Rapora War (Introductory RPG)

[ADarkJedi44]

OOC: I guess I have to improvise....

 

Darth Fury was right behind Venom. He drew both of his lightsabers and cut down droid after droid in a fit of rage. It was not enough. More and more droids and soldiers would be on their way. The goal of the mission would soon be impossible and they would both be captured. They could not escape, the starports would be locked down...

As he cut through another droid, Fury glanced in the direction of Darth Venom. He gave her a simple nod. She'll know what to do. Then he was off. With the aid of the Dark Side, he propelled himself into the sky. He ran as fast as he could, knowing he could not slow down or it was all a failure. He cut down anything that got in his way. He had a goal and he would stop at nothing to achieve it.

Venom would have to fend for herself. Hopefully, she would find a way to escape. At the very least she could keep part of the security force occupied while Darth Fury completed the mission. Fury himself wasn't quite sure of what he was doing. Droids and troops from all over were firing at him. Shren would doubtlessly be protected by a squad or two of droids/soldiers and perhaps a Jedi or two. What else can I do?

***

Evahe clutched at his blaster pistol. Dark Jedi being loose on the capitol of the GFFA was more than slightly unnverving. Nevertheless, their mission was now impossible. Teams were being deployed at all starports to prevent their escape. Of course, Shren was well protected and would soon be within the safe walls of the Intelligence building.

It was doubtful the Dark Jedi would give up easily. The teams being sent after them currently were only to delay them. The final defeat of the two would be quite an operation.

The Intelligence building came into sight...

[BadSamaritan]

OOC: Just to get myself into trouble...

 

IC: Seryk had heard the alarms, and then had found what they had meant. he cursed the GFFA security for taking away his lightsaber, and sprinted to the doors of the intelligence building. He had givien the intelligence people all he could during his short sessions, and they had let him go. As he ran down the corridors, he came across a pair of security officers, both of them with lightsabers on their belts. He recognized one of them as his. He reached out with his hands, and they both flew towards him. He though the other one had belonged to master skywalker, but he didnt think that Luke would mind, seeing as he wasnt here right now.

 

Seryk got to the main doors, and stoped just in front of them. He could see a man running towards the building at a blinding pace, lightsabers in both of his hands. Seryk pondered this for a moment, he had never duel-weilded weapons before, so this one would have an advantage of him. But then again, he had become quite good at improvizing during lightsaber fights, so he figured that at worst, he would only be able to hold him off untilmore people arrived. Seryk walked out the doors, and ignited both of the lightsabers.

 

The man came to a stop, and stared at him, wonder and confusement in his eyes. He tilteds his head to the aside, as if contemplating this new possible threat.

 

"A jedi? Wearing the armor of a mandalorian? Or is it a mandalorian, wearing weilding the weapons of the jedi? How interesting." the man said, slowly walking towards Seryk. Seryk brough one of the sabers into a low gaurd, the blade paralell to the ground, with the other blade held out farther, its tip pointed at the mans head.

 

"It doesnt matter, sith. You wont make it past. Ive faced your kind and won already, you wont be any different.:" Seryk said, confidence in his voice. The man laughed, and began to walk towards him.

 

"We shall see!" he said, as he lept at Seryk. Their blades clashed, and the fight was on.

 

*********************

 

Out on the far rim of the galaxy, near the very tip of one of the arms, a single ship flew silently towards a small planet. Boba fett turned on his scanners, and smiled, seing activity around the world. He could see a few small stations in orbit, and at least one small cruiser. Nestled almost inside a large nebula, the planet was invisible to all but those within sight of it, and hance,had been left alone for many years now. He himself had been here only once. And it was good that he was here, for this was just one step, in the many it would take to acheive his new goal. His comm system crackled, and a harsh voice came over it.

 

"Unidentified, ship, you are entering forbidden space, turn back now, or be destroyed." the voice said. Fett spoke into the comm, and recited a long list of numbers, letters, words, and symbols. For a moment, there was silence. But then, the voice came back, calmer this time.

 

"You are clear for entry. Welcome home." the voice said, and Fett smiled.

 

"Its good to be home." he said to himself. But he did have to wonder, if his welcome would be a long one, or a very short one. But only time would tell.

[ADarkJedi44]

OOC:Ack. Sorry about this, I really don't have the time to mess with you

 

The Mandalorian Jedi fought well. Darth Fury struck out aggresively but the Mandalorian managed to parry every one of his blows. Shren would soon be entering the building and his only chance to grasp victory from the jaws of defeat would fade away. I cannot afford to waste my time with this petty duel.

With his frustration increasing, Fury struck again and again. Each blow was more aggresive than the last. The Jedi continued to defend himself. Fury let his guard down as he continued to strike and a counterstrike by the Mandalorian sent him jumping back.

With one last charge, Darth Fury began a new series of blows. The Jedi seemed to be overwhelmed for a moment but he somehow managed to keep his composure. At last, Fury accepted he could not win the duel in time. He took a step back and released the onslaught of the Dark Side upon the Mandalorian Jedi.

"You fight well, but you are no match for the Dark Side."

The Jedi was thrown to the ground and temporarily immobolized. With a last glance, he set off anew. The last thing Seryk saw was the Dark Jedi cutting down two security guards as he rushed to intercept Shren.

 

OOC: You can come and chase me if you want...

[Stellar_Magic]

Darth Fury never saw Jacen coming, the sizzling blaze of brilliant blue lightning that shot through him dropping him down as he charged. He fell, his black cape pooling around him and smoke wafting up from it like a bellows. Darth Venom ran up beside her master and lifted her violet blade and let out a snarl, "Jedi Solo!"

 

Jacen smiled calmly as he drew Shren's lightsaber in his other hand and beckoned her forward, "I stand in your way."

 

Darth Venom whirrled her lightsaber blade slashing high and low, always being intercepted by either of the blades in Jacen's hands. As their blades locked again Jacen spun and hammered the side of Shren's lightsaber into Venom's temple, knocking her off balance and dropping her to the street.

 

Admiral Evahe dropped his booted foot onto her lightsaber hand and she let out a whimper of pain as he leveled the blaster pistol in his hand, "You're beaten, sith."

 

Darth Fury was on his feet once more, his double bladed lightsaber grasped in his hand. He rose a gauntleted fist and opened it sending a brilliant blast of red energy in Admiral Evahe knocking him from on top of Venom and throwing him into the crowd.

 

Behind Jacen, Shren reached out with the force to two of the dead security guards and pulled their blasters to her. She leveled them at Fury and triggered a long burst as another snap hiss echoed in the concourse. A silvery blade slashed toward fury and was knocked aside as Corran Horn stepped behind the sith.

 

Darth Fury hissed between his teeth, "Two Jedi! Venom, distract..."

 

A whine filled the air as the canted shape of the Raven's Claw halted over the plaza. Jacen smiled as a look of fear passed over both the sith's face, "It's a good thing I asked for help escorting Shren."

 

Then as the hatch of the ship slid open Kyle Katarn dropped down into the middle of the fight,

 

OOC: Sorry Fury, I can't let you kill her yet.

[ADarkJedi44]

OOC: I came halfway across the galaxy for nothing?

By the way, I carry two lightsabers rather than a double bladed one. Anyways...

 

Evahe picked gathered his wits together quickly and stood up. Before him were two Dark Jedi. They were overwhelmed and could not hope to hold out for much longer. The defeat of two Dark Jedi would be something the Rapora could not easily shake off....

He picked up his blaster pistol and joined Shren in firing.

***

Darth Fury's lightsabers whirled around in action. The situation was nearly hopless. There were already three Jedi and numerous droids and security officers. More would soon be arriving, probably including the Mandalorian Jedi. Killing Shren was impossible and escape seemed doubtful. There is no turning back now....

Venom was doing her best also but she was clearly outmatched. Taking on one of the Jedi Knights was hard enough, and there were three. Once again, rage built up inside Fury. He released the Dark Side and knocked over Kyle before he could officialy enter the fight. In a frenzy, he sliced at Jacen with both of his blades, cutting down a few droids and officers on his way.

Jacen fought well but even he had trouble withstanding the full wrath of Darth Fury. He took a few steps back and failed to get a single offensive strike in. Fury might have been able to accomplish something, if not for Venom's cries for help. He turned around and hit Corran with a blast of force lightning. The Jedi staggered back and Venom took the offensive.

By then, Jacen had fully recovered. When Fury began his attack again, he failed to accomplish anything. Offbalance, he jumped back to join Venom. Kyle was now charging at Venom. Fury got in between them and caught Kyle offguard. With a few furious blows, the Jedi was sent reeling back.

Fury sensed the Mandalorian Jedi was coming. For all of his effort, he had accomplished little. The odds were still stacked against him and with every moment any hope of escape was slowly vanishing. Soon, he would be dead or captured.

Only one thing can save me now....

[Mad78]

Tuvax was pulled out of his meditation by the sudden images appearing in his head.

A planet protected by mighty starships

A crowd gazing in astounishement at something.

Tuvax concertrated, using the force to see more.

Multiple droids and security officers surrounded a fight

Fighting were three Jedis and... His Master Tuvax nearly lost his conceretration.

The Master suddenly stopped fighting and looked at Tuvax straight into the eyes.

Only you can save me now

One these words thge vision ended. Tuvax leapt to his feet and switched his comlink

"Prepare my ship"

He left the room and sped towards the hangar. Once on board his Infiltrator he left the Hangar with such speed that he nearly collided with the front of the Kar Lur.

His Master needed him and he could not allow himself to loose time.

"Sire?" said a voice on the ships comlink. "May I inquire where you are going"

"Denon" Tuvax answered before jumping to Hyperspace.

[Stellar_Magic]

Darth Venom hissed between her teeth as her lightsaber leapt to deflect the blows from Corran's blade. Behind her she could sense her Master, Fury viscously fighting Jacen. His blade leaping to parry her master's strikes with striking ease. The snap hiss of a blue blade echoed in the nearly empty courtyard as a mandalorian stepped down the steps and lifted his blade in a salute at Darth Fury.

 

Fury saw him coming and somersaluted clear of Katarn and Solo in order to give himself space to engage the new foe. He twisted and let loose a volley of force lightning at the two and saw Katarn stagger as the bolts flashed across his back. Jacen rolled clear of the burst and brought his blade up in an on guard position.

 

Darth Venom backed away from Corran and smiled, knowing his greatest weakness. She grabbed his lightsaber with the force and twisted pushing his blade down to the ground. But Corran rotated his wrist and the attempt to pull the weapon from him failed.

 

Venom cursed as she kept backing up, her lightsaber leaping to parry his thrusts and reached out again and grabbed a blaster from the ground behind her. Clumsily she lifted the blaster in the air and triggered a volley of full automatic weapons fire as she charged at him.

 

Against most any other jedi the attack would have succeeded, instead it utterly failed. Corran knew her plan and didn't bother to block the bolts, instead her parried her thrust and as the blasts hit him absorbed the energy, smiling he abandoned all form and lifted his hand. A blaze of brilliant red energy flashed between them and knocked Venom to the ground, her face pink from the energy. She'd been knocked out of the fight for the moment.

[ADarkJedi44]

OOC: Tuvax, I'm going to assume that was a vision. If not...*gulp*

 

Fury's frenzy continued. Venom was in trouble and it seemed it was him against four Jedi Knights. He charged at the Mandalorian aggresivly. Distracted by the lightsaber blows, the Mandalorian never saw it coming. Fury struck him on the head with the bottom of his lightsaber. He proceeded to knock the lightsaber away from the Mandalorian.

He would have delivered the finishing blow, had Venom not needed immediate assistance. He jumped over and found himself protecting her unconscious body against three Jedi Knights. It was an impossible task. He knew he could not protect her for more than a moment but without her all hope was truely lost. Against four Jedi Knights and a ring of security droids and officer, Fury might as well give up.

One of Jacen's blows got past his guard. Time seemed to stand still as it came closer and closer to striking Darth Fury. So is this the end?

It was not. Seemingly out of nowhere, a red lightsaber blocked the stroke. Without looking, he know who it was. Darth Tuvax had arrived. Together, they held off the three Jedi. Venom was soon back on her feet. The battle was a stalemate.

It was evened up...for the moment.

[BadSamaritan]

Seryk quickly stood back up, and ran fro his saber. He picked it up from the ground, and turned back to the fight. He was astounded by what he saw. There were now three sith fighting, and he recognized one of them. Tis was getting out of hand. he quickly ran back to the fight, and threw himself into it.

 

Jacen, Corran, and Kyle now had their hands full with the sith, who was fighting furiously to defend himself. He saw Corran take a wicked kick to his chest, and fall backwards onto his back. Seryk steped in to take his place, his blades ignited. The sith saw him, and the female siths' eyes almost grew wide with fear. Seryk unleashed a quick series of attacks, the female sith barely managed to block them. Kyle summersaulted over the all of the siths' heads, and landed behind him, forcing the sith to fight on two fronts. Then Seryk sensed it. He quicklt turned, and blocked the blade from the female sith, whp had leaped over them all. He looked directly at her, and smiled. Corran was back up, and engaging the other two sith again, so Seryk decided to handle this one.

 

She unleashed a flurry of seemingly random swiped at him, which he easily deflected with his sabers. He then went on the offensive, and quickly forced her back. Seryk could see the look of anger on her faced, and he smiled. he pressed his attack, and found that this one was weak. She was quickly forced back by his attacks, and then, it was over. he caught her blade on one of his, and he swung his other balde, crashing it into hers. her lightsaber went flying off, and Seryk quickly raised both of his blades to her neck.

 

The sith woman stood there for a moment, an astonished look in her eyes. She had never expected to be beaten so easily. She composed herself, and then looked at Seryk, as if trying to stare through his helmet.

 

"Take off you helmet, warrior, and let me see the face of the one who has bested me. Allow me that honor." She said to him, and Seryk pondere this for a moment. he would have to drop his gaurd momentarily to take his helmet off. And, without his helmet, he would lose some vital protection. But something in her voice persuaded huim. he deactivated one of the sabers, and clipped it to his belt. he reached up, and began to remove the helmet. he suddenly heard a snap=hiss, and he ripped his helmety off, to see that the sith had called her saber back to her hands, and had raised it to strike him down. but instead, her swing had stopped in mid stroke. Her face was frozen, bu not in anger, or fear, but astonishment.

 

"You!" she said, lowering he blade. Seryk quickly ignited his other blade, and brought it up into a defensive position. he backed away from her slightly, andshook his head.

 

"Me? What about me?" he asked, confusion in his voice. Now he was confused. She had had the chance to kill him, but instead, had stopped just short, and was now starring at him. She suddenly deactivated her blade, and stepped back. She dropped her balde to the ground, and shook her head.

 

"I cannot fight you, warrior. Not after I have seen your face. I know who you are." she said, and she lowered her head to stare at the ground.

 

"What are you talking about?" Seryk asked, and he then heard a yell from behind him, he turned just n time to see the other two sith had broken free of the others, and was running towards him. He quickly raised his sabers in a defensive stance, and was nearly knocked aside by the force of the their blows. He went on the defensive, blocking the blows, and watyched as the rest of the jedi arrived, and surounded the sith. Seryk look over to the sith woman, and wondered why she did not join the fight. She simply stood there, and watched them. he looke d back to the Sith that they had surrounded, and he smiled. These two were now heavily out numbered, and clearly out-classed.

 

"Give it up, sith. You cannot win." Jacen said, and the sith looked over to him, and snarled.

 

"We will never surrender!" one said, and they launched the attack, and once again, began to fight them all. While this occured, the sith woman, picked up her saber, and turned to walk away. Seryk saw her do this, and wondered what was going on. But he dicided to question that later. he turned his attention back to the sith, who were fighting desperatly to find a way out of all of this.

[ADarkJedi44]

posting

[ADarkJedi44]

OOC: So Venom met her high school boyfriend? Oh joy...

 

The fighting dissolved into chaos. Venom was walking away strangely, while Tuvax and Fury continued to defend themselves. The Jedi seemed to be nearing victory while Evahe and Shren continued to fire their blasters into the frenzy. All the while droids and security officers were attempting to shoot the Dark Jedi.

Fury knew continuing the fight was futile. Through the force, he sent Tuvax a message. Where is your Infiltrator? Tuvax replied with a nod and jumped away from the fight. Fury called to Venom and followed. The Jedi immediatley pursued, being the only ones capable of doing so.

The Sith took advantage of the people on the streets. For the Jedi they were obstacles. The Sith cut down anything that got in their way. Through the Force, Tuvax indicated the Infiltrator was not far away. It was good to know, for the Jedi were catching up fast.

Jacen leaped up and came down right behind Fury. Propelling himself into the air, Fury shot a blast of Force Lightning at him. Jacen was immobolized for a moment. Fury turned back, hoping to see the Sith Infiltrator appear any moment.

Tuvax shot him a glance and nodded. It will not be long now...

[Stellar_Magic]

"This is Blackmoon Lead to control, I've got a contact on my active sensors, bearing one-two-four mark eight," Captain Galin Ceric starred down at the sensor display of the Skipray blast boat, "You still got this contact Dex?"

 

"Yep, right on those bearings," Dex Ailen, the Devorian Sensor operator nodded at the display.

 

"Control to Blackmoon Lead, you're go for a run to see what it is."

 

"Roger, moving onto the vector, accelerating to full," The Skipray blastboat rumbled through the turn, then shot forward burning through space. Galin leaned forward as his craft angled toward the atmosphere. Then as a rumble of flame from reentry appeared the ship became visible, "Control it looks like we've got a craft attempting to infiltrate into the atmosphere, requesting orders?"

 

"The Global Deflectors are down for repairs, Blackmoon Lead. This is a time fo war, you're to try and force the craft to land or exit atmosphere, is that clear?"

 

"Crystal clear, Blackmoon Lead to Two, form up on my wing, Dex start recording, there's no telling what this thing is," Smiling tightly Galin angled the Skipray down to the planet. He glanced over his shoulder, "Gunner's station?"

 

"Crev here," The answer came over the intercom, "We're ready to make some big junk into little junk."

 

"Roger that, Unknown vessel this is Captain Ceric of Blackmoon squadron, heave to," The transport kept heading toward the world, its form now distinct a long slender prow anchored to a primary hull exceptionally similar to that of a TIE ship. Captain Ceric glanced back over his shoulder, "Dex, ever see anything like this?"

 

"No, it does look like a sienar design though."

 

A shrilling warning echoed in the cockpit, "Lead this is Three, we just picked up a starfighter exiting hyperspace, unknown configuration!"

 

Captain Ceric felt his stomach begin to fold in upon itself, "Whats it's course?"

 

"It's heading right toward you sir, I've got weapons powering up!"

 

"Two, break formation and hang back, I'll handle the transport, if that fighter keeps closing, discourage it," Captain Galin tightened his hands on the controls, "Unknown transport this is your last warning, heave to or be destroyed." The transport kept moving, apparently oblivious to the foes behind it, "S-foils to attack position."

 

* * *

 

Onboard the Sith Infiltrator the droid brain realized its danger and calculated a solution. From the dual missile tubes a pair of glowing red concussion missiles rocketed forward and spun around to face the Skipray.

 

* * *

 

"Sith, rolling to stardboard, gun's shoot down those missiles!" With a stacato of blaster shots the first missile exploded in flight, seconds later the second joined it. But it was already to late to stop the infiltrator which slowed to a hover upon a roof top and lowered its ramp to the approaching dark jedi.

 

"This is two, that fighter its..." Then there was nothing but static

 

OOC: Next post of mine I'll introduce Avarice.[/i]

[Mad78]

Tuvax and Fury leaped on the inside of the )Infiltrator. The missile launcher of the ship started firing multiple projectiles to cover itself as it speed towards space.

"Activate cloaking" shouted Tuvax.

"Cloaking activated" answered the computer in an electronical voice. "setting course for the fleet."

Tuvax turned to his master. He looked at the multiple burns and scratcher picked during the fight

"Master you are injured."

Fury smilled and looked up to Tuvax

"Do not worry for that my friend. If you had not come I would have the eternity to recover."

"I was only doing my duty Master."

"Now my friend we must rest. We can not let the fleet officals see use weak. Our time for revenge shall come. You shall wear the lightsaber of those Jedis at your belt."

Tuvax smilled at the thought. Yes, revenge would come and the longer the sweeter.

As thje Infiltrator speed through Hyperspace the two sith meditated and prepared the incoming battles.

[Stellar_Magic]

"Lead, the transport is away," Dex hissed between his teeth, "Starfighter on our tail!"

 

Captain Galin Ceric bit his lip, "Breaking left, guns give that thing a greeting!" Then Galin looked up to see the two claw shaped wings and cockpit of a Raporan fighter as it flashed past his canopy, "Breaking right, Two is down control, requesting assistance!"

 

"This is control, Wild Knights are launching, ETA one minute."

 

The Raporan fighter settled into the Skipray's sights, "I've got it." The targeting computer began to beep as a lock became more and more established, "Goodbye."

 

Suddenly the Raporan fighter spun completely backward and faced the skipray. A stacato of crimson bolts flashed through space burning into the front deflectors and then the hull. One bolt went straight into the cockpit canopy burning through Captain Galin and then into Dex killing both instanty as a final bolt ruptured the ship's miniature reactor. The Skipray detonated and flung itself in all directions.

 

The squadron tactical frequency was suddenly full of chatter, "One and Two are down... Lets get that starfighter."

 

Sitting in the curved cockpit fo the ship a slight smile slipped across the pilot's lips as she angled away from the planet and leapt into hyperspace. Smiling she leaned back and sighed, "How typical of Venom to bungle a simple assasination." Pulling back her black hood the woman smiled.

 

* * *

 

Admiral Evahe sighed as a Medical Droid rolled away from his uninjured form. Corran Horn sat down beside the Admiral, "Admiral Evahe, Kyp Durron just reported a major find on Ossus. He says he thinks you should have a look."

 

* * *

 

Athien's force of UDA ships dropped out of hyperspace at the edge of the Kuat System. Standing beside her Jaina Solo and Jagged Fel watched the crew busily ready the ship for combat. Smiling slightly Athien turned to them, "Do you think Denon has informed them of our mission?"

 

"Probably, but we should announce our presence and intentions to make sure they don't open fire on our ships, they're bound to be a little nervous," Jagged answered with a slight shrug.

 

Jaina nodded, "Yeah, and we have to hope that any Raporan attack doesn't become a ground campaign, we simply don't have troops trained to fight such an enemy."

 

Athien nodded, "They might not destroy the planet, overall though the elimination or capture of the shipyards will be their primary concern."

 

"Let us hope you're right," Jagged said flatly.

 

* * *

 

The Raporan Tornclaw class starfighter dropped out of hyperspace behind the Sith Infiltrator, surrounded by other Raporan craft. The entirety of a Raporan Battle Armada had been assembled including just over twelve Kar Lur cruisers, twenty-seven Savlas, and over fifty corvettes. In amongs the Raporan ships were a swuadron of forty-two Vagaari assault ships and two Vagaari Carriers.

 

In the middle of this massive formation sat the brand new Vareme class cruiser, Retaliation of Death, fresh from the remnants of Csilla, the vessel was massive, just over eight kilometers long and bristilng with enough firepower to quadruple the destructive potential of a Kar Lur. Thus far it was only the second in its class.

 

The starfighter pilot's comm crackled, "Darth Avarice, welcome home, you're clear to dock at hanger two."

 

"Roger, Retaliation of Death, heading for hanger two." She banked her lean craft toward the cruiser and saw the sith infiltraitor match that heading. She sighed as her fighter slipped into the cavernous bay of the cruiser and set the fighter down.

 

Darth Tuvax stepped out fromt he infiltrator followed by Venom and Fury. He raised his reptiliant head and sniffed the air for a moment before turning to see Darth Avarice step from her cockpit, "I believe we owe you are lives."

 

Darth Avarice smiled, they did, if she hadn't have forced the second skipray off the infiltrator they would have been hard pressed, "Just you remember it Tuvax." She turned to Darth Venom and smiled deviously, "Darth Venom however will be reassigned."

 

Venom glanced to Fury and frowned, "Why?"

 

"The Timeless One feels that she needs additional training considering her actions today," Darth Venom seemed to wilt at her words, she sank to her knees and bowed her head to the floor.

 

"Kill me now and spare me the humiliation," Venom spat into the floor.

 

Fury drew his blade and lifted it above her neck but Avarice merely smiled, "The Timeless One orders it, you cannot be allowed to slip away that easily."

 

Fury hissed, "Son of a Jedi, you betrayed me today, I should kill you." He lashed out and kicked her in the ribs and she rolled away from him with a gasp. He bounced his saber against the floor, "I will do as the Timeless One commands." He stopped, "Who will replace her?"

 

"You will have your choice of the canidates, I hear Darth Scald is an excellent choice. She performed well above expectations, as did Darth Vengeance, he's a better pilot but not as good a leader or saber fighter."

 

Darth Fury glared at Avarice, "Who are you to tell me?"

 

She smiled, "I am commander of Task Force Claw Storm, and your equal, you do not want me as your enemy Fury." A double bladed lightsaber rolled in her hand, "I'm also one of the Timeless One's Couriers."

 

Darth Tuvax hissed, "So what are our assignments."

 

She smiled, "I'll command Task Force Claw Storm, my apprentice will be in command of Task Force Cycle of Death, Darth Fury gets Task Force Unifing Spear and is in overall command. Darth Tuvax you'll be in charge of the diversionary assault on Ossus." Smiling she pulled Venom up by her hair, "And you will be sent back to the homeworld, I hear the Timeless One wants to deal with you, personally."

[BadSamaritan]

Hirotek Watched the sensors at his station carefully. The unknown forces matched the description that had been sent to him in a file by someone claiming to be Thrawn, which made him more than a little suspicious. But he had also heard from Admiral Eveha at denon that he should be expecting re-inforcements form an unusual source. he looked over to Lir'ka, who nodded.

 

"Unknown forces, this in general Hirotek of the GFFA forces. Indentify yourselves." he spoke, and within moments, another voice came over the comm, one he recognized form the war against the vong.

 

"General, this is Jania Solo, with the UDA fleet. We are here to assist you in the defence of Kuat." she said, and Hirotek smiled. He knew that voice well, but only one thing could prove if it was really her. A small test.

 

"Jania, its good to hear from you again. How long has it been since we last met? It was at Mon Calamari, wasnt it?" he asked, adn for a moment, there was silemce. But then, janias voice came back, confused.

 

"General, we last saw each other at Corusscant, right after the vong surrender." she said, and Hirotek smiled. It really was her, so he knew the forces that were inbound were trustworthy.

 

"Yes it was. I was just making sure this wasnt some sort of trap. You are clear to join our forces, place your ships where you think they will be most needed. And I invite you all over to my ship for a brief meeting, to plan our defence." he siad, and he watched as the UDA forces began to move quickly towards Kuat.

 

"General, it would be an honor. We will be there as soon as possible." jania returned, and then he heard the comm click, singnaling the end of the ransmission. He wtached the sensors closely, and after a few mintues, noticed a small shuttle leave one of the UDA cruisers. he looked over to Lir'ka, and nodded.

 

"Send out a squadron of fighters to escort them in. Preferably Sabre squadron." he said, and Lir'ka nodded. Sabre squadron was a one of a kind squadron. Since Kuat had been receiving so many orders from teh empire, nt to mention many other systems, they had enough money to build a squadron of very specail fighters. They had been built out of Quantom armor, and were the Pride of the Kuati royalty. Which was why he had relished confiscating them for the defence of the shipyards.

 

He watchd out his viewscreen as the fighters raced out into space form the top hanger of his flagship, and moved to an intercept course with the shuttle. Hirotek then began to walk towards the breifing room, and Lir'ka began to walk towards the lift, to meet their guests at the hanger bay.

 

***************

 

"I dont understand, you have no intention of trying to win this fight?" Athien asked, astonished. hirotek simply nodded, and jagged shook his head.

 

"General, with all due respect, we have to try. We cant afford to lose these shipyards." he said, anger in his voice. Lir'ka simply looked over to him, and smiled.

 

"Colonel Fel, most of the shipyards have already left the system, or are on their way out. As of this moment, over 25 percent of them are already gone, with another 20 percent on the move. The last half of the yards ar the smallestof them, and also the oldest. Kuat itself has been evacuated. Our goal it to bloody the nose of the repran fleet, and then leave, with minimal casualties. We know what has happned thus far in the fight with them. We know that we cannot win if we try to go toe-to0-toe with them." she said, and Jania shook her head, anger in her eyes.

 

"No. We have to make a stand. We have to show them that we are going to fight them, no matter what. Doing anything else, will show weakness to them. And thats what nearly lost us the war against the vong." she said, and Hirotek smiled.

 

"Jania, these are not the vong. This is a completely difrferent scenario. We are still reeling from the loss of Csilla and Bastion, nto to mention the loss of the Yaga Minor shipyards. The way I see it, we have to lose this fight, and maybe several others, if we intend to have enough firepower to beat them in the long run. That is also what nearly lost us the war agains tthe vong. to many ships, to many people, lost in pointless fights." he said, and he turned to a holoprojector. he tapped a few buttons, and a large holgram appeared, showing a massive fleet. Janias eyes went wide as she looked at it, and Athien hissed inward. jeagged jaw simply dropped.

 

"This was taken less than a stanrd hou ago, about a one hour hyperspace jump away fropm here. it shows the approximate size of the reporan forces. As you can see, we are sevely outmatched. Any attemopt we make at fighting them, will result in a horrible defeat. We simply do not have the firepower to even challange them, let alone try to beat them." Lr'ka said, anger in her voice. Athien slowly nodded, and looked over to Hirotek.

 

"What do your forces consist of?" she asked, and Hirotek looked over to her.

 

"I have six new Ravager-class Star Destoyers, eight bothan cuisers, a dozen Victory-class Star Destoryers, a large assortment of Golan III and Firestorm defence stations, all of which are mobile, and approximatly fifty other, smaller vessels. Yours?" he asked, looked at her expectantly. Athein thought for a moment, and then sighed.

 

"We have excactly twenty vessels, of varying sizes and classes. Along with all the starfighters to accompany them. You are right. We cannot hope to defeat that fleet." she said, defeat in her voice. Hirotek looked over to jaggen, and noticed a confused look on his face.

 

"Colonel? is their a problem?" Hirotek asked, and Jagged nodded.

 

"yes. On out way in, i didnt see even half that many ships in orbit of Kuat, or in the rest of the system for that matter. Where is the rest of your fleet?" he asked, and Lir'ka smiled.

 

"They are not the only thing that is missing from the system." she said, and she brought up a hologram of the system, which was current. They all stared at the hologram for a moment, and then jania got a look of astonishment on her face.

 

"Where is the asteroid belt?" she asked, pointing to where it ashould have been. Hiroptek chuckled, and shook his head.

 

"Much of it was used to build up the new fleet, but the rest of it has been moved, and prepared for use in the upcoimuing battle." he said, and he began to explain his plan.

 

An hour later, Jainia, Fel, aand Athien sat in the suttle, on their way back to Athiens flagship. jainia looked over to Fel, and sighed.

 

"Do you think his plan will work?" she asked, concern in her voice. Fel simply shook his head.

 

"I will give him one thing he thinks outsoide the box. I never would have thought of it." he said, and Athien then spoke, concern in her voice.

 

"His plan is different,. yes, and may buy us some time, but it is a foolhardy one. he is relying on a smugglers trick to hold of a fleet of trained warriors. if it does work, it wont work very well. At worst, it will just annoy them." she said, and Jania nodded.

 

"Well, at least he is workign with what he has. And, he is coming up with something new. I have a feeling that the repora will never see it coming. And even if they do, at least he can say he tried." she said, and Jagged nodded.

 

*****************************

 

Seryk walked the halls of the massive complex, wondering exaclty where he was going. he had asked for a small ship to run a mission in, and Eveha had agreed to give him one. He had told him where to go, and to tell the poeple he found there that Evaha had given him permission to use a quicksilver-class fighter. Seryk had no idea what that meant, he had never even heard of it before. Then he saw his destination. A small door, leading ff into what was supposed to be an un-used hanger bay. But he could tell that it was being used frequently. He walked up to the door, and opned it. He looked inside the nager, and smiled at what he saw.

 

Inside, the hanger looked like a smugglers haven. Parts were strewn about, ships were in various states of repair, and mechanics clambered over manyh of them, pulling parts, installing others, and swearing luisldy when thisngs didnt work out. Seryk entered the hanger bay, and suddenyl noitced a wiry man looking at him. He walked over to him, and pened his mouth to speak, but the man stopped him.

 

"Seryk, right? Eveha warned us you were coming. he said you would stand out like a sore thumb. And by the looks o that armor, he was right." the man said, and he then motioned for Seryk to follow him. Seryk did so, and the man led him to yet another door. the man opnee the door, and steped through. Seryk followed, and his jaw almost dropped at what he saw.

 

Inside sat a dozen prestine looking starfighters, all of them of a design he hadnt seen in years. he thoug that even pirates had abandoned this fighter for more re-laible ships. he looked over to the man, a confised look on his face.

 

"yes, they are Hornet-class interceptors. But these are much better built. Evaha said we needed more starfighters that could be built quickly, and repaired quickly, and on the cheap as well. So we settled on this design, but modified it somewhat. They have less pwoerfull weapons than the originals, but have better sheilding. We managed to squeeze a bit more manuverabiltiy out of them, as well. " he said in a flurry, and Sery had a hard time keeping up with him. Seryk walked over to one of the ships, and ran his hand down the hull of the ship. he looked over to eh mechanic, who had a look of pride in his eyes.

 

"You designed it?" Seryk asked, and the man smiled.

 

"Yes I did. I also oversaw the first few squadrons production. We-renamed the ships, to hide their less than shining history, and have produced a large amount of them already. We are hoping that they will eventually replace the A-wing for the most part. They already have the speed and manuverabilty of them, not to mention metter sheilding." he said, and he motioned to the wings of the starfighter, whcih were folded up next to the body of the vessel.

 

"The wings house the latest in cuncussion missle technology, and each fighter is equiped with six of them. they are half the size of a normal missle, and pack the same amoutn of punch." he said, and Seryk nodded in approval. They were indeed impressice ships. he then noticed the emblem on the side of the ship, and raised his eyebrow. He pointed to it, and looked over to the mechanic.

 

"Oh, that. thats the emblem of the overall project. these were built at the same time as another pet-project of Evahas'. The project is called Genesis. From what I understand, every one of these fighters that have been built have been sent to the main headquarters of the project, wherever that is." he said, and Seryk nodded. He knew he was looking at starfighters that were obviously top-secret at the moment.

 

"How many have been built?" he asked, and the mechanic shook his head.

 

"i dont know exactly. Something like three-wings, i think? but you should be on your way, and I should get back to work. he said, and he then turned, and walked back out the door they had entered from. Seryk turned back to his new starfighter, and moved to the cockpit. He hopped in, and closed the conopy. he remembered Evaha telling him not to bother with asking for permission to launch, so he simply powered of th vessel, and moved itout of the hanger bay. Once out, he pushed the engines to full, an was astounded by how fast it accelerated. he shot the fighter out into space, and soon after, was on his way to the corrdinates that Fett had given him.

[Stellar_Magic]

"All forces, battle alert, sensors have picked up for Savla class cruisers and a variety of enemy fighters at the edge of the system," Jagged felt himself jolt awake at the call. It had been nearly a day since he'd slept, his nerves burning with excitement. He shook his head as he picked up his comm link, "This is Colonel Fel requesting orders."

 

"Colonel, Commodore Athien requests you take personal command of Talon Flight. Jaina Solo will remain onboard to act as liason with our forces."

 

Jagged glanced to Jaina, "You hear that?"

 

"Yeah, get going, go show the Rapora what it means to attack us so directly."

 

Jagged leaned in and gave her a quick kiss before heading out from thew cabin.

 

* * *

 

Darth Avarice smiled, she sat snug in her fighter and watched the scouting force form up for the probe, "All wings check in."

 

"This is Lanvohok standing by."

 

"Blade Spear standing by."

 

"Cyclic standing by."

 

"Prime all weapons, Tornclaws, move to screen your cousins." Darth Avarice glanced at the group of Savla class ships, "Cruisers accelerate to full, we'll pace you."

 

"By your will," The Cruiser commander answered and the Savla's sped forward with surprising speed for their size.

 

"This is Blade Spear Four, I'm picking up fighter deployment from one of the UDA ships. Looks like Clawcraft and Claw type missile boats."

 

"This is Cyclic lead, confirmed, we've got enemies heading our way."

 

* * *

 

Jaina Solo leaned over her assigned console, "General the Rapora have launched a probe, looks like a group of Savlas. We've deployed fighters to engage them."

[ADarkJedi44]

OOC: Stellar, you don't mind losing, do you?

 

Darth Fury waited patiently. He would waste no time starting the battle. The main attack would soon begin after the probe. The plan was flawless. From what he had heard, the Fourth Fleet had been moved to Ossus along with Supreme Commander Evahe. Tuvax's diversionary strike was unnessacary.

Nevertheless, it was to occur. With such a large fleet there it would only be a small hit and run but if it distracted the entire Fleet it was well worth it. Without assistance from the Fourth Fleet, Kuat was doomed. The other GFFA Fleets were either too far away or assigned critical posts they could not abandon.

The plan seemed perfect. All was set now, the probing force was in position. The meger opposing force would be crushed as soon as the main armada arrived. The time was coming for the Raporan Fleet to jump into hyperspace.

Kuat would fall.

***

Down on Ossus, Evahe had exited his shuttle. Kyp was there waiting for him.

"Admiral we discov-"

Suddenly, Evahe's comlink beeped. He montioned at Kyp to stop and stepped aside.

"You are sure of this?"

A pause.

"Very well, I'll get the Fourth Fleet over there immediatley. Evahe out."

He turned back towards Kyp.

"Well, I apoligize. It appears the Rapora are expected to invade Kuat any moment. I need to get the Fourth Fle-"

Once again, his comlink beeped.

"SIR! A fleet of unidentified ships has entered the system. We expect they are Rapora."

"I'll be right there"

He turned towards Kyp again.

"Well, you heard. I'd love to hear about this discovery but I have some work to do. Perhaps you'd join me on the Guardian?"

Kyp nodded.

"Alright, you can inform me of this discovery on the way there. One second, I need to contact someone.?

He stepped aside again and pulled out his comlink for the last time...

[BadSamaritan]

Hirotek watched the senor displays in front of him, and nodded in approval. he expected then to send in a small skirmish force, but not one quite so small. Something wasnt right.

 

"Jania, they have something in the works I think. Send your fighters, but be carefull. We can afford to lose to many fighters to quickly." he said, and he heard jania confirm his orders over the comm. he watched as the UDA starfighters launched, and sped off towards the enemy forces. he watched them for a moment, and then shook his head.

 

"Lirk'ka, deploy Sabre squadron. Send them along with the UDA fighters. Also, deploy the rest of our starfighters in a spread screen around our forces. But tell them to keep on alert, max sensor sweeps of the system. I dont want to be caught off gaurd." he said, and Lir'ka nodded in acknowledgement. Hirotek watched as Sabre squadron sped off to join the UDA fighters.

 

"General, should we contact asteroid group, and tell them to prepare?" Lir'ka asked, and Hirotek nodded.

 

"Tell them to prepare, but no tto launch yet. I want them to wait until the majority of their forces are in system." he ordered, and he watched as Lir'ka re=layed his orders. He still wasnt sure as to how well his plan was going to work. But he was working with limited resources, so he had to think of something.

 

He tunred his attention back to the starfighters, and saw that they had begun to engage the reporan starfighters. he paid close attention to how the reporan fighters responded, trying to discern some sort of pattern to their responces. he did smile seeing Sabre squadron dive into the thickest of the enemy forces, and begin to shred enemy fighters. But he knew that eventually, Sabre squadron would have to pull back. But for now, they were doing their job in confusing the enemy forces.

[Stellar_Magic]

Darth Avarice reached out with the force to touch the mind of the oncoming force of preybird fighters then stopped feeling nothing in their cockpits, "The preybirds are droids!"

 

"They insult us, sending droids to do a warriors work!" Cyclic Five hissed through the comm as the modified preybird fighters shot through the formation leaving six burning raporan fighters in their wake.

 

Cyclic Two rolled in behind one of the preybirds and fired seeing the blasts hiss into the fighter's tail section, but only small divets in their armor appeared from each blast, "What is this, no shields but armor!"

 

Another memeber of Cyclic squadron sweapt in on a fighter hitting it with a full barrage of plasma fire. One lucky blast caught an engine nacel lowering the fighters speed, otherwise the craft was undamaged. In aggravation the pilot pulled away, "Their invulnerable!"

 

"Pull it together Cyclic, arm plasma torpedoes!" Darth Avarice hissed as her shields flickered from a glancing blow from a speeding clawcraft with red markings. Rolling she leveled her craft behind the droid preybirds, "Lock your weapons on the preybirds, Savlas move to engage the preybirds, they are the greatest threat!"

 

* * *

 

Jagged smiled as he saw the Rapora dive toward the modified preybirds, "Control, the tactic is working their trying to kill the preybirds."

 

"Good Jag, take advantage!" Jaina answered across the channel.

 

"Alright squads lets get on those fighters tails and rip them apart, Claw type missile boats stand by," Jag smiled as he brought his fighter around behind the group of Rapora fighters, "I've got the lead, two you take the wing!"

 

* * *

 

Avarice felt the enemy closing in from behind, "We've got two closing on us, scissors in three, two, one, mark!" Hauling back ont he stick she rolled the fighter onto the oncoming clawcraft and pulled the trigger. Her blasts cut across the leader's wingman shredding his ship. The leader however had broken off and poured on the thrust to get clear. Avarice smiled, "Stay with me."

 

Outside her canopy she saw the Raporan fighters fire plasma bombs at the enemy preybirds. The weapons designed for killing capital ships would have made mincemeat out of any other starfighter, but these preybirds were tough. She saw one preybird catch a plasma torpedo on its wing. After the brilliant detonation the preybird vectored away, one wing blown away but otherwise still flyable. Two more of the preybirds however weren't so lucky and died in brilliant blazes of orange flame.

 

Still Avarice in her Tornclaw class starfighter would be of little use against the preybirds because of its lack of plasma torpedoes. So she kept on the clawcraft's vector and waited for a targeting lock.

 

* * *

 

Jagged saw the fighter on his tail, "Sith, this one is good!"

 

"This is four, they're all good, its like they can read your mind!" The hissing voice of one of the Vagaari pilots answered him.

 

A calm serene vocie answered, "This is six, calm down and cover each other, their not that..." The detonation that cut off the chiss's transmission made it clear that he'd underestimated his foe.

 

"Anyone, this is lead get this guy off me!" Jagged yelled through the comm as he broke hard away fromt he threat but saw it stay in the center of his rear sensors.

 

"This is nine, on my way!"

 

* * *

 

Darth Avarice bit her lip, there were more fighters moving to engage her, she had to finish this one now. Thumbing down ont he trigger she loosed a hail of blasts at the fighter then as the first lasers from the other Clawcraft flashed past her she broke off.

 

* * *

 

One of the shots she fired hit, slicing into the upper stardboard S-foil, it destroyed the thrust vectoring nozzel located there and sent a energy charge through that side of the ship that disabled the engine.

 

Jagged knew he was a sitting wampa when the fighter suddenly broke off being chased by a pair of clawcraft, "Thanks." He leaned forward and punched the engine restart and felt the thrumb of the engine return to life, "Squadron report status."

 

* * *

 

Jaina glanced up as the reports continued to flood in, "General Hirotek reports that Sabre squadron is down to sixty percent, he's pulling them back."

 

Athien nodded from her command chair, "Droids should never have replaced pilots, I'd have hoped the General would have known that." She sighed, "Signal the Pealleon and Chiss Life to move to ten thousand kilometers astern of the engagement, they'll have their pilots go to standbye, hopefully the Rapora will abandon this probe soon enough."

 

"And if they're drawing us in for a trap?" Jaina asked.

 

"Then we'll want to be able to pull those pilots as quickly as possible. Either way this is the best choice," Athien answered and smiled and winked at Jaina, "Don't worry Jag will be fine."

[Rattler3]

"Sound the Klaxon. 30 seconds to Hyperspace Re-entry. Double check battle stations," ordered Colton.

 

"Aye sir... all stations report 100%." Colton nodded and returned to looking out the viewscreen. Their method of arrival was confusing to say the least. They had jumped around, getting repairs done from a variety of worlds. There assault frigate was fully equiped, as was the Introvertor. They had repaired the Carrack to 65% capability as well as picking up a dozen more assault shuttles. The problem was that it needed some time in a real shipyard for repairs. A trader had suggested Kuat, so they were heading there. The trader had given them basically a pirate point... they would be coming out pretty close to the planet...

 

"5...4...3..."

They reverted to real space and around them there wasn't very much activity. In fact... incredibly little. Curious.

"Sensors... what's going on?"

 

"Scanning sir... it appears... Son of a Sith sir! 2 armadas on the other side of the planet... Reporan and... GFFA, whatever that is, and some other unidentified ship."

 

So the rumours were true... Kuat was not a great place to be. Options...

"Communications, get us a set of co-ordinates from whoevers in charge. Inform them we're from the Taurian Combine and are looking to join the fight against the rapora. Fighters can launch once we're closer... Stand by on the troop transports."

From what they'd picked up in the ground battle with the raporan before, General Tarsyk had formulated strategies for dealing with the raporan ground soldiers. They required at least 5 to 1 odds, but when you had as much infantry as this taskforce had... they had well over 20, 000 troops. 14 Assault shuttles each carrying 40 could offload a lot of troops in a short period of time. Capturing a raporan vessel could be possible... but since they had little experience with, there was no actual proof of this.

Perhaps the commanders could enlighten them.

"Communications, be sure to ask if it is even possible to capture a raporan vessel. Navigation, move us to the co-ordinates communications gives you soon as possible..."

 

"Roger sir,"

[BadSamaritan]

Hirotek scowled slightly as he pulled back Sabre squadron. He had hoped that they would have been move effective, but he knew that since they were piloted by droids, they wouldn't be anywhere near as effective as a normal squadron. he had been impressed, however, at how well they had held up against the reporans weapons. he made a mental not to look into having then converted into having live pilots for the next battle.

 

"General, Captain Scorth reports that the asteroids all ready for deployment, they only require an exit point, and your order." Lir'ka said, and Hirotek nodded. But he wasnt ready to use them just yet. He wanted to save them until the last possible moment, to use them to their highest advantage. He continued to watch his sensors, and he then looked over to Lir'ka.

 

"Tell me, what do you think of their tactics?" he asked, and Lir'ka shook her head.

 

"They seem to be standard tactics at one point, and then the next, they come up with something I never owuld have thought to do. Im lost." she said, and Hirotek smiled. He had noticed the same thing. They were mixing tactics almost at random, to keepo the UDA forces on their toes. Luckily, the UDA fighters seemed to be holding their own, for now. but their was no telling how long that they would last.

 

"General! A new group of contacts has eneted the system, practically on top of us!" Lir'ka suddenly said, and hirotek raised an eyebrow, looking at his sensors. It appeared to be a rag-tag group of vessels. Obvously not reporan though, which was a good thing.

 

"Sir, they are requesting orders for their ships, and for thier ground troops?" Lir'ka said, and hirotek smiled. Ground troops would not be needed, not for this fight.

 

"Tell them to move into formation with our fleets, and to hold. And inform them that there will be no ground battles, and that the planet has alreeady been abandoned." he said, and Lir'ka nodded. After a few moments, she turned back to him, a confused look on her face.

 

"Sir, they are wondering if we might be able to capture one of the enemy vessles." she said, confusion in her voice. hirotek nodded at this, and thought for a moment. Capturing one of the reporan cruisers would be exceptionally difficult, but it might be worth a try.

 

"Tell them that I dont think it can be done, but if the oppertunity arrises, they will be the first to know." he said, and he turned his attentions back to the battle. These new forces werent much, but every little bit helped. Especially in ace of the odds that were against them.

[Stellar_Magic]

Jag tightened his starfighter into a loop bringing him behind a pair of Raporan fighters, "Nine, you with me?"

 

"Right here sir," The calm voice of the other pilot answered.

 

"Bracket the target, I'm going to fowl the second fighter." Jag smiled as he let his sight drift beside and just to the front of one of the fighters, "Firing!" The brilliant green blasts flashed past the Raporan fighter, but instead of breaking to the right away from the blasts the fighter broke to the left, cutting across his line of fire, "Sith."

 

"I've got him!" A second burst fo green fire flashed toward the raporan fighter and sliced through the shield. One of its engines shot sparks and the fighter careened wildly as the pilot struggled to shut down the engine.

 

"Good shooting Ten, finish him," Jag answered as he settled in beside the leader of the wingpair. The damaged rapora fighter detonated as a quad burst from ten, tore into its engine compartment and ripped apart the reactor. Jag smiled tightly as he tightened down on the trigger again sending a blast into the lead fighter. The fighter broke hard and away, suddenly Jag saw a Savla class cruiser move straight toward him, a brilliant line of red anti-starfighter laser blasts ripping through space. Jagged threw his craft upward, "Break formation!"

 

"This is Nine, I'm bracketed, agh!" A flash of light in the depths of space marked the destruction of the fighter. Another pilot had fallen.

 

Jaina's voice cut across the comm, "All units, we've picked up a Raporan Task Force exiting hyperspace. They're approaching from the direction of Kuat Prime, ETA to the fleet, twenty minutes."

 

"Whats their composition control?"

 

"We've picked up four Kar Lurs, six Savlas, a Vagaari Assault Carrier, and numerous support ships."

 

"Colonel Fel, this is Commodore Athien, that force is a diversion, we're anticipating another attack from well above the ecliptic. I suggest you attempt to disengage, your forces will be needed soon enough."

 

"Roger, all flights disengage and run for the destroyers at Mark two, don't take any risks though." Jag glanced back at his rear display as he accelerated away knowing the battle had only begun.

 

* * *

 

Darth Avarice nodded as the UDA forces broke formation and ran to the destroyers. She'd figured they'd disengage upon the arrival of the first task force. Smiling she looked upward well above the systems ecliptic as another force of ships winked into existance. The rest of the Raporan fleet had arrived.

 

* * *

 

Kyp Durron strolled to the front of the bridge of the Super Star Destroyer Guardian as Admiral Evahe watched the holodisplay of the oncoming force. Kyp closed his eyes and reached out, he could sense the oncoming foes even across the vast void.

 

The Sensor Operator turned in his chair, "Count confirmed, six Kar Lur class cruisers, nine Savla class cruisers, twelve Defra class corvettes. We're also picking up a squadron of nine Vagaari assault ships."

 

Kyp glanced back at the display, "That seems a little small to engage a whole GFFA fleet."

 

Admiral Evahe, "Perhaps it was only ment as a diversion for their attack on Kuat, still we have the opportunity to smash these aggressors here."

 

"Sir, We've got multiple starfighter launches fromt he Jedi temple, including a number of Sekotan skips. They're requesting orders."

 

* * *

 

The Millenium Falcon slowly settled down on the landing field of Zenoma Sekot. As the ramp lowered Ulan leaned against the smooth hull of his Sekotan skip, "I wonder what the Solos are doing here." He stopped as he saw Luke Skywalker and his family descened the ramp along with Leia and Han.

 

Jabitha was the first to greet them, "It is good to see you again Jedi Skywalker. May we ask what happened to the Jade Shadow?"

 

A pang of hurt echoed across Mara's features, "She was destroyed by the Rapora."

 

A sudden bustle of movement caught Luke's eye as Danni and Tahiri walked out onto the landing field. Luke saw both of them stop, obviously surprised, "What are you doing here?"

 

Luke felt a smile slip across his face that quickly died, "I need to talk to Ulan and Harrar. I'm afraid we have to bring the Vong into a war."

[ADarkJedi44]

All was going well so far. The UDA force had disengaged and was returning to their destroyers. They had fought valiantly, but they were no macth for the entire Raporan Fleet. If that was alll that could be mustered to defend Kuat, the battle would soon be over. If that is all they can muster to defend the biggest shipyard in the galaxy, the will be over.

Fury doubted that. The ships were all of UDA design, the GFFA fleet was oddly absent. It was possible the abandoned Kuat because most of the shipyards were gone. However, why would they call in UDA forces then leave? It was obviously a trick of some sort. If they need to rely on tricks and traps, then their fleet is obviously no match in a head to head fight. We'll just be cautious and force them out.

As he thought, the UDA ships were nearly in range....

***

"Have the Ackbar and Mon Mothma turn on their gravity well projectors and move to engage the enemy fleet. The Jedi starfighters can join the rest of our fighters. Their capitol ships are no match for the entire Fourth Fleet. The fighters may cause trouble, however."

The Rapora were in a lose-lose situation. Stay and die or leave and allow the Fourth Fleet to reinforce Kuat.

However, Kyp seemed bewildered.

"If you trap the Rapora we'll have to fight them..."

"Precisely."

"But...what about Kuat?"

Evahe winked at Kyp and turned back to managing the battle. The fighters of both sides were about to engage each other. So the Rapora are going to stay and fight eh? Excellant, we will win here and at Kuat...

***

A massive black ship came out of hyperspace behind the Raporan fleet. The Rapora realized it was hostile and began deploying mines to delay it. Fighters were launched in an attempt to slow it down. It fired it's superlaser once and two Kar Lurs disappeared. The massive ship then opened fire with all its batteries...

The Genisis had arrived.

 

OOC I'll assume you had a Resurrector....

Edited October 29, 2004 by ADarkJedi44

[BadSamaritan]

Hirotek added up the numebrs of the new enemy ships, and frowned. It was roughly a quarter of the forces hey were expecting. They werent going to all come in from the same vector. Instead, they were trying to lure his forces into splitting up. But he wasnt about to buy it. he knew there was strength in numbers.

 

"Order all ships to hold position for now, but be prepared for mroe enemy re-inforcements. And contact asteroid group, and tell them to prepare to dump the first group of asteroids at the following coordinates." he said, and he read off a list of coordinates. Lir'ka relayed the information, and then she looked back over to Hirotek.

 

"general, Commodora Athien says we should be ready for an attack from above the eccliptic. I think she may be right." she said, and hirotek nodded. That thought had crosses his mind, but he wasnt willing to commit his forces to any drastic moves just yet. He turned his eyes away from his readouts, and looked ver to a small station at the corner of the bridge. There sat a young man, who was constantly switching through different screens, trying desperatly to break though teh enemy encyption sequances. If they could do that, they could gain a massive advantage over the Repora in the fight. But he could tell it wasnt going well. he sighed, and tuned his head back to his diplays.

 

"General, this is Jania, Athien requests that we move part of the fleet to engage the enemy forces. She dosnt want them to get to close wihtout us being in position." she said, and Hirotek sighed.

 

"Manuver groups three and four to prepare to move against the enemy forces. Seng gunboat groups seven though ten to accompany them. All oher forces are to hold position." he said, and Jania acknowldged his orders. he could tell that she wanted more ships than that, but he thought that was more than enough, For now at least.

 

Then it happened. The resto of the reporan forces dropped out of hyperspace, well away from the second group. because of this, the UDa and GFFA forces were positioned completly wrong.

 

 

"Lir'ka, Change the coordinates of the asteroid drop points! And bring them all in, hit their main force! Detonate upon arrival, I dont want them to have a chance to get away from them." he ordered, and Lir'ka flashed a concerened frown. A lot of his plan rested on this working, but if it did, it would sow a large amount of confusion into both enemey fleets. But they were cuahgt off gaurd with the placement of the enemy forces.

 

Hirotek waited for a few moments, and then he saw them on his displays. Dozens of asteroids, most of them the size of dreadnaughts, some of them larger, dropped into teh midst of the enemies main force. They sat their for a moment, and then detonated, the sonic mines buried within the asteroids sending waves of debris into the enemiy formations. Hirotek smiled, seeing several large cruisers flash out of existance, and dozes more take substantial damage from the debris. he also saw a large amount of enemy fighters wink out of existance. Hisplan had worked, to a point. he had hoped for more severe damage to the enemy forces, but that obvioulsy wasnt going to happen. he nodded slowly, and then turned to Lir'ka.

 

"Order the UDA forces to move and engage that second group of reporan cruisers, I down want to be outflanked. Bring in the first group to deal with that smaller force, i want them gone. Order all other ships to begin to move on my command. Tell asteroid group to microjump in to our position. Lets show the Repora what they are dealing with here." he said, and Lirka nodded nervously. They were taking a series of risks now, hoping that the repora would be intimidated by the loss of so many of thier ships so quickly. He could only hope that it would be enough to deterr them enough to let a few more of the yards to leave the system.

 

"General! A ressuractor has entered the system, near the main enemy force!" Lir'ka suddenly shouted, and Hiroteks' face went white. he had hoped thay would bring one of those in at all, let alone so quickly. They were already going for the deathblow.

 

"Cancal my previous orders! All ships, prepare to retreat along established routes! Contact asteroid group, tell them to jump to the beta site as soon as all forces have left the sysem!" he ordered, and Lir'ka quickly began to relay the new orders. Things had turned for the worse, and quickly. Hirotek had a feeling that this wasnt going to end well.

 

 

 

OOC: ok, we had some mix-ups in the posting, reverse some posts orders, and its all good. i think.

Edited October 28, 2004 by BadSamaritan

[Mad78]

In command room from where Jaina was coordinating the battle the man in charge of the detectors let out a gasp of astonishement.

"What is it" inquired Jaina.

"I... I don't know. Its massif."

"On screen" ordered Jaina.

The holo of the battle was replaced by that of the largest ship Jaina had ever seen.

"Do the databank have anything corresponding?"

"Yes" said an operator as he hit a few buttons, a name appeared in front of the ship

Eclipse-class Super Star Destroyer

 

***

Garik looked through the bridge of the massif ship that was the Genesis.

All the other ship looked tiny in comparaison.

"Sir, the rapora ships are launching mines and fighters to intercept us. Their fleet is maneouvering to cover the retreat of the replicator." said the calamarian tactical officer

"Launch all fighters and target the replicartor with the Super Laser."

"Yes Sir."

Three wings of fighters left the gigantic hangars of the ship followed by five Interception corvettes. These used to defend the Gorath system but were now to be used as boarding crafts.

"Opeing fire full power." anounced the officer in charge of artillery.

The green ray of pure energy left the ship, it crashed into a Kar Lur overloading shields and destroying armour plates.

"Target destroyed"

"Good" said Garik "Contact GFFA forces and ask for orders. All Ion Cannons and Turbolasers my fire at will. The turbolaser will pick imediate targets."

The Star Destroyer now unleached all of its power.

Edited October 29, 2004 by Mad78