Anival stalked towards his room, his muscles ached for rest, he finally stopped and collapsed on the bed. He tried to get up but his legs cramped. Anival smiled and closed his eyes, the darkness was welcome, he closed his eyes and drifted to the void that was sleep.

Anival woke up sore and sweaty, something had been nudging him awake, he didn't know what it was until he was fully awake. He had fallen on a strill, he didn't know  who's, but he had laid on its tail.. Anival let loose a hearty laugh and stood up, his knees protesting. A small walk later and Anival was in the refreshers, letting the water pour down on him, cleaning his body and relaxing his aching muscles.

Anival left the showers and walked to the his room, he had finished alot of paperwork, having to report the failure on Serenno, and then file a complete report on each troopers part in the failure, it had been a long and extensive report, he tried to report mostly the good performance of each trooper.

When he got to his room there was a folder on his bed, a loud sigh escaped his throat. It's only been a day After closing the door Anival dried off and got into his armor, knowing already it was a mission. He took his time, the armor had saved his life to many times to count. After five minutes Anival stood, clipped the helmet to his belt, and opened the folder, in it was a flimsi sheet.

Orders for trooper Velasquez, Anival I. and Squad 3 a.k.a Wraith.

Orders:You and squad 3 are to go to the planet Sarka. You are to follow the orders they give you. You are not to fail.

Details: Sarka is offering our Empire a large amount of Nova Crystals, we have received partial payment, and will receive the rest, as well as a monthly tribute. We do not have to say how valuable these crystals are, and the importance of your mission. They want the small NR presence eradicated.

You will be acting as a mercenary squad. You leave immediately. A ship is awaiting you in hanger-339C. It is already manned so there will be no need for you to pilot the craft. The Transport will aid you in your mission as best as it can. Please leave for the hangar A.S.A.P


Anival cursed, and went off to find the troopers. To his surprise, all of wraith was ready.

"Where to?" asked Jamasis.

"How'd you know?"

"I wanted to go talk to you, and saw the folder, so I figured, mission."

"Good we leave now." a moan escaped some of the newer wraiths who were not used to the lifestyle, and even from the veterans. It was so soon.

OOC:

We are on going to  Sarka. Our mission is to help a resistance faction kick the NR off the planet. The VE is getting paid in Nova crystals for our services. We are taking an Escort Shuttle it is manned so we will not have to fly it. The pilots are NPC's Sorry for the shortness.

Feel free to post about landing us, or flying in space, if you land us, make sure we have a rough time landing

OOC:

Post Read: Yes
Key points for me: We are in route to Sarka.
Important Points: No rest after last mission.

Ali'shrae couldn't sleep. Most of the Wraiths had fallen asleep in whatever position they had laid down in. Ali sat pressed against the side of the compartment for awhile just listening to the snores and hushed whispers.

I was an embarrassment on Serrano.She fumed to herself. I froze time after time, putting these guys, she paused, casting her gaze over the contented Wraiths. I can not put them in harm's way again.

She quietly got up and headed for the aft gunnery station, careful not to disturb any of her squad mates. The door opened with a gentle hiss, revealing a room the size of a small closet that housed the weapons maintenance station for the aft turbolaser battery. She put her gear down before taking an inventory of her medical supplies, and made sure her blaster was ready for the mission. She sat down and propped herself against the was and nodded off to sleep.

Quillia awoke to the shuttle lurching and alarms going off. She reached for the door panel to see what was going on, but a power surge had shorted out the door controls, she was trapped. She looked around the maintenance station looking for a way to communicate with either the shuttle crew, or the other Wraiths. Finding none, she reached to her side pocket, where she normally leaves her comlink.

"Frak!" She cursed aloud, not finding her comlink in its usual location. "This ought to be interesting." She said to herself as she put on her armor.

OOC:

Summary: CD followed by the shuttle under attack, and Quillia being separated from the squad. Getting the shuttle to the surface is up to whomever posts next.

OOC:

Post Read: Yes
Key points to me: Met Jenn
Important Points: Quilia was hurt

Anival looked at the twi'lek that had joined them. She had acted calm, something, that Anival found suspicious. Anival called Jamasis over.

"Keep an eye on her, something doesn't sit right with me. Make sure at least one trooper is always with her."

"To calm." nodded Jamasis.

"Sir!" one of the pilots ran over to them.

"Yes?"

"We can fix the shuttle, it was just a shot at the..." Anival zoned out, not really caring, picking up the important parts. "We just need a day and a half."

"And you have the parts and tools?"

"Yes."

"Okay then, we'll camp here." Anival waved over Zeshuan and Nightowl.

"You two start setting up camp." The two went off to do as told. Another reason Anival wanted to set up camp was, he could see the tired eyes of his troopers, and he himself was tired as well.

"Jamasis, find THX and send him of with Iggy to collect anything that'll burn. Then meet me over there near those two." Anival pointed at Quillia and "jenny"

Anival walked off not waiting for a response from Jamasis. Quillia was stretched out on the floor, Jennabelle looking at her intently. As soon as he got there Anival ordered her leg armor off.

"Her leg is broken." Jennabelle reported without any emotion.

"No it's not, look, it just popped out."

"Jamasis!"

"I'm right here, damn."

"Help hold her down, both of you." Anival waited till they held her down, Anival grabbed Quillia's leg and pulled it down, then forced it back into place, and audible 'POP' sounded, followed by A painful scream from Quillia.

"Alright leave her there, and go check for her medical equipment, she should have some painkillers, give her one so she can rest." Anival looked at Jamasis and nodded, he followed her.

Anival set off to help the rest of the squad. After a few minutes of they had five fires going, four on ten yards from the ship, and one in the middle, it would be easier for the squad to see around, and harder for them to be seen. After a meal that consisted of stewed bantha cubes, rice, and some sort of green fruity beverage that had been aboard, they all went to sleep.

"Anival!" came a shushed yell, Anival looked up, he was tired, but not as tired as before.

"What?"

"Jennabelle is gone."

Anival stood and picked up his Light Assault rifle, he picked up his helmet and turned the infrared on, he saw wraith and the pilots sleeping, he looked outside and saw four bodies, one was sitting near the central fire, and the other three were just outside they border fire.

Anival tensed, he felt something strange, and ordered Jamasis to turn his helmet on. Then he understood why, the helmet wasn't registering the fires. It should have blinded him. It was either an ambush or they were being scouted.

OOC:

Summary: Quillia didn't have a broken leg after all, just dislocated, leg was popped back in place, we are either under attack or being scouted.

It's about 3 am, and no moon, stars, etc, so we have to fight with the infrared.

You guys choose weather its an ambush or not.

OOC:

Post Read: Yes
Key points to me: We have a prisoner, repelled an attack.
important points: We have a prisoner.

Anival mulled over the news they had been given. It's was too convenient that the NR soldier had given the location of the base, or how to get there, or how to go about getting in, and most importantly, why would they have a map. The soldier should have memorized exactly how to get there, without the map. After everything had been cleaned up, he walked up to the officer they had been interogating, he was fairly beaten.

"Everyone leave, except you Jamasis." Jamasis nodded.

"What do you think of the map?"

"Trap." his tone was indecisive.

"Agreed. The pilots say this ship will be able to fly in two hours."

"So..then whats the plan."

"We still have to meet up with the resistance base. So We can wait the lousy two hours, as for interrogation, I think this man talked to fast." Anival gestured at the NR officer in a chair.

In one smooth motion, Anival's vibroblade was out.

"Alright, now the real questioning begins. Tell me, why you were allowed to catch yourself, why you had a map, and what is awaiting us once we get to your base."

The man looked at Anival, he looked astonished, Anival smiled. He whispered something in-audible, Anival leaned in, and the man elbowed Anival in the side of the face, splitting his eyebrow. Anival stood up, and stabbed the man deep into the soft flesh underneath the knees. A loud scream escaped their prisoners lips.

"Will you tell us?"  Anival un-holstered his pistol and shot the man in the palms of his hands.

"Now?" his voice was still strangely calm. The man screamed, but didn't say a word. In the other room, they were chatting, wondering what was going on. Anival gav eup and shot the man cleanly through the temples.

"What was that for?" Questioned Jamasis.

"He wasn't going to talk, look at his boots. Not exactly soldier boots. and barely a layer of dirt."

A knock came from outside the room. Zeshaun walked in and grimaced. "Pilots say we can take off now."

"Good."

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"Sir! The Imperail soldiers are arriving!"

"Finally. They were supposed to be here last night. Show them were to land their vessel, and send them quickly to the briefing room."

Finally, thought Commander  Kinj, the delay had lost him many men.

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"Wlecome sirs." A Rodian, with a light blue complexion was leading wraith. Anival hid his minor disgust.  "Will the two in charge follow me. The rest of you may roam freely."

Five minutes of walking through long corridors, passing security panels, and endless array of guards, finally brought them to a room with four other men;  a Twi'lek, A faleen, and two humans. One of the Humans motioned for them to sit down. They took the two open seats.

"Welcome gentlemen." The Faleen. Both Anival and Jamasis nodded.

"We were planning our second attack on the NR's supply cache, if we are successful we should be able to end it reign soon."

"Unless it gets re-supplied."

"Yes, but by the time they get resupplied, they would be dead."

"Oh?"

"We want these damn NR off planet, but we do not want imperial rule. We wish to be self-governed. So, does the rest of world. As a result we have a small, but significant force ready to attack them, however we need to be able to supply each of them With the kind of equipment, so-"

"So you will attack the supply cache." Finished Jamasis.

"No."

"No?" Jamasis sounded shocked,

"No" repeated Anival "We are, that were we come in, correct?"

"Indeed, there is a transport coming soon. Full of weapons, and all the stuff needed to wage war."

"So how soon do we need to attack."

"You have about three hours to get ready, then you will be transported by an MAAT/i."

"Alright will have my men ready."

OOC:

Summary: We chose a different path instead of foolishly falling into a trap ( ) The pilots fixed the vessel and we arrived in the resistance base. We are going to attack a transport.

Objectives: You are to attack the transport, think of it as a semi-trailer only four times bigger, manned by two men. And protected by two of These. And we will arrive to the attack site from one of These. The MAAT has weapons too.

Notes: Only Jamasis or I are to post Objectives in the OOC.

OOC:

Post read: Yes
Key points to me: En route to the supply transport
Important points:  Starts the attack on the supply transport

Jenny wrapped her fingers around her lekkus as she prepared herself for the coming battle, checking her A280 to make sure they were loaded and ready, her bayonets still stuck on her belt, where her assortment of grenades and such was located. She kissed her necklace hard as a gesture of good luck, before she heard Ani say again on the radio, in a orderly manner:

“Alright, kiddos, get your gear ready, we’re almost there. Anyone like to take the honors with the gunners, blast away, you know? But don't blast the transport though, it's not a toy, it's our objective to capture.”

“Haha, very funny..... I’ll try my hands on the gunners, who’s with me?” Jamasis responded to Ani’s call, and soon Iggy joined him with his ego written on his face and grinning happily at Jenny and Quillia as Jenny heard him say:

“Wish you ladies come back alive, I just can’t wait to have you both in bed.”

“Dream on, you pervert.” Jenny replied, disgusted, as she muttered to herself, only heard by Quillia: “Damn son of a gun, Melke’s gonna kill that guy if he hears this sort of crap being talked.”

“Who’s Melke?” Quillia asked curiously, eyeing Jenny with interest.

“My fiancé, the ring is safe with him. Don’t ask, it’s a long story, it’s not a very happy story either.” As she explained, Jenny saw Quillia eye her fingers for the ring, chuckling at her last sentence.

“Well, at least it ended better than you expected, which is what my story lacks.” Quillia commented, as Jenny felt like she had more to say, although she hid it, for Ani, came from the cockpit and added to the situation:

“Looks like the marsh’s empty, infrared scans nothing in these areas. The supply transport is just up ahead. I’ve ordered them to lock on the escorts and fire missiles as soon as they get a shot, but I don’t like this, it’s too easy, there may be a trap.”

And as though to grant his wish, their MAAT was suddenly hit, rocking from the blow, the pilots pulling up to avoid the grenades that was being tossed in their direction. Jenny and the rest of the squad got a clear view through the cockpit, NR troopers on top of the speeders, with rifles and one of them a trigger for something they planted to blow Wraith’s MAAT. They were blown off the speeder soon, by a couple of missiles. Ani gestured to the ship pilots to open up the back ramp, they were going to see what’s going on the ground.

“A mine probably, lucky it went off too early, didn't damage our transport too much, eh, Jenny? otherwise, it would have blown off our ass. Hahaha….” Jenny heard Ani crack off his confidence, jumping down as she didn’t say a word, but followed Quillia down on the marsh.

As she saw the rest of the squad except Iggy and Jamasis come down, Jenny scanned her weapon around the area, hearing the faint cry and yell of NR troopers. She followed Ani towards the destroyed speeders, the fire and smoke blazing to cover the supply transport’s tracks. Quillia squeezed off some shots, picking off NR troopers trying to retreat into the woods, while Jenny took out a couple of wounded NR troopers, crawling towards the woods. Ani smirked at their teamwork, while he looked at the transport, relaying to the squad on the ground and in the MAAT:

“Well, this isn’t good, the transport is heading towards the trail in those woods, and I bet those woods have some backup waiting on us. Be on your guard, ladies and gentlemen, we have ourselves some ‘cooking’ to do. ” Jenny chuckled at that last phrase, as she watched while Ani ordered his men their positions while they ran towards the transport, gesturing to each of the squad members:

“Zeshaun, you’re up front, let me see how well your leadership is. Jenny and Quillia, you two follow him, since you work well together. The rest of us will follow. Jamasis and Iggy, tell the pilots to watch our back in case of ambush. Nightowl, help them with our backs, use that sniper rifle you picked up.”

It’s just another day at the Wraiths, my dad said I would make a name in the Empire, I hope to live up to that wish. Gonna make you proud, daddy. Jenny considered in her mind as she followed Zeshaun, chasing after the transport. 

OOC:

Summary-- falls into a bit of a trap, but destroys their escorts, following the transport into the woods.

OOC:

Post read: Yes
Key points to me: We fell into a NR trap
Important Points: We are pursuing the transport

"How the hell did they trap us? This was supposed to be a fracking ambush!"

"Leak." was Nightowls calm reply."

Anival opened a comm frequency to the helmets. "Retreat back to the transport!"

Several explosions sounded, then the thuds of armored boots pounding on the floor. After bursting from the forest, Anival saw most of the squad getting in the assault transport, Zeshaun and Ignacio herded the transport, and the rest piled in the MAAT. Anival ordered the ship into the air, he took out his gun, and held on the rail with one hand. Anival overheard a warning then the MAAT tipped quickly, then a loud explosion rocked the transport, Anival felt weightless and saw the ground rushing towards him.

Quickly taking charge of the situation, Anival took out his grappling hook and fired at the ship, it hit the wing and he jerked violently. He felt his shoulder pop, he ignored the slight pain, and looked at the MAAT, it was loosing altitude. Thinking quickly, and judging the distance Anival jumped, upon landing Anival rolled, he felt heat on his visor, and knew it was a blaster bolt, it had grazed his helmet. Making it impossible to see, not that it mattered, Anival succumbed t the pain in his limbs, and blacked out.
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Quillia looked on in horror as her squad leader lay motionless on the ground several meters below the moving MAAT. She looked at the now in charge Jamasis.

“Put me on the ground now, I need to help him.” She said unbuckling her harness.

The pilot came over the intercom, “We are taking too much fire to land and off-load.” He added, “I'm sorry.”

All the Wraiths visibly tensed in their seats.

“He's right Quillia,” Jamasis said, “We can't risk everyone and the mission for him, he's tough, he'll be alright.”

“I'm sorry Jamasis.” Quillia said standing up.

“For wha---” He started to reply as Quillia yanked him from the door, sending him sliding across the compartment on his backside. She tossed her bag out, she grabbed a rappelling rope and dove out of the MAAT. She hit the marsh with a soft thud, rolling into the prone position. She low crawled through the marsh to her bag, attaching it to her belt and setting it to drag behind her.

Quillia crawled as low as she could to Anival's unconscious body, and checked his vital signs.

“Good news Jamasis, you're not getting that promotion quite yet.” She said after checking on her downed squad leader.  Quillia put a knee on Anival's chest and forced his shoulder back into place, she felt the “pop” even through his armor. “He's definitely not going to be happy when he wakes up.”

“How do you plan on getting back?” Jamasis asked.



“I think,” Quillia watched as a rocket streaked up and exploded near the MAAT, “We'll hitch a ride with Zesh and Iggy.”

Zeshaun steered the New Republic transport towards Quillia, and the incapacitated Anival. The transport pulled up alongside Quillia and shielded them from the incoming fire. The hatch popped open and Ignacio stood in the doorway.

“Going my way beautiful?” He asked just before being buried beneath Anival's unconscious body. Quillia hopped up into the hatch and shut it behind her.

“Thanks for all the help Iggy.” She said sarcastically, picking Anival up and dragging him towards the back of the shuttle.

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A small hand pressed against his cheek, a cold wet salve dissipated a heat that, Anival was just now aware of. Anival opened his eyes, he was in the back of a transport, Quillia was administering first aid.

"Well, it seems your bones are denser than the norm, you only chipped a piece in your wrist, and a small fracture on your knee, nothing you cant deal with. And some synth skin was removed from your wrist, didn't know you had a implant."

"I don't"

Quillia looked at him with a worried expression, then reached for her bag.

"Kidding!"

OOC:

Summary: Anival is injured, the MAAT is damaged but alright. Jamasis, Jenny, THX, and Nightowl are on the MAAT, while Zesh, Iggy, Anival, and Quillia are on the NR transport. We are being pursued by NR forces.

OOC:

Objectives: The MAAT is alright, just can't reach to high or go to fast. Repulsors were damaged. Making our way to the base, OUR base, not the NR base. Expect some minor resistance.
Make sure the transport isn't disabled.

OOC:

Post read: Yes
      Key points to me:We captured the transport and is headed back to base.
      Important points: will encounter minimal resistance.

Jenny reloaded and cocked her A280 as she checked in with Jamasis:

“So how’s it looking on the guns?”

“There’s some minor resistance that we’ll have to go through, but the path to our base is pretty straightforward, so long as we don’t damage the supply transport.” Jamasis commented on the transport, firing and killing the rebel carrying the rocket. Jenny heard him add to her: “Why don’t you mount the other gun, Iggy is looking over the transport now.”

“Oh, I’ll do it, Jenny can cover our backs while the compartment doors are open.”Jenny saw THX cut in, walking a bit faster than before, with the wound hindering him less.

Jenny shrugged and made her way to the back of the ship, scanning the area with her A280. The ship was moving slowly, just about five feet above the transport, following it to our base. It was pretty unstable as Jenny had to keep one hand on the harness for safety so that she didn’t fall off. She spotted a trooper with a rocket trying to fire another shot on the MAAT, but before she could get off a shot, Nightowl took him out.

“You take out the other troopers, let me take of the rocket guys.” Nightowl suggested as Jenny nodded and took another trooper popping out of the grass.

“This sort of area is filled with all sorts of cover for the enemies to hide behind. With their expertise and training it shouldn’t be hard for them to keep themselves out of sight until the right time.” Jenny analyzed as she took out yet another trooper, carrying a sniper rifle.

The comlink crackled to life as Jenny heard Ani came over the radio, bringing up a map on the squad HUD, of our location relative to our base’s location. “We’ve got about five clicks till we get there. We’re coming up on a wooden area, Jamasis’ team might want to take care, and there might be a couple of troopers out there waiting to take down the MAAT. After the wooden area, we should be in the clear.”

“Thanks for the heads up, Ani.” Jenny heard Jamasis respond as he relayed the same message to the troopers, keeping them on their guard.

Jenny needed no reminding, she knew they hadn’t seen the last of the NR troopers, and she was right. For soon, things went south as the ship took another hit while it was turning around a particular irksome corner.

“Shit, where the hell did that come from?! Me and THX can’t see anything, what about your end, Jenny?!” Jenny heard and saw Jamasis yell, frustrated, spinning his laser cannon around to look for the source of the hit.

“Nothing, they must have hid in a blank spot. How’s the ship?” Jenny replied, examining the woods.

“it’s alright, running at 60 to 70% capacity, but we need to take out those rocket troopers, otherwise we’ll never get through these woods.” Jamasis checked in with the pilot and answered.

Jenny heard a gunshot and turned to the where the shot fired and saw a NR trooper fall down. She then saw out the corner of her eye Nightowl reloading, saying to her:

“Got one, spot another over at your location, Jenny.” Jenny quickly squeezed off a few shots and killed the trooper, hearing shots fired coming from the laser cannons, leaving a few bodies for Jenny to view, and it wasn’t really a nice view.

“There’s the base camp up ahead, prepare to land the ship down.” Ani ordered on the radio as Jamasis said with agreement:

“Of course, I’ll tell the pilots to get ready to touch down.”

OOC:

Summary----The squad made it back to the base pretty smoothly.

OOC:

Post Read: Yes
      Key points to me: defend our base, hold back the rebels,  Jamasis making a sucidial attack
      Important points:Jamasis only has a knife, our side ally is poorly equipped, but the NR have speeders.

The battle reigned on as blaster fires put holes on their base’s
walls and did the rest on their sandbag, metal boxes and other miscellaneous cover. The wraith squad gave the same treatment to the enemy. It was pretty much a stalemate, with a couple of NR troopers trying to play the hero, and the squad’s members cutting it close with a blaster bolt all the time, reporting an alien down a while at a time. Jamasis had just made his way to the shuttle a couple of clicks from the base, hiding behind a rock with his knives at the ready, for the five men were still focused on the guarding of their men, and as Jenny saw, he hated every moment of this.

“Jamasis, get your ass back here, we can’t afford a casualty at this crucial start in our defense!” Jenny heard Ani yell angrily as she took out an advancing NR trooper about to take out the exposed stormtrooper.

“Jen, you’re not really helping, they’re gonna know I’m-----”Jamasis’ reply was interrupted as Jenny watched him get stabbed with a knife by a scared rebel. Jenny quickly took care of the rebel.

“Goddamn it, Jamasis….” Ani gulped down his angry and gestured Jenny and Zeshuan to help him. Even though Jenny doubted his decision, she still followed it without hesitation, nodding to an also uneasy Zeshuan, who nodded back.

“Jenny, you need me to get him some medical attention.” Quillia reminded, hesitantly, as Jenny shook her head and explained:

“We can’t afford another casualty, sorry, Quillia.” She signed, moving forward, firing on the men outside , putting down two with a clip of ammo.

“Allow me.” Jenny watched as two others inside the ship fell at Zeshaun’s hands with no sweat and little ammo wasted, smiling with courtesy, as she reloaded.

“Thanks, Sergeant. It must be the nerves working on me.” Jenny quickly breathed deeply before letting Quillia come over with a hand gesture, covering her rear, while Zeshaun covered the front.

Jenny heard the radio crackle as they made their way to Jamasis, crouched, with Quillia’s sweet but worried voice, while Jenny watched the perimeter, blaster fire heating on both sides:

“We need to get him to a more suitable location for treatment, there’s too much stray fire to make sure there isn’t any more second injury, this rock cover’s not gonna do. To sum it up, he’s lucky to be alive, but we need to move him for a proper treatment.”

“Alright, but we’ll need to get his stuff first.” Jenny relayed to Ani, as she turned to Jamasis, who was badly hurt, and asked politely, given his crude condition with his bloody arm.

“So, where’s your stuff, my friend?”

“Over here, I kept it safe till you guys arrived and dispatched those bastards, had to hide it from those idiots.” Jenny heard one of the pilots answered, crouching out of the ship, with a couple lot of bruises on his head and neck, carrying  Jamasis’ weapons with him.

“Nice, give it to me.” Jenny heard Jamasis say slowly as he was handed his weapons, equipping them and getting up gradually from his awkward position, which was laid up against the rock with his legs opened wide. Quillia was with him all the way, checking his condition and treating his wound simply to avoid contamination.

“Guys, you’ve got NR troopers moving on your position, fast, looks like two speeders at the lead, five troopers behind them. They must have sent out a distress signal with their coordinates before we could let them rest in peace.” Jenny heard Ani’s report from the binoculars borrowed from Jenny’s pack, as she looked at the two pilots, who was running the final tests, maintenance checks and prepping the ship for takeoff, saying without thinking:

“Hey! Where are you guys headed, there’s company coming this way, we need to make sure the air is clear for takeoff.”

Two shots were fired and Ani responded to her questionable thought, referring to the pilots: “The rocket launcher troopers are down, you are clear for take off, find a safe location behind the base, we’ll find you after the battle.

“Thanks, Nightowl.” Jenny said with gratitude as she gestured Zeshaun to get going, her leading the group, with Quillia covering the back, giving Jamasis bacta to keep him stable.

“The shuttle is gone to safety, hurry, gentlemen, I fear the speeder’s gonna intercept you soon.” Jenny Ani say worriedly over the comlink as Jenny said with a more calm voice over the comlink, scanning the empty front area with her A280,

“Ani, cover our fronts, I’ll take care of the speeders.” Jenny’s reply didn’t answer his worry, nor did it ease it. But she didn’t care, she had a plan. She relayed her instructions for Quillia:

“Quillia, I’m coming to your position, get a grenade ready in your hand. We’re blowing up the speeders.”

“How’s that gonna happen? They’re gonna seen the grenade coming.” Quillia questioned, eyes filled with curiousity at Jenny’s plan but Jenny sensed Quillia was uncertain about it.

Once Jenny was at Quillia’s side, the group nearing Ani’s position, she tossed two gas grenades in the speeders’ direction, signalling for Quillia to aim at the speeders’ engine. Jenny saw that as soon as the smoke screen was up, the grenade was thrown, just about in the middle of both engines of the speeders, blowing huge smokes in the speeder.

“It’s coming this way, duck!” Jenny alerted as the group jumped down behind the sandbags, as the speeders landed nearby, the tip just pressing a bit on the necklace’s gem.

“Get Jamasis to a safe location for further treatment, Jenny, stay with him so that he doesn’t get into any more trouble. Now the rest of you, attack the incoming intruders three clicks from us.” Jenny heard Ani relay orders down to the squad, which was a bit bruised from the sudden explosion, covering Jamasis from a second injury, as she nodded and stopped in a moment for thought: fortunately I put that suicidal mistake behind me a long time ago, good luck to Jamasis on that.

OOC:

Summary: Jamasis is safe and back at base with his weapons, he is not injured that badly, missed the artery.

OOC:

Post read- Yes
Key points to me- Injured, not actually in the attack on the comm. tower. Others are, I'm injured/observing the main assault.
Important points- We are going to take care of the comm tower ASAP, then join the main battle.

Jamasis arm burned with pain. Not just a normal burn, but a searing, excruciating burn. He quickly swallowed another painkiller and felt his arm slowly go numb again.

[i]Well, that was stupid.

Thanks.

I mean, you attacked armed men, five, with a knife.

Hey, I was fine until people started talking to me.

Yeah, but you had killed roughly none of them. They were still ready to shoot you.

Anything else to lecture me on?

You can't shoot with painkillers. Try it, you can't aim with that arm.[i]

Jamasis pulled out one of his pistols and tried to focus on one of the many aliens around him. His arm raised slowly, shook tremendously, then began lowering again.

[i]Okay, your point is?

Well now you don't have a reason to be angry at being left behind. And you can practise with your left. You never could shoot with that arm.[i]

Truth be told, Jamasis had been angry when Anival had told him to stay with their allies. He still thought himself perfectly fit for action; though he now knew he wasn't. And he couldn't really take part in destroying a comm. tower without being able to shoot.

Then Anival's voice came over his comlink- [i]"This is Anival. Tell the commander that we're in position to take out the communications tower, and we have two minutes till the shift change."[i]

Jamasis waved the commander over, "The attack begins in two minutes. You should get your men ready."

"Look at them. There are no tactics or battle order for them; I just tell them to do something, and they run off. I couldn't command them effectively if I tried."

"So when are they going to attack?"

"When your friends say they are ready. Or, when something goes wrong. Any problems with that?"

"No." Jamasis left the commander and walked back to the shuttle that had brought them here. He simply started shooting at various objects with his left hand. It was pretty dismal. He guessed that anything smaller than a rancor at fifty feet would be very difficult. Fine for tight spaces, but not good enough for anything else.

"Well, I didn't know I was that bad," Jamasis said to himself.

"There's a trick to shooting with your other hand," said one of the pilots. "We've all had to learn to shoot, and most of us with both hands in case of accidents. I'll show you, loo-"

[i]"Jamasis, tell the commander to attack immediately! We were spotted, the men inside the comms tower don't know we're here, but some local saw us and ran off to the new republic base. We couldn't chase him, just make sure the commander attacks before the local gets there!"[i]

"Crap," said Jamasis, sprinting towards the commander, while his arm began to burn again.

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Notes- None really. I'm not at the raid, and it is a local who is running off to the NR base. Remember, you still have to post about the actual comm. tower incident, just include this bit and remember the NR troopers still do not know you are there.
Summary-You are taking out the comm. tower, whilst the main assault is about to being because of complications. I'm more or less useless right now.
Orders- Everyone, take out the comm towers. 3-4 posts is perfect for this, don't take more than that because it is only a minor part of the story. Focus on the main assault. 2 good, long posts could finish off the comm. tower even.

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Posts read: Yes
  Key points to me: Jamasis isn't in our sneak attack, but back at base, getting the main assault ready?
  Important points: we're leading a sneak attack on the communication towers with the utmost discretion.

Jenny followed Ani and the rest of the squad as they made their way to the communication towers. The situation was taking a swift turn as Ani ordered a counter assault on the rebels, but Jenny knew that they’ve taken the rebels by surprise. The trip to the comm. towers was pretty smooth as they weren’t expected, with silence from both sides after the immediate end of battle, Jenny knew this silence would not last long, for once they infiltrated the comm. tower and end their SOS signals.

Jenny took cover in the thick grass and tree surrounding the comm. tower area, checking her A280 to make sure it was cocked, loaded and ready for battle. Ani was nearby, checking the area with Jenny’s binoculars. After a couple of minutes, Jenny was handed back her binoculars and she watched Ani formulated a plan in his mind. Ani then explained his plan in a whisper:

“Alright, we need to keep this quiet, or someone’s gonna have to come rescue us when they get that SOS signal out. There are at least two teams on site, with one protecting the towers in the east, and the other guarding the bunkers in the west, that must be where they put their communication equipment. We need to take out both teams before we proceed with the destruction of the towers and equipment.

We’ll split in two teams, with Nightowl providing cover with his sniper rifle. I’m with Iggy and THX on securing the towers, Zeshaun, you’ll take Quillia and Jenny to take the bunkers in the west. Melee weapons out, zero sound, take them out silently and don’t get detected. Hold on, I need to check the time for the shift change.”

Jenny was preparing her vibroblade while the rest of the squad prepared their own melee weapons, except Nightowl, who was performing a last check on his sniper rifle.  Jenny heard Ani relay to Jamasis, who was leading the main attack:

“This is Anival. Tell the commander that we're in position to take out the communications tower, and we have two minutes till the shift change.” Two minutes later, Ani gave the signal and Zeshaun signalled Jenny to take point.

Even though they had just started, Jenny had spotted her target right away, in the form of a guy taking a leak outside one of the bunkers. Zeshaun signalled her to take him out while he and Quillia took out the two guards out patrolling the bunkers that they had spotted.

Jenny did her duty well in sneaking up behind the man and slitting his throat, but she soon saw the two patrolling guards coming her way and thought she was done for, until a crack of the neck and a stab in the throat from behind reassured her. She saw the all clear signals from Zeshaun as he looked around, preparing to report the situation to Ani, when one of the bunker doors opened and a woman rebel stepped out, looking like she was looking for someone. Jenny got down behind cover in the dark as did Zeshaun and Quillia, hearing the woman’s voice calling out nearby:

“Albus, where are you, come on inside, I’ve got something to show you. Albus!”
   
    “Honey, I can’t find my baby either, why don’t we team up and start looking around.” Another female voice came from one of the nearby bunkers as Jenny prepared to strike out at one of the females, when another man stepped out from the bunker that the first woman occupied, reaching out to the two women with his sexy voice:

    “Come on, gals, the game’s already playing on the holocron, forget about your loser boyfriends, and come to papa.”

    “No, forget it, Han Dryross, you stupid pervert, never in a million lifetime.” Jenny heard a slap on the face as footsteps approached the bunker and shut the door hard, a loud hurting voice from within.

    “Great job, Welena, your boyfriend would be proud, now come on, let’s go find him.” Footsteps were heard as Jenny saw the two woman walk their way slowly towards the two dead patrol guard, whispering over her comlink:

    “This is Jenny, Quillia and Zeshaun, be advised that two hostiles are coming your way. I’m making my way over to them now. Keep yourself hidden, I’ll be there soon.”
   
    Jenny slowly made her way over to the two women in a crouch stance, when she was intercepted by the man in the bunker from behind, with a blaster pistol at her head, and quite the temper in his voice:

    “Who the f***ing hell are you?! You some spy from the resistance coming to wreck our communication tower, huh?! I just intercepted your message, you didn’t think that your channels would be a secret in this area, did you?! Stupid twi’lek, you should be enslaved, the lot of you!” Jenny got a hard hit on the head from Han, and almost fainted if it hadn’t been for the girl who was called Welena’s help. Jenny was raised slowly and examined by her shock trooper armor, before Welena remarked carefully:

    “Stop it, Han, she seems to be an imperial judging by the armor, we’ll have to report this in first before we take any rash actions.”

    “Is that really necessary, we can just kill----” A choke and snap on the man’s neck, a stab in the heart to the other women, who Jenny later found to be named Rareen, was all the signal Jenny needed to grab her vibroblade and held it at Welena’s chest, preparing to strike, when she spoke up in a scared voice, looking at the dead guy Jenny had caught taking a leak:
   
    “Wait, let me speak to my dead boyfriend and I’ll tell you something important.” Jenny was surprised at this response and really didn’t know what to do, as her blade hand started shaking.

    “Jenny, kill her now, or we’ll arouse some other replacement to the disturbance.” Zeshuan suggested, looking snidely at Welena.

    “Don’t worry, they’re all watching the big swoop race competition in the bunkers, they’re not really focused on their job very much, that’s how the night guard shift is.” Welena answered Zeshuan’s worries as Jenny let Welena say her goodbyes to her boyfriend before Welena told her about the big secret she was keeping, looking calm at the last moment:

    “Well, whoever you people are, you should know that I don’t really have a love for the Republic, I’m only doing this last desperate move because I believe that in the end, the Republic will be conquered and vanquished by the power of the Empire. They only threatened me to do what they want….

But enough of my political lectures, all I need you to know is that don’t send out transmissions to each other, in this area, they can intercept your transmission, even if they don’t know what the transmission is, they’ll find where you are and capture or kill you, doesn’t matter who you are, those are our orders, in case we get a sneak attack from the resistance. Now there are at least four or five men spread out in the bunkers with their respective commander, go quick, if you don’t kill them all in time, they’ll send out that SOS signal one way or another. Now kill me ”

“Alright, I’ll send you to your boyfriend in heaven.” Jenny executed Wellena with regret as their team received a transmission from Ani, sounding weary:

“Zeshaun, this is Ani, do you copy, over.”

“Ani, this is Zeshaun, are the towers clear?” Jenny sensed the anxiety in Zeshaun’s voice as Ani replyed, sounding confident:

“Yeah, it is, why?”

“Get over here right away, and don’t communicate further transmission, we’re being watched. Come and help us clear this area, alright?”

“Alright, I’ll relay this to Nightowl on a more secure channel or try his datapad. Switch to your rifles, I repeat, switch to your rifles and engage.” Jenny quickly advised to Zeshaun shortly after Ani signed off:

“Let’s clear the bunkers now, before they notice that something’s wrong.”

“Alright, why don’t you stay on guard outside and we’ll go in the bunk--”

Zeshaun was quickly interrupted by a bang at the bunker doors with at least five rebel troopers stepping out with their blaster rifles, their leader at the front, with blaster pistol in hand and pointed at Jenny, as Jenny heard him yell angrily, staring at the dead men and women at her feet, with blood on Jenny’s armour:

“HANDS UP IN THE AIR WHERE WE CAN SEE THEM, PUT YOUR WEAPONS DOWN NOW!”

“Or you’ll what?” Jenny intimated as a sniper shot rang out and hit the commander in the neck, while Jenny threw a smoke grenade at their feet, yelling:

“Attack the rebels, kill them all!”

Jenny quickly took advantage of the smoke, taking her A280 out and firing on the remaining troopers, now scattering and getting picked out like flies from hers, Quillia and Zeshaun’s blaster fire.

“Jamasis, tell the commander to attack immediately! We were spotted, the men inside the comms tower don't know we're here, but some local saw us and ran off to the new republic base. We couldn't chase him, just make sure the commander attacks before the local gets there!” Jenny heard Ani relay to Jamasis as he made his way over to the squad, clearing the bunkers of remaining hostiles trying to relay a SOS transmission, unknown that Jenny knew of a program for delaying their SOS transmission enough to stop it from being sent out.

“Alright, people, let’s move out and destroy the comm. equipment and towers before reinforcements get here and finish what the remaining rebels were trying to do. Move out!” Ani ordered to the squad, trying to avoid Jenny’s eyes. Jenny didn’t take much notice, as she took Welena’s pearl necklace as a memory of this rebel traitor. She reflected in thought as she helped the others set up the charges to destroy the comm. equipment: Rest in peace, my beauty, you’ll find some peace with your boyfriend in your own piece of heaven, where you can live a utopia afterlife away from all the sufferings of war.

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Summary: the sneak attack is a success as the squad prepares to destroy the towers and comm. equipment, while Jamasis prepares to begin the main assault.