Ali Hadrix
Bad Boss
Galactic Republic
Supreme Commander Ali Hadrix
Republic Garrison of Contruum
0200 Hours (Local Time)
[member=Draco Vereen]
The fighting continued atop and within the Garrison for the next half hour, with prominent losses on both sides. Even so, the Republic military soon found itself securing the last of the tunnels drilled by the Mandalorians as their forces diminished and their leader fled the battlefield in search of easier foes. The majority of Republic forces that remained inside the Garrison assisted with the gathering of the dead (walking and un-walking alike), while the remaining hundreds of soldiers joined the defense on the outside.
Trex Hartwick attempted to yank his durasteel vibroblade from the neck of a fallen Mandalorian soldier, only to realise it was stuck. He grunted, not expecting the resistance, and pulled again. Nothing. Trex planted his foot against the Mando's armored forehead and pushed while he pulled, but even so, the knife wasn't moving. "Dammit," he muttered and turned the head sideward with a tug of the knife. The serrated backside of the blade was caught in the thinner armor of the neck area, which was made of pretty tough stuff.
"Not tough enough, ya bastard," Trex murmured under his breath, kicking the Mandalorian's head with his boot.
Everyone in Trex's unit had died, the whole platoon. Forced into small rooms and locked up with grenades, cut down by those Titans and their massive cannons, ripped apart by those...savages. Savages...that was the word. Whoever Draco Vereen thought he was, the boy was nothing more than a Sith hound, a savage.
"Hartwick!" A voice called. Trex looked up, wiping the blood from his hands. It was Lori Preters, a woman from his platoon. He grinned and pushed himself up, they embraced, then broke away. Lori was blonde-haired, a Human from Corellia, and had been serving on the Contruum Garrison for almost a year. "Boy is it good to see you alive!" Trex exclaimed, embracing Lori again. Their mutual happiness soon softened, however, as they realised how few of the rest of them had been left alive.
"Between the Mandos, the necromancer, and soldiers simply going mad, there aren't many left." Trex noted, shaking his head. Lori frowned, wrapping her arm around his shoulder and hugging him tight. "It'll be fine, in the end. They're zealots, all of them. Wild animals. We'll put them down, Trex, I swear it. If not for our folks, but for everyone else who just wants to live in this Galaxy." Trex smiled. "Good words, Lor." He muttered.
That's when they felt the ground shake.
"What was that?" Trex asked. Lori shook her head. "I haven't the foggiest." The pair left the area, seeking out their company leadership for their next set of orders. Trex and Lori would go on to live happily ever after.
Deep below the mountain
In the depths of the earth below the great peak itself, the seismic charges the Mandalorians had planted exploded. Their force was diminished by their use in atmosphere, where atmospheric resistance diluted their strength exponentially with every meter the explosion grew. The weapons would have been perfect for wiping out ground troops on the surface. And with all the space below in the cavern, the majority of the force was directed downward, into open space. As a result, the Garrison shivered slightly, but the mountain remained strong. It was a mountain, afterall.