Kor Vexen
Shores of Kashyyk | Location
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5CFRQAR3og
The battle raged on, the battlefield having turned the waters red with blood and the sand blackened and spotted with glass. It was all so...beautiful. The once lush forests and brilliant beaches of Kashyyyk were all slowly being reduced to cinders as the two forces clashed with one another in a battle of attrition. Where the Silver Jedi had made a bold move by throwing everything they have at the Sith forces, Vexen had yet to reveal his hand. Everything that had played out thus far was to be expected, and most of his assets had been deployed on the field with the addition of [member="Koda Fett"] having been hired by the Empire to assist in their battle against the wretched Silver Jedi along with The Golden Company. Reports were coming in as [member="Scipio Alta"] had made landfall and had met resistance. He keyed his comms as he responded to an incoming transmission, "
Proceed at your discretion Lieutenant. The beach will be held for as long as needed until all our forces are able to converge and wipe their front line out. Do not delay too long and move with caution. " As predicted, the Silver Jedi had sent a detachment of their forces to deal with his intrusion on their flank. The resounding march of Vexen's Fangs continued to echo throughout the battlefield as they had made it to the beach, forcing the defenders to either retreat from their entrenched positions or be fired upon by their own artillery. To many Wookies who had been told stories from their ancestors, this would be reminiscent of one such battle during the old Clone Wars, but their fighting spirit was not so easily deterred.
As the Wookie vanguard forces fired upon Vexen's advancing troops, they would find the effective range of a standard Wookie bowcaster ineffective given the range from which they were firing from as they were easily negated by the thick durasteel towershields wielded by the advancing droids, it would only be until they were close enough would they even have a remote chance of causing a droid to stagger from the force. Any attempts to take out Vexen's Fang sniper force would be made excruciatingly difficult to all but the best marksmen the enemy had to offer as the only exposed bits that were to be shot at were the barrels and scopes that protruded from behind the safety of the Vanguard Fangs that held shields. Their superior accuracy to biological snipers also made them that much more dangerous to those that attempted to fire at them so brazenly. Vexen would look to the skies as their bombers came in for an attack run, though the notion that they would be able to do so freely whilst being unopposed was off the table. The skies above
were contested as the escort TIE fighters that flew in with the leading group of transports were engaged to contest air superiority. Fighters would engage them though it was inevitable that bombs would be dropped regardless. Scores of Fang wardroids would immediately vaporize as the bombs impacted, creating additional gaps in the leading formations of droids, though Vexen cared little for their numbers as they had served their purpose in being able to push the beachhead while minimizing his own casualties from infantry. A warbled and encrypted transmission came in from the Special Forces unit deployed near [member="Tekkio"], "
Excellent work Captain, make use of the enemy's disarray. They will play right into our hands. "
Vexen would watch as over a hundred proton rockets flew at his forces position, calmly watching as they streaked across from their rear positions at a rate that far outpaced that of their mortars. Timing was crucial at this moment for his next maneuver. He watched as he motioned with his hand, a signal for his walkers and the swarms of drones deployed from them to intercept the incoming wave of proton rockets. Once more the air was filled with waves of laser fire that connected with the proton rockets and detonated the majority of them before they found their marks. Unless the proton rocket's explosive payload was located away from the tip of the warhead, they would be neutralized by the lasers on contact and be harmless. But as expected, the sheer number of them was something his forces were not able to handle as many got through and hit targets. Some deflector shields on the walkers would flare and fail as they were impacted by rockets, taking out some of their legs as well as they found themselves unable to move. Scores of droids were taken out alongside the mobility of his initial walkers, as well as his own Legion troops. Vexen once more lifted his arm up as he made a forward slicing motion before keying his comms as the whistling sound of mortars were rapidly approaching. "
Activate shields. "
Just outside the deployed ramps of the transports that had landed where no action was being taken against them, a series of beams shot up from generators that had been pushed out. Waves of energy sprung into the air as they rapidly created a large dome-like shield as the deflector shields were powered up, creating an area of protection that surrounded Vexen's position as well as Legion soldiers that had been spread out across the beach. The thermobaric mortar shells would impact against the shield as their waves of flame and destruction had formed and wrapped around the edges of the shield, a massive wall of fire blotting out the sky from those who looked up. Those outside the edges of the shields, though they were mostly droids would be incinerated in a near instant as they were reduced to slag. Vexen would watch unfazed by the carnage that had unfolded, once more having revealed another card from his hand, having made the right choice to bring defensive measures when storming the shores of the Silver Jedi's capital. And now their Hailfire tanks whose proton rockets posed a plausible threat to his shields were all but depleted of their munitions due to the enemy commander having launched everything she had at him.
A wave of several transports inbound would peel away from the expected flightpath as they made for the beach far behind Vexen's established landing zone whilst the remaining few were arriving to drop off additional reinforcements. His forces would begin to regroup and ready themselves for another push while the shields were up, whatever units that survived the incoming hellfire that had been stopped earlier retreating into the safety of the shield as they passed through the barrier. Vexen would turn to his second in command as he issued his orders, "
Have a squad of Fangs assigned to each of the deflector shield generators for protection. While we still have them active, the Jedi will not be able to penetrate our defenses. Ready the Legion to storm their lines. The mercenaries have engaged the enemy and our forces are beginning to move into pla- " His words were interrupted by the abrupt sound of artillery fire impacting against his shields as he turned to see where they were coming from. Had those rounds been fired earlier before the shields came up, they might have been cause for alarm as his attention was focused on the enemy commander who had plodded all their firepower in front of him. He had reason to believe that someone else was responsible as this artillery fire came from an area where he had no battle data on, nor the lines of sight to engage with the
Harbinger artillery walkers he was beginning to deploy far in the back out of the reach of anything currently on the field. This may prove to be a problem for him, though he was confident in the Silver Jedi's incompetence, letting his arrogance show briefly with his dismissal.
The female standing next to him would nod as orders were being directed to the deploying artillery walkers that were on the beach across the water from Vexen's rear, being given the locations of all credible threats such as mortar and hailfire positions. Their primary directive was to annihilate anything that was within direct line of sight from their position since their heavy rail cannons had the capacity to tear through anything they came into contact with like paper. The magnetized ablative rounds would work their way through whatever shields that the Silver Jedi might throw at them, and either force them to retreat to the safety of the jungle where it would be harder to target from or be sitting ducks to the rail cannons. They had yet to find proper grounding to deploy as the sand was too soft for them to dig into, so they slowly lumbered off to the edge of the treeline to find solid dirt to dig into. Another warbled transmission would come through as it appeared their aerial reinforcements were en route to their positions. Vexen would activate his comms as he opened a channel to the squadron leader, "
Send Admiral Denko my regards. Dispatch half your squadron to assist with friendly units in the air and the other half to assist with the squadron being sent to assist Lieutenant Scipio's position. " The battle on the beach had been stagnated for the time being as Vexen's main force had arrived and prepared for a full fledged assault against the Silver Jedi, with his initial vanguard forces pushing ahead outside of the shield to engage the enemy infantry and give them little time to breathe.
Allies | The Sith Empire | [member="Zahori Denko"]
Enemies | [member="Jessica Med-Beq"] | [member="Valkren Calderon"] [member="Kei Amadis"]
