Exegol preplay

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The ships exited hyperspace, and Poe's first thought upon seeing Exegol was that it looked dead. It was the the ugliest thing he'd seen in a long while, and he wondered if it had always been this way, or if building a colossal fleet of Star Destroyers here had killed the place.

And when the ships dived into the cloud cover, they nearly ran into the Sith fleet. It was massive. Their triangled hulls were enormous, but they grew even smaller as their numbers seemed to stretch into infinity.

"Great dark seas," Aftab Ackbar gasped across the comm. "Look at that!"

"No sign of the Falcon or allies," Tyce said from her ship.

"Help will get here," Poe assured them.

Comments

[tros_npcs]

In the troopers' defense, they couldn't have known they couldn't hurt her.

And a line of them did try to fire on her, but at least a few had figured out that they had to try something new. They just had to figure out what.

[defenderofdesmoines]

Aww, and look at them line up to make it easier on her!

All of that energy holding Annie in the air surged out of her in an enormous, blinding blast that -- hopefully -- would fry any electrical equipment the troopers had, and sending them flying like bowling pins, if Annie had her way.

At least, she sure hoped she knocked them back with that, 'cause she was falling back down to the ground and it was gonna take her a second to recharge.

[tros_npcs]

The troopers did in fact go flying, but it was also enough to draw attention from other troopers.

One of which drew a baton, something of an energy weapon, because he didn't know better.

[defenderofdesmoines]

Man, these troopers totally should have read their, like, 'What to do when facing down an invulnerable energy siphon,' handbook, right?

"That looks fun," Annie commented, springing back up quickly and focusing her glowing eyes on the baton -- which would prove to be dead fairly swiftly here, should the trooper try to use it.

[tros_npcs]

Well. He tried to use it.

Maybe if they aimed a turret at her. Incoming!

[defenderofdesmoines]

But what if the turret listened to Annie's powers, too? Oh, no.

She remained unharmed, though this was stinging enough to really start to piss her off. She yanked energy from the turret before firing it back in a blast to take the thing out. Annoying.

The troopers were getting blasted, too, though not with nearly as much force as when she'd been levitating a moment prior. (Though, like, it probably didn't tickle, either.)

[tros_npcs]

The troopers were flying back again, and a moment later part of the turret blew, sending fire raining down. Some shots were still able to make it through, but their aim was definitely going to be off from now on. It was a big something.