STAR WARS: LEGACY OF KYPRAS
Panic ensued on the shipyard. The Super Star Destroyer Executor and its accompanying vessels that made up the Imperial force was heading straight for the station.
I can't understand it!
Development Manager Teiva Makabt said to herself. Why would Lord Vader attack us? We were designing him a new Star Destroyer. I can't understand it at all.Ships started to lift off from the landing platforms but these were swatted down by groups of TIE fighters attacking the base in an incoherent fashion. Teiva swore loudly. How would her cobbled together excuse of a ship get to safety? More to the point, if she did escape, where would she go? What would she do? First things first, get the hell off the platform. She headed for her ship at full speed.
She was about fifty metres away when a TIE bomber used it for target practice. Teiva swore again. Now what? Then the thought struck her. The new Star Destroyer! She had the access codes for the bridge and there were numerous people around. Plus, she could save the ship. She gathered a small group together and headed for the connecting airlock to the starship. She knew that it could take more damage than her old ship, which was now a burning mass of twisted metal and if need be, could dish out a lot more than the average Star Destroyer. The Devastation was their only hope.
Upon reaching the security door located at the top of the observation tower near the docked starship, Teiva swiped her access card in the slot and the door swished open smoothly. She and her followers, now around a hundred - half of the employees of Kypras Systems piled into the interior of the immense starship that they'd spent the last year developing. They somehow managed to spread out to all the vital areas to operate such a huge ship.
Teiva typed in her security clearance into the command computer. She checked with all the areas that they were okay. She was the most senior employee on board and therefore had to call the shots, an idea that she did not like. This was crazy, how was she and a hundred others going to fly a nine hundred metre long warship past an Imperial blockade - an Imperial blockade whose presence was unjustified? The engines came on line and Teiva flipped the switch that disengaged the magnetic docking clamps.
One of the new innovations on the new ship was that the commander - if need be - could take manual control of the ship's manoeuvring controls and effectively fly the ship single handedly. They couldn't fire the turrets though, but they had the option to use the ship's extremely powerful main armament. The problem was that Teiva didn't want to get into a scrap. They didn't want to display the Devastation's true firepower and manoeuvrability yet. Besides, if she got into a scrap with the Empire, that would limit her choice of future.
Teiva piloted the enormous ship out of the dock as a wave of TIE bombers charged in. It was obvious to everyone who their target was. Obviously Vader wasn't going to let them get away that easily.
"Shields up!" Teiva shouted to the engineer in the portside crew pit. His hands darted over a console and within a few moments the shields active indicator flashed. Teiva smiled to herself as some of the turrets on the surface of the ship opened fire, blasting three TIE bombers in half. Somebody was somehow firing those alone and she gave a silent word of thanks to those people who had the initiative to man the things. Teiva looked at the sensors display on her command console. An interdictor was in the area. It looked like she would have to use the main weapons after all.
Teiva swung the ship over and headed straight for the interdictor. A few TIE fighters molested them but the fighters might as well have been flies for all the damage they'd do against the new generation shielding. The interdictor was almost in range and Teiva allocated the power to the Beam Turbo-Lasers, the ships main anti-warship armament. Teiva had designed this ship, she knew everything about it. She knew exactly what to do. Another five hundred metres.
On the bridge of the Interdictor Cruiser Molester, Captain Withers eyed the approaching ship with curiosity. What was it doing? He knew of course that one of the Star Destroyers would move to intercept and protect the Interdictor. Everything hinged on the Interdictor's survival. He looked at the sensors display. There was an energy spike on board the other ship. He looked back up and saw the glow of light emanating from four points on the upper side of the other ship. What were they doing? What was going on?
Teiva pressed the fire button for the weapons. She whispered a silent prayer. This was the first time these weapons had been used on a physical target. The power in the long focusing tubes mounted on the top of the ship increased. Another few seconds. The Interdictor wouldn't know what had hit them.
Suddenly the guns fired with pinpoint accuracy. Four beams of green light seared out of the end of the focusing tubes and smacked into the Interdictor, causing it to rock violently with the impact. Its shields overloaded within a few seconds, succumbing over the enormous amount of energy hitting them. The beams bored into the hull of the Interdictor like a corusca gem drill bit and crashed straight through the opposite side of the ship as if it was paper. The Interdictor was torn in half and promptly exploded in a spectacular array of fireworks and debris.
Teiva allowed herself a little smile. The weapons worked just as she hoped they would. The Star Destroyer that was moving to intercept them turned away.
Thought again about attacking us
. Teiva thought, she was completely correct. No sane Star Destroyer commander would get in the way of somebody as powerful as them. An engineer plotted a course to the nearest star system and programmed in the co-ordinates. Teiva breathed a sigh of relief as she pressed the hyperdrive button. The stars formed into starlines that were quickly replaced by the swirling colours of hyperspace. Nobody could catch them now.