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==Drop Zone 01==

The 9 LAAT/Is entered he atmosphere as the fighters pulled away and started to circle the above area. The bombers came swooping down below infront of the 9 LAAT's. The bombers began to drop bombs on a small section of the shield, trying to maximize damage. The bombers continued their run, and they planned to keep going until things started to get too hot over here. The 9 LAAT's were shaking as they were slowly landing in the unshielded part of town. The transports unloaded 36 BARCs and 270 troops. They were all loaded with T-21s/E-Webs/CVI's and explosives. Their armour was primarily corellian power suits.

They all rushed into the nearest building and set-up a perimeter. It was a house made of sand, and it was two stories tall. They had men with their guns pointing out each window, and they had a captain giving out orders below. The BARC's started to patrol the area, showing video feed to the command post. They were patrolling the whole building, making sure not to be spotted.The transports started to hover and head back towards the Providence. They were escorted by 12 fighters and 15 bombers, the remaining bombers still bombed the hell out of their shields.

*As the shield collapsed from the debris fall, the city suddenly turned into a hive. All 250 of Mandalorian Mecha-war hawk air superiority fighters flew out to greet the invaders, each squadron of 10 assigned to a different target. 5 squadrons flew out to hit the LAAT's coming in. From 2 km away they fire a barrage of missiles, all targeted at the 9 LAAT's. Then squadrons 1-3 turned their attention to the fighters. Squadrons 4-5 began to pursue the transports, however they break into wings and come from multiple angles, none dead on.*

The LAAT's flew up headed towards the Providence.The guns onboard the transports were going off like crazy. Mass driver guns were being shot,turrents, and also air-to-air missiles were flying in the sky trying to make their targets. The remaining fighters and bombers flew up towards the Providence to land and head out of the place. One of the LAAT's wings got blown off, and it started to head towards the now unshielded part of the planet. The alarms were ringing and the troops unboard tried to jump off, but the ship crashed in the planet, instantly killing all the crew. The second LAAT erupted in flames and exploded, sending shrapnel towards the fighters. The remaining LAAT's were using evasive manuevours and headed up still.

The troops on the ground started to move out in the city. Four speeders flew ahead, being followed by three squads of 12 troops. The building infront of them looked like it was occupied. The speeders started to light up the building, shooting everything they had. Pieces of brick were flying everywhere melting things together. The remaining squads started to walk forwards and entered the building, they were making sure it was clear.

*The fighters targeting the LAAT's began to take losses from the missiles and laser fire. They ducked and weaved, using their speed and shape to their advantage, as a LAAT would be slightly more awkward to pilot in atmosphere. 5 fighters are blown out of the sky, and that number rises to 9, but they continue to press on, not letting up.

Down in the city, the building the speeder was attacking came under fire. The squad inside began to pull back, taking heavy casualties, but drawing them in. That's when the trap was set, and from around the corner a Mecha-war Berserker came charging out, sword drawn and two e-web blasters firing at the speeder. It charged at full speed, intent on cutting the ground craft in half, and as it did other patrols moved up firing from the roof tops with sniper rifles, or lobbing grenades or just firing their MMWR's. At the same time, a medium vehicle, a Mandalorian Mecha-War Destroyer came up over the building, and began firing it's anti-vehicle emp weapon at the one speeder, while hitting another with it's .75 depleted uranium Gatling gun. It began to move forward to, pressing the advantage, and once in range it would turn it's flamethrower on the advancing troops.*

As the men started to move through the house, something felt odd. There was a few dead men here from the enemy, it felt like a trap. All of a sudden a large vehicle came out of no where instantly blowing up one of the speeders. The remaining speeders went in reverse and started to fire at the incoming enemy from a ways back. The speeders had to stay a way back, these machines were very deadly.

The troops all started to crouch down as they moved through the house. They were getting attacked from everywhere. They lost six men so far, this wasn't good. The squad leader sent a message to base. [NPC]"We are being slaughtered! Machines... everywhere! Re-." [/NPC] As soon as he said this a grenade exploded right by his ear. He started to wobble around from the shellshock and started yelling. Nothing that exited his mouth made much sense. The remaining troops ran to the windows that faced the other side. They started to fire at the troops that seemed like they were running away from that building. They had to keep dodging oncoming fire.

The troops at base were in shock. They looked at their command and his eyes went wide and he slammed his fist on the table. [NPC]"All is lost... I have news that the fleet in orbit are retreating, due to the unexpected strength of the enemy. The transports aren't coming back... We must make our last stand."[/NPC] The troops all around him nodded and knew what they had to do. The perimeter was spread a bit more and alot more patrols were going on. They needed a plan,quick.

*In the command center, General Bloodhound sat at his holodesk, a small grin on his face. Reports were coming in of early success against the land invaders, and a fleet in orbit was retreating. As he began issuing more orders, the Ground Control Officer approached him with a message.*





*With a "yes sir" the orders were sent out. A minute later, the Captain was sending a message to the enemy soldiers down the street.*

*A casual observer would notice the skies above the city darken, the clouds themselves became shadowed by a large mass. Admiral Merling stood upon the bridge, hands behind his back, watching as the clouds broek across the viewscreens. The SV50 broke through the stratus clouds and became visible to the naked eye, a massive warship, hovering above the city. With powerful binoculars an observer could notice with a good amount of fear an apprehension that the guns on the warship were swivelling to take aim at gound targets.

From this lower altitude position the command ship would overshadow the LZ and provide covering fire for both ground troops and landing ships. The landing ships may be threatened by a few basilisks but not this ship, not with it's shields and armor.*

:: Mandalorians and Trandoshans, I request your immediate surrender. All I ask is for your Mandalorians to give up their beskar and we shall leave. Your lives over a suit or two of armor. Seems like an easy deal to me. Otherwise... ::

*The Mass Driver canons fired, ripping through the sound barrier and lighting the very oxygen molecules on fire as it fired into a mass of buildings in the opposite direction of their allied troops in the city.*

*Behind the SV50, two chiss star destroyers make there way through the atmosphere. Moving into flanking positions of the SV50. The destroyers guns target ground and sky. The Lieutenants of the vessels wait for Admiral Merling's orders to fire upon the city ...*

*The message goes through to General Bloodhound first. The first part, he knew was coming. But the last, made his jaw drop.*



*What started off as a near whisper had ended in manic screaming. His fury was off the charts, his face behind the helmet was burnt read, his eyes bugging out of his skull.*

[NPC]Captain Shevu relays his Lords message to the Chiss Star Destroyers[/NPC]

" Lord Vereor has given the go ahead to engage any enemy forces...proceed with the assault

*The Lt.'s aboard the Chiss star destroyers acknowledge the message. The two ships begin to fire their heavy megamaser batteries and their heavy turbolaser batteries into designated points of the city clearing LZ's for their troops. From their hangers 24 Annihilator class fighter fly into the sky, 48 in all. They begin to bomb the city keeping any enemy forces suppressed while watching the skies for enemy air support.

The Destroyers keep their light megamasers and turbolasers trained on the sky waiting for any enemy aircraft to come into range.*

Chiss Star Destroyer "Widowmaker" on right flank of SV50 command ship
Chiss Star Destroyer "Reaper's Way" on left flank of SV50 command ship

[quote="Malice Hingang":2g14omsv][narration:2g14omsv]The message goes through to General Bloodhound first. The first part, he knew was coming. But the last, made his jaw drop.[/narration:2g14omsv]

[npc name=General Bloodhound:2g14omsv][comlink:2g14omsv]Are you telling me... that you came here and brought war upon my post, killed my men... FOR A SUIT OF ARMOR?!?![/comlink:2g14omsv][/npc:2g14omsv]

[action:2g14omsv]What started off as a near whisper had ended in manic screaming. His fury was off the charts, his face behind the helmet was burnt read, his eyes bugging out of his skull.[/action:2g14omsv][/quote:2g14omsv]

[comlink:2g14omsv]Yeah seems like some beskar armor is a really stupid thing to wage war over, so why don't you just hand it over and we'll leave you be.[/comlink:2g14omsv] [narration:2g14omsv]Replied Admiral Merling from the bridge of the command ship.[/narration:2g14omsv]

*It took every fiber of his being to not destroy everything in front of him. But he knew he was beaten.*



*He dropped his head in defeat. Several thoughts came coursing through his head, but all he did was mark a building several blocks away. Calling in 25 of his 50 generals, he sent them to that position, the others would be too far away. and he wanted to spare them of the shame as well.*

*Merling smiled and the crew cheered. Victory... Several hundred Imperials had died today but they had won a tremendous victory here today. They would soon take something from the mandalorians more precious than a planet or money, they were taking the physical symbol of Mandalorians, the symbol of their pride, their armor... This would be a symbolic victory celebrated throughout the empire.

Admiral Merling boarded a single Lambda class shuttle with a squad of Imperial Royal Guards equipped with personal deflector shields and other miscellaneous weaponry. The shuttle descended a few hndred feet before touching down on the surface of the planet. The big guns from the SV50 Swivelled and targetted the Landing Zone to make sure no funny buisness happened.

Above the command ship the 40 Sentinel Class Shuttles and 5 AACP transports hoevered, prepared to land on the planet surface if the situation went awry. The Command ship locked it's tractor beams on Merling and his squad ready to pull them up and away from danger.


Merling, 4 Imperial Knights and 10 Royal Guards descended from the shuttle and waited for the mandalorians.*

*With the imperial delegation heading to the surface, the Chiss destroyers halt their bombardment of the planet and pull back their fighters. They await confirmation of the transaction. Captain Shevu order's a squadron of Annihilators to escort 2 warlord class assault ships two Thrakks posistion*

*Leaving the command center, he ordered 4 troopers to load some armor crates into the ship, and to come with him. In the shuttle over, General Bloodhound explained the situation to his generals that would be present. He sent a message to his other generals, who were spreading the word to all forces around the city, those near by and those at the far edge. Commanders informed their troops of what the General was doing, and word spread to every soldier. It was a long 5 minute long shuttle ride, as he thought about what the lose of 2 sets of armor would be. As a final thought he put some of his combat gear into the two armor crates. But not his swords or knives. He wouldn't hand those over for anything.

Word had spread to what the General was planning to do, and it was met with differing opinions. But the trandoshans didn't say anything about it, their training kept their mouths shut and they did as they were told. The basilisk pilots were also informed, as were the pilots on the mecha-war hawks. So they kept coming back.

As the shuttle landed, Bloodhound took his time. The clone of Hingang got up, and stretched. Checking all his gear, he slowly walked out side. There was a large crowd outside. In the building they were in front of, a company of standard soldiers were there, standing in front of the windows on various levels. 90 of them were there in the building's multiple stories: flamethrowers, machinegunners, standard soldiers, rocketeers, etc, all looking on at the surrender about to take place. The 10 snipers were on the roof, as per the orders from earlier. Even a pair of Mecha-war Berserkers were standing by, and someone use to them would note the head slightly tilted down. Getting out, the captain of the company was standing apart, helmet off, looking at him with piercing eyes. All the General did was nod. Looking around he saw his 25 generals standing around in different areas of the LZ. Another nod to them was all they needed: he was actually going to go through with this. Several dropped their heads, but the rest just stayed still. 4 trandoshans came out of the shuttle as well, split into pairs carrying 2 armor crates. As they they did General Bloodhound spoke.*



*As he spoke, the 4 trandoshans stopped just in front of the delegation. They set them down, and opened up the lid. It swung open and stopped at the straps, top of the lid now facing the delegation. The trandoshans reached down to lift out the armor -*



*And instead pulled out 3 smoke grenades, 3 concussion grenades and 2 cyroban grenades, part of the combat gear every general is issued. there was a different type of grenade in every trandoshan's hand. They threw the primed grenades at the delegation.

While this was happening, 15 of the 25 other generals as one raised their hands and in under a second, Force pulled Merling away from the delegation with all their might, a strong united attack that would toss Merling like a ragdoll towards a group of 5 other generals that would hide him from the SV50. Those general in questions were prepared to capture him, some with stunbatons ready, others with disrupter pistols and knives to take him hostage. The last 5 generals, who were to the right and under the building with the company in it, began using Force choke on the imperial knights, 1 each except the 4th who got 2.

The company captain barked a command, and suddenly 90 soldiers were firing at the delegation, blowing out the windows. Flamethrowers, electrical troopers and standards were firing the MMWR's, while snipers took aim and fired at them from the roof. The machinegunners fired at them as well, but the rocketeers, 10 in total, aimed at the rocket at the Lambda class shuttle and fired at it, intent on destroying their escape. The berserker light mechs, who has appeared to be down cast, were just making sure they were correct with with their targeting, opening fire on the guards with 2 E-web blastercannons a piece.

This surprise attack was not an isolated incident. The mecha-war hawks, about 180 remaining, had been on their way back from the battle outside the city. The only reason Bloodhound had taken so long was to allow them as well as the basilisks to returnand pick targets. They had come straight back, above the level of the three capital ships but with the command turned on the shuttles above the SV50, and split in to wings, targeting the shuttles and transports. A large missile volley followed by lasers, and suddenly a beehive was let loose on them. The basilisks went straight for the ship, to land on it itself and attack the weapon installations. They came in lower, and in between the ships, which would mean the chiss ships coming to their aid would hit SV50 if they missed. And with the large number, as well as the juking and maneuvers the basilisks were doing, it would be much harder to hit them.

The time delay had allowed the ground forces to ready themselves as well. While they had stayed still, not drawing any attention to them, they were instead picking targets on the SV50. The artillery units were also locking on targets as well. And when the order had gone out to all forces, they opened fire on the ship.

20 heavy turbolasers from the Demons, 400 mass driver rounds (8 each) and 100 missiles from the monsters, 150 ion cannons from the behemoths, 300 artillery blasts from the destructors, and a jaw dropping 10,000 cruise missiles from the MMP's. This all targeted at the SV50, it was a surprise attack of epic proportion. It was a massive display of fire power, but even with that there would be massive casualties. Bloodhound's only hope was that forcing Merling to call off the ships would grant him time to get a proper truce going, or allow for reinforcements.*

*The Imperial Knights made note of the force presences surrounding them. The Knights stiffened, their hands reaching instinctively to their sabers, their armor clinking as they prepared...* "Admiral, they are surrounding us." *Said the captain of the Imperial Knights.*
*Merling stiffened and sneered.* "I knew they would pull something. Stay ready." *He raised his wrist before his eyes and typed in a message to the tractor beam controllers. He put his hand down as he noticed the ship land and the Trandoshas and Madalorians bring forth the crate... Merling put a hand to his ear and listened to a communicae from the command ship.*

:: Admiral we are picking up life readings int he surrounding buildings as well as weapon signatures, there is still time to abort... We are targetting the surrounding structures now. They would be foolish to try anything now they have to know that we are this close... ::

*Merling yanwed through the General Bloodhounds' speech about how 'hard' this was. Not as hard as getting your planet torched like they were going to do.

The attack did not come as a surprise... The Imperial Knights threw up a force barrier to shield the party from the effect of the grenades. The Imperial Knight's valiant actions saved the delegation but left them vulnerable to being forced choked, they began to cough and wheeze as icy fingers gripped their windpipes. Merling dived to the side. The Imperial Royal Guards arm's exploded out of their flowing red robes revealing light repeating blaster rifles and vibroswords, 4 Rush forward to Merling and surround him with their bodies. 4 More focus their repeating laser fire at the Trandoshans and enemy general, at this range the blasts would be deadly.

The 4 Guards around Merling were knocked off their feet as Merling's body smashed into them, propelled by the force to a group of waiting Mandalorians. A royal guard activated the commlink in their helmet.* :: The Admiral's been taken! ::


*On the bridge of the SV50, Captain Orpheus watches in horror as the seen unfolds.* "Bring them up now!" *He shouted to the bridge crew!* "Bring the other Tractor beams up, I want wide spread, all those damned Mandos on the ground, I want them picked up and floating towards us now!"
*The Tractor beams activate and begin to pull bodies, debris, cars and other objects not bolted down towards the SV50. The increased angle of the Tractor beams should be enough to snatch up the Mando generals and Imperial Forces.*

"Sir, enemy air craft are assaulting our landing ships! coming in fast!" *Shouted an officer as he tracked a number of blips quickly aproaching.*

"Order all landing ships back into space, get them out of the way!" *ordered Orpheus. The Landing ships began to flee back to space, however some were not fast enough over 15 Sentinels were destroyed and the attack still raged.* "I want anti-aricraft fire now! Fire the turbolasers towards the buildings. Any building with a weapon signature rating within a block is to be glassed, I don't give a damn if it is a blaster pistol!"
*The Turbolaser batteries dutifully followed their orders and the bombardment at close range began, massive bolts of enemergy the size of apartment buildings fell towards the buildings in which the snipers and flamethrowers and all manner of enemy troops were encamped. Hell and fire reigned down on the betrayers. As eneny artillery positions came online they were met with a wall of fire as missile tubes launched seeker missiles, Kochev and MILE missiles would rip through any armor and cause destruction on an unparraled scale on the enemy DEMONS. But the command ship was not done... The ship began to rotate to target the largest group of MMPS and though it took a few moments they were soon in range. The world itself shuddered as the ship fired it's mass driver round at the enemy missile silos..


The enemy attack dropped the SV50's shield to 70% mainly due to mass driver rounds and turbolasers. The SV50 had activated it's 220-SIG Tactical Sensor Jamming Device which made it extrememly difficult for any of the missile to gain a lock, however enough of the 20,000 impacted on the powerful shields to cause damage.

The Basilisks that landed on the ship would be destroyed due to the Particle shields...

As the guns roared the Imperial Delegation, the Imperial Royal Guards were levitated to safety, they shot up towards the ships as enemy laser fire destroyed the ground upon which they were just standing. The Imperial Knights, though choked were also raised to safety. Furthermore they began to summon the force to protect themselves with force absorb.*

*The " Widowmaker" and "Reaper's Way" do not skip a beat. As Mandalorian aerial support rains down towards them, their light megamasers and light turbolasers open fire. Having already been monitoring the skies the were prepared and locked on target right away. Fire from the two ships crossed above the SV50 creating a kill zone. Many of the Mandalorian war machines would be hit and or destroyed as they flew towards the SV50. The Chiss Destroyers continue to fire into the skies at the War Hawks and Basilisk, none of the enemy ships or fire seemed to be at them so their shields were still at 100 percent and no droids or fire had hit them...yet. The 36 Annihilator starfighters flying back to the ships spread out and break off into 3 squadrons. They engage any war machines that make it through the immense amount of fire from the Chiss destroyers and mainly focus on those that land on the hull of the SV50. Shooting the droids off the ship.

The heavy megamasers and heavy turbolasers having been trained on the ground as well target the areas on the perimeter of were the SV50 was already shooting. This would prevent escape from the killzone.

A message is relayed to Thrakk and Shevu about the failed truce agreenment*

*Days had begun to pass.. the Cerberus had been in port upon Trandosha for far too long. Xander had grown weary of the wait, and though his employer had finally arrived, the off-loading of this stolen merchandise was taking far too long. He knew Trandosha was not usually a place with many authorities, he still worried of the possible chance. Alas, he slowly rose from the bed he had laid upon for hours and looked around.

His chambers aboard the Cerberus were rather large and a little too fancy for his taste, though he had made his adjustments to feel more homey, over the years. He had commanded the Cerberus for nearly a decade now, it was his home and it's crew was his family. As he looked around, he grew a sly smile at his twisted since of luxury and slowly exited the cabin.

He made his way down the corridors of his ship, the fingers upon his gloved, right hand slid across the cool metal alloy of the bulkhead. He loved his ship, and always enjoyed his walks down the corridors. Alas, even in his joyess moments, he knew business had to be taken care of.*
*As Xander reached the lift, he quickly made his way down to the lower levels of his vessel, exitting into the cargo-bay. As he looked about, he was enlightened to see the shipment was finally offloaded, his employer standing at the bottom of the cargo-ramp conversing with his second in command. Within seconds, Xander had approached the two in silence.*


*Tekal, was much larger than Xander, being a Togorian and though he physically towered over his captain, he held Xander in high respect. Thus, after reporting to him, Tekal quickly turned away, leaving Xander and their employer alone.*



*Within seconds, the employer's workers brought Xander a large foot-locker full of Credits. As Xander directed the workers, he shook Vale's hand and walked back into his ship. As the two workers set the footlocker down, Xander quickly dismissed them and looked down at the footlocker. He was excited, it had been months since they had had any real work and this was the motherload.. there was over 250,000 Credits in that footlocker.. something he and his crew desperately need at this point.*

*It had been several hours since Xander had raised the Cargo ramp, his crew all been paid their bounty for the mission. He was ready to get off this rock, the indigenous species had begun to annoy him. In the duration of his stay, he had already "put down", three different Trandoshans, none of which were easy tasks.

Alas, he felt it was time to finally vacate this reptillian infested planet. Within minutes, he was upon the bridge, looking at his pilot. Axe was young, but she knew how to fly this ship better than many pilots with decades of experience. Xander trusted her with his life and as he reached the bridge, he walked over to the Captain's chair and slowly sat down.*



*Within minutes, Axe had lifted the Cerberus off it's landing gear, the engines roaring with immense power as she flooded the engines with fuel. Seconds later the landing gear was raised and the ship accelerated towards the dark-escape of open-space.. soon the Cerberus tore through the layers of atmosphere and into the cold, darkness of space.*

*The destruction was massive. From inside the command center, red dots began flarring up all over the city. The demons tried to fight back, their wings took most of the shots. Just enough cover was afforded the 20 of them that they managed to get another few volleys in. But about 5 had their heads blown off, one had a wing blown apart and yet another had it's legs taken out from under neath. The monsters weren't farring better, though there were more of them and they continued to fire back, about 15 were down with more coming. The behemoths, the surviving 125 all target the ship with a overcharged ion shot, and fire, with intent of taking their shields down or severely weakening them. About 110 get their shots off.

The missiles from the mmp's all come down towards the Sv50, since they are not locked but rather fire on a coordinate. So all 10,000 would come in. But the mmp's themselves are devasted, over 50 are taken out with the shot. The destructor prototypes fire back, but 40 are already down and more are falling, they continue their barrage.

The hawks are taking huge casualties, and are down to 110 active birds. But they continue to drive into the transports, they won't let a single one pass if they can help it. The basilisks are caught off guard, and 20 are destroyed before the rest pull up. Instead they begin straffing the ship, firing with lasers, chain-fed energized rounds, unlocked missiles, even shockwave generators.

But back in the command center, the comm's officer has good news. Vito's fleet has left, and the jamming has ended. With out even waiting for orders, he sends a distress call to Mandalore at once.*