Starvation leads to a lack of compensation [HK-36]

[Warren Century]

There were sometimes when you did not pay credits for products. Sirius knew that his shortage of credits meant he'd need to steal some devices so as to steal some food. To get to this planet Sirius had threatened the life of a smuggler to drop him off on the planet. Force Lightning was a very effective threat, especially when he could perform it. Granted, he was not a master or anywhere close to being able to use it fully yet. Abregado Rae was a world that was a fortress, one that would be very hard for him to breach. Yet he'd have to obtain some of the weapons and supplies he needed because well, he needed them. Of course there was more to that.

A robbery like this would be nearly impossible to pull off unless you possessed some Force abilities. But given that he did Sirius knew the risk would be well worth the pay off. His stomach grumbled. Oh great. He was hungry. Ontop of having to rob this place, he'd have to steal some food from it's kitchens. Just great. Sirius started to make the pilot land the ship on Abregado after going through customs or whatever. Holstering the pistols at his waist, he made sure the vibro-katana was strapped to his back. Excellent.

Finally ready, the moment the ship descended he casually walked out of it. Today he was going to be doing some crimes that would likely get him executed if he had done them to any sith. But he did need food, and weapons. And a ship. And armor. But he wouldn't steal all of it from this company, no. His pistols had been purloined from Suvian. Food and a few minor weapons would be taken from here as well as a spare ship. It would likely have to be an older model, undervalued by them.

 

[HK-36]

[member="Sirius Nova"]

Upon exiting the ship the first thing that would strike Sirius were the armored soldiers. Iron Company was know for its full-metal suits of armor, as their name suggested either way, due to their history. The Company begun to take its shape as one of the companies making up the structure of the Pyre the mercenary branch of Omega Protectorate, the Second Company, as it was known at the time, begun to excel at close-quarter combat and boarding operations, especially against the Force-wielding cultists of the Dark Side, the Bando Gora, who at the time were great threat to the Protectorate.

And, as such, they begun to expect to face Force-users in close combat, so they begun to adopt thicker suits of armor than other Pyre mercenaries, they wielded the heavy weapons capable of bombarding whole lines of infantry, the Bolt Guns, Bando Gora loved to throw waves after waves of poorly armed and armored cultists at the mercenaries to overwhelm them in sheer numbers. Soon enough trench-warfare tactics were developed, relying on cover and heavy weaponry like the Blaster Rotary Cannons, Flamethrowers, and Heavy Repeaters, and the Second Company adopted the use of close-combat weaponry along their guns, most often in form of vibro-axes taken as trophies from the Bando Gora or Omega-made vibroswords.

This was all done under the leadership of a droid, HK-36, he was assigned to the company under leadership of Colonel Siobhan Kerrigan and Major Delila Castillon as a Private, during his first mission he earned the nickname the Siege Tower from among his comrades at arms, due to his preference of absorbing shots and shrapnels into his metal body or deflecting the incoming attacks away with his white-bladed lightsaber rather than allowing the soldiers behind him, as he usually took leading the charge on himself, to take a hit, he then saved Colonel Kerrigan's live after her duel with Bando Gora Chaos Champion, a duel which she won but lost a limb as result, the droid carried her off of the exploding ship. After this initial battle of his career with the Protectorate HK received the respect of his comrades, friendship of the Colonel, and his initial promotion.

Few battles later, including the Siege of Mandalore during which he aided the Mandalorians in successful defense along with a rag-tag group of Omega commandos formed into a special forces team out of necessity, involving alien known as Racket, cyborg Nyos Val, spacer Corvo, and possible Noah Corek, HK has been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant and the leadership of the Second Company has been handed over to him, it was then that they were renamed into the Iron Company and begun to adopt their current tactics.


Anyway, so those was the story behind the soldier's current outfits, indeed they looked somewhat like medieval knights on steroids with plenty of weaponry, including the heavy Bolt Guns they still sported, although lighter units upgraded to equally lighter Bolt Guns Mk. 2, and there was a lot of them on Abregado. And I mean a lot.

Pretty much anywhere Sirius would look he would see either a patrol passing or a guard posted, and all kinds of beings made up their ranks, there were the humans, and the myriad of aliens like the Wookiees, large Herglics, the lanky Gados who were native to Abregado, even volunteer droids who decided to join because they could not find a job on the planet or wished to defend their new-found home, it was the only prosperous planet under leadership of a droid, after all, a haven to droids who wished to be independent and live in peace.