Hello, I plan on returning to this story soon. I have updated it a little based on the new canon now out after The force Awakens.

Star wars Rebel Strike Team

Darius Part 2

Darius dreams of failure and hope were broken by the buzzing of the communications gear alerting him it was 0300. He slowly pulled himself from sleep and began to get up, as he did he saw the spot where he had thrown the file. The file from the night before had been completely dissolved by the acid and only a dull stain existed on the floor at his feet. As he got up he began to run through his checklist he first order of business was to get up and begin checking his equipment. First he turned on the speeder bike, while unarmed was fast and a stripped down version the imperials used. The speeder bike hummed to life and began to life off of the ground on micro repulsors under the engine. He then turned it off and headed for the right side side bags to check his equipment. In the right rear saddle bag was his coms gear, Ghille suit, carrier vest and broke down sniper rifle. At the front sidebar was his blaster and food for three days. He then walked around the speeder bike and looked inside the front left sidebag, he found the clips to his rifle and blaster as well as his maps, and then he looked at the rear left sidebag he found bottles of water and a set of republic camouflage jungle fatigues as well as two booby traps from the night before. After making sure all was well in each bag he headed to the door. After disarming his thermal detonator booby trap on the door he headed into the main hanger and proceeded to the lavatory towards the front of the hanger on the left side. After relieving himself and washing his face he got on with the day. He headed back to his the Secure area three punched in the code and headed to the ;left wall and activated the massive doors beside the small human doors. As they lifted up he got on the speeder bike and put it on low power and turned it over, it barely hovered off the floor and he pushed it to the front of the hanger by the huge double doors. As the bike hovered he headed out the small humanoid sized door to scope out the city. The city was lit up but many were still asleep, the skyways were still alive but mostly with people come home from bars in taxis and people going home from late shift at work. After making sure no security forces were around he headed back inside and headed to the wall and flipped the switch to open the main hanger doors , and like a huge garage door they began to open and slid just under the roof. He then headed back to the speeder bike still hovering and looked in the sidebag with the map pulled it out and looked it over. He was heading to the imperial retreat in the protected Imperial forest reserve just outside the city to his west.

After yesterday's close call he decided to use caution he headed east and took a more circular route through the city, by the time he was certain he was not being followed and made it to the edge of the reserve, it was 0800, he was running out of time and the sun was beginning to crest over the horizon. HE got out of the bike at the edge of the forest reserve away from any well traveled paths and got out his clothes, he sneaked behind the bushes and changed. After changing he headed back and after placing his backpack, id and old clothes in a sidebag he got out the carrying vest and put all the rations in the pockets as well as the water, he then put on the communications set which included a transceiver on the back of the vest, a ear bud in his ear and a channel changer fro emergency changing of encrypted channels on a line running from the transceiver. He then got out the blaster and the clips and put them on a bandoleer around his waist. He then got the rifle, and began assembly, the assembly took about 10 minutes and slung on his back, and finally he got out the ghille suit and began using foliage to break it up after he was pleased with the result he wired to bike to blow at 4 oclock using one of the booby trap thermal detonators, he then drug the bike to some local foliage hid it using some leaves and limbs and set the other town on the bike to detonate if they were disturbed or the bike was. He then pulled out the blaster and in a slow walk headed into the deep forest.

It had been at least three hours since the bike when he made it to his observation position or his OP. He knelt down and looked down the mountain in the valley was the imperial retreat. Down the mountain were several large building surrounded by laser fences. The buildings were in arrayed in a star formation with the main buildings in the center. To the north about 100 yards behind the fence was what looked like the barracks, to the east was the motor pool with imperial soldiers working on at least two hover tanks, one mobile artillery and several speeder bikes. To the west surrounded by several storm troopers were the officers quarters, while only three stories tall it was small compared to some of the other imperial OQ Darius had seen. To the south and closest to Darius was another building that looked to be a communications center with a large dish on top for long range communications. In the center of the compound at just two stories was the retreat headquarters. Paved walkways connected all the buildings. Along the fences at the four corners were guard towers armed with portable proton torpedo launchers and repeating laser cannons to stop any rebel incursions. At the east and west fences where the road came through the valley were guards and small guard house to deactivate the fence at the road to allow traffic through. Darius put his blaster in his waist holster and pulled out his bold action rifle, and looked through the scope. As he began looking for a good FFP or final firing position to take the shot from. As he continued looking at the local mountains for a good spot he noticed a motorcade coming through the west gate. IT included, to speeder bikes out front, two small tanks behind them, three APC's and two more tanks and speeder bikes behind the APCs. This was a motorcade for someone important, and that meant the meeting would start soon. The motorcade headed for the center building and after disgorging its passengers headed to the motor pool. After looking for a few more minutes through his rifle scope Darius finally settled on a FFP or Final Firing Position to his east between the motor pool and the communications building. He put the rifle back under his ghillie suit and on his back and in a slow walk headed for his position.

By the time he had got there it was nearly twelve which meant the meeting would start soon, as he made it to the FFP he noticed four more motorcades had come through and the vehicles were all either being serviced at the motor pool, or running a perimeter patrol around the fence. He laid down in the tall grass, sheathed his blaster and pulled out his rifle, he laid it down in front of him and took his place behind the rifle, with the stock in the elbow of his shoulder and his right eye just behind the scope looking through it, he then pulled the front cover off and activated the shot computer inside the scope, after booting up it created a shot map of the battlefield calculating the distances, and other environmental effects that have an effect on the shot, as it did this he removed the 10 round clip of tungston bullets and put the clip in the rifle and chambered a round. After choosing three points of reference for the computer. One being the front of the headquarters building, two being the side of the comms building and the final one being the fence itself, the computer created a shot map. Darius then programmed in the wind and got out the photo from his pocket, then he was ready for the shot, he zoomed the scope into the front of the headquarters and waited, beginning to control his breathing and getting ready for the shot. As he watched his target entered the building from a motorcade he watched her and counted the number of steps it would take to get to the motorcade from the font of the building. It took 8 steps the meeting would start soon, he activated the long range microphone on the cope and searched the building for the meeting after finding it, he began the micro recorder in the scope. As he did he began to hear the participants coming in.

Male voice one: So where is our esteemed admiral?

Male Voice two: Dont know but security just cleared him to enter.

Male voice one" I heard he that he has fallen out of favor with the emperor.

Female voice one: doubtful, if that were true he would be were admiral piatt is now, dead.

Male voice three: Piatt was a moron coming in too close to hoth for the raid and landing the marines to far away. That could have been a coup for us if done right but he fouled it up.

Male voice two: No argument there I was at hoth had we been put a little closer we could have gotten to the computers and got a lot of hard intel and maybe even some of the rebel leadership. They landed us to far away, let us hope that Bastra can get something from the remains, from what I hear he has only gotten supply routs and chains no real intel.

Female voice one Yeah but I heard something else might be going on around endor, vader has made several trips there and also Kuat drive yards one of the dock yards has been closed but still active.

Male voice 4 Gentlemen and women thank you for coming today I know you have operations either in progress or in final stages of preparations. So I know this meeting is a hassle but there are things we need to discuss.

Male Voice one: Admiral Bastra, why did you call this meeting surely things could have been said over the communications network.

Admiral Bastra: Admiral three months ago a lot of imperial communications equipment along with encryption for the Hyperspace network was discovered on a cargo ship with a history of trading with the rebellion. It is now believed that the rebels have broken our encryption and until we trace were the communications equipment came from and time for our cryptography unit to create a more secure code we have to assume long range communications have been compromised. This is too important information to fall in the hands of the rebellion.

Throughout the room murmurs could be heard as the other admirals began talking about this revelation.

Male Voice two: When was the intelligence branch going to inform us of this little problem huh, Several months the rebels have had access to our long range communications they could have been learning of our upcoming ops, personnel changes, heck even upgrades to our weaponry. WHEN WERE YOU GOING TO TELL US.

Admiral Bastra: Sit down admiral Marks or you will be lying down next to piatt and his family on Hoth. I understand your anger but the orders came from vader and the emperor, until a better encryption could be developed we could use this to not only send false intelligence but read any messages the rebels send over the network to their infiltrators and the sapper teams they have throughout the galaxy. Does anyone else have anything to add.

Female voice one: do we have an estimate on the new encryption for long range communications?

Admiral Bastra: No, the encryption that was being used was believed to be completely secure but now that it is compromised the tech branch is working overtime to create a new one, the reason for the no estimate we be revealed shortly. Anything else ladies and gentlemen.

Male Voice three: What about all current operations, my marines have several ground operations in progress, as well several a few ready to jump off, including raids to Thyferra, Ryloth, as well as a saturation mission near Nal hutta. Without secure comms how are we supposed to communicate with the units over long range.

Admiral Bastra: Commandant Kaarl Chro, all major operations are canceled those in progress will proceed as planned, until new encryption can be developed use code words for long range comms to units. Why this may tip off the rebels that something is up they wont know what until we have spread black intelligence trough their ranks and hopefully confusion that we can exploit later. However, for now though let us continue with the reason for this meeting. Gentlemen, we at intelligence since yavin have been have the heads of a two special projects. The first is called project phoenix, the second is call project shadow. I am handing out baseline materials for these projects. As you can see both are very huge projects but the one we are mainly here for is Shadow. As you can see from the materials. Shadow is a planned invasion of mon Calamari. As seen in the material we are nearly done with the secret bases on Korriban, using the old sith tombs for command and control centers and also storm trooper barracks.

The Plan is as follows, Admiral marks your third fleet will muster as kuat drive yards as normal in 4 days for resupply, where you will pick a battalion on Kaarl Chro's Recon marines. Once there you will jump out as normal to you patrol route near Corellia. While that is going on we will begin a sweep mission for our Forward Operation base on planet to begin drawing the rebels out, this is a rouse. As they are sweeping towards the main centers, we will launch bombing raids from the tie bombers we have on Korriban. These fighters will get to mon calamari on the patrol ship in system. Commander Kira Vekarr these bombers under your direct command will bomb the planet but two will carry special payloads, a biological weapon canister with rebel marking. The bombers will bomb the main rebel area of the planet with the bio canisters, once deployed the virus will become airborne. Within six months when the virus begins killing anyone on planet, it will be linked back to the rebels, info will be leaked to GNN saying the soldiers on planet found evidence of rebel bio weapon labs, and that the rebels destroyed one to keep the facility a secret releasing the virus.

Once it is revealed that the rebels, many will turn against the rebels and the regional governor will go against the mon calamari and call for additional forces. At this point our soldiers hidden on korriban will be brought to the planet by Admiral Marks third fleet, Admiral Gershaw, you will break off three of your ships from the seventh QRF fleet to cover admiral marks patrol route while marks takes his third fleet to korriban to pick up the extra storm troopers and extra equipment and head to mon calamari. By the time you get there the rgional governor will need your help with not only the virus but possible social unrest from the revelation. We will be seen has heroes, and the rebellion will lose a major base of operations any questions?

Commander Vekarr: Once the extra troops land on planet, what will be the mission of the squadrons under my command?

Admiral Bastra: Your squadrons of tie fighters and bomber will assist in overwatch and close air support of ground forces, also you will ensure no high ranking rebels leave the system you will receive further documentation just before the operation on who we believe is on planet, also during your initial air strikers with you bomber squadrons you are to take our the governors residence, the emperor has deemed him too soft and has already got someone in waiting with a more heavy hand in hopes of finally stipping the rebels of the planet and the region in general, anything else.

Male Voice one: Admiral Bastra have all the supplies been received at the jump off points of korriban and kuat for the operation.?

Admiral Bastra: Admiral Kershaw, all the pieces are in place except for the bio toxin, it will be delievered to kuat by way of courier ship emperor's chance from Coruscent, soon once it has docked it will begin loading of the bio-virus onto the main ship as well as the cure to protect our own troopers as well any empire friendly people on planet. IF there are no other questions I suggest we adjourn for a bit to look over the files of both of these projects and come back with more questions and comments for the upcoming operations or to bring anything relevant before us here, meeting adjourned for two hours.

As Marcus listened to the chairs shuffling as people got up and began to focus on the door of the main head quarters building, he felt like throwing up, all those lives, all that bloodshed, all to stop the rebels. If they were willing to do that what else was up their sleeve. He extracted the crystal drive from the scope and put in one of the pockets under his ghilie suit, rebel high command needed to hear this, as he finished the doors opened nad his target emerged and he began to get ready to take the shot. Admiral Bastra begins to head for the waiting APC in front of the building and he began the process of the taking the shot.

Step one step two calm down slow down your breathing. Step three, step four put first pressure on the trigger. Step five, step six focus on the target and the point of impact, in this case over the nose on the center forehead. Step Seven inhale, and as he took the last step before entering the APC. BOOM, to rifle goes off as Darius pulls the trigger. The round goes downrange and as darius looks on where once there was a head, a red mist is and along the once clear doors is a red splash. As the men and the stormtoopers begin looking for the shot darius tried to strike the to high ranking officals behind the once admiral Bastra, one he hits but is unsure of the lethal shot, as the other male falls to the ground. He aims as the woman behind Bastra's falling body and fires again. The woman he assumes is commander Vekarr is hit in the chest and falls at the doors. Darius then stands up and under the but of the rifle activates the self destruction on the rifle, He then fast walks away from the dissolving and pulls out his blaster and heads for a large thick of grass about 500 yards away from his Final firing position. He then kneels and brings out his map and begin to look at the blue circle where his extraction point is. Inside the blue circle is a note.

"Contact rebel five

on hyperspace channel zero one one three

communicate in short bursts call-sign runner two five. If extraction is missed initiate

burned protocol for extraction"

He looked at where he was and where his Extraction Zone was, it was a small clearing inside the forrest but on the opposite side of the base he was on. He was going to have to head north east to get to the Extract zone. As he put the map back, he switched on the communications set he had with him and switched on the channel and tried to contact his ride out as tie fighters screamed overhead in search of him.

Runner two fiver this is Inflitrator Corellia one come in over.

As he said that he began moving to the northeast and as he did he repeated his message. After ten minutes a static came on the line and he got a response.

This is runner two five to Corellia one how do you read over?

As he hears this in his earpiece a major worry bleeds away and he stops and kneels in the foliage to respond.

This is Corellia one to Runner two five, have accomplished primary mission, have key intel for pickup, status of extraction.

Runner two five to Corellia one, we are in the cage, will be at point zebra at 0100 zulu tomorrow will wait 5 mikes for package then off, turn on net every hour on the hour for updates, Runner two five out.

As Darius switched off his communications headset he began to head northeast around the imperial retreat to his extraction point. With the blaster at his front he had 6 hours to get to his extraction point and if he was going to make it 22 miles in time he better get moving. A he continued moving he heard the empire looking for him, tie fighters screamed overhead, off in the distance probe droids could be heard but after another 3 hours the sounds got more distant until finally the only sound that could be heard was the tie fighters moving in the distance. As night fell he ditched his ghillie suit in a small stream and began to eat, after eating he switched on his communications net for five minutes but heard no update for Runner two five. Just before midnight he made it to the clearing and switched on the communication net, as darius waited he heard Runner two five come over the channel.

Runner two five to Corellia one proceeding to zebra ETA one hour prepare for extraction if message received double tap response.

Darius double tapped his mike and switched it off and waited, an hour later a corellian freighter came into view and as the ramp descended he ran out and got into the ship and as the ramp raised up he could see the lights of Corellia city behind the still looking tie fighters. AS he got onboard, a black protocol droid met him and sent him to a small cabin once inside he laid down and sleep found him.

Four days later

Mon Calamari Cruiser location unknown

After Darius made it back to rebel command and delivered his recording of the meeting, he was told to wait in one of the crew quarters on base one until further order, he was not to talk to any of the crew, or send communications for four days he waited under guard for order, thoughts of doing something wrong running through his head, did he miss, did he miss some vital intel during the meeting, had the empire found him out as an infiltrator. Then on the fourth day the guards told him to come with him and brought him into a very spartan office and he he was now sitting in a seat waiting for what was next. As he waited a man in his late forties with a graying beard entered the room. He looked and held himself as someone who had seen many fights and survived as he sat down at the metal desk he began to speak.

"Mr Brahnx my name is Commander Fias Lester it is pleasure to meet you, especially someone who may have single handed saved the rebellion on Mon Calamari. Your intel allowed us to stop the bio attack there and also let us in in the secret base that was on Korriban."

As darius heard this he allowed a grin and sat back little more relaxed and responded." Thank you, sir I am just happy to have been of some help."

"I am the one who ordered you sequestered away I have an offer for you, I am putting together a unit a unit filled with men and women of unique skills I believe you would be a great fit for this unit, if you except you will be sent to a special training base for special training, if not you will return to the infiltrators for a new mission. The missions this unit will do are going to be hard, and impossible, but if done right could help bring done the empire sooner, what is your answer" Fias Lester said.

He began to think it over and thought back to the recording of all the wrong the empire was willing to do just to stop freedom and knew the answer."I am in sir" He responded.

Commander Lester pushed a hidden button and the guards returned and began to speak to them. "Gentlemen, take Mr. Brahnx back to his quarters he is to have no contact to any other crew member until his transfer and also no communications." After the men pulled Darius out of the room Commander Fias Lester activated the communications panel and began to type out a message to admiral Akbar

Admiral, Have acquired 90% of first strike team code named pathfinder, once final member has been collected, traning will begin at secret site codenamed shadow base. Found possible candidate and will begin interview shortly, expect candidate to eligible for team. Once complete team will get transport to shadow base and begin training. Request supplies for new base nd additional personnel begin arrival at training facility by usual channels.

Commander Fias Lester

Rebel Spec ops command.