The Assimilation of Dilonexa XXIII

[Dyne Darkforce]

OOC: Alright, this RP is open to anyone. Make sure it is kept at 3 posts maximum in a day per person.

IC:

In the conference room, Darth Renegade, Darth Varlon, and Dyne Darkforce were discussing a matter. Spending long nights in the room planning and ironing out things. As the meeting came to a end, Dyne placed the proposal in the middle of the three men.

"Alright, we have finalized the proposal. What we know about this planet is that it is quite large. It is in the Lave Sector of the West Quadrant. It orbits a blue star and is accompanied by 39 other planets.

Varlon: "Yes, I believe they have diverted all their attention into agriculture. It is plentiful in food supply, since the metal is imported by them. The food supply should help our forces out greatly."

Renegade: "Hmmm, the sheer size alone can show how much food supply they must have. What about the intelligence reports.?"

"Intelligence states that there should be 3 cruisers, 3 wings Headhunter Z95's, and one wing of Y-Wing's. Plus, the planet has garrisions, around 9 divisions of troops. Not sure about outside interference, but nonetheless we should be cautious of that."

Varlon: "My Blitzkrieg fleet will be put into action to help the mission along. It should be enough for the Crusiers."

Renegade: "Since, im in charge of the fighter squadrons, ill make sure their fighters are take care of. We need to make sure the Razor's can be deployed."

"Ok, now lets take this to the Commander, so we can get the final approval."

The three nod to each other and exit the room then headed down the hallway. Varlon's and Ren's faces alone showed their concentration on the matter. They were dressed in their appropriate uniforms and the boot taps on the cold sent a echo through the hallway. Looking at the proposal and intelligence reports, Dyne made sure everything was in check. The forces were already being prepared for both ground and air. He wondered if his transmission to his Master had reached her or not. Dyne nodded and assured himself that she mostly had checked it already. Arriving at the Commander's office he asked to be welcomed inside.

"Commander, may I come in?"

Summoner: "Yes, come in Dyne."

He walked into the room and they saluted the Commander as the door slid open. Dyne placed the file onto the already enormous amounts of work that Sums was already doing.

Summoner: "Hmmm, take a seat gentlemen. What can I do for you?"

"This is our proposal to take over Dilonexa XXIII Commander. Everything you requested for is in there, we need your final approval on the matter. Since this is a big task we need to make sure everything is a go. Obviously, it will be a big asset for us if the mission goes successful, which we plan on it being."

The Commander arched his eyebrow and opened the file. Looking through it carefully, he finally looked at the three Sith.

Summoner: "Did you plan this out yourself men?"

"Yes sir, we did."

Summoner: "This is set to go, but realize one thing. The recent merger of TSE and RSO is taking up all of our time. As you can see from my work, I will not be able to accompany you on this. You will be alone on the mission, if you run into trouble we maybe able to send you backup but nothing is for sure."

Varlon: "We understand Commander, we shall do the best possible for the Empire as always."

"Yes sir, I was wondering if you would lend a squadron of Razor's to Renegade since he is charge or aerial combat."

Summoner: "I was wondering why you didnt have TSE forces listed in the proposal. The Razor's will be given to you, but make sure they stay good in condition. They will be loaded up into your fleets. Varlon, you are in charge of the fleets, Renegade the fighter squadrons, and Dyne you have the ground combat forces."

The whole time Renegade had a dark look over his face in concentration. Sums put a series of information into a datapad then put his thumb imprint onto it. This gave permission for the Razor's to be released to their control.

"Thank you sir for the Razor's."

Summoner: "Ok men, your are dismissed and good luck to you men. Bring glory to the Empire and dont get killed out there. This place is a large challenge indeed."

They saluted the Commander and left the room. All three thinking about their respectable jobs in the operation. The three headed down the corridor to meet up with their forces. The forces were all prepared and given a briefing on the operation.

[Khendon Sevon]

Khendon intercepted the group of officers and walked next to them. He whispers something about a small fleet of his to Dyne. Dyne raises an eyebrow and gives a sharp nod, with this Khendon falls in step behind the men.

Bleeding Hallow Fleet
ISD3 Hawk's Eye
HMM Vitality
HMM Conundrum
HMM Vex
HMM Rue
HMM Hitman
HMM [i]Red Army[i]
(HMM = Heavily Modified Marauder)

[Darth Varlon]

<h2>Death Wind Fleet</h2>

Command Ships:

SSD Death Wind
- 5 Squadrons of Shield equipped TIE/I
- 5 Squadrons of TIE/rz
- 2 Squadrons of Scimitar Assault Bombers

Heavy Ships:

ISD-II Drauka
- 3 Squadrons of TIE/ln
- 2 Squadrons of shield equipped TIE/I
- Squadron of Scimitar Assault Bombers

Medium Ships:

Wraith Cruiser Pride
- 2 Squadrons of TIE/df

Wraith Cruiser Envy
- 2 Squadrons of TIE/df

Wraith Cruiser Wrath
- 2 Squadrons of TIE/df

Wraith Cruiser Sloth
- 2 Squadrons of TIE/df

Wraith Cruiser Avaracious
- 2 Squadrons of TIE/df

Wraith Cruiser Glutton
- 2 Squadrons of TIE/df

Wraith Cruiser Lust
- 2 Squadrons of TIE/df

Wraith Cruiser Striker
- 2 Squadrons of TIE/df

Wraith Cruiser Rage
- 2 Squadrons of TIE/df

Wraith Cruiser Hydra
- 2 Squadrons of TIE/df

Wraith Cruiser Malice
- 2 Squadrons of TIE/df

Wraith Cruiser Aries
- 2 Squadrons of TIE/df

Wraith Cruiser Taurus
- 2 Squadrons of TIE/df

Wraith Cruiser Hell's Keep
- 2 Squadrons of TIE/df

Wraith Cruiser Devil's Chariot
- 2 Squadrons of TIE/df

Wraith Cruiser Vengeful
- 2 Squadrons of TIE/df

Wraith Cruiser Imperious
- 2 Squadrons of TIE/df

Wraith Cruiser Intolerable
- 2 Squadrons of TIE/df

Wraith Cruiser Execution
- 2 Squadrons of TIE/df

Wraith Cruiser Tyrant
- 2 Squadrons of TIE/df

Wraith Cruiser Kaiser
- 2 Squadrons of TIE/df

Wraith Cruiser War God
- 2 Squadrons of TIE/df

Wraith Cruiser Death's Edge
- 2 Squadrons of TIE/df

Wraith Cruiser Krytos
- 2 Squadrons of TIE/df

Wraith Cruiser Death's Kiss
- 2 Squadrons of TIE/df

***

Aboard the Command Ship Death Wind, Varlon sat in the command chair of the Star Destroyers bridge. His gaze locked on that of his two fellow Sith, Darth Renedage and Dyne Darkforce.

"Renegade, Dyne, Death Wind fleet ready. Status report?" He said over the bustling noise of the pit crews.

[Big Bad Naga]

The Sith Infiltrator "Mirage II" emerged from Hyperspace. Naga was the only one aboard. He extended his vision and spotted Death Wind, Varlon's Command Ship. He powered up to full speed heading straight for the ship. Naga opened the comm channel to the ship.

Death Wind Officer: "Unidentified ship, identify yourself."

Naga: "Tell Lord Varlon, Lord Darkforce, and Lord Renegade that it's an old drinking partner."

Naga could sense the confusion on the crew. This caused him to smile. The Officer seemed to be asking a question to his superior.

Officer: "Unidentified ship...Prepare to be boarded."

20 minutes later.

Naga ran down the ramp of his Infiltrator and headed for the bridge where Varlon and the others were.

[Darth Varlon]

Var stood and turned around just in time to see Naga run onto the bridge. He smiled and bowed, allowing his braid to fall over his shoulder.

"A pleasure to see you again, Naga." He said curtiously. "I was about to get the final word on the status of our task force."

[Dyne Darkforce]

He was looking out into the vastness of space. Dyne turned his attention to BBN, his long time friend as a smile appears over his face.

"Welcome BBN to Varlon's Death Wind, thanks for helping me out here your a good friend. Make yourself comfortable till we get the main operation launched."

He turned and looked on at what was going around him. Everyone was busy doing their job for the mission. The fleet was prepared to enter hyperspace.

[Darth Varlon]

"Lord Konrad!" A voice rang up from the port crew pit.

"What is it, Ensign?" Var responded.

"All units are check."

"Mission is a go, commanders. Lets get the fleet into action."

***

As if directly linked to the Sith Knight, the Death Wind fleet began to turn and manouevre into position. With the fleets main thrusters firing up to power, they started to accelerate towards their jump point.

After a period of five minutes, all ships were ready and with a sudden split-second stop, the fleet accelerated sharply and with a boom, vanished into the tunnel of hyperspace.

[Darth Renegade]

The fleet comes out of hyperspace in a high orbit around the planet. At the time, Renegade is still on the bridge of the SSD Death Wind, staring out of the large view screen. He is dressed in his flight suit, ready for combat.

Open up the intercom for me

The nervous tech immediately opens the frequency. His hands trying not to shake or show his nervousness around the Sith Knight.

"Intercom open, sir"

Laran grabs the mic and holds it in front of his face for a second. He looks around the bridge at the rest of the command crew with a dark face. He takes a deep breath before speaking

Skull squadron, this is Skull one, coming to you from the bridge. I will be out joining you in a moment. Intelligence indicates we are up against obsolete starfighters here. Z95's and Y wings. Obviously I want them all taken out. Priority goes to the Y wings. I don't want one torpedo to hit our ships. Repeat, NOT ONE. Dont' waste your missles on the Z95's. They'll go down easy enough. Set your sheilds, weapons and engines to whatever you choose or feel comfortable with. With that being said, scramble all fighters, and happy hunting boys. I'm coming out now, Katern, out.

He hands the mic back to the nervous tech, who quickly hangs it up. He looks around at the command crew once more with a gleam in his eye. He walks out to the middle of the floor and begins speaking.

you have the honor of serving the Empire. Serve us well, and reap the rewards. Fail us, and meet your desmise. The choice is yorus

With those words, Laran walks briskly to the door and down the hall to the fighter hanger housing Skull squadron.

[Darth Varlon]

With the fighters launching, the shields around the fleets docking bays were down while a triplet of New Republic MC80's broke orbit and started towards the large TSE fleet.

***

Aboard the bridge of the SSD Death Wind, Varlon was back at the tactical holo. "Seven sins, take position in front of the ISD Drauka, rest of the Wraiths to forward positions.

Make sure those Cruisers don't get close to this ship. As soon as they entre maximum firing range, engage them."

***

Outside, a dozen klicks from the Death Wind, flickers of emerald and crimson light started to trade back and forth between the outskirts of the Wraith Cruisers and MC80's. As orders are beamed to the outskirts of the formation, Wraith Cruisers start to form up against the cruisers.

Soon, fire is being traded between five Wraith cruisers to each MC80 while the "Seven Sins" cruiser group and Death Wind slowly push forward.

[Big Bad Naga]

Naga watches from the main viewports while the two factions engaged in battle. He had seen quite a few Space Battles in his time, but this one proved to be one of the greats. It seemed that the Fleet had gotten down to business.

Naga's atteniton was brought back to the mission. He turned to the side and walked over to Dyne.

"Dyne, when do we leave for the ground assault?"

[Fritz 7]

As Fritz hears Renegade's words he stops leaning against Skull 2 and climbs up the side of it into the cockpit and sits down. Fritz then flicks on some switches turning on Skull 2 then taking off into space after a short bit of flying he notices a group of Y wings and immediately fires at them taking out two of the ships from the group then sees a Y wing preparing to attack him but sees it explode into flames then says over the intercomm "thanks Renegade". Fritz then flies around looking for more Y wings and Z95s

[Khendon Sevon]

Khendon, on the bridge of Hawk’s Eye, looks out through the main view port. “Order our squadrons of Tie Defenders to be launched and have two squadrons of StarVipers launched as well. I want the marauders to take the point and engage any target they find, we shall provide fire support for any in need.”

Khendon’s veteran crew looked at him with hard faces and all gave slight nods or smiles. The six marauders formed a V formation in front of the Hawk’s Eye and they stood ready.

[Anubis Lockheart]

Anubis had been the first in the cockpit but the last to leave. For the third time now he speaks to the flight controller through the intercomm.

"This Is Anubis in skull 3, Am I clear to launch now or what?"

After a few seconds he hear's the flight controllers voice over the comm.

Flight controller: Roger that Skull 3, sorry about the delay.

Anubis after waiting impatiently for a quarter of an hour already, slams the Razor into top acceleration and takes off. After exiting the airlock, to his surprise he falls behind a wing of Z95's. Taking out the leader before the wing could even notice he was there. The wing then splits up as Anubis gives chase to the right wing. He twists and barrels, firing a few shots and manages to clip the wing of a Z95 as it pummels and collides with the remaining Z95 of the wing.

A smile drew across his face as he had not been in a proper battle since dagobah. The Darkness pulsing through his veins as he uses it to guide him into dogfights. A voice comes over the comm as he listens

Skull 1: Skull 3 where are you?

"Settle down Ren, let me catch up. Remind me to have a word with the flight controller when I get back.."

His voice trails off as he gets a visual on the rest of his wing. He diverts all power to engines until he caught up, then changing it back to his custom configuration.

[Darth Varlon]

The hailstorm between the MC80's and the Wraiths suddenly increased as a group of ten more Wraith's opened fire on the three cruisers. A death trap had been formed between the large group of cruisers that were trading shot for shot of turbolaser fire.

As the fighters danced between the warring factions, the anti-NR fire increased again, this time in a large multiple as the commanding Star Destroyer, Death Wind and its subordinate Star Destroyer opened fire.

***

"We have engaged the New Republic forces, my lord." A tactical Lieutenant shouted over the wailing klaxons.

"Good, concentrate fire on the closest Cruiser, and repeat process until all enemy cruisers are neutrilized." Varlon said and pointed to the battle map. "Shields, re-rout to forward."

"Aye, my lord!" An Ensign on the starboard crew pit shouted and went to transferring power.

***

Outside, the MC80's take what potshots they can at the larger dagger of the two. Their shots spatter uselessly against the shield which seemingly grows instead of shrinks as the fire strikes it. But the NR fleet pushes on hopelessly as the SSD slowly starts to "spearhead" the enemy formation.

[DarthPoreon]

Admiral Poreon, three minutes till realspace reversion!

Onboard the Interdictor Cruiser Forthright, only the stream of hyperspace could be seen. In three minutes though, the ship would be plunged back into realspace. A battle would be taking place in realspace. The Interdictor though, would be staying out of the battle.

Admiral Poreon, 30 Seconds

The Admiral stood peering out into the Hyperspace Abyss mentally counting down the time till the realspace reversion.

Admiral Poreon, 5 Seconds

The time was now. The Admiral issued the command, Revert to realspace now!

The steady stream of what was hyperspace suddenly disappeared. Instead of the stream of hyperspace, there was a large planet. And, there were capital ships. And, starfighters.

Activate Gravity Well Generators!

Throughout the Interdictor, a rythmic hum could be felt as the Gravity Well Generators kicked into action.

The Admiral turned his head and looked at his force that just arrived around the planet. There were three Interdictor Cruisers, Forthright, Fortitude, and Fortify. And there were Two Corellian Gunships, CG1 and CG2.

Commander Varlon, This is Admiral Jake Ser Poreon, aka DarthPoreon, My force shall make sure no enemy escapes to hyperspace.

[DarthPoreon]

Emporer's Black Bones!

The Admiral became rigid with a slight shock. He stared out of the viewport, his gaze not shifting. His mouth dropped open in slight shock. He quickly reached out and leaned onto a nearby support beam. A minute passed, and the Admiral was able to regain his composure.

Give me affiliation of those ships!

The Admiral glanced down at his datapad to read the data on the new ships that had been pulled out of hyperspace because of the Interdictors.

Nebulon B Frigate Pride
Nebulon B Frigate Hope
Nebulon B Frigate Stellar

Enemy Signals coming off of them.
__________

The Admiral let out a long controlled breath.

[b]Commander Varlon, Poreon here again. It seems that the Interdictors pulled out a small enemy force. Three Nebulon B Frigates is the enemy. Request Permission to engage.

[Meteo Vaxe]

*A squad of Z-95's somehow get behind Anubis. They are about to fire, when a Protoss Corsair class fighter exits hyperspace. The new ship fires a blast which damages the flight leader. They fly away, still in formation.*

"I was in the neighborhood. Mind if I join this party."

*The engines of the Massacre roar as it comes up upon the squad of Z-95's. They attempt to scatter, but Skroth's ship is too quick. A flash of laser and ion blasts fire from the fighter and incinerates the flight leader of the the squad of Z-95's. The debris collide the other 2 ships in the squad and they go spinning out of control. To which Skroth's ship quickly doubles back, and fires at a second ship. Only the ion cannons hit it. It stays stationary. The third ship eventually regains control, but knows better than to attack Skroth's ship. He goes off to fight someone else. The Massacre follows it.Just when Skroth gets a lock on it, an enemy frigate just pops out of hyperspace. The Massacre's sensors indicate that it is The Stellar. Skroth quickly pulls out while carefully avoiding the turbolasers and anti-flight lasers. The ship gets hit once, but the shields hold. Skroth then moves in to assist Skull squadron.

[Skroth da Ripper]

OOC: DAMN EZ-BOARD!!! That was me.

[Darth Varlon]

"Roger that, Admiral Poreon. If you've got any extra firepower, feel free to lend it." Var said as he kept a steady eye on the tactical map.

"Seven Sins, execute John Doe manouevre."

***

Outside the SSD, seven of the twenty-five Wraith cruisers suddenly fired simotaniously on a single spot on a nearby cruiser, the shots penetrating from one end of the ship to the other. A plume of fire ripped through both ends of the cruiser as the seven smaller ones push by it.

The other two cruisers weren't faring too well either, their hulls dotted with flame and open wounds from the battering of the task force. But now, all three MC80's had turned their firepower towards the SSD Death Wind in hopes of wounding it.

***

"All wraith cruisers, get behind them and attack from behind. If possible destroy their engines, they'll make a nice fleet addition." Var issued before turning to his bridge crew. "Start ion bombardment. Once the ships are disabled, prepare boarding parties. But make sure Dyne and Renegade keep the bulk of our forces."

"Yes, my lord!" The cheif gunners in the crew pits called out in tandem.

[Dyne Darkforce]

Dyne looked over at BBN and a grin appeared over his face.

"As soon as Varlon and Renegade get rid of the planets space defenses. With Ren out there, their fighters should drop like flies. Plus, Varlon is among the best of fleet commanders out there. There are going to be boarding parties to take over some of the cruisers. As you can see, we are going to use ion weaponry to disable them. Our priority is to land on the planet with forces and take out their garrisions and troop placements. You will assist me in that part of the mission. The stormtroopers will also accompany us and while we are down there. Renegade will do bombing runs on targets and he is being backed by Fritz and Anubis it also seems like Skroth has arrived as well. Khendon is on another ship helping us in the clearing of their cruisers."

He laughed to himself.

"Right now lets look at the Z95's and Y-wings get plastered, shall we?"

He gets a cocky smile and looks out into the vastness of space, watching the on going battle. After a while of looking out there, Dyne walks over behind Varlon to see the current situation with the enemy cruisers. It seemed that the wraith ships were efficiently doing the job. The ion bombardment just beginning, as the forces in each of their respectable shuttles were deployed to board the disabled cruisers.

[Darth Varlon]

"Wraiths, break off, their out." Var said and grinned. "We've caught ourselves a good haul, and it seems they didn't have a chance to take out the engines."

He turned to another panel. "All capitol ships, push forward. Seven sins, guard those cruisers."

He then turned to Dyne. "I release the fleets troop compliment to you."

***

Outside, Seven of the Wraith Cruisers took positions up near the three damaged cruisers as a large contingent of Stormtrooper Transports launched and headed their way.

Coming right for the fleet, however, was the three Frigates, and six Corvettes. Fire already danced between the two fleets as the Death Wind, her ISD escort, and her 18 other Wraith cruisers plowed into the minor fleet.

The SSD Death Wind, however, continued her way through the engagement, spitting fire at anything in its way as the return fire slammed into shields that had evened out. The massive dagger had mere minutes until it reached orbit.

[DarthPoreon]

Launch all Fighter Squadrons!

From the hangar bays of the three Interdictor Cruisers, an Interceptor Squadron poured out. There was a combined force of Three Squadrons of Interceptors. The starfighter battle was in the Nebulon B Frigates favor. They had a combined force of Six Squadrons.

Gunners, get targeting solutions ready, begin firing on my mark.

The Admiral would wait to unleash the power of his force until the enemy struck. Afterall, It looked more impressive on a Debriefing Report.

Admiral Poreon, the Nebulon Bs have unleashed their fighter squadrons. Shall I tell the fighters to engage?

[b]Yes Ensign, tell Major Allger that he will be incharge of the starfighter battle

[Khendon Sevon]

Khendon, sitting slopply in his command chair, put down the book he had been skimming, The Art of War by Sun-Tzu. He cracked his neck and looked at his data display, no targets for him.

As Khendon became comfortable and sipped some coffee the lights in the room went red. “Status!”
“Sir, one escort carrier, four carracks, two dreadnaughts, and two strikes just pulled out of hyperspace. They have targeting solutions on us!”
“have left take on the Carracks, all fighters attack whatever is released by that carrier, have right move in on the strikes, and middle and us move onto the escort carrier and dreadnaughts.”

Khendon held his forehead and rubbed his temples, he had a headache.

[Adm Makarov]

::Admiral Vladimir Makarov, tall heavy set man in his mid forties, sat in the control chair of his task forces flagship. An MC-104gg named Glasnost, that was leading 14 other warships and 40 bulk transports to Dilonexa XXIII to pick up a much needed shipment of food stuffs. He hated these types of missions, all this firepower at his command and he was escorting something that would be a waste of time for pirates.

The fleet of transports along with the warships dropped out of hyperspace at the far end of the Dilnexa system and started heading inwards towards the 13th planet.::

"Admiral, flash comm. traffic from Dilonexa Thirteen. Sir their being attacked by an unknown force. The ships in orbit are tearing through their defenses easily."

::Makarov turned and looked at the junior officer, answering in a heavily accented english::

Any sign that they have spotted us yet?

"No sir. Orders?"

Launch the W-wings from Glasnost and Haltor, their stealth should allow them to get in close enough to clear out some of those fighters. Order the transports to remain here, and for the rest of the ships to move to just outside the sensor range of those ships, we don't want let them know we are here just yet. Also find out if there are any other Republic ships within range and call them in for back up.

"Yes sir."

::Makarov turned and watched as 5 squadrons of the stealth W-wings raced away from his ship and the captured Imperial Escort Carrier Haltor. Slowly the 14 warships crept in behind the 16th planet out of the sensor range of the attacking forces.::

New Republic forces:
1-MCC-104gg Heavy Cruiser
1-Imperial Escort Carrier
2-MC-80a Medium Cruiser
4-MC-60c Light Cruiser
4-Nebulon-B2 Frigates
4-Lancer Frigates

[Khendon Sevon]

Khendon smiled as his left group rained fire upon the carracks and easily defeated them, disabling one, destroying the rest; “preserving there army is best, destroying it second-best.” – The Art of War.

Khendon put his arms behind his back and yelled orders, “Have a shuttle confiscate the disabled ship, open fire on the carrier, now that we are in range, and have left aid right, outflank, come from behind.”

“Has anyone taken recon on the outer areas of the system?”
“No, Sir, not that we know of.”
“Launch two squad of StarVipers to the surrounding space, once right and left are done have them transfer power to their juiced up sensor arrays so that we can see the area better.”

Khendon went back to watching as his ISD and two Marauders ceased fire and the enemy carrier blew up.

“We have much work, and little time.”
(Edit: the gods plague me w/ typos)

[Darth Renegade]

Leaving the bridge of the Death Wind, Laran breaks into a jog, moving through the corridors of the large ship making his way to the hangar bay. He arrives, breathing a little heavy. One of the tech approaches him

"Sir, Skull 1 is prepared and ready to go."

They begin walking together towards Skull 1, the engines already warming up.

Good, I'll be leaving immediately.[i]

The tech look at him once more, and snaps a quick salute to him

[i]"Good hunting sir"

Renegade climbs into the cockpit. Even before his is seated, he begins closing the hatch. Reaching over his shoulder, he grabs the belts and straps himself in, and then puts his helmet on, snapping it into place. With a confident eye, he looks over the console, and then grabs the stick and begins to ease the ship towards the hangar doors. He radios to the bridge

This is Skull 1, leaving the hangar now, keep me updated on the situation below

He throttles up, and Skull 1 shoots out of the belly of the Death Wind into the cold region of space. He flies under the ship and comes out in the thick of the battle

Skulls, this is 1. Keep up the good work. Remember, the Y wings are priroity, use your missles on them, not the Z95's. Tacital shows they are down 1/3 of their fleet. It won't be long now. Skull 1 out

Laran quickly readjusts his ships setting, turnign his shields down to 80% and the engine up to 120%, favouring speed against the obsolete crafts. The lasers are then set for dual fire. No sooner then he has finished with the setting, he has the chance to try them out. He banks hard to the right, the G forces increasing, and come down over top of a y wing.. He begins firing his laser, connecting with 6 shots. The Y wing comes apart at it's seems in a fiery explosion

[Dyne Darkforce]

Dyne turns and salutes Varlon. He gets onto the comm for the ship.

"Ok, time to deploy the shuttles into space for landing on Dilonexa XXIII. BBN will accompany me to the planet and anyone else who wishes too. Bring your own group of stormtroopers with a shuttle. The objective is to make them submit to us. Attack their main troop garrisions and forces first. If they do not submit then.....kill them, no mercy. We MUST take over the whole planet and its primary strongholds. The use of deadly force is of course, authorized. Once your area has been secured, send a transmission to me and Commander Varlon on the Death Wind, This is for the glory of the Empire!"

He turns to BBN and nods to him as a transmission comes onto the comm from Khendon's Hawk's Eye.

Khendon: "It seems that other forces have entered the area. I am the closest to the force, I shall engage them."

Dyne quickly spoke back to Khendon over the comm

"Ok, Khendon, rip them apart. Commander Varlon and Poreon will give you back up if needed."

Khendon: "Alright sir, thank you."

Dyne quickly turned to Varlon.

"Varlon, can you tell Ren to back the shuttles up and protect them as we descend upon the planet? We will need a escort in that period of time, then he can begin bombardment as the other fighters patrol you around here. That should give Ren some more fun and with the NR here, it will make it interesting."

Varlon: "Already done, good luck Dyne."

"Thanks Varlon."

As their conversation ended and shook hands, he turned to BBN and began to head down to the gathering of troops with the shuttle groups. BBN and Dyne were going to use their personal fighter ships to escort the shuttles and back-up the fighters out there as well then descend on the planet. Arriving at the hangar, the troops and shuttles were ready and briefed. BBN and Dyne got into their ships and deployed with the rest of the shuttles. The two were the Omega squadron as BBN was his wingman. As their systems and shields were online, he went over the comm to BBN.

"BBN, we have to watch these shuttles and make sure the damn enemy doesnt get to them. Use all you got on them, we maybe have to assist in the clearing of the NR forces that have arrived as well. Khendon has engaged their fleets right now. We will descend on the planet as soon as that is done."

BBN: "Gotcha Dyne, everything is online and ready to go."

As he got off the comm, Dyne looked around as Ren's fighter squadrons continued to clear out the area. He smiled as it was clear for now.

[Khendon Sevon]

Khendon smiled as the last strike cruiser blew and spoke, “Have all squadrons, including our recon StarViper squads, return, set course for enemy fleet. Bring us into a sphere formation. Scan targets and try to get me a list of ships. Move it!”

Khendon looked at his pad and read of the enemy fleet’s size and ships. He smiled a little and looked out the view port, his fleet almost near theirs.

[Big Bad Naga]

Inside of "Mirage II" Naga pressed all the necessary buttons and began to charge his lasers. He and Dyne were to escort the troops to the planet.

Naga looked straight through his main viewports. The Z95's were approaching at top speed. He revved up his engines and double-checked the laser chargers. Everything was ready. Naga took hold of the trigger and balanced out his speed and attack power.

He watched a Z95 zoom by. Naga swerved his ship around and matched his targeting box with the fighter. He pressed the trigger twice, and watched as the two green lasers hit the Z95 and damaged the shields. The fighter increased speed and flew away. Naga spun his fighter around again and watched Dyne ingage in battle with another Z95. There seemed to be three of them in all.

His sensors turned red, indicating that he was being shot at. Naga noticed the Z95 was heading straight for him. He looped his ship around at the last second and released 4 more shots. Thrre of them hit and destroyed the Z95.

He looked out his side viewport and notcied that Dyne had destroyed one too. The third one was flying around taking pot-shots at BBN. Dyne swerved his fighter to the left and sped up to 2/3 throttle. Naga was doing his best to avoid the fighter.

He cheered loudly when just above him the fighter exploded from Dyne's ship. He keyed the commlink on.

Naga: "Dyne looks like things are cleared. We can proceed to the planet. But watch out for more New Rep forces, just in case..."

[Darth Varlon]

"This is Varlon to fleet, full 180." He said across the fleet wide comm on encrypted channels. "Be on lookout for NR forces, slightest sign of them, report back."

"Yes, Lord Varlon!" Nearly overlapping responses came back.

***

Outside of the bridge of the bustling SSD, the ships begain to form in a V in opposite to their origional entrance formation. By now, teams had captured the three MC80s and moved them back to the rear of the formation as the last of the NR fleet was annihilated.

And all was quiet, on the Dilonexa XXIII front.

[Skroth da Ripper]

*Skroth doesn't like the ensuing silence in that part of space, now that he has had a taste of action, he needs more. So he opens a channel to the Lionheart.*

Skroth: Dyne,I havn't quite had my fill of action quite yet. Mind If I tag along?

Dyne: Course not. You got the JD for after the mission?

Skroth: You better believe it.

BBN: You better have brought enough for me too.

Skroth: Don't worry BBN, I got you covered. Hell, This ship has whole fridge full of JD. So don't think I'll run out on ya. Though I wouldn't put money on that with all the troopers we're bringing along. Oh well. See ya on the planet. Massacre out.

*Skroth follows Dyne and BBN down to the planet.*

[Adm Makarov]

::The stealth properties of the W-Wings were working as advertised. They had been able to sneak in on the attacking forces unseen on scanners. As the five squadrons barreled in on their targets they caught the forces horribly unprepared. Two of the wings fired their warhead loads at the large SSD, 192 concussion missiles streaked through the sky sending the SSD into chaos as the missiles appeared out of nowhere. 97 of the missiles impacted the shields dropping them to 83%. The other 3 wings each targeted on of the Wraith Cruisers bring their shields down an average of 19%. After breaking off their missile runs the fighters turned to engage the TIE fighters screaming around the sky.

Makarov stood on the bridge waiting for a report on the initial attack.::

Report.

"We caught them off guard sir. So far no losses to us with 8% losses to their fighters so far. They know we are here now sir. Should we move the rest of our ships in to engage?

Da. We will take the SSD the rest those Cruisers and that ImpStar. I want A-, E- and X-wings going after the fighters, Y-and B-wings attack the SSD and ImpStar with proton torpedoes and then go after the fighters.

"Yes sir."

Any word on some support?

"Negative Sir. We have received no answer to our transmissions."

Very well. Helm, move us in.

::With that order the rest of the fighters launched from the ships and headed for their targets, as the larger ships moved forward into the fight.::

Fighter complements (in squadrons):
5 W-wings
4 E-Wings
5 X-Wings
2 A-wings
2 B-Wings
1 Y-Wing
1 StarViper

[Darth Varlon]

Aboard the SSD, fires raged on the bridge. Var was swearing to himself. "Full target on their command cruiser, I want EVERY battery firing." He shouted across the comm as the ships pushed through the fighter cloud, shots raining out destroying them in moments in the literal sea. "Get fighter groups out there."

***

Outside, the skies lit up with turbolaser fire out on the Admirals command ship. The combined firepower of twenty-seven ships, plus the three captee's, quickly withering its shields. Within minutes, the forward shields had collapsed and the hull was being peppered with fire as the fleets fighters engaged the enemies.

The Death Wind and her fleet wouldn't give up without a fight.

[Darth Renegade]

Another Y wing is blown to bits. Laran is about to set course for his next victim when he sees explosions all around the SSD Death Wind. He gives his head a quick shake seeing all the new fighter around. He opens up the secured comm channel to the bridge of the Death Wind.

Varlon, I have visual now with the New Republic forces. I'm sending over my sensors reading to you. I want continual updates on your shield strenght. Skull 1 out.

Gritting his teeth and cursing under his breath, Laran continue to fly through the battle unscathed. Quickly formulating his plan in his head, he opens the comm unit again, this time to his Skull squadron.

Skulls regroup. We have new fighters. Cut the jabber on the comm, and collect yourselves. We will not be outflown by an bunch of upstart pilots. We still have superiority over them.

He takes a deep breath, and flies towards the new fighters. An A wing flies into his scope. He reacts with complete confidence and fires off an advanced missle. It streaks through space, and in a matter of seconds the A wing is no more.

I want priority on all torpedo ladden ships. There is to be nothing getthing through to our capital ships. If they do, it'll be your heads. Squads 1-2, regroup at point Zulu and form up and move to engage any craft threatning our ships. Squads 3-5 will engage all other fighters. Once again set everythign to your preferences.

Laran rolls hard to the left, an X wing streaks by him, narrowly missing him. He banks hard to the right and slows his ship down. The xwing slowly comes into his cross hairs. He fires off his lasers. Shot after shot streaks out and lands on his target. After the7 consecutive hit, the X wing blows apart.

The time has come to show your courage and loyalty to the Empire. Step up your abilities, and send these guys packing

[Fritz 7]

Fritz continues to dodge avoiding missiles and lazers while looking for enemy ships then spots a Y wing and quickly locks it in his crosshairs then fires several lazers at it destroying it. Fritz then has to quickly dive down to dodge a lazer coming from an X wing. Fritz then turns and gives chase until it is in his crosshairs then fires a missile and destroys it then continues the search for me ships to destroy

[Adm Makarov]

::The two MC-80a's slowly slipped into the path of the onslaught that the Glasnost was taking.::

Thank god. Get those shield generators back online.

"Yes sir"

"Sir we are seriously outgunned here, those ships we thought to be Strike Cruisers are packing more than we thought."

So I see XO. Suggestions?

"Use the transports sir. Have their crews set the auto-pilots and then abandon ship. They would become 40 extremely large ballistic torpedo's. They couldn't take out all 40 of them sir."

::Marakov thought about the option. Bulk transports were becoming harder to find for the New Republic and he would be destroying forty of them.::

Very well. Have half of them do it. Have the other twenty ships pick up the survivors.

"Aye Admiral."

::And so the orders were given. As the shields of the MC-80a's began to fall and the ones on the MCC-104gg came up again 20 unguided ships cruised at top speed for the SSD and ISD. There was no way they could destroy them all, or for that matter move completely out of the way. It was a costly maneuver but better than dying.

[Dyne Darkforce]

Dyne received a transmission from Ren as he was flying along the shuttles.

Renegade: "Dyne, seems like the NR forces have made their presence. The Skulls are on the fighters they deployed. Varlon and Khendon have engaged the capitol ships."

"Alright Ren, thanks for the heads up. We only have some stray Z95's tagging along. BBN and Skroth are my wingmen right now, so they will help clear the enemy presence. I think we will escort the shuttles to the planets atmosphere. If need be, ill break off and come help you out there."

Renegade: "I dont believe it will be needed, our other squadrons have been deployed to take on their fighters. Also, once we clear their fighters im sending my bomber squadrons to assist in the bombing of Dilonexa's strongholds."

"Yeah thank you Ren, when we land shuttles at the appropriate destinations then we shall begin the purge. If we make the majority of them fall, the others should give up. If they dont, then they shall pay hell."

Renegade: "Alright Dyne, stay frosty and keep in touch for the operation. These fighters shall fall quick, and ill be with you in the purge soon, their ships should be easy to handle."

"Alright, see you soon Ren. Omega leader out."

Dyne went to the comm over to the shuttles and also BBN and Skroth.

"Alright men, you heard Renegade. We keep with the shuttles and they should be with us soon. If they need fighter help ill take me personal ship the Lionheart to assist them. I want BBN and Skroth to cover the shuttles if that situation arises. I want the shuttles to keep their shields up and Omega 2 and 3 as well."

BBN: "Alright Dyne, I got it covered on that end."

Skrothe: "Roger Omega 1, we will proceed with the shuttles as planned."

"Ok Omega leader out."

Dyne kept a close eye on the targeting computer to make sure of any enemy presence. Keeping his shields up and his throttle to the maximum. He looked to his left out the cockpit, every so often seeing explosions light up the space.

"Seems like Ren, Var, and Khendon are having fun up there."

He laughed to himself as he said that then thought about Fritz and Anubis. Dyne got onto a frequency with Ren.

"Ren are you there, this is Dyne speaking."

Renegade: "Yeah Dyne, go ahead."

"Are Fritz and Anubis having fun blasting ships?"

Renegade: "They are fine, having as much as fun as me. Dont worry about it, im covering their backs....you know me."

"Yeah yeah I know, just making sure thats all. They are my comrades after all. Alright, Omega 1 out."

He nodded to himself and continued on at the planned course. Monitoring the targeting systems every so often.

[Khendon Sevon]

Khendon smiled as he saw the shuttles. “Left take them out with everything you have. Right, stay back; you’ll be fire support. Center will move and engage enemy forces. Launch Scimitars and have them destroy the Imperial Escort Carrier, without a place to refuel their fighters we’ll have them in my back pocket. Send the Tie Defenders against the heavy Cruiser and have us train all batteries on them as well. Launch all six StarViper squads and have them take care of any enemy fighters that come in range.”

As these words left Khendon’s lips the formation broke, like an organized line of water, and reformed, heading towards their designated targets.

[Big Bad Naga]

Naga watched as two more Z95's appraoched at attack speed. He keyed his comm on and opened the channel to Omega 1 and 3.

Naga: "Dyne, Skroth and I will take these two on, you stay close to the transports."

Both clicked their comm channel twice to confirm they heard. Dyne stayed in the straight path, while Naga and Skroth broke off and went after the fighters.

One Z-95 Headhunter managed to maneuver it's way behind Naga. BBN let the Force control the rest of his actions. He quickly stomped on the brakes and watched the Z-95 speed by.

Naga sped up again and aimed at it's engines. He released the firepower. They hit and damaged the shields.

He looked to his left for a split second and saw that Skroth had finished off the other Z-95.

"Not bad Skroth, not bad at all."

Naga quickly increased speed and caught up with the fighter. He released another barrage of firepower. The Z-95 exploded, and Naga broke off. He returned to Dyne and Skroth who had just returned.

"Path all clear guys."

[Adm Jon Northe]

* Adm. Northe sits on the bridge tapping his fingers, waiting ::

Lt. how much longer?

" 20 mins sir "

* Jon Send a comm to Adm. Makarov *

Sir, I have recieved your message and we are 20 mins from your location, I'm here to assist you.

I have brought:
1:ISD
2:Strike Cruisers
4:Neb-G's
4:Lancers.


Northe out

[Vapor Kazuna]

The Imperator III Star Destroyer Maelstrom comes ripping out of hyperspace in the midst of the battle. Vapor opens a comm frequency to allied forces.

This is Vapor Kazuna aboard the Maelstrom.

Dyne's voice responded over the receiver. Welcome Vapor.

Vapor paced the command bridge looking at the tactical display on the wall opposite him. Closest to him were four Lancer Frigates. He chuckled. Lancers had no chance against fire from capital-scale weapons.

"Open fire on the Lancers! All weapons!"

As the heavy fire from the Maelstrom pounded the Lancers their shield ratings dropped at an alarming rate. Alarming for the crew members on board that is.

"Sir! The Lancers are down to 56% shields!"

"Good, continue with the attack."

[Khendon Sevon]

Khendon looked in the direction of the Maelstrom and smiled. “Nice to have you in the battle, Vapor.” Khendon then went back to ordering his men. “Right is to fire upon the Lancers. Center shall now move in on the Heavy Cruiser. No fighters are to be launched, cancel the previous launches.”
“Aye, Sir.”

Khendon smiled as two of the Marauders added to the devastation of the Lancers. After the first two volleys the shields of the Lancer were down and Vapor’s shots destroyed each lancer, simultaneously.

As this was happening Khendon’s left group was engaging the shuttles that were heading towards the SSD on a collision course. The two Marauders’ fire ripped through the hulls of the shuttles, ten down by the time the lancers were out of commission.

In the mean time Hawk’s Eye began firing on the Heavy Cruiser. The center force fired as well.

“Fire torpedoes!” Khendon screamed.

Six concussion missiles were launched at the bridge of the heavy cruiser. Four managed to hit directly as the next round was shot.

The three ships pounded the cruiser with fire.
(Edit: typo, again)

[Vega Van Derveld]

:: Not too far from Dyne and the fleet escorting the shuttles to the surface of Dilonexa, the Praetor Fenix dropped out of hyper space, taking out 3 Z95 Headhunters with a rapid fire of torpedoes. Cruising through the blaze of explosions it had caused, the TIE Phantom began heading towards the other escort ships ::

This is the Praetor Fenix, Vega here to help..

:: The Fenix picked up speed as Vega stared out from the bridge at the other ships. Taking a seat at the control panel of the ship, Vega awaited a response from his co-pilots ::

Dyne: Thanks for the help Vega.

BBN: Yeah, it's always good to have another around.

Vega: Just doing my job.

Skroth: Excellent, more help.

[Darth Phantom]

:: Phantom sits in the shadows of the bridge abord the SSD Sulaco, he looks at the screen and a smile covers his face ::

Y....e....s

:: Phantom opens a coded comm to Dyne ::

The Calvery is here, wooooo hooooo. I got the Barges and are ten minutes out. save some killin for me!!!

:: Phantom kills the link and sounds the red alert alarm, a computerized voice comes on, Battle Stations, Repeat Battle Stations ::

[Dyne Darkforce]

A smile appeared over his face as DP came over the comm. Dyne activated his frequency and spoke back to DP.

"Welcome DP, now lets show these guys what were all about. NR is going down now and HARD."

Phantom: "You got it, once I help the clearing of the ships, I will unload the barges. We have a array of AT-UT's, AT-AT's, AT-PT's, AT-ST's, and AT-AA's.

"That is very good, im escorting the shuttles right now with BBN, Skroth, and Vega. Once we descend onto the planet, which wont be soon, I will begin the planetary assault. I believe Varlon has barges loaded onto his Command ship as well. Renegade and his squadron has the fighters covered with Poreon providing back up as well."

Phantom: "Sounds good to me, ill see you soon Dyne. Phantom out."

Dyne looked out the Lionheart as he received comms from Vapor and Khendon. They engaged the NR forces and were bringing down their shields. He looked to the other side and nodded to himself after seeing Vega. Dyne went over the comm to his wingmen.

"Alright Omega Squadron, we are a few minutes out to be at the planets upper atmosphere, we shall descend soon. Our main aim for now is their main command center. Once that goes down, we will spread out to their other forces. The walkers will help us crush them, so we can make a clearing for the barges to land on the planet. The stromtroopers will have that part of the mission as we infiltrate the base and take over."

BBN: "Roger that Omega leader, proceeding to the destination."

Skroth: "As usual, I got your backs."

Vega: "Hmmm, heh they are gonna get it for sure. Omega 4 out."

They proceeded on, to their projected course. He looked down at his targeting computer to see the NR forces approaching while we engaged to destroy them. Dyne smirked as he made sure the Headhunters werent around the shuttles anymore. He noticed a odd reading on the targeting computer. Dyne looked around to see something behind him as Var came over the comm.

Varlon: "Dyne, this is Var...those things you are seeing are the 6 Barges on my SSD. I sent them out with a squadron of Tie Defenders. They should help you take out their laser turrets on the planet."

"Thanks Var, ill watch them as we descend. The Defenders can return to your hangar with the empty barges once we unload them."

Varlon: "Alright Dyne, good luck...Varlon out.:

He went over the comm to Vega.

"Vega help me escort the Barges down to the outside of their base."

Vega: "Alright Dyne, gotcha."

The shuttles and Omega squadron entered the upper atmosphere of the planet, then began to descend. Dyne, with Vega at his side, escorted the Barges to the planets surface. Sometime later, they approached the surface on the outside perimeter of the main command center. Briefing the troopers on the obejective all of them were unloaded and proceeded to base. There was 4 AT-AT's, 1 AT-UT, 4 AT-AA's, 6 AT-ST's, and 8 AT-PT's unloaded off the 6 Barges. They ascended back into space to the awaiting Tie Defenders. Explosions can already be heard as the NR forces began to strike back with their defense force. BBN, Skroth, and Vega proceeded on with the troopers as Dyne watched the walkers march on besides them. Their laser turrets were blasted to metal shards. Armed with their blasters, the 4 of Omega squadron went to the Command Center. The stormtroopers were also helping to clear out the way of NR forces.

"Guys, see the Command Center? We need to infiltrate that and take it over as quickly as possible. Their computer systems control their forces and all the other garrisions and troopers around it. Once it falls, we have the upper hand."

Laser blasts flew all over across the sky, as explosions can be seen occasionally as the laser turrets were demolished. The walkers took hits on their hulls but continued to go on, their sides blackened by the laser blasts. The walkers continued stomping across the ground, shaking the place around them. Putting the shield on his helmet down, Dyne went on with his comrades to the Base.

EDIT - Typos

[Big Bad Naga]

The base was just about 30 meters away. Naga took out a datapad that had the schematics of the base. He looked over it for a second then showed the others. He pointed out the entrance, and the way they were going to enter.

"Now if you guys see here, the right wall of a building, is the entrance to a ventilation shaft which will bring us directly into the compound. When inside we blast the hell out of anything that is an enemy."

Naga shows them the map again, and he points to the situated guard areas.

"There are guards around the ventilation shaft area. We must destroy them as quietly and quickly as possible. They cannot know that we have already infiltrated their base."

Naga puts the datapad back in his pouch.

"Is everyone ready?"

Dyne: "Hell Yeah!"

Vega: "I'm ready!"

Skroth: "Me too!"

They ran off toward the side of the base. The group had made sure thast the guards had not detected them. They hid below the tall grass crawling over to the three guards.

Dyne whispered to all of them....1....2....3.

Each member sprang out and quickly slashed the guards down with their sabers. Skroth slashed the ventilation shaft open and each crawled in.

[Darth Varlon]

With the onrushing suicide bombs, the SSD's concussion batteries light up at the newer threats, smashing them with a rain of missiles like none other. Their shields quickly crush and the subsequent shots hit hulls and rip them apart, setting off the warheads inside.

Within minutes, the kamakazi force was nothing more than a large number of Nova's. The NR had gravely underestimated this commander. The force plowed through the miniature nova's, the shrapnel sparking off the shielding as the ships began to rain turbolaser fire on the two MC80's that stood in its way, backed by missile fire from the great SSD.

***

"Kamakazi force obliterated, Lord Varlon." A captain at tactical shouted over klaxons and grinned. "Didn't stand a chance."

"Good, continue pressing all available firepower." The brash young sith said with a grin. "Contact Renegade, have his missile-equipped fighters take a pass at that command cruiser."

"Yes, sir." The captain said and scurried off to relay the message.

The bridge suddenly rocked and power flickered from main to auxilliary.

"Damnit, there goes shields." An officer muttered as he went to extinquish the flames.

"Full Ion cannon bombardment on those main cruisers!" Var said and wiped his brow.

***

Now, it had drawn down to a slugging match between Var's blitzkrieg assault force, with its backup and captured MC80s and the NR's relief fleet. Both sides pouring insane amounts of energy between the void that kept eachother from crashing.

Flame gouted from the shieldless areas of the SSD while missiles, turbolasers, and ion cannons bombared the NR's command ship. The battle was going to be long and costly.

[DarthPoreon]

Relatively away from the main battle, Admiral Poreon and his small command had a task at hand. Three Interdictor Cruisers and Two Corellian Gunships and Three Interceptor Squadrons against Three Nebulon B Frigates and Six X-Wing Squadrons.

Gunners, Open fire! Watch out for our fighters!

A furry of Turbolaser batteries and ION Cannons lighted up the vaccuum of space in Blues, reds, and greens. Less than a mere second after the Admiral's force opened fire, the Nebulons retaliated with an attack of Turbolasers and ION cannons.

Concentrate a Concussion Warhead Salvo on the lead Nebulon.

The Admiral's force had a total of Five warhead launchers. The ships shot off 10 of their Concussion Missiles each. Fifty of the Concussion missiles, fired off at intervals of Three Seconds sped towards the Lead Nebulon.

The First 10 impacted and splashed around the shields, not breaking through. The second set hit three seconds after the first set and two broke through the weakened spot in the shields, impacting on the hull and creating small explosions. The third and fourth set were launched simultaneously and all made it through the shield spot on the Nebulon and impacted against the bridge of the ship. Then, the final blow, ten more missiles, came in and tore apart the bridge with the force of their explosions.

Scans?

Admiral, missile salvos are a success. The bridge seems to be knocked out on the Lead Nebulon B. Assumed loss of control for the whole ship.

Send two of the TIE Recons to scan the ship.

[Skroth da Ripper]

*Skroth is the first one through the shaft, and immediately sabre sounds and blaster fire are heard. Soon Dyne is through, and he sees a guard up against a wall with one of Skroth's sabres impaling him through the neck, and the otherone through his heart. While another guard is up against the other wall, but he got lucky, he was dead already. A clean cut right through the neck.*

Dyne: Skroth, ease up a bit. You don't have to kill everyone.

*Large explosions are heard from outside as Skroth lets the guard's corpse fall to the ground. leaving blood stains all over the wall, the floor, and Skroth's cloak. A group of guards just happen to walk down the hall, and see the 2 corpses.*

Skroth: Looks like they brought the welcome wagon for us. Shall we?

Dyne: Of course.

Vega: Finally some action.

BBN: Hey Skroth this time save some for the rest of us.

*The Siths ignite their sabres, as the guards open fire on the group. The team easily deflect the shots back at them. and advance on the garrison. BBN gets close enough to jam his sabre through the neck of an unlucky guard. He then kicks him in the chest. The force of the blow crushes the corpse's rib cage. Vega slashes a guard on the chest, and jams his sabre through the soldier's head, and kicks the corpse off his blade. Dyne just slices a guard's shooting arm off, and kicks him in the face. he then decapitates the sargent. A guard advances on Skroth, and tries to get a shot at his head. Skroth immediately impales the fool on his sabres, and lifts him up. Skroth then tears the guard in half. The rest of the garrison runs for their lives, trying to trigger the alarm. The Sith give chase and finish off the rest of them.*

Skroth: So where to now?

*Just then the whole place shakes from a large explosion as the team continues into the center.*

[Fritz 7]

Fritz received his orders from Varlon then finished blasting one of the A-Wings. After he trashed that fighter, he proceeded on and locked onto the NR's ship as Varlon ordered. Fritz unloaded 2 missles onto the ship and flew by at full speed. The missles landed onto the ship with a large explosion as Fritz went back into formation with the Skulls.

[Phalanx Allger]

One Fighter for every two enemy fighters. One Wing against Two Wings. It wasn't impossible odds, but it still wasn't easy.

Acting Wing Commander Phalanx Allger sat strapped in the cockpit of his On-Loan TIE Interceptor. He usually flew Gamma Class X-M1 Missile Boats, but he and his squadron had been called upon by Grand Admiral DarthPoreon of the Galactic Military Alliance to help in an act of darkness. His squadron, Zeta Squadron, would be the head Squadron in a Wing. He would be commanding the wing to its victory... or its death. Failure though, was not an option. Victory for his superior and for his command was the only option.

Phalanx: Wing Commander Phalanx Allger requesting take-off clearance.

Hangar Control: Granted Wing Commander, good luck!

[i]Slightly tilting his pilot's yoke, the Temporary Wing Commander nudged his Interceptor out of the Interdictor Cruiser Forthright's hangar bays and into the frenzy of starfighter battle.

[Cloud Selestor]

Cloud followed Major Allger out of the hangar in his TIE Interceptor. He flew down to his side quickly, in a tight formation. He spoke over the comm to the Major.

"Major Allger, Cloud Selestor here as your wingman back up sir."

Allger: "Excellent Cloud, keep formation and we are gonna run though these fighter squadrons."

"Yes sir, Roger that, Zeta 2 out."

Proceeding into the battle, Cloud locked and loaded his lasers. Setting the shields and throttle, he smirked as both the Major and Cloud locked onto their targets. They let loose a array of lasers at the W-wing, and X-wing squadrons. The other wingmen on their Interceptors continued to blast away at the NR squadrons. They flew through the explosions with ease, the blaze was lighting up his eyes in a reflection. The Interceptors speed was outstanding, as they could out run the other fighters out there. The space was illuminated from explosions and laser fire as all the starfighters flew around in the battle. They kept a tight patrol around the fleet and engaged all enemy fighters. The Interceptor squadrons flooded the area and met the NR fighters head on, sending them into bits of metal.

[Khendon Sevon]

Khendon smirks as his left force returns from having taken care of most of the shuttles, the others being destroyed by the SSD. He smiles as now his entire force concentrates on the enemy heavy cruiser, missiles swirling around it and colliding. He gives an order and his scimitars and Tie Defenders are launched, their target is the heavy cruiser. Khendon gives another order and StarVipers are launched to guard from fighter attacks.

As Khendon watches energy from the eight ships rams into the craft, severally weakening its shields, almost to the point were they will overload. They continue their barrage.

[Dyne Darkforce]

Meanwhile, at the Dilonexa XXIII Command Center....

A guard was hidden around the corner as Vega grabbed him and wrapped his fingers around his throat.

Vega: "Where is the captain?!"

NR Guard: Cough "In...h..is..qu..a..rt..e..rs."

Vega launched the guard into the wall as he knocked out cold.

Dyne and company swept through the base, easily dispatching the guards. The blasting ocurring outside was rattling the whole area. The foundation was being pummled by the shaking. They arrived at the main command base room. He turned to Skroth and Vega and looked at them.

"Alright you guys, I need you to sweep their quarters and take out the men. If they do not submit then eliminate them. If you can keep the Captain alive, then do so and bring him to me and BBN. We are headed to the main command room. Im sure they already alerted the other forces on the planet."

Skroth: "Alright, we got it covered. Lets go Vega."

Vega: Ignites his sabre again and smirks. "Lets go."

As they head off into the hallway, some screams for mercy can be heard as the NR men are eliminated. Dyne smirks and looks over at BBN.

"Ready?"

BBN: "As always."

They both armed their blasters and activated a detonator bomb. BBN put the bomb by the door as they took cover around the corner. BBN presses the button as the door blasted open, taking a few guards out with it. The two went in through the smoke, blasting away at everything alive in there sight. The guards landed on the ground as one of their lasers skimmed past Dyne's shoulder. He barely moved out of the way as the guards were finished off. They secured the area as Vega and Skroth came in a few minutes later with the Captain. Dyne nodded to Skroth and Vega as Skroth dropped the Captain to the floor.

"Call back all your forces or you lose your life."

Captain: Shaking "Alright, ill do it."

"Good, any wrong moves and you die."

Dyne let him proceed to the comm so he could call back the NR forces on the planet.

Captain: Stuttered for a second before he spoke. "ALL MEN ATTACK THEM, DO NOT..." Ugh Ahhhh..!!!

Before the captain could say more, BBN shot him with his blaster from a distance.

"Well, I guess we gonna have to stop them the hard way."

Skroth: "Well, that isnt bad...more action heh..."

Dyne glanced over at Skroth and shaked his head laughing a bit.

"Ok guys, we got this place cleared now we need to coordinate the strike from here onto the other strongholds. Since the majority of them are a bit away from this location, we can help our landing forces capture them."

He looked at the map on the computer screen, noticing the locations of each base. Narrowing his eyes, Dyne saw that they had fighter forces, but were at some distance away.

"Ok there seems to be 2 more bases around the main one. They are not to terribly far and could pull something on us. They also have fighters, good thing we brought the AT-AA's. We should take these two strongholds, before they even launch fighters. Now, before they try to do so, we will get them first. Maybe use their own turrets against them."

BBN: "Good idea, that way we can secure this whole area."

"Bingo."

Getting over the comm he switched frequencies to a coded line and spoke to the forces outside.

"Ok men, send in a group of stormtroopers into the base to guard it. I want 2 AT-PT's and 2 AT-ST's guarding the perimeter as we attempt to secure the surrounding strongholds."

Stormtrooper: "Yes sir, proceeding to secure the surroundings of the base."

He turned to his 3 friends and nodded.

"Guess we can go and attack the other two strongholds before our other forces descend onto the planet. We will need to split ourselves into two. Ill go with BBN and Vega and Skroth can go to the other stronghold. They are smaller and roughly the same distance. We will split the walkers and troops so its evenly attacked. Make sure you dont get killed. You can take the one AT-UT we have with you Skroth, 2 AT-AT, 3 AT-PT's, 2 AT-AA's, and 2 AT-ST's. The rest will come with me and BBN."

Skroth: "Yeah got it, we will go now seems like the otehr strongholds are northwest and southeast. We will go for the one southeast. You ready Vega?"

Vega: "Lets go now, we can take that other stronghold quick since their force will obviously be smaller."

"Oh yeah, the one who gets there first, will wait for a transmission from the other team."

Skroth: "Got it."

They headed off to the outside to meet up with their men. Dyne turned to BBN as the stormtroopers secured the base and perimeter. He spoke to the trooper in charge.

"I want you to work on the computer terminal with your best expert and turn their own remaining turrets against them. That should help defend us and this primary base, since the other NR forces wont give up. We will have to take the other locations from them."

Stormtrooper: "Yes sir, I will watch over the turret activation."

They saluted then Dyne turned to BBN.

"Ok lets go BBN."

BBN: "Yeap, this one should be easier."

The Sith left the room and headed out following Skroth and Vega.

EDIT - Typos

[Big Bad Naga]

Naga and Dyne wish their comrades good luck as they turn their different ways. Naga looks at the map of the area and spots the base not far off. He turns to Dyne, and nods.

Naga: "Let's go...Make sure your blaster is charged and ready...There should be more killing for the both of us!"

They both smile evily and check their blasters. Naga gave Dyne an extra rifle just in case. He followed Dyne to the nearest officer.

Officer: "Lord Darkforce, we are leaving now."

Dyne: "Excellent."

The walkers slowly turned to their new course and stomped away. Naga and Dyne followed on foot with some troops.

[Skroth da Ripper]

*Skroth decides that it would be best for him to scout ahead, as his natural ability to turn invisible can allow him to scout the area around the base, and infiltrate it quite easily with out being detected. *

Skroth: "Continue on your path with the forces towards the base. I'll scout ahead on foot and relay any and all information I can get back to you. Keep your comlink open."

Vega: "Are you sure about this?"

Skroth: "I'm an expert at this sort of thing. I do it all the time. Don't worry, I am not about to let any New Republic scum take me out"

Vega: "Ok, relay any info you get back to me, and be careful."

Skroth: "I'll be fine. Just Stick to your orders, and get to the base in one piece. Good Luck."

Vega: "Heh, you’re going to need that more than I do. Happy hunting."

*Skroth fades from view, and runs ahead towards the base. Undetected by anything as he moves stealthily along the path. He comes upon a few guards, nothing a knife in the back can't get rid of. He comes upon a small garrison posted about a 40 yards from the base. Skroth relays it back to Vega, and goes around them, as he figures that Vega can handle them. *


*Still undetected, he fins an air vent leading into the base, not unlike the one found in the command center. He relays it back to Vega and says that he's going in. Vega says it’s too risky, but by then Skroth had already climbed through the vent, and infiltrated the base. *


*The Sith forces are about 80 yards from the base. Skroth hears some guards over talking about their families around the corner. They sure paid for it with a saber strike to their hearts. Skroth hated it when people were on the clock, yet they weren't doing their jobs. * The protoss continues to go around and mercilessly slaughter everything that comes his way. Eventually, he finds the communications room. It is heavily guarded. *


*Skroth decides to wait until the alarm goes off (as it surprisingly still hasn't been tripped by someone finding one of the mutilated corpses) Then they will walk away from their posts, to go investigate. He leans on the wall around the corner from the comm. room door, and there he silently waits for someone to trip the alarm. *


Edit: Added some breaks, and fixed spelling and grammar mistakes.

[Darth Phantom]

:: Phantom opens a comm to Val ::

I hear you have a little pest problem, well the exterminater is here

:: Phantom charges the lasers and loads the torpedo tubes.
He spots near by fighters ::

Fire!!!

:: Several laser blasts explode from the SSD and into the fighters ::

[Vega Van Derveld]

:: Vega watched as Skroth snuck past the guards, heading towards the base. With a quick slash of his sabre, he let a grin crack over his face, charging towards the guards. A round of fire was shot a Vega, and with great ease he deflected each bullet with his sabre.

He used the force to jump clear over one, causing him to shoot his comrade. He then, with one quick kick, knocked him out.

Disabling his sabre he ran to where Skroth had entered the base, leaping over the fire from 2 gun turrets which had seemed to appear out of no where.

Diving into the vent, Vega scrambled forward, taking out his comm. pad ::

Vega: Skroth?

Skroth: Yeah, Vega?

Vega: Where do you want me, I'm partially stuck in this vent... and I need a motive.

Skroth: Just follow the vents through until you drop out by me, ok?

Vega: Gotcha.

:: Vega carried on through the vents as fast as he could, eventually sighting a light. He slid out of the metallic tunnel, landing by Skroth ::

[Darth Varlon]

" Death Wind fleet, fall back to the protected zone of Darth Phantom's fleet. We'll regroup from there." Var said across the ships comm to his fleet. He watched as his Wraith Cruisers pulled away, their hulls covered in glowing patches where turbolaser strikes had punched through.

This wasn't how it was supposed to happen, but we haven't lost yet. He thought to himself.

***

As the Death Wind and her ships started to wheel and pull away from the NR forces, their ships continued to fire whatever weapons that they could upon the enemy forces. Green turbolaser bolts and yellow/white ion cannon shots rained down on the NR fleet as they got a targeting lock. The SSD's hull blew off in superheated globs where the NR fleets shots struck it as she finally executed her wheel and was now moving perpendicularly to the NR fleets, and right towards Phantom's.

[DarthPoreon]

The Two TIE Recons strayed far from the main starfighter battle. They reached the shattered Nebulon B just as the lower deck under the bridge exploded sending volleys of hull plating out into the Recons path.

__________

Ok, Assuming that the lead is down. Gunships, concentrate on the third Nebulon. Interdictors, we got the second Nebulon.

Just as the Admiral said that he noticed a deep red color come over the engine section on one of the Corellian Gunships.

Status!

Sir, the Gunships shields over the Engine Section have dropped to 5%.

Frowning, the Admiral issued an order.

Send the second Gunship in to protect the engine section. -Position Tactical Protocal Protect-

A deep blue behind the second gunship was seen as its engines began manuevering it into position infront of the Engine Section on the wavering Gunship.

[b]Interdictors, get some targeting solutions on that Nebulon B, Lets take it out.

[Darth Renegade]

Another starfighter blows apart, having met it's desmise from a pair of missles unleached from Renegade's Razor. He turns his starfighter around, already in pursuit of one of the few remaining Z-95s. He chases it, firing off his lasers. The other pilot swings hard to the right doging the laser fire. Renegade curses under his breath. Renegade continues his tireless pursuit of the obsolete fighter. As he's doing so, he opens up his comm unit.

All fighters, listen up, and listen good. Almost all the fighters are cleared out. Squadron 1, you're to finish the rest of them and do it quickly. Squads 2-3 are commence attacking the NR ships. As you can see there are ISD's in the area, so they won't be going anywhere. Therefore I want you to take out all the weapons emplacements you can get too. They shouldn't be able to touch you, you're too fast.

Renegade continue flying after that same fighter, letting loose more lasers that fail to hit his target. Grinding his teeth together, he gets more angry at the skills of his prey.

I want all bombers to commence surface bombing. Aim for military targets, preferably weapon emplacements. Squad 4 will escort you down and provide cover. Squad 5, you are to commence straffing runs at the planet. You have your orders, so get to it

As soon as he's done speaking, an alarm begins sounding in the cockpit. Renegade looks around frantically, and a little worried. It's the alarm that let's him know someone has a targetting lock on him.

[i] Sithspit, that Z95 led me right into someone's sights!

[Phalanx Allger]

Nudging his Interceptor to the maximum speed, Phalanx pulled up behind an X-Wing executing a long S curve. Giving an unseen nod to his wingman, the two Zetas begin the Zeta Cross, a signature move of Zeta Lead and Two.

Two edged off on his throttle and pulled away from Lead who was trailing the X-Wing. Two's Interceptor surged foward as more ION Exhaust was pumped into the engines. After going about 500 Meters straight, Two pushes his Interceptor into a sharp turn and heads off diagonally towards Lead and the X-Wing.
_____

[i]Phalanx meanwhile, was chasing the X-Wing in a series of evasive maneuvers. To complete the Zeta Cross, Phalanx would have to chase the X-Wing into Two's scopes right as Two was about to cross the center of the Z he was executing. Phalanx would pull his Interceptor up immediatly as Two fired his lasers at the X-Wing, crossing the Z. Two would complete the Z by going through and cutting across 50 Meters after killing the X-Wing.

[Big Bad Naga]

Naga looked straight ahead and shouts out. Everyone followed his gaze. There it was, the base only a 1/4 mile away. He and Dyne began to issue orders to everyone.

The smaller Walkersd took the lead and began their assualt on the not-too-far away base. Naga and Dyne had stayed back, waiting for the defense turrets and shields to go down.

The AT-STs and AT-PTs mercilessly attacked the turrets that attacked back. Luckily, their forces overpowered the New Rep's forces.

Turret after turret exploded or became disabled and inoperative. The AT-ATs had joined the battle.

Both Naga and Dyne watched the shields slowly fade away. They knew that it was time. Both Sith looked at each other and smiled.

The AT-PTs had gone forward and blasted the door. All firepower had ceased for a few seconds while Dyne and Naga made a Force Enhanced Sprint to the door.

Guards started to pour out as expected. Dyne and Naga ignited their sabers and went away at killing the first wave of guards. Blood splattered everywhere, and some guards were killed by the Walkers. The ground troops had begun to join the attack too. Most were busy capturing or shooting guards. Dyne and Naga had been able to work their way through the crowd and into the base.

Naga: "Where do we go now?"

Dyne: "The control room!"

Both turned around to intercept blastershots with their glowing blades. Naga through his saber like a boomerang and slashed the two guards that were shooting at him. He caught his saber and de-ignited it for the time being.

Naga: "Double D, where is the Control Room?"

Dyne: "That way!"

Dyne ran off in a direction, Naga following close behind, sensing for any guards. The blasts and explosions from outside rocked the building.

[Skroth da Ripper]

*As Vega exits the vent a large explosion rocks the base, and the alarm triggers, and the guards leave their posts to patrol the base. One of them turns the corner, and sees Vega. Vega unclips his saber just as he sees the guard's neck twist and snap. Skroth then appears, while holding the guard's limp body. He motions for Vega to follow him as the guards still do not know about the Siths' presence. Vega holds his saber, and follows Skroth. Two guards remain in front of the door, the rest of the soldiers are either outside defending the base from the small army of ground forces, or in the comm. room directing traffic. *


*Skroth pulls out his blaster, and carefully lines up the shot, he wanted a quick, silent kill. He pulled the trigger; the blaster shot goes cleanly through the head of the former soldier. The other guard sees this and tries to get word to the commroom, but before he can open the door, his hand is cut off by Vega's blade. Vega laughs, and lops off the guard’s head. *

*Skroth steps off to the side, blaster still in hand. He motions for Vega to do the same. Skroth hits the door switch, and 2 guards come out and look around. They both meet the same fate, a saber strike to the chest, and both are sliced in half. The 2 Sith then enter the room. *

*A tech attempts to call some guards back in to assist, but Skroth lands a shot directly through the tech's wrist. His hand flies into the view screen and leaves a blood mark. Vega meanwhile had cut down some techs who thought they even had a slight chance of taking down a Sith. *

*Skroth and Vega clear out the room and only leave the captain alive. The captain draws his blaster, but it and his arm are immediately cut in off by one of Skroth's blades. Skroth lifted the captain up to his face, the protoss' eyes were glowing a fire red.

Skroth: "You have 2 choices. Order your forces to stand down, or die a painfully gruesome slow death."

*The captain doesn’t say a word. He just stares at Skroth. *

Skroth (Incredibly pissed at the soldier) I'll give you one more cha-

*Skroth is cut off by the soldier spitting in his face. Skroth looks calm, as he drags the captain out into the corridor by his neck. Vega hears a sickening crunch followed by a scream. Even he as a Sith, cringes at this sound. A loud explosion is heard in the hall Vega thinks its just the ground forces breaking through the wall, but then a shockwave of blue fire followed closely by the blood of the captain and the sound of wall collapsing around where Skroth took the New Republic officer. *


*The comm. center was left intact. Vega ran out into the hall to see Skroth holding the head of the captain. Blood and various parts of the captain painted all the walls. Skroth was just sitting in the middle of it all; an aura of blue fire was all around him. His eyes seemed to glowed a very dark blue; also his cloak was covered in blood. Also the wall in front of where Skroth had been sitting had crumbled. Still holding the captain's head (Which was horribly burnt and disfigured). Skroth throws it to the side, and walks past Vega.

Vega: "What did you do to him?"

*Skroth doesn't answer, but quietly walks back into the comm. room and waits for Dyne and BBN's transmission. Vega could sense an incredible amount of rage within the Protoss.

*Meanwhile outside.*

*The NR forces were having a lot of troubles trying to force back the army of walkers. The only walker hat was brought down was an AT-ST, and that was because they had successfully taken out one of the knees. Even with that small victory. The ground forces were quickly crushing the NR forces. Though they were still fighting hard, they just couldn't seem to inflict much damage on the heavily armed walkers. Though each and every one of them would fight to the death. Trying to protect their base. They would all be dead by the end of the battle. Though victory seemed imminent, the Sith were still not in control of the base.*

*The whole base shakes from a stray AT-AT shot. *

[Fritz 7]

Fritz was flying past the stranded Z95's as they were blasted to metal pieces. He noticed one of the NR capital ships in critical condition. Smirking, Fritz armed all his missles then locked onto the Frigate. The middle part being weaker, he launched all the missles to the middle of the hull. They connected on the already weakened shields with a rather large explosion. The frigate was blasted in half as Fritz flew right through it like a Ace. He flew back around and headed into the battle again, with his shields up. The Frigate went down in a blaze as he went by.

[Dyne Darkforce]

Dyne approached the door and armed a detonator bomb again. He placed it near the door as Naga and Dyne took cover. Setting off the bomb, the door blasted open. Both Sith rushed inside with their ignited sabres. As they went in the NR forces werent seen. Dyne looked over at BBN with a puzzled face.

"Where did they go?"

BBN: "No idea Dyne, lets look around."

As they searched around, Dyne found a guard behind one of the computer terminals. He smirked and grabbed the guard, while de-igniting his sabre and hooking it to his weapons belt.

"Where are the other men?"

NR Guard: "They retreated to the other outpost when the distress signal came....."

"Hmmm, I see, where is it from here?!"

NR Guard: "I dont know and wont say."

Dyne grinded his teeth and ran him through with a hidden dagger. He turned to BBN and nodded coldly, putting the bloody dagger back into his sheath behind the elbow.

"Well, at least they got to one area. The question is where did they go? Lets try to contact Skroth and Vega."

BBN scans the place as smoke is in the air. The place still shaking from outside fighting. He went onto the computer terminals and examined the locations of the other strongholds and outposts.

BBN: "Good idea, lets make sure this place is clear."

Dyne got onto the comm and contacted the trooper leader.

"Alright send in the stromtrooper squadron now."

Stromtrooper: "Yes Lord Darkforce, they are coming in as we speak."

The troopers marched into the room as they finished the conversation. He tried to switch frequencies to the other Base.

"Skroth, Vega are you there?"

Skroth: "Yeah Dyne, this place is secure, troopers coming in now."

"Alright, now we sit tight until the other forces land on the planet to back us up."

Skroth: "Got it, im out."

Dyne looked as they secured the whole base and then motioned BBN to check on how we did outside. They both quickly went outside of the facility to check on things. The forces seemed to be intact, except a AT-ST and AT-PT were blown up by NR turrets. Inside, the computers were used to arm the turrets for the use of defense against the NR. Dyne looked around as the Empire forces monitored the area closely. It was late in the day as him and BBN awaited their other comrades to land forces.

[Cloud Selestor]

As the X-wing was blasted Cloud went across 50 meters just as the move was designed to be. Flying back into formation with Major Allger, they proceeded to engage the other fighters. Switching his laser blaster, Cloud was contacted by Major Allger.

Allger: "Come in Zeta 2, this is Major Allger."

"Yes sir, Zeta 2 reporting."

Allger: "Seems like the StarViper, X, A, B, and Y-Wing's have been elminated by our squadrons and Darth Renegade's fighters. There are only a few remaining E and W-Wings to finish off.

"Yes Major, proceeding to help eliminate targets."

Allger: "Zeta 1 out."

The Zeta Squadron made a tight formation as they flew into the midst of the starfighter battle. The NR fighters were all being blown up and luminated the space periodically. There was space debris everywhere as they suffered losses as well, caused by the Kamikaze attack from the NR.

[Adm Makarov]

:: The Admiral paced on the bridge. Alarms were sounding at every station it seemed. Damage control technicians were hard at work, trying desperately to restore vital systems. Things were not looking good ::

Blast it! Where is Northe. We need that backup

"Sir, we've lost another frigate. And our shields are on the brink of collapse"

Understood. Order all remaining ship to engage that SSD. Get as close as you can to it. Maybe then, they'll be a little more hesitant to fire upon our fleet......or what remains of it

:: He didn't like this idea one bit. It was too risky and far too dangerous, but they were running out of options. He had to take a chance. If he could just hold out until Admiral Northe showed up. ::

Concentrate all batteries on the ship. And someone get me an update on Northe's ETA

[Darth Phantom]

:: Phantom orders the fleet to split up, he takes on the NR, while the other half lands and deploys the Barges. half the ships decend to the planet, while Phantom orders the rest of the fleets to take out the NRs ships ::

[Adm Jon Northe]

Sorry Admiral, had some trouble with some of our lasers charging, didnt want to go into battle with all of our weapons, we have pulled in behind the SSD and are ready to hit it with everything we got. Northe Out

* Adm. Northe looks at the weapons commander *

Lock on that SSD areblast it out of the sky

"Aye Sir"

* The commander hits a few keys and a voice comes on *

"Locating Target...

"Target Located, Instrutions?"

"Fire!!!"

* the laser batters aboard the ISD fire hitting the SSD hard, all torpedos are fired 80% hit their target, the lancers and strike crusers fire their lasers as well *

Your going done, scum.

[Darth Varlon]

From behind Phantom's fleet, the regrouped Death Wind taskforce surges forward. The ships hulls no longer glowing with fires but now blackened and broken. As the ships enter into firing range, their remaining batteries surge to life.

Following the massed cruiser fleet, came the Death Wind herself. Her own turbolasers and missile batteries firing.

***

"Shield status?" Var asked calmly.

"Shields are back online, but only at twenty-seven percent, My lord." A lieutenant called out. "And rising."

"Good, good. As for the rest of the fleet?"

"All ships report shields back online, and regenerating slowly."

"Better than nothing." He heaved a sigh of relief. "Communications, patch me through to Phantom."

There was a burst of static then on the aft holoprojector pad, a real-life sized holo of Darth Phantom sprung to life.

"Darth Phantom, concentrate fire on that command cruiser. Take the head, the body dies." Var said.

"You heard him! All batteries, OPEN FIRE!" Phantom's voice was intimidating even on holo.

***

Even as the NR seemed to regroup, the two Super-class Star Destroyers fell in line and opened fire with all availible weapons, their combined fire alone overwhelming their target's shields.

Around them their fleet engaged the other cruisers and starfighters.

[Khendon Sevon]

Khendon smiled as he looked over to the main gunner. “Fire all weapons on the entire fleet, I want all batteries concentrated, hit the generator. The fire from our two ISD3s and six Marauders should be enough to puncture the armor at such a low shield rating.”
“Aye, Sir.”
“On my mark.” Khendon smirked, more power to throw around. “Fire!”

As the words left Khendon’s mouth hundreds of blasts erupted from the fleet all aimed at an area no more then two meters in diameter. The blasts traveled through the soundless void of space and collided with the shields, the first few didn’t make it through but such weakened shields couldn’t hold out, the shields buckled.

Khendon smiled as the reports came in. They had punctured the ships armor and blasted into the generators, causing a overload that knocked out the engines, weapons, targeting, shield generators, and gravity systems on the ship.

“Hail them with the following message: This is Rear Admiral Khendon Sevon of the Sith Empire. Either leave this area now, with the loses you have sustained and you have my word we shall not follow you or destroy any more ships… or you may die on the spot, all of you. We outnumber, outgun, and strategize in such ways that you have no chance besides the one I am offering you.”

Khendon looked over his sholder, “Send encrypted message to fleets.”

The following encryption was sent to Darth Varlon on channel Navy Two:

.871.902.891.893.824.908.896.893.913.824
.907.908.889.906.908.824.908.903.824.890
.906.897.902.895.824.897.902.824.908.896
.893.897.906.824.894.897.895.896.908.893
.906.907.824.908.896.893.897.906.824.907
.896.897.893.900.892.907.824.911.897.900
.900.824.895.903.824.892.903.911.902.838
.824.879.893.824.907.896.889.900.900.824
.894.897.906.893.824.889.900.900.824.906
.903.909.902.892.907.824.897.902.908.903
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.891.909.908.824.908.896.893.901.824.908
.903.824.907.896.906.893.889.892.907.838
.#114999


(OOC: go to “Inside Sith Empire HQ”, I’ll post the decryption software there for you guys.)

[Darth Varlon]

A reply shot across hypercomm channel Navy Two back to khendon:

.876.896.889.908.824.897.907.836.824.867.896.893.9 02.892.903
.902.836.824.897.894.824.908.896.893.913.824.892.9 03.902.831
.908.824.892.893.891.897.892.893.824.908.903.824.8 93.912.904
.900.903.897.908.824.908.896.893.897.906.824.894.8 97.895.896
.908.893.906.831.907.824.909.907.893.824.903.894.8 24.896.913
.904.893.906.892.906.897.910.893.838.#74216

(OOC: cut it up into paragraphs to lessen post width)

***

Back on regular channels however, an entirely different message was being conveyed. "New Republic Naval forces, you have lost the upper hand. You are hereby warned to withdraw or be destroyed. Sith Knight Konrad, out." Var's voice rang out across space as a data signal.

"Gunners, concentrate all availible firepower on one point." He then called out behind him.

***

With the SSD starting to take a lesser beating than before, it was dishing out a hellish array of firepower onto the NR command cruiser, the most of it being Ion Cannon blasts.

[DarthPoreon]

Location: Invisible Foe, Unknown Regions

The main control room on Invisible Foe was located in the absolute center of the IL-60 Stardock. Grand Admiral Poreon's second, Vice Admiral Platus, stared at the simulated viewscreen. 4 Victory Class Star Destroyers were docked in the IL-60's repair bays. A few more were scattered about orbiting the base. Many more ships were orbiting the dock.

Glancing down at his datapad, the Vice Admiral scanned over the listed ships that were to be put on alert for immediate movement. It was a decent sized force that could easily defeat what they could be up against. Smiling, he handed the datapad to an Ensign.

[b]Platus: Ships I have put on alert, be ready to move in a moments notice!

[Khendon Sevon]

"Reply with the following."

.876.896.893.913.824.891.889.902.831.908
.836.824.911.893.824.896.889.910.893.824
.895.906.889.910.838.824.911.893.900.900
.907.824.903.902.838.824.850.833.#33270

"Aye, Sir."

[Darth Varlon]

Var looked at the tactical map and tapped in a long string of codes for transmit to the local TSE Fleets.

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***

By now, the surrounding NR fleet was in shambles, disabled, or outright destroyed. 50% confirmed casualties for the NR, 20% for the Death Wind taskforce, and 5% for the remaining fleets. But the NR pressed on, as did Var's personal fleet. It was a war of ego's and sheer anger.

[Dyne Darkforce]

On Dilonexa XXIII

A coded transmission came over the comm as Dyne walked back into the base with BBN.

Fleet Captain: "Lord Darkforce, Lord Naga come in."

"Yes, this is Dyne go on."

Fleet Captain: "Lord Phantoms fleet has landed on the surface and we have unloaded the barges that will be needed to secure the planet."

"Very good, I want the barges and troops to head to the seperate bases and hit them hard. I am uploading the informtion on base locations to you now."

Fleet Captain: "Yes sir, we will immediately send the forces out."

As the conversation ended, Dyne sent the base locations to the Fleet Captain. Another transmission came in as he finished uploading.

Vega: "Dyne, come in."

"Yeah Vega go ahead."

Vega: "We just received information that the NR fleet has almost been wiped out."

"Very good, Phantom's fleet just landed with the barges. They are proceeding to take over the rest of the strongholds."

Vega: "Ok, me and Skroth are looking over the base defense for now."

"Alright, Dyne out."

He stroked his chin for a second then looked over at BBN

"Its only a matter of time before the planet is taken over and the NR fleet is demolished completely."

BBN: A grin appeared over his face. "Yes, I estimate that we should have everything locked down really soon."

Dyne went back onto the comm and to help situate the rest of the strike forces. A smile appeared over his face as this will be a great addition to the Empire and how everyone did their job with precision and skill. Dyne also thought to himself about this whole sector and how it must be taken over as well after this primary planet falls to the Empire's control....

[Vega Van Derveld]

:: The take over of the base, he was sure, was near. Vega and Skroth were standing their ground well, and although not yet in full control, Vega knew that the Sith would return the the Empire with a glory. Turning the Skroth, Vega deflected a stray shot before speaking ::

Where are we headed now?

[DarthPoreon]

Poreon's Taskforce

Admiral, we have the targeting solutions. Ready to Fire

Concentrate Volley-- Fire now!

Hundreds of green, red, blue laser shots and concussion volleys pulse out from the battteries on the Interdictors. The shields on the Nebulon Glow Red before sparking out of life.

Send the Interceptors in for strafing runs. We have one Nebulon left, let's use Backstroke Tactic. Begin powering.

[Vapor Kazuna]

"Communications, open a com frequency, Navy Two encryption."

"Roger that, sir."

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[Skroth da Ripper]

*Skroth stabs the bold soldier through the heart, and turns to Vega. *

"I say we wait for Dyne and BBN before we head out. Unless you have a better idea."

*Skroth strikes down another soldier, he falls, and Skroth steals his blaster. With it, he shoots another soldier through the head. Vega meanwhile has cut down 2 other troopers, and is taking out a third. The blaster fire dies down, and then completely stops. A trooper comes up to Skroth*

Trooper: Sir, We have eliminated all the NR forces at the base.

Skroth: Excellent job trooper. Now all we have to do is wait for Dyne and BBN.

*Skroth moves towards one of the gun bases turrets, and finds that he could get it back up and running. He throws a carcass out of turret, and starts rewiring the gun. Skroth can sense the other the NR forces fall quickly to DP's force's control. Victory was surely theirs. *

[Vega Van Derveld]

:: Vega flanked Skorth, heading after him. Fumbling in his pocket, he pulled out a comm. pad and began transmitting a message on Black Channel One ::

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[Darth Varlon]

"Lord Varlon!" A voice shouted out from the crew pits.

"Yes, what is it?" Var turned and asked.

"Reporting three of the light cruisers disabled and with trooper transports en route."

"Good, good. Gunners, press the assault." Var said triumphantly. His ship was holding out well against hellish odds. "Status report on the fleet?"

"Five wraith cruisers have taken sevear damage and have fallen back. The rest are holding out." An ensign called out.

"Thank you, Ensign. Keep me updated."

"Yes, my lord."

[Anubis Lockheart]

The battle was long and hard in space, the fighters engaged everywhere and they were falling quick as well as the NR ships.
Anubis flew past large amounts of debris while blasting some star fighters. He locked onto a damaged Frigate with his missiles and unloaded a barrage of missles onto the frigate blasting it into pieces as he flew past it. There was no longer any real threat to the tie razors. Anubis proceeded with caution, raising the level of his shields to block the steady flow of debri's.

OOC: I've had alot of school and haven't been on so excuse my lateness of reply.

[Vapor Kazuna]

Vapor sighed and turned to the semi-circular trench beside him.

"Communications, I need another comm. frequency. Patch me in with Dyne Darkforce." The crew member nodded.

Vapor: Dyne, I'm bringing reinforcements for the ground attack.

Dyne: Ok, good. There are several New Republic strongholds that need to be taken out. Transmitting coordinates now.

Vapor: Right. Meet you planetside.

Dyne: See ya there, Vap.

"Captain Niesll!" Vapor called and the officer snapped to attention. "You have command of the ship while I'm gone. Give us cover fire until we reach the perimiter of the atmosphere and then you will be reporting to Khendon Sevon for further orders. Make preparations for the troops' landing. All ground forces are to deploy."

"Yes, sir," came the crisp reply.

Vapor strode down the gleaming durasteel hallways and ended up in his quarters. He clipped his lightsaber to his belt and holstered his heavy blaster. Vapor cursed himself for not finishing his combat armor, but it couldn't be helped. He strode down the halls toward his shuttle.

[Sith Summoner]

OOC: Cut it out with the encyption. I know you boys like your new toys but your using them to code info that would be good to the story. Just say that it is encypted and then put it down normally.

[Darth Renegade]

The alarm continues to sound in the cockpit. Renegade no longer pays it any attention. Suddenly it stops, but is replaced by a much more irratating one. Someone has launched a missle at him, that was closing in on him rapidly. Laran powers up the shields, maxing them out, while dropping his weapons charge, to increase the shields. He throttles up, trying to make a run, knowing that if he can out run the missle for so long, the missle will explode harmlessly behind him. The Rzor begins to pick up speed, before being rocked by laser fire. The fighter rocks again and again, as his sheild level slowly falls. The situation was not looking promising for him

[Darth Varlon]

"Status report?" Var asked as he turned to the aft exit of the bridge.

"All three light cruisers are now in our service, sir." The tactical lieutenant called out. "But they won't be back to full operational for another twenty minutes."

"Good, good." He said as he strided to the exit. "Captain, you have the bridge."

"Yes, sir." The ships captain said and turned back to the battle as Varlon left the bridge.

***

In the hangar bay, Varlon started to climb up the ladder which led into the cockpit of his modified Lambda-class shuttle. Strapping himself in, he punched up the ignition sequence. Var smiled as all systems showed green.

" Dark Brood to control. Lifting off." Var said over his ships comm.

"Roger that, Dark Brood, happy hunting. Control out." A voice returned.

At this point, Var had the Dark Brood hovering on repulsorlifts and wheeled around. He then had her exit the Death Wind's bay and ignite her main engines. As the ship pulled away from the hull, its wings unfolded and her weapons we ready to kill.

Even as the Dark Brood pulls away, an X-Wing swoops down, hoping for an easy kill. It fires two pairs of scarlet beams at the shuttle, expecting to kill, but its lasers strike the shields with little more than a hiss.

The shuttle whirled around in a loop and its twin laser cannons fired three times. The first two collapsed the fighters shields, and the third pair striking the port-side fusial thrust engines, causing them to explode. As the shuttle starts to pass over the wounded X-Wing, a fourth pair of emerald beams shoot out and strike the X-Wing's proton torpedo storage bays and cause them to detonate.

By now, the pilots wing mate had turned to engage. But the pilot was enraged enough not to realize he had stepped right into a trap. Var switched over to adv. torps and triggered a single shot. The torp lanced out, propelled on a sliver of blue flame for a matter of seconds before it smashed into the X-Wing's nose and detonating, taking the entire fighter with it.

[Dyne Darkforce]

As the multiple transmissions came in through the computer terminal, Dyne nodded his head. He wondered if Varlon and the rest have wiped the NR out yet. The bases were being taken over slowly and Vapor was coming very soon to bring more forces. It was a matter of time before the whole planet was secure and in Empire hands. Walking outside, he looked around as he saw explosions in the distance. Stroking his chin, a smirk appeared over Dyne's face. He turned to one of the troopers as he came with some information.

"Yes Trooper?"

Stormtrooper: "We just got word for Lord Kazuna's landing, he is already deploying forces onto the planet. Also, the NR fleet is almost demolished from our own attacks..."

A evil grin appeared over his face as he nodded.

"Did you send him the information on the base locations."

Stormtrooper: "Yes, Lord Naga has send the transmission already."

Dyne proceeded to give off a sinister laugh.

"Very good trooper, victory is almost ours... Tell Skroth and Vega of the current situation..."

The trooper saluted and went back inside the base. Dyne stood there in the wind as his black overcoat blew in the wind. His eyes were blazing as the Dark Side surges through him. He clinched his fist and looked up at the sky for a brief time. Dyne thought to himself...

"This is for the Empire...."

Dyne looked up and saw something in the sky as he quickly noticed that they were NR fighters.

"Finally they send them....Trooper come here..."

A Stormtrooper rushed to Dyne and saluted.

"See those fighters coming from the east? I want our AT-AA's and turrets to concentrate all fire on them"

Stromtrooper: "Yes, sir. I shall send the information now."

The trooper rushed inside the base as soon the fighters came closer. They had a few do bombing runs as the rest aimed for the troop forces with laser fire. He noticed that there were only 6 Y-Wings and 6 Z95 Headhunters.

"Hmm, they think they can get rid of our forces. It is futile for them to resist us..."

The AT-AA's and troopers proceeded to fire back with full power. The turrets circled around as large laser bursts filled the sky with explosions. The troopers were inside bunkers and towers as a bomb landed on them. They were blown up as Dyne backed a step from the nearby explosion. The orange and red fire left a blaze in his eyes from reflections. He stepped inside the base as a few fighters fell. Dyne went to the command room as he looked on at the take over of the planet.

[Big Bad Naga]

Naga followed Dyne and witnessed the take-over. It truly was a magnificent sight. The Empire's forces had slowly driven the New Republic's forces back. Now the Empire had the upper hand, and their victory was almost complete. Laserfire flashed across the sky, and on the ground. Dead bodies, and wailing captives surrounded Dyne and Naga.

These were the common sights of war. Both Sith had experienced this before. They were hard and battle-ready. Naga knew that Dyne was right. Resistance was futile. Their forces already had a strong grip on the planet.

Naga felt the Dark Side surge of excitement and anger he had felt. He was never one for stupidity. The New Republic fighting back, in his opinion that was stupid. A complete waste of time. He knelt on his knee and closed one eye, feeling the Dark thoughts and forces around him. He fed on the thoughts.

BBN rose with confidence and turned to Dyne. Both of his red eyes had a glint of impatience in them.

Naga: "What should we do now Dyne?"

[Darth Renegade]

The situation was looking bleak. His shields were dangerously low, and Sums' was gonna have his hide already for the damage that had been done to the new Razor. His mind is racing with thoughts, trying to plan for a course of action

I'm gonna have to do something quickly. If that missle gets to me, i won't be around to tell about it.

A smile came across his face, as he now had his plan of action. A plan that would hopefully kill two birds with one stone, IF he had the piloting skills to pull this off. His arrogant fighter pilot attitude returned to him. He takes his lasers and ions completely off line, and he maxes out his throttle. The razor whines in protest, due to all the damage he has taken, but responds like the fighter she is. Grabbing the stick, Laran steers his fighter towards the Z95 that lead him into this trap.

[Dyne Darkforce]

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[Skroth da Ripper]

*Skroth just finishes rewiring the stationary laser turret, and sits down in the chair. He starts to relax, the troops were patrolling the base, and Vega was checking out the rest of the defenses. Everything seemed to be going their way, until Skroth started hearing explosions and, blaster fire outside. Skroth immediately gets up and looks through the view port. He sees 3 Y-Wings making bombing runs on the walkers. Skroth immediately starts charging the laser turret. He lines up the shot, and fires. The red bolt flies thought the air, and hits one of the fighters in the engine. The engine separates from the rest of the ship, and it starts rapidly descending towards the ground. It explodes in and sends burning debris, and dirt everywhere. Some of the debris hits one of the AT-STs, and it falls over. *

*The other 2 fighters see this, and start flying towards Skroth's turret, and fire at it. Skroth hurries to get out of the cannon. He makes it out just in time. The Y-Wings bomb the cannon, and it explodes, spitting fire and shrapnel everywhere. Skroth ducks to avoid it, but he still gets burned on the arm. He lights his sabers, and climbs up on what remains of the destroyed turret. He waits for a Y-wing to fly past. It starts firing its lasers at Skroth, but misses all the shots. The Sith then leaps, and drives his sabers through the metal exterior. He then climbs up to the topside of the ship, and jams one of his sabers through the ships droid. It beeps and screeches in pain, but it ends soon. Skroth then cuts open the cockpit, like a can of tuna, and pulls out the pilot. The NR officer is about to say something, but Skroth decapitates him before he can say anything. *

*The Sith then climbs in the ship, and goes hunting for the last ship. The other ship still seems to think that the captured Y-Wing was still his flight leader; it slows down to get back in formation. Skroth laughs and arms his torpedoes. He didn't even wait for a lock; he just fired the warheads off. The wingman didn't have time to evade the torps as hey quickly closed in and ended his life. Skroth sees another squadron of Y-wings closing in on the Sith's location. Skroth only hoped that Vega got some more of the bases defense systems online before they got here. Skroth just waits for the new squadron to get in range, as he was already locking in on the flight leader. *

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[Dyne Darkforce]

Dyne turned to BBN.

"We wait till their forces are completely wiped out. It shouldnt be long now."

A trooper rushes in and approaches to Dyne.

Stormtrooper: "Sir, three more Y-wings have approached the area."

"Ok trooper, keep all fire concentrated on the fighters."

Stormtrooper: "Yes Sir."

Dyne turns back around and looked at BBN.

"I wonder if the base those fighters are coming from has been taken over yet."

BBN: "Im sure it has since Vapor landed with his forces and it was near those coordinates."

"Yes, I was thinking the same."

He looked onto the large computer terminal screen. Transmissions where coming in as bases were falling quickly. It was a short time before the planet was secure for the Empire. Dyne stood their patiently, awaiting a transmission from their fleet.

[Darth Varlon]

In space above Dilonexa XXIII, the Dark Brood continued its methodic annihilation of fighters. A torpedo here, a half-dozen shots of lasers there. Now an A-Wing had fallen to the shuttles guns moments before collision. With a roar, the Dark Brood shot through the fireball that had been the fighter.

Suddenly the comm sprang alive. "Lord Varlon, the enemy is in retreat. They're got no less than a seventy-two percent casualty rate so far. We've won the naval war." Var grinned at the news. "Now, we're awaiting confirmation of the pacification of any and all ground-based resistance."

"Roger that, Death Wind." Var said into the comm unit in his helmet. "We'll mop up whats left here, then straife any remaining forces on the ground."

"Copy, my lord. I'll send word to the rest of the fleet. Death Wind, out."

Var grinned and went over to the starfighter encrytion channels. "All TSE starfighters, mop up here, then we go straife any stragglers on the ground." Var's voice rang out with pride. "We're half-way."

[Vapor Kazuna]

Vapor strode down the hall walked through the door. Dyne was standing over a tactical display, coordinating the ground forces. Vapor saw from the display that there were only two more enemy strongholds remaining and then Dilonexa XXIII would be theirs.

Vapor: Our conquest will be complete soon.

Dyne: Yeah, and without heavy losses.

Vapor flipped a commlink on and sent a message to Colonel Garen, in charge of the army here. The Colonel was to dispatch a battallion of AT-ATs and a regiment of stormtroopers to annihalate one of the enemy strongholds. Dyne nodded.

Vapor: Oh, and Colonel, if any Sith join up with your attack, they have command. Understood?

Garen: Yes, my lord.

Dyne: Let's go destroy the other base.

Vapor: Definately.

Evil grins sprang up on their faces as the walkers and stormtroopers readied themselves. Ten Viper Automadons lumbered into the staging area.

Vapor: We're riding in those. Pumped up turbolasers and grappling claws. Perfect for attacking fortified locatations.

Dyne nodded and climbed into the cockpit of one of the Vipers. Vapor followed suit and the force marched towards the stronghold.

[Big Bad Naga]

Naga hopped into an empty Viper Automadon and followed them. He wasn't out of this fight yet. He wanted to see the planet fall to the Empire.

He couldn't wait to get to the other base. It would be fun to take some more lives away.

[Dyne Darkforce]

Dyne, BBN, Vapor, and the rest blazed across the land as the base appeared over the horizon. Lasers already had started to fly past them. They managed to dodge them with quickness in the Viper's. He charged the turbolasers and began to unleash a array of lasers onto their turrets. Explosions occured all over the place as it rocked the area. The flames engulfed the air as metallic debris was flying everwhere. He contacted his comrades in the other Vipers.

"Alright guys, take out all the turrets then we can attack the base by foot."

He sent his throttle to full and began to leave dust clouds behind him. They all circled around the base, taking shots at the turrets. One of the Vipers blew up right by him as the trooper perished inside. The blast send a vibration right into his Viper. Dyne flew off track for a bit before regaining control. The laser hit the other Viper square on the hull, blasting it to bits. Dyne went out the parameter range and sped back, shooting everything in sight with the turbolasers.

[Darth Renegade]

The TIE Razor, still performing quite well for the amount of damage sustained to her, continues to fly towards the Z95 that got it in this predicament. The alarms continue to ring loudly for a moment longer, before the Sith pilot gets annoyed and shuts them off, leaving only one alarm to sound when the missle gets within 50 metres of his craft. His confident smile begins to fade, as his concentration level increases substantially and he begins to fall into the Force. Cycling through his targets on his radar, he finds the approaching missle, and keeps a constant watch over it, tracking it's speed and more importantly it's distance from him


For this to work, I'm going to have to be perfect and very precise

He thinks to himself, his mind racing with other thoughts as well, mainly on the missle. The Razor manages to keep the Z95 in it's sights, normally a remarkable feet, except the Razor's superiority is unmatched. The distance between the two starfighters begins to close rapidly - the missle closing even more rapidly on the Razor.

[Darth Renegade]

The damaged starfighter continues to shake violently as laser blasts are absorbed into the little remaining shields. The expression on the pilots face never changes, remaining dead serious, knowing that he's taking a huge gamble with his life. He pushes his ship confidently onward to meet the Z95, still ashamed that he let himself get caught up into this trap. The almost crippled starfighter continues to close the ground between the two ships, the missle coming in closer and closer. Finally the Sith pilot has manoevered his ship so that it's right on the tail of the Z95.

Almost there.....

The Force coarsing through him now, and more specifically the dark side, he reaches out the pilot of the Z95, sensing his thoughts and emotions, getting a good read of what his next move is going to be. A wicked smile forms across his face, when he finds out how weak minded his opponent really is. He sends out Force suggestions and manipulating thoughts to the pilot, telling hims to fly in a straight line and to throttle down to 1/3 of his engine power. Almost immediately, the Z95 begins to obey the commands put in place by the Sith Knight.

This is going to be to easy....

The proximity alarm he had previously set, beigns to ring loudly, letting him know the missle has penetrated the 50m radius that he had set. He knows he must act fast. Urging his ship forward even more, he comes closer and closer to the Z95, so that the front of the TIE Razor is approximately 10 meters behind the Z95. The missle continues coming in closer and closer.

This is it....

The Sith warrior closes his eyes, letting the Dark Side take completely over his actions. The missle closes in rapidly, as the two starfighters slow their speed down even more. The deadly projectile moves in for the kill.....10 meters......8.....6.......4......At that second, the TIE Razor performs a doulbe barrell roll to the right, almost putting the starfighter into an uncontrolled spin. The missle begins to bank towards him, but strikes the Z95 headhunter in front of him, completely destroying both the antagonist and the missle. The dark sith begins to laugh to himself

[i]WOrked better then I'd hoped....now to get that bastard who shot it....

[Darth Varlon]

In the cold blackness of space, what forces of the NR that could flee had. All that was left were the captured cruisers and blackened and burning hulks of the rest. Occassionaly spears of light signified the few remaining snubfighter duels that was going on. Var pulled the Dark Brood into a loop and sent her returning towards the Death Wind.

He opened a comm channel to the fleet and ground troops as he approached. "We have airspace superiority. Awaiting confirmation of suppression of ground troops."

[DarthPoreon]

From the bridge of the Interdictor, he watched as the NR forces were squashed by the Empire's. In the time it took for the Interdictors to charge for their final attack on the lone Nebulon B, it had reached hyperspace and fled, but not without it losing its shields from volleys of energy from the two Gunships.

Contact Varlon.

On the holocom, the image of Varlon appeared. Poreon bowed down before the fellow Sith before speaking.

[b]Lord Varlon, the enemy I have engaged is gone. My force destroyed Two Nebulon Bs. The final Nebulon though, fled to hyperspace.

I commend you on an excellent Space Command. The Empire is lucky to have you aboard. Long Live the Sith Empire.

[Darth Varlon]

Var smirked as he stepped onto the bridge and bowed to Poreon's holo. "Agreed. You did admirably yourself. Now we await word from the ground forces."

[Dyne Darkforce]

On Dilonexa XXIII....

The turrets were all turned into debris as he stopped in the Viper and contacted the troops to go in and storm the base. They proceeded in and took over as the NR soldiers submitted to the Empire. The men went into the base after leaving the Vipers. A trooper in charge came up to Dyne in a hurry.

Trooper: "Sir, all bases have been accounted for, I have received comm transmissions from each base. Only a few of their forces remain. The forces we deployed at the given locations have successfully taken everything over with minimum losses."

"Good job solider I shall tell our fleets of this glorious day for the Empire."

Dyne nodded to BBN and Vapor then got onto the comm and contacted the fleet forces. After a brief interference he got a hold of Varlon.

"Varlon, all ground bases have been accounted for. Only a few stray forces are left."

Varlon: "Excellent indeed Dyne, this is a day to remember for the Empire."

"Very true Varlon, me and the others will be up there soon to celebrate the victory."

Dyne turned to Vapor, BBN, Skroth, and Vega and nodded to them. Vega and Skroth came to assist in the destruction of the turrets. He smiled to them and nodded...

"We have taken over the planet....its time to go home for we have completed our task men, thank you guys."

BBN: "No problem Dyne, anything to help fellow Sith out and you are my friend."

Dyne and BBN shake hands and he turns to the others.

Vega: "As always I have no objections in serving the Empire, time to go home."

Skroth: "Just get me another bottle of JD Dyne and it will be cool."

They all laugh for a brief second.

Vapor: "No problem Dyne, glad to see the Viper's come into play, ill go back to my fleet now."

They all saluted each other as the troopers were given orders to secure the planet fully. They sent the word to all the other locations as the men went back to their fighters at the main base. The empire suffered minimum losses as the NR was dispatched quickly. Thoughts raced across his mind to thank the others who participated as well, such as Poreon, Phantom, and Renegade's fighters. They get to finally head home with the good news for the Empire....

[Big Bad Naga]

Naga stood beside Dyne now. His black hood was now covering most of his face. Only two glowing red eyes could be seen. Suddenly, Naga's pearly white teeth shone as he grinned.

Naga: "Dyne, I know I am part of The Sith Order, but it was an honor to help TSE. Thank you."

Naga bowed his head in silence for a moment. He began to speak again.

"If you ever need help, any of you. All you need to do is ask."

[Darth Renegade]

Flying his damaged razor around, he searches desperately for the ship that attacked him.he cycles through his targetting computer, finally coming up with an Ewing, in very close proximity to him. he laughs having found his target. He steers his damaged craft towards it, and throttles up. The ship whines in protest, and then begins closing the gound on the fleeing ship.He gets within balster distance, and begins squeezing off shot after shot, each bolt finding it's mark. Just then, he gets a missle lock. He is just about to fire it, when the fleeing ship disappears, entering hyperspace. The anger surges through Renegade, and he slams the console with his fist.

Another time.....another time...

He looks around, noticing all the other NR craft that survived, - the few that did - are all doing the same. And suddenly, only the Sith forces are left. he smiles at the victory of the fleet, yet is angry and down about his own personal defeat. He opens the comm unit to the scrambled frequency of his fighters.

Good job everyone. We defeated them, and the planet is ours. We've sustained some losses, as is to be expected, but your skill has made them minimal. All fighters return to their respective hangers, and report for debreifing. This is Skull 1 out

[Dyne Darkforce]

Death Wind Hangar.....

As the rest of his crew docked in the Death Wind hangar, he looked around to see everyones faces of victory. Dyne proceeded up to the bridge to see Varlon and Renegade. He arrived a few minutes later as they saluted each other.

"Its ours men...."

Renegade: "Of course, what do you expect of me and my fighters?"

Varlon: "Yes the fleets did exceptionally well also. There are only a few stray forces now. They should go down very soon."

"Alright, im going to send a transmission to the rest of the men."

Dyne sent a message to all of the men who fought in the battle.

"The planet is ours men, and it was all of your individual work that was the reason for this. I would like to thank you all and lets present this planet to the Empire."

Cheers can be heard all over as they get to go home now. He turned to everyone on the bridge and nodded to them.

"Ready to go home Varlon?"

Dyne turned and looked outside as some fleets were to remain at Dilonexa to watch over it before reinforcements came in.

[Darth Varlon]

"Sounds like a plan to me, Dyne." Var says into his collar-clipped comlink and slaps his friend on the shoulder. "Captain Markx, set a course for home."

"Yes, my lord." The capiains vocie comes back over the channel.

"We'll be celebrating by morning." He said with a chuckle as they left for the bridge.

[Vapor Kazuna]

Vapor opens a holonet communication to be greeted with the image of the Sith aboard the Death Wind cheering good-naturedly at the conquest.

Vapor: I'll see you guys back at TSE headquarters, stopping by Kyrin for resupply. Adios.

Dyne: See ya, Vapor.

The void surrounding them became a blur as the Maelstrom entered hyperspace.

[Ron Thrawn]

*after the fleets were all away, what appears to be a souped-up TIE Interceptor comes out of hyperspace*
damn
i always miss the good battles