1 I don't own Star Wars, I wish I did, but I don't. I know I'm not supposed
to upload prologues, but it's a chapter in and of itself. L8a.
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3 Prologue
The Bothans were wrong. There was no tunnel leading to the core. No way to destroy the Empires newest abomination. After the Shield Generator on the Endor Moon was destroyed, Lando Calrissian, Wedge Antilles, and all of the remaining fighters flew to where the tunnel orifice should have been. When they reached that point, Hundreds of turbolaser cannons rose from the Death Star II's surface and began firing.
All ships were presumed destroyed, all pilots presumed dead.
When Admiral Ackbar lost all communications with Lando and the fighter force, he ordered a retreat. As the cruisers began to turn, massive Gravitic Generators, each almost as large as the still operational Death Star II's Laser Dish, decloaked. When the gravity wells expanded from the generators, the navi-computers on the cruisers would not allow them to go to Hyperspace.
The slow-moving starcruisers were easy targets to TIE Fighters and Superlasers. Then, with a strategic move that would have surprised even the Emperor himself, the cruisers cut all power and poured it into their Ion Cannons. The four remaining ships fired upon the furthermost generator, opening a gap in the gravity field. The MC80a Defiance's hyperdrive had been damaged in the fighting, so it remained and attacked the Star Destroyers and TIES with full force until her noble end. As Admiral Ackbar gave the order to jump, he noticed an Imperial Shuttle fly dangerously close to his ship, but made nothing of it, thinking it was an Imperial coward using this chance to desert.
Matters moonside were different. After the shield generator had been destroyed, Han Solo, Leia Organa, and Chewbacca celebrated due to their imminent victory. But as the minutes passed, the Death Star II did not explode. In fact, it fired its superlaser repeatedly. R2-D2 began to whistle franticly and C-3PO translated, just as franticly, that several squadrons of TIEs were closing in from the East. Han ordered all to return to the Shuttle Tydirium. As they lifted of and began their journey, sensors recorded several spherical machines decloaking and began emitting colossal gravity wells. Leia tried to contact Home One several times, but all hails went unanswered. As the Saber, Scythe, and Obsidian TIE Squadrons closed quickly on Tydirium, it flew westward, so as to avoid the previously unknown landing platforms, to the opposite side of the moon and left the atmosphere.
Before Han took the shuttle to Hyperspace, Leia insisted on telling the fleet that they would rendezvous on their former base of operations, Yavin IV. Then just as Han was about to Jump, the Imperial Star Destroyer Thunderflare began to track them. Wherever Tydirium would jump, Thunderflare would follow. This went on for days. After countless attempts to lose the Imperials and make contact with the Fleet, an idea floated back to Han from his smuggling days.
The Maw.
With Han Solo at the controls, he dropped out of Hyperspace right in the midst of the Maw. He used that ship for all it was worth, as he evaded asteroids and black holes. Future history books would say that Thunderflare had burned out her engines and that's why she was pulled into an event horizon of a black hole. But Han, Leia, and Chewie knew that the Imperial commanders were too dull, and Imperial Ship too graceless to make it through the Maw.
When Master Luke Skywalker escaped the Death Star II shortly after Executor careened into the surface, not one ship fired a shot at his shuttle. For they all believed that it was Dark Lord Vader, due to the fact that it was Vader's personal shuttle. And in the commotion, none of the Rebel Cruisers noticed an Imperial shuttle slip quietly into a small Shipbay in Home One.
Several days after the Massacre at Endor, the Death Star II activated its own shielding and destroyed the Sanctuary Moon. Imperial Engineers predict six more standard months until the Death Star II can begin its invincible reign of galaxy-wide terror. The Pixeletoan Future Sayers say nine.
If the Rebellion cannot recover itself soon, the last vestiges of safety will evaporate into the stars...
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3 Prologue
The Bothans were wrong. There was no tunnel leading to the core. No way to destroy the Empires newest abomination. After the Shield Generator on the Endor Moon was destroyed, Lando Calrissian, Wedge Antilles, and all of the remaining fighters flew to where the tunnel orifice should have been. When they reached that point, Hundreds of turbolaser cannons rose from the Death Star II's surface and began firing.
All ships were presumed destroyed, all pilots presumed dead.
When Admiral Ackbar lost all communications with Lando and the fighter force, he ordered a retreat. As the cruisers began to turn, massive Gravitic Generators, each almost as large as the still operational Death Star II's Laser Dish, decloaked. When the gravity wells expanded from the generators, the navi-computers on the cruisers would not allow them to go to Hyperspace.
The slow-moving starcruisers were easy targets to TIE Fighters and Superlasers. Then, with a strategic move that would have surprised even the Emperor himself, the cruisers cut all power and poured it into their Ion Cannons. The four remaining ships fired upon the furthermost generator, opening a gap in the gravity field. The MC80a Defiance's hyperdrive had been damaged in the fighting, so it remained and attacked the Star Destroyers and TIES with full force until her noble end. As Admiral Ackbar gave the order to jump, he noticed an Imperial Shuttle fly dangerously close to his ship, but made nothing of it, thinking it was an Imperial coward using this chance to desert.
Matters moonside were different. After the shield generator had been destroyed, Han Solo, Leia Organa, and Chewbacca celebrated due to their imminent victory. But as the minutes passed, the Death Star II did not explode. In fact, it fired its superlaser repeatedly. R2-D2 began to whistle franticly and C-3PO translated, just as franticly, that several squadrons of TIEs were closing in from the East. Han ordered all to return to the Shuttle Tydirium. As they lifted of and began their journey, sensors recorded several spherical machines decloaking and began emitting colossal gravity wells. Leia tried to contact Home One several times, but all hails went unanswered. As the Saber, Scythe, and Obsidian TIE Squadrons closed quickly on Tydirium, it flew westward, so as to avoid the previously unknown landing platforms, to the opposite side of the moon and left the atmosphere.
Before Han took the shuttle to Hyperspace, Leia insisted on telling the fleet that they would rendezvous on their former base of operations, Yavin IV. Then just as Han was about to Jump, the Imperial Star Destroyer Thunderflare began to track them. Wherever Tydirium would jump, Thunderflare would follow. This went on for days. After countless attempts to lose the Imperials and make contact with the Fleet, an idea floated back to Han from his smuggling days.
The Maw.
With Han Solo at the controls, he dropped out of Hyperspace right in the midst of the Maw. He used that ship for all it was worth, as he evaded asteroids and black holes. Future history books would say that Thunderflare had burned out her engines and that's why she was pulled into an event horizon of a black hole. But Han, Leia, and Chewie knew that the Imperial commanders were too dull, and Imperial Ship too graceless to make it through the Maw.
When Master Luke Skywalker escaped the Death Star II shortly after Executor careened into the surface, not one ship fired a shot at his shuttle. For they all believed that it was Dark Lord Vader, due to the fact that it was Vader's personal shuttle. And in the commotion, none of the Rebel Cruisers noticed an Imperial shuttle slip quietly into a small Shipbay in Home One.
Several days after the Massacre at Endor, the Death Star II activated its own shielding and destroyed the Sanctuary Moon. Imperial Engineers predict six more standard months until the Death Star II can begin its invincible reign of galaxy-wide terror. The Pixeletoan Future Sayers say nine.
If the Rebellion cannot recover itself soon, the last vestiges of safety will evaporate into the stars...