RPG: Age of Skywalker (Page 24 of 30)

Tanis and Shiv looked up at the Imperial landing craft as it glided down near their position, just falling under the fire of the turrets. It landed, more like crashed, about 40 yards into the forest and the two Jedi and two Mandos ran off in the direction of the crash.

Tanis and Shiv ignited their lightsabers. The deep emerald and bright blue laser blades caughts the Mandos' attention. The elegance of the lightsaber was something everyone in the galaxy understood.

The team darted in and out of the trees, the flaming wreckage coming into view. The hatch was already hissing open and several Peacekeeper troopers stumbled out, shooken up from the crash. The Mandos found good cover and provided covering fire for the Jedi who charged the startled Peacekeepers.

(()Hey, AA...is Xan still aboard the Shadow? I think a show-down might be in order...:D)

(Ok, if this isnt ok, tell me and it will be removed, just making stuff up off of the top of my head)

KRI'TAK, HIDDEN FORTRESS CITY, LAST INTACT URBAN CENTER ON MANDALORE NOT UNDER IMPERIAL CONTROL

Warfare was bad. Jungle warfare was worse, but to PK-26532, "Kane" Urban warfare was the worst of them all. Especially when you were fighting Mandalorians, and especially when the city you were in was cut off from air support by fifteen massive anti-air/space batteries. His squad ran through the city, checking windows, praying they were not just walking into a trap. He charged through a door, taking point, a shot flew centimeters past his face, melting his optics, he fell back as his squad rushed past him. After a moment he reached up, still dazed, and pulled his helmet free. He was instantly bombarded with noise, blaster shots in the distance, the thundering of the batteries and the scream of TIEs

"Three-two! Hows your condition?"

"Green sir, helmets fried, but I can fight."

"Roger, move on, Five eight, you got point."

The squad moved on, clearing buildings, working towards their objective. They were in a small apartment, quite barren, when the wall exploded. Three-two stood, his ears were ringing, he was disoriented, when he looked around his squad was in mostly the same condition. He looked out the window. An ancient machine sat in the street, the smoking barrel of its gun pointing at the hole in the building.

"MOVE! MOVE!" Three-Two obeyed without thinking, sprinting out of the room as a deafening blast sounded and the room exploded again. A blasted out wall  made a door and rubble made a ramp into the street. He sprinted down, as the machine's turret spun, tracking the scattering peacekeepers. Three raninto a building, the doorway exploded as the machine fired again. The commander tried to kick open a door, but on the third try the door splintered, streaks of light shot out as a high caliber projectile weapon punched through him. A group of eight mandalorians charged from behind, their guns blazing as they fired on the peacekeepers.

Three-two had managed to make it a good ways away, and now was observing the fight from a safe distance. Suddenly the machines top hatch opened, and the crew scrambled to get out. The reason became clear when the ground seemed to explode, Three-Two spun, looking up. A Star Destroyer  floated above, less then a mile in the air, its shields flickering as the anti air/space cannons focused on it. Fire poured from the turbolasers, melting the duracrete and durasteel of the city, thundering explosions bloomed upwards as the anti-air/space guns were destroyed, thousands of rounds being cooked off by the heat.

Three-Two stood in awe of the destructive power wielded by the ship, but he realized that no matter what happened to this planet, the mandalorians would remain strong. No matter how many were killed, no matter how badly the planet was bombarded, as long as there was a single one left. Mandalore would not falter, Mandalore would survive.

Cabur finally found what she was looking for aboard the Phantom.  As she left her ship, Cabur walked towards Kell, who had waited outside to stand guard, and put on her full buy'ce.  Almost immediately, she was connected to the ship and targeting computers inside the ship.  She put the connection to good use, sending the ship out an into the heat of the battle that was taking place in space.  She sighed, realizing that the ship would probably not come back, but it would do great damage until it was detected. 

Looking back at Kell, Cabur nodded that it was time to head out.  They walked carefully through the jungles of Mandalore, using night time vision in the darkness of this half of the planet.  "I wonder where everyone else is," Cabur said softly.  They had gotten separated from their group a while back, and Kell had finally managed to convince her to get the buy'ce. 

"I don't know," Kell replied, "but we should keep an eye out, at least we can patrol this area of the jungle, might get to kill some peace keeping scum."  Cabur nodded, listening for any noises.  In the far distance, she could register blaster fire, but it was not a threat to them at the moment.

They continued to walk on, weapons raised, making small chat every once in a while.  Kell stopped suddenly, raising a hand for Cabur to halt.  She looked around, using the intercom link, she quietly asked why he had stopped.  He didn't answer for a few seconds, but after a moment he replied, "We're being watched."

In a split second, he dropped to the jungle floor, pulling Cabur down with him as blaster fire soared over where they had just been standing.  They scurried to get cover, and Cabur quickly spotted the source of the fire.  About a dozen peace keepers had surrounded them, and quietly too, Cabur thought.  She scoped one out, firing and killing the trooper as Kell did the same beside her...

(sorry I haven't posted in a while, hope this is okay.)

JENSAARAI TASK FORCE, ONBOARD THE VADER-CLASS SSD OVERLORD’S SHADOW
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The ship is in absolute chaos. Peacekeeper naval officers are shouting streams of orders at their suboordinates in an effort to make sense of the surprise attacks. The ship's damage control assessment, routed to my HUD via the still active backdoor passcode, report major malfuntions in the Shadow's primary systems. Warning sirens are blaring, and the ship is on auxiallary power...weapons control has just been disabled...sensors are offline...engines destroyed...casualties reported on multiple decks...communications array has been disabled...

The bad news just keeps getting worse. Doesn't it, Tho'un? You wanted to take charge? Here you go... I smile as I allow myself a small amount of satisfaction.

A massive jolt is accompanied by a temporary bout of weightlessness before backup power returns to the Shadow's artificial gravity generators. My father places his hand on my shoulder as we reach the final emergency blast door before the Command Bridge.

"You've done well here, my son. When my time has ended, I have faith that you will be a great leader for the Jensaarai."

I'm stunned into shocked silence by his comment...

((I just don't have time to post right now, I'll either post/edit tomorrow or sometime soon. Sorry for the inconvenience.))

*I just realised I've been using the wrong character name for the last few posts, how embarrassing. I've fixed it up. See Ralin I told you my brain wasn't in RPG mode at the moment *

"My name is Tealani Reneg and this," she pointed at the Felinx, "Is Mez." Mez tilted her head in a totally feline way to watch the Jedi before she rubbed her face affectionately against Tealani's helmet.

Resh said nothing so Tealani introduced him, "This is Resh. Don't ask for a full name, he won't give you one."

"Ashamed of your relatives?" Tanis asked.

Resh lifted his blaster, "Never, just know that lack of info to an enemy can save a barve's butt."

Griffin and platoon was tasked to patrol the sector of the jungle they had landed in, set up a comms and a forward operations command post, his 32 men, all though there where only 8 commando's in the rest had been made up of the best peace keeper troops they could find. they had been trained very little on black ops, but they seemed to be doing good.
the platoon reached an opening in the jungle, he looked up to see the massive battle above them, cruisers, frigates, star destroyers. on fire, destroyed, but they where coping, these silly named people had fought well, then again they where the cornered rat.
he headed over to the corner of the opening.

"Platoon, gather in. where gonna set up for op centre here. we got an opening for transports to land. so set up a perimeter, get the mobile command units set up. i want a stag point for every section, 2 men on at all times, switch the rota around. each stag will have a X86 Light support blaster. and one spotter, See to it men!" Griffin ordered as he sat down on a log, removed his helmet and took out a cigar he looked up to see amanda take off her helmet and swung her hair around, her long golden hair reflected the sun......"its gonna be a long...long day!" Griffin chuckled to himself as he took a long drag on his cigar

Tealani stopped mid stride as did Resh as a buzz came through their com channels. Tanis almost walked straight into Tealani and her felinx gave a low hiss as he almost stepped on Mez's tail.

"We got a call for reinforcements," Resh said gruffly. "You coming Jedi?"

"Where to?" Tanis asked.

"Away from here, location is sketchy but I have an idea of where," Resh replied as he now took point.

"SIR! we just got the radar online, there seems to be two parties within 50 clicks of here. unable to determine the exact position, but must be around 10 to 30 troops all in all sir!" A peacekeeper sergeant screamed out.

Griffin ran over to the radar post, cigar in his left hand, X11 in his other.

"Hmmm, Get on the commlink to air support group Whisky tango 11, ask them to keep an eye out and report and visuals they find, double time!" Griffin shouted as he slammed the peacekeeper on the back. the peacekeeper rubbed his back with a grimacing face.

"Listen up Toon' we got enemies rather close to here, so stay frosty. out" Griffin ordered into the commlink
Griffin then took his seat back on his log. still eyeing up amanda. who was walking around, pointlessly,
Griffin chuckled to himself and smiled

Ok edited.

Tanis, Shiv, Tealani and Resh sprinted through the jungle, the feline creature running along side Tealani who led the way. Shiv still had the knocked out Peacekeeper slung over his shoulder, the great wookie was having no trouble keeping up however. At one point the Peacekeeper almost woke up, but Shiv just banged his head on a tree as they ran and that took care of it.

Eventually, the party reached a clearing and residing in it was a group of 20 or so Mandalorians fully clad in Mandalorian armor and armed to the teeth. A formidable fighting force.

Tealani and Resh walked amidst the group at ease and Tanis and Shiv walked behind them...very carefully. the Mandalorians stopped their battle preparations and about 20 cold, hard Mandalorian helmets watched, analyzed and calculated the two Jedi's steps.

Tealani took the Jedi to large Mandalorian with a jetpack and missle attachment on his back. He was inspecting a holomap being projected from a small droid while several other mandalorians looked over the orders being given by him. Tealani reached him and the man turned around as if he knew exactly when she had reached him.

A conversation through the comm links in the helmets began. Tealani at one point jerked her thumb over her back at the knocked out Peacekeeper and two other Mandos came and relieved Shiv of him. After several more moments of Tealani reporting, the large Mando who appeared to be the commanding officer of this group walked past her and up to Tanis, who was once again shrouded by his cloak.

The emotionless mask that was this man's helmet stared at Tanis. The man leaned closer and Tanis knew he looked into his eyes.

"What do you want, Jedi?"

"Safe passage to Coruscant is all I ask. I am not in league with the Empire, I wish its end as much as you do." Tanis said with no fear of the intimidating Mandalorian

"And yet you wish to go to Coruscant, into the rancor's den. Why?"

"My ship was left there. We stowed aboard the Overlord's Shadow, an Imperial ship that is currently in the battle above. We were able to leave through an escape pod, we crashed nearby, and that is when Tealani found us."

"Alright. Well no one can fly out of here until the Imperial rats have been cleaned out. So right now, we both have the same problem. Now I dont have time for this. For the time being, either you're with us or against us. I see you've got yourself a lightsaber there. Do you know how to use it?"

"Fairly well."

"Ok then. The two of you stick with Tealani and Resh. We're moving out in a few minutes to meet up with a group of Imperial commandos that just arrived and get their asses off our planet. The faster you kill them, the faster we can ship you out of here and to Courscant, where you're on your own. No tricks...or i'll kill you myself." The Mandalorian turned back to the holomap and the rest of the mando's went about their business.

<Well that went well...> Shiv said to Tanis

"For a Mandalorian? That went excellent." He replied