I sat there….my DC-17 all ready to go, my kit was ready, Sarge had briefed us, our mission was to head to Mygeeto to destroy this droid facility, we were supposed to pave the way for Aki Mundi’s and his contingent to take over the planet. Little did we know this mission had a very low survival rate.

12 hrs prior.

We were awakened from sleep to be briefed on this new mission. My old unit had been destroyed on Geonosis, and well I was to be re assigned. The name is Don I was Code Named Reaper for my incredible Sniper Skills, I took out the leader of the Geonosian Contingent on route to our mission LZ from an LAAT Gunship, I was given a medal of valor for my efforts. But my unit was destroyed on the mission, I lost my brothers, due to a EMP grenade which shut down our HUDs so we were unable to communicate with one another, the droids came out of no where, they were quick and fast, I had just barely made it out. Before the cave walls came crashing down crushing my legs and the rest of my unit. I’ve been in a bacta tank for the past 2 weeks healing up and getting my legs back. Commandos are a rare breed, they might grow more, but the first ones are always the best kind. And we are the best. they had completely revamped our system, lighter and yet tougher armor, added the Mer-Sonn Prototype Rocket launcher to the DC-17 Attachment Kits. And new embedded Vibro blades in our gloves to engage in Melee combat. They had also improved the old kits, the Sniper Attachment had been upgraded with the Molecular Disintegrator, this class of weapon was deemed illeagal by the senate, but in a time of war, the better guns usually won. This weapon on its own can vaporise any living creature, its range was incredible, double it up with sniper scope, u have the ultimate killing weapon. The shot is invisible to naked eye, only the shooter can see the projectile, however for the shot to completely destroy the target, the power must build, the weapon often left the shooter open and vulnerable. The shot must count, because the shooter might not have a second chance, and the shooter might be dead by then. When I had heard this I had requested for both kits, this left me unable to take the Mer-Sonn, which sort of put me down, but I was a sniper, our Demolitions man can handle the Merr-Sonn. I read about my new unit, they had lost one brother, and I was the replacement, they felt new to me. Sarge, our leader, our heavy duty and demolitions commando, carried extra Mer-Sonn packs. Rev, our Medic, he carried extra becta pack, and adrenaline shots, don’t underestimate him, he can kick more ass than most commandos, his military record was quite impressive. And last but not least, Sever, our computer genius, he could hack into any terminal made by any type of species. Weapon of choice his brain, second weapon, DC-17 repeating blaster attachment. I greeted them, they acknowledged me and had a good look at me, “so this is Hawk Eye’s replacement?”, I guessed that is what they called their departed brother, “Name Trooper?”, DR1323 sir”, “ your other name soldier”, “Reaper sir”. “I have been looking through your record, head shot from a moving LAAT Gunship…most impressive trooper, welcome to the Reavers, we are the best, no joke, we get the worst of the war, but we also get the best equipment, I guess your our sniper then, good, we can use a sniper, our main target is a Sepratist leader, remove him and this facility will be taken down quickly, Cut the head of a Hutt an the body falls dead. Early reconnaissance has let us know that this facility is run on this leaders mind, I know sounds weird right, a Jedi infiltrator brought this holocron back.” The leader was seated in a chair in a temporary sleep state, but the helmet he was wearing was plugged into the system, Incredible, he controlled the entire facility using his brain. No wonder I was chosen to do this mission, they just needed this guy dead, and they needed my skills to do it, the others were just there to help me get to my target. “well I’m your man Sarge”, “Good to have you aboard soldier, I hope that we can all work together as a team, we are brothers now, family, and we do not let each other down, if you don’t do your job, I will kill you myself. Alright lets head to briefing.”

The briefing room was new, they had added new consoles and Sever was having the time of his life, every piece of technology in the republic was at his fingertips, as he was about to have a try what what these things could do, General Mundi walked in, “hello commandos, this mission is of utmost importance, a droid facility on Mygeeto is creating a new type of droid, stronger alloy, much more powerful weapons, the production of this droid has to cease, if they are successful we will have a crisis on our hands.”, “do not worry sir, we will accomplish our mission without fail.”, “yes I trust that u will, but please do be careful. Further information about the mission will be given to you on route. Good luck and may the force be with you”

Present Time

Our LAAt Gunship was entering the atmosphere, Mygeeto reminded me of Cloud City, the brochures that I saw in republic chambers, although just our luck it was raining, we saw dozens of industrial buildings, one of those was our target. “approaching LZ in 5 minutes, get ready commandos”, “Roger that” Sarge replies “ alright brothers we are going in, the landing might be hot, so get your weapons ready, when we touch down I want a full spectrum scan, make the sure the entire area is clear, then we move on to the facility.”. I was actually impressed, I hadn’t read much about the Sarge, but from his presence I could tell that he was a great leader, and he always kept his cool, even though everything was set, I had this feeling in the back of my head that something was about to go terribly wrong. I figured it to Human paranoia….but then again…I’m not really human. I ignored the feeling, and I looked out of the gunship, t minus 10 secs gentlemen, good luck, the LAAT gunship came to a halt, the area seemed clear, we hopped out dropped to the ground like we were trained to, put on our scanners, HUD flashed with information, no droid signatures, one by one we all cleared. “alright”. Sarge pulled out a holocron, “we are 5 clicks west of the facility, as far as we know the area seems pretty poorly defended, which could mean either of 2 things, 1 they don’t think the facility is in any danger and that they can be loose, or 2 that entire facility is filled with droids waiting for someone or something stupid enough to try and force its way in. Lets hope its not the latter. Ok move out!” as we walked through the industrial zone, lets just say I wasn’t comfortable with the situation we were in. “Reaper is everything ok? Your vital signs seem pretty erratic”, I had almost forgotten, each of us have our team members vital signs shown in case we lose radio communication so we know who might be in danger. “its nothing Rev, just got this nagging feeling that something about this place just isn’t right.”, “yea to be honest I’ve been getting a similar feeling. This almost seems too easy” nodding we continued to walk. Suddenly Sarge lifted his fist, stop, opened his hand to 4, which meant me, put his hand into a circle, I was supposed to scan the area with my sniper scope. Putting on my Sniper attachment on to my Deecee, I took a position where I could pan 170 degrees, Sarge needed an idea of what level of secrurity this facility has. As I looked around something caught my attention. In fact several somethings caught my attention, the entire outside of the facility was covered with cameras, I switched to infra-red, shit…things just got worse, each camera projected a IR (Infra Red) laser field, the laser movements where totally random so we cant plot a way through, if we get caught in a laser that camera can deploy enough weaponry to take down a Gunship.  “Bad news Sarge” I told him what I saw, the Sarge wasn’t very happy about this. “so this facility is a shitload more well defended that intel had shown.” He started to pace, formulating a plan I assumed, “ok I’ve got it, we need a decoy, unfortunately that means we need to sacrifice one of our Probe Droids” I smirked to myself, a smart leader he was. “sir this our lucky day, I brought 2 extras.”, “Reaper your full of surprises, ok we need to send one to see how the security system reacts” I activated one of the droids and sent it in. when it got in range, every camera turned towards it, we saw a white flash, and the droid was gone. Shock and awe…brilliant, hit with a flash bang and once the target is dazed, it gets vapourised. This is totally fucked, but I noticed one thing, there was a square around the front of the gate, the laser field doesn’t seem to pass it. “Sarge Check this out” I pointed out the square. “well well looks like we may have found a way in.” the square is where the lazers stop, we could actually walk up to the square and not be detecded by the lasers , ofcourse we couldn’t just walk up, the damn cameras would see us. Good thing we came prepared, each of was carrying atleast 30 EMP grenades, perfect for eradicating the droids. Ofcourse we had to use them sparingly, you never know how many droids are actually in there. On its own 1 EMP grenade created enough of a blast radius to shutdown any electrical signal within a 5 meter circumfrence, Sever and Rev pulled out two grenades, the squares was approximantly 7-8 meters, we could easily cover the area, the plan was to make it seem like a short circuit in the system, but we had to move fast, recently new technologies were created to hamper the effect of EMP, if these cameras had them as well we would only have mere seconds before they come online again. Sarge signalled, Rev and Sever threw their grenades at the exact same moment, explosion, we ran, I ran faster than I have ever run before. Once we reached the gate the cameras came back online. Their PoV wasn’t well covered. Not a single camera was aimed at the door. The console was very old school, Sever chuckled to himself. “you’d think they’d upgrade from this old stuff…oh shit…” those are two words that a commando never wants to hear in a combat situation. “whats wrong??!!”, “Sons of…this system is more crazy than I had thought, its un-hackable, if I try to hack in I would set off every single alarm in this facility. To the credit of the separatists they are getting smarter and smarter. However there is one way to get in. a person cannot stay connected to a system for too long, if he does his mind will rot, and the energy will be drained from him…in simple terms he would die. This leader must take breaks. We need a probe droid to have a look at what hes upto. As soon as he takes a break I can hack in, and we will be in.” Sarge deployed his droid, “ill send the video feed to your HUD Sever, you can work from there, “Yes Sarge” the droid had reached the floor the leader was supposed to be on from Intel. We had no window chance, if we did, this mission would be over by now. Sarge found a air duct, which passed through the facility, engaging the cloaking device, the probe could move undetected. The facility was bigger than it looks, it extends underground. We finally came to a very heavy door. It looked pretty important, we assumed it was the control room, standing by waiting for something to come out as so that sarge could get the probe in. a droid walked through the door, sarge quickly zipped in, he almost didn’t make it, that door closed pretty damn fast. But we had a visual. Mother of a Bantha…this guy looked worse than General Grievous. Missing certain limbs. And scarred all to hell. The probe didn’t have a lot of power left, Sarge had to keep it hidden such that when the power runs out so with it the Cloaking device will cease to work and the droid will be seen and will compromise the mission. It was always risky sending in a probe, so many variables. Finally, the leader got up, Sever immeadiately when to work, he hacked in fast and smooth, the door was unlocked…but we had to get in fast, as soon as the leader reconnects then its lockdown again. And if he finds that a door was opened while he was gone…then we will have a tight security to deal with. Problem was we didn’t Know what was on the other side of the door. But we didn’t have a choice. So we opened and rushed inside and then, we met a very confused protocol droid…well confused in that it wasn’t sure what we were. Before it could say anything, Sarge plunged his vibro blade into its face. The droid went down without a sound. Quickly we moved the driod to a hidden location. Well it wasn’t that simple…we had to dismantle the damn droid. Once that was done, we moved quickly. We were still outside the complex. We had only infiltrated the inner area. There was a lot of ground to cover. Then Sever found something that almost made his laugh. “ok now what?” “I found a console, I might be able to get a building schematic. Gimme 10 seconds”, so we waited, Sarge, Rev and I put up guard making sure nothing could interrupt. 8 seconds later, Sever showed us a building schematic. This place was massive, 3 areas, each area was housing more battle droids than the Geonosian battle. Luckily most of them were still decommissioned, so the chance of actual combat was slim, but that didn’t mean that this place was completely devoid of droids. There were plenty of sentries, and I don’t think our kits would be able to take on the full force of the droids that were in this facility. One mistake, the every droid in the facility would come online and hunt us down. So stealth is the only option we have.

The facility was divided into heavy, medium and light units. I guess it was easier to categorize, that or the Seps are getting lazy, either way we needed to find a droid that none of us have seen before. Unfortunately we don’t know what class it was. Because it was stronger armor and stronger weaponry. With those “specifications” we narrowed it down to every single fucking droid in the facility. Atleast we had our job cut out for us. The plan was simple, it was sabotage, then we needed to dispatch the Sep leader. I was to lay cover, Sarge, Sever and Rev were going to go through the facility as try to find the new droids. We kept radio contact, each of the commandos had put on their helmet cams put on so I could switch between cams to know what my brothers were up to. I took a look around, switching vision with my scope. When it hit Geiger, what I saw almost made me fall over. “Sarge!, Rev! Sever!, we have a problem. I found the new droids they have cloacking devices.” Suddenly static. SHIT NO!!, no crap…I’ve lost contact, now I had to move alone. I couldn’t sit still, changing my HUD to show me Geiger there was no other way I could see the new things. Luckily I wasn’t spotted yet, they didn’t know how many commandos they were dealing with, so I still had the element of surprise. My suit wasn’t exactly giving me cover…you kinda stick out when your grey…I had to give them development sector a suggestion. Anyway moving along, I kept a visual on the droids, I wasn’t sure what I was looking at. These droids were different, they weren’t SB, or normal Droid Troopers, these things had 4 legs, moving fast…and I mean FAST, it was hard to keep track of it. Wait…this was interesting, those things had other droids on top of them, it was like walker, perfect for guerrilla warfare, no wonder the republic was worried, these things could actually sneak into Coruscaunt and destroy everything in one fell swoop and no one would know what happened. We had to decommission these things. Luckily it only seemed that a few were created, they were probably testing it out. A door opened, the droid went, I followed closely. Once I was in, I noticed a huge number of these droids offline, but waiting on racks. I needed more intel on these things. I found a console and took a look. It gave a blue print for the droids. They using fusing technology to create a new weapon. An SB or a normal Droid can fuse into these 4 legged walkers and create a much more powerful force, with the cloaking device installed it made them almost undetectable. I had to move carefully. I cant walk in Geiger mode forever, it wont detect an living beings, with a facility like this there are bound to be some fleshy guards that I might have to dispatch. I didn’t know what the situation with the others were. Since radio blackout I assumed they were either killed or captured, but maybe that decision was too rash, the facility was pretty high tech, its possible the walls blocked out radio contact, because when the radios went down so did the cams. Either they know we are here and they have jammed us. Or the building’s walls stop transmissions of all kinds. Either way I need to stop the production of these damn things. The facility was large I needed to start. I went through the blue prints. I needed to Know how to stop them and the only way will be in these plans. As I went through them, I realised that the walkers need a host to drive them. As simple as it seems, on further studies I found out that they also have the same shield that a Droideka has. Which made this battle even more complicated. My sniper rifle as enough power to take down the shield. But then that would give away my position and it will also leave me open to attack so my real plan wasn’t really working. Then I realised that I had also bought the MD attachment. Perfect this thing can pierce that shield and destroy the target. Ok great I had my weapons set, I got plenty of EMP grenades left. And I think I have enough ammo. but I also have a secondary objective. I have to find the rest of my unit. I will not lose my brothers again. I set out, sniper attachment set and ready, full clip, Geiger scope set.  I needed to make sure that my assumption was right. I found the walker. An SB was on it, I took aim, MD was set, I fired. I saw the shield dissapate and the droid vapourised. Perfect the walker was unmanned…well undroided…damn it my stupid sense of humour, now isn’t the time for stupidity. I moved quickly I got onto the walker, I put up the shield, and I prepped the system to detect human vital signs, I had also checked security frequencies to figure out if they had got my brothers. To my luck they had captured Sarge, he was being held in a detention centre a floor below me, I activated the walker and headed down a level. I came face to face with two fleshy guards, this shouldd be a piece of cake. That was until I realised that they started firing on me. I have the shield, but it can only take so much. Full throttle I speeded at them, deployed my vibro blade and stabbed one of them in the face, the oaths I took out my MD and fired. The body just melted. I was amazed at the MD’s power. I reached the door, it needed a hand print recognition thank god I kept one intact, I grabbed his dead corpse placed his hand on the pad and sprung the Sarge. “nice work Reaper. Good to see you again. What’s the plan trooper…and what the hell are you riding on.?” ,”this Sarge,  is what they constructing here, its like a walker, needs a host, you get on, it creates a cloak so it cant be seen and it generates a shield. It’s the perfect weapon”, Sarge walked around the walker checking out its specs and build. “seems rather interesting, needs a rider you say? Hows it handle?”, “not too bad, could be a lot better but its still a bit shaky, a little modifications here and there it could be a decent weapon.”, sarge wasn’t still impressed with it, it was still something that could not be ignored. “any word from the others?”, “no sarge I haven’t heard from either of them. I figured as I tried to decommission the place, I would try and look for them.”, “well atleast we have been reunited, but I will not leave my brothers behind. We will destroy this place and we will find them.”, “roger that, so we should start moving”, “agreed” ill take the walker…I think I broke something” ,”Roger that”. We walked through, I stayed behind the walker, the shield will provide me with a decent amount of protection. I put on repeating blaster attachment, I prepped a few EMP grenades. Sarge had the scanner on, if there was a droid or any of the our brothers near by, the walker will pick it up. 20 minutes had gone by, we still couldn’t find a way for us to shut down the production line. But we did plant explosives all over the place. In the worst case scenario, we would have die within the plant ourselves. But that was a risk that we were willing to take. We concluded that the Sep Leader had to be killed. Suddenly the walker sensors detected something, “Reaper I have contact. Bah this stupid scanner wont give me a reading of what it is, but its definitely a fleshy, could be one of ours.”, “or one of theirs”, “risk assessment?”, “ we walk in there guns blazing and we will kill it, on other hand if its friendly we will be killing one of ours. Opening the door slowly and walking in, we will be easy targets for an ambush.”, “fanstastic, course of action?”, “sorry Sarge this is your call, ill follow what u choose”, the Sarge was a little unsure of himself at this point. Cant blame the guy, he just lost two of his brothers. No, lost is too strong a word, they are just MIA, they had to be alive…they just had to., “ok we are going in slow, if they are friendly I don’t want to risk getting them killed”, “Roger that”. The door opened, Sarge activated his shield and clocking device, and we slowly moved in, as a precaution Sarge threw in a flash bang, he and I quickly covered our eyes, the flash had caught the Un-ID’d fleshy by surprise we pulled out our weapons “Don’t shoot!”, it was Rev, “good grief, I decided to stay put after radio silence, make me easier to find. But thank the force you guys found me first.”. our reunion was to cut short, 2 SB had entered the room, me and Rev quickly pulled out our DeeCees and let loose a volley, shit, we had given away our position “Multiple Boggies closing in on our location, I count 21, 1 is a fleshy.”, “Roger that”, we were ready to die rite there, “wait a sec, make that 20, no 19, make that 16, something is destroying the droids.” We stood ready, weapons drawn, then the shape had arrived at our location, we were about to shoot, when we realised it was Sever, “perfect, I thought it would be u guys, goodd job waking up the entire factory.”, “Can it trooper this isn’t the time”, now we really needed to find that Sep leader, if he gets away, he will just start another factory some where else and this mission would be in vain. We had to move fast, once we reached the command centre, he was fleeing, and we were under attack, “Reaper, this is your chance, he is heading for his ship, he must not make it there, repeat, he cannot make it to his ship,  we will lay cover fire for u.”, I pulled out my MD attachment, and set it ready, this Sep was fast, he could move really fast. I had a bit of a problem keeping him in line. The others were screaming orders to each other. And the constant fire of Deecees were beginning to throw me off. Then I re called something my intructor taught me. “when its just you and lone target, just try to clear the air. Clear out everything, sounds, smells, sensations, everything. Just keep your eyes on your target, wait for our shot. You have all the time in the world.” Immediately, my brothers ceased to exist. The Deecee firing was no longer audible, exploding droids did not phase me, it was just me and the Sep, he turned around to see if he had got away, bad move, I pressed the trigger, and let loose, the MD hit him square in the head, he fell, with a gaping hole through his forehead. I did a double tap, kinda brutal, but instructor had also said, “alien races might breathe differently, so kill them once. Then kill em again.” I shot him in the neck, and then shot him in the heart. Ok target is destroyed. Now we needed to get out of here. Sarge signalled us, the facility maybe offline, but that doesn’t mean the droid gaurds were. We had a hard time, the computer must have assumed the power shutdown was an attack, and activated every single assembled droid, and we had to get through all of them just to get to the door. Since the charges were set, we could blow this place sky high, problem was if we do it now then we die as well, “death is certain, when it comes is not under our control.” Now those words went through my head, when I didn’t need to die, I could fight my way out. Deecees set, and EMP grenades placed on our belts for easy access, we rushed into the fray, these droids weren’t exactly smart. They maybe newly assembled but their programming was fucked up, they fired, but each blaster shot missed us by a mile, we easily mowed through them, most contact was Melee so the virbo blades came in handy. Before we left, each of us threw all or EMP grenades in, we destroyed all the droids. We walked a fair distance, when sarge pulled out the detenator, and squeezed the button, suddenly silence, then a huge dome of fire surrounded the facility, and then…it was no more.