"All teams are in sir."

Fury began to breathe regularly again.  The plumes of vented atmosphere on each defense station could have signaled a successful entry or a squad being crushed against a shield. Sure, some of the landings were off target, but not enough to hamper the mission.

Once one of the platforms could be captured, it could turn its guns against its neighboring platforms.  With still hostile Golans between them, the three - if taken intact - could rend the defensive perimeter of Mooja into so much debris. 

"Captain, move us in closer and at a position that best defends the Merciless.  Order the 411th Engineering Battalion ready to go in with their fighting escort.  Alert Colonel Timms that the 508th will be tasked to reinforce our stormtroopers at the earliest convenience.  I want those platforms taken mostly intact. This will be our most forward position and anything we can take from the New Republic is something we don't have to drag in from Tadath or Abrae."

The captain grimaced, before responding.  "As ordered General." Fury really should have taken an add out on SithBeast.com for a new captain.  This one was obvious unhappy in his position.
 
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PRF/HG Fury/VEA/TADATH/VE [SCP][PoC][SotE:HC][SotE:VEA][IOC]
Prefect - Stormtrooper Corps
Administrator - Imperial Center

Argon lowered his flamethrower.  From the sound of what Kuroishi was saying, he was likely to try another frontal assault like the type that he was now infamous for.  That meant that he would definitely need some serious cover fire, charging down a hallway was a bit different from charging through underbrush to close with the enemy.

Slipping off down a side passage, Argon made his way around, sticking to areas where the lights were out, or ducking from room to room.  Luckily, areas that weren't directly under fire were lightly crewed due to the combat situation, and the patrols didn't seem to be too worried, this far away from the main force of the Wraiths.

It took five minutes before he could see the enemy flank, they were still exchanging fire with the Wraiths, and there were now considerably more of them.  Argon was approaching from a side passage, perpendicular to the one where the Wraiths were.  Ducking into a nearby room, he grabbed everything that would move with the amount of force he applied to it, and started piling them in the hallway.  Very soon, he had a neat little fire shield up, that should protect him long enough to get things done.

Taking out his two pistols, Argon let out a massive Whiphid battlecry, shaking the walls and making the very air itself feel as if it were alive and beating itself against anything it could find.  If Kuroishi heard that, he would know what it meant.  Argon opened fire.

He didn't pause to actually take aim, but picked general directions and poured fire into them.  He was far more worried about the return fire, he needed to know when to be fully behind the shield and when it was safe to keep going.  Then a dark shape entered from the side of the hallway and Argon ducked behind his shield.  Now that Kuroishi was in the fight, there was no way he could keep up his spray of fire.  He checked the power packs on his pistols, both were down to less than five shots.  Quickly replacing them with full packs, Argon drew his Rykk blades.  He had bought them about a year ago at the Imperial Center Store, and had never regretted it, these blades made perfect weapons for anything he'd had to do so far.

Easily leaping over his barricade, Argon charged into the fight...
 
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Argon Viper
Sergeant Major/Senior Writer, VE Today
IW COL Argon Viper{ret}
Fallen Angel and Proud of It!
"History is on the move, those who cannot keep up will watch from a distance, and those who get in our way will not watch at all" - Grand Admiral Thrawn
"Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses" - Carl G Jung

Kuroishi for once was lacking inspiration for a prfound religous statement before releasing the entrails of a rather unfortunate soldier.

A quick spray of fire from his rifle and a few swings with his vibro katana and the path was clear for Stonefish and Argon to join him in the fire control center but that would only last a moment.

Right on que Argon and Fish were in the control room with him.

"Next stage is to at least take the guns off line if not make them do our bidding.  Fish you and Argon take care of that I'll hold here and make sure we can get back out."  Kuroishi ordered.

As Kuroishi had predicted the actual defenders in the control center appeared light but now it seemed the entire security force of the station was now moving in on thier position.

"You two better hurry we're not going to be able hold them here long."  Kuroishi said as he started trading fire with the security forces using the doorway for cover.

Kuroishi knew that without reinforcements nothing they could do would amount to a whole lot.  Then an idea hit him and he knew just the person to call to pull it off.

"Kuroishi to Daishi I need a strafing run across the upper starboard side of the Golan I am transmiting from, think you can handle that?"  Kuroishi commed.

"Give me a moment, I got a couple A-Wings that think they are allowed to shoot at me."  Daishi answered back.

A few moments later and the station's lights flickered and power conduits exploded.  Daishi had done the job.  The damage would at least slow down the security forces as they would not be able to use the lift system.
 
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Kuroishi Wraith VEA
Daishi Raptor VEN
Assistant Writer Why Project Copyright Infringment
Ich bin hessliche amerikaner.
Nehmen mir zu dein frauen von vernunftig preis tugendhafte.
"And the sound of many heads hitting many solid objects was heard throughout the land." me

Kami retreated swiftly, Rema close by her right shoulder and Kain just a step behind. As the trio reached the doorway where they had entered the tech room Rema signaled and they dropped into a crouch. Positioning herself with the others so that the doorway gave her cover from enemy fire, Kami brought up her rifle and readied herself for some straight shooting. 'Which will be damn difficult with this headache'

She watched as Afron, practically aglow with the backlight of all the fire heading in the Dragoons direction glanced back, and seeing them in position signaled for the rest of the squadron to pull back. Kami tightened her jaw, aware that her vision was become blurry. Now was not the time to shoot one of her teammates.

Afron, Niko and TK all simultaneously stopped firing, brought down their rifles and began to sprint towards the doorway. And almost immediately, the Rebels reacted.

Around twenty soldiers rose from their position behind the table while their comrades continued to fire erratically in the direction of the Dragoons. Forcing herself not to flinch with the sudden onslaught of blaster fire Kami focused on Afron, Niko and TK, who almost seemed to be running in slow-mo towards her. The Rebel soldiers who had moved up from behind the table were now in an almost perfect position to shoot them down from behind. Kami felt a grim smile lift the corners of her mouth, 'but in doing so they've placed themselves in the perfect position to be killed.'

Kami aimed, focusing on a particularly stupid trooper who had placed himself at the forefront of the group and shot him twice in the chest. She aimed again, and took down another trooper while fire from Rema and Kain knocked down three more. A rebel shouted, his voice barely recognizable over the noise of blaster fire, and the exposed troopers dropped back behind their tables just as the other Dragoons threw themselves into the relative protection of the doorway.

TK,  who had landed partly sprawled across Kami sucked in a loud breath and made to get back to his feet, 'Well, that was fun.'
"Move!" Afron broke into a run, taking point as the squad hastened to put distance between themselves and the enemy infested room. "We'll have to find another way around."

Kami glanced nervously behind her shoulder as the Dragoons rounded a corner "They're not going to be far behind." To her surprise Niko, who was running just in front of her let out laugh, "No, but there are going to be a lot less of them left to chase us." As if on cue, three muffled thumps sounded from the direction of the computer room. Despite the situation Kami felt herself smiling for the first time since she'd joined the Vast Empire. She was finally doing something...after all these months of waiting...she was finally fighting and killing Rebels....
"You guys are nasty." She replied, aware that sounds of an angry persuit were emerging from behind them.
Niko glanced over at her, and she could almost imagine the grin hidden behind his helmet, "Its in the job description."

 
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-=silly caucasian girl likes to play with samurai swords=-
-=pretty...what do we blow up first?=-
TRP/PFC kaMi/2SQD/1PLT/1COM/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE [LoR]

[OOC: This is kinda in the middle of Kuroishi's post above]

Gunfire whizzed and rattled in the doorways of the small control room as Stonefish sweated over the keyboard of the main computer. The system was just not letting him in, and Army High Command had not been kind enough to issue a magic box-o-tricks on this trip.

"I'm out of ammo over here!" shouted Argon as he drew his Rykk blades and disembowelled a green-skinned NR trooper in a spray of blue blood.

Stonefish called as he tossed his blaster carbine over. Argon smoothly sheathed one of the blades and caught the carbine in one hand.

"What do you expect me to do with this toy?" he shouted back, slashing at another humanoid trooper.

"Don't bother me with trivia, I'm trying to work here!"

Suddenly, Stonefish remember the weakness in the CoruComm security system they used on these stations. The system used an encryption route that could not cope with standard character codes greater than 127, so the logon script could be broken by entering punctuation marks in the password field. Stonefish tapped in a random sequence of hashes, exclamation marks, and stars and hit the return key.

The screen went black, and a cursor started blinking in the top corner of the screen.

"All right, I'm in!" he yelled.

"Hurry up, will ya, these guys are starting to bore me." Kuroishi called back.

Stonefish accessed the gun control system, and reprogrammed the IFF files to identify NR craft as targets, and to ignore any VE signals in the area, at least for the guns this console controlled. He then called up the internal sensors, to see what was going on in the area.

"Okay, the guns on this console are belong to us," Stonefish called over the crack of blaster fire.

"Lock down that console, and let's move! It's starting to get crowded around here!" ordered Kuroishi.

"One sec, I just saw something."

Stonefish scrolled up the output that had just flashed past, and saw the security doors control. A schematic of the station flashed up, with the locations of the vacuum-seal security doors highlighted. Stonefish tapped a few keys, and clangs reverberated around the corridors as heavy gauge durasteel doors hammered down at specific junctions. The sounds of gunfire reduced dramatically.

"What did you do?" asked Argon, "I was having fun there."

"I shut the vacuum doors along most of the route between here and the port control room. We should have a pretty clear run to it now."

Stonefish tapped in a few more commands, and pulled up a 16,384 bit random number which he used to encrypt the entire terminal.

"Okay, unless some genius brings an R5 in here, that should stay locked until we can get control of the whole station. Let's go."
 
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Despite the efforts the squad made to advance further without being thrown into yet another round of shoot and don't be shoot, it was an inevitable reality the group faced in the scenario. They wound their way through corridors and rounded corners, but there always seemed to be an out of place run ahead and behind them.

The Dragoons neared another large room, with an approximate fifty enemies at first sight. Afyon and Rema seemed to have similar strategies in hand, as the signals they were using to delegate silent orders coincided. From what Niko understood, the orders involved getting in one way, blasting a way through, and getting out of the door on the far right of the room. With a nod of acknowledgement, the squad walked through the fresh hold and started firing.

They broke off into pairs, he and TK were stuck together. They took centre of the room. More likely to be hit, but they were also able to hit more easily. The enemies set themselves in sparse groups, and the squad was able to take a third of them out while they were in a scramble. Nonetheless, it was a group not to be underestimated.

TK and Niko were being shot at the most, and despite how they felt about it, being the bait worked out nicely. The other Dragoons quickly downed the numbers, and not a moment too soon, as another file of enemies came through the targeted exit.

"How many more do you think there are?" he called over to Rema.

"I don't know, but we won't be getting through that way anytime soon," he yelled back.

"Through here, come on!" Afyon ordered well rushing his squad through another door.

"Another long way? Great..." Kami said as she ran through. 

 
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"I smell death on you." - Stewie Griffon
"A jamais etre a la nuit, les ombres frapperont avec l'assassin sombre." - Me
"Im hungy, when's dindin"? - Me
"Dum spiro spero" - Who cares?

[OOC: Little long, but i got bored.]

"Where are all the people coming from?" Rema yelled through clamped teeth as the squad grinded to a halt. They had reached another large room that seemed to be a repair station for computers. Only twelve forms scrambled about the room as the Dragoons pushed in. Rema caught the sight of eight humans and four Sullustan's. Moving into the room first, Rema, Kain and Kami made a semi-circle formation covering the area. Quickly, they moved forward dispatching the unlucky repairmen that tried to escape. Obviously they didnt think the invading soldiers would have made it this far. Unprepared fools.

Ducking down behind a bank of computers, Rema turned back and signaled for the rest of the squad to come forward. Peaking out above the terminal, Rema watched for any sign of movement. He quickly chanced a look with the infrared mode of his helmet. He instantaneously located the remaining seven repairmen huddled together behind a rather large set of computer banks. Pointing to the location, Rema's fireteam moved out. Afyon and TK provided cover while Niko watched the back door.

Closing on the rebel's position, Rema motioned for Kami and Kain to each take a side of the bank, and moved to fire on his mark. Reaching the edge of the computer bank, Rema let go a slew of laser fire into the banks at the same time Kami and Kain flew around the sides. The repairmen jumped from their hiding locations taking numerous shots in the back. Still pointing their guns at the smoldering bodies, the rest of Dark Dragoons moved up to them.

"Good job Corporal, your fireteam did well." Afyon said as he passed Rema.

"Unfortunately sirs, we might have a problem." Kain called. He was crouching down where the repairmen had been sitting. A datapad had been jury-rigged to the terminals and seemed to have been transmitting something before Rema shot into the terminal. "Looks like we are going to be having some company real soon."

"We need stall them. Kain and Niko give me a hand over here. Im going to try and barricade this door to give us some time." Afyon said moving to the door they came through. Niko, Afyon and Kain began pushing things quickly up toward the now closed door when Rema heard a thumping sound coming from the corridor he was guarding. He opened a Com. Channel to Afyon but before he could make a peep, three tall hairy white beasts with huge tusks came charging down the hall carrying huge vibroblades.

"What the hell are those?" TK said from behind Rema.

"I dont know but..." was all Rema got out before a loud screech came from the creatures and the three Dragoons opened fire. The first wave of fire slammed into the leading creature but it kept coming. Finally the creature collapsed before their feet, but it was too late. The other two had gotten to them. Stumbling back, Rema continued to fire as one of the creatures smashed its arm into him flinging him away. Skidding into the wall Rema laid there dazed, as black spots clouded his vision. He saw one of the creatures bring its sword down onto TK's communications set and push him to the ground. Kami continued firing as the creature that smashed into Rema charged her. Before it could reach here however, a hail of blaster fire sliced into the creature bringing it down. A similar fate met the other white beast as Afyon, Niko and Kain came running toward them.

Slowly picking himself up, Rema wobbled over to the rest of the squad. Afyon and Kami were examining the bodies while Kain, and Niko were watching the hall the beasts had come from.

"What the hell are those things Gunny?" Kami was saying as Rema approached.

"Whiphids." Afyon replied bluntly. "Must have been on the planet getting agricultural supplies or something. I assume when we jumped into the system they joined up arms with the New Republic."

"We got another problem Gunny." TK said walking up to them. "Looks like that creature smashed the Omni system. This thing is going to need some repairs."

Rema knew under his helmet Afyon must have been giving a long sigh. The last 30 minutes for the squad had been hell and it wasnt getting better. Rema had guessed that they were close to the main command center. Hopefully soon this would be over.

"Alright, lets move out." Afyon said taking point with Niko. TK strolled behind them carrying the remains of the communications system. Bringing up the rear were Kami and Kain followed by Rema. Stopping by the door, Rema reached down and played with the doors controls. It slammed shut and Rema hoped it would buy them some more time.

 
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+ Advance Recon Commandos {ARC} +
"Only Trust your Allies as much as you can Predict your Enemies."
"Do you expect me to talk?" "No Mr. Bond, i expect you to die."
"Luke, I am your Fasha."
To Nom Anor, a truly superior Yuuzhan Vong.
TRP/ASL/CPL Rema/2SQD/1PLT/1COM/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE [LoR][OPE] [AM-B][AM-S][AM-P][IH][SoA]

    "Oh, stop it,i'll do it" Snipes said raising his hands in exasperation.   
   
    "I can. . ." Flying started
   
    "defend the door" Snipes finished stepping over to the Turbo Laser generator and kneeling by a 4 inch tube filled with wires, he needed to take down the lasers then be able to bring them back online, FK didnt have the training for it and Snipes did, he would've normaly let FK fool with it anyway, but this needed to be done fast.
   
    He grabbed a vibroblade from a dead rebel rodian and switched it on to make sure it worked, then he used it to cut the thick pipe in half, then cut another peice about an inch down just to make sure the electricity didnt jump. there where more effective ways of doing it, but Snipes knew this would be considerably quicker.
   
    "Great Snipes, how ya gonna put it back together now?" Flying asked sarcasticaly.
   
    Snipes just took off his pack and began removing several rolls of wireing and a small electronic device of his own making. he cut off more of the pipe, but none of the wire, then stripped off the many wires and spliced new ones in.
   
    "what is that?" FK asked motioning to Snipes electronic device.
   
    "oh, just a little thing i rigged up on the dominion i just connect the wires in here like so" Snipes said stuffing several wires in small slots on the electronic device "then i do that on the other end. . .and whala! all i need to do is flip this switch and the whole turbo laser system comes back on line."
    "
    you realy did your homework" Flying said, sounding slightly amazed.
   
    "ya, thanks,"Snipes said quickly pulling up his comlink, he switched it on "Luetenant, this is the sergeant, we finished, all ready, down here,"

    "Good work boys" Rizzit crackled over the com "we've been seeing signs of your good work over here, i'd advise you keep your daughter close"
   
    "right Luey"

    "your daughter?" FK asked
   
    "this baby here" Snipes said motioning to the generator and mocking hurt.

    "you guys work this out while i was out of the room or something?"
   
    "heh heh" Snipes chuckled "you could put it that way, i imagine whatever room you where in was no where near VE space though"
   
    "ah, i. . " Flying broke off as the thud of boots echoed down the hall

    the three RAIDERs dashed into the antichamber to the generator room, wich was no more that a 8 by 12 room that had held a three chairs a long table and a system terminal. now the terminal was in pieces, occasionaly spewing a few sparks in protest, the table was knocked over, facing the door, wich was locked using Snipes favorite method of blasting the lock. the chairs where all knocke down and the remains of two dead rebels where stacked infront of the door to trip the unwary, the third trooper was dead in the generator room.
   
    "i still think thats sick and wrong" FlyingKnight said as he knelt down behind the table with the other three.
   
    there was no need to ask what he ment, it was obviously the dead rebel pile Snipes had started "it works"
   
    Snipes heard the door groan in protest and raise up about three inches. Snipes readyed himself, this was a E-11/H job and so he shouldered it, folding out the stock in the oh so rarely done style of somebody going for maximum control. the door gave a shake and a shudder and moved anouther tree inches up, Snipes set a few grenades down by his feet for easy access. The door gave a larger shudder and this time smoothly opened all the way, Snipes, JR and FlyingKnight opened fire, Snipes E-11/H sometimes ripping holes threw rebels the size of his head. the tide of rebels slimmed though and begand to severly slacken, they must have decided to go discuss strategy, that or they coulding get threw the pile of dead and wounded in the door.
    "check you ammo" Snipes said softly
    "im good" Flying replyed pushing a new pack into his E-11
    "so am i" JR came, still keeping a watch on the door. "they're coming again!" He hefted his blaster and opened fire
    Fallowed quickly by Snipes and FlyingKnight, Snipes took a few shots in his upper arms and chest, but the armor too the brunt and the leftover just burnt.
    it was only a few second though before Snipes heard a rattle and thunk behind him in the generato room. and he rann back to investigate. what he saw surprised him, but it was a one meter by one meter whole in his ceiliing, and a rope coming down.
    "guys we have a problem! Fall back!  fall back!" Snipes yelled opening fire on the hole."and lock the door behind you!"
 
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The Comnet Hermit
-Raider Squad-
TRP/SGT Sniping101/CrazyRAIDERS/1PLT/1COM/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE [LoR][IH][BoA]
"As long as their is Space, Im going to stare off into it"-Garfield
I'm a little teapot, short and stout. Here is my handle, here is my spout. When I see an ARC all short and stout, BOOM!  He flies through the hall and out. -anonymous

With the lift system down the trip had been long for Wraith but it was probably safer.  With Stonefish's override on the doors it had managed to prove rather uneventful yet at times unsettling.

Kuroishi figured that the rebels knew that the main approach paths would be from the port arc.  They weren't stupid and they could see where the fleet was positioned.  So on the toher side of these last few doors would be one heck of a fire fight.

"Allright we can't stay here for too long and on the other side of these last few doors is almost certainly a few killing fields so keep to cover and take your shots carefully.  Argon the door if you would please."  Kuroishi gathered the squad.

As the squad took cover Argon placed the explosives and found his own cover then triggered them.

A quick hail of blaster fire filled the coridore.  Carefully Kuroishi peked around the bend, it wasn't nearly as bad as he had expected but it was still a killing field for anyone dumb enough not to find cover.

Kuroishi placed his rifle on his weapons pack and took his sniper rifle.  Carefully taking aim Kuroishi began to make n impact on the prepared positions.  A truely maccob painting of blood now covered the walls.  190 rounds left.

With the flame of Argon taking out the closer positions it was now feasable to advance into the next coridor.

"Allright  Argon, Fish, Yuy.  You three first.  I'll get the e-web on the right side then you move."  Kuroishi said as he reloaded.

A quick succession of three shots eliminated the e-web crew and made the e-web non-functional.  As the three men moved Kuroishi waited for his line of fire to open up and he repeated the process against the other e-web.  The few soldiers left died in either a bath of flame or under a hail of fire.

Switching back to his blaster rifle Kuroishi took the time to stop and gather a few blaster clips.

"The next one will not be so easy.  Take cover and make sure no one sneaks up behind us while I see if I can find a way around this last killing field."  Kuroishi said as he heard sounds of heavy equipment being dragged into position through the blast doors.

So far they had gotten lucky.  Only a few minor flesh wounds all around and no incidents of friendly fire.  This next obsticale could easily prove deadly.  The last position didn't have the time to fully cover thier prepared positions and thus were easy prey for Kuroishi's expert shooting and Argon's flame thrower.  This time it sounded like they were prepared in every snse of the word.  Yet just beyond them was the port side gunnery control center.

"Allright looks like if we go through this wall instead of through that door we can at least attack them from the side instead of directly in front.  Far less suicidle."  Kuroshi said as he drew his vibro katana once more and activated it.

The blade became white hot in a moment and thrust it into the wall and began to make a new door.  In a couple moments it was done.

the troopers had a new path to thier target and Kurioshi lead the way.  As he got to the section parralel to the killing field the noise of heavy machinery could be clearly heard working on metal.

"Everyone to cover."  Kuroishi shouted as a large section of the wall came down.

Kuroishi watched as Lukas Yuy took a hit and went down right next to him.  He was still alive but he'd probably be in a bacta tank for days maybe even a week.

Draging Lukas Yuy behind cover Kuroishi was watching more of the wall come down.

"Grenades, all of them that you got now."  Kuroishi barked.

Tossing his own frag grenades into the mass of confined rebel troopers he could see they had prepared thier positions well.

"For a lightening strike on the port gunnery control center this situation is sure a hell bogging down.  Time to do something about it."  Kuroishi said as he tossed his smoke grenades.

As the coridor began to fill with thick white smoke the fire from the rebel positions became sporadic.

Leaving cover Kuroishi charged toward the positions.

With vibro katana in his left hand and double barrled blaster rifle in his right hand he appeared in the midst of a rather eclectic collection of species defending a rather well made bunker but Kuroishi didn't care they all died the same.

Sprays of red, green, and blue blood flew through the air in the microsecond before the wounds became cardirised by the heat of the vibro katana.

The smoke was now so thick no one could see more then five feet.  Wraith was now free to advance.

"Bring the pain."  Kuroishi said as he advanced to the next bunker.

Wraith and thier regulars scrambled in and instead of a messy blaster fight it became a messy knock down drag out fight.  Argon and Kuroishi had significant advantages from thier greater strength and agility the rest of the squad and the regulars would be duking it out on much more even terms though.

"I'm going for the computer, everyone else hold down the fort."  Kuroishi said as he opened the door to the control center.

Heavier with defenders but no where for them to hide Kuroishi was thankfull his armor was specificly designed to be as protective as posible against blaster fire since he didn't have anywhere to hide either.

Standing there silhouted against the smoke rolling in like a fog he knew this would be a perfect time for one of his psuedo religous psychological warfare lines.

"i have come unto you to bring the only gifts that I can give, an eternity of suffering and death."  Kuroishi said as he began firing on the defenders.

Blasters pelted off his armor and defenders dropped.  In a matter of moments the room was cleared with Kuroishi gunmanship and rapid fire capabilities of his double barreled blaster rifle.

Now for the trick he saw Stonefish use on the other computer.

"Wraith to command port side guns are now under our control.  Holding position until reinforcements arrive."  Kuroishi commed.

Wraith squad pilled into the gunnery control center with Argon carrying Lukas Yuy.

"We'll have a couple minutes until all hell breaks loose but hopefully by then the rebels will be too busy repelling the main boarding forces to worry about us too much.  What happened to the regulars?"  Kuroishi said as he looked over his battered and bruised squad.

"They got the bright idea that they could take on a couple wookies by themselves.  We're still finding pieces of them."  Stonefish answered.

"Well let's get this place ready for a siege then."  Kuroishi replied.
 
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Kuroishi Wraith VEA
Daishi Raptor VEN
Assistant Writer Why Project Copyright Infringment
Ich bin hessliche amerikaner.
Nehmen mir zu dein frauen von vernunftig preis tugendhafte.
"And the sound of many heads hitting many solid objects was heard throughout the land." me

Stonefish examined the room, and the immediate surroundings. It was fairly Spartan, a few desks, a couple of chairs and some computer terminals. The grim soldier took a look at the terminals more closely, examining the functions of each one.

"Hey, this terminal controls some internal defence systems," he said.

"Great," responded Kuroishi, "Think you can get them on our side?"

"I can try, but I've got some other toys to play with."

"Okay, what have you got in mind?"

[OOC: Cue A-Team music]

Stonefish pulled his pack from his back and rummaged around inside. He passed out a few spare power packs to each member of the squad, as they seemed to be running low on ammunition. Rummaging deeper, he grabbed out half a dozen small, shaped remote charges, and detonators, along with a pair of handheld welding/cutting tools.

"Well, I am a combat engineer after all," he said grinning, "I'm just standing in as comm tech."

Kuroishi pulled out his datapad and consulted the station schematics.

"Okay, we've got too many entry points at the moment. We need to reduce them to as small a number as possible. So we should reinforce these doors here, and here," he pointed to a number of doors which Stonefish had dropped from the other terminal, "We've got plenty of desks here, and I'm sure we can scavenge some from the adjacent rooms."

"I'm on it," said Mandor and Argon simultaneously.

Stonefish passed the pair one of the two welding torches.

"And then, we can block off this corridor with some of the computer equipment," continued Kuroishi, "That means they can only come at us through these two intersections."

"And if I mine those corridors, and I can rig some of the internal security," put in Stonefish.

"Outstanding," concluded Kuroishi, "Now all we need is a deck of cards."

The squad quickly split off, with Argon and Mandor cutting up and transporting desks through to the doors, and Kuroishi moving the computer equipment while Stonefish set up the mines in the corridor. They knew they didn't have much time before trouble started coming. They needed to be prepared for a fight.
 
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The control room may have been a bit spartan, but the next room over was a gold mine of tables and chairs and other large pieces of furniture.

Quickly grabbing a table, Argon cut it neatly in half with the welding supplies and moved the pieces to the next room, handing them and the welding supplies to Mandor who proceeded to start blocking off one of the doors.

Five chairs and another table later, there were only two entrances and exits to and from the room, not counting the window which they hoped not to exit through.

Outside, they could see the silent and feiry spectacle of hundreds of starfighters and dozens of capital ships clashing in the beautiful dark of space.

As he watched, a flare came from his right, one of the guns of the station firing, striking out into space and ending in a small flash.

"Aaaaand...  done," said Kuroishi.

Argon looked back outside, the flashes of light from the station had stopped, hopefully that would mean some regulars as reinforcements soon.

"Argon," said Kuroishi, "how's the ammo for your flame rifle?"

"I've got enough left for a bit," said Argon, "why?"

"I want you to take the rear door," said Kuroishi, "our setup is off angle for it, so the only way we can take fire is if they come through.  I want you to make sure they don't."

"No problem," said Argon, "are we going to set up an E-web for the other one?"

"Good point," said Kuroishi, looking instinctively out the door through which the massive guns sat, now crewless, "drag one of them in here and set it up."

"Got it," said Argon, already moving.

Soon the Rebels would be here, and try as the Wraiths might, the enemy might get through.

But they would pay dearly if they did...
 
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Argon Viper
Sergeant Major/Senior Writer, VE Today
IW COL Argon Viper{ret}
Fallen Angel and Proud of It!
"History is on the move, those who cannot keep up will watch from a distance, and those who get in our way will not watch at all" - Grand Admiral Thrawn
"Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses" - Carl G Jung

A low mechanical voice came over the Golan's intercom system.

"All squads, report to the main turret power generators. Repeat, all squads report to the main turret power generators."

Sergeant Aaron T. Ebbs felt a few faint thuds reverberate through the Golan's steel walls. He threw a worried glance at the commading officer of this mission

First Lieutenant Rizzit Blackheart threw the look back in his face as if saying Do you doubt my troopers? Ebbs nodded and tightened the grip on his E-11.

The docking bay wasn't huge compared to what was on the Dominion, but it was large enough to house 3 pairs of X-Wing fighters and a few old and outdated Y-wings. There was also a troop transport and an battered YT-2300 freighter occupying most of the space.

Recalling what he knew of the Correlian freighters, mostly drawn from holodramas about the wretched Han Solo and his YT-1300 freighter the Millenium Falcon, Ebbs tried to come up with a way to use the old bird. He didnt like waiting, and holding this dociking bay was beyond boring. Now with the call for all troops to go after the Raiders and 2 members of his squad who were taking out the turbolasers, he figure they would see minimal action.

In fact He pondered, We havent been engaged for over 15 minutes He didn't believe that they were invisible to the NR holocams, but it almost appeared that way. What was worse than the waiting, was knowing that two of his veteran squad members, his ASL Sergeant Leo Karp and  Corporal Dimsar Yuman were down having all the fun.

Fighting back a yawn, another muffled explosion reached their ears, and he heard the nearby Turbolaser batteries power down.

A voice came crackling over Rizzit's com unit. "Sir, thi.....Sni.....lasers.....abled....pin....don't.....rendez...boarding..."

"Snipes." Rizzit replied, "Repeat that last transmission. Snipes?"

The sound of blasterfire, digitized by the comlink was all that came over, followed by loud cursing and Snipes hollering out orders.

"SNIPES REPEAT THAT TRANSMISSION. OVER." Rizzit barked into the com.

"Sorry Lieutenant." his voice came clear over the com, the static somehow gone. "We have taken down the turbolaser power supply and will hold here since we are pinned down." A muffled explosion followed by a "woot" that sounded like JR came over the com. "After the boarding we will rendezvous with you at the security center. Just look for the big hole in the floor. Snipes out."

Shaking his head, Rizzit deactivated the comlink.

"Squall, get me a link to General Fury on this frequency. Hurry." The newest memeber of the much revered Raiders squad came up and took the com package from his commander. "Ebbs, I want you to take your men and get down to that security center and hold it until we can get there once our backup arrives. Change your comm to channel seven-four-two. I'll contact you once the calvary has arrived."

"Roger that Lieutenant," Ebbs replied saluting the officer. He knew Rizzit only by reputation, never having had the pleasure of working under his command. However  his reputation did him little justice for his competency as a leader, and his charisma washed over the troops, inspiring them to go to their limits.

Checking his power levels, he prepped the remaining three memebers of his squad to head out. Once they all checked out he set his jaw, squared his shoulders and barked "MOVE OUT."

Rizzit watched as the squad of regulars doubletimed out of the docking bay. They're probably going to their deaths. Rizzit morbidly thought, But that Ebbs seems competent enough. Who knows. Maybe they'll surprise me.
 
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Senior Sergeant Jikkyo "Fallen Angel" Nimiichi 
Assistant Squad Leader (ASL): RAIDERS SQUAD
AS-3/ASL/SSGT Fallen Angel/3SQD/1PLT/1COMP/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE/Tadath [LoR] [RoM] [BC] [BoA]
TRN/UNI Phoenix/Training 1-3/VEDJ/VE/Lopen

"Me? I always tell the truth...even when I lie. So SAY GOODNIGHT to the badguy. It's the last time you'll ever see him. Watch out there's a bad guy comin through." Tony Montana

Glad that her vision was beginning to clear, but irritated that violent nausea had replaced it, Kami, who was positioned closest to the storage door, looked at the other members of her squad to check that they were ready. She'd considered that they might have to break up to find the Rebels they would need for uniforms, as it was unlikely that they would be able to take down Dragoon sized group without attracting too much attention.
As the door slid slowly back Kami checked the proximity of the Rebels in the corridor. While the command center still boasted a sizable defense force, the majority of those blockading the surrounding hallways had disappeared. It seems like the other stromies are doing a good job of making a mess...

Stepping out into the corridor, her E-11 held at ready, Kami moved into a jog, heading back along the corridor and away from the command center, the soft footfalls of the Dragoons close behind her. She passed a few storage rooms then continued past the corridor the Dragoons had entered the main corridor from. Reaching up and flipping on her infrared Kami continued forwards, searching for signs of life. Spotting two red blurs in the distance, Kami slowed then stopped, and turned back to her squad. Raising her hand she motioned with two fingers then pointed along the corridor and to the left. Receiving a nod of confirmation from Afyon, Kami slid her E-11 over her shoulder and pulled one of her flashbangs free. With TK at her side, she moved up and around a corner of the corridor, coming to a halt outside the doorway in which the two Rebels were located. Pulling the pin out of flashbang Kami counted to three and stepped into the room.

Two Rebels, off-duty soldiers judging from the disgruntled appearence of their uniforms, glanced up from a clip board they had been examining, irritation marring their features.

Kami grinned and threw the flashbang at their feet.

The soldiers yelped, stumbling back from the intense light as TK and Kami leapt forwards, their helmets filtering out the effects of the flashbang.
Kami charged the disorientated Bothan male, jumping over a pile of papers and slamming her elbow into his temple. The soldier let out a grunt of surprise and went down in a heap.
Kami spun, bringing the butt of her carbine up, only to find TK standing over the unconscious form of the female soldier. Kami dropped down into a crouch and examined the woman's uniform, "Dammit," Kami snarled,  "she had to be fat..." She heard a muffled laugh from TK's direction, "She'll have to do."

Seeing a flash of white in the doorway Kami looked back up to see Rema. He pointed further down the corridor then disappeared, the rest of the squad following close on his heels.
Kami, resigning herself to the fact that she had to lug this woman back to the storage room, clamped her arms under the soldier's shoulders and pulled her back towards the doorway. TK slung the bothan easily over his shoulder and walked up next to her, "Want me to lead?" Kami sighed and stumbled to the side, letting him move past.

They made their way back to the storage room without  incident, and changed swiftly into the enemies colors. With TK's help, Kami pinned the soldiers garb back so it fitted her reasonably well.  Immensely glad to be rid of her charred helmet Kami pulled her dark hair into a braid and pushed her bangs from her eyes, "How do I look?"
TK looked her up and down, "Like a Rebel."

A  soft shuffle from behind them announced the arrival of the rest of the squad, who were each carrying a limp Rebel in one hand and their weapons in the other. Afyon and Rema dumped two officer's near the chute and helped Kain and Niko pull the bodies of two Rebel soldiers the rest of the way into the room.
"No problems gunny?" Kami asked as the squad began to shed helmets. Afyon shook his head, "No, but I have a feeling this is about to become, if possible, even more interesting."

 
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TRP/PFC kaMi/2SQD/1PLT/1COM/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE [LoR]

Opening the door to the docking bay, Ebbs peeked around the corner. Holding up one hand in a closed fist, he signaled his squad to hold. Once he was positive the hallway was clear and no NR troops were lying in ambush, he opened his fist and waved his troops forward.

Repeating these steps at every corner, Ebbs silently envied the shock troopers abilities to rush reckelessly into battle and come out without a scratch. The legendary exploits of the Vast Empire's elite troops sometimes caused him to lose respect for his regulars. He once tried to be a shocktrooper, but didnt make it through the basic training.

After a few minutes of checking corners and watching their backs, the small squad reached the access hatch that one of the Raiders, Sniping something or other had cut through the floor with a cutting torch.

"I'd love to know where he got one of those." One of the troopers said.

Ebbs shot him a look that would melt duracete. "No unneccessary chatter Private. Do y ou want to give away our position?"

SIlence was his answer. Thats how he liked it too. SOme squads were relaxed,. letting the soldiers chatter amongst themselves.Supposed relax them, ease the tension. Ebbs scoffed at this idea. It also left them unfocused, And an unfocusedc squad is a dead one.

Peeking into the security center, Ebbs saw nothing but darkness. Pulling out the comlink Rizzit had given him, he opened the channel.

"Rizzit this is Ebbs, I'm at the security center and about to secure the area."

"Good job Ebbs." came the Lieutenants reply. "Proceed with securing the center, regulars wil be here in under 10 minutes."

"Roger that, Ebbs out." Closing the link, he tcuked the comlink away in his belt, then drew his E-11.

"OK guys, standard entry, I'm first, then Jason, Reinat, and Simms. As soon as you touch down, spread formation. Jason and Simms secure the door. Reniat you watch this hole. I'll acces the main security system and try to  cut off support for the troops holding down the Raiders. WE only have to hold until the rest of the troops arrive, so defend yourselves at all costs, and dont worry about ammo. Now lets move."

E-11 in one hand, Ebbs cracked a glow rod in his other, and leapt into the hole. He hit the ground rolling and swept the darkness with his glow rod, and choked on the vomit that rose to his throat.

Body parts were strewn about the room. There was nothing that even resembled a body intact. EMPORER'S BACK BONES!!

"Everything ok down there sarge?" a voice floated from above.

"Yeah, get down here quickly." he whispered hoarsely in return.

Finally getting his stomach under control, he heard the rest of his squad touch down. They spread out to theior designated assignments. Remebering his own, Ebbs located the security console and switched on the holocams.

"Could this get any worse?" He said, surprised that the words actually came out. A full squad of NR heavy troops were marching on their position.

"SIMMS!!! SECURE THAT DOOR. BARACADE IT, CLOSE IT LOCK IT I DONT CARE. WE'VE GOT COMPANY!!" His disciplined squad sprang into action. The door swtich had been blasted through, so locking it was out of the question. Tippin gove rht desk and two tables that were in the room (luckily made of steel), the squad built a barrade in the doorway.

The distant pounding of heavy troops grew closer, the soudn of which reminded Ebbs of a distant thunderstorm, or the war drums of some primitive race.

Suddenly their barracde exploded, sending shards of steel throughout the room. Ebbs felt the shrapnel tear through his body, and watched in horror as Simms and Jason were torn to shreads, their lifeless bodies collapsing to the floor.

With the last of his strength, Ebbs pulled the comlink out.

"Rizzit*cough*cough*...this is Ebbs, we couldn't.....hold....I'm sorry."

Death came to him, and suddenly Ebbs no longer wished he was a shock trooper, he just simply wished he was.
 
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Senior Sergeant Jikkyo "Fallen Angel" Nimiichi 
Assistant Squad Leader (ASL) - RAIDER SQUAD -
AS-3/ASL/SSGT Fallen Angel/3SQD/1PLT/1COMP/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE/Tadath [LoR] [RoM] [BC] [BoA]
TRN/IN Phoenix/Training 1-3/VEDJ/VE/Lopen

"Me? I always tell the truth...even when I lie. So SAY GOODNIGHT to the badguy. It's the last time you'll ever see him. Watch out there's a bad guy comin through." Tony Montana