====== Transport of Masuk' faik-khush from Erau ======

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Description [wiki]       : The Jedi council asks four volunteers for a dangerous extraction of an ancient Hiocan artifact from [[Erau]]
Image [image]            : 
Forum [forum]*           : 1669, 1670, 1734, 1735, 2039
Type*                    : Jedi
Characters [ref]*        : Ariana Danacia, Darones Rei, Fecta Trigiel, Nathan Miodrass Asillion
Factions [ref]*          : Jedi
Locations [ref]*         : 
Start Date [date]        : 2013-10-20
End Date [date]          : 2014-03-22
Related Stories [ref]*   : Mandalorian War
Story Teller [ref::user] : Brend
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<data jedi_reward #Reward: Jedi mission>
Story [ref]: [[]]
Character [ref]*: Ariana Danacia, Darones Rei, Fecta Trigiel, Nathan Miodrass Asillion
Experience: 3
Mission: 1
Reward [wiki]:
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<data faction_reward #Reward: Influence: Tour+Presentation>
Story [ref]: [[]]
Faction [ref]*: Hiocan Society, Teprogrenaian Consensus, Veolian Commonwealth
Influence: 3
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<data faction_reward #Reward: Influence: Active participation>
Story [ref]: [[]]
Faction [ref]*: Astrian Colonial Authority, Praetorian Empire
Influence: 2
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The Jedi Council is looking for four volunteers to travel to (:hex) 7 -6 to transport an ancient [[Factions~Hiocan Society|Hiocan]] artifact.

Professor Komian, head of the Zavel research institute, has requested assistance with the extraction of the artifact from the Hali Krani dig site on [[Locations~Erau]], and the transport of the artifact out of the warzone and to the [[Locations~Djana Military Research centre]] in the Niras system in (:hex) 10 -5.

The mission was assisted with military support from several Union members. The Veolian Commonwealth provided fighters and transport vessels, the Sundarian Federation provided a sensor vessel and a recon team, The Praetorian Empire provided a heavy cruiser and the Teprogrenaian Consensu provided two cruisers, six fighter wings and two bomber wings.

The Jedi split up in two teams. The ground team consisted of Ariana Danacia and Nathan Miodrass Asillion supported by the transport vessels, two fighter wings and the recon team. The rest of the vessel called the space team consisting of Fecta Trigiel and Darones Rei was supported by the rest of the military vessels.

The ground team was tasked with going down to the planet, locate the artifact and proffessor and bring them to safety while the space team would keep the space corridor open fending off Mandalorian attacks.


===== Space =====

In space, Trigiel and Darones Rei encountered three corvettes, a frigate and twelve fighter wings. Aside this, two Mandalorian fighter wings from nearby dogfights switched focus towards the Eclipse. As the Union fleets were in combat with the Mandalorian fleets over the planet, they could offer no assistance. Therefore the little space fleet from the jedi had to do it on their own.

Darones took down the two wings focusing the Eclipse, while the capital ships where protecting the Eclipse from the other Mandalorians.

During the fight, the Mandalorians where fighting a lot better than expected, after a while the conclusion was that there was a Force user on the Mandalorian Cruiser.

At the end of the battle, nearly all the Teprogrenaian fighter wings were down, the Carina-Nostro was heavily damaged and the Shadow Sagittari Malachite had some superficial damage and engine problems. Darones Rei was floating uncontrollably towards the planet and some Mandalorians managed to board the Shadow Sagittari Malachite. But the Mandalorians were on the run so the battle seemed to be won for the moment.

While a rescue party was retrieving Darones, Trigiel landed at the Shadow Sagittari Malachite to rent assistance there. Eventually they found and neutralized all Mandalorians before they could do any serious harm. 

Ours later, after the two padawan helped with the repairs of the ships, they received word from the ground team. The ground team retrieved the package but was cut short by a large amount of static. The padawan made a new plan: Trigiel took a few ships to behind the moon, waiting for when the Mandalorian were back. Darones went to the Eclipse trying to get a better signal about what was happening on the ground.

Once Darones received a telepathic message from Ariana Danacia about the situation of the ground team, Trigiel and Darones took a bomber to fly to the surface to take down the corvette.
	

===== Ground =====

Due to some kind of radiation the  ground team could not fly over or land directly near the dig site. 

The ground team landed on the landing site a few kilometres away from the landing site. The recon team had speeder bikes ready for them and moments later they raced through the swamp to the dig site. After a while Nathan lost control of his speeder which crashed into a tree while he was able to jump aside. The group concluded that this was the radiation that they were told about and it seemed to be affecting speeders as well. The group continued on foot and left the speeders next to some trees.

Two hours later the group arrived at the dig site. They were greeted by Professor Komian who was happy that they had arrived and he and his team immediatly started packing. The Jedi had to bring 4 cubic meter of crates, 6 assistants and 10 hiocan guards, the artifact and the professor himself while they had no transport ship... The Crystal was able to hover in the transport harness but it had no working propulsion. With some improvisation they packed all the cargo on the crystal. Ariana managed to add a ad-hoc propulsion system to the crystal. The whole group started moving towards the landing site at walking speed.

When the group came back at the location where they left the speeders it suddenly stopped raining. Unfortunately this was not really the case, in fact they were under attack by a Mandalorian Corvette that was currently hovering over their position. Seconds later the fight started and Nathan and Ariana were matched versus a Sith warrior and three other commando's with jetpacks. Nathan quickly dispatched the commando's which left the Sith warrior in a disadvantage with the remaining 2 versus 1 fight which eventually ended in Ariana chopping him down. The remaining Mandalorian forces on the ground were no match for two Jedi and were all killed in the remaining minutes.

When most of the enemy ground forces were killed the Corvette itself was attacked by the two fighter squadrons of the ground team that had finally arrived as backup. The distraction from the fighters was enough for the ground team to get on their way again with the crystal. When they were out of reach from the Corvette they could see Trigiel and Darones arrive in their bombers. Moments later they saw the Corvette crashing down into the swamp.

The Crystal was loaded into the transport ship and the group safely left Erau.


===== Aftermath =====
After the mission the group of Jedi accompanied [[Characters~Professor Komian]] to the [[Locations~Djana Military Research Centre]]. [[Nathan Miodrass Asillion]] got into a heated argument with [[Characters~Iaat Shigemi]] over the events during the mission. Eventually Nathan left.

While the preliminary analysis of the artifact was proceeding, the group received a tour of the facilities from [[Characters~Danar Lorum]]. After the tour the preliminary results were presented, and professor Komian gave a presentation on the dig site where the artifact was found.

===== Djana research centre =====
The Jedi deliver the Masuk' faik-khush artifact at the Djana research center where they will investigate it. They get a tour in the facilities followed by an presentation from [[Professor Komian]] and a researcher there. 