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Post by Tarion Kornos on Aug 3, 2009 17:49:16 GMT
Epsilon A-1, one of the three Elite Assault Groups, appeared out of hyperspace. Admiral Tarion Kornos had been recently given a mission by the Imperial High Command which they hoped to use in the Operation into Coalition Territory. Admiral Dju-Lang was apparently unaware of this move, but Kornos would raid the planet of Zeltros and cause enough damage for rioting to take over on the infamous planet. The Imperial Fleet would then retreat back to safer territory and await further orders. It sounded easy enough, and they had decided to enter Coalition Territory through the space of the neutral Neimoidian's, who had supported the Confederacy centuries ago and now was staying out of Galactic Affairs the best they could. This provided Kornos with a quick and easy location to strike into, using Commenor as a distraction from nearby patrol vessels.
The Imperial Fleet began to swarm around the planet, small groups of ships flying in from different directions to ensure a quick pincer movement and blockade on the planet. Raiding parties began to assemble into transports, ready to fly to power structures and defensive positions so that the planet was without support and the thing is desperately needed to avoid conflict between it's people, electricity. Without that, the planet could no remain a party haven and those so embraced in it's grasp would find themselves breaking loose of the law and taking the planet into meltdown, long after Kornos left.
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Post by Tarion Kornos on Aug 9, 2009 16:56:58 GMT
With the Coalition's resistance being much stronger than expected, Tarion Kornos got worried. If this is what would happen on a drug-friendly planet full of a vibrant party atmosphere, what could they expect elsewhere? What where people was willing to defend their loved ones to the death and fight in a patriotic fashion? He greeted the Imperial High Command who was seated in Bastion, they had remained there rather than moving to Coruscant due to communication problems for them. "The situation is disturbing. My forces have deployed, set up positions, got to work and performed their duty as expected. However, the Empress reappeared and sent what could only be called a rally cry to her people. They have taken arms and millions are in the streets looking for our blood. What worries me is that weapons were supplied to a planet which otherwise is on the verge of lawless, it would be best to assume that other Coalition planets have put such measures in place. If what i fear is true, they will fight to the death on every planet and every family will fight for the Coalition. Although it is not my place, I recommend that you call off the invasion and allow me to begin talks with the Empress". There was silence for a few moments, Tarion couldn't hear their words so presumed they had muted the microphone for the time being. Finally after several minutes, they returned to him, he had waited patiently and was rewarded with something he did not expect. "The invasion will continue as ordered. We trust Dju-Lang can handle this well, if necessary, we will deploy more forces to the region" said one of the Command Staff, a woman with brown hair, from Yaga Minor if he remembered correctly. "Understood, Admiral Kornos out". Although he had let the matter drop and gone as expected, he knew it was a bad move on their part. Their ignorance would be the downfall of this entire operation and sadly, they would probably put the blame onto Grand Admiral Dju-Lang. Tarion turned to his Rear-Admiral who was now on his flagship and stood behind him. "Bring up our forces from the planet, keep the blockade in position until they arrive at the fleet and then form up at our entry position". The Rear-Admiral nodded with a simple acknowledgement and went away, Tarion meanwhile continued to look at the planetary reports to see how his soldiers were holding out.
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Post by Tarion Kornos on Aug 11, 2009 14:19:50 GMT
With what forces they could bring up from the planet approaching the fleet, Kornos gave the order for them to move out. The Imperial Presence would not be able to hold out for much longer once Coalition reinforcements arrived, it was time to leave. The fleet began unfolding it's grasp around the planet and slowly eased back, exchanging fire with the Black Moon as they left. With a nearby gravity well being ignited in the system, a wave of bombers and starfighters began to try and put it out of action with the aid of a few gunboats and destroyers.
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Post by Jalua Solast on Aug 11, 2009 14:34:17 GMT
In orbit, Jalua was watching the Imperial Fleet leave from the planet. Her shuttle wasn't a match for what the Imperials could throw at them, but even so it began trailing them at a somewhat safe distance. She was speaking to a General who had recently arrived to the system with around Three-hundred Thousand soldiers. "I want the civilians here ready in fifteen hours for war. Send them for training and filter in your men to help secure the planet. They will be assigned to your Army for the duration of this war. I'll go across to different planets and start making sure that we are prepared". He saluted and thanked her, moving to some of his subordinates at the back of the shuttle. Glancing across she noticed Dan's following closely, the force was already telling her that he was aboard, something which surprised her but showed that she had spent so much time around him that she seemed to be forming some sort of link to his presence. "Let's head to Commenor, I heard there was reports of a Imperial Fleet nearby". The comms operator had obviously heard her call to the pilots and turned his head towards her. Shouting over the noise the shuttle was making, he informed the Empress, "There is already a battle at Commenor! The Fleet is already on it's way, but we might not make it in time for you to make a difference". Jalua nodded and looked out of the viewport for a few moments before responding. "Jump towards it anyway, drop a few parsecs out and find out what is happening there. If there is still fighting, we go in" she ordered, confused and disturbed that the Imperial Fleet wasn't just making a move in the north of her borders, but also in the West. Many things ran through her mind, teachings from her father gave her a good tactical insight, and she understood now that a pincer movement could separate a large portion of the planets in one swift move. This would undoubtably weaken her Empire. This then made sense, the Imperial Fleet at Denon was to stop her advancing southwards against the Empire in that region, if Denon fell, she would have few resisting strongholds to contend with and the Invasion would lose much of it's effectiveness. If she could break out, and capture more territory than she began with, the Invasion wouldn't succeed in weakening her, only making her stronger than ever before. With this in mind, she smiled and reached into her pocket. The data card was in there and contained the information she had been given by KnightFire Three. Handing it to the pilot, she shouted over the noise, "Send that to Salanda! Tell them it's from me". The pilot nodded and placed it into his controls, which brought up a few details on the screen before the transmission was successfully sent. Soon afterwards, the shuttle veered off and headed into hyperspace.
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Post by Dan Zorko on Aug 11, 2009 14:38:37 GMT
OOC: Whoah... How long has this been here? I didn't even notice this...
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Post by Dan Zorko on Aug 12, 2009 18:56:21 GMT
Dan watched as Jaluas shuttle headed into hyperspace. "Where is she going?" he asked the pilot. "Don't know, sir. No communications from the shuttle to us before it left." Dan nodded. "Well, it appears that the Coalition has the situation handled groundside. Start taking our troops off the planet. And hae someone grab my armor from the hotel we stayed at." "Sir." said the pilot, and relayed his orders to Command. "Ok, take me to the Talons Revenge." said Dan and sat back. The pilot paused. "Uhhhhh... It's not here sir..." Dan sat back up and frowned. "Well, where is it?" "I don't know sir, the Admirals are keeping it under wraps. Evidently it was at Lok, and then it disappeared a few days ago, and no one besides the Admirals know where it is." "Bring me to Duke's flagship then." said Dan. "Don't radio ahead. Just land. Put the shields at max, by the way." The pilot detected the edge in his voice, and nervously said "Sir." before putting the shuttle on course.
Dan turned to the Reapers on his ship. "Cloak and follow close behind me. We may have another problem with the Admirals." The Reapers nodded and cloaked as the CAMELOT swung into the hangar bay of Admiral Dukes flagship Corellian Thunder. A security squad of Special Frces soldiers surrounded the unexepected ship, but stood down as soon as they saw who was stepping down off of it. Warily returning their salute, Dan made his way to the bridge, where he was greeted by Admiral Duke. "Grand Admiral, what a pleasent surprise!" said the saluting Admiral. Dan returned his salute. "I'm going to skip the pleasentry crap. Where's my ship?" The Admiral started laughing. "Oh, don't worry about it. We didn't steal it. But what we did with it is under heavy security. I can't tell you everything, as even I don't know it all. Clemence does though. Maybe an Admiral Meeting should occur, he'll be able to explain everything." "Good idea." said Dan, and indicated with his hand for the Reapers to go back to the CAMELOT. "Call one now."
As the meeting was called, Dan and Duke went down to a meeting room exactly like the one on the Talon's Revenge. Dan sat in the seat in his position of the circle, while Duke sat in his across. After about 10 minutes the other admiral's images appeared. "Call in." said Dan.
"Admiral Clemence, 1st fleet here."
"Admiral Farley, 2nd fleet."
"Admiral Jake, 3rd fleet."
"Admiral Froth, 4th fleet."
"Admiral Grath, 5th fleet."
"Admiral Duke, 6th fleet."
"Admiral Thomas, 8th fleet."
"Right." said Dan. "Now where the hell is my ship?" "Aeten II, sir." said Clemence. "Aeten II? Why?" asked Dan, who was extremely confused. "Well, you know how you try to update the ship as much as possible, and use it as a testing bed for technology that could eventually be used by our ships?" said Clemence. "R&D is having it fit with a stygium crystal cloaking device. We thought you would be away longer, with enough time for the instalation to finish, but as you can see, that didn't happen." "A cloaking device..." said Dan. "Interesting... But isn't a major drawback of cloaking devices is that it causes the cloaked ship to become double-blind?" "Only on hibridium models, sir." said Clemence. "But with stygium crystal cloaking devices, you don't experience those issues. The Empire had used stygium cloaking devices for the TIE Phantom project, but since then, stygium crystals haven't been used much. And if this works for the Talon's Revenge, we may even be able to get it fitted onto bigger craft, say... A SSD..." Dan leaned back and stroked his beard. "Hm... I like the sound of that..." "I thought you might sir. Also, the Talon's Revenge has just finished in being fitted with that Beskar Metal that the Mandos sent. That stuff is damn near invincible." "I know." said Dan. "I'm going to talk to them about obtaining more of it, it may be useful in the future. Ok, where are the fleets now?" "3rd and 6th is with you, 2nd is at Duros, 4th and 5th at Bespin, 1st and 8th is at Lok." said Clemence. "No one has been to Taris?" said Dan. "No sir." said Clemence. "Ok, prepare the 1st to move as soon as I return. 2nd, you're to move to Lok. 3rd, defend Duros. 6th, defend Lok with the 2nd. I'm going to use this as a chance to open up lines with the Mandos. Everyone clear?" They all nodded. "Good. Adjourned." The holograms blinked off. "Bring us to Lok." Dan said to Duke. "Sir." said Duke, and the fleets blinked off into hyperspace.
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Post by Jalua Solast on Aug 13, 2009 0:37:32 GMT
Zeltros had little protecting it now from another fleet, but the battle was mostly over. The planet had been held and in fifteen hours time, the population of the planet would be gearing up to carry the war elsewhere. Now that there had been a solid invasion on Coalition territory, the time had come for them to actively assault the Imperial lines and no more seek diplomatic reasoning. With the Empress now gone to organise her forces for the defence and counter-attack against the Empire's invasion, it was likely that a lot of things would change for the Coalition.
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Post by Tarion Kornos on Aug 18, 2009 18:56:02 GMT
The Raid had been costly and had mixed results. It had brought confusion to Coalition tacticians on where the invasion actually was gaining ground but came at a heavy cost once the people had been gathered. It had also revealed that the Empress was alive, but had suffered dearily, something that Imperial Propaganda could use to their advantage. The remaining vessels which could retreat did so, and the Raid had ended.
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