Location: Above Coruscant’s Orbit
Objectives: Defend the Dark Lord/ Defeat Usurpers
Allies: [member="Isamu Baelor"] [member="Darth Carach"] [member="The Handmaiden"]
Enemies: Traitors.
When war was fought, there were thousands of people that dedicated themselves either to one side, or to the next. Some choose to remain neutral, not doing anything but waiting for a side to win. For Admiral Veston, commander of the Sith Lord Velon Ielor’s fleet, he had chosen to fight for the side of the Dark Lord. Veston had served the Sith Lord, and the Sith Navy with extreme loyalty. He had fought to make sure that the Sith continue to maintain its powerful navy, as well as to maintain stability. Now however, that stability was threatened by Darth Mephirium, and his usurpers. As one would expect, Veston would do whatever it took to make sure that those long hours of fighting in space, training with simulations, etc, would not go to waste.
“Sir, we have received the reports from Admiral Stark’s fleet. We have a detailed map of the remaining loyalist, and opposing forces. This is from orbit, as well as from the ground.” One of his communication officers stated.
“Good. Are the starfighters in their ships?” the Admiral asked
“Yes sir”
“Excellent. Prepare to attack. Order your fleet to move into a tight defensive formation. I want escorts cruisers, and frigates flanking our capital ships in a defensive screen. Give me status updates on all our systems in every ship in our fleet every ten minutes. Monitor all frequencies, and communications. Make sure that they can’t hack ours. I know that our shield systems, and weapon systems are in full power, but continue to monitor them. Deploy starfighters immediately.” The Admiral ordered.
The starfighters were deployed, and the Admiral watched from his 3D CIC Map what was happening. He knew everything that was happening from the map. From artillery deployments, to where each major leader was, to the number of forces, and ships each of his enemies had in the ground, and in orbit, as well as where the ships are, etc.
As a senior military officer, the Epicanthix Admiral knew the system inside out. He had ordered for ships/fleets that patrolled in nearby words/sectors/systems to check if there were any enemy ship, and a variety of equipments, including hyperspace listening stations found out that there were no ships. This meant a variety of things, including the fact that no fleet/ship could micro jump from one nearby system, or at the edge of the current system he was in, to Coruscant, as they were no fleets that were close to Coruscant.
As the starfighters descended into orbit, so did his fleet. They were far from the range of any artillery that his enemies had; additionally, they were also far from the Dark Lord’s Palace, as they were descending to Sith Academy. One of the reasons why the Sith Academy had lost was because they lacked any anti aircraft placements, and defenses to defend against the might of Lord Kentauch, and his powerful army. It seemed ironic though that that meant that they couldn’t attack the fleet, and this therefore helped the loyalist fleet. Fortunately for Admiral Veston, Kentauch’s troops also did not possess any weapon to cause harm to any ship –or starfighter-, as their fortified positions didn’t feature anything to target them; additionally, their attack against the Sith Academy on Coruscant would have wasted their ammunition, and since they didn’t resupply themselves, they were significantly less armed, and possessed much more less ammunition than before. As the fleet descended into orbit, the clouds descended from sight; nevertheless, the Admiral’s ships already had their turbolasers, and offensive weaponary targeted at the Dark Blade Dreadnought, ready to destroy it.
Considering the fact that the dreadnought’s port, or any shields for that were matter weren’t activated, it would be hard for them to power up their shield systems not to attack. Before their systems began to power up, Admiral Veston ordered his fleet to attack. The Star Destroyers’ lasers concentrated their attack on the ship from the port side. The repeated attacks from the turbolasers would destroy the ship, and all those in it, at least from his extensive experience.
Since the ship was close to the Sith Temple, any force, loyalist, or otherwise that was quite close to the ship(Including the forces in the temple) would most certainly die, or at least be severely injured. The close proximity between the ship, and the Sith Academy/Temple on Coruscant made survival certainly not true; furthermore, there weren’t any shields whatsoever that could protect a mere building from that type of attack, no matter what form of shielding it is. Admiral Veston’s fleet was also behind the usurpers’ fleet that was in orbit, meaning that they wouldn’t be able to see him; moreover, they were also far away to be out of the range of Darth Venefica's fleet, meaning that their jamming of communications, among other things wouldn't work on them. Fortunately for the Admiral, he also had a considerable starfighter defense force that protected his fleet, as he had not deployed all the fighters he had. The starfighters were ready for anything the enemy had.
As the fleet’s turbolasers(and other offensive weaponary except projectiles) concentrated their attack on the Dreadnought, the starfighters began to attack the artillery positions that were safe in the roof. The pilots that were performing this attack were used to Coruscant, having spent years there training. They had performed flying runs past the Dark Lord’s palace on numerous occasions. This meant that they knew the layout, and each building very well in terms of their outer structure, and the pilots, as well as Admiral Veston was well aware of the fact that the rooftops where the AA weapon, soldiers with SAAMs, and artillery were in had a small length of 5 meters, and a small width of 3 meters. This more or less meant that the troops of the notable artillery specialist, Gulliver Foile were crammed; additionally, there were no shuttles, ground weapons, shuttles, or any one that guarded the artillery weapons other than the anti aircraft (AA) weapons, and the soldiers with SAAMS. Admiral Veston felt slightly sorry for the soldiers that were in these positions, but they were his enemies, and he would do whatever it took to stop them.
The starfighters moved in, at least 1000 of them attacking the artillery weapons that were in the rooftop of the buildings that were closed to the Dark Lord’s Palace. The starfighter pilots knew that the artillery weapons were only in 10 buildings, and that there wasn’t any enemy artillery in any other part of Coruscant; additionally, the starfighter pilots noticed that the artillery weapons, or the AA weapons, and the SAAMs for that matter didn’t have a computer targeted system; additionally, the AA weapons were single turreted, powered by energy batteries. Many starfighters targeted each building –in a loose formation-, and as they fired their laser canons(and all their other weaponary), they also fired their missile, aimed at the rooftop. The missile was a proton torpedo. It had an IFF tracker, meaning that it would attack any one that didn’t have an IFF tag that was in Admiral Veston's fleet(his ships, and starfighters) as well as the loyalist fleets above. Even if the IFF tag didn't work for some magical reason, the torpedoes were already at their going toward the enemy artillery, and most likely wouldn't be able to hit Admiral Veston's starfighters, considering that targeting solutions were already set, and the starfighters were working in an efficient manner. Thankfully, the usurpers didn’t have any anti-missile defense, hopefully meaning that they couldn't defend against such an attack.There no enemy ships, shuttles, or starfighters for that matter that could help the enemy’s artillery, nor were there any ships, shuttles, or starfighters that were close enough to react to the starfighters, expect the small amount of shuttles that were on the ground near the Dark Lord’s Palace; in addition to that, the tightened space where the enemy were in meant that they wouldn’t be able to defend effectively against the starfighters.Even then, the shuttles were archaic, as there was really no specific design to them, and they were just the typical normal shuttle which didn't have any laser canons, or other weaponary and armaments. The loyalists' artillery ammunition was also most likely exhausted, since they had hit multiple loyal targets. The skyscrapers, and this area also didn't have any shield whatsover, and there was no shield generator within this distance that would be able to rpotect the roofs, and the buildings of the skyscrapers. Fortunately, civilians had evacuated that area as most of the forces were in the Dark Lord’s palace; their fortified positions couldn’t deal with the starfighters, or any airborne weapon simply because they didn’t have any anti-aircraft weapon with them. To put it simply, there was no weapon, ground or in the air(other than the SAAMs, or Anti Aircraft lasers) that could deal with Admiral Veston’s starfighters; lastly, since the starfighters already had locations they had already targeted, and already had specific locations to attack, they wouldn’t be bumping to each other.
Just because the fleet(3 Wyrlook, 1 Dark Blade Dreadnought)/starfighters(including the
Allegiant class starfighter,
KI ES MKI Axe Wing,
Raider Class Interceptor, etc) attacked didn’t mean that they weren’t careful. They were vigilant, being well aware that in naval battles, it was rare for someone to get a second chance. The starfighters were well prepared against the enemy fleet, being well aware that they were using impressive ships such as the TIE Bomber, and arguably the greatest starfighter in the Galactic Empire era, the X-Wing They were therefore ready for any surprises, years of being a starfighter pilot having made them be mentally prepared for practically anything.
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As the usupers moved in, the men that were under his command moved in a hybridized pincer, and support and fire movement.
While the enemy attacked, his men also moved in, already ready at their positions. They had a variety of weapons, but most importantly, they had the
standard One Sith Armor, with an armorweave karma, as well a belt that held some pistols, etc.
When @Bethany Harford attacked Konrad, Krayzen’s troops, already at their positions, opened fired at her with their verpine shatter gun automatic rifles, firing .50 caliber bullets at a muzzle velocity of at least 600 m/s, at an automatic setting. They also targeted other enemies as well, including those that fired at General Konrad. Fortunately for them, none of the enemies were at the higher levels of the entrance.
Considering that there were no previous scans, nor did any of them use the force to sense where Krayzen’s men were, they were more or less walking into a blind spot; additionally, none of them had attempted to find the positions of the other enemies. Also, the sound of the bullets couldn't be heard, adding to the chances of his enemies not being likely to respond quickly enough to defend/evade the attack.
While his men did this, Krayzen(and his men) remained vigilant, wondering what was going to happen. For the first time in his life, he wondered if he fought for the right side, and if the Dark Lord was truly worthy of his throne?; additionally, he also wondered if Mephirium was perhaps, the better candidate for Dark Lord.
