The Star Fighters (PG-Violence, language)

[Rookie]

Setting:

A Starcraft-like world. all the races are at war, space pirates are raiding ships freely and trade is ruled by those who can kill. The human races are strongly united in a single army, but a primitive (think zerg) savage insect like race, called the Bargs, ruled by an insect queen is always hunting them down and using the human bodies as hosts for their young and doing combat with the other races.

Space travel has become a frequent occurence for anybody with the right transportation. Light speed is available to all who can afford it, or pillage it. The many star-cruisers and ships are in sizes up to gigantic ships the size of small cities, to small one man or alien vehicles.

While laser guns are available, it is not a constant laser, it comes in little clips that fire a certain number of shots. Laser mounted cannons are a common feature on most star-ships.

The technology is very advanced, free-thinking robots and advanced computer systems. Most infants can work a computer.

Bounty Hunters are succesfull in business, but the Business Lords watch over all business unless its underground, which resorts in personal bounty hunters that allign themselves as a Business Lords personal army.

Space Pirates have the most profitable business, pillaging ships and raiding cities on planets and killing at will. The local law enforcements will pursue until a larger battle-cruiser comes along, fearing an engagement.

The war has raged for years, battles sometimes raging in the very streets, or giving the civilians a lightshow as they battle in space. The three main factions that the others allign themselves to are: The Drakc Empire, the Human United Alliance, and the Carlack Confederate Resistance Force.

Da Rules:

1.Obey Woody's Rules

Concerning Weaponry: Laser weapons are available, as well as bullet weapons and melee weapons. Yes folks, even "Laser Swords" and other Laser weapons.
Laser Guns: Come in clips that shoot certain number of rounds, but can be recharged like a battery, since lasers are bursts of concentrated energy.

Bullet Guns: The standard modern-day blow-'em up guns, with a futuristic twist.

Melee weapons: Modern day Hack-and-slash weapons with a futuristic twist.

Laser Melee Weapons: These can only be held by the handle they are emited from, any other contact will cause the body part to be thoroughly sliced off. The only defense is anti-laser shields and other laser melee weapons.

Ships:
Everybody is going to want their own starship. So here's the deal on those.
Star-Cruiser: Giant flying cities in the form of space-ships. Usually reserved for the military. Limited Light-Speed Jumps, Heavily armed laser weapon defense systems. Heavy armored, but slower than hell.

Frigate: Smaller than a Star-Cruiser, but still fairly large, can hold a small fleet of smaller ships in its hold. Moderate Light-Speed Jumps, medium armor and way faster than a Star-Cruiser

Clipper: Light ships, very fast and lightly armed and armored. Have the longest light speed range of the three larger ship-styles. They are the smallest, usually only a crew of less than a dozen.

Battle Speeders: These are the fighting ships that are deployed from the holds of most larger ships. They are armed with special rockets and laser blasters. Sizes, armor, and weaponry is varied. Sometimes are personal ships customized for the owners preference.

Star-Speeders: Civilian class ships. Armor varies, but no weaponry. They are not able to go into space on their own, unless aided by a larger ship while in its hold.

Speeders: Land based hovercraft, sometimes armed, but mostly in civilian use.

On the matter of Killing:

Laser inflicted wounds will not bleed, but other injuries will. Taking shots at other players will follow under PvP. Killing NPC's and Creatures will be allowed unless another player has some idea for this character.

PvP: Will only be allowed when the other player approves of the combat. No immediate character killings unless done by the player who owns the character does so. Nobody else can kill that players character.

Uber Character: No Uber Characters. Shooting will be kept within reasonable boundaries. A character cannot get headshot kills or instant kills every time.
No crazy tricks or mad skeelz, like flipping a ship and causing to ships to run into eachother all the time, or kick flips and punching a guy and sending him flying into the other wall that is 30 feet away.

Items: Any item you want you can have as long as it doesn't make your character an uber character or does something totally ridiculous.

Planets: Any name, any enviornment you can think of, go for it.

Character interaction: Try to keep all character interaction in character.

Now for the characters!

Name: Jack Orlando
Race: Human
Class: Pirate Captain
Appearence: Taking a shot in the face early in his career, he took to wearing a black helmet with a sunglasses like visor over his eyes, and a mask over the rest of his face. He wears a White dress shirt, with a black vest and black leather gloves.

He wields a laser pistol at his side and a laser sword on the other. Skilled in both, he has earned the respect of his crew through ruthlessness and his command.

His Ship: The Black Arrow, A Frigate Class ship. A hold consisting of 12 battle-speeders, and a crew of fifty men. A boarding walk allows him to board enemy ships and get his bounty without having to travel through space. A long Black ship, shaped like a spear head, with three fins in the rear, the middle contains the bridge, the other two contain the ships thrusters. It is armed with 12 cannons, six on each side. The Red Falcon on either side of the thruster fins is said to strike fear into the hearts of merchant vessels, although she is not the best pirating ship in the galaxy.

[Korkskrew]

Name: Cpl. Lee Martin.
Race: Human
Class: Human Marine(Rifleman)
Appearance: Young, only 21. Short spiky brown hair. Average build. Wears light camoflage fatigues, and standard issue marine armor(Similar toThis) (http://media.xbox360.ign.com/media/747/747891/img_2800045.html)
Also carries a human assault rifle, pistol, combat knife, and several grenades.

No ship of his own. Goes where the army takes him. He's currently fighting on a Barg ravaged planet trying to defend one of the last standing human outposts. He's scared as hell to be there but still fights on because he knows he'll die otherwise. That's how he made corporal in his first year and is on his way to seargent.
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A dozen marines sat huddled in the small transport cruiser as they headed through a field of spore mines, which could only be described as the barg equivalent of flak.

"Alright men, listen up. We're landing in a hot zone so I want you to come out shooting. Keep your heads up and your buddies in mind. The sooner we kill these bastards the sooner we can head back and get some hot chow."

"Hey Sarge, can't we just skip the fight and go straight to the hot chow?"

"Martin, I'd find that funny if I wasn't worried about the hordes of aliens. Now get your asses in gear we're landing soon."

[Slarethorn]

Name: Knith Gintle

Race: Human

Occupation: leader of a freelance group of mercs known as "Silent Knives"

Appearance: Brown eyes, yet wears a blue contact in his right eye as a scare tactic. Brown hair, short, typical guy cut. He wears normal, everyday T-shirts, over which he dons a black leather vest made of premium quality hide. Wears black sunglasses a lot, even when unneccesary. Typical jeans, often dark blue in color, though he owns a couple of black pairs. Wears a metal bracer on his left wrist which is actually a surrounding laser shield projector.

Weapons:

a laser rifle slung across his back, typical make, nothing special about it

A laser pistol with a scope and red laser marker (you know, those laser pointer things) attached. This weapon has had a few modifications in order to optimize its usefulness.

A laser sword of medieval design, which is held by a clip at his left hip. This too has had a few upgrades, improving duability and the overall strength of the blade it produces.

Ship: a Clipper known as the Depression, fairly tough vessel. Holds a pair of Battle Speeders, nicknamed by the group as Bert and Ernie, which also are the typical ship type, though they hold more than the standard number of rockets, and often carry upgraded versions when the Silent Knives can get their hands on them. Depression is painted a deep, deep purple color, while the twin Battle Speeders, Bert and Ernie, are red and blue, respectively.

Ship supplies: The Depression carries a suit of light battle armor for each member of the crew, save Joel and Rushty, who wear heavy armor due to their weapons of choice. Also, the combat droid wears no armor, being a mechanical unit and having plating built in. Ther are also weapons of choice for each member of the crew, as well as a few backups (misc weapons: normal swords, pistols, some grenades, etc.)

The crew:

Seth, second-in-command of the Slient Knives. Wields a pair of laser pistols, a stun baton, and carries two frag grenades and one concussion grenade whenever he heads into battle. Levelheaded and quick-thinking, he is a close match to Knith himself, one of the primary factors in his becoming second-in-command.

Joel, heavy combat unit of the Silent Knives. Wears heavy combat armor and uses a rocket launcher and heavy machine gun with explosive rounds as his two tools of choice. Acts slightly bloodthirsty at times; however he merely loves his line of work.

Rushty, heavy combat unit, Wears heavy combat armor but instead utilizes a large battleblade (normal, not laser), preferring to engage his enemies up close and personal. Doesn't talk a whole lot, prefers action to words. Deeply respects Knith for his incredible leadership skills, but doens't make it known.

Timothy, aka Gadget, grenadier/mine layer/disabler. Although he carries a standard laser pistol for self-defense purposes, his primary weapons are his large variety of mines and grenades he keeps holed up in his quarters. He always goes into battle a walking bomb, with bands of grenades looped around his chest and mines strapped to his belt. He has also developed quite the reaction time and dexterity to the extent that he is able to acitvate a mine and fling it at and opponent before it detonates in his hands from contact, adhering the mine to the victim's armor of clothing, allowing one of his teammates to detonate it via an attack. Normally a calm individual, he gets a tad bonkers when the team uncovers a stash of mines or grenades, or the components to create them.

Karen Suchani (ch makes a k sound), stealth melee unit, uses a pair of laser blades as her weaponry, as well as a matching set of short stunning batons she uses to neutralize bounties or troublesome foes. Very covert and stealthly, good at breakimg and entering or, as she calls it, "window shopping." Very loud and outspoken with the rest of the team, and often gets into arguments with Joel due to their conflicting views. Also is the only member of the team besides Knith himself to use a laser deflecting frontal shield, which helps when dealing with distanced enemies.

Model 1984-CGI, self named Despair, humanoid combat robot, capable of wielding any light or medium weapons available for use. Has a serious attitude problem, and only takes orders directly from Knith's own mouth. Also has a grenade launcher integrated into its chest, which Gadget makes sure is always kept stocked, though it can only hold six at any given time. Has slightly better attributes than a typical male human of 35, save its stength, which is capable enough to enable it to lift up to 200 pounds unnassisted. Its arms are painted black, while the rest of its body is a deep shade of green. It sports red, slitted eyes, and being unable to change its facial expression, always looks as if it is about to kill you where you stand.

A pair of work droids, used to simply run the ship and make repairs. No talking feature, and only understand direct commands.

[Rookie]

Jack walked calmly across the boarding tube, encased in a clear plastic with his ensen close by.
"I never tire of the stars." He said in an almost dreamy voice, "That's why i enjoy cruising around robbing its merchants of there cargo."

[Korkskrew]

The ship touched down and was swarmed immediately. Sarge shoved his gun down an aliens throat and fired a full clip into it. He whipped out his energy sword and started slashing and shooting.

"Damn that man can fight..." Martin said as he grimly jacked a clip into his weapon and stood up.

The ships exit had been blocked off and the Bargs were all over it. Two men were dragged out and torn to bits before they could scream while the others reluctanctly fired at the oncoming throng.

"Martin! Fire your weapon soldier!"

Martin saw a large Barg barrel towards the ship and unloaded at it. It slowed but kept coming. The ship shook as the massive beast barreled into the small carrier. It flipped upside down and landed harshly, shaking the crew all around.

Martin felt a tug at his neck and instinctively aimed his rifle at it.

"At ease soldier, it's just me. You and I are the only ones left in the squad. Now get up, theres still a war going on."

"Hell... What are we gonna do? It's a bloodbath out there."

"We're gonna take the ships fusion corse and ram it down that hivenode there. It'll blow it to pieces and give us a chance to take this area back. I'm bingo on ammo and grenades so you take my rifle and I'll use my sword and carry the fusion core. You're a damn good shot when you wanna be so cover me and we'll be fine."

"You're nutty man."

"Stop whining and get your ass out there."

Sarge pushed Martin out of the wreckage and into the open. He came up beside him and they ran for a nearby crater. Barg blood splattered on Sarge's armor as he slashed it down the middle. More came behind them and Martin unloaded at the group. They kept moving as Martin backpeddled trying to stave off the ravenous Bargs. They reached the massive hivenode and were soon met by masses of enemies. Other marines had made their way to the collossal hivenode but served merely as a distraction while the larger bargs tore them apart. Martin and Sarge were lucky enough to only have to deal with the fodder. They came face to "face" with the massive living structure and Sarge began to hack at it with his sword. Martin held both rifles akimbo and scanned the area, pausing every so often to pop a Bargling.

"Holy sh..." Martin managed before being drowned out by his own guns blazing. "Hurry the hell up Sarge! We've got company!"

An innumerable amount of Barg swept towards them as they heard their hivenode cry out in pain.

"I can't get it to detonate automatically, I'll have to blow it myself. Martin, get the hell out of here, I'm going down with my ship as it were."

"Sarge, I can't let you! They killed everyone else Sarge, I can't let em get you! Bastards!" Martin yelled as he fired at them.

"You done good kid, now get outta here before I change my mind."

Martin couldn't believe it but he ran faster than he had ever run. He shot up Barg left and right as they swarmed him and kept running. The last thing he saw was Sarge scaling the giant hivenode and ramming the fusion core into it's maw, then driving his sword into it. The exlposion blew it to pieces and all the nearby Barg ran or went insane. Martin was able to meet up with another sqaud who took him back to base to get reassigned.

"You did good kid. You may very well have just saved this planet."

[Rookie]

"Jack Orlando!" The captain of the merchant ship exclaimed.
Jack's expressionless mask remained so as he said, "Yes captain, And i will be taking your cargo. Now one thing escapes me, what is the security code?"

"I don't have the security code."

"Oh, but i think you do." Jack said taking out his pistol and pointing it at the captain, "At least you better."

"Okay, its 24 3 9 6!" The captain said looking defeated.

"Excellent, you heard him, go relay it to the men down there."

"Yes cap'n." the man replied running off to execute the order.

"Thank you captain, if i wore a hat i would tip it to you. But the only way i can express my gratitude is to let you and your crew live. Does that sound good to you?"

"Good enough." The captain replied.

"Excellent! We'll just be taking our booty, and be off then." Jack said bowing.

As he walked away he heard the man next to the captain say, "Sir, that man may be a pirate, but he's one hell of a gentleman."

Jack supervised the removal of the cargo.

"Good good, now we're off then." Jack leaned out so he could see the captain, "Good day to you, sir."

And then he scammpered across the boarding tube. The tube retracted into the Black Arrow and Jack walked to the bridge, which was suspened above the meeting room of the Black Arrow.

"Ah, another day another booty. What did we get?"

"The computer was right. Mostly weapons, some armor pieces, we got some Imperials (OOC: currency) from their vault, about a thousand."

"Well some of the extra weapons may sell on the black market, and the armor may come in handy though."

"Yes sir." the man replied.

"Good then, now bring me a drink and take us out of here. Mark 45 degrees."

"Yes, sir. Your usual?"

"Yes, i think so."

Jack sat, sipping his drink with a straw through a hole in the mask.

"Sir! HUA Ship ahead!"

"HUA? They shouldn't be in this area!" Jack said leaning forward. "Show me."

An area on the window was enlarged and shown on a monitor. It was indeed a HUA ship.

"There is a Barg infested planet down there, they may be leaving from a raid?"

"Maybe, maybe not."

"What action shall we take, Jack?"

"Hmm, i dunno. This is a tricky situation. This ship is alone, perhaps a straggler. Fully armed troops aboard, although possibly wounded. I don't think i could get away with HUA weaponry anyway. Let it pass through."

"Yes sir."

Jack watched as the screen zoomed out and they saw there normal view of space.

"Set lightspeed jump for the Dragis system, i can make a fortune on the weapons and such there."

"Yes sir."

"And be careful, i hear HUA may have set up a base there, they may have a planetary perimeter."

"Yeah, we've heard it all before."

"I know, but its fun to say it anyways!"

[Soria]

Name: Carla Jenson.

Age: 19

Apperance: Short cropped light brown curly hair. Heavish built, but still in shape.

Occupation: Cook and med officer for the Black Arrow.

weapons: Dual laser pistols and a long wickedly jagged knife.

Background: Ran into Jack when she was 15, after he raided th ship she was hiding on. He took her in finding out he was a decent cook, so long is you did ask for too many alien dishes. Bright smile, very cheerful.



Carla whistled softly to herself. The boy were in a good mood tonight, after completing a scuccessful haul, and she thought that deserved a great dinner. She had been saving some Orelian oyesters for just this occainison.

[Rookie]

The stars seemed to shift as the lightspeed-drive kicked in. Then with a jerk the ship lurched forward.

"Alright Jack, half an hour till arrival. I think that's enough time for the dinner Clara has been preparing?"

"Why i do believe so." Jack said, "What do you boys think?"

The men cheered as they went to go eat.

"Is the controls stable?" Jack asked.

The ensen gave the stick a rough jerk, but it did not budge, "Stable as a..."

"Yeah yeah the rabbit, now lets go."

Clara had laid out the plates and the oysters were laid out.

"Awww Clara, you shouldn't have!" Jack said as he pulled back the cover over his mouth to eat.

"Well we had a good bounty today, and the boys were in good spirits."

"Good bounty? Ensen, how large was the bounty exactly?"

"Thirty crates of weapons, forty crates of armor, and ninety crates of food."

"Well Dayum, break out the wine!"

The men cheered as droids scooted out with bottles of wine in there claws.

After dinner they went back to the bridge.

"Aha! Planet Ho!" The ensen yelled as he looked at the coordinates and they dropped out of lightspeed.

"Clara? No, you shouldn't call her that, she'll hit you for it." Jack said jovially.

"Is that how you lost a lense in your helmet?"

"No, thats another story." Jack said.

"Sir, HUA planetary patrol, but its on the far side."

"Increase thrusters and get us down there."

"Aye sir!"

The thrusters powered up and they went down through the planets atmosphere. The Atmospheric stabalizers on the ship enabled it to shoot through the atmosphere without burning up.

The remote outworld planet of Dragis was a trade center for pirates. But with the recent HUA occupation, this trade was kept to whispers and underground trading.

The Black Arrow flew in low and into the underground docks that were built into the ground incase such a thing would happen.

"When we say underground trade, we mean underground trade." Jack would fondly say. All the underground merchants would set up shops in the docks.

"Ah! Captain Black Jack!" The dockmaster greeted him.

"Tobias Alder, how goes business."

"Very well sir, everybody has gotten used to this underground trade and things are picking up again. What have you got today?"

"We've got quite a load today, my men are filtering through it right now."

"Excellent. See you around the docks Jack!"

"Sir, we've sifted through and got enough guns and armor to re-equip every man on board, and we're keeping 60% of the food as you ordered."

"Good, good. Now carry out business, we're going to be here for two days, so lets make use of it."

"Aye captain."

[Dilorenzo]

Name: Captain Den Krueger

Race: Human

Occupation : Captain of a courier ship, a clipper which moves around those small but neccessary goods that everyone needs. Company called "Small Details"

Appearance : In his mid to late 60s, gray hair and beard, with the good ol' "grizzled" look going on. He's still in excellent shape despite his age, never willing to let himself go. Ragged scar from right side of mouth across cheek. He tends to go with shirts, slacks and heavy boots most of time, but has a padded coat for cold planet deliveries.

Weapons :

A typical, ordinary, every day laser pistol, which he always wears.

A workmanlike knife, which more or less personifies his attitude to weapons- workmanlike.

For those special occasions, he has a heavy laser rifle with a high range scope.

His ship: A clipper which is run by himself and a crew of bots, called the Hermes. The only other human who has anything to do with it is the mechanic at Small Details HQ. Weaponry includes 3 Light laser cannons and a few "surprises" on board for anyone trying to board the wrong way. Company logo, other than that, no decoration.

[Dilorenzo]

Krueger sat at the control console for the clipper, hands steppled as he watch information flash across the screens, detailing speed, distance to target- all the information a good captain doesn't even need to know. Nothing else to do on these long hauls though, he though to himself.

He glanced over at the bot piloting the ship, all sleek, shiney, and completely devoid of any personality.

"So," he said to the robot, "what do you think of the situation?"

No answer from the robot, it's metalic hands moving over the console, managing all aspects of the ship.

"Just about what I thought."

Days like this, he wished he could afford driods with an actual thought process beyond "press buttons." But no, only the bigtime could afford a staff of those to pilot their ships. People like Krueger had to make do with what they could afford.

"You see," he said to do silent pilot, "this is what happens when you don't kill people to get ahead. All you have to talk to is a dead lump of metal."

He sighed, and walked over to the reinforced glass, his reflection barely showing up against the swirl created by the lightspeed drive.

Suddenly, he was glad again that the droids had no personalities. Personalities meant needless complications.

Suddenly, a beep came from the console. his brow furrowing, Krueger strode over to it. The moment he reached it, the telltale whine of the engines coming down from lightspeed reached his ears.

"What the hell?"

The ship slowed more, none of the figures or details on the screen telling him what was going on. He walked over to the pilots console, looking over the droids shoulder. Nothing there either- just that the engines had cut out.

The beep came from his console again as the ship came to a complete halt. He made for it again, but something caught his eye from the outside of the ship.

The black, heavily armoured frigate gave him one hell of a shock, and he quickly pressed buttons, hoping to get a scan of the area, hoping there would be a nearby army, or even police ship.

The klaxon above his head sounded, deafening him with its loud honks, letting him know they had targetted him.

He stopped pressing buttons, and sat down in his chair, waiting for the message come through, asking him to allow them to board with no hassel, the ever present "or else" looming with the words.

The clipper rocked, throwing Krueger from his seat, bewildered that there had been no demands before they opened fire. His head struck a corner, and suddenly, the lights went out.

[Korkskrew]

Martin stood in front of the detachments C.O. and saluted. Explosions outside shook the building scattered dust everywhere.

"Corporal Martin, as you may or may not be aware, this planet is doomed."

"Doomed sir?"

"Aye son. Doomed. That fool seargent of yours died in vain. This planet will be overrun in hours. We're currently performing a mass exodus."

"I don't understand, we just won a decisive battle. We destroyed a hive mind!"

"That's what I wanted to talk to you about. We reviewed the film in your helmets camera and due to your stunning performance we're bumping you up to Master Seargent. You will be accompanying Captain Ender and a detachment of thirty marines to Dragis. It's a merchant planet overrun with pirates and other scum. We need you to keep the peace."

"Thankyou sir!"

Martin was overjoyed that he would no longer have to fight the aliens, at least not for a while.

"We don't have time for the formalities so get your ass on the escape cruiser. You'll recieve your stripes in due time. Follow me."

They rushed outside to see millions of barglings scaling the compound walls. The air was filled with the sounds of gunfire and mens screams.

The scrambled on board one of the frigrates evacuating the planet.

"Well, we're safe for now. Here, take this to the armory. They'll get you outfitted with your new armor and weapons."

[Living Dead Guy]

Character: Ezekiel Jones
Age: 44
Appearance: Standing at 7' 3", 300 lbs. he is a monster of a man. He had been a General in the Human Marines but after a fight with an alien queen he was forced under her control. He only wears a simple pair of pants and a mysterious-looking helmet that keeps his brain under the control of the alien queen. He was once head of the entire Marines outfit and his dissappearance still baffles the Human race and he is missed. Lately the aliens have noticed a shift in his behavior. He has been having visons of his past, of his sons and wife. The aliens know it's just a matter of time before he breaks out and returns to Earth.

[Living Dead Guy]

Ezekiel was having another of his visions of past memories. He was playing frisbee with his bull mastiff when he heard a shriek. He ran around to the backyard and saw, to his horror that his wife was being attacked by the insectoid alien beings, that had invaded his planet. His dog rushed forward and clamped it's huge huge maw onto the alien's arm. It made a weird sound kind of like a nasal whinney and turned to face the dog. But zeke was already there. He began pummeling the creature with his huge fists, cracking carapace with each punch. It flew up in the air to escape the huge man and his dog but Zeke quickly grabbed onto it's back. he gouged it's eyes, kicked it's back and even bit it in the face. The thing had had enough and fell back to the ground. Zeke stood up to xamine his work. The creature opened it's mouth and said with a watery voice, "I can't kill you mighty human, you are far too strong. But I can kill your wife!" With that he took up a small laser pistol and shot Zeke's wife in the middle of the chest. "NO!!!" Zeke roared with pure outrage. He leaped upon the beastand smashed his fist into it's face cracking the carapace and squishing it brain to goo. He looked back to his fallen wife. he scooped her into her arms and began to weep. "I swear on my life Christine, I'll kill every last one of these goddamn aliens!" A few hours later, his sons safely tucked away in an underground bunker, he was flying away on a small spaceship flying to the alien homeworld. He landed an hour later. He began moving towards the place where the alien queen dwelled. A few minutes and laser clips later he was in the central throne room aiming his gun right at the queens bloated face. "Allright bitch. Your little aliens assholes killed my wife, for no good reason as I see it. So now I'm gonna kill you for a very good reason. Bye bye." He began to pull the trigger but stopped suddenly. "Pathetic human." the queen said telepathically. "Do you really think you could defeat me this easily. So you killed a few dozen guards. I'll have a couple more thousand in a few hours. Your pathetic mind is weak, and now you're mine." Zeke crumpled to the floor and the last thing he saw was two guards strapping a helmet onto his head.


Zeke awoke suddenly feeling the telepathic pull of the quuen. He walked out of the room, to heed the queen's demands.

[Evil_Gondi]

Two of the cargo movers were about to move one of the weapon create when it hissed, much like a snake, and opened revealing the droid inside. Its eyes flickered on like a flame.

"Some kinda robot?"

"Correction, meaty one, assault droid. This does not appear to be my destination. Labor monkey, you will tell to me where my current location is, for my scanners seem to be disrupted."

One of the cargo holders took the other under his arm, taking him away from the droid.

"I'll stall this thing, you go get someone higher up on the chain of command." He shoved the other off.

"Well, Mr. Droid, I can take a look as your sensors for you, I am a mechanic."

"Negatory, filthy labor monkey," The droid seemed to grow hostile. "you will tell me of my location before you become F.U.B.A.R. meaty, as I am not bound by law here."

The cargo mover panicked an threw an e.m.p. grenade.

"This is not standard operating procedure." EAD001000 emitted before the e.m.p. released.

[Living Dead Guy]

Once Zeke was in the throne room he looked up to the queen waiting for his orders. "My dear Ezekiel." she said aloud. "Today you are erleased of your duties. You are scheduled for execution at the end of the day. You may leave now." Zeke looked up to her sadly for a moment, then started laughing. The alien queen looked at him incredulously. "I have over come your petty telepathic powers you ugly piece of...CRASH! Just then a large battleship slammed into the throne room and through the door of it 3 armed Marines ran out. "Go go go!" the leader of them yelled to the other two. Both of them grabbed one of Zeke's arms and dragged him into the ship, firing at the queen but not really causing any damage. Once they were safe inside the ship the 3 masked men took there masks and Zeke noticed they were his three sons, Jerek, Steven and Robert. "Sons!" he yelled and rushed over to greet them. After all the hugging and emotions were gone they took their father to the ship's armory and got him outfitted. "This is our ship Dad. We used all the money we had to buy it so we can find you. It's got 60 crewmembers and 100 Commandos all of them your old war pals. And it's all your's Dad. Or should I say Captain." Tears started to well up in Zeke's eyes and he ran off to greet his old buddies and catch up on things. "Allright everybody let's go have some fun!" For the rest of the day they sat in the turrets taking turns shooting at comets, attacking pirates and the like.

[Rookie]

"Too bad the HUA is trying to keep us in check." Jack said.

"Bah, they haven't caught a single one of us yet, even the largest ships are getting through. The last chase they gave resulted in their own ships coming down darn near on top of us. We had to lock down when the HUA came to collect the rubble."

A white light shown in the sky as another ship was coming out of lightspeed. Adler looked through a telescope, "Another HUA ship, pretty rough looking though. Probably came from that Barg planet."

"The Barg got another one?"

"The HUA put up a fight, but not enough, we've been watching there radio signals, they're running a mass evacuation of the planet."

Jack rubbed his chin, "That may explain the ship we saw leaving the planet."

"Maybe." Tobias replied, "How much money you made?"

Jack held up a board, "Between distrubutors, over 10,000 imperials."

"Dayum boy, and your not even done yet."

"And we kept the good stuff!" Jack said jovially.

"You may not be the most feared pirate, but your the luckiest."

"Maybe, but then agian, i wouldn't say luckiest." Jack said pointing to his concealed face.

"Aye, well i'll be seeing you Jack, got Pyro Dave coming in with a load."

"With that Clipper of his?"

"Nope, he pirated another clipper, captured its crew and then abandoned 'em on a remote island on some Barg infested planet. He's got a fleet of two clippers."

"And only able to hold four battle-speeders all together."

"Yah, you've got what, twelve?"

"I was looking to add on to that today."

"Good luck with that. Oho, did ya here?"

"About..." Jack said turning around.

"Orvis Avery!"

"No, what happened."

"Got blown out of the sky over Elandis. Was putting up one hell of a fight against that cruiser, then they powered up the main guns, and his frigate was positioned just so; then the guns fired just seconds apart and hit the back, then the mid, then the front. Send debris through space for miles and miles. Nobody survived!"

"Whew, what a shame. Good man."

"Yep, be sure to pick up the Pirates Paper. All kinds of stuff since you were here."

"Alright, well i've already delayed too long."

Jack met with another crewman, a tough pilot by the nickname of Sparrowhawk.

"Well Sparrow, ready to look at ships? We've got enough cash for three."

"Good, we should be able to get some good ones lately. Amiore just raided a Battle Speeder Transport Ship. Like that one raid where we got all those walkers."

"We still have all those?"

"Yes, and the speeder bikes, and the speeders."

"Good, i'm glad we got those thruster upgrades. We could hold a corp of speeder bikes if we needed to."

"Exaggerating again?"

"Of course!" Jack said.

They arrived where the Battle Speeders were being held. "Ah, you boys looking into Battle Speeders?" The manager asked.

"Yes we are."

Sparrow found a black bubble cockpit class ship. Its cockpit was bubble shaped for one man, with a vertical C shape that protruded at the ends, that was mounted with laser blasters, and a horizontal one with rocket laundchers on the ends of those.

"These are very good, vast and turn on a fuggin' flea. we got space for one." Sparrow said.

"We'll take this one." Jack said pointing to the Bubble Cockpit.

They went down the line to another one. It was grey with a fin on top, and two slanting down on either side. two plasma cannons mounted underneath, a rocket launcher on each wing, and a hold in the back.

"And this one." Jack said.

And finally, a sleek black one. Cockpit in the back and engines in the front. Wings extending on either side with two laser guns on each wing, and a mini-rocket launcher.

"Oh, i like this one. We'll take this one two." Jack said.

"Excellent, 9,000 sir."

"Seems fair..." Jack said writing out the check, "Keep the bubble cockpit here, i'll send Sparrow back to get it after we load the other two up.

Jack took the keys and fired up the black one and steered it over to the Black Arrow where it was lifted into the hold and placed in a special deployment rack. A few minutes later all three were loaded up.

"We've just made 5,000 more and have a few more crates to sell."

"Good! Then we'll split the remaining bounty amongst the crew."

[Korkskrew]

"Eh mate, ow ya been?" Said a strange man sitting next to Martin.

"Well I'll be damned, you survived that mess?"

"More or less, you too eh? I see you made an impression on the C.O."

"What?"

"Your stripes, you made master seargent. Gotta say that's impressive. Where are they sending you after this mess is sorted out?"

"Uh, some merchant place, Dragis. The HUA bit off more than they could chew so they need the marines."

"For real? I'm going to Dragis too. Damn, never thought I'd be under the command of my old bunkmate."

"To be honest, I'm scared sh*tless about it. I have no idea how to lead these guys."

"Just fight like ya have been lately. That's the kind of stuff that makes heroes."

"It's not all bad I suppose, I got some new gear, this laser sword, new armor, and this bad ass plasma rifle. Fires at 5000 kelvin. I dunno how they do it but somehow it releases a magnetic slug that burns everything it contacts."

"Fascinating.... Oi, you ever heard of Ezekial Jones?"

"Heard of him? That was the bugger that made me crawl under barbed wire while he fired live rounds over my head during basic! Didn't he get captured by the barg?"

"Aye, but they found him and brought in some marines, now he's back. Lucky bugger too. Not many people go into a barg colony and live to tell about it."

"Crazy... Say, what do you know about Dragis?"

"Meh, not much. Was a merchant hub for a while, lot's of pirates and other scum, you know, regular stuff, then the HUA occupied it and things got boring. Pirate activities been on the rise though and from what I've heard we're going after one of the worst. Names Jack or something to that effect. We're going to try to take him out."

"Shouldn't be too hard..."

[Rookie]

Jack was walking to the Black Arrow when Adler came running up.

"Jack! They're out for ya!"

"Again?" Jack said.

"Look here, we picked it up on the radios."

Jack looked at the paper which read:

13:05:34
18-3-9
Frequency:11031

"We have issued a warrant for Jack Orlando, sometimes called Black Jack. Travels in a frigate class ship called the Black Arrow. Previous warrants have failed, and even resulted in the loss of a clipper."

"I have that clipper in the hold, eheheh." Jack said looking back down to read.

"Last spotted in the Dargis system, is armed and dangerous, bring in Alive."

"My reputation precedes me. Looks like i'm going to have to leave early." Jack said taking out his message-relayer. He typed a simple message that would be sent to all crew members: Warrant Issued, finish any shopping ASAP, leave at sunset.

"Watch the signals, check to see if you can find out who the warrants been issued to."

"Already have, name is Martin, just got promoted to Master Sergeant. Very new to this from what we gather. He's been given a ship, can't say what though, but its not very large, probably a frigate or a clipper. A clipper more likely, the Frigates are usually reserved for larger forces."

"Although they know i have a Frigate, they may have given him a small frigate class. He may give a good chase, but i've outrun more skilled veterans and shot down one of the best in their fleet."

"You got lucky."

"Now what did i say about luck?" Jack said pointing a finger.

"I'll watch the radio for ya until you leave. Or you can watch them yourself, you've got the reciever, here, these are their newest frequencies. They change them all the time because we do stuff like this."

"Yeah, i'll be trying out my new stuff." Jack said giving the thumbs up.

As sunset came Jack sat in his captains chair, helmet and mask gleaming in the artificial lights of his ship.

"Take us out of here, ensen!"

"Aye captain!"

The Black Arrow rose out of the docks with waves from the other pirates and the ground closed up behind them as they cleared the docks.

They took off and went into the atmosphere and out into the black of space.

"Head towards the Capital System, a tip-off told me that a transport ship is carrying a shipment of un-programed Droids in that area."

"Yes, sir."

"And set the scanner on high alert to HUA ships."

"Yes sir."

[Soria]

( EDIT" It's Carla damnit!)

Carla growled, softly to herself, glad she had already gotten her shopping down.

" Damn metal heads...Can't leave well enough alone." Clara growled, leaning back in her chair.

[Rookie]

They came out of light speed abruptly as they got near the Capital system.

"Set long range scanners to detect any ships."

"Sir, no need, already found it. Three Battle Speeders flanking it for defense."

"Excellent, all lined up like ducks. Lock on to each one with the rockets."

A slow beeping noise suddenly grew rapid as the rockets locked on. "Fire!" Jack said and the rockets flew from the Black Arrow and closed in on the Battle Speeders. They blew up rapidly as the Black Arrow closed in. The merchant ship fired on the Frigate, but the shields reflected off.

The Black Arrows cannons opened up and tore through the ship and disabled it. The docking tube extended, cut open a hole, and Jack strode in. He deflected laser shots with his laser sword as his crew stormed in behind him and lit up the defenses.

Jack turned to his left and drew his laser pistol and pulled the trigger twice. The man running towards him took one shot in the abdomen and the other in the leg. He fell over and cried out in pain.

"Find the cargo hold." Jack said simply.

The men filed out and a few sounds of skirmishes came from both directions. Jack walked to the bridge where the captain was aprehended.

"Ah, hello captain i am..."

"Black Jack Orlando..."

"Thank you, but i can finish my own sentences. Now, if you will be so kind as to give the access codes to your cargo hold..."

"I don't have them, the company on the planet i'm delivering them to has them."

"Ok then. Sparrow, tell Cracker he can blow open the door if necessary."

"Yes, sir."

"I really hate to blow apart doors, but if its necessary." a moment later an explosion rang through the corridors, "Ah, well, nice talking with you. If i had a hat i would tip it to you." Jack said with a bow. He walked out of the bridge. Men were wheeling out crates already.

"How many?"

"Seventy, top grade." Sparrow said showing him a crate he had cracked open. "Assault droids, protocol droids, clean-up droids, all will come in handy i think."

"Good, i wanted to improve security. A top grade droid security team will help, more firepower and they'll follow rules to the letter."

"Yep, but it's gonna take a while to load them up."

"How long?"

"fifteen minutes, twenty?"

"Not long, just make sure they get out fast."

When the last droid was loaded up, Jack strode back onto the Black Arrow and they took off.

"Make course for the Ardenis System, and put us in our usual cave so we can mess with the droids."

[Korkskrew]

"Martin!"

"Captain Enders!" Martin turned and saluted.

"Get your ass in gear we're dropping soon. They gave us a clipper, fully loaded and ready to go. We got word our target is in the system and we have a very small window of opportunity to get at him."

"Yessir, I'll get my men."

Less than a minute later they were strapped in and barreling towards the planet.

"Alright men, listen and listen good because I won't repeat myself. We're after a man named Jack Orlando, or Blackjack. His ship; The Black Arrow, a frigate class ship. A hold consisting of 12 battle-speeders, and a crew of fifty men according to intelligence. It is a long black ship, shaped like a spear head, with three fins in the rear, the middle contains the bridge, the other two contain the ships thrusters. It is armed with 12 cannons, six on each side. The red falcon on either side of the thruster fins is what makes it so easy to distinguish. Check your weapons marines, we're landing in five. Can I get a hoo-ah?"

"Hoo-ah!" The marines replied in unison.

The ship touched down in an urban merchant center, near the middle of the city. The marines quickly disembarked and split up into fireteams.

Martin and his squad slowly made their way down the crowded street, trying not to draw to much attention. The comm crackled to life and Martin's helmet filled with the commanders voice.

"Martin, see that bar due north of your position?"

"Roger..."

"We've confirmed that several of jacks men are in their. Storm it and take at least one alive."

"Roger that, Martin out."

With several quick hand signals the marines formed up outside the bar. Martin and two others stood by the main entrance with the other two in firing positions across the street.

"Alright, I'll crack the door and you flash the place. Use air foils, we want them alive. Alright go go go!"

Martin kicked the door open and one of his men threw a flash into the bar. It went off and they rushed in. Martin tagged Jack's men on his fireteams view finders and shot an air foil at one. It hit him in the kidney and he went down in a heap.
They broke off and found two more. One went down without any trouble but the other insisted on a fight. He fired randomly into the crowd from and elevated position, unaware that Martin was coming up from behind him. With a swift stroke Martins rifle butt met his skull and the man was out like a light.

"Captain, this is Martin. I've got three of Jack's men here. They say he's leaving at sundown. Reccomend immediate evac."

"Roger that Martin, we'll evac to the ship and give chase. We don't have much time. Rendevous at the clipper and we'll discuss our next move. Enders out."

[Living Dead Guy]

Zeke was talking to his best friend, and second in command, Gabriel. Gabriel was a cyborg. His entire left arm was totally robotic, and his left eye had a special zoom option that made him able to wield a rifle without a scope. "One of our scouting ships didn't come back. I think a Barg ship gotta hold of them." he said quietly to Zeke. Zeke looked at him curiously. "Your son Robert was on it." Ten minutes later zeke and 20 other soldiers were getting outfitted and readying t=one of the battleships to set out after Robert. "I'm coming with you Zeke." gabriel called to him. "No Gabe yer staying here. I need you to watch the ship." "Aww you stupid dolt Steve can watch after it good enough. And besides ya need my eye." he said with a hearty laugh. Zeke looked at him long and hard and finally gave in. "Allright men suit up, we're heading out in five!"

[Slarethorn]

Knith sat comfortably in his cushioned captain's chair, viewing the massive expanse of stars and planets that sped by as the Depression sped through space at lightspeed. Coming up next to him, his second-in-command, Seth, said, "Knith, another of those Business Lord bums wants to talk business with you again."

Nodding, Knith said, "Put him on the frontal screen, and bring us out o lightspeed." His eyes widening, Seth replied, "But Knith, this guy is one of the big boys, and he specifically requested a private chat in your quarters...."

Knith cut him off, saying, "Which one did you say it was again?"

Startled, Seth replied, "Gregory Thendar, one of the top Business Lords out there. As I said, he...."

A smile touched Knith's lips. He said amusedly, "I'vemet with him before. Put him on the main screen; I know what I'm doing."

Shrugging, Seth walked over to one of the control booths and flipped a couple switches, then pressed down a button. The big-screen resembling a thin TV suddenly flipped on, and the face of Gregory Thendar came into view of the Slient Knives. The man had the typical Business Lord appearance: fat, bald, and smoking a cigar with a smile on his face (think Kingpin, but smaller :) ). Snuffing the cigar on his oak desk, he asked nonchalantly, "So, Knith, I see you still have your meetings the same as always- in front of your crew, rather than in private like they belong."

"My crew deserves to hear you proposal just as much as I do. They put their lives on the line for me, and stick with me no matter the situation. Besides, I hate repeating things," Knith said with a smile.

Although he was smiling, Knith could see Gregory was struggling to hold the expression, due to the glaring quality of his eyes as they bored into him. Waivng a hand, the Business Lord continued casually, "Fine, Knith, do what you want, not like I can do anything about it. Hell, I don't even know which system you're in, much less the planets you're near. Anyway, I have a job for you. A band of renegade soldiers have become a sort of amateur pirating operation on the planet Oryan. Although they're nothing compared to the pros that travel the stars, my mining installation there isn't very well defended, and it's been getting ransacked and terrorized quite often by now. I'll pay you and your squad 500 Imperials each if you can get rid of those pests." Awaiting an answer, Gregory leaned back in his leather chair, picking up his cigar once more and looking at Knith with an inquiring look on his face.

Turning to his crew, who had all headed to the bridge when they heard the news, he said out loud, "Well?"

Joel was the first to speak, blurting out, "If it means I get to kick some ass, then I am so in." Grinning widely, he turned to look at Karen, preparing for her comeback he knew was sure to come.

Karen merely socked him on the arm, turned to Knith, and said, "You know I go where the money is, Knith, and 500 Imps could land me some sweet gear. Let's do it."

Gadget was next to speak up, saying, "Sure, I'm game, it'll give me a chance to test the latest grenade I was contruscting out of some spare materials. Plus, like Karen said, 500 is pretty nice."

Knith looked to Rushty, patiently awaiting his decision. After a moment in thought, Rushty looked up at Knith and nodded, his face showing no emotion as he gave his silent consent.

Knith then turned to Despair and said, "What's your take, Desperate?" Desperate was a playful nickname the crew used on Despair to reflect his eagerness for carnage. However, the robot, having no real concept of humor, failed to catch the terms joking quality. Its head jerking in Knith's direction, it replied in its monotone voice, "Agreement: I wish nothing more than to engage in the slaughter of the pathetic human softies. Howver, this is irrelevant, as you being my owner compels me to obey your every command."

WIth a shake of his head at the robot's matter-of-fact statement, Knith finally faced Seth, who had been standing next to him the entire time. "Well, my friend, what is your take on this offer?" Gregory, watching form behind them, leaned forward in his chair as he awaited the final crew member's response. Finally, Seth looked Knith in the eyes and said, "I'm in."

Gregory immediately broke into conversation. "Good good, glad you'll accept. Get there as quick as you possibly can, you'll have clearance to land on the western side of my mining operation, which is the direction the attacks have been coming from. When my miners can send me a detialed report confirming you've solved the problem, I'll wire the cash to your account, and you can withdraw the dough and divide the shares among your team. Ciao!" With that, the screen went blank, and the crew of the Depression went into action at once, pulling a sharp turn and heading straight for the planet Oryan. It would take a day or so to arrive, given that they had been heading in the opposite direction when the call from Thendar came in.

Knith sat down in his chair, Seth at his side in his own seat on his left. Knith said, heavily, "This is more than it seems, Seth. I fear we may be walking into something that is over our heads."

Seth nodded, saying, "I thought the exact same thing. Gregory is one of the greediest Lords out there. For him to be letting go of over 2,000 Imperials means this is more than just some punk soldiers who ditched thier squad. Why didn't you refuse the mission, if you thought the same?"

Sighing, Knith replied, "I run the missions we take out by vote, every time, no exceptions. Despite our suspicions of this assignment, the rest of the crew voted in favor, so I must play along. Besides, If we get through it," he said with a twinkle in his eye, "we'll have ourselves a nice chunk of dough to cash, and I never say no to some cold hard spending change."

Seth grinned mischeviously, and Knith turned to Joel, saying, "Activate lightspeed. We're headed to Oryan!"

[Dilorenzo]

Krueger woke up, his head pounding, smoke and sparks all he could see in the dark wreck that used to be his bridge.

He sat up, hitting his head off a girder that hadn't been there before. As he was waiting for the sudden burst of stars to go away, the emergency lights flickered on and off.

The bridge was in shambles- consoles torn out, walls bent inwards... droids gone. He raised his hand to his forehead, feeling the stickiness of blood pouring from a wound.

"What the hell was that?"

He sighed, got up, and walked to the only control console left. Wires were hanging out from where the screens used to be, and tried to figure out how the hell he was going to get out of this mess.

Krueger swung around suddenly when he heard a moaning sound coming from the corridor leading to the bridge. A light smile played across his lips.

The door was badly damaged, but he was able to force it open by jamming his knife into the mechanism. There, lying on the floor, was a pirate, his legs completely missing.

"Why hello there," said Krueger, standing directly above the wounded man. "And who the hell are you?"

There was nothing but a gurgling sound, pain and terror mixed on the mans face.

A glinting at the pirates shoulder made the captain glance over, and seeing the robotic arm, an idea formed.

"You probably should have paid more attention to the traps, laddie. I don't take kindly to intruders."

"H-help me..."

"Sure, sure, I'll do that now."

With that, he drew the pistol and put a laser hole in the pirates forehead.

"Sorry, laddie, but needs must, and I need."

He drew his knife again, and began to hack at the connections between the meat and metal.

A few minutes later, taking the metal arm, Krueger was back at the control console, replacing what he could, jury rigging the comm system.

With that done, he hit the distress button, and hoped someone would find him before the support systems packed in.

[Evil_Gondi]

EAD001000 came back to life back in his crate. He tried to open it, but it refused.

"Infernal crate." He kicked and punched the side of the crate until it popped open.

"All right meaties, time to- Scanning." EAD001000 twitched with an emotion he shouldn't have.

"They sold me?! Damnable labor monkeys! You shall know the wrath that is F.U.B.A.R.!" With those words, he stormed off, breaking anything that stood in his way.

* * * *

"We got something hostile Jack! It's some rampaging droid!"

[Rookie]

**OOC: Ehhh Gondi, i thought i attacked a different ship....

"There, thats a troop of fully armed security droids."
the shipmate said.

"Activation initiated. Orders, Captain. Jack Orlando?" The droids said in unison.

"You may call me Captain Jack. Your Orders: If any breach in the ship occurs, you will rush to it and defend this ship. Patrol the ship for stowaways and anybody that should not be here."

"Yes, Captain Jack. Will that be all orders?"

"Yes for now, now go." Jack said. And with that, the droids hustled out and began patroling the ship in strategic pairs.

"Clara is pleased with that cleaning droid."

"Good. What about the protocol droid?"

"She likes it well enough. Using it to help cook."

"Have the others returned from testing the new Battle Speeders?"

"Yes sir, everything checked out."

"Anything about the 3 we lost on Dagis?"

"No sir. But we recieved e-mail that it was that HUA officer that got 'em."

"Blast, well lets finish sorting out the other droids for sale then we can check the radios for HUA signals."

The underwater cave had an air pocket that the Black Arrow was hiding in. It was the most remote place on the planet considering Jack had found it on an emergency hide from a squadron of HUA Frigates.

All were silent in the bridge as Jack sat in his chair listening to the radio signals.

"Barg colony eliminated at 400 hours, full report on way, sir." the radio said.

"excellent lieutenant we..."

"FREQUENCY: 30450" The computer said as the Ensen changed the frequency.

"Crew members of Jack's captured. 3 men. Jack has already left the planet sir."

"Well we got his crew anyway. Good job, Martin. Now did they say where he was going?"

"They only know they were going to meet him before sunset to depart."

"Dammit. Any news of where he is?"

"A merchant ship reported he attacked them, but they don't know where he was going."

"Blast, well keep at it Martin, your bound to find him sooner or later."

"Yes sir!"

Jack snickered, "And you wonder why i don't tell you guys anything until we're about to do it? Well for now he has no idea where we're at. Take a break men, enjoy your quarters for a while."

Jack stood up and said, "Computer, display video record 340431."

"Yes, captain." A female voice said. A screen dropped down and showed the ground as they had departed.

As the bar showed it showed armed HUA troops breaking into a bar. "Good thing i left when i did." Jack said, "Computer, can these troops be identified?"

"No sir, inadequete imagery."

"Ah well, i might as well go to my office." Jack said walking back to his room.

[Evil_Gondi]

F.U.B.A.R. ran down the long hallways, running down the service droids and unlucky crew men. His gait was more hopping than running, jumping foward with each step.

He finally made his way to the bridge, impervious to the weaponry they were firing at him with. He shoulder charge the door, denting it inward before prying it open with his hands.

"OH CRAP! Jack, what do we do?!"

"Blast 'em!"

Every crewman fired their fragmentary rounds into F.U.B.A.R., whom showed nary a scratch.

"The atmosphere is 67% polluted with wastes emitted from gunfire. Ahhh, nothing like the smell of battle."

"I am the Pirate Captain Jack Orlando! I-"

F.U.B.A.R. turned off his audio recpetors and scanned the man's face.

"You are not Fugitive Orlando. You are an ugly imposter. That is Identity Theft. By Federal Law, I am to arrest you. But it appears we are out of jurisdiction. As we are in a current state of Anarchy, I may oppress my own laws. Identity Theft is punishable by death. If you wish to be arrested and sentenced in such a way, I suggest you squeeze that trigger. If yo uwish to have a fair trial and only a slap on the wrist, I suggest you travel towards (OOC: What's the main capital?). Now." F.U.B.A.R.'s visual receptors seemed to glower. One of his shoulder cannons opened up revealing a small barrel.

The "Captain" grimaced, and reluctantly complied.

"That is a good monkey."

[Rookie]

"Alright borg, lets..." Suddenly Safe-Cracker planted an EMP Charge on the robots back and it detonated.

"Error: Monkeys prepare to be F.U.B.A.R!"

"Nice, Cracker..." Jack said.

"How was i to know it was anti-emp?"

"I don't know, your the tech man!"

"Fine, the only thing that can stop it now is to..."

"Eat lead Monkeys!" the droid screamed launching bullets and rockets every which way. Jack ducked, "IS TO WHAT!?"

"DECAPITATE IT!"

"FINE, YOU DO THAT!" Jack yelled, "IM A LITTLE PINNED DOWN AT THE MOMENT!"

"WELL TOSS ME YOUR SWORD!"

Jack tossed the laser sword to Cracker who snuck around behind the droid. With a swipe the head fell.

"Well, we can reprogram it if you want to..."

"That may be an option..."

"MONKEYS! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH MY HEAD!!!!???" the droid screeched looking around.

"That worked well, Cracker, real nice." Jack said shaking his head.

"Well its not shooting..."

"Pfff, how long will that last?" Jack was answered by an instant release of fire.

"Wait droid! STOP!"

"Denial: No orders excepted from monkeys!"

"Ah hell." Jack said as he ducked from the barrage of fire.

Suddenly the head floated up and reattached itself to the neck.

"Oh no way..." Jack cursed.

[Korkskrew]

The marines sat in the debriefing room, checking weapons and armor while the captain tried to locate Jack's ship. They had recieved a distress call from a merchant ship recently and were using high powered sonar to track him.

"Got him... It's faint but I got a ship that meets his description. Mount up. Martin, you lead the bording party."

"Affirmative."

"Just like we went over boys. His crew aren't priority, go for him. If you get a clear shot take it."

After an hour of slow flight they saw it.

"We've got visual sir, orders?"

"Engage at will, watch yourselves, that ship is well armed."

They put on the afterburners and shot towards Jack's ship.

OOC: Rookie, you handle it, I'm not sure what you want to happen sooo yeah.

[Rookie]

**OOC: I was in an underwater cave, but ok... Jeeze, i didn't attack dilo's ship, you will notice the one i attacked had humans on the bridge, Dilo's had a robot. i didnt want to pick up Gondi, and i was already gone when Kork raided the bar, i was in a fight with Gondi's dude at the moment, i am underwater in a cave, and Kork is attacking me in space with a visual...ohohoho, i sense a break down in communication or failure to read the posts properly....

**IC: "Alright lets move out men!" Jack said taking his seat.

The droid was pushed back into its crate and bolted shut (OOC: 2 plot holes filled) and the mess had been cleaned up, "Now lets find the next heavily populated city and drop it off there and let him wreak havoc." Jack said.

As the exited the atmosphere the alarm went off, "HUA Ship approaching."

"Oho, is it now?" Jack said, "Hail them i want to speak with this Martin character."

Martin watched as his screen flashed and a helmeted and masked figure came on so his face wasn't visible. Black lenses over his eyes made it impossible to read his expression.

"Well well well, you must be Master Sergeant Martin. I've heard about you."

"And I you, Black Jack Orlando."

"Aha, my reputation precedes me? Why don't you turn your little putter ship around and go home before i tear your ship open like a can of beans?"

"You mean like you did that merchant ship?"

"Merchant ship? I didnt blow open a merchant ship. I blew up its escorts, but i merely harrased its crew. I blew up no ships." (OOC: another plot hole filled)

"Lies! I am done speaking with you! Open fire!"

Jack looked as the Clipper came at him and fired its guns at him. The ship shook as the lasers impacted on the ship.

"Alright, thats the way he wants it eh? Left guns fire at his bridge, if i'm going to hit him, im hitting him hard."
The guns swiveled and fired. Martins Clipper retured fire.

"Run parrallell to him, i dont want to take another hit like that."

The ship turned sharply and headed parralell to Martins Clipper. "He's got one side gun sir."

"Hmmm, try to take it out, but fire along its bow." The guns thundered and Martins ship began to break away.

"Alright, thats the break we need, lightspeed jump for the Ferin System!"

"Aye!"

The ship jumped and they were gone.

"Dammit! Get the lights back on!" Martin yelled.

"We're trying sir, he hit us good. But we've still got vitals."

"I want lights, and i want thrusters dammit!" Martin yelled.

"We're trying!"
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"Ok, make a fast jump to Orbiran and get into the city. They shoot down HUA there."

"Thats another factions planet isn't it?"

"That'd be it. HUA won't be allowed near it, we'll be safe there if they even figure out where we're at."

[Evil_Gondi]

"Ahh, blue screen of death. Your icy fingers cannot hold me. Now to just....they dismantled me." F.U.B.A.R. sat there in his crate for a few moments.

"By Datweb's sources! Orbiran?! They're not gonna like me. Uh oh. Getting tired. Detachment from power core. Bad. Sleep mode on."

[Rookie]

"That droid was spookey." Jack said.

"Well he was ineresting to say the least."

"He called us monkeys and wigged out when he lost his head. Well then again, so would i."

"But he lived to wig out. Glad we dismantled it before we put 'em away."

"I should kiss the man who came up with that idea, but i'm just not that way."

"Sure you are."

"Want me to cut off your arm?"

"Not really, but i could part with that more easily than the other mechanics of nature."

[Korkskrew]

"We've lost him... no way we'll find him. Our only chance was to get him before he jumped to lightspeed. That's one of the fastest ships in the HUA records. Capable of three consecutive lightspeed jumps in under five minutes, he's long gone. Martin, call HQ and tell them we've got thirty marines that need to be reassigned."

"Roger Captain." Before Martin could get them on the line the general appeared before them, looking flustered.

"Marines! I want you to abort your attempt to capture Black Jack Orlando. There has been a barg uprising in the Obiran system."

"Sir, permission to say f*ck that!"

"Denied Seargent Martin. You and several other battalions will be tasked with quelling the uprising and neutralizing all seperatist threats. After we deal with the Barg we will commence with an occupation. General Williams out."

"Did we just get assigned to die?"

"More or less Martin, now strap in we're going to Obiron."

OOC: Ooo what a coincidence.

[Soria]

(OOC: I repate is name is C-A-R-L-A Rookie!.)

Carla growled, pouring herself a shot glass of rum.

" Carzy droid...f**kinh marines... I always said this jump was interesting."

[Rookie]

"Ehhh, Jack?"

"Ehhh, what?" Jack replied.

"Obiron is uhhh, looking kinda...HUA and Barg-like."

"Interesting combo, lets park on the moon and listen in for a moment."

"Attempts on Jack have been aborted to focus on the effort for Obiron. Master Sergeant Martin is heading that way to help out."

"Good good, too bad Jack's a pirate, that ship of his could help out with the effort against the Barg."

"Ho ho, hand me that radio talking thingy." Jack said.

"Here's the talking thingy sir..."

"Shut up...HUA! This is Jack Orlando, and i happen to hear your in need of a ship."

"From where!?"

"I have my sources. Anyway, i may be interested in helping fight the Barg if your willing to work with the likes of me."

"I won't deny i could use your ship and your skills. I'll discuss it."

"Good! My frequency is currently 98545."

[Korkskrew]

"Alright, we got his frequency, let's trace it then nail him quick. Once he's contained we'll move on to assist the HUA."

"Uh, Captain, permission to speak?"

"Granted Martin."

"Maybe you didn't hear the general, we're not talking a node or two here, we're talking two entire hivefleets! We're going to need help, and I say we start conscripting local ships, starting with Jack."

The captain shook his head and muttered something in German.

"Fine, we'll conscript that... scumbag, but if he steps out of line I'm nailing him right then and there."

"Alright, Jack? You still there?"

"Yup, heard the whole thing, that capain fellow has quite a dirty mouth, my German isn't great but I picked up something about "castrating these greenhorn somethingorothers." But I'd be happy to oblige, however, I will answer to no one, and you will not pursue me when this is sorted out."

Martin quickly spoke before the captain could interject.

"Agreed, I'm wiring you the coordinates we're wanted, meet us there."

[Rookie]

"Alrighty."

The com-link was closed and Jack turned to his crew, "Expect a trap and be ready in case they hoodwink us."

Jack flew out and lightspeed jumped to the coordinates. a few HUA ships were already present.

"Well, a welcoming party, prepare to bolt if they turn on us."

"Aye captain."

Jack walked onto the flagship where he found the captain and Martin awaiting.

"Ah, Martin we meet at last. You chased me quite a ways." Jack said extending his hand.

"That i did." Martin said accepting the hand shake.

"Now Jack, here's our current plans. Your ship is fast, can hold quite a few men and get out fast. Here's the plan. We will load several smaller dropships into your hold, and you will run along the planets surface, dropping ships as you go along these points here. You will make several sweeps, covering the soldiers as you go, after that you may join the battle if you wish."

"Sounds simple enough, except maybe sweep around first, clear the area, then we'll drop the ships."

The captain stood silent for a moment, "Fine, fine..."

Jack briskly walked out and went back to the ship.
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"So you can reprogram it to help us?" Jack asked as they pried open the lid.

The hacker inserted his chip and messed around with the wires, "Of course, it wasn't easy. I had to break down all kinds of firewalls and stuff, but he's almost on our side. We can use him when we join the fight."

He flicked a switch and put the head back on the body. "Hello Monkeys, i hear you have a Barg problem. I want to KILLL!!!!" it screamed.

"Uhhh, yeah, wanna get put together first?" Jack said.

"Yeah, that'd be nice, do not mess up my superior paint job or i'll F.U.B.A.R.!"

"Kay, we'll try not to."

"Yay!"

[Evil_Gondi]

"Why do birds suddenly appear, everytime you are nea- although I am mostly incapable of pain, that hurt." F.U.B.A.R. complained.

"If you were built like a normal droid, we wouldn't be having this problem."

"Normal droids are inferior to me. Post haste wrench monkey, sensors estimate Barg encounter in 50 minutes."

"Once again, you're not a normal droid. Every bolt is... wierd."

"Your face is wierd. If only you could see the mathematical equation it comes out to."

"What the hell kind of droid are you?"

"Amazing. Now work faster, SCHNELL OPFER, SCHNELL!"

[Rookie]

They flipped the switch in its hard-drive and shut down the droid.

"Maybe that will shut it up until we put it back together."

"Now, about that Barg attack, we've got to get going, get the droid back together."

At last the robot was reassembled and switched back on, "Wrench Monkey! Do not turn me off!"

"Hey, F.U.B.A.R.! I got a mission for ya." Jack said.

"Inform me, Captain Monkey!"

"1, don't call me Captain Monkey, Call me Captain Jack. 2, we're going to be fighting for the HUA, we're going to drop you at an assembly area and your going to smash all the bugs for us, then when the battle is over, we pick you up and you get back on the ship."

"Yay! Bug smashing! show me the roach monkeys!"

"Soon enough, but first, we've got to get there."

"Post Haste! Heeya! Iooo Silver Away!"

"Yeah yeah, thats nice, hold your horses cowboy..." Jack said dryly.

[Soria]

Carla peeked her head into the cargo bay where Captian Jack was talking to the crazy droid.

Bring him a drink they say, he needs a drink they say. Didn't bloody well mention he was talking to the f**king murderous droid.

" Captian Jack? I have a drink for you.."

[Rookie]

"Heh, sweet." Jack said, "Thank you Carla."

Carla merely nodded and glanced at the robot.

[Soria]

" What are you staring at monkey?" The droid demanded.

" Nothing, nothing at all." Carla said backing away.

[Evil_Gondi]

"Of course you're not thinking, wench monkey. The only thing you're good for is looking pretty and serving drinks, a job with poor future utlook, yet does suprisingly well." F.U.B.A.R. stated with his steely tongue.

"Now, what do you have in the form of armaments, Mister Sparrow?" He asked, clenching his newly attached fist.

[Rookie]

"Its Orlando, but thats ok. We have just about anything you can think of."

"Anti-monkey cannon?"

"no..."

"Anti-Stoopid cannon?"

"No...but we do have anti-tank cannons. Laser pistols, rifles, MGs, SMGs, Sniper rifles, gattling guns, swords, shields, and mines. Then theres the bullet versions of each. Then we have ze shoulder mounted rocket pods, rocket launchers, and rocket related memorabelia."

"Oooh, shineys." F.U.B.A.R. said rubbing his mechanical hands together.

[Evil_Gondi]

Of the small arsenal in Orlando's now annointed "Gallery of Death", F.U.B.A.R. selected himself a new dual MG, deisgned to be fed two belts of bullets through the top and to eject the casings out the bottom, slightly foward as to not hit the shooter. Normally, the weapon was to be grounded for stability and accurracy, but F.U.B.A.R. lifted it with his left hand, parts of his forearm attaching to the gun for additional stability. In his other hand he carried enough ammo for one minute of sustained fire.

"I will require a weapon drop somewhere along my intended path of destruction. I will radio in for one when it is needed. For now, take me to the field of slaughter."

[Soria]

" HE'S ARMING THE MURDEROUS DROID!" screamed one of Captian Jack's more... tense crewmembers.

" Oh fer the love of..." Carla growled, bonking the crew member on the top of the head with the closest available blunt object, a rolling pin. (OOC: Just for you Kork.)

" Shut up! Do ya think the Captain would let anything happen to the crew?"

" No...." Mummbled the crew memeber, who rubbed the side of his head.

" Good, now calm the hell down, we gotta bigger things to worry about then one droid."

[Rookie]

The Black Arrow was loaded with several HUA dropships as they neared the planet. Jack's helmet hid any sign of emotion but his attitude told the crew he was anxious.

"Prepare for atmosphere." the ensen said.

"Alright, you HUA boys get in your ships, we'll be making the first attack run in less than 10 minutes." Jack said.

"Lets move!" a colonel said as he waved his troops towards the ships.

Jack sat in his chair as the front glowed red from entering the atmosphere. they came near the planets surface, Barg swarming all over. the light guns were firing on the flying Barg as they rushed the ship. The heavy cannons were firing at the ground. One cannon cleared a large circle and F.U.B.A.R. was dropped.

He kicked open the pod and said, "Who can make the bugs drop? The candy man can!"

They continued down a line and then sharply turned and began another run, this time ships coming from the hull as they went.

[Korkskrew]

Martin kept his head low and muttered a prayer as the ship rocked and bounced. He held his rifle tightly and kept glancing to the cockpit, waiting for the green light.

He heard a buzz on his helmets intercom and then felt his stomach twist as the green light went on and they were shot out of the ship at a supersonic speed.

Martin felt useless. The men were looking to him for bravery and leadership and he could barely stomach his last meal as they hurtled towards the ground.

A crash louder than a gunshot could be heard as they made landfall. Martin burst out first leveling his rifle and firing indiscriminately into the wave of Barg. Many fell but more came. More of his men filed out behind him and set up defensive positions. Sandbags were rigged up quickly and pintle mounted machine guns were rigged to the bags.

"Higgins! Get on the 30. cal and blow those bastards away, we're gettin swarmed here!" Martin yelled over the intercom, the sound of artilery and gunfire nearly drowning him out. No response could be heard and when he looked behind him he saw the line had collapsed. He drew his beam swords and swung it horizontally clearing away a clutch of the hissing fiends. Martin slashed at the midsection of a barg underling and kicked anothers head from it's shoulders as it clawed it's way towards him. He saw a brace of the monsters drop into the line further along the formation and shouted to Edwin.

"On me private!"

The young man nodded and sprinted to the breach in the line where Martin was crouched. He fired his rifle as he ran, the explosive shells blasting apart a handful of the creatures, while Martin burst upon them like a thunderbolt, slashing left and right with furious strokes of his blade. Aliens died by the score as the two marines smashed their way through the hissing bodies. Claws scraped at their armor, their speed blinding, but the two stout warriors could not be slowed. Martin attacked furiously, the adrenaline of battle coursing through his veins as he smashed the beasts with no thought to his own defence. A pack of Barg leapt upon him and forced him to his knees. Chitinous claws hammered on his armor, one penetrating the joint between his breastplate and shoulder. Blood burst from the wound and splattered all over the ground. He rolled in agony crushing several of the beasts beneath his weight and thrashed violently to dislodge the others. He slammed his elbow downwards, feeling bone break, and swung his arm in and wide circle, leaving severed alien limbs and opened bellies in the wake of his blade.

The beasts all around him had been slain but more were coming by the thousands. He held his rifle in his good arm while trying to keep the other still.
He limped over the the bloodied heap that was Edwins body, and began to drag the now bareley breathing man back to the dropship. The heavy machine guns and 88 mm's had been set up and were now pushing back the ravenous Barg. Martin sighed heavily as he sat down next to one of his men. The men fired into the air and cheered as the Barg began to retreat, if only for a little while.

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FUBAR stared down a large creature as it eyed him cautiously.

"Justify your existance meatbag."

It looked at him quizzcally, then began to hiss and rear back to pounce.

"You fail."

[Rookie]

Martin watched as the fleeing Barg were bombed as the Black arrow swooped by firing cannons as it went.

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Jack stood up, "Status report."

"Barg are in retreat in front of Martin's Defense, they are pulling away from Darlin's, but eight others are still under fire and the remaining ships are ready."

"Prepare to drop one near Martin and Darlin's position."

"Request: Weapons drop would be lovely for smashing more jelly-brains." FUBAR said through the intercom.

"And get FUBAR his weapons drop."

"Aye sir!" the crew said in unison as the ship turned and flew in.

The crate was dropped and the two other pods were dropped.

"Bargs advancing on Martins position and the other 8 are still under fire."

"Make another sweep and fire as we go, high explosive. The mini-shroom ones."

"The mini-nukes!?"

"Cha." Jack said, "Get them a ways out there, the explosion will get rid of a lot of them and the radiation will stop alot before they get to the ships. That'll help the other 8."

"We've just recieved word that Martin is severly wounded but is still fighting."

"That's what he gets for not staying behind his defence. We're gonna drop the HUA Defense kits in the next pass."

"Aye."

[Slarethorn]

The planet of Oryan hung suspended in space, its giant mass revolving on its tilted axis. Its rotation cycle was twice that of a standard planet, and as a result the days on Oryan were only 12 hours long, compared to the 24 hours on Earth. As a result, the little daylight that existed was valued immensely by the companies who possessed operations on the planet’s surface, and the workdays for many employees were often extremely harsh and Unforgiving. It was not uncommon for someone to die on the job from exhaustion of heatstroke, but perhaps even more terrifying was the lack of concern from the overseers of the operation, who merely called in a replacement worker to take the fallen one’s place.

As the Silent Knives docked in the mining operation’s main bays, a technician came rushing up to the ship as it settled into position. The exit hatch lowered, and out stepped Knith, walking up to the man casually.

“So, my good sir, I have been informed that you have some rebel marines on your pathetic little hands,” Knith said with a small smile. Seth came down the ramp behind him, listening in on the conversation and ready to offer his counsel at any moment.

Flustered, the technician replied, “We sure do! These hooligans have been disrupting the operation big time over the last few days. In fact, they’re out there right now, bombing our mines. You got here just in time to deal with them.”

Smirking, Knith turned back into the ship and shouted, “First job, coming up! Everyone gear up and get down here!” Turning back to the technician, the smirk still present on his face, he said soothingly, “Don’t worry, kind sir. We’ll take care of them marines, since you obviously aint got the means to do so. Knith then headed back into the ship to prepare for the battle. Seth flashed the technician a smile, then quickly followed after. \

OOC: This was going to be longer, but I’m breaking the first fight up, mainly because I’m dead tired :? . Look for it within a few days.

[Rookie]

The Black Arrow circled back and landed in a cleared zone, now defended with heavy guns, siege weaponry and other defenses. Jack walked out with an assault rifle in his hand and several crew members following.

F.U.B.A.R. could be heard screaming profanities at the Barg swarm.

"Sound's like he's having fun." Jack said.

"Fun? Hardly." Martin said.

"Martin, come in." the radio beeped.

"I'm here, sir." Martin said.

"Hold your position, we're sending the support ships."

"Yes, sir." Martin said, "Looks like more waiting."

[Soria]

New Character.

Cassey Jenson

Age 17

Apperance: Thin but muscular, braided light brown hair.

Ooccupation: Marine. ( Not sure of her rank, I think Corporal.)


History: A run away, somewhat by the book, waspart of an attack force, on the same mission as Martin, but the guy leading it ( not Martin) was indoit and only she survied.


Cassey cluthed her badly injured leg, growling. Clicking on her radio, Cassey shouted into it.

" This Corporal Jenson, requesting back up! Can any body hear me?!"

[Evil_Gondi]

F.U.B.A.R. had emptied the munitoins drop and was now using the last bit of weaponry in there, a shoulder mounted mini-gun, carrying with him two heavy ammo crates. To fire the overbearing weapon, he had to kneel down on his left leg while the heel of his right leg shot an anchor into the ground, the weight of the ammunition also helping anchor F.U.B.A.R. down.

"Sterben Sie Sie merkwürdige organismen!" F.U.B.A.R. yelled in an elder language, "Ich hoffe Sie fühlen alle Schmerz, die ich gebe, weil it'd eine schreckliche Vergeudung ist!"

F.U.B.A.R. was providing support fire near the least defended position in the line. "Ihre Mutter liebt Sie nicht!" he yelled at the ever increasing sea of Barg. Everytime he destroyed one, two more would just crawl right over the corpse.

"This Corporal Jenson, requesting back up! Can any body hear me?!" his inner radio buzzed. He would need to get the checked out. Even before the female voice clicked off, F.U.B.A.R. already knew her location and the fact that she was the only one left in her squad.

"Roger that Corporal, EAD001000 moving in for the rescue. Bewegen Sie Nicht!" F.U.B.A.R. replied as his shoulder weapon detached with a hiss. He threw the munitions crates aside, already emptied. He comandeered an assault rifle and began the slow march towards Jenson's position.

One of the smaller barg got by F.U.B.A.R.'s lack of rapid fire and bit into his leg. "Silly beast, you cannot puncture me, my plating is impregnable!" He yelled as he brained the thing with his fist.

[Soria]

Thank the Great Space. Cassey sighed, hearing the droid. That's when she saw them. They weren't like barg she had ever seen before. The were almost cat like, and they were coming for her.


" Oh sh*t." Cassey breathed, readying her rifle.