Objective: Honor
Allies: GA in general, [member="Tobias Wrynn"] in particular
Post 1
Tobias Wrynn said:
He stopped short when HUD flashed. Origin detected. "Found you," he muttered. The map display toggled on and shifted toward another installation, three kilometers northwest of their current position. "We need to get the word back to the Alliance Defense Fleet to rain hell on these facilities," he told her. "They're amassing these corrupted refineries with whatever is causing this twisted energy and using it to push their agenda."
The Fleet might have been out of touch, but Gulliver was not.
On many a world, the old commander had led troops into battle against all kinds of evil and occasionally not so evil, and Force users never failed to come up with clever ways to make life miserable. It wasn't uncommon for him to employ Forcies of his own on his staff, because frankly, that crap got old.
Washed out apprentices were his favorites. More established Knights and Masters tended to be fairly stuck in their ways, and didn't react so kindly to the idea that they were basically just sentient dowsing rods. Apprentices though, especially those that had been fairly far along in their training before they left whatever order they belonged to, they didn't mind so much. They were perfectly happy to use their skills in unconventional ways, especially if those ways meant raining down all kinds of hell on whatever perversions the villains of the week had cooked up.
In this case, reports had filtered in from advanced troops of a set of facilities that were the center of some sort of disturbance that was warping minds and generally causing trouble. Gulliver never really understood what they were ranting about, especially since it seemed to drive the poor sods half mad, but they were able to point out a series of buildings on the overhead view.
His on call battery of 155mm howitzers had the range to the buildings, but they wanted to get some eyes on them first, in order to make sure that they weren't filled with human shields. There were rumors that some hotshot had gone and got a bunch of civilians killed not long ago, and he did not want to end up sharing a court martial.
A quick search of nearby forces revealed a recon team nearby, headed by one [member="Tobias Wrynn"].
"Recon, this is Battleaxe. We're tracking tangos approaching your location. Stand by for danger close fire mission. We'll scratch your back, then we've got a building that needs observed."
The cannon crews wasted no time in adjusting to the new targets. All up and down the line, cries of "FIRE MISSION" could be heard as they prepared to send their care packages downrange. The battery had 8 howitzers, the speeder-towed cannon that Gulliver had been developing for use by the Alliance. It was a lightweight, easily transportable system that could be transported on nearly anything with a cargo hold that could fit it.
Each cannon belched fire twice sending sixteen rounds of high explosive death towards the enemies approaching the recon team. None would impact closer than 100 meters, meaning that anything within about 70 meters (the airburst shells had quite the blast radius) was their problem. Everything else would be slowly cooling chunks of meat.
"Splash, over."