Character: Adventures of NPC Greycloak "Iron-Hide"
Location: Battle for the Citadel of the Dawn, Protecting Siobhan, Pushing against the Stormtroopers
Objective: Help Sio not die, keep up the pressure against Stormies
Allies: [member="Siobhan Kerrigan"], [member="Audren Sykes"], [member="Dax Fyre"], [member="Joza Perl"], [member="Dish"]
Enemies: [member="FN-888"], [member="BE-183"], [member="Darth Carnifex"]
Forces: 1 Greycloak, clad in Protectorate Power Armor, and chameleon cloaks, armed with Magnetic Revolvers, heavy Magnetic Repeater, generic blue-crystal lightsabers, and Spear of Rae.
5
Mobile Weapon Platform Spider Droids (Initial 3 + 2 from reinforcement that ran the blockade), Light Models, all armed with
RC-1 Rotary cannons directly under his command
78
Iron Legionnaire Drones (Initial 60-42 from bombardment + 60 from reinforcement) armed with
Abregado Blast-Staves, moving in a 6x3 and a 6x10 phalanx
Kaine de Carnifex, Siobhan Kerrrrrigan
The HK droid wielding a lightsaber sent to protect Kerrigan was still there as his brother-copy ran off after Ludolf to chase the FO's Supreme Commander through the battlefield.
He glanced briefly after Iron-Borne before his attention was taken once more by an incoming volley of blaster bolts from one of the retreating stormtroopers. In precise subtle shifts of old Soresu techniques he swatted the bolts away, sending two into the already burnt and scorched ground, causing a small heated explosion that threw up more mud and dust, leaving behind a small glass clump, the third flew towards the trooper, hitting beneath the chin of his mask with a sickened sizzle of searing flesh and plasteel melting into it. The soldier collapsed down into the ground as more bolts came flying towards the machine, it would have been long before he got some rest from his duty of protecting Kerrigan's shapely rear and flobby flank.
Once more his attention was taken as he his audioreceptors picked up an increasing sound of speeder repulsorenginges, growing louder and louder, he calculated that the machine was nearing.
Blocking another volley that sprayed wildly into the air from his blue blade, casting it aside briefly from the recoil HK turned towards the source and saw the Sith Lord at ramming speed towards the Colonel,
"
Sio! Over here, looks like Kaine."
The droid wasn't sure whether Sio was able to sense Kaine already or not so he just wanted to make sure!
The machine sentinel alarmed her as it shifted his footing, metal claws extending out in case he was going to be thrown telekinetically, either by Kaine just because for being there, or by Sio to be used as her shield against his wishes. He briefly stepped in front of the volley of speeder-blaster Kaine unleashed, deflecting it out to buy Sio more time and focus, or so he thought, Sio just flew out of the way anyway. The bolts did not went anywhere close Kaine, due to the machine having to act quickly there was no time to aim, they flew away from the droid's blue lightsaber but went wide, soaring off somewhere into the sky to fly free and happy.
Tzwhew-tzwhew-bwomg
The HK droid swatted away all but one that impacted his deflector shields, built into his Protectorate power armor, making them light up in faint blue light and pushing him back, his claws raking a trench in the wounded soil as the impact of the plasma projectiles opened up a way towards Sio once more for Kaine, residual heat of the high energy bolts heated up the surface of armor where they struck the droid, leaving a faint orange-glowing mark on his abdomen.
However his help seemed all too unnecessary as Sio got out of the bolt's pathway either way via her jetpack,
"
Yeah, you are welcome!"
The machine quipped from below her.
As much as he wanted to step back in, another volley from the FO forces came in their direction and he already had to turn his attention aside, swatting away another burst of plasma bolts shot at them by stormtroopers.
He tried to help as much as he could, but in the end Kaine was Sio's fight that day, not his.
The Greycloak received a notification from his forces that they regrouped with reinforcements,
"
Good, keep pushing!"
He ordered the droid forces.
Audren Sykes, Dax Fyre, Joza Perl, Dish, FN-888, BE-183,
BOOM!
KABAM!
BLAM!
Things were exploding left and right on the battlefield in front of the Citadel of the Dawn. Somebody threw grenades over there or they were activated via Force- that exploded. Over in that direction one of the sides ordered a mortar strike- that exploded. An artillery strike- that exploded! There were bombing runs conducted, some of the TIEs dropping their payloads left and right in carpet bombing that harmed GA and took out some of their own, the more unlucky ones at least before being promptly having some of their craft shot down by the combined forces of GA anti-air defenses and air superiority craft- all of that exploded as bombs clashed against the battered soil, spraying out fire, plasma, dirt, mud, shrapnel, and usually the TIEs that fired them soon followed, spiraling into the ruined buildings and the field itself as the X-Wings, A-Wings, Y-Wings, even those weird G-Wings* tried to protect their forces best they could in the face of FO's own air superiority craft and anti-air forces.
Safe to say that both sides suffered with each strikes, as these were far from precise weapons to use in what was more or less a melee and a pretty bloody and fierce engagement, you pulled out the big guns in close quarters, you should expect friendly fire casualties.
Either way!
With all of that going on the droid forces that steadily marched and advanced towards FN-888 and their group, now joined by BE-183, or more likely BE would be able to notice the droids now as they moved closer, would be hit by some of the explosives.
BWOOM!
A bomb or torpedo fired by one of the sides landed right in the middle of their formation. Droid parts and whole machines flew every which way, tossed by the shock wave of the explosion. Some hit a wall and their chassis cracked, some were just straight up vaporized, some crumbled into twisted little piles, some were saved by their outer plates and built-in deflector shields and quickly got up after being thrown, still clutching their Blat-Staves as they regrouped into their formation once more.
The dust rose from the explosions and the remaining units would seem like quick work for the many stormtroopers, almost 3/4 of the unit sent against them remained and only 18 drones were still standing. But that was when their reinforcements joined them.
Over the corpses of GA and Stormtroopers, over the corpses of their own fallen and crumbled drone comrades there was marching another unit of 60 infantry drones, clutching their blast-staves like pikes, quickly opening fire towards the stormtroopers to keep up the pressure against them.
It would be pretty apparent that although Abregado wasn't able to land all of their forces at the beginning their plan was to eventually overwhelm the enemy by sending steady reinforcements, at least until the blockade was lifted and they could just land the whole bloody drone and droid army.
More were actually, but FO pilots managed to shot those dropships down before they reached the surface, only two made its way to the ground that time, one carrying the infantry unit now marching towards the Stormies, and one with spider-droids that now joined up with their fellow mobile weapon platforms firing at the entrenched lines from the ruins. If it wasn't for their pilots, 888 and Bee would be facing at least on droid tank as well now.
As the phalanx kept moving up closer, firing at the enemy from range, the 18 that was still marching activated the electrodes of their blast-staves, ceasing to fire as they scattered their formation, running up to the stormtroopers to being engaging them with melee, wielding the weapons much like one would electrostaves.
As to the Spider Droids, they were safer from the bombardment than the infantry they were supporting, as their reinforcements joined them, all five of the units begun to rotate their barrels once more to fire upon the Stormtroopers, taking apart their barricades over time, going after the entrenched positions and E-Webs, shredding vehicles that would come too close, retreating once more behind cover as their programming dictated to reload their heavy rotary cannons.
Pretty much usual heavy weapons team stuff.
RA-TA-TA-TA-TA-TA-TAT!
Audren Sykes, Jozie, Dax, Dish, all of the allied PCs in the area would see the droid army do their thing too, if they wanted to help them or needed the droids to help them out, all they had to do was call them over or send out a transmission on Abregado frequency for support.
*I made the G-Wing up, I'm not sure if something like that exists, it sounds ridiculous enough that it would though
