Ralin's night-vision allowed him to see Starjammer disappear down the inconspicious looking shaft.  As the others held off the Kuat reinforcements, Ralin ran to the edge.  Starjammer’s silver blade was all he could see, sill decending the seemingly bottomless pit.

Ralin moved behind Ma’ryk and slapped his shoulder to get his attention over the sounds of battle. 

“I’m going after Starjammer.  Hold the Line HERE!

Turning without waiting for the response Ma’ryk was too busy to give, Ralin leapt down the shaft...............

Ma'ryk nodded, and thought better of it.  What would happen if his Vod got injured while going off on his own.  He couldn't have that now.  Besides.  Drakus couldn't have all the fun.  Drakus sent off another burst of blasterfire and mowed down another line of troops, chucking a couple of thermal detonators into the mix.  As the soldiers dove for cover, Ma'ryk ducked into the cover of the turbolift's alcove, and got ready to jump.  It was only then that he noticed how high it was.  Ah well.  He clamped a magnetic clip onto the wall, and attached a rappel line, and began to rappel down.

Please, oh, please, let there be some left for me...

Ralin controlled his fall using slight movements of his hands and feet.  As the turbolift roof came within range of his zoomed in night-vision setting, Ralin’s jetpack ignited, the straps to it cutting into his shoulders as it slowed his fall. 

Killing the thrusters, Ralin dropped onto the roof of the lift.  Thought his sensors didn’t pick up any life-signs, he pulled his right blaster out and dropped through the jagged hole in the roof ready for action.  Moving into the room, two bodies lay in front of him; one was cut nearly in half, and the other was missing his head.

Hearing blaster shots ahead, Ralin rushed passed and followed the trail of bodies..........

Ralin raced down the hallways, the sounds of blaster fire having faded again.

”STOP” The voice filled his earpieces at a splitting high level, stopping Drakus in his tracks. ”This is Starjammer; look to your right.  There should be an open doorway.  Enter it.”

Ralin recognized Starjammer’s voice, which kept him from assuming that it was a Kuat security trick and just killing his comm.

”Send the turbolift to your team above; we’ll need them.  Then join me as quickly as you can”

Looking around the control room, Ralin recognized it as a forward security station.  It wouldn’t help him get deeper into the complex, but he could control everything in the areas he’d just passed.  Finding the proper control, he sent the lift back top-side.

As he ran back out into the passageway, he thought, I hope Ma’ryk is holding the line as I told him to and didn’t try to come down here..........................

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As his rappel line wizzed through his belt, Ma’ryk felt a strange vibration in his feet when they touched the turbo-lift wall.  Looking down, he couldn’t see anything..................until the image of the speeding turbo lift came into view. 

Damn........................

ohcrapohcrapohcrapohcrap...

Ma'ryk retracted the rappel line, and tried to get topside fast.  He made it, but the turbolift smashed his heels, forcing him to sprawl facefirst into the ground.  That was definitely not something that he wanted to ever do again.  And now that the turbolift was here, he could probably use it to get down there in a safer manner.  He called out to the other Mando girl, and the Trandoshan.

"Our ride's here, fellas.  Let's get moving."  He emphasized his statement with a spray of blasterfire that tore down a couple Kuat personnell, as the others sprinted over to his position.  When they were all inside the 'lift, Ma'ryk hit the controls, and sent them down to the depths of the complex....and to more fun battling...

Cabur lowered her gun slightly, aware of the low growl of Scratch, who was staring straight at Dussk.  She realised that Dussk was probably right in his assumption that all was clear, but just as she was getting comfortable, more security gaurds mixed with a few older droids came out of a side passage.  She raised up her blasters along with the others, shooting down some of the gaurds and droids...

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"Heheh, like I was never even here." Solus couldn't help but to chuckle as he switched on the cloaking device. All the instuments went dead as the ship melted into the black void of space, he would have to go in manually for this one. After a few minutes of precision flying around the interdictors, he was through the blockade, entering Kuat's atmosphere. Even being halfway across the planet, the Allegiance made good time to Kuat City. Solus flew low and fast, his arrival was crucial to get Kuat before Skywalker did. He flew to the lower city, the bowels of Kuat's precious industry, cutting through a few places he should not be fitting. This is where things would get tricky...supposed to have been tricky. Unknownst to him, the cloaking field disrupted the automated defense system, causing it to go haywire and target other gun emplacements, workers, and friendly ships, forcing security to put the whole defense net in lockdown. Solus was close, very close...

"There it is...Aww, how cute. Say goodbye to your precious life boat, Kuat of Kuat." He muttered as the landing pad came in view. *clink* SSSHHHHHFOOM!!! In a brilliant display of superior firepower, the emergency escape craft was incinerated, causing a nice big fat poofy mushroom cloud. "Tracyn'la! Yeah!" Solus shouted as he landed next to the burning ship.

I think now would be a good time for assistance... rang in Ralin’s earphones just before an explosion rocked him against a wall.  Picking up the pace again, he turned one last corner and saw Starjammer taking cover from a hail of fire.  Sweating from the long run with all the heavy gear and armor, he continued to jog up to the Inquisitor. 

“Situation?” Ralin asked as he moved his back against the wall next to Starjammer.

“A pair of destroyer driods.”

The incoming fire hadn’t slowed much.  Bolt after bolt was getting pumped into the corner they were taking cover behind, with a few bolts streaking past just in case any of them decided to stick their head around the corner.  The sound of the droid's pointed legs could be heard as they moved toward them.

Drakus reached into one of his belt pouches and pulled out a grenade.

“I don’t know how strong in the Forceyou are, Jetii; but you might want to step back” said Ralin as he slid the safety trigger on the thermal detonator to ‘Live’..............

Starjammer took a few steps back as Ralin moved closer to the corner; the durasteel melting from the barrage of fire.  Taking aim with his left wrist gauntlet, Drakus fired a stun dart into the wall opposite the hall the Destroyers were in.  The dart ricocheted harmlesly against the floor and into the far wall of the hallway.  The movement caught the attention of the driod’s motion sensors, diverting their fire away from the corner for just a second.

Taking the moment of opportunity, Ralin stepped so only a sliver of his body and right arm were exposed, and tossed the thermal detonator.  It was a light throw.........needed time to run his life. 

Racing back toward Starjammer at full speed when the grenade detonated, the intense shockwave knocked him off his feet.  Anticipating the blow, Ralin rolled with the blast and came up in a crouched position, his left hand down on the floor for support.

As his head came back up and he could see toward the hallway, he saw a chunk of one of the destroyer droids slide by.

Standing back up and pulling out his right side blaster, he looked over at Starjammer.  “I think the way is clear for you now, my Lord.”

Ma'ryk raced through the tunnels, blasting any unfriendly unit, until he met up with Starjammer and Drakus who were busy melting their way through blast doors.  His sensors showed that there was a good sized group behind the metal.  He moved up to stand alongside Drakus, and leveled his blaster at the door, nodding at his vod.

"Sorry.  Took me longer than I expected..."

Dussk stepped around the corner the dog-thing still growling at him.

"I want Kuat of Kuat alive." The 'jedi' said. Dussk made a huffing sound "Doesn't sound to fun...." He muttered, Ralin shot him a look, dispite his face being hidden, that clearly said shut up.

"Doesn't sound to fun...."

Ralin jerked his head toward his new partner, cutting off anything else he was going to add.  Though he had to agree, capture missions of unwilling targets could be no fun at all, it wasn’t their place to say so.  They had been paid well........... it was time to earn it. 

Walking down the short hall, Ralin pulled a breaching charge from his pack, while Ma’ryk did the same and wired the other side of the armored passageway.  His life-form sensors picked up as least a dozen creatures in there; with plenty of weapons........

Ralin looked around at the gathered team.  “Are you all ready?”

"Yes" answered Starjammer.  "Kuat of Kuat is mine" he added.  "You are to disreguard him totally.  The guards are your mission."

"It will be done," said Ralin with a nod.  Stepping back, he pulled out his heavy blasters.

It only took a slight whisper into his helmet comm to send the door surging into the other room, taking about a couple guards as it flew by.  Four stun grenades followed as Ma’ryk and Cabur each tossed a pair.

A second after the last detonation, the team followed Starjammer in, ready for anything..............

"Oh Kuat...You shouldn't have, a durasteel blast door? Psh. I'll take my way." Solus chuckled as he placed the 4th and final permacrete detonator on the wall by the massive door. "I hate to spoil your party Kuat, but..." He took cover behind the coridor and pushed the detonator. KAFOOM! Solus checked his ammo then sprinted through the door that he just made in the wall. Dust filled the air, blaster fire was whizzing every which way, but not all directed at him. This could only mean one thing...