The Bastion is about to get skyborn again and while the Taldryan Summit is discussing their position within the System with the Ky’Lians, the members of Taldryan are sent out to stop the followers of Vishes before they can get the Star Destroyer skyborn. You and another member are to lead an operation to stop the terrorists by preventing them from igniting the Star Destroyers main reactor using a combination of the following prompts:

Primary Mission Objective:

Dark Side Decision

You are going to detonate the Bastion's main reactor using high powered Denton Charges, preventing the Bastion from ever being made usable again due to a massive explosion that would shatter the ships internal structure.

Light Side Decision

You are going to disable the Bastion's main reactor using a high powered Ion Grenade, preventing the terrorists from gaining control over the Bastion, while keeping the ship otherwise intact

To fulfill the above mission objective there are three optional entrance points for the operation: The Exhaust Port, The Hangar and The Rift.

The Exhaust Port

Situated on the stern of the Bastion, the exhaust port is a large circular opening near the Bastion's main engines allowing access to maintenance shafts lined with bridges and balconies connecting the different levels of the Bastion, however there is a dual turbolift attached to it to transfer larger groups of troops or goods. There are almost exclusively basic trooper level forces dispatched to guard the access points to the shafts and though your attack will raise an alarm, reinforcements will take time to be mobilized from other sectors of the Bastion.

The Hangar

Located on the bottom of the Bastion, the standard built up hangar is reinforced with durasteel double-doors and a detachment of two AT-ST walkers providing heavy direct-fire support. These are your main obstacles to get past before you can enter the Bastion’s only lightly guarded interior. However, going this way will immediately cause an alarm, mobilizing enemy forces from other sectors of the Bastion.

The Rift

High above the surface of the Bastion, the outer hull is pocketed by rifts, with one being rather large enough to allow for a small troop detachment to enter the Star Destroyer near one of the Turbolaser batteries. This Rift is fortified with mobile laser turrets and troopers. The Turbolaser Battery will protect the Bastion against aerial attacks, requiring your team to take out the battery before you can start a landing operation. While there are only a few troopers guarding the rift and operating the turrets, an immediate alarm will cause troops from other sectors of the Bastion to reinforce the troops near the rift.

Enemy Forces Detail:

The enemy forces equipment is made of standard Imperial issued gear with basic stormtrooper armor and BlasTech E-11 blaster rifles and/or BlasTech Se-14C blaster pistols. However the Bastion’s main power core is about to go live granting the enemy troops full control of the ships internal defense system.

Additional notes of importance

Please keep in mind that though Astor Ky'Lian is now aware of the Presence of Force-Sensitives within the Clan, they are still advised by the Consul to keep their powers concealed or at least leave no evicence that could be tracked back to Taldryan by the citizens of the Caelus-System.

Grading and Requirements

Grading will be done using the Voice Fiction Rubric.

In order to qualify for placing in this competition your team must meet the following criteria:

Only one member needs to submit to the competition, detailing a link to your fiction on the forums as well as snapshots to any member involved into your fiction (Characters/Alt-Characters/NPC’s)

Each of the participating members has to submit at least 500 words of fiction not counting an introduction post detailing the members of the team. Word count will be determined using a word counter found here: Word Counter

This is a Co-op fiction event utilizing the Clan forums found here

Also make sure to declare at the beginning of your submission which prompt you will be using.

Awards

As this is a Clan-wide competition, Third Level Crescents will be awarded to the Top Three Placements as will Clusters of Ice be awarded under the current policy.

Additionally this competition will award Alignment Points to the Top Three Placements as well as Influence (Participation) Points to all participants and the member grading the competition.