"Are we all-ready? Well welcome aboard Jaina-airlines...exits are here, there, and over yonder....now please sit down, shut up, and pray we dont die."
<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> Kicks the MJF up and zooms out of the atmosphere, up and off to Fearson's ship and the Squad home away from home....the Star Destroyer "Disruptor".<!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->

<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> Moments later the entire Disruptor Squadron and Snake were standing on the bridge of the SDDisruptor awaiting Fearsons.....<!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->

Ciscero watched the destruction from a safe vantage point.


The sounds coming in over Gormul's little toys brought a smile to his rather plain lips.



<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> *burst of static* "...join the party Emperor Fearsons?"<!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->


Fearson's...again. The operative sighed as he walked over to get a view of Yaga City in the distance.


<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> "...Schmoe of Chimera Fleet please power down your ship and prepare to be boarded."<!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->


Isard was right after all. The Intelligence Branch had noticed a shift in power from the rogue fleet and the pretender Fearsons.

The details of this, though, were unimportant. What mattered was the security of the Empire.

He pressed a finger to his ear.


<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> "...destroyed the enemy radar systems! Withdrawing the attack now! Repeat..."<!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->


Things were coming to a head. They had done the predictable and now events were set in motion.

The lowering of the radar screens in Yaga City had been the trigger.


The transmitter in the government house suddenly became active for one brief moment, a few seconds actually, as microbursts of signals went out.

"And now the move to secure..", he murmured.

"What?" came a voice behind him.

"They mean to land troops." the operative informed, pointing to the circling YT's.

"Why haven't they already?" came the irritated reply.

Ciscero sighed again and turned to the Prefect with controlled patience.


"Patterns, Prefect. Patterns. Certain things must happen before other's do. First, before troops can enter the city ..."


"The shields need to be dropped!" exclaimed the Prefect.


<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> Where did these people come from?<!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->, wondered Ciscero.


"Prefect, the enemy is dropping bombs into the city. Therefore there are no shields. The defense weaponry must be taken offline."


As if on cue, a great explosion was seen as Yaga City's power planet went up.


And aide came running up to the Prefect. "Sir, all power from Yaga City seems to have collapsed.."


"The city will run on emergency power for a little while but it will not last. Not in that.."


Ciscero's eyes gazed at the horizon as huge clouds of smoke rose into the air...an ancient signal for a city in peril.


<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> Now for the crippling from the inside....<!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->


The tiny, yet powerful, receiver picked up the emergency signal from Yaga City quite easily.


<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> *burst of static*"I have asked the Planetary Government to help us in our time of need.And what do they send us to help? Nothing!!!!!."...<!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->


Ciscero's ears closed up to the rest. He had heard enough.


"Coward!" he whispered.

And then to the Prefect, "It is done. Your Governor turned traitor, Prefect."


"Bast it! YOU were the one's that wanted him there! YOU are the one's that had us pull everything out of Yaga City! We could have done..." he hands waved empatically, grasping for options, "..something!"


"You could have stopped Fearsons?" came Ciscero's calm question.


"I am a trader, not a General!" the Prefect snapped, clearly pained at seeing such a prominant city reduced to ruins.


"Therefore, leave the soldiering to those who can. Item 1. Your shipyard is inferior and not worth defending. The enemy either doesn't know or doesn't care. The quality of ships it produces is quite low. Look how easily your ISD was captured?"


He looked the Prefect in the eye. "It's NOT that easy."


"Item 2. Your spacestation is losing it's orbital integrity. It's been pushed out of position and it's orbit is decaying. Why? Because the enemy did not think to secure the station, only remove it as a defense threat. You heard the damage report. The collapse of the hanger destroyed the forcefield keeping the vacuum of space out. The hanger decompressed. That is more than enough force to move the station off it's trajectory. Especially so since it's maneuvering thrusters were damaged. Again, it did not need protecting because as much as this planet survives on trade, it doesn't all flow through one nexus. That would be the height of economical stupidity. You aren't THAT stupid."


The Intelligence Operative gave a small smile, "Item 3. You don't answer their calls for help and their weak Governor...the man you put there at our request, caves in. All of this keeps the enemy concentrated on one spot."


The Prefect looked at the operative with a mixture of awe and incredulity. "Who are you?" he asked, aghast at the thought of this entire drama being planned out. Down to their own losses.


Ciscero smiled. "That's not important. What is important is that you see to the needs of your people now. Lock down your cities and prepare for seige. I know your forces are minimal...therefore call up your militia. You may need them."


With that, Ciscero left the presence of the Prefect to follow his own intuition. Dressed as a native he moved freely about taking into account the high anxiety displayed around him.


He looked up at the sky, noting the flashes of pinprick lights.




<!--EZCODE BOLD START--> Carida<!--EZCODE BOLD END-->

"Sir!" came the communications officer. "Picking up a transmission. No carrier identity."

General Simon Kaine walked over to the officer, his attention properly directed. "That usually means Intel. Audio, Visual?"

The Comm. Officer shook his head, "I am sorry, Sir. It's a databurst. Nothing more. It's so small, normal communications would have missed it."

Simon nodded grimly. "Yes, I have heard of the Intel wizard Gormul doing work on our equipment. Damn miniaturization. Soon we won't be able to even see our weapons." the General joked.

"Sir?" the officer called, as the databurst came up on a display.


The only characters were: <!--EZCODE BOLD START--> ¤X¤<!--EZCODE BOLD END-->


<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> Mr. X<!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->

Simon smiled. It was simple enough and the meaning hit Simon like a kick in the gut.

<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> I am glad Alec was ready<!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->, he thought as he remembered the growing lists of reports as the Vice Admiral had the men running drills.

<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> Isard was right, the sneaky old...<!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->

He ordered the officer. "Get me the Vice Admiral! Now!"


<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> Yaga Minor was X's current assignment. The Pretender hedges his bets.<!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->

<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> Admiral Joe Schmoe's shuttle reached the<!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->Disruptor<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> The second his shuttle touched down he strode quickly to the bridge. Ignoring all the officers he marched to Emperor Fearsons and threw a salute<!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->
"Sir" he said
<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> Emperor Fearsons returned the salute<!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->
"Yes Joe?" he responded
"I would like to talk to you in your conference chamber." Admiral Joe said
"Alright Joe." Emperor Fearsons said
<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> They quickly strode to the conference chamber when they arrived Joe sat at one end and Emperor Fearsons at the other.<!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->
"What is it Joe?" the emperor asked
"Sir I would like to begin the Ground Assault and I came over here to get your Assault Transports and Ground Forces. With your pemission that is."

Fearsons quirked an eyebrow, easing back in his throne as his black leather gloved fingers tapped his seat's arm. He watched the admiral of the Chimera Fleet and seemed slightly perplexed.

"I've dropped off my five dark troopers, feel free to accompany them in fifty of my light tanks and one of my HT-AT's, but other than that...we need to keep the craft aboard the ship, there is no need to waste them in combat when we have..alliance issues," Fearsons explained with a stroke of his chair's arm.

He watched the admiral with a slight grin, amused by his boldness of just walking over to his flagship and requesting such a demand. He saw him tense slightly and the emperor grinned in return. "You are distressed by this? I sense it in the Force."

ooc:sorry how short this post is

ic:"Well Sir I was planning on capturing the planet with most of it's militia remaining and I don't think that Dark troopers would be very helpful but lots of manpower would to help pacify areas. And please ask your operatives to stop destroying essential stuff." Admiral Joe said

"Admiral I offer you what I did before, use them wisely. Lose nothing, get nothing destroyed, my dark troopers are going to do their job well, don't question that, as for now Admiral, I must go monitor the conflict from the bridge, I expect a full report ASAP," Fearsons explained, walking out of his quarters and back to the bridge.

He smiled slightly as he looked at the Dark Troopers. 5 of them total were in the area, beautiful peaces of equipment they were. On each was the seal of the Rogue Empire proudly engraved on their left breast, showing proudly and gleaming brightly. All the driods had the exact same capabilities but they were not all the same...

"Dark Troopers, engage the resistance only!" Chris yelled into the Comm. Dark Trooper one started towards a Golen Laser battery when was firing upon Dark Trooper Two. All the shots bounced harmlessly off the Dark Trooper and into various buildings. A moment later Dark Trooper One fired 3 shots into the Golen Laser Battery causing it to explode.

A group of resistance gathered on the room tops to fire at the invaders. Half the people had armor or actual weapons of normal trooper thread, but they would be no threat to the Dark Troopers. Dark Trooper 3 started firing shots directly below the resistance on the roof one by one as Dark Trooper Four watched an Ugly speed towards him firing. Dark Trooper Four leveled his gun at the Ugly and fired two explosive rounds into the Ugly, causing it to explode in mid air.

Dark Trooper one spotted a modified civilian speeder with an anti infantry battery and grenade mortar strapped to it's belly approaching him. Dark Trooper One immediately took out the mortar gernade launcher strapped to it, breaking it off. The speeder fired 10 rounds into the dark trooper, but they where harmlessly deflected off. The speeder came towards the Dark Trooper in hopes of ramming it, but the Dark Trooper caught the front of the speeder in it's hands and crushed the speeder. The driver jumped off and ran down an alley.

Dark Trooper Five spotted a group of 100 members of the resistance and started to walk towards them. 30 shots range from the group of the resistance towards the Dark Trooper, but they all reflected into the buildings beside him. A round of gernades was thrown at him, Dark Trooper Five caught 3 of the gernades and threw them back, letting the others explode around him. The resistancegroup immediately dispersed into panic as they ran from the Gernades. One man was left who was obviously the leader of the resistance stood his ground trying to get others to follow him. Dark Trooper 5 grabbed the man by the Collar.

"You know the punishment on your planet is death for resistance against the government," Dark Trooper Five said in a robotic voice, "But you shall live because of the grace of the Rogue Empire, you and your resistance if you disburse immediately, resistance to us is futile in every way, shape, and form." He put the man down, who immedately ran back to his home affraid.

Dark Trooper 5 joined his other Dark Troopers in front of the ex rebellion HeadQuarters. Dark Trooper 5 then walked towards an enclosed hovercar which was waiting for him with a driod driver, to get out of the armor and get on with his speech.

The hover Car was completely Black and was a one way mirror to keep people from seeing inside. Dark Trooper Five entered the vehicle and closed the door with Dark Trooper Three and One with him. Dark Trooper removed his helmet as the car pulled towards the

He finished taking off the armor as one of the troopers watched. In a metalic voice, it says, "Excellent Job, your success is for the best of all." Chris smiled slightly as he hid the armor in the vehicle. It would take over a year to learn how to use it properly, but a non knowing fool would go insane in but a few minutes. The Car got out in front of city hall as Dark Trooper 3 got out first, followed by Chris, then Dark Trooper 4.

He stood in front of the podium where the people where gathered. "People of Yaga Minor, I gather you here to annouce that you have been liberated from your government. They have limited you by your taxes, higher housing costs, less protrols, and draining you of your resources. I have in front of me a plan. A plan that will reduce the cost of house, that will increase defenses, and it will help put more money in your pocket. A greater economy will increase wealth for all. Patrols will be stepped up, but casaulities will be a minium. The crime will be reduced by our presences, keeping the money you make safe, letting you keep what you have earned." He looked into the captive eyes, as each word he said held their attention

He smiled, "A prime example is tonight. The Dark Troopers were able to disperse all of the rebellion with only the loss of one man. Your government would have taken out atleast half of them, we are forgiving government if we are not wronged. You were wronged and we, the Rogue Empire plan to make right those that wronged. Now, let us celebrate this with declaring tomorrow a global holiday!" Cheers went up into the crowds as he walked back to his hover cars.

Some where near the Basiton System...

Vice Admiral Antilles had been holding in the same position for the last three days, waiting for contact from Carida. Those were the only orders that been given; hold, wait, and listen.

As each day past, Antilles grew more impatient with them. They could never do their tasks fast enough or to his satisfaction. They needed action... soon.

Antilles stood at the head of the brigade, taking note of the rest of what had been assigned to him. Two full divisions of capital ships, enough to repel any attack. It had been the biggest fleet Antilles had to command in his tenure with TNO. Each ship floating silently in the void, but screaming it wanted action.

*Soon my children... soon*[/i]

"SIR!"came a shout from the comm station. Antilles heart jumped a beat.

*This could be it...*

"What is it lieutenant?"

"Sir a transmission from Carida. It's General Kaine."

"Let General Kaine know I'll be with him momentarily. Forward it to Conference Room 001"

Antilles, maintaining his composure, walked by the whole crew, with them looking to him from some clue of what the transmission could be about. In his mind, Antilles was elated.

*Finally, some action...*

Antilles enter the conference room, walking around once to make sure no one else was in there. The door was sealed shut and a sound barrier was turned on. The less the crew knew now, the better their performance would be later. Antilles sat down at the head of the table and pressed a button on his chair that activated the transmission from Carida.

The face of General Simon Kaine hovered before him. He had heard of the many great campaigns that Kaine had led as a colonel, fresh out of the Academy. Any army officer would be studying those campaigns as soon as the reports were released publicly.

"Vice Admiral, you are to take Divisions Two and Three to Yaga Minor immediately. Intel reports are that they're under attack by the Rogue Empire. Your orders are to destroy the orbiting shipyard, and any Rogue Empire ships you can get ahold of."

"Aye sir. We will be moving out within the hour."

"Good luck Vice Admiral."

"Thank you sir."
<hr>Fifteen minutes later, all ships were ready to move out. Antilles waited a moment, to let the tension build a little more, before giving the signal for the jump.

"Open a channel to all ships.... All ships prepare for hyperspace on my mark.... GO!"

The star stretched into the colored nexus of hyperspace. Division Two and Three of Sentinel Fleet were on their way to rescue the people of Yaga Minor.
<hr>OOC
Fleet Manifest
1x Imperial-Class Star Destroyer
2x Victory-Class Star Destroyers
2x Attack-Class Carrier Spheres
3x Penetrator-Class Assalt Crusiers
2x Dreadnaught -Class Crusiers
1x Carrack-Class Crusier
4x Fire-Class Light Crusiers
7x Constrainer-Class Interdiction Pickets

<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> Admiral Joe returned to the<!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> Tyrant<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> . Once there all the sentenial class shuttles returned tothe<!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> Tyrant<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> and they loaded up on troopers for the ground assault. Just as they were about to launch a escort carrier appeared in the system it quickly launched 5 shuttles and 3 squadrons of tie's<!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->
"Tell all the shuttles to head for Yag City" Admiral Joe said.
<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> All the shuttles quickly arrived at Yag City. Admiral Joe was the first to disembark. The first thing he did was to comm all Rogue Empire operatives to stop everything they were doing.Then he put in a private call to Chris Lebri and told hime to stop those Dark Troopers immeaditly and to get the Troopers and him to return to the landing zone<!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->