Character: Adventures of NPC Greycloak "Iron-Hide"
Location: Battle for the Citadel of the Dawn, Protecting Siobhan, Pushing against the Stormtroopers
Objective: NPC Fight, keep up the pressure against Stormies
Allies: [member="Siobhan Kerrigan"], [member="Audren Sykes"], [member="Dax Fyre"],
Enemies: [member="FN-888"], [member="BE-183"], [member="Darth Carnifex"],
Forces: 1 Greycloak, clad in Protectorate Power Armor, 2x Electro-Cestus 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
62
Iron Legionnaire Drones (15 (18-3) in melee range, 47 (60-13) in a phalanx advancing towards the stormies) armed with
Abregado Blast-Staves, moving in a 6x3 and a 6x10 phalanx
Siobhan and Carnifex,
While Kaine and Sio had their exchange of Force attacks beginning to measure their hypothetical, mystical phalluses as space-wizards do, the Greycloak was off to one side, still deflecting the blaster bolts being thrown their way to ensure that Sio had one less thing to worry about. In fact the machine probable also reflected few shots that were aimed at Carnifex by accident, just because they passed the droid by and he was on a role, one could imagine that swatting away prolonged series of blaster barraged over long time was something like doing a 20 minute song on the hardest difficult of Dance-Dance Revolution, one just got in the zone. So you're welcome Kaine, either way the Greycloak noticed when Kaine's guards jumped down to join the fray, stalking towards Siobhan, their saber-staves ignited.
The Greycloak turned on his feel, putting himself in a gunslinger stance as he unholstered his magnetic revolver with one hand and took off in a run towards them. The machine took a quick aim coming from their flank-ish side considering he wasn't right between Sio and Kaine so the two could face off in relative peace, he pulled the trigger and held it, the revolver's chamber spun with a soft whirr as it silently let loose a burst a six small caliber hyper-velocity pellets turned armor-piercing ammunition from the sheer speed they traveled at, cutting through the air faster than the speed of sound, leaving behind a buzzing hissing echo that marked their journey towards their targets.
The pellets were fired in a bit of a scatter as the machine did not have enough time to stop and properly aim, even advanced accuracy of a precise machine had its limits. The goal was to take out at least one of these guards or maim both of them to make the rest of the fight a relatively easy experience, aiming towards their heads, necks, torsos, even arms, the Greycloak was not picky. Either way, at least one of them survived so this writer could keep describing the turn of events.
In quick dash as the sound of his bullets piercing the air were still lingering in the air, the Greycloak forced himself between the Crownguards and Siobhan, Kaine was not the only one with guards protecting him,
"
Finally a worthy opp-"
Bzzt-tshssssh-bzzzzt-bzzzzzshs
Almost immediately there came a sound of lightsabers clashing against each other as one would assume Kaine's guards were not that big on letting their opponent have time to quip right in front of them after shooting at them,
"
Immediate regrets!"
The machine sounded out as his lightsaber swiveled here and there, deflecting their blades in precise economic movements of good old Soresu form. Kaine's guards may have literally been red-shirts, but they were no initiates, they knew their way around lightsaber well enough to handle a staff variant without slicing themselves in two, still they were not as trained or knowledgeable in the ways of lightsaber combat as the machine having thousands and thousands of years of practice, it's combat protocols a copy of main HK unit's. The advantage they did have, however, outside of using the Force, was that there were bloody ten more of them after these guys.
During one moment when the droid ducked to dodge a lighsaber slash aimed at his head, immediately blocking another one from below, he noticed the other crimson-clad warriors on the hills overlooking the battle,
I may need some backup here.
He silently commed in his brother-copies,
I am a little busy here, taking care of Vaas.
Where is Blade-Knight?
Manning a dwarf walker to put down fire support.
Lucky bastard.
FN-888, BE-183, Audren Sykes,
As E-Webs and the stomtrooper lines opened fire towards advancing lines they would see their deflector shields lighting up whenever hit until finally they gave out, then it was couple more shots to break through their armor plates before the drone went down only to have the one behind it speed up in its advance and take its place. Even with E-Webs it was a grind to take them down as they fast firing blast staves just rained blaster fire to suppress and melt through anyone unlucky to be caught in their rain of plasma fire, each blast-staff was an equivalent of a blaster repeater in the amount of bolts it unleashed. But it was a more or less just question of luck as the weapons were not horribly accurate, that is why a whole line was using them at once, to substitute amount of bolts being unleashed for their accuracy, if you fired a hundred projectiles at a time at least one was bound to hit right? Still, the front line of the phalanx stopped to fire and magnetized their weapons, swaying and swinging them to meet the trajectory of incoming blaster and E-Web bolts, deflecting and swatting them aside either into the air, ground, or back to the stormtroopers. One of the things about these blast-staves was that they could deflect blaster-bolts much like lightsabers did, and machines just happened to be very good at tracking trajectories.
Either way, as hard to take down the units were, it must have been so satisfying to see them begin to crumble down from the amount of plasma fired on them, here a unit went down from the repeater blaster damage, here one was melted through by an E-Web shot, there a couple were thrown aside from a grenade or another heavier artillery or bombing strike.
The infantry drones were even fiercer in melee range, using their augmented strength and durable bodies to go through their enemy just by brutally battering them down with their blast-staves, their ends lighting up as their electrodes were sparked to life and they dealt increased electric-shock damage. The 18 that managed to get into Stormy slit trenches and beyond from the initial assault were starting to just whack and brutalize their way through enemy lines, sending an unlucky trooper flying from a good hit, wrestling one down over there, being shot through by a stormy who still held it together even after the mental assault the drones used for their advantage to break the enemy skulls while they were distracted. One unit was hit by a close-quarters E-Web shot from the nearby positions of the weapons, completely melting through its chassis and crumpling it down, another still had its electrified stuff wrestled away by a trooper who used it against it, beating the droid down until it deactivated.
So it was not as if they were invincible, but still even more difficult to face up close.
In fact, Sev would hear a yelping scream from one of the nearby troopers as the soldier was whacked by one of these droids, sending him falling limply to the side. The machine looked at Sev, clutching its staff as it strode forward quickly, raising its weapon over its head to try and bring it down upon the stormtrooper before he had time to shoot it down.
Would Sev fire at it and risk whether the machine still had its deflector shields up or not? Would he be quick enough to try and take the drone in melee? Or would it be the end for the stormtrooper commander and just the tragedy his soldiers needed to motivate them into fighting fiercer than ever against their enemy?
"But HK" you could ask, reader, "If these drones are even better up close, why not just have them run at the enemy as fast as they could to just get into melee instead of having them leisurely walk towards enemy lines firing at them?" Good question!
Anyway, as the drones tangled with the stomtrooper in slit-trenches, the spider-droids behind them, utilizing still the cover of Santaissa's ruins for their advantage, picked up on the increased E-Web fire against their infantry. The spider-droids poked out, their rotary cannons spinning as they opened their thunderous fire once more,
RA-TA-TA-TA-TA-TA-TA-TA!
The trenches and mud around the E-Webs would begin to explode as the high-velocity fast-firing weapons would be unleashed upon them, focusing fire on their positions. Sand bags and barricades would be thrown apart and crack from the guns that fired small metal beads fast enough to punch clean through light tanks and starfighters, cutting through air like hailstorm of thousand of lethal shards. The Shattergun Rotary Cannons the spider-droids used were fast firing rail guns, somewhat comparable to the E-Webs in their anti-infantry purpose, however while not utilizing plasma, the shatterguns probably fired faster and over longer distance than the E-Webs, depending on the model of the heavy blaster gun at least.
Either way, come what may the drones and spider-droids did their duty, providing a distraction so the Jedi like Audren or special forces soldiers like Dish could break the enemy down and finish them off.
