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The Rains of Castameer (Ground Battle)

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Gray and his men had made it into the walker, but the commander of it was not about to make things any easier for him. The alarm signaling an overload sounded right as the man turned to try and tackle Gray to the floor. One of his men moved in the way and gunned them down. There was only one thing that Gray knew he could do in time to stop that reactor, although it likely was going to be very painful for him for a bit after. He channeled the force once more and began to use the force to manually shut down the power core so that it would purge off the extra energy from its systems. The amount of delicate work this required while being unable to physically see the parts was taxing and cost precious seconds. Every passing moment counted here, and it wasn't until the very last that Gray was finally able to prevent the walker from exploding with him and his men inside of it. The walker's systems immediately began to restart themselves as a safety protocol as Gray released his control with the force. His nose began to drip blood and pain began to scream through his entire being starting with his head. His brain felt like it was going to explode both outwardly and inwardly at the same time, which caused him to drop to a knee.

The Rancor Company men that were left had found nothing but battle on this planet, and too many of their own had died in their desperate attempt to survive this opening skirmish. They might have been wiped out too if not for the timely assistance of their allies, and they just prayed their presence had distracted the enemy artillery enough for their allies to make some kind of progress. They were determined to drive these Sith into their graves by this point and pressed forward relentlessly. Blaster fire flew in every direction as they screamed out their fury towards this seemingly tireless enemy. They didn't know when it was, but eventually everything stopped. Every infantry was dead before them and the shelling that had been like rain since the battle started was no longer falling. The only sounds left for them to hear was the sounds of crunching snow, creaking of armor, and heavy breathing of them and their brothers. They had won. They didn't know how or when, but they had won. As the realization hit them, they began to cheer out one after the other. They were finally finished with this hell of a skirmish that had shown them nothing but fire and brimstone.

The Lightning Company had seen progress on their own ends. The anti-air walkers had fallen finally to squadron B and they had immediately left to assist their brothers. They had claimed the walker, although not without injuries, and had begun to turn the blasters of it onto the one next door. The new squadron had moved to take the immobile walker while it was distracted and found the same level of success with it as well. They immediately began to look to the next move, but found that the battle was over. The enemy had been spread too thin against their fellow Mandalorians and allies and crushed under heel. The shields and the anti-air were all now down, so a signal was sent for additional dropships to come in. They all needed pick up and they had trophies to take back home.

The call of [member="Stardust Raxis"] needing help was not noticed by Gray at first. He had pushed himself too far with that last effort and it was going to take a few minutes before he was aware enough of anything but the pain to address it. The medics of Rancor Company had heard and two of them were immediately on the move to get her aid. They had managed to hang onto their bacta supplies and were going to use all of it to save their alor's wife. As they did this, the dropships arrived with more Raxis members. They were pilots, but they were ready to do their part and their first order of business was to deal with the damaged craft that had suffered so much abuse in its push to land. Foam to stop fires was sprayed all over it and what replacement parts were on hand were already being moved to repair what they could.

Gray eventually was back to his senses after a bacta needle had been applied to his neck. They had gotten his helmet off of him sometime, but he wasn't sure when that was. His head felt like it was on fire and about to split still but he was able to think clearly enough to do his duty. He got onto the coms system of the now back online walker and got reports from every surviving captain. They had managed to survive, if barely, and now it was time to make their next move. He said over the coms to his men, " Everyone good work here. We managed to do our job, even if we lost more than I would have liked. We will see they get their proper send off once we get back home. I want everyone that survived to gather up our dead and get them onto one of the new dropships. After that salvage as much of the gear off those infantry as you can. I want every medical kit, detonator, and powercell stripped off of them. I want as many of those rocket launchers salvaged and rockets for them as you can. Some of the Rancor squad take over the walkers from Lightning Company and I want Lighting Company to go grab as many walkers from the Sith base that are not too damaged or likely to blow up mid transport as possible. We need to do this quickly and then evac before that big eye sore in the sky comes down on us or worse." He then ended his message and listened to the confirmations roll in.

Gray then turned and headed for the hatch out of the walker. He retrieved his helmet and put it back on as he did. He needed to check on his wife, but he had one last thing to do before then. He got onto his coms and said on channels to both [member="Draco Vereen"] and [member="Olivia Dem'adas"] , " This is Alor Gray Raxis. I have dropships on planet and we are grabbing everything we can. We still have plenty of room right now, so do either of you two need some help getting off planet? I'd be happy to get you off this frozen poodoo pile if you need it. Could transport some of your spoils for you too if you like. Any other assistance you need I can offer as well, just name it." He ended his message there and kept going. He would issue his following orders once he had gotten a message back, but for now he needed to check on his wife. He swore he heard she had gotten shot when his head was threatening to end his existance earlier.

Current Spoils:
-AT-AW: 3
-PLX Rocket-launcher: 40
-Equipment of Carameer Infantry: 300

Extra Tags: [member="Omega"] [member="Isaac Knight"]
 
Above the skies of Castameer the Spirit had torn into Omega, and Omega now looked down on Castameer threatening to purge life from its surface. Firemane's troops had stopped dead in their tracks. They had been moving toward the Citadel slowly, burning and shooting all that they could muster. Major Lavali Sanjeet stopped in her tracks and looked above them all as the sky turned into a blood red. She looked at Lieutenant Tarriq and Sergeant Halifax both of them looked at her as well and all three of them nodded. Sanjeet ordered an infantry squad to escort Halifax. "Round up Quartermaster Ural and his troops, get the Fire Sisters out of there!"

"Y-Yes ma'am!" Halifax saluted as he and a squad of infantry soldiers rushed for the Firemane camp.

Major Sanjeet got on the comm line, "artillery! Roundup time! We're getting off this rock, now!"

Firemane dropships were now inbound for the ground forces, and Major Sanjeet could only hope that Sgt. Halifax would get there in time to collect the Fire Sisters. The walkers continued to fire on the Sith, as did the tanks. Holding them off until the ships arrived. Artillery had been the first to pack up, and Symara was standing guard shooting anything that wasn't Firemane or Mandalorian. "C'mon!" Symara shouted ushering their troops and tanks onto the various sized dropships. "RUN!" She shouts at the others as the ships take off, one by one.

Symara turned on her heels and rushed for the last transport, catching Sanjeet's hand with her own climbing up onto the lip of the transport. As they were taken up off the snow, she could see Halifax. Hitting the side window, "pop the machine guns, we need to give them cover!"

"I'll handle the machine gun, you just pick off anything that gets too close!" Sanjeet ordered as the machine gun folded out. "Come around, hold steady...."

The sounds of machine gun firing on Sith and the sound of Symara's sniper blasting downward could be heard, as they circled around helping Sgt. Halifax and a squad of infantry move through to the Citadel and to the small Firemane camp that looked to be in the middle of wrap up. "We gotta go!" Shouted a pilot, "our ride home is getting ready for departure!"

"What about the Fire Order?"

"Don't worry! They've got a ride!" The pilot shouted back, "c'mon!"

The machine gun was folded back in, and the Firemane Ground Teams were now bound for a nearby cruiser.
 
Clan Vereen War Conclave
Commander: [member="Draco Vereen"], Alor
Sub-Commander: Sklor, Beast Shaman
Sub-Commander: Jarl Volgrim
Allies: [member="Olivia Dem'adas"] | [member="Gray Raxis"] | [member="Stardust Raxis"] | [member="Symara Tarriq"]
MUSIC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtGNywkxw2U​


Unit Roster
Assault Kindred


Sky-Strike Kindred


Air Support Kindred


Air Cavalry Kindred


Air Cavalry Kindred


Jump Infantry Kindred


Jump Infantry Kindred


Mobile Infantry Kindred


Mobile Infantry Kindred



Summary of Actions
Try to Blow up the Citadel
Get the Force-Loving Crap out of there



Warriors moved through the Citadel quickly, some of them already rushing back to their gunship that sat waiting for them. Other groups continued planting explosives on foundations, power generators, and other important structures they thought would cause significant destruction to the Citadel. Some scavenged what they could or wanted while they moved through the Citadel.

"Volgrim, update?" Draco asked as he hefted a small door open for the other two to go through.

"Last I heard they were grabbing stragglers. Wounded went out on the gunships." The big man hefted his sword and ducked through the door, Draco could hear shouts from Sith sympathizers inside, cowering in fear. "They are dead anyway." The big man said, adjusting the clasps of his beard.

Sklor growled as he passed through the door and Draco dropped it behind them. "No, not until their heart stops. Meat?"

"No time." Draco's voice seemed far away, exhausted from too much fighting. Ten years was far too long. The big shaman grumbled and jogged off further into the command sector of the Citadel searching for computer banks. It was obvious the Shaman wanted to stay behind, but he moved on nonetheless. The trio jogged towards a corner and just before the Jarl rounded it Draco grabbed his shoulder, jerking him backwards. A short burst of blasterfire stuttered out from the room beyond them. "Sklor, meat."

The shaman grinned behind his mask and turned the corner with an angry roar, axe in hand, lightning crackling around his fingers. Draco slapped Volgrim's shoulder and waved him on, leaving the Beast Lord to his rage and feeding on what little resistance they had found within the structure. The others slipped into a room with stacks of data-banks and grimaced. There was far too much for a handful of men to download quickly, certainly too much to grab and run off with. "Well, the comm tower works. Set it to transmit everything it can to the main computer of the Devil's Eyes. Its BAC might be able to collect and analyze enough of it to matter."

The Jarl grumbled but plugged his gauntlet into the computer bank, tapping on his control panel as he began setting the computers to begin transmitting. Without having a dedicated slicer to analyze everything, there was little extremely sensitive information on it, but perhaps there would be maintenance records of a persist issue with a reactor, or fire control mechanism he could give to the people on the superweapon trying to disable it. "Once you have it lets get the hell off this rock."

The big bearded warrior mumbled to himself, and waved a hand at Draco, but nonetheless after a minute he yanked the splice out of the control panel and pointed a specific rack. "Grab that one. I'll get the one below it." Shukalar complied without needing to be told, he could assume the Jarl believed these were the more important databanks that would be worth taking and having a slicer take a solid look at just in case, and then they began running back through the citadel.

They found Sklor, covered in blood, visceral liquid, and organ matter, the sharpened teeth in his mouth dark red with fresh blood and his yellow eyes bloodshot. Draco whistled for the Shaman, and for a moment the Dark Side of the Force swirled around the shaman, gathering strength and courage, and then it seemed to soothe, as though the shaman in his bloodlust had not recognized them as allies at first. After the first few moments, the Shaman stumbled to his feet and followed the pair out, his hands dripping a trail of blood behind him as he jogged aimlessly following the Jarl and the Dragon.
 
"Sound trumpets! Let our bloody colours wave! And either victory, or else a grave."
Commanding Officer: Lieutenant Colonel Kyle Nasher
Perspective: Lieutenant Isaac Knight, Recon Marine
Allies: Mandalorian Forces

Unit Roster

1st Battalion 42nd Marines

Aurek Company
104 C Quality Infantry Marines
Infantry Kit
MM100 MM110 MM115
Movement: N/A
Attacking: No Target
3 C Quality MARV-1a and 2 C Quality MARV-1b
Movement: N/A
Attacking: N/A

Besh Company

98 C Quality Infantry Marines

Movement: N/A
Attacking: N/A

3 C Quality MARV-1a and 3 C Quality MARV-1b

Movement: N/A
Attacking: N/A


Cresh Company

110 C Quality Infantry Marines

Movement: N/A
Attacking: N/A

4 C Quality MARV-1a and 2 C Quality MARV-1b

Movement: N/A
Attacking: N/A






Western Wall, Voracion Citadel, Castameer

"Ain't that a son of a-"

"Lieutenant!" the booming Lieutenant Colonel's voice interrupted Isaac's train of thought, and he turned slightly to in his armor, sticky with blood, to nod at the older man, "What's our status?"

Over the lip of the fortified fortress walls the two marines stared out at the snowy field stained red with the blood of Commonwealth and One Sith alike. Bodies lay strewn across the field, though not nearly as many as Lieutenant Knight had expected when Nasher had ordered the Alexandrian assault. The recon marine didn't know if it was serendipity or just a karmic stroke of good luck after a day filled with nothing but disaster for their armed forces, the Commonwealth had made their charge on the heels of the apparent order given to evacuate the compound. A fortified assault against two to one odds had penetrated the fortress defenses in less than a half an hour, suffering minimal losses although incapable of inflicting any great number of their own as the One Sith walkers kept most of their infantry advance pinned down while their allies completed their evacuation.

"Bugging out soon, sir," he answered, peeling his attention away from the battlefield at last, "Still no contact with our ships in orbit, but we've managed to establish communications with Clan Raxis nearby, and Mandalorian dropships are inbound. We're wheels up in fifteen."

"Hopefully they have a better time of it in Castameer's atmosphere than our MPDs," Nasher grunted, a Cadi system cigar hanging half smoked in his mouth and slurring his words ever so slightly. A post-battle ritual, the Colonel's men had informed him, "You did good today, Knight. Kept yourself in the fight, held your own, and made it through. Helped some of my boys through, too. I'll have words with Admiral Nelson about it, your team would be proud."

My team... Isaac had been trying not to think of that. Over thirty men, many of them his closest friends, would never leave Castameer alive. This world would be their grave, never even having left the dropship nor fired a shot in anger or defense. At times like these, his parents would likely say prayers to the spirits of the old kings. The Lieutenant wasn't sure why such treasonous thoughts had even occurred to him in a moment like this, save that on a level he hadn't before he understood an aspect of the family he had hated almost his whole life for the first time. At least, the notion that there was something greater than this life, that his friends had not died for nothing but would live on in some way. Faith was not something the Lieutenant had in the traditional sense, although he admired it, respected it more than others. As an Alexandrian raised free of the shackles of the ruling class, the only faith he had was in the Commonwealth. It would have to be enough.

And from the way the 42nd Marines had performed against stormtroopers in modern tactical gear, that notion seemed even less foolish than ever before. Knight hoped the headcam built into his specops helmet was unbroken and still recording, because if it had survived the labcoats and techs back home were going to have a field day with the footage. The Morris Munitions slugthrower rifles had performed along predicted metrics for the most part, somewhat ineffective in certain situations where blaster fire would shine, but the most fascinating part had been the One Sith's surprised reaction at the powerful projectile rounds. Normally expecting their armor to be impervious to all but laser fire, the fifty caliber rounds from their MM110s and MM115s had punched holes clean through, and even their MM100s' 7.62x51mm ammunition had had devastating effect in burst fire mode at medium ranges. If it hadn't been for the shock of the strange rounds whizzing by all around them, the Sith likely would have inflicted even more losses, even in their haste to evacuate.

"Look there, to the horizon," Colonel Nasher said at last, causing Isaac to jump slightly. He had almost forgotten the other man was there.

The veteran marine pointed, and Knight followed the gesture to the north. He could just barely make out the silhouette of hulking Mandalorian vessels peel off from their formation and angle their descent towards the direction of the Commonwealth forces. Soon they would land and after establishing communications with the pilots the entire battalion would be scrambling over the walls of the One Sith defenses to evacuate the Citadel before the Mandalorian charges went off, but for now as the craft seemed to lazily drift in on the strong and frigid Castameeran wind currents, the Alexandrians were free to celebrate just a little while longer. The Mandalorians represented victory, as well as the promise of a long and peaceful trip back to the Cadi System. But mostly, victory.

"I see them."

Isaac Knight was going home.
 
The medics arrived to her as they started stripping her armor off and sat it on board the shuttle, they yelled out needing biofoam immediately as stardust tried and sit up each time trying to get back into the fight

It too a large God killer to hold her down while a relaxant was injected into her alomg side bacta, she relaxed as medics started patching her up...it was quite a large hole they made

A god killer found gray rushing over and led him to star, who had started asking where her husband was repeatedly, she couldn't move only look at that red sky above

[member="Gray Raxis"]
 
Clan Vereen War Conclave
Commander: [member="Draco Vereen"], Alor
Sub-Commander: Sklor, Beast Shaman
Sub-Commander: Jarl Volgrim
Allies: [member="Olivia Dem'adas"] | [member="Gray Raxis"] | [member="Stardust Raxis"] | [member="Symara Tarriq"]
MUSIC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtGNywkxw2U


Unit Roster
Assault Kindred


Sky-Strike Kindred


Air Support Kindred


Air Cavalry Kindred


Air Cavalry Kindred


Jump Infantry Kindred


Jump Infantry Kindred


Mobile Infantry Kindred


Mobile Infantry Kindred



Summary of Actions
Try to Blow up the Citadel
Get the Force-Loving Crap out of there



The trio ducked through corridors and busted open doorways, sprinting as fast as they could through the citadel. Shamans over the comlinks continued to offer panicked warnings as they left the planet behind, and those few that remained offered hurried calls to all. Draco could feel it too. The Force was waiting in anticipation, the fate of this world and all those upon it hinged on the actions of but a few heroes and villains. The energy of the planet seemed charged, and the sky had begun to appear like a blood red sea during a storm. It roiled as the energy built up and the charge began.

"Is everyone on the ship?"

"Your group and two others coming from the sub-basement. Charges planted as best we could manage, trying to get everything important we crossed." The answer wasn't what Draco wanted to hear but it was better than he expected.

"We are on our way. Sklor, cut a hole." The dark jedi shaman turned and smashed his bloody fist into a wall. The armored fortress had taken some vehicle fire and the Dark Jedi struck the wall with all of his pent up aggression and hatred, the Force channeled through his fist. It dented.

"Cut, I said cut." Draco shook his head at the shaman shaking his wrist. Draco flicked on his light-shields and began carving out a section of the wall near where the Shaman had struck the exterior wall, working to cut their way out of the Citadel rather than run through the labyrinth of tunnels to escape. Hefting pieces of molten and heated metal out of the way, the warlord used the shield to scoop out hunks of armor and reinforcing. Jarl Volgrim stood stoically behind them and shrugged. "Worst case, they will tell how it took a planet destroying weapon to kill us. Best case, we get to tell stories about how that couldn't even keep us down."'

The shaman laughed, as did Draco under his breath. The Jarl was right, but Draco had quite a bit to live for. He wasn't like some of his people, he glorified death, yes, but he didn't want it to come find him any sooner. Some of them seemed to desire such a story to be told about them when they were gone, and Draco could understand that, part of him had wanted that too long ago. Now, all he wanted was to grow old on Alderaan raising his children.

The red sky rolled and roiled, clouds shifting and pushing away from the firing path of the superweapon as waves of energy gathered around the weapon as it charged. It was a little past time to go for the group of Clan Vereen warriors that remained, and Draco could feel the energy gathering inside the weapon, the way the planet felt charged and static. He deactivated the lightshield on his arm and began pulling and pushing through the armored structure with all his might. "Alright, we got everyone. Just waiting on you."

"Can you read where we are?" Volgrim asked calmly through the comlink.

"Yeah."

"Come wait right above us on the outside for pick up."

Draco kept working, kept struggling to tear through the citadel walls, and finally his gauntlets tore through the rebar, permacrete, and durasteel plates. Growling, Sklor began aiding the Shukalar, digging out the permacrete and letting the warlord tear away the rebar reinforcing. They could hear the whine of repulsor engines from the Cobra gunship outside. Draco grumbled and pulled hard, his aching muscles straining to remove enough that he and his compatriots could squeeze through and escape.

Exhaustion was setting in on Draco, it had been a long fight and a long day. Finally, the small gap opened enough that Volgrims massive frame could squeeze through and Draco nudged him to go first. After him, Sklor emerged and jumped from the Citadel to the gunship. Draco turned around, glancing back down the halls one last time before crawling out into the open air. The blood red sky tinted his mask and his vision. With a last sigh, Draco jumped across the gap to the gunship as it began lifting away from the planet. The little detonator in his hands, he pressed the button, hoping to collapse the structure just in case others managed to stop the Omega from firing. It needed to be destroyed and washed away, its memory as lost as it could be.
 
The dropships moved to pick up the equipment that had been salvaged along with the Rancor Squad members who were currently loading them all up. They all moved quickly and efficiently as they went about their different jobs. One group had gotten lazy though with their job and instead of stripping the equipment off the Sith infantry's bodies had loaded up the corpses themselves. The walkers were all moved into position so they could be taken off planet by the dropships when they ships were ready for them. The members of Lightning Company had moved into the Sith base in their hunt for walkers there. They found the East Bastion completely destroyed and stripped already, but the South Bastion and West Bastion had not been ransacked yet of their walkers. The local forces had completely abandoned both the bastions as well as the walkers as well, so the Lightning Company members went about prepping the walkers they found for transport, as they would be the last to send off.

Gray had ordered a dropship to go pick up [member="Isaac Knight"] and the Commonwealth forces from their position as he moved to his wife [member="Stardust Raxis"] because they seemed to need the assist. He found his wife being treated, and immediately removed his helmet. He threw the metal thing to the side as he looked down at Star with nose dried around his mouth still. He was frowning as he studied her and attempted to use the force to read her signature. His efforts were met with immediate, intense pain but he managed to see that she was still alive and would be okay. He sighed a bit of relief at that and seemed to catch one of the medics attention.

" Alor Raxis, your face. We need to get you looked at right away." The man said as he began to stand to address his leader's own issues.

Gray waved the medic off as some more blood began to dribble down from his nose over his lips once again. He said, " I'm fine. Focus on my wife and our own injured first. I will deal with this on my own. Now report." He waited as the medic reluctantly followed the order and then began to inform him of the situation with his wife. She had been shot in the liver and it seems their had managed to stabilize her for now. They needed to get her off world and into a bacta tank though, which would be on their ships in orbit. He didn't need to hear any more than that before he got onto the com system and said over it, " All forces prepare to take off. We have been here long enough and its time to hit home. Grab what we have finished securing now and lets get off this rock." Confirmations quickly followed the message and everyone began to mobilize. Dropships began to move to grab walkers after the men had loaded up. Several ships went to the bastions and picked up the walkers from there along with the Lightning Company members then all of them began to fly into orbit. As they got up into the sky, the Citadel below suddenly exploded as whatever [member="Draco Vereen"] had been up to down there lead to the destruction of the Mandalorian forces' ultimate goal.

Gray looked down at the surface below, now a disorganize painting of mismatched colors and shapes that had once been uniform but now were shifted beyond recognition. It had been bloody down there for his clan. They had gone through hellfire and managed to make it out with survivors. He wasn't sure what he could have done better for them other than not dropping them off so close to the objective next time, but he knew the lives lost were on him. He would have to face that knowledge for the rest of his life. But for now he had other concerns more pressing on his mind. He shifted his gaze to his wife and moved to sit next to her as they got into orbit and to begin their preparations to head home.

Spoils:
-AT-AW: 6
-PLX Rocket Launcher: 40
-Equipment of Castameer Infantry: 300
-Corpses of Infantry: 5

Extra Tags: [member="Ajira Cardei"] [member="Olivia Dem'adas"]
 
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