"Crimson Leader, this is Echo of Hope with the inbound package you were set to receive. Orders of General Organa."
"Roger that Echo of Hope, proceed to planet surface for drop off." The squadron of MG-100 Starfortress bombers with crimson red markings proceeded to lead the MC80 cruiser down into the atmosphere where one of the bombers came to a hover a few meters over the ground and a ladder extended from it's now open payload doors. One of the transports left the hangar on the cruiser with Ryo and R5 on board and came down to meet the bomber squadron. Ryo noticed they were the same type of bombers from the attack on the Destroyer a month or so back but those had blue markings on them and they were named Cobalt Squadron, not Crimson squadron. Ryo wondered what kind of missions they would be doing here on this rather strange looking planet. It didn't seem like any planet he'd heard of, it was sort of a forest covered place. The trees were unfamiliar and very different to any trees he had ever seen before, many of them were bright unusual colors for plants like orange and purple, very different to the murky green covering D'qar.
"So, forgive me for asking but… What exactly are we doing here?" Ryo asked the crew, one of them responded
"Well, we're here on a resource mining operation. Resistance needs to get funds somehow and this is the quickest way to do it, we were actually about to start an op right now so that's lucky you've arrived. Isaamar here is quite the awful pilot."
"I am not! I'm better than you would be!" Another guy answered who Ryo assumed would be the supposed "awful pilot". R5 gave a series of beeps and whistles before doing a sort of droid laugh. Isaamar looked at the droid in shock before the first guy said
"Hah! See Isa! Even the droid reckons you would be! Ah well, nice to meet ya kid; names Cadvice Rouleck and you are?"
"Eh.. Ryo Vaarik sir, nice to meet you I guess." Ryo answered nervously, everyone here was way older than him. He was only very recently 15 cycles old, these guys all looked at least over 20.
"So, you look pretty young Ryo. How'd someone your age get a pilot's spot in the Resistance?"
"Well, I kinda had nowhere else to go. First Order destroyed my home and killed my family, I still don't even know why. They just showed up one day with a massive walker and TIE fighters and destroyed everything, I escaped in my father's old X-wing with R5 here. They're the only parts of home I still have left so I don't plan to let them go." Ryo said, it was the first time he'd told really anyone in detail what happened to his family and where he came from.
"Well, sorry to hear that Ryo. We better get going, you sure you can handle something a bit bigger than an X-wing?" Cadvice asked.
"Well, I'll probably have a shaky start but I should learn the ropes pretty quick. These bombers were in the database back at HQ, I remember reading up on them. Slow and can't take a whole lot of hits but they more than make up for it with the payload they carry, correct?"
"Yeah, seems about right" Cadvice responded.
"Well, I guess I'll jump in there and take a look around. Once I'm familiar with the cockpit I guess we can go do whatever we're doing here." Ryo said, he climbed aboard the bomber and went straight to the cockpit. Once he was behind the controls he began to figure out the systems and layout fairly quick, once he and the crews were all ready they fired up the engines and Crimson Squadron lifted away to prepare for their work.
