Unspeakable Crimes

Maligaant held up his right paw, in a closed fist, bringing the entire squad to a halt.  Kraspen, about 25 meters ahead of the squad, had stopped and was crouching.  Maligaant's eyes focused on the squad's scout as he waited when his earpiece crackled, "Remnants of a speeder and it's rider sir. Looks as if the crims we've been tracking got the drop on another local." (Kraspen's term for criminals was crims and the entire squad was now using it.)

The squad had quickly gathered around the grizzly scene of the speeder even though there wasn't much left of either the speeder or it's rider.  The poor soul had been filled with so many blaster bolts there wasn't much left of the body. Maligaant's eyes dropped as he starred at the ground for a moment, "That makes the 8th local citizen killed by these crims" he roared to himself.  Looking back up, "We need to find these scum and now!" he roared out loud in a deep and low resonating tone. It echoed off the moss covered rocks sounding more like a beasts roar than words.

He'd been looking forward to getting back on planet and training with his squad.  Having so many of his fellow Togorians on the squad now really had filled him with an excited anticipation but then they came across the first victims of this band of cutthroats.  A mother and her two girls. What these animals  had done to them was unspeakable and fueled an anger within him he'd never felt before.  Burying the mother and daughters had been difficult for the entire squad and he could sense the desire for much more than justice burning within all of them. Since then  they'd come across 5 more grizzly scenes and were unable to account for 2 of the children at a torched farmhouse, it was beginning to wear on him. A paw gripped his left shoulder, it was Toby.  Maligaant looked into the eyes of his old friend and immediately felt his anger cool. With a simple nod he acknowledged his friend and spoke, "Whenever your ready Krasp."

Bolting out ahead of them Kraspen quickly moved down the mist filled trail, the squad trailing him at a distance, leaving the remnants of the speeder and it's rider behind.