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Kina Skywalker has a training arc.
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"Well.  I have a few thoughts.

"There's always the good old fake delivery vehicle trick.  Or an intercepted real delivery vehicle; they surely don't keep everything they need in-house.  But generally, the idea is to not look overtly Jedi-like at first glance, and rely on their own sense of superiority for them to dismiss us."

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"That works, I think," Windu says. "Let's commandeer a vehicle, then."

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And lo, a vehicle of a sort that is seen regularly coming and going is commandeered, and hastily refitted by Kina to remove the various regulator equipment, just in case.

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The guards will not notice anything strange about the driver just happening to be a Zabrak! Sure, they're usually Pykes, but the guards aren't thinking clearly at the moment. Move along, move along.

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And Kina, who's spreading her attention wide, will make sure that every unattended gun she senses suffers invisible wiring faults!

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Once they've made it to the tower, they wait until nobody is watching, then quickly move into a closet.

"All right. I don't think we have a full layout of the building, so I think we just move through whatever hallways are open, hide whenever we sense someone coming, and break anything we pass. Periodically place bombs, ideally in locations that are close to the wiring in the walls but still obscured from plain view. We'll aim for the center of the building if possible. I'm not sure we'll be able to locate and destroy the actual generators, but if we cut enough wires at random, we can probably turn off power for at least a large portion of the base."

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"Then once the attack's started, we set off the bombs and then... just go all out with the lightsabers, I suppose. How long do we have until then?"

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"I gave everyone a timer.  Now ssh."

She presses the transmit button of her radio twice, a burst of static that doesn't mean anything unless you're looking for it in the noise, to signal successful entry to the compound, and spreads her senses wide.

How messy is this place, anyway?  You can hide bombs in trash.

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Fairly messy! There's trash scattered around in a number of places.

After a while, there is very slightly more trash!

And also two unconscious Pyke soldiers locked in an empty room, because it's not always possible to avoid being seen.

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The droids are ready whenever! Are the Jedi prepared to start breaking things more overtly?

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Kina thinks that all they need is to get back in their hovercar first.  Once everyone's in position (Master Kolar dropped off, Mace, herself, and her droids flight-ready...), ready to move on her mark...

 

There's three groups of charges she planned.

The shock and awe charges, split into a few different groups to draw attention, the tactical effect charges, that have been snuck into the internals to allow blowing out some of the less-reinforced-than-the-doors walls on demand, and the strategic effect charges, that blow out ship thrusters, landing bay door mechanisms, weapon emplacements, and power plants.

There's a short delay between each of the charge-sets she blows, to give them just enough time to think that's the last of it...before the next one hits.

And it goes like this:

Boom, goes a package in an empty mailbox.  Boom, goes a package in a nearby dumpster.

When the kicked beehive has started calming down and moving back into its rest state...  "Everyone be ready to move, on my mark...3, 2, 1, mark."  Boom bbboom boom, go the bombs snuck into the armory, the ships' thrusters, the power core.

Then she blows the internal mechanisms of all the closed doors.

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The Pykes erupt into panic, but each of them is by themselves, and with the doors closed and the power gone, there's no clear way for anyone to join in the fighting. Still, a decent portion are able to make it to the outside...

...where they're met by the battle droids! Who are, for once, much more organized than their opponents, and are able to concentrate power on the confused Pyke soldiers, taking them down without pausing in their stride.

The droids do face an actual challenge, though, from the Pykes coming from everywhere else, especially the shipyards, which have large numbers of soldiers present and with intact weaponry. They charge from both sides, and it seems the droids are in a bit of trouble.

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That's not a problem, though! While the droids draw the fire, Chewbacca will lead the Wookiees through the now mostly undefended shipyards, and hit the Pykes from their sides.

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By the time the droids have managed to push through to the base of the tower, the Pyke soldiers from the various landing pads attached to the tower, including quite a few armored sentinels, are heading in to join the fray. Another group of Wookiees are landing there too, and there are now aerial assaults from everyone, and it's generally just chaos.

If Kina was hoping to seize the tower with as few casualties as possible, she had better get in there as soon as possible, because there sure are some casualties starting to pile up.

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Well, Kina's delivery van can go pretty fast, and maneuver well, with the limiters - and most of the frame - off, and she can contribute to the aerial battle by taking (very well-aimed) potshots at what Pyke forces managed to deploy, despite her sabotage efforts, until she completes her Dynamic Entry to the command center with Mace Windu!

And the Pykes think that they're allowed to deploy reinforcements?

Nuh-uh.  Master Kolar, that's your cue.

Deploy over there and stop the reinforcements; you have a welder and a bunch of metal panels, the Force, and the squad Kina picked out for doing the operation in case 2.  Find a hard point, then stick in there and keep the Pykes from going out.

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Windu follows Kina! He doesn't have a blaster, but he can use the Force to repel any ships that are trying to stop them from reaching the top of the tower.

There don't appear to be any windows, but there's a flat area they can land on. "I'll cover, you cut your way in!" Windu shouts, blocking any oncoming shots with a combination of his lightsaber and levitated Pyke ships.

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Kina has many lightsabers with which to cut holes in the wall!

She sets off the breaching charges in the opposite wall for a distraction, and fires up her energy shield to keep shots off her back.  (Windu has a spare, too.)

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Once they make it in, there will be some Pykes! They are apparently still struggling with opening a broken door!

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Kina treats them to some stunbolts, ripple-firing her blastsaber's...blasts, set to stun, as she pans it across her targets, then promptly zip-tying the Pykes so affected with telekinetic assistance.

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A group of battle droids fly in and follow Kina and Windu! Except... they were only very hastily fitted with flight tech, and pretty much all of them crash into the wall at the wrong point, and then fall several hundred feet. The remaining two, however, are ready to help take the tower!

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...They would have slid downwards, had Kina not caught them and adjustedyanked while being very annoyed at whoever changed her damn calibrations.

She's the tech with the most experience in this field (to wit, jury-rigging systems that were profoundly not meant to work in the intended use-case), for Force's sake!

"Droids, your job is securing a fallback route and taking and guarding the prisoners.  We'll lead the charge.  We have proper shields."

Now, where oh where is Lom Pyke, anyway?

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He's close enough to the top of the tower that they can probably find him pretty quickly! He panics and tries to shoot at them.

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Kina bounces the blaster bolt off her lightsaber, to the side, and whips a bolas at him.

"Lom Pyke, you are under arrest for crimes against human dignity; you have the right to remain silent..."

She has a cue card.

"Now instruct your men to stand down already unless you want them to be dead!"

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He stammers out several furious objections, but he will grudgingly shout to his army to stand down. Which isn't actually audible. If they'll let him crawl over to the intercom, he can - pull out another blaster and shoot them! Oh, wait. No, that didn't work at all.

Here are some more soldiers, brandishing blasters, electrostaffs, and other assorted weapons!

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Kina can replay his voice just fine, thanks, she's been recording this whole time - and sweep the soldiers' feet out from under them, if they didn't trip over the wire stretched out at ankle height on their way in to begin with.  Also, she has a blaster-bouncing shield that she can just stand behind while she shoots stun bolts.

"Master Windu?"  She gestures to the electrostaff-wielders.  "Be gentle, please, but part of this exercise's purpose is to send the galaxy a message.  So do send it.  Slavers, and slavery, are not permitted within the Republic or the Confederacy, and they will be dealt with with full-throated cooperation and our utmost skill and strength in unison."

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