[OOM] Onderon.

[stuck_mynock]

Koren stares out at the distant sea of rubble around Onderon, and amongst it the swarms of tiny lights moving towards his fleet.

“My lord,” a voice drifts over from one side, “our weapons are ready. We can destroy the rubble and move through towards Onderon.”

“No.” Koren flicks one hand up, drawing up a closer display of the objects moving through the rubble. The red and whites of Republic fighters are mixed in with the blues and golds of the Onderon guard and the silvers of the Basilisk war droids. “To do so might push the rubble towards the planet and the moon. I want the palace and the tomb to be structurally unharmed.”

Out of the corner of his eye, he sees his advisor bow low.

“This is only a minor inconvenience,” he continues. “The remains of a shattered fleet are not going to stop us. Dispatch fighters and dropships.”

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There are thousands of fighters, flooding out of the Wyrm. We’re outnumbered ten to one. We’re making a dent in their numbers, but there are too many for us to keep them all out. The dropships are - ...”

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A dropship crashes down into the city square, hatches opening to admit a stream of armoured soldiers, guns raised and firing as the nearby turrets swung towards them. With a shriek, one soldier falls, armour falling apart around him.

Behind them, the dropship clanks, casting off its outer shell to reveal a crab-like war machine beneath. It growls mechanically, legs sliding out as it lifts itself up and started walking, guns sliding out. With a hum and a crash, the main gun fires, lighting up the city as it blows through a building, sending turrets flying and crackling.

The march continues on towards the Sky Ramp, blocked by a row of shiny, silver droids. As they turn and started firing, the soldiers hurry away, ducking behind buildings as the war machine points its main gun at them with a long hum.

As the droids go flying and clattering, another dropship hist the city, and a third.

-----

Atton taps his earpiece again.
“They’ve breached the Sky Ramp,” to Will and Guppy. “Be ready.”

Comments

[guppy_sandhu]

"... where do we aim?"

[will_scarlett]

"Think we find a better place to 'ide first."

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

"I'm with Will on this. It's very big."

[guppy_sandhu]

Guppy looks around for suitable cover.

Something the crab fires explodes very close to him, knocking him back with a small squeal but leaving him unhurt.

[will_scarlett]

Will grabs Guppy and starts to head back towards the building.

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

Atton nods at the building Will and Guppy are heading towards. It's a sentry tower, thin but relatively tall.

"Get to the top of that."

[guppy_sandhu]

Guppy is too busy running to ask 'But what if it collapses?'

But he's thinking it.

He keeps up with Will.

[will_scarlett]

"Keep runnin'."

Will moves as fast as he can.

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

Once they're at the top, the crab turns its main gun onto the tower. Atton tosses his sword up into the air, grabs Will and Guppy around the waist, and jumps, flying through the air to land on the crab, just as it shoots the tower down.

He lets go of them, catching the sword as it comes down again.

"Find a vulnerable part and start damaging it."

[guppy_sandhu]

"Ugh!" Guppy comments as he's grabbed around the stomach. He wasn't expecting that.

He adapts as quickly as possibly, finds a join in two pieces of crab exoskeleton, and thrusts his sword into it.

[will_scarlett]

The flying part is kind of crazy but Will just starts hacking at various lights.

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

"Just as a note, I can only jump so far without, you know, breaking my legs, so jumping down may be a problem."

[guppy_sandhu]

"Can you use the Force to float us down?" Guppy asks, wiggling his sword around inside the hole he's made in the machine.

"It's keyhole surgery for you, crabby boy." he mutters at it.

[will_scarlett]

"'rhaps could find a way to just climb down the beast when it stops."

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

Exasperatedly: "Guppy, don't witty remark at it. It never helps," as Atton slides his sword down into it. "Yeah. If it collapses, we can clamber down. I can't really float us down, though."

[guppy_sandhu]

"It helps me." Guppy mutters, widening his hole and then slipping his blaster into it.

He shoots once to test it won't bounce back, then repeatedly into the hole.

[will_scarlett]

Will just keeps hacking at various light points and places hoping that he'll break through.

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

"If you expose any important looking circuitry, let me know."

[guppy_sandhu]

"There's something that looks like a giant chipboard in here. But it's melting."

[will_scarlett]

"Oh aye, keep firin' then."

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

"Hang on. Take this," tossing the lightsaber to Guppy. "Jab it in and hold it there. After switching it on, I mean."

[guppy_sandhu]

Guppy checks it's the right way around, and presses the button.

He swishes it around in there.

"Hm, this is even more like keyhole surgery."

[will_scarlett]

Will tries to back away slightly from Guppy since lightsabers are scary.

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

The crab gives out a long, mechanical groan, legs collapsing. They're a lot closer to the ground now.

Atton peers down.
"That's not so bad. Give back the 'saber, Guppy."

[guppy_sandhu]

Guppy turns it off, and passes it over carefully, nearly losing his balance as the crab lurches.