Rennac Faintheart

The Endless Struggle

Rennac cursed as he saw the agents were a bit less flammable than he thought, hearing one screaming and crippled from the flames while he drew his pistols. Explosives were quickly becoming his now preferred method of attack as he saw the plasmacharges coming at him. He quickly raised his wrist mounted rocket launcher and fired, setting the rocket on a time delay rather than having it detonate on impact. He was singed a bit from the blast, but hopefully it would have throw off the charges enough for him to escape their blast radius. He fired suppressing shots from his blaster as his wrist unit reloaded for another shot, bringing it to bear once more before firing another of the dangerous projectiles right next to where one of the agents was taking cover. Would not be a direct hit, but the blast radius would still do a good bit of harm.

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Rennac blinked as he saw the rail shot go through what he assumed was one of their heads, the hyper-dense shot drilling a scorched hole through a nearby tree. He kept his head low as the blind shots flew by, cursing his luck as he saw the grenades. Grumbling to himself he re-ignited his jetpack and flew i the direction a few of the grenades had come from, flying full tilt out while also letting his flamethrowers loose on any in his general path. No matter ow expensive your cloaking device may be, it didn't help much when you were on fire.

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The dust he was kicking up wouldn't affect their thermals, but the smoke would. With a mental trigger he set his engines to be at just a bare simmer, spouting out plenty of exhaust to create a thick cloud. This in turn would flare up Reaper's sensors as well, but he did warn him to turn off his thermals. Once a thick enough blanket of smoke was made he cut his jetpack and ducked into the smoke, seeing if the Litharian traitors would try and venture in. If not, then he would need to give them reason to flee flee inside where he could remove the advantage from their cloaks.

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Rennac's eyes went right to the blips on his motion tracker, eyes widening in surprise as he saw the blips go from 10 to about 40 coming at all sides. He touched down onto the jungle floor, turning it off and revving his jetpack. "Reaper, shut off thermals. It's gonna get hot and I don't wanna blind you from the sudden flare up. Look for where the smoke seems to shift oddly with nothing there." He gave a second or two before he put his jetpack on full blast but no thrust, disengaging the thrusters and running only the fuel injector pumps to keep himself from flying off. This in turn creates a thick fog of smoke around the Wolkar that would show the manipulation from a cloaked figure walking through it. Wasteful. Yes. Effective. Hopefully. All else failed he could do sweeps with his flamethrower, figuring Litharian cloaking tech was probably not fire proof.

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rennac remained airborn after his attack, putting his motion tracker on to see if there were any movement. There were a few cretures that had started to move away from the disturbance, though any enemies closing in were still outside of scanner range. "Gonna give it a few minutes, see if they dispatch anyone. If not, this spot may be a dud. We can pack in and move to the next area."

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Rennac likewise found nothing on his scans, his jetpack heating up as he opened up his comm. "Guess it's time to kick the hornet's nest. I see you on motion tracker. Gonna see if some fireworks doesn't get some attention." He flew p into the air above the treeline, plenty high to be seen with ease as he brought his wrist up and took aim with the rocket. He fired into the middle of the man made landing zone, hoping to get some attention drawn to his location and see if there would be anyone firing on him that he could pummel and get info out of.

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Reaper was mistaken in thinking the Wolkar was only worried about traps. He was worried about the traps AND the soldiers that would come and attack him while he was pinned or immobilized. He drew both pistols and started up his visor's spectral scans, going through thermal and even motion tracking so he would still be aware of Reaper's position. Better to know your partner's angle when you came upon a set of enemies and figure which he would most easily be able to take. He approached the first possible landing site, peeking up through the jungle brush to see if there was any activity.

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Rennac sighed and shook his head. "And here you keep focusing on the bounty hunter thing and nothing else. Guessing that title also blinds Litharians from also remembering I am the Alpha of the Shadowclaw clan as well as their representative on the council of Alphas, the chief supporter of the Natre-Dorme university, a chief strategic advisor for the Wolkar Sirius, and a top FERAL NEXT pilot. No, just throw all that out the window.." The Wolkar muttered and grabbed his sniper blaster rifle from the back, slinging it across his back and landing the ship in a small clearing near their first suspected point. "Keep cloaked and stay a good distance away from me while we search. Widened pattern will cover more ground and will keep you from getting caught in any traps they'll deploy against me since I'll still be visible. Use the comm codes to radio me directly so we wont give away each other's position."

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Rennac snarled a bit at that insult. "I'm NOT afraid. I am merely running this smart. The closer we are to his location when he sees us, the less time he will have to escape. If we can capture him before his goons know we're there, even better. Actually... How arrogant would you say Klith is? Would he have intruders captured alive for interrogation and such? We could do a trojan horse and have him capture me. With your cloak you can likely slip in unnoticed while they bring me to him. We'll just need to turn the tables when we get the opportunity. Then again, this is all banking on the fact that he doesn't just have me killed on sight."

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Rennac looked a bit solemn at that. Figures. They'd be at odds about this too. "Lets just pray there is no risk of his escape. Best if we can avoid that quarrel as well. This rate may be the only fight we can avoid.." Going from how much visible use there was he started at a landing zone a little above the equator of the planet, performing a scan with the ship sensors. "So, whats our search pattern? Stick together in loose formation or try and trick them into thinking we split up only to have one covertly shadow the other?"