The Taste of Vengeance

[Dalethria Mal Pannis]

The endless quiet of space remains undisturbed that surrounds the planet of Bakura. Until a small flash of light opens a tear in space to let a YT-1300 exit hyperspace. The Koriolos flies straight ahead to the planet's atmosphere and an astromech driod aboard the ship beeps and whistles that everything is okay. Dalethria smirks and keys in the commands for a communication to The Empire. She encrypts the message with a special code that she worked up once when she was a smuggler.

"This is The Koriolos. We've broken to the other side and it's clear. No sign of the Bakuran Fleet ... yet. Scanners are cold so come on out and play.

Dalethria leans back in her pilot's seat and keys in the last few commands to where her ship is going to land. She swivels her seat to her right and smiles at Avagdu laying on the floor and at her Co-Pilot, "Well, not much longer, Sister."


OOC: Note for this thread. This is a Fleet/RPG Story thread that takes after the events of "In Remembrance" (http://pub2.ezboard.com/fswvstitanicthejedicouncil.showMessage?topicID=245 7.topic). All those that wish to participate need to follow a few simple guidelines. All the basic rules apply as well as this. No more then 3 posts per person on any given day. I want everyone that wishes to be a part of this thread have that opportunity. No quicky thread. Most important ... have fun :)

[Unknown Number]

*The Spaceship Absolution pulls out of hyperspace and comes within radio contact of the Koriolos. UN pushes the intercom button*

This is UN calling Dale. You there Dale?

[Admiral Cureatz]

**Moments after the small frieghter sends its message a larger tear in the fabric of space signals the arrival of The Sith Empire's 1st fleet...**

TSE 1st fleet:
Sovereign Class Star Destroyer The Nuriko
Victory Class Star Destroyer The Oddessa
Victory Class Star Destroyer The Yamato
Victory II Class Star Destroyer Obsidian
Victory II Class Star Destroyer Discord
Interdictor Class Crusier Caspian
Interdictor Class Crusier Nerthus
Lictor Class Dungeon Ship Aegir
Modular Taskforce Cruiser Valkyrie
Dominator Class Star Destroyer Odin’s Fire
Dominator Class Star Destroyer Hermod
Imperator Class Star Destroyer Balder's Lance


**Admiral Cureatz stands on the bridge of The Nuriko... he still in awe that they had chosen him to command this mission... standing behind and to the right of him is Summoner... his usual employer and commander...**

AC: Sir we have entered the Bakura system... scanners are picking up no enemy ships in the area...

Sums: Excellent... Move the fleet into a defensive formation to cover the drop... I'll be in the drop bay preparing... you have command of the fleet until the recovery of Master Ogre who on planet...

AC: Yes Sir...

**Cureatz snaps into a salute as Sums walks off the bridge towards the bays containing his troops...**

**Meanwhile the 1st fleet slowly moves towards the planet of Bakura...**

[Sith Kat]

:: Kat grins back at Dalethria ::

"Good. I long to hear their screams as I kill their precious children. They will surrender to us, or they'll all die. More souls for Vicet to devour."

[Mari Bean]

*Mari snaps awake as her YT-2000, the Mors Dominae begins to jerk violently. She looks at the controls and realizes that she is entering the atmosphere of Bakura. She presses a few buttons and prays that the blasted ship lands where she wants it to. She looks around and slams her fist of the commlink, hoping it would work:

"Anyone out there? I should be landing shortly, hopefully not on the wrong side of the planet..."

[DarthPoreon]

One of DarthPoreon's many Yt-2400's was sitting aboard the Imperator Class Star Destroyer Balder's Lance. Inside the YT-2400 was DarthPoreon; he was sitting hunched over his control pannel, going over pre-flight checks. The worst part was the wait He was waiting for the order to commence the assault. He could not stand waiting. The Warrior watched through a small viewport as the bay doors began to open. Atleast it will start soon...

Onboard the YT-2400, Lexington XI, were DarthPoreon, 5 of his personal bodyguards, and enough firepower to blow up a couple square blocks. DarthPoreon walked over to the weapons and selected his weapons. He clipped 2 Imperial Arms - 22T4 Hold-Out Blasters, 1 13497Yalandross Jengardin - Doublebladed Vibroblade, and his trusty lightsaber.
He also grabbed a Sorosuub Corporation - Stormtrooper Two Blaster Rifle, 3 MerrSonn Munitions - Thermal Detonators, and 5 BlasTech Industries - Flash Grenades.
He put all of the explosives into a small duffel bag.

[i]

The Warrior walked back to the small Cockpit. He took a seat and waited for the clearance.

[Sith Summoner]

**Sums walks through the launch bays of the SoSD The Nuriko... in the smaller bays the stormtroopers are preping for deployment... in the larger ones the equipment is being preped... specific attention is being paied to TSE's new tank regiments (http://www.geocities.com/gma_summoner/)... Sums was heading to the drop ship carrying the equipment and personel for the command element when his comm came to life...**

What is it???

AC:Sir we have company... scanners just picked up a group of enemy capital ships...

Have all Victory and Dominator Class SD's drop their troop transprorts as close to us or the planet as they can and move to intercept... launch fighters from all ships... what is the ETA till we can drop???

AC: 5 minutes at current speed and course... that can safely be cut to 3 if we alter course slightly...

Do it...

AC: Yes sir...

[Big Bad Naga]

Naga quietly sat in his quarters on Unknown Number's ship Absolution. He contemplated on the task ahead of him. He reached for is datapad and inserted a disk. Before him, a map of the Space Port and the surrounding area appeared. Naga studied it thouroughly. He put the datapad down and sat on the bed. He crossed his legs and felt the force flow within him. He let the darkness and temptation consume him. Naga metitated on his current thoughts. He wanted to be fully rested for his upcoming mission.

[Ogre Mal Pannis]

Having spent the last two days remaining on the planet Bakura, Ogre had used his time wisely. Aboard his modified YT-2400 the Dauntless, he had gathered a great deal of intelligence regarding the current fleet size and makeup as well as the military strength of this planet’s inhabitants. R27 was still retrieving data when an alarm began to blare through the ship. Having been in the crew quarters getting something to eat, Ogre quickly stood and pressed the activation switch on the comm. unit. Speaking to R27.

“Is it time already, are they here?”

He was answered by the sound of beeps and chirps coming from the droid, and nodded his head in acknowledgement, a smile creeping across his face.

“Begin transmitting our Data to the Admiral on board the Nuriko.”

Ogre was sure Sums had followed his instructions to the letter and he was even more sure Sums had a few surprises of his own in store for the population of this quiet little planet, not really of any significance to anyone. He quickly dispensed of his dinner and dishes and made his way to the c0ckpit of his ship. Sitting down and strapping himself in the command chair, he began the sequence to start the engines and prepare for flight. He reached down to the communication array and set out a message on the TSE’s private, scrambled channel.

“Begin operation, Dalethria’s Taste of Vengeance. All units are cleared to engage their targets.”

[Admiral Cureatz]

**Cureatz switches to the fleet comm system...**

All ships this is The Nuriko... all ships will deploy fighters emmidiately... Victory and Dominator Class Star Destroyers will move at best speed to intercept the enemy capital ships, drop any troop transports as close to The Nuriko or the planet as possible... the majority of the transports on The Nuriko will deploy in 3 minutes...

**With that the skies in front of the capital ships fill with fighters and transports... the faster Victory's and Dominator's move ahead of the rest of the capital ships as they move to intercept... the Nuriko and the other ships alter their courses slightly taking them closer to the planet than was originally planned... minutes later a large deployment of landing craft leaves the bays of The Nuriko the spread out as they head for their landing points and targets...**

[Dalethria Mal Pannis]

"Don't worry, there will be plenty of chaos." She turns her head as the comm flashes with an incoming transmisson.

<This is UN calling Dale. You there Dale?>

"Copy that UN. Kat and I are here. We're preparing to break into the atmosphere soon. Huh?" A red light flashes and the sensors pick up three, no four, Capitol Ships of the Bakuran Fleet. "Damnit! UN, time to go static. See you down there."

Dalethria punches in a few controls as the YT-1300 spins around off the course she just set, not wanting to be caught inbetween the two fleets preparing to engage each other. "Well, looks like we take a different approach to the planet Kat." Before she can calculate a better route, the Bakuran Fleet launch their fighters and Dalethria swears again. "Aww, hell. Okay, maybe not. Prepare for some evasive flying here."

She punches the engines and puts the shields at full as they both see the fighters coming towards them. "Is it too late to ask if you know how to fire a gun turret?"

[Darth Phantom]

[DarthPoreon]

With those orders issued, DarthPoreon punched his thrusters and his YT-2400 shot out of the Bay. He was met with tons of other ships shooting towards the atmosphere. The taskforce DarthPoreon was with had a small troop transport following him, holding about 50 Stormtroopers.

Mors Dominae, this is Lexington XI, I am DarthPoreon, your assistance for this mission. Darth Renegade will also be joining us. I have 50 Stormtroopers trailing me, and they will also assist us. We will meet 2 Miles West of Senate Chambers. Look foward to seeing you, Lexington XI over and out.

The stockfreighter entered the atmosphere and started the long descent to the ground.

[Mari Bean]

*Upon recieving the message, Mari cancels the landing site she entered previously and punches in the new landing site.*

"This is Mors Dominae, Lexington XI. Instructions recieved. I am descending now. Mors Dominae, out."

*The Mors Dominae joins the other ships in their descent.*

[Sith Kat]

"A gun turret???"

:: Kat looks at Dalethria with a child-like expression ::

"How hard can it be???"

[Big Bad Naga]

Naga senses a disturbance in the force. He opens his eyes and exits his chambers. Naga runs to the bridge and pats UN in the back. UN turns around

Naga: "Umm UN did you get a hold of Dale?"

UN: "Yes just now"

Naga stares out the viewport and notices the 4 capitol ships

Naga: "Dale and Kat are in trouble, we gotta help them! Or get someone to help them."

[Unknown Number]

*UN runs over to the edge of his control panel, to see his three droids*

Tank, Aero, Cycle! Prepare to enter the atmosphere! Full shields online and land it out of tracking range from the Space Port!

Tank, Aero, Cycle- Yes Sir!

*The Absolution begins desending into the atmosphere of Bakura. UN and BBN sit down as they desend*

Don't worry about Dale and Kat. There some of the best in the SE. They can take care of themselves. Anyway, we have to maintain radio silence for sometime. Were going to be on our own in the Space Port.

BBN- What about our troops?

UN- My guess is that we can only bring in 10 stormtroopers. This way we won't be a slow target and won't be spotted so easily.

*The Absolution finally breaks through the atmosphere an lands just out of tracking range of the Space Port. UN looks at BBN*

You ready?

[Big Bad Naga]

Naga takes a deep breath and looks at UN

"I'm ready on your word!"

Naga fastens his lightsabers to his belt, pockets his blaster and takes another deep breath.

"Lets do this"

[Dara Shadowtide]

EN ROUTE TO LORD HAVOK'S SHIP
:: Dara and Lord Havok reach the Red Hydra and upon arrival, they are greeted by Commander Drake who informs her that her ship's hyperdrive has been fully repaired. She smiles and looks at Lord Havok, very pleased with the work of his expert technicians ::

Dara: "I can hardly thank you enough for your help, Lord Havok. I appreciate your lending your personal crew to repair my ship."

Havok: "You are most welcome, my Lady. I was glad I could offer my assistance. You can step aboard and take a look at it if you want to examine their handiwork."

:: Dara smiles as if he were reading her mind ::

Dara: "Yes, Lord Havok. I would very much like to do that. If you will excuse me."

:: Dara nods and follows Drake to docking bay 21-A where she sees her ship, the Resilience. Drake excuses himself and she steps inside. Within moments sees a red light flashing on the comms console. It is the TSE channel. Something must be up. She opens the frequency and receives the encrypted message sent by Sith Master Ogre ::



:: Dara smiles and then rushes down the ramp and to Lord Havok's quarters. He meets her at the doorway ::

Dara: "Lord Havok, I must return to Bakura to assist securing the planet for TSE. My participation in this mission is vital. I will be leaving immediately and will return very soon so that we may continue on to Mandalore."

Havok: "I understand. I will be making the final arrangements for the trip to Mandalore while you are away. Good journey to you, and enjoy your repaired ship."

:: She smiles at him ::

Dara: "Thank you again. I will see you very soon. Farewell."

:: With that Dara departs his quarters and heads to her ship. The droids have been brought back on board and are preparing the ship for takeoff ::

Dara: "C2-R4, close ramp and secure all exterior hatches. R2-Q2, prepare ship for take off, and K-3PO I need a full analysis of the current fleets in orbit of Bakura. I don't want any surprises."

:: The droids scurry about and fulfill their Mistress's commands. The docking bay opens and the ship eases into space, the coordinates already locked in for Bakura. Dara holds her breath and prepares for the jump to lightspeed. As the stars fade into white blurs of light, she smiles ::

[i]WITHIN ORBIT OF BAKURA

:: K-3PO alerts Dara of fleets in the area and as they come upon Bakura, she sees Dalethria's ship, the Koriolos in trouble. Dara leaves the command chair and takes a position in the gunner's chair. She opens fire on the ships flying by and takes out one of them. R2-Q2 brings the ship about, since the element of surprise is now gone, and Dara opens fire on the next nearest ship, landing a crippling shot to their main shields ::

[Unknown Number]

*Gets up alright. Let's go!

*UN force calls his Doom Scythe*

Tank, Aero, Cycle! Stand on full alert! Anyone who enters this ship and doesn't have a Sith signature, blast them!

Tank, Aero, Cycle- Yes Sir!

*UN and BBN exit the Absoultion with 10 storm troopers, the Space Port can be seen in the background*

Alright listen up guys. This Space Port has to be taken over, no if's, and's, or but's. Should out fellow Sith's failed to kill the high officals, the Space Port will be there only way out. That is why we cannot fail in our mission. Taking over the Space Port will insure us that no messages for help will be send out and alerting the Jedi's will not be a problem. BBN has the readouts on the SP so I suggest you look at it one more time before we embark on this mission. -And another thing troops, we have to maintain radio silence for sometime least until Ogre can get his Command Center up and ready. Until that time, were on our own.

*UN takes a deep breath*

BBN, can you please show the men the 3-D readouts of the Space Port? This way we won't be like Gungans with our heads cut off.

(This my third post. Can't post until tomorrow)

[Admiral Cureatz]

****On the bridge of The Nuriko****

**Cureatz scanns the status boards in front of him... the battle is raging outside and now that the troop ships are offloaded The Nuriko was heading into battle... a comm officer walks up to him and hands him a data pad with Ogre's message on it... reading it Cureatz nods...**

Continue the uplaod and let me know when Master Ogre is aboard...

**the comm officer salutes and returns to his post... just as Cureatz notices the the Resilience enter the battle and start picking off fighters...**

Tactical... Order the IC's and Devastators to activate their gravity wells... i don't want any of these ships to be leaving our party early...

Tact: Yes sir...

**The order goes out over the comm and minutes later the simulated gravity masses of the gravity wells encompase the battle ground as the fight continues...**

[Dalethria Mal Pannis]

Three fighters of one squadron break off and open fire on The Koriolos. Space becomes a flash of red laser fire as Dalethria grits her teeth and manuvers her ship out of the way, only getting glancing blows to the shields.

"Alright Kat. Get to the turret. It's past the cabins to your left and try to line up the shot on the display when you strap in."

Before Kat can leave the c0ckpit, the ship jerks as laser fire slams into the shields. Dalethria and Kat get tossed in their seats and the sensors see that the fighter has manuvered behind The Koriolos. "Great ... just great. What the ..."

The ship behind blows up into a fireball as Dalethria recognizes The Resilience break out of hyperspace and open fire. "Now that's two I owe her."

She turns to her sister, "Kat get back there while we have a moments breath. I'll try and get us out of the main group of fighters. You blow them up."

At least I hope she does and doesn't blow up the hull ... Dalethria thinks to herself as she checks the shields.

[Ogre Mal Pannis]

Ogre’s ship lifts from the ground and zips off in the direction of the town he had been in just a few days ago. It wasn’t an important town in the grand scheme of this plan, but it did hold some significance to Ogre. It was the home of the majority of those who had attacked Dale and Ogre was going to make sure they all paid dearly for their transgressions against his wife. Many had been killed on the grounds of the cemetery, but many had also escaped their fate that day.

Fate was about to catch up with them all as Ogre had the town in sight. He activated his proton torpedo tubes and took aim at the center of town, launching a quick volley of six at the small city, three from each of his craft’s twin tubes. Ogre smiled and turned his ship skyward after he saw the explosions rock the town, flames and destruction in their wake.

As he began to get closer to Bakura’s stratosphere, he could see above, space was filled with the explosions and streaks of a great battle taking place. An alarm went off in the c0ckpit and he looked down at his scanner and his eyes grew large as he saw an entire squad of enemy spacecraft had somehow come up behind him and were targeting his ship.

He lowered the power of the shields and poured on the speed. The Dauntless began to pull away from them quickly but it shook and shuddered as some of their laser fire impacts his ships aft section. Ogre can see through the mass of tie fighters, shuttles, and capital ships, the looming size of the Nuriko, its turbo lasers firing upon some of the Bakurian ships, missing some and weakening the shields of others.

“I sure hope I can get through this soup. There is still much to be done.”

[Sith Summoner]

**The landing craft lands hard... the ramps drop with a woosh and the troops and command staff run off... Sums looks around and spots an old building... with that he starts yelling out commands...**

I want the primary HQ set up in that building... i need a hook up to The Nuriko ASAP also i need reports on all troops... any casualties on the landing... where troops are and their status... get me on the SE network... i want to know status reports on all TSE members...

**all the troops are just looking at him...**

don't just stand there.... MOVE IT...

[Miryan no Trunks]

*After landing just outside of Telaan, MnT and his troops had wasted no time in making their way to the city. However as he realizes that they're the only people in the streets, a slight wave of nervousness makes it's way into his mind.*

This isn't right...

*Suddenly, as if on command, he hears the voice of Sith Summoner crackling over his headset. Despite a relatively large amount of static that he chalks up to interferance from the nearby buildings, he makes out the request for a status report*

MnT: Sir, we're in Telaan, all men accounted for.. but that's about it. We seem to be the only people here. If I were a fool, I'd say it were simple luck and coincidence that the entire population of the city happened to be visiting their grandmas or something, but unfortunately, I don't have the luxory of that kind of ignorance sir..

*Turning his head sharply back and forth, MnT takes in his surroundings quickly. He notices that they seem to have made their way into a square, with roads branching off on five sides and dissapearing in the sea of buildings. *

MnT: .......... Sir, awaiting orders..

*Glancing back and forth, realizing that it's not just people that seem to be missing.. he can't sense Any life.. not even that of rats or other small mammals...*

.......

[SAURRON]

As the Dauntless speeds for the main battle Ogre's eyes widen once again to see his collision lights blinking and warning sounds inside his pilot area sounding off with great alarm! Peering through his @#%$pit Orge immediatly shoves forward on the controls of the Dauntless causing it to dive fast. Just missing the sublight and warp drive engines of a Interdictor Cruiser.

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Orge: Where the hell...!?

As Ogre pilots the Dauntless under the cruiser he reckognizes Saurron's deep voice.

Well, we know the cloaking device works.

[Big Bad Naga]

Naga: "Ok people listen up. We're going to infiltrate the base first. We are sneaking in through the sewer system."

Naga points to the sewer entry point on his holocron map.

Naga: "When we take over the base from inside, we will snd fro troops which will enter those areas."

Naga points in all entrance directions

Naga: "Remember, Looks at the troops if you guys blow this, I will rearrange your windpipes! So get ready, we sneer, we leer, we jeer, and we are feared. You ready UN?"

[Sith Kat]

:: Kat sits down in the gunnery chair and straps herself in. She growls, trying to make sense of the controls. Strange technology. She hated it ::

"So how does it work???"

:: She gnashes her teeth and begins firing uncontrolled bursts of laserfire at all the flying ships outside ::

[Darth Renegade]

A small ship comes streaking out of hyperspace, amist lasers firing as the battle progresses. I curse myself for not picking up my new shipt earlier and testing all of it's weapon and sensors out under more pleasant circumstances

Guess we'll find out how the Fallen Angel is under fire the hard way.

Looking over the console, trying deserately to remember what did what, I flick a couple of switches, and push a couple of buttons quickly raising the shields and deflectors. I begin firing a few shots here and there with the laser, attempting to clear somewhat of a lane for me, as i turn the communication frequency open to Darth Poreon.

[i] Hey, Poreon, are yout here? Sorry, I'm a little late. Hear from Mari yet?

[DarthPoreon]

I am with Mari, Renegade. Please meet us here, 2 Miles West of the Senate Chambers. DarthPoreon over and out.

He turned left his ship to do all of the power down procedures. The Warrior turned sharply on his heel and walked down the ramp, followed by his bodyguards.

A brief look to the left revealed the deboarding of the Troopers. The Warrior walked over to the commander of the troopers and conversed in low tones. He clapped his hands, the sound amplified slightly through the Force. The Warrior turned and walked towards Mari as the Troopers and his bodyguards began marching away.

Mari, we shall wait here until Renegade arrives. The troopers have begun their mission to blockade the Senate Chambers. They are under strict orders to not shoot anybody. They are to take prisoners. Upon Renegade Arriving, we shall begin to take out all nearby security measures. This includes Automated turrets, security cameras, local law enforcement, and/or anything that provides resistance.

[Dalethria Mal Pannis]

Dalethria flies between two fighters and cuts sharply back around. She fires the front lasers and blasts one fighter into oblivion. Small victory since they are surrounded.

"Kat? Here's how to use the controls." Through the link, Kat can see how Dalethria manipulated the controls correctly to open fire and how to read the display for accuracy.

Looking throughout this mess, Dalethria extends her senses around the battle to find the best break out of this mess. Seems that the fighters are well trained but are sticking mostly to their capitol ships for the time being. The alarm goes off as another fighter is on her tail. "Great, not again."

She tries to shake off the fighter behind her but he is able to stick with the ship. Dalethria is able to pick up that another squadron of fighters is coming up to the side and figures its now or never. With a sharp turn she heads straight towards the group of fighters and opens fire. Part of the group scatters and she grins as she manuvers the ship straight up. The pilot in back of her slams right into a fighter that didn't get out of the way in time as a huge fireball erupts upon impact.

Dalethria lets out a breath that she was holding. "How's it going back there, Kat?

[Admiral Cureatz]

**Cureatz watches with delight as the battle wages... TIE series fighters, TIE drones and gunboats attack the Bakuran fighters and capital ships...**

Give me a status report... Tactical...

Tac:Sir we've suffered 16 losses all drones except one TIE advanced... the Bakurans have lost approximately 50 fighters... the shields on their capital ships are stronger than we first thought but they are begining to weaken... The Oddessa has reported that their sheilds suddenly droped to 68% after some type of explosion on the sheilds... no damage though...

Very well... Comm... signal Darth Phantom that for the moment we have the situation in hand and ask him to hold position in case we need............

**A frantic call arises from the Tactical station...**

Tac: Sir...

What???

Tac: Sir one of their smaller capital ships just made a run for hyperspace......

**Cureatz interupts the junior officer before he can finish...**

That is no reason to interupt me... the gravity wells will stop that from happening...

Tac: Thats the thing sir... He MADE it into hyperspace...

**Cureatz swears to himself quietly...**

Order the Victory's and the Dominator's to move closer and block any more attempts... signal Blader's Lance to also move to engage...

**The Tactical officer does as is ordered and the SD's move into position that will block any further attempts at hyperspace...**

Comm... new message for Darth Phantom... have him step up his alert status... i want to be able to have his ships here without delay if we need them...

Comm: Yes sir...

**Cureatz watches the organized confusion on the bridge as his orders are carried out... all the while a thought running through his head...**

[Sith Kat]

:: Red & orange light dances in Kat's eyes as she picks off Bakuran fighters and TIE craft alike ::

[Miryan no Trunks]

Back down on the planet
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*Sighs in frustration as the only response he gets is the constant hiss-pop of static*

Dammit...

*Clenching his teeth, he looks up at the pale grey sky, wondering what's happening up there....*

MnT: I Repeat sir, Awaiting Orders

*As he stands there, awaiting command, the clouds above open up into a sudden downpour..*

Great... well, at least the rain will assist to keep our minds off the silence..

*As the rain falls heavily upon MnT, his troops, and the apparantly deserted city, a loud rumble echoes throughout the buildings, demonstrated visually by the clouds glowing bright for a moment, then ceasing..*

Great....

*With that, he taps at his headset, hoping to jar something back into place and cause the static to fade, but to no prevail(sp?)*

Edit: Stuff really didn't sound right

[Darth Renegade]

Reaching over, I casually turn the communicator off, as I fly through the warzone, dodging fire, and returning it only when necessary.

Thinking to myself Well it seems we're doing farely well up here, to say the very least. I wonder how it's going on the ground.....

I set in a course for the coordinates supplied by Darth Poreon, and increase my speed drastically, as I drop power to the weapons in an effort to boost the engines

I'm late enough as it is....They're gonna kill me...

Using the force as I enter atmosphere, I reach out getting a feeling for all of our members, seeing that everyone is alright so far, as the Fallen Angel streaks through the skies, coming to the rendezvous point as I land quickly. I disembark quickly, grabbing my sabers and my knives and rush to meet my comrades.

So what I miss?

[Ogre Mal Pannis]

Ogre looks down at his rear scanner display and sees that four of the twelve craft trailing him were not as fortunate as he was. They had not been able to avoid the engine wash of Saurron’s Interdictor and were destroyed, but he still sees 4 craft trailing him closely, while the others were forced to break away and square up against some of the hordes of Tie series craft filling space around them all.

Ogre looks back up ahead at the shape of the SoSD Nuriko, getting larger and larger through the transparisteel canopy, suddenly he is almost blinded by the flash of an exploding Tie Phantom as it is destroyed right in front of his ship. The explosion causes him to bank sharply to the left, this putting his ship into an uncontrolled spin.

As Ogre blinks and rubs his watering eyes, trying to regain his senses, his ship is suddenly jerked from his control as the Commander aboard the Nuriko had activated a tractor beam and was bringing his ship on board. Unsure of what is happening as his sight slowly returns, Ogre lets go of the controls and hopes for the best.

[Sith Summoner]

**A trooper runs up to Sums as he surveys landscape and the dark clouds in the distance..**

Trooper: Sir the command ceter is operational...

Excellent... **starts walking to the command center...** any reports???

Trooper: yes sir Miryan no Trunks reported in from Telaan... he reports there is no activity there what so ever... nothing nobody... he's waiting for further instructions...

Okay tell him to search the city... but make sure to tell him to be carefull and watch for booby traps... anything else???

Trooper: Yes sir... the team taking the Spaceport reported in that they are on their way to their objective... the senate team hasn't reported in yet...

Okay... Is that all???

**The trooper looks down at the ground for a moment before answering...**

Trooper: Ummm... yes sir there is... 3 of our transports were lost in the decent... we have not recieved any reports from the craft around them with regards to how they were lost... they were flying into that storm in the east but... well it could have been enemy fire sir...

**Sums thinks for a moment...**

We didn't think they had that type of weaponry... how many troopers did we loose???

Trooper: Seventeen thousand sir...

**Sums swears under his breath as they continue to the command center where the communications were sent to those who needed them...**

[Ezekiel Rage]

*Ezra looks around at his surroundings. after being dropped with the tank elements, Ezra notices 8 tanks, 8 missile tanks, 50 troop carriers, and and estimated 2500 storm troopers.*

*Ezra begins to walk past a few running storm troopers. just as he was about to give a command, a huge blast occurs close by causing him to dive to the ground. as the smoke clears, the young Sith Warrior sees more clearly. he notices the battlefield and sees NR troops firing.*

*he then opens communication to his comrade, Sums*

"Sums, got some fire going down around here. i beleive the NR troops are firing heavily and i noticed some missles leave the ground and hit ships. got some storm troopers lost also. from the 2500 that i estimated earlier, i've seen nearly 100 down. anyway, i'm going to investigate. Ezra out

[Dara Shadowtide]

:: Dara smiles as she whirls back and forth comfortably in the gunner's chair. The power of the dark side is with her as it guides her to the accurate destruction of her targets. R2-Q2 follows her instructions perfectly as the droid maneuvers her closer to the Koriolos. Two more Bakurian fleet ships explode by Dara's hand.

Dara sees that Dalethria has employed a new gunner on her ship and chuckles at the vision of Kat blasting everything in sight. A volley of crossfire is on an intercepting path with her ship from Dalethria's ship and Dara yells over the headset for R2-Q2 to perform the necessary evasive maneuvers.

"R2 we have incoming fire, move to evade and I mean NOW!"

:: Suddenly a sensor dish is blown from her ship, the Resilience, and Dara looks around to see the Koriolos passing by. Dara smirks and calls back to R2-Q2 ::

"Move to do a fly by on the Koriolos. We're going to 'buzz the tower'. I just want to say a quick hi to Kat."

:: Dara continues to eliminate Bakurian ships as she approaches Dalethria's ship. R2-Q2 skillfully moves the ship through the debris from the Bakurian vessels, and to the Koriolos in a looping move where Dara waves at a very surprised Kat.

Speaking of surprises, Dara sees Summoner's personal ship, the Shadow Blade and knows that since he is already here on the mission it must be none other than one of TSE's three leaders, Lady Diamante. Lady Dia was given the use of Summoner's personal ship until hers is built. Dara smiles upon seeing the Sith Master enter range of the melee in progress.

Dara returns her full attention to the complete eradication of the Bakurian fleet. Between Dara, Kat and the Turbo lasers fired from R2-Q2, the fleet from Bakura dwindles considerably ::

[Lady Diamante]

At TSE Headquarters

:: Lady Diamante receives the encrypted message from Sith Master Ogre. Could she make it to Bakura in time to be of assistance? If only her newly commissioned ship was completed. She pauses, then remembers the Summoner's promise to use his ship, the Shadow Blade, until her ship was finished. She alerts her personal guard to ready the Shadow Blade. Dia makes preparations for her departure and leaves for the docking bay to board the Shadow Blade. The crew onboard prepares the ship for take off as Dia takes a seat on the bridge ::

"You may depart when ready, Captain."

:: The captain nods in deep respect to her and closes the ramp door. The corvette lifts with the ease and experience of years of flying by the Captain and moves out into space. The hyperdrive engages and the ship disappears from the view of HQ ::

In orbit of Bakura

:: The Shadow Blade comes upon a fierce space battle already in progress. Dia sees Dara Shadowtide's personal ship as well as Dalethria's ship. She orders the Captain to assist the TSE ships in any way possible. The Captain deploys his crew into place as another ship enters the battle ::

[Darth Renegade]

(OOC - can we turn off sigs in here?)


Turning away from my 2 comrades, I finish attaching my sabers to my belt, and sheething the last of my knives. I then place my headset on, and power it on, setting it to Summs frequency, as I survey the landscape, wondering what's going on out there, and how the others are doing. I finally make a connection with some static coming through on the line.

"Master, are you there? Please respond "

Summs responds, with his authoritative voice seemingly booming through the static coming through on the comlink

Report my apprentice.

" Good to hear your voice Master, I've just met up with Mari-Bean and Darth Poreon now on the planet at these coordinates. " I transmit the coordinates quickly to him, not wanting to waste one moment of our conquest. " The troops, Mari-Bean, Darth Poreon and I are ready to move out, and are awaiting your confirmation to begin moving out. "

[Sniper Tondry]

Pierce Tondry awakes to the sound of explosions. "And the fires of the sky shall reign down upon the planet, sending out waves of terror and pissing me off," he grumbles. "You'd think they were war whores, they like to fight so much."

He yawns and hops out of the bunk bed he was sleeping in, grabbing for his gear. In less than a minute, he is dressed in his uniform and fully armed.

Pausing by the mirror, Pierce adjusts his Bakuran military insignia and then steps out into the corridors of the Bakuran Combined Defense Force Headquarters.

Time to put his destabilzation training to work.

[Sith Summoner]

**Sums is on the radio with Renegade when a trooper walks up to him... holding his hand up to signal him to wait, Sums continues on the radio...**

acknoledged Renegade... you are cleared to proceed to the city... be advised that there was apparently no sign of life a Telaan... be prepared for anything... Summoner out...

**Sums turns off the mic and looks at the trooper...**

Yes what is it???

Trooper: Sir we just recieved word from The Nuriko that Shadow Blade just entered the system...

The blade??? What in the name of the creator is she...... oh wait... Dia must have decided to take me up on my offer... send a message back to The Nuriko inform them that Lady Dia is aboard...

Trooper: Yes sir...

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meanwhile

**In the deserted city of Telaan 3 NR trained snipers of the Bakuran army stealthily move through the city each working alone but all with the same targets... the SE troops in their city...**

[Unknown Number]

AT THE SPACEPORT

Yeah I'm ready BBN. Let's go!

*UN and Naga lead the bunch of stormtroopers toward the SpacePorts sewer drain. UN sneaks up behind a rock to see if anyone's around*

No guards here. Guess they send everyone to take care of the Sith invading the other citys.

*Sneaks back to the team*

Alright listen up. There's two places were going to have to hit. One is the transport dock and the other is the Command Station. I'll explain the plan of action along the way.

*UN and BBN's team sneak into the sewer system. UN explains the plan in the sewer while walking*

Okay, first we need to take out there Command Station first. This way we'll keep them from sending distress signals and we'll be able to stablish contact with our fellow Sith. Next in line is the Transport dock. Once that is taking over, they won't have any escape off Bakura.

*UN and BBN's team continue into the sewers*

How much farther BBN? I'm enjoying this lovely smell (kidding around) but we have have a job to do. Is there an exit out of these sewers that might lead to the upper floors of the Space Port?

[Miryan no Trunks]

*Upon hearing his orders, MnT had continued the search for any life in the city. However, as to the lack of any at that point, he and the troops with him ended up actually spending more effort on trying to find and defuse any traps that may have been left. As of now, those efforts have been unneeded as well..*

*Sighing lightly as he reaches the outside road of yet another section of the empty town, he turns and does another routine, albeit seemingly unneccesary, head-check*

*After 2 counts, he realizes that 4 ST's are not in their ranks. Calmly, he switches the frequency on his headset to one that had been designated for his squad before the mission, and speaking loudly and clearly, requests the ST's to report with their location. After half a minute of silence and static, he decides to retrace their path.*

Ok all, we're going to head back the route we came, see if we can find the hold-up.

*Is met by a few disheartened sounding replies. The deserted streets and heavy rainstorm has apparantly taken it's toll on the morale of the squad*

Ok, Listen up. You're Storm Troopers, right? You've gone through Rigorous training to reach your rank, you're some of the finest fighters of the Empire. With the exception of none of you, you've all gone through several missions, some of them action-filled battles, some of them boring-ass routine patrols. Now you're going to let a bloody empty city and a storm get you down?

*With a cacaphony of "No Sir"'s rising from the men, he grins*

Good! Ok, now Listen up. We're missing 4 of our rank. They've gone missing in the last what, ten-odd minutes? I don't like that, so We're going to go Find them.

*With that, they begin heading back into the depths of the city*

Wait up!

*Stops his troops suddenly, having felt a glimmer of animosity from nearby. Taking his scanner, he begins searching around, only to hear one of his troopers hit the ground with a thud*

Snipers!

*Looks up towards the building, seeing a flash from a rooftop. He turns to the troops and tells them to get under cover*

*Dashing quickly into a nearby building, opening the steel door with a snap-kick, he scorns himself mentally for having stopped in the middle of the street, leaving the squad sitting ducks...*

We're going to have to hope we can make it to the roof..

*Looking around, he notices that they happen to be in an apartment building.*

Good, this shouldn't be too difficult.. Lets just hope this is a Tall building...

*Starts heading towards the stairs, after noticing that the lights around the elevator are off. The power's down.*

Maybe we can do some sniping of our Own..

Edit: added in some self-scorning

[Admiral Cureatz]

Tac: Sir...

**the call shook Cureatz out of his thougths...**

Yes what is it???

Tac: Sir Hermond reports an explosion similar to the type that hit The Oddessa... this one was bigger and dropped their sheilds... the Hermond is taking damage...

WHAT???

Tac: Yes sir... and The Oddessa has her sheilds down to 24% and droping... enemy fire is concentrated on the two of them... Sir it appears they are trying to create a hole in our lines...

I can see that Commander... Move us into position to replace both of them... when we are there have Hermond and The Oddessa move away from the battle and if nessessary into hyperspace... if they have to jump make sure their fighters stay... we might need them...

Tac: Yes sir...

**The giant engines of The Nuriko fire to life and she slowly slides through space moving to replace the two wounded ships...**

[Dalethria Mal Pannis]

Due to the insane firing from her Sister and Dara's assist, the way is pratically clear to finally head down to the surface. Dalethria smiles as she watches The Resilience fly by. "I think you owe Dara a sensor dish, Kat. Still ... not bad job for the first time gunning. Next time I'll teach you how to not blow up our fighters as well." Dalethria chuckles, "Might as well come back up here since we're heading to the planet."

A few more fighters blow away as The Shadow Blade comes into view. Dalethria turns sharply to get away from a couple a strays and blasts one away for good measure with the forward guns. She keys in the coordinates to take her ship down into the planet's atmosphere.

[Ogre Mal Pannis]

His craft enters the hangar and his landing skiffs extend as it sets down. A crew of workers, immediately gather around it and begin to access the damage. Ogre rises from the command chair, still rubbing his hurting eyes and turns to exit the ship. Once down the ramp he squints as he looks around seeing the hanger is mostly empty save a few transports and fighters. His attention is drawn from his visual inspection and he turns his head to see the Admiral approaching him and standing at attention.

Admiral: “Master Ogre, we are at your command.”

Ogre: “Bah! Get me a transport, loaded with troopers, on the double. I’m going back to the surface. I’m sure your orders are already clear and that you will follow them to the letter, or you will have to answer to me. Get me a medical officer too. I need something for this light case of flash burn.”

The Admiral issues some orders to the man next to him, who runs away to retrieve the medic for Ogre. The Admiral salutes and turns to get back to the bridge. A few seconds later a large group of heavily armored and armed troopers can be seen loading into a nearby transport, while the medic works on Ogre’s eyes.

After the medic is finished, Ogre heads for the transport and boards it. Two squadrons of Tie Defenders depart just before the transport does and Ogre sits in the so-pilot’s seat as they turn towards the planet. The green Sith tells the pilot where he wants him to land and the coordinates are set as laserfire flies all around them and the Tie Defender escort keeps their way clear.

[Trace Sha]

:: Trace moves across the surface with a group of troopers following him. Their shuttle had been knocked of course and they were forced to make an emergency landing, but all the troops and Trace himself had come out of the minor crash uninjured. They move across the wet grassland, trudging on through the rain.

Suddenly blaster fire erupts around them and Trace draws his saber and begins to deflect shots, while the troops begin to return fire. Trace sees the source of the fire and issues a command for cover as he begins to head in the direction it is coming from, his expression one of anger and bloodlust.

He fails to block some of the blaster fire and his coat smolders from the impact of a blast. He looks down at the result and then back up towards the Bakuran troop that fired it. ::

Why you stupid ingrate!

:: Trace leaps and is upon the blaster wielding man in an instant, removing his head with the downward slice of his Saber, in one smooth motion, while the SE troopers pick off the rest of the Bakuran military in the area. Trace looks down at the twitching body of the one who burned a hole in his coat and smiles wickedly, then he turns and heads back towards his troopers, noticing that a few were lost and are lying dead, from the short skirmish ::

[SAURRON]

Departing the Despondent accompanied by a squadron of TIE Defenders. Saurron sends a holonet signal to his master Lady Diamante. The ghostly image comes in showing the Sith Master Saurron kneeling on one knee as has been customary for many a year...

My master...I am honored by your presence here.

Meanwhile...a transmission is sent to the transport <font color=red>
Darth Ogre we will be landing shortly after you to aid you in your objective.</font>

Saurron: Despondent, target all firepower on their shield generators and dispatch the full squadron of TIE bombers with the same orders, in sub groups of three. The TIE Ds will return shortly to aid them in their objective once we have reached the atmosphere.

As the procession of star ships pass under the huge hull of the Nuriko they notice her moving to fill a gap in he fire line her turbo lasers blasting apart fighters and colliding with shields of the Bakurian fleet. Soon, with their sublight engines blazing they enter the atmosphere of Bakura. The TIE D squadron peels off sharply to fullfill their next assignment. Saurron looks at Princess Sara, Soth, and the four Dark Trooper that accompany him...

Get ready for landing we will be there soon. Put your suits on, and listen to me...If for some reason they are torn open you have a repair kit in this pouch. Don't worry these things are very tough material but a Saber or heavy blaster can still penetrate so be careful.

Saurron thunks on of the pouches on Soth's chest with the back of his hand...then continues.

If something like that happens find darkness of any kind indoors, underground preferably.

Princess Sara and Soth nod knowing full well the conciquences they face should they not be able to find shadows quickly enough.
You also have these Saurron says, holding up a transparasteel vile. They are to us like bacta is to a human.

Saurron heads back to the pilots area, glancing over at Sara he comments with an evil smile...
By the way you look very good in black my Dark Rose.

[Princess Sara]

*looks at Saurronand smiles*

why thank you My dear...


Taking her seat next to Soth as they prepare to land. She looks over at the four Dark Troopers and nods at them they nod back.

The shuttle begins to rock back and forth as they go in for landing..Shaking back and forth she looks at Soth,then back to Saurron as he pilots the ship,finally the ship lands and with a finally "thud"*

[Sith Kat]

:: Kat strides back to her co-pilot position and straps herself in ::

"The ones I could not hit were destroyed from crashing into our burning fighters!!! They didn't expect that, did they??? I could sense their death screams as they vaporized!!! The sacrifice was glorious, my Sister!!!"

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"Blood and souls for the Sith Empire!!!"

[Admiral Cureatz]

**The Nuriko was getting rocked with heavy turbo blaster fire... when the Bakurans saw The Oddessa and Hermond slip out of the line they tried to make a break for it... The Nuriko blocked them but was now taking fire from 4 of their capital ships...**

Tactical, status of our shields...

Tac: 87% and droping slowly... we've diverted power from non-essential systems...

Very well...

**Cureatz starts mumbling to himself trying to do some quick calculations...**

Comm, signal Darth Phantom... Have him send one SSD to move in beside us and help take some of this pressure...

Comm: Yes sir...

**As the battle wages in front of The Nuriko... The Oddessa and Hermond move away from the battle as fast as they can... but its not fast enough... 2 squads of Bakuran fighters break through the line of SE ships and fire a total of 48 missiles at each of the ships... some of the missiles are shot down... and a few of the ones fired at Hermond impact her sheilds finally bringing them down... signals from both ships are sent to The Nuriko... both are very similar...**

Comm: Sir... The Oddessa and Hermond just took heavy damage from some missiles... they are both heading away and out of the gravity wells to enter hyperspace...

Understood... Tac i don't want to lose those two... send them some fighter cover...

Tac: Yes sir...

[Dalethria Mal Pannis]

"Your right. They were nothing but cannon fodder and they served their purpose well." She grins and The Koriolos enters the atmosphere as the last of the Troop Transports fall down to the planet. Dalethria changes course and she evades enemy fire on the descent to the outskirts of Salis D'aar.

"We are going to land in a clearing I know of in the forest nearby. The city will be on alert but I know it like the back of my hand and getting to Prime Minister's mansion shouldn't be that big a problem."

The ship touches down and white steam hisses from the vents to stabilize the vessel. Locking down the ship and encrypting the controls, Dalethria gets up from her seat, "I bet your happy to be back on the ground," she says teasingly to Kat.

"R2 and ML? Remember the last time we were here?"

They whistle and beep an acknowledgement, "Good, blast anything that gets close to the ship that doesn't belong. Come on you two. We got a Prime Minister to kill." :evil:

[DarthPoreon]

DarthPoreon turned shaprly on his heal and stalked stealthily on the walls. He always took care as to look in passing alleys. His comrads were stationed in a triangular cover form. DarthPoreon had his Stormtrooper grade Blaster Rifle in his left hand; a small hold out blaster in the right hand.

The streets of Bakura were very quite, save for the scurry of stormtroopers and the occasional scream from a citizen. His team ran into little interference in its first 7 or so blocks of movement. They had taken out 2 Standard Security Cameras. The cameras are what you would find if you went into a Casino for some Sabbac games.

[b]When the team reached the 8th block of their journey, the security began to increase. The warrior held his hand up and his Three compainions stopped. He had heard blaster fire ahead. Must've been the troopers we sent ahead. Take no unnescassary risks. He lowered his hand and they continued foward.

[Big Bad Naga]

Naga looks at his datapad and points ahead.

Naga: "About one mile ahead of us is the basement entry to the Space Port Command Station. When we are in there, we will have to be really quiet. If things get out of hand, we can't retreat. We'll make our way to the 30th floor. That is where the central computer is located. When we make it that far, we will proceed to destroy it. Lets Move!"

As the Naga, UN, and the 10 troops make their way toward the man hole, UN tells them all to ready themselves. Naga peeps his head through the man hole and spots two guuards. He nudges for UN, to show him. They nod to each other. Naga and UN fly outta the hole, lightsaber flashing. They quickly rid of the two guards. Naga uses the force to sense for anyone else

Naga: "There are two guards just outside tha door. Naga points to a door. The stormtroopers make their way up the man hole We gotta make suure that no guard has a chance to use his commlink. So UN How should we do this? Quietly, or Wolvie Berserk Style?"

[Darth Phantom]

[Sniper Tondry]

Pierce Tondry steps into a room full of people and technology. It is the home to the defense coordinators for the entire Bakuran system.

The chief command room looks very much like a Star Destroyer's command deck expanded. Tactical displays of the space battle light up the left wall; the ground defense is arrayed to the right. Communications are monitored from stations directly to the side of the overview walkway, from which the officers can look through a circular viewing window to get an idea of their immediate surroundings. People, and reports, are hustling and bustling everywhere, and red lights are flashing. Not one face in the entire room is anything other than harried.

"Major!" Tondry's head turns, and he remembers that he is a major today, from one of the outlying provinces.

The man who called him is the ranking officer here, a general by his rank bars. "Major, they're breaking through our fleet. There's no way we can hold them. I've ordered a full entrenchment until our evac ships can get us free."

"Have you put in a call to the New Republic?" Tondry asks, swallowing his distaste at the notion.

"They're sending a task force to help us attempt escape, but it'll be twenty minutes before anything substantial gets here. We should have several fighter squadrons arriving in a few minutes, though."

Tondry bites his lip. How can he get these Rebels and alien-lovers to screw up without being obvious?

The solution is so simple, Pierce would have overlooked it under other circumstances. "Then let's try an all-out counter assault. Throw everything we have at them and hope we hold them off long enough."

"Right," the general nods and moves off to issue the appropriate orders.

Of course, if the Sith know what's coming and can adjust quickly enough, as Tondry calculates they will, then the tactic he has just suggested amounts to suicide.

[DarthPoreon]

The team had made progress. They were only a Mile out. Their troopers were less than 1/2 a mile out.

DarthPoreon, this is Sergent Mardet, we have reached the Outer Driveway of the Senate Chambers.

Sergent, lockdown the presmises, we shall be arriving shortly.

Acknowledged, Mardet over and Out.

The trooper team of 50 seperated into small squads of 5 each. They jogged in different directions, making a samll 1/2 mile square around the area.

Around the Bakuran Senate Chambers there were over 50 Security Cameras. There were 5 E-Web Guard Outposts. There were 10 entry gates. Inside the gates were small infarred sensors and multiple wire-trips. These did not include whatever unknown troopers the Bakurans had. The E-Webs were a problem. They could fire at a good excahnge rate and have good accuracy. Sergent Mardet had flagged the E-Webs as top priority. He wanted them gone.

Squads Give me status

All running well Sergent!
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One of the teams was nearing the E-Web outpost. The high vegetation provided adequate cover, but any sensors could spot them instantly. Whizzap! The rapid fire of the E-Web had located the team. The Stormtroopers dived to the ground in their glistening armor. The standard blaster rifles would not reach the tower at this distance of well over 7 Meters. TK-223 and TK-445 you have the South side. TK-564 and TK-1099 you are with me, we have the east side. The stairs were located at these sides. The stormtroopers stood up from their cover and sprinted towards the tower. Ahh! TK-1099 was shot. His arms flailed upward as he tumbled over. The remainder of the troopers reached the tower. They had less than 5 Minutes before the Sith Arrived. The leader of the small team had a single thermal detonator with him. Thermals can take out atleast a block or two The trooper hurled the thermal up. The small pincers caught the 10 meter tower at about the 6 Meter mark. RUN!!!! The troopers turned and ran at full speed.
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This was happening at several other towers too... This was working.

[Mari Bean]

*The Sith were alert, walking along the streets cautiously, as to avoid any surprises, when suddenly several nearly simutaneous blasts shook the ground under their feet. Mari nearly jumped out of her skin. She looked sheepishly at her oblivious companions. After the brief pause, the Sith continue towards the Senate chambers*

DarthPoreon: "That must be the troopers. They are close to the Senate Chambers. After they lockdown the premises, we will move in and seize the senate members."

Mari: "We should consider now that the senate has had ample warning to our little visit. Do you think it is possible that they have taken escape measures?"

[Ogre Mal Pannis]

In the midst of all the explosions and destruction going on around, Ogre and the shuttle he is aboard, manages to get to the atmosphere of the planet once again. The escort of twenty four Tie Defenders has been cut down to but six remaining, but the shuttle made it through the sea of laser and missile fire relatively unscathed.

The shuttle lands at the coordinates Ogre had specified and a quick scan is done of the immediate area. Just to the north is the burning remnants of a town, which Ogre himself had destroyed just before heading up to the Nuriko to gather reinforcements. To the west lies a dark and desolate graveyard, bodies still strewn about its grounds and a few fires from stray blasts of some of the perusing craft, which had just been handled by the remaining escort. To the east a small temporary military facility has been erected, and troops move from inside and out, making their way to transports and heading up to join the great battle being waged in space.

Ogre issues some orders to the troops he had brought with him. Fifty heavily armed and armored men ready to die for the Sith Empire listen intently as he gives them their instructions.

“The cemetery to the west is vital to one of our objectives here. I do not wish for it to come under the control of the New Republic or the Bakurans. Seeing they have erected a military establishment to the east and are more than likely aware of our presence here, I want half of your number to go and do whatever is necessary to take control of it, while I accompany the rest of you to the cemetery and assure that our objective there is secured.”

Ogre thinks to himself, I also made a promise to someone, which I intend to keep. as he recalls his words to the Imperial sniper who had assisted in preventing Dale from coming to harm at the hands of the civilians.

The ramp of the shuttle lowers and the troops and Ogre make their way out onto the surface of the planet, half the group splitting off and heading east, while the other half form up with Ogre and head to the cemetery to the west.

[DarthPoreon]

Yes Mari, they probably have started fleeing. Renegade Mari, they have, I have just felt it.

We shall be alert then

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The Trio of Sith begin running foward. They are less than a quarter of a mile away. From his side view, DarthPoreon sees explosion after explosion as the 10 trooper teams set their thermal detonaters.

The Sith reach the main gate which has been blown away by a team of troopers. Three Troopers jump out from the bushes. They identify the Sith as friendly and they lower their weapons.

DarthPoreon, the premicsise has been contained. We do believe they have begun to evacuate. Scanners show an evac shuttle on the East Side of the building and small masses of people on the Northwest side.

Thank you soldier.

DarthPoreon waves his hand and the soldiers back away. He ducks his head into a semi-huddle with the other Sith. They lift their heads together and go off on their new goals. DarthPoreon unsnaps two of his flash grenades and hands them to Mari and Renegade. He unclips his lightsaber and ignites it. He then stalks off to the Northwest side of the building. He had a mission to accomplish.

[Trace Sha]

:: Trace and the troops he is accompanying look up to the now clearing sky to see the air filled with the red and green streaks of the battle taking place above the planet. They have been marching for several hours and the last little skirmish where he had beheaded the Bakuran for burning his coat was the only action they had seen.

The overpowering sound of engine wash from a landing shuttle fills their ears and the group moves to the cover of some nearby trees, looking around to see where the sound had come from. Trace waves a hand at a group of the troops and they move into forward positions, training their blaster rifles in the direction he indicated.

A Bakuran troop transport can be seen landing in a close by clearing and its men can be seen beginning to pour out the exit, heading straight for Trace and his group of troopers. Trace pulls the blaster rifle slung on his back into his hands and signals the command to open fire by doing so himself, taking down three of the leading enemy troops as they move across the field with very little cover, while Trace and his group are covered by the forestry they had moved into. ::

Good thing they were dense enough to land and attack, rather than just attack from the sky. Probably out of missiles and ammunition so it must have been their only choice. He thinks to himself, while continuing to squeeze off rounds at the troops heading in their direction.

[Miryan no Trunks]

*As they'd reached the top floor of the apartment building, no stairs to the roof were found. With a sigh and a look of dissapointment, MnT had for a moment, tossed about the idea of simply blowing out a section of the roof large enough for them to get through, using Ki. He considered how much noise that would make, surely enough to alert the snipers. Instead, he detached "Death" from it's hanging place on his belt, ignited it, a loud snap-humm resounding throughout the area, and thrust it into the ceiling, carving out a hole*

*Taking the chunk of concrete ceiling into his hands and placing it against the wall quietly, MnT raised himself slowly onto the roof, taking time to check around and make sure he was clear to do so. After checking around, he called down to the ST's, having them come up as well*

*Fortunately, his luck had been with him. As the rain continued pounding away at the city, MnT quickly made his way to the edge of the roof, and looking down, noticed that not only had he picked the tallest building around, but he could see the 2 snipers.*

Fools...

[Darth Renegade]

Taking the flash grenade in hand, I clip it to my belt in the back under my cloak, concealing it from view, as I watch Darth Poreon rush off. I slowly turn to Mari-Bean, looking her in the eye with a determined look

" Are you ready for this?"

Mari-Bean nods, meeting my gaze with the same determined look.

" Very well then. " I turn to the head stormtrooper, the same determination sonding in my voice as I do not want to fail my first mission for the Sith Empire. " I want troops at this gate, making sure no one comes or goes that is not authorized. If they put up ANY resistance stun them and capture them. I also want troopers patrolling the halls, looking for stragglers. Once again, any resistance, stun and capture them. I want all weapons set to stun, we are here to take prisoners not to go on a killing spree. Is that understood? "

The Head trooper replies instantly with confidence and in an enthusiatic tone. " Yes sir, we won't fail the Empire." He snaps a salute with military precision and gives the orders to his squad, each taking up the orders quickly. I turn to Mari-Bean, and smile " Let's do this, shall we?"

[Unknown Number]

*UN thinks*

Most definetly bersek but in a quiet way. :evil:

*Not wanting to make noise and give away there position, UN looks around and notices a few large boxes in the room there in. UN motions to the troops to get behind them and motions to Naga to get on the other side of the door*

When I open the door, there going to wonder how it opened and will check inside. When that happens, just give'm what they deserve. Ya got that?

*BBN nods. UN opens the door and the guards turn around to see the door open*

Guard 1- How did that door open?

Guard 2- Let's check it out.

*Both guards enter into the room. UN swings his Doom Scythe into Guard 1's stomach and throws him into the wall, breaking his neck. BBN grabs Guard 2 and slashes his throat open with his saber. UN looks out the door and see's no one in the corridors. He motions for the troops to come out. BBN, UN, and the troops exit the room and walk down the corridor*

This is odd. One would think that the Space Port would be the most heavily guarded. I guess Ogre, Dale, Summoner and the others are doing one hell of a job out there.

*After walking for 10 minutes and no sign of guards. UN's team finally reaches the elevator to the Command Station. When all of a sudden, about 10 guards come out of no where*

Leader of the troops- Freeze! Don't move!

*The Stormtroopers all raise there weapons but, UN holds his hand out to stop them*

UN- Don't. Watch. :evil:

*UN walks up to the leader of the troops*

Leader- I said don't move!

UN- Okay. But do me a favor and kill each other won'y you?

*The ten guards all aim there blasters at each other at pull the trigger. The corridor gets a nice new coat of red. UN walks back to the team and pushes the button to open the elevator door. Everyone gets in and UN enters last*

BBN- What happen there?

UN- Don't forget Naga that the force works on the weak minded. :)

*UN pushes the 30 button and the elevator goes up*

The Command Station might have guards inside so be prepared. Once the Command Station is ours, we'll have to contact Summoner and report in.

*The elevator continues to go up to the Command Station*

[Sith Kat]

:: Kat punches the button that lowers the ramp and unsheathes a sith dagger as she paces outside the ship ::

[DarthPoreon]

As DarthPoreon runs towards his goal, he notices troopers sprawled out on the ground. The Sith Warrior takes no time to notice whether or not they are friendly.

The Warrior half closed his eyes to get a feel for his surroundings. He notices the nearest gate from the masses of people is about 1/2 a mile away. The nearest Guard tower was 1/4 of a mile away.

He walked up towards the masses of people. A small outcrop of the building blocked the people from seeing the Sith.

He unclipped one of his remaining Flash Grenades and pulled the clip on it. A small chrono clock appears on it constantly ticking down. :46. He pulled his arm back. :42. He held his arm there for a few seconds. :39.

You there! Stop!

:37

He turned around and saw three Bakuran Security Guards pointing standard Stormtrooper blasters at him.

:35

Drop your weapons now!

He dropped to the ground and rolled. :32 He came up from the roll about 50 Centimeters away from the guards. :31 He extended his leg and swept it across the troopers. :27 The leg hit the first trooper in the Left Quadracept. The Trooper lost his balance and tumbled over onto the other troopers. This created a domino effect. :23 The Sith grabbed one of the small blasters from his side and flipped it to stun. :17 He pulled the trigger :14 The blue waves shot out. They hit the three troopers dead on. :12 The troopers, already on the ground, fell limp, dropping their weapons. :08. The Sith put the blaster back where it came from and sprinted towards the people. :05 He pulled his arm back again. :03 He heaved his arm foward and let the grenade go. :02 The grenade landed with a Thud!. :01 It had alerted the people and they started running. :00[i] A buzzer sounded and the grenade exploded, sending a brilliant flash through the air.

[Big Bad Naga]

As the elevator makes it's way up to the Command Station's Central Computer Room, Naga and UN both here a sound. The elevator starts to make a grinding sound. UN motions for one of their troops to check it out. The troop opens the top hatch and a creature jumps at him, decapitating the troop. All the other troops start to panic. Naga and UN take out their lightsabers. The creature crawls up the elevator shaft. UN and Naga jump up the top hatch and look for it

Naga: "What the heck was that!"

UN: "I don't know, but look it wass chewing at our tow cable!"

Suddenly the creature jumps out of the shadows and knocks Naga down. Naga's saber is knocked back into the elevator. UN rushes over to Naga, but is swatted away by the creature. Naga looks at it's face, all slimy with 2 beady red eyes. It looked like a giant brown lady bug. Naga called for the troops to help. He managed to get the creature off of him. UN jumped back into the scene. His lightsaber DoomScythe cut right through the creature's shell. A troop came up the top hatch and started to shoot it. Naga retrieved his saber and cut off it's head. UN, Naga and the troop getback into the elevator and continue their journey to the 30th floor. Naga looks at his lightsaber.

Naga: "I think I shall call you Sting"

UN: "We lost a troop." UN looks at the dead troop laying on the floor

Naga turns away from his lightsaber and looks at UN revealing a new scar on his face

Naga: "Yes, but we still have a helluva lot a work ahead of us."

Everyone in the elevator waits silently as they near the 30th floor. The elevator stops

UN: "Get ready boys, now the real fun begins!"

[DarthPoreon]

As the grenade it the ground and shattered, sending its blinding light trhashing about, DarthPoreon had taken his time to adjust accodingly by putting on a pair of high powered sunglasses, and by tuning himself more towards the Force. He had about Thirty Seconds before the flash ran out.

He had is blaster set to stun; His lightsaber set to kill, the only way it could be. There was a person immediatly to his left. He turned sharply and with his blaster he let off to shots. The Blue low power shot came out from the blaster nozzle. He barely heard the victim's Ugh as the victim fell, for he had already turned and was stalking after his next prisoner. He sprayed stun shots in different directions for about 5 Seconds. He distinctively heard 3 People fall.

Whoooouuughhh He heard a shot from nearby. 2 Seconds later the energy came towards him. It was red; that was Kill. He brought his saber around and sliced at the energy bolt. The shot went careening back at its owner. The bolt missed its owner and scorched the nearby building. 10 Seconds of Flash Remaining.[/i]

As the Flash neared its end, the Sith held out his hand and sent a push through the Force everywhere in the immediate 5 square meters.

When the Flash finally died out, the Sith saw 5 Bodies on the ground from Stun shots. He saw about 20 people getting up from his Force Push. He unclipped the current power pak to his blaster and quickly slid another one in. He set the gun back to stun.

Bakuran Senators, please Put your hands on your heads and slowly kneel on the ground. Make no attempts at hostility or I shall stun you.

An old man stepped forward and shouted

[b]Never, not to a Sith. We, the Bakurans, shall stand proud and not give up!

15 of the people raised their arms in agreement. The 5 who didn't had already resorted to kneeling. The 15 People rushed foward. DarthPoreon waved his blaster menacingly at them but they didnt stop. They continued foward. The Sith let out 4 Rapid Stun shots. They connected with 3 of his targets. 12 remaining... The Sith Jump-flipped over the crowd and turned his body. The Bakurans had turned around too and continued their rush. The Sith let out a high kick that hit a Senator in the Face. The Sith then jump kicked another Senator in the Gut. He turned his blaster to the right and let off another quick shot. 9 remaining... A Senator had gotten within a 1/4 of a meter of the Sith. The Senator was holding a small hold-out blaster pistol. The Sith had no option but to slice the senator down with a quick lightsaber motion. 8 remaining..

Of the Final 8, 5 had set their hands upon their heads and lowered themselves to the ground. A quick 3 shots from the Sith lowered the final Three.
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DarthPoreon to Sith Command, I need a transport for these 24 P.O.W.s. I am located 10 degrees sout of the Senate Main Gate.

[Admiral Cureatz]

Comm: Admiral... message from Poreon of the Senate team... he reports capturing 24 of the senators and requests a transport...

Send one of the ones that is already on the ground... have them pick up the prisoners and deliver them to Aegir...

Comm: Yes sir...

**A shuttle that had delivered a group of troops to he planet and was now heading back to the fleet was diverted to the senate building to pick up the prisoners...**

[Trace Sha]

:: Trace and his group of troopers manage to finish off the Bakuran team and destroy their shuttle, with only two looses of their own, leaving the size of their tem at twenty one, including Trace. They continue onward, past the shuttle, and come to the edge of the forest, where they finally gain sight of the objective, which they had been knowcked off course of when landing.

The large building before the group seems relatively unguarded and actually somewhat deserted. It is one of the major Repulsorlift Component Factories of Bakura, the planet’s main source of economy and notoriety.

Trace takes out a set of micro-binoculars and surveys the scene, relaying what he sees to the lead officer of the troops accompanying him. ::

“Two Guards at the main gate, and it looks like that might be about it. I don’t see any workers around right now. My guess is they have all been called to help defend the planet and they didn’t really see this facility as a possible target. I want it taken with as few casualties as possible, military or civilian. If there are still workers here I want them captured alive. Living slaves are so much more productive than dead ones.”

:: The lead officer issues some orders to his men and a team of six moves to take out the guards at the main gate of the facility, while Trace and the rest, wait to see if this action draws out any more military representatives. ::

[Darth Renegade]

I begin walking forward slowly, glancing back only for a second, observing the troopers left at the gate, as I look forward once more, and begin to break out in a jog, my lightsabers bouncing against my thighs noisly. my cloak flowing behind me, as I pick up my pace a little.

"There's no time to lose, I've got to intercept that Evac shuttle before it takes off.I must not fail the Empire"

Closing my eyes, using the force to guide me, I begin to run through the empty halls, my boots echoing through themm as I turn corner after corner, making my way to the East launch pad. I come to what appears to be a lobby of some sort, with an upper balcony and a staircase in the middle, leading to the upper levels of the palace, and also leading to the launch pads. Upon entering the room, I sense a couple of other presences in the room, as I slow down, stopping a few feet inside the spacious room. Opening my eyes, I look around trying desperately to discover who else is in the room with me. My concentration is brokenm as a shot rings out, and I'm hit in the shoulder by a blaster bolt.I roll away, taking cover behind a large stone statue,

" I don't have the time for this. That shuttle is prepping for launch. I can't have these unecessary delays "

Surveying all around the room, and across the balcony, I don't see anyone, or anything out of the ordinary. I curse my luck as my window of opportunity is constantly shrinking.

[Unknown Number]

AT THE SPACEPORT

*Inside the Command Station, 10 people are working in the command station*

Operator 1- Sir, team 4 hasn't reported in 20 minutes.

Main Opertaor- What do you mean?

O1- Team 4 went down to check corridor 7 but haven't reported in.

MO- Static? Bad connection?

More like there all dead idiot.

*The Main Operator and the other 10 look behind them to see both UN and BBN standing in front of the elevator*

MO- How did you get in here?

UN- Simple. Your team 4 was happy enough to escort us to the elevator. But you really need to check your elevator shafts. I think the bacteria in there is getting out of control.

BBN- Enough talk. Hand over the Command Center now. If you don't we will be force to slain you.

UN- Or you could surrender quietly and become slaves for the Sith Empire. :lol:

MO- Why you son's of.......

*Main Operator reaches for his lazer pistol. However, UN force calls it out of his hand and into his. UN break it in his hand*

Like this toy would really hurt us. Let us show you what real toys can do. Troops.....

*The 9 stormtroopers appear out of the elevator and aim them at the operators. All 10 operators raise there hands in surrender. The MO turns around to see the operators surrendering*

MO- You cowards! I'll...ackkk!

*The MO starts grabbing his throat. He looks ahead and see's UN slowly closing his hand into a fist*

UN- What a waste.....*Closes his fist and the MO drops dead on the floor*.....you would have made a fine slave.

*UN turns toward the stormtroopers who still have there aim on the hand raising operators*

Troops, secure the prisoners and if they so much as give a look that I don't like, shoot'em.

*UN and BBN walk over to the central computer, while the troops start tieing the prisoners up*

Naga, I need you to make contact with Sith Command. Tell them we have secured the Command Station and are going to take over the transport dock. While your doing that, I'll hack into there security system and I might be able to shut off any security measures they have (lazer lights, sentry guns, camera's etc.) and make them totally useless.

*UN turns his head to see all the prisoners tied up. UN turns back and begins hacking into Space Ports security systems*

[Lady Diamante]

:: Lady Dia feels through the Force that Dale and Kat have already landed. Since Dara had been assisting them, Dia knows that she too will be preparing to land and continuing toward her objective. ::

Captain, we will be following Dara's ship, the Resilience, to the surface. Get the coordinates and make the necessary preparations.

:: The captain nods, then issues the commands. ::

[Miryan no Trunks]

*MnT held his hand back, telling the ST's behind him to stay their ground, as to not attract attention from the snipers. As he knelt there peering over the edge, he considered his options. He could have the ST's shoot them, but that's unreliable, and one of the snipers might escape, if not both of them. He could use his Ki, but the charging might show in their sensors.*

Hmm......

*Suddenly, his head snaps up with a jerk. Again, holding his hand in an indication for the ST's to stay where they are, begins to focus on the force.*

*On the other side of the snipers, the roof of a building begins crumbling, and finally collapses in a loud crash, and a cloud of dust.*

*As the snipers both turn to the sound, MnT leaps from his position, leaving the ST's awe-stricken as he crosses over the 8 meter gap between the two buildings, and starts his descent. Swiftly bringing his hands to his sides, he unhooks, spins, and ignites Life and Death in one fluid motion*

*The snap-buzz from the sabers catches the snipers attention, and the one on the building near him struggles to bring his rifle around. Too late however, as MnT lands, the velocity of his drop causing the roof to creak and give slightly beneath him. Without wasting a moment, he dashes forward, swinging death diagonally down from right to left, not only slicing the end of the rifle's barrel off, but also melting metal down over it. Using the momentum of his swing, he brings the saber up again, the extra stride bringing the blade through the sniper's neck, detaching his head and cauterizing the wound instantly.*

*Deigniting(?) the sabers and diving into a roll over the man's body, he feels a sudden blast of heat mere inches from his head, as the other sniper's rifle comes into play.*

Dammit!

*He had miscalculated the time he'd have, and was now in a veritable shyte-load of trouble.*

*As he lay there on the roof, just below the edge enough that the sniper couldn't see him, he whispered an order to the ST's, requiring them to stand up and open fire on the sniper on 3. As he began the countdown, he readied his body for the attack. He knew enough about ST's that despite how highly trained they were, they couldn't hit the broad side of a bantha from point blank. It would, however, be distraction enough to allow him to make the leap over and strike the sniper down.*

3..

2..

1..

Now!

*The air turned suddenly hot with the barrage of rifle fire, the beams casting a red hue over the area. With a slight grunt, MnT flipped up onto his feet, reigniting both sabers. Almost instantly, he took sight of the sniper and leapt.*

*As he covered the distance, he noticed that the sniper was just sitting behind a metal box, the rifle-shots not a threat to him. MnT also noticed that he could see down the barrel of the sniper's rifle.*

*As much of a threat as that should be, MnT took relief in the sight. As the sniper fired, MnT swung Life up infront of his face, deflecting the shot off into the sky. Not wishing to give the sniper another shot, he threw Death down like a throwing knife, using the force to guide it swiftly to it's target. As the sniper adjusted his aim again, he barely had the time to realize he was dead, before the blade of the saber entered the rifle's scope, and exited the back of his head.*

*As the ST's stopped shooting, MnT landed, calling the saber back to his hand, where he immediately deignited and rehooked them both*

*He turned to the snipers with a thumbs up. Yelling up to meet him back down at the street, he almost ignored the sensation of a quick energy build-up behind him. Casually turning around to see what it was, he cried out in pain as a rifle shot burned a hole through his shoulder and arm.*

Dammit! there's another!

[Dalethria Mal Pannis]

Dalethria walks down the ramp of The Koriolos with Avagdu on her heels, speaking into her commlink. "Alright ML, lock the ship down. Any scratches, it's your circuits." A skittery whistle is heard over the link and the clamps clank together signaling the ship is secure and sees Kat pacing around with impatience.

"Let's go, Sis." Dalethria leads the way through the foliage until the bushes and leaves part to show the city before them. The city streets are deserted of the regular populace. The only people that are seen are two man patrols walking their routes. "Looks like the city's on lockdown. Good, just like I knew they would."

She points over where there are some bushes by one of the houses nearby to Kat. Dalethria makes her way over there after a patrol goes by. She calls upon the growing rage within her of this city to mask her presence through the Darkness and disappears behind the bushes. She waits for Kat and Avagdu to make their way over to her and once there, they see Dalethria easily remove the glass off the window well. "Fun things you remember as a child to get out of the house at night." She places the glass on the ground and slips in. Once Kat comes down, and then Avagdu squeezes in, Dalethria places the window back where it belongs.

"We're here to kill the family in this house first. They aren't worthy to live." She unclips her sabre and starts heading to the stairs leading to the first floor, "Besides, the guards will be coming around about the time we're finished. We can take their ID's to get into the mansion without a problem." She grins and walks slowly up, sensing for where the three people of the home are.

[Sith Summoner]

**Sums paces uneasily back and forth behind the communications officer...**

Anything???

Comm: No sir...

**5 minutes later the radio comes alive as someone reports in...**

Is that him???

Comm: No sir... that was one of our pilots... Master Ogre and a team of troopers have landed and have begun their mission...

**Sums nods and with a slightly disappointed voice answers**

Very well...

**After another 45 minutes the radio sounds of again...**

Comm: Sir, BBN reports that their team has taken the control center at the space port...

Excellent... tell him to be careful that they haven't booby trapped the computer... also tell him to watch himself... that the other groups have come across NR troops...

Comm: yes sir...

**the comm officer sends out the message... and sums goes back to pacing uneasily as he awaits a report from Rage on the status of the rebels...**

[Dara Shadowtide]

:: Dara sees that a path has indeed been cleared by a true display of the power of the dark side, and a new trigger-happy gunner, and she navigates the Resilience toward the surface. She transmits the coordinates to Lady Dia's ship and prepares her descent into the atmosphere.

Dara skillfully lands her ship on the opposite side of Salis D'aar in a remote field. Dia's ship touches down as well and Dara turns to give the droids last minute instructions ::

Dara: "C2-R4, is my satchel ready?"

C2-R4: "Just as you instructed, Mistress Dara."

Dara: "Excellent. See to it that things are taken care of here while I am on the mission. K-3PO, I want you to monitor the military attempts by the Bakurians. If I am able to, I will be contacting you and I will want a fully detailed analysis of their current situation. R2-Q2, perform routine maintenance checks on the ship and keep an eye on the hyperdrive Lord Havok fixed up for us. It's working wonderfully and I want it to stay that way. I will be back as soon as the mission is complete and not before. Should Lord Havok hail the ship, please aprise him of my current whereabouts in case he needs to contact me. Also, any Bakurian who fires on this ship or attacks it in any way while I am gone... destroy them and leave nothing of their puny existence."

K-3PO: "Take care Mistress Dara and hurry back to us. You know how we worry."

:: Dara smiles at the droids and nods as she turns to grab her satchel and depart the ship. She is met by Lady Dia at the bottom of the ramp ::

Dara: "Greetings Sith Master Dia. It is an honor to have you along on this mission."

Dia: "Thank you Dara. It is good to see the Empire at it's full strength in just such a mission as this."

:: Just as Dara is about to speak again, she spots five transports approaching them rapidly. They are Bakurian in design and are apparently attempting to flee. She turns to Lady Dia and nods. Lady Dia smiles.

Dara runs back up the ramp and ascends the gunner's ladder. She climbs back into the gunner's chair, almost still warm from the space battle and fires up the lasers. She opens fire on the back two ships. They explode and crash to the ground as debris scatters about.

Meanwhile dark clouds have formed in the sky as Lady Dia calls on the power of the dark side to send a blast of force lightning into the front two transports, causing a surge of energy to travel throughout the vehicle and cause electrical failure to all components. The transports collide and fall to the side in a heap as they are consumed in flames.

The remaining transport tries to make a break for it as the crew of the Shadow Blade floods down the ramp and opens fire. After a volley of crossfire, the transport is blown apart. Dara appears at the bottom of the ramp ::

Dara: "We better get moving toward the city now. C2-R4, K-3PO and R2-Q2, secure the ship and monitor the perimeter. They will now be alerted to our presence but I don't believe they will pose any problems at all to us."

:: Dara and Lady Dia set out toward the city, keeping a close watch for more citizens ::

[Ezekiel Rage]

*Ezra begins fleeing back into a small ditch. as he gets settled, he opens communication to Summs*

Ezra: "ugh.. Summs, got some problem here.. lost 2 tanks, 1 missle tank, and nearly 750 casualties.. the NR troops have nearly doubled. i've been able to take part of them out.. but they somehow keep comin back! grr..

*just as Ezra was finishing his report, a blast hits near him sending him diving for safety*

Ezra: "ack! that was close! anyway.. would appreciate some support.. but i guess that's not exactly an option.. will handle the rebels with force! Ezra out."

*as he closes the comm. link with Summs, Ezra charges out of the ditch. he orders the tanks and troops to give it all they got.. because it's war*

[Big Bad Naga]

As Naga receives the message from Summoner to take care he turns toward UN

Naga: "UN Summoner said to watch out for any booby traps or stuff like that on the computer."

UN: "Don't worry, I have everything under contr--"

UN is cut off by an alarm. Naga glares at the computer

Naga: "You fell for one of their traps!

UN: "Those basta--"

Naga cuts him off

Naga: "Don't worry, me and the troops will take care of whatever is heading this way, you just stick to the slicing."

UN: "Okay"

Naga turns and motions for the troops to follow him. He walks over to the stairwell. He tells 5 troops to stay there, and to shoot at anything that isn't Sith. Naga pries open the elevator doors and cuts the rope. The elevator crashes to the bottom floor.

Naga: "Our only way out of this place is down the stairs or out the window. I think the window would be better."

Blaster fire is heard from behind Naga. Naga ignites Sting and runs to the stairwell. His troops are shooting at Bakuran soldiers. Naga runs past them and jumps down the flight of stairs. He lands on a soldier and slices the one to his left. Naga spins decapatating another soldier. More pour in the building as this happens. Naga knows he can't hold them off for long.

[Sith Kat]

:: Kat speaks to Dale telepathically ::

*** You've planned this well, Sister. ***

:: She hands Dalethria a sith dagger and takes the lead, extending her senses to hear the heartbeats of their victims ::

[Sith Summoner]

**Sums is standing over a table with a map on it talking to one of his senior commanders when the comm officer runs up...**

Comm: Sir Warrior Rage has reported in...

**the Comm officer hands Sums a data pad with the message on it... Sums reads it and frowns... handing it to the commander beside him to read... Sums looks down on the map and sees where Rage is located... the nearest Tank unit of another 8 tanks of each type was 3 hours away... and the nearest company was an hour away and consisted of another 1500 troops...**

Commander send this tank unit and this troop company to assist Rage...

**Sums taps the map as he talks...**

CO: Yes sir... *He runs off to start giving orders...**

Comm... send a message to the fleet... *thinks for a moment...** no send a message to Shadowblade... tell Vietch to get his fighters in the air and give Rage some air support...

Comm: Yes sir...

**3 minutes later the comm officer calls to Sums**

Comm: Sir Shadowblade reports that she cannot launch her fighters at the moment...

WHAT??? why not???

Comm: Sir she's on the ground waiting the return of Master Dia sir...

Tell them if they value their lives let alone there jobs to get in the air... launch those fighters... AND then they can return to the ground...

Comm: Yes sir...

**The message is recieved by the captain of Shadowblade and within minutes he had the ship off the ground and to an altitude where it was safe to launch the fighters... the 12 HLAF-500's pour from the bay and head for the battleground while Shadowblade returns to its previous position to wait for their esteemed passenger...**

[Dalethria Mal Pannis]

Dalethria takes the offered dagger in her left hand and follows Kat up the stairs. They can both sense two presences that are to their left and one that is somewhere behind them.

Two in the kitchen and the other is in the living room.

Kat nods and opens the basement door with the Force quietly and heads off to the kitchen. Dalethria turns the corner with Avagdu to take care of the lonely victim.

[Ezekiel Rage]

*rushing down the battle field, Ezra grabs his LS and ignites it. charging down, he begins his attack on the rebels. after slaying rebels down, he notices troops and tanks coming from the side for his backup*

"ahh.. so Summs pulled through and gave me some backup.. heh heh.. ahh, this shall be very intersting now..

TROOPS!! TAKE THAT COURAGE AND FIGHT! FOR GLORY! FOR HONOR!!"

*thanks to his backup, Ezra takes advantage of his current status and orders the tanks to fire. seeing how the missiles begin to slaughter the rebels, Ezra smiles at the events. still holding his LS, he makes his way to the tallest hill. Ezra kills the rebels who get in his way as he walks toward the hill. once on top, he pulls out a TSE flag and sticks it into the ground.

just as the flag is planted in the ground, 12 HLAF-500s appear from above and fire down on the rebels. Ezra looks to the ground and sees his troops and tanks take out the rebels. he smiles evily as the events play out in his favor*

[Sniper Tondry]

"Sir, our ground forces are taking a beating!" the officer monitoring ground tactical calls out.

"I'll take care of it, General," Tondry assures the head officer. "The rest of you, keep working on that evac."

Leaving the knot of clustered ranking officers, Tondry hurries over to the tactical relayer. "Give me a sit-rep."

"Their forces are isolating and taking out stray groups," the tac officer states. "Their commander must be Sith- every time they get into trouble reinforcements get thrown into the trouble zone to suppress our fire."

Tondry shuts his eyes and considers several things. "All right, here's the way we're going to work it," he says. "Pull the troops into our defendable perimeter entrenchments. That'll create pockets of heavy resistence, and they should be able to hold off the enemy for a more effective evac as long as the line doesn't get broken too badly."

Pierce quickly checks some stats and arrival times. He does a few mental calculations, then continues. "We've got repulsortanks and several troop squads being dropped off at the spaceport from a nearby military base- that should allow us to retake the spaceport. Our own tanks are just coming into play. We'll place them at even intervals, but we'll hold back a squad to use here, along with our anti-air batteries. That should really stick them down, especially when those HLAFs get close."

A light starts blinking on the tac display. "The Senate building's been taken," the relay officer murmurs.

Inwardly, Tondry snorts at the stupid Rebels. Outwardly, he grimaces. "Take those units there at Salis Da'ar and shift them to the spaceport assault; the tanks can be split among the spaceport and the perimeter. We can send the Elite Guard in to retake the Senate building. It'll take them at least ten minutes to move everything around, but we should be able to cover those areas without sacrificing our defense."

"Sir, won't that create a hole in our line forces for several minutes?" the relayer asks. The doubt is evident in his voice.

Tondry swears internally. "At this point, anywhere we pull troops from is going to create a hole. This area is under seige, and there's not a damn thing we can do but try and hold out."

The relayer nods, hopefully reassured. "I'll get back to our command meeting. If we're lucky, we'll see each other on an evac shuttle."

So, the Sith have ten minutes to work through this new and improved defensive line before it becomes formidable.

Should be a walk in the park for them.

[Unknown Number]

*UN reaches into his cloak and takes out two thermodetinators and sents him for 40 seconds. UN throws one into the central computer so they Bakuraians won't be able to use it anymore. UN runs toward the troops firing at the stairs. UN looks over the edge to see Naga holding off the troops*

Naga! (33) Get out of there now! (31)

*UN tosses the second TD just as Naga comes running back with a bunch of troops following him. UN jumps up and kicks them back down toward the Bomb*

Hurry up people! We onyl have 20 seconds left!

*The 9 ST jump out the window followed by Naga. UN looks back at the computer*

Stupid alarm......(5)

*UN jumps out the window just as the explosion takes out the entire central computer room. UN lands next to Naga and the troops. Everyone is on the outside of the Spaceport. UN activates the commlink to Summoner*

Summoner, I suggest you send some reinforces to the SpacePort ASAP. Now that they know were here, there going to try and reclaim it. This is there only way off the planet so send reinforces now.

*UN turns off the commlink*

Naga, is there another way into the transport dock? And don't mention the sewer. They've probably got that place on guard now. Is there another area where we can enter?

[Admiral Cureatz]

**The space battle had been going for what seemed days... Phantoms SSD had finally moved into position and its added firepower and fighters was starting to tip the scales in TSE's favor... both sides had lost countless fighters... but the Bakuran's were losing the numbers game... only a few of their fighters dotted the starscape and even those where quickly getting destroyed by TIE fighters... TSE had lost 2 capital ships from battle when The Oddessa and Hermond exited do to having take an extreme amount of damage... The Bakuran's however still had all of their capital ships... a six of them however where either sheilds down or pretty close to it...**

**Now was the time to make his move thought Cureatz...**

Tactical, which is the least damaged Bakuran capital ship???

Tac: Sentinel is sir... shields at 10% and droping no damage to the ship itself...

excellent... order all TIE fighters do disengage except for defenders... send the gunboat squadrons to attack her as well... make sure they ONLY attack with ion cannons... i want that ship intact... understood???

Tac: Yes sir...

also launch 3 assault transports and fighter escorts... i want them close enough for a minimum time to Sentinel but without putting them in harms way...

Tac: Yes sir...

**The orders are relayed... all fighters except the remaining craft from a defender squadron and 2 gunboat squadrons start to attack Sentinel... their blue ion blasts a stark contrast from the yellow and red that had been dotting the sky for the last few hours... in the bays of The Nuriko 60 elite stormtroopers specifically trained for capturing enemy ships boarded 3 transports... minutes later they and 2 squadrons of TIE Advanced launched and moved into position 2.7 Km from Sentinel ready to start moving the moment her sheilds droped...**

[Big Bad Naga]

Naga looks at his datapad

Naga: "There should be someway to get in there. Give me a moment."

Naga closes his eyes and seeks the answers he needs through the Force

Naga: "I got it. If you look at the top of the building, there is a vent system we can enter through. They'd never suspect us to do that. So we'll have to do this Spidey Style! The troops'll have to go back to the Absolution and wait for the reinforcements. UN, from here on it's only me and you."

The troops run through the anarchy and chaos, which started when the command center exploded. They head for the ship. Naga removes two sets of wall climbers (those hand plunger doohickeys) and hands one pair to UN.

UN: "Naga what if we can't take out all those enemies inside?"

Naga: "It all depends on how fast reinforcements reach us. If things go that bad, we'll inform ALL of our troops to lend us a hand."

UN: "Ok let's go!"

[Ezekiel Rage]

*thanks to the HLAF-500s, the rebels began to get wiped out. Ezra headed back to his troops and ordered a full onslaught on the rebels. Missles and gun fire filled the air. brining at least 1000 troops with him, Ezra charged at the remaining rebels. he ignited his LS once again and began the onslaught. within minutes, the majority of the rebels were defeated.

Ezra opened comm. link with Summs for his report*

"Summs, mission accomplished. a majority of the rebels have been taken out. some have fleed.. but i sent a portion of my troops on pursuit. a few expendables.. but i beleive they'll track those rebels down. anyway, i'm awaiting further orders. Ezra out"

[Unknown Number]

*UN and Naga finally cilmb up the wall to the vent system. UN looks in*

This vent system is large enough for us to stand up in. I just hope it doesn't make noise whle were walking.

*UN and BBN go into the shaft and start walking. UN turns on his commlink to try to contact Summoner put gets static*

Damn! This vent system is blocking the transmissions. Were on our own again. And I'm still pissed off I had to destroy that computer room along with the slaves!

*UN and BBN continue to walk until they come to a open vent with it's blinder open. UN and BBN look out*

BBN- There it is! The transport dock!

*UN looks down to see two guards directly under them*

UN- I guess we have to be quiet again.

*UN quietly unhooks the vent opening and places it behind him and Naga. Both BBN and UN jumped down on top of the guards, breaking there backs. To aviod being spotted, UN and BBN drag the body's into the shadows and leave'em there. Both Sith run over to two boxes and hide behind them. UN around and spots a glass room just above trhe transport dock*

That's the transport room. Taking over that area should be easy since I took out all there security measures. Not to mention the transprot room has it's own security measures.

BBN- What do you mean?

UN- Remember that story when Obi-Wan and Quigon went to the Trade Federtaion? There ship was destroyed by that revolving cannon! And I seem to notice 5 of them in here.

*Naga looks up to see 5 cannons*

UN- With the transport room in our control, we can access those cannons and destory all there other transporters in here! BUt the question is, how do we get up there?

[Big Bad Naga]

Naga: "Well I could just plug my datapad in this computer outlet and download all the entrances into that room"

Naga plugs his datapad into the the outlet. Suddenly the alarm starts to go off

UN- "What the hell did you do?"

Naga: "I don't know, the computer didn't recognize the authorization code!"

Guards pour into the transport docks, searching for the intruders

UN: "What're we going to do? There are too many guards!"

Naga desperately searches the insides of his robes to find something that would help them. He pulls out a rubber chicken, but throws it aside. Naga finds what he is looking for. A grappling hook. Naga places it in his blaster barrel and points at the ceiling. He presses the trigger. The hook goes flying and grapples onto one of the catwalks above. Naga grabs UN and presses the trigger once again. They are brought up to the catwalk as the guards enter. Naga and UN climb onto the catwalk. The guards don't spot them, so they leave the room.

Naga: "That was close! LOOK!"

They both look straight ahead of them and see the transport room entrance.

Naga: "Well I'll be a--"

UN cuts him off

UN: "Look, there are about 10 guards in there"

Naga turns and smiles to UN

UN: "Wolvie Berserk Style?"

Naga: "YUP!"

UN and Naga run at the glass room. Naga blasts the door down with his blaster. UN jumps in and kills three at once with DoomScythe. Naga activates Sting and takes care of another two. UN retrieves all their commlinks with the force. Naga is about to finish the rest when UN stops him.

UN: "Wait we can take these five as our slaves."

UN motions for them to drop all their weapons. Naga watches the guards closely as UN starts to work.

[Unknown Number]

*UN access the the tranport computer room and activates all 5 cannons and the intercom*

Attention all Bakuraians in the Tranport Dock! We have taken control of this place and you will surrender to his quietly or.....

*UN aims one of the cannons at a small transport ship and blows it away. Pieces of the ship bounce off the protective glass room BBN and UN are in. UN looks down to see everyone in the dock surrender*

HAHA! I like the smell of victory!

*UN's joy is cut short by a beeping red light on the computer*

BBN- Don't tell me you trip another alarm?

UN- NO. This is not a alerm.

*UN types on the computer and turns on the outside camera's*

BBN- Howdid you do that? I thought we disabled all the camera's in the Command Station?

UN- We did. BUt like I said, The Transport dock has it's own security measures. There SM is not linked to the CS's SM.

*UN looks at the computer screen and his eyes start to widen*

Better get ready Naga, I think were about to have company....

BBN- What do you mean?

UN- Looks like the Bakuraians got wind of our taking over the SpacePort and now they want it back. Looks like the entire army of Bakura is coming here to take back the SP.

*UN looks at the ceiling*

Where the hell are those reinforcements? The cannons won't be enough to stop a army of this size!

[Sith Summoner]

**Sums was still looking over the map when one of his commanders walked up...**

Co: Sir...

Yes what is it???

Co: Sir whe have detected a massive movement of troops...

Where???

Co: Here sir... they're heading for the spaceport... **points to the map and drags his finger to the spaceport...**

Damn.... **Sums thinks for a minute...** do we have any forces in the area???

**Sums asks the question as a comm officer walks up with a data pad... Sums takes it and reads it over as the Commander answers his question...**

Co: Sir the only units close enough to be any help are the ones commanded by Warrior Rage... and he is currently occupied...

**Sums waves the data pad in the air...**

Not anymore... Comm... send a message to Rage telling him to move all his troops except the ones cleaning up the rebel scum, to the spaceport as quickly as possible...

Comm: yes sir... **he heads to send the message...**

If Rage leaves emmediately and at top speed of his slowest vehicle... who would get to the spaceport first???

Co: It's a toss up sir... the difference would be minutes...

Well i guess we'll have to wait and see then...

[Sith Kat]

:: The dagger pierces the woman's heart, killing her instantly. Kat slaps a hand over the boy's mouth as she presses the blade against his throat. She can feel the fear in him as he stares into his mother's lifeless eyes ::

"Shhhhhhhhh ... "

:: Kat speaks to him in a soft, soothing tone as she touches his eyelids ::

"No more bad dreams."

:: She kisses the boy softly on the cheek as she draws the blade across his throat, cradling him as he dies ::

"Sleep."

:: Kat rises to her feet and looks down at her two victims, then stealths into the next room ::

[Dalethria Mal Pannis]

Dalethria sneaks into the living room where the father of the family is listening to the holonet. There is much static as he tries to learn any information about the attack on his planet. His finger hovers nearby to his blaster as he feels so helpless.

Now you know how I felt.

He turns around with the blaster in his hand, wondering where the voice came from. Before he can even fire, he clutches at his chest and feels the hilt of a dagger embedded into it. The blaster goes sailing out of his hand and lands on the other side of the room.

Falling to his knees his wants to scream out for help, but the huge growling wolf in front of him keeps him from doing so. Dalethria walks out from the corner near the bookcase.

You thought I wouldn't find out you were in on it Quinten? To think, you wished me well and said I could come home anytime I wanted!

The dagger rips out of his chest and flies back into Dalethria's hand and she draws upon the power of the Darkside and snaps his neck with little effort. She walks over and looks down at the body, "Almost done, Mother."

Out of the corner of her eye, she sees two shadows walk across the curtain and heading to the front door.

Sis? Looks like we're having visitor's.

[Sith Kat]

:: Kat crouches low, her eyes flashing gold like Avagdu's as she waits for the next kill ::

[Dalethria Mal Pannis]

Dalethria presses her back against the wall near the front door as Avagdu croutches near Kat. She hear the two people walking up the steps and then there is a knock at the door. The grip on the dagger tightens in her hand.

"Routine patrol. You know the drill. Need to account for all citizens."

Dalethria senses that these are the only two gaurds that are nearby and motions her hand over the panel. The door slides open and one of the guards steps inside. She quickly shoves that guard over to Kat and Dalethria reaches outside with inhuman speed to pull the other guard inside. The foolish man fumbles for his blaster as Dalethria spins him around where he is facing opposite of her. The blade slices his neck open and Dalethria drops the body to the floor.

[Sith Kat]

:: Kat springs forward, snapping the man's wrist as she takes him to the floor with a martial throw. He lets out a gurgling scream as Avagdu bites down on his throat, and goes lifeless in the wolf's death grip ::

[Dalethria Mal Pannis]

Dalethria searches the bodies quickly and finds both their ID's. She stuffs one in her inner jacket pocket and throws the other to Kat. She still senses that there isn't a lot of activity outside.

Opening the door once more, Dalethria survey's the street and there are no guards. She senses them further away but they are well out of her and Kat's area. It is very odd to leave their main city so weak with defense, yet it makes their mission that much easier.

Quickly, both of them move out the house and Dalethria leads the way to the Prime Minister's mansion.

Captison is a patriot. She rather die then leave the planet. The guards are fools as you know, but her husband was once an Imperial Officer. He needs to be taken down quick. He's yours. Captison is mine.

With hardly any resistance from the lack of security, Kat and Dalethria easily make to the outskirts of the mansion. The patrols have increased heavily and security cameras are everywhere. Four guards are at the front door with heavy blaster rifles and who knows what other sort of measures that have been implemeted since the siege has started.

Hiding behind a small hover car, Dalethria and Kat take in everything and look for the best way inside.

[Big Bad Naga]

Naga starts to panic

Naga: "We're ****ed! We need reinforcements and fast!"

UN: "Calm down! We'll think of something!"

Naga: "Well all we can do is hold out until our troops come."

Naga runs to one of the cannons and looks through the parascope. Many MT-ST's are approaching the spaceport with tons of troops. Naga could see a squadron of X-wings enter the atmosphere.

Naga: "where's a good Star Destroyer when you need one? Wait that's it! One of my VSD's is in the system. The Sandrock."

Naga grabs his personal comm and orders the Sandrock's captain to send a 2 squadrons of TIE interceptors to assist.

UN: "With tat force along with our reinforcements, we'll beat the Bakuran army for sure!"

Naga: "Damn Straight!"

[Miryan no Trunks]

*Clutching his wounded arm in one hand, MnT wears a pained grimace on his face as he catches the location of the sniper in his eyes. Dodging himself sideways to avoid another shot, he springs forward in an unbelievable leap. As his feet lift from the ground, he laughs to himself about how shocking these jumps must be to those poor ST's who know nothing about controlling their inner energy. Finishing the thought quickly, he decides to screw with the Sniper's mind.*

*Changing the position of his legs slightly, his course changes, and he starts over to the side of the Sniper, and down. If the sniper's going to fire at him, he's going to have to bend over the edge in a way that will leave him rather vulnerable to whatever ST's are still on the roof top.. Who knows, maybe one've them might aim for the edge of the roof and hit him in the arse.*

*As he swoops down below the view of the sniper, MnT senses the panic emanating from his aura. With a grin, he propels himself upwards, unhooking and igniting death as he does.*

Show your face you bastard..

*The sniper twists his body, so he's looking down over the edge of the building, expecting to see MnT's body on the ground below. As the realization of his position reaches the sniper's brain, he reels back, just in time to not be decapitated by MnT's saber.*

*MnT, now hovering at the edge of the building, steps onto the concrete, and, with a grim expression, looks down at the cowering sniper*

MnT: Do you really think that was a wise idea?

Sniper: .......... wha..??

MnT: Shooting me in the arm like that. You're a trained sniper. You should have gone for my head..

Sniper: ......... uhhh...

MnT: Just saying it was a dumb idea.

*With that, he jumps forward, bringing his saber horizontally across the sniper's shoulder-line, relieving his head from it's position*

Poor fool...

*After deigniting his saber and rehooking it to his belt again, he clutches at his shoulder, and steps back to the edge, looking down at the waiting ST's*

MnT: Get a Med-kit out..

*Kicking up dust behind him, he leaps off the roof, relishing the feeling of the air passing his body as he freefalls to the ground below. Releasing a burst of ki before hitting the ground, he lands softly in a puddle, and turns to the ST's*

MnT: Mayhaps we should be more careful while searching the city from now on..

*Takes the med-kit and dresses his wound*

MnT: That should do until we get back..

*Bringing his hand up to his headset, he flips back to the appropriate freq. and starts his report*

MnT: Sir, we've lost six ST's due to sniper fire, and I myself was hit, although it's nothing serious. The snipers have been dealt with, and the city still remains quiet.. Your orders sir?

[Ezekiel Rage]

*begins to enjoy his clean up job by killing the rebels with his beam glaive StarDust*

"ahh.. such deaths almost bring sympathy to me.."

*laughs manically at his last comment. just as he slaughters a rebel, he receives a message from Summs*

Summs: bring all your troops except for the ones cleaning up the rebel scum to the spaceport. you will give backup to UN and Naga. hurry QUICK!

*sighs softly as he realizes his happy killings will get a bit harder now.. Ezra gathers his troops up for a quick briefing. he tells all of them to rush to the spaceport.

as he finishes, he watches his troops charge their way to the spaceport. Ezra decides to look inside one of the troop carriers in hopes to find a land speeder. after searching two troop carriers, he finally finds a land speeder. he speeds to the front of his troops to lead his troops. finally, the race has begun*

[Unknown Number]

*UN aims all 5 five cannons at the massive enemy force and fires all cannons, taking out 1/4 of the Bakuraian forces. UN trys to fire again but the controls won't respond. UN looks at the screen again*

Damn! It will take the cannons another 20 minutes before they can be fired again. Hopefully, your forces (Naga) and the reinforces Sumoner is sending us, will still be enough to take them down!

[Sniper Tondry]

"Five... four... three... two... one. Reverting!"

A quick glance at the scanner confirmed the pilot's fears. "Multiple Imperial contacts in system, sir."

"All squadrons, this is Wing Leader Die'trev. Spread out and engage the enemy. Concentrate some fire on that VSD. Its name is Sandrock."

######

"Sir, multiple Republic ships have just exited hyperspace!" the comm relayer called.

Tondry suppressed the urge to correct the man. They were Rebels damn it. Tondry rushed over, feigning relief. "How many?" he asked.

"It looks like... three wings, sir."

'Three wings? That's 216 starfighters!' Imperial that he was, Tondry still felt a certain respect for the amount of starfighters the Republic could put into the field. "Types?"

"Mostly X- and A-wings, but there are three squadrons of B-Wings and four squadrons of K-Wings."

"In this kind of situation, the A-Wings will be the most useful," Tondry mused. Time for divide and conquer strategy. "Get four A-Wing squadrons down here to act as a distraction; have them bring a squad of B-Wings with them. That should wreak some havoc on their ground forces."

"Yes, sir!" the comm officer nodded enthusiastically and began issuing orders.

Tying the A-Wings to the ground would help neutralize their speed avantage; true they would outfly all the other craft around, but attacking ground targets would be more difficult for A-Wings than attacking capital ships would. The B-Wings were best against capital ships; although they could play out the last-ditch bombing strategy Tondry was employing, they'd be more effective in taking care of the capital ships the Sith were fielding.

With any luck, those squadrons would get destroyed despite their skill, and that would make things even more stretched for the beleagured Bakuran military.

"Sir, the Elite Guard is moving out of position!" the comm officer suddenly exclaimed. "They say they've detected an incoming unit of TIE Defenders and troops heading for the spaceport and they intend to intercept!"

"What?" Tondry exclaimed. Yes, this was the kind of surprise assault foolishness the Rebels usually pulled. They were gaining hope that this new force of starfighters would be able to liberate them. "They'll totally disrupt our line!"

"They won't back down, sir," the comm officer said. "They're already on their way."

If the Rebels wanted an assault, they were going to have to wait another day. "Move the formations to cover those flanks, then start a general drift in the direction of the spaceport."

"That'll leave the civilians and government leaders unguarded, sir," the officer replied.

"If we don't cover the Elite Guard, we'll lose them, and we need soldiers more than politicians right now," Pierce explained moodily.

This hope crap the Rebels were drumming up made them fight like crazed rancors. What really needed to happen was something dispiriting. Something that would break the morale of the army very badly.

Tondry sighed and growled. He hoped the Sith would make use of the shift in defense to do something.

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[Admiral Cureatz]

How many???

Tac: Three wings sir... A- X- K- and B-wings heavy emphasis on the A- and X-wings...

Very well shift all but 8 full squadrons to the rebel fighters... Comm, radio Vhertyghohave her commander bring Vhertygho(CF), Zealot(CF), Fencer(NBF), and Scimatar(NBF) into the system to assist in fighter suppression...

Comm: Yes sir...

**A flash signified the final passing of one of the Bakuran capital ships...**

What is that???

Tac: That WAS The Intruder sir... she has been destroyed... also Sentinel has lost her shields... her power level is starting to go down from the ion cannons... the assault transports are moving toward her now...

Excellent... i want that ship intact... make sure that the troopers know that if they end up damaging any equipment that we need to determine their anti gravity well technology i will have their heads...

Tac: Yes sir...

**Minutes later the vast majority of the TSE fighters had switched their attention to the Rebel fighters...**

**A hole in the fabric of space signified the arrival of the 2 Corona and 2 Nebulon-B Frigates... their fighters emmidiately launched and and streaked towards the rebel fighters as the Frigates cut an intercept path to put themselfs between the fighters and the fleet as another flash hits the skies... one of the smaller Bakuran cap ships was destroyed...**

**that was 2 destroyed 3 almost destroyed and 1 almost captured thought Cureatz as a soft whisper escaped his lips...**

excellent

[Darth Renegade]

Crouching behind the statue, grasping my wounded arm, my back against the wall, i feel something digging into me, and suddenly remember the flash grenade. A plan quickly formulates in my head. I pull the pin on the grenade, and using the force I levitate it to the balcony, where I suspect the sniper to be. Suddenly with a bang, the room is filled with a bright long lasting light. I hear something from the balcony, sounding like something dropping, as a silhouette(sp?) begins staggering across the balcony. Jumping to my feet, I thrown 2 knives at the figure, using the force to control their trajection, as He is pinned to the wall, one knife through each shoulder, as he cries out in pain. Smiling evily, I walk up the stairs slowly towards the incapicitated figure. Standing in front of him, I can sense his fear, and see it clearly in his eyes.

" Ah, there you are. You hurt me, now I shall return the favor "

I reach down to my boot, and pull out my boot knife, and slice his belly open, effectively gutting him. I stand back, as he tries not to cry out, a muffled sound coming from him. I look him in the eye, with an evil glare, and then smile.

" I'm afraid to say, you won't like this "

Using the force, I reach out to his inards, and begin pulling them out through the bloody slit I made. He screams out in agony, his eyes clenched shut tightly, as his intestines, begin drooping to the floor. I being pulling more slowly, adding to the significant amount of pain. He screams louder, his cries echoing through the halls.

" You chose the wrong side young one "

Pulling harder through the force, more of his guts, landing on the cold tiled floor with a sickening noise, the soldier collapses, limp, held up only by the knives, as he cannot take anymore pain. I reach over to him, and pull one of the knives out from his shoulder, and with a quick swipe to his neck, I end his suffering. Looking down at the dismbowled body, I wipe the blood from both knives on his shirt, replacing them, as I begin to jog quickly to the launch pad

[Darth Renegade]

Running quickly through the halls, beads of sweat forming on my head, I readjust my head set, turning it back on, my boots echoing through the halls with every step

" Come in HQ. Sorry I've been out of contact, ran into a little problem which has since been rectified. Everything still going as planned? "

I manage to say through heavy breaths, as I continue on my path, I can see the end of the hallway, and the door to the launch pad. I reach it and stop, catching my breath, as I await the response from the SIth leaders

[Sith Kat]

:: Kat surveys the situation and grins as she invades the mind of one of the guards.

*** Kill him. ***

He levels his rifle at his partner's head without warning and burning gore splatters the third as he pulls the trigger. The fourth responds by shooting a hole in the man's chest, and cries out as stray blaster fire takes his left leg off ::

[Dalethria Mal Pannis]

INSIDE THE MANSION

Gaeriel Captison sat at her desk lost in thought, wondering why the Sith were attacking Bakura. They have done nothing overtly against them and have stayed neutral in every affair. True they were aligned with the New Republic, but that was only on the off chance that an invasion force would come again from the Unknown Regions. Not from the actual Sith.

A man dressed in New Republic fatigues looks out the window and sees the lights flashing in the distance. He turns to look over a Gaeriel with worried eyes, "You should leave and you know it."

"Pter, this is my home and it always will be. Whatever happens to my beloved planet, I shall suffer with it." She tucks a stray lock of hair behind her ear and silently prays that something will turn the tides in their favor.

Pter's comm crackles to life, <General! We've pulled most of the troops out of Salis D'aar so we can make one last ditch effort to get the Space Port. It's highly recommended that Prime Ministor Captison leave now! We aren't gonna win. Unit 4 out>

Both of them look at each other in knowing silence that all is lost unless they can gain a victory there. The silence ends with the sound of blaster fire.

"What the hell's going on out there?"

Screams of death are overheard, <Sir! Our men turned on us! It's … AAAHHH!!!>

OUTSIDE

Dalethria follows suit after her sister and telekinetically grabs the blasters of the two remaining guards. She forces them to aim and fire their weapons, killing each other instantly. Pulling out a small rectangular object, black and sleek in design, Dalethria throws it at the nearest camera. The magnet attaches easily to the side and a small spark flies off.

No one can see us now

Sensing that the guards are coming to the front, Dalethria and Kat run to the side of the mansion. They both key in the ID cards and enter.

[Ezekiel Rage]

*still leading his troops to the spaceport, he notices a small group of rebels heading toward the spaceport*

"damn.. hopefully they didn't see us.. either way.. time to handle the infest problem..*

*Ezra motions his troops to limit the noise so the group of rebels won't notice him. he then focuses his power with the darkside for power. as his body begins to feel stronger with the Force, he places both hands in the direction of the rebels.

after powering up, Ezra uses his newly trained Force Destro Ball. he sends a ball of energy with the power of the darkside at the rebels. within minutes, a semi-humge cloud of smoke appears with the area of the rebels diminished.*

"troops! KEEP MOVING! THAT DELAY MIGHT HAVE SLOWED US DOWN! WE MUST GET TO THE SPACEPORT IMMEDIATELY!!"

*Ezra leads his troops to the spaceport hoping to be able to reinforce Naga and UN*

[Mari Bean]

*Having since split up with Renegade, Mari patrols the halls for any couragous souls that decided to stay and oppose the Sith. Slipping easily around corners and keeping well hidden from troopers, allies and enemies, she makes her way to the council rooms to check them out. She had already been in several rooms finding absolultly nothing. Frustration and anger well up inside as she realizes that all the action is outside, at the evac shuttle, and that all the senators would probably soil themselves before thinking of standing up to a Sith. A disgusted grunt escaped her throat as she makes her way down the halls*

[Miryan no Trunks]

*It had been nearly 10 minutes since MnT had reported the situation, and with no response save for the constant static that was really starting to get on his nerves, MnT sighed.*

MnT: Well... Stuck with a seemingly pointless mission, no contact with HQ, an opposition of three entire snipers... How did we luck into this?

*Closing his eyes and taking a deep breath, MnT tilted his head up towards the storm-clouds that rolled along over them*

Oh well... Guess we should continue our sweep of the city, just to make sure..

[Darth Renegade]

I stand in the hallway, just outside the heavy blast door, which had been put into place adding more protection and giving the senate more time to escape in their EVAC shuttle.

Breathing heavily, still grasping my wounded arm, I sit slowly on the floow and begin meditating, using the force to quicken the healing process. Concentrating deeply, letting the force flow through me, the bleeding begins to slow down, and begins to clot. The wound begins to slowly close over, leaving only a nasty looking scar.

I rise to my feet slowly, anticipation growing, as HQ still hasn't responded to me. I begin to think something must be wrong. Grabbing my lightsaber and igniting it, staring into the yellow balde momentarily, before thrusting it into the door. I begin playing with the controls on the hilt, lengthning the blade, causing the door to turn a molten red, pieces of it falling away slowly

[Sith Summoner]

**Sums watches the reports from his troops roll in... the main battle was happening here around the capital city, starport and other high priority targets... elsewhere on the planet his troops were encountering very little resistance... and even the little that they were encountering where nothing more than farmers with antiquic blasters... Sums had ordered for those unaposed troops to begin rounding up civilians so that they be used later as slaves...**

**Miryan's message came in first... Sums had read it and ordered a message sent back...**

Continue your sweep of the city... those civillians didn't just vanish... find them... but be wary they are probably being guarded by Bakuran or NR troops...

**Renegades message had followed about an hour later and was returned with this message...**

Continue with mission... attempt to capture as many targets as possible first... if unable to capture... Kill... notify if and when the evac shuttle lifts off... Gunboats will be waiting for it to commence capture operations...

**And so the ground war went on as Sums awaited the answer of who would reach the starport first...**

[Big Bad Naga]

Naga grabs his commlink and talks into it. He clicks it off and turns to UN

Naga- "Good news! The two squadrons have reached here and are curently in battle with the Bakuran army. More squadrons will arrive shortly.. Also Ezra's forces are almost here!"

UN- "YES We might make it out alive after all."

Naga opens his beeping commlink

Naga- "Status report?"

Captain of the Sandrock: Well our TIE's seem to be overpowering the air forces, and we're sending more to assist. Rage and his forces should reach the battlefield in 10 minutes. Just hold out till then!"

Naga: "Thank you"

Naga turns to UN

Naga: "Now we play the waiting game"

[Sniper Tondry]

(ooc) I've made mention of a couple of people in this post, just to give you guys some fun obstacles to deal with. :) Everyone may want to check it out.

(ic)

As Rage starts his troops moving again, a high-pitched whine can be heard. Then, two whines, then four.

Rage's rear lines suddenly explode as mortars make impact. From behind them, shouts can be heard.

"The Sith's used his energy! They fell for our trap! All units, open fire!"

A barrage of units opens up with blaster fire from behind as high-yield mortars and more blaster fire come speeding their way in from Rage's left flank.

With his units caught in a vicious crossfire, Ezekiel Rage learns what it means to face an Elite Guard.

######

A wisp of smoke rose from where Darth Renegade's lightsaber was penetrating the blast doors. Another wisp, and then another, until the metal burst briefly into flame and sagged open.

In the small corridor in front of him, the blast door leading to the Senate's main chamber suddenly sealed itself. A clung from behind him indicates that the hallway behind him has also been blocked.

Two automated cannons suddenly emerge from slits in the walls inside the corridor and open fire.

######

In space, the remaining B-Wing squadrons had the Sandrock under heavy concussion missile fire.

"Wing Leader, should we finish her off?" one of the pilots asked as a well-timed attack demolished one of the VSD's shield towers.

"Negative, negative," Die'trev replied. "You have another target- the Corona Frigate to port. Our X-Wings have managed to knock out all the lasers in one quadrant and we need something that can pound away at the hull. Those boys will handle the VSD."

The bomber pilot glanced behind him to see three Dauntless Cruisers exit hyperspace not too far from the Sandrock, along with several Skipray Blastboats, Kappa Troop Shuttles and four Medium Transports.

The Republic's evacuation force had arrived.

[Big Bad Naga]

Naga talks into his commlink

Naga: "The Sandrock is under attack? Inform the captain to go into Hyperspace at once. Send for a third of my fleet when you get back to the base."

Troop: "Sir we can't just leave the squadrons down there!"

Naga: "Do as I say!!! The remaining TIE's will board another Star Destroyer. How long until the other Star Destroyers make it to the Bakura System?"

Troop: A little shaken"They should arrive shortly to assist the battle."

Naga: "Good, now retreat to hyperspace, the new rep. forces have shown up!"

The Sandrock barely makes it away in time. Naga sits quietly in the control room, wishing to join the battle above. He waits for the third of his fleet to come out of hyperspace.

[Darth Renegade]

The blast door slams shut in my face, as I jump back startled. Hearing the other loud clang, I turn around only to see that I am now blocked in the hallway, between two large, thick and extremly heavy blastdoors. Hearing something behind me, I turn quickly, only to find two large cannons pointing at me, I roll backwards, as they begin firing. I quickly grab mny other saber, igniting it with a familiar snap/hiss noise, as both of my sabers begin flowing with the force blocking and parrying blaster bolts.

"Damnit! Now what am I going to do? The shuttle is right there and I'm gonna miss it. I don't have time for this!!!!"

My sabers move fluently (sp) still parrying shot after shot, my forehead glistening with sweat as I keep moving. Breathing heavier and heavier, as bolts tear through my cloak, shot after shot, making it nothing more than a rag.

" Man, I wish I'd brought that plastique right about now. Or for that matter, that I was in Rama's with a drink"

[Ayanami Rai]

The battle wages on, as suddenly, a streak of bright light is seen across the battle field, the ISD Maelstorm, and two VSD2; the DarkSabre and the Castigator, and the flagship SoSD Dark Omen come barreling in out of hyperspace - the Sith Empire's reinforcements have arrived. A familiar voice is heard across the com network, and instantly every TSE member knows who has arrived and what chaos is about to take place.

" Alright guys, let's show em how we really cause a mess! Scramble all fighters, except the gunboats. I want all TIE's taking straffing runs at the NR capital ships. Don't destroy them, only weaken the sheilds, create some confusion then off to the next. I want the Defenders to take out all remaining B Wings and Y wings. I don't want another torpedo or missle to hit any one of our ships!!

*She laughs maniacally, looking around her bridge at her crew, having complete trust in everyone one of them and their ability to serve the Empire, after all, she's got the best. PLus they know what fate they will suffer if they do fail her.*

"Lieutenant, hail the DarkSabre and the Castigator. tell them to converge on the Sandrock, and offer their support. We will not lose that ship. And tell the Maelstorm to begin using her tractor beams, locking on to all small capital ships, and begin firing the ion cannons. Cripple the ships and launch her gunboats for support and aid in capturing the ships. If they put up too much resistance, do NOT hesitate to destroy them!!"

[Ezekiel Rage]

*as Ezra notices his troops panic he begins to get frustrated. he looks up into the air and notices the mortars*

"OUT OF THE WAY!!"

*he quickly moves across his troops looking for the quickest and easiest answer to his problem. Rage then opens comm. link to Summs*

"got a little 'code red' here man! got some sneak attacks from the rear. i'm making my way through my troops to scan my current problem. i beleive my troops were being bombarded with mortars-- wait, the sounds have stopped.. damnit! it's started up again! AHH!!.."

*as Rage was escaping a blast, his comm. link was terminated with Summs. Ezra quickly looks for his next solution. secretly, he sends a portion of his troops ahead to the spaceport for his reinforcements to UN and Naga. he next as his tanks move to the front of his line (away from where the current fire has been). he next sends another portion of his troops to initiate gun fire to the enemy*

[Unknown Number]

INSIDE THE TRANSPORT DOCK ROOM

Damn! This could be a long war!

*UN looks down at the transport dock and see's the remaining Bakuraian tranport ships. A evil smile comes over his face, UN punhces in some buttons on the computer and three of the five cannons turn and aim at the reamaining transport ships*

(Hmmmmm. Firing one huge blast might be a waste of energy. I know!)

*UN switches the firepower to rapid fire (machine gun type firing*

Check this Naga!

*UN pushes the big red button and the three cannons fire at the Bakuraian tranport ships. All of them get destoryed. UN lets out a insane laugh*

Oh boy! I starting to act like my Master! :evil:

Naga- So......you care to tell nme why you destoryed the transport ships?

UN- Simple really. We don't really need those ships anyhow and besides, we don't want anyone escaping right? And we still have two more recharged cannons. I knew three cannons would take out those docked ships so I just left two incase we get breached by the Bakuraians.

*UN sits back in the chair again and hope that the Sith Forces can handle the Bakuraians. UN looks in the corner of his eye and see's the P.O.W's that him and Naga captured*

(I still think we should have just killed them. Wouldn't have to carry all this dead weight around).

[Dara Shadowtide]

En Route to the City
:: Dara and Lady Dia weave in and out the maze of forestry on their way to the city. They meet three fleeing Bakurians along their journey and quickly become the final destination for the inhabitants as they kill the three effortlessly. A bloodied path and the fallen forms of the Bakurians are a sign of what is to befall any who cross paths with these formidable sith women.

The two women come upon their target - the Medical Facility - and stealthily slip inside unnoticed as the streets are quiet and void of any presence. Dara runs in and hops the counter, force choking the alarmed receptionist until her body lies still. Dara then removes the receptionists's long white coat, complete with ID tag and dons it as her own.

Dara nods to Lady Dia and walks into the staff room, surprising a male doctor from behind by grabbing his neck and giving it a quick twist until it snaps. He falls lifeless to the floor and Dara removes his jacket, tossing it to Lady Dia outside ::

Dara: "Ok, it sure looks like it is time to make the rounds. I feel many of the patients now have a terminal illness. Let's help them reach their destiny, shall we?"

:: Dara laughs and Lady Dia grins back at her as they make their way to the rooms of the Bakurian patients. Dara gives a slight knock on the door of the first patient and then steps inside. An elderly gentlemen looks upon her with surprise ::

Patient: "Where is Dr. Aramis?"

Dara: "I am the newest doctor on the staff here. I just transferred in today. Dr. Aramis had something unexpected come up so I am assisting on his rounds. How are you feeling today sir?"

Patient: "I am feeling a little tired but at least the pain is less today. How do my charts look today doctor?"

Dara: "Well I am afraid I have some bad news for you. You are going to die."

Patient: "What? I am supposed to be released today. I don't understand."

Dara: "I am reading the charts clearly and today is your day to die."

:: Before the patient can speak again, Dara is upon him, shoving her rapidly ignited saber deep into his chest as his body becomes limp ::

Dara: "Why don't people listen to their doctors. I just don't get it."

:: She laughs maniacally and finishes the rest of her rounds in the same manner, locking the doors behind her after each "diagnosis" ::

[Admiral Cureatz]

**the Tactical officer yells at Cureatz...**

Tac: Sir... We've got a single SoSD, escorted by one impstar and two Victwo's exiting hyperspace...........

**Cureatz cuts him off**

WHAT??? as if we didn't have enough problems... who are they??? prepare to call in the rest of Darth Phantoms fleet...

Tac: Sir... Sir... they're TSE... the SoSD Dark Omen and her escorts...

Dark Omen??? Master Dia must have named her ship before she left... fitting name that is... especially for the rebels... who is in command of her???

Tac: Sounded like master Rai over the comm sir...

Oh great... as if we didn't have enough crazies around here already :b

Tac: sir she is going after the new rebel ships...

Okay... let her be for now... what is the status of the Bakurans... mainly our capture operation...

Tac: 3 of 6 Capital ships destroyed... near 100% destruction of their fighters... the assault shuttles have connected to Sentinel... capture operations are starting now...

Excellent... Excellent...

[SAURRON]

Saurron contacts Darth Ogre via Sith com.

We will accompany your troopers to the east and take the temporary base.

Rendezvousing with the heavily armed troopers they make their way to the outskirts of the base. Shouts can be heard as Bakurian commanders deploy the military personal of Bakura into their shuttles and transports. Taking a knee Saurron views the situation. Not needing a view enhancer Saurron studies the mission at hand while tossing a thermal detonator up and down methodically while thinking.

A wry grin crosses his lips momentarily...

Those ships are about ready to depart...maybe we should expedite there departure... Turns to Sara, and Soth to their after life. Grins...

Saurron turns to the commanding trooper...
Set up flanking fire over there...and over there. If we are discovered have your heavy weapons lay down a suppression fire and have snipers pick off any who get close to us...

Yes, sir!

Looks to Sara, Soth, and the four Dark Troopers...motioning with his hand he gives the order to move...

[Lady Diamante]

:: Dia watches as Dara begins to perform her rounds. :: Seems she's got the patients all taken care of, Dia thinks to herself. Time for me to do some "rounds" of my own.

:: Dia heads back the door they entered by and secures it against any intrusions. She then heads for the facility's other entrances, killing anyone who crosses her path. Soon, all the entrances are secure and halls are empty. ::

Hmm... that didn't take long. Now, what? she muses.

:: Standing in the hall, she notices a medicine cart; the woman who would have been dispensing the presciptions, had the patients still needed them, was dead, her body still twitching with the fatal electrical current Dia had sent through the woman's body. An idea begins to form in Dia's mind. ::

The pharmacy!

:: Dia sets off for the pharmacy, meeting no one in the halls. She comes to the doors of the pharmacy, and upon opening them, she finds the pharmicists in conversation. ::

Hello. Perhaps you could help me, I seem to have a bit of a headache.

:: The older man looks critically over his reading glasses and glares at her, his glaze falling on the name badge still attached to the lab coat Dara had thrown to her. ::

"Dr. Parkins is a 50-year-old male doctor." After a pause, he addresses the younger man, "Charles, call security. We have an imposter here."

I'm afraid that would be a waste of time, my friend. I seem to remember seeing them lying down on the job. Seems they don't function too well then their heads have been severed from their bodies.

"Who are you?" the younger man asks.

Oh, just a friendly Sith here, helping an old friend on a mission of terror. Now, about my headache, I'm sure it would be much relieved if I never heard your voices again.

:: The two men back away, startled and terrified. Dia gives them no time to utter any last, annoying words. Calling upon the power of the Dark Side, she Force-lifts the two by their necks. As their screams of terror increase, she simply exerts a bit more pressure to their necks until they snapp. Upon hearing the tell-tale "crack", Dia dropps the men to the floor. She smiles. ::

See, my headache's gone.

:: Dia pulls out her commlink. ::

Summoner, this is Lady Diamante, reporting in. *with a grin* Dr. Shadowtide and I have taken decided to set up practice in the Medical Facility. Seems the doctors here were just dying to hand it over to us. The facility is secure. Dia out.

[Princess Sara]

*looking at Saurron she motions her head to one of the dark troopers*

We'll take the fighters and transport units on the right.


*she motions for the trooper to follow her as she makes her way around..making sure she stays low to where they don't see the both of them...as she approches the the ships...they are surronded by sucurity personal she looks to the trooper*

sara:hmm...when I say go you go for it place this on the underneath of it and activate it you got me?


*the trooper nods*

You get those the transport ships I'll get the fighters if anyone gets in your way you take them down.

*Sara uses the force and causes a small explosin in one of the ships..all the attention is directed that way and she motions for the trooper to make his move.. He runs and sticks the detonator on the belly of the ship then quickly moves to the next one..Sara moves for the fighters easily placing one on the fighter then moves to the one where the troopers are standing they turn to look but it too late she strikes them down with her saber she reaches up and pulls the piolet out of his seat and stabs him with her dagger...she yells for the trooper to help...She places the detnator underneath the fighter and makes way for Saurron and Soth to make their move*

[Sith Summoner]

**There is nothing Sums can do for the moment as he sits and
watches the reports come in... All the action is out of his
hands... the next report that hits his makeshift desk is one
from Ogre reporting that Saurron along with Sara, Soth and some
troopers were on their way to hit one of the temp bases... Sums
sets the data pad with that message on a pile of other pads that
are ready for reuse as the messages on them report that things
are well in hand...**

**while studying a map of TSE
controlled area a runner places another pad on his desk... reading
it it was from Rage but the message seemed to have been cut off
without warning... He was in trouble the NR had drawn him into
an ambush...**

Commander...

Co: Yes sir

Do we have any additional assets that we can send to back
up Rage???

Co: yes sir... a company of about 200 men
are on patrol about 20 minutes from him... another 1100 are about
one to two hours away...

Send them all...

Co:
yes sir...

**Three hours later the message from Dia
crossed his desk... reading it a slightly perplexed look crosses
his face... he speaks softly and to himself...**

DR. Shadowtide??? i didn't know she had a MD... That girl
is full of surprises...

*raising his voice he calls
the commander over again...**

Co: Yes sir???

Commander seems we have just been given the use of a medical
facility here on the ground... begin transporting our dead and
wounded there... have three full medical teams sent down from
the fleet...

Co: yes sir... *turns to walk away* oh
sir one other thing...

Yes???

Co: we just
recieved word that the SoSD Dark Omen entered the system.
.. Master Rai is commanding her and her escorts...

Aya??? Well there goes the neighbourhood...

Co: Sir?
??

Nothing commander... this is good news... now carry
on...

Co: yes sir... **turns and goes to send out Sums
messages**

[Big Bad Naga]

Naga screams into his commlink<
/i>

Naga: "WTF? WHY? WHEN?
Awww crap!"

UN: "What happened?"

Naga: "Yeah ok, well thats the only option![i] Naga clicks his commlink off and turns to
UNOh sorry, my ships were, how do
you say....Delayed. They won't make it here in time."

UN: "How are your TIE squadrons doing?"
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br>
Naga: "Well they seem to barely hold their own. I'm
hoping they can last out a little longer. Ezra's troops have
been delayed. And here we are, all cooped up in this little box&
quot;

UN: "Soldiers pouring in from every opening!
"

Naga: "Wait I have an idea! Naga reaches in his pouch and removes three thermal
detonators. He sets them for five minutes.Well, you're gonna get your wish. We have to leave these
P.O.W.S behind. We'll blow up the building while the soldiers
are still in it!"

UN ties up the troops and gags them. Naga and UN run for the
rooftop entrance of the building (killing and defending along
the way) UN signals for the Absolution to make it to the roof
top. UN and Naga jump onto the Absolution and board it. UN tells
the pilot to get out of that area full throttle. Behind them
the Docks explode taking many soldiers with it.

Naga: "Now what do we do?"

[Ezekiel Rage]

*Ezra begins to send portion of
his troops to the spaceport to help UN and Naga. in the meantime,
he has his tanks fire at the enemy. as the cross-fire begins
to get heavier, he notices backup as arrived. Rage realizes the
backup and gives order for an all aout onslaught.*

"FIRE! FIRE FIRE!! DON'T STAND DOWN!
GIVE THEM ALL YOU GOT!!"



"Summs,
thanks for the backup. helped nicely. I beleive the counterattack
on the ambush worker. i have already sent 500 troops to the spaceport.
I will send more to the spaceport. once again, i shall leave
some for cleanup-- AHH! not again!! ok.. i seem to be under fire
again.. DAMNIT! well, my current situation has changed once again.
. i will take out the enemy for good. tell UN and Naga there
will be at least 500-1000 troops at the spaceport for backup.
. Ezra Out*[/i]

[Unknown Number]

ONBOARD THE ABSOLUTION

*UN and BBN walk into the control
room. UN looks over the side to see his three personal drones*

Aero, contact Rage posthaste.
Cycle, set a course
for Lady Dia and Shadowtide's area at the medical facuity. Me
and Naga our going to need some patching up.
Tank, get the
engines online!

Aero- Roger!
Cycle- Affermative!
Tank- Copy that!

*Before they take off, UN contacts
Rage*

Sorry to leave this up to you Rage. Nothing much
we can do from here. However, we managed to take out the vital
parts of the SpacePort so you shouldn't have much trouble now.
Most of the Bakuraian troops must have gone up with the explosion'
s. It shouldn't be a problem now. No P.O.W's. Sort of killed
them all.

Rage- <img
src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/laugh.
gif ALT=":lol"> Okay UN. Take care
of yourself. This will be a walk in the park.

*UN ends
the conversation just as the engines get online*

Tank-
Engines operational Sir!

UN- Good. Head to the Medical
Facuity now Cycle.

Cycle- Right on it!

*The
Absolution's engines burn a bright blue and heads off toward
Dia and Shadowtide's position. UN puts a hand on BBN's shoulder*

Don't worry about Rage. If I know him, he'll probably
been done in time for suppertime and won't even get a cut on
him! <img src=http://www.ezboard.
com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/smile.gif ALT=":)">

*UN walks down the stairs and to his
drones. UN walks up to Aero*

How long before we'll reach
the MF?

Aero- At our speed, about 10, maybe 15 minutes.

UN- Good that's a good cilp we'll be going.

*UN jumps up to his control deck and sits down in his chair*

(Still can't believe my Master is here joining us!
*Shivers* I feel sort of sorry for the Bakuraians now...)

[Death Knight Soth]

Peering through the blackened, shielded visor of his enviro
helm Soth watches as the Princess Sara hands several enemy troops
their death card and places her charges on the underbellies of
her targeted star ships.

::You and you::
Soth says
pointing at two of Dark Troopers

::Ready your charges
and follow me::
The troopers nod in complete understanding
at such a simple command. Running with great speed they near
the make shift landing deck of the Bakurians. Growing ever near
Soth sees Princess Sara and her dark trooper coming under fire
from random points around the complex. Bright flashes of red
and green are exchanged as the Dark Trooper sworn to defend Sara
lays down an array of blasts to free her to take cover. Without
warning a well placed shot impacts the blaster resistant armor
of the Dark Trooper in a direct hit. As the bolt burns it's hole
electrical shorts are seen briefly as he flies backwards, his
weapon sliding across the temporary tarmac finally resting at
Sara's feet.

::Snipers:: Soth mumbles to himself inside
his helm.
::Soth here, the Princess Sara is taking sniper
fire::

Saurron- We see it snipers are sighting in as
we speak.

[Ezekiel Rage]

*as the counterattack continues, Rage makes his way across his troops to catch a side glimpse. he realizes the enemy has stopped firing. Ezra orders each of his missile tanks to fire on the enemy are once. after the tanks cease fire and the smoke clears, Ezra notices no more enemies. once again, he rounds up his troops and heads to the spaceport. he contacted Summs on his way there*

"hey Summs, i beleive the counterattack was a success. if there were any enemy survivors, i left a few troopers to secure the area. anyway, i should arrive at the spaceport within 20 min. Ezra out"

*after giving his report to Summs, Ezra began to wonder how UN and Naga were handling out. he recalled the message from UN stating that they were doing fine.. but he still was anxious to get there as fast as he could.*

[Sith Summoner]

**Sums is standing by the radio as Rage's call came in...**

Oh so NOW he kills them all...

Comm, send out a message to Rage... inform him that UN and BBN have retreated to UN's ship and that the starport is now under the Bakuran's control again... tell him i want it back...

Comm: Yes sir...

Any other reports???

Comm: No sir...

Very well...

[Big Bad Naga]

The Absolution's repulsorlifts push against the ground as it lands. Out of the ship came Naga and UN. Ezra and his troops stopped in their tracks

Naga: "We thought you could use a little help Rage, so me an UN came back to help you."

Troops start to pour out of the Absolution

UN: "And we brought a few more reinforcements."

Ezra: "Let's go finish the job!"

Naga: "Right on!"

As Naga, Un and their forces join Ezra's forces, they head for the spaceport, which lies in front of them.

[Unknown Number]

*As the mass of Sith troops head to the SpacePort to recialm it. UN turns to Naga*

You know Naga, I don't know why the Bakuraians wanted to take back the SpacePort. we destoryed their main areas; The Central Computer and the Transport Dock. And from the damage, it will take them months, maybe years to rebuild it. So why retake a SpacePort that is basically useless?

BBN- I guess their stupid.

UN- Prehaps.

*UN turns his attention to Rage*

Say Rage, did Summoner say to reclaim it? I'd feel better if we destory it. The damn thing is useless anyway with the CC and the TD out of order. So are we going to reclaim it or destory it?

*The UN, BBN, and ER's team are within a few hundred yards of the SpacePort*

[Ezekiel Rage]

"hmm... i'd say we destroy part of it, and keep some of it.. of course, we can just destroy parts of it while fighting off the Bakurian troops :evil: "

*turning his attention away from his troops, Ezra opens comm. link to Summs*

"hey Summs.. about reclaiming the spaceport, can't we just get rid of it? i mean.. it's already useless.."

[Sith Summoner]

**A simple message reaches the 3 Sith as they make their way to the spaceport...**

Do what you have to to take that area back... but we are going to need a spaceport after we finish taking this rock... it would be nice to have not to rebuild the entire thing...

[Big Bad Naga]

The three Sith and their forces finally reach the spaceport. Naga decides to split up with the others. He grabs a Gungan-made shield and turns it on. Naga ignites Sting and runs into the chaos, hacking every which way. A soldier shoots at Naga, but he blocks it with his sheild. Naga spins around with his saber taking out 3 soldiers at once. He uses the force and bludgeons a soldier with a peice of brick. "Yes I finally get my body count!" Naga thinks to himself. 5 guards surround Naga and start to shoot at him. Naga jumps high and lands on a small ships hull. He throws his saber, guiding it with the force. He manages to kill all five soldiers.

Naga: "These guys are no match for me!"

Suddenly a Bakuran starfighter swoops down and shoots the ship Naga was standing on. Naga jumps off, but his leg is caught in the explosion. He skids onto the floor scraping his human skin. Naga starts to roll around and puts out the flames. His wounds bleed, and his leg was lost. His shield was lost, but he gripped his saber tightly. Suddenly he felt a pain where his leg had been. A new leg sprouted out of his skin. Suddenly a tail had sprouted from his back, and his face grew fins. Naga was agin what he had once been, except this time, he was half human, half naga. Naga was back in the fight. A soldier came at him. Naga swung his tail and smacked the soldier away. Many soldiers started running at Naga. Naga called out with the force to anyone nearby that could assist him.

[Ezekiel Rage]

*as he watches Naga begin his attack on the Bakuran rebels, Ezra decides to follow. he takes out StarDust and begins killing rebels left and right. he slashes through the mid-section of a soldier, and then forcefully impales another rebel through the neck with one of his beam glaive's blades.

after taking down Bakuran rebels, he notices Naga in need of help. he calls out to the Bakuran and they turn their attention to him for awhile. Ezra begins to fill himself with the darkside. he begins to feel the darkness within. Ezra takes one more look at the Bakuran troops who have started charging at him. he then places one hand out and the other gripping the arm. as the Bakuran soldiers prepare to attack, Ezra unleashes a powerful energy beam which engulfs them and destroys the rebels instantly*

"so.. i saw.. that you needed help.."

*Ezra begins to regain his energy. he looks around noticing more Bakuran soldiers. he grabs his automatic rifle and begins firing at them*

[Unknown Number]

*While Naga and Rage have their hands full, UN stands motionless in the whole mass of both Sith and Bakurian froces. Finally, 6 enemy troops run at UN. UN just shakes his head at their ignorance and runs at them. UN stops in front of them and does four quick slices with Doom Scythe in fornt of them. The 6 enemy troops at their motionless*

*UN turns his back on the enemy troops*

Troop 1- What are you trying to do? Freak us out? Your dead Sith!!

*UN laughs a viallianous laugh*

Your already dead......

*As UN says that, the 6 troops fall to peices. UN notices two more troops sneaking up on him. UN swings his Scythe around and slices them in half, their hald bodies dropping to the ground*

Where's the fun in this?

*UN looks up to see the SpacePort in his view*

(Fighting these troops out here is jst a waste of time. Got to stirke from within).

*UN makes his Doom Scythe vanish and makes his lightsaber Masamune appear*

I'll make better time with this.

*UN towards the SpacePort while cutting down eenmy troops left and right. Blood starts spilling on UN from the attacks making his green eyes flare red. 30 dead enemy troops later, UN finally gets out of the battle field and towards the opening of the SpacePort. UN runs in as the SpacePort doorway close down, just barely missing UN's body. After the doorway closed, UN looks to his right and see's a ladder leading to the air ducts. Un climbs up and goes into the human size air vent. UN walks down the vent*

(When me and Naga first invaded the SP, we attacked the CC and the TD. However, I forgot one more place to hit; the SpacePort's power room! I'd better hurry! I hope Naga and Rage forgive me for leaving them. I have to make up for losing the SpacePort in the first place).

*UN continues down the vent toward the power room*

[Princess Sara]

*taking cover she watches as her dark trooper is blasted the anger inside her grows she stands up and uses her lightsaber to block the blasts they reflect off of her saber and back at the snipers hitting them she grabs the dark trooper gun and takes cover once again....Blasts coming at her in every direction she takes aim at a sniper and hit him in the chest causing him to fall.Watching Soth as he approches..she covers him and the troopers as they make their move...Taking snipers out one by one she calls to Soth*


"Hurry Soth I can't take them all"

[Darth Renegade]

INSIDE THE HALLWAY.......STILL

The cannons ring out with thundering blasts, as I continue to block all the shots coming my way, my forehead glistening with sweat, my breathing getting heavier and heavier as I begin to get tired, my reflexes slowing down a little. The shots continue to fire efficiently and accurately, as I get hit once, in the shoulder, and another time in the chest. I cry out in pain, as the pain flares through my body. Squinting with my eyes, my anger growing, I throw one of my sabers at one of the cannons, the saber flying through the air, humming loudly, as the air passes over it. It connects solidly with the cannon, disabling it, as the saber shut down, amist a shower of sparks eminating from the cannon.

[/i]Now, one more to go. [/i]

Reaching out with the force, letting it flow through my body, I move quickly charging at the cannon, as it fires away at me. My saber moving fluently, blocking all the bolts, as I approach it rapidly. With a mighty yell, I swing down severing the barrel from the cannon, sparks and smoke rising from it, as the cannon explodes, shrapnel flying everywehres, some catching me in the chest, blood flowing freely down my chest, as i fall to one knee, closing my eyes, grinding my teeth, bearing the pain.

That wasn't such a smart idea

I rise slowly, my eyes closed, bearing the pain, the force keeping me conscious, as I grab my other saber from the cannon, and ignite it, sticking it into theblast door, adjusting the controls, extending the blade as the door begins to smolder, turning a bright red, as peices slowly being falling away


Come on. This is taking too long

[Unknown Number]

INSIDE THE SPACEPORT

Guard 1- You hear about those Sith attacking just outside?

Guard 2- Yeah. Those retards got pushes out by us! :lol:

Guard 3- You got a point. But don't forget they destoryed alot of vital stuff.

Guard 1- Sure is quiet lately.

Guard 2- No? You think?

Guard 3- Shut up both of you! This guard crap really bites!
All the action out there and none in here! Makes me wish I could just fight one Sith!

*As Guard 3 says that, a Scythe swings down from the vent and hook on Guard 3's neck. He gets pulled up into the vent opening with his head just sticking in. The other guards freak out as he falls back down, with his blood-gushing decapitated body, followed by his head. The other two guards fire rapid shots into the vent opening hoping that they might shoot the thing in there. After a few shots, they stop to see if whatever is in there isn't there*

Guard 1- You think we got it?

Guard 2- Maybe. Doupt anything could survived those shots.

*As they get closer to the vent, A shadow figure drops silently behind them, covered by the shadows*

Guard 2- We better call for back-up. Search the area and clean this mess up. (Kicks the dead body)

Guard 1- Ummm....sure.

*Before they can go off to tell the surperiors, Guard 1 doesn't notice the scythe blade over his neck, before he see's it, it rushes back at him and decapitates his head, blood gushes everywhere. Guard 2 screams at fires at the shadows. After a volley of firing, he stops*

Guard 2- What the hell is that?

*Guard 2 starts running down to the doorway where the is light*

Guard 2- Almost there. I got to get back-up! Somethings......

*Before he can push the button to open the doorway, his skull his grab by a hand and another hand covering his month. The figure drags him back to the shadows and a snap is heard. The shadow figure walks out of the shadows to reveil who it is.......UN*

(Well, so much for dull and boring, now to the power room)

*UN walks down the bloody hallway and see's a plastic map embedded on the wall, covered in blood. UN wipes the bloos away with his hand, to see where the power room is located*

(So that's where it is. 10 levels below the SpacePort. Very ingenius).

*UN walks up to the doorway and leans against the wall incase anyone is on the otherside. UN pushes the button and the doorway opens. UN takes a look to see no one there. UN continues his walk to the elevator that will lead to the power room. As he does, UN looks at hi bloodly hand and licks it, UN grins evilly*

(Nothing like a good old Blood type A, B, and O to start your day off :evil: )

[Ezekiel Rage]

*as Ezra begins to regain his energy, he hurls his rifle at the Bakuran troops and pulls out Nightmare. he begins make his way inside the SpacePort. he destroys all obstacles that stand in his path. as a result, Rage killed at least 10 soldiers daring enough to stop him. as Ezra reaches the Spaceport, he commands his troops one last time to clean up the outside area and secure it.*

"HEY NAGA! I SUGGEST YOU CLEAN UP THE OUTSIDE BEFORE HEADING INSIDE!!"

[Big Bad Naga]

OK EZRA! THIS IS GONNA BE FUN!

Naga swings his tail around and kill a soldier. He spins his saber decapitating two soldiers at once. He uses the Force and directs a Bakuran fighter into another one. A soldier comes behind Naga, but Naga sweeps his off the floor and kills him before he hits the ground. Naga uses his Force Summon and wipes out 7 soldiers at once with his newfound power. Naga jumps high and lands on a roof. He throws a grenade down. The grenade kills many soldiers. Naga runs to a gun turret nd shoots down the remamining three Bakuran fighters. Naga jumps down and looks at the remamining soldiers.

Naga: You're now my new slaves. You'll do everything I say, lest you be killed. Follow me!

Naga runs toward Ezra's location

[Unknown Number]

*UN finally reaches the elevator to the power room. He enters and desends below the SpacePort*

(Without power, we might have a a open advantage.....)

[Darth Renegade]

The door turns brighter red, then almost white hot from my saber slowly piercing it. More and more pieces fall from it, as slowly a hole is forming in the door way. I stop for a second to wipe my brow, full of sweat from the heat.

Almost there. Can't stop now

Another large chunk falls away from the door, as I can now see through the door and into the courtyard where the Evac shuttle is almost prepped to launch., I can hear the voices of the remaining senators, crying to the shuttle pilots as they can see that I'm almost through. Taking my other saber out, I thrust it into the door in an attempt to speed up the process, and no sooner that I put in there, another chunk falls away.

There is almost enough room for me to get though, if I squeeze though. This is gonna hurt....

I squeeze through the door slowly, the white hot edges burning me,as I cry out loudly, as I run towards the shuttle. The door to the shuttle slams shut, as the anti-gravs kick in and it begins to lift off. I swing wildy and desperately with my saber, slashing one engine, taking it out, as the shuttle limps away. Turning my radio back on, I begin calling to our forces

This is Darth Renegade. The Evac shuttle just took off. One engine is disabled, I'm going into pursuit with the Fallen Angel.

I grab for my wrist, playing frantically with the becon call, acvtivating the Fallen Angel summoning it to me, as fast as it will come.

[Ezekiel Rage]

*begins running through the Spaceport. as the young warrior turns a corner, a pair of Bakuran soldiers attack him. Rage simply uses a Force Push to knock them down. he then moves to where they are lying and points both palms of his hands at each of them. Rage then fires a 'giga beam' at them resulting in disintegrating them.

as he moves on, he decides to go more stealthily. he begins to roam around the main floor taking out any Bakuran soldiers carefully*

[Sniper Tondry]

"We have to hold them off for just a few more minutes, until everyone's out."

Pierce gazed at the General's face. It was sweaty and strained. Every security measure and defense tactic had been washed away by the Sith's ferocious assault, and things in here were at the breaking point.

"General, with all due respect, I think we need to get out of here." Tondry's voice was cool and even. "We've done all we can on the ground, and we need to retreat while we can."

There was a tense silence. "Major, if we don't keep these people off our evac shuttles, they might get killed."

"Right now, we need more units in the air," Pierce replied, with just the right amount of intensity. "And we need to get out of here ourselves. Bakura's going to die, and us with it, if we don't get out of this damned tac center and into the air to protect those shuttles."

"We stay as long as we can, Major," the General stated flatly. "Men, restrain him."

"WHAT? HELL NO!" Before anyone could move, Pierce whipped his officer's handblaster out of his sidearm holster and, with a quick twist of the safety, fired a stun bolt off.

The General dropped like a rock.

The combat orders and blinking sensors were lost for a moment. Tondry looked around and reholstered his weapon. "Weren't you listening? He wanted to restrain me at a time like this!"

The silence continued. "He's right," someone else said. "I don't want to die here, and this place is gonna go up real soon."

"Come on people," Pierce said. "Let's go."

One of the comm officers turned to his console. With a clear air of reluctance, he activated the open comm line. "Code K-one zero, repeat code K-one zero. All troops disengage."

"All right, let's get moving," Pierce pointed to the escape turbolifts.

"What about the General?"

Tondry glanced over at the fallen human. "I'll take care of him. He is my responsibility."

The tactical center empty itself, various officers jogging to the escape turbolifts. One of them paused at the lift door. "You could be courtmartialed for this."

"If I don't live to sit through it, it didn't mean anything," Pierce shook his head.

"See you on the other side, Major. And thanks."

The lift door closed and Tondry looked around. The tac center was empty.

Pulling a data core out of his inner pocket, Pierce slid it into one of the main computer's slots. He transferred the virus files into the communication systems and opened a comm line to one of the Rebel ships in orbit, being careful not to let his face get shown.

Turning around, he pulled out his blaster again and shot the General neatly through the head. The man had been a good tactician, and that kind of skill could not be allowed to oppose the Empire.

With a smug grin, Tondry pulled off his officer's jacket, revealing his Imperial wear. He pressed the call button, and stepped into the turbolift door.

Had Tondry been there to see the second turbolift leaving, he might have tried to stop them.

[Unknown Number]

*The elevator door opens to reveil the power room*

(Show time).

*UN opens the door expecting enemy's, however, the power room is empty*

Funny. They must have given the evac codes or something. So much for a fight.

*UN walks up to the control panel and spots the power on/off button and pushes it. Everything that is electronic (expect for the elevators) is turned off. The emergency lights turn on. UN walks back to the elevator*

Well, that was easy enough.

*UN senses something in the DarkSide*

Ah, that must be Rage. So he got in? He probably killed them all already. :evil:

*The elevator door closes and UN ascends back to the SpacePort*

[Miryan no Trunks]

*After quite a long search, MnT and the STs stumbled upon a large warehouse that had been hidden underneath quite a pile of scrap metal and the likes, apparantly in the hopes to disguise it as a junkyard of some sort. As they entered the building, they found what seemed to be the entire population of the city. Unfortunately, none of them were in one peice. The terrifyingly morbid scene caused many of the ST's to become victims to an overwhelming sensation of nausea, and it was all MnT could do to control himself from doubling over and doing the same.*

MnT: Oh god... Oh ****ing god... what the hell happened here?!?

*Getting as close as he dared to the mess of mutilated human bodies, he noticed that there were none of the signs of a gunfight at all. They'd been gathered into the room and torn apart by physical strength. There were no burn marks, no holes, nothing but ripped flesh and entrails everywhere.*

MnT: What the hell could've done this....

*He ran outside suddenly, stopping when a bout of dry-heaves threatened to become something worse. He clutched at his headset with trembling fingers and called in, his report needing to be repeateded multiple times due to his speech being effected by the absolute terror and disgust he was feeling...*

[Big Bad Naga]

Naga makes his way into the spaceport. His lightsaber hung on his belt, he didn't have to use it anymore. His newfound (or should I say oldfound) power was more than enough to defeat these guards. 10 Guards came at him from the stairwell. Naga jumped high and struck two with his legs. He crossed his arms in an x form. His nails protruded from his hands. He slashes at a guard killing him. The other guard started to shoot him, but Naga blocked it with his armor (scales). He takled the guard and stabbed him. He turned around and kneed another guard, the guard fell down the stairs. Naga started to twirl and killed the remaining guards. Suddenly 50 guards popped out of nowhere and started to shoot at him.

Naga: "I was set up all along!"

Naga dodged and blocked the blaster fire. He took out his own blaster and shot back, killing 5 guards. The blasterfire could be heard all throughout the space port. He returned the guards' fire and managed to wipe out 3 more. Naga jumped out of his hiding place and grabbed a guard. He used the guard as a shield and took out his saber. He decapitated 4 more guards. He threw the guard he held aside. Naga twirled his saber around, slaughtering guards here and there. Blood and organs alike sprayed around the room. Naga ducked behind a wall. Soldiers were shooting at him. He shot back and killed a few. He sensed UN in the elevator. Naga ran to it killing those who stood in his way. Naga signaled for his slaves to come in. They killed the remaining guards. There were some that wouldn't kill their own men, but Naga took care of them. The elevator door opened and UN stepped out.

Naga: "Boy am I glad to see you, so what do we do now?"

[Ezekiel Rage]

*as Rage began to wonder the SpacePort, he began to notice the lack of security. after minutes of roaming the SpacePort, he finally wound up at the elevator where UN and Naga were standing*

"so.. what now? i take it that some of the Bakuran rebels have left this place.. anyway, i'd say our mission is pretty much accomplished"

[Unknown Number]

*UN looks at the bloodly hallway*

Well, I take it you guys had some fun. We ACTALLY managed to secure the SpacePort without destorying it! Hope that make Summoner happy! Speaking of which, we better get on the commlink with Summoner. Knowing him, He'll want a report on our stat's.

*UN walks into the hallway, making his feet all bloodly. UN looks at Naga*

Sort of over did it don't ya think? :)

*Wipe the blood off his feet with the wall*

[Ezekiel Rage]

*accidentally slides on the bloody floor while trying to follow UN.*

"damn Naga.. you REALLY had to mess this place up! heh.. well you're gonna clean this up :p "

*opens comm. link to Summs*

"hey compadre! mission complete. anything else to do?[/i]

[Big Bad Naga]

Cleans the blood offa himself.

Yeah sorry about that guys, I just can't resist killing.


Looks around

Wow I really did make a mess of this place.

[Sith Kat]

INSIDE THE MANSION -

:: Avagdu pushes his way in as they enter, trotting down the hallway ahead of them. Kat rushes forward as a guard spots the wolf and unleashes a volley of shuriken as he takes aim. The man cries out as they riddle his chest, causing him to misfire as Avagdu takes him down ::

[Dalethria Mal Pannis]

Dalethria steps up next to her Sister as she senses that another guard is coming around the corner. She can tell by his thoughts he is preparing to open fire immediately.

She throws the knife from her hand, and right as the guard comes around, the knife imbeds itself into his neck. He drops his rifle and foolishly covers his throat to try and stop the bleeding. She points to the left from where the guards came. Avagdu heads off into the lead as Kat and Dalethria step over the dead guards and follow suit.

[Sith Kat]

:: Kat stands over the bodies of the fallen guards, channeling the force to link with Avagdu's mind. Sees through his eyes, sensing his surroundings as she follows Dale. She picks up the scent of another guard and releases her sith dagger. It speeds through the air like an insect, imbedding itself in his heart as she strides forward ::

[Dalethria Mal Pannis]

Dalethria pulls out another knife as Avagdu runs down the hallway. She and Kat quickly follow as they hear the gurgled scream of another guard. As they come around the corner, Avagdu is licking his muzzle clean of fresh blood, the guards body laying motionless at his side. Dalethria smiles and sends her thoughts through the Force.

This next turn is the main hallway to her office. Should only be two guards there.

[Ogre Mal Pannis]

As Ogre and his small group of troops approached the graveyard they were startled by the sound of roaring engines. The group looked up to the sky and saw that quite the large number of Bakuran vessels, of all shapes and sizes appeared to be making a hasty retreat from the surface of the planet. Some of the craft appeared to be civilian, while others looked as if they were military, but all of them were ignoring the party of Sith troops on the ground, streaking upwards into the sky.

Ogre chuckled and said to his troops.

“Looks as if we are winning the battle and a retreat has been called by those we intend to oppress here. I hope our Fleet Commander is wise and prepared enough to capture as many of them as possible.”

He nodded his head and continued.

“I’m sure he is, as he knows as well as I that a planet without slaves isn’t all that much good to us.”

They small party of troops and their large green commanding officer found the graveyard to be intact for the most part and Ogre himself broke away from the group to inspect a particular site that bore the name Tarkin. He smiled and nodded his approval as he was greeted by the site of it being intact and unharmed by the stray blasts from the battle, which had caused fires to litter the land around them.

[Admiral Cureatz]

**The battle was well in hand... Dark Omen and her escorts had made fairly quick work of the Rebel cruisers and transports... the assault on The Sentinal was almost complete and looked to be successful... the other Bakuran capital ships were crippled or destroyed and were being finished off by the massive amount of fighters in the battle area... Cureatz was about to retire to his office just off of the bridge when the tactical officer yells out...**

Tac: Sir we have a massive exodus off the planet...

How many???

Tac: looks like about 100 ships of varying sizes from fighters to transports...

**Cureatz thinks for a moment**100??? where the did they hide those from us???

Radio the TIE's... i want the fighters destroyed and any vessel capable of carrying people disabled...

Tac: Sir do you know how many ships that is???

Do you know how many slaves those are on those ships??? now DO IT or i'll have you removed...

Tac:*with a shaky voice* Y-yes S-sir...

**within seconds of recieving orders almost every TIE and gunboat turned their attention to the evactuating vessels... the few remaining fighters remained to help the Star Destroyers finish off the Bakuran capital ships**

[Marc Tarkin]

Aboard the Imperial Star Destroyer Euphraties, navigating through hyperspace, its commanding officer, Grand Admiral Myfsto Par D’an contemplated the mission on which they had been ordered. They were to proceed to the planet of Bakura and investigate the disturbance they learned of, when the Empire had intercepted a distress call to the New Republic from a Bakuran capital ship that had left what was conveyed as a fierce battle.

The Empire had an interest in this planet. It was an inexpensive supplier of repulsor lifts, which the Empire used widely in their smaller space craft designs. There was not enough information in the message to know whether or not the invaders were allies to the Empire, enemies, or worst of all, renegades. Surely the Rebel Alliance could not be involved as the Bakuran’s had been requesting New Republic aid.

A bridge officer stepped before Grand Admiral D’an, saluted him and stood awaiting acknowledgement so that he may speak to his commander. D’an looked up at the bridge officer and nodded his acknowledgement. The officer proceeded to tell the Admiral that they would be exiting hyperspace in just a few minutes and that they would be near enough to the planet to ascertain the designation of the invading ships. D’an nodded in approval and pressed the activation button of the communication unit on the console in front of him.

“Major?” The words came from his mouth in a demanding tone, and he was met with the reply of what sounded to be a young officer. “Yes General?” D’an’s voice eased slightly in its tone, but still had the pang of an officer issuing orders, which is exactly what he was doing. “Be prepared to lead a few squadrons of Tie Phanotms out to investigate the scene we are currently approaching. If the invaders of this world are our enemies, I want your regiment to be in position to attack them by surprise.” The reply came from the Major quickly and confidently. “Yes sir, we will be ready to launch on your order.”

The Major stepped away from the communications console in his quarters and moved over toward the fresher checking to make sure his uniform was prim and proper. He looked at his reflection, thinking to himself. Finally some action. Its about time the Empire put some trust in me, though I do prefer ground based maneuvers, I’ll take whatever they give me at this point. He walked back over to the communication console and activated the public address system in the pilots quarters.

“This is Major Marc Tarkin, all Phantom pilots report to your ships and prepare for launch. A short briefing of mission parameters will be held on the flight deck.” With his orders issued the Major exited his quarters with a data pad in hand and headed to the flight deck to make sure all was prepared.

Back on the bridge, D’an walked long the railing above all the officers manning their respective positions. He stopped and faced front as the ship exited hyperspace. Looking through the front viewport as the streaking stars slowed and became pinpoints before him, he could see what appeared to be a raging struggle between literally thousands of starships.

His eyes grew wide and he barked an order, to the Navigation officer. “Prepare to re enter hyperspace.” He then turned to the officer he was standing behind and spoke in a quieter tone. “Well, who are the invaders?” The officer looked up from his many screens, which displayed various scans of the area of space, and replied nervously. “They are Sith sir. A very large fleet of them in fact.” The Admiral responded quickly with an irritated tone in his voice. “I can see that their numbers are great, that is quite obvious.”

D’an mulled over the situation and concluded that they must leave the sector and not raise the ire of their evil and ruthless allies. From now on the Empire would either have to manufacture their own repulsor lifts or pay what would probably be a much higher price to the Sith who were obviously about to conquer Bakura. He looked over to the navigation officer, who had been looking in his direction awaiting further orders. D’an nodded and said. “Take us back home, there is nothing for us here.”

With that said the Navigation officer responded in the affirmative. And the ISD made its turn and darted back into the folds of hyperspace with a flash of light. Admiral D’an walked back over to the communication panel and called down to the flight deck. “Stand down Major, this situation does not require our intervention.”

Major Tarkin stood on the flight deck, listening to the order to return to their quarters, trying to hide the look of disappointment on his face. He was disappointed that he would not be able to prove his worth to the Empire on this day, but he took comfort knowing that soon, he would have his opportunity. For there was a mission on Courascant that he had heard rumblings about and he knew that he was being considered as one of the people to be involved in that mission, and best of all, it was planned as a ground based operation.

[Admiral Cureatz]

Tac: Admiral...

WHAT???

**Cureatz turned and snaped at the tactical officer who was starting to wear on his nerves**

Tac: Sir sensors just recorded something odd...

Do you have anything better than "ODD"???

Tac: An Imperial Star Destroyer just dropped into the system and then jumped out just as quickly...

An Imperial??? Did you get the designation of the SD???

Tac: No sir... we hardly had time to determine that it was imperial...

Very well carry on...

**Cureatz returns to watching his fighters make short work of their missions while thoughts of why an Imperial capital ship would be in this system... he made a mental note that he would have to send a message about it to Summoner...**

[Trace Sha]

:: The team of troopers takes out the guards at the main entrance of the Repulsorlift Component Factory, with ease. Only one of their own number sustains any wounds from the brief firefight. Trace and the other group of troopers look on waiting to see if the attack would prompt any other military response.

Looking through the micro-binoculars, Trace sees that there is no further response and with a wave of his arm, as he lowers his range viewing equipment, and he and the rest of the team of troopers move toward the facility, with weapons drawn. Once they all gather at the main entrance, Trace and 4 of the troopers enter and begin a visual inspection of the facility and find that it has been abandoned. ::

“Looks like we missed the party.”

:: Trace takes his communications pad from his belt and sends a message up to the Admiral. Stating that the primary Repulsorlift Component Factory is now under their control. After relaying the message he switches channels and orders all the other troopers to make a thorough inspection of the entire area, while they await further orders from command. ::

[Darth Renegade]

The Fallen Angel arrives, the roar of it's jets booming through the air, as it lands near me. I run over to it quickly. As soon as I'm aboard, I begin to take off again, using the becon call to guide the ship up, as I sit in the pilot's chair, and take the control, powering up both the shields and the ion cannons.

Come on baby, let's get going. We got a shuttle to catch

I lean forward and turn the anti-gravs on full power, and set for maximum speed as I leave the planet's atmosphere. I switch to the engines and rush forward into the fight again. Blasts come out of no wheres as I fly through the battle. Unshaken by everything that is happening around me, I set the sensors to find the EVAC shuttle, as I begin powering up the tractor beam emplacement.

Come on. Where are you?? I know you're out here

I lean forward again and casully flick another switch on the console, and open up the comm, and set it to Summs frequency.

Master, I'm in a high orbit now patrolling the area looking for the EVAC shuttle that escaped me. I've got ions powered up, so I can disable it, however, I will need a bigger ship to capture it, or a boarding crew to capture the senators.

[Sith Kat]

INSIDE THE MANSION -

:: Kat stops dead in her tracks, still linked to Avagdu's senses as the wolf looks down the hallway warily ::

[Dalethria Mal Pannis]

Dalethria peers around the corner and sees not two guards, but four. Two are talking to each other and the other two are on edge and very alert.

"Damn ..." she swears under her breath. She turns around and grabs a blaster rifle off one of the dead guards and clips her sabre.

"Screw this subtle crap." Dalethria brings the rifle to her chest and takes a deep breath. Spinning around, she faces the four guards. The two alert ones level their guns to open fire, but Dalethria is faster and blasts them away.

The others are scrambling to get to their own weapons.

[Sniper Tondry]

The lift doors open and Tondry steps out into the open air, shouldering his backpack and rifle. He absently tosses a grenade behind him into the lift and continues forward, taking in the sounds of small-scale firefights in the distance.

His work here was almost complete. Isard and her cruel little brain had determined that a Sith attack was the perfect cover under which to cause some constructive torture, not to mention recover some coveted repulsorlift and HIMS blowout coil technology.

The military archives had been helpful in that regard, although all he'd managed to get of the HIMS technology was an older model.

But torture was the main objective, and the furtherence of that goal meant the death of some New Republic senators.

Breaking out his portable comm device, he set the signal for wideband and picked up the microphone.

"Attention, any maneuverable ships. My code name is Jinx and I require some transport. I can give you some info on escaping Bakurans in return. If you want it, meet me at the source of this transmission."

[Sith Kat]

:: Kat invades the mind of one of the guards as he draws his weapon and fires, blasting half of his partner's face away. Her eyes flash over gold as she sinks her teeth into his throat and rips it out. She turns to look at Dalethria, her face smeared with hot blood and licks her lips ::

[Dalethria Mal Pannis]

Dalethria looks from Kat and then her eyes focus on the double doors in front of her. She channels the hate and anger through her and kicks down the door with no problem.

Gaeriel stands up from her desk in shock as her husband, Pter gets in front of her, pulling his blaster. Dalethria throws away the rifle and quickly ignites her sabre to parry the blaster bolts coming at her. The red bolts ricochet off and blast into one guard, the other bolts burn there way into the wall.

[Darth Renegade]

As I fly through the battlefield searching for the EVAC shuttle, an urgent message is played across the Comm network, almost startling me, as I was in deep concentration attempting to locate the shuttle. Then I hear

"Attention, any maneuverable ships. My code name is Jinx and I require some transport. I can give you some info on escaping Bakurans in return. If you want it, meet me at the source of this transmission."

As the message ends, I am surprised by the voice coming over the net, I begin to think to myself.

Escaping Bakurans? Could those be the ones I'm looking for? This is gonna be a big risk. It'd better pay off or it's my @ss

Reaching forward, I open my comm frequency up and reply hastily, as I trace the source of the transmission and lock in a course.

"Roger that Jinx, the Fallen Angel is on her way for immediate extraction. ETA is approx 5 mins"

I then lean forward and change the frequency to that of Summs again, almost dreading telling him, I'm going back down to the planet.

"Master, I've received a transmission from the planet and I'm heading back down to check it out. He may have some information on my lost senators. I will keep you updated"

I quickly turn off the comm not waiting for a reply from Summs, knowing that I'm in for it as it is when I get back for letting the shuttle even take off. I open the throttle up all the way, and descend to the planet at maximum speed, the nose of my ship already turning a little red from the heat of reentering the atmosphere

[Sith Summoner]

**Sums was bored... nothing was really happening on the ground except moping up the remaining Bakuran forces... noticing the comm officer standing behind and to the left of him... turning around he addresses the officer...**

Yes what is it???

comm: Sir i have a couple reports for you...

Alright lets hear them...

Comm: the first is from Admiral Cureatz... he reports that the battle is almost won... there was a mass exodus of Bakuran vessels from the surface about 30 minutes ago but they have all been stopped or destroyed... the fleet is currently recovering all the ships and taking prisoners...

Excellent... anything else from Cureatz???

Comm: Yes sir... he reports that an Imperial Star Destroyer jumped into the system but left just as quickly...

Imperial??? what did they want i wonder...

Comm: Sir the other two message is from Warrior Renegade...

Two??

Comm: yes sir... the first one he reported that he was going after the shuttle carrying the Bakuran Senators... but in the second message he reported that he recieved a transmission from the ground and was going to investigate...

He did WHAT???

**Sums dismissed the comm officer as thoughts started filling his mind... why were the Imp's here... what the hell was Renegade thinking... unfortunately he couldn't find the answers to any of them...**

[Unknown Number]

*UN folds his arms and turns his head toward Rage and Naga*

Hey guys? Did you already sent a message to Summoner? I thought we'd get a response by now from him!

*The comm link on UN's arm starts glowing*

"Absolution calling UN. Are you there?"

UN here. What is it Aero?

Aero- I thought I'd tell you sir, but, a Imperial ship was spotted just a moment ago on our scanners. But, before we could get it's ship name, it went back into hyperwarp.

UN- That's strange. What are Imperials doing here?

*UN shakes his head*

Nevermind. Least there gone. Just keep on guard okay?

Aero- Yes sir.

*UN shuts off the comm link*

Where's Summoner? I need the next mission posthaste!

[Darth Renegade]

The ship shake violently under the stress of reentry, as I swoop through the atmosphere at maximum speed. I begin to question my sanity, wondering what was going through my head when I decided to come back down to the planet.

I'm definately in for it when I get back. THis had better pay off for me, other wise, my head will be out on that bridge

My hands move deftly across the control panel, getting more and more used to my new ships controls and switches. I reopen the comm, however leaving it only open to the frequency of the channel from the message on the planet.

Just in case, something else comes through

The Fallen Angel moves quickly through the sky, roaring over top of the city, as I fly to where the computer tells me the communication originated from. I set it down easily and step out, a blaster in hand, as I look around for the mysterious person.

This is where it came from. Where is he???

[Sniper Tondry]

Pierce watches the Sith as he steps out of his ship. He is a Sith, that much is obvious. The air he exudes is proof enough.

Two quick steps out of the alley puts him in view. The Sith's blaster swivels, tracking his movement despite the ysalamiri on his back. "I'm Jinx," Pierce replies. "Let's go."

The Sith's face shows a lack of trust. "There's no time to play games," Pierce cut the Sith off. "I know the exact frequency of the Bakuran homing transmitter, and there's a trick to get a comm echo. We'll have your lost senators in no time."

"And to answer the question you're about to ask," Pierce added, heading towards the ship. "I know about your search for the Senators because I know a lot of things. Oh, and you can tell the leader of your assault- Summoner, I believe his name is- that from one sniper to another, he's not a bad fighter."

Edit: Changed ship to Sith in the first paragraph.

[Sith Kat]

INSIDE THE MANSION -

:: Kat springs to one side and ignites her sabre. Pter screams as his legs are severed behind the knees and falls to the floor. Avagdu finishes him as Kat watches with a child-like expression, her face still dripping with blood ::

[Dalethria Mal Pannis]

The two guards that are left come straight at Dalethria. She thinks them stupid, but if they wish to throw their lives away, who is she to argue.

She spins on her heel as her blade moves around her body and impales the guard in the back. Igniting her other blade, she turns her waist and cleaves the other man's arm off. He falls to the ground in agony. Dalethria turns her head to stare at Gaeriel. The Prime Minister is standing up behind her desk. Her skin is two shades lighter then pale as she is in total shock to what has happened before her eyes in such a short time.

Dalethria leaps up and crouches on the desk and quickly pulls Gaeriel to her by the hair. The purple blade lingers dangerously close to cutting into her neck. "I loved this world as much as you do and it betrayed me!"

The grip on Gaeriel's hair tightens, "Are you prepared to share in the punishment of your world?" With a sneer, Dalethria motions her hand with the sabre ...

[Darth Renegade]

Looking over the warrior before me with skeptical eyes, keeping the blaster ready at my side pointed at him, thikning, and choosing my words carefully before speaking.

Very well then, but before we go anywhere, you're taking that thing off your back. I am not going anywhere's with the disadvantage.

I lower the blaster for a split second to adjust the controls on my arm, activating the becon call. The engines on the Fallen Angel begin to power up once more, the ship being primed for launch. The blaster comes back up at my side, ready, aimed directly at the mysterious figure once more,

So what's it gonna be Jinx?

[Ezekiel Rage]

*looks at UN while he was having his conversation with Aero. bored, he began to twirl his blue LS with his fingers. he became mesmorized by it's blue blade leaving a blue blur while spining..*

Ezra-... trippy..
UN- what?
Ezra- i said it was trippy.
BBN- hmm.. yeah, LS can do that..
UN- eh??
Ezra- my blade--when i was spinning it, i spaced out
UN- oh...
BBN- anyway, any news from Summs?
UN- nope. nada.
Ezra- figures.. we'll just end up stranded here at the Spaceport! i bet the whole 'kit-and-kaboodle' will be all done and over with before Summs contacts us again! worse yet, i bet everyone will forget about us!! oh yeah! i can see it..
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Summs- gee gosh golly willikers!! i forgot about Rage, BBN, and UN! oh drats.. well, i better contact them-- OOHH! my new ship came in!! oh baby! i better check it out

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UN- you don't have to over-dramatize..
Ezra- who? me?!
BBN- who else?!
Ezra- ahh.. c'mon! i'm just livin' this baby up!


(ooc: no offense to UN, BBN, or Summs. i didn't mean to change your character personality in any way. i was just bored and saw that i haven't posted in awhile, so i decided to try a comedic approach. whether it's funny or not, i liked it! :p )

[Unknown Number]

OOC- NP. Long as you didn't make us fight. :lol:

IC- *UN makes his Doom Scythe disappear and makes his Masamune appear. He begins to carves his Initals into the side of the wall*

Rage- Wat are you doing UN?

UN- Oh, just carving my name into the wall so people know that I was here. Maybe you guysshould carve your names in too so people know that we conjoured this place.

[Sith Summoner]

**Rage, UN, and BBN finally recieve a message from Sums and reads as follows**

[i]As soon as all resistance at the spaceport is desposed of you are free to join the mop up of Bakuran military forces or depart the planet... You have my thanks on a job well done...**

[Unknown Number]

Mop up or leave. which one guys?

[Sniper Tondry]

Pierce gazes levelly at Renegade. "I can see from your face that you're not kidding, so I'll make this clear: this is my gear. I don't go anywhere without it, and if you lose those Senators, you're the one who gets it, not me. I'm offering assistance because I don't like Rebel-supporting kritches any more than Sith do, but if you want to play at being in charge, you're gonna have to do it without me."

Edit: HTML! *Grump.*

[Darth Renegade]

I stand silently, staring directly at Pierce, attempting to get a better read on him, however failing to due so, due to the ysalarmi on his back, blocking my force powers. Standing my ground for a minute more, as I finally decide that he's not going to concede any ground to me, and that I really have to get those remaining senators, I lower my blaster slowly, before speaking dryly.

Very well then Jinx, let's move. Anything funny goes down, you're going to find yourself floating home

I stand aside, letting Pierce have a clear path to my ship.

[Mari Bean]

*Mari sighs as she completes her search of the Senate chambers. She lifts her wrist and speaks into the commlink:

The Senate Chanmbers have been completely evacuated. No senators have stayed behind. I am awaiting new orders...

A loud crash from down the hall grabs her attention. She pulls out her pistol and leaps behind a corner, peering around to see what caused the noise.*

[Big Bad Naga]

*Looks at UN*

Naga: Unfortunately, I must leave for Bothawui. I'm gonna get away from it all for a while. (Little did he know what awaited him there. For more details, check out On The Stroke of Midnight (http://pub2.ezboard.com/fswvstitanicfrm13.showMessage?topicID=68.topic))Go odbye my friends. I will see you all soon. You guys can split my P.O.W.S amongst yourselves. Farewell.

*Naga gave both Sith a hand shake and boarded his TIE Interceptor. He left somewhat abruptedly. His modified Interceptor was installed with a hyperdrive, so he left, heading straight for Bothawui.*

[Ezekiel Rage]

*waits till Naga is long gone, and then turns his attention back to UN*

"well, i'm gonna 'mop up' :evil: you comin?"

[Sniper Tondry]

"One thing you're gonna learn about me is that I respect other people's ships," Tondry replied. "Think me weak if you want, but that's how I am. Owners first."

Renegade heads into his ship with Tondry close behind. The two of them reach the cockpit and Renegade sits down. "Okay, here's what you do," Pierce instructs as the pilot starts lifting off. "Set one channel to the AM frequency of 1576.8; that's the Bakuran comm frequency. Open a separate widecast channel and broadcast anything you want- set it up to repeat. Then tune the other channel back in and listen for the sound of a homing beacon. Could be anything- a beep, a ping, anything. Get another source to get a fix on its' direction, compare it with your own readings, and you've got them."

[Unknown Number]

Well, looks like your on your own again Rage. I too got something to handle. Somewhat of a personal mission.

*Calls for the Absolution*

Sorry to leave rather early but mopping up is not my style. I prefer action face to face. See yeah back at SE Rage.

*Absolution comes in*

That is, after I finish something else.....Good luck to yeah Rage!

*UN boards the Absolution and it begins to asenced into the sky and out of the atmosphere*

Activate Light Speed.

*The Absolution flys off in a blur and breaks the fabric of space toward his other goal*

[Ezekiel Rage]

*gives off a smug look and then finally waves UN goodbye*

bah! the whole neighborhood just left! :/ let's see.. i'm at the Spaceport.. gee, what else can i do..

*Ezra began to walk out of the Spaceport. he looked around the entrance area. troops and prisoners were all sitting down. Ezra contacted Summs*

Hey Summs, Ezra here. well, looks like i'm all alone right now. anything i can do? or is there nothing left to do? of not, i'll just cruise off on my new 'ride' :evil:

[R27 D9]

**On board the Dauntless, still in one of the hangar bays of the SoSD Nuriko, R27 receives a signal from Ogre and makes preparations to depart. All repairs having been completed and provisions re-supplied, R27 requests clearance to disembark, and pilots the craft out of the mammoth ship and into the depths of space, pointing once again towards the world of Bakura, homing in on the co-ordinates provided by his Master.**

[Darth Renegade]

I listen intently to the instructions given to me by Piirce, following them perfectly. The Fallen Angel flies quickly through the atmosphere. We move rapidly through the silent depths of space, flying effortlessly around the other ships still in orbit of Bakura. I turn to Pierce, with a sly smile appearing on my face.

A small chuckle escapes me "I'm not sure I even want to know how you knew to do that. So where are you headed, anyway?"

I turn back to facing straight ahead, seemingly keeping one eye trained on Pierce, so as not to be surprised by anything, all while monitoring the open channel, waiting for that one sound that will lead me directly to the senators.

[Sniper Tondry]

Pierce rubbed his chin absently, his eyes concentrating on scanning the viewport for the vanished Bakurans. "I'm headed for Ord Mantell after this. Business to take care of."

"And what're you going to do after this?"

As Renegade ponders the answer, a quiet beep comes from the comm. "Looks like we've got a fish," Pierce remarks.

[Darth Renegade]

I look over at Pierce with a confused look, wondering what he's talking about.

huh?

I shake my head slowly, as I realize what he means. I immediately reach to the controls, setting in an intercept course for the escaping ship. I quickly adjust the speed, and turn to Pierce

Brace yourself, I've got a SLAM system installed here

As soon as I'm done speaking, the SLAMs are engaged and the Fallen Angel darts off forward, making up precious ground. Both passengers are thrust back into their seat, before the artificial gravity compensates for the extra G's placed upon our bodies. I turn to Pierce again

So what do you know about their ship? They don't have hyperdrives do that?

[Lady Diamante]

:: The medical facility is completely secure, and Dia and Dara are awaiting further orders. In the mean time, however, they have taken up residence at the nurse's station. Dia is sitting in a chair, her feet propped up on the edge of one of the small desks. Dara is setting on the counter, her feet dangling slightly over the edge. Suddenly, an irritating buzz fills the room, indicating an incoming transmission. Dia hits the toggle switch to open the channel. ::

*In a pleasant sort of voice* "Medical facility, Dr. Diamante speaking. How can I help you?"

:: The voice on the other line crackles in reply, describing an mild injury. ::

"Oh, dear," Dia says in a mock-concerned voice. "That sounds serious, sir. You should come in right away."

:: After receiving assurances that he would be soon, Dia closes the channel and turns to Dara. ::

"Well, Dr. Shadowtide, it sounds as if we've another patient on the way."

:: The women look at each, then each breaks out in an evil grin. They begin discussing possible courses of action to "aid" this poor man. Upon his arrival, Dia escorts him to an empty room and begins talking to him about his injury. ::

"Well, sir, I'm afraid there's not much we can do except to make you as comfortable as possible. If you'll just wait here, Dr. Shadowtide, my partner, will be in shortly to give you something to ease the pain."

:: The man stutters his gratitude as Dia leaves the room. Standing just outside the open doorway, Dia turns to Dara, who is off to the side and out of the "patient's" line of sight. ::

*With feigned concern* "Dr. Shadowtide, I think this man needs your help. He's in a lot of pain. Can't you do something to ease his pain?"

*With a wicked grin on her face and equally feigned concern* "You know I'll do my best, Dr. Diamante."

:: Dara enters the room and closes the door behind her. Dia heads back to the nurse's station. Dara returns shortly, resumes her spot on the counter and sighs. ::

"You know, Dia, putting people out of their misery is such a rewarding experience. I'm so glad I decided to enter the medical field."

[Dara Shadowtide]

:: Dia and Dara smile, quite satisfied with their newfound professional medical careers. Dara looks around as if searching for something ::

Dia: "Dara, I really think you got them all. There's no one alive here but us now."

Dara: "Oh no, that's not what I am looking for. You know, after a hard day of killing Bakurians, you need something that hits the spot and... I'm hungry! I need some food!"

Dia: "Well I didn't really see a rations outlet in here anywhere but I did see a food warehouse down the street a little bit. Maybe we should do some shopping?"

:: Dara smiles ::

Dara: "I just love to shop. I am quite the bargain hunter actually. Let's go see what we can round up."

:: The two formidable sith women depart the now uninhabited medical facility on a mission for food. They walk with confidence along the abandoned street as they approach the warehouse. Dara gives the hold signal to Dia while she creeps up to the entrance. Looking inside, Dara sees that there are very few people around, which means one thing... no waiting in line today. :evil: Dara motions for Dia to join her as the two doctors enter the warehouse.

It is a quiet day in the warehouse as most of the townsfolk seem to have fled. The small number that remain are rushing around and grabbing some major food items as fast as they can. Dara speaks quietly to Dia ::

"Let's split up and evaluate the situation here and then meet on aisle 15 in ten minutes."

:: Dia nods and the two women part ways to explore the premises. Dara spots an middle aged man kneeling down to get an item off a lower shelf and she swiftly moves in behind him to grab him in a choke hold and break his neck. He falls lifeless to the ground. She then walks behind a couple and ignites her sabers into their backs. The smell of burning flesh permeates the air as they slide from her blades in a heap on the floor. More shoppers in the store meet with much the same fate until Dara and Dia meet up on aisle 15 ::

Dara: "Is there anyone left on your half of the store?"

Dia: "No, all the shoppers I ran into were shocked to death to see me. What about your half?"

:: Dara chuckles ::

Dara: "Nope, there's no one left alive in the store. So much for drumming up more patients for our medical facility. I guess the prices here were just 'to die for'. Some people just shop until they drop."

:: Dara shrugs as Dia laughs ::

Dara: "I need to send a transmission to TSE HQ and let them know the food warehouse is now open for business."

:: Dara smiles ::

[Ogre Mal Pannis]

He looked up from the gravesite and over to the troopers, who were more or less just standing around, looking up at the skies, watching it light up with the blue streaks of ion cannon fire. Ogre called out to them.

“Get a move on. There is work to be done here.”

A small droid followed behind the troops, carrying a pack loaded with excavation equipment, as they gathered around the big green Sith, he looked to them with a stoic expression, and issued his orders.

“I want this coffin exhumed from its place. We are to transport it off this planet. If any one of you so much as scratches its surface, then you will die by my hand.”

The troopers nod in their understanding and each of them takes a piece of equipment from the droid, while Ogre bends down by the headstone and carefully pulls it from the ground, his strength making it an easy task. He places the stone within a piece of protective plastic, he pulls from his pouch and tucks it under his arm as he watches the troopers begin to dig.

[Dalethria Mal Pannis]

Gaeriel says nothing, nor resists. Whatever her fate is to be, she shall face it without acting like a coward. Her world has been taken under Sith oppresion. Her people to be slaves. All their hard work to be handed over to their new rulers. Bakura is nothing now and she will be happy to receive the same fate. She can hear the blade humming closer to her head and she tightens her eyes closed, waiting. Before the blade comes slicing through the Prime Minister, Dalethria disengages her weapon.

With all the courage she has, Gaeriel looks up, "Why?"

Dalethria grabs the back of her neck and slides off the desk, clipping her sabre to her belt, "Because if I kill you, these slaves will have a martyr. I know how they look up to you."

She pushes Gaeriel past Avadgu, who snarls up at her as he stands, "I even looked up to you." Dalethria's hurt is betrayed in her eyes as Kat looks over at her sister. "You love your world so much that you'll share its fate. A slave to The Empire." Dalethria continues to lead the Prime Minister, along with Kat and Avagdu, out of the mansion in silence.

There is no resistance that tries to stop them. They are all dead or fled for those guards that were fortunate enough to not run into the Sith. Dalethria figures that Ogre should be by the graveyard by now and leads her group over in that direction.

Faces peek out of windows and doors as their last hope for a victory is paraded through the streets as a prisoner. Gaeriel can feel the eyes upon her, watching her every move. Her heart grows numb as her eyes fill with tears knowing that there is nothing that she can for her people anymore. This world survived an invading force from the Unknown Regions with the Empire's and The New Republic's help. Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia were here themselves with the aide of the Force. A belief that she feared deeply ... until a Jedi showed her that it might not be something to be afraid of.

She was foolish. All this evil and misguided hatred has destroyed her world.

The graveyard came into view and Dalethria weaved around the stones and found the markers she knew so well. In the distance, Kat and Dalethria could hear Ogre barking out orders to whatever Troopers were there. Her husband was the first to come into view, his tall stature looming over the tall monoliths as tiny wisps of hair blew about his face. She could her the sounds of grunting and dirt being shoveled as the scene fully came into view.

The Troopers were diligently working on exuming her mother's coffin while Ogre looked on. He turned to smile to his sister and wife, sensing their presence, and walked over to them. Dalethria shoved Gaeriel over in his direction with a look of satisfaction and then her eyes lit up in disbelief.

Laying near Ogre's feet was the headstone ... and it was restored! Her heart skipped a few beats as she swiftly walked over and kneeled before it. Her hands slid across the cool marbel and it was real. She wasn't imagining it. Everything was perfect. All the pieces were somehow fixed and put back together.

What really mattered was the lettering. She remembers when she chisled it herself so long ago.

Alysen Mal Pannis
Loving Mother of Dalethria Mal Pannis
May her Spirit Find the Way Home to her Family and Find the Peace for which she was Denied

She blinks away tears and looks up at her family, "How ... how is this possible?"

[Sniper Tondry]

"I would if I were fleeing," Pierce's lip twitches as Renegade begins to angle in towards the shuttle. It appears to be a modified luxury yacht- notorious for durability and hidden weapons, but not exactly the fastest craft in the galaxy.

It figures that the Senators would be escaping aboard something that embodies their lifestyle.

As Fallen Angel nears the enemy craft, Tondry gets a better read on it's make. The model is an Ubrikkian one, and Ubrikkian vessels range from decent and capable to above average. No known weaknesses, really, and this vessel appears to be sporting highly upgraded shields and several heavy turbolasers.

A nice little fight would put him in a good mood anyway, though.

"I'll get on the guns," Pierce says, unstrapping himself from the copilot's chair. "If you can keep us clear from their fire, I can disable that thing."

Renegade has apparently been reading their shield output himself, for a look of concern crosses his face. "Is that possible with this thing?"

Pierce chuckles. "Kid, when I'm involved, anything's possible. Just tell me how to get to gunnery and we'll make it happen."

[R27 D9]

:: The quiet graveyard is disrupted suddenly, as the sound of the engines of the Dauntless fill the air. Piloted by R27, the YT-2400’s landing struts lower and it sets down, about 15 meters from the excavation crew, crushing a few miscellaneous headstones beneath its weight. The boarding ramp lowers and the humming of the engines fades, as the ship awaits its cargo. ::

[Sith Summoner]

**It seemed like it was finally over... after 3 more days of minor scurmishes with pockets of resistance the planet of Bakura was firmly in the hands of TSE... Sums was recieving the final messages from his teams and sending back basic instructions... everyone was to meet at designated areas for extraction back to the fleet if they did not have their own personal ships on the ground... All of the Sith acknoledged and began preparing to head home... Sums turned to his comm officer and asked the same question he had been for the past couple days...

Anything from him yet???

Comm: No sir...

Damn... I'm going to have Renegade's head for this one... he better be thanking the maker that i can't fry his ass...

**Sums sighs**

Okay, send a message to the fleet to listen for anything from him and then start packing up... i'll use the SE net from now on...

Comm: Yes sir...

**The officer sent out the message and began to start packing things up... Sums got up and walked out of the temporary command center that he had spent what felt like an eternity in... Dusk was beginning to fall as Sums walked up to the top of a nearby hill and surveyed the planet that he had just helped to capture... unclipping a pair of micro-binocculars with light amplification off his belt he started to scan the horizon looking for something... when he finally stopped on what he was looking for he smiled... sitting on the ground was Dauntless... just beyond watching some troopers digging where Dale, Ogre and Kat... replacing the binocculars on his belt Sums keyed the throat mike that he was wearing on this mission instead of his helmet...**

Lordess Dalethria, this is Summoner... I am pleased to report that Bakura is now in the hands or The Sith Empire... I have ordered all of the troopers no longer needed to prepare to return to the fleet... the remaining Empire members on the groud will also be leaving... I will await further orders before departing myself...

**Sums stands and watches the last of the sun slide under the horizon as he waits for a response...**

[Darth Renegade]

The Sith casts quick glances between the ship outside and Pierce. Never before having seen Pierce in action, he doubts his ability somewhat. Pierce's over confidence only adds to the doubt. The Sith begins thinking to himself.

This guy seems pretty sure of himself. Although he did know how to find the shuttle. Maybe he has reason to think highly of his abilities

The Sith turns to face Pierce with a little uncertainty showing on his face.

" Alright. Just head back down the hallway about 19 feet or so and you'll see a ladder. Go up into the pod and you'll have control of the lasers, ion and the missiles. You disable them and nothing will touch us. Don't screw this up. "

Without awaiting a response, the warrior turns his attention back to piloting the shuttle. He reaches out and casually flicks a switch disengaging the SLAMs. He adjusts the speed of the Fallen Angel and comes in behind the shuttle.

[Mari Bean]

*Mari peeks around the corner to see a piece of rubble blocking the hallway. She sighs and turns, starting to head out again.*

"They don't need me... I'm not doing much anyways...

*Despite being almost certain that the senate chambers were deserted, she stays on her guard, not willing to be caught off it.*

[Ogre Mal Pannis]

Ogre looked at Dale and calmly answered with a smile. “It may have been the Sniper who had it fixed, seemed he had quite the vested interest in it when we met.” Before Dale could respond the roar of the Dauntles’ engines filled the air and Ogre turned to watch it land. He then looked back to the troopers and saw that they were almost done with the excavation, as now the top of the coffin could be seen.

Ogre sternly ordered the troops. “Don’t forget, even a simple scratch and it will mean your end.” The troops looked up at him and would most likely show their fear in their faces, if it weren’t for their helmets hiding their features beneath.

The troopers went about the business of lifting the coffin from its place, slowly and carefully, very aware of Master Ogre’s intentions if anything went wrong. Once they had it out, three of them formed up on each side and looked to Ogre. “Where did you want us to take it Sir?” Ogre replied quickly and pointed a clawed finger at his ship, just a short distance away. “There!”

The troopers began to move with it held by the group, around the three Sith they went, navigating through the rubble of shattered stone and foliage, from the battle this land had seen. As they moved away from Ogre, Dale, and Kat, one of the troopers in the back, stumbled over a piece of a headstone and lost his grip on the coffin. He fell to the ground and the corner of the coffin landed on top of him as the rest of them struggled to keep it from hitting the ground.

[Admiral Cureatz]

**A chorus of cheers arose from the bowels of The Nuriko as Cureatz informed the crew that the battle was over... all of the Bakuran vessels had either been destroyed or were in the proccess of being captured... all but that single capital ship that had escaped early in the campaign... Cureatz was smiling as he turned to the senior fighter commanders...**

Well done gentlemen... my final orders are this... do NOT inform you squadrons of any losses till we return to HQ... let them enjoy the victory...

**The commanders all nodded as they thought of those that were lost... there hadn't been many but they all knew that even one was to many... Cureatz gave them some final orders before dismissing them... for the first time in the battle he left the command deck and walked over to the tactical station and up behind the young ensign that had been there for the better part of the last three days...**

Report...

**The ensign not not realizing that he was there almost jumped out of his chair as Cureatz spoke...**

Tac: Sir there are no more active Bakuran vessels... capture operations on the larger frieghters and transports are underway, and the smaller ones are being tractored into the hanger bays...

Excellent... what about Sentinel???

Tac: She's our sir... a repair crew has just arrived and says the engins will be back online within 2 hours...

**Cureatz beams with the joy of his captured prize and its technology...**

That is the best news so far... here are your final instructions before i order you to take a break and get some rest... Send a message to D ark Omen thanking Master Rai for the assistance and telling her that she can take D ark Omen and her escorts along with The Yamato, Caspian, Nerthus and Odin’s Fire back to the HQ... the rest of the fleet will remain here with us... second... send a message to Sentinel tell the troopers there to transfer all of her Bakuran crew to Aegir and that we are sending a skeleton crew over to take comtrol... as soon as she can jump i want her out of the system... have Balder's Lance accompany her... third... the remaining ships are to drop to status 2 and wait for the return of all troops and SE members... when they have all of their compliment back onboard tell them to leave the system... have the Aegir begin transfering her prisoners back to the surface so they can start their new "jobs"... then she may leave also... we will stay till the very end...

Tac: Yes sir...

**Cureatz starts to walk away before turning to the ensign a last time...**

Oh... Good job by the way...

**The young ensign is lost for words and just smiles at the compliment from his CO...**

[Darth Renegade]

The Fallen Angel moves through space, slowly catching up to the senator's EVAC shuttle. The pilot increases the speed a little more, in an attempt to head the shuttle off, before they can jump to hyperspace. The Sith reaches over on to the control panel, and open the comm frequency, while thinking to himself.

Well, I'm in for it as it is, I might as well give Master some sort of update. Maybe he won't punish me too badly....

The comm comes to life, static the only thing being heard from it. The warrior adjusts the frequency and finally finds the HQ frequency. He clears his throat nervously before speaking.

"This is Renegade. I picked up a passenger from the planet and he's taken me to the senator's ship. I am in visual range now, and just about to engage them"

[Sniper Tondry]

Pierce jogs through the ship's corridor. He passes the gunnery station by accident and turns around, making a mental note to familiarize himself with more ship types when he has the time.

He steps into the firing station's chair and starts flicking switches to power up the weapon. He sights the Bakuran ship through his scope and smiles. ' At least the targeting package is standard,' he thinks.

To get an idea of the range, Pierce fires off a quick couple of bolts. Satisfied with the distance, he targets the Bakuran ship's dorsal wings and starts firing.

The Bakurans wake to their threat as the first bolts hit their shields. The pilot begins an awkward roll while some turbolasers extend from the craft's sides. Pierce flicks on the intercom to the cockpit. "You got any missiles or torpedos on this thing? Because penetrating the shields on that thing is gonna be a little difficult without a bit more muscle."

[Darth Renegade]

The first blasts of lasers, catches the Sith slightly off guard. He keeps piloting towards the shuttle. He hears a voice come over the intercom system of the ship. He reaches to his ear, pressing the earphone in more, so he can hear better.

" Yeah, I've got advanced torpedoes and advanced concussion missiles there. You've got ions and lasers, as you already know. Also got a tractor beam emplacement that you can control, if you need it. Just remember, we need to capture it "

The Sith warrior turns his attention back to taking evasive maneuvers, as the shuttle begins firing back at us. A few laser bolts hit us, but are absorbed by the shields. Seeing the precision of my new found ally, a new sense of confidence swarms through the dark warrior. He flies towards the shuttle, a little more aggressively, attempting to get in a better position for firing

[Dalethria Mal Pannis]

Dalethria looked up in thought as Ogre mentioned who could have fixed the headstone, "Tondry? That does make some sense ..."

She looked back down at the headstone. She carefully put the plastic covering around it. Dalethria turned her head at the sounds of yelling.

What she saw caused anger to swell so deep and so powerful that it was greater then her hatred for the Skywalkers.

"YOU IMBECILE!!!"

Dalethria covered the length between her and the trooper that dropped the coffin in less then a second. Her hand unclipped her sabre and ignited in the next second. The third second, the troopers head was sliced off his body before he could scream.

She stood up, lifting the coffin off the dead trooper. Her cold gaze looked upon the rest of the them and Dalethria said nothing. One trooper on the otherside came around and nodded to Dalethria. She stepped back and he took her place.

"Clean the edge off. I don't want his stench sullying my mother's memory."

"Yes Lordess Dalethria."

Taking a deep breath, Dalethria turned and walked back to stand by her husband and sister.

[Sith Kat]

:: Kat wanders over to the Trooper's decapitated head and kneels down to look into the lifeless eyes ::

"What were you thinking?"

:: She smiles, then frowns and walks away as the head bursts into flames. Only a blackened skull remains, staring into oblivion ::

[Ogre Mal Pannis]

The three Sith stand and watch as the troopers carry the coffin onboard the Dauntless, the color of the flaming head as it burns flicking an orange glow on each of their faces. Ogre pulls a Data-pad from his pouch and begins to tap on its display surface, signaling the remaining ships and troopers to begin slaving operations so that this world’s economy and resources may become assets of the Sith Empire and can further their own growth.

Construction crews begin space operations on the construction of three new fourty kilometer shipyards, in an orbit around the planet, as the majority of the First Fleet of TSE orbits Bakura, making sure that no more civilians attempt escape and no outside interlopers get involved in the affairs of the Sith who now control this world.

Finished with his transmission, Ogre puts the data-pad back in his pouch and turns to his Wife and Sister. “I believe our business is almost complete here. Time to see to it that…” He places a hand on Dale’s shoulder. “…your Mother’s remains are returned to our home on Meras.”

[Sniper Tondry]

Pierce searches through Renegade's controls, setting the targeter to auto-fire for the duration of his search. After testing several controls, he finds the one that controls projectile firing and retakes control of the cannons. "After I detonate these things, head for the shield emitter!" he warns Renegade over the intercom.

The first thing he does is make use of the ion cannons. He fires off several shots, a few of which hit. After the ionization takes what little effect it can against the armored vessel, Pierce lets off two salvos of two concussion missiles each. As they fly in, one of them is lost to a chance shot by weapons fire, but three will be enough.

When the first missile (now by itself) gets in range of the shuttle, Pierce detonates it remotely. The explosion shakes up the Bakuran shuttle, enough so that the second salvo manages to make it to the target.

Pierce remotely detonates them split seconds before impact.

Their effect is immediate, and impressive. The shuttle comes to a shuddering halt, then starts tumbling end over end. Chunks of armor plating and electrical wiring are spewed out from the damaged area, and a person in a mechanic's suit can be seen falling from the breach before it is sealed off by force fields and blast doors.

Meanwhile, Renegade has brought Pierce around to the shielding generator tower, no easy feat while the shuttle is tumbling out of control and firing weapons in a blind and frantic manner. With Renegade keeping his line of sight even, destroying the tower with the laser cannons is easy.

The instruments now show what Pierce already knows: the shuttle's defenses have just been cut in half. "Keeping flying around it," he instructs the Fallen Angel's pilot. "I'm gonna disable it a bit more, then we'll have it captured. And when we're done here, you can put me back on the ground. I've got some business to take care of down there."

"I copy," Renegade replies. The ship begins to perform slow loops around the Bakuran shuttle and Pierce pinpoint targets various weapons, comm arrays, and tractor emplacements before finally switching over to the ion cannons and dousing the crippled shuttle in crackling blue light to render it defenseless.

It hangs in space, motionless. Pierce chuckles at the fact that the shuttle's pilot managed to stop the ship's spin only to have it disabled. "That's it," he calls to the Fallen Angel's pilot, a man for whom Pierce has a new respect. "Get someone to send a detail and pick this thing up, because this battle is all over."

Edit: Kant speel.

[Dalethria Mal Pannis]

Dalethria watches Kat come back to the group and turns to look up at her husband, "Yes. No one better interfere in this journey or there'll be hell to pay."

Ogre nodded and smiled to what his wife said. He squeezed her shoulder in reassurance and walked over to the troopers, making sure another mishap will not happen again. She smiled watching Avagdu trod over to Kat and practically wrap himself around her legs. She blew out a breath of air, feeling the adrenaline return to a normal level in her body, her heart pounding at a more relax state. Dalethria finally recovered from what that idiot soldier did and could concentrate on her surroundings, sensing that there won't be any further problems with taking her mother offworld.

Dalethria eyes began to wander around the landscape, taking in the new sensations of being on Bakura. As a child, as Navaria, she enjoyed the peace and tranquility that this simple planet offered. Now, it brought a pleased smile to her lips that her information and lust for revenge was able to bring glory to her true home, The Sith Empire.

The hairs on the back of her neck stood on end as something was familiar. No, not something, but someone was watching. Trying to hide ... his presence. Yes, it was a man ... no, a young man who's innocence had been tainted. Reaching out through the distance between them, she knew he was hiding behind one of the larger headstones.

"Seath? So good of you to watch my triumph. I told you this world would suffer. I keep my promises."

She can feel his anger and it makes her high like a drug, the feeling so intoxicating. She sighed, "You despise me. Loathe me. Hold on to those feelings Seath, your going to hate me more."

Dalethria felt his fear and grinned. In a blur, she disappeared from Seath's sight and reappeared right next to him. She grabbed him by the collar and forced him to stand, "I have plans for you."

Seath snarled and tried to take a swing at the woman that killed his father. Dalethria didn't move. She only said one thing, "Sleep ..."

Seath couldn't stop his eyes from drooping or his body growing lethargic. His weight fully came down on Dalethria, but she used the Force to strengthen herself and carried Seath to the main area.

Unceremoniously, she dropped him before the troopers. They looked up in fear and stood at attention quickly, the dead troopers burning skull still fresh in their minds. Dalethria tilted her head and pointed at Seath, "He's special. I want him worked hard. Find a job that is suitable."

She looked at the troopers that were not moving from their spot, "Well ... what are you waiting for? GO!"

Two of the troopers went to Seath, each grabbing an arm and dragged him off to the main part of the city.

"You don't care what he does, just as long as he is broken." Dalethria turned and looked at Gaeriel, who finally had the nerve to speak. "Isn't that correct, Navaria?"

"You dare mock me now? When you lost your world, kneeling on the ground? YOU DARE?!"

Gaeriel made no move to stop the sudden slap across her face. She returned her gaze to the Sith in front of her with only the look of pity in her eyes. Dalethria stood there, wanting to kill her but she couldn't. That is what angered her the most. Gaeriel knew she wouldn't be killed and that made her feel she had some power over the situation. That is something that needed to be dealt with, but not today. Other things needed to be taken care of.

"Another time Prime Minister."

Dalethria motions for another trooper to come to her, "Take her to where the other slaves are being rounded up. Make sure to have her at a safe distance from them. We don't need her preaching to the masses."

The trooper saluted and pointed his rifle down at Gaeriel, motioning for her to rise. She stood up with no other acts of defiance, but her eyes fell to Dalethria's. Both women locked on each other's gaze and they both knew that another confrontation was going to happen again in the future.

Dalethria watched the trooper leave and made her way back to the ship. Finally, soon, all her family would be together.