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[Hauron Solus]

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The sun shown over the arctic landscape of Contruum Six, reflecting off the extensive snow and ice that was occasionally interrupted by natural rock. The only exception was the partially visible structure of a former mandalorian base, Base 6. The nearest section to Rancor Squadron was the base's hangar bay. Its durable blast doors had resealed since their last failed assault.

Hauron returned and now with more assistance than before. Sitting a kilometer away from the blast doors were two long vessels that looked reminiscent of beached acquatic animals. They were not ordinary GR-75 transports but were more heavily armed and daubed in the livery of Rancor Squadron. The transports were appropriately named Badger One and Little Badger. A pair of fang class interceptors flew overhead keeping to regular patrols whilst a kom'rk transport came in for a landing, bringing with it the Group Leader of the mercenary battlegroup.

Each of the transports were fully crewed and had brought no less than twenty troops with them. But their numbers were more as a precaution. Such things would not matter once they got inside the base and needed to take things room by room. The badger hoped to not obliterate the base in the process, intending to use it for mandalorians as a waystation and potentially staging ground for future Squadron operations. The system already had a long history with mandalorians which he hoped to build upon.

The weather was calm today and it made it an ideal time to strike. The Rally Master was armed with a Galaar-15 blaster carbine instead of his usual sonic rifle. It was equipped with A new thermic blade was on the man's hip as well adding to his existing arsenal. The two westar-55 heavy blaster pistols were more than likely going to be the main weapons he used in the close quarters. The red and black kama he wore swung slightly as he walked to the edge of the encampment before he stopped and raised a pair of macrobinoculars to his helmet's visor. The rally master focused at the blast doors in the distance, glad to see it remained closed for now.

Lowering the macrobinoculars Hauron turned to look at those that had come to the rally master's call he gave them each a nod. <"How are you all feeling?"> There were roughly sixty mandalorians in reserve but Hauron was going to see to this assault personally. He only needed a small team backed up by a few other small teams to clear the base. This was not something they could simply throw numbers at unless he wanted to throw away mandalorian lives.

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[Rue "null" tepmuart]

<"how am I feeling? dude, why dont you lot pick kriffing nice planets to have a history on.. shits freezing, I feel like going to snap in half if i shout too loud, like i'm a damn icicle!">

she laughed, full of sarcastic humor as always.

<"In short, i'm totally ready to get this place running so we have heating!">

she shivered, rubbing her sides.
<"I hate the cold.. I don't know how my cousin enjoys it so much.. I am SO standing in front of a heater with coco when were done..">

rue was part of the twins, thus always came packing, at this point it was tradition. a k-16 hung low on her side, with her signature cortosis tipped vibroblade hanging on her side, and of course, a pair of westars.

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[Atuu Skirata]

Having answered the call of Hauron once again, Atuu felt like he was starting to get a clearer understanding of the man's intentions. He was beginning to trust the man's judgement as a leader in combat and with any luck, their ambitions would allow the two to achieve great things for their people.

But for this endeavor that was neither here nor there. Having added plates to his normally light flight armor - Atuu would be at the front of this contingent sporting what constituted a set of Heavy Mandalorian Armor, riot gauntlet and all.

With one hand occupied by the currently extended shield the other moved to collapse it, thankfully the tech was working. Although it would not stand up to anything heavier than light blaster fire or melee attacks - it gave the mandalorian some peace of mind as he shifted under the heavy armor before responding to the rally master <"Feeling like I might start sweating under all this plate and padding... But otherwise ready to see if we can make a dent.">

He carried his normal compliment of explosives, his carbine, pair of blaster pistols, beskad and now a shield for this little excursion. @Sreeya @Darasuum @Hastur

 

[Hauron Solus]

Hauron gave a short laugh at Rue's question. <"If you want comfort rent a place on Zeltros or Canto Bight."> He gestured towards the heavy blaster doors in the distance. <"Good, use that motivation."> He nodded his rime lined helmet. Once they got moving it would be easy to be warm. The adrenaline and chaos of combat would keep the sensation of cold at bay. The most important thing was making sure his fingers did not freeze up and his helmet remained clear.

<"That's what I like to hear fam."> The rally master smiled underneath his helmet and clapped Atuu on his shoulder plate. The man was wearing more armor than normal and Hauron took that to mean Atuu was taking this seriously.

He tapped a few controls to prepare his jetpack for flight. <"The spider droids will likely surge out like last time. Take to the skies and remain above their blaster cannons arc of fire."> Looking at one last time he would nod his head again. "Oya!" He cried and flew into the air sending powdery snow out around him.

The jetpack wearing mandalorian would fly across the snowy mountain landscape. The remaining distance between the mandalorian camp and the hangar doors to Base 6 were quickly crossed in a matter of moments. A screeching creak signaled the blast doors were opening. They knew Hauron was out there.

The Solus fired a wrist rocket through the crack in the opening and caught one huntsman droid just as it was coming out. The rocket exploded and shredded the droid to the point that it was just eight machine legs without a body to connect it. However there were five more spider droids that came crawling around the damaged remnants of the other droid. A pair of blackhawk security droids zoomed through the chilly air and tried to claw at the airborne mandalorian, pulling at his carbine and trying to make impish attacks at the armored warrior.

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Spoiler: Dice

Attacking huntsman spider droids: barely a success 38/100

 

[Rue "null" tepmuart]

<"uhh.. solus?... I uh.. I don't know how to pilot a jetpack.. nor do I have one..">
she admitted. but it was too late, he was already zooooomin down there... kriff..
she sighs, recalling her last time she wore a jetpack, she was sent crashing into a wall and had to get stitches.. besides.. they messed with her inertia and made her feel woozy..


jesus christ.. this was why she needed to get a jetpack of her own.. eh, she would borrow a long ranged blaster, might as well try to pick em off while she could, she had to respect solus for his antics, going balls first with his helmet half tied, an interesting tactic at least, she was hoping they could at the very least use some modicum of tactics, like electrical mines... or arc casters of some type....

she was well aware of his recent humiliation on thule, word on the grapevine and all... as well as contact with her niece.. and if she was honest, if she didn't already have prior history with the badger, the young chieftess probably would have killed that motherfucker as soon as she saw him or shot his ships thrusters and let him choke to death in space like a dog..

but hey, who the hell was she to judge ...eh? the twins dont judge.. the twins do business.. customers who hire them or buy their goods are valued no matter their actions.. even if his actions there on thule took a piece of her family from her.. maybe part of her still visualised the crying child, too scared to even fight with sticks during training.. she made no effort to hide the fact, if the others cursed the krayt dragons name and revel in his blood flowing on the grounds of thule, then she was a demon too, for their blood was nearly one and the same..

she guessed a small part of her resents solus for that.. didn't even give him a warrior's death.. by now he was likely either dead from the rumored crash, or if the absolute treasure that is her niece was right and he was facing execution.. poor girl.. her hands will always be extended to her, always, little feifi needed that, she simply could not allow her to become her father.. when they were done here maybe she would speak to solus about... relocating her away from the sith while there was still time..

rapidly shaking her head, she banished the thoughts from her mind, there was a job to do..

she moved to a nearby position as quickly as she could, not wanting to waste time, she zoomed in, kneeling down to get a good aim, but poor rue, she had an almost crippling fear of spiders.. or anything resembling them, mostly from a childhood trauma where she fell into a cave.. and spent several nights with the creatures.. she cursed EXTREMELY loudly, while she was still a trained fighter, but she couldn't help her fingers freezing for a moment.

her breathing increasing to the point where her hud was telling her she was in danger of oxygen loss, even though she was in no such danger, the beeping brings her back to reality, and she refocuses, she fires at the droids, particularly the blackhawk ones to give the rally master some breathing room for a moment while the rest moved in.

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[Atuu Skirata]

With the Rally Master taking to the sky, Atuu quickly followed suit. His attempt taking slightly longer as his jetpack had to compensate for the extra weight of the plates and gadgets. But before long he was trailing the Rally Master.

Focusing his attention to the doors ahead and seeing one of the spider droids emerge, one being destroyed in short order. Then came the addition of flying enemies. Queuing his comm, Atuu would relay to the others knowing not that they already saw the enemies <"Two flyers, five or six ground contacts... Prioritizing flyers.">

Atuu would see the two begin to harass the Rally Master, and shortly after he would see blaster bolts coming from behind. Likely his ground side ally attempting to help as well.

Still rocketing forward, Atuu would extend the bracer based shield on his forearm. The item extending to cover the entirety of his frame behind it and give him ample additional coverage. Flying like a missile towards the target Atuu would queue his comm one more time as he approached on the Rally Master's right side, offering a warning. <"On your right."> is what Hauron would hear followed closely by a loud clattering of metal on metal as Atuu braced behind his shield. Nearly careening into the flying droid as it backed away from Hauron and before it could swoop in to harass him again.

Atuu's full weight would contact the flyer, smashing into it at high speed and crushing a portion of the body, and snapping off a wing at the joint. As the droid would fall from the sky, Atuu would slow himself down in time to ready himself for defense. The spider droids on the ground would begin firing in his direction - and a shot would bounce off the shield as Atuu began flying back and retracting the shield, readying his own blaster carbine. @Darasuum @Hastur

Spoiler: Dice Roll

57/100 to hit the one flying droid

 

[Hauron Solus]

Singled out by the airborne droids, Hauron yanked his carbine back under his control. In the blink of an eye the droid was crushed by the mass of the Skirata mandalorian. The other blackhawk droid was shot out of the sky by the marksmanship of the Tepmuart sharpshooter. <"Appreciated"> he replied to both saves singularly.

Innacurate blaster cannon fire from the spider droids strained to incline towards the mandalorians above them. They began to move along the mountain walls to get better angles. <"Grenade out!"> before all of the violent automatons could leave the ground Hauron unhooked a thermal detonator and tossed it beneath a pair of the eight legged walkers. A moment later the explosion vaporized half of two separate spider droids.

<"Three down, three to go."> He said still airborne. The rally master dropped lower to avoid another barrage of blaster cannon fire. The large bolts missed the mandalorian entirely. <"Focus fire on one droid at a time!"> He shouldered his carbine and began to shoot the nearest walker as it dug its numerous limbs into the near vertical incline. They were heavily armored and tough to take down by small arms fire.

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[Rue "null" tepmuart]

"right! give me a second, the blaster needs to cool off, going for the rightmost!"

She would aim the heavy sniper rifle to the next driod while it cooled, steam rising from the heavy sniper due to the cold, she turned her sniper, taking aim at one of the spider driods, as soon as the blaster cooled again, she would fire at the driod, hoping at the least to knock out its legs and distract its aim.

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[Atuu Skirata]

With both allies taking aim at the spider droid on the right, Atuu would join in. Taking a different approach, and instead climbing vertically to avoid even the least accurate of fire. With his ground side ally taking aim from afar and Hauron blasting it provided just the right sort of distractions.

Having gained a substantial amount of vertical distance over the droids, Atuu would begin to descend from above, and eventually land on top of the entrenched droid, he would be standing on what would essentially be it's back as it was positioned horizontally. It didn't matter much. For what followed was a barrage of fire into the central structure, or body, of the spider droid.

With the addition of the harrying fire from Hauron and the directed longer range bolt taking one of the limbs off. Atuu would take to the sky once more as the droid seemingly lost power. Detaching from the mountain wall and clattering down as it spiked off of rocks and outcroppings. <"One down, one to go.">

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[Hauron Solus]

Hauron split from Atuu and fired at the same spider walker as Rue. Again and again he pulled the trigger of his carbine. Yellow blaster bolts slammed into the spider walker's body and legs. The heavy sniper shot struck the arachnoid machine and sheered a leg off and nearly took a second with the same hit. Atuu added to it with his close up shots. The combined fire damaged enough of the droid that its photoreceptors began to flicker and it lost complete motor control. It's remaining legs failed and the heavy droid walker fell of the side of the wall before falling down and crashing against hard ice and snow.

The last spider droid scurried towards the three of them. Its eyes sparkled against the bright snowy landscape and its twin blaster cannons primed to fire. It released a pair of shots that nearly hit Hauron.

Tilting his body, the Rally Master barely swerved out of the way. He could swear he felt the heat from the plasma bubble the paint on his armor. The man knew he was in danger at range and Atuu had success. Hauron had gone toe to toe with monsters greater than this droid and survived.

Without skipping a beat the badger fired a series of shots at the sole remaining huntsman droid. It was not enough to destroy it but it was just to attract its attention and possibly wound it as Hauron closed the distance. Once close enough, he released his hold of the Galaar-15, letting it hang on its sling as the mandalorian replaced it with his thermic blade and fusion cutter. In melee with an arachnoid three times his size, Hauron aimed to slice the legs clean off.

The droid might try to swipe at him with its metallic limbs but they would have to deal with the cutting power of the shortsword and knife like weapons working in tandem. In a spray of oil and shower of sparks the badger would tear through each of the limbs until the spider could no longer hold itself onto the wall. Eventually it would fall to the ground like the other giant spider. If the fall did not finish it then exposing its underside to the sky would make for an ideal killing blow.

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[Rue "null" tepmuart]

If the droid was not yet fully destroyed, a heavy bolt from rues sniper rifle would finish the job, taking advantage of the opportunity for a killing blow if it was needed. before scanning and firing at any other remaining droids out here.

once the last of the hostile droids was finished, rue exhales as she rises from her position, very quickly moving over, she slung the sniper rifle over her shoulder, as the others finished the last of the droids out here.

<" apologies, my eyesight isn't what it used to be.">

she apologised, even though her aim was actually amazing, it seems that by her standards, it was terrible.

rue would remove her helmet if it was safe to do so, she tried her best to hold back the familiar sharp pain in her chest, failing, as she coughed, facing away from the others, she wasn't going to bother them with HER issues, she wipes the small amount of blood from her mouth, it was better than dirtying her visor at least, and lowering her efficiency.

Damn it all..they were getting more common now.. but she was not going to display weakness, not here, she stifled the follow up coughs, placing her helmet back on like nothing had happened.

<"now, shall we continue?">

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[Atuu Skirata]

Seeing both Hauron and Rue working to dispatch the remaining spider droid, Atuu would turn his attention back to the blast door.

A smattering of generic looking security droids had begun to muster at the opening. Near where Hauron had scorched some of the initial defenders spider droids. Dropping from the air to find some elevated cover near where Hauron would be dealing with the last spider droid.

Taking aim at the relatively basic looking droids - Atuu would kneel activating the kneepad rocket launch system. As the two small rockets twirled and spun through the sky they would explode near the mechanical feet of the defenders. With a splash of powder and smoke Atuu would fire at a pair of additional droids, trading blaster bolts with the pair. Some rounds skipping off the rocks he used as cover, causing him to duck and hold his cover for a moment.

Popping back up to place some hectically fired blaster bolts, catching one in the leg and then the chest. Atuu himself would take a round in the shoulder, causing him to jerk slightly and miss the second droid. Bolstering himself against the rock he would aim without variables this time, placing a single round into the droids head, popping it off the body.

<"Additional responding defenders dealt with."> He called over the comm before turning to check on Hauron saying <"Is it time to send in the troops?">

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[Hauron Solus]

The spider droids were no more. But there were more the basic battle droids by comparison. Atuu moved to respond first but Hauron was close behind. The badger deactivated his fusion cutter in his left hand and returned it to his belt. The man moved the thermic blade to his now free hand so that his right could draw one of his westar-55s. In a matter of moments they had cleared the remainder of the droid defenders.

Raising a hand to his gauntlet and tapping a control with a free finger, he called back to the main forces. <"On with the Second Phase. We've secured the entrance."> The hangar bay was secure and the rest of the base empty except for some non combatant utility droids. More squads of mandalorians would move up to take over. There were medics coming too just in case any of them had been injured. Squadron salvage crews would try to recover anything worth while from the huntsman droids.

Hauron chuckled after hearing Rue's modesty. She had been accurate and needed to give herself more credit. It was only after she removed her helmet that he realized why she maybe made the comment. One of her eyes appeared to be glassy. Was she blind in one eye this whole time? Then she coughed and made the rally master's brow furrowed. <"Are you alright?"> Hauron wanted to get out of the cold. Even if the inside was not climate controled yet it was better than standing out in the arctic wind.

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[Rue "null" tepmuart]

There were three claw marks on her blind eye, which would explain the three claw marks that were seen on Cremeks and his followers helmets before their Demise.

<"huh?.. oh its nothing.. I'm fine...>

Rue adjusted her helmet as the stabbing pain faded. This made her uncomfortable, it was foreign to her.. to be asked if she was well.. like someone genuinely gave a kriff..

She stared at hauron a moment, genuinely shaken, before she sighs.

<"Maybe I'll tell you later if I don't decide to leave as soon as everything is settled.">

She motions to the inside, seemingly thinking what he was thinking.

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[Hauron Solus]

Hauron was not immediatly convinced, his T visor lingered on Rue a moment longer before accepting her answer. She looked back at him with a look he knew well enough. It was a stubborn expression hiding pain many mandalorians put on. But it was not his place to push the subject further.

<"What's the rush? Stick around. There will be hot coco."> The invitation was genuine as was the chance of hot chocolate. If they wanted to spike it with some alcohol then it would just be a corellian coco. The interior of the base lacked any further defenses and the teams of mandalorians cleared it out with relatively little issue. Base Six was theirs'.

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