Location: Hills Overlooking Santaissa,
Objective: Group up with Kerrigan, see what's the situation
Allies: [member="Siobhan Kerrigan"], [member="Tempest"], [member="Aeron Kreelan], [member="Nima Tann"], [member="Michael Sardun"]. [member="Sed Frieder"], [member="Taryc Ap'Irae"], [member="Six-O"], [member="Nate The Bounty Hunter"], [member="Kiyron"]
Enemies: [member="Pharazon Draken"], [member="Asharad Graush"], [member="Project X-2"], [member="Aesa Urkith"]
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,
blast-staves, and a deactivated light
Mag'Ladroth Personal Walker on-board,
The Greycloaks, clad in
Protectorate Power Armor, and
chameleon cloaks, armed with
Magnetic Revolvers, generic blue-crystal lightsabers, and
Spears of Rae.
Siobhan Kerrigan, Tempest,
While Sio and Tempest did their thing the droid just more or less plopped down on a nearby stone, using the scope of his Magnetic Repeater to scan over the horizon, the hills, the brown forests, the ruins, just keeping an eye out for any enemy forces that would decide to move out against them, managing to take a shot when the stars aligned at one of the TIE craft sent out against them, the high-velocity pellet cut through the sky with a wicked hiss, connecting with the duraglass cockpit of the TIE and piercing through it with a quick malicious crack, slicing its way into the pilot's neck before his body slumped over to the side, rolling the fighter with him and pulling it down into the ground,
"
We are clear."
He muttered out in confirmation to whoever was listening, pulling on the lever of the repeater and pushing it back in, the chamber whirred to make sure it was all properly loaded, when suddenly as the Star Destroyer up in low orbit begun to rock and shake, manipulated by the Force users, when suddenly the batteries of the cruiser lighted up in ignition of turbo-laser fire which the machine noticed,
"
Except for that!"
He called out to others, giving out a quick order,
"
Scatter for cover!"
As the soldiers around him launged and hid to maximize their chances of survival the droid found the closest pair of organics and fell behind cover with them, his hands moving to the back of their heads like two shields. Then there were the explosions of the turbolaser bolts impacting,
BAM-BWOOM!
And the crashing of rubble and shrapnel as ruins in the hilltops above them were pulverized,
TSHRTHRHRTR
There was the sound of dirt and pebbles raining down around them like hail, storm made of cutting fragments that came with a fury and disappeared just as quickly. Thankfully portion of the turbolaser barrage was aimed at the old estate they have since already left, or at least most of them did, what was aimed towards their artillery position seemed to have been disrupted by the Force users' manipulations of the vessel.
Either way, once things quiet down the droid looked up, calling out,
"
Greycloaks!"
Only to be answered with,
"
We are alright!"
Even the Personal Walker trudging behind their column of troops seemed to go out of the brief bombardment unscathed as the Cruiser soon enough turned tail to leave the atmosphere.
Nima Tann,
"It might be our only chance to get a good attack."
The Twi'Lek pointed out, to which HK replied,
"I got this guys!"
As he raised his rifle once more, aiming for the Cruiser's engines. He steeled himself, calculating just the right trajectory, letting the Force guides his projectiles as he pulled the trigger of the rail gun and held it, allowing its chamber to spin out and let loose a burst of its six deadly shots.
WHMMM-STR-STR-STR-STR-STR-STR,
They cut across the air to skewer the wicked metal beast daring to bring ruined on this already scarred land.
HK waited then, lowering his gun and cocking the lever once more to reload the chamber. Nothing happened. He waited still to see if the engines of the Cruiser or its reactor exploded before calculating that all he had was a kharking sniper rifle and even if the shots somehow reached the Cruiser they would probably just ping off of its hull.
He looked towards Nima,
"Alright, so I got nothing."
He admitted and allowed for Sio and others to take their last chance at damaging the ship before it escaped.
Back to Sio,
HK trotted over to her when she dropped to her knees,
"Come on you old dingle-donger."
The droid muttered as he reached down to help her up,
"You have had worse, stop being a drama queen."
He quipped as he looked over the battlefield again,
"
We have special forces squads touching down near the Citadel of the Dawn and majority of the First Order seems to be holed up around the White Palace Citadel."
HK pointed out just as he got a transmission from Six, one that Sio probably received as well, although it was easier for HK to translate binary to common right away,
"
Six found a way behind enemy lines through the sewer, I will take the Greycloaks and try to exploit that to engage the FO higher ups, keep in touch with me so we can coordinate. There is also a Comm Tower nearby we should probably send someone towards, I think Kaida and her troops are heading in that direction."
Six-O,
Of course HK yet lived, he was made out of Phrik for Force's sake. Either way, the older (They were actually roughly the same age probably, both from around Old Sith Wars) droid responded to six's transmission with one of his own, binary just the same, passing on to Six the contact information for other Guerrilla cells on the planet Sio and her agents were able to feed to him. Although HK already begun to mobilize reinforcements among the natives, trying to stir them into global uprising as much as he could while being unable to actually show up there in person, doing it all through remote Holo-Transmissions he already proved he could multi-task with rather well.
In fact to one particular group of Eldorai he appeared tall in
white robes (2:20 onwards), a blue image flickering slightly from the holo-transmitter they were gathered around already, clearly rather displeased with the current state of affairs,
"
The Order-men come to take what is left of your land! They are driving your people into the hills to scratch a living off rocks!"
He proclaimed to them, one of the Eldorai called out,
"
Murderers!"
The others agreed and HK's holograph kept on talking,
"
Take back the lands they try to steal from you, burn their every men and officer, cast them back into the darkness of the Void!"
"
Hyagh!"
The Eldorai roared as they grabbed their rifles and weapons, shambling out of the meeting hall in a rush to go and join their guerrilla rebel brethren in the fray.
Hopefully Six would be able to somewhat pick up on HK's efforts and either mobilize even more troops or send out someone who could, or simply coordinate with them to receive reinforcements on his position.
The Rogue Squadron,
[member="Asmus Janes"], [member="Choli Vyn"], [member="Roth Tillian"],
While HK moved to his next position he sent out a quick message to the Rogues,
"
Rogue Squadron this is the Iron Knight, do you read me? How is it looking in the skies? We just received some orbital bombardment but their cruiser is retreating, we sure could use with that orbital blockade being lifted, over."
Honestly the droid, because he was such a Force-awful pilot, did not really got how combat worked in space, so he was not certain whether lifting the planetary blockade was something the Rogues could just do right away or now. I mean if they did then great! Otherwise he would just have to keep pestering them.
Sed Frieder,
Finally HK did what he was planning on, he joined up with Sed and his squad, as they were near the section of the perimeter the machine was currently in, if Sed knew about the droid and some of his recent history then great, he knew he was in company of an old droid that once ruled over this part of the Galaxy and was a veteran of many fights with the Sith, if not then he probably could tell the machine was one of the higher-ups among the Firemane and GA,
"
Alright lads, looks like I am with you. I need you to help me get closer towards the front lines."
HK motioned out towards the city they were all currently heading to,
"
Our recon teams pointed out the sewers are accessible and lead past enemy blockades, I need you to get me to their closest opening then I will use them for flanking and being sowing disorder among the FO's ranks."
The droid looked at Sed, he would be able to see that they were also joined by two HK droids clad in grey cloaks and Protectorate-styled armor, holding rather nasty looking miniguns,
"
Got that?"
HK asked just to make sure Sed understood.
It looked like Sed would be dragged by the droid from the tip of the iceberg deeper into the murky freezing waters, at least that would cool him down more than the air filtration of the armor.
No one liked a sweat-ball.
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