The Endor system had first been plotted as a possible first strike fleet launch zone to be used against the Outer Rim Soviergnty, that is until it was discovered that the system was already under the control of by said government. It still retained value though to the upper echelons of the dragon, not becuase of its location anymore, but due to the, what they thought were, hidden transmissions. A vessel had been assigned to ascertain the nature of these communications and remained on post for a short duration before the porpouses were discovered. A fleet was sent to take the base of operations in the system and whatever information it may hold.

The dangers of entering the system were not so much in the physical aspects of wreckage, but the gravity shadows cuased by those physical dangers themselves. While the system was relatively clear of hazard to even the most green pilot, the hyperspace view of things was a disruptive tangle of shadow and unpassable entry. It was with technology that this could be bypassed. The Dameun Hyperdrive was a breakthrough, while it couldnt pass through the actual gravity mass of the object itself, it was able to pass through the surrounding shadow cuased by the object. This method of travel reduced an excrutiatingly long travel of multiple jumps and entry corridors into a clear cut path of direct travel.

It was such that they had gotten this far, orbiting the Gas Giant known as Endor itself, opposite of the small forest moon bearing the same name. They were not keeping a synchronous orbit to the planet, though, they held steady and allowed the moons abnormaly quick orbit to take it to them. They were a full ready combat initiative, shields raised, weapons powered, Interdictors ready, all secondary systems ready.

Five of the Ghosts stood out against the backdrop of space, above and below them were two by two layers of Ghouls. A Reaper, Liege and Banshee lone sat behind this wall, as onlookers in a game of chess. There were other ships in the system, but they were cleverly hiding in range, masking themselves in the natural terrain.

Fleet Manifest:
11 Ghoul
10 Ghost
4 Reaper
3 Liege
3 Phage Missle
2 Banshee

"More Imperials, huh?" A pudgy finger pressed up against a monitor, traced the series of blips that swam across, and withdrew.

Another, skinnier hand mimicked the path with a sweep. "No, sir, I don't believe so. These ships…"

"Queer looking, yeah? Imperials, just the same." With an involuntary sigh, the round figure, Captain Kintuck, lifted himself from his chair, and awkwardly shifted his mass upwards onto a narrow catwalk.

The reds of his flushed cheeks softened after a pause, with a paleness rusting their color; "Endor," he muttered.

"Yes, it appears so," the thinner and seemingly younger officer confirmed. "Curious choice. Without its history, Endor is –"

"Nothing."

"It's no place of strategic or industrial importance," he continued, unmindful of the interruption, "and military…well, certainly not."

"Certainly not. Well, kid, I doubt they're after those damned Ewoks. These spooks will be looking for something, and it’s not my job to find out what. It’s my job to –"

"'Kill 'em before they find it.'" A faint smile turned his lips, "Yes, sir."

"Good!" Kintuck slapped the other’s shoulder. "Then let's fall out of this patrol."



A spark broke the darkness of space, reflected with a shimmer on the green-tinged atmosphere of Endor; again it flickered, and settled. The planetary shield had apparently been long active, its operators having anticipated the vessels that presently charged towards their position.

In trailing the path of the orbiting moon, the Sovereignty taskforce soon found that it was racing towards the flank of an arrangement poised for combat ninety degrees around. Continuing its course, the cluster scattered and spaced, activating its battle systems as the distance was closed.



2 Majestic-Class Heavy Cruisers
10 Corona-Class Star Freighters
25 Sovereignty Birds-of-Prey
5 Ranger-Class Gunships
10 Defender-Class Gunships
5 Corellian-Class Gunships


20,000 Mines
One Ion Cannon
One Type II Shield Generator

General Dawara, a Cren, flew into the Endor system. He and his fighters were in transit from Farquak to the rest of the Galactic Coalition held worlds. They took a long route, one that dodged the Ssi-ruuvi Star Cluster. Since they were doding the Ssi-ruuvi Star Cluster, they had figured out that it burnt less fuel, and was faster, if you travelled via Endor, rather then via Bakura, as they used to do.

"Sir, we have unknown ships on the sensors."

"What?"

"Unknown ships. As far as I can tell, they definately aren't Sovereignty ships. They certainly aren't any kind of ship I have heard of. Did High Command tell you about 5 new kinds of ships?"

"Nope."

"Then I'd guess we have hostiles. Especially since I'm reading weapons and shields powered up."

"All ships, power up weapons and shields. Load all missile launchers. Sovereingty forces, this is General Dawara the commander of the TIE Defender, out of Farquak. Need some help, or are the ships your friends?"

"Sir, ORS planetary shield activating. ORS forces have powered up shields and weapons."

"I get that answers my question."

Dawara then checked their position. They were 20km away from the enemy fleet, directely below it.

"Circle them. I want them to have enemies coming from every angle. Make sure we stay at least 20km from the enemy fleet, or at least until we attack. Leave a gap for the ORS forces, mines and Planetary Ion Cannon."

"Yes sir."

The TIE Defenders swarmed around the enemy fleet, but stayed at a distance of 20km away.

OOC:

2 000 TIE Defenders

The sensors were were registering vessels across the system, mostly larger vessels in system, but a massive amount of smaller ships seemed to be working their way into the system at an appauling rate. Working in hidding, some vessels were moving into position for thier own strike.

In open space the formation held still, DMB's were activated as those ships were surrounded in a field of Directed Microwaves. The Banshees continued to keep their charges, they would soon need them.

Activating their interdiction fields, the Ghosts readied themselves for the long hual. The trick would be in the waiting, if not the surviving.

The Sovereignty forces watched in silence as the Coaliton fighters swarmed the enemy formation. So far, no transmission had been made, no typical demands of surrender, just simply showed up and raised weapons.

"Load all missiles and get shooting solutions on all enemy ships."

Commodore Parish, on one of the Majestic class cruisers, watched the battle analysis computer, and noted the positions of the two fleets, "Halt course and stay out of their weapons range. And where are our fighters?" He asked.

"On the way, should arrive soon." Captain Kintuck replied, via comm system, on the other Majestic.

"Just hold position, and prepare missiles." Parish said.

"All vessels, stay where you are. Repeat, hold position. Watch out for a trap. There has been no communications between the Sovereignty fleet, or the enemy fleet. For all we know, it might not be an enemy fleet, and this could just be some war game, while testing new weapons and technologies. Look for more vessels incoming, if this isn't planned, the enemy wouldn't sit here doing nothing."

Replies came back.

"Sovereignty forces, this is General Dawara, commander of the Galactic Coalition fighters, are the vessels that we have surrounded friendly vessels, or enemies?"

General Dawara frowned when no reply came.

"Unknown ships, this is General Dawara, commander of the fighters surrounding you, please state your intentions. I do not want to fire on you by mistake if you have friendly intentions."

"Sir, picking up large amounts of microwave radiation, emitting from that 700m ship. It seems to be coming from the arms. It is just directed to aft, port, starboard and in front. Nothing above or below."

"That's a blindspot we can capitalize on, if that is a deadly weapon, and the unknown ships are actually enemies."

OOC:
The ships stayed where they were, hailed Sovereign forces, hailed BDE forces and are looking for a trap.

Not much in the way of sizeable emplacements the sensors could show on the surface of the planet. There was of course the generator of the planets shield, an energy source easy to track down, it would be others that need be worry. That was of course if there were others. The true determining factor to artificial structures was building materials, content and location. It was this by which the Liege was usefull.

The Mystery in charge of the Liege in hiding scanned over Endor, a scan that more than likely would give away its location. The planets base metals were an interferance, but easily filtered out, those that didnt conform to set permaters such as size, composition and formation for example. This excluded four sizeable formations. One was descernably the Shield Generator, the other a subterranian structure, a third seemed to be more of a massed assortment of gathered structures while the last stood to reason would have to be a planetary scale weapon by common design.

The Ghouls shot forth from the Gas cloud that was the planet Endor itself, having remained hidden in its recceses for quit a while traveling in its turbulent winds of what might have been a forming star. Followed closely behind were the remaining vessels not accounted for in the main attack force, as well as two phage missles under their own power.

Swinging about at their top speed the Ghouls launched six Electromagnetic Pulse Pod's in rapid succession at the Shield Generator, the Ionic Pulsars draging them through the planets shielding, except for two which suffered an unexpected rebound effect and drifted harmlessly back into space. Slamming into the generator, the remaining four all but ruined the structure of the faculty in impact, but the combined factor of their electromagnetic pulse's very well did the job of shutting it down.

Two of the Ghosts moved into a course heading to land on the surface near the location of the planetary defense weapon, as the two phages engaged into operation, their own pulsars seeming unesscesary against the dead shield generator as they began their descent into the populated areas of the world, the military population.

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In space, the remaining Ghosts and Reapers held place over the actions, the reapers forming a protective hemisphere around the newly forming formation as the Ghouls swung back around for another pass at the planets surface.

Near the other side of the planets orbit, the other unhidden fleet formation continued to sit and wait for the enemy to approach.

OOC: Damages

1 Gencore destroyed

"Sir, enemy ships coming from the gas planet. They are firing."

"Those have to be hostiles. Split into groups of 200. I want four groups to target the ships that are emitting the high radiation levels(Reaper), one group per enemy ship. I want the other tfour groups to get four of the 800m ships that launched those pods(4 Ghouls). Make sure you hit four that haven't launched their pods. Attack the ships from below."

"Yes sir."

Then General Dawara sent out a call for reinforcements.

"Galactic Coalition worlds, Endor is under attack by unknown forces. We need reinforcements. Preferably large ships."

The fighters split into groups of two hundred, and immediately moved in on the enemy ships. The four groups of 200 ships going after the Reapers came up from below, where there was no radiation. They fired ion cannons and laser cannons at the vessel, and then launched two missiles each. Four hundred missiles flew in at each of the enemy ships, and impacted on the shields. However, they all didn't hit at once, so some impacted on the hull.

The four groups of 200 fighters going after the Ghouls came up from below as well. Ion cannon fire and laser cannon fire flew in on the enemy ships, causing a fair bit of damage. Then four hundred missiles were launched at each of the Ghouls. The first ones hit, impacting against the weakened shields, bring them down. Then more flew in and impacted against the hull.

The fight continued.



Meanwhile, at Farquak, the message had been received.

"Sir, Endor is under attack. They request large ships."

"Send reinforcements. 5 MC-90 Star Cruisers and 5 Imperial Mark Two Star Destroyers should do nicely."

"Yes sir."

The ships were sent to Endor.

OOC:

Reinforcements:
5 MC-90 Star Cruisers
5 Imperial Mark Two Star Destroyers

Damages:
4 Reapers-35% disabled, hull down to 20%, shields down
4 Ghouls-30% disabled, hull down to 25%, shields down

"Holy @%$&!" Parish exclaimed as the missiles went directly through the shield as if it weren't even there, "Ready the ground troops. Surface Ion Cannon...target the lead ship heading for the atmosphere."




General Xytro, a Shi'ido male studied the engagement in space carefully.

The Ion Cannon which had already been warmed up, targeted one of the two Ghosts that was now making it's way to the planetary surface.

"Fire!" Xytro ordered. He watched, then, as a blue beam of pure ion energy hit the Ghost, enveloping it in blue electricity. The engines, repulsorlifts, shields, weapons all failed and the ship dropped like a stone, eventually crashing hard into the forest, killing all occupants.

"Teams three, and eight, converge." He said.

A squad of Samurai Gunships that was already on patrol, moved forward towards the wreckage. Hundreds of clone soldiers also made their way toward the crashed craft.

"Mobilize everyone. Prepare to fight." Xytro said to his subordinates. Hundreds of thousands of ground troops stationed on Endor began to prepare for an assault.





"Thats it. Let's move. All ships, fire missiles at designated targets...now!" Commodore Parish ordered.

At his command, every ship fired their missiles at their specified targets. With no laser cannons to destroy them, and most of their attention turned to the GC fighters, each and every missile struck it's intended target.

Barely before the missiles were out of their tubes, the ORS capital ships shot forward, shields at full.

They overtook the BDE ships quickly, and fired their weapons, mostly at the Ghost craft. ORS gunners were among the best in the galaxy, as were the weapons they fired.

Deadly fire rained down from the ORS ships. It was almost beautiful.

"Get reinforcements here immidiately!" Parish ordered the comm officer, who managed a nod in reply. Other ORS worlds were not far off, it wouldn't take long.

Damages:

Ghost - Shield 50%
Ghost - Shield 50%
Ghost - Shield 50%
Ghost - Shield 50%
Ghost - Shield 50%
Ghost - Destroyed (Crashed)

{All damages consist of turbolasers and missiles combined}


Reinforcments -

Five Victory-class Star Destroyers

As one Ghost fell from the sky then other blazed through it. Its Fusion Beams riping accross the ground forming trenches as it whirled upon the planets defense forces. Turning waves of once living flesh and metalic mechanized machinery into nothing more than base atoms. grounding itself just a hundred meters from the Ion cannon, the Fusions still blazing to cover its fall, the Ghost blasted hatches open across its lower hull, pouring out its entire trooper compliment immediatly.

Working accross many different Mysteries and proccesses the troops scrambled across the ships sides, taking up defensive positions on either side of the trenched ground the ship had pitched on landing. The vessel acted more like highly effective artillery/shelter now as it layed waste to the area around it.

The web was too much of a mess with battle inquiries and statistical data to be used as an effective form of user communication here...

"Hey! Hey you! Form up your squads into two divisions. Stay one here and keep them held back, the rest come with me to capture the Ion cannon Immediatly!"



While the missles never effectively got through the DMB screen, they did detonate rather unexpectantly against the shields of the Ghost vessels, taking down their shields with their purely massive numbers.

-Move the Reaper into a wave front position-

A lone Reaper moved to the front of the formation, its DMB range extended beyond that of the others by its directness to the battle

-Sweep the area in a continous semicircle, no shield left up-

No sooner did the Reaper begin to project its DMB's into 185 degree fields ahead of the formation in such a manner as to cuase any vessel that came within 10km to lose a shield facing that direction. As well as indeed any missles approaching to lose power.

-Power and use intermitant tractor bursts-

The tractor beam emmiters came to life, the work would probobably burn them out before the battle was over, but it would become an invaluable tool. The tractors would be used to stop fightercraft/missles within range of their reach inside the DMB field with milisecond burts of thier power, thus being able to be directed across a vast array of targets. Being inside the field automaticaly ment they were already without their electronics and thus unable to resist. Hit what can be targeted within their accuracy, attempt to what is missed hit immediatly with secondary weapons.

-Use the secondary weapons as defense-

The secondary emplacements on the Ghosts would now be targeting the missles/Fighter craft captured by the DMB/Tractor methods before stated. This will up our offensive qutoa whilst increasing our defense.

-Detonate Phages in Atmosphere-

Detonate Phage Missles in high atmospheric flight to ensure maximum spread radius of the Phage. Be sure to have one over the highest concentration of Military forces and the other over any civilian units possible.

-Power down to passive Sensors-

Power down sensors to bare minimum levels.

-Deploy Screamer-

Fire Banshee Screamer, destroy all sensors in system not on passive array. Ensure collateral damage is ensured so that opposing forces are unable to recover.

These were the tenants put into place over the fleet command authority in the time of crisis in which all hope of victory would be loss. These tenants were quickly enacted and forced into operation...

OOC:
Damages
-All GC/ORS Space Units lose sensor capabilities
-ORS Ground Units Suffer 1/4th casualties and are infected with Phage
-200 GC Fighters adrift, but not destroyed/dead
-ORS Shield Damages
1 Majestic without shields (in Facing)
2 Corona's without shields (in Facing)