Stellar_Magic

Actually we should have the Eclipse drop in by accident, out of position so the Rapora don't get slaughtered by the superlaser. In my next post I'm going to level the odds for the Rapora, no more superlaser.

Here's a couple images I've got for you guys... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v436/StellarMagic01/KuatAttackFleet.jpg This shows several of the ships being used in the attack on Kuat including the brand new Raporan Vareme class Super Cruiser. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v436/StellarMagic01/UnitedDefenseAlliance.jpg Athien and some fighters in UDA colors.

Fools, all bringing in an eclipse will do is get it destroyed. I'm working on a map of the battle area for Kuat and designs for Raporan fighters and the Raporan Supercruiser I just deployed over Kuat.

The Resurrector is not present at Kuat or Ossus, and where the heck did this Eclipse come from? The Raporan fleet has deployed their largest conventional warship thus far at Kuat, (Meaning it's not a replicator type vessel.) I don't think the asteroids would be nearly as effective as portrayed, raporan shields on a Kar Lur rival those of an SSD and their high speed and manueverability would enable them to break formation and escape such a trap. To think the Rapora would have been taken that easily by surprise is really nearly beyond belief, you have to remember they're force users after all. The attack on Kuat is not a mission to completely destroy the system or shipyards, but an attempt to secure a forward base of operations. There will be a ground invasion following the space battle.

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."

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."

"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."

"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."

Just send them to the Raporan Fleet massing near Kuat.

Um, we've still got to get Evahe to Ossus for the Raporan feint, in my next post I'll have Athien arrive at Kuat and send Evahe on his way, but I hate to double post so someone please post.

"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]

Darth Avarice... Instant Stats on the way, I think I'll have Venom desert after awhile, but she'll be transfered back under the Timeless One's personal command. Darth Avarice (Lust for material wealth) Formerly known as Varice Careen Height: 1.6 Meters Eyecolor: Amber Hair Color: (Naturally Brown but dyed) Flat Black Species: Human Vehicle of Choice: Raporan Tornclaw Starfighter Weapons of Choice: Two double bladed lightsabers and light disks. Force Powers: Well developed force abilities, including mind tricks, energy absorbtion and dispurtion, along with TK. But back to Darth Venom.... Hmmm daughter of the Corellian Jedi Jades Kann, the lone member of the Jedi Order that supported Seryk's parents union. He assisted in hiding Seryk's parents and actually watched over young Seryk for a time. As the parent's of Seryk were killed Jades was forced to keep his distance from Seryk, but kept in contact with the boy through his uncle. Two years after endor Karyn Kann, Darth Venom's original name, was born. Jades had shown Karyn images of Seryk, and they'd even met once, Karyn would remember the you man that stood before her for as a preschooler for years to come. Then during the Yuuzhan Vong invasion she was ambushed and abducted as a teen by a team of raporan infiltraitors and trained personally by the Timeless One, she still has deep buried guilt about what she has become. The knowledge of who she nearly killed will haunt her and force her to change her path. Hows that BadSamaritan? ADarkJedi44? She's the Timeless One's personal hand, and doesn't like her job.

Now I must wonder why it is that all the girls aren't really staying completely evil... Okay, hmm... Darth Venom, what to do, what to do, what to do. I know, add another female sith, one that actually is uber-evil. Darth Avarice...

Fury is saved by the almost impossible arrival of an ally in the nic of time Um, you do realize that Jan (Katarn or Ors, they never say if they got married) is flying around in a combat capable starship, someone could give her a call.

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.

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.

OOC: I assume Venom came along. Shren rapped her fingers in impatience in the darkened room. She sighed as she watched the expressionless YVH droids stare at the motion of her fingers. With a hiss Jacen Solo slipped into the room a small bottle of water in one hand. Shren leaned back in the plain chair, "A bribe?" "Hardly," Jacen answered dropping the water bottle onto the table in front of her. "What about my lightsaber, I'd like it returned?" Jacen sighed and opened his robe to expose his empty belt, "They wouldn't let me carry one in, you think they'd let you have one?" Shren felt anger and fear flow through her veins, "I need my lightsaber, its not safe here!" The door opened and Admiral Evahe stepped into the room, flanked by Captain Judder Page, "We're taking you to the most secure facility in the Alliance Miss Shren. What are you afraid of?" Shren smashed her fist into the table, "Don't you understand they will stop at nothing until they silence what I know, and take their revenge for my betrayal. Even if you ringed me with armed jedi knights, they'd find a way to get through!" Captain Page glanced at the General, "Perhaps her concerns are valid Admiral. What then?" Evahe shook his head, "There's very little we can do, we have to transfer her to intelligence, I can't think of anyplace safer at the moment." "I hope you're right," Shren said flatly. * * * Darth Venom strode past a pair of wealthy business women shopping in the concourse. She felt a pang of jealousy as she passed, they had the freedom to do whatever they wanted. Then the jealousy faded, she had the truest freedom, freedom given by the force itself. A feeling of dread began to sink through her as she slipped past a rodian couple. Then suddenly she heard the hiss and whir of an electric motor. She turned to see a squad of YVH droids escorting a sullustant, Niev Niuk. The lead droid suddenly stopped and turned to face her, "Master Niev, that woman posesses a lightsaber, she is not int he databanks as a known Jedi however." The Sullustant turned to her, hatred in his eyes, "She's in violation of the weapons prohibition, sieze her!" Without thinking Darth Venom drew her ruby blade and sliced the lead droid in half. Within seconds a signal from the squad had been beamed to Alliance Security. * * * Captain Page knew within moments, he turned to the security guards at the security point that the group was passing, "I want two full combat teams as escorts." One of the officers tossed Jacen his lightsaber along with Shren's blade, "Here Jedi Solo, we hope you won't need them."

Okay, time to foil darkie

"What is this place?" Kyp said softly as he stepped through the glowing cavern cut from the rock face. Pulling a glowlight from his backpack he felt an icy chill run down his spine, a feeling all together familiar to him, a feeling of darkness. Kara stepped through the hole and raised her glowlamp to cast a beam across the cavern. Directly before them was a shallow pool of what had once been water, and now was so alkali to appear like a bleach. Cut into the pool a set of narrow steps rose to a flat room, it's center a compass rose with over a hundred points radiating out along the floor. She held up a scanner and focused on the pool, "Looks like there's an electrical current beneath the waves, be careful." "Yeah, yeah," Kyp hissed as he slowly walked along the edge of the pool. A a small piece of rock rolled from beneath his feet and crashed into the pool sending a blaze of brilliant blue lightning across its surface. Kyp felt his chest tighten as he watched the lightning dance across the pool. Slowly lifting the glow rod toward the ceiling, "What is this place?" Then in the gloom the image of a reptilian warrior holding a bladed staff before it, its long black cloak hiding most of the features except the clawed feet, hands, and snout. Automatically Kyp felt himself take a step backward and swung around to see another identical figure carved into the rock. A hiss escaped him, "Rapora." Slowly he stepped past them and caste his gaze upon the steps from the pool and the glyph's and symbol's etched into the stone, "Kara can you translate this?" Kara had slipped past the pool beside Kyp, her face aglow with the pride of the discovery. She knelt down beside him and peered at the writing, "It looks like the sith inscriptions I've seen but, different, these symbols I've never seen before." She paused and touched a finger to one of the glyphs, "I still might be able to make it out though." Kyp felt a half smile slip across his face, "You're good at this." "No, I'm the best," She winked at Kyp out of the corner of his eye and turned back to the glyphs, "Its says, here you are reborn warriors of the End..., no --Never-Ending Empire-- You will arise anew as our lord the Timeless One does, cleansed of you -your- inequities. Defenders of the lord of worlds, you shall remain beyond the empire until the warrior from beyond arises thrice to our future's end." Kyp shook his head, "Some sort of prophecy inbedded in a blessing?" "Thats what it sounds like," Kara said slowly, "But who built this place?" "I think I know." OOC: And the plot advances again...

Who said it wasn't going to be foiled? Actually, think about the amount of civilian traffic on and off the world, disguise yourself as civilians, and since the GFFA is an open government blending in and moving about would be easy, maybe you could get yourself a tour . Or stake out the place and wait for Shren to be transfered, then strike.

You do realize Denon is the Capital of the GFFA, not Coruscant. I'm afraid Darkie's plan simply wouldn't work, you'd be detected well before hand, and have to fight your way through the enemy. I was thinking that Darth Fury (He's human I believe) simply slip onto the world on a civilian liner undercover, sneak into GFFA Intelligence, attempt to kill Shren, and sneak out.

Actually the Meeting is already over at the end of my last post, I just didn't come out and say it.

Cal sank back in his seat, "So, why exactly have you come out fo retirement?" "I've been busy readying forces for a coming war, the war you're looking upon as we speak. The Empire of the Hand was formed to be the first line of the Galaxies defense, but the United Defense Alliance was meant as its hammer. You'll find from General Ioor's account of the battle of Bastion just how effective our ships are." Admiral Kre'Fey nodded slowly, "So you've been preparing all this time for this war?" "Even longer, I joined the Empire in the hope of uniting the galaxy so that it could be defended against such a foe, unfortunately my superior had other designs, and even now works against me." Thrawn shrugged, "I've got Jaina Solo here with me, and I'd like her to remain here as an envoy between our two peoples. Furthermore we have a common enemy." "Yes," Cal answered slowly, "It seems we do." Cal sighed, "What forces can you bring to bear against the Rapora?" Admiral Thrawn smiled, "A fleet half the size of one of your six fleets, and equipped specifically to combat the Rapora." He leaned forward, "My daughter Athien will be heading up a small strike force destined for the world of Kuat. Also, is Master Skywalker there with you?" "I am." "I urge you to head to Zonoma Sekot, to combat the Rapora I believe you will need to bring the Vong into the war." * * * Kyp Durron held tight to the rope that was anchored to the cliff face on Ossus. Beside him xenoarchaelogist Kara Barren swun witha small cutting laser and sensor clasped to her hip. She glanced over to Kyp hanging there and smiled, "Your Jedi tricks not much of a help here?" "Not as much as most other situations," Kyp shrugged, "So what did you tell Tionne?" "Just what I told the High Council, that this structures on the surface are far older then anything else I've ever worked with," Kara brought up the scanner and brushed it across the cliff face. "And why exactly am I hanging here?" "Other then spending a little time with you alone Kyp," She grinned at Kyp's surprised expression. He did admit the woman was pretty, but she wasn't force sensitive, all his relationships thus far had been complete failures, and he wasn't itching to repeat the experience. He shrugged, "So what did you find?" "This," Kara handed the datapad over to Kyp, "The wall here is completely hollow, maybe there's some sort of chamber within it." Smiling broadly she drew the laser cutter from her hip and aimed at the wall, "Lets see, shall we?" * * * Anakin Skywalker dropped out of hyperspace and smiled at the familiar world before him, "Its good to be back." His ship stopped responding to him, but Anakin knew he was safe, the fighter was finally home. It was finally returning to Zonoma Sekot. * * * Han Solo rubbed his eyes as he woke up and growled, his back popped as he stood, a product of age. Beside him Leia yawned and rolled over. Han shook his head, "Who's being lazy now?" "I'm a quick learned," Leai shook her headand dropped back onto the pillow, "Are you going to get that?" "Yeah, yeah, you're one grumpy wife," Han wandered over to the comm and keyed it. The screen flickered and showed the familiar faces of the Skywalkers, "Kid, do you know what time it is here?" "Sorry to wake you," Luke shrugged, "I need a lift." Han chuckled as he felt his weariness ease, "Who's Mara ready to kill this time?" Mara shook her head, "Long story Han, where are you anyway?" "Corprate Sector, now my turn, where are you two?" Ben piped up at that remark, "Three!" Han felt himself chuckle again, "Let me guess, Denon, and you're off to save the galaxy, again." Luke frowned, "I forgot how far afield you two are, there's a war on. I'll explain it once you pick us up." "Alright kid," Han sighed as he flicked off the holocomm and turned to his wife, "Time to save the Galaxy again." OOC: Uh oh, I just had to bring in the rest of the family, didn't I. Also the Council Meeting is over, there may be another pretty soon, but not yet.

I'm just tieing the plots together, Shren is going to be debriefed by GFFA Intelligence, she arrived with them on Denon. You'll have to try and sneak in to get her. Admiral Evahe is briefing in both Luke and the council on the newest intelligence reports. Bad Samaritan has taken over the defense of Kuat. I'm thinking the Rapora will have a diversionary strike on Ossus. Perhaps we can get Evahe off world to Ossus in time to engage those attackers. I'll probably have an archaeological find regaurding the Rapora on Ossus, perhaps Evahe will be visiting. Trej is getting his forces updated to UDA standards, I'm thinking it would be a good idea to detach the Vong Jedi from the group and send him to Zonoma Sekot, Luke will join him there pretty soon.

"Their warriors are inventive and deadly, even for jedi," Luke sighed, his expression grim, "We still know little about them, their homeworld, their culture, even the size and extent of their fleet." Admiral Evahe sighed, "We know more then when you left, the worlds of Csilla, Yaga Minor, and Bastion have been siezed by the enemy." Luke felt his pulse quicken, "So the Empire and Chiss Ascendancy are effectively out of the war?" "Yes," Cal answered slowly and sighed, sinking into his chair, "Csilla and Bastion were completely destroyed, their planets utterly shattered by a superweapon." Cal leaned over the table, "Admiral, show them the Resurrector." The hologram in the center of the room displayed an enormous vessel two hundred kilometers from tip to tip in every direction. It's basic shapped looked like a standard satellite, but its sheer size blew away any other comparison except to a Death Star. Admiral Evahe rose and walked beside the holo and pulled a pointer from his shirt, "The ship is enormous as you can see, but in detailed analysis of the ship has revealled that at maximum for an average life form, it is crewed by less then ten thousand beings. Of course their could be many more housed in such a vessel, considering Raporan affection for droid technology its quite possible the majority of its crew is droid." The Evahe pointed to the four enormous pylons shooting fromt eh main assembly, "The station fires a directed plasma weapon, at these pylons are a number of gravitic projectors which focus and direct the beam. Each one of these projectors is capable of ripping apart a ship if aimed directly at a vessel. If these are disabled the primary weapon becomes unfocused, and really of only minimal danger to the target." Cal sighed, "Please define, minimal danger." "A ship could be disabled if caught in the plasma wave, and a planet could suffer slight atmospheric erosion." Mara Jade slowly shook her head, but it was Ben that asked the question she had thought, "Why did they blow up the worlds? Why not just capture them?" Admiral Evahe shrugged, "Our intelligence is uncertain, perhaps to shake up our leadership. I'm planing on dispatching a number of recon flights to those worlds to ascertain the purpose of their distruction." An Aide slipped into the room, "Sir, we've got a transmission from Colonel Solo." Kre'Fey stood, "Put it through." The shimmering image of Jaina Solo appeared in front of the assembly, "Jaina Solo to GFFA command, please respond." "Jedi Solo, this is Admiral Kre'Fey, report." The holo seemed to take forever to hear those words, "Sorry Admiral, we're transmitting from quite a distance here. I'm with with Admiral Oreton at present, along with members of the United Defense Alliance, a joint venture between the chiss and a number of other groups." Jaina turned from the admiral and frowned, "Are you sure?" A calm, well cultured voice answered, "Yes." Jaina sighed, "Alright, I'm going to hand it off to the leader of the United Defense Alliance." Jaina stepped out of the holo and a chiss man stepped to its center, he smiled slightly, "Hello Cal Omas, you may remember me." Cal felt his heart stop, "You knew me as Grand Admiral Thrawn."