Star Wars KotOR I Chapter I

Note: sorry it took so long to get this up, I’ve had school and this is the first time I got this done.

[center]Chapter I

The Endar Spire

All Hell Breaks Loose.

R.S.S. [i]Endar Spire[/i]

Republic [i]Hammerhead-A[/i] Class Battle Cruiser

08:00 AM Republic Standard Time[/center]

Commander Ranik “Ace” Starwalker, asleep in his quarters when the explosions and the alert sirens woke him up, a point blank range shot from a Sith Interceptor caused him to fall out of his bunk and hit his head on the nearby bulkhead, combined with the hangover he had from drinking so much Tarisian Ale at the party the crew held last night to welcome the new officers and pilots that joined the crew, made his head feel like a rancor had crushed his skull, he was distracted by the pain when the door to his quarters opened, Ensign Trask Ulgo, soldier, and unknown to the other members of the crew other then Bastila and her team, a Jedi Knight entered, Ace managed to stand up fully when Trask began talking.

“We’ve been ambushed by a Sith battle fleet! The [i]Endar Spire[/i] is under attack, hurry up we don’t have much time.” Trask said.

Ranik shook his head and said: “Well duh, you don’t think I know that, what the hell is the [i]Endar Spire[/i]?”

“Did you fall out of your bunk and hit your head….”

“Yes I did.”

“Whatever, I don’t care; the [i]Endar Spire[/i] is the ship we’re stationed on-this ship! You probably don’t know who I am do you?”

“I think I do, weren’t you hitting on the communications officer last night at the party, then again, you could be someone who will most likely die in the next fifteen minutes.” Ranik joked.

“Funny, and as I said to the tactical officer and the chief medical officer, I was not hitting on her, we were just talking…. never mind, We don’t have time for this, I’m Trask Ulgo, ensign with the Republic Fleet, I’m your bunk mate here on the [i]Endar Spire[/i]. We work opposite shifts; I guess that’s why you haven’t seen me before.” Trask said.

“Now hurry up, we have to find Bastila! We have to make sure she makes it off the ship alive!”

“Who’s Bastila?” Ace asked.

“Bastila’s the commanding officer on the [i]Endar Spire[/i]. Well, not an officer, really, more of a Jedi military and fleet advisor, but she’s the one in charge of this mission.”

“One of our primary duties is to guarantee her survival in the event of an enemy attack! besides, you swore an oath just like everyone else on this mission. Now its time to make good on that oath, I’ve heard all about your reputation: elite combat training, tops in you class, 16 fleet accommodations, 12 recommendation for field promotions to admiral, major and colonel, on top of that, you’re a veteran of the mandalorian wars, other that you, Commander Onasi and Captain Antilles are the only other mandalorian war vets onboard, it’s no wonder you were hand picked for this mission, word around the ship is that the officers haven’t seen a soldier with your kind of potential in a good twenty years, but believe me, that potential won’t mean a thing if you can’t deliver when it counts.”

“How did you know all that are you a Jedi?” Ranik asked.

“No I am not, I just have a good memory, but believe me when I say that we’re soldiers, we’re trained for combat. Bastila’s going to need men and women like us at her side during this attack!” Trask said nervously.

“Okay, you’ve made your point, let’s go help Bastila!”

“Good, hurry up and grab your gear. You need to suit up so we can get out of here.”

“Okay, don’t get all prissy about it.”

Ranik opened the footlocker where he had placed his stuff last night after the party, slapped on his uniform, put his survival pack on, snapped his blaster rifle to the holster on the pack, attached his Stealth Field Generator to his belt and placed the dagger his father had given him when he joined the Republic fleet in the holster of his left boot, lastly, he pulled his sword out of the footlocker and said: “Okay, lets go teach those Sith smegheads what happens when you mess with the Republic.”

“What was that about?”

“What…oh Smegead, It’s a saying back home on Corellia, forget about it, lets get going”

“All right, lets move out, we should stick together; you’ll have more success with a party then on you own.”

“Okay fine, it’s about time we got going.”

Trask made his way to the door and said: “Because of the attack, this room is in a lockdown, but don’t worry - I’ve got the override codes, I can get this door open in no time.”

The door lock clicked and the door opened when both Trask’s and Ace’s Holo-Communicators activated.

[i]“This is Commander Carth Onasi – the Sith are threatening to overrun our position! We can’t hold out long against their firepower! All hands to the bridge!”[/i]

“That was Carth contacting us on our portable communicators. He’s one the Republic’s best pilots! Other then you, he’s seen more combat then the rest of the [i]Endar Spire[/i] crew put together.

“If he says things are bad, you better believe it. We have to get to the bridge to help defend Bastila, there’s a map of the [i]Endar Spire[/i] and a copy of Carth’s message in your electronic journal, just in case we get separated.

“[i]And that’s bad for whom?[/i]” Ranik though.

Trask snaps his fingers and says: Hey, snap out of it, we need to get going.”

“Got it.”

Ranik and Trask make it to the second door when Trask says: “Damn, this door’s locked, and I don’t have the codes to open it.

“I can get it open.”

Ranik pulls out his dagger, pries open the lock casing, cuts two wires and attaches then together as the lock clicks and opens, standing in front of the door is the Executive officer, Captain Eric Antilles shooting at two silver armored Sith Troopers, Antilles was shot square in the chest as Trask yells: These Sith must be the advance boarding party!

“FOR THE REPUBLIC!” Trask yells as he shoots one trooper, Ranik cuts off the hand of the second trooper as he tries to throw a grenade at Trask; Trask then shoots the troop in the forehead at point blank range.

“I’ve got a feeling that won’t be our last battle with the Sith. Good thing we have medpacs to heal our wounds. It might be a good idea to use one of them now before our next battle.

“Got it.

Ranik places his sword back in the holster, unsnaps his rifle and says: I got a feeling that there’s going to be a lot more Sith between us and the bridge.”

“I do too.”

Ranik and Trask run towards the end of the hall, Ranik opens the door to see two Sith Troopers standing there.

“Damn it.” Ranik says, as he powers up his rifle and shots both troopers in the chest, killing them both.

“Trask, see if they have anything of value on them, I’ll check out the container and the footlocker.”

“What, that’s….”

“Disrespectful, yes, if it was our officers, not the Sith.”

“But they might have been formal Republic officers.”

“Not any more.”

“Fine.”

Trask searched the corpses of the troops while Ranik opened the footlocker and container.

“You find any thing?” Trask asked.

Some Grenades, two swords and a Combat Suit, you?”

“Nothing of value, a few medpacs and a 20 cred chip.”

“Let’s get going.” Ranik said, as the two of them made their way into the hallway.

“Frak!” Ranik whispered.

“What?”

“A bunch of Sith troops are standing about a few clicks away, they took down the Republic officers that were on guard.”

“How many?”

“Three, but I think that there’s a second squad behind them.”

“What do we do?

“Well, I could use my stealth belt, throw a few grenades over there, and that will solve our problem.”

“Good luck.”

Ranik activates his stealth generator, makes his way towards the central of the corridor, takes two frag granates from his belt, switches off the generator and throws the grenades into the central of the squads, killing all six troopers.

“Trask, check the body’s and let’s move out.”

“Aye.”

“After they checked the bodies they made there way up to the door, it opened to reveal two people fighting, Ranik could tell that they were Jedi, one was tall, bald, clad in a silvery armor and was using a red Lightsaber.

“It’s a Dark Jedi! This fight is too much for us - we better stay back. All we’d do is get in the way.”

The battle was intense, the Jedi, uppercut the Dark Jedi, did a power attack and broke through his defenses, striking a killing blow.

Once the Dark Jedi was dead, the Jedi turned to Trask and Ranik. But before she could say anything, one of the power conduits exploded, killing her.

“That was one of the Jedi accompanying Bastila. Damn, we could have used her help.”

Trask said as two Sith troops came from behind the wall and started shooting at the two of them.

“Damn it, we don’t have time for this.” Ranik said, taking a grenade from his belt, threw it at the troops, killing them both.

The both of them made there way to the door at the end of the corridor when Trask said: “The bridge is just beyond that door. You better use your swords, there isn’t a lot of room on the bridge, and it’s suicide to use a blaster in close quarters, I better use one of the swords as well…..”

No, you should stay back and cover me, if I get killed; one of us is going to need to get off before the ship explodes, besides, what if they have lightsabers?

The swords are made using a cortosis weave. It’s strong enough to stand up against anything, even a lightsaber.”

Ranik snapped his rifle back to his pack, took the long sword and short sword, opened the door to the bridge and said: “All right, let’s go.”

Two Sith Troops were waiting on the other side of the door when the door opened, Trask fired at the Troops at the front of the bridge, while Ranik took care of the Troops near the front, after all the troops were dead, Ranik took any thing of value off of the bodies.

“Commander, you better get up here.”

Ranik made his way over to one of the front stations and asked: What’s wrong?”

“Bastila’s not here on the bridge- they must have retreated to the escape pods! We better head that way too.”

“Why would they do that?”

“The Sith want Bastila alive, but once she’s off the ship, there’s nothing stopping them from blasting the [i]Endar Spire[/i] into Galactic dust!”

“Wait…oh shit.

“What’s wrong?” Trask asked.

“Onasi must have taken the weapons off-line and transferred power to the shields.”

“What’s wrong with that?”

“With out power to the auto defense turrets, if we launch an escape pod, it will most likely get blown out of the sky before it can enter the atmosphere.”

“What should we do then?”

Ranik opened the panel on the bottom of the station, and began rewiring the termainal.

“What are you doing?” Trask asked.

“I'm transferring power from the back up generator to the weapons and the auto destruct.”

“Why the auto-destruct?”

“If the [i]Spire[/i] is destroyed when the auto destruct goes off, the explosion will take out all the fighers around the ship.”

“And the escape pod with it.”

“If we’re lucky, the explosion will throw the pod into the atmosphere.”

“If we not, then were dead.”

Rank gets up and says: Ok we’re ready. Let’s get to the escape pods.”

They make there way to the lift to the starboard section when they hear a banging from the other side of the second door in the room.

‘There’s something behind here.”

“We don’t have time for this.”

The door opens to reveal a second bald man, but in black armor and had a double red bladed lightsaber.

Damn, another Dark Jedi! I’ll try to hold him off; you get to the escape pods! GO!

Trask runs in to fight the Sith, Ranik tried to follow him, but the door closed behind Trask, Ranik pounded on the door, but stopped when he heard a scream.

“Trask….?”

[i]“Ranik, my son you must get off the ship.”[/i] A voice said.

“Mom?”

He didn’t hear anything else, but he took this as a sign and entered the lift.

Starboard section of the [i]Endar Spire:[/i]

Ranik exited the lift when his communicator began beeping; he activated it as the Hologram of Carth Onasi appeared.

[i]This is Carth Onasi on your personal communicator. I’m tracking your position through the Endar Spire’s life support systems.

Bastila’s escape pod is away – you’re the last surviving crew member of the [i]Endar Spire[/i]! I can’t wait for you much longer; you have to get to the escape pods!

But be careful. There’s a Sith patrol just down the corridor. You better use your steath belt to sink past him[/i]

“I understand, Starwalker out.”

Ranik activated his stealth belt, and snuck up behind the trooper, and stabbed him through the heart, he then made his way towards the escape pods, after dealing with the Sith protroal in one of the rooms his COMM unit beeped again.

[i]Be careful! There’s a whole squad of Sith Troopers on the other side of that door! You need to find some way to thin there numbers.

You could repair the assassult droid, if you have enough repair parts.

Or you could use the computer spikes to slice into the terminal and use the Endar Spire's security system against the Sith.[/i]

“Got it.”

Ranik took the spikes and parts out of the footlocker and hacked into the terminal and overloaded the power conduit, killing all the Sith, once he opened the door to the room, he then took the weapons off the Sith, finding an Ion blaster and a prototype virbosword among them, then he opened the door into the escape pod bay.

“You made it just in time! There’s only one active escape pod left. Come on, we can hid out on the planet below!”

“Are you Carth Onasi?”

“Yes and I’m a soldier with the Republic, like you. We’re the last two crew members left on the [i]Endar Spire[/i].

“Bastila’s escape pod’s already gone, so there’s no reason for us to stick around here and get shot by the Sith. Now come on – there’ll be time for questions later.”

“Hang on one second.” Ranik walked over to the computer terminal and activate the turrets; he saw that the auto destruct had a minute left before it went off.

“Ok, let’s go.” Ranik said as he and Carth strapped them self’s down, Carth activated the Launch sequence, he looked out the viewport to see the [i]Endar Spire[/i] explode in a ball of flames, the shock wave hit the pod and Ranik hit his head on the bulkhead and was knocked out.