Kamon sat aboard a vessle of the TNR fleet. His goal was to takeover Talus. Or rather his mission. He had a small force of ships with him, but it was sufficient for the takeover.

Talus was sparsely defended and shouldn't be much of a problem. Its diplomats would be the problem. He was experienced with diplomats. Especially since he was seeing one.

He had jumped from the main TNR planet and was on his way to Talus. It wouldn't take very long to get there. Hopefully it wouldn't. He hated long flights. He had been on way too many of them. Oh well. He was in it for good now.

His small force wasn’t exactly small. It consisted of (NPC)two Star Destroyers, two Victory-class Star Destroyers, and two Corellian Corvettes. They had made the jump to Talus, and would soon arrive. He knew there would be a small fleet waiting for them there, but they would not be a match for his taskforce.

Kamon sat aboard one of the Star Destroyers. It was his temporary command ship and was sufficient enough to fulfill that requirement. Too his left was the Captain. On his right was a Major in the ground forces. Both of them were crucial to his mission.

A few hours after they made the jump to Talus, they came out of hyperspace. The blue, green, and white planet loomed before them. However, in front of them was a small group of Corellian Corvettes and fighters, Kamon counted approximately four capital class vessels. That made it six to four. The odds were in favor of Kamon’s force.

Kamon turned to his communications officer and spoke briefly with him. When they were done talking, the officer sent a message to the rest of the ships. One of the TNR Corellian Corvettes broke off with one of the Victory’s, and moved to attack one of the enemy corvettes. The other Victory and Corvette did the same.

That left to Corvettes and two Star Destroyers. The Star Destroyers split up; each going after one of the Corvettes. As the TNR vessels moved to attack, they spewed forth their compliment of fighters(NPC). The fighters more than outnumbered the enemy fighters. It wouldn’t take long for them to eliminate the enemy.

Kamons command ship opened fire on the enemy Corvette. Its shields took the brunt of the assault, and the Corvette fired back. The shields of the Star Destroyers easily held the force of the attack. Repercussions were sent back at the vessel, and the Corvettes shields went down. Its laser’s did little harm to the larger Star Destroyer, as the Star Destroyers weapons tore the smaller ship to pieces.

Escape pods began to jettison from the ship. Kamon ordered a cease fire on the vessel, and its burning hull began to list to port. Fortunately it was far enough away from the planet not to be immediately sucked into its gravity well. A salvage team would be able to salvage the ship.

Elsewhere on the battlefield, another enemy Corvette had fallen under the guns of the other TNR Star Destroyer. It hadn’t taken long for the two Star Destroyers to take down their opponents. The fighters had eliminated or captured the enemy pilots, and were returning to their home ships.

The Victory-class Star Destroyer’s and Corvettes were just finishing off their opponents as the two Star Destroyers moved into orbit around the planet. The Victory’s also moved into orbit as the Corvettes went about collecting all the escape pods that hadn’t made it to the planet. It was a small victory but a relatively easy one.

The next phase was to neutralize the defenses around the Dearic Spaceport. It was the main planetary spaceport and was also home to part of the planets ground forces. It had a few planetary Ion cannons and laser cannons. Kamon nodded to the weapons officer and the ship jolted as it fired.

Before the blasts from the Star Destroyer hit the enemy installations, the cannons got off shots at the TNR vessels. The shields of most of the vessels absorbed them. One of the Victory Star Destroyers didn’t absorb the blast, and its power grid and the rest of its equipment were knocked out. Fortunately their orbit was a permanent one.

The blasts that Kamons command vessel had launched melted the enemy installations to scrap metal, killing the people inside. It was an unfortunate loss. The loss of any life was unfortunate. Except when it come to the Empire. Then he didn’t care.

Kamon ordered the task force to cease all hostilities toward the planet, and close themselves off to all transmissions from it. Then the ships sat in orbit as crews moved to repair the minor damage that had been inflicted on the vessels. The Corellian Corvettes finished picking up the escape pods and moved into orbit with the rest of the fleet.

Kamon left the bridge and went down to his quarters. He picked up his datapad and hooked up with the news broadcasts. All seemed to be going well with the rest of the planetary takeovers. It was almost going to well. On other fronts, the New Order was already moving to get multiple planets. They were moving so quickly it was almost terrifying.

TNO was the New Republics enemy, and Kamon didn’t particularly like them himself. The Tholatin Drive Yards had many members that despised the New Order. The one that despised them the most was probably Kamon’s Padawan, Jacen Solo. He was a handful when it came to the Empire. His hatred for them was intense.

Kamon went over and washed off his face with some water. When he was done, he took off his clothes and laid down on his bed. It wasn’t the same as he was used to, but it was a bed. He lay looking up at the ceiling, working over his plans for the morning. They would be commencing with the ground war in the morning. It was probably the most dangerous part of the mission. Before long, he had fallen asleep.