Red and green laser blasts splashed against the shields of Galactic Republic capital ships and Sith battlecruisers as fighters took and gave ground between the two fleets, dogfights breaking out as the fighters tested the opposing fleet's defenses.
A small fighter stood off at the edge of the battle, it's crew including a representative of the Sith Emporor. Sith Lord Victomaus, code-named the Emporor's Wrath, watched the battle unfold through the cockpit window to the extent that she could see it from her Fury-class interceptor, her personal starship. Standing a respectful distance behind her at attention was her husband, Captain Malavai Quinn, hands clasped behind his ramrod rigidly straight back. His dark hair was beginning to grow out from his typical short-trimmed style, which like everything else about him, was kept to military precision, the change of hairstyle came about since they had been forced to go on the run from her former Master.
Strike fighters, looking to all the world like predatory birds on an attack run at prey, flew back and forth across the battlefield, shooting at targets of opportunity as they passed each other. In the seeming chaos, the Sith fighters maintained formation one in position "above" two others in space, a triangle formation used so that each pilot could cover the others.
Three X3-Phantom fighters, used by the Sith Empire's Intelligence corps, created a screen of sorts between the small Sith fighter and the Republic's own fighter craft. The Phantoms' stealth field generators were being used to prevent the Republic sensor crews from spotting and pointing their fighters in the Sith ship's direction.
Agents on each of the Phantoms were the interceptor's eyes and ears on the battlefield, since the same sensor jammers being used to keep the interceptor from being spotted also left the crew of the Sith ship essentially blind and deaf from the perspective of their own sensors capacity to scan the battlezone.
Victomaus using the Dark Side to make up for the computer's blindness would almost certainly betray their presence to any Jedi who served on the opposing fleet, thus canceling the Phantom's screening effect.
