Star Force: Backdoor (SF53)

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standard blockade.
They kept a large number in orbit around the moon for quick response, as did
Randy, but every naval engagement they’d made had resulted in more forces being
brought in on either side, creating a stalemate all of its own over the moon
while Randy still had ships out hunting the enemy elsewhere in the
system…especially incoming transports that the Skarrons were using to reinforce
their surface campaign.
    Randy’s fleet had a 1 in 3 kill ratio going on those,
with the Skarrons hesitant to bring them in randomly. Each attempt led to
another costly naval engagement, usually for the Skarrons because Randy’s fleet
pretty much owned them so long as they didn’t get careless. That price was
something they seemed to be willing to pay in order to secure the moon. There
was no way they were going to take the other habitable planets in the system,
but whether it was out of pride or some long spanning strategy the Skarrons
wanted this moon and Randy wasn’t going to accommodate them.
    Right now there was a column of Skarron infantry
heading out from one of their LZs, as there were many, Randy had discovered,
moving from place to place and setting up a network of outposts underneath the
forest canopy. Some were camps, others were being dug into the ground, and all
being accomplished by hand and underneath the forest canopy keeping them away
from sensors and air support. The Skarrons seemed intent on making this an
infantry campaign up until they could get their walkers to the primary targets
and Star Force had responded in kind, taking the fight to them underneath the
trees with Randy choosing to become his own one man Venator squad.
    That meant he was roaming freely while other units
held to prescribed locations, defensive assignments, or attack runs. It also
meant he got to play ambusher, and while his dark brown armor clashed with the
deep grays of the tree trunks he’d found that the Skarrons didn’t pay much
attention to the trees above them, thinking that their enemy was going to hit
them from the ground only. That had allowed him to move through the treetops
over them many times with impunity, but this time he was waiting for them to
come to him.
    They weren’t coming directly under, with the leading
Hobbit skirmishers passing about 50 meters to the south. After them came a pair
of Skarrons with their Hobbit units surrounding them. Behind them came the
ranks of closely packed troops aligned simply for crossing territory rather
than fighting…and there were thousands of them stretched out in a line that was
4 or 5 wide for the Hobbits and single file for the Skarrons, most of whom were
not elites.
    Easy pickings for a trailblazer so long as he had
enough ammo…and Randy had packed plenty of extra plasma clips.
    Rather than jump them at the midsection he waited for
the end of the line to come up, then he stood, stretched out his legs a bit,
and casually looked around.
    “Time to play Master Chief,” he said to the air before
taking a few steps forward on the branch and jumping with the assistance of his
jump pack across to another one. He stuck that landing better then hopped
again, coming over top the line of footprints in the ground where the enemy
troops had just passed.
    Randy stepped off the branch and fell to the ground,
landing lightly with some anti- grav assistance and
pulling his plasma rifle off his back as he sprinted forward. It took him some
14 seconds to catch up with the back of the line but he didn’t shoot
immediately, instead he ran up to them and actually knocked two aside to get in
their midst before he emitted a large Fornax field and dropped some 20+ Hobbits
to the ground.
    He peppered them with shots making easy kills as the
sound of his plasma fire turned the attention of those ahead to him. After a
moment of shock white plasma orbs began to fly his direction and hit his
shields, but he stayed long enough to kill most of the ones on the ground
before sprinting sideways and

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