Imperial Despot
The hammer will fall as THE EMPIRE launches a full-scale surprise attack against the SILVER JEDI CONCORD, starting with the remote planet of Azure.
Valiens Nantaris
START: JANUARY 16 - END: JANUARY 30, 2023
Valiens NantarisAfter a protracted armistice, the EMPIRE emerges from its borders - yet it does so against a threat many would not have expected. Over the past decade, the SILVER JEDI CONCORD has grown more reclusive within its own borders; publicly looking inward to serve and protect its own people, while privately deploying small contingents of their own forces throughout the galaxy in a mission to establish their own brand of peace and prosperity.
As tensions arise between the titanic states of the EMPIRE and the GALACTIC ALLIANCE, the borders between the two powers plunge into a proverbial race to arm and fortify against an eventual clash. Meanwhile, the erstwhile quiet borders of the Concord grow far more appealing as the focal point for an Imperial offensive - intended to carve through the comparatively quiet and lightly defended Concord worlds in a bid to threaten the Alliance’s eastern border while their attentions are diverted against the BROTHERHOOD OF THE MAW. Should the EMPIRE’s campaign to push through Silver Jedi space prove successful, the core worlds themselves would be laid open for a direct assault for the first time since the Maw’s strike against Tython.
After an intensive misdirection campaign by COMPNOR’S foreign office, AZURE will serve as the focus for the Empire’s opening incursion. For the first time in centuries, the remote world’s tranquil seas will find themselves at the forefront of an advance primed to carve the Concord in two, and expose the Core Worlds of the Alliance to the fury of the Empire...
OBJECTIVE 1: THE GATHERING STORM
"We are the tip of the spear, and we shall push straight through their weakest point."
A sizeable Imperial fleet has assembled and departed the Imperial border world of Velmor - with its course set to overwhelm the token defenses of the remote system of Azure. While the initial wave of the Imperial Armada expected little to no resistance, they did not count on the presence of a Concord training fleet in the sector engaging on patrol training maneuvers, accompanied by a small naval escort.
A small yet consequential skirmish is set to unleash while the remainder of the Imperial fleet moves to encircle the planet, even as the storm gathers behind them; ready to descend upon the greater Concord.
Fleeters
OBJECTIVE 2: LANDFALL
"New beginnings can grow from ashes."
In the days of the Galactic Republic of old, it was said a clandestine facility occupied the majority of the planet’s landmass. In the centuries since the fall of the Galactic Republic, the planet’s natural flora would reclaim the once proud durasteel structures until the arrival of the Silver Jedi Concord, who instead built a small temple and settlement upon its ruins to serve as a fringe outpost. While the temple is a center for peace and stability on a world otherwise untouched by civilization, it is not without its own defenses.
While Imperial dropships carrying both troopers and assault vehicles surge through the atmosphere to assault the temple, point defense emplacements along the temple’s shores and perimeter force the initial incursion team to make landfall nearly twelve kilometers deep into the jungle, where all manner of beasts could easily impede the Imperial advance onto the temple itself; which is arrayed with not insignificant ground based defenses, along with a Silver Jedi garrison to man them.
Troopers, Tankers, Warposters, Jedi, Imperial Knights
OBJECTIVE 3: THE DEEP
"Some secrets can’t be hidden for long."
Imperial Intelligence reports suggest the presence of an underwater facility deep under Azure’s surface, which may well serve as a clandestine outpost for a contingent of Antarian Rangers, who are often forward deployed into undisclosed locations with the Silver Jedi themselves. Before a forward operating base can be established on the planet, this facility must be secured by Imperial special forces at all costs. If the temple is to stand against the onslaught of the Empire, the Rangers must hold their ground - even in the unforgiving deeps on Azure...
Special Forces
