Knights of the Old Republic - IC

[drothgery]

"Do you know of any other places like the one the Hutt's palace is built on?" Serrana asked. It was possible to be too paranoid, but it never hurt to ask questions. At least, not unless the people you were questioning were seriously considering killing you, anyway.

 

[Karl Green]

Translating the old monks words again, ARRO says "The monk says that there are other place where evil exists of course, but he knows of no other like the caves under the great worms fortress...that is where the greatest evil was born."

 

[drothgery]

"Thanks for your help." She says, figuring by her fellow padawans silence that they have no further questions for the monks.

"This would be a lot easier if I weren't dead certain there was a leak pretty high up in the Republic administration. Drum up a 'health and safety' inspection on the Hutt's palace, bring along some police to deal with anyone who got difficult, and then we'd head to the caves. But since Captain Dul-Quinn's not likely to lend me a fighter to make an attack run on the place, we'll probably have to fight our way through it. I mean, we might be able to talk our way past some people, and once we're inside I might be able to spin up a fire alarm or something to clear most of the people out, but I'm thinking the Hutt and his top servants won't be as friendly the next time we visit them." She continued.

 

[Shalimar]

"Thanks for your help." She says, figuring by her fellow padawans silence that they have no further questions for the monks.

"This would be a lot easier if I weren't dead certain there was a leak pretty high up in the Republic administration. Drum up a 'health and safety' inspection on the Hutt's palace, bring along some police to deal with anyone who got difficult, and then we'd head to the caves. But since Captain Dul-Quinn's not likely to lend me a fighter to make an attack run on the place, we'll probably have to fight our way through it. I mean, we might be able to talk our way past some people, and once we're inside I might be able to spin up a fire alarm or something to clear most of the people out, but I'm thinking the Hutt and his top servants won't be as friendly the next time we visit them." She continued.

"No, your right, I doubt it'll go as well the second time. Honestly though we need to know our limits. I am willing to call in aide when we need it. We know the Glory isn't compromised. We call her in and use her troops to secure the Palace. We can't allow the opposition to have such a powerful darkside site and that means occupying it or destroying it, and at this point we know that Poputoss is going to resist us regardless of his involvement with the Sith. He can't let us waltz in and take it over, it'd be a major loss of face."

"Either that or call in the republic forces already on planet and you already raised a valid concern with that. Either way, we Jedi may be able to get into the Palace, but I don't think we could make it all the way through and confront the Sith base under it without the Gangster and his army entering the fight and at that point we will be overwhelmed and have to retreat."

 

[drothgery]

"I'm not sure the Captain would appreciate using her marines for police work. Soldiers usually don't like that much." Serrana said. "But she might be able to help us."

[sblock=OOC]And what's the marine company of a ship of the Glory's class, anyway? And does it carry anything that would make a good assault shuttle? The Empire tended to keep substantial ground forces on its Star Destroyers, and the ships to use them, but I don't know if that was standard practice in the Star Wars universe.[/sblock]

 

[Karl Green]

[sblock=OOC]And what's the marine company of a ship of the Glory's class, anyway? And does it carry anything that would make a good assault shuttle? The Empire tended to keep substantial ground forces on its Star Destroyers, and the ships to use them, but I don't know if that was standard practice in the Star Wars universe.[/sblock]

[sblock]The Glory has Company of Marines - 50 soldiers. Three platoons (of 16 men each) form each company and are lead by a lieutenant. It's overall commander is captain with a first sergeant as the commander's principle NCO assistant.
They have a lander shuttle but not an assault one for troop transport. The fighters and bombers are used for most kinds of assults and protection of the ship.
As for if they would, it is an iffy situation. Unless they have some kind of 'proof' then Captain Dul-Quinn could be violating a lot of laws, using the Military on a civilian population and all.[/sblock]

 

[Shalimar]

"I'm not sure the Captain would appreciate using her marines for police work. Soldiers usually don't like that much." Serrana said. "But she might be able to help us."

[sblock=OOC]And what's the marine company of a ship of the Glory's class, anyway? And does it carry anything that would make a good assault shuttle? The Empire tended to keep substantial ground forces on its Star Destroyers, and the ships to use them, but I don't know if that was standard practice in the Star Wars universe.[/sblock]

"It isn't police work that they'd be doing, they aren't trained for that and it would be inapproriate to use them for such. I do believe the military is trained to assault and secure positions, most police forces are not." Jade pointed out.

"Its more important to get this done correctly then to do it on our own for the test with such high consequences. Image and reputation can be useful to Jedi, but not just for their own sake, and we need to see ourselves and our abilites objectively, not as we want to see them."

 

[Brother Allard]

Jarec shakes his head. "I do not believe that we could justify, let alone survive, a direct assault on the Hutt. Building your palace on an ancient cavern is not a crime, and the Hutt's presence and influence, while unfortunate, seems generally to be tolerated by the Republic representatives - and remember that we have no real evidence that they have been corrupted.

"I believe we must either parlay with the Hutt and hope to be granted access to the caverns, or we must pursue another direction: perhaps seek out these Night Warlocks directly, or more closely question the Republic or Czerka representatives."

 

[drothgery]

"Me, I've never worried a lot about little things like whether or not something was, strictly speaking, legal, but Republic Navy officers just don't seem to have the same attitude. Jedi Masters, too, for that matter. And using military forces against civilians probably isn't legal most of the time. Besides, I didn't see anything that looked like an assault shuttle in Glory's boat bay." Serrana said.

 

[Shalimar]

"I believe we could convince them, its the reputation of Jedi thing that I was trying to preserve. Though I do think before we try to do that we should attempt to gather what information we can about their operation WITHOUT alerting them to the fact that we don't believe the Pure are to blame. If we try to go through a possibly compromised Republic official we could alert the Hutt and the Sith allowing them to leave or to prepare a trap."

"Before that though, lets have Joot tell us why they attacked us, I mean us in specific. Was it Random or did that Sith tell them we would be there through an intermmediary or what." she says, having Arro relay the questions.