Chapter 6 Submission
SUBMITTED BY: 2LT Fewrfreyut / Zerek Adjutant / ISD Chimaera /
Imperial Navy
HOLONET REGISTRATION: <nwnd@sympatico.ca>
SUBMITTED ON: 2008.05.15
Nick Fewrfreyut stepped off the transport and
onto the soft, sandy beach, two kilometers West of the
base. He remembered the last time he had been to a beach; a more peacful event than the current situation. Nick's mind
snapped back into the present as the troop transports took off and soared into
the misty air, returning to the Nebulon-B Escort
Frigate Chinook, where Nick's regular line of duty is. Nick smirked. Regular? What is regular nowadays? Nick heard footsteps from
behind and turned his attention to the source, a stormtrooper
Sergeant, the one in charge of this contingent. Well, next to him, of course.
The Chinook's Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Ramius Antillies, had tasked Nick with heading the ground assault
force, which was going to attack a Rebel base on the planet's surface. Nick
recalled the events that lead up to this moment, with the discovery of a Rebel
space station over the planet, then the single X-wing squadron reinforcements
from the planet's Northern Hemisphere, the scan of the planet that revealed a
large Rebel staging area, possibly the main base for the Rebel forces in that
sector, with a Rebel training facility, and the subsequent dispatch of him and
fifty out of the seventy-five stormtrooper garrison
on the Chinook to destroy the base. Nick's mind returned to the matters at hand
when the Sergeant said to him, "All men are accounted for and ready. We
are awaiting your orders, sir."
"Sergeant, we need to recon the Rebel Base. We need to learn their
defensive strength if we are to proceed," Nick replied. The Sergeant gave
the order over his comlink, and five stormtroopers moved off to the rolling hills past the sandy
shore. Nick turned back to the Sergeant. "We'd better get moving. Your
scouts will relay information back to us as we move to the Rebel Base. Form the
men up in staggered formation, with columns 9 deep and ranks 5 across. Move swift, and go radio silent. We got lucky with the mist to
hide our LZ, so let's not let it be in vain by being discovered with chatter
over the comlink. From now on, only direct
communication and hand signals."
"Yes sir!" The Sergeant said as he turned to the rest of the stormtroopers, "Alright! Everybody form up! You heard
the Sub-Lieutenant's orders! Now move!" As they jogged along, Nick became
grateful that he kept up the strict fitness program that you use in the
Academy; he was able to move with the same pace as the stormtroopers.
Exercise pays off, he thought. The scouts the Sergeant had sent out earlier
returned when the main force was two humdred meters
away from the base. "There's only
"Hmm, looks like we caught them with their pants down. Ok, we need
to strike hard and do enough damage before the tank crews can get to their
tanks. If we can knock out that generator, we can severly
cripple their defenses, and get a bombing run in to devastate their forces.
Sergeant, I want our snipers to take out the guards and in immediate proximity
patrols. Then I want our demolitions team to move in and plant a remote charge
on the generator." The Sergeant hastened to obey the orders. Within two
minutes, everyone was ready. As the first hisses of the silenced sniper rifle
shots began to fly, the demolition team sprinted out across the open ground.
Several guards saw them, however, as they turned to
engage the team they were shot down by the snipers. Soon five guards lay dead
near the generator, and the way to it was clear for the demo team. Another two
minutes passed, then the demo team came dashing back out, reaching the main
force of stormtroopers just as Nick pushed the
detonate button on the remote. Suddenly the sky became brilliant yellow, then dimmed to flickering orange as flames smothered the
charred wreckage that was all that remained from the power generator. Nick
activated his com, and gave the grid coordinates for the base to the bombers
hovering in low orbit over the planet. As the infantry rushed to the scene of
the explosion and the tank crews boarded their craft, the first of three TIE
Bombers appeared through the mist. The bombing run blew the tank pits apart,
destroying all the tanks and their crews, and destroyed all the command
buildings and the barracks, along with fifteen Rebels close enough to be felled
by the blasts. However, the Imperial forces still had to face