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Post Wed Nov 30, 2011 4:41 pm

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-Flight controll-
:: This is Vortex Flight control. We could haul you in with a tractor beam, and give you a transport down to the surface. There you could arrange for your ship to be sold and a new ship to be bough from civilian entrepeneurs. We will need you to shut off all sistems but life support, sensors and communication though. ::
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Post Wed Nov 30, 2011 9:06 pm

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*Sell the ship. The words hit Enoch like a weight. The thought twists in his stomach.*

:: Rodger, shutting down systems now. ::

*Enoch clicked off each part of his craft, listening to the dying wane of the engines, the fading beep of the sensors, and the diming glow of the dash lights to black. Sell the ship. Enoch had never seen the ship so dark and quiet.*

Sleeping, *He told himself.* Not dead.

*But the thought was there, grinding at him. Perhaps it was time to lay the old girl to rest.*

:: I'm ready, bring me in. ::
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Post Sat Dec 03, 2011 6:49 pm

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:: Locking on... Now. ::

*Some shaking of the ship would show the tractor beam had locked on and grabbed the ship, and is slowly pulling it in. A Docking hatch oppens, and the hangar of the station is oppened in front of Enoch. The tractorbeam guides the ship inside, and slowly lays it to rest, whereafter the docking hatch closes. When Enoch finds his way down the ramp, a Vor stands there. He wares a dark purple robe with its sides ornated with golden thread with squares with sings in them. He wares a golden necklesce of golden plates set besides eachother going from the neck and covering the entire chest. He wares expensive silk and also a head ornament of feathers and coloured cloth. He bows low, and speaks.*

-Vortex Greeter Quatacula-
"Greetings Visitor, I am Quatacula of the Greeters Clergy. I will be your guide and helper here on Vortex. May you be greeted with the warmth of our sun and gentle winds, Enoch Ambrose. Can I ask why you have come to our planet? Business, pleasure, or private reasons?"
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Post Wed Jan 18, 2012 9:29 pm

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*As the pops out of hyperspace and into realspace Raksha, who volunteered to take over the piloting duties after waking up, reduces their speed to dead slow ahead and looks at Vortex hanging amidst the stars pensively for a moment, wondering if Witwer is on the planet somewhere. Sighing and telling herself that is one of the things she, her squad and the Jedi are here to find out, the Chalactan leans forward opens a comm channel to Vortex's control and, hoping that Raganella's cover story is as effective as they all hope it is, says in what is intended to be the tired and bored voice of a typical civvie wage slave doing a routine job they have done a thousand times before,* :: Vortex control, this is the Dearic Bargain requesting permission to break orbit and make for Aquincum, over. ::

*Raksha leans back, rubbing the muscles of her neck as she awaits the reply from control.* *She could have added the whole cover story bit about being scrap merchants looking to ply their wares or given her alias, but Raksha figures most civvie's don't tell their life stories when asking to land. Raganella supposedly handled all the details like making sure the GR-45's transponder codes don't raise any eyebrows so the fighter pilot masquerading as a mechanic is not particularly worried. It is what happens after they set down and start looking for the captured Jedi and their own fellow Sand Panther that Raksha is concerned about. Concerned but not worried. Worry, which can be distracting, is for suckers.*
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Post Thu Jan 19, 2012 9:46 pm

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*Summoned by the navicomputer's proximity alarm, the disguised Jedi Master slipped noiselessly through the halls of the elderly transport vessel, his senses on high alert despite having just awakened.* *If Vortex control demanded the captain, he'd be ready. But he didn't think they'd be that demanding. It was pretty obvious what they were -- all that scrap metal and pieces of starship couldn't possibly fail to show up on their orbital scanners. And so far, he could get no sense at all of impending events from the force, which usually meant they were in for a boring ride to the surface. Their cover story was as airtight as they could make it. Getting onto the planet would be the easy part. Getting everyone off it again was what had kept Kel'Al awake for most of their flight.*

*Arriving at the bridge, Kel'Al stuck his head in, then slipped noiselessly into the empty seat. One look at Raksha's expectant tension and silent demeanor told him that she was waiting for a reply from the ground, and so he was as quiet as a mouse as he, too, waited, and tried not to tug at his artificial beard.* *It was so blasted annoying. He hoped he would get used to the hairpiece soon. It wouldn't do to subconsciously yank it off his face right when a passing Vor security team were watching them, now, would it?*
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Post Thu Jan 19, 2012 10:35 pm

GR-45 medium transport, The Dearic Bargain

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Post Sun Jan 22, 2012 5:49 pm

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-Sensors officer, Gespenster-class Orbital Platform Alpha-
"Sir, a GR-45 on scope, asking for landing in Aquincum. Orders?"

*The bridge was stressfull nowdays, the old commander thought. This warning that jedi were inbound was just too much. Everyone is to have eyes oppen, mouths ready to report and weapons holstered. No shoot, just report position and heading, and keep eye on them, also, alert ground agents. The big man upstairs have plans for them, and somehow, he knows they are coming. he always does. Its the BIG man after all...*

-Commander Morrn Nomani-
"Let me take a look."

*Morrn ran through the scanning data, IFF codes, search on said code, and while doing it, he thought through what the usual procedure jedi have by old Imperial teachings on the academy. Always using civilian ships to infiltrate a place, acting as normal people. This ship might be one of them, so may all other ships in orit at this time.*

-Morrn-
"Let them through, that ship looks like it is on its last run. Jedi would come in something they can escape in too. Cant be them."

*he said as he went over to an other sensory officer and his incoming ship, thinking he is the best person for this job. He could spot a jedi ship from freaking observation deck if he needed. He was confident in his abbilities, to the brink of believing he even FELT the jedi coming when they were on a ship. He was silently thinking he should get himself checked if he is force sensitive himself... it could be a good connection, him feeling when jedi are approaching as well as he did, and this entire force thing... yeah, he will do it as soon as his shore leave is coming...
Those jedi will not have a chance.*


-Sensors officer, Gespenster-class Orbital Platform Alpha-
:: Gespenster Alpha to Dearic Bargain. You are cleared for Aquincum Main Spaceport through Space Corridor Alpha Uniform Bravo. A greeter will be waiting for you there. Have a nice stay and enjoy Vortex, the jewl of the Middle Rim. ::
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Post Mon Jan 23, 2012 10:41 pm

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[quote="Seleevan Khar":1h06l0pk][comlink:1h06l0pk]Gespenster Alpha to Dearic Bargain. You are cleared for Aquincum Main Spaceport through Space Corridor Alpha Uniform Bravo. A greeter will be waiting for you there. Have a nice stay and enjoy Vortex, the jewl of the Middle Rim.[/comlink:1h06l0pk][/quote:1h06l0pk]

[action:1h06l0pk]Raksha is glad she isn't on a holorecorder when informed that they will be met upon landing by a 'greeter' since she scowls in a combination of annoyance and surprise. Keeping her tone carefully bored yet pleasant, she opens the comm channel and says,[/action:1h06l0pk] [comlink:1h06l0pk]Acknowledged, Alpha. Adjusting course, [action:1h06l0pk]she says as she reorients the GR onto the assigned heading and increases their speed,[/action:1h06l0pk] now to begin approach, over.[/comlink:1h06l0pk]

[action:1h06l0pk]Flicking the switch to close the comm channel, she looks over at Raganella and swats his hand away as he reaches up to tug at his false beard as she asks,[/action:1h06l0pk] "What's this crap about a [i:1h06l0pk]greeter[/i:1h06l0pk]? You think that's normal?" [narration:1h06l0pk]Never having been to Vortex, Raksha has no idea whether it is a standard procedure to have all incoming ships met upon landing, and naturally wonders whether it is something to worry about.[/narration:1h06l0pk] [action:1h06l0pk]Groaning as she adjusts their angle of entry, Raksha says,[/action:1h06l0pk] "Guess it doesn't matter, does it? [narration:1h06l0pk]She can't think of anything that might have given them away and so concludes it must just be their luck that the Vors like to give their visitors a personal welcome to their planet.[/narration:1h06l0pk] You want to tell everyone what's up and to be ready to act natural? [action:1h06l0pk]Grinning teasingly, she adds,[/action:1h06l0pk] You're the captain, so you should probably be the one to play nice with the Vor we'll be meeting. Everyone else should just act natural, do the post flight and all that crap a normal crew would do when landing."
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Post Tue Jan 24, 2012 7:51 pm

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[quote="Raksha Dhawan":xipuz0pp] "What's this crap about a [i:xipuz0pp]greeter[/i:xipuz0pp]? You think that's normal? Guess it doesn't matter, does it? You want to tell everyone what's up and to be ready to act natural? [action:xipuz0pp]Grinning teasingly, she adds,[/action:xipuz0pp] You're the captain, so you should probably be the one to play nice with the Vor we'll be meeting. Everyone else should just act natural, do the post flight and all that crap a normal crew would do when landing."[/quote:xipuz0pp]

[narration:xipuz0pp][action:xipuz0pp]Yawning as she steps into the cockpit in time to hear they have been granted permission to land, Veran says sleepily,[/action:xipuz0pp] [color=#FF0000:xipuz0pp]"It's normal. At least I think it is from what I read in Masters Nelente and Pyek's report from when they met with Khar here. A greeter was on hand when they landed."[/color:xipuz0pp] Frowning as she thinks that the circumstances and nature of Pyek and Nelente's arrival are actually vastly different from their own now, Veran amends her statement, [color=#FF0000:xipuz0pp]"Then again, they were expected."[/color:xipuz0pp] [action:xipuz0pp]Shrugging her shoulders, Veran, with a masterful command of the obvious, says,[/action:xipuz0pp] [color=#FF0000:xipuz0pp]"We'll find out soon enough."[/color:xipuz0pp][/narration:xipuz0pp]
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Post Wed Jan 25, 2012 12:07 am

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*Kel blushed slightly and folded his hands sheepishly as Raksha caught him subconsciously reaching for the beard again.* *He'd have to concentrate hard on overruling his newest nervous tick.* "Whether it's normal or not, we can't escape it. So let's go find out. I imagine, even if he claims to be a tourism planner, he actually has some security purpose. We'll have to be careful." *His eyes narrowed slightly, but they were twinking.* "I'll have to be careful about the captain act, if I'm too good, I'll accidentally sell them all our cargo."

*He glanced over his shoulder at the sleepy-eyed Zabrak.* "You're my enforcer. It's your job to look tough, and start throwing your weight around if things get complicated." *A brief thought crossed his mind. Could they get themselves thrown in the same prison the Jedi were in? But it was unlikely common criminals would be held in the same facility, and anyway, if it was easy to break out, Nelente and Py'ek would have done it by now.*

*Looking back to Dhawan, he nodded to the pilot.* "Take us down, nice and easy. Y'know, fly casual."
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Post Wed Jan 25, 2012 8:45 pm

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**Veran smiles, her elongated canines giving the eagerness of the expression a predatory air that is wholly intentional, when Kel spells out what he wants her to do.* She almost makes a joke about how it is stereotyping to have the zabrak be the heavy, but Veran is over six feet tall and built athletically so decides not to risk Kel coming up with something smart to say in response to the joke.

Crossing her arms over her chest and arranging her features into a steely, stoic expression as they continue heading for the surface, Veran asks, "How's this? Too much?"*
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Post Wed Jan 25, 2012 9:49 pm

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*Raksha laughs when Raganella tells her to 'fly casual' and nods, saying,* "Flying casual, roger that," *and then, listening to the two Jedi bantering back and forth, takes the GR-45 into Vortex's upper atmosphere, continuing then for the spaceport in .*
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Post Sat Sep 15, 2012 2:56 pm

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-Some time after the Jedi had left vortex.-

-Encrypted Transmission from Korriban-

:: Operation Global hint. ::

*the house of Khar fleet, also known as the Vor Warhost got into formation, and turned towards korriban, jumping to hyperspace.*
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Post Mon Oct 01, 2012 7:52 pm

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*Increasing speed as he takes their ship away from Vortex's gravity well, Torian, having already set their course prior to departing from the spaceport in Aquincum, begins preparing for the jump to hyperspace and, once they have reached the point where they can make the transition from realspace to hyperspace, reaches forward to initiate the jump.*

*Watching the stars seem to stretch out outside of the forward viewport, Torian sees them give way to the
blue interior of the hyperspace lane they enter as they begin the return journey to Corellia, thinking wearily that he will not feel truly free until they have set down upon completing the trip.*
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Post Tue Oct 30, 2012 10:56 pm

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*Some moments after Torain's ship broke atmosphere, and just before it escaped Vortex's gravity well and disappeared into hyperspace, the trail ship, with it's covert operations team and it's hidden starfighters, also broke through into open space.* *Kel'Al had programmed the hyperdrive with three possible courses as they ascended, as one final covert act, and, as soon as he caught sight of the lead ship's departure, more by sense than sight, he keyed for the Corellia option. Easing the sublight engines forward, the Jedi pilot now coaxed all the speed he could from a GR-75 operating at 75% efficiency, and burned sky toward the edge of Vortex's gravity well.* *And then, quite suddenly, it was over, and the points of light around them reverted to starlines and then the mottled emptiness of hyperspace.*

*Kel took a deep breath, angrily ripped the fake beard from his face and tossed it aside, shook his head in amazement, and keyed the ship's com once more.* :: We're clear. Well done, all of you. ::
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Post Fri Nov 02, 2012 6:41 am

GR-45 medium transport, Dearic Bargain - Cargo Bay

:: Copy that, :: *Raksha replies when Master Raganella informs them that they are underway and out of danger. Unfastening her safety harness and lifting her flight helmet from her head, Raksha looks over at her fellow Sand Panthers and says,* "Astatine, Krol, I want you two to stay geared up and on standby just in case we run into any trouble on the trip back. The rest of you, grab some rack time or do whatever else you want to do."

*Dropping to the deck after she has descended halfway down the boarding ladder beside her XJ7, Raksha says,* "Nice work Panthers," *and then starts heading for the bridge to see if the Jedi have learned anything new about Cal's condition as the Dearic Bargain hurtles through hyperspace, bound for .*
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