Imperial Ambush, Battle for Republic city, Hosnian Prime

"Imperial Ambush, Battle for Republic city, Hosnian Prime"

 

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'After long months of fighting in the suburbs, outposts, orbital command centers. The time has come for us to start the real war.

the specificity of the 11th Armoured Battalion is war of attrition. Our battalion uses all kinds of irregular squads, even forbidden by the laws of the New Republic. But we are not fooled, everyone knows that illegal, hidden things happen in the imperial consortium. And rightly so, why respect the laws of this puppet republic, of these corrupt weak.
We have all acquired the cause of the empire, even 6 long years after the death of our dear emperor.
Our tactics are simple. We work in light and mobile squads. We attack from all sides, in all points, using the landscape to our advantage. We attack simultaneously through roofs, sewers, factories. We attack civilian buildings, most often deserted.
Then we start moving even faster. Our bombers are dropping their loads at no less than a hundred meters from us, so that the targets we have identified are destroyed to the maximum.
Our bodies attach vital importance to supply, we even have one company out of four that is specialised in it. Which is huge, from supply, to maintenance. Without them, we could not carry out our assaults.

But here we are, the assault is launched.

I command the fourth squad of the first section of the company "ants". This company is entirely composed of stormtroopers.

Throughout my long years of service, I remain valiant, although I am getting older and older. I have seen the evolution of stormtroopers. A beautiful evolution, our tactics focused on the reason for our training, the assault. Pure and simple. We are no longer used as simple soldiers doing all kinds of inappropriate tasks for our bulky armor. We are simply the spearhead of the empire, and we are moving inexhaustibly towards our goals. And we are mobile, we leave it to our colleagues in the imperial army to take care of secondary tasks like area control.

Our armor hasn’t changed much in almost 30 years, it’s still as white and gets dirty so fast. But as previously said, we adapt, we specialize. Each stormtrooper carries its own additional combat equipment, and distributes its different assault modules as desired. We are certainly more autonomous than in the time of the emperor, and all the more efficient.

We will take this planet, and we will defend it at the risk of our lives because the empire is all we have left, and it is our duty to serve it to the death.

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---Sergeant Licra’s personal journal, fourth squad, first section, "ants" company---

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