01 - Valerie's Elites
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| Fighting for her life in a Deathmatch is the perfect cover. It started as a simple intel mission. Then it turned sideways. Valerie goes off mission, trusting her gut and wits more than her physical abilities to get on the inside, to help bring justice to the slaves and the downtrodden. She is, after all, the Justice Enforcer. In the process, she finds herself teaming up with locals to take down an empire, right a cascade of wrongs, and kick some serious ass. Valerie was chosen by the Dark Messiah himself. She can’t turn a blind eye to what she finds on Tol. From starship battles, to infiltrating a prison ship, to fighting death matches and taking on mechs in a valiant effort to set this planet straight, join Valerie and her elites as they export her brand of justice. |  |
VE01/1 ARRIVAL
Valerie’s ship, the Singlaxian Grandeur, touched down on the planet in the Vurugu system,
Intent on involving themselves in and fulfilling their assigned mission in this system, to take a small team to this system and collect intel, the ultimate goal being to ensure that the inhabitants of this system joined the Etheric Federation in its war against any race that would see the people of Earth or other innocent races harmed.
The planet was clean, the mountains reminding her of the fjords of earth, but with a cinnamon scent. Upon exploration, they came upon a wooded area, with trees with blood-red bark and red sap. Which they named the Bleeding Woods. Problem was, she didn’t know where to start, and would figure it out on her own!
Heard a shuffling in the woods - a large bipedal figure covered in thick slabs of rock. Attacked, both sides talked. Valerie wanted to compete in the Damu Michezo, the contest of champions among alien races and wanted to know how to find it and apply. The creature, Qwaza, said that if she could beat him, he would tell her, so she did. Before he could tell her Master Platu, their owner, appeared, and told her to find the last shuttle that had just left for Tol, piloted by a Skulla, Deleck, gave her the general direction, and the Grandeur took off to find it.
Valerie, Robin, Bob, Sergeant Garcia (Security), Flynn go in pursuit.
01/2, 3, 4, 5 SHUTTLE ATTACKED
01/2 Find Shuttle being attacked in space by pirate ships, Pallicons, slavers, who would capture and sell the passengers, etc., so Valerie decided to help shuttle, and make friends. Kalan, of Clan Gah’har’zakanew, a “Grayhewn” (only two in the whole planetary system), decided to attack them and try to save the ship (in spite of their Tralen-14 guns). At the same time Valerie had approached from space, and was attacking the Pallicon ship. Blew it to bits, and decided to board the shuttle to help there.
01/3 Kalan managed to disarm and kill five of the six Pallicons inside the ship, leaving only the one in the pilot’s cabin to subdue. When Valerie came aboard, Kalan was fighting a shapeshifter who looked exactly like himself, so Valerie couldn’t tell which one was the good guy. When fight finished, and Skulla had vouched for him as a hero, Valerie invited him onto her ship, and asked him if he might want to join her forces (knows how to pilot a ship, as well). “We have a job to do in this system, and doing it will require us to get up close and personal with the locals. We could use a guy who knows the lay of the land. Someone who can stop me before I offend a whole culture by waving hello with the wrong hand or something.”
01/4 Kalan agrees to pilot shuttle to Tol, so that Valerie can join the championship.
01/5 Another ship from the Balian appears, begins firing on Grandeur. Valerie plans to send attached Pallicon ship into it, destroy it, so calls Kalan to turn off their ship’s shields, and release the captured ship. Valerie then takes the Grandeur and guides it, along with missives, to the new ships destroying them.
01/6, 7, 8, 9 KALAN'S CONTACTS
01/6 Kalan land on Planet Tol, head for stadium to join games. Valerie wonders how to get on the roster. She was told that you have to get one of the warlords to sponsor you. You fight as their representative. If you win you move up in your social standing, but they get a portion of your income for the rest of your life.” And you won’t get in to see a warlord without a letter of introduction. Warlord Nobir (Tol leader) runs a tight operation.” He controls most of this system,” Kalan explained. “Also goes by the name ‘the Bandian,’ which was apparently some legendary warrior race. He killed the previous leader, guy named Sslake. The people loved Sslake, even (Kalan) loved him. We elected him and everything, but that little experiment in democracy ended when the Bandian took control.” “Grayhewn, you said you knew half the scum in the galaxy. Does that mean you know someone who can forge me papers?”
01/7 Kalan agrees to get forged papers for Valerie. Finds a contact, goes to home of Duol, gets papers, for his Tralen-14. Trades. Small chip. Good for everything except a DNA check.
01/8 Handles incident with Nata (Tribute to Warlord insufficient) and genetically-modded 7’ tall Skullas. Kills three of Bandian guards. Duol also a smuggler on/off planet goods/people. Learns Sslake is still alive on SEDE. (From pilots who run transport ships). Kalan now most wanted man on Tol
01/9 Valerie and the team decide to check out a local bar, find out it’s more of a fight club than a bar. Losers get punished. Losing to wandrei (outsiders) punishable by death.
01/11 -/21 GAINING ACCESS TO THE GAMES
01/10, 11 Valerie and Robin go to see Lord Palnik, largest building on hill, to an arena in the rear, to find Warlord Palnik, who was to be her sponsor at the games. Find some local Skulla (Orane and friends) favorable to Federation’s cause. Beats Korak (guard who challenged her), and go after another guard who stole his Explosive Bow. Got it back, so Korak will introduce her to Lord Palnik.
01/13, 16 Palnik requires that she kill off the leading Lord of the planet Warlord Charbon, put him in that place, then he will get her into the games. She agrees to do so. She did, Robin to bring Palnik to claim deed.
01/15 She will be tested for Games at sunset, in his manor. Will be OK. She had done her part.
01/16, 17 Leave manor, go to Grandeur. Suiting up to go to games.Attacked as they leave ship. Three attackers. She and Robin kill two, question the third. As she pushes “fear” at him, he begins to babble truth. Different reaction than on Earth.
01/18 Palnik will always try to eliminate anyone first. If they survive, then they’ll be allowed to go forward. That was the case here. He acted as if nothing was wrong.
01/19 Valerie and Team check into room at stadium, loosen up, talk about after it’s over, loyalty, etc. Drum starts rolling – they’re on!
01/21 Valerie sees the unjust way the games are conducted, hears that the citizenry will follow her if she wishes to act as their leader in a rebellion, and decides to run it h er way. She acts as a “vampire”, and asks for their best fighter, so that they will have blood TOMORROW!!
01/10 - 23 RESCUING SSLAKE
01/10 Bob and Kalan go to rescue Sslake from SEDE (Swarthian Extended Detention Environment).
01/12, 14, 15 Kalan and Bob wait on platform for transport to SEDE. Lots of low-level flights because of Damu Michezo. Pallicon pilot puts them on ship in cargo area. Tells Bob about the Shimmers (SEDE Guards. Invisible, silent, and strong as hell. ) Seven hour trip. Kalan and Bob in pilot’s cabin, Shimmers unload ship. Bob discovers that he can hear Shimmers talk. No one else can, so they have a definite advantage. Will go to observation deck to get lost in general population. Kalan see his Mom Gara, in the crowd. They go to her.
01/17 Kalan fights with Zoras, an enemy from before, beats him? Zoras promises to kill him.Gara gives him microchip about his past, something she had wanted to do before he had left. He pocketed it. Etter, Pallicon who delivers food to Isolation Block, will get him in to be with Sslake. Etter “training them”, delivering food to murderers, terrorists, and maniacs. Finally get6 to Sslake’s cell, meet him. Kalan attacked by his room-mate Wearl, a Shimmer, who can talk to Bob. Want to know who sent them to kill Sslake.
01/18 Tell him the story. Wearl like them, thinks they have a good plan, but SEDE knows he is here, and will now destroy him and Bob. Other Shimmers come to do so. Kalan takes gun, threatens Sslake’s life if they try to harm them.
01/20 Sslake tells Kalan to change terms – will let him go if they will only let him get to his ride out. OK. Seven Shimmers will escort them to Nim hanger. At the hanger, he takes Sslake into the room, and on Wearl’s word fires into the group of seven at the door. They attack with shimmer weapons, Wearl grabbed a gun from one of Kalan’s victims, and shot the rest of them. Wearl will keep guard while Kalan fires up ship. Nim #47. Has rail guns, of a sort, as well. Kalan cuts chip out of hand while ship warming, Sslake does the same. Kalan instructs Bob to disconnect the proximity meter, which would set off a dead-man’s switch if the flyer got too far away, which he did after Kalan shot up the other ships, disabling most of them.
01/23 Nims purchased to defend SEDE if necessary, but Shimmers were lousy pilots, so SEDE trained prisoners and installed kill-switches to control them. Only chose sabies for that job.
01/23 - 28 THE ARENA
01/23 Valerie and team had taken a small fighter from the stadium, which they jumped out of when they got close to the Grandeur. The fighter kept going, which kept their pursuit off of their tail. Valerie’s plan is to take on their champion, whatever he is, until Head Bandian comes, then to take him out. She lied. They will go into the city immediately, set up the revolution if they can, go on from there. Flynn will keep Grandeur up in space while rest of team works their magic on the ground. Valerie and team go back to the bar, get support from locals, go to arena, to challenge the system.
01/25 Fully decked out with armor, gun, and sword, she walked right in, smiled, and held out her hands as she addressed the leaders.She got no chance. Three monsters were set on her, which she dispatched with pistols and sword. The arena floor was charged with high voltage, which Valerie felt coming, and leapt up on the stands to avoid. A shifter came to fight her with fire, which Valerie avoided, and pushed FEAR onto it. FEAR caused its healing powers to become null, so it actually saw its own blood and damage, and started to scream. Seems as if Michael’s powers would act differently on different aliens. She had almost killed the shifter, when the Bandian called “Enough! KILL HER!” As the guards started to fire, Valerie realized that she had to get to the Bandian, as the guards would fire at her, away from her team, if she was nearing him, so she went his way.
01/26 He leapt on a drone,and, with controls and more drones, came at her, firing. As she had left her helmet on the Grandeur, she picked up a guard and threw him at the Bandian, forcing him off-course. While he corrected, Valerie captured her own drone, shielded, and fired back at him. Valerie saw the Grandeur coming, so started its way, but fighters were also in the air, firing on all of the arena people, good and bad. She decided to end all of this, and headed directly for the Bandian, leaping onto him as she approached. But one of the drones came and snatched him from her as they were falling. The drones had rescues all of the leaders and were flying them to safety.
01/27 Just as the Grandeur was coming, with fighters pursuing her, Kalan and Bob came in with the Nim and the railguns. Bob re-activates the kill-switch, reactivating the railguns, and the Nim is in the fight! Valerie learns from Sslake that the Bandian is headed for as fortress in the jungle, which she and the Grandeur will handle. Bob and Kalan are to take Sslake back to safety, to the city. Kalan disobeys orders, and decides to make a pass at the land troops Sslake knows are on the ground there. Just one pass, then Kalan wioll get off ship and let Bob take it and Sslake back to the city.
01/28 Wearl says she will get off with him, as he’s so sexy when he fights.
01/29 - 31 BANDIAN'S BASE
01/29 The base was a fall-back defensive structure, built into the side of the mountain, in full, jungle. Its turrets swiveled, and guns began firing at the Grandeur. Valerie and Robin jump from ship into jungle, will come up onto fortress from below. Skulla see them coming, begin firing on them. Valerie takes down a tree, jumps toward them, firing as she comes onto them, taking out first row. Come through, find group of monster Norruls coming. Valerie kills leader, rest of Norruls kneel to her. She has freed them – they will fight for her.
01/30 Kalan and Wearl find narrow place in the road up to the fortress, with small cliff overhang. Wearl drops first two groups with Shimmer weapons. Next groups warned, will not be as easy. They manage it – take down transport and crew on their way to help up top.
01/31 Valerie and the Norruls come to the Bandian’s throne room, set with wires, machines, etc. He turns them on, and becomes a giant mech, with mini-turrets, small drones and more coming for her. Robin to go for the mini-turrets, Valerie to go for the Bandian! As the mech keeps firing, Valerie keeps dodging. One of the Norruls tells her to go for its back, so she does, jamming her sword into the biggest cluster of wires. Effective. Valerie gets to the control cabin, reaches in, and pulls out a shape-shifter, not the Bandian! As they run from the devastation, the meet a several-lined formation of shapeshifters, Norruls and Skulla. Valerie pushed FEAR at the shapeshifters, killed them, throwing the last one at the Bandian, knocking him from his seat. As he fled, she knocked over a mech, which fell on him, crushing his legs. It was over. He agreed, and gave up formally. Some knelt, all quit firing. Kalan, Valerie, Robin take Bandian back to city, for justice.
01/32 THE BEGINNING
01/32 Sslake in city, up to neck in red tape, Still some warlords who refuse to give up. Sslake want to close Damu Michezo, citizens don’t want it stopped. Sslake want Valerie to call Walton, get in touch with Federation. Planets still need cleaning up, so wants to hire Elites to help with that. Kalan looked/listened to chip his Mom had given him, brought new information to the planet. His original race’s name was the Bandian. Kalan is one of the last of them. Father left a lot of leads as to where more of the survivors might be, and Kalan wants to follow up those leads, maybe re-create his race. Valerie says that as they’ll probably be on the planet a while longer, Kalan and Wearl can be considered a kind of back-up unit for the Elites, in case. Bob to go with them, to talk between Wearl and Kalan. Valerie gives Kalan a Tralen-47 as a parting gift. This is only the beginning.
