To light a candle - 16.3: Destruction of Vandos Prime
[Mission Log 1603; Sergeant Sakana]
We sprinted down the corridors of the CIS facility. After regrouping with the regiment and filling up our ammo stock, it was now time to blow this ice rock straight to Mustafar. We advanced into the mine shafts beneath the facility. Containers of raw cyber were stacked up against the cave’s walls that had partially formed naturally, partially been cleanly cut by mining droids. The combination of straight and curved forms made me nauseous. „Aim well and shoot first, we don’t want the clankers to hit the kyber!“ I yelled at Koi, as my DC bolts dropped another droid. My comlink beeped and we came to a halt. Sergeant Jester appeared in my hand as a light blue hologram, giving out final orders: Set timer charges to the cyber and get the shab out of here. The connection broke and flickered just a moment longer than usual. Suddenly a vague silhouette appeared, heavily distorted by static. „This is Jedi General Avec… You cannot blow up… kyber…chain reaction… damage to the planet… thousands will die… foundational stilts… compromise… bury the kyber.“ Was this true? Jester or Syphen had not told us anything about a chain reaction. This area with kyber was supposed to be a single concentrated pile, not a network. Yet, we had seen hundreds of crystals in the rocks on the surface. I had the feeling the Jedi might be right. Too many had died today, already, we could not risk it. „Change of plan, Koi. No big bang today, we’re going to bring down the stilts only.“ „Pardon, Sir?“ Koi had just started to unpack his collection of blast charges, which he handled a bit too lovingly for my taste. „So, no fireworks?“ „No, make sure to only set charges on the stilts, I’ll get the kyber out of the blast radius.“ Koi let his head hang in disappointment, but obeyed the order. He used his grappling hook to ascent to the top of the stilt and started carefully applying thermal detonators to it. „All done, Sir.“ „Good, time for evac. Let’s get out of here and light the candle!“
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A very quick and unspectacular build as I am super busy these days. Nonetheless I didn't want to miss out on Mission 16.3 of the 253rd Elite Legion. Big thanks to my friend Mr. Grievous for the kyber crates idea.
To light a candle - 16.3: Destruction of Vandos Prime
[Mission Log 1603; Sergeant Sakana]
We sprinted down the corridors of the CIS facility. After regrouping with the regiment and filling up our ammo stock, it was now time to blow this ice rock straight to Mustafar. We advanced into the mine shafts beneath the facility. Containers of raw cyber were stacked up against the cave’s walls that had partially formed naturally, partially been cleanly cut by mining droids. The combination of straight and curved forms made me nauseous. „Aim well and shoot first, we don’t want the clankers to hit the kyber!“ I yelled at Koi, as my DC bolts dropped another droid. My comlink beeped and we came to a halt. Sergeant Jester appeared in my hand as a light blue hologram, giving out final orders: Set timer charges to the cyber and get the shab out of here. The connection broke and flickered just a moment longer than usual. Suddenly a vague silhouette appeared, heavily distorted by static. „This is Jedi General Avec… You cannot blow up… kyber…chain reaction… damage to the planet… thousands will die… foundational stilts… compromise… bury the kyber.“ Was this true? Jester or Syphen had not told us anything about a chain reaction. This area with kyber was supposed to be a single concentrated pile, not a network. Yet, we had seen hundreds of crystals in the rocks on the surface. I had the feeling the Jedi might be right. Too many had died today, already, we could not risk it. „Change of plan, Koi. No big bang today, we’re going to bring down the stilts only.“ „Pardon, Sir?“ Koi had just started to unpack his collection of blast charges, which he handled a bit too lovingly for my taste. „So, no fireworks?“ „No, make sure to only set charges on the stilts, I’ll get the kyber out of the blast radius.“ Koi let his head hang in disappointment, but obeyed the order. He used his grappling hook to ascent to the top of the stilt and started carefully applying thermal detonators to it. „All done, Sir.“ „Good, time for evac. Let’s get out of here and light the candle!“
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A very quick and unspectacular build as I am super busy these days. Nonetheless I didn't want to miss out on Mission 16.3 of the 253rd Elite Legion. Big thanks to my friend Mr. Grievous for the kyber crates idea.