The Battle would soon begin, four of the Anthrope Patrol Walkers stationed outside the walls to assist in the start of the defense of the fortress. The four stood there as they started registering contacts that were starting to appear on radar. Taking a few steps to the side, they would start to run full sprint, acting without authority except of their own. Each time they moved, blaster fire seemed to follow them, scorching part of the walkers. While their overwhelming firepower was doing well...the exchange would be no so equal.
They let loose a torrent of
heavy ripper repeating fire, ripping apart the ground as they unloaded onto their foes without remorse. Infantry that was up in front would soon become shredded from the overwhelming amount of projectiles flown towards their direction. Running to the side, one of the Anthropes started to make a lock-on signature and fired Advanced Cluster Missiles towards one of the company sections, resulting in parts of the ground imploding around them.
One of the Anthropes in their attack stride, could not see from its blind spots a set of launchers being fired from a nearby company. In a rather spectacular display of destruction, the head of the Anthrope would implode from one side and explode out the other. Creating a large black smoke plume, it still ran forward as it quickly dove into the ground, grinding itself into scrap metal near the company. A small victory perhaps but it would soon start to turn.
The companies seem to be getting wiser, more and more sets of volleyed attacks would be set off. One of them impacted the side of another Anthrope Walker yet it took itself in stride, still moving with great ease and was covered in blaster fire marks. The third however had a dangerous hit, smashing underneath the cockpit as a leg was blown off from its socket and the pilot engulfed in shrapnel. Much like the first one before it, it went down and slammed harshly into the ground below, skidding before it stopped. The head was still intact...and so was the engineer.
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"This is Alpha A5, I am downed outside the wall, pilot has been killed. We are experiencing heavy fire with A4 now damaged, requesting remaining forces to retreat behind the wall."
"Granted Alpha A5, we are sending reinforcement for retr-"
"Negative, to hostile. Requesting artillery barrage on my location!"
"Acknowledged, Retributions sending barrage on location. Family will be compensated Knight Errant."
"Glory to Icarii!"
"Glory to the Court of Blades."
The communicator was turned off as the loud crackling and cries of soldiers around the wreckage started to move inwards. The Icarii-Anax grabbed from his holster the
M-18 Pit Viper and fired out of the wreckage, striking down one of the soldiers. Being fired back upon, several of the blaster bolts hit the engineer but he had refused to die, his flesh becoming damaged as he kept firing with the disruptor pistol, incinerating various soldiers on strike. Standing up, he felt part of his right side starting to bleed out more, his body starting to fail him.
Gripping onto something near the wreckage, he lifted up a rather
large rocket launcher with one arm and held it up. Not even attempting to aim at a target in the oncoming crowd, he fired it directly into the group with a plume of white erupting from it, white phosphorous as it drowned the area with skin burning toxins. Feeling it even burn himself, he turned and fired the Pit Viper several more times as the two Anthropes retreated away from the area as they started to advance more onto their position.
Giving another turn, he was struck this time in the head with a blaster rifle as half a dozen soldiers descended onto the engineer and erupted a large amount of blaster fire, hoping to finally end the monster that was this strange engineer.
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"Positions are locked, turning the key."
There was a loud set of popping noises, the
Retributions side panels opened up to reveal five on each side of large proton torpedo tubes. With a small flash of blue, it fires upwards over the sky a total of twenty of them as they start to clear over the walls emplacements. Going upwards, they soon started to split apart as several missiles came from out of it and started to spread out, going straight downwards as they speed towards the ground.
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"A pleasure to meet you Commander Voland, I wish it was better circumstances for a first meeting though."
The echoes of battle would soon erupt as the Sullustans eyes glanced slowly over towards where it came from, seeing the hand briefly. Taking it with his right hand, he shook it before letting go a bit quickly, perhaps a bit of a non-shaker? His green eyes seemed to look at the battlefield as if it was very well known to him, as if he knew each sound of blaster fire that erupted from the conflict. When the ground shook for a brief moment, he seemed undisturbed by it.
"The Front Lines may not be the best spot for myself but I can hold back key points when required. My Skills are Yours to Command."