Clone Wars: Tour of Duty

[UlicHorn]

"That's good news, from what I saw in orbit it looked like less. All right, take your forces and try to contact the troops. Hopefully we can save some of this mission. Any news on where most of the Sepratist encampments are here? Without air servallance we can't be to hasty about out movements and we can risk raising the gunships."

[Stellar_Magic]

OOC: You missed a step Trej, oh well thats easily remeeded. Now someone asked how many troops I've got I posted it earlier but here it is again: Four companies of Trade Federation Battle Droids, three companies of Seperatist Super Battle Droids, and one company of Trade Federation Droidekas

 

IC:The Confederate Dreadnaught slowly slid into position fifteen kilometers over the Republic forces. Slowly it turned, rotating in space to have its port side facing toward the planet's surface.

 

On the Bridge Krummel tapped at the side of his command chair, "Signal Nailu."

 

"Channel Open," One of the Droids said blandly.

 

"Nailu, our sensors show a number of enemy troops to the canyon, south of you, I'm giving you command of two companies of Battle Droids, see if you can spring an ambush on the enemy once they land."

 

"I haven't even landed yet Krummel!" The Dark sider hissed from the comm, "Alright now I'm on the ground."

 

"Good luck Nailu, we'll shower the Republic with gifts while the droids fly down, Krummel out." As the channel closed he nodded to the droid at the weapons control, "You may begin firing."

 

With another brilliant flash of red light a deadly barrage of turbolaser blasts lanced down toward the Republic formations. Wave after wave showered the Republic troops, as they scurried into the cover of the cannon. In those few seconds their forces had been cut in half once more.

 

OOC: Doesn't orbital bombardment rock!

[kaja]

IC: (Comet)

 

"Umm, Sir, It's About to be Less, Allot less!" Comet said, "What?" A-23 Asked, Comet Responded with a shaking hand and pointed up, Strait at the Separatist ship, that had just blown there Acclimator out of space. And then hell was everywhere, A massive Red Beam Hit the ground, Devastating there troops, turning sand to glass, Clones to nothing, "Sith, Sith, Sith!" Comet Cursed, "I Hate them!" he said just in time for another laser to hit the ground, More Clones were Vaporized, "All Troopers head for the caves" he heard A-23 Yell. Another Laser hit the ground nearby and debries flew everywhere, A large chunk hit Comet and three clones, he was on the ground, Everything was spinning, Darkening, If he didn't get to the caves he would die, but he couldn't move, he couldn't feel his legs, He had to get up, just had to, But he didn't, he couldn't. Walk, no, crawl, no, die, yes. He managed to roll onto his back, to see another laser fly out of his vision. "Help?" He thought. "Uhh, Oww," he jammed his hand into the sand ahead of him, and pulled, It didn't work, He didn't go anywhere. his hand just slid though the sand, "It was, Fun, wh, while it lasssted, ow" He was going to die, and he knew it, he wasn't going anywhere. He then saw the clone with the crushed foot, grabbing his arm, the clone was pulling him, He tried to tell the clone to run for the caves before it was to late, but he couldn't talk, the pain hurt too much. The clone made it the the caves, with Comet. he was alive, he'd have to thank him, later, when he could talk. He saw, Master Si'dant, A-23, and a Clones, Half of them had made it, Too bad Half probably wasn't enough to finish the mission. Oh well, he was Alive, for now...

[Krytos]

OOC: Sorry for the delay in posting, I've been trying to catch up with Uni homework and now, to top it all off, I've a got a really bad cold and I just got back from work

 

@SM: No fair, using orbitital bombardments against us poor little clones

 

IC (1138): Debris filled the air as giant energy bolts ripped apart the canyon floor where he and some of the other survivers had taken refuge. Rock, dirt and clones were tossed a side like little rag dolls as each turbolaser hit the ground.

Out of the corner of 1138's eye he saw two clones trapped under the wing of a destroyer gunship vapourise from the onslaught. Those who could were jumping to their feet and running for cover, taking what ever or who ever they could.

Several quick thinking pilots got their gunships online and out of the canyon before the rain of fire engulfed them all, though even some of the equick thinkers couldn't move the ships fast enough to escape the carnage.

 

"Everyone, into the caves - the bombardment wont be able to reach us there," cried out the voice of an unknown clone. It was a pointless gesture, as all the clones still alive had already made it into the caves.

 

Stumbling into the cave, 1138 spun to look out at the canyon as the bombardment stoped. The cave and its surroundings grew deathly quiet as no-one dared speak, only waited to see if the firing would start again. Seconds passed, then a minute without the Seperatists warship firing, many clones, including 1138, moved to the mouth of the cave to look for survivers. Mere seconds later, an eary sound filled 1138's ears.

 

Turning to the rest inside the cave, 1138 began to shout to his comrades. "Incoming droids!"

[UlicHorn]

A-23 snapped back into command. "All clones form into their squadrons if you no longer have a squad merge with another. Try to push some of the those rocks in towards the front of the cave. If we can block them we may have a chance. Master Jedi, any way you could push some of those boulders or the debris towards the mouth of the cave? The rest of you, move towards the back of the cave, with some luck this one might connect to somewhere else." Master Si'Dant moved what she could but the mouth was still fairly open as the clones moved back awaiting fire from the droids.

[Krytos]

IC: (1138)

 

The orders rang out form A-23, and 1138 jumped into action. Holstering his DC-15 blaster he ran over to a group of clone soldiers pushing a large bolder into place.

 

It didn't take too long for the cave's entrance to be blocked by the clone force. As soon as their first task was done, the entire clone force began to follow A-23's next order to fall back further into the caves.

 

1138 quickly located what remained of his squad and rejoined their ranks as the entire clone force slowly began to fall back into the cave. The clones moved quickly and efficiently, with half the squads taking firing positions whilst the other half fall further back into the cave. The positions then quickly switched, with those falling further back taking up their own defendable positions until the rest of the Clone units joined them.

 

It didn't take long for the small clone force to get deep within the cave before the droid units began working at removing the barrier they had set up.

 

IC: (3099)

From the mouth of the cave, 3099 heard the familur sound of rocks falling onto the ground. His training quickly set in as 3099 dropped to one knee as swung around with his blaster rifle ready to fire on any Seperatist forces.

Fortunately, it seemed like the barrier was holding - though it would only hold for so long.

Quickly locating A-23, 3099 ran over to him.

"Sir, the droids are at the barrier already. It wont take them long to bring it down with explosives sir. What are your orders?"

[UlicHorn]

"We hold it for as long as possible. If they break through we open fire. We have to buy enough time for the others to move back. So that's what we do too. As soon as the other squads are farther back then we drop back too. That is all, soldier." He said as he moved to check on the others and doubled his efforts.

[Krytos]

OOC: Trej . . . Stellar . . . it's your move guys

[UlicHorn]

OOC: ..... wow, dead in here already. What happened to the flow of posts!?

[UlicHorn]

OOC: ..... wow, dead in here already. What happened to the flow of posts!?

[Stellar_Magic]

OOC: Sorry guys, been busy, and apparently Trej has forgotten about this RPG. (Actually all the RPGs are dead right now, Rapora Wars is waiting for BS to return.)

 

IC:

 

"The enemy have sealed themselves in a network of caves," The mechanical voice of a Trade Federation Battle Droid exhoed through the speakers.

 

Krummel drummed his fingers impatiently, Nailu had not been responding to his communications and now to have the enemy trapped in the caves was an opportunity too good to miss, "Alright pull back twohundred meters we'll send a squadron of Scarabs down to blow apart that wall of rubble, you will then proceed to move in and engage the enemy at your discretion.

 

The squadron of Scarab fighters screamed down the canyon toward the cavern, they opened fire sending a shower of laser blasts into the rubble blasting apart the rock and opening holes through which battle droids could easily climb through. In the process they shattered rubble inside the cave sending pieces of limestone at extremely high speeds ricocheting down the cave killing dozens of clones. With one final run the droid fighters had blown open a whole large enough to fly down and one of the craft came to a hover in the opening and opened fire into the darkness of the cave.

[UlicHorn]

OOC: Sorry guys this be a long one.

 

"Down!" A-23 shouted as the rocks began flying towards them. "Sir!" A clone shouted. "Our forward lines have been cut in half."

"Fall back then, we've no other choice!" A-23 responded. They rest of the surviving clones started running back into the network of caves. A-23 opened his scrambled comm channel. "This is Arc Commander A-23 to rear forces, what are we dealing with back there?" The sounds of blaster fire could be heard in the background, "We've got a tiny problem up here, sir."

 

The remaining forces that had moved back into the caverns had run into problems, a group of Tuskin Raiders to be exact. The battle was brief but intense and the clones had been ambushed, luckily Master Si'dant had been present and had managed to cut the battle short. For the time being the clones were safe and able to rest.

 

It wasn't long before 23 and the others showed up with a few wounded at the Tuskin camp, from the looks off it and the feel of the march, they were fairly deep underground and there were two opening to the large cave. One leading to the first cave in the canyon and the other to a smaller cave that lead to the middle of the dune sea. As long as the enemy only knew about the first they'd be fine...A-23 knew they couldn't take that chance. After setting up a place to rest the wounded the rest of the troops repaired armor and weapons while setting up a small scout group on both sides of the entrance tunnels.

 

A-23 attempted again to hail any republic forces nearby but none could be raised and they didn't have anything that could leave the planet. A-23 ordered all other comm units to be switched off so they wouldn't be picked up over an enemy frequnecy, they'd have to wait. A combat plan was organized using the makeshift buildings the tuskins had set up and the ridges in the caves. With what they had they could last a little while but the forward tunnel needed to be blocked as well.

[kaja]

IC: (Comet)

 

Comet finaly managed to get up, "Oww," he looked down his legs were in bad shape, "Sith spit, That will take hours even in a trance!" He then looked aroud, "What the? Tuskin? was I dragged off by raiders or somthing?" he then saw a clone, "Well at least now I can concentrate," He then proceeded to levitate over, He always was good at Moveing himself.

 

"Sir," he asked A-23, "What's are position?" A-23 Proceeded to tell Comet about what happend while he was out. "I see, Well... Umm... I-" He was cut off by the sound of Droids comming, "Sith, how did they find us so fast?", "Prepare to engage Enemy forces!" A-23 shouted, Blue light flashed out at the Federation battle droids, Red light lashed back. They were out numbered, Comet thought fast, He quickley pulled a Sphere from his pack and yelled, "Grenade!" it was of his own design, he made the plan once, he threw it a a droid, it stuck, He then stop Levitating and droped to the floor, behind cover, *CRACK*, Silance for a moment then *BOOOOOOOOOM* a massive expolsion, only three droids remaind, He used the force, Looked for the droids, found them and... All the bolts flew from the droids, and they fell to the floor, in pieces. "Ha, I always wanted to do that!" He said triumphantly. One of the clones quickly asked, "Sir, what kind of grenade was that?", "It's of my own design, I thought of it on one mission, after you activate it, then you throw it, like all grenades, and it activates a magnet, Sticks to droids," He poked his head over their cover, and said, "Eat that lossers, Ha." he brough his head down, "I have, Let's see, Seven more, Want one? Hey 23, Arc troopers are good with explosives, Here have one."

[Trejiuvanat]

OOC: I haven't forgotten, sometimes scrolling down to the bottom of the forums is too much of an effort for an already troubled mind.

 

IC: Nailu frowned. There was a Jedi in the cave. Two actually, he corrected himself, but one of them is only a braid. Their control of the Force so meek, so pathetic. That, had forced a choice in him, to order the droids away. Droids could only handle clones, against Jedi there were as frail as a flower against a Dreadnaught. So his droids were now entering the caves, aided by the opportune opening that Krummel had facilitated.

 

All of them coming where the Clones would fight them, leaving plenty of space for a dark warrior to open himself a path into the center of the improvised Clone camp and seek out the Jedi. And kill it.

[Krytos]

IC (3099): The fireball engulfed the Seperatist droids that had followed them into the cavern, leaving only a few left standing. Those were quickly dealt with by the remaining Clone troopers, who had been cut apart by an enemy straffing run.

"Use this time Clones, reload your weapons and prepare any equipment you've got, " A-23 called out. This meant that they'd be sticking with the fight until a safe passage out of the caves was found.

3099 turned to his squad who had become disorganised, "Squad, fall in. Use the rock shelf for cover, and set up our heavy repeater in the small ditch over there."

As 3099 had finished relaying his orders, he moved into position holstering his side arm for a dead clones blaster rifle. A-23 had been ordering the rest of the clones into a defensive position, with the clones arrayed out in a semi-circle to concentrate fire on the cave opening. The bulk of the clone forces were on the flanks, while the Jedi and A-23 himself were in the middle. The clones weren't positioned well enough to stop the Droids from entering, A-23 seemed to have a better plan to let the enemy force into the cave were they would be hit by overlapping fire. Hopefully this would keep the droids pinned down, while ripping apart their ranks.

 

IC (1138)

Barely 30 seconds after 1138 had positioned himself to support the heavy repeater rifle the droids began to file into the cave.

As they crept into the squads field of fire, 3099 gave his command.

"Suppression fire!"

With the order, blaster bolts flew across the cave from their flank. 1138 mentally noted that the Seperatist commander had sent normal battledroids in instead of their superiour Super Battledroids, it's definetly not a droid incharge then.

The reign of fire stopped the droids in the march, forcing them to find cover as they entered the cave.

The droids began to allign themselves againt 1138's squad, slowly advancing trying to get in a position to fire.

A distant echoed command rung out from the otherside of the cavern as the other half of the Clone forces opened fire. The usually dark cave was now filled with a brilliant blue haze, though the second trap hadn't fooled the droids. As quickly as the droids had entered the cave, they now found cover from both sides of the firing line.

The clones now found themselves being pinned by the supression fire of the droid army that was slowly advancing on their position. Undermanned, the only advantage the clones had in the cave was the defensive position. The few squads left were now heavily engaged against their droid counter-parts.

Behind his helmet, 1138 gritted his teeth heavily. Sweat beaded down his face as he continued to poor down fire at the enemy. The usually combersum droids were using the terrain surprisingly well against the clones, too well. What was controlling these droids?

Before 1138 could ponder his thought, the droids shifted their strategy again. Instead of their continued advance, the dug in and pinned the Clone forces - except the few units that were with A-23.

What now?

[Stellar_Magic]

The what next was something far more deadly then Trade Federation Battle Droids. Slowly cumbersomely the seed shaped silhoutte of a Scarab fighter slipped into the cave. Even with its sides extended into combat position the Scarab was large enough to slip into the cave, but the droid brain controlling it wasn't taking any risks. The craft slowed to a stop over the entrenched battle droids and opened up into combat mode. Immediately it spun to the clonetroopers huddled on the rocky ledges and opened fire with its quad laser cannons.

[kaja]

IC: (Comet)

 

Comet, and the Clones heard the boom of the Scarab's lasers. "What the, A Scarab?" Comet was also unusually good a remembering sounds. "Grrr, We better go help those Clones, If there are any left!" With that Comet began to Levitate down the cave, He lowerd himself to touch the dirt, "Ow, Oo, Sss, aaa, Ow, uhh. There." he was standing "Ow-Ow-Ow-Ow-Ow" As he ran down the tunnel. Now the booming was so loud he could barly hear himself say, "Ow." He poked his head around the corner, "How the Sith did it get in here?" He reached into his pack a pulled out the weird looking blaster, "No, My legs still hut too much... Hmmn, Aaaaa, Sticky Grenade." He quickly grabbed it, Peered around the corner, "Grenade!" He screamed he launched it with the force, It shot out, *Psssstssssssssssss*, Then *BOOOOOOOOOM* "HA, Eat that!" he looked around the corner, "What the? Sith! it's still there!" But the grenade had done alot of damage, three of the laser cannons on it were broken, also most of the droids were also Destroyed in the combat, "Clones, Retreat!" he yelled at them.

 

IC: (Turahk) (Somewhere in Hyperspace)

 

The Loud Roar of the engines were quite soothing to Turahk, In fact he even made modifactions to his ship to make it louder, He awoke, sweating, He looked around, to make sure "He" wasn't there. He had been traveling for what seemed like years from Selonia. All the way too Tatooine. A queit Beep sounded in the cockpit, From the other side of the ship, and over the loud Roar of the engines, He still heard it, "T-12 Prepare to drop out of Hyperspace!'" he ran into the cockpit, Got in the Pilot's chair and Straped in. The ship started Violently Shaking as the Blue Swirl turned into white lines, the Brown-Tan planet of Tatooine got bigger. the lines turned to dots. This was better than it usually was, "I've got to get that fixed... What the? T-12 what are you getting on that?", In a High pitched voice T-12 Responded, "Master, Reading indicate a Separatist Dreadnought, With Sevral Droid starfighter complements..." Turahk pale face turned white, then Red, "Blast! There going to get him first, AAAAAHHHHHHH, Oh wait no, they probably won't. T-12 Any Republic ships in the area?" T-12 looked at the sensor panel, "Scaning...... Negative...... No republic ships in the area.... Only Small debris, Droid starfighter remains, and the Separatist Drednought........ Sir, We're reciveing a transmission from the dreadnought." Turahk's face turned more red, "Blast, they shot down his ship AAAHHHHH, Oh wait no, He probably Suvived, "Master, Reminder, Transmission from the Separatist Drednougt." Turahk's face turned green, Patch it though..."

 

OOC: I'll let SM or Trej decide what he's going to say...

[Krytos]

IC: (1138)

 

The droids brought forth another onsaulght against the clone lines, the Scarab fighter's high powered lasers easily blasted through both rubble and Clone Trooper. There defence had failed, even with a lucky shot by the Jedi bratt, the Scarab fighter was still a functional war machine. The call for retreat was sounding all throughout the clone ranks, and slowly they all began too fall back further into the cave.

 

IC: (3099)

3099 hunched over the difigured body of one of his troops. The clone trooepr had been hit in the head by the Scarab fighter as the droid's weapons had come online. There had been no chance of the clone survivng such a powerful blast. Though there was no time to mourn, others were laying dead on the battlefield, and 3099 himself had been injured by shrapnel.

"Retreat!" 3099 repeated the order to those near by. Clutching his injured arm, 3099 began to fall back further into the cave. As he was running back he saw that A-23 and the Jedi master still holding their ground.

[UlicHorn]

OOC: Sorry for the late post, been away for a bit.

 

A-23 pulled the rest of the survivors into the make shift camp and set up a secondary defensive web. A Demo crew had come to the front ready to blow the entrace to the cave, if they had to seal it, they would.

[kaja]

OOC: Well if no one is going to post anything, I will...

 

IC: (Comet)

 

"Time to finish you!" Comet said, pulling the odd blaster out of his pack. Comet jumped up, twisting he legs, He hit the roof of the cave, upsidedown. He stuck like a Spider. "Hmmn... Oh yeah." He droped down on the Scarab Fighter, barely fitting. "Boo!" he said looking into the Droid's visual recepters, "Eat-" he said as his hand turned blue, and started to smoke. his hand lit on fire, blue fire."-FORCE!!" He jamed his hand into the droid's visual recepters. Electricity raced up his arms, "I'll just be taking that!" he said pulling on the Droid's 'Control Box'. He pulled his arm out, electricity arced arcross his body. "Lo-" He said as he jumped off, "ser.". In mid-air he used the blaster to shoot a battle droid, taking it's head clean off. "Jedi Braid, THAT!" he yelled, He looked over at the last droid, "Hmmn," He pulled the blaster from it's hand, "Gimme that... I could use you hmmn, Ah." He walked up to the droid, pulling it's head off, he stuffed it in his pack and ran off back to the Clones.

[Stellar_Magic]

Krummel smiled as Turahk's holographic image snapped into existance before him, "You're a little late for the party..."

 

Turahk scoffed, "I could have your head if you..."

 

"They're alive, and cornered. You'll get your chance."

[kaja]

IC: (Turahk)

 

"Yes," He said, "Yes! Remember, I only want the child, do what ever you want with the adult. Would you please give me their general location?"

 

IC: (Comet)

 

"Hmmn, Let's see, now... ow, Ow, OW, Grr... Ah, finaly!" Said Comet as he worked away on the Battle Droid's head. "There, it works." Comet had managed in the last five minutes to hotwire the droid head, as a portable vidio reccorder. "Hmmn, If I- Wait, what's that noise? It, no, SITH!" He ran over to A-23, "You hear that?" he asked A-23, "Commander? I Don't h- DROIDEKAS!"

 

IC: (Turahk)

 

As Turahk was landing he looked out the window to see a bunch of Droidekas entering the tunnel, Alot of Droidekas! Now was the time to strike. To gather that boy, that child. "I can beat him! YES, Wait, no... Not like last time...

 

IC: (Comet)

 

As they waited for the oncomming storm of Droidekas, Comet gasped, Steped backwards, "That feeling, I know that feeling, NO, IT CAN'T BE! That Sith Spawn is back!" Comet then started cursing under his breath, *Klack dada Klack Klack* the Droidekas were here!

 

IC: (Turahk)

 

He walked down the tunnel, to finaly get that little brat!

[Krytos]

IC: (1138)

 

The retreat further into the cave was stopped by dreaded sound of Droidekas grew louder.

The clones quickly found defendable positions in a vein attempt to hold off against the Destryoer Droids. Though with their numbers thinned so much, and at such a disadvantage 1138 doubted they could keep the fight going for long.

From behind his cover, 1138 peered towards the entrance of the cave and where the droid army was. The circular battledroids were easy to see form the clouds of dust htey were kicking up as the moved along, though further back behind the droidekas and eary black figure began to move towards the clone forces.

What is that?

[kaja]

IC: (Turahk)

 

Turahk looked around, "Hmmn, That's it? No clone army? No explosives? HA! Kill Them." he said the last part quickly. The Droidekas deployed. "Comet, come out, and your capture quick painless... Comet? Fine I'll just have to-" "Boo!" "AH, what the?" Turahk turned around, "Looking for me?" Comet asked, then raised both his blasters. "Ha," Turahk said as he pulled out a lightsaber, "Comet, Comet, Comet, You really are stupid, Blas-" *SNAP* the from of the blaster changed, the barrel moved so it was aligned with the handle. Then Turahk heard the Snap-Hiss sound of a lightsaber, "What in Bloody Banthas? WHAT? You're, You're blasters are, are-" "That's right!" Turahk instantly activated his lightsaber.

[Krytos]

IC: (3099)

Diving behind a loose bolder, 3099 was norrowly missed by a Droideka's assault.

Pushing his back againt the bolder, 3099 quickly reloaded his DC-15. Pivoting on the heel of his left foot, he then swung out from behind the bolder and let loose a salvo of blaster bolts at the droidekas. As 3099 predicted, the droideka's shields absorbed the blasts easliy.

Though 3099 was only using that as a distraction to see what the enemy was doing.

The droids had fallen back after taking heavy loses, and pushed the droidekas to the front line. They had arrayed themselves in a disorganised fasion, utilising only their heavy firepower and armour against the clones.

They're only a distraction, keeping us pinned down. Why?

And then it became obvious. Behind the line of Destroyer droids, a dark figure stood with lightsaber in hand poised to attack Comet.