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3/28/2025, 3:17:16 PM
>SELECTED: The Black Company’s greatest strength and refuge has always been its own independence. Tying themselves too closely to any one of the great alien powers comes with risk of its own, and getting closer to a particular long-term employer doesn’t make the human mercenaries any less expendable to those aliens writing the cheques. Besides, the Company still has people left behind on Dis. It may take the direct intervention of the fleet to break the Savis blockade and get them out. If the Company has to forgo a bonus and the promise of a steady future to get their people out the hard way it will. The Captain will politely decline a meeting with their Employer, the Drax General. [Black Company Independence]
21st Cycle May 2231AD (present day) – Dis Equatorial Region – Imperial Savis Space
Sweat trickles down your back in the sweltering jungle heat as you slice skin from bone. These last few months hadn’t been easy.
Your squad had personally seen to the successful capture of the Daskar Regional Governor, with other soft targets similarly eliminated or sabotaged by elements of the Black Company operating elsewhere across the planet. While not the Planetary Governor of Dis itself, the Regional Governor had been a critical part of the leadership of the on-hand management of the planet’s security and production. Their death would have been a debacle for the local Savis authorities by itself, but their capture and later live execution at the hands of the rebels was both an igniting spark for the oppressed slaves across the planet as well as an unprecedented humiliation for the Savis Empire.
As you tear off another flank of flesh from your prey, one of the smaller indigenous mammals native to this part of the planet, you wonder just how many prestigious Savis nobles had their careers, privileges and even very lives wrecked in the way of your little uprising. This was of course only compounded by the repeated military embarrassments that the initial Savis military intervention had encountered. Yes, the Savis Legions had retaken the majority of the planet’s population centres and most profitable mining zones in the arids regions to the north and south of Dis’ hemispheres in a series of brutal and one-sided reprisals. This was however mostly by virtue of the vast majority of the malcontent rebels and escaped slaves escaping the yoke of their masters and retreating to the dense jungle regions at the equator. Many of those slaves were no fighters, and perhaps not true believers of the cause, but were at least smart enough not to wait around for the cumbersome fist of the Imperial Legions to come crashing down.
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21st Cycle May 2231AD (present day) – Dis Equatorial Region – Imperial Savis Space
Sweat trickles down your back in the sweltering jungle heat as you slice skin from bone. These last few months hadn’t been easy.
Your squad had personally seen to the successful capture of the Daskar Regional Governor, with other soft targets similarly eliminated or sabotaged by elements of the Black Company operating elsewhere across the planet. While not the Planetary Governor of Dis itself, the Regional Governor had been a critical part of the leadership of the on-hand management of the planet’s security and production. Their death would have been a debacle for the local Savis authorities by itself, but their capture and later live execution at the hands of the rebels was both an igniting spark for the oppressed slaves across the planet as well as an unprecedented humiliation for the Savis Empire.
As you tear off another flank of flesh from your prey, one of the smaller indigenous mammals native to this part of the planet, you wonder just how many prestigious Savis nobles had their careers, privileges and even very lives wrecked in the way of your little uprising. This was of course only compounded by the repeated military embarrassments that the initial Savis military intervention had encountered. Yes, the Savis Legions had retaken the majority of the planet’s population centres and most profitable mining zones in the arids regions to the north and south of Dis’ hemispheres in a series of brutal and one-sided reprisals. This was however mostly by virtue of the vast majority of the malcontent rebels and escaped slaves escaping the yoke of their masters and retreating to the dense jungle regions at the equator. Many of those slaves were no fighters, and perhaps not true believers of the cause, but were at least smart enough not to wait around for the cumbersome fist of the Imperial Legions to come crashing down.
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