Conquest of Alderaan [One Sith vs Republic]

[Adele Adonai]

OBJECTIVE: DEFEND the main city's medical facilities
LOCATION: - ALDERA UNIVERSAL MEDCENTER
ALLIES: The Republic [member="Ellain Hadrin"] [member="Kaiden 'Papa' Rohn"] [member="Kian Karr"]
Enemies: The One Sith [member="Darth Praelior"] [member="Darth Acarus"] [member="Darth Banshee"] [member="Eleena Miho"] @Mantorok [member="Darth Mierin"]


There was no time to waste. Emergency protocols went into fruition. A'dele would make a move, however not before sending word to the Jedi Council.

So while people were starting to evacuate to secure areas, A'dele brought up a comm array sending it direct towards a highly encrypted area that would bounce off twice before landing at it's destination.

"This is Jedi Knight A'dele Adonnai," her hologram would flicker on and off a bit, but would reach hopefully @Jorus Merril, [member="Kiskla Grayson"] [member="Michael Sardun"], [member="Erinyes Draclau"], [member="Talon Vosra"].

"I am sending this message from Alderaan Medical facilities. We are currently under attack. No word as to whom the aggressors are," her lips would thin slightly, "But be advised that we are sustaining heavy fire. I fear that the One Sith may be behind this."

Her head would swivel as ice blue eyes would meet that of the Kel-Dor Knight. "Go, we must ensure the safe evacuation of all the wounded."

She would then return to the holo-array, "We will require aide... we were not expecting an attack."

 

[J3C0]

Aldera Universal Medcenter
[member="Adele Adonai"] [member="Kaiden 'Papa' Rohn"] [member="Kian Karr"] [member="Ellain Hadrin"]

Mierin twisted, drawing her lightsaber and igniting the blade with a snap and a hiss. She turned and regarded her apprentices, first turning to @Mantarok and [member="Darth Acarus"]. “Go!”

She pointed towards one of the roof entrances, and then regarded the Twi'lek that was already moving away. She nodded to herself, and smiled. That on would do her duty well. The Sith Pureblood herself turned towards the center of the hospital, walking towards a small clear patch upon the top of the building and regarding the duracrete ceiling. She frowned momentarily and then stabbed the blade clean through.

Twirling around with one quick twist Mierin sliced a hole into the ceiling, cutting her way through the hospital and into the top floor of the Medical Facility. A smile crossed her lips as she fell onto the ground and immediately heard screeches and screams.

The hallways up here were bare, only doctors and nurses, no soldiers yet of course.

She grinned slightly, and rose from her place on the floor. The glowing heat from the sliced duracrete ceiling gave off a stench, though The Sith Pureblood ignored it as she stepped from the makeshift platform. Now, where were those Jedi.

 

[Vulpesen]

Location: Forest with Alexandra Cinthra
Objective: Do what must be done

It had been around midnight on Myrkrr when Ace roused Vulpesen from his sleep. Time to work and time to fight. Of course, he knew such would be required of him but he wanted so badly to continue his studies. Alas, it wasn not to be and thus the man packed up his things and headed off with [member="Alexandra Cinthra"]. As they left the atmosphere of the force neutral planet, the sith's senes came alive and for a moment he was overwhelmed. Though,such feelings were quickly put down and before long, Vulpesen was once again swallowed by Darth Tsolan, the blood wolf.

Hours later, the ship landed on the surface of Alderaan and Tsolan began his trek with Alexandra. It was a beautiful palce and one he had always dreamed of visiting. Too bad he visited like this with doom in his wake. Dressed in the new colored Shadow Fox armor, his eyes scanned the battlefield from behind the phrik mask, searching for anything that might prove a viable target. "Alex, do you have a plan?" His very speech was a sign that Myrkrr had done him good by settling his soul. Though that wasn't the only thing changed. Somehow, he felt stronger than before and not all of it was the force. Sure he had done quite a bit of exercise but even then... even then, something about his own body felt off.

 

[Alexandra Feanor]

[member="Darth Tsolan"]

Location: Forest with Vulps
Objective: Do what must be done

"Sense when do we plan, we are but tools for the sith are we not, we fight for them here and then we leave, then we fight and we leave, the Sith can use me as long as they need as long as i get what belongs to me back." She smiled and laughed as she spoke to a comlink, said link being to Eve. "Double check the droid's targeting systems, only armed soldiers, no innocents are to be harmed..." With that she powered it down and looked at Vulps, a wide grin at the fact her was here to help her do this. "We improvise, and you stop me from being shot if i suddenly freeze up, that sound good?"

 

[Fadeyka]

OBJECTIVE: DEFEND the main city's medical facilities
LOCATION: - ALDERA UNIVERSAL MEDCENTER
ALLIES: The Republic Ellain Hadrin Kaiden 'Papa' Rohn Kian Karr
Enemies: The One Sith Darth Praelior Darth Acarus Darth Banshee Eleena Miho @Mantorok Darth Mierin

Getting her orders from her Papa as all called him. Finding it with in her own training to get done what was needed until her unit moved out as a hold. "Papa Bear this is Fade orders now." knowing that if he had would pick up any weapon that was need if her own skills wasn't need. That feeling wasn't far from her own mind as knowing her skill was very much in demand right now.

Why on force green Aldera would someone want to attack the medcenter after all these was one that was recovering. Also just not soldiers but also other patiens of all ages. As she did what she was told to stabilize another person. After which she moved on with the doctor. Moving and patching that what her own skill was or did she had more then those sets of skills after all she was part of the havoc squad.

 

[The End Narrator]

They continued their download, 5% now and approximately 3% of the physical archives had been removed.

Alyesa herself remained where she was in the Palace, overseeing what operations she could. How could they have landed so fast? Where were the outer defenses, the sensor nodes?

She looked to the shielded platform that held her transport and then back to the holoprojector which displayed the battlefield and the progress. She wasn't a military commander, she was a simple Senator and a business woman. She was of a technical mind, nothing more.

"Shut down all civilian communication lines and route all you can to those nodes, I want as much output as possible to the Archives." She motioned to the progression bar. The military communication lines would remain open of course, allowing for clear, secured communication between units and so forth.

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

Location: ALDERA UNIVERSAL MEDCENTER enroute
Allies: One Sith
Enemies: Republic/Jedi [member="Ellain Hadrin"] [member="Kaiden 'Papa' Rohn"] [member="Kian Karr"] [member="Fadeyka"] [member="Adele Adonai"]
Objective: Destroy Medical Facility [member="Darth Acarus"] [member="Darth Banshee"] [member="Eleena Miho"] [member="Mantorok" [member="Darth Mierin"]

Balaya was moving now, the hand of the dark lord came about towards the facility she could feel the jedi inside and was laughing to herself as seeing Glitter charge forward to a wall and strike it left and opening. Her hand pointed out as the hydra staff spit venom and the seelie and unseelie went to go through the hole. The darkside nexus of the sithspawn making her feel empowered while she stood there tapping her talons together. The tapping reminiscent of bottles. "Jeeeediiiiii come out and play......" She moved firing at the window a thermal detonator near [member="Ellain Hadrin"] to try and send her into the tide of sithspawn. While she was pushing the darkside nexus created by the unseelie to chill and envelope [member="Adele Adonai"], the other explosives she fired from the launcher to go after the wounded near [member="Fadeyka"] and try to stop their medics.

 

[Mantorok]

LOCATION: Aldera Universal Medcentre, Rooftop
ALLIES: One Sith
ENEMIES: Republic
OBJECTIVE: Dinosaur stuffs

He landed with a hard thud, as armoured dinosaur men tend to do.

Mantorok found himself heart thudding heart, blood pumping around his system as if it were a race to circulate his large form. His Master spurred him onto go and his only response came in a furious roar as he tore himself along the roof, towards the entrance to the west wing. Of course, a hospital was a brilliant location to attack, centre of compassion and medical advancements, not of war.

There would be no slicing jewel thief-esque holes in the ceiling with lightsabers, Mantorok held no such weapon. Turns out that amphistaffs can't do it all, huh?

“TO THE SLAUGHTER!” Mantorok roared at [member="Darth Acarus"], his organic weapon still coiled around his considerable shoulders.

Of course, then the flow of the charge was broken, because the Chistori had to climb down a ladder to enter the building and it was rather difficult for somebody so large to go down a ladder like a smooth criminal. Rung rung rung rung.

 

[Vulpesen]

Tsolan gave a curt nod and removed his saber from his belt, keeping it tight in his grip before leaping high into the trees. "I think I'll take the high road and make sure you don't come across any surprises. Other than that, lead the way and lets find our first targets." As he spoke, he moved into something of a perching position on the branches, looking down at his companion. It was an old hunting Technic that Zarro had taught him. One to strike on even ground, and another to surprise from above.

[member="Alexandra Cinthra"]

 

[Lina Ovmar]

Aldera Universal Medcenter
Fire Stairwell to roof.
@Adele Adonai @Kaiden 'Papa' Rohn @Kian Karr @Ellain Hadrin

The sound of anti infantry fire diminished somewhat as Eleena stepped over the threshold. She deactivated it and clipped it back to her belt exhaling the tension from her body as she did. Stepping lightly she moved down to flights before pulling open a door into the hospital itself. A doctor paused to look at her in surprise. "There's sith on the roof," she said in a flustered voice stepping forward "I strongly advise you move your patients. to a safer location. Do you have any escape routes?"

"I...ugh...the turbo lifts can take us underground."

"Good, get them out of here. Force be with you."

He seemed to relax slightly at that and took off at a run. Eleena rolled her eyes and made for the eastern wing at a sprint.

 

[Sheff Zee]

LOCATION: Aldera Universal Medcentre, Rooftop
ALLIES: One Sith
ENEMIES: Republic
OBJECTIVE: Take the Medical Facility

The Sith Knight dropped out of the ship and landed in a three point stance. It was a heavy landing, he had only used a slight touch of the Force to slow his descent and so when he landed on the roof he felt extra cool. Like those guys in the action holofilms.

Glancing over to [member="Mantorok"] at getting a face full of prehistoric mouth in his face, he nodded in response and then followed him down the ladder. Of course the beast took too long and Acarus needed to be done there immediately. He leapt down the ladder, taking his lightsaber off of his belt.

Snap-Hiss.

Why were they climbing down when he had a lightsaber? Wow, way to get caught up in the flow of things.

At the bottom of the ladder (if they were on a lower platform of a roof) Malphas began to cut a hole into the roof.

 

[Adele Adonai]

OBJECTIVE: DEFEND the main city's medical facilities
LOCATION: - ALDERA UNIVERSAL MEDCENTER
ALLIES: The Republic Ellain Hadrin Kaiden 'Papa' Rohn Kian Karr
Enemies: The One Sith Darth Praelior Darth Acarus Darth Banshee Eleena Miho @Mantorok Darth Mierin [member="Darth Veles"]

A'dele's communication to the High Council would suddenly be cut off. Screams would be heard in the distance, and a shutter would go through the Knight at the deep sense of forebearing.

A hand would move towards her electrum saber, ice blue eyes focusing down the corridor where she would hear the chaos originate from.

"Everyone stay calm." she would tell them. "Listen to the Force. Let it guide you." she would say. A deep breath would fill the young Iridonian's chest.

With luck Havoc squad would be their first line of defense while the Jedi focused on evacuating personnel.

 

[Edric Vanyan]

OBJECTIVE: DEFEND the main city's medical facilities
LOCATION: - ALDERA UNIVERSAL MEDCENTER
ALLIES: The Republic Ellain Hadrin Kaiden 'Papa' Rohn Kian Karr
Enemies: The One Sith Darth Praelior Darth Acarus Darth Banshee Eleena Miho @Mantorok Darth Mierin

Ellain reacted a moment too soon as the detonator blew out teh wall beside her and send her hard against the opposite wall with her vision dazed and her mind clouded by the pain. 'Get up Ellain, now.' Her mind screamed at her body to react, her hands twitching as bodily function returned, albeit too slowly as the feeling of corruption began to seep into her being, she was too close to the nexuses that were being created even if temporary by the Sith Spawn that swarmed the area. 'GET UP.' With that her eyes shot open and her hand grabbed the pistol at her side, aiming it through the hole and aiming it at [member="Darth Praelior"], "HEY queen." With that a volley fired off from the pistol, her body slowly getting up.

[member="Kian Karr"]

 

[The End Narrator]

It would be noted, that the High Council was secured and with the Queen they were gone as soon as the One Sith forces were detected in system. A decision made by Alyesa Praxon-Organa herself and backed by the remaining High-Council members.

Communications would shift, Jedi communications would divert automatically to military frequencies. This would allow clear communication between military and government resources. All civilian communications remained offline.

OOC Note - [member="Rianna Ordo"] confirmed the first line.

 

[Darth Veles]

Location: Medical center
Allies: Darth Banshee
Enemies: [member="Adele Adonai"][member="Fadeyka"]

The Mon Calamari Sith Master known as Darth Veles always wished to visit the planet of Alderaan, but such a simple and usual thing as that was not possible due to the Republic's increasingly brutal methods of dealing with those associated with the Sith, therefore if anyone revealed a disguised Sith had infiltrated the planet, it would most likely lead to many being accused of working with the Sith and executed. The amphibian did not want to have innocent blood on his hands. He never would have imagined the life itself solving this problem for him, although a few innocents would still lose their lives, unfortunately. Their deaths fell upon the Republic's conscience though. It will be worth it though, for the planet's liberation was at hand and Darth Veles proudly carried the Dark Lord's message to the people of Alderaan! Freedom for everyone, death to the Republic dogs that relentlessly worked against His vision of eternal peace and prosperity where all sentient beings stood united under one flag, guarded by the just and benevolent Sith Order.

Being prepared vastly better than for the invasion before, Veles wore his armor this time, including the helmet that was shaped for the large Mon Calamari head. As during the small skirmish on Ossus, the Mon Cal had used a ship of his friend, [member="Darth Banshee"], to get on the planet. Not only it safely transported him to battle; most importantly, Veles wished to keep an eye on the newly promoted Sith Lady. The two had to celebrate her promotion after the liberation and it would be most tragic if one of them fell victim to the Republic's foolish attempt to guard the chains over its citizens.

His presence silenced before even landing on the planet, the amphibious Sith cautiously followed Lady Banshee. Her display of his signature ability made him proud; she so much more powerful now, her skill at Force cloak and Force stealth rapidly improving each time the two crossed paths. If given a few more years, the woman's abilities might rival his own...

The idea of attacking a medical facility did not bode well with him until the realization the Republic most likely hid its soldiers and Jedi overlords inside to protect them behind a wall of innocents. Typical for the cowards they were, using civilians as a shield, but it hoppefully would not be long before the fist of the oppressed finally fell upon the source of corruption on this planet and forced the Republic away.

Making no sound as he walked, bending all noise around himself and silencing it, the Mon Calamari finally twisted the light around himself as well, disappearing.

 

[Tefka]

5th Fleet Battle Group​

One Sith Naval Forces Central Command​

Rear Admiral Kymaero Vol​

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Fleeters​

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One Sith​

[member="Kymaero Vol"]​

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Location​

7th Quadrant of the Alderaan Sector, closest to the orbit of Alderaan's single moon.​

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Manifest​

1x Interdictor-class Star Destroyers - 1.6 km​

2x Skarr-Ro'ik Carrier Analogs - 2.84 km​

4x Dark Blade Dreadnought - 4.2 km​

2x Torment Class Torment Class Star Destroyer - 2 km​

25x Razer Class Frigates - 4.65 km​

1x Miid Ro'ik - 1.62 km​

1x A-vek liluunu - .8 km​

1x Vanguard-class Heavy Cruiser - .6 km​

Fighters, Bombers, Transports, etc including: Raider-class Light Interceptor, OS-1 Class Bombers, KI-SB-MK I, KI-IC-MK I, KI-ES-MK I, Yorik-Et, Yorik-Trema, and TIE Interceptors - 6.69 km​

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OOC​

Please PM me for all things regarding fleet engagements so that we can keep this story and battle as organized as possible to reduce the amount of reports.​

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The first initial wave, a small infiltration of transports through the poles of Alderaan that snuck many of the One Sith on to the planet, had already begun. Kymaero's fleet had just dropped out of hyperspace, close enough to the planet to alert all military entities of their presence. The Quermian puffed on his pipe and looked to the map of the sector - orbital defenses were in place, yes. But out of range. It was obvious that there had been some build up on the planet, but as the One Sith had surmised, the Republic wasn't able to defend all planets at once. There would be some serious defensive gaps, and to be honest - there were many other high value targets within Republic space that Kymaero was sure the Supreme Chancellor was keen on guarding. Alderaan fell further down the list, the Rear Admiral deemed. There would be time for the Republicans to engage a rebuke, though. Time for them to send the closest fleet to intercept.

But not without the One Sith leaving a serious mark on the planet, or possibly even winning dominion over this new target.

Alderaan.

In the hypervisors of the Dark Blade class dreadnought the Rear Admiral stood aboard, the planet glowed blue from afar. It was very calm, very peaceful. As was most of space. But there was something even more alluring about this planet. Something even more... tranquil. Kymaero indulged in this for a moment before returning to his duties.

"Shields up," he instructed, turning to his First Mate, Captain Quagglax. "Instruct our Yuuzhan Vong friends to have their Yammosks begin blocking transmissions."

He turned to his comms officer.

"Reach out to the surface, let the Sith know reinforcement has arrived." He was answered with a nod before turning to his First Mate again.

"Get the interdiction bubble up. I want everyone who comes in unable to leave."

Quagglax nodded.

"Form a sphere arrangement around the coordinates of our carriers and get our transports ready to land. Stay out of range of those orbital defenses for time being. The enemy will come to us."

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"The jig is up, gentlemen," he responded, knowing the One Sith had been spreading falsified information regarding the next invasion to be launched.​

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"The enemy knows we've come to Alderaan."​

 

[Tydeus of Tion]

Location: Aldera Royal Palace, Aldera City
Objective: Stop the Traitor
Enemy: [member="Darth Junra"]

A figure emerged from the gates of the Royal Palace. Hair red as blood swept down across his ears, ruffled slightly by his sprint to reach the palace steps. A scar of ugly, silver tissue ran vertically just beneath his right eye. Other scars would be visible, patterning his body in life's patchwork of torment, suffering, and various misfortunes, were it not for the armor he wore. The lamellar armor, made from flexible weaves of leather-like material resembled a combination of Jensaarai and Je'daii techniques and he moved in it with a sort of flowing grace.

The lightsaber clutched in his right hand hummed eagerly, blue blade shimmering, and marked him as a Jedi Knight, or else one of their many cousin orders. His grey eyes like twin spears of durasteel swept across the steps and witnessed the carnage already wrought in these first few moments. Alderaanian guards fired from the cover of pillars, or were struck down in the open by the hail of blaster bolts issuing from the gathered Sith soldiers below.

The blade-kissed Jedi's roving gaze ground to a halt upon a short woman with blonde hair and a prominent, hooked nose. His stone-hewn features contorted, lips twisting into a sneer of pure disdain.

"Traitor," hard-edged word cut through the air as sure as the red lancets of plasma criss-crossing the arena of battle.

In a smooth, almost effortless motion the Jedi Knight gathered his feet and leapt, flipping once through the air before coming down on the stairs above the woman and just to her right. Blaster fire danced around them, but they seemed to pay little heed, stares locked.

Ryan struck, blade lancing out for a thrust at her right collarbone. No warning proceeded the blow, no command for surrender. Just pure determination and a terrifying icy calm

 

[Ashin Varanin]

OBJECTIVE: DEFEND the main city's medical facilities
LOCATION: - ALDERA UNIVERSAL MEDCENTER
ALLIES: The Republic [member="Ellain Hadrin"] [member="Kaiden 'Papa' Rohn"] [member="Kian Karr"] [member="Adele Adonai"]
Enemies: The One Sith [member="Darth Praelior"] [member="Darth Acarus"] [member="Darth Banshee"] [member="Eleena Miho"] [member="Mantorok"] [member="Darth Mierin"] [member="Darth Veles"]

So many things to do -- so many people in need of healing - so few doctors who really understood how to evacuate. What the Sith were doing here eluded him, though he suspected it had much in common with terrorism.

He made for one of the stronger Force signatures, one of the more profound darknesses, alone. Other Jedi were busy evacuating, trusting in Havoc Squad to halt the Sith advance. The Priest of the Mother Jungle plodded up to find some sort of a choke point. Perhaps, if he was lucky, he could focus the attention of multiple Sith Lords upon himself.

 

[Arturious Engel]

Objective: Alderaan Royal Palace
Location: Outside the city
Allies: [member="Darth Junra"] [member="Darth Nexus"] [member="Cale Gunderson"] Others with the Palace objective
Enemies: @Republic @Jedi


Arturious landed outside the city with a Battalion of other Sith and Troopers well outside the range of fighting within the city. Looking around Arturious was a bit overwhelmed at what he saw around him. The newly minted Sith Knight and been on a few missions already subjugating planets in the name of the One Sith but they were largely unguarded and easy to take. This however....this was another thing entirely. The sheer number of people in the landing party he arrived with was more people than he had ever seen. Looking off in the distance Arturious saw rising smoke. It would seem that Arturious was already late to the party. Arturious looked around for [member="Evard L'Rik"] who should be nearby having arrived in the same Assualt group as Arturious.

Taking a deep breath Arturious checking his armor which realistically was nothing more than a chest piece he had gotten from one of the Troopers of the ship he had hitched a ride on. Arturious ignited his saber turning to the Troopers closest to him.

"Our enemy awaits my brothers and it seems they have rolled out the welcome mat." "Let us not disappoint them."

Being unfamiliar with the terrain Arturious started towards the city with one of the Scout Trooper squads for the slow but steady march towards their objective.

 

[Akanias]

Location: Archives
Objective: Steal from the Archives, Destroy it.
Allies: One Sith
Enemies: Galactic Republic

The Sith Knight's ship broke atmosphere while the two fleets engaged in space above.

There was no time to halt. His plan was to do what he had done upon Copero. Or whatever Chiss planet it was. These days he didn't exactly remember what he was doing while he wandered the Galaxy in search for... Something.

What that something was, he didn't know. An actual purpose besides fighting the wars of the Sith. These days he didn't know what he wanted. When he had left Kaeshana he had had an actual purpose, but that was long forgotten. He knew he had a family there, but they most likely thought he was dead. Did he still care for them? He didn't know, he didn't really care at that point in time. Not with his ship descending to the planet below.

On Empress Teta he had been an Apprentice blindly following the Dark Lord. It had been... Exciting to be in a battle of such size. He had fought a Jedi Padawans, and some loudly breathing Jedi Master. It had been exciting, he had even feared for his life. He had only survived because the Republic and their allies had to retreat or something like that, he didn't really know.

Although there were still some that stayed planet side surely. He had even helped weed out those would be rebellions.

Now though, what was he meant to do? Continue flying into battle, risking his life to fight Jedi and the Galactic Republic for a Galaxy united? In the short amount of time that he had left Kaeshana he now knew that they couldn't unite the Galaxy. How could they? So many other Organizations and Factions, so many spies, betrayal everywhere. How could it work? Betrayals on a small scale worked of course, they could cut a large swath through the Galaxy.

Turn the holographic representation of the Galaxy into the One Sith Empire's colours, but could they actually do it? How come all of us Sith followed the Dark Lord but others didn't? How is a small Order meant to reach out and wrap it's hand around the Galaxy?

It didn't make sense to him anymore.

His ship passed through the clouds, a burning ball of light and continued on it's angle.

The sensors told him he was nearing his location.

Just before he could switch to autopilot, the ship's console started to beep and the Force practically shook his spine, and his shuttle barrel-rolled to the side just as flak cannons passed where he had only been momentarily. Of course they blew up within proximity to him and his ship was bumped off it's course.

How was he meant to survive? His ship pulled upwards, but continued on it's course.

His rear shields took damage from the anti-air turrets. Readings told him they were dropping quickly.

Target Reached.

He glanced down to the console and he read the two words. Of course it said he was there, but there was nothing but sky.

Guiding the ship downwards it performed a half loop before it's engines were cut out for a second so that it could be facing the ground below and the Archives. It took him a moment of thought, a deep breath, faith, trust... And a button press.

The engines activated and his ship descended straight to the roof of Alderaan's Archives. He was moving too fast for the anti-air turrets to actually target him. Coupled with the fact that his ship was spiralling crazily down to the planet below, he continued to build up speed. He felt the turns at that point as he gained speed, there was no time to stop it, no time to change his choice.

He thought he'd hurl.

Hurrying to the back of the ship, he grabbed the jetpack, similar looking to the one that he had used on Copero's Aristocra's Palace, and then he leapt out of his ship.

He remembered [member="Darth Junra"]'s face when she had Knighted him on Copero after their mission had been completed.

He knew what he had to do.

And then the door opened and he activated the jetpack, coupled with a force leap, and he jumped out of the ship just as it's spiral ended... Along with the Archives's roof.