Dropship Moon Shadow in Orbit around Abregado-rae
Operation Time: 0000 Hours
Loacl Time: 1530 Hours

Riqimo smiled softly to himself, he was watching most of the Eclipse squad members poke around a small table trying to play  a card game.  Only the Gamma Fire Team was situated in a corner, distant from the squad.  They were the only three survivors of  a Stormtrooper squad called the Black Rose Squad.  Riqimo walked over to the former BR squad ASL, now an Eclipse Fire Team Captain and nodded his head at her, "Mustang, it's a pleasure to have you here with us, although it might be nice if you  all mingled with the squad."

The woman tossed her red hair over her shoulder, "Ya, yer right, we fellers just talkin' 'bout that.  In fact, Scooter here is getting an urge to try a hand real bad." She pointed to a black haired man, twitching his fingers, who immediately got upo and joined the table.  Riqimo smiled, his squad was coming together now, his squad.  That felt good.

The pilot called Riq into the cockpit, "Alright Sarge, we are in orbit.  Actual drop should begin in about two hours when the main VE force will begin their landing operations you  might want to start preparing."

The Squad Leader nodded, he wasn't eager to try use their insertion method, but it would work... assuming the techs did the required maintenance.

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Dropship Moon Shadow in Orbit around Abregado-rae
Operation Time: 0200 Hours
Local Time: 1730 Hours

Riqimo strapped himself into the pod with the rest of Fire Team Alpha.  Three pods were outfitted to the Dropship and would allow them to literally be "fired" at the planet. 

"Sound-off" came the pilot's voice on the comlink Riqimo's safety helmet.

"Alpha, ready."
"Beta, ready."
"Gamma, ready."

As soon as each called out they were launched.  The pod's temperature rose rapidly as they entered the atmosphere, but the life support system kept it barely tolerable.

Once repulsorlift systems kicked into gear, Riqimo braced himself for impact.  The pod was padded just enough to prevent serious injuries, buries were considered minor insignificant.  Riqimo grabbed his pack that contained his weapons and Stormtrooper armor along with the other mission essentials.

RK eased the hatch open and peeked out cautiously.  As the Fire Team stepped out, Riqimo scanned the surroundings.  They had landed in a residential area courtyard, and the locals were peeking out of their windows.

"Shouldn't we get moving?" Brightstar interrupted Doc's observations.

Riqimo nodded, "Yeah, sorry.  We are to meet at our RZ point in an hour.  Let's get this wagon train on the road."

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Streets Abregado-rae's Capitol
Operation Time: 0217 Hours
Local Time: 1747 Hours

Mustang shouldered her pack and started to jog away from the crash site, her squad mates in tow.  They would have to put distance between this site and them as soon as possible.  No doubt local militia would swing by soon.  She hated civilian clothing, it was so... imperfect.  A good uniform would always fit and look clean.  Not civilian garb.

"Alrighty Sarge, the Cantina RZ point is about three kilometers northeast," Scooter pointed from his datapad map.

Gablin smirked, "I love to pick a gal and put her on the Army tab.  I love the military.  Unless you would like o share a room?"

Mustang shook her head and smacked him, "That's the only womanly touch you'll ever get from me."

(OOC - Let's get moving Eclipse.  Any questions, please ask me.  Read squad topic first though)

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Riqimo "Doc" Pershaw

Eclipse Squad

ASL/SGT Riqimo/2SQD/2PLT/1COM/1RGT/1BAT/Tadath/VEA [EW1][ES2]

+ Advance Recon Commandos {ARC} +

Far From Perfect, the story of a VEA Combat Medic

The early morning found Gainun Rigar awake and pacing about his room. Though by all in his squad he was called Jelly Bean or Jables for a shorter term. He was nervous about the new mission they where gonna go on as Garet had retired from the squad and their was a new leader in charge their former ASL of the squad Riqimo mainly called by his pet name of Doc. Though now times where different and Riqimo was Sarge. Gainun was on his part nervous because he had been given his first command of a three man fire team. The name he had assigned was Night Hawke to the small fire team.

Jelly chewed on the end of an unlit cigarette a weird habit he had done  though he never began smoking them like his Father had. Jelly spat the cancer stick out of his mouth getting rid of the foul paper taste on his tongue.

The comm on his wall lit up with a call from Riqimo.

"Sarge!" Jelly said sharply saluting.

"At ease we need you to report down to the hanger we're gonna leave within the hour." Riqimo said quickly before snapping off the link.

Jelly grabbed up the bag he had packed earlier which held a simple e-11 compact blaster that had been modified to be silenced as well as his stripped down Deathwind sniper rifle which he would assemble later and his trusty vibrbayonet.

Meeting up with the rest of the squad which was short of Wicket who had a tendency to be late for a meeting. Wicket entered the room in full armor.

"Wicket your supposed to be in civilian clothes as well as having your regular stormtrooper armor and weapons in a pack." Jelly yelled at Wicket in an irritated manner.

Wicket quickly retreated back into the hall and out of sight. He returned moments later in normal civilian clothes.

Riqimo ordered everybody to load up on the dropship.

-------------Abregado-rae /Pod Night Hawke Team---------

"Ok team get ready to be deployed." Jelly ordered the team as they secured themselves in the three man drop pod. there was a resounding thump and rattle as the pod shoot a way from the dropship.

"Hope you guys are ready." Jelly said smiling at the squad.

Jelly watched the temperature of the outer shell as it burned away. When they where in the lower atmosphere the outer shell detached and the top of the pod deployed its brake panels to increase air resistance and lower the descent under critical speed. The Pod hit 2,000 feet and deployed the chute which brought the pod the rest of the way to the ground at a safe speed.

The pod hit with a grind rolling to a stop. Jelly opened the charred metal doors looking around seeing they had landed in a back alley which was in view of the local cantina.

"Everybody out and into the cantina so we can lay low for the moment being and attract no attention to ourselves." Jelly said moving the group quickly away from the pod and through the cantina door.

The aged bar held a stench that was like a rotting whomp rat. Jelly moved the group to a small table over in a dark corner. He pulled a small hand radio and called over the radio.

"Voodoo man we are enjoying to local sites have you arrived from your cruise safely with all limbs attached?" Jelly spoke over the comm in code.



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Eclipse Squad
{ComNet Nazi}
TRP/CPL Jelly Bean/2SQD/2PLT/1COMP/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE/Tadath[EW1C][ES1C]

Eclipse Squad not for the Faint of Heart

Jayne: You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with 'til you understand who's in ruttin' command here.

The pod came crashing down to the ground. Wicket shook from the impact of the hit. All of his stuff in the pack went flying out. "I guess I forgot to close it up earlier. Jelly, do you mind helping me?" Wicket asked as he started to pick up his weapons and armor.

"Yes I do mind. Now hurry up and pick up that stuff. We are on a time schedule." Jelly said, sounding irritated.

Wicket continued to pick up his belongings. Lain decided to help. Most likely because she felt sorry for him. When they were all done, they stepped out of the pod. Wicket soon felt extremely sick in the stomach. "What the hell is this smell?" Wicket asked, looking as if he were about to throw up.

"It's the slums Wicket, the slums." Doc said.

After a while getting used to the stench, Wicket was no longer nauseas. ""Ok so we will be headed to a cantina right now. Once we are there, I will discuss more. So lets get ourselves to the cantina." Doc said.

They headed through the streets of what looked to be like the edge of the world. Everything was in disarray. Trash filled the streets. It looked like this place had been deserted except that people still lived there. How can people live like this. Wicket thought to himself. All of a sudden Wicket heard a noise. "What was that!" Wicket shouted, suddenly becoming scared. "It came from over there." Wicket pointed in the direction in which he heard the noise. Everyone looked. Then, a little creature crawled out from behind a trash can. It saw all the group looking at it. IT became scared and scurried off. The group looked with disgust at Wicket.

"It was just a small little animal that couldn't even harm...I don't know...it couldn't harm anything." Sheila said. "Now the cantina is straight ahead of us. Let's go."

The group continued on twenty more feet and reached the cantina. Wicket stayed towards the middle of the group just in case anything happened.

The arrived at the cantina. It also looked run down. The lights were flickering. Patrons were flooding out of the bar, stumbling, most likely from too many drinks. Doc went up to the door and knocked. A duros opened the door. We are closed. "Well he said it was closed guys. Let's go before anything happens." Wicket said starting to head off. RK grabbed him by the collar and drug him back.

"This is where we are supposed to be. Now quit being scared. It'll be ok." RK said trying to calm Wicket down.

After a few words were exchanged, Jelly pushed through the door and broke the aliens wrist. "Now that wasn't necessary, was it?" Wicket said. He isn't really one for being cruel.

"Yes it was necessary." Jelly replied with a grin on his face. "Ok lets go in."

It looked just as bad on the inside as on the outside. The tables hadn't been cleaned. Food stains covered the floor. While they walked, Wicket tip toed to try and avoid puddles of green goop. ICK! Wicket thought to himself. Soon they found a decent looking table to sit down at. He picked up a menu and immediately set it down once he saw a worm looking thing crawling around in the menu. "I'm not very hungry."

"Well don't eat anything just look at the menu!" Scooter whispered.

"But there is a nasty looking worm type thing in the menu!" Wicket whispered back.

"Dammit Wicket. Just take mine." Scooter replied as he shoved his menu to Wicket.

Riq and Bizza were talking in huttese. Wicket just stared in confusion, not knowing what they were saying. After a few more minutes they had finished. Bizza led them to there rooms. Each fire team would be sleeping in the same room. "Ok guys come here." Jelly ordered. "I think it would be good if we swept the room for any bugs." Wicket then went over to the supply closet and found a broom. He then started sweeping the room.

"AHHH!!! There is a bug right there!" Wicket screamed. He pointed to a dead rodent lying next to the bed.

"Wicket, thats not what I meant. I meant look for any type of equipment that my be being used to spy on us." Jelly said. "And just throw the damn animal out the window. Some homeless person might want it for food." Wicket picked up the rodent with a dirty towel that was in the bathroom. He went over to the window and tossed it out. He watched it as it fell at hit someone on the head.

"Hey!" the man shouted. Wicket quickly put his head back inside, then after a few seconds he looked back outside again and the man was eating the animal.

"I guess you were right Jelly. I hit someone on the head with it and ow he is eating it." Wicket said with amusement.

Jelly shook his head and sighed. "Get some sleep."

Wicket headed over to the bed and lifted up the covers. Nope no dead things in here. Wicket climbed into bed and dosed off.
 
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EclipseSquad

TRP/CPL Wicket/2SQD/2PLT/1COMP/1BAT/1RGT/Tadath/VEA/VE [ES2]

E to the C to the L-I-P-S-E

Bizza's Shack - Operation House
Operation Time: 0545 Hours
Local Time: 2115 Hours

Riqimo looked at the man laying on the floor in front of him, Jelly had just come in and placed on foot on the man's back, obviously putting most of his weight onto that leg judging from the man's expression.  Riqimo thought uneasily about his options, the man obviously was going to be a hassle to keep locked up and they couldn't trust him to go free.  Plus, if we keep him, I will have to post guards...

Riqimo shook his head, "We have orders, Fury stated no prisioners and we can't let him free..." This wasn't how he had planned to start the mission, but there was no choice here.  "Jelly, try to be clean in asking him what he was doing and why, after that... make sure he checks out of the hotel."

Doc knew this was the only thing to do, but he still felt guilty of the man's short future.  "Oh and Jelly," he called out to the exiting trooper, "Keep it quite, there are other occupants in the hotel."

Bizza's Shack - Operation House
Operation Time: 0930 Hours
Local Time: 0400 Hours

"Brrring!  Brrring!"

Doc mumbled as he hit the switch to shut off the alarm, five hours of sleep didn't do much for energy but it was better than nothing.  He stretched his arms while sitting on the bed before heading to the shower before the rest of the squad could get up.  The only option was cold water or ice cold water, so the Squad Leader didn't spend too much time in it.

The squad had to start early if they were to get a head start on the recon work.  Riqimo wasn't quite sure what Jelly had done to dispose the body, but he head something in the kitchen right before bed and figured he might want to skip breakfast.

Alpha would stay at the operation house until 0800 hours local time, while the other squads left in thirty minutes to take up stakeout positions.  Riqimo almost envied them, meeting resistance group leaders certainly was the more dangerous of the tasks, but then he was the SL, he had the necessary authority to make deals with them.  To a point of course.

Roof of Unused Office Building, 1 Kilometer from Walls of base - Black Rose Stakeout
Operation Time: 1230 Hours
Local Time: 0700 Hours

Mustang looked through her electrobinoculars, scanning the gatehouse, the wall surrounding rhe base was about 25 meters high and had plenty of surprises at the top for the skilled climbers,  Plots of dying grass separated the wall from the nearby city buildings, the closest a half kilometer away,  A direct assault on the facility would be near impossible.  Riq certainly planned this carefully from all the intel he had gathered before they left.  Mustang had helped during that one hour before they deployed aboard the Moon Shadow, the Eclipse drop ship.  Riqimo wanted a quick landing and she was surprised at how quickly he was able to make arrangements with a Hutt and start a meeting with a resistance group en route.  He made it seem so... easy.

"Mustang," Scooter called out, "We got a first set of trucks moving out of the base, look to be troop transports, repulsor lift. Two of them."

Goblin grinned his trademark smile that made Mustang a little uncomfortable at times, "I got the lead one."

Scooter nodded, "I'll hit the second."


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Riqimo "Doc" Pershaw

Eclipse Squad

SL/SGT Riqimo/2SQD/2PLT/1COM/1RGT/1BAT/Tadath/VEA [EW1][ES2]

+ Advance Recon Commandos {ARC} +

Far From Perfect, the story of a VEA Combat Medic

Wicket kept waking up in the middle of the night to strange noises coming from outside. What is going on out there. Don't they know I'm trying to sleep. What is wrong with people these days! Wicket thought to himself, trying to block out the noise. Soon the noise settled and Wicket finally got back to sleep.

Wicket woke up from Jelly singing in the shower. Wicket took a big yawn and opened his eyes. When his eyes finally focused, he saw a dead animal laying on top of him. "Ahhh!! What is wrong with this place and dead creatures everywhere. Get it off!" Wicket screamed.

"Heh." Lain giggled. "I think Jelly put that there last night after he killed that snoop."

"What snoop?" Wicket asked. "I thought this place was supposed to be safe. Well, obviously health safety is not their first priority, but I thought we were going to be able to lay low here."

"Well, I don't know. Anyway. Jelly was walking through the halls last night and I guess he saw a figure by Riq's door and went to go see what it was. It was a spy and Jelly killed him. You know who Jelly is. Apparently he put him in the trash incinerator. That's probably the scent I smelled last night. I woke up from an extreme scent of burnt flesh." Lain explained, while getting the animal off of Wicket and throwing it out the window to the guy that was there the night before.

"Well, that's Jelly for you. I kept waking up from weird noises. I finally got to sleep." Wicket said.

Jelly came out of the shower and got ready for the day ahead. "Whose next in the shower. Lain already took one so I guess you're up Wicket. It's all nice and cold for you. Oh yeah how did you like the little present I left you." Jelly snickered.

"You son of a bi..." Wicket didn't finish. He knew Jelly was just playing around. "Well just let me take this shower."

After Wicket took the shower, he got ready and hid his blaster in his clothes. "So what are we supposed to do again today?" Wicket asked.

"We are to go hideout in a building down by the military base and shoot tracking devices onto the trucks that drive out, so we can use that information later on." Jelly explained. "If everyone is ready we can get going." Lain and Wicket nodded.

They head out the rooms and down to the restaurant. A few patrons were sitting at tables waiting to be served. How could anyone eat here. Wicket thought to himself trying not to barf from the site of the poor hygiene of the place. As they walked through, a few servers came by with dirty trays of food. A customer was in the corner licking his lips as he noticed the food coming his way.

The Fire Team gathered outside. "Ok group. Last night when i was dealing with that little rat, I took some notes as to which building would be good to use as our hideouts. I have one good one that I think we should use. It's only a few blocks down. Fairly close to the base." Jelly lead the group in that direction.

Wicket was in the middle between Lain and Jelly so he wouldn't be scared too much. They walked through the streets and tried to be as casual as possible. After all, they didn't want to attract attention to themselves.

While walking down, Wicket took out his comlink and started to comm Riq. "Doctor, you there?" Wicket asked. Jelly soon took the comlink away from Wicket.

"What are you doing! We can't have anymore low lives like the one last night be on to us! Do you understand?" Jelly snapped.

"Yes. I just thought it a good idea to tell Doc what we were doing." Wicket said.

"Ok well we can do that later. Look we are at the building. Now I thought this would work because it is run down and no one would be asking us what our business is. So what I want us to do is to go to the top floor and just watch the trucks as they come out. I'll explain more when we get up there. Just go." Jelly replied.

The group head up to the top floor of the building. For a run down place, it was very nice. There were hardly any cracks anywhere. It didn't have a nasty smell, and most importantly, it didn't have any dead creatures. "This place is pretty clean." Wicket said.

They finally reached the top floor and located the window. "Ok Wicket now you can tell Sarge what we are doing." Jelly said.

Wicket took out his comlink and messaged Riqimo. "Doctor. We are at the building ready to shoot the tracking device. We are just waiting for trucks. Anything you wanna tell us? Wicket asked. He waited for Doc's reply. Jelly and Lain just looked out the window, waited and watched, the flow of traffic coming form the military base. Soon the trucks came.
 
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EclipseSquad

TRP/CPL Wicket/2SQD/2PLT/1COMP/1BAT/1RGT/Tadath/VEA/VE [ES2]

E to the C to the L-I-P-S-E

Bizza's Shack - Operation House
Operation Time: 1130 Hours
Local Time: 0600 Hours


Riqimo gave an exasperated sigh, "Figures that the recieving device will break in the drop pod fall..." Rising from the table that a complex-looking, but messy, device sat, the Squad Leader tossed RK a credit chip, "Kibs, mind running down to the shop down the road?  Just pick a deluxe comlink system, it should have the parts I need to make a new one."

As the former bounty hunter left, Brightstar peeked over her holozine, "What is that thing supposed to do anyways?"

Riqimo glanced at the mess of wires, exposed datapads, capacitors, and various chips connected to a couple power cells, "My latest invention, mind you she doesn't look like much cause the budget is low, but she works well.  All the tracking devices will transmit to the recieving device, which will then store coordinates in the designated datapads depending on the tracking device's signal code.  Then the data is analyzed after a while and the trucks that follow a repetitive route will be pinned down."

"Uh, huh... sounds good."

Riq chuckled, "Don't worry, it is simpler than it looks."

"I bet," Brightstar replied.  Doc was about to change the subject when RK walked in.

"Doc, got one, overpriced, but still got one."

"No problem at all Ryan, the military is paying not me.  All that matters is that I have one."  As Riq opened the package to start and dismantle the civilian comlink model, RK started for the door.

"Ryan..."
"Yeah?"
"The credit chip, please?"
"Ah yeah, sorry.  I'm gonna get something to drink before we set out."

Doc shook his head while tucking the credit chip into his vest pocket and turned back to the electronics set before him.



Undisclosed Warehouse Location - Resistance Group Headquarters
Operation Time: 1500 Hours
Local Time: 0930 Hours

"You are the Imperials?" a voice asked though a slit on the warehouse door.  Bizza had the Crusader Fire Team blindfolded and delievered to a location after checking them for tracking devices that weren't there.  Riq didn't worry, as he didn't need to know the location of this hideout, it was not essential.

"We brought them here, password is: Sochu ripu tuta may uson chu."

"Opening the door, bring 'em in."

Once again they were being led blindfolded almost randomly.  Riq figured the random patterns this time were not to confuse them, but to go around crates and whatever else may be stored in here.  Finally they were seated and the blindfolds removed.

A Rodian was standing before them in a sharp looking business suit, quite the opposite of what Riq had expected.  "Welcome, my friends.  Bizzu does well in sponsoring us from time to time and I am most please to meet friends of his.  He said that you have an offer?"

Riqimo nodded, "Indeed, Mister Dren Fre'ngel, we do.  The Vast Empire sees your struggle here on Abregado-rae and wishes to offer some assistance."

"Assistance?  Surely you don't mean that you will invade this planet and just let my people rule.  That differs from my vision."

"Not at all, simply a slight crippling blow to the so called 'militia' here that is more of a military police force.  You will be given the chance to hit their central base in the city and make off with a nice cache of weapons and ammunition.  You recieve all public regonition and credit for the attack."

"Really?  I think that Stormtroopers look slightly different from my beloved soldiers.  How do you plan this... strike?" Dren Fre'ngel obviously paused to leave out an adjective similar to 'poorly thought out' that clearly registered in his mind.

"Simple, my squad will gain entry to the facility, there are nine of his, the others are currently working on our entry point.  Once inside, we should have four trucks, that we will load with as much weapons and ammunition as possible.  While loading, some of us will... wander off to perform some simple tasks, namely shutting down the anti-air turrets."

"So we can bombard their base?" Fre'ngel's bug-like eyes lit up like stars, "I admit I had doubts at first and still do, but if you can pull this off... it would be a great victory."


"You do have craft capable of bombing, correct?"

"Indeed, but we have never used them due to the AA turrets.  And I have never had the men with necessary training to insert themselves and shut the AA turrets down."

Riqimo smiled, everything he had planned was going perfectly... he loved it when it worked out that way.  There was almost a certain beauty in seeing an carefully devised plan execute without fail.  And it couldn't fail, if it did, his squad would be walled-in with a base of nearly a thousand strong milita forces and no easy way out.  As their briefing state, They were alone.

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Riqimo "Doc" Pershaw

Eclipse Squad

SL/SGT Riqimo/2SQD/2PLT/1COM/1RGT/1BAT/Tadath/VEA [EW1][ES2]

+ Advance Recon Commandos {ARC} +

Far From Perfect, the story of a VEA Combat Medic

After the meeting, Riqimo felt very good about his plan. He looked down at his datapad. Jelly, Lain, and Wicket should be about done now. Or at least soon. He packed up his stuff and gathered RK and Bright. "Alright. This meeting went as planned. I am very happy about that. Now let's just head back to the cantina and gather up with the others and discuss what we are going to do next." Riq said. The group started out the door.

The streets were filled with debris and what not from trash that was not being dealt with. RK was kicking stray bottles with his feet as he walked passed them, like a child would do to a rock. Bright was having a casual conversation with Riqimo as they strolled along the destroyed path. The group was still on watch for anybody that might be spying on them. "Guys, just be wary of anyone that may be watching us. We don't want to give away any hints." Riqimo explained.

The cantina was now in view. They entered the cantina which had just opened a few hours ago. Riqimo looked back down at his datapad. Oh, Jelly, and them still have a while before they are done. Mustang and them are almost done, if not already here. Riqi thought to himself as he passed through the restaurant. "Ok, when we get back to the rooms, I guess you could take a nap if you want. Jelly, Lain, and Wicket wont be done for a while." Riqimo said. Bright and RK nodded.

------Meanwhile------

Black Rose Fire Team finished up with the tagging of the trucks and went on to find AA turrets and important buildings. Mustang took out her binoculars and started scoping the edges of the surrounding buildings for turrets. "Ok you guys. I got this part down, If you two wan to go and locate buildings you can. Just remember to keep the information you find in your data pads." Mustang said while scoping. Immediately after, she entered some info into her datapad. She had located one of the AA turrets in the back of the base. She continued to scan.

Goblin and Scooter were looking for the barracks, engine room, and other points of importance. They started on the left side of the base. "Well we already know where the garage is." Goblin said pointing to where the trucks were coming from.

"Right now if we can find the other places." Scooter said. The continued walking around, locating each part as they found it. "I think this may be the generator." Scooter said as he pointed to the top of a building with large metal parts protruding from the top.

"Good eye." Goblin said, entering the info into the datapad. After they had finished that, Goblin took out him comlink and messaged Mustang. "Are you done yet?"

"Yeah I'm done. I'm heading back to the building where we were sniping if you want to head back that way when you are done." Mustang replied.

"Will do." Goblin said. Scooter and Goblin finished up the mission and headed back to meet up with Sheila. Once they grouped back up, they headed back to the cantina.

"Doc should be in there if his meeting is finished. I think he wanted to discuss some stuff with us before we head off again." Mustang said as she opened the door to the cantina. The group headed back to Gamma Fire Teams room and saw Riqimo and the rest taking a rest. "Where is Lain and the rest?" Mustang asked.

"Oh they should be a while yet. I just let them take a nap till they got back." Riqimo said as he messed with his computer and the information that Sheila had given him from her datapad.

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Jelly, Lain, and Wicket had finished and headed to the cantina. Doc and them were passing the time by playing a game of cards. "We're back!" Wicket shouted as he entered the room and collapsed on the bed.

"Welcome back." Bright said.

"Ok now since everyone is here, let me explain what we are doing next. As you know Fire Team Night Hawke and Mustang placed tracking devices onto trucks that exited from the base. With that information, I am able to track where they are headed on this computer. I'll explain it more in detail later. So once all this information gathers, we will be headed off to hijack." Riqimo explained. "We will begin that tomorrow so get some rest and in the morning we will head off." Riqimo gave a final salute as the others filed off into their own rooms.

"Good job today. Even though it was long and tedious, it'll all be worth it." Jelly said as he headed off to sleep.

"Goodnight everyone." Wicket said, dozing off.
 
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EclipseSquad

TRP/CPL Wicket/2SQD/2PLT/1COMP/1BAT/1RGT/Tadath/VEA/VE [ES2]

E to the C to the L-I-P-S-E

Bizza's Shack - Operation House
Operation Time: 3230 Hours
Local Time: 0400 Hours

"Sounds interesting." RK sat up in his bunk, still rubbing the sleep from his eyes..

"That's right buddy, time to done those commando outfits - we're going cloak and dagger!" a jubilated Riqimo replied while tossing datapads out.

"Gee, that's a real great offer.  However I'm kinda occupied being in bed and all&" Brightstar mumbled at the early hour they were rising.

"I'm afraid you don't really have a choice Bright."

"I see, its like that." Brightstar moaned half jokingly, dragging herself out of bed.

"Ok, well we're going to be quite busy. Each Fire Team has truck to intercept, I picked the ones that appear to be supply trucks rather than troop transports.  I would expect the supply truck drivers to be a little less experienced in combat and the plus size is there won't be a squad or two in the back."

Riqimo had finished handing the datapads out that contained the coordinates of their hijacking points, maps of the base, as well as other instructions, "Ok, the first idea is all commando raid for you. We'll be driving into the installation in stolen trucks.  We have to get in, shut down the Anti-air turrets, steal any troop information we can, and get back out without them knowing that's its been taken so no access logs can be left in the computer or tampering with the turrets. No cameras can see us taking the information or disabling the turrets, and no officers can stop us for questioning, we will be in mere worker uniforms, not soldier uniforms.  So an officers that see you will obviously question you and ask for identification."

"You make it sound rather simple for an infiltration." Jelly replied in an calm tone.

"Months ago I would have complained that it was too easy and tried to make it more difficult for us." Riqimo grinned, "I'm getting old, humor me."

"You're 25, you're in your prime."

"Oh, I keep forgetting that. Seeing how I've gone to hell and back twice and lived three lifetimes of experiences."

"And the best is yet to be," Brightstar smirked.

"I'll drink to that." Riqimo replied with a mock toast.  Outside he was smiling, inside he was concerned for his squad's safety.

"Ok. What is the second method?  You mentioned that earlier."

"Well this is kind of different. What we do is hijack already loaded trucks and empty them for the resistance group.  Then get inside the facility and after disabling the anti-air turrets, find our way onto one of the ships there.  We take a shuttle up to one of the New Republic 'advisor' ships in orbit.  With a crew of several thousand, we will have no trouble blending into the crew there as new assignees.  The big plus is we don't have to come up with an excuse to have three truck-fulls of weaponry taken out of the base."

"That sounds to be easier in terms of extraction," Lain commented.

"The problem being we have to stay in that role until it comes to the time we need to get out." Mustang inserted before her SL could mention it.

"Indeed."  Riqimo mulled it over. The first plan, if successful they could have as much as they needed to do, but if it failed it would be disastrous, they would be unable to find a way to escape, the second plan sounded a lot easier and a higher rate of success in terms of getting out of the base, it was once in orbit that they would have a problem.

"Why don't we do both?" Jelly asked.

"What do you mean?" asked Riqimo.

"Well if one of our teams went into the installation and brought out some extra arms, but the others left behind will get on the ship."

"That's not a bad idea, but we don't have time and resources to do both simultaneously.  Pick one."  Riqimo responded.

The squad went for a first plan, as it would not involve being on an enemy capitol ship for a while, where the harsh expanse of space, would trap them in the event something went wrong.

"Okay you folks already know how to behave on an undercover mission, so I don't have to go over that.  Your truck locations are on the datapads, once you have taken the truck, it will be driven and unloaded onto another truck at a designated point, also on the datapad, and filled with some odds and ends to make it appear what it should be to any scans at the gates.  We then ditch the trucks at the unloading dock and disable the anti-air turrets.  Once those are neutralized, we get back to our trucks, load 'em up and get out of there as soon as the bombs start to fall, odds are the guards won't question our removing weapons in that situation."


Near the intersection of Wommpa Lane and Heinie Way - Crusader FT Hijack Point
Operation Time: 3400 Hours
Local Time: 0530 Hours

Riqimo eased himself against the durasteel frame of the building, waiting for the truck to come inbound.  Their collected intel stated that it should pass this point about every three standard hours.  If it did not come by within thirty minutes, the Fire Team was going to be waiting quite a while.  Glancing at RK across the street on the building's fifth floor, he chuckled at the thoughts of their mission to Aquilaris, where the man actually thought Doc had married Bright, not the actual fact that it was cover arranged by the intel branch.  Riqimo seemed to love these undercover missions, even if they did confuse some troopers that he worked with.  Not this time, though, Riqimo smiled to himself, I think everything has been perfectly arranged.

Seeing the smirk on Riq's face, Brightstar inquired, "What's on your mind Riqqy?"

"Ah, just thinking about how we got our squad running smoothly, although I still miss Garet.  I mean he didn't do badly, but we were a little disjointed with him.  He cared about us in his... 'Garety' way, we were still important to him.  I know the Jester incident hit him pretty hard, but not that hard."

"Riq, he retired the squad because he knew that you would care for us, you showed it all the time even as a trooper."

Riqimo smirked, "Some hidden meaning in that?"

"Only what you find," Brightstar shrugged, Riq thought he saw a slight smile, but wasn't sure.

RK called out through the comlink from the building's fifth story, "We got the truck inbound, four guys in the cockpit."

"Roger that RK, let's get our positions set." Riqimo started to pull the construction worker vest over himself and hurried to the sewer system in the middle of the street to toss down a smoke grenade, which began spewing a constant stream of sulfurous smoke for the next twenty minutes.

Brightstar waved the truck to slow down, and when the truck stopped the driver rolled down his window, "What's happen lady?"

"Just a little problem with the sewers," Brightstar went through her carefully rehearsed lines, "Mind waiting a moment while we get this fixed?  It is a one way street so you can't turn around."

"Yeah sure, don't take too long though, we got weaponry that needs to get to the..." He was unable to finish his sentence as RK fired a sniper round into the man's chest, and Brightstar drew her D-15 pistol.  Riqimo threw the other door open and quickly fired carefully aimed shots at the other occupants.

By the time RK had come down from the building, Riq and Bright had already disposed of the bodies by dropping them into the sewage hole.  It wasn't a pleasant thing to do, but they had to put the bodies where they wouldn't be found.

"RK, you are driving, Bright will navigate us to the point we meet the resistance group to get them these weapons.  I'll monitor the truck comms as well as our squad comm channel.
 
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Riqimo "Doc" Pershaw

Eclipse Squad

SL/SGT Riqimo/2SQD/2PLT/1COM/1RGT/1BAT/Tadath/VEA [EW1][ES2]

+ Advance Recon Commandos {ARC} +

Far From Perfect, the story of a VEA Combat Medic

Undisclosed Location- Weapons Dropoff Point
Operation Time: 3600 Hours
Local Time: 0730 Hours

"Alright, you Imperials," a Rodian knocked on the door, "We swapped the weapons for the junk, you are clear to go."

Riqimo nodded politely and flicked the squad comms, "Alright, everyone ready?  We are gonna drive as a convoy that way in case something happens at the gate, we are all there."

After receiving confirmation from the Fire Team Captains, Riqimo nodded to RK, "Alright Beta and Gamma, follow our truck, RK is gonna bring us in."

Gatehouse, Milita Base
Operation Time: 3625 Hours
Local Time: 0755 Hours

"This truck is late," the guard didn't even give a greeting to the occupants, "You have a reason for that?"

Riqimo handed the man the fake identification papers that identified him as an milita guard, "Yeah, they accidentally loaded the wrong stuff in the truck, we had to unload that and put the right stuff in.  You gonna let us in now?"

"Ah, yeah stupid civilians messing up our orders all the time.  Sorry about the gate beefing security up a little, there are reports of Imperials around, can't be too careful."

Riq held back a chuckle, "Indeed, I might feel a little more comfortable if the security was higher though.  If we haven't find those Imperials yet, no doubt they are very resourceful."

"Well, we guess only one squad, maybe two in the area, they have to be insane to attack our base."

Insane missions, that is Eclipse's specialty. Smirking Riqimo replied, "They certainly have to be, nice chatting though, but we got get these weapons in, the other two trucks behind us are with this convoy, let them in as well."

"Sure, no prob.  Convoys are a good idea right now.  Go on through."

...  ...  ...

The three trucks were parked at the unloading ramp in the southeast corner of the base, and Eclipse gathered around the rear entrance of the Beta truck.

"Alright Eclipse, we are in.  You all have your targets to hit, we don't want those bombers to get shot out of the sky.  Night Hawke, you have your targets on the east, Black Rose on the west.  Remember that you want to stay away from the officers."  As they left, Riqimo turned to RK and Brightstar, "You two mind grabbing a fork-lift and unloading these used power cells from the truck and loading a nice variety of weaponry in?"

Brightstar noted a small detail that Riq had left out, "And what are you doing?"

"I am gonna go wander on my own for a little time, just need to get into the command building and get some intel."

RK grabbed Riq's arm, "Doc, you are crazy if you go alone into that building, it is crawling with not just plain officers, but the top brass."

Riqimo smirked, "If I get it done, I'm a prodigy.  If I lose, then I'm crazy.  That's the way history is written...  Besides don't worry, I know how to do this stuff.  Plenty of experience, Bright will testify for me.  Oh, get those three turrets on the roof of this facility, will you?"
 
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Riqimo "Doc" Pershaw

Eclipse Squad

SL/SGT Riqimo/2SQD/2PLT/1COM/1RGT/1BAT/Tadath/VEA [EW1][ES2]

+ Advance Recon Commandos {ARC} +

Far From Perfect, the story of a VEA Combat Medic

Scooter offered his hand to Mustang who slapped it away and put her feet firmly on the roof of the building. "Scooter, I've warned you once, offer me your hand like that again and I'll break it. Clear?"

"Yes ma'am" Scooter replied, "but why the hell are we taking the bigger half of two evils when we would be safer and less conspicuous if we sabotaged the control rooms."

Goblin offered the explanation, "Yes but I have some toys that will cause the cannons to backfire and blow up the cannons and there control rooms. This way there wont be a chance to repair them before we leave this rock behind."

"Enough chatter, stay low and keep out of sight. We don't need to get spotted!"

Scooter muttered under his breathe, "Coming from the gal who has blonde hair which sticks out up here&"

"Just let me handle the jokes OK Scoot?" Goblin whispered ass he caught up to Mustang.

Once they all reached the first AA turret Mustang signalled Goblin to get to work. He pulled out his sonic-screwdriver and quickly unhooked the cover to the turrets coolant feed-line.

"Now then boys and girls& once this line is cut and I seal it to avoid leaks after about three shots the whole thing is gonna need that coolant and then& well I'll let your imagination run wild."

After moving on to the third and cutting finishing the job they proceeded down the ladder from the opposite end of the building.

"I don't want us chancing going back they way we came& we were lucky not to get spotted on that roof and I don't want to risk a return trip." She looked around and slid down the ladder the other two closely following. Now that our main objective is done I want us to do some secondary objectives for fun. Scooter did you bring that explosive like I asked?"

"Have you ever known me to pass on things that go boom?" Scooter replied as he took it out of concealment. "You just let me find the sweet spot and I'll make sure you will see this ball of fire from orbit!"

After reaching the barracks unhindered they found that this particular one had automated Turrets on the roof. A plan started forming in Scooters mind, " Mustang, if Goblin here does his stuff on the turrets on the roof and I attack this to the barracks gas or electric line, it might make a big enough explosion to damage the structural integrity of the buildings surrounding it. And with the turrets shaking from the rebound it might make them collapse."

Mustang looked at Scooter and smiled, "I think that brain of yours isn't so empty after all! Goblin get on the roof, Scoot attach the line& I'll keep look out."
They both gave mocking salutes at their FTC as Goblin climbed the maintenance ladder and Scooter found the gas power line that supplied the building and turrets.

Once everything was done they went to the rendezvous back at the trucks to find the Night Hawke team all ready there.

"What took you guys so long?" Jelly asked looking out for their Squad Leaders return.

Scooter smiled and answered before the rest, "Just a little recreational demolition." 

 
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"You think you can run this ship better?"
"Yeah."
"Well...you cant!"
Serenity

"Did you know the New Republic dont like to be shot at? Worked that out for myself."

Jayne: "Don't know these folks, don't much care to"
Mal: "They're whores"
Jayne: "I'm in"