|
Mission Leader: Anton "Viper" Moore
Mission Classification: Golf VI Assault
Mission Transcript: [Available]
Briefing:
Our informant has struck again. We have been supplied with the location of a secret tabanna gas storage and mining facility on the planet Kelavon. The planet is gas giant, and has no stargate, which could explain why we didn't know about it sooner.
The facility sprawls over three storage platforms and a large mining platform, similar to Cloud City, but about a quarter of the size. The platforms are linked by a series of long skywalks.
The assault transport ATR-FAR05 will transport us there and will land on the storage platform farthest away from the mining facility. From there we will proceed inward toward the mining platform, rigging the tabanna gas storage tanks for demolition. The superstructure of the mining platform will be laced with Nergon-14 and thermite charges to eat through the supports. Once the facility has been prepped for destruction, we will proceed back through the series of skywalks to our transport. When we reach a safe distance from the facility, we will detonate the munitions.
Personnel:
Anton "Viper" Moore, Cleo "Red" Shurtz, Glantry Fett, Ilexa Thorn, Miles Fortis
Injuries to Personnel/Equipment:
Anton "Viper" Moore - shrapnel fragments in back and left leg
Report:
After landing, we determined the third gas storage platform to be free of any of Steele's gas miners. We set charges, and somehow Thorn managed to make her way past Red and myself onto the second platform.
She had a close encounter with one of the miners, who met his untimely end via a blaster bolt to the back of the head.
We then proceeded to rig up that platform for demolition, and Glantry, Red, and I had a close encounter with a half dozen miners—apparently the shift change. Those were put down by a stun grenade and a few well placed blaster bolts. This apparently caused some disturbance, and forced us to move forward and secure the last storage platform.
A booby trap was placed in the skywalk to disable any miners or storm troopers attempting to gain access to the gas storage platforms.
While Red and Thorn set the demolition charges, Miles, Glantry and I held off any enemy forces attempting to move onto the platform.
Once the charges were set, Red, Thorn, and Glantry moved off down the skywalk and into the mining facility while Miles and I held the skywalk at that end.
After disabling an E-Web and several dozen storm troopers and armed miners, the explosives team made it back to the skywalk and we began our retreat through the series of skywalks and gas storage platforms. I was last in line, covering our retreat behind Miles. When I made it out onto the third platform, I issued orders to Red to detonate the special charges she had planted in the skywalks.
The skywalks were destroyed, cutting off any pursuit and also sending shrapnel fragments flying out and into my back and leg.
While this caused intense discomfort—a lot of pain, too—I was still able to make it back into the assault transport myself.
We took off and as soon as we were out of the blast range, Red detonated the explosives, sending the mining facility plummeting down into the core of the gas giant, and the gas storage platforms mushrooming into oblivion.
After the required gawking and rubbernecking period, Thorn and Glantry set course back to Farpoint where due to blood loss, I required a bacta treatment and immediate medical attention.
|