"You are far more foolish than I believed you to be if you truly believe that, High Queen." He said his eyes returning to [member="Lady Kay"]. A gesture to his guards and she was forced through the force and physical means to kneel before the Sith Emperor [member="Darth Carnifex"]. Insurrection, rebellion, it was a fools errand and one they would not tolerate. The look of the Lord of Eyes molten eyes was absolutely bone chilling, like staring into death itself, it was the look of a man who held absolutely no regard for life on any level. Life meant nothing to the Destroyer and the untold trillions exterminated by House Zambrano chiefly because of these two men standing before her spoke volumes to his relationship with it. Kay Arenais was a stubborn woman and that was something he knew all too well, it had taken quite a while to break her. But he knew even she had her breaking point, and he knew just how to find it.
"There is a simple way to handle rebellion when it springs up, a tried and true method that has worked for thousands of years and one my family is quite familiar with. Death." He said staring down into her eyes as her chin was propped up to look toward them. "You replace rebellion with death. You eradicate those who dare to stand against you and all others one at a time until compliance is assured. This idea that "Commenor endures" is a foolish lie, one you spew to your people to keep them from panicking, to keep them focused and to reign in anarchy. But you are ever the stubborn one perhaps a demonstration is in order." He said turning towards the military attaché
"Get me Captain Cano" He ordered looking back towards their prisoner while the attaché worked, the Captains visage appeared on the screen soon after
"Captain Cano status report on the Munto bombing run." He asked.
"Our bombers are making our approach now your excellency, our escort fighters are engaged with heavy anti air." Cano said respectfully.
"Cancel that Captain pull all forces away from Munto City and get all naval forces out of the region." He commanded, turning towards the attache a swift signal from his hand ended the channel "Now get me First Captain Aquila, Goliath Command" The Shadow Hand asked, and it didn't take long before the physical representation of the artificial intelligence AQUILA appeared on the screen, a great red eye "Aquila are you in position for phase two?" He asked. The deep, demonic, mechanized rumbling voice of the AI quickly came through the other end of the coms
"Affirmative in position and target locked. Final confirmation is needed to initiate firing mechanism my lord, high value imperial personnel are planetside." AQUILA replied.
"All allied personnel are cleared from the targeting zone AQUILA you have confirmation fire when ready." He told the AI turning back towards Kay.
"Remember you did this to your people."
Munto City Front Lines, 122nd Assault Division
Commander Aldus Greenberg, Commenori Armed Forces
It was hell.
The sounds of anti air fire filled the air as Munto City's anti-air stations began firing at advanced Sith forces sweeping in. Low flying interceptors cut loose with torpedos and laser fire wreaking havoc on the front lines, the ground shook so much and the air was filled with so much noise he could barely hear himself think even inside the disheveled command center. But Aldus was a thirty year veteran and a participant of many a war in this galaxy despite the nervousness and widespread panic he was able to keep his men calm, keep them focused. Reports had quickly spread of bombers sweeping over entire cities, they held out hope for Anteluma but word had spread of the city's decimation by Sith forces and the bombs they were using that made bunkers useless, but he held out hope for survivors it wasn't the most thorough attack and after all Commenor endures. They would get past this.
"We lost two more turret stations in quadrant one, two in quadrant three and quadrant four has come under heavy attack." An officer yelled through the command center. Another officer yelled out
"Bombers are sighted on final approach".
"Move the mobile units to quadrant four and deploy mobile barriers we can't afford to lose anymore stations. All stations are to sight those bombers as soon as they're in range, if they reach the city were done."
Aldus ordered. If just one bomber reached his city thousands were going to die, around eight million people lived in the clustered Munto City and the vids of those bombers showed just one of the bombs taking out a city block. If just one bomber cleared their lines every last death would be his fault, every last citizen who died would be on his head and he would have to answer to their families, he wouldn't allow it to happen. So carefully Aldus waited.
Nothing.
Quite suddenly the patter of turret fire grinded to a halt and the command center grew eerily quiet, before a cacophony of cheers erupted on com channels and all through the front lines. "Status report? Someone tell me what's going on." Aldus yelled. "Sir the enemy bombing run has broken off, the enemy is in full retreat." The young junior officer said a big smile on his face. Retreat? It didn't make sense. Why would they retreat the Sith Empire never retreated. Intel said they had Chasin City completely surrounded, the enemy had complete air and ground superiority. They shouldn't he couldn't figure out why they would.
But then he got his answer.
A notification came over the sensors officer's station and quickly it spread like wildfire, soon the entire command center emptied out. Aldus tried reaching them but instead chose to just see what the commotion was all about. There was a massive gathering outside as soldiers stood from cover in trench lines, and officers out in the open staring into the sky. High in low orbit over the city sat a massive shape that bathed them in its shadow. A ship roughly six miles from bow to stern. It was unlike anything he had ever seen in his thirty year career, a black hulled monstrosity bristling with firepower. It was such a stunning sight soldiers dropped their rifles and were frozen in place their eyes locked on the massive ships hull. Aldus's executive officer Reed ran out from the command center and said
"It's gathering a massive amount of energy." In that instance they knew what it was doing. The Super Star Dreadnought, the sith forces retreating it now all suddenly made sense to him.
They were preparing to open fire.
"The Sith were not retreating. They were clearing the area for that...abomination to fire." He said with a shaky voice of utter horror to Reed, with a tone that stunned his fellow officers. In all of his thirty years nothing had shaken him, nothing had gotten to him until that massive ship entered low orbit. The shock rang in his ears like a church bell and suddenly he couldn't even hear his shouting, panicked officers. Reed shouted right in his face and he could no longer hear him. Aldus pulled out the flask his wife Barbara had gotten him last life day and took a long swig of the Corellian Whiskey, then he took another, and another.
"Commander Greenberg. What do we do? We have civilians here, emergency raid protocol hasn't been completed yet, orders? Commander?" Reed shouted.
But Aldus continued to ignore Reed as he turned and called his wife on the comms "Barbara it's Aldus. I just wanted to tell you that I love you alright? I'm alright I'm alright, just give the boys a hug for me and tell them their father loves them would you? No don't worry everythings going to be alright, I will always love you." Aldus ended the call with her then. He didn't see the need to tell her that they were all going to die, a part of him couldn't even muster up the words for his goodbye without nearly crying already. If this was the end she would spend it with her kids, and force hoped it would be quick.
Boom.
There was a massive eruption of energy from the bow of the ship a massive green beam cut through the atmosphere, breaking the clouds open like a god tearing open the heavens. As it cut down through the atmosphere for miles around Munto City the landscape was bathed in a deep green light, the beam visible across the planet. The beam was vast easily miles wide. As it rushed towards the ground there was a hurricane roar. As soon as it collided with the earth there was a deafening boom, a shockwave that swept through the entirety of Commenor as it cut deep. Nearly half of Munto City and the surrounding valley vanished in the beam, utterly annihilated as the earth shook ravaging the deep tectonic plates with so much force they shifted triggering a destructive earthquake easily exceeding 10.0 in magnitude through the local region. The earth buckled sending an avalanche worth of colossal chunks of debris thousands of feet into the sky the beam struck with such intensity, such ferocity the very earth buckled beneath it and it literally glassed what remained as all life died, the very temperature in the region rose as the entire area was bathed in the beams superheated plasma. It swept forward continuing the destruction and Munto City disappeared and in an instant eight million people died, devoured and swept screaming into the netherworld creating a massive disturbance through the force in their wake. The concussive wave of the beam sent massive tsunamis into the oceans over a thousand feet in height. Everything vanished beneath its might and just like that it was gone.
Cheers.
A great cheer swept through the ranks of the Sith forces to witness such devastation wrought upon their enemy, they fed upon it, gorged themselves in it. The shockwave of it's first impact swept through their ranks even at this massive distance it was enough to cause them to stumble and nearly fall, walkers even shifted as they were illuminated in the beam even at this far distance. But for the Lord of Lies he watched the destruction and made sure Kay watched it. The look he gave her after eight million people vanished showed his utter disregard for the lives lost.
"We have replaced rebellion, We have snuffed out the flames you speak of and replaced them with death. One by one we will burn your cities to the ground. Commenor will cease to exist because of the stubbornness of her Queen. Commenor will not endure our storm."
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