Space E-war

[UndeadRaptor]

"Probally not if we'd gotten here any sooner, anyways," another mercenary replied, before going back to cleaning the barrel of his rifle. The ship came even closer to the ground, the landing gear now coming out before it got close enough to the rocky surface to land...

[Godzilla Forever]

Jessica waits for the ship to land, not replying to the statement yet....

[UndeadRaptor]

The ship finally lands, the door opening as Dylan leaves the cockpit again. The merchants all leave the ship, waiting outside for Jessica and Dylan, the only two besides the pilots who were still inside...

[Doc 42]

Mataka simply shrugged. Taking the lift down to ground level, the group moved out through a staff access route, avoiding the main lobby, leaving the building. A civillian hover dyne was waiting for them. The long craft was coloured white and split into several sections. 4 rotar engines were mounted on the ship, 2 at the front, 2 at the back. The door of the middle section slid open and an un-masked Koult scout waved them in. The group boarded it quickly. Inside, there were rows of seats, and slit windows along the walls. The craft was cramped, but the seats had plenty of room around them, each one having a small table and restraints. The back compartment was more open and had standing restraints. Mataka's team were already seated, organising various papers and instruments. The team consisted of 4 young koult, each wearing tunics and shorts of various designs. Some of them waved when the aliens entered. Mataka gestured to them and yipped "My team, I'll introduce you to them later." The moment the last of the group was in, the scout reached down below the door way, pulling out a railing and hopping down onto it, before shutting the door behind him. He must have spoken to the pilot via radio as as he did so, the craft suddenly lurched up into the air and accelerated quickly, heading for the jungle.

[Godzilla Forever]

Jessica gets up and exits the ship. She is glad to have some help, but won't be content until she at least gets her ship back.......

[dinoman666]

The Sangheili, uncomfortable sitting in the chairs design for Koult, preferred standing, holding onto the restraints as the ship took off...

No sooner had the group left their ship did the front door to the mining facility open, and a group of Eclipse mercs streamed out. As they took cover behind a few scattered boulders and crates outside, they tossed several flashbang grenades at the merchants...

[UndeadRaptor]

The mercenaries shielded their eyes as the flashbangs detonated, a few getting taken by the effects and moving somewhat akwardly as the rest take cover. "Grenades!" Dylan had shouted, the 5 in cover all tossing some grenades back at the Eclipse Mercs...

[dinoman666]

Geero hung back near the door of the facility and watched as the mercs scattered, a couple being caught by the grenades and tossed into the air. They swiftly retaliated, flinging another round of grenades at the more disoriented merchants. These ones, Inferno Grenades, exploded into small fireballs, which launched several smaller, flaming fragments in every direction, catching the blinded and deafened merchants in a fiery maelstrom that was swiftly followed by long bursts of rifle fire from the Eclipse Troopers...

[UndeadRaptor]

One merchant who hadn't been hit fired a small rocket device off at the Eclipse Mercs, considering he had "bought" the weapon from another faction and wanted to try it out. "Pieces of armor and some flesh had been burned from the attack, but the mercenaries quickly began shooting back, some on the ground trying to remove the flames during the crossfire, however...

[dinoman666]

The rocket slammed into a rock a merc was hiding behind, knocking him on his back, but otherwise not hurting him. The Troopers steadily moved closer, their Avengers more effective at mid to close range. One merc, a Vanguard, was leading them closer, staying in cover and readying her Scimitar Assault Shotgun. The Eclipse mercs hopped from rock to rock, popping out every once in a while to take potshots at the merchants, while a pair of Heavies near Geero stayed near him, sending the occasional rocket at the merchants as well...

[UndeadRaptor]

Plasma began streaming across the area, some of the mercenaries using the weapons the G.E.A had given them to start off with, the bolts crashing into multiple enemies. Another small rocket, this time guided by a H.U.D within a merc's helmet, soared through the air towards the mining entrance...

[dinoman666]

Geero and the Heavies dove out of the way, the rocket crashing into the door and exploding. Other than being severely scorched, the door was unharmed, but Geero still cursed. He shouted at his Heavies, "Kill that a**hole!" The Heavies nodded and stood up, sending a pair of tracking rockets at the merchant who was using the missile launcher. Meanwhile, the rest of the mercenaries, mostly safe behind cover, stayed where they were, now able to fire on the merchants with significantly better accuracy from their assault rifles. The Vanguard, however, crawled around to the edge of the battlefield, taking cover near the parked Heroine...

[UndeadRaptor]

Dylan suddenly turns on his two-way communicator on his wrist, before contacting some other mercenaries of the same group he controlled. "We need reinforcements over here! Get that ship ready for a hyper-space jump, I'm setting up a beacon!" the man shouted, the merchant with the missile launcher ducking in time for the rockets to crash into some rocks behind him...

[dinoman666]

Suddenly, the rocket-wielding merchant was lifted into the air as if by an invisible force, before being slammed with bone-breaking force against the hull of the Heroine. The rest of the mercs continued to fire on the merchants position...

[UndeadRaptor]

The mercenary crashed to the ground soon afterwards, his some of his ribs and right arm broken, but he continued firing the small guided missiles at the facility. Dylan slammed a tracking beacon directly into the ground, the signal only being picked up by the Flaming Skulls merchants in different sectors of the galaxy, some quickly responding and heading the the direction of the distress beacon...

[dinoman666]

The Vanguard stepped out from behind the Heroine and fired, putting a shell into the merchant's head at point-blank range, killing him instantly. She looked up, eyes widening when she spotted Dylan placing something on the ground. A bomb? A beacon? It didn't matter. The point was to get rid of it before it caused any more trouble. She charged towards Dylan and the beacon, sending a Force Push at Dylan and sending him flying...

[UndeadRaptor]

The vanguard suddenly felt an intense amount of heat crash into her back, one of the merchants using a flamethrowing-like device to try and burn the Eclipse Merc. Dylan crashed into a boulder and begin staggering towards the ship once he had gotten up, going to get something to help do quite some damage to the mining facility's interior...

[dinoman666]

The Vanguard snarled as the flames washed over her Barrier. Spinning around, she blasted the merchant at close range with her shotgun, blowing him off his feet, before using the Force to wrench the beacon from the ground and slam it into Dylan's parked ship, the device crumpling into a heap upon contact...

[UndeadRaptor]

Thanks to some of the ships already locking onto the planet where the beacon once was, they still would be able to get there as each made a hyper-space jump, some sending coordinates to others. Dylan pulled out his duel pistols and rapidly shot the vanguard in the chest, the merchant that was shot screaming in pain now...

[dinoman666]

The projectiles bounced off the Vanguards weakened Barrier, and the merc managed to blast Dylan backwards again before the Barrier fell, taking the opportunity to shoot the fallen merchant dead...