The Baying of the Hound ( Mandalorian Domininon of Ord Radama)

[Shae Kalin]

Location: Capital
Objective: Search and Destroy
Post Count: 1/20
Allies: [member="Malcom Renolds"] | [member="Kenna Raine"]

"All clear," Shae said as she melted in from the shadows. She may not have had stealth armor like her boss, but she had her own ways of remaining unseen, stalking through shadows and making use of natural blind spots. Her vulpine ears stood erect, swiveling about as she listened for anything her eyes may have missed. She looked back to Kenna, her bow lowered but ready to protect the young woman in her first foray into combat using her newly learned skills. Like Malcom, Shae was confident in Kenna's skills, but practice and practical application were two entirely different things.

Shae's ears suddenly twitched and turned to focus on a point behind them as she picked up on something new. "I hear movement, maybe 3 different sets of footsteps, but they're not headed our way, I don't think they've noticed us. You want me to deal with them, or stay with Kenna?" she asked her 'fearless' leader. After all, orders were orders...

 

[Malcom Renolds]

Location: Capital
Objective: Search and Destroy
Post Count: 2/20
Allies: Mandalorians | [member="Kenna Raine"] | [member="Shae Kalin"]

"Stick with Kenna. Keep her covered." He ordered quickly. He knew full well his more genteel fellow bounty hunter Shae didn't really have a fondness for the current orders. So he moved her with Kenna to try and make it easier on her. Besides Kenna would need more close range support rather than long range now that the sniper was down. So it worked out in the end. "I got this."

Pivoting around to start scanning the area Shae had been watching behind them, it didn't take him long to pick up on the targets. There were indeed three people walking past and slightly away from them. Well, Shae had good ears. He had to give her that. Peering through his scope he could make out a woman, child, and a man. Malcom let out a heavy sigh as he recalled the orders. All fighters alongside men of fighting age are to be killed.

This looked nothing more than a man simply trying to get his family to safety. Turning a couple dials on his scope as he tried to debate the order. Technically, this was wrong...but then again, how many times had they turned their backs on seemingly innocent men just to get shot in the back. Staring through his scope, he slowed his breathing down. A moment later, he inhaled and held. CRACK---BOOOM!

"And that ladies and gents....is why we have our current orders." He said with a disgusted frown as the small family was now nothing more than a crater thanks to the explosive vest it seemd the "dad" was wearing. Meanwhile, Malcom continued to scan their rear flank for anymore hostiles until he got the word that it was his turn to follow.

 

[Laira Darkhold]

Location: Suburbs
Forces: 68 Mandalorians
Objectve: I will think of something.
[7/20]

As the Aliit’Verd moved through the small courtyard we had landed in the fighting was thickest here. The seventy warriors on the ground were outnumbered, but never had they found themselves out gunned. Gouts of fire sprayed from the warriors as they continued to assault the paramilitary forces attempting to fortify this suburb of the capital. No it probably wasn’t the most honorable work, but it was necessary for the moment.

The Orar’uliiks swooped low, their rather large hulls blocking out the evening sun in some areas, casting long shadows as their lasers cut through groups of enemy soldiers attempting to split from the fighting and regroup. Blaster bolts smacked harmlessly on the beskar hull’s as the ships moved around providing close air support for the soldiers on the ground.

The group of soldiers around me were well trained and experienced Mandalorians, men who understood combat and were well prepared for it, but in melee’s like this there was only an individual and there was no real organization. Fed power through the meld, I used the Force to find my enemies minds, trying to find their fighting spirit and break it. Perhaps that would bring a swift end to this fight.

 

[Kenna Raine]

Capital
Objective: Search and Destroy
Post Count: 1/20
Allies: Mandalorians | [member="Malcom Renolds"] | [member="Shae Kalin"]

She knew that her skills were new and never tested on the battle field. The two of them were just trying to ensure she had proper backup. Kenna thought it was excessive thought and wanted freedom to prove herself. How would she ever be able to prove herself if he never gave her a chance? The young woman couldn't fight with her master though as that never got her anywhere.

Sighing she just nodded as she ran to the next location and waved for her master to follow along with them. In the distance she could see an open shack that she had to imagine was being used by the enemy. As much as Kenna wanted to prove she could fight on her own she knew that it was dangerous to go alone. Her master would be angry to so she could only tell him about it. "I just have this feeling that there is something in there," she stated pointing with the rifle towards the shack. "I was going to check it out."

It was more of a statement than a question of whether she could or not. Yet she was still here waiting to see if there was any protests against her plan.

 

[Shae Kalin]

Location: Capital
Objective: Search and Destroy
Post Count: 2/20
Allies: [member="Malcom Renolds"] | [member="Kenna Raine"]

Shae stayed close to Kenna and adjusted her grip on her bow. "Approach a door like you would a target, with caution. And take a moment to listen; you can't always trust your scanners to give you a full picture of what's going on. And I will be right here with you," Shae assured her in a hushed tone. The shack was probably nothing, but even still it was good practice; and if there was something there, Shae would not allow harm to come to Kenna, and then the young woman would have earned herself a little bit of experience.

Although Shae did wonder why the Captain chose to bring Kenna along on this mission. It felt a bit like chucking her into the deep end of the pool, having to kill seemingly innocent men was a bit of steep learning curve. If it had been up to Shae, she would have chosen a 'softer' mission for Kenna to cut her teeth, but then again it wasn't her call to make. In a lot of ways, she was glad she wasn't the one making these decisions or Kenna would probably never see danger, ever. Not that it was any sort of doubt in the girl's skill, Shae was just the sort of person to want to shield an innocent from this sort of work. It wasn't pleasant, and in Shae's opinion Kenna was just too sweet for it. But then again, some would say the same about herself, and looks could be very deceiving, which worked in their favor.

 

[Vilaz Munin]

Location: Some building
Allies: Mandalorians
Objective: Get to the Capitol Building
Post Count: 3/20

They continued running at their max towards the building mentioned by Vilaz and they would stop until they dropped dead or injured, or they were inside the skyscraper. Some would get hit by speeding projectiles or a blast radius from a grenade while others would make it to the rendezvous. Thankfully, there was ruin vehicles of all sorts acting as cover for both Vilaz and his Warrios and their adversaries. The Rally Master and the rest of his unit were channeling through the ruin vehicles making their route as they ran. After a few minutes of running through the streets filled with violence they finally arrived at the building and entered the interior of it.

"Quick, y'all, let's get up on the higher levels so we don't get stormed and bombarded!" the Redneck shouted his order to his men and all the ironclads made a run for the elevators. The one that Vilaz was in was crammed and was squished by his Vode that were adjacent to him. Men and women were complaining, cussing, and saying random things from their mouth just because of the little space they had. Worst elevator ride yet.

 

[Malcom Renolds]

Location: Capital
Objective: Search and Destroy
Post Count: 3/20
Allies: Mandalorians | [member="Kenna Raine"] | [member="Shae Kalin"]

Malcom gave a quick look back as his crew moved forward to clear a shed before moving on to a lookout nest. While they did that, he turned on his active camo to better blend in. Pulling up his datapad, he noted his hunting hounds position. Raising his hand, Malcom spoke into his comm unit and began to issue orders to his last "crew member".

"Urz! Haw! Good boy. Hike!.....Whoa!....Kill Search!"

A blurry shape stealthily moved through the field of battle obeying its masters command with damn near military precision. From a building a hundred yards away or so, screaming could suddenly be heard. Malcom's Co-Tamp Hunting Hound ha managed to flush out a few more people holding up in the building. The area inside the building got a bit quieter while the outside got louder as a couple men came running outside.

A shot rang out from his rifle for one of them but he quickly spoke into the comm again. "Urz! Syc 'em!" The fleeing man was quickly taken down as the attack animal snatched on to his leg and them moved to his neck was he was downed.

"Good boy Urz!"

And so that scenario played out while Kenna and Shae cleared out their objective.

 

[Laira Darkhold]

Location: Suburbs
Forces: 68 Mandalorians
Objectve: I will think of something.
[8/20]

Pain erupted from my shoulder as I took a blaster bolt to it, catching me just below the protective phrik pauldron into the armpit. The small amount of burnt flesh below was only burnt enough to blister, so it wasn't too bad in the long run, but for right now it would be painful and irritating when in combat. I ducked low, dodging an incoming shock club from a paramilitary soldier and at the same time bringing the phalanges of my mace towards his stomach. When it impacted there was no blood or gore, only massive internal trauma. By the way he was clutching at his gut, I presumed his intestines had ruptured and he was now dying, albeit slowly and painfully. Sweeping the mace out to the side, I brought it against his head, sending him sprawling to the ground, the thunderous impact of the shockwave generators vibrating through the air. I turned to see my warriors starting to overpower the enemy, and outnumber them. So many had been burnt or gunned down by the gunships and the Mandalorians flame projectors that we had brought with us. The enemy had never been able to regroup and assault us on their terms in this area, but over the comms I could here orders being shouted to the many remaining paramilitary forces in the area.

Diplomacy had its place, and had there been time or any foundation to build upon it was possible that this was unnecessary, but that ship had set sail before I had even arrived in system. An overwhelming sense of fear eminated from the civilians in the area as my warriors finished off the paramilitary and began mopping up, preparing to move on. I waved a hand, "Get medical assistance to the civilians before we move the to the next location. We don't need to oppress these people anymore than claiming rulership of their world." Several medics nodded and split up to work on wounded Mandalorians and wounded civilians, most resistant to the assistance, but accepting nonetheless. I decided it was best to slowly begin healing myself through the Force rather than wasting my energy elsewhere or trying to hard to fix only a nagging wound.

 

[Kenna Raine]

Capital
Objective: Search and Destroy
Post Count: 2/20
Allies: Mandalorians | [member="Malcom Renolds"] | [member="Shae Kalin"]


Any advice that Kenna could get, she would take. She was happy that Shae was patient with her and was willing to work with her. It wasn't something that she was particular used to but Kenna liked it. It was almost as if she was a part of the crew and not just an after thought. Killing random people just because they lived here seemed a bit much but Kenna didn't ask question. She did what she was told and if he wanted this to be her first mission the young woman would be here.

Taking a step towards the door she put her ear to it as she held the rifle ready at her side. This was war and while it was her first one Kenna knew she that she needed to be prepared for anything. She could hear through the door three distinct voices that sounded like men.

The orders were to take out the resistance not to kill woman and children. Looking behind her she held up three fingers to indicate number of voices before kicking the door in. It really wasn't needed but to her it seemed like the most logical of things to do.

Quickly moving her blaster up Kenna was met with blaster fire before she could even step in. She followed suit and fired back.

 

[Shae Kalin]

Location: Capital
Objective: Search and Destroy
Post Count: 3/20
Allies: [member="Malcom Renolds"] | [member="Kenna Raine"]

Shae smiled slightly as she watched Kenna take to heart the lessons she had been given, listening carefully then signaling what she'd heard. Good girl, she was picking up fast what to do. Although with three voices, likely armed individuals, Shae thought maybe she should take this one, but that would be defeating the purpose of the Captain's orders, so Shae raised her bow and let Kenna kick in the door. When they were immediately met with weapon fire, Shae simply reacted and released several arrows in rapid succession into the shed to cover Kenna's entry, but then she smelled the chemicals. Oh no, that meant...

Shae barely had time to react; everything seemed to move in slow motion as she rushed at Kenna and threw her to the ground, covering the woman with her body as the shack went up in flames, the bomb chemicals in the shack igniting from the blaster fire. Shae managed to use her gift with fire direct the blaze upward rather than outward to minimize the flames engulfing them while her fire resistant fur protected them, but there was nothing she could do for the concussive force of the explosion, which in such close proximity left Shae's sensitive ears ringing, dazing her. Shae shook her head to try to dispel the confounded ringing, then looked down at Kenna.

"Are you alright?" Shae asked, concerned for the woman's well-being, but she was suddenly worried for her own well-being when she noticed her own voice sounded muffled. That wasn't good...

 

[Laira Darkhold]

Location: Suburbs
Forces: 68 Mandalorians
Objectve: I will think of something.
[9/20]

With the medics going around, providing first aid to those who needed it some of the locals became less sour, and me exuding good vibes through the Force didn't hurt. It didn't help much either. Many of these people resented the Mandalorians swooping from the sky to subjugate them, but some of them were seeing that we weren't all bad, or didn't intend to involve the civilians. "Light green smoke in the square to let the orbiting forces know we have this area. I wouldn't want them to see people congregating and thinking they were hostile." I said to a passing warrior who nodded and ran to the center of the square, popping a smoke grenade and releasing a cloud of green smoke and emitting an all clear signal to the ships overhead.

A warrior walked up, holding a datapad, "Sir, we should move for this neighborhood next. Looks like the paramilitary are holding up and shoring the area for the next attack. We can hit it with a pair of missiles on the way in and send everyone packing. Then we can drop in and go door to door."

"Alright, saddle up and lets move. I don't want to keep the rest of the clans waiting on us." I said, walking with several groups and taking off using our jump packs to board the Orar'Uliik's and moving off in the direction of the next target off in the distance.

 

[Malcom Renolds]

Location: Capital
Objective: Search and Destroy
Post Count: 4/20
Allies: Mandalorians | [member="Kenna Raine"] | [member="Shae Kalin"] | [member="Draco Vereen"] | [member="Vilaz Munin"]

Malcom's face shot toward the sound of the explosion just in time to see Shae covering Kenna from the blast. His reactive concern was quickly put down though. The man couldn't let his emotions get the better of him. Keep a clear head, focus! This place was gettin' hot. Looks like their push to link up with mando forces headed to the capital building would be stalled a bit.Pulling up, his comm he switched over to general frequency.

"To any vod in the area, this is Malcom Renolds. Patching through our coordinates now. We were on our way to the capital building when we started hitting some resistance. This place crawls, could use some reinforcements. Be advised, we have resistance wearing bomb vests hidden under civilian clothing while walking among civies to move around. It looks like they are also booby trapping doorways. Suggest caution when entering. Popping smoke now, color orange! Renolds out!"

Malcom quickly threw out an orange flare into the middle of the street. Hopefully despite the skyscrapers nearby, someone would see it. Switching back over to his hounds tracker, the warrior spoke into the comm again. "Urz! Come gee.....Hike......Whoah! Area Overlord!" The Co-Tamp hound followed commands brilliantly and had soon made an about face and returned toward his masters side more or less. Hunkering down behind some debris, his hunting dog would keep an eye on the flanks.

He then pivoted around to take aim at the building Shae and Kenna were trying to storm. If anything charged out to pursue his crew, they'd have a nasty surprise waiting for them.

 

[Eliza Steele]

Location: Capital City - spaceport
Objective: Save my ship and stay alive to smuggle another day, and just maybe take out a couple of bad guys too.
Allies: Mandolarians
Post: 1/20

They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Eliza had no idea the Mandalorians were going to be taking Ord Radama this day and the resistance would be given to this degree. The petite smuggler and her loyal Wookiee co-pilot had just finished a business drop when all hell broke loose in the capital city.

They immediately jumped back in "The Mull", their heavily modified SUV speeder used to deliver supplies, and rushed back towards the spaceport where the Corellian Dawn was berthed. There was no way in the nine Corellian hells Steele was going to loose her ship this day.

The Corellisi comm'd ahead to Leebu, her LE Series repair droid who was standing by on the YT-1930 Light Freighter, to get the Dawn ready… but that's when she found out they'd have to fight their way into the spaceport as resistance fighters were held up in the main terminal.

"Attention Mandalorian forces… This is Captain Eliza Steele of the Corellian Dawn. The spaceport is being held by resistance fighters. Any help in clearing them would be much appreciated," Lizzy keyed over a general frequency, then turned to her smuggling buddy.

​"Come on, Rahly… Let's go get our baby back."


@Mandos

 

[Vilaz Munin]

Location: Some building
Allies: Mandos
Objective: Getto the Capitol Building
Post: [4/20]

The elevator stopped it's ascension and the familiar "ding" rung. As the doors opened out to a vacant office floor a whole bunch Mandalorians fell out of the elevator in a great pattern. Warriors were attempting to get back up on their two feet and make defenses around the perimeter. Other batches of Mandalorians came out from other individual elevators and were more or less than the group Vilaz was in. After everyone was organized and not in a chaotic pile they rallied with the Redneck and were waiting for what he would say or order them what to do. From his hand a hologram of the capital of Ord Radama appeared before everyone.

"Alright, boys and gals. This is the game plan," Vilaz announced to his men that were around him registering every word that came from his mouth. The unit would be divided into separate groups each being lead by a Rally Master or an Initiate that was capable of leading. They would all have a different route and different tasks just to divide the attention of the enemy. Once every squad had done their part they would meet at the rendezvous point, Capitol Building, from different angles and storm it to find the leader and his cabinet, and maybe other politicians. Glass windows were the perimeter of the floor they stood on and, after receiving orders, they ran towards the windows, jumped through them causing shreds of glass falling down to the ground, and activated their aerial devices and flew to different nearby buildings. All was according to plan.

 

[Malcom Renolds]

Location: Capital
Objective: Search and Destroy
Post Count: 5/20
Allies: Mandalorians | [member="Kenna Raine"] | [member="Shae Kalin"] | [member="Draco Vereen"] | [member="Eliza Steele"] | [member="Vilaz Munin"]

Whatever it was that caused that explosion seemed to have killed anything inside as well as all the blaster fire ceased and no more movement could be picked up. He raised a hand to his ear as someone called in another request for reinforcements. It was then his ears picked up the sound of feint explosions in the distance. Turning toward it, he could see millions of shard of glass raining down to the floor from higher up in the capital building. A wide grin flashed across his face as he saw his fellow mandos led by Vilaz jumping out of the building with their rocket packs heading for different targets. "Oorah!" He said to himself before turning back to his two crewmates.

"Well kriff..." He thought to himself. If they already had our boys in the capital building, there was no reason to try and push on in that direction. By the time they would manage to punch through, the fighting would more than likely be over. "Kenna! Shae! On your feet and fall back! We're pullin' out."

Pulling up his comm, he replied to the request while his Kenna and Shae fell back. "Captain Steele. Captain Renolds here. My fire team and I are on the way. ETA, 5-7 minutes. You copy?"

He then sent another message out quickly to any reinforcements that may have been heading their way. "This is Renolds. Disregard last request. Unit is pulling out and redirecting toward the starport. Requesting any support head their instead. Renolds out!"

With the final messages away, he waited for his people.

 

[Kenna Raine]

Capital
Objective: Search and Destroy
Post Count: 3/20
Allies: Mandalorians | [member="Malcom Renolds"] | [member="Shae Kalin"] [member="Eliza Steele"]

Before Kenna even knew what happened there was an explosion, she was on the ground and Shae was acting as a shield. Her eyes widened as she saw the flames engulf the entire building. There must have been a bomb in there either put there as a trap by the men that were inside. It was quite an ingenious idea except she wouldn't want to be there when the whole thing blew.

"I'm fine," Kenna coughed as she sat up. "Are you doing ok? Your not hurt are you?" She questioned looking her over for any burns but didn't see much in the way of any wounds. It must have been her fur which was a pretty useful thing to have. If it wasn't for Shae, Kenna would be toast.

She heard in the distance Malcolm call for them but first she needed to get Shae on her feet. "We will be right there," she called back before placing her attention back on Shae. "Can you walk?"

 

[Shae Kalin]

Location: Capital
Objective: Search and Destroy
Post Count: 4/20
Allies: [member="Malcom Renolds"] | [member="Kenna Raine"]

Shae shook her head again and rubbed at her ears, trying to get rid of the ringing. She could barely hear Kenna or Malcom through her earpiece, which she had to remove to make sure her ears weren't bleeding. Thankfully, when she drew her fingers away from her ears, she found no blood so the explosion probably hadn't ruptured her sensitive eardrums. Her hearing would clear up, but she was still a little disoriented.

"My ears are ringing, but otherwise I'm okay. I'm just glad you weren't hurt," Shae said as she put her earpiece back in her ear so she could receive further orders from their Captain. Her hearing may be impaired for now, but it was not gone. She rose onto unsteady paws, but with another shake of her head she managed a few steps that weren't completely uncoordinated. "Captain said head to the spaceport, right?" she asked to confirm the orders she thought she heard.

 

[Kenna Raine]

Capital
Objective: Search and Destroy
Post Count: 4/20
Allies: Mandalorians | [member="Malcom Renolds"] | [member="Shae Kalin"] | [member="Eliza Steele"]

"Ya, to the spaceport." Kenna nodded as she got up from the rubble as well. Hopefully the ear ringing to clear up for her soon enough and even if it did she wanted to get a better and closer look at her when they got back to the ship. Now wasn't the time though, they had orders and Malcolm wouldn't be happy if they kept him waiting.

As she regained her balance she began to head back to where the captain was waiting for them. "We can't keep him waiting." She grinned turning around briefly to Shae. Turning back around she picked up the pace to a slow jog to reach him to hopefully get a small update in the situation that was going on at the starport. Why were all reinforcements headed in that direction. There had probably been something on it which she missed due to the blast. Kenna's educated guess was that there was a swarm of resistance troops that way and their service would be better placed there.

 

[Eliza Steele]

Location: Capital City - spaceport
Objective: Save my ship and stay alive to smuggle another day, and just maybe take out a couple of bad guys too.
Allies: Mandolarians - [member="Malcom Renolds"] [member="Kenna Raine"] [member="Shae Kalin"]
Post: 2/20

"Copy that, Renolds… Come in on the southwest side, my partner and I will hit em from the southeast. Steele out."

Eliza parked "The Mull" as close as she dared to the spaceport, then grabbed a blaster rifle from under the seat and several power packs, stuffing her spacer's vest. The petite smuggler also had her twin DL-44 heavy blaster pistols today and her DC-15s side arm blaster and the vibroblade. Also, she had some flash bangs, ribbon charges, and one of [member="Kad Tor"]'s modified thermal detonators with her. Rahly had his bow caster and his own walking-carpet toys with him.

The espresso-haired Corellisi and brandy brown-furred Wookiee made their way to the southeast side of the spaceport and waited for the other fire team to arrive. Together they would assault the terminal, secure the spaceport, and more importantly get back her ship.

 

[Shae Kalin]

Location: Capital City - Spaceport
Objective: Search and Destroy
Post Count: 5/20
Allies: [member="Malcom Renolds"] | [member="Kenna Raine"]

"Captain, we're on our way," Shae informed their fearless leader over the comm, sprinting off at a swift run, being careful not to leave Kenna in the dust as she loped towards the spaceport. Her eyes kept darting about in an almost paranoid fashion; since she couldn't hear as well, she wasn't as aware of her surroundings and it made her feel exposed. That changed as she neared Malcom and his lovely hunting hound, or at least Shae thought the creature was beautiful. She could see a calculating intelligence in its eyes and it enthralled her. But being near Malcom made her feel safer since she knew he was an experienced soldier, and while her trust did not extend very far just yet, she at least trusted him to watch her back out here.

"Sorry, got a little dazed in that blast," Shae said as they caught up to Malcom. "My hearing is compromised, but I'm still capable of fighting," she informed him as they continued on to the spaceport. Thankfully, she would recover from this, but it was an inconvenient annoyance. All that had mattered to Shae at the moment had been protecting Kenna, so she could live with a bit of muffled hearing for a little while.