Star Wars RPG - Episode I - Relieving the Fort (Battle of Kalin, relieving the siege of Mount Timbor)

Briefing: "Planet: Kalin, Objective: relieve the besieged Republican fortress of mount Timbor. Republican forces have been besieged on the outer rim world of Kalin for over two months now by the droid forces of the separatist Intergalactic Banking Clan, commanded by Muun director Toon Gleen. The garrison seemed to be holding up, but recentxly all communications from the garrison had stopped. However Republican observers have identified that fighting is still going on on the planet, so your taskforce has been sent to evaluate the situation, reopen communications and ultimately break the siege of mount Timbor.

Under the command of Jedi Master Dubreton, a human from Naboo, a Republican fleet and clone taskforce have been dispatched. You are to execute this mission while Dubreton and the fleet secure the sector around.

 

Kalin is a tropical world with great northern and southern oceans - there is a main belt of land around the centre with hundreds of islands along the fringes

Your republican clone forces are far superior to the separatist droid armies however they are much smaller, while your star fleet is beaten in both size and quality by that of the seperatists

Kalin is strategically important, as a small world near the outer rim, as it keeps the banking clans home world of Malastare cut off from the other pockets of seperatists worlds and also serves as a Republican supply post for Jedi General Ki Adi Mundi's forces besieging Malastare."

 

So came the briefing to the two Jedi Generals, Mavis Palifax, a female Miralukan, and Jedidah, a male Wookiee. They were to set out with their taskforce of four star destroyers and 20 battalions of clones, some 14,000 clone troopers. The separatist intergalactic banking clan forces were unknown, however they were quickly found out.

The Republican fleet engaged that of the seperatists, launching their entire compliment of arc 170 squadrons as the sepeartists launched their first droid fighters. Around the planet of Kalin a dumbbell like supply sheet came into view.

The battle in space raged on, but the seperatists seemed to be having the best of it. the hard fighting on the republican right left both sides battered, with all the arc 170s gunned down, yet with the two opposing light craft immobile against which the star destroyer had launched its partatrooper border party, while on the left one of the star destroyers had broken through, raked a light craft and also launched their paratroopers towards the great battleship.
Having flown out to join in the fight against the droid Starfighters, the Jedi in their Starfighters darted through to also land in the battleship's hanger.

They landed their starships in the hanger and got out to have a look. After dispatching the customary security droids they were able to hack the battleship's database. Worryingly it appeared that, though it had despatched waves of vulture droids, the battleship had only used a sixth of its capacity. It also appeared that the droid army which it had originally been carrying had been landed on Kalin. It was thus pretty much deserted, and the Jedi resolved to get to the bridgehead and deactivate the battleship's droids before they could be unleashed on their fleet. They got back in their Starfighters and flew through the hanger till they reached the entrance to the bridge. Meanwhile however the Paratroopers flying over to aid them had been surrounded and captured by vulture droids. It was now even more important to quickly deactivate the droids.

 Fighting along the corridor to the bridge, Jedidah became trapped in a ray shield, just as two destroyer droids appeared. Together with some security droids they called on Jedidah to surrender, however Jedidah's astromech I-AN, who they had left at the terminal at the mouth of the hanger, quickly deactivated the shield and Jedidah flung himself at the droids. However he was overcome by their fire and, stunned, fell into their hands. Mavis meanwhile had been too occupied fighting off security droids to come to his rescue! But as they advanced along the corridor I-AN trapped Jedidah and his droid guards in another ray shield, and in the confusion Jedidah destroyed all the droids.

Dashing along the corridor the two jedi, with Mavis' Astromech, reached the bridgehead. Entering they quickly despatched several battle droids and security droids and at last cornered the two Muun commanders. The terrified Muuns quickly agreed to deactivate the vulture droids, though they no longer had control of any of the ship's other droids, switch off the engines and leave the ship.
B, Mavis and their two prisoners returned to the hanger entrance where they handed their Muun prisoners over to the paratroopers.

Having now broken through the separatist lines the Star Destroyers were causing great devestation, though they were getting bogged down. 1 on the far left had broken through and silenced one side of the nearby light craft's guns, 2 was on course to land on Kalin, practically unscathed, 3 meanwhile had succumbed to great numbers of trifighters, vulture droids and buzz droids, losing its engines and bridge along with most of its guns, however together with 2 it managed to issue a devastating broadside on both sides of one of the separatist frigates, essentially putting the frigate out of action. The clones of 3 quickly evacuated ship, the clones taking to the escape pods, while the arc troopers and scuba troopers jumped in the gunships.
4 also was in trouble. It had taken out the engines of two light craft, but was now quickly being surrounded by droid fighters targeting its engines, bridgehead and guns. It quickly made contact with the nearby separatist battleship and began boarding, its clone battalions rushing into the hangers of the separatist ship.
Star destroyer 3 and the separatist frigate were now plummeting for Kalin! A dark figure on the frigate quickly rushed for the escape pods...
Star destroyer 4 had now also begun to fall towards Kalin, though its clones had all disembarked on the separatist battleship. 3's clone battalion at last landed in their escape pods just outside the fortifications surrounding the coastal landing strip to the south of the planet. There they made an attack on the landing strip, hoping to secure it for their own fleet, but they met stiff opposition from the droid forces.
Star Destroyer 1, finding its engines taken out by droids, decided to make a crash landing near mount Timbor and so, turning off the stabilisers, it dropped. The clones, save for the Captain and crew, evacuated in drop pods after entering the atmosphere. It landed badly and nearly everyone but the Captain and a handful of crewmen was killed. However another four battalions were thus landed on the planet, just north of Mount Timbor.
Meanwhile 4's company of paratroopers had been captured by droids and were taken to the other frigate as prisoners. Jedidah and Mavis, along with the 2's company of Galactic marines in their gunships flew out to board this last frigate.

Fighting their way through the hanger, Jedidah and Mavis and the marines split up, only to converge on the opposite hanger where the paratroopers were being guarded by a large number of battle droids, super battle droids and destroyer droids. The ensuing battle saw heavy casualties on the part of the marines, but the paratroopers were swiftly rescued. With the elevator in action the two jedi decided to head up to the bridge with two marines.

Emerging from the lift shaft they were hit by a hail of shots, however they deflected them all and managed to floor the entire force with a dual force blast. However more droid forces quickly appeared. The marines were both killed, Mavis was surrounded and Jedidah, again wounded, fled back down the elevator with a couple of newly arrived marines. As destroyer droids with force fields arrived, Mavis was forced to give herself up.

Mavis was thus marched by a guard of destroyer droids and super battle droids to the bridgehead, where she was presented to the Muun commander of the ship. The Muun, Commodore Grathpus, declared that the Republic's puny ground forces would be swiftly overwhelmed and bade Mavis watch the destruction of her fleet. Just then however the door to the bridgehead was blown off and Jedidah with the paratroopers and remaining Marines burst in. Mavis quickly grabbed her lightsabre and began laying about her at the droids. Together her and Jedidah quickly reduced the droid force, though on advancing the clones were all gunned down by the superior droid forces.
Grathpus, seeing the situation worsening quickly began to talk on his command chair's telecomm, calling to his 'brother' for help. The astromech's quickly shut the door of the bridgehead from the outside. Grathpus quickly dashed over to one of the elevators and began calling the lift as two security droids covered him.

Mavis and Jedidah attempted to call their astromech's to block the lift, but they received no response. Just then the doors opened to reveal a wall of super battle droids!

Mavis engaged the super battle droids, despatching a couple, while Jedidah rushed over, struck down the two security droids guarding Grathpus and slashed the elevator control panel, putting it out of action. Suddenly the super battle droids were knocked aside and a Muun in a jacket and brandishing a blaster entered with two bodyguard droids! 'Jedi!' he snarled, 'where is my brother!" The two bodyguard droids engaged Mavis, while the new arrival shot, together with his four super battle droids and destroyer droid shot at Jedidah.
Jedidah was wounded by the shot and Grathpus quickly dashed to the elevator on the other side of the bridgehead, disappearing. Mavis finally cut down the first magna guard droid, but was now very badly wounded from the blows which had got through. Jedidah was also subdued, surrounded by the Muun and his droids. He attempted to struggle through the doors but failed to lift himself up. They now seemed trapped.
In desperation Mavis hurled her lightsabre at the glass screen, breaking it, and pulling back her lightsabre. She and Jedidah grabbed the sides of the door, while the super battle droids and destroyer droid, along with most of the bodies and dismembered droids were sucked out into space. However the Muun and bodyguard droid held on.
At last the windshield came up and the fighting resumed. Mavis despatched the last bodyguard droid and now the Muun was trapped! He tried calling for help on the telecomm but there were no nearby ships to answer. He made a run for the elevator, not realising it was broken. When he reached it he cursed and dashed for the other, but Mavis was laying in wait for him. She bounced him and accidentally stuck her lightsabre through the elevator control panel, before deflecting his desperate shot and capturing him.
They found out that he was Director Toon Gleen, who they later remembered was the commander of the intergalactic banking clan around Kalin. They forced Toon Gleen to deactivate the frigate's droids, but he would not pilot the ship for them. He also reiterated that their forces would easily be destroyed by their massed droids on Kalin. They took him back to the hanger, where there was no sign of Grathpus, and flew down with star destroyer 2 and the captured separatist battleship to the landing strip just north of mount timbor.

The situation on Kalin by now then was thus. Star Destroyer 3 and 4 and a separatist frigate had come down in the woods on the right, while star destroyer 1 had crash landed on the landing strip north of mount timbor and 2 had also landed there with Mavis and Jedidah. The clones from 3 had landed just outside the fortified landing strip in the south and engaged the droids, while the clones from 4 with the arctroopers and scuba troopers from 3 had landed on the island landing strip in the captured separatist battleship and opened up communications with Jedi Admiral Dubreton who promised them assistance in fleet engagement.

The Scubatroopers set off from the island to aid the attack on the southern landing strip, supported by two companies of arc troopers in their gunships, however the cove seemed better heavily defended than they had expected, while the nine clone battalions and two arc companies deployed under Mavis and Jedidah in the north.

Swimming up the estuary and river, Mavis and Jedidah infiltrated the fortress of mount Timbor alone, climbing up the pipes to the river spring at the very heart of the mountain. Climbing from the canal they quickly took out some droid sentries, but Jedidah had to swim back down the river to stop their parts from floating down and alerting anyone of their presence.

Meanwhile, beyond Kalin, Master Dubreton, a human from Naboo, and his padawan Shark Jenks, an Iktochi, arrived in their Starfighters with twenty squadrons of arc 170s and engaged the separatist fleet.

Making their way to the control centre at the top of Mount Timbor, Mavis and Jedidah found Captain Nebo and his few surviving ARC troopers Nebo was incredibly relieved to see them, and especially keen to know what was happening outside the citadel.
The Jedi explained to Nebo that the droid army was being powered by the two big supply ships above the planet, but that these two ships were protected by force shields powered from the ground. They had lost all their Star destroyers while the enemy still had four ships remaining, but that Dubreton and Jenks' fleet had arrived and needed those shields down in order to defeat the droid forces, as the Clone troops on the planet were limited. On the citadel's tactical hologram map, Nebo showed them the two sites of the shield generator bunkers.
They now made to break out of the centre of the citadel with Nebo and his troopers, taking out several more droids, before suddenly being faced with an AAT tank. They managed, however, to quickly combat and take over the tank.
Escaping the citadel, the Jedi and clones met up with the other Clone forces beginning their assault on the citadel. There they gathered their forces, and called three gunships each. Nebo would take out the mountain supply shield, while the Jedi would take out the shield in the woods on the further side of the planet.

The Jedi's gunship raced from the citadel and along the edge of the marshes, while on the horizon, as the sun began to set, a Seperatist light craft, taken out by Dubreton's fleet above, fell nose first into the marsh, disintegrating as it touched the ground. Jedidah and Mavis held on tight, ARC troopers surrounding them. They sensed something dark through the woods ahead.

Up above the planet's atmosphere, Nebo having taken out the shield on the mountainside, Dubreton and Jenks fell upon the first supply ship and destroyed it! The droids in the citadel deactivated and there was a great cheer from the clones attacking the fortifications, however, they were celebrating too soon, as the droids quickly restarted. The second supply ship had taken over the first's control duties.

With their gunships landing outside the woodland bunker, Jedidah and Mavis raced out with their ARC Troopers, who quickly blew the doors, allowing them to race inside. The Jedi and clones quickly dealt with a host of super battle droids, before four droidekas arrived which the Jedi also took care of. Finally as they advanced along the corridor, they were faced by four bodyguard droids. In a bitter combat all four were at last dealt with, though by this time, both were suffering from many burns and wounds. Entering the main reactor chamber, they felt the darkness of the force grow, and at there, they saw it. A hooded, stooped figure, emerging from behind the reactor. He clicked as he moved forward, his cane tapping against the floor.
"Jedi!" he said bitterly, "I have been expecting you!" He threw his cloak back, revealing himself as an Ithorian, and lifted his cane. With a twist of his wrist, he detached the silver knob of hi cane and held it out. Suddenly a red lightsabre beam jumped from the end!
Jedidah and Mavis both powered their lightsabres up, the Ithorian threw his stick to the ground and the two sides clashed.
He deftly duelled them both, beating them back and lashing out against them, but suddenly they seemed to be getting the better of them. Beating of their attacks, he bent over and let off the Ithorian's famed sonic bellow, knocking them and the clones off their feet. Then he disappeared into the darkness.
They would have pursued, but with Dubreton desperately calling down the coms link, they turned their attention to detonating the generator.
With the last shield down the fleet above fell upon the last ship, destroying it.
All across the planet the droids deactivated, while above the planet, the remaining Seperatist ships, seeing there was no more they could do, jumped into hyperspace.
When the Jedi at last came to search for the dark Ithorian jedi, he was nowhere to be found.
Kalin was secured, and with the arrival of a new garrison, the Jedi and their taskforce, together with their three Muun prisoners returned to Coruscant.