#96th task force

Artur Tagge is property of @aeon2407, used here with his grace and kindness.

It's a fucking mess, and Artur is chin deep in it. Governor Oulis is not only a double agent, but a play-both-ends-against-the-middle agent. Now the 96th Task force, the 501st, and 1st SCAR are in the shit, and he was babysitting a bunch-

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of naval

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officers who'd

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come down

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here on leave and-

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That was a RP-A501 grenade launcher getting a top-off and the loading port being closed. He looked around, spotting Kimmund searching for the source of the-

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The sound of a Aratech Z-series speeder bike firing. Two, then three. His own troops wouldn't dare, much less the 501st who wouldn't wipe themselves if Vader breathed wrong. Artur broke into a flat run. The naval officers. Dammit right to-

He hit the deck as one of the bikes came down the ramp in reverse, leveled out and blew for the mouth of the cavern. One navy driver and one on the back, reversed, and carrying a DC15-A, not a jot of fucking armor on either-

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He'd been climbing to his knees and hit the deck again as another bike reversed down the ramp, the navy cutie still swinging her leg over with her rifle-toting friend on the back. No A-501s in sight and-

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This time Artur steps back and eyeballs the one backing down the ramp. It's the tiny lieutenant with an A501 on her back and a fast-reloader swinging at her side. Artur leaps, seeing his father charging out of the troop carrier, shouting - no doubt at the top of his lungs. Artur lands on the pillion hard enough to make it fishtail, but not hard enough to stop the guided missile from taking off - and trying to remove him with every maneuver. He tried squeezing the breath out of her.

"I am ordering you to stop immediately and return to-"

"I'm the shooty one and you're the groundpounder. You are not in my chain of command, so fuck off in all directions Major Tagge!"

"I prefer men on my bridge, there are fewer distractions to hamper efficiency. Still, she did admirably as one might expect of an Ascension Games winning team member."

In Wullf's opinion, if a bridge officer was too busy thinking with the little head about female officers, the big head ought to pay the price. "It seems to work well with Faro. The Chimaera has the highest complement of women in the fleet, and the 96th keeps shellacking everyone else. Sartan seems happy to let them go their way."

"Sartan's counting down to retirement and nobody wants to be that far out from the core lest nobody of importance miss their preening." Importance being the IHS and Emperor Palpatine himself. "The Seventh is a holding area for oddballs and off-centers - such as aliens and female crew members."