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Invasion Into Hell, We March (Authority Invasion of Naboo)

Naboo Atmosphere/ Outside of Theed
Allies: ASA and Allies
Enemies: OP and Allies
Objective: Survive.




"Why are you here?"


To that, Luna only smiled. "The Authorita doona need ev'y able boodde?" Truth be known there was loot to be havin' and a whole lot of it. "Heh... 'sides I fly thes betta than ya." Even fueled on whiskey. The blue-hair scalawag had to all but pry his hands from the pilot's seat. No, take that back. She had to pry each finger, unbuckle, and then throw him to the others. Venz, obviously not the type that had even been on the run from Republic forces before, had froze in the midst of tailing a rift of ships aiming to go planetside and they almost said hello to the fishes with his sore attempt. It was all she could do to stay fastened, but the last bout that took out one of their engines and sent them careening into a Protectorate ship... the pirate had never moved so fast in her life.

Venz may or may not have a broke finger or two.

The transport lurched, skimming one of the noses of the defense fleet, her inked fingers went sprawling over the controls. The process seemed so slow, even as she took control, giving the enemies a rather large silver view of their belly. Vega had not even sat, instead was hunched over the controls until they were at least clear of that one ship she knocked sideways. There was no doubt that now they were in their sights clear as a day on Sullust. Gunmetal eyes narrowed beneath the fall of azure bangs and she pulled hard to the left to straighten out. "Buckle up, boys." The Protectorate vessel was gaining on them, she could feel it, but not explain it. Shouldda... put the harness on...

A rather massive chunk of debris fell in to view and she sucked in a breath. One. Two... Before there had been no time left, the carrier nose-dived causing the hull to shake, the passengers to be jarred. The tip of their back end brushed what had to be a piece of another that had been ripped to pieces. Either way, it was the opposition's problem now, the one that had been trailing her. Them. This wasn't personal, it was just survival, and so far the guts of the ship were giving her body a beating.


There was an opening and a very small one at that. Time was ticking away like a bomb and if they stayed much longer, they'd be dead. Luna Vega prayed to the stars then, no gods, just the galaxy and set the coordinates.


Scared, terrified out of her wits, she finally succumbed to the pilot's chair, strapping in as quickly as possible. "Here. WE. GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Punching the throttle, every being was threw back into their seats, a blue glow, both lighter and brighter than the shades of her hair streamed into view. Space now only a backdrop, the view port now offered a canopy of trees. Before she could gain her barrings, fire hailed from the sky sending the not entirely destroyed carrier then, now sailing through the Nabioan skyline off schedule and away from any landing zone.


Instinctively, she tried to put them back on course, but was unable. So instead she had to make due with what could be done and that was to try and soften their land as the ground seemed to be thrown at them. Another bout of fire struck and they spun once, facing the opposite direction, causing the stern to fall into the dirt first. "Get out," she said softly at first. "GET OUT." Meanwhile her hands shook as she fumbled to release herself from the chair. They moved and the ship creaked, then began to rock, and with a sudden slam she threw her hands on the controls to brace herself.

When she turned to look back at the men, she sighed, "Feth." At least four were down, bleeding out from the fall from their mouths. There was blood everywhere and the harder she looked, more bodies. Finally, Luna stood, or attempted to and managed to crawl to the back end of the ship that had fallen off, been blown off. She was not entirely sure, but as it were, it seemed the only way to get out. Pulling a couple pistols from the deceased, Vega trudged forward until she mostly fell the short distance to the ground below. "Feth. Feth. Feth." Frustrated and banged up, the young woman stood and stuffed the two weapons in respective empty slots. Her neck rolled to the left, then the right. Crraaaack. Not quite a dozen men spilled out after her then and she shook her head. "Go time?" she asked with a short laugh.

They nodded and her hand came behind her to unsheathe the machete. "What's our location, darlin'?"


"Quite the distance to the objective, but as we stand... just outside of Theed."
 

Talon Vosra

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Location: Theed Outskirts
Objective: Repel Invaders
Aliies: OP and Allies, [member="Mao"]
Enemies: ASA, [member="Salem Norongachi"], [member="Luna Vega"], whoever wants to scrap

Talon watched the ships as the headed dirtside. Emerald eyes of the Zelosian watching as his mind calculated the trajectory of their eventual touchdown. The protectorate forces opened fire on the ships as they opened their hatches to deploy troops. Bare feet dug in as he began to run for the ASA soldiers. Yellow bladed lightsaber sprang from his belt to his hand and came to life as he came to the first blaster wielding soldier and deftly sliced his weapon in two leaving smoldering durasteel in his hands. Another quick turn and the master of a blended Niman and Soresu pushed and pulled weapons and soldiers as he advanced on the dropship killing none.
 
Location: Swamp, and to theed
Allies: ASA, [member="Salem Norongachi"], [member="HWD-002"]
Enemies: OP, [member="Noah Corek"], [member="Ventasia Terana"] , [member="Mao"], [member="Sarge Potteiger"], [member="Feena Mason"], [member="Aaralyn Rekali"], [member="viper"], @feliicty mason, [member="Keter"], [member="Corvus Raaf"], [member="Kaiden 'Papa' Rohn"], [member="Talon Vosra"]

After getting her platoon together, she waited for orders. Their was some buzzing of gunships, and bit to and throw form air battle. Then she got the call on radio, it`s was the company orders. They where to march and dig in, around the city of theed. Their where special force that gone in, but her job was to besiege it for know. She turned to face the city, it was a beautiful walled city. It was shame her job was to break it. She then turned to her platoon, it was remnants of other platoons. Though their casualties on the ground was less than omegas, they still had their losses.

Right soldiers I got our orders, we are to dig in out of artillery range. Near the great river, and then wait till we receive further orders. Our job is going to protect a group of sappers, as they carry out their works. She wonder what the sappers where going to do. Though did not really matter, it`s was her job to make sure they could do it. They began to march to the city, after hour marching the sappers had caught up with them. Then their officer asked, Are you Lt Sandhurst? She shook her head, No I am 2nd Lt Roscoe, I got a field promotion. She paused for a moment, and then asked Are you the sappers? He looked at her and replied Oh, and yes we are. The Oh was quite telling, he was hoping for older and more experienced officer. Though war did take it`s toll, and he new it. Right then our job it to damn the river. ​He then went on to explain, this was injunction with other groups. The plan was to cut the power, the water the gas, and if possible the sewer network off. They planned to damn the river, and divert the water away from it. Her job was to protect them whilst making the damn. Then protect the damn, while they cut path for the water. So the water would run else where. The idea was a person can only survive, three maybe five days without water on average. The question would be if they come out and fight, against their lines, or try evacuate, or die thirst. Also it might the population become unruly, which would tie up more of their troops.

​She eventually got their, they began making their defense. While the sapper began digging holes, to planet explosives in to carve a new channel for water, and began making a temporary dam for river this would take them some time though. She was not alone in guarding them though. The was at least infantry battalion know ,and some light AA guns and anti armour devices know. Though more would come over time........
 
The sky was on fire.

All those freighters and cruisers brought as shields hadn’t lost their velocity after being destroyed. In fact, as the main portion of the Authority fleet had used their repulsors to bring themselves to attack speed and engage the Protectorate, the remains of the ships and surrounding detritus had rushed ahead of them.

Harmless enough to the defended planet below, beyond a few large chunks that would make it down, but as the debris shower burned up in the atmosphere it was making a fantastic lightshow. Irys pondered briefly how it would look from the surface.

“But we cannot hold against this kind of firepower!” shouted the holo-image of Captain Star’st of the ANS Overlord.

“Captain, you need to stay the course, keep at it!” Irys said back. “Your quadranium hull is more capable of taking this fire than our troops on the ground, and that’s where it will go if you lose your bottle.” She could see the elderly Bothan’s fur ripple with annoyance before his image flickered out of sight. Damn him. He was exactly the sort that despised being commanded by a relatively young female. He had a point though, they’d suffered more than twice the damage of the Protectorate, and that was after accounting for the dummy ships. She’d probably be lumped with the blame for the damage to the fleet.

At least they could focus their fire for a short period of time. They’d used the extra mobility of their fleet to reduce their formation to a tighter wedge, faster than the enemy’s heavy command ships could react to. They’d hit a small section of the enemy’s line hard.

RD1 and RD2 were fully concentrating on the Horn-class ships, pairs of Scythes that could outmanoeuvre and outgun their opponents were chasing them down and hammering them with heavy turbolaser fire and the odd salvo of heavy torpedoes.

“Tell RD2 to engage that Belsar hitting the dropships. Order RC3 to support the dropships.” She called.

“RC1 reports two enemy frigates heading from ground forces!”

“Order RC3’s Ventress-class to engage. Find a spare Krell-class and send it into low orbit to offer fire support and hold off those frigates!

Order all bomber formations: enemy capital ships are key targets, but if a shield is exposed consider it a target of opportunity. Those things are expensive, if they get a chance to bring them down, take it.”

Irys looked with concern at her overall tactical readout. Her fleet was mobile, but mobility wouldn’t help her bring down the Protectorate’s military stations. There wasn’t a single Tambor, Gunray, Grevious or Lucrehulk that wasn’t flashing orange on her display.


Fleet

Formations:
Rapid Destroyer 2 (RD1, RD2)
Destroyer 3 (D1, D2, D3)
Rapid Cover Screen 3 (RC1, RC2, RC3)
Command 1 (C1)
Patrol 1 (P1)
Planetary assault 2 (PA1, PA2)
Carrier Formation 3 (CF1, CF2, CF3)
Super Heavy 1 (SH1)

Additional Vessels (counted in 85km):
Monitor 2
Thrawn 2
Interdictine 1
Argente 2


Total Vessels:
Jupitus 1
Lucrehulk 2
Grevious 2
Gunray 1
Tambor 8
Pillar 8
Contentio 15
Argente 6
Scythe 8
Broadside 2
Krell 8
Scintel 8
Sev'rance/a 42
Sev'rance/b 3
Tu/a 25
Tu/b 5
Wodantra 6
Sickle 22
Ventress 12
Monitor 2
Thrawn 2
Interdictine 1


“Operation hide behind New Order junk”
Additional fluff vessels:
Demilitarised Leviathan-class Frigates (400m) 20
Demilitarised New Order/Horde Heavy Cruisers/Cruisers 40

Fighters:
Gunboats (mix of Tikkes and Arcturus) 508
Droid Starfighters 3012
Fighters 288
Elite Fighters 24
Droid Interceptors 1976
Interceptors 242
Droid Bomber 872
Bomber 384


Navy Manifest (ship links)
Capital Ships
Space Stations/SatellitesStar DreadnaughtsCommand ShipsStar DestroyersLight Star DestroyersHeavy CruisersCruisersFrigatesCorvettes
Other Starships
Note: CIS designations are the same as stock, but with CIS communications, command and tactical systems.

Elite StarfightersStarfightersInterceptorBombersGunshipsDrop Pods
Dropships
  • [url=http://starwarsrp.net/topic/21118-low-altitude-assault-transportambigene-laata/]Low Altitude Assault Transport/Ambigene
Heavy DropshipsLanding CraftScout Vessels
  • Pending
Patrol CraftPersonal Transports
 
Enemies: Drowning

The sound of a roaring fire filled his awareness. It drowned out all other thoughts that tried to piece themselves back together. But if the fire was so loud, why was it so dark and cold?

Focus

Focus!

Raziel opened his eyes. The noise of shouts of panic joined the roar. The inside of the shuttle's bay was dark, the red emergency lights flickered in the gloom. A single shaft of light pierced the darkness and as Raziel groggily turned his head he realised there was no fire. It was the sound of water rushing into their metal tomb.

"Who's alert?" he called. Then realised his suit was running in the default, silent mode before repeating himself into the comm.

There were four responses from the eight man team. One of them swam over and helped him unbuckle himself.

"Doors are jammed!"

"Feth."
 


Objective: Bring the Gravy Train
Location: Plains outside Theed/ Killzone
Allies: ASA [member="Una Gal"] [member="Salem Norongachi"] @Anyone near Salem
Enemies: [member="Talon Vosra"] @Anyone defending Theed



Gravesen's nose scrunched up in an expression few would expect to see on a battlefield. The twin droids he had commandeered waited just outside the walkway; blending in perfectly with the downed vessel.

He parted his lips to give some kind of retort when Una turned to follow the droids. He lingered behind for the moment; mouth hanging partly open as all words had escaped his mind. Sighing in defeat, he followed after her.

The area surrounding Theed's walls was the very definition of chaos. Ships plummeted to the ground like wounded birds; flaming pieces of shrapnel being the vanguard of their arrival. Cannons roared over the landscape, and the screams of men in their final death throes filled the air. The scent of burning ozone and raw meat pervaded over Naboo's
natural scent, and broken bodies littered fields in places where flower beds once occupied.

ASA soldiers clashed with the Protectorate at every turn, and to Gravesen's surprise, very few of former Confederacy's droid army had been deployed.

The two massive spider droids flanking the shuttle were some of the only exceptions. Gravesen grabbed either side outer doors and hefted himself down to the bloodied ground. His boots sunk into the eviscerated landscape, as if the planet itself simply couldn't stand the combined weight of two giants fighting tooth and nail for dominance.

Naboo drank the blood of thousands today, and it would never be the pure jewel in the galaxy that it had been before. The vibrant greens and the alluring blues had been painted over with the maroons, browns, and purples of the soldiers' lifeblood and entrails. It would suffer the same fate as Hutta or Tatooine; violated by the sentient life of the galaxy.

This was exactly what Gravesen and his people would be stopping once the galaxy would accept that change was needed.

He gave Una a passing glance, looked over the bridge connecting Theed to the outer forests, and let his gaze fall on Salem and his allies.


"We join with Salem and knock down Theed's walls. We'll survive, and bring the planet into the fold of the ASA. The Protectorate will leave us alone, and we can finally live in peace." Gravesen explained. "For now, stay close to me and the droids."

The Rattataki shouldered his rifle, and marched off toward Norongachi's position. The two spider droids followed loyally, and cut down any Protectorate stragglers with their chain guns.

The distance was short, and Gravesen took cover behind one of the droids as they arrived near Salem's downed ship.

"Norongachi. Keep their attention, and the droids can knock down their walls!" Gravesen shouted in greeting. He fell to one knee behind the lead droid's left leg, and fired systematically at the Protectorate positions.

Keep up, Una.

And that was when Gravesen saw him. [member="Talon Vosra"] in the distance. Clearly a Jedi--clearly a threat. Una might have been a member of the Silvers, the decent Jedi, but this one had allied with the Protectorate. A threat indeed.

The Rattataki let his rifle hang from its straps for the moment. His fingers danced across the command pad on his arm, and the twin spider droids turned toward the Jedi. Two meters tall and armed to the teeth, the droids focused on [member="Talon Vosra"].

Their fire diverted toward him; their chainguns sending an endless, blinding volley to try and cut him down.

Gravesen rose back to one knee, and jammed another blaster pack into his rifle. He was burning through them faster than he would have liked.





[member="Una Gal"] \\ [member="Salem Norongachi"] \\ [member="Talon Vosra"]



 
Rebellious Vanguard
Objective: Not get blown to bits
Location: Theed
Allies: OP and [member="Noah Corek"] [member="Kaiden 'Papa' Rohn"]
Enemies: CIS ASA Salem Norongachi

A heavy sigh came as she dismounted the speeder, her head shaking. She could've very easily found her way off of Naboo. But, instead, she went toward where the chaos and destruction was coming from. Without a doubt, she had so many issues...

She watched as Corek began trying to plan their next strategy. She had her two cents to throw in, but before she could, a gear and armored solider stepped up to her.

"You can't be here. This area is for authorized military personal only."

Her eyes darted toward the male solider, eying him over. Her head simply shook, turning back to her OP counter part.

"Ma'am, I said you need to.."

His words came to an abrupt end as Ventasia raised her hand, palm outward, to his face. Effectively silencing the dim witted solider. She got only a few steps toward Corek when her head snapped back, rearing a massive sounds from the area they had just came. It was seemingly a bomb run, right on the enemies head, nonetheless. She couldn't help but grin at this, turning back just in time to see the solider mention some squad reporting for duty.

With a trot, nearly a skip, she bounced over to the two, stopping as she got to Corek's side, her arm rising to rest on his shoulder. "Now, this gets fun..."
 
Location: Theed
Allies: [member=Kaiden 'Papa' Rohn], OP
Enemies: ASA

The drop ship entered the atmosphere hot and fast meaning that the velocity of the drop ship was fast and accelerating. Luckily, the interior would be cooled down so the troopers would not be fried from the heat. Then the drop ship would decelerate so it would be easy for them to get to their destination which was the capital of Naboo, Theed. The gunships that accompanied the drop ship would then do what the Havoc Squad Commander commanded them to do and begin their flying patterns and drop bombs in the killzone.

Riley noticed the drop ship loosing altitude which was being landed inside of Theed. Following the Commander, the Havoc Squad Commando would get off of the dropship as it finally touched the ground, unlike Kaiden who exited early. With his equipment, he and the rest of the troopers inside the drop ship followed Kaiden as he approached a Protectorate Officer. The young solider would await for orders so he and his comrades could began mowing down Authority hostiles.
 
Location: Space, On a cloaked ship Dragons Breath
Allies: TOS, ASA, [member="Ordo"]
Enemy: OP, [member="Ayden Cater"]

Dragons breath was closing in on the space station, where ordo her dark lord was. She wanted to make sure he survived, no matter the cost. As captain markus command the ship, she head down to where her troops where. She looked at them all, they where suiting up ready for a fight. The omega protectoration(it`s word know), would provide it. She new it was going be an up hill battle, but she also new these troops. They could handle it, they where well trained.

She then said, My marines, we about to go into battle against the omega forces. Our lord and master ordo, is already fighting their, so we will be in good company. Please remember these people, came to our home coruscant, and tired and failed to take it from us. Know is the time for our revenge, we help the ASA take their world from them. Then may be they learn, not to poke their noses into our bushiness. Time will soon be upon us, we where going cut our way in. Then scanners have shown us a hanger bay, we can crash into. Then we march on them, and then may the force be with you all. Now all of you follow me to glory, and victory. She then got her company, to follow her the second dragons breath entered the space station.
 
The Eternal Queen
The harder she pushed herself, the wider her influence. Before she knew it, she was out beyond the planets atmosphere itself. She could feel it all, every breath, every heart beat. It all pounded in her very soul. Soon, she could feel the shadows fade, nearly gone now. She was winning this battle of spirits. She knew she was winning the more this third Battle Meditation Master withdrew, but only because of the assistance of Ayden out there. His light glowed like a second sun. They fed off of each other, held the other up, kept the other brilliant and bright. But she knew she was the one giving the most support now. She was the one who needed to devote her everything.

Ayden would be a bit busy now.

His emotions were running high. Such anger. It gave him strength, but she feared it might also make him forget who he was. No. She couldn't think it. It would make her falter, and she could not afford to do so now. Ayden needed her. They all needed her. Theed was under attack now. They were coming, but they were bleeding, losing men at an astounding rate, while her own people still stood strong and fresh. Some of Naboo's forces had not even needed to see battle yet.

And that was not all. From her position, she was getting stronger too. Someone dear was drawing near. Someone who inspired her more than he could ever know.

Keter.

Her heart raced, the Force blossoming out from her like a rose that had not felt sun in a week. So refreshing, so warm. This was her source of strength. This man, this knight of hers, he was the reason she was able to fight as long as she did. He would never know that, despite his demons, he was her source of light in the shadows.

The closer he drew, the brighter her light grew. The stronger her will became. The stronger she became.

[member="Keter"] [member="Vorhi Alestrani"]
 
Location: A Dock just off the Solleu River; Theed
Allies: ASA [member="Salem Norongachi"]
Enemies: OP
Objective: Detonate Explosives. Destroy Pergola's Bridge
...once the detonite was set Laith hadn't wasted any time submerging himself back into the Solleu River and he'd signal for the ASA Soldiers who'd accompanied him to do likewise. The Mandalorian didn't fill the role of a leader often but he'd started to discover that with even moderately trained troops he could be effective at it in small numbers. These men did what he told them because they wanted to survive and thus far Laith was their best chance to do exactly that as well as make an impact on this battle. Whether or not any of them lived through the day was something else entirely...

...now that he was submerged beneath the water of the Solleu River again the Mercenary would activate his comms, the soldiers following him had equipped their rebreathers as well allowing them to survive in the water for extended periods of time again as well, his voice would crack across their ears...
"Primary and secondary targets are down river ahead of us. Do not activate explosives before my mark."...his commands were simple, easy to follow, there should be no problems unless they found themselves in danger of being spotted which at the moment wasn't much of a possibility. If nothing else they had come this far unseen...

...the Solleu River ran through Theed eventually ending at a plateau that fell in several waterfalls, such as the Virdugo Plunge, however the water was surprisingly easy and with several small docks and staircases built into the river banks that cut through Theed there was plenty of opportunity to exit the river. Laith was waiting, under the water, with the dark vision activated in his helm for just such an opportunity and as he moved closer to one such dock he'd have instructed his team...
"Out of the river. Look sharp. No sound."...before he came up with the assistance of his jump servos again until he could climb out of the river and hide in the shadow of a small dock located on the banks of the river running through Theed...

...waiting for the ASA Soldiers to follow his lead he would wait until everyone had found a defensive position on the dock, using the shadows for cover, and created and tight knit perimeter. When he was satisfied Laith would have handed off his Assault Rifle, which he'd unshouldered after climbing out of the river, to a soldier before raising his right arm and activating the datapad that had been integrated into his armor. Using the datapad he could synch with the charge on the detonite explosives he'd placed and he would look over at the soldier responsible for the opposite charge placed before nodding...
"On my mark."...then he would begin a silent countdown before pressing several tabs on his datapad...

BOOM!!!!


...the detonite would explode on either side of Pergola's Bridge. The explosion it created would have been loud, noticeable and thrown debris from the base of the bridge in all directions. Anything stationed on the bridge itself should have gone down with the bridge. Soldiers, defensive emplacements and anything else. Anyone in Theed would have been able to hear the explosion, likely, and the smoke rising from the site of the blast would have been easily seen. Detonite had been placed on either base of the bridge ensuring that it was reasonable to believe it had been leveled completely and the bulk dropped down into the Solleu River it had been used to cross. Destruction of the bridge was more than just a distraction as well. Pergola's Bridge was the main bridge used to cross the Solleu River in Theed diverting traffic from the more fragile Bassa Bridge down stream but really any bridge was a valuable target in combat because it meant that the enemy would have a more difficult time shuffling troops throughout the city...

...after the explosion Laith would have tried to synch into any ASA comms that he could location...
"System Authority command we are proceeding deeper into Theed. Resistance expected. Expect a major target for bombardment to be painted with laser trajectory. Out."...that was all the Mercenary could do, give his allies a target in the near future. Hopefully someone was listening...
 
Location: Tower of Doom, er Theed

Objective: Protect Saru--er, Feena

Allies: [member="Keter"] [member="Feena Mason"] @Zarro Ferres


Enemies: Whoever's trying to kill his friends this week.





Vorhi stood atop the staircase, hands behind his back. "Come in Keter. Feena's fine. Everyone's fine. Tea?" A blind oracle who can see through walls, and through spirits. Yep, this was Keter. Good. He didn't want to boot anyone out a window just yet. He kept his eye on the room. He didn't like it at all. He smirked. "Tell me, Keter, what's it looking like on the ground? Things getting wound up yet, or is the enemy's strategy to bore us to death? Maybe they should play some of my old treaty speeches, lord knows they were some of my worst material."




He sat, but maintained a slight spring in his step, poised to leap and strike should he need it. He had to be vigilant. That was the true usage of Forraderri--preparing to strike when you appear benign. "Sheathe the sabers, but don't holster them. We shouldn't need them yet," he said calmly. "The tides have yet to shift in that direction."
 
Location: In the hanger of the Spirit of Druckenwell
Allies: OP
Enemies: ASA, [member="Ordo"], [member="Irys Arist'lar"], [member="Darth Banshee"]

Objective: Kill Ordo. Repel the invaders.

Ayden snarled as felt the grip of the Dark Side try to take him. His eyes were like fire as he watched Ordo jump into the air. A smirk flickered across his face as he remembered Kayri. Ashin had taught him several painful lessons there. He did not resist the Sith Lord's hold. Instead he curled his left hand and thrust is out just before Ordo's feet could touch the ground for anchoring. While the Sith Lord would have faulted, Ayden pressed his attack. Testing the Sith Lord's defenses, Ayden lashed out with several quick, precise cuts. Makashi was his own preferred style and had served him well over the years. It had been enough for him to survive a duel with Ashin Varanin. He hoped it would be enough to let him survive another duel with a Dark Lord of the Sith.

In space, the Horn-class cruisers continued to weather the enemy attack. Their ion cannon turrets spun and fired on the corvettes as they attempted to leverage their speed for a lack of firepower. Those that attempted to further accelerate, in the belief that the Horn cruisers would not be able to track them, would be in for a sore disappointment as the fastmounted turbolaser turrets kept tracking them and firing on them the entire time. It was known when they were designed what their weakness would be, and their armaments had been selected to compensate for them.

The Nonnah-class cruisers and Uldyr stations kept pressing their assault on the heavier ships and those artillery cruisers. Heavy ion cannon fire and energy torpedo strikes softened target facings before the firing of Javelin systems. They coordinated their efforts made to ensure that the most damage was inflicted on the enemy ships. Javelins targeted the 'soft' areas of the ships, places with poor hull plating or contouring to ensure solid penetration. Meanwhile the Shield cruisers continued to shield the stations and defense line as best they could without restricting firing lines on the Protectorate's side. Time might not have been on their side anymore though as enemy fighters began to make attack runs on them. They had no defenses and could only rely on Protectorate fighters to try and defend them. If the assaults continued, they would start losing the Shield cruisers.

As they pressed their attack, the heavy capital ships began to shift. The Antilles Star Defenders began to maneuver out of the fray and into a position between those Confederate ships that had come close and those that had attempted to remain afar. As they got to the exterior of the fray, they would turn sharply back into it and volley any targets in their path as they dove across to the otherside where they repeated the tactic. The Indomitables, living up to their name, were rocks in the fight. They weathered all assaults and kept targeting enemy ships with their cannons and cluster missiles. One Antilles and one Indomitable, however, broke off and moved to intercept the Confederate ships attempting to harass the Belsars.


While the fighting was going on, the Sentinel cruisers picked up a single cloaked ship. They had been held in reserve, actively searching for such an attempt. Once the ship closed and attempted to land on the FLEETCOM station, they swooped in. Tractor beams locked on to the stationary ship and, as one, the cruisers pulled the offending ship off of the station. Ion cannons blasted and bombarded the ship, aiming to disable its systems and cloak, while quad laser cannon batteries held off any attempted fighter rescue.

On the ground, the two Cira-class frigates had completed their bombing runs and were making a break for orbit once more. Several squadrons of Protectorate bombers and fighters launched from ground-side hangers to reinforce those positions in the frigates' stead. As they neared the edge of space, the two frigates found themselves under attack from a handful of frigates and corvettes. Unfortunately, these two Protectorate frigates were exceptionally heavily armed. They opened fire with powerful turbolaser and ion cannon blasters. As one shot past the Ventress, it had rolled its stomach to the Confederate ship, exposing it to two dozen concussion missiles and several assault concussion missiles. It was going to be a deadly pyrotechnical display.

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Active Fleet & Orbital Defenses
Spirit of Druckenwell
Nine Antilles
Ten Indomitable
Ten Belsar
Twelve Nonnah
Eighteen Horn
Two Sentinel
Ten Shield
Two Cira
Three Wasp

One FLEETCOM Station
Five Uldyr Defense Stations
Ten Doaba Defense Stations
 
Sharky locked and loaded his SPAS rifle..

"Sir, I am lock and load!"

The cheerful soldier would say looking at a zipline nearby he would then pat Kaidan on the back and would point towards the ziplines for a perfect and comfortable landing near the shallow swamps..
 

VlPER

Victory is mine!
Location: Theed Spaceport
Allies: OP, Jedi
Enemies: ASA, Sith
Objective: Waitin' on a woman....

"Alrighty, what do we have left? Ion cannon offline. That's too bad...but then we're not trying to stun anything here. Assault concussion missiles. 10 left. Not bad, we can do some damage with those if we really need it. Quad laser cannons online. Fantastic. Shields...71%. Meh, better than it was earlier." Viper's fingers dance along the control panels as he prepped the last couple items.

Waving arms and weapons in the distance caught his eye. With a smirk, he said to himself. "Well I guess that was a good speech as well. Seems to be the day for rousing speeches."

Seeing the mob heading towards his vessel, he lowered both loading ramps to allow them all to file into his dual cargo holds. When Corvus returned, he spun in his chair to face her. A smile on his face. "Congratulations. It appears as though you are the fastest recruiter in the galaxy." He gave a lighthearted chuckle and looked back out onto the spaceport. "Looks like we're just waiting for one more person...."

His smile faded some as he sighed. "Hopefully she doesn't take too much longer. We need to get these people to the front as soon as possible."

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Meanwhile at Pergola bridge, a massive boom sent the whole structure collapsing into the river. Those on it, were engulfed in the slowing moving water. The men who at that point had been decidedly lax in their attentiveness were suddenly on full alert. As soon as they got back to their feet that is. There was about 2 squads of troops on either side who had been manning checkpoints.

They now ran to the rivers edge and surrounding areas to look for the infiltration team they new had to be there since nobody had approached on land. It didn't take long to spot the intruders at the nearby docks. The 2 squads nearest them opened fire. The couple marksmen in the squads on the other side of the river moved into flanking positions to pick off the enemy from their positions of relative safety. Those unable to engage alerted high command of the infiltration team that had made it so deep into Theed.

[member="Corvus Raaf"]
[member="Felicity Mason"]
[member="Noah Corek"]
[member="Kaiden 'Papa' Rohn"]
Ermac Laith
 
There were many moments in his life when he was sure he would die, in that small moment between the Protectorate gunner caressing the trigger and the new HYDRA war droid leveling that gunners position with the aid of a Walker, he added another to the list. It still wasn't safe, not by a long shot, artillery shells pounded away at the open field around them. Transports grounded by mechanical failure were ripped apart by the blasts and he dragged himself upwards.

Nothing motivates the body more than seeing a fleeing sentient flipped in the air like a rag doll only to come back down in considerably more pieces. It forced him to transcend the slow wit the daze had brought upon him, the terrified soldier had stopped he noticed, with more detachment than he liked. The man was exactly where he had been crouched, cupping his head, crying like it would make the nightmare end. The nightmare had ended, while the other five and Norongachi had been knocked out of cover and nearly gunned down. His head had been whipped backwards against the ruined back of the transport. Thick globules of blood dripped rhythmically from the twisted metal jutting from his face.

Other walkers had been deployed in the lull, further away he saw the giants thunder across the field, with whatever soldiers could make it to them using their solid metal bulk as mobile cover. From across the way he heard more cannon fire, louder than anything a sentient could wield, and say [member="Gravesen Conclave"] flanked by two heavy spider droids. The machines weaponry never seemed to cease, finding a target and then eliminating that target with the cold efficiency of a droid.

"All troops in an around sector Delta-Three-Niner," He said into his helmet com. "If you have armour, droids or walkers you can salvage use em as cover. We're moving across the plain to join up with the main attack force." He heard that whistle again, the distant song of death from above, only now his patience had worn thin. A hand snapped upwards and raw lash of power slapped the shell aside. It impacted harmlessly twenty meters away.

"Prime," He commanded of the droid General. "Your directive: Determine the logical point of origin of artillery barrage based upon current trajectories. Aside from that, execute primary directives." The walker the droid had brought turned on its three toed feet and he could hear its cannons heating up for the battle to come. "Gravesen, get those Spiders to target any and all Protectorate positions along our path. We can't afford to come under concentrated fire. As for the rest of you..." He looked to [member="Anesia Jy'Vun"], [member="Steph Zenima"] and the stoic faces of the soldiers. "Follow me."

The Main LZ
Outside the Killzone
Theed.


The ships had begun to birth soldiers and vehicles. The ground veritably trembled with the footfalls of walkers, the air abuzz with the repulsors of tanks and the constant yelling of C.O's and NCO's to get the troops in order, to set a defensible perimeter around the base as it went up with the practiced ease of well drilled men. If that cavalry charge of the Protectorate had shown them anything, it was that haste was the key. So the base spread out, Theed only an artillery shell away hidden from sight by a gentle rise in the land. The lumbering Artillery Walkers positioned themselves, their pilots calculating range to the waiting city. Spotters and scouts moved across the land surrounding them, reporting back enemy positions and forces as they saw them. The droids moved with the utmost precision, their commanders forming up their metallic troops which numbered in the tens of thousands. It was an army, an army with a singular purpose, to smash Theed and its stalwart defenders to dust.

It was merely a pity none of them had considered the untimely intervention from the heavens. The frigates screamed toward the base, weapons firing into the prefab buildings and still preparing troops. AA guns, only half constructed could do little to impede its progress. Soldiers fired up at the ships but their weapons were like insect bites to its powerful shields. Missiles burst from it, impacting walker, tank and ground. A whole formation of droids was shattered, their cold limbs blown from their bodies to intermingle with the organic either dead or wounded. The darting shapes of ASA fighters followed the terrors, weapons glancing shields as the ships performed evasive feats that seemed wholly unnatural for their size. Retaliatory fire lanced outwards at their pursuers and flame blossomed overhead while men sought whatever cover they could. Battle Tanks, too slow, their crews too disorganized, finally brought their weapons to bear upon them. The heavy gun of the vehicles lancing up into the air in an attempt to drive them off. Whether it worked or whether another mission had been assigned them the frigates suddenly broke off.

The fighter craft that had survived their tussle with the frigates broke pursuit as their sensors picked up their own ships coming down from the battle raging above. They banked back toward the landing force, sensors indicating that Protectorate fighters were inbound from Theed. The pilots, those that had the capacity to feel, knew that not enough had broke through with the transports and informed the ground of as much. They'd buy them what little time they could to get their defenses set up, after that they might be on their own.
 
[member="Ermac Laith"] had been heard. In the wake of the frigate assault dozens of artillery walkers still stood ready, waiting to unleash their payload onto Theed. Around the base the blue shimmer of shield generators came online, portable, not as powerful as the great reactor fed ones of their target but it at least gave the troops under their protective umbrella time to organize while fighters and bombers snapped at each others heels hundreds of feet above.

The wamp-wamp-wamp of AA guns began, the first of them being brought online at last and aided their fighters in the air. Crews stood ready by their vehicles, waiting for the order to move out. Soldiers and droids were locked and loaded, ready to strike at the capital. All they were waiting on was the word. Unfortunately that word could only fall from the Lord Marshall, and he seemed to be late.
 

Prime

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The nest was destroyed. Prime had done his part to defend and extend the lives of the organic members of the System Authority. The subroutine was smart successful. Return to hunter-killer mode, await superseding orders. When Norongachi-Marshall spoke, all sensors were paying attention. Predict the artillery strikes.

This unit was an advanced war droid, made to end enemy run times and only partially wondering, in the ghosts of the machine, why it could not transform into a battle tank. A battletank with Prime’s mind in it would be a strong adversary on the field of battle. Transform and roll-out. Ending enemy runtimes would be considerably easier.

“Directive accepted, Norongachi-Marshall.” Was all Prime responded with. Surveying the field and calculating.

...




Enemy artillery located.

“Artillery nests located. This unit regrets that it can not link to the Vultures to coordinate a strike.” The Xi Char had stated that would be the next upgrade. To allow HYDRA units to network to other droids in the area. “Strike will not be as accurate.” Vulture droids had last generation processors. Prime was new. Prime was faster. “Shall I upload the logical waypoint of artillery to your HUD?” The unit surveyed [member="Salem Norongachi"].

Turning to the group of Clankers that had accompanied Prime, as well as [member="HWD-002"], Prime spoke. “Active Directive: Protect friendly organics. Proceed on path, eliminate runtimes.”
 

Noah Corek

Cocked, Locked and a Smoking Barrel
Factory Judge
Location: Inside Theed
Objective: Reinforce Theed
Allies: OP, [member="Elias Wolfe"], [member="Ventasia Terana"]
Enemies: CIS ASA
Noah sighed as he looked at the datapad that he had been given detailing the numbers of soldiers he had. 7,500 infantry soldiers, most of them pulled from the city's militia or the ODF garrisons, ten Typhoon-class Artillery Tanks, twenty Manticore Heavy Support Tanks and thirty Wampa-class IFV's made up the total ground forces inside the city. Close air support was indeed present though, three Inimica-class Heavy Gunships, five Peregrine-class Gunships and eleven Protectorate LAACs were in support. As Noah looked over the datapad, he heard a giant BOOM of in the distance, knowing the layout of Theed, Noah knew someone had destroyed the Pergola bridge, cutting the infantry soldiers Noah had by at least 2,000. "Sergeant Major Wolfe, take your platoon and fortify the other side of the rive, it is up to you and your men to hold the line if me and major Terana fail." Noah informed the man as he grabbed his helmet and slid it over his head. Turning to the crazed redhead he titled his head. "Shall we got to the wall and recon?"
 
Back in the vents again. She was starting to get used to this, crawling through the dark. But soon, she would have to leave. She'd have to go out there in the light of day and face what was happening to her home.

As she moved, something hit her. Familiar, so familiar it may as well have been her own heart. She knew this presence. She'd known it all her life, from the very first time she opened her eyes.

"Daddy?" she whispered, watching a flash of red in the shadows through the vents. He probably didn't even know she was there. He seemed so distracted, so determined. Only one person seemed to affect him like that. Only one person in the Galaxy.

She bit her lip, considering stepping down from above to scurry after him. Just like she had always done, ever since she was a toddler. She'd always been following him, daddy's little shadow. She'd run right up to him, reach for his hand and beg him to read her a story. It could all be just like before.

But he was already gone now. Off to see his Queen. Not the Queen of Naboo, but the Queen of his heart. She blushed as she crawled, secretly wishing that someday she would have someone look at her the way he looked at her Mother. She was not a romantic, not even close. In some ways, she was still that little girl who thought boys were icky, but there were parts of her that were growing, maturing. She felt awkward, like she wasn't fitting in her own skin. Growing too tall too quickly.

Maybe someday, somehow, she would meet someone. Maybe, when she was just a little older, someone, somewhere, might look at her. Maybe they would even look at her with as much unconditional devotion as her Father when he looked at her Mother. Maybe they would love her too.
Maybe.

A faint explosion could be heard from where she was. It brought her back to reality at once. She continued crawling through the vents again, faster than before. She knew the best way out, and it wasn't through the front door.
 

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