Star Wars : The New Sith Crisis

Kashyyk ground defense

TIE fighters swarmed over the lush Kashyyk forests , their green lasers flashing into the trees, trying to frighten the Wookies into giving away their postions . A tall figure covered in fur, materialized out of the branches and raised its bowcasters, firing once . The quarrel impaled a TIE's engine coils, causing a spectacular explosion, wiping out two more of the un-shielded fighters . Immedately , more TIEs converged on the area and plastered the trees with laser fire . The Wookie known as Rarlblacca, grinned savagely, more Imperial ammo wasted on empty trees, where he had been just seconds before . His bowcaster draped over his shoulder, the massive Wookie leaped to another tree, landing far down on the trunk of the tree and using his climbing claws to scale back up almost effortlessly . He ducked as a droid manned STAP, flew over head . In an instant his bowcaster was back in his hands and aimed at the droid's retreating back . Ptchoo m m m , the bowcaster bucked in his grasp as the red blast . . . glanced off of the droid's back, leaving nothing , not even a smear of carbon scoring . Rarlbacca, glared in dismay as the STAP wheeled and jetted toward him, its guns firing relentlessly . The Wookie defender loaded a new type of ammo into his weapon, explosive quarrels, and shot at the droid's STAP . This time , an explosion rocked the treetops, Rarlbacca opened his eyes to see an un-damaged droid falling toward the farawy groun , limbs flailing . He growled low in his throat as he thought, These things are invincible !

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The battle was going in earnest now, droids jetting around on small jetpacks and STAP's, some on the tree bracnh walkways, but all shooting at the defending Wookies . Once in a while , a bowcaster would land a lucky shot on a jetpack or stap , blowing the droid's transportation into bits and hen the droid would fall, to a walkway, or to the ground, and the ground was a long ways off ., A Wookie leaped out of the trees and landed on a STAP, ripping the droid off and hurling it toward a gap in the branches . The droid dis-appeared, its electronic screams following its departure for a time, and then a explosion as the droid self-destructed . The Wookies fought bravely, knowing that they were the only ones standing between the droids and their homes . They were hardly any more droids on STAPS or jetpacks as the Wookies learned to blast their transportation out from under them .

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Grad Fortuune, a trader come to Kashyyk to trade for different trade goods, found himself caught in one of the worst fire fights of his life . He had fought in the Rebellion against the Empire and against the Yuzzhan Vong , but that had no weight against this . These were invincible killing machines that were attackin, not vulnerable stormtroopers . He waved a card-chip over a panel in his ship and opened a door, revealing hundreds of weapons, from back when, he was a weapons runner . He quickly distributed the guns, wincing as the massive Wookies ripped off trigger guards to make room for their huge fingers . The big guns could make a difference, he knew, but that didn't justify destroying their looks . Gran snatched his prize possession before a Wookie could and went out to fight . His Xerrol Nightstinger sniper Rifle was the best on the market . He aligned the barrel with a branch supporting a pair of droids and squeezed off a shot, grinning as the droids fell to their demise . He barely flinched as a blaster bolt found its way to the Wookie at his side but fired back at the droid, who had shot, dislodging it from its perch and making it fall also . He stood and emptied his remaing shots into the droids that were charging him, as the rifle ran dry, he gripped it around the barrel and got ready to club them down . As he charged forward, an invisible hand held Grad back, and looked back to see a glowing green laser and a quietly serene looking young man holding it ." The Jedi set him down and shouted " Run ." Grad watched as the Jedi leaped into the midst of the droids and cut them down with his lightsaber .

The Jedi was fighting bravely but he couldn't hold back the hordes of droids now coming for him and he dropped off of the branch, guiding his fall to another branch several dozen feet below . With a toss of his saber, he cut the branches bearing the droids and let them fall . Grad caught his eye and nodded in thanks .

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Three Jedi were fighting the droids in one spot . One a wookie had a massive blue blad which cut through droids, and then she would Force push them and send them toppling into the abyss . Another, a human had a X shaped lightsaber with four blades, he whirled it in an expert fashion, cutting through droids and deflcting laserfire . The last was a Shistaven Wolfman and had a regular yellow blade, slicing into droids and blasting them with the blaster in his other hand, oh ,he was having fun . Even though the blaster didn't work on the droid's armor, he could shoot other blaster bolts out of the air . They were putting up a valiant fight, until they had to seperate to help other fighters . The Wookie stashed his lightsaber on a bandolier and leaped from the tree, taking four droids with him, until he landed on another branch. The droids however, fell for about eight miles . The human with the four-bladed lightsaber, back flipped upwards and grabbed a trailing branch and then pulled himself onto the next level of brances . The last Jedi dropped a thermal detonater and dropped into a tiny speeder, flying away before the grenade exploded . The Wolfman grinned as he rocketed away, he had never been able to give up his other weapons, he had just added the lightsaber to his arsenal .

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Th red-blades of his lightsaber spun as Falun Justan , ducked and whirled through the hordes of droids . He and his three friends had thought that they would have a little vacation on Kashyyk . Just to get away from it all . Fat chance . Mere hours after they landed, a huge space battle had taken place and Kashyyk's air defenses and planetary shields were destroyed . Not cool, Falun had decided as he saw the flashes and meterorites of burning Republic ships come blazing to the surface . Then less than an hour later, huge ships had come down, sending out small transports full of droids . The first waves metal fighting machines were invincible to almost any attacks except tossing them into the waiting depths of Kashyyk , this was a sure kill until the enemy erected repulsor fields that held the droids until they were picked up by shuttles . Now the second waves of droids were easily killed by blasters or by simple Wookie man-handling . Falun tensed as he sensed danger behind him, and whirled, his lightsaber cutting through yet another droid's torso .

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Kelchuunara fought savagely, defending her home planet from the soul-less invaders . She was a seventy year old female, having left Kashyyk at sixty-six to become a Jedi and wander the galaxy . Now she found herself back on the green jungle planet, destroying droid after droid all to no avail , as after one plummeted to the depths, another rose up to take its place . Not they were hard to kill, just trying on her endurance . She felt more behind her and spun, to face three hundered or more droids , all with aimed blasters . Kelchuunara stepped to the side and dropped, her right hand grabbing a vine, swinging beneath the branch through a hail of blaster fire from the droids above . Her long green lightsaber cut into the inter-woven branches forming the walkway and it collapsed, sending most of the droids into the misty abyss . She growled and shouted at the falling droids in her own language of grunts, barks and howls , using the worst language she could think of .

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Ignosi deflected a laser with his lightsaber and shot at the droids with his pistol .These droids were a serious pain in the neck, the huge canine alien thought . He had dis-liked droids all of his life, though never destroying them . The Shistaven had come to think of droids as a part of life, not to be trusted, but useful . Ignosi cart-wheeled through a hail of lasers, and landed on his huge paws, a small patch of fur smoking from where a blaster bolt grazed it . He dodged behind a up-thrust branch and licked the wounded patch on his upper arm . He was still Shistaven, no matter what those high and mighty humans thought of his habits . Ignosi thought about how he had come here, a simple vacation, the humans had said . The wookie agreed with them, eager to see her home-planet . Ignosi snarled as he saw a pair of droids climbing up behind some Wookie defenders, and he raised his blaster and shot both of them in the back . He laughed vicously as they exploded , raining parts and fire down on other climbing droids . Ignosi sobered, remembering that a Jedi should not take pleasure in his enemy's demise .Baring his teeth, the Wolfman, lunged back around the tall branch and resumed firing on the droids .

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The droids continued to march despite the Wookie's valiant efforts . Time after time, a Wookie would shoot, droid would blow up, and two more would take its place . One droid ventured out on a thin branch, its red markings betraying it to be a sniper droid . As it surveyed the battle-grounds, looking for a target, a huge Wookie swung out of the tree tops on a cable and using its Bacca blade, chopped through the droid's flimsy neck . Carrying away the severed head as a trohpy, the black-furred Wookie almost made it to the safety of the branches, before the screaming lasers found their way to his back . A droid walked up to the writhing body and dis-passionately fired its blaster rifle at full automatic for a full four seconds into the helpless aliens body .Before the droid could turn, over a hundred bowcaster quarrels collided with it, causing a spectacular explosion . Over a hundred droids dis-embarked from a large shuttle, not even oneflinched as their transport exploded behind them . Wookies had brought up several concussion rifles, their huge blasts vaporizing the droids as they materialized through the foliage . The Wookies had illegal weaponry and were using it skillfully and then the droidekas came up . Shields flickered , lasers bouncing off of them, and the droideka's twin laser cannons began to fire, their barrels glowing red from the extended fire . A Wookie pushed several twigs out of his way and fired a concussion blast at the boughs above the droidekas, causing many large branches and logs to fall onto the droidekas, crushing them . The Wookie brought his weapon to bear on the other ranks of droids, but fell as every droid in sight , splattered his tree with laser fire . A large droid with quantum armor pushed its way to the front and opened up on the surrounding trees with a automatic repeating blaster . As the droids behind it fell to bowcaster fire, the droid continued its relentless assault on the defenders . Finally a pair of Wookies dropped out of the boughs behind it and grabbed the droid . One snapped its weapon in two and the other hurled the droid with all of his might at a nearby tree trunk . The impact rattled the droid and as it tried to stand and reach some weaponry, its circuits overloaded and it collapsed . One of the Wookies sprinted over to it and twisted its head around backwards and using a small can of liquid, painted over its sensors until it would be able to sense nothing at all when it recovered . Then both Wookies ran to the edge of the platform and leaped over a abyss of over eight miles depth . Landing far down on the next tree, they began the climb back to the fight .

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A lone droid detachement of troops found its way to one of the many small villages, splitting up , the droids began to search the seemingly abandonded settlement . One of the droids found its way to a large community hall type building, several blasts from its rifle brought the door down and it stepped inside, its sensors straining to cut through the darkness . As they re-aligned to give better vision, hundreds of Wookies came into focus, the very young and the very old, all of those from this village and un-able to fight, were in this building . The droid began to call for back up as it raised its blaster rifle and prepared to cut the aliens down where they stood . A tall shadow fell on the ground before it and its head pivoted to see its source . A huge Wookie stood there, its fangs shining in the low light, its black and silver fur making it almost invisible in the darkness . As the droid began to bring its weapon around to meet the new foe, the Wookie's arms shot forward, pulling the droid into a massive bear-hug, crushing it and then holding the droid out at arms length , the Wookie snapped it in two and sent both halves shooting out at its comrades . The Wookie let out an eerie howl, the sound echoing off of the trees and releasing a flood of similar howls, bellows, and roars . Then as one, the Wookie defenders of the village lunged out of the trees and wiped out all of the droids in the vicinity, in mere seconds .

Posted by Nate at August 14, 2004 07:43 PM