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Serenity Valley- Battle for Batean Gorge : part 2

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Hoping to create a little interest in this type of storytelling. A little blood & guts added in for good measure..BPZ

Non-Canon points of order:

*Brownghost: Elite fighting teams formed by the Independence Army. Known for their stealth and their abilities to neutralize the Alliance advantages of waging war. Unlike the Red Panther and other elite forces of the browncoats, which were kill squads, the Brownghosts coda focused less on killing and concentrated more on destroying Unification hardware and equipment.

* “Cluster Busters” or FF9-80Z are Fixed-wing aircraft that the Independence Air Forces used to intimidate and help win the victories of several small conflicts during the “War of Unification”. Operated by a single pilot, the FF(Freedom-Fighter) 9-80Z were a small assault craft fighter, smaller than a shuttle on Serenity. The Independence side had about 100 of these.

*Brown-Ferret: Intel gathering mole, Freedom- fighter that gathered important information concerning the deployment of Allied troops, missions, and any other advantage they could swing in the Independence’s favor. These folk were akin to the Australian Bushmen during the fight with the Axis side during WW2 back on Earth That Was. They tended to become mercenaries after the U-war. Jayne’s cousin, Cody Cobb was a Browncoat-Ferret.

Now on to the story------

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It was 2:45 in the afternoon when Lieutenant Gardner made his way from his hiding position in gully 133 to an area just north of the Alliance held position of Batean Gorge. There was an old, bombed-out farmhouse on a hillside located there, and the Lieutenant meant to use it as his recon post before the attack got underway.

The Independence armies always seemed to preferr launching their attacks during the day rather than at night. One reason being that the Alliance forces used their satellite heat tracking systems to their b