Sorry about the mission name.  I just couldn't help myself.  If anyone comes up with a better one, I'll change it immediately.

Planetary Information

Planet Name:  Nalbrice
Planet Function:  Trade
Government:  Anarchy
Planet Type:  Terrestrial
Terrain:  Jungle
Gravity:  Standard
Atmosphere:  Type I (breathable)
Length of Day:  29 hours
Length of Year:  135 days
Hydrosphere:  Moist
Temperature:  Temperate
Population: 200,000,000
Starport:  Stellar
Tech Level:  Information, with Hyperspace facilities

History:
Originally founded as a colony of religious dissidents from throughout the Corellian Run, Nalbrice has become much more.  After the fall of the Empire, the once relatively unnoticed planet become a stopping point for many explorers, criminals, ex-Imperials and the various smugglers avoiding the emerging reach of the New Republic.  From a small 2 million being colony of co-religionists, it swarmed to hundreds of millions who could care less about religious harmony.

Social and governmental controls broke down as a highly militarized and warlike culture of various criminal organizations and smugglers fought for zones of control.  The planet is now a chaotic landscape of prefab housing and has only recently tried to clean up some of its territory as it is now an important waypoint on the burgeoning Remnant Run between the Vast Empire and the Imperial Remnant and other former Imperial regions.

Current intelligence points to a power struggle between an undetermined coalition of stabilizing forces and a loose confederation of criminal gangs.  The majority of the populace is left caught in the crossfire of daily skirmishes.

Operation Order

I. Situation

A. Enemy Forces

1. Identification of enemy forces:  Intelligence shows upwards of two companies of troops onboard.
2. Location(s): Most are primarily guarding the cargo holds and command and control areas.
3. Strength, morale, and capabilities/equipment: Two companies of lightly armored and lightly armed troops.  Do have heavy armor and weapons but will not use them unless a ship-wide threat is recognized.
5. Probable course(s) of action: Are more likely to flee and get reinforcements than fight.

B. Friendly Forces

1. Jester squad.  There will be no backup on this mission.

II. Mission

You are to land on the planet of Nalbrice and attempt to find a way onto the Lady-class luxury liner Lady Eboshi.  Intelligence has shown that this long-in-service cruise ship has been converted to use as a gun runner to unknown planets beyond our starcharts.

The only known port of call for the ship is Nalbrice.  It is imperative that you find a way onboard, obtain information as to other ports of call, possible starcharts of the ship's cruising schedule, and any details as to who is involved in the weapons procurement, purchase, and delivery.

III. Execution

Intent

A. Concept of the Operation

As it is near impossible to obtain the proper documentation required to access planets in the Thilidian sector, it will be necessary to find an alternate means to boarding the craft.

1. Maneuver:

Establish a means of getting on the ship, gathering information, and quickly exiting the cruise liner.

2. Fires:

Onboard the ship, a major firefight would be a serious danger to the success of the mission unless precautions are taken in advance.  In addition, exiting the craft will be difficult if the ship's gunnery crew is aware of your presence.

B. Coordinating Instructions

This paragraph lists the details of coordination and control applicable to two or more units/subunits. Items that might be addressed include:

1. Departure and reentry of friendly lines.
You will be utilizing the captured Mobquet  Cargo Hauler Danthe Venture from the aborted Alisandor mission.  It has been given a salvage rating and is to be presented to Etchik Shipyards for refitting purposes.  This gets you onto the planet.  A small courier craft will be attached to the Lady Eboshi.  This will be your means off of the ship.  Of course, without proper astrogation records, you will be unable to return to VE space. 

2. Actions on enemy contact:  Quickly neutralize any enemy contact to avoid discovery.

3. Priority Intelligence Requirements (PIR): Obtain at least a partial list of stops by the Lady Eboshi.  Obtain astrogation records good enough to get you away from the ship and back to VE space.

4. Timeframe:  As the Lady Eboshi leaves Nalbrice, it will stop at a platform.  This is the first delivery point and is also where the ship will take on much of its military component.  This area is patrolled by a significant naval force.  Beyond this are various tourist stops at up to five differing scenic areas.  Beyond this is a long hyperspace jump stopping at a large orbital military facility.  If you do not finish the tasks before the scenic stops complete, it will be almost impossible to avoid detection at the second military installation.


C. Medical Evacuation:

This is impossible once upon the ship.  If a trooper gets injured, squad resources may be all that is available in the short term.

D. Personnel:

Literally, take no prisoners.

E. Miscellaneous:

1. Special equipment.

Inbound to Nalbrice: Mobquet Cargo Hauler Danthe Venture

Outbound: Lady-class Luxury Liner Lady Eboshi

2. Captured equipment.

Your best chance of finding a means of leaving the liner is one of two Baudo-class Star Yachts moored to the ship.

IV. Command & Signal

A. Command
TBD by squad leader

B. Signal
TBD by squad leader

Not a lot of fighting involved in this particular mission (unless errors are made ).  However, it should give you all a chance to work together on what should be a short mission.

Also, if it helps, success on this and Wraith's mission will help move along a mini-storyline I have until our next chapter works itself out.
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PRF/GEN Fury/VEA/TADATH/VE [SCP][PoC][SotE:HC][SotE:VEA][IOC]
Prefect - Stormtrooper Corps
Administrator - Imperial Center

***Ok its been a while so... Don't really know what has been posted about this character in the last year or so but oh well... tell me if something is wrong. ***

Tylen laid back on his bunk.  Man...ever since leaving the temple its been nothing but small bunks and crammed quarters.  Merrick had just finished chewing him out for being lazy but he had no will power to do much of anything today.  He sat up and looked down into the room (he stole the top bunk )  He could see a few of the others putting on their daily clothing...pounds of heavy white armor that didn't really do a whole lot but blind you when being outside.  Heh...how could they stand to wear those? He thought to himself.  Tylen himself has worn the stormtrooper uniform all of about 2 times in his life.  2 reasons, 1) he was to small for them, only being 16 they huge and bulky and he couldn't move! 2) Why would he need to wear anything but his jedi robes.  He practically lived, slept, and would shower in them if he could.  But basically found the white armor useless.  They seem a little tense...heh...newbies.  Ok, time to have some fun...  Tylen reached into his backpack and pulled out one of his many thermal detonators.  Tylen never left home without them.  It is like a link to his childhood.  Keeps him sane in a sick and twisted sort of way... The detonator he pulled out was a dud, one that was more of a distraction device then one meant to kill someone.  He put a few more of his regular thermal detonators in his robes for the trip and grabbed his lightsabers.  He huddled up on the top bunk and waited for the perfect moment...  He activated the thermal detonator and dropped it off the side of the bed. 

"LOOK OUT!" Hashi screamed as he and a few others hit the deck, some jumping out the door to try to get away from the non-existent explosion.  Sokudo just sat there knowing Tylen all to well these past few years.  Tylen jumped from the top bunk and ran out the door.  "HAHA!  See you guys later!"  He shouted back at them and brought the fake detonator back to his hands.  In a few seconds later he was half way down the hall when he could hear blaster fire coming back at him in retaliation.  heh& never fails&   He thought to himself making his way down to the bridge to get the full details on their first port from Merrick.  He knew this mission was going to be an easy one and wondered why they didn't just ask him to do it personally, one person would be able to infiltrate a ship much quicker and stealthier then a whole squad could.  But he quickly got over it.

 
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Sith Guardian Tylen Jaap
CM/SG Tylen Jaap/Elite Griffen Sect/VSD-II Griffen/VEDJ/VE [VP]
TRP/SMJR Tylen Jaap/1SQD/2PLT/1COM/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE
Little Ball of Death - Jester Squad

'Meditate on this, I will'- Yoda

Hashi paced the corridors of the Danthe Venture restlessly. Sucking his teeth, he contemplated about the mission. He was more than a little worried, it was his first real mission afterall. He stopped momentarily, and softly pounded the hard durasteel of the ship. He had tried to gone back to sleep after Sergeant Major Tylen Jaap had his little prank with the thermal detonator dud, but he found that he was too tense to have a quick nap. He sighed grudgingly as he thought about Tylen's prank, why were old-timers always picking on the new ones?

"Steady boy," he muttered softly to himself, trying to reassure himself. "Merrick's a helluva squad leader, and Tylen and Sokudo are old veterans themselves. You'll be alright with them around."

He was clad in his brown army tunic, having just discarded his Stormtrooper uniform. Stealth and secrecy were the key to the success of this mission, and the loud clank of heavy boots coupled with the white gleam of armour that can be seen from a mile off will certainly not help him. The tunic gave him more freedom of movement, though it offered little or no protection if it got down to a furious gunfight. Hopefully it won't come to that. He smiled grimly and his hand strayed down to his right thigh, patting the holstered blaster strapped there.

At that moment Firefrog approached him from behind and tapped him on the shoulder. "Pilot says we're gonna drop out of hyperspace in a minute."

Hashi nodded in reply and followed his fellow squad mate to the cockpit. The pilot and his co-pilot were busy working the controls and monitoring the various displays. Merrick was standing silently behind them, staring at the white lines of hyperspace. She turned briefly to acknowledge the arrival of the two troopers.

Suddenly the ship lurched and dropped out of hyperspace, returning to the blackness of normal space. Everyone in the cockpit studied the green planet looming ahead of them. There was a flurry of activity above the planet ; various freighters were scurrying about their business, while smaller fighter craft darted in between the larger craft. Hashi noticed the large orbital platform above the planet, the one which was controlling all incoming and outgoing space traffic.

"So that's Nalbrice," Merrick said softly.  "Busy place we have here, hmm?"

"Unidentified freighter, this is Nalbrice port control. State your destination and cargo," a gruff voice cackled over the comlink. The pilot replied steadily, giving all the neccessary information so as to not aggravate the controller.

"Clearance to land granted, " replied the controller after a long period of silence.

"Enjoy your stay... and don't get into trouble."

The Danthe Venture glided smoothly down onto Nalbrice, jolting slightly due to turbulence as it hit the upper atmosphere. After a couple of minutes, the capital city Brinine was in sight. The city itself was a beehive of activity, its millions of occupants crammed into prefab housing. Here and there the scars of war could be seen on battered skyscrapers, while droid repair crews tried to fix the damage that was the result of a power struggle between the planetery government and the many criminal organizations.

Eventually, the Venture reached the starport on the far side of Brinine. The pilot expertly eased the ship gently onto the landing pad he was that was designated.

Hashi breathed a sigh of relief, glad that the first stage of the mission was over. They have reached Nalbrice safely. Getting on the planet had proved to be the easy part, but finding a way to get on the Lady Eboshi would probably be not as simple, what with all the various criminal gangs running around the city.

Criminal gangs, Hashi thought, hiding a smile. His mind flashed back to his time in Nar Sharddaa, running around with gangsters and other fringe-types...

"Hashi, tell the others to gear up and get ready. We're moving out as soon as possible," Merrick ordered, snapping him back to reality. "Yes ma'am!"

He rushed out of the cockpit. Yes, they have landed on Nalbrice safely enough, and Hashi was now hopeful they'll get through the entire mission alive.

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TRP/LCPL Hashi Shiyun/1SQD/2PLT/1COM/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE [LoR]

Merrick waited until everyone was present. "Alright, now no one has actually told us how to get on the ship. That's one of those fun little things we get to figure out ourselves. The first stop of the Eboshi is a platform where they will take on troops. That makes it hard for us, but I thought we might try a little of the old switcharoo. Kill a couple, take their places. Shouldn't be too hard, except for maybe Tylen, but I am sure he can find his own way onto the ship." Tylen nodded silently, confidently. "We only need to hope that none of these troops know each other too well, and that we choose ones who won't be missed." Everyone looked at each other a little nervously, except Tylen and Sokudo, who as usual stood there in silence looking straight ahead. Merrick looked over her troops. Those that had brought their armour had obviously thought twice, and were wearing reasonably casual clothes. "Alright guys, lets move out."

They left the Venture at the shipyard and headed off to find a way to the platform where the Eboshi would be docking. She discussed what would be done, and talked to Tylen to make sure he was ok with making his own way on. The kid was useful, but his age could be a problem at times. When they arrived at the platform, there were no troops there, so Merrick headed for the nearest bar. Frog and Vult snickered as she left Jester outside and went inside to investigate. They both had some idea of what her plan was going to be, especially considering she had found the least obvious exit to leave them outside of. She'd also left all her weapons with Tylen, who was holding them and trying not to make it obvious he was uncomfortable doing so. A few minutes later, Merrick emerged from the bar with a few mercenaries in tow.
 
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TRP/SSG Merrick/1SQD/2PLT/1COM/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE
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Jester Squad's chick with a sword and Squad Leader
To thy protection fear and sorrow flee, and those that weary are of light find rest in thee.
If you love something, set it free. If it doesn't come back, hunt it down and kill it.

Earlier the platform where the Eboshi was docked was devoid of troops. Now it was brimming with mercenaries. At least two companies strong and towing heavy gear along with them, the mercs were all making their way onboard the ship.

The grey hull of the Eboshi stood out like a dark shadow. The ship was scarred with turbolaser marks, no doubt they ship had been in many sparrings with various planetary police forces. The former luxury liner had underwent such heavy modification that it no longer resembled the holiday ship it once was. In addition to the four twin pair blaster cannons, she had also been outfitted with a pair of turbolaser cannons and concussion missile launchers.

The mercenaries were not the only group on the platform. In one inconspicious corner were the Jesters, clad in their disguises. Hidden beneath their clothes were their choice weapons. The Jedi was not with them however, he will find his own way aboard the vessel. Senior Sergeant Merrick quickly briefed them on getting aboard the ship, and then the Jesters split up and joined the mass of mercenaries.

"Meet up when you get on the Eboshi," Merrick whispered. "And pray your disguises hold."

Blending in as best as they could, the Jesters were simply following the mercenaries. They kept within sight of one another, communicating only by hand signals and eye contact.

Gradually the platform was emptying. The last platoon of mercenaries had boarded the ship. Amongst this last platoon them were the Jesters. Nobody seemed to take notice of the new additions to the platoon. The mercenaries were just banging their way forward, grunting and shouting.

"Undisciplined lot," Hashi thought darkly as he plunged into the mass of sweaty bodies moving forward. "Nothing like the Imperial army!"

One by one, the Jesters slipped undetected into the Lady Eboshi.

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TRP/LCPL Hashi Shiyun/1SQD/2PLT/1COM/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE [LoR]

Frog began a slow wander towards the rear of the ship, he passed a few other crew on his way, and managed to get buy with a smile and a small nod to each. Whenever he could, without someone seeing, he popped his head into a room, and took a quick stock of the contents. Most of the rooms back here seemed to be crew lodging, and he had to make many a quick excuse before he grew tired of that game.

Taking a turbolift down a few levels, he began to inspect what seemed to be an even more barren part of the ship, when he came across a small utility cupboard. Peeking inside, he had a look around, and a slight grin crossed his face as an idea graced his mind. Taking a quick look around to make sure he was alone, Frog hopped into the cupboard and quietly closed the door behind him.

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"Oi, Rovern, we're dealing again, do you want in or what?" The mercenary known as Rovern looked over his shoulder, and shook his head as he sighed, "Fine, whatever," came back the first voice.

Rovern looked around the large hanger bay, not that it was much of a hanger bay, you wouldn't be able to fit a speeder bike in it, with all the crates laying around. Not for the first time, he wondered who he'd upset to draw duty here, there was only ever three people assigned to guarding the cargo while in transit, and who was going to attack a room full of weapons, while they were in space? And to illustrate just how little his superiors cared, the communications relay down this end of the ship had gone down over an hour ago, causing their comlinks to spew static every now and then, and they were showing no inclination to have it fixed before the next port of call.

Rovern turned around to go watch the other two play cards, just as a head poked through the doorway, and had a look around the room.

"Oi, you there! What're you doing?" Rovern yelled across the room. In response, the head looked at him, grinned largely, and the door produced a body to go with it. Rovern wandered over to get a look at the new comer, who at closer inspection, appeared to be wearing a engineering mechanic's outfit.

"Hey there mate," said the mechanic, "I'm here to do the work ordered on the, errr, the errr..."

Rovern raised a curious eyebrow, and was just reaching around for his blaster, when his comlink decided to interrupt with a loud burst of static.

"The comms relay! Thas right!" said the mech, "Lost the damn work order, didn't I? Knew the high-ups didn't send me down here just to chat with ya's."

Rovern wrapped his hand around the handle of his blaster and took a step back, "So they're sending engineers to fix our electronics now?" he said, flicking his eyes to the insignia on the mech's uniform.

The mech in response, looked slightly taken aback, followed by what could almost have been panic, replaced quickly with another huge grin, "I'm new here, ran outta uniforms they did, only signed up this last port here I did mate."

Rovern sighed, and let go of his weapon, he was going stir crazing being assigned down here, going paranoid with the boredom. "Yeah, 'course, relays right over here, follow me."

Rovern opened the door to the communications room, and lead the way in, he was just in the motion of pointing to the relay box, when his vision went unexplainably black, and he found himself tasting the cold, hard metal of the deck plates.

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Merrick carefully disconnected her datapad from the port, and smiled to herself. "Obviously they're much more worried about being attacked from he outside, then infiltrated from within," she thought to herself, "At least with this data, we can make it home alright."

At this point, her comlink beeped quietly. Raising it to her mouth, she thumbed it on, "Merrick here, report."

Frog's voice came back, somewhere inbetween nervous and childishly amused, "Yeah sarge, I've um.. captured the cargo bay..." Merrick's reply was a groan.

"It really wasn't that well defended, and no-one saw anything to raise the alarm," said Frog, trying to justify himself, "I'll give it back to them if you want..." he added.
 
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TRP/LCPL Firefrog/1SQD/2PLT/1COM/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE [LoR]

The stupider people think you are, the more surprised they'll be when you kill them.

"Well at least they don't want me to hold their hands." Merrick hadn't heard much from anyone, but so far almost all of the data they needed had been found. Even the encrypted stuff, which they couldn't be sure of yet, sounded promising. Merrick was just finishing getting a list of the stops of the Eboshi when Tylen called her again. "Hashi got a little noisy with his disabling of the guns. I'm gonna go make sure he doesn't get into more trouble than he can handle." Merrick sighed. "Thanks Tylen, have fun." She didn't need to see Tylen to know he was simply grinning. She disconnected the data cylinders and searched the two bodies she had left on the floor. Just as she stood up, not having found anything interesting, someone stepped into the doorway. "Here now I thought you guys were supposed to protect this ship, not hack up the crew." Merrick turned around to find a crewmember aiming a blaster pistol at her. She smiled at him. "It weren't me, I just found em and thought they might have some stuff worth somethin." He lowered his pistol a little and stared at her. Merrick jumped him and slit his throat with her axe. "Don't stare, it's not polite." She searched him too, before hiding all the bodies and wandering off. Time to call the others and see if they could leave yet. This sneaking around stuff got boring when you couldn't go mad and kill the rooms full of targets.
 
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TRP/SSG Merrick/1SQD/2PLT/1COM/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE
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Jester Squad's chick with a sword and Squad Leader
To thy protection fear and sorrow flee, and those that weary are of light find rest in thee.
If you love something, set it free. If it doesn't come back, hunt it down and kill it.

As Merrick grined down at her latest victim Sokudo slipped out of the shadows. "Hey, boss... I found where the escape route is located, has anyone found the astrogation charts? I'll go ahead and load them up to the systems on the courier craft."

"Hell, Sok, You could sneak up on anyone couldn't you?"

"That's why I'm J-squad's ninja," He said with a grin.

"I have the charts right here once you load them up see what you can do about sneaking around in those shadows and eavesdrop on some of the higher ups around here to find out who they're working for. Just as back-up incase this encrypted data that Tylen found is junk. Once you've done that report in." she told him as she handed him the datapad with the charts on it.

"Gotcha', boss." the ninja replied, as he took the datapad and blended back into the shadows.

"I still want to know how the blazes he does that," Merrick muttered to herself.


 
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TRP/LCPL Sokudo/1SQD/2PLT/1COM/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE
Jester Squad's Ninja

Merrick finished programming their route back to VE space into the Courier ship's navicomputer, "That should about do it, now if my boys would just hurry home..."

The door linking the craft to the Lady Eboshi opened, Merrick spun around, and brought her blaster to bear on Frog, who's grin was dampened somewhat by Sokudo's blade at his throat.

"Ladies, please!" said Frog, "No need to be rough, I bring presents!"

Merrick took a closer look at Frog, and felt her jaw drop slightly. Strung over Frog's shoulders was an assortment of about twenty blaster rifles on varying sizes and makes.

Merrick shook her head, "Couldn't help yourself, could you?"

Frog smiled in reply, "Is there somewhere I can put these? I have a satchel of explosives down my pants thats making me somewhat twitchy."
 
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TRP/LCPL Firefrog/1SQD/2PLT/1COM/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE [LoR]

The stupider people think you are, the more surprised they'll be when you kill them.

Merrick opened her eyes and sat up straighter. Vult looked at her. "Hm, thought you were quiet, didn't realise you were asleep." Merrick shrugged and went through her pack. She held out a few bandages to Hashi. "Sorry, forgot I had these until just then." Hashi took them and pressed one against his burn as Merrick wandered off to the cockpit. Frog had taken over for a while so Merrick could rest, but he was obviously itching to get back and talk crap with the others so Merrick took her post back silently. Frog wandered off and was soon back to making a fool of himself with the rest of the squad.
 
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TRP/SSG Merrick/1SQD/2PLT/1COM/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE
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Jester Squad's chick with a sword and Squad Leader
To thy protection fear and sorrow flee, and those that weary are of light find rest in thee.
If you love something, set it free. If it doesn't come back, hunt it down and kill it.

Merrick sat down and looked at her squad. She'd been mean and not let them shower or change before the debriefing, and a few of them looked rather tired. The only person who had permission to be late was Hashi, as he was off getting his wound looked at by a medic. "Ok everyone, sit down and shut up." Everyone did as they were told and looked at Merrick, at least pretending to be interested. "All the info we got has either been handed to Fury or is currently being deciphered. From initial reports, we did good. We got almost everything we needed and wanted, and the encryted info looks to be the rest of it." Everyone looked pleased with themselves. "Good job Jester, and go get clean and rested." Everyone wandered off back to the barracks slowly, obviously in no rush to be anywhere in particular. Merrick finished up her report to Fury, and headed off after them.

[OOC: Woo, story over. Hope we all had fun, and I will see what I can do about getting another one going ASAP. Congrats to Frog and Hashi who both got promotions out of their hard work on this one.]
 
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TRP/SSG Merrick/1SQD/2PLT/1COM/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE
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Jester Squad's chick with a sword and Squad Leader
To thy protection fear and sorrow flee, and those that weary are of light find rest in thee.
If you love something, set it free. If it doesn't come back, hunt it down and kill it.