Twilight Company preview.

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A preview of the novel based on the new game:

The battle of Hoth: 3ABY*
It's another cold day on Hoth, the wind howls through the corridors of Echo base and the snow has become so bad that even the Tauntauns won't venture out but for the struggling rebellion the day is only getting worse...

Chapter 1
Following the sighting of Imperial troops the 5 elite soldiers of twilight company begin deployment on the battlefield. Their target is an antenna or uplink of some sort that they must activate . As one the squad jumps from the dropship towards the target, with years of training for missions like these they all land within mere kilometeres of each other and begin running blindly around in the general direction of the target.

The first to arrive is combat veteran Vash. "Nice looking rocks here", he remarks on the squads radio. "Don't get distracted" came the reply. Unfortunately it was too late, while Vash ran around looking at his footprints in the snow an Imperial armed with a pistol shot him in the back from across the battlefield. Vash's cloth armour provided little protection and he died from a single hit.

The remainder of the squad met up by the relay thing. Their heavy weapons specialist, Tromp Grooble took watch with his small pistol while the other 3 worked out how to activate the relay. Eventually they realised it was a single button, a poor design given that the Imperials could deactivate it the same way.

The squad stood in a line facing the oncoming Imperial forces to guard the relay thing, at the sight of an AT-AT in the distance they blindly opened fire, glad of unlimited ammunition and the bags  full of grenades they carried with them.  Try as they might, however, their shots barely scratched the AT-AT. Luckily just as it got within firing range it randomly veered off to the left to follow a different path. The squad breathed a sigh of relief.

"That was too close", Grooble started to stay before suddenly a lone stormtrooper appeared behind him and shot him with a pistol. Grooble tried to dive sideways but his legs wouldn't let him, desperately he tried to roll into a nearby trench but that to failed for some reason, instead he crouched down and hoped for the best. He died.
Twilight company was now down to 3 men; Jens, Ulrich and Hantonar. They opened fire on the stormtrooper to avenge their fallen friend but just as Jens fired the final shot the stormtrooper was killed by a stray shot from a pistol on the other side of the battlefield. Unfortunately In all the firing they had failed to notice that Ulrich had been mortally wounded, he lay there, every part of his body in agony. A red cloud filled his vision and knew there was no way he could survive this. Then, miraculously he got better.

Now fed up of running around and dying through chance the three of them went to take the fight to the imperials. After a brief run and Ulrich, their sniper, defeating Darth Vader with his pistol rifle they arrived at the hangar to get in a snow speeder. Hantonar, their tech specialist, tried to get into the ship but for some reason he couldn't. He tried everything from jumping on it, crawling under it and shooting at it with his tech pistol but nothing worked. "Unless there's a portal into on the other side of the battle, I can't see us getting in", said Ulrich sarcastically.

Just as they were about to give up hope of surviving this nightmare of a battle a passing Rebel soldier called them into a transport ship and they were evacuated with the other rebels. Although at first they didn't want to leave the battle they knew that they could fight this battle another 10 times and still have no chance of winning so chose to take the transport and live to fight another day.

*Date TBC following galactic history review

[spoiler]I got bored this morning...  [/spoiler]

[Led]

The part about getting shot in the back is spot on 

[Snake]

That's hilarious. Great work.