Chronicles of Talon Chapter 24

Chronicles of Talon Chapter 24 Darkness
Vor system, Vorrina, Acclamator class Assault ship Leviathan

“We don’t got all day!” Captain Teyla Fae’s voice echoed through the hangar. “Get on board the gunships five minutes ago boys, move it!”
The violet striped armored woman looked at the troopers. They were running into their LAATs in full combat gear. Phase II armored troopers with violet stripes and markings swarmed about, getting to their Squads and gunships to go dirtside.
“Come on, we have a planet to take!” She continued barking at her.
“You heard the Captain!” Lieutenant Flak of 2nd Platoon shouted at his Platoon as they halted inside their gunship.
Lieutenant Tora Nypta joined her own Platoon in Zulu’s Alpha Platoon on board their gunship. She had fully recovered after fighting that Sith bitch on Kamino and she wanted revenge badly. She killed a bunch of her men and she was going to pay for that one day. As if killing Commander Jade wasn’t enough.
Outside Kenobi, T’racen’s and Zinbali’s Fleet punched a hole through the Separatist defense fleet. Thousands of fighters conducted dogfights and attempted bombing runs on enemy cruisers. The Jedi had brought over eighty starships to bare for this fight. Cruisers had been moved from other fronts and battles to quickly end the Vorrish problem. Admirals Yularen and Cossack led their fleet through durasteel ripped from crippled ships and wreaked Starfighters. Master Zinbali was the only jedi that remained in orbit. She preferred space combat over actually combat. She was more tactician then warrior. Her Padawan, Zataji, was skilled and far along enough to handle the action part. She had actually just been informed that the Council granted her the rank of Jedi Knight and put her in command of two Battalions of elite troops. In this campaign she would be acting as a kind of second in command under Kenobi and T’racen when it came to ground operations.
As her gunship lowered towards the surface Teyla spoke to the pilot of her gunship through the commlink.
“How’s it looking out there?” She asked.
“Dark, sir,” he replied. “Ground looks foggy like kriffin’…”
“Pilot?” She asked when he trailed off. “Report.”
“Captain I’ve **** sensors an* comms *re ex******cing…comp**sating.”
A moment went by.
“Do you ***** me captain?”
“Better than before.”
“Not get*** better. I don’t know where *** interference is coming from but-”
“Just put us down without crashing,” Teyla cut him off commandingly.
“Yes, sir!”
When they landed the sides retracted and revealed the Vorrish homeworld.
“Secure the LZ!” Teyla shouted out orders.
She looked around her. The ground was wet and swamp-like. The open plain they landed in was twenty meters across and dark trees rose on all sides. They only saw around five meters in front of them because of heavy fog.
“Captain!” Lieutenant Nypta announced over the comm.
“Yes Lieutenant?” Teyla said.
“Seven of my men’s primary blasters *** malfunctioning and the **ad lights aren’t working,” Nypta informed her.
Teyla noted that the light attached to her own helmet wasn’t working either.
“Affirmative Tora. Something on this planet is wrong,” she said. “Maybe the fog is messing with some of our tech.”
Teyla thought this will definitely been an interesting campaign. Malfunctioning equipment, hostile terrain and barely able to see more than five meters in front of them. It gave the natives a large advantage. Looking around at the environment it would be trouble to move walkers and tanks through. Hopefully the droids would be having equal trouble. Maybe they wouldn’t work either.
“LZ secure,” she was informed.
“Copy. Platoon move forward,” Teyla replied.
The Platoon marched onward through the ankle deep muddy water and the fog. The muddy swamp soon went to their knees. The place was unsettling to Teyla and her troopers. It was unnerving and she felt her body tense up further. She wasn’t usually jumpy, but here she was a bit jumpy. Her boys was equally jumpy because she heard a cough which caused one of the men to jump slightly. He cursed at his brother’s cough. They all waited for the coming ambush. The Vorrish would need to be complete idiots to not set up ambushes here. They knew the terrain and since the whole planet-supposedly-looked similar, they knew how to fight here. To fight a guerilla war.
“How are we supposed to fight like this?” Someone around her asked.
“Just keep your eyes and ears open,” a Staff Sergeant responded, almost whispering.
“How we suppose to fight an enemy we can’t see?”
“It’ll be fine,” the Staff Sergeant answered.
“You two didn’t fight these things back on Kamino,” Nypta told both. “The Vorrish prefer fighting in close quarters with melee weapons. Trust me. You stay quiet and on your toes and you’ll be fine.”
“Yes Captain,” both answered.
They stomped on through the muddy water towards their objective. The first objective was a triangle formation of bunkers. They marched forward through the wet muddy swamp towards the location of their target, hoping not to run into a Vorrish ambush.

Vor system, planet Vorrina, Venator class Star Destroyer Glacier

Talon jogged into the last gunship that hadn’t left the cruisers hangar bay. A Platoon from Echo Company was inside with Sabre.
“Appreciate you didn’t leave without me,” Talon said casually as the doors closed and the gunship started taking off.
“Wouldn’t dream of it general,” Edge answered. “Don’t want to take the planet without you.”
Talon smirked. “Much appreciated.” She looked at Sabre. “Spoke with Mace. He and Anakin is assaulting a MRL hideout on Coruscant.”
“Hopefully they beat the crud out of those bastards,” Sabre declared.
Anakin and Mace had spent the last few weeks chasing the Mandalorian Remnant Legion around Republic space, destroying bases, capturing operatives and gaining information to disable them and prevent the assassinations of Senators Amidala and Organa, not to mention the Supreme Chancellor. As long as the Jedi Order stood tall no one would ever assassinate the Chancellor. Ever.
When they entered the atmosphere the gunships was all developed in the planets darkness. They set down on the dark foggy planet.
Before they landed Talon looked at Sabre. Her padawan looked so eager, kind of like herself, back in the day. That worried her.
The doors retracted and Sabre jumped out first. She stopped and looked at the environment around her. She had heard how it looked but to actually be here was very different. She felt…anxious. She didn’t see more than five meters around her. How would she fight someone she couldn’t see?
Talon came up on her side as the clones all left their gunships. Soon the little open plain was filling with troops from Echo and Bravo Battalion.
“Keep your mind open,” Talon told her. “Listen, and be patient. Everything will be fine.” She looked over to Abyss a few paces away. “Commander! I want the Headquarters established ASAP.”
“Yes general,” the 81st clone Commander complied.