Unfinished business with the locals

[kozeph]

The red madame, Madeline Gwenaelle military mastermind, puppet master, intelligence officer, colonel, captain of her very own Deabolos battle cruiser and diplomat to boot was very displeased with the current situation.

"I am not pleased Captain, not pleased at all" her fingers covered in a top quality leather black glove tapped twice on the wooden desk. Her calculative eyes gazing up and down captain Arthurus Reck. "When did the Sith forces become so incompetent that they are un-able to deal with a handful of rebels"

"With all due..." The man stuttered but they way the eyes narrowed into a menacing form cut the captain short.

"I did not gave you permission to speak captain, now get out of my sight. I will take matters into my own hands" She weaved her hand and stood up from her chair walking to a nearby window with a vista of the factories afar.

Madeline lips pursed into an annoyed grin. This conquest had been an easy one, the republic had retread in the middle of the battle, the planet had fallen easily, the trouble with the bombs in the factories had already been dealt with yet several habitants of the planet still refused to bow their heads down. In a span of several weeks most of this rebellious groups had been dealt with, yet there had been two groups that managed to evade capture for the last couple of weeks. The last one had been dealt with by the Sith order that had already infiltrated and taken control of most of the empire. This mattered little to the Red Madame, she served the empire only for the rewards as long as the new heads of the empire wisely kept their promise then Madeline would keep giving the empire and the order victories.

She had been called here to Yaga Minor to deal with this last troublesome band of fools...

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"Gentlemen, welcome to Yaga Minor" She said jumping down of her transport before it completely landed. She was dressed in her signature red uniform that was actually a Navy uniform rather than an army one. She watched the assembly of soldiers, the "Raiders" as they called themselves where there, personally called by Colonel Gwenaelle, there was also two more units there, each lead by a lieutenant, one in particular being led by a Kaleesh of some renown in the army.

She waited for the three officers to welcome her and salute her as it was proper, she was their superior and the one in charge of this whole operation.

"At ease men" She said after their salute and put her hands behind her waist, she walked past them and the Epicanthix lady situated herself between the officers and the assembly of soldiers.

"You are here, since this planet garrison is unable to put down small band of fools and troublemakers, you know this already" She eyed the youngest of the officers Lt. Ghand, recently commissioned and promoted to the position of lieutenant. He faltered and was obviously nervous, who wouldn't be? A Colonel popped out of nowhere and suddenly the whole situation had changed. The higher ups of the empire wanted Yaga Minor's restoration to start as soon as possible, Madeline was here to make sure that work started as soon as possible.

"You are here to deal with last notable band in this planet, its mostly factory workers a couple of republic loyalist and maybe a pair of abandoned republic grunts, who seen to be causing all sort of trouble for the planet restoration work"

"Lt Tycho Barret you and your Platoon will team up with Lt Oderus Urungus men and attack from the west, you two will spearhead this assault" She turned her gaze to other Lt. Ghand "Mean while you and your unit will act as the reserve" She was cold and to the point

"The rebels are hold up in melting factory, exact number is unknown, they somehow gotten hold of a dated sensor jammer so expect between fifty or seventy rebels armed with small arms fire and mining equipment, spotters have also reported the sight of some factory droids being re-activated" The tall lady in red began walking back and forth between her officers.

"Do not expect air support or vehicles besides this ground transports, the factory is surrounded by warehouses... expect ambushes and booby-traps" The red lady stopped infront of the Kaleesh Lieutenant, both facing each other eye to eye. The Epicanthix lady was roughly the same height as the reptilian Oderus, she was not intimidated by his presences a life time ruling over pirates had taught the former pirate queen how to treat big scary aliens.

"I want no survivors, I want that factory intact, do this for me and I'll put in a personal recommendation for you" She walked away and turned around this time looking at her three officers.

"Any questions gentlemen?"

[JokerHound]

Tycho paused for a moment to allow the other officers a chance to ask any questions before responding with a "No ma'am"

He turned to his men. The squad leaders had been briefed. They all knew what they were supposed to do, but they were flexible. This type of batttleground was perfectly suited for them. This was the type of combat Tycho knew best, and his men knew that. The only thing that concerned him was the other units involved. On their own Tycho knew exactly what each unit was capable of. He had heard some rumors about Orderus Ungus, the Kaleesh Lt., specifically that he could be unpredicatable. Sometimes that could work to thier advantage, but it could also get Raiders killed. Ghand was new and nervous. It was obvious, but he was in charge of reserves. He could only screw things up if Barret or Ungus screwed up first.

Tycho took a moment to pull the Kaleesh officer aside;

"Good afternoon, Lieutenant" He said, mmaking sure to sound approachable, "I just wanted to over the task at hand one more time with you if thats alright. We hit from the west and my men wheel to the right to breach the building. Can we count on you to hold their attention while we blast an entryway and unsecure the security doors?"

[Othorious]

Orderus grunted slightly, "Uhh No Ma'am, No questions, the Scumdogs are ready.." Even though they all fell under the Raider Classification, Orderus' squad was, and shall forever be known as the Scumdogs, for their ruthless and cut-throat tactics.

Orderus eyed Lt. Tycho with annoyance as he approched, "I assure you Lt. That me and my men will keep their attention pointed at us, lest they fear to suffer absolute destruction before your men even breach the building" He chuckled deeply, then flashed a quick hand signal in the air, and the troops behind him lined up in formation, armed to the teeth with swords, axes, and firearms of all kinds. "So, when can we get this bloodbath on the road? My men are getting irritated, and their bloodthurst must be quenched"

Orderus gave one more look at Tycho, before he completetly turned his back on him, and surveyed Madame Gwenaelle, smiled slyly, and loaded his weapon for battle. There will be no survivors...

[JokerHound]

OOC: Go ahead and skip me. I was trying to post tonight but i have a hike in the morning and i had to get my squad ready. We are going to be out until saturday so i dont want to force you to wait for me. Please just dont slaughter everything while im in the woods.

[kozeph]

(I haven't even posted yet haha, no worries we'll wait for ya mate)

Good, Madeline liked it when everything ran smoothly. Her underlings understood their jobs and she could move on. "Then, load up and board your transports. I will provide intel support as you go, Do not let me down gentlemen" She said turning around and heading to a nearby tent without giving the Kaleesh and the two other human officers a second look.

She entered and everyone saluted the lady in red, who simply gave a carry on order. She took position next to a holoprojector of the field, that gave her an overhead view of the entire battlefield and if needed it would show her the scheematics of the factory, today's ultimate goal.

Madeline had not partaken in the fight, since her duties didn't involved coquering planets for the empire, the Epicant lady mostly cleaned up after the Sith, today was no different. She was cleaning up the last bits of organized rebellion in Yaga Minor, after this then one could only expect that the local garrison would deal with the hooligans and troublemakers that popped here and there.

The red Madame rested her forearms against the edges of the map. "I want the J4 to provide accurate images of the battlefield before we start" five minutes passed and Madeline started to see live images of the sorrounding of the factory.

"Gentlemen" She said opening comms to the leaders of vanguard of this attack, the Raiders and the Scumdogs. "Update report; the rebels have made make shift barricades around the factory, they don't seem to have snipers but intel indicates at least three gun nest, adjust your strategies accordingly" Her men should already be in their transports and on the way to the battlefield.

Madeline fist closed and openned twice and she waited for the initial reports from the Tycho and Orderus.

[Othorious]

Oderus boarded the rough looking repulsor lift transport with a excited smirk across his face, the rebels would soon be slaughtered, a thing Oderus looked forward too. The rest of the scumdogs boarded too, the Raiders boarded the other transports, and soon, they were off towards the Factory. The Scumdogs teams was comprised of three Rodians, two Kaleesh (Including Oderus), two grans, and three Twi'leks, no humans or near-humans to be seen on this squad, it's a strict Scumdogs policy. The entire team joked and screwed around in the ship, such was a tradition in the Sqaud, fun time and play before a mission, but when action happened, it was dead serious time.

Suddenly, the comm staticed and soon the Madame's commanding voice flooded the ship, Oderus and his squad listened intently. After the report, Oderus smirked and turned to his techincal team member, the other Kaleesh, a female named Ahkira, who was extremely proficant in strategy and other techincal stuff. "Alrighty Ahkira, upload the battle schematics to everyone's wrist comm, I need to check in with the Madame" Ahkira nodded, and got to work typing in the new battle plans, while Oderus contacted the Madame via his Wrist Comm. "Alright Madame, all's good with the Scumdogs, I hope the Raiders can keep up, they're gonna need to, or we'll finish the Rebels up before they even get forward 20 paces"

[JokerHound]

Tycho sighed. The scumdogs were certainly living up to their reputation.

He looked to Sindai as the Raider uploaded to the schematics into the rest of 3rd Platoons commlinks. Tycho patched through to the command channel. "3rd Platoon approaching outskirts of the district. We will disembark and proceed on foot from here."

The Raiders around him nodded in silent agreement. They all knew those barricades would be a death trap for the transports if the rebels had any heavy weapons. Besides, the Raiders excelled in house-to-house fighting. Tycho himself came from an urban warfare background, so he was actually slightly eager to finally get to put his skills in that area to good use.

The Raiders hopped out and immediately made a swift perimeter. The squad leaders all flashed hand signals to one another and in a matter of seconds the platoon was in motion.

Tycho and his retinue moved with Johtos and third squad as they took point through the first of the surrounding warehouses. he took a glance over his shoulder to check on the Scumdogs progress as his team prepared to enter the first building.

[kozeph]

(occ go ahead and skip me this round, I can't think of anything to post :/)

[Othorious]

The transport carrying the Scumdogs landed not but a few yards away from the Raider's ship, and the Scumdogs quickly rushed out, heading after the Raiders as they entered the building. Oderus and his second in command, a Twi'lek nick named 'Devastator', namned because he was the Scumdog's demolitions man, quickly rushed in.

Getting in was easy, but getting deeper into the factory, that is where the difficulties layed. From the entry point, Oderus saw a large hallway leading in, that crossroaded half way down, leading into two opposite hallways. Oderus sent in his best stealth man, who went prone and crept alongside the edge of the walls, peaking around, it seemed to be clear. The Rodian gave the ok and the team proceeded. The Scumdogs stopped at the crossroads and Oderus turned to Tycho, "Alright, there are many possibilities with this crossroad, should we split up or continue to move as a large group, and if so where should we proceed?"

[JokerHound]

"Split" Tycho said, "We can't rick too many of us getting caught up in one choke point. The rest of my squads have our flanks covered. Just remember to watch for traps. There are professional soliders in this group; they arent likely to be caught with their pants down."

Barret was pleasently surprised at how well the Scumdogs were conducting themselves. He had expected a reckless charge into danger but they were operating with smooth professionalism. He was begining to think he could count on this Urungus fellow.

Third squad took the right passage as the Scumdogs went left. Tycho moved forward next to Johtos as Shaiko led the way forward. It wasnt long until they came to an opening leading into a much larger open warehouse. Shaiko gave the signal to halt and the raiders all took a knee. Tycho moved to join his friend and asked him what the situation was. "Sir, the target building is just beyond thins one, which means all we have to do is get past this room and we're there."

"Should be easy" Tycho said, already knowing his friends response.

"It should be, but it probably wont. I can already see tripwire tied to grenades right at the end of this hall, and I can hear machinery in the room beyond. Im guess its some of those reactivated droids we heard about."

Tycho gave his friend a nod as he moved back to tell Johtos the situation. A few moments later the squad was in motion. Tycho and his retinue climbed out a window and into the street. He could see second squad advancing through the warehouse across the street. Silently, Tycho and his men crept along the wall until they were well past the hall where Johtos and third squad were staged. they apporached a blasted out side door and Shaiko took out his knife. He used the keen blade's reflection to see inside.

"Boss, we got two heavy droids and five guards walking along the bottom level. It looks like two guys on the catwalks up top. A few sonic detonators should give us the jump on all the humans. The droids arent combat models so we should be able to take care of them pretty quickly."

Tycho relayed the plan through the comm to Johtos and third squad, and the men got into position. They readied their weapons and Sindai took point. Khalon and Sindai prepped their sonic detonators. Inside Johtos and two more men were doing the same. On Tychos signal, they would hurl the explosives inside and breach. Things were about to get hot.

[kozeph]

Madeline rested her body against the holo projector table, the image before her was the expansive terrain around a large factory, with several storage buildings surrounding it. Under normal circumstances the lady in red would have requisition more men, but she didn't plan to draw the media to her or the little job she had been given. So she simply got the best, they were to hit hard and quick, the empire had no need for rebels inside it's territory...

A message came, the two assault units the scumdogs and the raiders had arrive. The clearance was given and the squads position themselves to clear the first storage house. Large rectangular building, a long and two stories tall unremarkable construction.

"Turn in the cams in your helmet's gentlemen" Madeline red lips opened and pursed into a smile.

"Scans report seven life forms and twelve energies signatures within the building" one of the J4's operators spoke, after the report of droid like noises coming from within the building.

"Breach and clear" these men knew their job, there was no need for survivors. Droids could be easily replaced, the only thing that really mattered was to keep the collateral damage to a minimum. The troops had orders to eliminate any hostile target.

The Epicanthix female adjusted her black gloves and pushed a strand of black hair off her face. The play had began, she had to wonder how would her men fare against the republic peons.

[Othorious]

The Scumdogs swiftly, and silently stormed the left hallway, while the Raiders went right. The squad found themselves in larger room, an assembly room of some sort, with various droids being constructed. "Seems like the rebels are buildin some toys...let's ruin their fun!" But before he could give a command, blaster bolts rained down from above. The squad quickly took cover, luckily there were no casualties....yet. Oderus fired on the ambushers from his position behind a large crate, while the other Scumdogs fired back from their various positions.

"Devastator! Let's light em up!" Devastator chuckled, and reached for his missle launcher, and loaded it, and fired a single rocket at the upper catwalks, destroying the entire framework of them, causing a chain reaction. The other catwalks above the scumdogs crumbled downward, the center ones plumeting to the lowest floor of the factory, some odd hundred meters below the Scumdog's current position. Sadly the catwalk to the otherside was destroyed too, but the Scumdogs were prepares, each aimed their weapons at the opposite wall, and fired a small cable, and rode them to the otherside.

They then scaled the nearest staircase, heading towards the main control tower, but the way would be more treacherous than previously thought.

[JokerHound]

There was a loud blast from the adjacent warehouse chamber just as the Raiders prepared to breach the building. Khalon looked quickly to Tycho to see his Commanders reaction. Witha quick nod Tycho signaled his men to attack anyway. The sonic detonators were hurled into the room and made a deafening blast.

Tycho and his team breached from the flank while Johtos ran forward wit ha plasma torch to cut the tripwire. In an instant the small metal cable snapped and the rest of third squad breached mere seconds after Sindai first entered.

The droids were relatively unnaffected by the detonators but the most of the men had fallen to their knees. Khalon leveled his heavy repeating blaster and unleashed a torrent of fire into the heavy droids on the ground floor. Sindai sprinted in a hopped the first barricade to find two men struggling to their feet. A shot from each pistol dropped them back down permanently.

More droids emerged from the shadows but as quickly as they appeared the raiders gunned them down. There were clunky manufacturing models repurposed for combat, so they were no match for trained warriors like the Raiders.

A rodian on the ground level managed to scurry to safety as the droids and his comrades were gunned down. Shaiko unsheathed his vibrosword and chased the man into the darkness.

Tycho looked up to the catwalks where Shaiko had seen the other two rebels. one had been a Bith. The detonators had taken a particularly bad toll on him and he had flipped over the railings and gotten caught up in the machinery of the factory. It wasn't pretty. The survivor was running, trying to get to far side of the factory to a comm relay to warn the main rebel facility of their approach. Tycho wasn't the greatest shot, but he blasted away anyway. He and Johtos fired away and one of them (Tycho couldn't tell who) hit the man square in the back. He fell sprawled to onto the cold metal grates that made up the catwalk, motionless.

Shaiko walked back into the main chamber from the shadows, wiping blood from his blade. "Well, i guess we can do away with the formality of sneaking up on them now. What did the Scumdogs do over there?"

Tycho couldnt even begin to imagine what Orderus was up to, but the main rebel compound was almost certainly suspicious now.

He chekced in with teh other three squads quickly, First and second squad had already cleared the building across the street. Fourth was following close behind to act as immediate reinforcements were needed. They had rushed to the scumdogs position when they heard the blast.

"Sir..." Kaison, the squad leader, said into his comm, "I don't really know what happened over here."

"What do you see?" Tycho replied, fearing the worst.

"Uhh, well it looks like they just blew up the whole room. Then they went up to the higher levels. I think they are headed for the main control tower."

Tycho cursed under his breath. Well it looked like the plan of the Scumdogs holding the enemy's attention while the Raiders breached the flanks and sliced the system was done with. Tycho tapped into the command channel: "Ma'am, he said, speaking directly to the Red Madame, It looks like Urungus has changed his plans. My forces will proceed as planned, but we will be moving faster and hitting much harder then we had anticipated."

He sighed. If Urungus screwed this up it could be very bad for the Raiders. The main control tower was likely to be the most heavily guarded part of the complex, but who knew? maybe that meant the scumdogs would be providing a better distraction by attacking it directly, even if it meant some of them might get killed.

[kozeph]

"I should have expected that," The Colonel spoke softly, truly she had to have seen that, Kaleesh would enter a frenzy and ran amock.

The lady in red turned around and away from the holoprojector, Lt Ghand was there, he still looked nervuse if the Epicanthix lady wasn't wrong, the young officer was recently promoted, he was eager but lacked the guts to truly shine, much unlike mister Berret.

"Lieutenant," Madeline said, her voice agitated the young human. "Change of plans, take your men and hit south western flank".

The young officer turned around and quickly left the tent. Colonel Gwenaelle took a small breath, while she considered the next few possible escenarios... they all ended up in her victory, but still she would rather not lose to many men on this skirmish.

"Start Jamming the enemy comunications".

She said after a second of consideration, that Kaleesh had probably alerted the whole of the base about the Sith presence.
"Lieutenat Berret, sorry to keep you waiting. Split you're task force in three squads. You and another squad will proceed as planned, the third squad will stick to the shadows and prevent Oderus and his group from being flanked, or sorrounded".

"Lieutenant Ghand and his forces will arrive in ETA five minutes and will try to link up with you're group," Madeline voice said, through the comm she was not worried, this was but a child play.
"proceed slowly and try to use mister Oderus smoke as cover"

Madeline pressed another bottom and switched to a frequency with the Kaleesh officer, hopefully he was paying attention. "Proceed to the control tower, clear out the area from hostiles but avoid destroying the tower". The less that brute destroyed the less budjet the Sith would have to expend rebuilding and more funds could go to more "productive" areas.

[Othorious]

Oderus and his squad moved through the semi empty hallways, coming across the occasional trooper or so, which was quickly delt with some quickly blaster fires. Oderus and his squad was about to climb another flight of stairs, before his comm started beeping. He told his squad to hold their positions, while he calmly opened the channel. " We'll try Madame, but it'l be so hard..." Oderus smiled, the sarcasm in his voice obvious. "We'll get to that control tower, and slaughter every last one of them, perhaps have some fun while we're there" He laughed darkly, and his squad echoed his laughter. He closed his comm, and continued up the stairs, his squad of homicidal bandits close behind.

As he reached the top, Covert Opps agent 'Cut-Throat', known for his assassin like tactics and subtleness, slowly peeked over the opening of the stairs. He hand signaled to Oderus that the hallways that leads to the lowers point of the tower is guarded by four lightly armored guards, and a combat android, things were getting hard. Oderus grabed a smoke grenade from Devastator, and chucked it down the hallway. The grenade popped open, and a blackish blue fog quickly spewed forth, covering the whole hallway. Oderus and Cut-Throat popped on some nightvision goggle, and both unsheathed swords, and leaped into the cloud.

Oderus easily sliced one of the guards down with his machete, Lick, while Cut-Throat dismembered the next one with deadly precision. Panic taking hold of the remaining guards, they opened fire randomly in the direction of Cut-Throat and Oderus. The duo quickly leapt back, pressing themselves against the wall, hoping that they wouldn't get hit, fate was on their side. Oderus unclipped his rapid-fire blaster pistol, and opened fire at the highlighted Guards, dispatching them easily, that left the combat android, who was stuck at the back of the group as the others fell, but it quickly joined the fray.

The entire squad burst from the stairwell, and opened fire upon the Combat Android, who's armored plating was beginning to dent and buckle under the assault. Oderus grinned at the carnage he was reeking, until a blinding white light illuminated the hallway, as the combat android activated his self destruct mechanism, and exploded. The explosion instantly slew two Scumdogs on the front lines, while sending shrapnel into another, ripping him apart. As the dust settled, Oderus slowly rose to his feet, surveying the damage the droid inflicted, the view ports of the hallway were exploded outward. "Damn little bugger, didn't expect that. Alright Scumdogs, burn the dead, and regroup!" The Squad followed, popping flares to set the dead Scumdogs ablaze, while gathering extra ammunition and weapons, and forming ranks in front of Oderus.

This was not good, they lost a few, but they must push on, and inflict as much carnage as they can. "Prepare to storm the next room, I have a call to make" The Scumdogs nodded, and took positions at the door, while Oderus opened his wrist comm, and contacted the Madame. "If you get word of another explosion... this time it wasn't me, inform the Raiders that these combat androids are rigged to explode, we lost three men to those bastards, Oderus out" He closed his wrist comm, and prepared to storm the next room.

[JokerHound]

OOC: sorry on the late post. Ive been on leave and not really online at all the pat week. Packing up and moving to San Diego.

IC:

There was a slight rattle as another explosion rocked the building. The lights flickered above the heads of the advancing Raiders. The Raiders were trained to hit hard and fast, but a more caretul approach was needed in the wake of the rampaging Scumdogs. They were still moving quickly, but they had to be alot more cautious now. even with Ghand jamming communications between the rebel posts, blasts like that were sure to alert them that something was obviously happening.

the command comm alert lit up and Tycho patched into the secure channel. "Lt. Barret, this is Lt. Ghand. I have been instructed to inform you that some of the droids have been rigged to explode. The scumdogs have suffered some casualties due to this already, so proceed with caution."

"understood" Tycho replied flatly. Well, obviously some of the droids would be rigged to explode. The republic had rigged half of the planet to explode. He had thought it would have been a given at this point. He proceeded with the formality of warning his men anyway. They would switch to ion weapons when firing on droids to attempt to prevent self-destructs from triggering.

it wasn't all bad. With the scumdogs making such a racket, all the Raiders had to do was be a little bit quieter than the rampaging aliens. Johtos kicked in the door of the next room and third squad charged in behind him. A quick firefight later the and the Raiders had the room cleared. This room was the second to last they had to clear in this building, and this building was directly adjacent to the main rebel facility, so resistance was likely to be much stiffer here. first and second squads signalled through the comm that they were in the building adjacent to third squad.

tycho checked in with fourth squad to check thier progress and to see if the Scumdogs had gotten themselves killed yet. Kaison immediately responded to his commanders signal. "Sir, i think they're going to just charge the front directly from the higher levels up here. Hopefully the rebels dont have the top levels rigged to collapse. If they do then the scumdogs are going to get dropped right on your heads down there."

Tycho sighed. The Raiders were going to have to make some noise of their own, or else the Scumdogs might get wiped out and take half the Raiders with them.

He signaled his men and thid squad prepared to breach into the main chamber of the warehouse, the last room before they would have to cross the street to the main facility. The room was probably swarming with enemies. One of Khalon's squad used a snake cam at the door and looked over his shoulder at Tycho. a quick shake of his head let the him know that the rebels were ready for them.

A quick nod to Shaiko and the Raiders were in motion. He produced a shaped charge from his pack, one deigned to blast a roughly door-sized hole in the wall and send shrapnel into the room beyond. The plan was one the Raiders had practiced a thousand times over. The charge would detonate and a few Raiders would instantly charge in, weapons hot. Seconds later, while attention had shifted to the new breach, the rest of the squad would breach the real door and charge in, effectively flanking the defenders. As the raiders took thier places Tycho patched his Comm through to Urungus.

"Lt., my men are at the ground level ready to hit the last room before the main facility. We need to attack at exactly the same time, and from here on out its a straight fight to the command tower."

[Othorious]

((Koze told me to post, all his char was doin was bein bossy and watchin us pwn rebellion face

"Copy that Lt., I'll give the okay when my team is ready, shouldn't be too long." Oderus nodded to his team, and they quickly took up positions at the door, weapons ready. Cut-throat and Slipshot stayed back from the main group, since they were the least armored and were to valuable to be killed in this fight. "okay! Hit it!" Oderus gave the signal over the comm and outloud, and the Scumdogs quickly detonated the door, and burst in, blaster rifles firing towards the nearest rebels, who fell quickly despite their awareness of the sith soldiers. The others however provided a better challenge, for they had better fortifications than these soldiers, and the Scumdogs scrambled to get cover from the onslaught of blasterbolts.

Oderus and Cut-throat hid behind an overturned metal table, and popped off quickshots at the other rebels. Oderus hoped that the Raiders would have a good enough time to take out those other rebels, they needed to work together if they were to take the tower, by now it's probably been barricaded the hell out of it by the high rebels. Oderus uncliped a sonic grenade off of his belt, and chucked it at the rebels, it wasn't meant to kill, but to at least stun them so that the raiders could get in close and kill them.

[JokerHound]

"Hit it!" Tycho heard through the comm. He had to admit, the Kaleesh's enthusiasm could be a little bit contagious.

The charge blasted inward and Tycho and his men charged in. there were four republic soldiers dead on the ground and several more rolling around, wounded too badly to fight. The raiders took cover behind several barricades and started firing at the assembled defenders. Moments later the main door opened and the rest of the Raiders charged in. The heavy torrent of fire pouring in from the raiders sent most of the republic troops behind cover while others ran for thier lives. Tycho leapt from cover and charged the cowering defenders, his men right behind him. Shaiko stabbed his blade into the first man to step out in defiance. Sinsai tackled another to the ground and stabbed his knife into his neck.

A rebel, a leader by the looks of him, leapt up to face Tycho, his blade held high. Tycho side stepped his swing and slid his blade between the unfortunate man's ribs.

Witnessing thier friends dispatched so easily was all it took to break the spirits of the remaining defenders. The ran from the room, sprinting across the street with the Raiders hot on their tails. To his flanks the other squads of Raiders were charging forward as well. A quick confirmation from his comm let him know that 4th squad had moved to flank the rebels firing on the Scumdogs on the upper levels.

As soon as they got into the main facility it was chaos. As they entered the facility the rebels were rallying to face them. Farther off Tycho could see a lift with two heavy combat droids standing guard at a flight of stairs. From the way the rebels were avoiding that area Tycho knew the droids were rigged to explode.

Tycho and his retinue fought their way through the crowd and Khalon leveled his heavy blaster. One of the droids collapsed in the hail of ion bolts while the other charged toward them. Sindai ran to meet the droid and slid under its legs, pivoting behind it and jumping onto it's back. he reached inside it's armored carapace and grabbed a circuit board, tearing it out in a shower of sparks.

It was times like these Tycho was almost sure the stories about his friend formerly being a jedi were true, but that didn't matter right now.

While the rest of the platoon fought the brutal melee Tycho and his retinue moved up the stairs to join 4th squad and the Scumdogs on the upper levels and eventually, the command room.

[Othorious]

((Sorry, been preoccupied))

Oderus' Scumdogs and Tycho's Raiders worked in sync, sorta, they managed to quickly infiltrate the room and eliminate most of the rebels within. Farther ahead the Rebels were trying to barricade a large entry way with overturned metal desks, setting up a rapid fire blaster cannon behind the barricade. Oderus knew that cannon could prove to be dangerous, better to have the Scumdogs have it than the rebels. Oderus took aim with his blaster rifle, and opened fire on the cannoneer, and the surrounding rebels, some fell quickly, including the cannoneer, but others quickly hid behind the barricade, and fire off small bursts of bolts from gaps in the barricade.

Oderus grabbed another stun grenade from his belt, and chucked it behind the barricade. The grenade detonated, and stunned most of the rebels behind it, making it easy for Oderus and Cut-throat to leap behind the barricade and take the rebels out. Once all the rebels behind the barricade were taken out, Oderus turned to the entryway and noticed a large platoon of rebels coming towards them. He knew what to do, so he turned the cannon around, and opened fire upon the incoming rebels, clearing the way rather quickly. Satisfied, he contacted Lt. Tycho on his wrist comm, and announced proudly "Tycho, we've secured a large mounted blaster cannon that we can use, what's your status?"

[JokerHound]

Tycho got to the room moments after Orderus opened fire with the heavy blaster canon. almost a dozen rebels went down in the hail of fire before they retreated back up the hall.

Tycho greeted Lt. Urungus with a quick salute.

"Well Urungus, good work so far. It looks like the command room is at the end of this hall. If we kill or capture the leaders then we can wrap this up. My men should be mopping up the last of the resistance on the bottom level, so we need to do this quickly before the commanders realize all is lost and detonate the facilities."

As if to drive his point home, warning sirens began blaring in the factory and a voice came over the intercoms.

"Men of the republic, the Sith invaders have given us no choice! the facility will detonate in five minutes! Evacuate if you can. I will remain behind to give my life for the republic. Always fight on my friends!"

Tycho immediately tapped into the command level comms. "Lt. Ghant! establish a perimeter. Rebels will be fleeing, and I do not want any escaping."

He issued quick orders to his men, and locked eyes with Shaiko. "Can you defuse these bombs?" he asked, knowing his trusted warrior would never lie to him.

"Sir, i can defuse anything that explodes. Just get me into that room."

Lt. Barret turned back to Urungus. 'Well Lt. Urungus, it looks like there isnt much time left for tactics. Are you ready to kill?"