"This satellite just dropped out of lightspeed above Lothal. It's slowly orbiting the planet, and is maneuvering into position."
As Kanan spoke, a hologram flickered up from the table, showing a large Imperial Attack Satellite.
"So, it's an imperial creation. Could just be standby. You know, reinforcements." Zeb said.
"No. It serves a much more sinister purpose. It's targeting Tarkintown."
Everyone in the room drew a sharp gasp.
"Their planning… A genocide?" Gasped Sabine.
"Yes, and we need to destroy it before it can destroy the town. Now, here's the plan:
"The satellite cannot be taken out by ground-to-air fire, as we have no weapon that can reach that far. It also has several Turbolaser Anti-Freighter guns on the surface, which would rip apart the Ghost in seconds."
"Fortunately, there is a solution." Put in Ezra. "I got in touch with Rawthron, and he was able to get our hands on some, er… Fancy toys."
Ezra led them outside, where a happy sight stood just on a clearing near the ghost.
Or rather, four happy sights.
Starfighters.
Ezra led them among them, pointing out each fighter.
"I managed to get these from the LSF, one for Kanan, one for Zeb, one for Sabine, and here's mine."
They stopped at a sleek and powerful-looking ship, with several laser cannons, and from the look of it, a torpedo launcher. He walked on past that, and came to a ship Kanan knew well.
"Here's yours Kanan. An Eta-2 Actis-class Jedi Interceptor, from the Clone Wars."
Kanan stared. It was sleek and looked almost brand-new, despite being out of service for years. The ship was painted in his colours of green and black, and looked almost exactly like his old ship.
"We salvaged it from a debri field in the outer rim. Brought it back here, repaired it, painted it, and now it's yours."
Ezra left Kanan to get ready, and led the other two past the Interceptor, and to another ship. This one was bigger than the others, and by the looks of it, heavier. It didn't look like any starfighter Sabine had ever seen, but Zeb gasped in amazement.
"Yup. I know your kind didn't really do starfighters, but I checked the schematics of your other ships, and we found a starfighter very similar to those. You should be familiar with the controls."
Leaving Zeb with his ship, Ezra took Sabine to an empty area behind his fighter.
"So where's my ship?" Asked Sabine, staring at Ezra who had stopped, and appeared to be leaning against something that wasn't there.
"Your looking at it. Two steps forward and you'd actually be kissing it."
He knocked on the air behind him, and Sabine was surprised to hear a metallic clang clang echo throughout the air. He pressed something on his datapad, and the air behind him waved and distorted, and in a second, he was not leaning against nothing, but the body of another ship.
"Cloaking device. Meet the RSV-class Stealth Attack Fighter, Night Shadow."
It was black, and seemingly smaller than the other ships, with four powerful-looking laser cannons mounted on the wings, and two smaller homing missile launchers on the underside. Sabine walked around it, studying every angle. It looked like an X-Wing, but without the four wings, only two, and bigger engines and weapons.
"Sixty Edo Homing Rockets on the underside, two EMP Mines and four Cluster EMP rockets. It's the fastest ship we have."
Sabine looked around wordlessly, and then hugged Ezra.
"Wow, this is amazing! Thank you."
"This is Red Leader. All wings, report in."
"This is Wing One. All systems go." Said Kanan.
"Wing Two, standing by." Said Sabine.
"I copy, Ezra. Let's do this!" Exclaimed Zeb.
"Grey Squadron, do you copy?"
"Yes sir! Grey Squadron, assuming fighter escort positions!"
"Then let's go. All wings, form up. Fighter escort, cover us, we're going in!"
And with that, four starships, plus a squadron of Z-95 Headhunters, broke orbit and entered space, the Ghost following behind.
"This is Hera, standing by. You guys have fun out there!"
"Roger, Hera, stand by for my signal to enter the battle. Fighters, come with me. It's time!"
And with that, the starfighters broke off from the freighter, and shot towards the satellite.
