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Corran_Fett
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Honor Guard / Kandosii A'den - (Mandalorians vs. Yuuzhan Vong / Action) -|[ 9/15: Chapter TWO ]|-
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Chapter Two
Ronan Barec was very content.
The anti-air SCSK-S4 rockets had taken out the coralskippers silently with miniature-black-holes that were not hearable for humans and, what was more important, for Yuuzhan Vong. The Vong in the troop transport-equal hadn't even noticed that their escort had been eliminated from one moment to another.
"Bit by your own weapons, scarheads," Ronan said. "That's something you'd better get used to in future. But you don't stand a chance against us, anyway."
Ronan had given the Yuuzhan Vong leader some time to think about what happened to the skips before he had ordered the Mandalorians to take out the whole platoon. All Vong were dead, except one. The most scarred Vong of all, the leader, who Ronan had taken out himself with a new weapon which fired a bullet that attacked the nerve system of a Yuuzhan Vong warrior and let him feel the worst pain he could experience in life.
Usually, the insane pain made the warrior unconscious, but Ronan better wanted to be sure that he and the Mandalorians wouldn't be discovered as those and ordered his men to let their holo-projectors activated.
The holo made one look like a random Yuuzhan Vong: some with more, others with less scars and tattoos. The projector even covered the warriors' rifles and jetpacks and each solider could hold a small device that projected a holo of an amphistaff. The only thing that could reveal this nearly perfect camouflage was that most of the Mandalorians could not speak the language of the Yuuzhan Vong. Only Ronan and some other leaders like Atross and Trynic Jatt had a tyzowyrm in their ears that made them able to speak perfect and fluent Yuuzhan Vong.
Ronan went to the incapacitated body of the Yuuzhan Vong leader and got even more satisfied. The villip on the warrior's shoulder was still alive.
The operation is proceeding perfectly, he thought. A bit too perfect for my sake, though. We better keep our eyes open.
Just moments after Ronan had arrived, the villip began to transform in an utterly ugly and dire scarred face with a flat forehead and a nose that was more like a dent than a ridge on the Yuuzhan Vong's face.
"How is the mission proceeding, Ny'ong Yutt?" it began to speak in an odd-sounding, but somehow familiar and understandable tone for Ronan.
"Excuse me, sir, but Ny'ong Yutt died in battle. I am Royn Bredc and the highest ranked warrior now. We eliminated the threat but had to take some losses on our side as well."
We eliminated the threat, indeed. Ronan smirked behind his visor. But we have no losses yet, di'kut.
"You have done well, Royn Bredc. I can guarantee you a promotion as soon as you are back. Now return to the base and report in, warrior."
"Very good, sir," Ronan answered and interrupted the connection by petting the villip. He put the organic communicator in a cloth and fastened it on his weapon-belt.
"Put him on a small isle and make sure that he doesn't awake until four or three days," he ordered a Mandalorian near him, pointing on the body of Ny'ong Yutt.
Then he left the unconscious Scarhead for good and entered the Yuuzhan Vong troop transport, where thirty-six disguised Mandalorians were already stationed. These thirty-six warriors were the best and most elite of the Mandalorian Protectors - their platoon was called Honor Guards, as in the most skilled warriors who had the privilege to be around the Mandalore and guard and fight for him with their lives - and would have the most difficult part of the operation. Under the lead of Ronan, they would infiltrate the main Yuuzhan Vong base on Dubrillion and cut the other bases off supplies and support. Most of the coralskippers and ships on the planet were stationed in this base as well and they could be blown up on ground far easier than in skies or in space.
Ronan went over to the cockpit where his best pilot was already acquainting himself with the controls and Yuuzhan Vong bio-technology. His helmet was fastened on his back - he had no jetpack - and on his head, which still looked like a scarhead, was a bulky hood that was connected with a weird organic cable-alike to the ship itself.
"Are you ready, Thor?" Ronan asked the pilot.
"Ready as usual, sir," Katin 'Thor' Tyark said. On the holographic Yuuzhan Vong face, his smile looked more as if he was about to vomit. "I can fly this rock wherever you want - or at least anywhere on this planet. It apparently can't fly in space."
"Okay. Let the engines warm up, Katin," Ronan said sarcastically.
Katin Tyark, nicknamed Thor, was one of Ronan's best men, but he was also a good friend and some kind of mentor in a certain way. In the recruitment phase, Thor had learned how to use a sniper from Ronan, and Ronan on the other hand had learned some flying-tricks from the former TIE-fighter-pilot of the feared Imperial 181st Imperial Fighter Wing. Honoring his old squadron, his armor was matte black with blood-red stripes on both sides - just as the 181st had on their uniforms and TIE-fighters. Thor, as one of the oldest Mandalorians in the mid-forties, was always in a good mood and an excellent pilot. He had always enriched Ronan's lesson with funny comments and had made his own lessons always airy.
Now, Thor was challenged with flying an outer-galaxy-ship that used bio-technology one could hardly imagine. But Ronan knew that Thor would win the challenge.
Ronan went back into the troop hold of the organic ship and looked into the 36 different faces of ugly, scarred Yuuzhan Vong warriors. They look freaking real, man. Ronan shuddered to think. And I sure wouldn't want them to be on the other side...
"We will take off to the scarhead base now. You are the best of the best and you know what to do. Show those chakaar'e that we are Mandalorians, and that we will fight."
More words weren't needed to be said. They knew what to do and they knew how to do it. They were the perfect warriors. They didn't even need a last push or a war-cry - something that less experienced teams in the Mandalorian forces barely could understand.
The scarred faces just nodded ghastly.
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Ronan was just checking his EE-23s/YVK sniper rifle when they could eventually make out the Yuuzhan Vong base in distance. For fifteen minutes he had been sitting in the cockpit, watching the water of pass by under them, while the living ship was flying over the giant oceans of Dubrillion. Finally, they could see the main continent after few little islands on their way from the isle of So'tara to the Yuuzhan Vong base on the continent.
The base looked gigantic. Even from a distance of at least twenty klicks, you could make out the plants of growing coralskippers, the high buildings that looked like a mushroom upside down and the huge organic ships in and around an enormous hangar-like building.
Won't get easy after all, Ronan thought.
He stood up and walked back into the troop hold where now the thirty-six Yuuzhan Vong warriors had been replaced through thirty-six elite Mandalorian Protectors. Briefly after the take-off from So'tara they had deactivated their cloaking-devices to save energy for the mission.
"The Yuuzhan Vong base is in sight. Prepare to assault, Mandalorians," Ronan ordered them. Again, not many words needed to be said.
The only affirmation to his order consisted in the re-activation of their Yuuzhan Vong disguises. Once more, he shivered with the utterly real-looking holos. Whoever has invented these devices earns a medal.
We went back to the cockpit and noticed that the base looked even bigger now as they had approached to three klicks.
"Land right there in this hangar," Ronan said, pointing on the huge organic warehouse-like building. "And try to land so that you block the other big ships their way out of the hangar."
"Very good, sir," Thor replied. "Ready to kick some asses of ten thousand Scarheads, sir."
"Yeah, yeah, but leave me some, will you?" Ronan said, smiling.
Somehow, Tyark managed to maneuver the bulky rock like a small and agile starfighter into the hangar. He landed in a way that the exit of the troop hold looked just towards the hangar, the rest of the ship covering the troops from the outside.
Together with Thor and two other Mandalorians, Ronan left the cockpit and went right to the membrane that was the "gate" to the hangar.
"You know the rules: no blasters, no explosives. We have to take 'em out silently," was Ronan's last order before he made the membrane open itself and stepped out.
Noticing no sign of confirmation from his men, he blamed himself for always repeating things they would do also without his repetitions, anyway. They are elite, man... believe it or not.
The building was at least five-hundred meters long and a hundred meters wide.
And it was filled with Yuuzhan Vong.
With lots of them.
Cannon fodder, Ronan thought.
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Canon fodder...
Haha, looking forward for some mandalorian´s kickin Vong butt..
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Thx for dropping by 
The next chapter will be full of action, I promise 
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The fresh smell of burning vong in the morning....
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Corran_Fett posted:
Ronan was just checking his EE-23s/YVK sniper rifle when they could eventually make out the Yuuzhan Vong base in distance. For fifteen minutes he had been sitting in the cockpit, watching the water of pass by under them while the living ship was flying over the giant oceans of Dubrillion. Finally, they could see the main continent after few little islands on their way from the isle of So’tara to the Yuuzhan Vong base on the continent.
Always good to see inspiration taken from Imperial Assault maps, hehehehehe...
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Kudzu posted:
Corran_Fett posted:
Ronan was just checking his EE-23s/YVK sniper rifle when they could eventually make out the Yuuzhan Vong base in distance. For fifteen minutes he had been sitting in the cockpit, watching the water of pass by under them while the living ship was flying over the giant oceans of Dubrillion. Finally, they could see the main continent after few little islands on their way from the isle of So’tara to the Yuuzhan Vong base on the continent.
Always good to see inspiration taken from Imperial Assault maps, hehehehehe...
Honestly, I never played IA. I just looked up Wookieepedia for intel on Dubrillion, and there was said that it had many and big oceans and not many continents. Anyway, thanks for reading
Valin_Halcyon posted:
The fresh smell of burning vong in the morning....
Thx for dropping by and reading
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'Canon fodder'. I love it.
What's that I smell? *Sniffs the air* Could it be Mandalorians kicking Stcarhead butt? I think it is.
Nice infiltration by the team.
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RK_Striker_JK_5 posted:
'Canon fodder'. I love it.
Thank you
RK_Striker_JK_5 posted:
What's that I smell? *Sniffs the air* Could it be Mandalorians kicking Stcarhead butt? I think it is.
I think you are damn right
RK_Striker_JK_5 posted:
Nice infiltration by the team.
Thx for dropping by and reading...
You can expect the next chapter on Tuesday I guess.
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Heh. Those holoprojectors are quite nifty, eh? Y'see, good ol' A-51 never needed a holo-disguise. Just a big poncho.
I personally think it'd be cooler to have the Mandalorians go undetected without the disguises - more reliance on the man, not the tech. But that's just me.
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Antilles2001 posted:
Heh. Those holoprojectors are quite nifty, eh?
Yes they are
Antilles2001 posted:
Y'see, good ol' A-51 never needed a holo-disguise. Just a big poncho.
Good 'ol A-51 didn't fight outer-galactic Scarheads but di'kutla Seperatists, buddy - quite a difference...
Antilles2001 posted:
I personally think it'd be cooler to have the Mandalorians go undetected without the disguises - more reliance on the man, not the tech. But that's just me.
A Mando always takes the best advantage out of a situation. And believe me... they won't use their disguises any time else after finishing the Vong in the hangar. On the isle, they didn't want to be encountered and wanted to have the advantage of surprise. Now, without their disguises, they couldn't have infiltrated the base that well. In the hangar, they look like Vong and so they have the advantage of surprise as well. But after that, they gotta go back to "usual" tactics, believe me
anyway, thx for reading and commenting
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Great fic, Corran!
I think this is your best one to date...
And I too think that writing in English and not translating from German has helped a great deal...
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Wow, sweet chapters, vod(brother in Mandalorian, check Karen Traviss'es Mando'a class)
Just wondering about the Tech, how do the Mandalorians tell each other apart when they disguised them selves as Vong? Couldnt they accidentaly kill one another when they thought they were killing a vong? Just want to know how it works...
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DarthReven posted:
Wow, sweet chapters, vod(brother in Mandalorian, check Karen Traviss'es Mando'a class)
Thank you. I know the Mando'a class, buddy... and I know all Mando'a words that are yet released...
And usually you say "..., ner vod" mot only "..., vod"
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Just wondering about the Tech, how do the Mandalorians tell each other apart when they disguised them selves as Vong? Couldnt they accidentaly kill one another when they thought they were killing a vong? Just want to know how it works...
They just use their disguise for surprise. But I won't tell you anything more now... the next Chapter will reveal it
Ph0enix posted:
Great fic, Corran!
I think this is your best one to date...
Thank you. Glad you like it
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And I too think that writing in English and not translating from German has helped a great deal...
So do I.. *g* - it is much easier that way.
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Up! (page three is dishonorable  )
I'm working on Chapter 3, lads... should be up either late today or tomorrow.
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What does ner vodmean? Since Vod means "brother" What would "ner" do?( i just entered class)
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