Not Too Late to Start Again

Re: Not Too Late to Start Again

feeds@yuku.com (Jasra Antalles) — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:05:49 GMT

It happened quickly. One moment the untrained sentry was smiling and taking with whom he thought to be one of his comrades that had returned from elsewhere. The next he was dead on the ground with a vibro-blade jutting from his throat. No sound came from him as blood oozed and gurgled from the wound. Satisfied all was going as planned so far, Jasra retrieved her blade wiped it off on the long, dirty coat before returning it to her leg sheath. Then, no longer needing them, she removed the coat...

Re: Not Too Late to Start Again

feeds@yuku.com (Lord General Achlohr) — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:50:14 GMT

The speeder that Vladimir had rented had been tuned in a way that traded speed for stealth. And right now, this was a big problem. He saw the tracker on his datapad slow down and slowly move. Then it stopped, but then started again at a sprint-like pace. Then it stopped again. It hadn't moved for about three minutes now.
Because of the setting sun, Achlohr, a mercenary on the job, was a black shadow in the sky. If Jasra was discovered snooping around and killed, then that meant that...

Re: Not Too Late to Start Again

feeds@yuku.com (Jasra Antalles) — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:47:32 GMT

Jasra re-checked her datapad to confirm what she read wasn't an error. The medium-sized home which sat at the bottom of the small hill from which she observed the on goings was protected by a decent but not impossible electronic security perimeter. All of which was unseen to the human eye or someone not trained to notice such things. Jasra was good, but not that good. Though, she had left her 'borrowed' vehicle a good 1/2 mile from the house and walked to where she was now in an...

Re: Not Too Late to Start Again

feeds@yuku.com (Lord General Achlohr) — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:27:32 GMT

He originally thought to stick with Jasra after their encounter and be her bodyguard by her side. It then donned on him that it would be better to continue to protect her from a distance. She would be less bother some and ask less questions this way.
Achlohr could see her, and if all was going as planned, she wouldn't be able to see him. Vladimir looked through his binocs to see Jasra looking through hers. She was lying prone on the top of some rubble that used to be part of a...

Re: Not Too Late to Start Again

feeds@yuku.com (Jasra Antalles) — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:06:56 GMT

Jasra figured the low-life causing havoc in Lorex's neighborhood was operating directly out of the cannery in the industrial sector. And she was right. After taking up a point of surveillance nearby but not close enough to be seen by someone deciding to take a smoke break, Jasra spied the leader leaving and was flanked by two of his men as they entered a green hover-truck. It sped off towards the outer regions of the city.

"Damn. Shouldn't have sold my speeder bike with...

Re: Not Too Late to Start Again

feeds@yuku.com (Jasra Antalles) — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 17:35:04 GMT

Jasra looked at him for a long moment while processing what he said. She was about to ask who hired him, but instead figured he didn't want to reveal his employer. She wouldn't. "Well, looks like you're still on the job Mister Chaak." She rose from bed and went to her duffles, opened the larger one and started taking out equipment. "I'm going to find out who the greedy backside of a Bantha is that's been threatening, that kind old man who owns the...

Re: Not Too Late to Start Again

feeds@yuku.com (Lord General Achlohr) — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 17:08:01 GMT

Vladimir could see that Jasra did not trust him. He held back a half-smile as he thought, 'Good. You shouldn't.'
She told him where her apartment was, and then walked off in the other direction. A dozen scenarios flashed through the warrior's head.
An ambush up ahead.
It's not actually her apartment.
The door is rigged with an explosive.
There were so many ways that something could go wrong. But despite his morbid...

Re: Not Too Late to Start Again

feeds@yuku.com (Jasra Antalles) — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 03:16:17 GMT

Lorex had offered his home to Jasra as he always did when she came home. However, this time she didn't want this minor gang lord to know of her connection with Lorex and would stay at her apartment.
Figuring this might take some time, she retrieved the rest of her personal effects from her ship before heading to the apartment where she directed her rescuer to go. If he decided not to stay around, she'd handle this on her own one way or another. She had a feeling he'd be there...

Re: Not Too Late to Start Again

feeds@yuku.com (Jasra Antalles) — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:41:34 GMT

If he wanted to kill me, I'd be dead already. Think, girl. Something's amiss here. Find out what it is. The adrenaline coarsing through Jasra was starting to ease down but not completely. She stood slowly, cautiously. Even though he said to remain sitting. Her eyes never leaving him or his sidearm. As her thoughts began to slow, things began to make sense. She bent down carefully and retrieved her own weapon. "Don't worry I'm not going to try and shoot...

Re: Not Too Late to Start Again

feeds@yuku.com (Lord General Achlohr) — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:23:34 GMT

She attacked him. She tried to, anyway.
But of she did. She did not know who he was. But she could have at least waited to ask what he wanted.
The other side of the coin: the adrenaline was racing through her bloodstream. She must be tired. She just passed an arm length away from death, and didn't even have her gun to defend herself with against this new stranger. Her mind was clouded.

Jasra's hand flew towards her leg as she attempted to draw a vibro-blade from a...

Re: Not Too Late to Start Again

feeds@yuku.com (Jasra Antalles) — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:22:26 GMT

An alley between two buildings was one of the worst places to engage in combat. Weapons or otherwise. There just wasn't any room to maneuver without putting yourself in further jeopardy. That's where a detailed recon was important. Jasra knew this from being a bounty hunter. It should've been automatic, but the need to protect her family shrouded her thinking. If she were the commanding officer of an infantry squad and this happened, they'd more than likely all be dead right...

Re: Not Too Late to Start Again

feeds@yuku.com (Lord General Achlohr) — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:36:08 GMT

The new wave of armed killers stepped over their fallen brethren like they weren't even there. And they were dispatched in a similar fashion and left to join their fallen brethren in whatever afterlife they believed in. Headshot, center mass, impromptu amputation. So many ways to kill a man with a gun. The ones that did not die were left to bleed out on the ground.

Once again, the battlefield became still. Many bodies were sprawled at odd and unnatural angles. Some courtesy of...

Re: Not Too Late to Start Again

feeds@yuku.com (Jasra Antalles) — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:26:44 GMT

Not the hard-core killer like other bounty hunters, Jasra still had no regret about any of the bodies lying in their own blood. They tried to kill her and she killed them first. She didn't think about whether they had families to support. She didn't care. Her own family was being threatened and it had to stop. Her expression remained stone-cold as she fired off round after round of yellow bolts at her attackers. Amateurs. No sense of tactics among one of them. But, there were many. No...

Re: Not Too Late to Start Again

feeds@yuku.com (Lord General Achlohr) — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:03:04 GMT

Leaping rooftop to rooftop. In this old industrial sector of Corellia, moving discreetly and quickly was easy. Vladimir had no pack to slow him down, but the numerous disassembled guns in the pockets of his overcoat weighed him down.
The old contract had been cancelled, and it aggravated the Shadow-mercenary. He had been led to a decent-sized hotel room where he was to stay for two days. The people who contacted Vladimir and brought him out to this planet refused to pay even a fee for...

Re: Not Too Late to Start Again

feeds@yuku.com (Jasra Antalles) — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 02:02:43 GMT

It took some doing, but eventually Jasra found herself outside of one of many food processing factories within the commercial sector where the two thugs had disappeared. Thankfully, there was still a few hours of light left though with the cloud cover it seemed later. That itself could be an advantage as she moved as silently as she could to a more observant position. Her blood was afire with the feeling of being on the hunt again. Not for money, but instead for the protection of a loved one....

Re: Not Too Late to Start Again

feeds@yuku.com (Jasra Antalles) — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 01:24:36 GMT

Lorex didn't elaborate on the situation he had been dealing with before Jasra arrived. And, she didn't push for answers either. They patched up Ronel, the wounded assistant while they talked. She'd seen and had worse injuries so if her lack of sympathy bothered the elder, he didn't show it. All that was said about the two men was that it had to do with a bad deal. Jasra didn't buy it of course. The problem remained, however, that her Granddad was being pressured to do...

Re: Not Too Late to Start Again

feeds@yuku.com (Lord General Achlohr) — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:44:10 GMT

The mysterious man and the agent had introduced a simple job to Vladimir. Just follow and monitor a woman. A charter to Corellia, the planet where the woman, Jasra, was staying, was be provided.

Vladimir had been lead aboard a Cr-90 corvette that had been stripped of its gun turrets. He was subsequently locked in a cramped room. At least it was equipped with a bed, refrigerator unit, and a refresher. But it seemed that the food had been spiked with a mild sedative. Achlohr...

Re: Not Too Late to Start Again

feeds@yuku.com (Jasra Antalles) — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:15:31 GMT

Not too far from Lorex's shop, Jasra realized she had left her data pad with Lorex. With a groan she reversed her direction and headed back to retrieve it. Not really thinking anything of it, there was a speeder parked in front.
Just as she was about to push open the door, she heard two male voices in addition to Lorex's and she pulled her hand quickly from the handle. They didn't seem to be talking about buying or selling a ship, nor did their tones indicate it was a social...

Re: Not Too Late to Start Again

feeds@yuku.com (Jasra Antalles) — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:42:08 GMT

"Well, what do you think. I had most of the internal wiring and some of the less functional boards replaced the other day, figured someone would whine about them if I didn't." Lorex turned to see Jasra step through the back room without her travel packs. "I should charge you for that."

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Not Too Late to Start Again

feeds@yuku.com (Jasra Antalles) — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:39:50 GMT

Former bounty hunter and Corellian, Jasra Antalles walked a few paces away from the transport that had brought her back to her homeworld after having left many years before and stood for many long moments as stored away memories, both good and bad came...