Jedi Hunt

[Damocles]

An imperial cruiser sat in orbit over the planet. Suddenly several things came flying out of the ship one of which was a storm trooper. Storm trooper FML-2016 flew away from the ship in the vacuum of space contemplating how he ended up.in this situation.

5 minutes earlier:

Several imperial soldiers including our hero worked at their station when the commander walked in they took notice.

FML-commander Aznable we are approaching the planet and the battalion of troopers are ready for deployment

Aznable: thank you FML-2016. I still do not see the point in this however.

Heavy footsteps could be heard from behind Aznable "the point is" the deep voice sounded "the jedi are still an hindrance to us and are one of the things that must be eliminated if we are going recapture the glory of the formal empire" Aznable huffed and waved the man off.

Aznable: you continue to speak on the glory of the empire, but they were destroyed Sheev murdered by how most trusted ally. This is pointless of we are truly make a difference we should join with the first order.

Aznable suddenly started reaching for his throat as if he was choking his arms forcibly pushed behind his back breaking them "the first order is a false empire, that will soon fall to the rise of the true empire" damocles said lifting Aznable off the ground using the force.

"If that is something you do not belive I do not need you in my ship" He finished saying sending Aznable towards the nearest window slaming him into it, it shattered pulling the dead commander out of the ship with poor old FML-2016.

And that is how this poor stormtroopers life came to a screeching hault.

Now back in the ship Damocles watched as the barrier appeared over the breach stopping the vacuum. "Windows on a ship is a structual weakness, just like Aznable. Prepare the drop team" Damocles ordered leaving to the hanger.

[MikDaTv]

Kolar Wynn looked down the sights of his bowcaster. The Kashyyyk Bantha in his scope had stopped to drink from the river and had separated from the herd. he could see the back end of the bantha but the front end was obscured by the roots of a wroshyr trees. Not the best shot. At this range, shooting it in the leg or butt would only piss it off and make it run off into the forrest. He needed a better shot.

He took a deep breath and shifted his aim. When he was satisfied with his angle and the windage he let out a sharp whistle. A Katarn no longer than a meter long from snout to the tip of it’s tail lunched off a leafy branch down towards the Bantha. The Bantha heard the sudden commotion in the leaves and saw the predator leap towards him and began to run.

Thats when Kolar fired. The green bolt lanced out of the bowcaster and slammed into the bantha’s neck just as he started to run. The bantha lived for only a few seconds before crashing down into the smooth river stones on the bank of the river.

Solar stretched his legs and stood up, letting the covering of leaves and branches he’d piled overtop of himself fall to the ground at his feet. He flipped the switch which uncocked the bowcaster and made it safe, then started to walk towards his kill.

In the back of his mind, he felt… something. The feeling was something like what he felt when his Master had been around, but somehow… tinted, darker. He didn’t know what that meant, but whatever it was, it was very distant.

The Katarn ran over to Kolar as he walked to the Bantha’s body. Kolar paused just a moment to pet the Katarn and then continued on. Bantha’s were a good kill. It’d keep him fed for months if he could slaughter it quickly and get it preserved before sundown.

[Damocles]

Several drop ships landed on the planet's surface. The bay doors opened and storm troopers began to file out of the ships with Damocles walking behind them. He looked around at the lush planet, he had only been here once that was during a trip with his master. There were Wookies that needed to be, put in their place, know where they stood on the galactic scale of things. One of the storm troopers walked over to Damocles.

SMH: Sir all the forces have landed and are awaiting your orders.

"Good" Damocles said looking down at the trooper he stood towering over thanks to his armor. "Spread out in every direction, I want 100 of you to start here and 100 to start 10 miles out, they will work their way back as you work your forward until you meet in the middle. Comb the entire area" He said to them.

He started to walk with SMH following him "I want no stone left unturned, that Jedi is here, and I want his head" Damocles said to him.

SMH: And when we find him sir?

"I want you to not engage not alone anyway. Send positions to me and other teams, do not engage unless you have at least 5 teams, we will overwhelm him with force" He said to SMH. "This is not some average criminal we are dealing with here, Jedi will kill stormtroopers without much of a second thought, especially since most of you can't seem to hit a man sized target from 10 feet away"

SMH: We've been working on that sir.

Damocles looked at him, he then looked away "Put your mean to work Troopers. I will take my usual squad and begin searching as well" Damocles started to walk away with 4 Death Troopers at his side.

SMH: Alright you heard the man, everyone squad up, we're going hunting!

[MikDaTv]

With his home made knife, Kolar made short work of the Bantha. He let the blood drain out into the river and removed the skin in record time. He had just started cutting strips of the meat off when he heard a growl from overhead. He glanced up and saw Characca, one of the few wookies he had regular contact with. A young wookie, Kolar had run into him during Characca’s coming of age trial and helped the wookie when he’d been injured by a syren plant. Kolar had pulled Characca from the carnivorous plant’s embrace, healed him and together they returned to the syren to obtain it’s fibers. Characca returned to his people, now considered and adult and Kolar made a belt from the fibers.

Kolar growled a greeting in response. Characca began growling and grunting in the wookie language. (“Some ships have landed a few miles north of here on the plains and let out a large number of humanoids in white armor. They look like Stormtroopers.”)

“I thought the Empire was gone?” Kolar said, never stopping his work.

Characca nodded. (“It is. The New Republic destroyed it years ago, but some elements of it remain it seems. They’re here looking for something.”)

Kolar stopped what he was doing and sheathed his knife. His Master had long ago warned that the Empire was actively hunting Jedi. Thats why they had hid on this plant so long ago. Perhaps this group of white armored humanoids had heard of his presence here somehow and were now hunting him. He didn’t think it was possible, but he didn’t know what else a large number of stormtroopers would be looking for in a forest.

“Thanks for the warning. I’ll keep my eye out.” He said.

Characca nodded once more. (“Some of us are going to see them. The young ones are afraid they might be slavers.”)

Kolar reached down to his syren fiber belt and check to make sure his lightsaber was clipped there before replying. “Be careful my friend. Based on what I know of stormtroopers, they are without honor.”

Characca waved a dismissive hand at Kolar. (“If they prove to be an enemy, they will lack arms to go with their lack of honor.”) he said before leaping up to higher branches.

Kolar loaded a leather sack with the strips of meat he’d cut already as well as the pelt and set off for home. His hut was built under some above ground wroshyr tree roots. He and his master had built it decades ago. He opened up a large wooden chest his master had made that was filled with salt and began burying the meat he’d carved into it. Once completed, he began putting his armor on. It consisted mostly of his Masters old Jedi armor, but taken apart and resized somewhat for his much larger build. to fill the gaps he used metal from some long abandoned technology he’d found on the forest floor.

Characca was a friend, and Kolar knew he was capable, especially with a group of wookies, but Kolar wanted to go make sure he was alright, if only for curiosities sake. He slipped the armor on, slung the bowcaster onto his back and double checked his knife and lightsaber were secured then set out into the forrest again.

[Damocles]

Damocles and his Death Troopers continued through the forest, Damocles' armor tracking any movement in the area. He stopped so did the Death Troopers.

Death Trooper: It would seem we have visitors sir.

"Yes" Damocles said looking at the Wookies surrounding them. "Wookies, I am Damocles of the Imperial Remnant. We are looking for a particular man. A jedi" Damocles said the Wookies growled at him, his helmet translating it.

Death Trooper: Sir?

"It appears that they do not know about any Jedi on this planet" Damocles said walking away from them. "Destroy this entire area, burn it to the ground" he ordered the Death troopers two of which pulled out flame throwers and started to burn down the trees.

Death Trooper: What should we do with the Wookies

"Is that even a question Lieutenant, kill them all" Damocles ordered them he continued to look out into the clearing hearing the slaughter behind him. "If you are out there Jedi, I know you feel what is happening, if you are not a coward you will show yourself, or this slaughter will continue"

[MikDaTv]

Kolar heard blaster fire in the distance. Lots of it. The sound echoed through the trees. Kolar could feel the fire and the burning through the wroshyr trees around him through their connection to all the other wroshyr trees in the region. He could feel the panic of distant animals fleeing the disturbance in their environment. Insect colonies were going into bunker mode, retreating from the surface and holing up deep in their nests and burrows in the ground.

With this information from all the life around the area, Kolar got a pretty good idea of the location. He clambered up a tree into the lowest level of branches and used them to travel. He was a big man but these trees had been growing for centuries if not millennia. The lower branches were more than thick enough to support his weight.

Within minutes he reached the edge of the destruction. Men in white armor with flame projectors were burning the brush and setting trees on fire. Logically, Kolar knew their efforts were fruitless, the forest would reclaim the damaged land within a few weeks or even days. The massive wroshyr trees might burn at the base a little, but the fire wouldn't make it up their trunks to the wookie tree cities. They were too damp this far down to the ground to be efficient fuel.

Kolar watched the team work, burning their way into the forest. He hated what they were doing, but he wasn't about to reveal his position to them.

Characca had no such reservation. He and his two friends leaped from the branches above down onto the stormtroopers. If you've never seen a wookie fight, be thankful. It isn't pretty. Within minutes the team were a mangle of limbs and blood smeared across the forest floor without ever needing to draw their bowcasters. They moved like some terrible mix between bear and panther. incredibly powerful, but graceful with their strength.

Kolar shook his head. There were dozens of stormtroopers, possibly hundreds killing this small group would only serve to upset the others. But Charraca was young still. He lacked the foresight of age. He'd seen a target attacking and he attacked back. Kolar followed the wookiee party from his vantage point up in the branches as they moved towards the next group of stormtroopers.

[Damocles]

Damocles watched as the forests burned he was delighted in this act, but it was a necessacity. He took no joy in ruining the lives of the indigenous creatures here, but he had his duties. Several storm troopers ran up to him and his Death troopers, Damocles put his hand up to stop the troopers. "What is the problem?" He asked.

SMH: Looks like we've run into some resistance sir, we've received reports of Wookies attacking our forces sir, what should we do?

Damocles turned around and motioned his Death Troopers to come with him "We shall go there, perhaps they are protecting their land, perhaps not, whatever the case can not have them stirring the others into combat" Damocles said as they all started to head in the direction of the attacking wookiees. Once they arrived he looked at the masscre of his men they were all dead "They are making their way through our teams, follow the dead bodies, now" he said to his men.

They all nodded in agreement and ran towards the yells and gun fire with Damocles following, they all arrived seeing the wookies and the storm troopers fighting. Damocles held out his hand grabbing one of the wookies with the force and slammed it into a tree. He reached under his cloak and pulled out a hilt that was connected to his armor via a cable he ignited the red blade which was unstable flowing out of the hilt in the shape of a large bastard sword. "Kill them all" Damocles order his storm troopers.

[MikDaTv]

Kolar watched in horror as Charraca was picked up and hurled into a tree at break neck speeds. Even from his distance away, Kolar could hear the sound of the bones breaking upon the impact. The other two wookies howled in anger and charged the death troopers but were gunned down before they could make anything of their attack.

Kolar's fists where white and shaking with rage and his nails dug into his palms. "NO!" He screamed. He let himself drop to the forest floor, firing his bowcaster as he came down. The green bolts struck stormtrooper, making charred holes into their armor and sending them flipping head over heels backwards from the force of the blow. When he landed, he bent his knees to absorb the landing a little bit then stood up and reached out with his free hand, grabbing one of the stormtroopers with a flame projector in his invisible grip. "This will happen no more!" He shouted as he lifted the stormtrooper a dozen meters into the air and began crushing him. The force crushed the fuel tank on his flame projector just as much as it crushed his bones and internal organs. The tank ruptured and began spewing flamer fuel like rain.

Kolar let the trooper fall with a thud onto the ground to let his blood mix with the leaking fuel. "You will all leave this place and never return or by the authority of Wookie law I will kill you for the murder of these people."

[Damocles]

Damocles watched as the man screaming no dropped down onto the scene of the wookiees being slaughtered. Fully turning around once the storm troopers had been killed Damocles held his hand up to halt their current attacks."So" Damocles said looking at the man, "You are the one that we seek, the Jedi the forgotten relic of the republic" he said to the man his lightsaber still hissing as the unstable blade continued to illuminate the area in a eerie red light. "You are the one we have come for" When they were threatened Damocles let a smile go across his face though it could not be seen because of his helmet.

"We shall leave with no further altercation if you surrender and come with us Jedi. Know that I take no joy in slaughtering...primitives" he said about killing the wookiees. Damocles held his hand up again the stormtroopers all took aim at the Jedi in front of them. "What will your answer be?" He asked the man.

[MikDaTv]

Anger pulsed through Kolar. Him surrender? His hand tightened on the grip of his bowcaster. “You come to this planet with your fire and your soldiers, looking for me? Little old me? All I do is live by myself in one of the most dangerous places in the galaxy, healing the occasional wounded wookie that crosses my path.”

He relaxed his grip and let the bowcaster fall, letting the sling carry it’s weight. He snatched up his lightsaber and flicked it on. The white blade snapped into existence. “You’re not the only one with a fancy sword. If you want me, you come get me. I’ll kill you, then i’ll kill your men, and then i’ll build a monument to your failed, dead empire right here on the forrest floor from your corpses. It should last a week, maybe two, before the wildlife picks it clean and it fades into nothing… just like your empire did.”

He stretched out his mind and felt the life around him. The animals and the trees and the insects. He balled up his left fist, gathering the Force into it. In his right he gripped his lightsaber.

[Damocles]

"Where there are Jedi there will be inquisitors" Damocles replied to the jedi talk about them coming for him. "To preserve the balance of the force you must be wiped out, you and your ilk" he continued on. When the jedi talked about the empire Damocles growled the trees behind him ripping out the ground crumbling. "You will watch your tongue and respect our fallen Emperor you insect" He said through his anger.

"If he does not wish to come willingly then we will take him by force, now just as I have trained you troopers" Damocles order the storm troopers surronded the Jedi and started to open fire with their blasters. While this was happening Damocles waited for the Jedi to make his move, he concentrated on the hatred he and anger he felt within the jedi, seeing all of his friends his home destroyed and Damocles fed off of this making his connection to the dark side stronger. His attacks would come quick and ruthless, quickly disarm the jedi and take him prisoner find out what he knew about other Jedi.

[MikDaTv]

“I’m not a Jedi, I’m just a guy who knew one once. But you may have it your way.”

Kolar flung his left hand out, sending the Force energy clutched there out in a huge wave towards Damocles and his storm troopers. With his right he threw his lightsaber over to his right, spinning like a boomerang.

He gathered himself into a crouched position and with a telekinetic boost he leaped off to the side to avoid the first wave of blaster fire from the storm troopers. As he was in the air he reached out with his mind to the branches above until he found what he was looking for. When he landed on his left shoulder, he spun round onto his back and sent another blast of telekinetic force power into the air, this time tightly packed into fast moving ball. It struck a hornets nest up there, dislodging it from the branch it was perched on and sending it careening down to the forrest floor.

While the nest fell, his lightsaber struck the dead body of the trooper he’d crushed to death earlier. The saber slid through the troopers armor and body with ease, but the white hot plasma energy of the blade had the secondary effect of igniting the flamer fuel that had burst out from the troopers flame projector tank. Fire erupted from the body and spread like lightning across the ground where the flamer fuel had rained down.

The lightsaber arced around and came back to him. He caught it just as he recovered from his dive and came up to his knee.

[Damocles]

Damocles used the force to steady himself against the wave the Jedi had sent out before watching the lightsaber go through several of his troopers. "Duck you idiots" Damocles said to them the rest started to fall back to avoid the blade. When the Jedi went through the air to avoid the blaster fire Damocles launched all the trees that he had previously torn out the ground at the man.

He watched the man come back down gripping his saber "Cover me" Damocles said to the troopers as he went towards the Jedi. His heavy armor impeded his speed but it would not be a problem really, Damocles like the Jedi used the force to thrust himself into the air and came down next to the Jedi swinging his saber at the man. The blade arced downward as Damocles tried to the cut the jedi's arm off.

[MikDaTv]

Kolar ducked the first tree, avoiding it by centimeters. The second one hit his upper body and dislocated his left shoulder. He groaned in pain and flung his saber again to cut the third tree in half in order to slip between the two half before it dislocated his other arm. Blaster fire rained in so as soon as his lightsaber was back in his had it went to work deflecting bolts.

The inquisitor closed with him, leaped and came down on him, saber slicing the air towards him. Kolar flashed his saber up and blocked the blow, collapsing to his knees to absorb the impact. “I haven’t done anything to you or your people.” Kolar struggled to press up against the Inquisitors with only one hand. He grunted with the effort. “Why do you want me?” He said through gritted teeth.

[Damocles]

"You are strong in the force" Damocles said to the Jedi as the swung again to further put pressure on the man. "This battle is fruitless, if you surrender we will leave your friends in peace" Damocles told him "We have no desire to destroy anyone here if we do not need to, now surrender Jedi!" he ordered as he moved away from the Jedi's reach then used the force to send a few more trees at him. The stormtroopers still did not move as they were not given the order just yet. Damocles could see that this man was on his last legs however, it wouldn't take much now to make him surrender.