive. They instantly died from the impact, including Gorro.
Not much of a challenge, it seems. Well, playing dirty is a pirate's way, ayy?
So shortly after they finished moving away the Major debrits and helped clean up the Cantina, which by the way went very smoothly due to noone Messing with them anymore, the bartender walked up to them and sighed out heavily. The damage was massive, and so was her frustration
Kareena: "Ugh, this is the worst mess yet"
Blackbart: "Listen, i came here to find information. I did not want to Spill more blood than necessary. Thought, not gonna lie, i did enjoy a good fight, i was not expecting one."
Kareena: "if you want information, then go ask for some at Kay Zikken. He is the one who told Gorro about you"
Just as they were about to leave, a Blastershot, which barely missed Blackbart's head, struck the wall and stopped him and Tanno Dead in their Tracks.
The wielder of the Blaster was a Very heavily dressed woman, mandalorian plate armor all over her body, an Flame thrower in her left gauntlet, mini rockets on a jetpack with extential Missile launchers equipped, and a very fierce glare from a pair of yellow eyes.
Blackbart First shook his head, then smacked himself, blinked twice again and then walked towards her while she also was making her way to him. Tanno Expected the worst, but much to his surprise, the two hugged each others. I, the author repeat. HUGGED.
Elara will not like this, at all.
Blackbart: God it is good to see you again, dearest sister!
Fierriana: Same to you, brother dear. You have grown. Last time i saw you, you were a crybaby and a wimp.
Blackbart: And you were a backstabbing Little bitch. You look more mature. And you got yourself quite the Reputation, eh?
Fierriana: Oh that had to come from THE most decorated hero in the Republic next to our Oldest Aunt. My Crew is on the planet aswell, you want to meet them?
Blackbart: Funny, i was gonna ask the same about you. I bought one with me already. Tanno Vik. Very Fun to have around, honestly. Likes TNT a lot. Cynical guy, he is the immoral one in the Crew, but every justice Needs some lawbreaking, plus, he makes good points all the time.
Fierriana: You know, i bought someone with me too, infact. You already met her.
As the two talked, Kareena Stepped out suddenly and sighed out, rubbing the back of her neck. She removed the hairpins and let her hair go down into one wave, showing that her hair was much longer than thought.
Mako: Hello, my Name is Mako. Fier over here told me a lot about you, Blackbart. Apparently you truly do look like a weakling on first impression. and here i was thinking she just badmouthed you.
Tanno: Hey there Little puppet, listen up. Yeah, the boss might be a lil' wet behind the ears, but you call someone weak again who showed me the time of my life by letting me detonate an entire imperial planetary devastator ship and we might have a Problem.
Fierriana: If you two lovebirds would hold it in just a bit, we got a meeting to arrange and a job to accomplish.
Having silenced both Tanno and Mako, Fierriana then made a call via holo to assemble everyone in the cantina they were in. Blackbart did the same, but was told Jorgan will be a Little late due to finishing the installing of the defence turrets. M1-4X on the other hand couldn't be more eager to join the conversation, mostly because he did not think that His Major's 'New Allies' Were the imperial's most successful team of Bounty Hunters. Oh boy, this was gonna be fun!...i think.
Time passed on, Blackbart and Fierriana catched up some of their past and talked about some of the Things that happened so far. They discussed about their other Family-whereabouts, but neither one seemed to have a clue about a single one of them.
It took them a good 3 hours until everyone was together, and Things were not really looking well.
Elara was constantly holding her hand near her blaster while eyeing Skadge, Tanno and Gault were trying to outsteal each others, which resulted in a somewhat hilarious draw with them ending up armwrestling to decide the Victor. Torian and M1-4X were, to everyone's surprise, getting along quite well. Mostly because of their deep-bound honor for their cause. Torian honors the mandalorian code, M1-4X the Republic morality. It was a relationship of mutual respect and approval of the other's dedication, that and they had a lot of fun talking about how honorary it is to kill in the Name of their said honor. God that word Comes around a lot with those two.
Yuun and Blizz were another example of 2 that got along very well. Blizz was an Engineer, Yuun "spoke" to the machinery and engineered himself. Those two were creators with their own boundaries and philosophies to machines, which interwined wonderfully with one another. They shortly after meeting immediately went out around the bar to collect some Things they could find and maybe craft something together.
Then, last but not least, Jorgan and Mako. These two were...complicated. Very...very complicated. Well, the reason for that is precisely because of how professional they are poled. Mako despises unprofessionality, and so does Jorgan, BUT they also have a very high-placed dislike for each others, which means they would constantly Insult one another and throw out mockery in an attempt to come out as the superior in Terms of being professional. But...that was where the complicated part came in. At one moment you see them arguing, in the other you could swear they made out like it was their last time ever and mother earth would crack open under their feet.
Jorgan and Mako, long story short, grew a very...contradictory...hate/Love relationship to one another. In the background you could hear Blackbart cheer for him to get laid and even screamed "Get'em, boy!" so everyone could hear it, which resulted in quite the laughter from the others. Obviously, Jorgan did not take that humorously at all, and neither did Mako.
While the two teams were having a hearty first meeting, in the far distance, possibly miles away were 2 Humans. Ontop of a hill. They Both eyed through Thermal visors into the cantina, possibly spying on the teams. One of them, fully clad in an Imperial Piloter suit, glanced over with a slightly annoyed look to the other, who had the clothing of an High-rank imperial agent.
They both got up and took their sniper-rifles up and moved them to their backs respectively where a holster was holding the weapons while they turned away. The High-rank Agent then took out a com and opened a communication. On the answering end was a Sith. 3 Spikes each on his shoulders looking out, his face hidden in a mask, his chest full of machinery and implants.
The high-rank Agent, namely Tiffisha, saluted before moving the com so the other agent, Lyssianna, could also see, hear and talk with the Sith.
Darth Marr: "How is the Observation-Operation going? Any new hints regarding Lana Beniko's whereabouts?"
Tiffisha: "No sir, nothing yet, but we might have caught on a clue we are tracing. We will report in again on you once we have some results."
Darth Marr: "I want full overview of this. Lana Beniko is not just any traitor. She is one of highest grade within the Empire's history. Her treachery led us further down a path of downfall. Where is your current location?"
Lyssianna: "Sir, i must ask of you to be patient. This Operation might be just as much of a failure as it could be success. The last Thing we Need is our only hint to go into hiding because you could not affort yourself some patience."
Darth Marr: "...alright. You will have 7 days. If by then you have no Progress i will have you return to HQ immediately. You two are the best agents we currently have at our disposal, and from the looks of it, you might be our only ones. Marr out."
With this, the Holo-conversation was closed. Tiffisha and Lyssianna slowly made their way down the hill again, Walking past one body, then two, and the number increasing. For their perfect viewpoint they did not halt at leaving a literal path of corpses, pirates, republic and imperial scouts alike.
Lyssianna: "I hate his impatience. Charismatic as he may be, he still is a Sith like the others. What will we do now?"
Tiffisha: "We will simply help them. Blackbart is a man of Brains and enthusiasm. Whatever his actions are, we can fully trust them. he may be a lively idiot at first looks, but do not Forget that he could singlehandedly take over this planet just by playing his Cards right."
Lyssianna: "And how do you know this man so well? And what about the Bounty Huntress? From the Com-overhearing earlier we know that those two are direct siblings by blood. What kinda messed up Family is this?"
Tiffisha: "That, my dear apprentice, is my messed up Family. I know those two so well because i grew up with them as the oldest of 4 siblings. Once you meet our full Family, you will know true frustration for your morality and intellect. Having said that, we should go back to the Hideout. Dycarjay can't Keep the shields up forever, so we gotta guard him."
Lyssianna: "If what you said is true, then i guess we can safely assume that they know where Lana Beniko is, and what exactly happened on the day she was branded a Traitor. I saw the filerecords before they were deleted, i hardly know 2 people more loyal to the Empire than her."
Tiffisha: "All the more reason to not hurry with our reports. There are Things going on behind the Screen. Things not even we of the Imperial Agency know. Hell, for all that's known and worth, she could be a victim of a false Branding. As an agent, first step to a Successful Intel-gathering is patience. Sometimes i used to spend years under enemy Undercover just to get my hands on simple informations like someone's favourite meals in order to poison them."
Lyssianna: "As you wish, Teacher. We should return now, the corpses are starting to smell."
With their conversation ongoing, they made their way into the Town aswell, vanishing within the crowds.
Are they truly on the Imperial side, seeing they have not stepped short before killing comerades? Or did they do something to earn their early demise?
Find out, next time on drago-... (Author's Note: OOPS wrong Serie.)
Here i am making my Epilogue for Chapter one, please be sure to leave a rating if you liked it, or hated it. Constructive sharp critizism is more than welcome :D i am just a noob after all, learning writing from the grandmasters of Fanfictions and the not-so morally comitted ships in the universe :D
HAVE A GOOD ONE! And i will see you all in Chapter 2
