Strike of Fire (open)

[Elifain]

Roland was surprised at the level of static in his com gear, as he heard a faint voice of mandalore asking for a situation update.
His repsonse, he figured, would be about the same. A faint one.
Mandalore. I am leading a strike force into the bunker below the barracks out here. My soldiers are retreating to the city, to take up defensive positions. I have 6 of my own here, and 2 CAS covering our retreat, and guarding the Besuliiks. He looked around for a moment, before saying, Oya, Mando'ade! out loud, and over the com to mandalore. A moment later, before a response could be heard, the com's shut down, as they decended into the bunker.
The 6 mandalorians to his back edged to the sides of the turbo'lift doors, as Roland stood in the center of the door, and awaited its opening.
As soon as it did, He found himself stairing at one very confused looking gaurd, a satchel charge in hand, and to his sides, facing the same way Roland was, there was 2 more guards, apparently guarding the door.
The satchel wielding guard was quickly handled with a punch to the face, shattering his nose, killing him instantly, before he stepped back, the two mandalorians on the inside of the door came across the corners, and slit the throats of the guards.
The rest of the hallway was quiet, the majority of the soldiers not having probably been scattered throughout the complex
It would be a good hunt...

[Zilfer]

"You two have names?" asked Bermfad to the two people who would be providing his backup for this almost suicidal charge into the enemy underground. He had confirmed that Roland was well on his way. The two smirked in their helmets.

"He's Coin, and I'm Sword. You needn't worry about us Mandalore." said the one to his left in royal blue armor. With a ding the bottom of the turbolift it opened and a squad was there to greet them. Both groups looked at each other for a moment and then Bermfad broke the silence.

"Hey uh... we were told the bathroom was down here... You happen to know where it is?" asked Bermfad right before his pistols left his holster picking off four people with shots to the chest. There wasn't much dodging room in the Turbolift but the Mandalorian armor kept those inside safe as they mowed down the squad outside. Soon the squad was down and they entered in the underground pathways that were cut low. Red lights were blaring in all directions as they proceeded forward. "Well then, I guess we'll move onto the shower room eh?"

[Sir Lord Ash]

Oi, Sithie. If you wanna meet up with Mandalore, do so on our planet of the same name. If you really wanna prove yourself to us, do so in combat against the Imperials, and stay out of my way, unless you wanna get vaped.

It wasn't necessarily a threat, more like a warning. Unless they were a civilian or Mandalorian, anyone was fair game if they crossed his line of fire. Ash force-jumped into his CAS, checked his radar, spun quickly, and fired the CAS's massive chest cannon: hitting an Imperial tank, destroying it. A second appeared right behind it, rolling past the destroyed first. It didn't get far before Ash lifted it with the force, and violently ripped it apart, and sent the pieces to the Imperial infantry that were stunned at the force display.

Overhead, half a squadron of TIE fighters ion engines broke through the roar of battle. Instantly, Ash hooked up into the Mandalorian battlenet to issue orders.

I need Aay'han and a squadron of Star-viper fighters down to the city now. We have enemy air support incoming, with the possibility of more imps incoming. Dropships prepare for a hot pickup of all forces on my, Mandalore, or Roland's command. Venator is to stay 3 clicks above the surface, firing weapons only outside the city to finish off any heavy forces. Fighters to take care of enemy fighter groups and strife targets outside the city or easily picked off, until ordered otherwise.

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In the skies, an arrow-shaped ship slowly turned to decent into the planet's atmosphere. Ash turned the CAS towards the incoming TIE's, and fired the blasters around the body of the CAS. When they were close enough, Ash let loose 3 Vulcan missiles, hoping that their explosion and the shrapnel of some of the TIE's would be enough to take them down.

Two of the TIE's were taken out, one sustaining heavy damage, and two lightly damaged. The Star-viper starfighters swooped in to rip apart the surviving TIE's. On sensors, a new squadron, these fighters profiles showed TIE interceptors. Range: about five minutes out at full burn, Seven at cruising speed.

Aay'han, turn to heading 32, 78, 43 and engage fighter squadron on intercept course. Continue on heading for 3 kilometers. Send out a Dragoon on recon mission to see if there is an Imperial base in that area, take it out.[/i]

With clear skies, bases being assaulted, and forces rapidly being taken down, Ash set off to wipe the Imperials out of the city.[/center]

[Allen]

"Yes I understand i shall help fight the imperials it will be a glorious battle ill send in some back up to help with the clean up of the imperials." Allen lowered his arms and pushed a button on his sleeve and activated his radio. He raised his arm to his mouth and said " send in the taung close to alderaans sector." he waited and heard a response "yes sir right away." Allen then force jumped off the building and began running through the streets and alley ways until he came upon a heavily guarded building crawling with mandalorians. he thought to himself 'hmmm uinteresting why would they guard a building with som many people what could be in there.' then ithit him mandalore could possibly be in there or it could be some weapon they were trying to steal from the empire.

[Elifain]

After a few quick hand signs, Roland had each of the explosive experts with their armed guards moving through out the primary room, while he and 2 extra soldiers moved slowly down the hallway. They hadn't gone 20 feet before the alarm started going.
And now the fun begins! He shouted, as he kicked in one of the doors on the hallway, the other two moving and doing similar to two other rooms.
Rolands door opened into a small room, apparently a bunk room, with a handful of soldiers sitting around an old fold-up table. Having thought that none would get this far, the soldiers had started playing cards. The alarm had set them into motion, but only one or two had made it to their rifles fast enough for Rolands entree. He quickly snapped his BTC-130 slug thrower up to aim, and opened fire, the rifles three round burst clips coughing rounds through the room. One of the imps took 3 rounds to the square of the back, as Roland rolled his aim across the room, a second, took 1 to the arm, and two to the mid chest, as the gun moved. By that time, two had made their rifles, and the third had taken aim at Roland, blaster rounds seeming to splash across his armor, as he fixed his aim on the assailant, and pulled the trigger. The three round burst tearing through the mans armor as if it was nothing before the aim was rolled again towards the remaining two in the room. One turned in time to take 3 rounds to the face, the other trying to drop to the ground, took them up the spine.
He shouted clear, before running back to the door, and half in while half out, took aim down the hallway they had been moving towards.
1 door up, and across the hall stood one of his men, apparently having rushed into a "broom closet" from the looks of the smoke realing out the room, and the robotic head lying on the floor outside the door.
The other soldier stood on the same side as Roland, a blood stain on his armor, from where he had taken a vibro-gauntlet blade to someones throat.
Both had prepared for the charge, and so Roland ducked back, and opened up a com link to his soldiers inside the bunker with him.
Bomb crew. Get those satchels out now. we have company, and they don't sound happy. He ended, as fire seemed to erupt outside the hallway, blaster bolts flying every which way.
Roland stepped out, shouting a curse, as he ducked low, to avoid getting shot in the back, and opened up with the BTC he had still drawn. The two around him had switched to E-web blasters, and had opened up in full.

[Zilfer]

Mandalore, found him and Sword up against a wall taking cover from fire, while Coin was up front kneeling down under the cover of a conveniently placed crate.

"Coin how many of them do you see?" asked Bermfad as he checked his grenade belt for which kinds he had left. A flash grenade was the only thing he had.

"I don't know, I'm kind of busy at the moment." said Coin as he ducked again after trying to look to see how many there were. Blaster fire continued to pour down the hallway.

"Stand up and take them out." said Bermfad as he primed the flash grenade and got ready to chuck it as hard as he could down the hallway.

"You lost your mind? There's got to be at least eight men ahead of me." responded Coin. Sword himself had looked over to Mandalore and saw his plan almost immediately.

"Coin, shut up and get ready to stand up. I sure hope your armor has polarizing." said Sword as he nodded to Mandalore. "Alright but if you get me killed I'm coming back to haunt your ass."

"Roger."

Mandalore stepped out from around the corner and threw the grenade like a baseball pitch down the hallway, and once it hit something light flashed. Coin had risen up and memorized the location of every enemy, before the flash was over every single one of them lay dead. Bermfad walked up to Coin putting a hand on his shoulder.

"Nice work, we are getting close. Lets move" said Bermfad as he began to lead the way once again....

[Sir Lord Ash]

With continual assault from the air and ground, the outside Imperials were falling rapidly. There were fewer than 50 Imperial soldiers left, the rest be dead, or just gave up under the relentless Mandalorian assault. Ash's CAS was also delevering heavy damage to the Imperials, who's little blasters were useless against its armor.

The skies were clear, and all dropships were waiting to be called in when they got the call. Ash himself was having quite a bit of fun at being able to stir up a disturbance again. He activated his comm so he could talk to the outside Mandalorians.

Alright, guys and gals. House check for any hidden Imperials. Nice and clean. No mess ups. First one who kills a casualty buys beer for everyone. Thats a shitload of money too.

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Ash got yells and some groans over the comm, and he grinned. He spun his CAS around, blowing apart a small group of troopers. Lasers drilled them hard, almost making them explode from heat and pressure.[/center]

[Allen]

Allen leaned against the wall and counted a few times and ran down the alley way and took a few quick turns and found he was just across form the building. There were no guards there at the moment and sighed with relief. He didnt want to kill any mandalorians beacuse he wanted to be on Mandolores good side. He quickly and quietly ran over to the building and snuck in through a broken office window. He got in and ran towards the hallway entrance and looked at a map of the building. He thought to himself 'Hmm if I were Mandalore were would i be?" he then noticed a turbo lift and walked towards and and called it up.

The lift came up. he sensed there were people way down below the buiding and took the elevator all the way down to the botto0om. Allen arrived at the bottom within a few minuites and leaned up against the side of the elevator in case of blaster fire. no one greeted him and he poked his head out and saw that there were dead storm troopers on the ground. "Well at least I'm on the right track I hope." Allen walked down the hallway his foot steps echoing through out the hallway.

[Elifain]

As the fire continued to lash out from down the hallway, Roland ducked back, reloading a clip into the BTC, and watched as the two men who had followed him continued raining fire down on the men who had taken cover down the hallway. The E-webs had burned up moments before, and the two had taken to WESTMARS, and occasionally, a grenade or two. It had roughed up the opposition, while their armor had taken most the bolts directed at them with no problem. The problem would appear soon, as the armor started to heat up.
There was an opening on the direct line, to Rolands helmet, as his men back at the turbolift reported, We have the place rigged here. We have also set the fire systems to flood the place, and the vents to shut down. Slicers are working from here, sir, but we should try to find the main computer. Things quiet down for you yet? He asked, before Roland responded, No. Keep 3 men back there to guard our exits, and the rest of you, join up on my location. We need help exfiltrating over here. Our brothers in the city probably have the intel since they hit the major base!
He was answered, a few moments later, as more blaster fire erupted from behind him and the two soldiers he had with him, luckily this time, coming from friendly fire, and targeting those who were shooting at them.
The two others stepped back, letting their weapons cool down, and was greeted for that, by 2 rockets flying past their hiding places, slamming into doorways down the hall, and causing chaos to erupt.

[Zilfer]

Bermfad, Coin, and Sword finally came to the room, where they met heavy resistance. They took cover and primed grenades. They hadn't been seen just yet however that was about to change. Over the intercom Bermfad heard a curious exchange.

"Dice are you ready yet? We're in position." said Sword as he looked over to Coin giving him a hand signal to ready himself. Bermfad turned his helmet between the two ending on sword.

"Dice? You all have the most creative names...." said Bermfad as he waited to see what this was all about. Sword shrugged through his armor and threw back a reply.

"You can blame Tracin'ya(Fire) for that, he thought it would be funny to call people by nick names. It took root in the Bridgeburners, and we've been nick naming people for the longest time." said Sword before a reply came back over the comms.

"I'm in position, and ready to blow this thing." came the reply over the com. Interference was great but it was easily discernible what he had said. Bermfad returned his attention to Sword. "Bomb?"

"Not quite Mandalore," said Coin as he prepared his weapon. "Dice has an EMP bomb."

"That will take out our ships, and most of our suits. Let alone destroy most of the fighting above us." said Bermfad wondering about these "bridgeburners."

"Not it it's below ground, Dice was here before the battle even began, and ready to knock out their internal defenses. We didn't expect you to becoming with us Mandalore. We are sorry you weren't informed, but neither was Tracin'ya or Rang." said Sword as he pulled off his helmet. "Dice, do it."

There was a moment before the lights went out, and that's when they moved. Bermfad took off the Mask of Mandalore putting it into a pack and charged forward through the spray of colored blaster shots erupting from every which direction. His blue bolts firing through a spray of red. There were a few close calls to his head but whenever he saw the flash of someone firing at him he ducked close. Within moments they breached the door, exploding into the room. eight men turned pointing their guns, and where taken out one shot for each. Bermfad placed one in the head, another in the chest, and vibroknifed the closest one to him before they had managed to subdue all hostiles. He could tell from the uniforms of those who were left that they had gotten the imperials tacticians at this meeting.

"Hook line and sinker." said Coin as he kept his guns pointed at the imperials.

[Sir Lord Ash]

The fighting above ground had slowed considerably. Blasterfire could be heard around the town still, but compared to before, it was quiet. Ash slowly piloted his CAS through the city. He would occationally spot an Imperial, which either died or surendered. They knew that they were defeated here, and the smart ones gave up or ran. Aya'han was long out of site, heading up into orbit as Dropships began to land around the city to pick up POW's.

There was a faint rumble, like that caused by an explosion, but the Mandalorians around Ash didn't seem to have heard it. Human's probably wouldn't. Zero knew it came from underground, and the CAS's sensors pinpointed the origin. Whatever it was, it would be fine, unless more came.

The faint flicker of a power surge wavered though the city, but, for the most part, all power stayed on. So, no big deal. Now he just waited for everyone else to finish up so they could leave this planet.

[Allen]

Allen was walking down the hallway slowly when suddenly the lights went out. It was pitch black and Allen couldn't see a thing. He thought to himself sarcastically 'oh just great just what I needed a black out.'Allen closed his eyes and reached out with the force and began searching for living people. He soon found that there were two people a ways ahead of him. Allen returned back to himself and began walking down the hallway his hand tracing the wall as a guide. After a while of walking he began to hear voices ahead of him. He stopped and began to think of what his next move was. Allen slowly began to walk down the pathway and was withing voice throwing distance. "Hello back there I come in peace I just wish to speak with mandalore if he is there my name is allen walker im coming down the hallway with your permission im no friend of the empire."

[Elifain]

As the enemy firing positions went quiet for a moment from the explosion, Roland broke from cover, sprinting full force down the hallway towards their position, the 2 mandalorians who had accompanied him that far, joining the mad dash, that had them skidding past the imperials, those who were last standing, as they attempted to get back up, and fire again.
Most of the soldiers were gunned down before they could make their feet, much less take aim again.
Slicers, keep your place held. We'll be back in a few. Roland said, as he ordered his men back up the hallway towards the elevator, before dropping 2 primed grenades into the hallway, and sprinting the way they had come.
The explosions shot air past him, knocking roland off his feet, but he quickly gained them back under him, and broke into a run towards the elevator.

[Zilfer]

OOC since we are all moving at different speeds don't worry about the posting order too much.

Mandalore had watched over Coin and Sword cuffing all the Imperials, and had then set about gathering Datapad's, accessing terminals, some of which were locked and he had already requested the best splicers. Encrypted Data was already being downloaded, when a voice from down the hallway sounded. Coins and Sword whipped up, the first having two heavy blaster pistols now in hand pointed it down the hallway and blasted a warning shot, while the second one held position just on the inside two vibroblades in hands.

"If you've come seeking an audience with Mandalore you sure picked an odd time to come looking for him." said Sword, waiting for the response to come from down the hallway. He then lowered his voice looking at Bermfad. "What do you think, Mandalore...?"

"Have him proceed, if he's an enemy we can deal with him." said Bermfad putting the Mask of Mandalore back upon his head, sealing the helmet once again. It's taozin lining would keep him all but invisible if the person down the hallway was a force user, and he decided it would be best not to take chances.

"Proceed forward into the light of the room, and don't make any funny moves, we aren't in the position to be very forgiving of mistakes...." said Coin before switching on his comlink. "Dice, get the hell over here ASAP, and send a report to Elifain. Leave out the part where we didn't go with Roland, since we are supposed to be watching out for him."

Bermfad raised an eyebrow for a second, at this odd trio. He only smirked and shook his head keeping his eyes on the darkness. The imperial tacticians they had captured stared in wonder as well. If it was someone sent by Cain then they knew there was a chance they could yet escape.l

[Sir Lord Ash]

The Spyglass-class corvette Intrepid exited hyperspace high above Alderaan, close to the Mandalorian fleet. This little 'vette was a known Mandalorian ship, so they didn't even get a turn of the head, and one sensor sweep from the Mandalorian command ship. Akira decided to hail this ship.

Fist of Mandalore, this is Intrepid. Whats going on?
Intrepid, Fist. Mandalorian assault to get Imperial tactitions and scientists. Simple stuff. Mandalore is down there right now.
Alright. I will see if I can lend some assistance. Intrepid out.

[/i] Take us down. I will be waiting by the drop ramp[/color][/b]

Akira felt a rather familiar presence in the force, twisted slightly, though it was, it brought up old memories. She forced that out of her mind as she waited to get closer to the ground.

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Ash looked up as a new blip appeared on the holo-map of the city. It was a corvette, signature suggesting Spyglass-class. The only one he knew was Intrepid. He reached out to it in the force, and instantly felt Akira. He couldn't keep the smile off his face.

He had to remain serious right now until all work was done here. It shouldn't be too much longer. Ash waited for the Intrepid to land before moving the CAS again.

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Akira was greeted by two Mandalorians when the drop-ramp was lowered. One had green armor, the other was red. The 'vette landed just outside the main building along the main road, so that there was enough room for it to land.

Where is Mandalore?
He is inside, lower levels.
Alright. I'm going in to find him. Watch my ship. We can use this as a way to transport anyone that needs it.

The two Mandalorians nodded and Akira began walking away into the main building. Her footsteps were quiet, despite the weight of the armor. Her ICWS was in her hands at the ready as she dove deeper into the bowels of the building. Flashlights built into her helmet cut through the darkness.

It didn't take long for her to sense not the old Mandalore, but Bermfad. A change of power must have occured. She also felt a Sith, the one she met on Ilium. She felt her temper rise again. She pulled the charging pin on her ICWS as she turned the corner, and shut off her flashlight so as to not blind anyone.

I hope im not too late.[/center]