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Massassi Valley, 0345 Local Standard Time
The jungle stank. There was no way getting around it, it just stank. Like rotting flesh and decay. The noises were all around, animals and insects, big and small. Oh Gods, Chang thought to himself, I hope there aren't snakes. And to top it all off, it was raining like a son of a gun. Soaking him to the very bone, his only saving grace was the thermal mesh underneath his armor and fatigues. This was Alan's first mission with the Border Alliance and he'd come to a conclusion. This sucked. It wasn't anything like his time with the Alderaanian Self Defense Force. What was even worse was that, he, Alan Chang, an elite anti-terrorism operator on Alderaan was saddled with carrying the communication gear.
Alan sighed and wiped the water droplets off his goggles and looked around at his two companions. They'd taken a knee in a small clearing to get their bearings. They'd made landfall about a hour ago, the landing craft sneaking in along with a meteor shower and then flying low through the valley to keep clear of any sensors there might be looking for them. The pilot had dropped them as close as possible without risking being seen. There was almost no chance they'd been spotted coming in, electronically or visually.They'd humped it for an hour and were getting close to the first recon site. Still, moving quietly, slowly and methodically to hide their movements was awful in the mud and rain.
He thought back to the briefing they'd been given and ticked off the objectives in his head.
- Insert without being detected.
Check.
- Recon first site.
ETA 15 minutes.
- If enemy activity detected, Sith or otherwise, document with photographic evidence, record video, take note of capabilities. Call in for a bombing run, then hightail it to the nearest LZ for extraction. If no enemy activity detected, prep for engineers to establish a FOB. Win/win.
It seemed simple enough, and they'd been moving undetected for an hour now. They just had to maintain their discipline they'd had for the first hour and either score a new FOB on Yavin, or get to kill some bad guys. He suppressed a smile at having been given such an important mission for his first assignments and looked back at his companions again, before turning to maintain perimeter security, keeping his blaster rifle at the ready.