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Edge of Empire: The Demolitionist

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The next one from the great :iconjohnbecaro:

Meet the Chiss mercenary, Der'ey'ath, a pretty gal with an ugly side to her nature...


“The appetite is tremendous, so I'm gonna spin this
Drop up some violence because they ask me to end this
Some trouble that I caught 'cause I was noisy
A nigger tried to take advantage, because I'm kamikaze
He took the swing from my hand - thought I was faded
Start running for the door but the fucker never made it
The sound of the Nine went BANG!
And all over the wall was his motherfucking brain
'Cause I'm a nigger you can't sleep on
So set the alarm, 'cause I'm hitting like a mothafucking bomb…”

 N.W.A, ‘Appetite For Destruction’


 

“Boom!”

Reya

 

Miss Der'ey'ath is known best for two things; her love of messing with people’s minds as regards her culture, and explosions.  The Chiss are incredibly human-like in many ways, being aggressive, resourceful and adaptable… but the Ascendancy is so utterly remote from human space as to render them almost unknowable.  Very rare in the known galaxy, most people only know them through Admiral Thrawn who heads up one of the Imperial factions, and even then most humans assume he’s a Pantoran or something.

Reya is perhaps the second-most unstable character in our game; unlike her partner-in-crime Red, she’s not a completely twisted psychopath, more of an Ax-Crazy Blood-Knight who just loves causing mayhem.  She sees herself as an artist, and the battlefield is her canvas… and, um, to stretch the analogy even further, the blood and giblets of her unfortunate foes are her paints of choice.   Reya is a very capable hand to hand fighter with vibrosword or her fists, but her real love is things that violently explode.  Some types of lower-powered grenades can be legal, but most of the 'good stuff' is highly restricted, much to her chagrin.  Of course, that makes the times when she can blow something to smithereens with proper explosives all the more satisfying.  And thermal detonators are surprisingly easy to conceal, being little bigger than a Camba fruit…

With this in mind, we asked Reya about some of her favourite adventuring moments (from a suitably safe distance)...


“Miss Reya, you work as an enforcer for Savan Sizhran’s Black Sun, yes? You must have all kinds of anecdotes about that. Care to share?”

“Well, yes, sure! My favourite one was  recently, in fact! We went to this planet full of duck people. Yeah, I know; something so stupid-looking barely has any reason to live, right? Anyway, we shot up a few settlements looking for… some Force thing Red wanted.  The Veiled Sorority girls had a good time, but hitting civilian targets doesn’t really do it for me.  The pyrotechnics were pretty afterwards, but it’s something of a waste when you’re only blowing up trash scavs and farmers, right? Anyway, we went to a temple and that was much better.  These people – ducks, Bardottans, whatever they were -  put up a pretty good fight.  I like it when I have to sweat!  They weren’t any match for us in the end though, but it’s good to hit a hard target, get a proper challenge.  Anyway, Red got into a scrap with another biotic, and he gave her as good as he got.  If you ask me, biotics is kind of cheating, but hey, not everyone is naturally as good as me, and everyone needs an edge, right? Anyway, it was… hahahhahaha! It was…! Hee hee! In the end, Red just… well, she just tore this poor kriffing duck thing in half!  Just grabbed a part of its beak in each hand, all glowing like an emergency beacon, and literally ripped it down the middle! There was blood and guts everywhere! It was beautiful.  I’m wet just thinking about it.  I mean, I love her anyway, but this was… ahahahhahahaaha!  This was just too much! Anyway, she found the red orb thing, whatever it was we were looking for, and I’ve never seen her happier. But for me, that was the best thing ever.  This kriffing duck thing, in two neat halves! Ahahahahahahahahaha!”

“Um…!”

“Then there was that time we went to a party on Cloud City. I liked this one because I wasn’t just watching.  There was this slug there, a Hutt, you know? All dressed up in finery like it was a person. Jewels on a slug, right? Ahahaha.  Anyway, he had some guards, but they weren’t in the mood to get killed for a slug, right, not after we butchered a few of them. Now, the thing of it is, it’s not illegal anywhere in the galaxy to kill these things, right? I mean, not even in Nal Hutta! The kriffing slugs don’t even like each other, right? You can just murder them and nobody gets upset.  So we took our time with this piece of work. I normally like a good fight but this kriffing slug was just begging and crying, right? It was beautiful.  So I cut off its stupid little slug arms and put out its eyes, and forced it to swallow a thermal detonator!  Then Red did the biotic thing and floated it up in the air… Everyone was just swept up in it, cheering and singing!  The fireworks went off, and I hit the detonator, and it exploded, showering us all with Hutt intestines! Gods of Csilla, it was beautiful!  I was laughing and Red was laughing and we kissed, and it was just so romantic! You just don’t get that often.”

“Err – “

“Then there was this time some bug-faced thing bumped into me on a street on Ord Mantell.  I ripped off some of those eyestalks and made him clean the blood off my boots. With his tongue. Or whatever bug-eyed things have for a tongue, I don’t know what it’s called. That was great because sometimes the random ones are  the best, because there’s just spontaneity to it, I really wasn’t planning on murdering anybody, and it just sort of happened.  Like in a holovid or something.”

“Ah – “

“I suppose the best one was the stuff I did back home… I mean, I’ve killed real people, not just alien freaks. I was trying to get back our ambassador, who’d been kidnapped by Vagaari pirates… I put a locator on him, then tracked him back to their base… I rigged enough explosives to blow up a Star Destroyer, and blew that place to Byss!  The ambassador included, but hey, you can’t make maraffa without spilling some sap, right?”

<sigh>  “That was awesome, but it cost me my commission and my wife.  That jerk was House Inrokini, one of the Four Families. They always had it in for me. I’d done things that before - the base on Kinoss, the academy on Rhigar, the colony on Massoss… Before I got medals.  But I kill one lousy ambassador as collateral damage, and they throw me in front of a House Phalanx firing squad! Talk about over-reacting… Right?”

 

 

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