Cotez imerged into a clearing that signaled the start of the perimeter for the Machinery Storage, he walked closer wary of any ambush. He heard a rustle in the leaves and then suddenly he was surrounded by men holding blasters at the ready."Peace, i mean no harm!" Cotez said as he began to back away, the soldier on his back stired, Cotez spared a glance at the soldier.
"Who are you!" One of them yelled.
"I bought this wounded soldier here, my names is Cotez" Cotez replied.
The man gestured to another man who appeared to be a big oaf in Cotez's opinion, none the less, the big man walked over and grabed the soldier of Cotez's back.
"Ahhh, It's Commander Magnus" He gasped.
"He's Wounded, Get him to the medvac asap!" He yelled as he turned to cotez.
"Where did you find him!" he grabed Cotez with his spare arm and lifted him by his coat of the ground.
"Sarin, let him go!" came a voice from behind Cotez. The man called Sarin turned around and looked in the direction voice, then dropped Cotez on the ground and ran away carrying the soldier.
"I am so sorry for Sarin's behaviour, you see he is Magnus's brother" the man said, he was an older man, far older than any of the men in the ring around Cotez, he was dressed in a red flight suit and had two blasters on either side of his hip. He was prepared for battle, and his body structure said that he would be a good match for any warrior.
"That's ok" Cotez replied.
"Are you a local?" the man asked.
"Yes" Cotez replied. The man simply nodded and smiled as he gestured for the ring of men to leave, he then walked past cotez to the wall of the out-building of the machinery storage area, he knocked on the door three times, then whistled. The door opened and he turned around.
"My name is Warren, come with me" he gestured with his hand, revealing it to be in a black glove with the symbol of the rebel alliance on it. Cotez followed, he wanted to know what was going on, mostly it was the overpowering thought that someone was coming to defeat the vong that made him follow Warren.
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"FASTER!" Verak yelled, he was walking back and forth infront of a line of assembled warriors, they were taking longer than he thought they would. "THE LAST PERSON HERE WILL BE SACRIFICED!" he continued to yell as the last bung of straglers fell into place at the back, he had a total of 500 vong here, this would be enought to defeat the pathetic infidels he though.
Secretly he had reservations of capturing the leader, he wanted to capture the leader so he could display his head to his brothers superiors, this would elevate him to the rank of commander, on equal par with his brother, he would then slay his brother in personal combat.
"Sir!" his warriors yelled in unison. he gestured to the shaper beside him, 'a gift by his superiors for a good ambush', to leave. He waved over his leutenant, and gestured to the back thirty warriors, his leutenant bowed and walked over and stabed each of the thirty in the back with his amphistaff, none of them even flinched as the amphistaff sliced into their spine.
"Good" Verak said.
"Now we will crush the infidels, we will destroy their machines, we will troumph!" he shook his fist in the air, and he was awnsered with a bellow of his name.
"VERAK! VERAK! VERAK!" they bellowed, he grinned. This day, would be his, the gods would shower him with honor.
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"Cotez, How long have you lived here?" Warren asked as they walked down the long tunnel."All my life..ahh sir" Cotez replied."Please call me Warren, i don't like titles much, they make me chafe" Warren said.
"So, you have been under vong supression all you're life, how old are you?"
"I am 16 years old" Cotez replied, Warren shook his head.
"tut, tut, must have been a hard life, living under the vong, you must have just caught them as they began their war" Warren said. Cotez simply nodded and remained silent.
Warren shared a little about himsef on the walk, He was a veteran warrior, he was 56 years old, he had been fighting for 40 of them, he had commanded many ground assaults during his carer with the empire, he greatly regreted those battles, he felt that the empire was not the right kind of government, so in one battle he orchestrated the defeat of his attack force, then went and joined the rebel alliance, he helped the rebel alliance to many great victories, then he retired. It was a short lived retirement, he was called back into service during the thrawn crisis, eventually he was allowed to retire after that battle, but he decided that his life was best served doing battle with his enemies, helping his allies and fighting till his last breath. He was the Leutenant-General of a battle group at the start of the war, he lost 90 percent of his forces in the first couple of engagements, he lost many good men on those days.
He retreaded to Kuat to replenish his forces and bolster their defences, he was ordered to stay there as part of the defence force, so he did. It was a while until his standing orders changed, he found out that Coruscant had been taken by the vong, he was ordered to hasten to Mon Calamari to defend it at all costs. There he stayed for two years, then he was sent with an attack force to recapture key planets on an attack route through to some vong strongholds, one year after his assignment he came to this world, he had been fighting here for one month, secretly.
Finaly Cotez could see light up ahead, he looked over at Warren.
"Are we nearly there?" Cotez asked.
"Yes we are nearly there, on the otherside of the entrance up there is our encampment, it is hidden in the side of a mountain to avoid detection by vong forces, and it has gun emplacements so that it can be defended from any areial assault should one ever occur."
Warren looked on as they entered the camp, it was no much of a camp, more of an entire settlement, it had solid duracrete buildings all over the place, semingly placed to defend from any area should an attack come, then there was the outdoor barracks which saw many men training outside, shooting at targets, Cotez looked up at the sky, at a falling rock from the side of the cliff above, it fell then it rebonded of a semingly invidible barrier, sending a rippled across the surface, then sliding down the side and falling to the ground.
"What was that?" Cotez asked in awe.
"That was our defence shield, i was not sure it was completed yet" Warren awnsered.
As they walked along many people saluted Warren, it was an amazing sight, he did not command their respect, he earned their respect, all these men and women seemed happy to serve a man like Warren.
"Now Cotez, i am going to take you to the temporary accomidation we have set up for the resistance members we have encountered on this planet." Warren said and gestured to a tall rectangel shaped building, with about 6 floors and 20 windows per floor as far as Cotez could see. As they walked cotez noted a peculiar man dressed in a dark brown cloak, and white tunic walk past him, the man turned and looked at him, his eyes breifly went over cotez, then returned to looking infront of himself.
"Who was that?" Cotez asked as he watched the figure walk towards the central building.
"That was a Jedi, Camahl Sarat, he is a Marran from the planet Marris, he is here to help us with our victory"
"Jedi?" Cotez asked, he had heard the term used before, but didn't really know what they where.
"Have you never heard of the jedi?" Warren asked. Cotez shook his head.
"Well, the jedi are beings that can use a mystical energy called the force, they can use it in many amazing ways..." Cotez listened to all that Warren had to say, in the time it took for the conversation, they had reached the entrance to the accomidation. Warren gestured for Cotez to enter, he then walked over to the reception area, well what looked like one. He hit the bell and a woman ran out.
"Mum?" Cotez said as he saw who it was, a look of shock covered his mothers face.
