Imperial Star Destroyer-Oracle

Once again it was Ensign Drost who alerted Captain Jane Snow and Rear-Admiral Kranek to the new developments.

"We have around 20 outbound craft from Rach. All of them transport class. They are escorted by 7 fighters."

Snow didn't hesitate a second before responding to this new development.

"Notify them that we are going to force them to land in our docking bays and tell them to not resist. Order 2 squadrons Missile Boats to fire their Ion Torpedoes. Then 2 squadrons TIE Defenders will finish them with their Ion Cannons. Tractor Control stand by."

"Aye Captain!"

XM-1 Missile Boat-Slash 1

Dela Ralethorn had been about to land on the Art of War when the order came from Oracle. It appears that there were a few civilians who had decided that it would be in their best interest to leave. Unfortunately for them Slash Squadron was ready and waiting before they'd cleared the atmosphere.

Quickly she prepared her men and women for battle. "Spread out and prepare to fire Ion Torpedoes."

"Fire one. Fire two."

Ralethorn's missile boat shuddered as two Ion Torpedoes were ejected. Within seconds it was streaking towards the oncoming craft along with 22 other torpedoes from her squadron. Seconds later the other squadron, Eclipse Squadron fired their 24 Ion Torpedoes.

"Slash Squadron, pull back. It's the Defender's turn now."

The torpedoes exploded spreading waves of Ion Energy all over the oncoming ships. Seconds after the Ion Energy had disipated the TIE Defenders were among the oncoming ships firing their Ion Cannons at the few survivors. It was all over in seconds with the disabeled ships being pulled into the Oracle's Secondary Docking Bay which had been vacated for the task. As soon as all of the captured ships were safely on the docking bay floor, they were surrounded by nearly a thousand of the shipboard Sovereignty Troops. Their commander, a Lieutenant Colonel ordered them to come out peacefully over his loudspeaker. All of the troops were tense and ready with their blasters set on stun. For all they knew this could be some trick by the Imperials...

OOC:
Sorry for the crappy post. I'm sort of lazy at the moment.

I assume that your Rach defence forces are included in the planet total. Also what other kinds of artillery do you have?

OOC: It's okay. The biggest Artillery I have is the AT-AT Walkers. From there I have a few rocket and torpedo launchers, captial ship sized, some smaller ones, including shoulder packs, some laser cannons and quad laser cannons the size of the ones in the Falcon, and the rest are Heavy, Light, and E-web repeating cannons mounted on tripods.

ooc: thanks

If you could reply....

The Imperial Sentinel class Assault Shuttle Tydirium shuddered as the tractor beam grasped her, and drew her into the landing bay. Fortunatley for the ships, the missiles that had hit them, while disabling, were not as disabling as ion cannon, for they flew into an energy field, not direct ion bolts. However, the mag pulse missiles that followed were just as effective as direct ion cannon hits, utterly disabling the shuttles. The shuttles, and other craft were pulled into the bay of the Imperial Star Destroyer Oracle, whose name had come up before the shuttle was disabled. Then they settled onto the docking bay. On the yachts, where there were windows for viewing pleasures, the civilians, and military personnel saw were there were some hundreds of stormtroopers there, waiting to either kill them or stun them. The civilians thought they were going to stun them, so the Imperials said that they were going to, so that they could tortue and rape them later for their own pleasure, as well as obtain secrets from them for their amusement, and so they have some idea of what they will encounter down on the planet. The civilians, the women and children espically, began to cry at this statement, and the Imperial troops felt sorry for them. Then they felt burning hatred. In their minds, they went back to when they were in training on Carida, or Rachuk, and sought out in their minds what their instructors tought them to do in a situation like this.

Then, they knew what they were going to do. They broke into the ammunition lockers on the shuttles, and the troops in the Yachts dug into their belts for whatever they had on them at the time. Then, it was time for action.

First, the pilots of the five TIE Defender pilots dug into their control panels and reworked their engines, messing with the lines running to the Twin Ion Engines, doing something they had been instructed never to do. The Soveriengty troops saw them bustling in their fighters and brought up their weapons, ready to fire the stun bolts, but they stayed in a tight ring around the ships, which was their funeral. Then, they fed the power from their blaster packs into the engines. Finally, they stabbed their hands onto the suicide needles that they had carried on them.

Waiting in the shuttles, the Imperials, and civilians heard five simultaneous concussions as the ion engines on the starfighters blew, raining shrapnel across the hangar bay. On the yachts, the windows were blown out, and some civilians killed by glass shrapnel. But most importantley of all, the ORS troops, those who weren't killed by the shrapnel on the fighters, had been concussed off their feet. Within seconds, the Imperial troops in the yachts threw thermal detonators out of the shattered windows, and into the ranks of the ORS troops. Then the troops who were at the back of the ranks, and thus were not as badly affected, fire back, their stun beams going into the shattered windows, and knocking out the Imperial troops. Then the shuttle ramps lowered, and all hell broke loose.

The civilians, the ones in the front, held no weapons at all, but ran straight at the ORS troops, screaming bloody murder, and flailing their hands. A couple seconds later, the next line of civilians appeared, these having blaster pistols. These were the men and women who had combat training, and while fewer in number than the ones out front, they knew how to work the pistols. Only seven hundred and fifty ORS troops got back up from being knocked down, and then another one hundred fell to the grenades. The others stood up, and their attention was rivited to the first civilians charging to their ranks. Their stun beams fell on them, downing their in their tracks. Then, blaster bolts came over the heads of the falling civilians, striking the ORS troops and felling them backwards. Some twenty five ORS troops were killed in this manner, and some seventy five were injured. Another one hundred down. Then the civlians with the blasters charged out into the hangar bay, firing their pistols with abandon as they were targeted. Finally, behind them came the Imperial troops themselves, walking as if they were injured. They threw grenades, then opened fire with their blasters.

Several large concussions later, and many blaster bolts, it was all over. The ORS troops had won. Only fifty of them remained, with another two hundred fifty injured or knocked out. The Imperial TIE Pilots, those in the defeders, and the devils were dead, with the defenders having blown themsleves and their starfighters up, and the devils blowing themselves and their starfighters up with grenades during the melee on the ground. The rest of the soldiers, and civilians had been stunned, except there was some kind of movement detect on the inside of the shuttles, and yachts............

ooc:A) You didn't have TIE Defenders
B)You don't dictate the actions of my troops
C)My troops wear armour similar but different enough from Stormtrooper armour to be easily discernable
D)You only have 3 fighters(TIE Scouts) with pilots in them

IC:
Imperial Star Destroyer-Oracle

The second the first sign of disturbance came from the shuttles, the docking bay was sealed off and the same sleeping gas that had been used on the Black Prince was pumped into the bay. The remaining Sovereignty who had survived the blasts from the 3 fighters already had their oxygen masks activated and were immune to it's effect. All the civilians fell in the first seconds. The stormtroopers who came rushing out of their yachts and shuttles were quickly mowed down by the heavy repeating blasters that the Sovereignty troops had set up. There were 10 blasters set up with a portable shield generator protecting the crew. Other Sovereignty troops crouched behind the rally points created by the E-Wheb15s and opened up with T-21 Light Repeating Blaster Rifles and their standard-issue E-15 Rifles which were improved versions of the E-12s carried by stormtroopers.

Within seconds it was over. The docking bay was littered with the bodies of sleeping civilians and stunned stormtroopers. Around the remaining troops around 450 troops were either dead or with injuries of some shape size or form. Lieutenant-Colonel Tsel, the commander of the troops was one of the walking wounded. He had a piece of shrapnel embedded in his arm but he was insistent on remaining untill it was over.

"Sir, I hear something inside of the ships!"

Tsel had no idea who had shouted this but it was enough to jolt him into action.

"All troops retreat to just outside of the docking bay. Each of you bring at least one wounded of our wounded troops. Or you can bring one of the stunneed stormtroopers."

The civilians would have to remain in there. They had all fallen inside their ships and they were much too far away from the Sovereignty troops.

Within minutes the troops were all safely outside of the docking bay leaving it empty. Then the Sovereignty troops released a remotely guided droid. This droid was designed to go in places where it wasn't worth the risk of live troops. Quickly the droid's operator directed it towards the nearest shuttle that was making noise...

As the droids neared the first shuttle, a blaster bolt rang out and caught one of the droids, destroying it. At the same time, a voice yelled out from the shuttle,

"Don't come any nearer, please, I beg of you. Spare the children, for the Force's sake." said the voice.

OOC: Sorry for the crappy post, but I'm really busy right now.

Tsel frowned.

"There shouldn't be anybody in there able to talk...Stop the droids. Give me a complete bio-scan of that shuttle bay. Analyze brain patterns to see if there is anybody who's concious."

"Yes sir."

Tsel waited for the results to come in...

The man who had fired the bolt, a stomtrooper, cautiously peeked out of the shuttle, then qucikly withdrew his head back inside, his filter helmet on, making it clear that that is how he had survived having the gas pumped into the bay. He trigged a few more shots, this time stun beams, out the shuttle, but the diffuse energy did little more than slightly disrupt the eletrical systems in the immediate area.

Inside the shuttle, up against it's rear, huddled ten children, none older than the age of twelve, being protected by a small energy shield that had been hastily erected. It was this way on all of the shuttles, with at least one stormtrooper still on each of them, protecting them from the evil that lurked within the bays of the enemy Star Destroyer.

"Sir we have one adult and approximately 10 children in each shuttle."

"Give me a communications link."

"Yes sir!"

"You in the shutttle! We are the forces of the Outer-Rim Sovereignty. We mean you no harm. If you would come out of the building with your hands up nobody will be hurt."

Tsel waited for a response hoping that he'd get a favourable one...

The stormtrooper in one of the shuttles walked up into it's cockpit, and crouched down, away from the viewport. He checked the controls. Enough time had elapsed for the shuttle to try to a restart on it's engines.

He activated a manual control that raised the shuttles ramp with a winch. Slowly but surely, the ramp shut. The troopers on the other shuttles and yachts also saw this, on the other shuttles, the same procedure was repeated, but the yachts had no mechanisms like this. But all were ready to make their move........