Don`t make promises you can`t keep....
Rac
Posts: 147
  • Posted On: Aug 30 2005 3:08pm
Takeover Of Ruan

Now where is that bloody bartender?

Rac sat in the bloody top waiting for his contact of Metellos in the bar; he had placed few guards on the doors for the meeting and checked the room, if someone tried to pick up his talks. Rac took out a bottle of yardle and poured some into a small glass, he looked around for Jegg who was nowhere to be found. He had already sent few FK droids that were under testing to look for him in the building and to retrieve him to the bar where he was usually stationed. Rac shook his head and poured the yardle in his mouth, he slightly closed his eyes because of the strong taste of the drink. He had lately been busy than ever and more work was well on the way, the new funds that he had received from and because of the Union allowed him to bring new products faster. Everything began to be bigger, faster and more, but everything had it’s price like the stress that he was going trough. He had a unpleasant encounter with some force users that was surely an experience of a life time and never wanted to get involved with the Jedi again.

Their annoying and on top of things bad for business....those bloody hypocrites who think that they can save the galaxy or the others who think that they can control it...

No one could save or conquer the whole galaxy without a terrible price, there were just too many ideals and sides so in the end no one would win, but Rac wasn’t really an idealist. He sure as hell liked money and good life, but he was ready to side with the empire in some matter and with some others in some matters, but truly he supported the cause of the Union in the end. Rac had never thought of it clearly, but now the question hit him.

What was the goal of The Union?

Power?

Most likely because they all had money enough coming in, they could take planets that they wanted when they wanted, but they of course had to be independent and not under any other faction control. Was power really what Rac had wanted? He had born in poor circumstances and needed money dreaming of a company so that he wouldn’t have to worry about his future because he would retire one day as an old rich bastard. He never really sought power, but now that he looked at the sky of Metellos seeing the Sentenced circling the orbit he realised something. He really had liked the feeling, he liked power and the good feeling it brought along with it. He was already seeing the Union rise as a great power in the galaxy, but he was day dreaming for now. That could be possible one day and he began to understand the chairman’s vision finally, the best thing was that they were a secret and they could grow in peace as companies, but no one would never know the plot underneath.

Perhaps money was now only a tool and power was an ambition that could be gained with money....

Suddenly Rac was pulled out of his thoughts as he heard the sound his droids approaching and a faint sound of someone’s shoes among the racket that the droids created. The two droids entered the room carrying probably drunk or unconscious Jegg either way Rac cursed and got off his chair on to the table after the droids had placed him on the bar counter. The chiss hair was all messed up and seemed to mumble something, but Rac could smell booze a mile away from him. Rac sighed slightly and took a bottle of corellian ale pouring it on Jegg`s head who began mumbling louder, Rac poured the hole bottle on his especially on his hair. Rac cursed and got back in his chair, he ordered the droid to hit Jegg`s head against the bar counter without making any greater damage. Jegg seemed to finally wake up and yakked at his own smell as Rac floated above him as he tried to stumble up.

"Now I never believed you to fall to drinking since you are the bartender of the bar... let me guess some special occasion or you just fell for some pretty lady in the bar that in the end of the night stole all your money?"

Jegg mumbled again and shook his head holding it.

"Just too much drinking...and then I went to my apartment where you droids broke the door before dragging me here.."

Rac smiled as he looked at droids quickly.

"That I can smell and than you for the information that you gave me... I’ll have to get my people to program them to get the doors open quietly because then they wouldn’t be really assassin droids, if they were to kill someone silently in the night?"

Jegg let out a slight laugh at Rac`s comment, but returned to his head ache soon. Rac sighed again and poured another glass of yardle taking it down to calm him down because he felt like loosing his temper. Rac continued with a calm and dry voice with a friendly smile on his face.

“And I presume you have the information and reports I requested of you? I haven’t really heard of you since the last month and your reports have been late not to forget they have terrible mistakes… I have more eyes here than you think and I am not happy, if my number one source decides to go partying like a madman and then forget his reports…or should I say my number two source?”

Jegg raised his head slightly terrified.

“No… I am your number on source… please Rac… you know I need the money and I am your best bartender for god sakes…”

Rac drummed the table with his fingers.

“If you don’t scarp up by the end of the month and if the report is late again your salary will be going down so think about it, but please get rid of drinking and now most of all you should wash yourself. Getting to the point why I am here… where is the report for this month?”

Jegg crawled on the counter and opened a small safe on it behind the desk; he gave Rac the report and stumbled onto the other side as Rac looked at the report.

“Does this have everything about Ruan? Because I will need that information’s soon and I need the direly, if this business trip is going to work well and these trips are never allowed to go wrong all tough there is no danger from the to one’s I make business with, but if I lose there will be severe consequences for my trade….”

Jegg nodded still dizzy from the booze and Rac`s hard interrogation to clear his head.

“Yea…Yea…what ever, but now please just leave and let me rest these aches away….”

Rac turned around and floated away as he ordered the droids to follow him and get aboard the shuttle, he floated aboard and sat in the back next to the droids, Rac began inserting the files he received on his personal computer and smiled as he finally began looking them trough properly. The planet of Ruan was once a big buyer of his, but lately they had been buying products from the newly named Belgardi Universal and then the Tagge Company. There was competition between these three companies all tough they all were part of the Union and Rac wasn’t going to give away a market to the others so he acted. It was nothing personal or something against the Union, but just strict business and Rac was going to pull off just some credits to his own pocket besides in the end that money would go to the Union in the end one way or another so they all got richer. Rac had once signed a certain contract from Ruan, but that was when Rac was a small player and lately they had dared to break the contract of buying their weapons exclusively from The Fegal Companies. The change came with their new government along the revolution that dropped religion of the main power and they saw what their religious predecessors wrote was no value to them now or the people of Ruan. Rac could now engage them at a full frontal blockade for breaking the contract and no one would deny his right’s for the blockade all tough Rac would keep it as a peaceful once. Bombing wasn’t the way he would take a planet this time, but aggressive diplomacy all tough his approach might seem quite peaceful at first. The shuttle rose up to the skies and flied towards the Sentenced, which was a white wedge when look from down below and the newest symbol of power on the Fegal Companies planet’s. Its sister ship, the Khepri was currently along a huge delivery heading towards the hutt space where the imperials didn’t have control yet. The shuttle smoothly slides in the hangar and Rac leaves the shuttle with the droids following him.

Rac entered the elevator and to his anger it made the same thing that happened on Baal, Rac left the elevator cursing for his own mechanics and would talk about those damn elevators. He usually wasn’t used to rough rides and dangers as he had about 7 years ago as a smuggler when he had to escape the imperials with his cargo. The imperial’s never caught him and for that he was thankful since he wouldn’t have such a good reputation these days, if the whole galaxy knew him to have been a smuggler. Rac sort of missed those days, but now he had another path before him and that was more ambitious path than a smugglers life when he had merely tried to get some food for himself. Rac flew to the cockpit where bridge personnel greeted him and there were very few of them, they were actually mercenaries of the Union that served the Union and Rac had asked for some faithful people for his ship besides droids that were able to act like officers not tools. The necrotroopers would have not been capable of being officers besides the Union would have not let him have any of them and they would have gotten too much attention. As the imperials grew along with the others they would never see the Union in shadows, waiting and growing for something, which was even unknown to Rac.

Was galactic domination what Estro was after with the Union or just power?

Rac should have a conversation with him about this matter, but not in an offensive way and Rac felt that he needed to know more as he was a member of the committee all tough he felt the committee to be puppets. Puppets with value, a cover and planets, but would he one day throw these away and take control himself. Rac almost wanted to slap himself for such thoughts, but felt really bothered now that such thought came to his mind. Rac sat landed his chair onto a small place made for it and turned the droids off to rest, he looked at what he had created and was thinking, if all his creation s would be taken by the Union and his life work thrown away.

Nah… I am just getting paranoid and nervous that’s all…

Being paranoid could be a good thing, if it was kept within limits, but when you suspected every person around you and didn’t dare to speak about business in the fear that someone outsider might hear. But if kept within limits it could actually reveal some traitors among his people all tough there was one for granted as a traitor already, Commander Lucius Sedra and perhaps some of his closest friends in the company. Rac calmed as the ships took formation, the star destroyer was in the middle and around it were Baal and 6 Talon carriers, behind came some frigates ready to support them. Rac doubted that the people of Ruan would take aggressive actions unless they were fools, but now he was threatening their very independence openly in an unspeakable way and he would have to convince them to send their president to negotiate. Getting their leaders in his hands was the key of this plan and it could be done either violently or peacefully, but one way or the other the blockade would be lifted off and leave Ruan in the hands of The Fegal Companies. Rac wondered what his dear Union friends would say about stealing the market and the governments contracts wouldn’t really concern Rac because there would be no government after today on Ruan. The ship formation disappeared to hyperspace and was headed towards the planet of Ruan, which was quite close to Corusant like Metellos so that must be making the imperials slightly nervous, but Rac had convinced some of their messengers that Rac would never attack the imperials and he was a simple business man…

As always this would be a profitable day….
Rac
Posts: 147
  • Posted On: Sep 1 2005 1:39pm
The Capitol Of Ruan

The prime minister of Ruan stood in the big hallway for his turn to speak to the president about the on growing threat that had been closing towards Ruan these days. He wanted to ask the Coalition or even the imperials for help, he had kept a close eye on the angry little figure that had "Saved" a lot of planets or just taken them for him in the core worlds. The prime minister of course couldn’t invite them to the planet without first having agreed about it with the rest unless the president would use his power over the government. Rac Fegal was angry of the contract being broken all tough it was made by the former government before the revolution and had nothing to do with the current. Besides they needed weaponry for defending themselves mostly and Fegal just couldn’t give them all their supplies so they saw no reason to keep buying for him. The door opened and the minister entered to the office of the president, the president nodded the guard to close the door and leave. The minister nervously twitched his fingers and sat in front of the president.

"Sir... I have come to ask you to invite some authority on our planet to protect it from...."

The president looked at him with tired, but strict eyes.

"Rac Fegal? He wouldn’t dare to attack us on the open... besides I have tripled our security almost twice after what happened on Fresia and Metellos prime minister.... besides let us presume, if he attacked and we had called someone to protect us... the Coalition would never make it in time to save us and the imperials would make us their puppets and destroy our independence..."

The prime minister gripped his chair tight and grinned.

"But sir... he is already on his way! I had a report from our source on Metellos that his fleet is on the move or at least half of it and ours can’t stand such firepower that his star destroyers can commit..."

The president had warned everyone not to panic or to begin spying Fegal, but it seemed that the prime minister was nervous and had disobeyed his orders, but he had thought of the best of his people.

"Look prime minister... I have everything under control and there is no threat to us..."

Suddenly a guard rushed into the room getting angry, but scared looks from the leaders of his planet. Suddenly a huge wedge appeared to space of Ruan with many others ships especially Talon Carriers that contained what the people of Ruan most feared.

An invasion army of the Fegal Companies


The Bridge Of Sentenced, Over The World Of Ruan


I have everything under control...

Rac thought as the planet of Ruan opened before him on the view and he leaned back with a smile on his face, everything seemed to be in control, but how ever did Jegg acquire such secret and exact information about the defences of Ruan? Perhaps because there was a betrayal in the play, the spy of the prime minister of Ruan was actually Jegg who informed about Rac`s arrival because Rac ordered so. They would be jumping to the walls desperately, fear was a weapon itself and that Rac had learned on the planets of Metellos and Fresia as the chaos had spread out after the wave of fear. The fear of an un ruled planet was quite strong that would lead to anarchy, if there was a strong power on the planet it could easily take advantage of the situation. Rac had grown bored of the trick that he had use those two times and wanted to take a more direct approach, but this wasn’t an actual direct attack, but it would be blackmail.

The ships approached the planet swiftly and were ready to take every opponent on that they planet would have to offer. The alarm sirens began screaming on the planet and fear was awakened in the hearts of every normal citizen of Ruan. Those who didn’t seem to show fear were men near the capitol building with long jackets on them to cover their whole body, the mercenaries waited for an order, if the president and prime minister were to be captured. Few of Ruan`s freighter craft were escaping to the surface or actually as it was, they were allowed to escape because Rac wanted to make this nice and clean without chopping heads off without no reason at all. Every single and obvious threat would be destroyed, the planetary guard could afterwards serve the Fegal Companies and every single property would be spared unless they presented a threat to the Fegal Companies.

At the moment there was one building that presented such a threat to Rac`s power on the planet

The capitol that represented everything that democracy stood for and for the freedom of their people, but after the civil war Ruan had many needs and had to buy protection to ensure peace on the planet. In the other hand Rac had everything they needed and he could always get more not to forget that many times Rac`s policies had been better than the earlier one’s. Except for the rise of crime, but no one really knew of it and it wasn’t really common knowledge. Rac could offer the planet so much more than the government of the moment so in the promises of comfort and riches he could be able to turn the people for his cause. The people knew what Rac`s planet’s citizen had without any downsides since he had sent few informers to tell them about it, but in a way it was just simple propaganda. The capitol would be either brought down to the ground or Rac would re-decorate it to his own liking and make it the newest Fegal companies’ office building. The star destroyer took the orbit and few frigates along with Baal approached the spaceport messaging with it before boarding it peacefully. The ships began the blockade and gloomed over the skies of Ruan like huge raven’s glooming over the dying animal before attacking it’s carcass to feed them.

Rac left his flagship to board the spaceport for `negotiations` with the leaders of the planet about transferring the power and they would arrive there either willingly or not, the people were beginning to gather into mobs in the street to talk about the situation and they should give their support. Many said that Fegal was here to free them and bring prosperity back to the planet, but most of all turn many places into factories where they could get jobs, which had been thin after the war. Some war veterans objected their ideas because it would a betrayal against the republic and shaming all that some had given in the war. Betrayal or not, people were greedy beings and wanted always more, which was the weakness that Rac relied them to fall in. Rac arrived at the spaceport command station and nodded at the waiting Sedra to leave to Baal, Rac opened haling frequencies to the capitol building and began speaking.

“Dear leaders of Ruan this is the prick who is responsible for all this, but that doesn’t mean that this prick cannot be reasonable in business and that is why I ask for your two most influenced leaders to take a shuttle and visit me on the spaceport for negotiations… I hope that we will reach a verdict, but should you refuse I can just begin bombarding the planet or just come to take you from there….”

A hesitant conversation was created in the other end of the line and then some told the other to shut up, and then finally someone answered.

“Very well… I agree with your terms mister Fegal as long as you don’t hurt my people or anyone on the planet…”

Rac smiled as he closed the channel.

“Good…now I’ll be waiting in the hangar for you…but I think that you shouldn’t be concerned about me hurting anyone, but your people hurting you or each others….”

Rac couldn’t hold his smile as he had closed channel and proceeded to the hangar with his bodyguards, but he was no fool to begin with and he would stay in the far corner shadows of the hangar for any nasty surprises they would try against him. Rac waited in the shadows as the shuttle moved into the hangar and his battle droids created a big group, which was ready to eliminate everything that came down that ramp unless it was a Jedi. Rac had slightly trembled when he thought of the trouble what a Jedi could come up to stop this vicious act against the planet of Ruan. Anyway the president had made one slight mistake in his decision coming here, he had felt compassion, which would only drop the planet it Rac`s waiting hands.

Rac was surely going to keep his promise of not hurting anyone, but he never said that his droids wouldn`t…
Rac
Posts: 147
  • Posted On: Sep 2 2005 4:33pm
The ramp came down and the leaders of Ruan walked out with calm masks on their faces, but they knew that it was too late for anything and they could only go with the river to save their people from getting bombarded at. The droids checked the shuttle only finding the pilot of the shuttle, but when the inspected the prime minister they found a blaster hidden in his robes. Rac smiled slightly to such a futile attempt to kill him besides that wouldn’t have saved Ruan from being taken by The Fegal Companies because there would have been others to complete the job to it’s end all tough Rac hadn’t named anyone to lead the companies, if he should die.

Besides if Rac would die that Union would put one of it’s puppets on the matter at hand and cease control of the companies, that was something that didn’t please Rac, but he didn’t trust any of his lieutenants enough to give them such a gift. No robot could really do the job and a son was far too slow option to have replace him one day because he could fie any day besides it would make even him sick to have a child made only for the fact that they could take Rac`s job over. Rac shrugged to himself and appeared from the shadows as the battle droids pointed the leaders of Ruan with their blasters. The only thing that made sound in the hangar was Rac`s chairs hover, Rac hovered next to an FK droids, which gave him the blaster at command and Rac looked it in his hand.

"I would have thought you to be more resourceful prime minister, but I am not surprised by this act or the fact that you thought you could kill me and end this blockade for good with the cost of your lives...but what would have happened then? Total anarchy perhaps on Ruan and my companies in a civil war with each others, but someone would prevail in the end and return to finish the job that I have began. For your bad luck I am not a person who leaves a job undone, but excuse me for my bad manners..."

Rac slightly bowed at the president as he could, but could feel the prime ministers eyes on his and guessed that at the moment he only wanted to get his hands around Rac`s throat. Rac gave the blaster to the droid and he began to hover to the door that lead out of the hangar as the droids followed him with their guests. Rac passed few rooms with the escort and arrived at a bigger door, which he quickly opened and entered with the droids after him. The leaders walked in with an unsure face not sure what to expect, a blaster shot in the head or a negotiation. Rac sat in the head of the table and a service droid turned on in the corner of the meeting room, it first gave Rac yardle and then turned to the leaders of Ruan. Rac drummed his fingers against the table.

"Anything to drink gentlemen?"

They were quite unsure at first and then the president coughed as the prime minister had a suspecting face.

"I’ll have a Nectarot..."

Rac suddenly smiled.

"Ah... You have been on Tantoiine I guess? Cause I used to drink that stuff when I was younger, but then changed it to yardle..."

Rac poured the drink down his throat and closed his eyes because of the drinks strong flavour, he then looked at the prime minister who seemed to be jumping up at any moment to choke Rac in the other end of the table, but he didn’t seem to desire to get shot by Rac`s droids that had taken place against the walls of the room. Rac looked at them quietly and then turned back as he drew few official documents from a small drawer in the end of the desk, he threw them sliding on the table and they reached the leaders of Ruan who began looking trough them.

“But enough talk because it’s time to act what is best for everyone gentlemen, sign your names of these documents and everything will end up fine and I will lift the blockade…”

The prime minister and president seemed to be expecting to make a deal with Fegal on buying only his products or so they hoped...

That hope was in vain from the very start of this blockade what seemed to be on of the shortest one’s in the galaxies history

The prime minister closed the document and Rac expected the man to jump up so that he would have to order his droids to shoot him, but he remained calm and opened his mouth, but seemed to have hoped that he had a drink first.

“You can’t expect us to write these or agree with you! We got away from the religious grip only some years back and now you dare to demand our planet to yourself for the good of its populace? They will stand against you mister Fegal and riot, you can’t win by any means necessary....your blockade has been in vain unless you are a madman who wants to butcher the innocent people of Ruan and that would surely get the Coalition on you mister Rac… You are asking me a treason against my own people and that is unacceptable…”

Rac smiled and made a confusing move; he nodded and shook his head at the same time like answers to the prime ministers words.

“Prime minister… you have gotten me all wrong.. I am a good man and I am here to upgrade Ruan`s level of living, along with my companies come new living possibilities and jobs, trough them your people will have wealth and all of us will be happy, but if you mistake me for a madman then you are a blind fool…but really? Am I asking you to betray your people?”

Rac pushed few buttons opening an image taken from the streets of Ruan that had many people rioting against the guards of the planetary government and demanding better living since Rac had promised them that with his messenger’s news.

“As you see prime minister… they have already betrayed you and they are willing to forgive only, if you do them a favour… as you see the news and promises of better living has turned them to my cause and all I ask you is to write your names down to make it official after that you are free to go as normal citizen of Ruan… of course you shall receive a small benefit because of your former jobs and everyone shall be happy…”

The president sighed and shrugged at the same time beginning to write his name down, which made Rac smile, but suddenly the minister stopped the presidents hand.

“What are you doing? Are you willing to throw away all we fought for, are you willing to throw away democracy?”

The president wrote his name in the end and got up.

“You see what our people want and I know that Fegal can do a better job that I can never do, he must take this new rule and live with it…besides at least we do our people a favour…”

Rac smiled as the prime minister wrote his name quickly with a an angry grin on his face and he looked at Rac all the time as his hand moved, the prime minister would probably face an accident after some months or even a year, if he would try to bring democracy back on the planet and the president would be left in peace because he seemed to be willing to commit into this arrangement. Rac smiled as his FK droid took the documents and brought them to Rac who looked at them with a smile on his face.

“It has been a pleasure dealing with you gentlemen…”


Greed had triumphed over compassion and freedom….