Location: Hills Overlooking Santaissa, near
the Wrath's crashsite
Objective: Get behind enemy lines, get around the wreckage, land reinforcements
Allies: [member="Siobhan Kerrigan"], [member="Tempest"], [member="Aeron Kreelan], [member="Nima Tann"], [member="Michael Sardun"], [member="Taryc Ap'Irae"], [member="Six-O"], [member="Nate The Bounty Hunter"], [member="Kiyron"], [member="Kaiden Rohn"], [member="Joza Perl"]
Enemies: [member="Pharazon Draken"], [member="Asharad Graush"], [member="Project X-2"], [member="Aesa Urkith"], [member="Jude Falkrowe"]
Equipment: Phrik Droid Body,
Anti-Force Vong Biot Suit, 2x
Electro-Cestus,
Spear of Rae,
Electro-Flail, HK's Training Lightsaber (
Sliver of Light), 2x
Magnetic Revolvers (Heavy),
Magnetic Repeater (Heavy),
Chameleon Cloak,
Sigil of Hope,
D.U.S.T.,
Anti-Force User Grenades,
Grappling Hook (Pistol Format), Photoreceptor
HypnoGaze attachment,
jetpack, simple wrappings for camouflage and concealment.
Forces: The Knight Of The Eclipse (
Dark Harvester Prize Stealth Transport) with a collection of
shattergun-miniguns,
bowcasters, and
blast-staves on board
Kaiden Rohn,
When the trooper's hand clasped on the droid's shoulder from behind, HK jumped slightly, his head spinning around to look at Kaiden,
"
Where did you came fro- wait, Kaiden? Is that you?"
The machine's body followed the movement in turn, spinning around to face him,
"
Were you here this whole time? For Force's sake, man, take that helmet off once in a while, I thought you were just one of those faceless drones we have around."
One of the nearby other GA troops looked to HK,
"
No offense, lad."
"
That was so hurtful, sir."
"
Either way, Kaiden,"
The droid turned his attention back to his comrade from the Pyre,
"
My mission is to get behind enemy lines and begin hunting the FO higher-up's to cause some havoc in their chain of commands. I need you to escort me there, to the closest sewer entrance, afterwards you will rejoin the main assault on their fortifications and help push through."
HK turned then towards the path they were already on, coursing by a nearby cliff-face towards the city, leading them from the hills they were on,
"
So here is the plan, we will follow this path which will take us from the hills to Santaissa, then I will find-"
Before the droid could even finish,
the Wrath, that dreaded Star Destroyer that hanged over the city and bombarded their position in attempt to glass them, begun to rock and shiver in the orbit as its microjump engines flared up. HK was sure the vessel was going to escape the atmosphere, little did the droid know it was too late, for the onslaught of the Forcers around them took the cruiser down and it begun to sink. What's more, it turned about, heading right for them,
"
Oh."
The machine only sounded out,
"
I should not have shot at its engines."
He thought, jumping right to the conclusion that it was him, with that one burst of shattergun fire he let off towards the Cruiser in a joke, that took the mighty beast from the skies and plunged it towards the earth.
HK just stood there, really unable to do much as the Star Destroyer approached them slowly, growing bigger and bigger, guided by the Forcers to minimize damage to their forces. It finally collapsed into the surface, near that cliff they were going to pass by, cutting right across the path HK planned to take.
There was series of explosions from the Cruiser as it crashed, engines bursting, reactor going critical, turbolasers blowing their charge, all of that, only to shatter it into thousand pieces, glass the dusty barren soil around it, and propel its shards plowing through the air. HK watched as its nose cut across the land right in front of them, heading right for him, with a great dust cloud and a river of gravel and soil. The droid did not move however, he stood there watching it, and the wreckage slowed down, creeping closer and closer as it lost momentum until finally the large charred wall of durasteel stopped few inches in front of HK.
The droid turned around to look at Kaiden,
"
Ok, new plan!"
He quipped as he stepped away from
the Wrath's wreckage, moving away to a clearer location as the dust begun to settle slowly,
"
We are going to take my stealth transport, the Knight of Eclipse, we will use it to go around the wreckage, land by the other dropships, I will go for a flanking maneuver, you will be my man by the front lines, if you will need an opening, let me know, if I will need a distraction, I will contact you, sounds good?"
It was more or less a rhetorical question as HK commed in his stealth transport, the shuttle was just finishing delivering Kiyron and his squad to an orbital drop location, not too far, they would not wait long for it to arrive.
Sure enough, Kaiden and any other troops that were assigned to be part of his squad could see a sleek black shape materialize in the dust above them, swiftly lowering down as its airlock opened and ramp lowered to allow them on board. Inside there was already another HK droid, one of the Greycloaks, copies of HK himself in older bodies he kept around as his honor guard. This one was designated with being a pilot of the rare and valuable shuttle,
"
How is the blockade looking?"
The Iron Knight asked the pilot as he hurried Kaiden and any others onboard, motioning for them to have a seat and strap in as the ramp raised again and the airlock locked.
"
Much better."
The Greycloak answered as it pulled on the control stick, lifting them up off of the ground,
"
The FO are not able to fully keep up the blockade with what is happening in the space, we are able to sneak more transports through now, we are not clear for full army landing just yet though."
HK nodded,
"
Good, have our troops ready and send a couple of shuttles down to reinforce the assault on the Citadel of Dawn from the retinue we have aboard GA vessels. Contact the Siege Tower and the Dancing Queen, see what is their ETA."
The other droid nodded in turn.
"
Aye-aye."
The stealth transport would disappear once more from sight as it entered the cloud of dust, and moved to join the other GA forces in the charge of the dropships they were conducted to get them into a better position for an assault. Of course the shuttle remained stealthy as it moved alongside the other transports, avoiding enemy contact or opening fire, although utilizing the provided starfighter and interceptor cover, to get them closer to the front lines easier.
Finally the shuttle would begin to lower once more, as the pilot called out to them,
"
We got over the wreckage, approaching LZ!"
It was not that big of a trip on the grand scale of things, soon enough the airlock hissed, Kaiden would be able to hear the ramp lower, as HK approached him and any others,
"
You are still my escort until I will get to the sewer entrance, we are not expecting much resistance till that point, if you see any target that could threaten my maneuver, engage them. Then you will be free to join Kerrigan's forces and push up against the Citadel, there should be plenty of targets for you then."
The droid explained once more as he prepared his rifle and made sure his camo wrapping and cloak were around him securely,
"
And Kaiden."
He looked to him again before stepping off,
"
Do not be afraid to cause some Havoc."
HK quipped as they hit the deck and the sound of nearby battle would hit them quite clearly. HK ran off, not wasting much time as he ducked his head, dodging branches and any stray blaster bolts alike. They were somewhat off away from the other dropships, the main force was nearby however, they couldn't be on top of them though for the flanking maneuver to work. The droid knew which direction to go exactly to reach the sewer entrance, coordinates for it were sent to him by Six-O, his droid agent on the inside within one of his numerous binary messages. Although HK said Kaiden should be his escort, the droid also mentioned there wasn't much resistance in that particular area, and he would not be wrong, especially when the main assault would keep FO distracted. Once they would get there, Kaiden would have only few seconds to say what he had to say to the droid before he slipped into the sewer entrance and Kaiden was left to his own devices once more.
Jude Falkrowe,
Once HK got to the sewer manhole at the edge of the ruined city, hidden behind some collapsed pillar he moved away with a bit of a strain, shielded from view by a nearby convenient ruins, he slipped himself inside smoothly, dragging the manhole cover over head as he did to close it behind in one motion.
SPLOSH
He dropped down into the canal full of what remained of the sewers, old dried waste if the sewers not used since the catastrophe that ruined the city, only few puddles still remained, kept moisturized by the rain water.
"
Gross."
HK muttered to himself as his large Phrik claws extended off of his feet, using them to elevate himself somewhat above the literal old crap, basically tip-toing as he gathered up his cloak and robes to not drag them through the sick, slinging his shattergun repeater over his shoulder.
From there the trek was pretty easy, unlike organics the droid had a hard time getting lost if they saw the map in front of them through their mind, and had a build-in compass. It was just a matter of finding ways around tunnel sections that collapsed since Six-O went through them, most likely a result of the Star Destroyer crashing down into the earth nearby.
Every time he came up to a fork in the tunnels he stopped to look around each corner, just to make sure there weren't any patrols in the underground after the guerrillas used the very same tunnels to get behind the enemy lines into the ruins and ambush a squadron of troops. Thankfully that did not seem to be the case as everyone was taken by the chaos around the city to pay attention to such things as sewers.
Eventually HK would come up to the ladder leading upwards that Six used to get above the ground, he was now in the heart of Santaissa, the ruined city sprawling all around him in its eery wrecked beauty, charred buildings he still remember as magnificent before they crumbled and turned to ash. The droid peeked up slightly from the manhole, scanning his surroundings to make sure the coast is clear before pulling himself upwards. Almost immediately a rush of snow slammed against his faceplate as, unbeknownst to him, there was a blizzard raging among Santaissa's ruins due to unnatural meddling of a particular cryomancer,
Why the feth is it snowing right now?
HK asked himself, wiping the snow off of his photoreceptors before peeking out again, this time prepared for the harsh Force-borne weather.
As he climbed outside of the tunnel he made sure his sound-dampening systems were activated to keep himself silent, and his chameleon cloak activated to render him invisible to the naked eye and most sensors. Being a machine that often utilized things as infrared or heat vision, he knew well how to protect himself against them.
Either way, HK climbed into a nearby half-standing building to have a better look at the area around him. There were the front lines were the fighting just erupted, the colorful streaks of plasma bolts and muzzle flashes wer barely visible through the snow. The Citadel nearby the White Palace rose high above them, even with the blizzard he managed to distinguish its shape, and the Citadel of the Dawn was seen just some distance away with more fighting going on there, or it would, if it not was for the screen of the snow, however the silent communications feed he was tapped into with his internal systems told him that the combat did not die down just yet, in fact the opposite. Then the droid finally spotted some activity as a group of stormtroopers moved by in the streets below through the snow and frost,
Hello there,
He calculated to himself as he scanned for their commanding officer. Soon enough he saw him, the blonde man with robes and stormtrooper armor beneath, so sexy with the large snowflakes battering his face and hair,
It was Jude,
Doctor, doctor give me the news,
He quipped silently, he did not made a move just yet, only watched, and calculated why they would not be at the front lines just yet. He came to conclusion they were probably left behind as vanguard, or some sort of reinforcements who lagged behind and did not manage to set off just yet. Either way, he was going to intercept and disrupt them somewhat,
I got a bad case of droid juice
Siobhan Kerrigan, Tempest, Aeron Kreelan, Michael Serdun, Nima Tann, Joza Perl, Everyone Else Assaulting the Citadel of Dawn
North of Citadel of Dawn,
A couple of larger dropships baring the markings of Abregado-Rae and the GA would near the assault forces LZ as the armies moved out. Their content? The reinforcements HK called for to be ferried to the surface and help with the assault as the combat in the orbit erupted, providing a distraction for some GA reinforcements to go through. Unfortunately, it was still very much risky to land in large numbers, so although only two dropships were sent, or probably only two made it through, they were probably just one of many, unless somehow FO would manage to tighten their grip on the planet once more.
Either way, the reinforcements were directed down by the two Greycloaks HK had with him, as he decided to go on his mission behind the enemy lines alone, his honor-guard copies were left in charge of their forces, along with the Dwarf Walker that was still being dragged along with them.
The first heavy dropship opened as it touched down on the designated GA LZ, in a secure enough spot, baring numerous deactivated droids in automated racks that extended out and begun to deploy them directly from the dropship in two little rectangles. They were kept deactivated and in a more compact fetal position to cram more of them into the vehicle. As the droids stood up they marched away from the dropship, forming a neat little phalanx of 6x10 units, each armed with an Abregado Blast Staff. Unfortunately right now all they could spare were infantry drones, the most common and expandable of Abregado troops.
The second dropship opened and from inside skittered out their spider-droids, five of them, three with the imposing rotary cannons suspended off of their round black bodies, two with the large armor-piercing mass drivers to provide highly mobile anti-armor cover.
It would not take much for these droids to form up as well, and they all marched out, led by the two armored and cloaked HK units, with the dwarf walker wobbling behind them, another HK in its cockpit, they moved along the other troopers who came to heed the call to arms, both foreign and the Eldorai Guerrilla fighters stirred to rise up against the FO by HK and other agents like him. They joined the armies of Kerrigan and Kreelan and marched alongside them to support them whenever more help was needed.
Forces: light
Mag'Ladroth Personal Walker, right arm
CBRW Flamethrower, left arm
Magnetic Minigun
3
The Greycloaks, clad in
Protectorate Power Armor, and
chameleon cloaks, armed with
Magnetic Revolvers, generic blue-crystal lightsabers, and
Spears of Rae.
60
Iron Legionnaire Drones armed with
Abregado Blast-Staves, moving in a 6x10 phalanx
5
Mobile Weapon Platform Spider Droids, Light Models, 3 armed with
RC-1 rotary cannons, 2 armed with
MD-1 mass drivers
