Just Another Hunt In The Woods

Kantos was stirred awake by the sound of distant blaster fire. Sitting up he slipped on his helmet and stepped out of his tent and into the forest. His furry companion, Ort, was already standing on a nearby stump, ears perked up and listening to the stormtroopers.

"There they are..." Kantos murmured as he picked up his rifle and started to trudge into the forest.

It didn't take long for him to find the squadron of troopers. The remnant was always putting poorly trained men into stormtrooper armor. Desperate to keep the numbers up despite the fact they were putting would-be mercs and disillusioned dish washers onto the front lines.

A bounty was a bounty, however, and weeding out such rogue groups of remnant empire soldiers was a cheap and easy way of getting some credits. Kantos climbed into a tree, Ort settling on a branch next to him and eagerly awaiting the carnage that was about to ensue as Kantos got a bead on the lead trooper and popped his helmet with a well placed shot. The other troopers scattered, taking up what they felt were effective defensive lines within the trees, but they were woefully exposed. After popping a couple more from his perch he moved down to ground level.

From there the stormtroopers were beginning to fire wildly into the trees. Merely giving him their positions as they fired in the wrong direction from where he was approaching after circling around behind them. He pulled out his sword and cut down the first few without the others noticing, then produced his magnum and blasted the remaining troopers into dust.

Upon collecting their ID tags and pocketing them he looked around and wondered just what they were doing trudging through this forest.

Ort, while unhelpful in fighting the troopers, had found a strange girl hiding in a tree and began to chitter at her.

Hearing this, Kantos looked and saw the young girl. He lowered his blaster but kept it in his hand, he knew better than to assume a girl of any age couldn't be dangerous with the right will and training. "Who are you?" He asked the girl. "And why were those troopers hunting you?"