"Is everyone alright?" Lord Manticore asked in his usual rasp. His ears were still ringing somewhat from the effects of the sonic grenades, but thankfully most of the effects were contained as they exploded behind the closed door.

Re'van nodded, with a smirk. "Interesting." she mused. "I expected a trap. But nothing so, modern. Seems as if someone has been keeping up with upgrades." she replied, nodding at the door slowly.

"Perhaps, this time, we might wish to try the glyphs? That is, if there are any droids left." she mused softly.

Before the Sith Apprentice could even formulate an answer, Lord Nemisis appeared and stood among them, even as he offered his observations.

"I doubt there will be. The ion grenades most likely got the remaining droids if the explosion didn't." He paused for a moment, and then looked over to Manticore. "I suggest you re-open the door. We have a mission to complete."

Lord Manticore silently nodded in agreement. The incident had provided some excitement, even thought it was highly suspect. Re'van had voiced his own suspicious thoughts. What were such modern droids doing guarding such an Ancient Tomb? That could mean several things. Someone had visited this area sometime before, or they were expected. Either answer lead to many more unanswered question.

The blood red zabrak eyed the stone door suspiciously, although he reasoned that this time there would be no droids laying in wait, a conclusion Lord Nemisis also seemed to have arrived at. The incident definitely made Lord Manticore alot more suspicious about the retrieval of the 'tablet' and it's more sublime implications.

Even so, Lord Manticore did not dwell on the question much, at least for now. The Sith Apprentice gave Re'van a look before he moved once again before the stone door. As before, he called on the darkside to lend him strength, just as he invoked the same abilities he had used before to accomplish the task set before him. Once again the stone door rose from its place, and once it reached a particular height, it caught firmly in place. Lord Manticore took a deep breath and looked at the open doorway wearily.

"I guess one of us should go in first..." he said half jokingly as he took a small step in the door's direction. The Sith Apprentice held his saber staff in one hand at the ready and felt ahead with the Force. He was certain his danger sense would warn him should there be any more unpleasant surprises waiting for them.

To Nemisis' surprise, Rian was the first one to take action. He had lunged in front of the vulnerable Manticore who had been busy opening the door. He deflected blades without the aid of a lightsaber...Very interesting indeed. This would definately earn the fallen Jedi some prestige.

Nemisis did not take action against the droids, he did just the oposite. He had lunged back a few meters, and took a defensive standpoint; merely deflecting any laser bolts that came his way.

Re'van had her blades ignited, the hilts emitting a blade of energy that was orange in color. Though, she followed suit with Manticore as the pair lunged to the left and out of firing range. With a flick of his hand, Manticore released the door that he had opened moments before. The heavy stone door fell upon the first droid, smashing him into the ground. Obviously, he had seen the belt of grenades around the droids mid-section, and took advantage of it. The result was an explosion that sent rock flying, and a very loud piercing noise from the sonic grenades. It would definately have an effect on all in the group.

"Is everyone alright?" asked Manticore as Nemisis approached the group, his lightsaber deactivated, but still in hand. Everyone nodded.

"Interesting. I expected a trap. But nothing so, modern. Seems as if someone has been keeping up with upgrades," Re'van said. Nemisis also thought the same thing. But, he didn't worry too much about it just yet. "Perhaps, this time, we might wish to try the glyphs? That is, if there are any droids left."

"I doubt there will be. The ion grenades most likely got the remaining droids if the explosion didn't." He paused for a moment, and then looked over to Manticore. "I suggest you re-open the door. We have a mission to complete."

It almost seemed like an eternity, but finally the stone door began to lift. Lord Manticore slowly opened his eyes as the stone door rose higher and his excitement intensified. Moments later, the sealed entrance was opened and that's when he felt an inner sense of alarm through the Force. His danger sense was going off something fierce.

The next moment, everything seemed to happen in a blink of an eye.

On the other side of the door stood six heavily armored and armed droids, similar to those of the ancient and popular HK series. Each of them was armed to the teeth. They held a heavy blaster repeater in each hand; a belt full of variant grenades: thermal detonators, sonic, ion. Each droid wore armor that looked to be the most advanced, possibly cortosis; it was impossible to tell.

All six droids unleashed their heavy weapons unpon the newcomers.

Lord Manticore quickly went into action as he began to draw his lightsaber and ignited it, but to his surprise, Rian had been even quicker as the former jedi moved infront of the Sith Apprentice and deflected several shots from the metallic assailants and even took a shot to the shoulder. By the time Lord Manticore was defensively twirling his own saber staff, Rian had moved out of harm's way.

The blood red zabrak growled in anger anf frustration as he vaulted far to the left and out of the droids' firing arc. Perhaps he had unwittingly set them off and the glyphs gave instructions as to how to open the door while they remained dormant, not that it mattered anymore. Lord Manticore landed and timed the release of the door which he was still holding. With a wave of a hand he would release the door ontop the first droid that stepped out of the doorway. He was certain that the heavy door would damage the droid and its grenades, the ensuing explosion should set off a series of chain reactions that would destroy the other droids as well, seeing how they too had grenades that would explode. If that didn't get them, then the ion grenades they carried would....not to mention tbe rocks that would fall upon them.

Lord Manticore half turned his head after he had let go the door and checked to see if the rest of his party was alright. He looked towards Rian who had been grazed by a shot. Just then Manticore realized that the ex-jedi had not used a lightsaber, but an ebony blade of some sort. That was certainly a surprise and a mystery that would wait until later, though he seriously made a mental note of it. He gave the jedi outcast a solid nod, then looked towards Re'van.

"Is everyone alright?" he asked in his usual rasp.

Lord Manticore spared a glance towards the Sith Lord Darth Nemisis and was not at all surprised to see him unhurt.