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In the trenches of Ruusan, the sun sets, today.

It is where I write this. It is where I will die, most likely.

I was born seventeen years ago, on Aargau. When I was fifteen, the Rogue Jedi took the planet, and threw the Corporate Sector Authority away. I have known Rogue Jedi Order rule since I became a man; I considered it a privaledge to serve the Rogue Jedi.

Now, I do not know.

The war broke out on Ossus -- what was it? Two months, three? Waged across the vast landscape of the galaxy, spreading to every corner in days, killing millions in weeks. Thrawn ravaged everything I've ever known. Once he'd pillaged Ossus, he pillaged Etti IV, he stole the Super Star Destroyer Tachyon, and he killed.

Oh, yes. He killed.

I was recruited into the army two days after the Ossus strike. I was issued a blaster, a vest -- which, I am told, did nothing to stop blasters now or ever -- and sent to war. I fought at a hundred different stations, and saw death I'd never imagined possible. I watched Gash Jiren, the ruler I'd idolized, leave his Republic and be usurped by Jereck Musaile.

It doesn't matter. You know the story.

I don't have enough time to live to write everything.

Kasien Treseda saved Hapes from Tilaric Brel. But Thrawn still got the Tachyon. He filled it with his Achrions, and he killed what they estimate to be fourty billion people in five days of war. Gash Jiren's band of pirates struck back, and to no avail. What the @#%$ could he do? What could anyone? We are nothing.

A month and a half after the Ossus strike, we found out how Thrawn was killing us. On Ruusan, in the Valley of the Jedi, home to the spirits of a thousand dead Jedi, he was breeding them -- evil clones, rife with the force. The Achrion soldiers, led by Xireon Jiren, and Darth Talus.

In a day, the news spread. Xireon became the commander behind the invading force, truly, as a result of this; Thrawn could do nothing, as Xireon took the spotlight, took control.

Xex Tirion defected from the Chiss Imperium, taking control of the Blade of Klain, stealing it from the Aing-Tii monks and slaughtering a sect of them.

A thousand sides. A thousand words to be said, but none which make sense. I fear I will lose my mind, in these dying moments.

But it is of such small importance.

We fought on Ruusan. Imperial, Jiren's rebels, side by side. The Republic ships turned on them, under the traitorous Musaile's control. On the ground, against the Achrions, chaos reigned. Blood and death covered the planet's surface, in battle in scope not seen since the clone wars. Millions died. Millions more were wounded. I, among them.

I now lie, on the battlefield, a blaster wound puckering my flesh and causing me great pain. I write down these thoughts in the hopes they may one day be found. In the sky, something precludes disaster... some kind of blood-red flame, plummeting down. It is a ship... a Star Destroyer?

The Tachyon?

It heads towards the Valley, kilometers from where I lie. All around me, men groan with death wounds, wrecked and destroyed craft lay, savaged by the battle. It -- the ship, glorious and deadly, like an angel of all hell -- strikes the Valley, now... an explosion, a shockwave... rippling out, towards me, destroying all in it's path...

No...

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-Ossus invaded. Millions killed. Planet taken.
-Following the assault on Ossus, Gash Jiren's rebels assembled on a Dreadnaught cruiser.
-Jereck Musaile takes over RJO.
-Jereck Musaile commandeers the NR.
-The Jenova is destroyed. Xylon Hexyra killed.
-Jiren's Rebels intercept transmissions detailing a "stronghold of darkness", assume it's location is Ossus.
-Chiss forces continued to attack, using Achrion troops. Take large sections of land.
-Jiren's Rebels fight in Imperial Sector. Unknown form of contact with Kyle Katarn.
-Jiren's Rebels assault Ossus. Achrion creation plant found not to be there. Many losses.
-Chiss forces take Tachyon SSD at Hapes with help from Tilaric Brel (who defeats and injures Kasien Treseda).
-Xireon Jiren and Darth Talus purportedly take command of Chiss invasion forces by use of his Achrions. Thrawn and Xex Tirion outraged.
-Kyle Katarn again contacts Jiren's Rebels. Reports location of Achrion creation plant to be Ruusan, in the Valley of the Jedi. This was done with the understanding the communication would be inevitably intercepted.
-Race for Russan. Imperials, allied with Jiren's Rebels, on one side; Republic and RJO on other.
-Xex Tirion murders the Aing-Tii monks to whom Gash Jiren entrusted the Blade of Klain, goes rogue.
-Thrawn purportedly loses control of his invasion force, remains only as figurehead. (Develops plan with Tirion?)
-All sides arive at Ruusan. Fleet battle ensues.
-During fleet combat, Special Agent Kasien Treseda and Sullustan Senator Firel Nekkelon reveal Jereck Musaile as traitor via evidence gathered at Hapes. Treseda kills both Musaile and Tilaric Brel.
-Kasien Treseda and special operations forces land on Ruusan. Xeneth Tellien commandeers NR/RJO fleet, orders massive army to the surface. Trenches dug. Battle begins at the Valley of the Jedi against massive Achrion defense force.
-Kasien Treseda and Xex Tirion meet. No violence.(Co-operation?)
-Tirion kills approx. 700 Achrion soldiers. Kills Chief Officer Drayil.
-Imperial, Republic, and RJO forces unite in effort against Achrions on surface.
-Gash Jiren kills approx. 1200 Achrion soldiers. Fights way into Valley of the Jedi, and Achrion production plant.
(Achrions were produced as cloned soldiers imbued with the power of the Force via Valley of the Jedi crystal technology created by Admiral Fyyar.)
-Xex Tirion brutally beats Xireon Jiren. Darth Talus escapes.
-Jiren seizes the power of the Valley of the Jedi, and pulls the Chiss-controlled Tachyon SSD into the valley, killing approx. 25,000,000 Achrions, and Chiss personnel, as well as Admiral Fyyar.
-NR/RJO/Imperial fleet defeats Chiss fleet.
-Battle ends. Allies victorious. Approx. 700,000,000 Allied soldiers killed, primarily in battle, some in Tachyon explosion.
-Ossus, Hapes, etc, rebuilt.
-Ruusan declared NEUTRAL TERRITORY.

MISSING & PRESUMED DEAD: Gash Jiren, Firel Nekkelon (possibly on ship destroyed in fleet battle) Kasien Treseda, Xex Tirion, Xireon Jiren, Thrawn (Thrawn is presumed to have escaped.)

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