Participants: Narai, Riata, Iso, Xanya
Amphitheater of Light - Opodian Colony – Irinnar
Aliens from across Hiverspace have come to Irinnar to see the newly discovered planet and as well for the official opening of the Malencheer Empire to the galaxy. Many have poured into the Amphitheater of Light for the announcement to begin. The excavation which took place here weeks early has been cleared, and various events, speeches and other things are occuring throughout the Amphitheatre. Most of the crowd waits in anticipation for the arrival of the leadership of the Malencheer.
Xanya Enters the Amphitheater of light and looks around carefully taking in the entire building. she moves around a bit to find a good spot to stand where she can see as much of the room as possible.
Riata strides into the amphitheater in the midst of a group of crew members all chattering away at her, sometimes she nods sometimes seems to scold but her paws are busy busy busy at her PDA the entire time until she reaches a good place to wait for Narai to enter seemingly finding this as good as any other time to work
Some distance beside the Amphitheatre lies the broken body of a Lotorian starship. Orange holotape has been erected around it to prevent anyone from entering, and it seems content to sit there, awaiting repairs to its makeshift metal hull.
In the Amphitheatre itself, a male Opodian wanders, apparently aimlessly. Every now and then he'll walk straight through a hiverspacer, much to their surprise, or sometimes anger.
Xanya looks around at the crowd trying to find poeple she know's. When she spots Riata she waves to her hoping to get her attention.
Riata looks up at the wave and nods back before seeing Iso wandering around. Waving off the crew members rather like a mother with rambunctious children she heads over to him, "Hello Iso dear, come with me. Walking through people will likely scare them dear." she takes his arm and tucks it into her own before turning to head back to where she had been.
Iso looks across to Riata at the word dear. "It recognises the term dear. Hello Captain!" The Opodian greets Riata as she takes his arm and starts to head back to where she'd been. He follows along, perhaps looking a tad sheepish. Occasionally he'll look around. "Organic beings are programmed to give a negative feedback response to being phased through?"
Xanya Walks over to where she last saw Riata hoping to catch her again there. She is carefull where she walks.
Riata smiles brightly at Iso, "Yes dear, organic beings have a negative feedback response to being phased through." she absentmindedly waves in Xanya's direction to catch her attention and soon Riata and Iso arrive back at the spot she had started from, "How are you doing dear? How are the repairs going? Was there anything further you needed?"
"Its hull is being repaired. Its systems are coming back to full power. It enjoys the fuel it's been given!" Iso walks the fine line between response and emotion. He knows how to smile, how to frown, how to cry, but hasn't quite worked out what they all mean. Inflections are much easier by comparison, and to some extent already covered in his positronic brain. He watches Riata wave to Xanya. "Does the air often require polishing? How has the Captain been? Does she need anything? It exists to serve."
The crowd starts to go silent, for the most part, when a warning klaxon sounds a few times before going silent. A moment later the ground from the center of the ring opens up, and from it rises a large obsidian pillar with the top of it carved out to hold someone in it with several computers visible. In the center of this is the Viceroy, Narai. The crowd cheers as the Viceroy appears, going semi-silent after to hear what is to be said.
Xanya just arives at Riata's location when the pilar brings narai up. she stays silent and awaits what he has to say.
Riata smiles to Iso and says, just loud enough to be heard by him during the cheering, "Why don't I answer all of that once the Viceroy is done speaking dear." she keeps her arm tucked into his as she stands. "Wait a moment... yes... engaging nod circuits." Iso executes a masterful nod. He seems quite proud of himself for it. With nothing further to add, the hologram continues looking about at the crowd, and sometimes Narai.
As the pillar come to a stop, allowing Narai to see a good portion of the upper levels of the Amphitheatre, he turns around in the balcony-like top of the pillar, to see everyone who has come to attend. He leans over, clicking a button on a console, turning on a communication device so he can speak to the attendees. "Good evening. And welcome to Irinnar. Let me be the first to welcome you to the Malencheer Solidarity. We stand for peace, prosperity, commerce, diplomacy and knowledge. We are a refuge for the lost. A place for those who seek enlightenment and truth to come." The Viceroy says, stopping a moment as some of the crowds cheer. "There are those who said we couldn't do it. That we couldn't form an empire based on those things. But I say, here and now, that they were wrong." Again, another round of cheers from some of the crowd. "And with our recent acquisition of the colony ship, Sanctuary, we have shown the galaxy we are to be taken seriously!"
Xanya listens carefully. She hasn't cheered yet for anything and is calmly listening to narai's words.
Riata continues to listen as well but smiles with pride as Iso nods so beautifully.
Iso engages wince mode as others start cheering. He makes a mental note to turn down his audio capturers. "What are they saying?" He whispers, in response to the cheers, looking around at those nearest. "Do they want something?"
As the crowd continues to cheer, Narai motions for them to quiet down so he can continue. "With that being said, we need to defense ourselves from threats from within, and without! We shall create magnificant military force which shall be the envy of our allies, and feared by our enemies. We shall remain steadfast in our resolve." The Viceroy shouts, gaining more cheers. "And again, I invite the leaders of all Empires, organizations and corporations to Irinnar to table an intergalactic document of laws to be followed, in response to the Sanctuary dilema."
As words of a military force are spoken Xanya gets a smile on her face. "interesting." she whispers mostly to herself.
Riata says softly to Iso, "They are verbally expressing their approval of the Viceroy's words dear. They are not really speaking any words."
"It is not required to respond then? It will remain with its captain." And so Iso continues to stand by Riata, giving a smile another shot.
Before the Viceroy can speak another word, a holographic figure appears above him, with smaller versions appearing throughout the Amphitheatre. The figure, cloaked and hidden, appears to be of Opodian physique. The crowd goes silent, and the look on the Viceroys face suggests this is not part of the gathering. "You are trespassing on sacred grounds. You are not welcome!" The cloaked holographic figure says. "The Hand of Opodi will rid you all of your corporal forms for the transgressions of desicrating this sacred place." As the figure speaks, the pillar the Viceroy is on slowly moves down towards the ground. "All shall be purged." The voice says.
Xanya looks intently to the hooded figure hologram. Her face becomes serious expecting a fight about to break out.
"This is all very new." Iso remarks as he watches the hooded figures. "They sound upset, do they require something? Oh, Captain is busy, It will wait." The one holographic opodian who is not covered in black robes tucks his little hand/paws together and waits for orders.
The hologram remains floating above the pillar, even as it drops. The Viceroy hits the controls several times to try and make the pillar to drop faster. However, his attempts are in vain. Before it can reach the ground, the center of the pillar explodes, tipping it over and throwing the Viceroy from it. As it explodes, several other smaller explosions go off across the Amphitheatre - spectators are hit by debris, others killed by the explosion, while others flee. Security forces begin forcing people out.
Xanya was expecting a fight but not an explotion. despite the unexpected event she manages to jump into cover. She waits in cover untill she is sure the explotion is over and none are there to follow.
As the explosion rocks the pillar, the Viceroy hangs on for dear life - but to no avail. The pillar smashes into the side of the lower ring, throwing him against the wall before hitting the ground hard several feet below with a *thump*. The Viceroy rolls around a few times, before becoming lifeless.
Riata doesn't even see the debris as it falls on her, in fact she doesn't see much of anything after either as she is out, at least for the moment
As the explosions go off a large chunk of debris sails through the air and smashes into Iso's skull, which promptly explodes, only to re-materialise moments later. Lucky he's just a hologram! He tests his blinking mode. Yup, still working. Does it accurately express his surprise? Who can tell. Seeing debris fall on his captain, now that /is/ surprising. "Reason chips inform me that you require assistance." Iso tells Riata. "Assistance will now be administered." The hologram starts to dig through the rubble, solid enough when he has to be.
As Security forces work to clear out the spectators, medical officers run in from a lower level door onto the arena floor towards the Viceroy who is partially under the tilting pillar. As they run across the arena floor, someone shouts out "Shooters on the upper concourse!" As someone spots several cloaksed Opodians setting up plasma rifles to fire on the crowds, or perhaps initially at the Viceroy had he survived - however he is covered by the pillar. The shooters open fire at the medical staff and several security guards in the area, as well as anyone else they can get at.
As the hooded figures start firing Xanya dodges there shots and heads over to the shooters to try and take some of them out. As she runs over to them she gets her sword out to be able to attack them as soon as she gets close to those shooters. Riata is laying still, Iso having removed most of the debris. She is still out but seems to show the signs that she might wake soon, her head, face, and upper body showing several locations where the debris caused wounds, the extent of which could be anywhere from minor to serious, only the medical staff who are currently playing dodge with bullets would be able to say.
Iso registers that the cloaked figures are shooting plasma rifles. "Plasma... dangerous when in contact with organics..." He tries to pick Riata up, hoping to shield her from the worst of the plasma fire with his back as he tries to carry her away from the fire without being trampled by fleeing crowds.
As the Opodi shooters reign down fire from the heavens, the medics jump for cover behind the obsidian pillar. Others head towards Riata. As the shots are fired, several Malencheer Templar open fire at the upper concourse with large plasma rifles, causing it to collapse - dropping the shooters twenty or so meters to the level below. As it hits the ground, security officers surround them to see if they survived. "Secure the area, get the Viceroy to the medical center!" Someone shouts. The medics work and prepping the Viceroy for extraction, as a small atmospheric shuttle drops in from the large opening in the Amphitheatre towards the arena floor to begin loading the injured.
As the shooters are taken care off Xanya puts her sword away and starts helping the medical staff with moving the wounded. starting with helping getting narai in a shuttle followed by helping move other wounded as needed. Riata opens her eyes and realizes she is being carried, she groggily attempts to sit up, not really managing it but tries none the les.
"Optical senses indicate that you are wounded Captain. Let It assist you." Iso feels Riata trying to sit up, carried as she is. He's more or less focused in putting as much distance between the amphitheatre and him as possible. The holographic Opodian starts to head towards where his starship is secured, nestled away from the explosions and the cloaked figures, with any luck. "It has fully functional medical facilities, including a diagnostics kit. Is this suitable?"
Narai is put onto a hoverbed, while medical staff work on him. He is pushed onto the shuttle, along with several other mounded. Another shuttle lands next to the one Narai has been loaded into, as his shuttle takes off, and more wounded are loaded into the newly arrived shuttle. Several medics head towards Riata to check her out.