Chapter 1 – Battle for Democracy

The entire fleet of the Resistance leaped out of hyperspace over Coruscant. "All forces, try to get to that blockade, we need to get to the surface," instructed General Aljan who was piloting an X-wing heading the squad with his son, Andy.

"All starfighters head to destroy the blockade ships, then we can get to the surface and take out the new enemy," instructed Captain Ackbar, a veteran of the Rebellion, from the command ship, Home One.

As the approaching fleet got closer to the blockade tensions rose dramatically as pilots began to murmur to themselves.

"Come on, let's go straight in for the kill on that ship there!" yelled Aljan to his squad as they turned and sped up, "S-foils in attack position!"

Rushing towards a Star Destroyer as time passed, Aljan noticed that their fleet was huge, spanning the whole planet, their plan was risky.

"This is very risky, don't you think?" asked Aljan.

"Our life is about risks captain," replied one of the most elite pilots in the squad, Hir Jondi.

Darth Matty sat in his office in the Senatorial building. "Emperor, the fleets of the Resistance have approached us, it seems they are coming in for attack," an Admiral was telling him.

"Send every TIE fighter from our Star Destroyers at them, crush them with our superior power!" said Matty powerfully, "When the Resistance take some of our ships down, get more of our fleet, I have a surprise for them…"

"Yes my lord," said the Admiral.

"Ninl, I need you to organise more ships to take off from here," Matty told him as soon as he began to walk away.

"It shall be done."

Andy fired upon the command station on the Star Destroyer causing it to explode and fall down towards Coruscant. Suddenly, a fleet of TIE fighters fled from all the Star Destroyers nearby.

"Oh damn, we got a hell of a lot of company!" yelled Andy.

"Stay calm, we must try," replied Aljan as he turned his X-wing towards the TIE fighters, "Let's take these fools out!"

Aljan's squad followed him as they launched towards the TIE fighters shooting their laser cannons destroying most of them. As more and more TIE fighters approached from every direction the squad found it harder to avoid them. One by one the pilots were beginning to be shot down.

"Split up, get on their tail, take them out!" yelled Aljan.

The squad rushed out of formation and targeted a TIE fighter each.

Standing at the bridge of a Star Destroyer was the young and cunning Admiral Yuin as he looked over at the raging battle. He had been told the plan to annihilate their enemies. Seeing a rebel cruiser launching more X-wings he snarled in anger, "Point our cannons at that command ship, fire at it, take it down!" he yelled in his loud and strict voice.

The cannons quickly turned and rapidly fired upon the cruiser which quickly set alight and exploded. Seeing a X-wing with no power heading for his ship, Yuin yelled, "Turn the ship!"

As the ship turned the X-wing plunged into the side of it, smashing through the back and into the main power supply before exploding. The lights flickered as the ship began to fall down to Coruscant. Crew onboard were yelled, "We're going down!"

Yuin was full of rage as he yelled at the crew, "Get the tractor beam to suck in every Resistance ship near!"

The alarm sounded around the ship as it began to slide towards the atmosphere of the planet below as rebel ships followed them down. Yuin glared out the glass of the Star Destroyer at the immense battle around him. He needed to live; he needed to keep serving his leader, Darth Matty. He glared at the battle around him.

"He's on your tail Jondi!" yelled Iqua Joll as he chased after the TIE Interceptor which was locking onto Hir Jondi.

Firing his cannons, he blew the ship up and turned back towards the rest of the regrouping squad. Suddenly, a huge roar erupted from all sides of the battle.

10 Super Star Destroyers had arrived from hyperspace along with a further 95 Star Destroyers.

Aljan glared at the approaching trap, "There's not much hope left for us, we're dead," he thought.

The Super Star Destroyers reigned fire upon the Home One, which had just destroyed a Star Destroyer. Captain Ackbar stared up at the huge fleet approaching. Suddenly, Hir Jondi rushed around the side of the Home One along with the remaining squadron with Iqua Joll, Aljan and Andy.

"Let's take this huge mess down!" yelled Hir Jondi as they rushed towards the Super Star Destroyer.

"Fire your proton torpedoes at it, get the bridge if possible!" commanded Aljan.

The squad fired all their proton torpedoes at the Super Star Destroyer damaging it. Spinning around the side of the ship and racing towards the bridge, Hir Jondi fired all his proton torpedoes at it and destroying the bridge leaving the ship with no power as it began to fall into the ships in the battle below. "Yahooo!" yelled Hir Jondi, "One down the rest of the mess to go!"

Suddenly an announcement came from the Home One, "We're heavily damaged, turn around head back to base!"

"Captain Ackbar are you sure, all those ships are in that tractor beam, we can't leave them behind!" yelled Aljan.

Suddenly, Yuin knew what he had to do as he strode towards the tractor beam hanger where the Resistance ship was. He was going to hijack it with his blaster skills. He told the crew to escape in any way they can and leave the ship to fall. He grabbed his blaster and called some stormtroopers to come with him. They boarded the ship with their blasters ready.

Meanwhile at the command centre of the ship, the pilot of the ship, Qen frantically activated the thrusters to escape the tractor beam. However, little to his knowledge, they had captured his ship already. He heard a huge explosion as the ship departed, he heard gun shots.

The stormtroopers fired at the weak defence of the Resistance as they charged through the ship knocking down the defending soldiers. Qen ran into the corridor with his blaster and shot three stormtroopers in the head before running into an escape pod and quickly escaping through the battle towards the surface.

Nothing but dead soldiers lay in the ship as Yuin walked through inspected it. He walked into the cockpit and sat down and got started the cannons as he pointed them at an X-wing. Chuckling to himself he fired destroying the engine.

"I'm hit!" yelled Aljan as his X-wing began swirling down to Coruscant rapidly.

"Dad!" yelled Andy as he watched his father's X-wing fall down to the planet below before long though a cannon hit him too as he followed down with his father.

Hir Jondi and Iqua Joll watched in horror as they raced up towards the Home One which was rapidly escaping the battle shooting at the hundreds of attacking ships. They quickly landed aboard it and ran to the command deck and saw the destruction of their friends and the remains of the Resistance. There was no hope, no hope at all.

"We're under heavy fire!" yelled a cannon operator.

"We can't wait any longer!" yelled Ackbar, "Make the jump to lightspeed to the unknown regions!"

"Are you sure?" asked Iqua Joll.

"We have to take risks," replied Ackbar as the ship warped into hyperspace leaving the ruins behind.