Ridgeside: An Overview

[Temekel Vipion]

TAKING RIDGESIDE ((MAY 13, 2023)) 

Elevator team:

• Sith Vipion- Assault Leader, Elevator
  
• Sith Vi’kas - Elevator
  
• Apprentice Charsette - Elevator
  
• Acolyte Suruthya - Elevator
  

Airfield team:

• Lord Saltaeon - Airfield
  
• Sith Sarias - Airfield
  
• Apprentice Rhave - Airfield
  
• Acolyte Araki - Airfield
  
• Sergeant Rennab - Airfield
  
• Corporal Dew - Airfield
  
• Corporal Kienix - Airfield
  
• Specialist Rosetti - Airfield
  
• Private Trisdane - Airfield
  

Town team:

• Sith Zevasa - Town
  
• Apprentice Zartilda - Town
  
• Apprentice Nivalis - Town
  

Other:

• Apprentice Krassus - Artillery leader
  
• Sergeant Rennab - Call Signs, Artillery
  

In the wake of Rhave’s ritual, the final trap was ready to be sprung. With most of Ridgeside’s AA and half of their trenches destroyed, we were prepared to make our final moves.

The EMP was placed in the no-man’s-land between Ridgeside and the former outpost of Rennar. Due to the distance that Rennar’s wasteland provided, we did not have to concern ourselves with hitting ourselves. Underneath the Republic lines, the sapper tunnels, dug by Sith Sarias’ sithspawn and our logistics teams had dug were primed with explosives- conventional, non-electronic ones. Our assault team and shield tanks were prepared, with artillery droids prepared to pick off what was left of the enemy’s own.

We detonated Apprentice Tavos’ EMP as shown. It exploded with a wide radius and and followed up with the detonations of our sapper tunnels in order to collapse their trench lines and cover our rapid approach to Ridgeside outpost. The Republic, in this time, ordered a retreat, and our assault was largely a follow-up where we destroyed or disabled as many of their vehicles as possible. We protected our approach using the rock formations from Anek and hid our artillery behind the shield tanks that Leviathan squad helped drive up. Apprentice Krassus identified targets and helped coordinate from the back lines. Each team took their successive areas, using those who can see through the force to avoid mines and advance as we went, and we bulldozed their trench lines as we moved in. We used Sith Vi’kas interceptors to strategically hit weapons that our artillery could not reach.

In the end, we lost 90 soldiers, with 160 wounded who were returned to service. Most of them were hit in the Republic’s finally artillery barrage to cover their retreat.


In no particular effort do I bring attention to the following people:


The contributions of Leviathan squad in particular should be noted. I was not there to witness their actions in the final push taking Ridgeside, but I wish to see them commended for their achievements throughout this. They have been incredibly important to this effort;

• Ensign Rees’ shield tech,
  
• Specialist Rosetti’s tanks,
  
• Sergeant Rennab’s command,
  
• Corporal’s Haldeen’s medical capabilities,
  
• Corporal Kienix’s quick shots with his battle droid,
  
• Corporal Dew’s boldness in battle,
  
• Specialist Athun’s sniping,
  
• Sergeant Geskar’s assistance in disguising a faked death,
  
• Private Trisdane’s cohesion,
  

They have served us well and each of these soldiers have made the empire proud.


Of the Sith, I particularly point to the work of:

• Apprentice Rhave’s work with the ritual,
  
• Apprentice Krassus for his contribution to our assault plans with our artillery,
  
• Sith Hazlem for her propaganda and biological warfare,
  
• Apprentice Tavos for his EMP,
  
• Apprentice Varrixon for her grids,
  
• Sith Sarias for her Sithspawn and the tunnels,
  
• Apprentice Charsette for blocking many bolts for me,
  
• Lord Saltaeon and Sith Zevasa for their assistance both as envoys and as commanders of different forks of the assaults,
  
• Sith Leive’s asset contributions and droids,
  
• Apprentice Nivalis' skill in both protecting others and killing the enemy,
  
• Sith Vi’kas for his interceptor drones,
  
• Apprentice Daxze for assisting with the vantage points,
  
• Apprentice Faelice for healing our wounds.
  
• Acolytes Suruthya and Araki for fighting well in these battles as acolytes,
  
• the members of Viper squad led by Apprentice Roi for assistance in the sky,
  
• the Arbitrators (Sith Zynn, Apprentices Vayek/Emlar/Kaleehi) for their work with recon,
  
• The logistics soldiers led by Apprentice Madros for their building materials and contributions.