Test Of Power
Rac
Posts: 147
  • Posted On: Jul 16 2005 9:44pm
Take Over Of Orooturoo

Rac sat in his hover chair floating in his office looking down at the peaceful streets of Fresia`s capital, which was thrown into complete chaos just few days ago and order was restored by his company. Many of course saw him as a hero, who restored the order and took the planet into his protection, of course other big companies vanished from the planet, but that didn’t worry the people as long as Fegal kept the planet safe. So it seemed cause people were actually happier than in a long time living under Fegal, because Fegal had built few new office’s and factories, but still left land of plenty to use in the future. More people came under Fegal companies, but few still believed their old democracy such as certain a certain policeman, who got a transfer after trying to look evidence of Fegal Companies being behind these bombings at the Government house, which was now rebuilt to a building providing services to the people of the city and in the honour of the old rule, Rac had made a small stone for the memory of those who died. Perhaps someone realised it and some didn’t, but for Rac it was a way to tell, that the democracy of this planet was over and that the company would take care of everything. People thought, that they were safe and Rac got many new incomes after taking over, which didn’t make him mourn for few trade targets on this planet. Besides the funniest thing he could find from all of this was, the thing that only he knew that the planet was in reality under the Union when he was a part of it’s committee. Rac had found also something very interesting from the Union information, which was a man named Rico Belgardi and he had few things that Rac wanted. Against an attack he would have been helpless, but soon he would have something that he could use to defend his company and to conquer something new. Rac had bought himself a thing, that hadn’t got a name yet, but it would be a symbol of his power and a mark to the people of Fresia, that there was nothing to be afraid of in this planet, which would keep people happy and silent.

Rac had also built himself droids, lots of them as his own personal army, which of course were filled with top quality programming and some part of those programs he had gotten from the other small companies when he had taken their property under his control. Of course questions were asked, but they had faded away when new luxury, jobs and services began coming to Friesia. Rac floated from his office and took his own personal computer info with him leaving none in his office computer, he floated in front of his secretary and had a smile on his face.

"Get me a new chair like this and place it in my office cause this one isn’t coming back, but remember to add the new command panel into it would you?"

Rac turned away and began to make his way towards the elevator doors in the end of the hall way until his secretary stopped him with a question.

"May I ask where, that chair is going sir? To your second bigger office somewhere on this planet I presume?" The secretary asked out of pure curiosity and Rac turned to look at her with a cunning smile.

"You could almost call it, that and to be exact in a way it will be my new office for a while all tough it`s going to the bridge of my ship, if you’re wondering which ship then look up on the sky in a while."

Rac grinned and left his secretary to continue her work, but before he got to the elevator doors he pressed few buttons in the chair arm pad’s control panel, which was added recently. Soon behind him began a clank sound as, if something metallic hit the floor and then around the corner appeared two Protector Series Droid, who were Rac`s personal bodyguards since the day when he assumed control over Fresia and began mass production. The elevator landed and the droids followed on his side slightly leaving back so, that they might come first out of the door. A shuttle waited on the landing pad and Rac floated on the landing pad, he couldn’t hide his smiled when a Immolator Class Battle Cruiser appeared just outside the atmosphere. People got amazed and confused of the ships presence, but calmed down when a shuttle on top of Rac`s building left towards it. Rac floated impatiently around as many transports followed the shuttle transporting new droids to the ship as soldiers and crew. Rac wasn’t didn’t really trust human’s nor he could have mustered a new crew for this ship so fast besides the droid soldier were in a way more effective than humans, because they didn`t feel fear and were programmed until they couldn’t fire. Hopefully he would see them in action soon as possible and have more tests run on them, but as a crew they were perfect because they were same as the ship and it’s computers. Machines and absolutely loyal to him, he wished that human’s could show such loyalty, but they still had their own free will. Unfortunately human’s were far more better officers so he had hired his most loyal shuttle, cargo ship and few outside people to work as officers on his ship. The droids were also made to follow them, but if anyone dared to suggest the droid a command such as killing Rac, then this person would be shot down quickly. His shuttle entered space and soon docked on the battle cruiser, he swooped out soon as the landing ramp went down with his bodyguards right behind him, he was greeted by a tall human man with brown short hair and grey eyes. Rac knew this man and he was actually had a strategist training, then he Rac had wanted some himself, but didn’t really get the hang of it.

The officer greeted Rac" Welcome aboard sir Fegal, shall I take you to the bridge, which we have fully operational while the droids take their positions and made this ship fully functional"

Rac snorted because he had to admit that liked this man slightly and saw him as a loyal worker under him.

"Sure..and then we need to give this ship a name, that shall be remembered and feared in this section of the galaxy..." Rac smiled waving his hand as a sing for the officer to move on.

They walked into a turbo lift, which had few officers also on it and they saw the first droids being activated as the elevator doors hit each others, suddenly without warning the elevator shot up making Rac almost lose control and balance of his small hover chair. Rac looked at the officer with angry look in his eyes and shook his head, soon the elevator stopped quietly and they got of the elevator, which shot down almost instantly as the doors closed. Rac mumbled as they made their way to the bridge.

"Seriously someone should repair, that elevator and you shall see to it personally captain....argh...what was your name again captain?" Rac mumbled and the captain politely smiled back.

"I’m captain Sedra sir....I was the leader of your transports in the core worlds or don’t you remember?" Sedra obviously teased Rac slightly, but he was happy, that he didn’t have to hear the annoying word duggy ever again, which always reminded about his size compared to humans.

The officers, Rac and his droids arrived on the bridge where everyone stood up to greet Rac, but Rac waved quickly with his hand telling them to drop it and get back to work. Rac inspected the bridge and went to his place smiling where he had a small place for his chair to land, but it still kept him on the level of the humans he eased the droids, but they were still ready for a battle at any moment. Rac looked around and then at the Captain, who began reporting that droids were reaching their stations and new parts of the ship were active now. Finally the engines were working and few boring tests were made until Sedra returned to Rac, Rac was exited to get this ship moving and was rubbing his loose chin skin. Then Sedra managed to crash Rac`s good mood with a difficult question.

Sedra came to Rac`s side and talked to him" All systems are ready and this ship is ready to leave except for one thing...what is it called sir?"

Everyone turned to look Rac and it even felt, that his own bodyguard droids demanded an answer behind him all tough they didn’t have protocol, which would make them social. Rac went trough his mind and a silence of half a minute remained on the bridge all tough it felt as, if the hole ship was waiting and the finally Rac said one word.

"Baal.."

The name felt short and striking for Rac, the officers around him began nodding liking the name one way or another and some just shrugged because they were happy to be on the ship, which offered them more than a boring job of a cargo ship pilot or captain. Rac smiled as everything was good to go and Sedra nodded acceptably to the name while opening his mouth again.

"So that name problem is out of the way so...what will be this ships first course under this name and crew?"

Sedra was exited as Rac and Rac smiled opening a hologram map of the Koornacht Cluster system just next to Fresia. There was a planet that Rac pointed with his finger and smiled.

"Set course for Orooturoo and check all systems while we are on the way..."

Rac smiled and looked at the star, that became flash in the window as the ship passed them then he turned to Sedra.

"Show me my quarters.."

Rac to everyone surprise jumped down from his chair leaving it on the bridge as he made his way to the quarters after Sedra, Rac went in and decided to get some sleep to be able to act when they arrived. He put the droids on the door to guard his sleep.....
Rac
Posts: 147
  • Posted On: Jul 17 2005 9:00pm
The battle cruiser named Baal flashed trough hyperspace towards a planet Orooturoo, which was the next target of expansion for the Fegal companies in order to base a rich trade empire like Vinda in the Core worlds and later on Rac might turn his eyes to the inner rim. His company and name had been already noticed so he had to be careful because he wasn’t far away from Corusant, if a massive fleet would gather only few days away from Corusant the Imperials would get paranoid enough to attack him to counter such a threat. Once he met the Imperials he would have to persuade them and convince his good will towards the Imperials, but most of all, that the fleet was only for the protection of his planets. He really of course yet didn’t have a fleet nor an army except this ship, fighters and cargo ships, their crews and soldiers, which were mostly droids. Rac was awake and ate his meal in his quarters; he was also looking trough his personal computer and wondering about the planet they were heading towards. The planet itself wasn’t really big, but that didn’t bother him and there were no significant government or towns on the planet, if the planet wouldn’t take his protection Rac would give it to them either they wanted or not. Few reports had came in and all systems were running as they should, but Rac couldn’t shake a bad feeling about this one because this conquering was eating his nerves, but it was his idea in the end and his lust for more power had started this all. The Union was a useful ally even tough it hadn’t really helped him, but the new connections he received from the Union proved very useful indeed and Rac couldn’t wait to meet the other members of the Union committee. Rac finished his meal and called the droids in as soon as he got ready, and then he left the quarters with his personal computer protecting it like a paranoid from people it didn’t belong to or to be exact everybody else, but him. Rac walked to the bridge of course not very fast compared to humans because he had shorter legs, which made him angry especially when people made fun of his size. Duggy was one of those words, which reminded him, but he had made the special chair for himself to be on the same level as human’s. Rac came into the bridge where personnel where almost asleep except for few who had to follow some systems, that ran all the time and Rac got up to his chair so, that no one didn’t notice his presence. Rac looked the bridge trough, but didn’t find the captain and began floating with his chair. He picked the com link and contacted the captain to get further information on the situation, but especially on the where about of their arrival on Orooturoo.

"Do you copy Captain Sedra?" Rac waited for a while hearing faint talk and then an answer.

"This is Captain Sedra sir, I’m on the lower decks just checking few systems and check in with the troops, that we are carrying... are these entire troops necessary sir? I mean we are going to a planet, that’s land is supposed to be barren and dusty with few animals living there." Sedra asked politely, but had a slight nervous voice.

Rac was quite full of stupid questions and tired of playing around running after some captain who isn’t on his post at the moment.

"Captain Sedra... as you are testing this ship and it’s crew in full action so will I do with my troops to ensure their functionality, but most of all to make them better as we monitor them in combat. Now as I know from few tests that an ordinary man with a blaster rifle cannot fire so rapidly without tiring as these battle droids do. They have no moral, they feel no fear and are absolutely loyal, but should I send them in action one day without proper testing? But leaving, that matter when shall we arrive" Rac explained with a tired tone in his voice.

The captain answered continuing the unpleasant issue " But sir who will they be fighting against? There might be few private miners & researchers on that planet, but no warriors that I know of...."

Rac smiled to himself, but grew tired of the Captain.

"Yes...some that you don’t know of Captain...and now continue checking the ship, and then come back to the bridge, but tell me how long will it take to arrive on Orooturoo?" Rac closed the connection soon as he got the answer leaving the captain to his duties.

"We should be there in a half and hour s..." The captain’s voice faded as Rac pushed the button.

Rac turned to look at the time and watched very second, that passed for the next 10 minutes until Captain Sedra arrived on the bridge and looked at him, because he was staring at the time and disturbed his wait.

"Sir? why are you counting time? Is there something going to happen, that you’re not telling me?" Captain demanded answers because he was worried of the ship.

Rac was calm and turned to look at his while pushing few buttons on the control panel, which caused droid fighters to activate in the hangar, but they didn’t rise up. This caused amazement in the hangar and the bridge, Sedra grabbed Rac`s feeble hand trying not to crush it while gripped it.

"What in the name of blue flamed hell are you doing mr Fegal?!" Sedra was panicked and Rac didn`t blame him so he had to clear the air by explaining the situation.

Rac pulled his hand away from Sedra`s grip and looked at the bridge crew.

"People…We are going to be noticed in mere seconds as we arrive from hyperspace by a base of space pirates on Orooturoo, I tried to persuade them with money, but they didn’t accept the offer and warned me from trying to come here...But... I am a business man and I have never backed down from a group of thugs so I have decided to give them a final chance to surrender to the Fegal companies..."

Sedra was shocked, but didn’t really like criminals and looked at Rac.

"What if these scums refuse to surrender?" Sedra asked with a glance in his eyes.

Rac sighed melodramatically" The price they shall pay is death, if they don`t toss aside their weapons and as soon as we leave hyperspace people this ship will take contact to the surface, but no sudden attack moves and if they don’t wave the white flag..."

Rac shrugged

"You activate the shields of this ship, Fire at the base defences wiping them out, the droid fighters will attack their possible few vehicles and then we will drop our cargo on the planet surface for the test..." Rac spoke with a calm tone, which got cold shivers running trough Sedra`s spine.

This word for possible slaughter and prisoner capture was described with one word, which made it sound brutal. A test, these people and alien pirates would
be mere puppets in Rac`s test grounds. Rac continued counting seconds as Sedra returned to his duties on the bridge and kept everything battle ready, but not so that it would be noticed. Sedra was shocked by the man he had worked for years, but he guessed that these pirates deserved death and some, that would surrender would have real justice upon them for their crimes. Sedra might hope for a peaceful day, but everyone knew that these pirates had declined once and they would do it twice even tough a battle cruiser would appear on the sky. Rac smiled as the ship appeared out of hyperspace and the planet known as Orooturoo was in front of them, and then someone reported that their transmission was being answered. Rac smiled and waved his hand in order to continue.

"Good...now remain ready...while I have a little chat with their leader..." Rac smiled knowing, that these poor fools would live to the end of their lives thinking, that they did the right thing today.....
Rac
Posts: 147
  • Posted On: Jul 18 2005 8:49pm
The connection opened and Rac smiled for a while because no one would ever know the truth about this installation or about its people, which would be guaranteed by the droids because they didn’t really chat except few words to different situation like surrender, roger or fire. Rac leaned back in his chair as a voice of a man spoke and on the monitor appeared a man’s rough face.

"Rac Fegal I presume? We received your cheap offer and wondered when you would personally show up with your thugs to threaten us, but we have prepared for your coming and we advice you to turn back or there will be severe consequences."

The man informed with an threatening look on his face, but Rac only smiled back knowing such threats were empty and so did the man, but he seemed to play a desperate game for survival. The face was just a way not to show that he was scared and trapped in the facility, but soon after few words Rac knew that there would be a battle. Of course if they would surrender Rac could fake it as, if they had attacked his droids when they had came down to arrest them, but Rac hardly believed for such to be possible. These were stubborn people and the facility they had built with hard work wouldn’t disappear in front of their noses, if they had something to say to it. Rac leaned forwards with a calm look on his face.

"Do not read me wrong commander, but I have come here with a white flag and a sword, but I am a patient man and I’ll give you a second chance to surrender to the Fegal companies. Please do be reasonable on this matter because it would be a shame to draw the sword and use it, but it’s your call commander. Will you die in battle or leave this planet alive?" Rac was amused by his own words when he used the word man.

The man spit on the floor and looked at the screen to the bridge.

"You are no man Fegal, you are a coward who stand behind his thugs and money. You took Fresia even for your own good not the people’s and we will stand against you because we aren’t like you, a filth. You don’t care, if you crush fe...." Rac stopped the messaging between the ship and the base, that got Sedra slightly suspicious and he stepped next to Rac.

"Sir I think he had still something to say and I think we should get the whole answer…" Sedra had a demanding look and Rac answered it with a cold ironic smile, then he nodded towards the bridge’s left windows.

"I think the rest of their answer is on the way in form of a fighter wing or to be exact few of them, in addition we of course will be facing few bombers along and they should be getting out of their hangar soon."

Rac smiled with a calm tone of voice and then Sedra exploded to give orders.

"Bring the shields up! Full battle stations, we need all available men on their posts, then get prepare to fire all our right side weaponry at the incoming fighters." Then Sedra turned to Rac "Mr. Fegal we will need those fighters soon, but would you activate to attack them at my command?"

Rac played around with his fingers on the panel in his chair’s arm part.

"Sure..."

Then the fighters and bombers showed up on their scanners, there were about 20 fighters and 10 bombers speeding towards Baal as it shot its cannons for the first time ever sweeping out few of the incoming space crafts. Rac smiled by the speed this ship and its crew was able to react to an attack like this, everything was going according to plan and the test was going better than he could have ever expected. Sedra would probably after the battle realise, that Rac had made this battle a puppet play of his in, which Rac was the master pulling each string making the puppets dance at his command. The fighters would attack when Rac pulled a string, the cannons started firing, the shields went up and the grand ending began closing like the inevitable death. Few fighters were swept away again and the pirates reached their shooting range, they shoot at the shields with no result, but passed to ship to keep on coming. As they fired at the ship and passed it a swarm of droid fighters flew out of the hangar like a swarm of bees attacking from their hive against the attacker. This time the cannons stopped firing and the fighters turned to face this new threat while the right side cannons began hammering the facility’s defences, which after a while laid in pieces while they burned. Rac didn’t really care about the defences, but he wanted the facility as a whole piece and after all he was a weapons manufacturer so it shouldn’t be too hard for him to build new and better defences than those, which were just destroyed. The swarm met the fighters and everyone fired at their enemies, both sides got casualties, but soon the swarm was after the fighters hunting them down without no mercy. Many got shot in the back, few lighted up in flames and began whirling until they exploded and the rest saw their change of the destroying the cruiser to disappear into thin air. They fled with the droid fighters at their tail and few were shot down, Rac smiled and called them back beginning to clap his hands together when he saw the destruction of the enemy fighters. This was only a small scale battle, but at least it was a satisfying one and would be useful later on when building new types and upgrading the old one’s.

"Marvellous, excellent, perfect and good job men, but without any hesitation I we shall begin faze two of the attack plan...."

Rac smiled and pushed a button in his chair’s arm part, which caused a huge sound in the hangar making the crew scared and Rac smiled as he switched the hangar view on. Huge transports, that contained all the ships troops began tremble out of the hangar while the droid fighters began harassing the facility as the transports began going down. Rac smiled, that luckily his ship didn’t need any security force because there would be no rebellion’s or fights. Of course he had about 20 more mechanics for maintenance and he had left about 50 droids on the ship just in case, but the important thing was that about 650 battle droids were going to the facility. Of course not to forget the 20 tanks, that they controlled and would use to destroy the facility doors. Rac leaned back on the chair smiling.

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Oron sighed as the connection was cut and with a sad look pressed the button, which allowed speaking with the pilots in the hangar.

“Pilots… You have my permission to engage the battle cruiser and may the gods be with you, if there are any in this greed corrupted universe…”

Oron looked out with a sad look on his face as the fighters flew out of the hangar to engage the enemy above the planet, he had sent the women and children away from the facility because knew, that something was coming. The men voted on either giving up the facility that their fathers had built and some with them or fighting the bastard dug, who had threatened their quiet and peaceful life. The peaceful solution was killed in the start and the violent one taken over as the leader of the colony, which no outsider actually really knew of except Fegal himself was soon to be doomed unless the pilots managed to destroy the cruiser shields and hit them hard. The Colony was a project of a peaceful company on Fresia, which began the colony to make sure that it safe to begin expanding to the new planet and the land problem on Fresia would be solved, but then Fegal took control. Fegal took over and drove away any other companies that could pose a threat to him, then Fegal took their possession and information finding all about the colony project. The ships engaged in combat and Oron began almost crying when he heard the first screams of the dying, the ships fired the shields, but it wasn’t enough, but now they were close and could make manoeuvres to avoid the fire. He got his hopes up, but then the droid fighters came out of the hangar and began fighting while the facility was trembling by the firing of the cruiser. Soon yells from the com link began spreading out as the faster droid fighters got on the attackers tails and shot at them.

"They are everywhere! I can’t hold this thing together anymo...."

The pilot screamed as the fighter exploded and the few survivors made their way back with the enemy on their tail. Suddenly they stopped and the survivors returned to the hangars to prepare for full evacuation, but what if the cruiser or fighters would fire at them? They couldn’t take, that chance so the best chance was to stay inside and defend themselves because Fegal wanted the facility for himself, which they knew cause Fegal was a ruthless business man. Their last hope disappeared when the transports landed, the doors opened and hundreds of battle droids assembled on the field near the facility. There were also tanks, which crushed they final hope of defending the doors and they hid deep within the facility. The droids marched towards the facility in an order that was exact and strict. Oron cried in the facility because such humanity and life could exist that didn’t care for ordinary people.

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Rac liked what he saw on the field, hundreds of droids advancing and then stopping before the facility, the tanks aimed and blasted the doors away. Then the droids marched into the facility looking for targets and one voice message with them, Surrender. They secured every door and room, but finally they got contact finding a group of humans, some in pilot clothes and some in ordinary clothes. The robots gagged them and tied their hands after they threw their weapons down, Rac floated around in his chair from joy and put all monitors from the planet surface away. Soon many freighters and cargo ships appeared from hyperspace, one was a prison freighter and it landed taking the prisoners away. Of course it was controlled by droids, which had their orders to take them to a secret location where they would be handled with proper skill. They would serve the union well in their research or what ever project it was he found from the files, but the secret would die with them and everyone would be happy. Except captain Sedra, the man was suspicious about Rac`s motives and would one day had to be dealt with in a proper manner. Until that day he would serve Rac and he had done well this day, he was the highest level personnel after him in his fleet and would have power in the fleet, but that didn’t mean that Rac couldn’t take that away with a push of a button. Rac leaned back as the cargo ships landed on another victorious day for him….