Vergesso Raids

"Finally, a change... now we kill pirates for a while instead of droids."

- RC-1707

The Vergesso Raids was an operation conducted to stop pirates from preying on civilian ships in the area. Instead of sending in a strike force, thus drawing ships away from the front-lines, Fleet Command decided to send a small commando force to infiltrate and destroy enemy bases.

Departure and Arrival
The strike team departed from FleetCom orbital headquarters over Coruscant in the Republic light assault cruiser Above Reproach. They arrived near the asteroid belt three hoiurs later and set up a headquarters on a relatively stable asteroid on the field's edge. Here, they began planning for their first raid.

First Attack
The first base they attacked was under the control of a human pirate named Yuran Hoten. There were two major pirates in the area, Hoten and a Nikto mercenary named Awer tsan Gorm. Hoten's base was the larger of the two, as was his fleet. his falagship was a captured Republic Acclamator-class cruiser named the Indomitable.

The day after their arrival, Kandosii Squad, seven clones and Kote boarded their specialized LAAT/i. The transport had been shielded to make it more difficult to find on scvanners and given reinforced armor. They landed on the asteroid that Hoten's base was on and, using spacetrooper armor attachments, snuck up to an airlock. RC-7208, the demolitions expert, blew the door in and they gained entrance.

Luckily, no guards were on duty there at the moment. They split up, with Kandosii heading toward the power generator and Kote and the clones heading off to create a distraction. Kandosii fought their way down to the generator, while the other eight troopers battled to the hangar. RC-7208 planted a charge timed for twenty minutes and then destroyed the door to the generator room, so that the pirates wouldn't be able to remove the charge. They raced back to the LAAT/i, while Kote and the surviving six troopers commandeered a pirate transport and flew back to the base.

Twenty minutes later, the charge blew up and destroyed Hoten's base. Hoten himself had died in the attack, killed by Kote.

Second Attack
This time around, the strike team knew that their prey saw them coming. Even if Gorm didn't know that they were clones, the sudden destruction of a nearby base would set him on high alert. Also, Gorm's base was not on an asteroid like Hoten's. Instead, his was a free-floating space station. Luckily, his forces were much smaller and less experienced. However, he had one thing Hoten didn't: A Dreadnaught-class heavy cruiser. Outdated though it was, the heavy cruiser still had an enormous amount of firepower.

Hacking into the pirate's communication frequencies, the cdlones sent out a false distress signal, pretending to be a commercial ship in trouble, then listened to see if the pirates would take the bait.

They did, sending a single IPV patrol boat to take the "shuttle." However, when the pirates arrived, they found a well-armed Republic frigate waiting. All of the clones, save Nexu, boarded the pirate ship and brought all their equipment on-board, then killed all but one of the crew, the communication officer. They had him radio in that they had captured and destroyed the ship and were returning with its cargo. The station allowed them to dock, and the battle began.

As soon as they were safely berthed, the clones stormed the hangar with E-Web repeating blasters and killed all the pirates in the area. They then began to move up to the control room.

In the station's narrow corridors, the E-Webs destroyed everything in sight. The pirates still managed to put up some resistance, killing three troopers. RC-7208 planted charges at critical points, destroying everything behind them. Once they arrived at the control room, 7208 planted detonators on all the consoles for twenty-five minutes and set the generator to overload. Then, finding an escpae pod, they launched off from the station and set the pod to orbit an large asteroid, where they met up with Nexu and the Above Reproach. Docking in the Reproach's hangar, they made their escape.

Clone Casualties

 * CT-4329/1190
 * CT-7089/23461
 * CT-435/8709
 * CT-9043/1254