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That Caleb guy got wanted tagged by the spycams and he just showed up at the Spring Station charging station where we were going to protest and Riot.

Never seen a guy like him and they didn’t see him kill three tarlok and with a sword that he sheathed away….into nowhere?

He made this place a weird box of space made but just shit overlapping and building over it, cut through a section of wall and the squat’s a small warehouse. We would’ve like me and my people would think of finding a hole like this or think of hammocks to sleep or these tied sheets rope bed platforms. He scorned all that stuff in hours while getting us in there and making that stuff.

He took a graze getting us out and that’s all they recorded him doing but it’s enough he was there. 

Never seen him around at all or his marks and he was dressed like he was in a fight until he started learning shit and scouting, finding out he was wanted.

The we’re occupied and he didn’t know who the Tarlok were.

Never seen powers like his either, finding shit, hacking vendies?  

Piper was up and watched Cale/Kale/Kael go his psi was going and I could see his psi-shimmer.

He and I are Newblood Eternal.

We’re called that cause was back, way, way back we were still new to the verse and have started this place up for a few centuries and then they ended up in a war with the Splugorth.

Long story short internment camps and bio wizardry and new eternal strains got created along with worse.

I’m a Talus, We were modified for ship maintenance and construction duty and I’ve enhanced senses, speed, reflexes and dexterity and have a strong prehensile tail.

We can’t really do the manipulation or push powers old bloods can but Sense and Willpower are still Eternal.

Then Piper is a Seer.

Seeron was named for them there was something in the genes of one of the Psi experiments that they bred with Oracle blood and Seers were created by accident and they all have crystal blue eyes and darker toned skin and their eyes glow when they use strong psionics, rebels tend to die their hair while, blue, silver something bright after most powerful seer “terrorists” use psi swords or similar psi weapons and those shine blue.

Thing is they’re all Master Psionics, and the ones that focus like physical psi or healing or sensitives if it’s all in like one kind of psi it’s way stronger.

Like Bursters, Zappers, Rainmakers…Psi druids too or like big time telemechaanics.

All are illegal.

The Tarlok have Dreadloks, their own Master Psionics and their leaders, officers and generals most of the time.

They hunt down people with that level of power and kill them, and many say capture and drain their powers dry first.

Yeah… I heard that right.

The scary nightmare stories that blow up the Tarlok with these powers might be true.

Dreadloks, Tarbulls… a literal rebred of alpha male, sterile but like roided and usually shock troopers. Those are gene moded, so others and a leader type doesn’t seem too far fetched.

Old bloods like Caleb pretty much don’t exist and the few that make the claim are lying and usually celebs in the Highhighs.

That’s our slang for the surfaces, the pretty levels and towers.

Shitty debutantes and business types just fine with the Tarlok, just a new client to them, siddled right up.

Mind you anyone with fame and voices against them are either wanted and in hiding or dead.

Assholes mad the resistance fighters tonight hit a cred truck full of hard gold and the battle didn’t have them or the Tarlock level the block.

That’s what went down while Caleb was with this chick in the diner.

Yeah I followed.

But yeah mad that it’s damage and their insurance goes up and not leveled where they get a payout and to kick us out of the area and build.

I followed cause there’s something about the guy and it felt like shit might have been okay if he was around.

It was like him being there just took the edge off.

I was not expecting the woman, or the ear points she had or her using her hand come to do slight of hand with money.

Then they went poof.

Shit came to ahead outside and she dives out back like a streeter would and got a couple alleys away and clear and the comm again and blip.

And he’s gone.

I get why.

I see the Dreadlok fighter.

Tarlok use fighters weird, they have very few fighters. They use a shit load of drones instead and the officers have fighters but much more common it the Tarlok Planet Cruiser… a shuttle bomber they use all the time heavy armor and guns, two turrets on the engine/thruster pods front end and they usually have missiles and can carry three tarlok squads of 6 power suits.

Dreadlock fighters are made for these bastards, officers and all of that and they are all black with this classic wedge but like a tarlock skull with the wings being the tarlok chin blades.

Big, tough and well armed I guess people don’t take them down often enough I know specs.

This thing wobbled.

Hovered and stayed there for the longest time and then there was this weird cloud/gate…it was like this glowing golden thundercloud was forming in front of it like just coming out of wisps like clouds do only fast.

The ship fired into it.

(Jora/Caleb/Serr/Keth)

There was this feeling and stillness in the air and people are looking in your direction as this astral cloud forms.

There’s a shape beyond it and this sound of energy canons upwhining before…

***Caleb… “Fire in the hole!”

I dive and cover Jora as something is firing ship guns into where we’re at and into the tree itself in energy attacks, ship guns and torpedoes.

We’d be done but it doesn’t know Keth’s here.