Eternal Father
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"Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand
Blood and revenge are hammering in my head."
~ William Shakespeare
The straining silence was broken, bent like a rigid reed, when the flotilla of ships emerged from hyperspace above Panatha and begun to fire upon the defensive warships and orbital emplacements. Confusion was rife in those manning the defenses, and confusion gave way to death as ships crackled and burned like funeral pyres, sending thousands upon thousands to their sickening ends as the wreckege churned end over end towards the planet's surface before crashing down in seas, across plains, and tumbling through mountains with the voice of a million thunderclaps. Such tumultuous villainy stunned the populace, who quickly rose up in arms against such horrendous invaders only to be stunned into deafening silence when it was revealed that the heathens who had killed their countrymen were, in fact; their own countrymen!Aye, it was civil war now. Bunduki had at last thrown off the yoke imposed upon it by Panatha seven years prior, and rose up in arms against the fatherland to etch out it's own independence among the stars. But Panatha, while rattled and initially wounded by the loss of it's orbital fleet, quickly rallied to defend the capital as massive transports landed several kilometers away and began to unload a planet's worth of soldiers who began to march in grisly procession towards the towering walls of Canthar. They met fierce resistance along the way as the smaller villages and towns hampered their progress each step of the way, and eventually the invading army began to outright shell the towns and hamlets into dust and butcher entire communities down to the last man.
And the countryside burned, the jungles smoldering. Who was so dastardly and bold enough to launch such a vicious strike against Panatha whilst the King was elsewhere? Nasir Luctacus, last surviving heir of the Luctacus Dynasty of Kings and Queens who had ruled Panatha for centuries upon centuries before their ancestral home and lineage was annihilated by the usurper King, Kaine Zambrano. Now, after seven years of plotting he had returned to claim the throne through brutal, vengeful conquest in a manner not unlike the one the usurper had taken all those years ago. But he would find the capital a harder pill to swallow than the pitiful towns he encountered en route, for it's walls had been reinforced by King Zambrano with resources from the blossoming Sith Empire in the Core.
Towering parapets mounted with turret emplacements rained literal hell down upon the advancing army, and they entrenched themselves all along the length of the wall as what Nasir hoped to be a quick blitz instead became bogged down in the mud and turned into an indefinite siege. In hopes to distract the defenders and open up a second front, Nasir reached out to the sea barons of Khedal, who in the past have been stubborn and unwilling to completely bow down before the monarchy, and who were all too willingly to fall in line with the King of the Broken Seat. Lending their formidable maritime navy to Nasir, they move towards the capital with ill intent to shell the port into slag, and invade from a new second front.
But the administrators of Canthar managed to sent out a distress call before their communications were jammed to the Sith Empire, who now deployed the War Fleet Black Iron and the Imperial Sixth Army Ocilius to deal with the threat, and secure the Pacanth Reach for the Empire and their unholy Emperor. In just a short time the angular warships of the Empire materialized in the system, and quickly moved to engage the Osk Ribepi warships in orbit above Panatha, opening a pathway for the Sixth Army to be deployed on the surface. In a moment of desperation Nasir Luctacus assemble a strike force of his Force-Sensitive Honor Guard and managed to infiltrate the Royal Palace at the center of the Capital City to try and hold the royal family still within the city hostage.
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"Milord, they've infiltrated the palace."
Such words brought forth froths of anger in the Sith Lord standing before the arrayed squad of Blackblade Guardsmen as they disembarked the combat shuttle that had made a hasty landing in the capital's starport. The city militia was in full force, and every able man and women within the civilian population had taken up arms to defend their homes. "Then we make for the palace, and we will root out each and everyone of those vermin..." King Kaine Zambrano said with a snarling growl before affixing the helmet around his scarred head, sealing it into place and waiting a moment as the HUD sprung to life and his vision returned. Flourishing his lightsaber theatrically, he began to lead his Guard up through the city streets towards the palace and it's great domed ceiling.
"And this time I will make sure none survive."
OBJECTIVES
Objective A: The Osk Ribepi army is laying siege to Canthar, join up with the city militia and the recently deployed Imperial Sixth Army to rout the attackers and destroy them (down to the man if need be). There are reports of rogue Force-Users attaching themselves to divisions in the Osk Ribepi army, but their ultimate allegiance has not yet been confirmed.
Objective B: The Osk Ribepi have garnered sympathy in Khedal, an island city with the largest ports on all of Panatha, and have acquired a large portion of the Panathan maritime navy and are heading towards Canthar with intent to bombard the city from the harbor. Travel with Imperial gunships and paratroopers to either destroy or liberate the vessels from the Osk Ribepi.
Objective C: Aside from the main army group laying siege of Canthar, the Osk Ribepi have several reserve forces moved directly from Bunduki to Panatha via dropships and prefabricated garrisons. Destroy them at any cost, and cut the supply lines from their encampments to the frontlines. Heavy anti-air and anti-personnel turret emplacements have been reported from our scouts, so expect heavy opposition.
Objective D: An elite strike force led by Nasir Luctacus has infiltrated the Imperial palace at the heart of Canthar, join with Kaine Zambrano himself to root out and destroy Nasir and his loyalists. However; Nasir is powerful and deeply trained in ancient Epicanthix arts of combat, so leave the leader of the Osk Ribepi to Kaine.
Objective E: Do yo own thang, guuuuuuurl
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