Sitting in his office buried deep beneath the landscape of Xa Fel, Poreon's telescreen blinked on as a breaking news story interrupted the stillness of the office. The screen was one attached to the IFE HoloNet... They claimed there was a Death Star around Hoth. Now the galaxy knew that the Rogue Empire really was up to something. Poreon filed the newscast away, should he ever need it.

"Superlaser charged sir."

<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> Dakkon smiled an insane smile knowing that the lives of those foolish men was in his hands. But he didn't want to kill them. He wanted to inflict pain and anguish. He wanted to play with his kill.<!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->

"Ensign, fire the superlaser at this mark."

<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> He sent the coordinates to the firing station and waited with anticipation.

FHOOSH

The ship bucked slightly as the laser shot away. It passed between all the IFE ships, hitting nothing and dissapating in the distance. But the particles desturbed by the blast rocked the IFE ships, their crew tumbling and falling as the wake of the powerful blast spun their ships round and round. Most men aboard the ships experianced painful vomiting and headaches from the extreme inertia. But despite all the wishes of the suffering crewmen, not a single one died....<!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->

OOC:Im pretty sure they didn't get their message through...

OOC thing is, even if they did all they'd get is a glimpse of a bunch of shipyards, hundreds of ships coming at them, crap loads of mines, and crap loads of asteroids...that's 'bout it.

OOC:how did i lose any fighters by mines? i said i was heading aweay from the mines. to be nice to you, i let you kill three of the fighters by mines, which makes it about, 3 missile boats left. plus the ones in the tractor beams.

IC:
The three remaining missile boats fled from the enemy ships. Suddenly they were out of the interdictors range. They jumped to hyperspace, on route to Eriadu. The two missile boats in tractor beams got target locks on the ships. They both fired missiles at one of the dreadnaughts. 4 concussioon missiles and 4 proton torpedoes flew to it, hitting the shields. Another 4 of each flew away form the missile boats. And another 4 for each. 24 projectiles all hit the shields, severly damaging them.

OOC: Snowkan, asteroid fields inside a planetary orbit almost always occur in a ring, like the asteroid belt. Your right, technically you could go away from the asteroids by going up or down(respectively, since those directions don't really exist in space. However, I did a quick mental count of the fighters currently in system, and though I'm sure I'm off to some degree, I believe there is somewhere around 25,000 fighters of various types. Please explain to me how ANYTHING gets away from that many fighters. Cripes, that many TIEs could probably trash the Death Star itself. Think about these things before you make dumb assumptions like these escape plots. I hate to tell you, but nothings getting out of here.

OOC: Well, one thing that is getting out of here are 2 Lancer Frigates and 2 Dreadnoughts, the newest addition to the Rogue Empire Navy...

OOC: Yup, I knew that one Dak. It was me that pointed out to Siather that he should just capture them. It'd be a waste to kill them. You know what, just to end this, it's time to jump in myself. And to be nice, I'll even be nice and say those Missile boats did escape.

IC: The hyperspace jump for the Missile Boats was a short one. In truth, it was almost non-existant. The fighters were immediately pulled back to realspace, and into the path of weapons once again. What they faced this time wasn't as ugly as before, but it wasn't pleasant by any means. A small but substantial fleet hung in space around them, consisting of a total of seven Star Destroyers and thier support ships.

What faced the last remanents of the force that discovered the Death Star was the Phantoms. They had been with the Mist Fleet when they left for Hoth, Jander and Siather were having one of the get togethers they had every once in a while, and he'd decided to come along and watch the action. They also served as a stopgap for escaping forces, like these Missile Boats.

Using long-range sensors and advance scouts, they had stayed out of sight and moved to intercept the fleeing fighters. Once achieving a blocking position, the fleet stopped, powered up it's gravity wells, and moved into attack positions on estimated exit points should the fighters jump like they had.

It turns out the estimate was a full 300 meters off, but that was of no consequence. Fighters had already been launched, and were patroling just out side the estimated exit zone. In fact, a flight of TIE Defenders nearly slammed into one of the craft, pulling away at the last second. They pulled away quickly and looped to come back around.

Every weapon that could be brought to bear on the tiny ships moved to lock on to them. In the cockpits, the targeting lock warnings squealed loudly. Squadrons of fighters, small and heavy vectored in on them. In the fleet, ships that were out of position began moving to completely encircle the Missile Boats and prevent any chance of escape.

In all this, only mere seconds had passed. Aboard one of the Star Destroyers, Phantom Leader stood up from his command chair and gave an order to the communications officer. An open hail was put out so that all the ships in the fleet could hear what was about to be said. The Gand stood tall with his cloak thrown back and hanging neatly from his shoulders.

"Attention IFE Missile Boats. My name is Jander Sunstar, and I lead the Phantoms. I'm sorry to tell you but your commander made a grave mistake when he came to Hoth and attacked an area that was the responsibility of a friend of mine. Your ships are even now being boarded and taken over, and your comrades will be captured. You three are to join me here aboard this ship as my guests, but first you must immediately power down your weapons and shields. I would really rather be a gentleman, but I feel I must tell you that if you do not obey my orders, you will be disabled and brought aboard against your will. I hope you realize that an incident here serves no point, and would be very dangerous on your part. So please, heed my orders and you will be kept safe. Follow the Defenders that will pull ahead of you momentarily and you will be brought aboard. On a final note, all communications will be jammed at the end of this message, so attempts to call for help will likewise fail and result in your disabling. Thank you."

The message ended and jamming began as Sunstar awaited the pilots reactions.

OOC: Manifest

Imperial-Class Star Destroyer Ranger
Imperial-Class Star Destroyer Incisor
Imperial-Class Star Destroyer
Imperial-Class Star Destroyer
Interdictor-Class Immobilizer 418
Victory-Class Star Destroyer Whole Fate
Victory-Class Star Destroyer Fool's Gamble
Victory-Class Star Destroyer Hawkeye
Nebulan-Class C Frigate Low Runner
Nebulan-Class C Frigate Charbuah
Nebulan-Class C Frigate Rescue
Nebulan-Class B Frigate
Nebulan-Class B Frigate
Nebulan-Class B Frigate
Dreadnaught-Class Heavy Cruiser
Corellian-Class Corvette
Corellian-Class Corvette Svelte Nova
Corellian-Class Corvette Inciting Revolution
Corellian-Class Corvette Starlight
Carrack-Class Light Cruiser Solar Blast
Carrack-Class Light Cruiser Training Pawn
Ranger-Class Gunship Infiltrator
Ranger-Class Gunship Exterminator
Ranger-Class Gunship Marauder
Ranger-Class Gunship Infidel's Paradise
Corellian-Class Gunship
Corellian-Class Gunship

29 TIE-Defender Squadrons
18 Deathraven Squadrons(SWRPG Ships book)
2 Skipray Blastboats


The ball is in your hands Snowkan, I'd appreciate a response. Thanks.

The TIE Defenders boiled their way though the docking bay blast doors quickly not having to worry about taking fire from anything. The Dropships landed in the docking bays of the 4 ships. They were still littered with debris and corpses from the TIE Defenders laser fire. Troops flowed out into the disabled and started their way to key areas.

Admiral Det'aan saw the remaining missile boats making a foolish attempt to break from the strong grip of the combine tractor beams of the Dreadnaughts surrounding them.

"Open fire. Destroy those insects before they cause any more damage. The two Dreadnaught and the two Lancers will make a fine prize as it is."

Siather frowned slightly, it just wasn't challenging enough with so many ships around.

OOC:Inside of the of the dreadnaughts, the IFE troops had been settign up surprises. At one corner, the troops ran into a large portion of the floor, covered with concussion grenades. As the troops ran into it, they went off, killing some of the troops. The the IFE troops jumped out of a bulkhead that they ahd cut through, and fired a stream offf missiles from there missile launchers at the TRE troops. More of them died. these traps continued all around the ship.
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<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> Eriadu<!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->
The missile boats came out of hyperspace, and imediatly said asked for HoloNet access. When they were given access, they broadcasted about the Death Star beign at Hoth, along wiht the positions of the mines, for other poeple to use. Then the ships had a special job to do. They needed to amek sure this information reached the ear of the Warmaster of the Yuuzhan Vong. For that, they needed to jump to Bimmissaari, where the Warmaster was. The ships jumped out of Eriadu, and into Bimmissaari.

OOC: Come now that is rediculous. I had my TIE Defenders fill your docking bays with laser fire. There isn't anything there to stop my forces right now because anything that would have been there would have been destroyed in that and then there is those Missile boats....Do you not know what jamming is?? I means you can't connect to the holonet as well....lol