Location: That series of rooftops we're all on, somewhere around Valley of the Lords
Allies: [member="Kaida Taldir"]
Enemies: [member="Commander Orin"]
Objective: Protecting Kaida, Keeping the Sith suppressed
Musical Selection: Girls (Droids) Just Want To Have Fun by Cyndi Lauper
Commander Orin said:
To add to the insulting list of mounting tricks Omega had up their sleeve, a very unfriendly dropship whizzed onto the scene, absolutely laying into Orin and his squad with an automatic gun of a large caliber. Thankfully, the fallen pillar Orin and his squad had taken cover behind shielded them from everything but raining chips of stone.
That was enough distraction HK needed as he stopped his buzzsaw movements, impaling his Sith alchemy sword into the ground and deactivating his lightsaber as he pulled his
MD-1 heavy anti-armor bombardment railgun, now recharged, from his shoulder and knelt down, taking aim towards Orin's position.
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Cover your ears, Kaida."
The droid gave his companion a warning this time around instead of letting her deafen and stun through the roaring shot from the Mass Driver.
As Orin aimed for the gunner HK aimed for the pillar his squad was hiding behind and at the same time the two soldiers pulled their trigger, in instant the Gunner of the dropship flew back and there would be flash of light at the pillar of Orin's squad, the explosion of the hyper-velocity bolt gun projectile.
Excerpt from tech submission for MD-1:
"As to the gun's power and ammunition, the solid metal Slugs of MK 1 bolt gun work wonders against heavy armored units. The solid slugs are propelled at incredible speed and are able to punch clean through a vehicle in some cases, dealing heavy damage. While the standard bolt ammunition has lesser penetration than Solid Slug, although it is able to penetrate Heavy Vehicle Armor with a good hit, it has a rather curious property when fired from this small mass driver. The Gados scientists called it the Hyper-Velocity Shrapnel Effect. What it describes is, when the standard bolt ammunition is fired and impacts its target, or soil, it explodes as it would usually, however, at the speed it travels, it loses its area of effect damage. Instead, it is a conical effect as the shockwave of its explosion and shrapnel are propelled forward due to velocity (This part is least grounded in actual science as my plane to Poland is nipping at my heels and I have no time to research this to be certain
). The shrapnel, due to explosion, retains velocity similar to that of a shattergun pistol ammunition being fired, acting very much so like a shotgun version of shattergun in fletchete shrapnel version. This can pepper light and medium vehicles and penetrate their armor, although heavy armored vehicles deflect the shrapnel, or the shrapnel imbeds in their armor and impales it without really causing any further damage, and it's a very devastating effect to be used against infantry, especially when the shock-wave of it hits them like a run-away train. As such, the Slugs are advised to be used against heavily armored units and the Bolts are much more effective in bombardment against groups of infantry."
And after the flash of the projectile meeting its mark came the roaring thunder from the weapon itself, the sound of the bolt breaking the sound barrier would reach Orin and those nearby HK after the flash and projectile hitting, since the bolt launched from the MD would travel faster than sound and the barrier would be broken inside the barrel, which contained just enough sound dampeners to keep the wall of air from breaking the weapon apart but not enough to make it silent by any measure.
Presumably the pillar would explode in chunks of rock and high-temperature shrapnel from the explosion, the whole of the cover being thrown back from the shockwave as the area in its conical effect, covering stone and the squad, was peppered with the debris and hot metal like a shower of shattergun shots. HK's goal was to distract the squad long enough to suppress them, give opening for Kaida to move in with her frost powers, and possibly take out their dropship if the strike was good enough. Just to make sure that not everything was absorbed by the pillar cover the droid aimed towards the top of the make-shift barricade to pepper the Sith's torso and helmets should there be not as much rock debris as he expected.
After this maneuver he would take his two weapons into his hands once more, slinging the heavy gun onto his back to let it recharge, his shields now gone he stepped back towards Kaida who was already casting her spell to cover her more, and be closer to the dropship for when they could finally get out of there and have time to gossip.
As to the Gunner in the dropship,
Well the Gunner was presumable wearing one of the heavy variants of
Defense Power Armor which droid had supplied from Omega to his company, and which would give the Gunner a bonus when using heavy weapons like the RC-1. Anyway, that would mean the soldier also had the heavier deflector shield that came with the suit which meant that although the bolt sent him back the other side of the dropship, he was not killed, injured maybe, but soon enough he would be climbing aboard the dropship with help of other soldiers, one of whom replaced him on the Rotary Cannon since there would be at least two of those, that usually means two gunners, and since they weren't being attacked from the other side they could spare one to switch.
