The Rebel Faction

"Whon thoy cemo in...wuit antil tho first ef thoir beurding purty hus nourly pussod as." Silliss hissed to everyone. "Tho lengor thoy den't knew wo uro horo tho bottor."

There were grunts of acknowledgement as they listened to the beam cut through the ships hull. Soon they heard the tell tale sound of the ship outside lining up it's docking port to the new 'door' and make an airtight seal. Then the blocking piece of hull was removed and the first wave of the boarding party entered the ship.

"No sign of resistance..." Silliss heard one of the Trandoshan's say. "Looks like a clean run here..."

That's what you think. Silliss thought with a smirk as he listened to the advancing party. As soon as the first Trandoshan passed his position, they struck, seeming to come out of thin air as his warriors emerged from every nook and cranny in that cooridor. The surprise was so complete that the boarding party didn't have time to react.

"Socaro thut ship!" Silliss commanded after the boarding party was effectively slaughtered. "Den't lot it pall uwuy er tho rosalting vucaam will kill as ull!"

No warrior wanted that fate, so they all charged into the boarding ship: the crew didn't stand a chance.

When the crew was done for...Silliss used the ships comm controls to send a message to Tzhali on the bridge. "This is Silliss...first boarding ship has been cleaned out. Repositioning for the next one."

***

In the hanger bay the non Clan members could see the lack of defense in the hanger, so they looked for ways to help. One of them took control of the shuttles weaponary and trained it on the incoming boarding ships. Those that had guns positioned themselves in case any of the boarding party managed to exit their ship. Fortunately thus far, the combined effort of the ships fighters and the Trandoshans in the hanger bay were able to ether destroy or fend off any boarding ships attempting to come in.

***

Meanwhile, Naosha had to render the guard unconscious yet again.

"Tell me..." she asked the unconscious guard. "Just why do I bother to just keep knocking you out?"

Of course the guard didn't respond, to which Naosha grumbled. "Listens about as much as my fellow politicans do...."

***

"Sir!" One of the warriors called out from the nursery. "Sounds like they are about to come in through the nursery!"

Silliss blanched. "Get those kids out of there!" He yelled. "Take them to the conferance room where the Councilor is!"

The two guards, along with the nurses quickly evacuated the children as Silliss and the warriors quickly repositioned themselves for the new point of entry their foe was using...

The two Trandoshans that were escorting the nurses and kids to the conference room suddenly halted in their tracks when a small group of enemy Trandoshans rounded a corner just ahead of them. Amazingly, that group didn't see them and went the other way. The two warriors looked at each other, smiling, signaled the nurses to wait there and charged off after that group.

A short while later they both returned, their weapons bloodied with recent kills. A short while later they reached the conference room and quickly escorted the kids and nurses inside. The two guards that were assigned to the room told them they heard blaster fire up in the bridge area.

"You two go see if they need help then. Well take over guard duty here." One of the two warriors said, then added with a smile. "We got our kills already."

The two guards grinned and ran off to find some prey of their own.

Inside, Naosha blinked at the sudden influx of kids in the room. "I've gone from politican to babysitter..." She sighed.

***

Back in the nursery area, Silliss's group had a slightly harder time clearing out this second boarding party, but succeeded all the same...not without injuries this time however, though none were serious.

"Keep your ears peeled." He said. "We don't know where the next one will be coming from."

I hope this doesn't go on for too much longer... He thought. Not even K'Satikur Warriors can keep going forever...

***

Down in the hanger, a couple of the Trandoshan engineers were desperately trying to get the turret control system back up, but the explosion had badly fried everything. Worse yet, the boarding ships could see the sudden decease in effective resistance and were beelining for the hanger bay. The two fighters and the Tran manning the shuttle weapons were doing they best they could...but they were coming in too fast...

Finally one of the Trans just hit the 'close hanger door' button, buying them a little bit of time...

***

Meanwhile the two warriors that were heading to the bridge got delayed when they ran into a good sized boarding party. Undaunted by the odds, they charged in weapons swinging, blasters firing. One of them got injured, but it wasn't bad enough to prevent him from continuing to fight and after that group was finished off they both continued on their way to the bridge.

Luckily none of Silliss' warriors were caught in the explosions, not even the two who were heading to the bridge, who when they realized they couldn't go to the bridge anymore simply shrugged and went to hunt down any remaining boarding parties on the ship. When Silliss and his group down at the nursery realized no more boarding ships were coming, they joined those two in the hunt and any boarding parties that were left were quickly eliminated.

There were many minor injuries, a few more serious and a couple of deaths. The more serious casualites mostly happened in the hanger bay, when that one boarding ship exploded: a few of the Trandoshans that were there were unlucky enough to have gotten caught in that explosion. Overall the Trandoshans weathered the fight very well.

However they were a bit isolated from the command on the bridge, so Silliss had to hunt down and use one few communication consoles to communicate with the bridge.

"The ship has been cleared of all enemy forces. What's the plan now?" He asked.

~Tzhali has instructed that the ship be taken down on the habitable moon on the third planet for repairs.~ The comm officer on the bridge replied.

Silliss knew what moon they had to be talking about. "The old imperial outpost on Tissuss?"

~If that's the name of it then that is correct.~

We'll be sitting ducks there... Silliss thought worriedly. However, he could imagine the bad shape the ship was in after those explosions: if they wanted to get to Kashyyyk in one piece they had to set down to make repairs.

~I suggest your folks move deeper into the ship during the landing as it will likely not be a smooth one.~

"Yeah...and I am not too keen on finding out if those new plugs we have will hold during rentry the hard way..." Silliss grumbled, switching off the comm unit.

...

"They're going to attempt to land on Tissuss." Silliss said when he joined Naosha in the conference room. "Lets hope the ship holds together during reentry."

"Is the ship that bad off?" Naosha asked worriedly, having been isolated from the whole fight.

"Yes. Tzhali pulled something that, while it keep our enemy from taking the bridge...put the ship in bad shape. If we are to get anywhere this ship needs to be repaired. Hopefully the abandoned outpost there will have enough material to make those repairs."

Naosha merely nodded, a braced herself for what would be the roughest ride of her life.


***

The reentry itself was the most worrying, for the heat of the reentry was likely to widden the breach in the hull: possibly past the bulkhead doors keeping the vacuum of space from effecting the rest of the ship. Hense why everyone that wasn't on the bridge were advise to move to the inner most areas of the ship.

Naosha's grandkids, even Trissan, huddled close to their grandmother as the ship jerked and shuddered. Each jerk made them wonder if the ship had split in two. Soon the ship stopped it's bucking and the ride smoothed out. They survived the first part...but now, as the folks on the bridge quickly found out, they had another problem: they were coming in too fast and at too sharp of an angle...

"Fire all navigational thrusters and cut the main engines! We need to slow her down!"

With the main engines off and the thrusters directed toward the front of the ship and on full, they were able to correct the angle and slow the ship down enough to land without tearing the ship apart. Still...it was a very rough landing.


***


"I'll say again!" Naosha griped. "Why is it every time I fly I nearly get killed!?"

"And the key word there is 'nearly'." Silliss said with a smirk as he and the others started making their way off the ship. "You're still alive...so what is the problem?"

Naosha just cut loose a frustrated sigh and shook her head.


***

The old Imperial outpost's systems were still mostly operational and most of those that weren't Lumier and Kasandra were able to get back online. They had sensors, both long range and short, and minor defense systems, however the comm unit was completely shot.

"Looks like all we'll be able to use this thing for is as spare parts for the one on the ship..." Kasandra said, giving the non functioning comm unit a kick.

"This can be both good and bad..." Silliss muttered. "The good is that our enemies won't be able to find us by tracking our comm signals...the bad..."

"We won't be able to call for help if we are found here..." Naosha finished for him. "Which means we are effectively isolated here. And for who knows how long."

"I'm no engineer...but I can tell we will be stuck here for awhile." Silliss sighed, looking over at the downed ship not so far away from where they were standing in the outpost. "This is no shipyard that's for sure."

(ooc: bro, you can add to this if you want. However this is my last post in this thread...I will be starting up a new one soon called: 'Separatist: Isolation' )