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The sentries had reported a figure approaching. He didn't have the look of a local gangster. In fact, his robes were distinctive of only one thing: their overseer had arrived. The sentries passed the message over the com and so Ben made himself ready to receive the guest. He slung his rifle...

Ben was breathing lightly. Even though the Boonta warehouse looked like it had been abandoned for some time, the fumes were still pungent. What had been a chemicals store once was now the staging area for a drugs bust. Sentries were discretely placed on the gantries, looking out for approaching...

"Lead on then," Ben found himself saying, against his better judgement. He still didn't know what to make of the creature, or the man who seemed totally at ease in its presence - in control of it, even. He took station behind the other two, covering the rear in case they were followed. He took...

Drake hated these "intelligence" missions and yet, more and more frequently, he was being seconded away from the regiment into these kinds of assignments. In a way, it made sense to him. The training in the rangers for independent action, survival in hostile environments and close quarters...

"This is not a drill, people!" Drake had more urgency in his voice as he saw a missile shoot from one of the objects that had fallen from space. "We need to make the facility secure; move away from the door; create a welcoming committee." There were not enough people to go out to meet the...

Ben was perplexed by this turn of events. As long as the bombs got set, his mission would be complete. True, no one needed to know about the unexpected guests. They weren't equipped for taking hostages. Ben left the talking to his colleague, but continued a wary overwatch of the opposition...

The shots to the shoulder knocked the Sith to the floor. Ben kicked the lightsaber away from his hands. "Remember the mission" he commed to his squad. The two demolition men would start to make a break for the tunnel. Ben saw the lightening shoot out towards his companion. He could not do...

Drake came to an upstairs window of the facility. As he looked out he saw something falling to the planet's surface. He did not know what this meant, but turned to the other senior operatives in the facility. "I think we may have company." He looked down from the gantry at the operators on the...

So this was where the phrase bringing a blaster to a lightsaber fight came from. As Drake gathered himself after the unseen tidal wave that knocked him off his feet, he was greeted by the sight of blazing red coming towards him. Without the time to aim his rifle, he simply threw it, side on...

The rangers were trained soldiers. Before the Sith got anywhere near as close as that, the tail man would have spotted them - as to catch up with the advancing column, the tailing Sith necessarily must have been ignoring all cover. As the message went silently over the squad net, they would...

The strike team pressed ahead, darting from shadow to shadow. Night operations had a particular buzz to them: the heightened awareness of sounds and smells; the almost deafening sound of one's own breathing. As they came to the final corner, they could smell the stream of waste coming out from...

Outside a Hutt Palace, Nal Hutta, Night The strike squad was at the assembly area. They had been dropped silently about 3km away and this was their last opportunity to check their equipment and weapons. The squad of rangers had been tasked with planting explosives in the sewers under the...

Hearing the commotion inside, Ben moved out from his overwatch position and headed up the stairs. He did not know how it was going inside and so walked up the steps backwards, keeping a bead on the doorway. In order to keep his footing sure, he walked slowly but purposefully. He got up to the...

Ben was sure that there were times when discussions like this were important. While an engagement was unfolding before their eyes, they just needed to get on with it. He gestured up the stairway. "Go on, special branch, I'll tie them up here." He would quickly prepare a grenade and lodge it...

Ben saw the grenade coming, just. He leapt for cover behind the sofa. Too late. The grenade exploded in impact with his colleague. The other soldier took most of the brunt of the explosion, but he still got knocked off course and landed badly. The explosion was funneled upward by the walls and...