CT-2131

The Beginning

Account of CT-2131

3rd Systems Army- 212th Attack Battalion- Drench Company- Masters squad

 

The trooper looked out the side of the gunship at the barren, rocky canyons that wove in every direction. He watched the AT-OT's wind their way through the canyons that contained hundreds of garrisoned soldiers on them. His company, Drench company, was supposed to provide air support from the LAAT for the troop transports. The canyons were filled with Geonosian bunkers that mortored the transports. It was extremely unusual to send AT-OT’s this far in the battlefield, but the front lines needed more soldiers and fast.

“Hey, Tac,” said Cutter, the trooper next to him,”keep your eyes peeled for that bunker, we don’t need any more casualties.”

“Understood Cutter.” Tac replied to the Arc trooper and continued scanning the environment below.

Drench company had gotten their name, after their first battle on Geonosis. They had fought with General Unduli, a jedi master who led them into an old droid oil refinery successfully capturing it. However, after the battle an oil vein exploded and covered their white armor with black oil. The oil drenched the armor, sticking to it, and giving them their name, Drench company.

Tac could hear the bombs and gunfire coming from the front lines, thankful he was safe in the gunship away from the fighting. He could also see the space battle above taking place with blue and red bolts flying in every direction, and then every few seconds a burst of orange-white light signaled that a starfighter had been destroyed. Suddenly an ARC-170, a horizontal starfighter with one blaster at the end of each wing, came out the sky with fire on one of its wings. Quickly following the 170, a CIS tri-fighter, a droid ship with three braces going symmetrically around a ball cockpit, shot more red bolts after the clone ship. The 170 lost control and crashed into the canyon side creating a large explosion. The tri-fighter then swooped back upwards in a loop to rejoin the battle above.  

Startled and distracted by the event, Tac didn’t notice that the gunship had begun to descend.

“Cutter, what are we doing?” Tac asked the Alpha.  

“An AT-OT is just out of range of some CIS gun emplacement. We are landing near the site and going in and setting up some charges on those guns.” Cutter replied, “we are also entering covertly, which means we are going in through a nearby genoisian hive system that runs up right next to the guns”

The LAAT hovered over the plateau as well as 3 others. Before he got off, he primed his DC-15A making sure that it was loaded. He put the long, black rifle over his back, then got a belt of ECD grenades. Tac jumped out of the gunship as did the 30 or so more behind him. He looked around at two orange colored bomb squads. These clones were specially trained to handle explosive charges, and he wasn’t surprised they had come along with the company.