Trestle Squad Mission Logs

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These Holorecordings are to log the activities of Hyena Company's "Trestle Squad", and elite Special Ops group formed to carry out highly classified missions for Hyena wherever needed. These files are not to be shared with any personnel without the proper clearance.

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Trestle squad was deployed to assist Hyena Company Flagship, the Aura IV, when a Harrower-class Dreadnought attacked the ship, in an attempt to capture a Republic agent hiding among the crew. It was discovered during the attack that Admiral Raymus Antilles was MIA. This matter would be handled after the ship was out of harm's way.

Trestle squad secured both the airlock and the bridge of the Aura IV, defending against both Imperial boarders and Mandalorian mercenaries. Once the bridge was secure, Trestle Squad boarded a shuttle and infiltrated the Dreadnought Cruiser to deactivate the ship's tractor beam and allow the Aura IV to safely escape. During this daring undertaking, Gidre Xuio, Jedi Ambassador for Trestle Squad, bravely took down a Sith Acolyte with assistance from her squad. These actions warranted commendation from her superiors. After defeating the Sith and Imperial forces aboard the Dreadnought, Trestle safely returned to the Aura IV, and the ship promptly jumped to lightspeed upon their arrival, free of incident. Trestle squad's Sergeant A'koba, and Specialists Takeshi Yasumori and Gidre Xuio, retreated to the Republic Fleet to enjoy a bit of relaxation at the fleet cantina. The relaxation wouldn't last long though, as Sergeant A'koba received new intel on the whereabouts of Admiral Antilles. He was located on Ord Mantell, a mid-rim terrestrial planet that was, at the time, experiencing a civil war with a local rebel faction known as the Separatists. Trestle Squad was promptly assigned there with new orders, which will be elaborated on in my next report.

Upon infiltrating the Separatists stronghold, we found signs of Imperial involvement in Raymus's disappearance. Gidre and I found Raymus's body being transported off world by these Imperials, but with a thermal scan, we found his body had no heat signature. I returned to the Ord Mantel orbital station with Gidre when we found that the prince of Abafar had been seen on Tython. I (A'koba) knew that this could lead to further information on what had happened to Raymus due to his close ties to Abafar and the Prince. After sending Gidre to meet with the Prince, I worked on tracking where the Imperial transport had taken Raymus's body and gathered the intel that it had made one stop behind one of Ord Mantel's moons then jumped to hyperspace not long after. I had the orbital station's scanners trace any activity on the other side of this moon and found an ancient and powerless battle cruiser sitting in orbit on the dark side of the moon. After finding this cruiser, I requested a status report from Gidre who spoke about her time with the Prince and mentioned the Prince's pilot whom he went to Tython with who's name was Ray. She had not seen this Ray, but thought it might be Raymus somehow from the way the Prince described him. I was very confused at this point thinking that we had found false remains of Raymus or that there were false Raymus's for some reason. I scanned all sectors reachable for Raymus's republic officer signature and found 3 pings, one Nar Shadaa, two Tython, and three was right on the other side of the moon from me. I contacted Gidre and had her and the Prince head to Nar Shadaa to look for this possible Raymus while I did further research on how this could be possible. I found nothing aside from some ancient sith mythology but didn't look too far into it due to some of the files being banned or beyond my authorization. Gidre and the Prince met a figure who was silent and showed quite a large amount of strength but seemed to grow weeker the longer he was with them. I had Gidre bring the figure and the Prince to the Ord Mantel orbital station to meet with me after I had concluded my research. I had now been made aware of a certain ritual that ancient sith sorcerers used to pull force essence from a body and I had a hunch this is what happened to Raymus.

Gidre arrived with the Prince and the figure, who I briefed on the mission to recover Raymus's body from the cruiser adjacent from the orbital station now. The figure and Gidre went aboard the cruiser and recovered Raymus's body as well as the only lifeform on the cruiser who was a creepy little Nautolan who went by the name of two planets, Ando Akiva. He revealed nothing but Gidre and the figure found the sith ritual in the archives of Ando's cruiser but still no idea of why Ando wanted Raymus's body.

Raymus has been healed we performed the restoring portion of the sith ritual and he's now gone from 3 parts back into one body. During the end of the ritual black smoke emerged from Raymus and it found its way to Ando in his cell who proceeded to break out and return to his cruiser. Gidre and Raymus have left for the surface of Ord Mantel for some R&R I placed a tracker probe on the hull of Ando's cruiser and found it better to let him think he got away so we could ambush him at a later time. After Raymus had returned he and Gidre were engaged and wanted to return to Abafar for their ceremony. I joined them taking some leave that I had long been neglecting to take and they were then married.

While on Abafar I put a bounty on Ando Akiva and 3 Mandalorians and a Pirate agreed to the hunt.

No word from the bounty hunters, I'm assuming they failed which isn't good because the tracking probe has gone offline so Ando is no longer in our view.

Raymus left Abafar to find someone to help with his "issues" after being separated and put back together again. Gidre headed back for Coruscant but was captured by rogue Imperials trying to perform a similar ritual on her but without a force user it's not possible according to my research. Raymus and I returned to Hyena Company base with a new friend Axel. After briefing everyone at the base about Gidre's disappearance, we launched a recovery team to bring her back which Raymus was leading personally. Gidre was taken to Quesh and as we approached the facility she was being kept at, Calico Squad went rogue and began attacking Republic soldiers and science officers. Trestle Squad defended the only way in or out of the facility where Gidre was being kept with the assistance of General Endel we struck down nearly the entire rogue Imperial group while the rest of the team recovered Gidre. Once the team got out of the facility, tensions were high but Jaxarii convinced Raymus not to level the pirates and for me to not blow holes in all of Calico.

We returned to the Aura IV to debrief but Calico's captain, Leshanes Lonestar, tried to escape the ship and Axel confronted her before she could leave the ship. General Endel gave Calico a very gracious offer to not be killed or imprisoned but instead to continue working for Hyena. I don't understand this move by the general but it's not my place to question her. We returned to base just in time for a new shipment of recruits to arrive.

Trestle focused on training for when they'd be needed again and ever included Axel in some exercises.

Notes:
Ensign Niamarah Sentiel was notably absent during this mission, as she was taking a personal leave when the assault took place.