Here's to You
// OBJECTIVE //: Cassel Point | The Ramparts
// ALLIES | NIO //: Agrippa
// ENEMIES | TSE //: Kascalion Giedfield | Cognus Legion
Armor | Rifle | Pistol | Melee | Grenades
<"On the ramparts! Now! I want a Reaper set down and hitting those fu-"> The NCO's life snuffed out in an unscheduled pause to the symphony of death and destruction which enveloped Cassel Point. Whatever this Trooper did in life, he died all the same. Limp and lifeless, his body clad in the argent and cobal duraplast plates collapsing to the metal surface beneath with that haunting 'thunk'. All in the classic implementation of decentralized command, it was next man up with another trooper barking out the orders to the cascading rhythm of blaster, concussive and flechette fire all acting as accenting notes to the gut twisting explosions sounding out around them.
On that position, a Reaper Chaincannon was mounted against the edge of the duracrete wall, a honed kill taking aim down the sights toward the black and green of Cognus as they grew larger and larger in his view. His hands jostled for a moment before he squeezed his thumbs down unto the the triggers of the heavy weapon. Snapping at the air in silence around the nine rotating barrels it began to spin in foreboding calmness for a split second before it pried open the marble jaws of oblivion and unfurled its devestating array of anti-infantry slaughter as golden particle beams spat out the business end of the chaincannon to a chorus of depravingly satisfying clips and thumps against the duraplast chest plating of the approaching troopers unfortunate enough to peek far too much of their mortal shells from their makeshift cover. Each impact blasting superheated energy on impact and splashing it against the armor plating until it eroded to a charred crisp.
<"Imperator! I spot Cognus!"> A Stormtrooper Corporal shouted down the line to Irveric Tavlar who was upright well behind them, pulling and wrenching the scattered and disorientated 908th Troopers into a position of use. Or at the very least, where they blasters were angled down range toward something moving and looking to hurt them. Surrounding himself only with the 501st Legion and the 12th Armored he forgot all about this. He'd been through and out of the fire with those men and women. These poor souls here were green. They'd never seen any of this before. Not outside of the clinical, sterile and completely scripted and controlled simulations of Sith and New Imperial academies. It certainly helped but it couldn't hold a candle to the dark, grim, bloody, disgusting, rotten and despicable reality of warfare. There was no simulating any of that. Maybe the basic instincts, move and shoot. But not everything else.
As soon as he heard it was the sons of The Devil, Irveric's gaze beneath his Enigma-pattern helmet narrowed before he sucked in a breath of anticipation. His 501st gunned them down like limp dogs on Velmor. All the while, the Sovereign Imperator struck down Giedfield in single combat. He'd 'killed' him, heard the bones crack and blood spurt when he wrenched that head clean from its body in the midsts of ash and smoke. The precarious subjugation of JanFathal all but indicated he'd returned with an inner fire boiling with hatred toward these rebels. The 'True' Imperials as most of them seemed to deem themselves. In spite of the geopolitical terminology, they weren't new at all. Not most of them. They had been around as long as any of the men they were gunning down on the other side of the blasters were now. But they weren't the chattel to Sith Lords who tugged and wrenched them around like bought property. Even if Carnifex or any of these other Sith Lords had seen the field alongside their men, they couldn't claim the fraction of common ground with their hosts as Irveric could with his. He'd seen all they had through the same eyes.
<"Good."> Irveric stated outright. If the encounter between The Punished and The Devil followed anything according to their last, the Sovereign Imperator may very well be able to snuff this beast out and cut him down for good. For now, the Imperator's Fist would hold the line. Two troopers began to mount a magcannon to the rampart, taking aim for hard targets on the approach toward the fortress. He'd be here if Cognus broke through the lines.
Waiting.
Waiting to end it.
P A G E C L A I M
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