Tatooine

[Delta73]

The cockpit shuttered slightly as the great ship emerged from hyperspace above the small dismal world. He looked to ShadowFett, "The ship is somewhere on this pathetic planet, with both captives. Sadly, I do not have all that much info on where the ship is. They may have dredged their fuel tank, and removed the tracking unit."

 

He glanced to the golden world, "I guess it's time for some investigation!"

 

The ship set down in one of the docking bays, and Delta checked his weapons. "Should we begin asking the locals?"

[Delta73]

Delta stood gaping at the bodies when he saw them. It was a horrid sight, the bodies mutilated and dumped. Naked, or close to it. The patches of blood were covered with wet sticky sand and silica. The sight made his heart race in anger. He punched the wall, "You gottah be shitting me. They're dead, why the krif-"

 

But the mando was already inspecting the coresec girl. Ca'Aran shut himself up, so not to intrude on his reverie. Delta himself looked at the blonde girl. "By the force, she can't even be fourteen."

 

"A clone"

 

Delta looked up. "Really? Just like me."

 

The man started to stalk away. Delta baulked, He gestured to the blonde girl with the her stomach cut to ribbons. "What about her? You didn't even look at her. I mean I guess I could like pull her out of the sand, but I somehow think that would be illegal or something."

 

The man continued to strut away, like a super model strutting his goods. "I mean you didn't even glance at her, you think she was a clone too?" He followed the man at a jog after pulling a lightsabre from the ruins of the girl's belt.

[Delta73]

Delta shifted the Swoop down a gear and pulled up next to Moon Knight. "Holy Crap, what the hell just happened? Did everything just go boom?" He gestured towards the back seat of the swoop, "Feel free to climb aboard, though there are no handle bars, so you would have to wrap your arms around me to hold on, which would not be awkward at all!" He paused for a second, "Or you could sit on the handle bars, and we could go cruising around the neighbourhood, listening to the cards clicking through the spokes. Either way, not romantic at all. Though I know your culture is very open and accepting about that stuff, and I do admit dating myself would be kinda coo-"

 

He snapped his mouth shut upon seeing the look from MK, He made a tsking sound from his helmet comm, and shot the twitching body in MK's arms. "Just in case."

 

They headed off to find the blasted slaver base. In one of those two seating arrangements. As there was obviously no other way to ride a swoop bike.

[Delta73]

Delta shrugged at MoonKnight's suggestion, it wasn't like he would be following this imbicile's orders anyway. The man was far out of jurisdiction, and even farther from backup, the wildlands...now this was his territory. Though he didn't really feel like blasting the man in the back with a disruptor, so he stuck to following the man into the deep cave. If the man had a problem with that, then he could argue later. Delta was not keen to being told what to do.

 

With a flicker of the eyelashes, his HUD began to record in all light spectrum's, and the live feed fed to the Black Sun Network, encrypted for higher associates only. The HUD locked onto the targets through their heat and movement, as the duo blasted their way through the compound. And somewhere along the way sprinting across the line of police brutality.

 

Delta hollowed the head of a slaver with a disruptor blast and laughed as his body was consumed to ash. "No open casket funeral for you!" The next bolt caught a slaver in the groin, "No kids for you!"

 

It was a glorious firefight, and there were so many slavers left.

[Delta73]

Delta waded through the dark tunnels, blasting away with his weapons, pausing only to reload. He smiled as he blasted away, woman or man, it did not matter. Slavers were bad, or at least according to the law. So he was content to kill them, beside ShadowFett. Recording everything for posterities sake.

 

His disruptor's buzzed low again so he reloaded and paused. There seemed to be a priority transmission coming through the RCAA3 network from Black Sun command. It was recalling all agents. He cursed verbally.

 

”œShadowfett! It has been a pleasure assisting you in your hunt, I am afraid to say that I have been recalled. Fate has intervined, may God guide your hunt.”

[Delta73]

Like icicles falling in a lonely cave on Hoth the Black Sun Armada emerged from hyperspace in the centre of the Tatoo system. The Golden Dawn in all its sharp dagger like glory led the charge towards the sun baked planet of Tatooine, the Marie and the St. Cathryne following in the thruster glow of the Victory II. Fighters and bombers stretched in long undulating lines in front of the fleet, an effective fighterscreen to be used if any of the Hutt or Smugglers in system thought that fighting the overwhelming force of the Black Sun was a fight they could win. The Marie trailed behind, its large sensor cluster pinging away and identifying potential targets then relaying them to the massed fighter, fighterbomber, and bomber wings. Within minutes the fighters and bombers had entered atmosphere, heading towards the civilized zones of Mos Eisley, Bestine, Anchorhead, and the dozen odd cities that began with ‘Mos.’

 

The capital ships followed only minutes behind, all designed to be able to enter atmosphere and positioned themselves of the capital of Bestine. Their comm relays urging all resistance to put down their weapons and accept the occupation while gunboats and landing craft discharged seven thousand ground troops and mercenaries to secure the large cities.

 

The invasion was not without casualties, several K-Wings and Z-95s were taken out by antiaircraft defenses, and several troop ships shot down by the defenders of Fort Tusken before the defenses were pounded into dust by the turbolasers of the giant capital ships blocking out the suns and casting shadows across the barren dunes. It would be one of the few times the Black Sun would use the full power of their fleet, and the show of force itself was enough to stop most resistance on the planet.

 

((Invasion Shot Requested on Tatooine - Level I))

[Delta73]

The Black Sun were efficient and ruthless in their conquest of the sparsely populated world of Tatooine. A little applied force here and there, and suddenly the fleet was hailed by a hundred different representatives of various clans and hutt crime lords, all pledging their allegiance to the Black Sun. Delta ordered the Fleet to array and prepare for the next jump as the civilian contractors began their construction of a trading facility in orbit called…

 

Wayfarer’s Rest

 

Resembling a crescent, the new trading station was laid out with hundreds of ducking stations and hundreds of trading and bazaar platforms as well as high class casinos, hotels, and the jewel of the Tatoo system. The Twin Sun’s Hotel complex. The highest class 10 star gambling and vacation resort. All with stunning view of the binary star system. Every twelve hours guests would be delighted to see the sunrise on the far side of the sandy planet and be treated to amazing delicacies imported from across the galaxy. Delta pulled strings from all over and booked free trips to the system to most traveling and luxury cruise lines for the first few weeks of operation.

 

Alongside it was built a simple Golan I (Completion 11/18/2017)

[Delta73]

The great ever weaving spider had spoken, dark words enchanting and siren in nature. Delta let his eyelids drift closed as he reveled in the power that he could feel flow through the datapad imbedded in his arm armour.

 

Kriffing sick, time to beat the drums of war and wax poetic about the clone wars.

 

He immediately began to compose a comm to his friend and one time death partner Zalis who he knew was on the surface.

 

“Lady of credits, I do need a company of mercenaries post haste to do a thingy that will be kriffing sweet. I have deposited five million in the joint account to draw from so you don't need to worry about spending your own. Overpay them and promise them even more. Many won’t live long enough to see the last payment. Though that's a secret, yeah don’t share that. Heh. Anywho, meet me aboard the Marie with your men and women in tow and we will then depart from our rendezvous.”

 

To compliment her efforts, he placed a large mercenary contract on the local boards to join the black sun fleet for quote “Danger, Glory, and many credits.” Promising ten thousand credit signing bonuses.

 

In space the Black Sun war machine prepared for a long and dangerous journey. The Marie testing its long range sensors and super powerful electrotelescopes for a stealth journey.

[Delta73]

Delta grinned widely as he saw The Avastian Jewel appear from hyperspace to join the dozens of other hyperliners that had been diverted by crew mutiny and bribes to come to the newly built Wayfarer’s Rest resort. Such was the power of Black Sun Credits. An away shuttle was sent to the vessel upon hearing Terra’s message and he sent her a comm in return.

 

“Don’t worry fam, we ain't vaping anyone that can spend money. Thoug the lower class economy members of the passengers will likely be sold into slavery. Gottah pump those numbers up since the Empire went all wacked and took out Nar Shaddaa and Hutta. Anywho see you in a sec little one.”

 

The black sun agents dispatched from the Marie took over the liner by force, escorting the rich and powerful from the liner before descending to the lower decks to begin pillaging. Every Black Sun member carried the description of Terra, and did not apprehend her when she was found. On her ride back to the Marie she was treated to a buffet of Blood Jello and other treats that the girl had enjoyed when last Delta had seen her. She was also given a datacard with mission specs for the upcoming operation to memorize.

 

Right away to work.

[Delta73]

While the mercenaries in the Tatooine bar were duking it out over honour and glory, the Black Sun warfleet assembled. The Marie was refitted and rearmed as was the rest of the fleet. The twin daggers of the Red Hussar and Golden Dawn kept a geosynchronous orbit next to the Wayfarer’s Rest as the St. Cathryne refit its torpedo load. The massive capital ship torpedoes were the size of starfighters and carried massive yields, perfect for sieges against larger capital ships or planetary bombardment. If one missile would make it past a planetary shield into a planet like Coruscant, millions could die.

 

When Zalis and the rest of the signed mercenaries had made it on board, the Black Sun fleet jumped into hyperspace towards the Dark Lord.

 

Black Sun warfleet:

 

The Marie

Ship Class: Corvette

Type: Corellian CR-90E Heavily Modified

Crew: 130

Starfighter/Troop Complement: 1 squadron ARC Fighter-bombers refitted, 1 Squadron of TIE Defenders 1000 Assault troops

Armaments: 5 turbolaser turrets, 4 point defense guns, Advanced sensor and jamming package

AP: 1

 

St. Cathryne

Ship Class: Cruiser

Type: MC30c

Crew: 900

Starfighter/Troop Complement: 4 squadron TIE Defenders, 2 K-Wing 3000 Assault troops

Armaments: 2 Heavy Assault MG1-A proton torpedo launchers, 16 Medium Turbolaser batteries, 16 twin laser cannon batteries, 6 cluster bomb launchers

AP: 3

 

Golden Dawn

Ship Class: Cruiser

Type: Victory II-class Star Destroyer

Crew: 6000

Starfighter/Troop Complement: 3 squadron K-wing, 3 RZ-1 A-wing interceptors 3000 Assault troops

Armaments: 10 quad turbolaser batteries, 20 turbolaser batteries, 20 Heavy Turbolaser Batteries, 10 Heavy ION cannons

Build date: 6/14/2009

AP: 3

 

The Red Hussar

Ship Class: Cruiser

Type: Victory II-class Star Destroyer

Crew: 6000

Starfighter/Troop Complement: 3 squadron K-wing, 3 RZ-1 A-wing interceptors 3000 Assault troops

Armaments: 10 quad turbolaser batteries, 20 turbolaser batteries, 20 Heavy Turbolaser Batteries, 10 Heavy ION cannons

AP: 3

 

Totenkopf

Ship Class: Corvette

Type: Agave-class picket ship

Crew: 50

Starfighter/Troop Complement: 2 RZ-1 A-wing interceptor squadrons 1000 Assault troops

Armaments: 4 turbolaser cannons divided into two batteries, 4 Point defense laser batteries and a Gravity Well projector.

AP: 1

 

11 Thousand total troops/mercenaries.

 

Total Starfighter Compliments:

1 Squadron ARC Fighter-bombers refitted

(Refit Loadout: 4 Proton Torpedos, 4 Diamond Boron missiles, 2 EMP/ION bombs slung on the wings, Heavy Sensor/Scope jammers)

5 Squadrons TIE Defenders

8 Squadrons K-wings

8 Squadrons A-Wings