01 - Valerie's Elites

Ages - Age of Expansion - 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 Sculla, 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 Sculla 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 Scullas. 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 Sculla (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.

01/23Nims 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.