Crimson Tide (Sith vs. Republic Invasion of Manaan)

[EA-9 001]

I was deemed not needed by the other men leaving me behind. I was pissed. Leaving me there like I was nothing. Hell, I was so pissed I punched a hole in the nearest wall with my armored hand. Picking up my rifle I ran i n the opposite direction of the group. Going through alleys and going behind different troops. When an Idea struck my mind. "Hey Emily what if I were to take out the control office? maybe take it back and turn on the Cities, shields, and turn on the defense systems?" There was a pause in my mind when she finally spoke. "DO IT!" Yelling in my head so loud that I thought everyone across the city could hear her. I wasted no time. Looking on my mapping systems. I found the blue prints for the city. When a man over the com was saying that he was leaving the postion, I talked back to him. (@[member="Arrbi Betna"])

"Hey Merc, you feel like being a hero today? If ya do I have a plan to turn this all around." Not wasting anytime I started to run towards the Security center. Under my breath I spoke to myself not paying attention to the two voices in my head. "That SOB is gonna die when I get to him." He had somehow infiltrated the falicity, and so he wouldbe watching my every move, And unless he had every single com system ideal that was being used by the Republic, I doubt that he would hear me as I was planning on taking the place back over.

@[member="Dris Negan"]

 

[Darth Athora]

Tall Building - Ahto East
OBJ: Coordinate Ground & Air Forces


Elani watched in joy as the gunships tore through the building the sniper was hiding in, starting with the base of the building slowly moving towards the top, if he were to try and escape from to the bottom he would face some difficulties. Once the building was dust, the gunships would turn their attention on any remaining fighters in the sky that was lucky enough to not be hit by the AA and fire upon them with it's concussion missiles and laser cannons, thus rendering any and all Republic air destroyed. The gunships and bombers then moved in to provide cover and support to the AT-TT column.

Elani could hear the message from the Imperial spy within the security office relaying the message through imperial channels. "We gotta problem at the battery? I'm on my way." she replied. Elani then sent a message to a gunship pilot. "This is Elani Zambrano requesting pickup. Need a quick way to the AA battery." she stated. "Roger that." a pilot replied. Soon, 10 of the gunships peeled from the main force, flying to Elani's position to the far end of the city, far from Republic sights. "Let's go." Elani stated to Valentine, jumping from the window into the gunship.

The gunship then flew off for the AA batteries, with Elani inside the lead gunship.

@[member="Arrbi Betna"] | @[member="Selena Halcyon"] | @[member="TD-18"] | @[member="Dris Negan"] | @[member="Aerrah Katamirth"]

 

[Flint Dexen]

@[member="Marcus Faust"]

Flint grimaced slightly when the Sith Knight somehow managed to move so that in the midst of the clash of the two lightsabers, the Sith was able to intentionally have Flint slice down the other lightsaber hilt. Fortunately, Flint was able to adjust his slice slightly so that his blade sliced off a very small fraction on the side of Vulpesen's lightsaber. Regardless, Flint used the Force to snatch up the hilt along with what remained of the crystal after the Sith threw it aside. He would keep these with him so that he could get these later to his fellow Jedi Knight. He turned back to Faust.

Just as the Sith Knight ignited his own lightsaber, Flint summoned as much power as he could, and let out a Force Push right at the Sith Knight. His Force Push then broke the lights in their section of the hallway, regardless of whether or not the attack hit its target.

 

[Revan Altor]

AA Guns, Ahto City
Havoc Squad

Revan was not happy about where they were at the moment. Hanging back, he knelt in behind of a shrub and poked the barrel through it. Taking sight on one of the Sith soldiers guarding the AA gun, he let his own round rip just as the rest of Havoc did. Taking his time to pick off a couple of the more troubling Sith keeping members of Havoc pinned, Revan looked up afterwards and spotting trouble gunning down one of the main thoroughfares towards them.

"Hey Commander, we've got a problem. Platoon of Sith speeders, most likely Nexus are just as dangerous, heading towards us. I suggest we bail out ricky tick and head for the AA gun command centre. It's the only place the Sith could have hijacked all the AA in the city and we need to get those up and running fast to prevent more Sith reinforcements."

Revan quickly pulled out a grenade and tried to time the throw with when most of the speeder bikes hit the edge of the thoroughfare and the square where the AA gun was. As soon as he tossed it though he knew it was a bit off the mark. He might catch the last one or two speeders with the blast but nothing more. Cursing, he swapped his sniper for his blaster rifle and waded into the fight towards the rest of Havoc Squad.

@[member="H4V0K"] @[member="Lan Raegin"] @[member="Doc"] @[member="Steph Zenima"] @ARC-052 "Dish" @[member="Brenna Kardur"] @[member="Halik Falkosi"]

 

[Darth Athora]

(@[member="Revan Altor"] Gonna have to ask you to edit your post for metagaming the incoming speeders that are dozens of blocks away.)
Restaurant a few blocks from the AA guns

The sounds of war and battle scared off all within the restaurant. All but one man. Vael never let anything take him away from a good meal, especially not one he paid for. Once done, he wiped his face of any sauce or crumbs that would have remained from the meal and departed from the establishment. "I smell republic." he stated coldly as his fist balled up.

"I hate republic.." Vael jumped into an abandoned police cruiser and drove for the AA emplacements. His managed to maneuver his way down an alley to the rear of the AA, behind the imperial troopers defending it. Luckily, there was a cache of explosives int he cruiser which he used wisely. Planting them at the base of the AA in a discreet location before covering them up with rubble, the explosives would be a last resort in case the Republic got their hands on the AA. Vael retreated back into the police cruiser and left the area to find a vantage point looking over the AA guns.

 

[Marcus Faust]

Ir no longer mattered, most of the crystal was gone, and Marcus had long since purged the essence of Vulspen's family from it. @[member="Flint Dexen"] had made a noble effort, but a futile one. As the force push came his way, he rolled to the side, but caught a bit of it, being hurled onto his back from the sheer force. He wanted to play with force powers? Fine, it was his turn. Raising up his hands, tendrils of light purple electricity sprung forth, towards the Jedi with extreme speed and deadly-ness. Marcus' signature ability was lightning, and the boy couldn't block it all.

 

[Other Space Kaiden]

Coming Out of Hyperspace ​

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(OOC: The Fel Imperium has been asked to assist the Republic)


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Ronin sat in the warm chair of his Imperial Class Star Destroyer. The ship was an old model, yes, but the Fel Imperium was just getting its roots and the only ships available were older models. The old man looked about the bridge as the Imperial Star Destroyer rode through hyperspace toward the Republic planet of Manaan. It was true that Ronin did not care for the Republic, but they had a common enemy in the Sith and thus why Ronin was going to Manaan to prepare a second wave of attacks against Sith space. Something in the force, however, was troubling Ronin as his ship soared through time and space toward the little blue marble of a planet. The darkside was unusually strong in the air and the fact that no transmission was able to be made to Manaan before their departure was unsettling. That was why, before beginning the long flight, Ronin gave the signal for all present ships to put their Royal Stormtrooper's on alert. Thanks to Vassek and a few outlying systems, Ronin was able to put together a decent sized force of soldiers made up of the Planetary Defense Forces of Vassek and some volunteers from the outer rim. The Royal Stormtroopers of the growing Fel Imeprium were outfitted with the Jagged-Class Royal Stormtrooper armor while Ronin was outfitted in his Imperial Knight Armor that symbolized his rank as Imperator.

"Sir, we will be exiting hyperspace in thirty-seconds" a deck officer notified the Imperator, who nodded with pleasure

"Thank you, Lieutenant." the leader of the Fel Imperium said as he stood from his command seat, the flowing purple cape with gold trim fluttering behind him as he stepped closer to the massive window of the ship. The spinning lights of hyperspace faded away and a startling image soon threw itself into Ronin's face. Sith Star Destroyers hovered above the planet and Republic ships did their best to hold them off "by the force! All hands to battle stations, get the shuttles ready to drop!" Ronin turned on his heel, he knew he had felt a disturbance. Running over to his chair, Ronin pressed a button on the side that activated an open communication to all Fel Ships

"This is Imperator Ronin, Manaan is under attack by a Sith fleet. All Star Destroyers are to launch shuttles immediately to help repel the Sith forces!" shutting down the communication, Ronin turned to his comms officer "can you get me in contact with someone on the surface?"

"Negative, Imperator, all communications off planet are being jammed." the officer said with nervous racking his voice. Ronin stopped for a moment, looking back out the window towards the Sith fleet. During his time as Corellia's Supreme Commander of Planetary Defense Forces he had always trained for a day like this, but had never experienced it. Regardless, now was the time for action and that was what the Fel Imperium stood for. He would not sit by and let his name go down in history as a old man who didn't fight his own battles...no he would be great like Roan Fel before him.

"Fine, I will have to go down to the planet myself. Tell the hanger to prepare a shuttle for me and have the Praetorian Guard meet me there."

 

[Arrbi Betna]

The Mandalorian heard the incoming comms from some grunt on the ground. He'd heard nothing from Republic command which meant that the comms were down, the HQ was taken, or they were ignoring him. None of which was acceptable to the mercenary. Before he could answer the grunt one way or the other, the stairwell exploded below him.

"Shab," was about the only time he had to utter before the walls around him exploded. Arrbi managed to hit the deck in time to avoid anything seriously injuring, but he felt something hard and heavy kick him square in the chest and he could feel bits and pieces of shrapnel all across his body. Had his armor been made of anything lighter than Mandalorian Iron, he'd have been shredded.

Then, just as soon as it had hit, the explosions continued upwards and onwards until they reached the top of the building. Betna started to painfully pull himself to his feet, his lungs gasping for air after having the wind knocked from him by the lone shot that hit squarely. Before he could start going down the stairs once more, he felt the floor shift. He stood, confused and wary for a moment, until reality set in that the building was unstable and about to collapse.

Arrbi snagged his rifle from where it had fallen on the floor and hauled tail down the stairs, leaping two or three at a time. Thankfully, he'd made it roughly halfway, but a feeling in his gut told him it wasn't enough. The gut feeling was right. Up above, the floors started collapsing one by one, getting faster as they came down and picked up momentum and weight. He made it a few more floors down, but realized he wouldn't make it.

Desperation set in with an idea that the back of his mind would kill him just as well as the thousands of tons of building hurtling down at him would. Betna darted through a door set into a landing, taking him on to what looked like an accounting floor for the building. Bulling his way through desks, cubicle walls, and at least one water cooler, he threw himself through an a shattered window.

Luckily, there was a building close enough to land in, but the roof was a few floors lower than the one that he'd jumped from. He had enough time to get his feet under him before he impacted, and rolled as he hit to kill the inertia and reduce any chance of injury. Despite this, he felt something give in his right knee though he managed to shelve the pain away with pure will power and the adrenaline coursing through his system.

Betna shakily stood, favoring his left leg a bit, and turned to look at the building. He'd gotten away from near death with not much in the way of injury. He watched the building collapse in on itself with the feeling of relief and joy coursing through his veins. That was, he did until the collapse suddenly stopped. Frowning beneath his helmet, the Mandalorian watched the building slowly teeter towards him. It wasn't much of the building, just the partially collapse upper half, but it was enough to seriously screw up anyone's day.

Betna took a few steps back as the top of the building fell towards him, knowing that he wouldn't get away in time and that to jump from this height off the building would definitely kill him. He did the next best thing he could. He took a knee, set the butt of the rifle stock into the building, and braced himself on the upright weapon. As the building crashed on and around him, and pain overtook his senses, driving him into blackness, Betna realized that had he continued to run down the stairs, he would have been alright. The collapse had stopped at the floor he'd jumped from...

@[member="Elani Zambrano"] @[member="Dareck Shaw"]

 

[EA-9 001]

As I ran, I stumbled as the ground shook beneath me. Off to my right I could see a building falling from the sky where it was made. It was from ships that had started their bombardments on the city. Slamming down onto my chest I decided to move quicker. Instead of a run, I was now sprinting with my life. but as I was running I could see that the building was coming down to an angle. and at that moment, it looked as though a Man jumped out from the falling building into another. I was surprised that he could do that. But as the two buildings collided, I knew that there was almost nothing that I could do to stop it.

Running faster, I had to make it to the security, I needed to be there five minutes ago. I knew that I was getting close, and there was no way that I was just going to walk in. I prepped my grappling hooks. Attaching it to my pistol, as my rifle was thrown over my shoulder letting the sling slam it against my back. I attached it just intime for the building ahead of me. I could tell that it was the security building as it had antenna over the top and it was probably the largest building here. Aiming my pistol I shot from 15 feet out, hitting through a window on the third floor and jumped. Letting my running motion let me swing towards the building.

I pressed the button on my belt to repel me up, and slamming my feet onto the second floor, I crashed through the window.

@[member="Dris Negan"]

 

[Flint Dexen]

@[member="Marcus Faust"]

Flint knew things had gotten serious when the Sith Knight summoned his Force Lightning. Upon instinct, the Jedi raised up his lightsaber a second not too late to block the electric current that flew right towards him. He gritted his teeth as he began slowly sliding backwards, driven backwards by the simple power of the Force attack. He knew that he couldn't hold out like this much longer, not with those electric currents becoming deadly close to him now. He let out a frustrated groan as he was flung backwards several moments later from the sheer power of the lightning. He regained footing upon landing several feet behind, however.

"You have already lost, Sith. Even as we speak, citizens of this city are taking refuge or evacuating the city." Flint spoke, reactivating his lightsaber that had deactivated after being flung backwards. "Manaan will not fall under Imperial rule..." he said firmly, preparing to block more incoming attacks.

 

[Marcus Faust]

Now Marcus was angry, @[member="Flint Dexen"]'s ignorance had gotten to him. He was not going on a genocide spree. He was not a child murdering monstrosity. "Good, with the people safe, we don't have to hold back." He retorted, shooting forward with crimson saber ignited. Each blow that came had more raw power behind it then the last, rage adding fuel to the fire. "I," He began, slashing downwards at Flint's head. "Am not," He continued, attempting to bisect him. "A monster." He finished, slamming the blade forward and trying to impale Flint.

Marcus was fighting for control now, if rage overtook him, his soldiers would be in danger, and he had to protect his soldiers. His soldiers, that was it. With a simple nod of his head, his duel saber wielding saber guards lunged forward, the two of them struck at Flint from either side, backing up Marcus' barrage. If Dexen actually had time to notice, he'd see Marcus was projecting some of the lightning along his blade, electrifying the already devastating weapon.

 

[TB-705]

SPACE
EXITING HYPERSPACE NEAR MANAAN
BLACK SUNS Task Force Dope
@[member="Ronin Fel"] @[member="Darth Shadow"]

The Empire had called in reinforcements of its own. YubYub, now a senior enforcer among the Black Suns, led a task force to assist the Empire in wresting control of Manaan away from the Republic. He sat at the helm of the "Junk."

"Attention, mos' illustrious fleet: rape, pillage an' burn.... d'at's all."

The Junk, a phoenix-class destroyer, moved to engage the out-of-date Fel Imperium vessel.

"Fire everythin'!" squeaked YubYub.

Coming in directly behind the wedge-shaped Imperial Destroyer, the Junk opened fire with 40 heavy turbolaser batteries aimed to take out the Star Destroyer's bridge. 30 heavy ion cannons fired at the engines of the warship, quickly followed by a salvo of 4 assault concussion missiles. The Junk opted to reserve deploying its starbomber compliment; though its counterpart, the Panther-class Carrier Straight Edge, did not.

From the carrier came 72 starfighter interceptors escorting 36 bombers that headed straight for the Star Destroyer. The carrier stayed well behind the Phoenix, letting it act as a shield.

The Junk then deployed ten Mouse-class dropships. Two carried http://starwarsrp.net/topic/6556-hammer-walker/]Hammer-class walkers[/url], four carried http://starwarsrp.net/topic/16628-judge-tank/]Judge-class tanks[/url], while the final four carried twenty-four troopers each. These dropships headed straight for the planet and Ahto city.

OOC: Forces

Spoiler

x1 Panther-class carrier
x1 Phoenix-class Destroyer
x36 deployed bombers
x72 deployed starfighters
x48 undeployed bombers
x10 deployed dropships
x2 Hammer walkers
x4 Judge tanks
x96 Infantry

 

[Sebastian Santelli]

Imperial II-class Star Destroyer - Outbreak
High Orbit, Manaan
@[member="YubYub the Vengeful"] @[member="Ronin Fel"]

"Drop it."

The Admiral's words rang out across the disciplined bridge crew, dropping the Star Destroyer out of hyperspace right behind the Imperator's own vessel. The Outbreak had been angled at a totally different degree than the lead vessel, maintaining that dispersion to maintain a tight defensive formation to guard the Imperator's flagship.

And it worked.

As soon as the newly refitted Star Destroyer came out of hyperspace, its shields were ablaze with cannon fire. Thank God for shields. The Admiral immediately began barking orders to his crew, already re-allocating energy to preserve their starboard shields being pounded. "Outbreak, I want a 90 degree starboard rotation. Shift shield power as necessary." This would give the Outbreak the ability to fire every single weapon on the Junk as its superstructure faced them. "Fighters deploy, I want fighter screening on our flanks and bombers advance, backfire speed, zonal attack pattern."

Yet he wasn't done yet. "Mobilize the 233rd Stormtrooper Battalion, get them prepped for boarding and siege operations."

Whoever this little commander was, he couldn't stand up against a Marg Sabl.

 

[Flint Dexen]

@[member="Marcus Faust"]

As their fight continued, Flint sensed through the Force that the Imperials were coming down onto the planet in earnest. He was quite frustrated, he was not in a position to do much but to continue fighting Faust. "I don't know about you..." Flint replied, quickly twirling to the side to avoid having his head sliced off. "But to me, anyone or anything that is fueled by rage and anger..." Flint continued, twisting his blade to parry off the Sith's strike. "...is classified as a monster."

Flint then threw the two guards at Faust using the Force, who had tried to strike him from the sides.

 

[Marcus Faust]

"Then you're to ignorant to look at the world from others point of view that aren't brainwashed by your false ideals." He responded, ducking pas the saber guards who quickly recovered, rolling to their feet and awaiting the next signal as Faust launched another strike, this one low, but just before it could hit or be blocked, he jerked upwards, doing what would cause a nasty gash across @[member="Flint Dexen"]'s stomach if it wasn't blocked.

 

[Darth Athora]

Aboard Gunship

Elani watched from the gunship as any and all ships leaving the city were being shot down by Elani's ships above the city along with any dropships and gunships entering the city's airspace from space that weren't identified as Sith Empire ships. She laughed slightly to herself at the sight of ships exploding in the sky to her ships' guns. Supporting Elani's ships were the commandeered AA and the AT-TT column along with the gunships providing them air support.

From the gunship, Elani spotted @[member="Marcus Faust"] in combat with another force user. "There!" she pointed out. "Take me there!" The gunship began flying towards Marcus' position and from it leaped elani onto the roof of a building in the area. Once Elani was on the roof, the gunships continued their mission to defend the AA emplacements, with Valentine coordinating them. Elani watched as the gunships flew off in their mission's direction before running down the steps of the building to engage Marcus' enemy.

@[member="Flint Dexen"] | @[member="Ronin Fel"] | @[member="Marcus Faust"]

 

[Other Space Kaiden]

@Davin @[member="YubYub the Vengeful"] @ANYONE AT THE REPUBLIC EMBASSY ​

The ship shook around Ronin as the shields of his Imperial-Class took fire from YubYub's vessel. So, this was it was it not? Finally, after centuries of doing nothing, the Fel would rise again to combat the Sith and all evil in the galaxy. When the Imperator entered the hanger he was met with the sight of a legion of Royal Stormtroopers readying themselves and hoping aboard the newly created Hades-Class Gunships. The gunships held 20 troopers each and would, hopefully, see to it that most of the legion made it to the ground alive. Walking through the made rush of men trying to board their gunships, Ronin activated his communicator and sent a message to Davin "Executor, I will be moving to Ahto City with my Praetorian you will have full command of my Star Destroyer while I am away. See to it that these Sith are driven from the system."

With that, the Imperator moved towards the shuttle that had his four Praetorian Imperial Knights, men and woman who were Knights in the order and were sworn to protect the Imperator to the death. Each wore purple Imperial Knight Armor that was much more militaristic ans simple, unlike Ronin's armor which shared the same design but was much more extravagant in nature. "Come, we must not keep the Sith waiting too long." Ronin said with a noble arrogance as he stepped onto the shuttle. The four Praetorian guards entered right behind their leader and seated themselves in a square around him as the rest of the shuttle was filled with Royal Stormtroopers. Within moments the Fel gunships began their decent onto the planet, Ronin's shuttle hidden with the mass of falling ships that fell towards the planet like a cloud of metal. The gunships meant some light obstructions in the orbit around the planet, but the real trouble began after the cloud had descended into the atmosphere of the ocean world. Moving to the window of the gunship, Ronin could make out the figures of Imperial Star Destroyers hovering over the city and were firing into the cloud of gunships.

Ronin's eyes got a little wider as AA fire from the city and the ships blew the vessels into a flurry of oranges and reds, taking out small fractions of the legion with every shot. This was not good, the Sith were much farther along than Ronin would have ever hoped. Reaching for his communicator, Ronin attempted to send one last message before they were totally covered in the vale of the jammer "This is the Imperator, there are Star Destroyers above Ahto City. Davin, I want a fire mission on those ships, I repeat fire for effect on Star Destroyers above Ahto City!" Ronin could only hope that the message would get through to his comrade in the stars, but even if it did it may be too broken up by jammers to make any sense.

As the shuttles continued their descent, fraction after fraction of the legion was cut down by anti-aircraft fire, turning the skies into a fireworks display. Ronin was rocked back and forth by the unrelenting fire, but with luck and the force on his side he and a small portion of what was left of the legion managed to land near the Republic Embassy. Ronin looked back to the shuttles doors as they flew open and the stromtroopers rushed out, followed by the Praetorian who had their silver sabers drawn. Ronin quickly rushed out with them, drawing his family's lightsaber as he exited. The fight was already raging between his men and established Sith strong points, the Fel Stromtroopers against the Sith's.

Igniting the silver blade of his saber, Ronin raised it up and looked onto the Sith troopers "Let us push back the darkside this day."

 

[Lan Raegin]

AA-Gun
@[member="H4V0K"] @[member="Revan Altor"] @[member="Doc"] @[member="Steph Zenima"] @ARC-052 "Dish" @[member="Brenna Kardur"] @[member="Halik Falkosi"] @[member="Aerrah Katamirth"]
Havoc squad cleared out the AA gun in no time at all, Sith Troopers died and the automated systems were shut down by Lan himself. The Selonian smirked slightly as he accomplished his goal. This was only one of many AA guns, but that didn't matter. All they needed was one. If they had this Anti-air gun under control but the others were not then the Sith would be lured into a false sense of security, as soon as they neared this gun more than half of them would be shot down by one of Havoc's many gunners.

“Someone get on it, half of you set up defensive positions here and the other half...Go Cause some Havoc.” He smirked as he said his words, slapping another power pack into his rifle.

The Sith would try to re-take this position as soon as they could, but the AA gun was already theres. He could hear the massive sound of turbo-lasers going off in the background as Sith gunships burst into flame and exploded into a thousand pieces. The Selonian grinned then walked to the entrance of the AA gun, his troops were already setting up a defensive position, and the rest of Havoc would be heading out to cause some Chaos in the Sith Ranks.

Everything was going well.

 

[Zrash'toul'frusku]

Moving Towards the Ahto City, aboard a Hades Class Gunship.

Zrash'toul'frusku's Hades-Class Gunship lifted off and exited the hanger of his Ardent-Class Frigate in High Orbit. Six more shuttles soon followed suit, his task force falling in behind the Imperator's. He had opted to join in the fray on the ground to help coordinate Fel resources and logistics in the ensuing campaign on the ground. The Chiss was clad in his Office's uniform with armor plates underneath the grey armoring for defense and the only weapons he had at his side was an Officer's Vibro-Blade and Light Pistol for self defense.

"Executor, sir," Zrash spoke in their native language to his commander, "take care of the Thundering Spire but don't be afraid to use her to her full effect."

He then activated his wrist com-link to his entire force of 120 men that was following after the Emperor's. He spoke with confidence and poise, trying to rally his men for the battle they neared. "Friends, Soldiers, Comrades. Today we stand on the edge of death and life. We are going to war, and I will not lie. There will be causalities. However, for every one of our men they kill, you slay ten more! You are the best the Empire has to offer, marines all! Today will we show the Sith our guns and blades. We will burn a hole in their warmachine so deep, they will never forget the our might as it grows through the galaxy, they will never forget our Imperator's name! But most of all, these Sith will remember each and everyone of you as you deliver their judgement for following the Dark. For the Imperator! For the Fel Imperium, and most of all for the Light! To War!"

"Pilot! Get us to the Embassy!"

There was silence for a moment other than the hum of the Gunships around him, and then the AA and Star Destoryers above the city opened fire. Zrash watched as two of his own ships were quickly clipped from the sky. The air became filled with the booming of cannons and the bash of explosives. The gunship's hull rocked back and forth violently as it descended. Then all hell broke loose.

All Zrash felt was a heavy shock go through the hull of his gunship and then tasted the acrid stench of ozone and smoke. The ship declined rapidly and a light began to blink with loud buzzes. With instinct Zrash clipped himself in and braced for impact, shouting over his comm-link on an open Fel channel. "This is Captain Zrash'toul'frusku we have been hit! I repeat! We have sustained damage! All remaining units under the Thundering Spire fall under the Imperato---"

The transmission cut with a loud crashing noise and static. From the Chiss's point of view everything went dark and pain overwhelmed his body. The Captain's gunship had crash-landed on a roof-top a click or two Northwest of the Republic Embassy. As it hit it left a massive skid of metal and sparks until it finally stopped right before dropping off what seemed to be an apartment building's roof. @[member="Ronin Fel"] @[member="Davin"]

 

[Dris Negan]

@[member="Dareck Shaw"]

Dris watched with a careful eye as a lone Republic soldier sprinted towards his little slice of heaven with an extremely angry look to his movements. He sighed and stood up, stretching a bit as he did. The security officer's spare uniform fit snugly and he adjusted it's tie's half Windsor before resetting the security systems protocols and placing a few of his own. If he got a hold of the terminal that slow him down. As long as Dris's plan worked all his safeguards would be completely unnecessary, though he was cautious.

Dris rustled his hair and put on his best Police face.

As the soldier busted through a window and possibly got shredded by the buildings auto turret defenses Dris placed a little present above the door for the soldier. A motion activated mine and a perma-lock on the door. First the soldier would have a hell of a time busting down the door, then a faceful of shrapnel would probably end his life. Perfect.

The Imperial Agent then shut the door and stepped out into the hallway.

Game time.

Dris slammed his head into the wall next to him, drawing blood with a sickening cut that extended from the top of his hairline to above his right eye. Red filled his vision as the blood trickled down.

That hurt way more than he remembered. An annoying pounding was ever present as Dris moved to the end of the hallway and began engaging his own auto turrets from around the corner, still dressed as a Ahto Security Officer.