Taylor Rinella Star Wars-(The Sith Conspiracy) 6/12/08
Chapter 1
As the night crept ever slowly for the clones of Republic's 23rd Squadron of the 501st army a shadow soared fast over their heads. Looking up to the skies above Commander Nebo called to the capital ship orbiting corusant from above to scan the area within a 14 mile radius. Within only a few moments of waiting Commander Nebo was told that the spacecraft that flew over them only minutes go was a CIS scout ship. Not knowing why a scout was here on Corusant, who found it too risky to send a orbital strike to take out the ship, Commander Nebo gave the rest of the squad to pack the rest of their equipment and load into their ARC-190 Starfighters. Without any hesitation questions or sudden moves they all followed Nebo's orders exactly as he had given them.
Within minutes Commander Nebo and his squad were on the CIS's tail following only far enough too stay out of sight of the ship but close enough to follow were it was going. As soon as the scout finally stopped at a tall building not too far from the Jedi temple Nebo and his squad landed only half a mile from where the scout had landed and immediately began to follow the droid into the building to find it had landed in the Jedi temples main archive of the "History of the Sith" books. Outside of the building Commander Nebo and his squad waits ready to ambush the scout. After an hour Nebo decides to send in two of his soldiers, one a sniper and the other a experienced scout terminator, only with the words "ALL CLEAR SIR!" were seven blaster shots fired , two from the clone sniper and the rest from unfriendly guns, and screams came through Nebo's helmet microphone like a horror movie actor being ripped to pieces. And then silence fell for only a few moments before Commander Nebo himself went inside the building. Backed up by the rest of his squad Commander Nebo found that the droid had not come to corusant alone….It was guarded by a sith apprenticed to Count Dooku and three Magna Guards. But by the time Nebo had discovered the group behind the wall three of the soldiers in Nebo's squad opened fire on the entrance to the next room but were no match for the sith apprentice and were easily tkaen down within seconds.
With fear on his face He ordered an immediate retreat from the building. "ALL HANDS TO YOUR FIGHTERS!!" screamed Nebo as he was the last one out of the building still firing his dual pistols into the entrance to the building. As they reached the last of the steps and headed towards the 170's they were immediately barraged by a wave of blaster fire. With only 14 clones left in his squad Commander Nebo was beginning to wonder if it was the end of him and his squad with man after man being shot down from his group these thought ravaged his mind and he was beginning to doubt they would reach their ships before they were all killed. Up above corusant Nebo's Capitol ship's navigator reported an incoming transmission coming from the surface from Nebo. As he was talking into his com-link he barely realized that the tip of his helmets antennae was shot off and his message was scattered and weak, he had no help.
At long last they reached their fighters with only 9 of the clones including Nebo left in his squad they all took separate fighters but there were only 6 of them so some of them had to seat two people. Still under fire they managed to escape but one of the ARC-170 fighters engines were damaged and was shot down after take-off. Still frightened of what had just happened Commander Nebo took his squad back up to the Capitol ship to de–brief himself to his commanding officer.