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Post by Redack on Apr 22, 2008 18:00:04 GMT
The ship wasn't much. A maximum crew of ten. Dovin Basals for engines. Two plasma spitters. A hull composed of the material that makes up an asteroid with and organic being serving as the actual ship- or the 'inner hull'. Yes, this ship was but a Carver. A ship builder. of course it first required an asteroid or rock object to carve the ship into. The Lazuli had all of ten of these ships, the rest of their mighty fleet had been decimated in a war with the Chiss..
"How far away is the distress call?" Silex Silentium asked. upon first glance he looked to have skin made of blue rock, but it was mostly just a visual mutation that occured to all Lazuli at an early age. It hardened the skin a little, making it only slightly harder to damage but other than that it was mostly just a visual thing.
"According to the organic tracker... We should be right ontop of it." His aide answered.She was female. He skin was just the same as his- blue rock by appearance.
"Could it be comming from that planet?" Silex asked as he stared out of the viewing window. it wasn't a window exactly, more of a transparent part of the organic ship and a missing but shielded area of the hull.
"No... The tracker would pick that up." The aide replied.
"Have we detected any of the Vong's technology in the area?" Silex asked. He didn't want to remain here and although he would never say it- he had a 'bad feeling' about this place.
"Small remnants of warships... Perfectly preserved in the vacuum of space. The closest one is the smallest." The ship's navigator replied. They were using their own advancements to the Vong's organic technology in order to detect things in the area.
"It seems all we've found is the graveyard of a battle that likely happened over a hundred years ago." Silex stated. He was aware of the Yuuzhan Vong's war on the galaxy, after all they had allied with the Lazuli in order to have easier access to the unknown regions. "Plot a course back to the civillian carrier ship."
((Note, they've only plotted the course back, not set off back...))
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Post by Ash Doro on Apr 22, 2008 18:19:32 GMT
Doro was sat within the Medical Bay inside his homestead, Staring at his Son hanging in Bacta. He was recovering from a verpine slug to his side. Doro sat monitoring the stats. Luckily they had gotten Ordo into bacta fast enough. Doro was sat, wearing simple clothing, holding his head in his hands, he had cleaned his kit down when he had taken it off, including the blood from his vibroblade. In his lap was a incomplete blue print of a droid. Doro had been designing these droids; upgraded and superior to the Magadroids. They were to be built as security droids. Doro heard his commlink chirp, and he stood and removed it from he helmet; and placed it to his ear.
"Hello......Yes.....What?......How?.....Alright......I'll go up and check it out...."
Doro sighed, and turned to his kit, He picked up his ready loaded pack, and the smaller pack which contained his armor and headed out of the homestead. Muttering to himself he boarded his Corvette; The Mandalorian Heart.
Doro reached orbit and held her steady, using auto-pilot to hold the ship on its course towards the rock. The Mandalorians who had detected this rock, had strange news. A Bigger rock had appeared on the outer edge of the system and this smaller one had come in closer; strange. While the ship was on autopilot he reattached his commlink to his helmet; and suited up; Sealing for vacuum; just in case. Fully armored up, Doro held the ship near the rock and started scanning it with his ships sensors; if this failed he could always see if the Aay'han still worked.
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Post by Redack on Apr 22, 2008 18:30:54 GMT
"Sir there is something comming at us... It's hull isn't organic or rock." The navigations officer stated.
"Chiss here? But we are so far away from their territory." Sielx said. Though they had heard the Vong briefly mentioned an enemy to their Gods, the Lazuli had asumed this was the Chiss and since the only technology that the Lazuli had encountered that did not use organic or rock features it was logical to asume the Chiss were here. he turned to the pilot. "Locate any nearby asteroids and take us to the closest."
"Yes sir." The pilot replied.
"So, we're going to carve ourself a little fleet are we?" One of the four weapon's officers said. "Going to have some revenge on the Chiss."
"Just reassurance incase they are Chiss." Silex said. "If they aren't Chiss then I don't want to start another war."
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Post by Ash Doro on Apr 22, 2008 18:45:21 GMT
Doro was shocked when the Asteroid appeared to bolt away from him. He immediatly hit the console to open the comms to Mandalorian ships.
"Mandalore to Mandalorian Clan Ships; We have a Unknown Entity which is moving of its own freewill in orbit of Mandalore; Form up around it; Don't Open hostilities just yet; i want to know who they are. "Sir; How do you know there is someone there." "Why else would they flee from Mandalorian?"
Doro closed the comm and moved the ship towards the asteroid, staying on the flank, and not moving to close to give him the best chance of avoiding being rammed by it; Around the Corvette; a Nebula-II Star Destroyer and a Keldebe Battleship appeared as small spec's, Just in Case.
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Post by Redack on Apr 22, 2008 18:57:36 GMT
"Sir... We're intercepting some sort of communication, but its not making much sense." The comms officer said. They had origionaly produced an organic 'interceptor' to intercept Chiss communications, though obviously the galaxy didn't all use the exact same communications frequencies.
"Play it." Silex ordered.
'Mand..... hips...... known.... bit... around it... ilities... Don't... they...'
"Whats a Mand Hip?" One of the weapons officers asked as a joke. It got a few small laughs, but only because they all got along so well- not because it was funny.
"Try modifying the organic to pick up their messages more clearly." Silex ordered. They were now at the asteroid. "Carve a small corvette class ship and have this organic ship seed an organic within the corvette."
"Yes sir." Most of the crew said completely in sync. Four lava like beams shot out from their small ship and began carving the asteroid into an almost ship like shape. This process would take a short while and unfortunatly whoever they had found was clearly not trying to talk to them- but they weren't trying to kill them either... Perhaps they were as confused as Silex was about them?
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Post by Ash Doro on Apr 22, 2008 19:02:11 GMT
Doro sat studying the asteroid; he gave a small yell in surprise as the beams sprang out of the asteroid. Since that confirmed what he suspected; he decided he had to try and communicate with the persons inside this asteroid. He Transmitted a wide band transmission.
"Person's Unknown; I am Mandalore of the Mandalorians; I am not Hostile towards you unless you are towards me. He Paused; and then tried a diffrent language; Mandalorian first; then Huttese. It never hurt to have a wide away of languages.
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Post by Redack on Apr 22, 2008 19:14:21 GMT
"Person's Unknown; I ... Mandalore of the Mandalorians; I am ... Hostile towards you unless you ... towards me." The message came almost perfectly clear this time, a few words missing but the message was easy enough to understand. This was followed but random gibberish (the other languages).
"Ok, I understood the first bit but what did he say after that?" One of the weapons officers asked- the very same one that had joked earlier.
"I think he is repeating the same message in different languages... Primitive ones by the sounds of it." The comms officer replied.
"Or he is just talking gibberish." Silex said. It was about the only bit of humor the crew would get out of him today. He then walked over to the organic comms system, it was similar to a Villip bit had been modified to communicate with machines and other villips instead of being limited to just the organic. "I am Silex Silentium here representing the Lazuli Imperium under the authority of Queen Alessia."
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Post by Ash Doro on Apr 22, 2008 19:18:09 GMT
Doro studied the message screen as the reply came though; he Sat and replayed the message several times; it wasn't perfect, but it was a reply.
"Mr. Silent..ium. Maybe this would be easier if we met face to face, the commlink system seems to have trouble commiuncating. What Say You?"
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Post by Redack on Apr 22, 2008 19:23:36 GMT
"Very well. My ship will come aboard your... Thing." Silex said. He couldn't say ship because to him it wasn't a ship, it was just a floating piece of metal. Much like to them his ship was probably just a floating chunk of asteroid. He then stepped away from the comm system. "Take us into one of its hangers, if it has any... And stop carving."
They did as ordered and the ship began heading into the corvette's nearest hanger...
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Post by Ash Doro on Apr 22, 2008 19:35:36 GMT
Doro keyed in the code to open the hanger bay, and then switched on auto-pilot to keep the ship in orbit while he met with these people. Doro turned, and swung his DC-18 around to hang behind him; Being raised a warrior taught him to instinctivly not to take chances.
Doro stood looking over the hanger waiting for the ship to enter it.
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Post by Redack on Apr 22, 2008 19:40:50 GMT
The ship landed. A section of the hull retracted in on itself, moved by the organic section of the hull. Which then itself opened up unsealing a tighly locked area. Silex stepped out. Unarmed. Staping on a floor that wasn't made of stone or of an organic natue was... Odd... Though the theory in their society was that the Lazuli had evolved from some Chiss colonists that got seperated from their Ascendancy, they had adapted to using rocks and organics for their thecnology and structure. He stood just outside his ship, waiting for this 'Mandalore'...
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Post by Ash Doro on Apr 22, 2008 19:46:19 GMT
Doro watched; and then stepped into the hanger, a Fully Armored Mandalorian was a fearsome sight, but to a person who didn't know much about the living galaxy, might mistake him to being made from metal as they appeared to be made from rock. Doro walked towards the Man, his HUD telling him that there was no living record in any databank, archive or memory so that what appeared in front of him didn't exist. Doro stood, looking at the man; he held out his hand.
"Mr Silent..ium?" Doro stood, wondering if the Rock appearance was Armor or some horrible radiation effect.
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Post by Redack on Apr 22, 2008 19:52:43 GMT
"Silentium." He corrected. Silex asumed it was just armour that this oen was wearing, but then again what if these 'Mandalorians' were a species of intelligent droids? He'd assumed it was just static or interference when it had been said wrong on the comm earlier. "And you must be Mandalore, of the Mandalorians..."
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Post by Ash Doro on Apr 22, 2008 19:55:53 GMT
"That is correct. Doro popped the seal on his helmet and pulled it from his head. "I am Mandalore. I've never encountered armor like that...how is it made?" Doro thought this was the best way to find out what was with the rock like appearance.
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Post by Redack on Apr 23, 2008 8:18:11 GMT
"It isn't. Our skin goes through a mutation not long after birth that alters its apperance and hardens it slightly." Silex answered. He was unsure if he should ask questions of this 'Mandalore' or let Mandalore ask him...
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