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Jenny
      Heavy Weapons Specialist
      Level 0: Rookie

“I know, I’ve got to go, Melke, I’m late for training. Yes, I’m training for heavy weapons, Jesus; don’t you know that by now? Alright, Bye, I love you.” Jenny told on the comlink before signing off and walking inside the classroom, with A280 Armor Piercing Heavy Blaster Rifle in hand. She saw someone she’d never seen in a hundred years, an old master who had taught her many tricks, now teaching her the tricks of Heavy Weapons.

“Master Tlot'us, it’s an honor to see you again, I thought I lost you on Hoth.” Jenny remarked eagerly as she looked happily yet seriously at her old master, who gestured her to a seat in which she sat datapad out and ready to take notes, and stated to her:

“Time is essential, youth one. Please, take a seat, and call me Instructor Tlot’us from now on. Out of this room you can call me master. The Imperial has decided my time teaching you outside was over and that I should be more useful teaching you in here. The other students will be here shortly. But you, Lance Corporeal Altex, have studied it up and prepared more than the other students, such is your practice, so I will begin with a short review.---at this point, Jenny started taking notes upon her pad while she listened---

In the cases of a squad made up of two or three fireteams assault, the heavy weapons gunner, like you, Lance Corporeal, will provide means of cover fire through weapons such as the one you’re holding. Will you tell me what it is, and any other weapons which may prove useful for such situations?”

“The A280 Armor Piercing Heavy Blaster Rifle. In such situations, E-Web is the most likely one, but it is mostly used in large battles and not fit for small ones. So I guess I’d go with the RB-407 Light Repeating Blaster or the 500 Squad Repeating Blaster Riot Gun.” She answered fluently as Instructor Tlot’us asked again profoundly:

“Excellent, Lance Corporeal Altex, next question. Now you’ve gotten the enemy down to the count, I find new enemies in the next room, and they suddenly attack my squad, what is your position in this defensive?”

“I’ll flank them with a remote detonator, planted about a couple of feet in front of me, so I don’t get hit in the blast radius. As my squad pulls back, the remote detonator to confuse them and I’ll open fire on their flanks which are trying to destroy me. Once they’re dead, I’ll switch fire to suppress the tail of the enemy assault as the rest of my squad maneuvers against those dislocated and exposed weak flanks which have been pulled from the defensive to support the assault. Lastly I’ll join my squad in the perishment of the head of the enemy assault.” I responded with some hesitation for remembrance as Instructor Tlot’us approved quite happily, turned and walked to the large room on the left side of the blackboard, in which a hologram simulator was situation, he then turned back as he was leaving the classroom and conveyed to Jenny:

    “Very Good, Lance Corporeal Altex, you’d be quite prominent among people, now dismantle your weapon and assemble it as I start up your test.”

    Jenny did so in about 2 minutes as she had practiced this at least twenty times before she had come to this classroom. Jenny then heard Instructor Tlot’us beckon her to the holo room in which he stood at one side opening the simulation, in which he instructed her that it was a enemy assault and he threw her a thermal detonator as it started.

    Jenny at once crouched and started to shoot at the rebels in front of me behind a crate cover as my two virtual teammates took up positions and fired at the right side of me. As they retreat, She throw the thermal detonator in front of me where two rebels were situated close together and behind cover firing. Next She detonated it and it blow up the two surprised rebels as She fired upon the two assaulting squads. They scattered quickly and took cover as they charged, rifles in hand. Jenny then quickly ducked and fired over my head as two or three flankers were upon me on my right, throwing a grenade at my side. She quickly threw it back over to them as it wounded them and took them retreating back to their mates while She annihilated them out in the open. Her two reliable teammates quickly headed back with two more squads of reinforcement as I turned my fire upon the tail of the assault while my teammates killed the support team cowering in fear near a wooden barrel. I reloaded my A280 as blaster shots grazed my right arm, I ignore the pain and continued firing upon the tail, which by now has been destroyed by two grenades coming at them from my teammates. As I peeked from my cover as my A280 continued firing with the other teammates’ rifles, the enemy was mainly destroyed with two remaining, still struggling onward in desperation and out of cover, they died with a couple of headshots by Jenny.

    “Perfect, Jenny, you’re dismissed, I’ll see you in the next lesson.” Instructor Tlot’us dismissed her as she saw him turning off the simulator, chuckling while she left the holo room and the classroom, with the other students seated and waiting.

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LCPL Jennabelle
Heavy Weapons Specialist
Level 1:Covering Tactics
Story 2:Indirect Fire Operations

      To Lance Corporeal Altex
    From SGM Tlot’us
    Jenny, it’s Master Tlot’us. Our next class will be taking place in the Artillery Room C, don’t bring anything except your datapad, your weapons will be provided for you today. Hope you’ll be there early.
   
        Jenny chuckled at the message that was sent to her datapad at seven in the morning, exactly the same time as the basic training message was sent to her, meant to prevent what happened last lesson. She followed the directions given to her by Mia in the second message sent to her datapad and stepped into the artillery room in which Melia, Wincester, and the only girl in Wincester’s team on the Fire Support Tactics lesson were situated in 3 Merr Sonn Mobile Mortar-3, stationed in the back in front of a virtual torn battlefield with bunkers, tanks, mortars, artillery guns, cargo vehicles, speeders, and swoop bikes situated on a terrace terrain, with trees in front of some of the targets, the last mortar left just for her to use. Tlot’us was tinkering with the virtual battlefield on a computer, adding smoke and cloud, rain, darkness and other atmospheric conditions to create a more unpredictable atmosphere.

        “Close the door, Jenny, and tell me what you think of these 5 babies. And don’t worry about these babies; they’ll just knock your ears around a bit when you launch them. ” Tlot’us asked Jenny briskly, seeing her worried look as Jenny hid that and saw the one she managed to overlook right in the center, a projectile launching system station taken out of a HAVw A6 Juggernaut manned by Melia, situated next to Mia, and in front, a cannon taken out of a juggernaut meant to do the damage of wherever it should be launched. She then turned to Tlot’us, who was set on the virtual battlefield with a weary face having racked back at Wincester after his last lesson as Jenny heard from Melia, and commented, trying not to go by the book:

        “Well, they’re quite the remarkable ‘babies’, even if they’re for beginners. It’s better though if they were fitted onto a replusorsled platform which can allow anyone to use it with ease and agility, as well as increasing the magazine by 500 grenades. Though, personally, I prefer the stationary type, better to focus your attention on correctly coordinating your trajectory of the projectile than to swing around to it and replanning your trajectory based your mortar’s new direction and your horizontal and vertical plane, plus considering all the other things interfering with your trajectory.  And the juggernaut, quite the impression creation in the clone wars, it’s powerful and fast, plus being able to carry cargo and troops, it’s absolutely the perfect tank to sent into battle.”

        “Great, now you’re advertising military tanks instead of commenting on them, jesus! This is quite the queasily lesson, if only I was in medic speciality, at least I get to look at a dead female body.” Wincester gagged out queasily with a weary dread on his face as Tlot’us silenced him with only one look at him and corrected to Jenny kindly:

        “Wincester, if I hear that again, I shall take that queasily tongue of yours and cut it out, and maybe make sure you don’t put your disgusting pervert hand on the lady next to you, Jonica, if I have your first name right. Azimuth and elevation, Jenny, if you would so please use the speciality term, not the horizontal plane and the vertical plane, thank you. ” Tlot’us corrected as he explained clearly, datapad in hand:
         
          “Now, for this lesson, as you all previewed the specific knowledge, we have observed fire on all moving targets, but unobserved fire on stationary ones, for they’re blocked for thick jungle of trees and vegetation surrounding them. Jenny and Mia on the rightmost of the room shall be doing the neutralization of target instructions sent to you. Melia will be doing the same with destruction, although you’ll be using a plasma projectile system of the Juggernaut instead of a mortar for more firepower. Wincester and Jonica, will be also doing the same with suppression. Let us start.”

          Jenny took up the last mortar next to Mia and received the first set of coordinates from her comlink, taking out her datapad from her rucksack. She calculated the coordinates as a deflection from her current “zero” horizontal plane, considering clearly the wind flow, cloud coverings and other atmospheric conditions, but not the fact that it was unobserved fire. She fired with quite the fast firing rate, heavy power and destroyed the surrounding environment around the target. Damn, that was too much firepower to take out only a row of mortars, it could have been better used on a moving tank. Jenny reflected, not satisified with her first try, hearing Wincester get quite the punishment as she tried to learn from Melia and Mia.

            “Wincester, where is your target bearing at, and how come your projectile trajectory is that high, what are you trying to suppress, a plane? Look at what Jonica is doing, learn from her and not stare at her body every single minute of the class.” Tlot’us disciplined himstrictly and angrily as Jenny peeked over, his tendrils shaking around as if it also wasn’t satisified with Wincester, who was looking like someone had snapped his head and made it so that it couldn’t raise itself up.
   
            Tlot’us then walked over to Melia, helping her with the projectile system, for it was more trouble to operate than a mortar, but its advantage is that she had a bigger screen to accurately pinpoint the target’s position. “Just make sure your target’s locked on, the essential things are there, don’t worry, Melia, you’ll do fine.” Tlot’us calmed her as he continued on to Mia with just words of praise and some reminders and finally came over to Jenny, unsuccessful yet again on her second try, missing a stationary machine gun, and remarked with a bit of sarcasm, examining her previous launch entry through his datapad: “Well, Jenny, quite the impressive show, you’ve managed to waste a lot of grenades just to destroy a row of mortars, not a row of tanks, and miss on a stationary machine gun, let’s see where is the problem. Wow, your sights are way off, must be because the mortar bearing “zero” horizontal plane method, darn, I hate that method. You’re lucky that your speed and heavy power made the trees fell on the mortars or this would be quite the miss, or quite the distraction, and that miss came upon the machine gun, you require adjusting, for that machine gun was expected to move, you could have fired in its moving track. Nevertheless, the second approach is way much better, Mia’s done it perfectly; watch her at her fourth set of coordinates, which are much higher and further, plus mobile.”

          As Jenny watched Mia besides her with the fourth coordinate on hand, in which she set the sight at the actual grid bearing in which the gun was oriented, and the firing coordinates were the actual bearing to the target, adjusting her bearings according to the situation that the target is expected to move again at any time, the atmospheric conditions, and the high difference of altitude between the firer and the target. Mia quickly double-checked her calculations for the bearings, set the firing rate and power at medium and fired, neutralizing the tank with a tree in its tires just as it rolled to the edge of the thick vegetations.

            “Try that again with precision instead of speed and power.” Jenny heard Tlot’us’ orders as she did what Mia did, adjusting according to a rock placed on a high hill near the truck, finding this measure much better as it reduced the mistakes that can make the bombardment a failure, and got great results disabling a truck just about to leave with a huge smash of the rock upon its front seat driver and passenger seat.Well, not only is the truck neutralized, the driver and the passengers in front are dead for sure. Still, better than wasting grenades on a small target. Jenny thought happily at the grade she made on her third try.

            “Perfecto! And there you have the magnificent magic of artillery which cannot be changed trajectory once it’s in the air unless you’re using missiles, Mr. Wincester!” Tlot’us yelped in congrats to Jenny but thumbs-down to Wincester.

            Jenny put her datapad back in her bag and got down from the mortar station as a plasma projectile from Melia destroyed a tank just about to fire that destroyed a truck right next to it, dodging a close miss by Wincester, cheering as the simulation ended and Jenny watched her get down jubilating without an end. Tlot’us cleared his throat as Jenny heard it and joined the scattered five at attention before him, dragging Melia over, who was still in ovation. Jenny listened carefully to his conclusion, as he turned to each one:

              “Quite the suppression, Mr. Wincester, you have Passed, and Jocine has gotten an A for efficiency. Then Melia has gone on flying colors and quite the maneuver. After that Mia’s quick learning and adaptive ability could make her quite the trooper, great job, Mia. And last by not least Jenny, I’ll have to talk with my superiors on the textbook method, for it’s easy to miss, I’ll give you a Good, though, since you have used Mia’s practical method and the environment quite well. Class dismissed, and don’t let the victory make you overconfident, Melia!” Jenny and Mia laughed at Melia, shaking her head around to make sure she was still on Tadath, not off on some other galaxy. Just one victory from Melia could make extreme joy beget sorrow, then my Master really didn’t know what happened yesterday, Melia’s brother was killed by a gang of thugs on the street and she witnessed the whole thing happen with a blaster pistol stuck on her sleek brunette hair. Jenny reflected, sighing as she saw Melia do the same with that sorrow face again, unable to escape the reality except in her lessons, where she can turn the favors to her side.

Passed - Rogueboy