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(OOC: I recommend you play this while you read)
The 2nd Sector King, a dreaded CIS Fleet Admiral, has risen to power and has been outsmarting the Republic, and most importantly, the Burst Link Venator.....
First Encounter: Tricked
The Burst Link's first encounter with the 2nd Sector King was during the Umbara siege, in between critical Umbara missions. The Burst Link received a transmission, via, Astromech from General Mavor, a general of another ship, asking for assistance, as his ship was being assaulted by the 2nd Sector King. He tells the Burst Link his coordinates, and they head to the planet nearest to him. The Burst Link finds a CIS outpost and finds that General Mavor is there. The 2nd Sector King warns them to give up and not save General Mavor. This only motivates the troops more, and the troops begin to take the outpost. General Mavor is found, with bombs around him, and a trigger connected to his heartbeat, which gets slower and slower. As Valkyrie comms in his shadow troopers to leave, but one tries to defuse the bombs. As everyone tries to run away, the bombs go off--killing one of the shadow troopers, the General and many others. While LAATs arrive to evacuate the area, but droids hunt down many, killing more shadow troopers and others.
Second Encounter: Set up
As the troops of the Burst Link head out to a mission run by Officer Mii, Cable runs to the LAAT but it takes off without him. Stuck on the ship with other clones, he gets a comms message for fellow clones to board. As the clones board, they ask Cable why Crim, Kerk and Jedi Master Kneelegs called them aboard. More ships board, but are trandoshan pirates. Ambushed, the troops in confusion blame Crim, Kerk, and Kneelegs for setting them up as they are gunned down. Cable manages to survive (See his file to see how he survived and more details). The audio is leaked and spreads across Coruscant. The Republic News Network calls Crim, Kneelegs, and Kerk for an interview on Coruscant in their studio, and the Burst Link accepts, in hopes of telling the public the truth.
Third Encounter: Public Enemies
During a mission weeks later, the Burst Link raid a large CIS base in a desert. During the fight, High Command alerts General Resh that throughout the galaxy, many CIS ships have appeared and attacked planets everywhere, and Republic defenses are running thin. Encountering many CIS ships that arrive as a backup, and the Burst Link claims their Fleet leader, Kerk has been kidnapped, merely hours before his scheduled interview is to begin. The interviews go without him, with only Crim and Kneelegs appearing. Many questions are asked about Kerk and his whereabouts and the "convenient timing" he has "gone kidnapped". However, a sniper opens fire, killing many of the citizens inside the news studio, as well as clones. The troops evacuate citizens, but a ship carrying droids appear and gun down many people in the area. Just then, a person claiming to be Kerk with a similar voice claim to be the 2nd Sector King, and announce his plans to destroy the Republic. To make matters worse, an audio file is uploaded and broadcasted throughout Coruscant of a clone claiming to be Crim a traitor to the Republic, working for the 2nd Sector King.
Crim is arrested by the Coruscant Guard. (Republic News Network Recap including Crim's audio)
Thorn has alerted the Burst Link Venator that Crim claims not guilty.
RNN has interviewed a few Burst Link Units from past and present, here is the audio:
Fuze of the 104th
Jeremy of Judicials
Amatex and Caesar Ogara
Efforts of Hope
To change the horrible public perception the Burst Link has now from this mess, Resh has his men carry out a mission to evacuate civilians from a CIS attack on Akuria. Unknown to the troopers, one of the civilians was royalty, a princess, of another planet. Saved by the Burst Link, the Princess, Asseylum, asks the Burst Link to be her personal escort and protection during a parade of a treaty signing with the Republic. However, the CIS attack and invade the capital city of her planet, Vers. The Burst Link manage to evacuate the Princess, at the loss of the capital city. With the treaty not signed, the Burst Link and her negotiate that she will sign the treaty if Crim is released from Republic Custody.
Fourth Encounter: Fate of Master Oryx
With Resh negotiating the deal with the Republic and Princess Asseylum, 1st Lieutenant Moon (108th BlackWatch Operative Leader) returns in full health, having survived the bloodrot attack by using multiple temporal time grenades (Sadly, Moon's men present with him at the time did not survive). Moon sets out on finding Kerk but instead stumbles upon a signal of a Venator, The Grancrest that just went missing in the 2nd Sector. Moon and the members of the Burst Link manage to get audio from the signal of what happened. (Audio file is here).
Moon assembles a small team to investigate the crash site of the Venator. Consisting of Jedi and Clones, they land at the site and search the area. Full of debris, crashed ships and dead clones, they encounter a squad of 187th dead, except the CO who is impaled by a pole in the rubble. Slowly dying, the 187th CO reveals that they sent a distress signal but their ship was strategically crippled by the Engines and communications device being destroyed first, stranding their Venator. His squad survived the crash but were ambushed by droids and unknown creatures that slashed at them. Slowly, the 187th CO begins to die...but Jedi Master Oryx makes it a peaceful, painless, death.
As they investigate the wreckage, 41st Trooper Guard is suddenly hit by acid from an unknown direction. He begins to scream in pain as he falls to the ground, his whole body burning and disintegrating. As they reach him, half his skin has been disintegrated and he isn't recognizable anymore.
Upon entering the crashed Venator, they encounter more bodies and face unknown creatures. Acid is shot at Jek, who barely dodges it, the acid only burning his hood. The troops search the Venator. As Tragic gets to 3rd floor by elevator, he is attacked by more creatures, who slash at him. One manages to slash one of his pistols, and is nearly overwhelmed until the other forces arrive. Staff Sergeant Rook of Doom Company, reaches the third floor as well, and fights creatures. As he uses his shield to block the creatures from attacking and hits them, a creature spits acid at him, which disintergrates his shield. As he takes down the creature that disintergrated his shield, he is ambushed by another creature as it runs and tackles him, slashing his chest and biting into his skin.
The troops shoot the creature off, and help Rook up. As they make their way towards the command center, Rook begins to cough.
"You good bro?" Tragic asks Rook
"Wh--What yea?" Rook replies
Shortly, Rook begins to cough violently and then growl, who takes his gun and shoots at Sky Tartinus, injuring Sky in the right leg. Master Oryx leaps in front of Sky, deflecting more shots. The shots bounce back at Rook, and kill Rook instantly.
"These things can turn any one of us" Valkyrie says to Jek, looking at Rook's dead body.
Tragic takes off Rook's helmet, and sees Rook's face turned into a creature.....skin peeled off and disgusting. As they reach the bridge, the squad fight past more creatures, with a creature exploding sending Jek flying back ontop of the body of the Admiral of the venator. The Admiral's face is the same as Rook, but he begins to speak
"Kerk....is not...the 2nd Sector King......" The Admiral says, taking out a data chip from his pocket.
"I---" The Admiral says, but cut off as Jek shoots him in the face
"Jek! He had answers!" Valkyrie says to him, but Jek ignores his remarks.
Valkyrie takes the data chip from the body of the Admiral.
First Encounter: Tricked
The Burst Link's first encounter with the 2nd Sector King was during the Umbara siege, in between critical Umbara missions. The Burst Link received a transmission, via, Astromech from General Mavor, a general of another ship, asking for assistance, as his ship was being assaulted by the 2nd Sector King. He tells the Burst Link his coordinates, and they head to the planet nearest to him. The Burst Link finds a CIS outpost and finds that General Mavor is there. The 2nd Sector King warns them to give up and not save General Mavor. This only motivates the troops more, and the troops begin to take the outpost. General Mavor is found, with bombs around him, and a trigger connected to his heartbeat, which gets slower and slower. As Valkyrie comms in his shadow troopers to leave, but one tries to defuse the bombs. As everyone tries to run away, the bombs go off--killing one of the shadow troopers, the General and many others. While LAATs arrive to evacuate the area, but droids hunt down many, killing more shadow troopers and others.
Second Encounter: Set up
As the troops of the Burst Link head out to a mission run by Officer Mii, Cable runs to the LAAT but it takes off without him. Stuck on the ship with other clones, he gets a comms message for fellow clones to board. As the clones board, they ask Cable why Crim, Kerk and Jedi Master Kneelegs called them aboard. More ships board, but are trandoshan pirates. Ambushed, the troops in confusion blame Crim, Kerk, and Kneelegs for setting them up as they are gunned down. Cable manages to survive (See his file to see how he survived and more details). The audio is leaked and spreads across Coruscant. The Republic News Network calls Crim, Kneelegs, and Kerk for an interview on Coruscant in their studio, and the Burst Link accepts, in hopes of telling the public the truth.
Third Encounter: Public Enemies
During a mission weeks later, the Burst Link raid a large CIS base in a desert. During the fight, High Command alerts General Resh that throughout the galaxy, many CIS ships have appeared and attacked planets everywhere, and Republic defenses are running thin. Encountering many CIS ships that arrive as a backup, and the Burst Link claims their Fleet leader, Kerk has been kidnapped, merely hours before his scheduled interview is to begin. The interviews go without him, with only Crim and Kneelegs appearing. Many questions are asked about Kerk and his whereabouts and the "convenient timing" he has "gone kidnapped". However, a sniper opens fire, killing many of the citizens inside the news studio, as well as clones. The troops evacuate citizens, but a ship carrying droids appear and gun down many people in the area. Just then, a person claiming to be Kerk with a similar voice claim to be the 2nd Sector King, and announce his plans to destroy the Republic. To make matters worse, an audio file is uploaded and broadcasted throughout Coruscant of a clone claiming to be Crim a traitor to the Republic, working for the 2nd Sector King.
Crim is arrested by the Coruscant Guard. (Republic News Network Recap including Crim's audio)
Thorn has alerted the Burst Link Venator that Crim claims not guilty.
RNN has interviewed a few Burst Link Units from past and present, here is the audio:
Fuze of the 104th
Jeremy of Judicials
Amatex and Caesar Ogara
Efforts of Hope
To change the horrible public perception the Burst Link has now from this mess, Resh has his men carry out a mission to evacuate civilians from a CIS attack on Akuria. Unknown to the troopers, one of the civilians was royalty, a princess, of another planet. Saved by the Burst Link, the Princess, Asseylum, asks the Burst Link to be her personal escort and protection during a parade of a treaty signing with the Republic. However, the CIS attack and invade the capital city of her planet, Vers. The Burst Link manage to evacuate the Princess, at the loss of the capital city. With the treaty not signed, the Burst Link and her negotiate that she will sign the treaty if Crim is released from Republic Custody.
Fourth Encounter: Fate of Master Oryx
With Resh negotiating the deal with the Republic and Princess Asseylum, 1st Lieutenant Moon (108th BlackWatch Operative Leader) returns in full health, having survived the bloodrot attack by using multiple temporal time grenades (Sadly, Moon's men present with him at the time did not survive). Moon sets out on finding Kerk but instead stumbles upon a signal of a Venator, The Grancrest that just went missing in the 2nd Sector. Moon and the members of the Burst Link manage to get audio from the signal of what happened. (Audio file is here).
Moon assembles a small team to investigate the crash site of the Venator. Consisting of Jedi and Clones, they land at the site and search the area. Full of debris, crashed ships and dead clones, they encounter a squad of 187th dead, except the CO who is impaled by a pole in the rubble. Slowly dying, the 187th CO reveals that they sent a distress signal but their ship was strategically crippled by the Engines and communications device being destroyed first, stranding their Venator. His squad survived the crash but were ambushed by droids and unknown creatures that slashed at them. Slowly, the 187th CO begins to die...but Jedi Master Oryx makes it a peaceful, painless, death.
As they investigate the wreckage, 41st Trooper Guard is suddenly hit by acid from an unknown direction. He begins to scream in pain as he falls to the ground, his whole body burning and disintegrating. As they reach him, half his skin has been disintegrated and he isn't recognizable anymore.
Upon entering the crashed Venator, they encounter more bodies and face unknown creatures. Acid is shot at Jek, who barely dodges it, the acid only burning his hood. The troops search the Venator. As Tragic gets to 3rd floor by elevator, he is attacked by more creatures, who slash at him. One manages to slash one of his pistols, and is nearly overwhelmed until the other forces arrive. Staff Sergeant Rook of Doom Company, reaches the third floor as well, and fights creatures. As he uses his shield to block the creatures from attacking and hits them, a creature spits acid at him, which disintergrates his shield. As he takes down the creature that disintergrated his shield, he is ambushed by another creature as it runs and tackles him, slashing his chest and biting into his skin.
The troops shoot the creature off, and help Rook up. As they make their way towards the command center, Rook begins to cough.
"You good bro?" Tragic asks Rook
"Wh--What yea?" Rook replies
Shortly, Rook begins to cough violently and then growl, who takes his gun and shoots at Sky Tartinus, injuring Sky in the right leg. Master Oryx leaps in front of Sky, deflecting more shots. The shots bounce back at Rook, and kill Rook instantly.
"These things can turn any one of us" Valkyrie says to Jek, looking at Rook's dead body.
Tragic takes off Rook's helmet, and sees Rook's face turned into a creature.....skin peeled off and disgusting. As they reach the bridge, the squad fight past more creatures, with a creature exploding sending Jek flying back ontop of the body of the Admiral of the venator. The Admiral's face is the same as Rook, but he begins to speak
"Kerk....is not...the 2nd Sector King......" The Admiral says, taking out a data chip from his pocket.
"I---" The Admiral says, but cut off as Jek shoots him in the face
"Jek! He had answers!" Valkyrie says to him, but Jek ignores his remarks.
Valkyrie takes the data chip from the body of the Admiral.
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