Bridge Crossing

Captain Aqua and Tethos crossed the bridge to come to Tethos’ 2nd, Sparrow, who stands next to a GONK droid. Sparrow claims that the GONK droid has the potential to destroy entire planets, and proceeds to have the droid play a recording of the Empire blowing up hundreds of Stormtroopers with a single energy blast. Sparrow claims the Empire seeks to built a weapon that could fire multiple energy blasts like this at once.

Suddenly, they hear a familiar voice from behind the bridge. Dr Schlieffen, wearing an Imperial uniform, stands on the other side of the bridge with two Imperial Scout Troopers, and reveals that he designed the weapon in question, and is here to collect the bounty on it to create his own lab.

Schlieffen had been playing Rico’s Brigade all along; he told Rico that Mental was dead, knowing that Rico would quit after the loss of yet another friend. Now, Aqua has lead Schlieffen right to the droid, but pledges to stop them. Schlieffen warns he will return with an army.

Aqua is ready to fight, but the area is too small to fit even his remaining 513 soldiers on the planet. Their only hope it to hold the small bridge.

## **Battlefield**

* Zepho
	+ Mountain Village

## **Combatants**

* Rico's Brigade
	+ 9th Fountain Legion (Aqua’s Legion)
		- Aqua
	+ 87th Legion
		- Captain Tehtos
		- Sparrow
* Galactic Empire
	+ Stormtroopers
	+ Scout Troopers
	+ Imperial Army Soldiers
	+ Dr. Schlieffen

## **Battle Results**

Aqua assembles roughly 200 soldiers in the village, with himself, the droid, the senior officers on a small ridge on one side of a mountain, only accessible via a narrow bridge. The Empire amasses a sizeable force of not just Stormtroopers, but Imperial Army infantry as well to storm first the buildings and fields across the bridge, then the bridge itself.

The outermost clone defenses engage the attackers at once. Fortunately, the Imperials are not using Arc-carbines in this battle, but the forward force still falls quickly.

The Imperials approach the bridge, where clones in front of it attempt to hold the line with grenades before going down as well, allowing the attackers access to the bridge.

The clones across the bridge get suppressed by incoming fire, and so also resort to grenade warfare, the bridge serving as a killzone as the Imperials pack shoulder-to-shoulder on it.

The Imperial advance across the bridge eventually grinds to a halt, so they break into squads, but they still can’t advance.

Eventually, the clones nearest the bridge start to get picked off. A single clone heavy-gunner is able to get over 50 kills.

The Imperials decide to charge ahead and finally break onto the ridge. The two sides engage from a distance. Eventually, the Imperials are able to slowly advance, but by this point, their numbers have seriously dwindled. One clone accidently blows himself up cooking a grenade, but another expends his entire arsenal blowing up hostiles.

Once only a few Imperials remain, Rico’s Brigade counterattacks. The final Imperial squad goes down, and the day is won for Rico’s Brigade.

## **Epilogue**

Aqua and Sparrow both know that the Empire will be back soon, and they’ve lost 79 men, but have captured Dr. Schlieffen. Aqua hopes he might be able to tell them how to use the info in the GONK droid to their advantage.

## Trivia

* This is the first main series episode to utilize Imperial Army Troopers, who made up the bulk of the Imperial's Military in the Legends continuity. They were previously featured in a side-story episode, though.