[SoNE Ep. XV] - Palace - Party Crashers

[Ryn]

Xizor’s Palace, on the planet Coruscant….

[-Accessing personal logs…….RYN……complete-]

Had somebody told me three rotations ago that the Empire and the Rebellion would be “working together” to take down one of the most powerful crime lords in the galaxy, I would have laughed and called them crazy. But that’s the position I find myself in now. Command put me in charge of a small squad of soldiers to assault Xizor’s personal palace, an epic, heavily fortified structure just smaller than the Imperial Palace. Legend has it that if you spent a whole year inside the palace, you wouldn’t even see all the bathrooms inside, let alone every room. Thankfully Alliance Intelligence had kindly given each soldier a holo-map of his palace in order to more efficiently find Princess Leia and not get lost within its hundreds of rooms.

While other members of both factions infiltrated up through the sewers, my particular squad rappelled from a U-Wing onto one of the many balconies lining the edges of the structure, after a fly-by shooting insured that we would encounter minimal resistance on impact. The balcony, adorned with exotic plants and greenery, lead to a long hallway in which we met our first foes.

 

Near a door at the end, a small barricade had been set up by Black Sun mercenaries using various crates and cylinders. Once the mercenaries spotted us, they immediately began firing across the room, lighting it up with various red and green laser flares. I ordered my men to hug the walls and wait for pauses between firing to advance up the expensively decorated hall.  One of their men unwisely decided to try and advance the hall to us, in which he was quickly cut down by fire from my rifle. Now outnumbered, one of them, a Rodian, ducked behind the barricade, where he could be heard saying-

“We need reinforcements! The rebels are advancing on corridor 2C on route to the detention levels.”

“What do you mean you are too preoccupied with the Empire?! Ok, I suppose sentry droids will work….”

With the majority of the mercs distracted I signaled to the trooper closest to me to dash out of hiding quickly and fire. He nodded and pulled out a thermal detonator, intending to get rid of the barricade once and for all. We both ran out about ten feet in front of the barricade and shot the remaining mercs into cover. When they popped up again, I provided cover fire for my companion while he pushed the trigger on a thermal detonator and threw it, causing a small explosion that took out the last of the mercenaries. Only a whole palace left to go……

[-Closing personal logs……RYN……complete-]

Spoiler

Here's my first ever entry into an episode! Once I saw the episode announced I set to work on building a palace scene. I tried to replicate the color scheme in the picture of Xizor's office in the episode thread, but replaced the brown with red because of a lack of brown bricks. I watched the whole Xizor's palace level on Youtube for inspiration, but couldn't really tell what it was supposed to look like. It seemed just like a gray, piped mess to me. So I used a little bit of artistic license in designing what I thought his palace would look like, as well as what the mercenaries would look like. I also tried to make a perspective scene with this build (below), but I wasn't 100% satisfied with it. Constructive Criticism is more than welcome!

 

 

 

Edited April 23, 2017 by Ryn

[LegoRacer1]

Really like it its fantastic!

[VaderFan2187]

Awesome, but how did you do this?? So fast? 

[Cody Startale]

Very good, and quick, build! I also like the backstory you give your builds, I like reading stuff like that. That file log style is also quite unique and cool.

My only "complaint" would be that your thread title is missing the Palace location, like the episode rules asked for. But I'm sure that's an easy fix. 

[ChiefPie]

Great story and build!

[Merc4Hire]

Wow you're fast; excellent looking build and mission log! Great cinematic shot and I like the floor details, especially the square creases. Also, the red and greeble bits are a nice touch. 

[Ryn]

On 4/22/2017 at 9:37 PM, LEGORACER1 said:

Really like it its fantastic!

Thanks man!

On 4/22/2017 at 11:12 PM, VaderFan2187 said:

Awesome, but how did you do this?? So fast? 

Haha thanks! I worked my tail off after school for about 2 days after the topic was submitted to get this done. I may or may not have misread the due date. I was afraid that I would run out of time in my ever increasing schedule, which obviously is now not the case.

23 hours ago, Cody Startale said:

Very good, and quick, build! I also like the backstory you give your builds, I like reading stuff like that. That file log style is also quite unique and cool.

My only "complaint" would be that your thread title is missing the Palace location, like the episode rules asked for. But I'm sure that's an easy fix. 

Thanks, that's one of my favorite parts of this besides actually building. I enjoy writing stories and weaving characters into someone real. And thanks for that, really saved my bacon there. 

5 hours ago, Merc4Hire said:

Wow you're fast; excellent looking build and mission log! Great cinematic shot and I like the floor details, especially the square creases. Also, the red and greeble bits are a nice touch. 

Thank you! Really means a lot! I spent a long time on those greeble bits haha.

[Evolved Turtle]

Great job! If only you served the Empire...

[MKJoshA]

I love your take on Xizor's palace! The red really works for me.