Into the Beast

High Prophet Crozeus

Dan had amassed as many men as he could, adding to his ragged band fresh troops from second platoon. Third platoon, the last unit they had, had just deployed and were taking a longer route. Dan would lead an attack directly on Prognie's office. They had advanced along the corridors, being preyed on by Inquisitors that would appear from no where, kill a man and disappear instantly, like predators in a horror film. It was terrifying at first, but Dan and his men were trained Force killers. They reacted to the situation well, fanning out and as soon as one man came under attack the others threw stun grenades, which their helmets protected them against - and the Inquisitors were vunerable. They were unable to use their camoflague or defend themselves and were quickly taken down - soon the attacks stopped.

Then the droids and the turrets came. Turrets would drop from the ceiling or pop out from under the floor or behind the walls and would spray them with deadly laser bolts. The corridors provided little cover for all the forty odd men, so they advanced slowly, with single three man fireteams going first to check the corridors. If a squad of droids attacked, the others would come up fast and help them out. While they advanced, 3 Platoon had gone out the windows and were edging around the building to get behind Prognie's office. After a painfully slow journey they arrived and planted charges on the reinforced window - one in each corner. Even after these detonated, the window still had not broken. A cluster of five charges was placed in the middle and this was enough to shatter the huge pane of glass. 3 Platoon were in.

To 1 and 2 Platoons, now down to the strength of a single platoon, the effect was instant. Droids and Inquisitors abandoned their positions and charged away towards the office. The turrets delayed Dan and his men, but not for long enough. Soon they arrived at the office as well, and saw barely half of 3 Platoon alive, outnumbered and outgunned by the Inquisitors. Well, not outnumbered anymore, and as a heavy repeater one of Dan's men had opened up, it didn't seem like they were outgunned either.
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Grand Inquisitor Prognie · Dark Lord of the Sith Joined: 11 May 2007 Posts: 1598

The remaining Inquisitors stood in front of Prognie's office, their lightsabers deflecting the onslaught. One of the offices that sat close to the Grand Inquisitor's opened, the head of the remaining Inquisitors in the building stepped out into the fray. Blasters stopped, lightsabers had disappeared back into their state of lifelessness, the man held out a hand in front of him to signal the troopers to cease fire. "It amuses me to see that you've pushed this far, a failure on our own part."

Another explosion rocked the entire building, alarms sounded before they too ceased and the inquisitor stood with only a smile upon his face. "Do you feel that? It's the Grand Inquisitor's wish that you be laid to rest here, the final failsafe of this building is to have you die here along with your foolish allies below." The Inquisitor looked at his chrono, "you seem to be a bit on time, you have approximately five minutes to beat us or run as we are not going to let you pass into this office."

Before the Inquisitors could react, two transport ships hovered near the window to the office besides Prognie's, the ship's gun poured through the glass causing alarm amongst the already disorganized group. Lightsabers reactivated but some were not enough to redirect the large lasers. Inquisitors were shot down before finally all that was left were bodies.

The terminal to Prognie's office suddenly appeared, a countdown on the terminal counting down from five minutes. Five minutes before the supposed failsafe of the Inquisitor's would activate.
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A blessed rage for order

I'd break the law once every week, just to feel your touch.

Supreme Commander Alor

Jarik Sol turned his HUD to infra-red and watched the heated lightsaber projector plate move around in the darkness. The Inquisitor's clothing trapped his heat and made it more difficult to see, but the plate was like a beacon. Taking aim the Mandalorian fired with boy blaster and then dropped a grenade in the awake direction. The Inquisitor was good, by not good enough to miss the blast from the grenade. Perhaps if he had known that Jarik knew where he was, but he had not.

"Thrax. He's yours to deal with." The warrior stated, "Meet me in the lobby when you are done."
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Once known as Darth Marix

High Prophet Crozeus

Dan and his men quickly finished the remaining Inquisitors and droids. The men of his company immediately ran around securing a perimeter and battling a few scattered enemies that remained. It was funny that Dan considered that the Inquisitors were the enemies of the Empire when before they were vital to her success. Now they, the most feared beings in the whole Empire, were nothing but targets, and seeing them get torn apart by the transport's heavy cannons showed Dan that they were just as human, or whatever species, as anyone else. Nevertheless, the ominous counter scared the daylights out of Dan, as it probably did his men, yet they kept a professional calm about them, a true testament to Military discipline.

A team of engineers set up a computer next to the database in the office, and in a minute they were through the security systems and the data was being transferred to the Military headquarters. With 3:35 on the clock an engineer looked worriedly towards Dan.

"Sir, someone has to stay behind to select all the files and ensure they are all sent to the mainframe. It can't be done automatically."

Dan looked at him for a moment, but he had already made his decision. "Go. Back to the roof, all of you. Get on the transports and get out of here. I'll transfer the files."

The men who heard turned round in protest, but Dan cut them off. "Did you not hear me? That was an order. Move out!"

Silently, they nodded. A few clapped Dan on the shoulder as they passed. Moments later there was a deadly quiet in the office of the Grand Inquisitor, save for Dan's breathing and the ever going beeping of the timer. He continued to do what he needed to, what the mission objective was, silently, passively. He accepted that he was going to die. But he was dying for what he believed in. For what he loved. He had nothing else.

The timer reached two minutes.
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Darth Thrax

Thrax grunted in response to Jarik as another blast hit the building. He knew that the inquisitor was very close to him, he could feel it, but he didn't know where. "Just like an inquistor, hiding in the shadows, waiting until his enemy is too weak to attack." A flash of red could be seen to his left and he ducked while swinging his lightsaber. The red saber seemed to flash from his side to behind him in the nick of time and slashed at Thrax's back.

The ex-inquisitor could sense the danger he was in and rolled forward, shooting a burst of lightning in the direction of his enemy. He heard the inquisitor cackle wickedly as he avoided the lightning and the red saber deactivated. Thrax stood up straight and peered into the darkness, shooting lightning in every direction. He could faintly make out the shape of the inquisitor in the shadows and he charged forward, following the shadow.

A flash of red and green appeared as the zabrak and the inquisitor ignited their sabers. Thrax slashed left then right then left again, only to be kicked in the shin by his enemy. The zabrak narrowly avoided his death and rolled to the side, jumping to his feet as he did so. He swung his saber horizontally at the inquisitor's back, but his foe brought his saber over his head to block it.

"You will die for betraying us, Thrax." The inquistor snarled loudly as he locked sabers with the zabrak warrior. Thrax remained expressionless as he began to lose control and the inquisitor began to smirk wickedly, completely unaware.

In an instant, another flash of green appeared behind the inquisitor and his smirk began to fade. Thrax bared his teeth and growled ferociously, his other saber through the man's stomach. As he pushed the body to the floor, he looked into the eyes of the now dead inquisitor and yelled, "Traitor!"

Thrax met up with Jarik once more in the lobby and they ran back to where the soldiers were, hoping to reach them before anything worse happened.
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Grand Inquisitor Prognie · Dark Lord of the Sith Joined: 11 May 2007 Posts: 1598

(There was no timer btw on that computer, I believe I told marix that once you reached the office i was sort of taking control of that whole situation.)

The computers that were being downloaded from showed their progress slowly, but as it slightly progressed it picked up until the entire screen flickered as information scrolled across it in various languages and texts. The information began to corrupt itself, the entire system was deleting all files that were left in the buildings.

The countdown for the detonation decreased rapidly and hit zero. The entire building stopped, every door window unlocked and all terminals and lights shut off. The entire tower went still, before everything finally came to life. The terminals had large skulls on them before all life went blank.

From the tip of the building to the lobby floor, fire erupted from each floor outside in a large explosion blowing glass and debris from the tower back onto the floor. The force of the explosion broke the support beams toward the tip of the right building, bending from the weight and the lack of support the top completely broke off and hurled down to the streets below.

Fire. Fire erupted from the corners of Kuat: the university exploded outward, the military base erupted in flames, and the K-9 platform exploded, its repulsor lifts gave out plummeting all life down to the streets below.

The second tower of the Inquisitor headquarters exploded after, spilling debris and glass to the floors of the streets upon the unsuspecting soldiers of the Empire. Large pieces of the building fell, fire began to spread across to the other buildings that were close proximity to them.

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A blessed rage for order

I'd break the law once every week, just to feel your touch.