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Year: 3 BBY
Chapter 4: Space Battle
Jedi Master and General Mark Alan Zane along with his Clone Major Kia, leads the large group of X-wings out from the several of ships that is part of the 3rd Legion. "We got TIE Bombers, TIE Fighters and TIE Aggressors coming quickly." say Anakin looking over to where there is bunch of Imperial-class Star Destroyers. TIE Aggressors are a new part in the TIE series. They look like regular TIE Fighters, but have a point like solar panel attach to the rear of both of the solar panels on the side.
"Scatter!" say Mark as he drops his X-wing down toward the planet of Coruscant. He then made a sharp turn upwards and to the right to come behind a TIE Aggressor. Unlike the TIE Fighters, these things could hold missiles, which make them more dangerous then the original TIE Fighters. Before the pilot of the other Starfighter was aware, Mark shoot one of it wing off which send the TIE Fighter spiraling and crash into the nose of the Republic Attack Cruiser. Mark once again took the X-wing straight up to avoid hitting the control tower of the Republic Attack Cruiser.
Through the Force, Mark sense that a lot of the people within the bridge was scared that he was going to crash right through. Mark sensed through the Force that he is being trailed. He tries to lose the TIE Fighter that is chasing him but cannot. "Let see if you can match the speed once my shields are up." say Mark as he flips a switch to turn on the Deflector shields. All of a sudden, as he press more speed, it jumps very quickly. Mark went downward and back up underneath the TIE Fighter, one press of the trigger and the TIE Fighter exploded to pieces. Mark flies through the wreckage
"Impressive, Mark!" say Rachelle through the Comlink as she flies past him and launch a proton missile at the command tower of a Imperial-class Star Destroyers, the shields on that said ship was down. Right behind her, Mara Jade did the exactly same thing. The Star Destroyer was on fire a bit in the command tower. He also notices that the ship is drifting downwards.
"Nice going you two." say Mark as he notice that there is no one powering the ship. He knows that the shields around Coruscant will prevent the Star Destroyer from going through orbit. What will happen, depends on how hard the Star Destroyer hit's the shield, it will be destroyed to pieces.
"LEIA WATCH OUT!" shout Luke over the Comlink. Mark reaches out through the Force and fined Leia is in trouble. She is being surrounded by TIE Aggressors and Mark has the strangest feeling that she is going to be hit.
"Leia, when I say so, I want you to put as much speed into it and shot downwards there is less Starfighters covering you." say Mark. "Uncle, I will hit them." say Leia scared a bit. "No, they wouldn't. There is enough space for you get through, if not then use the Force to push them out of there way. They are getting ready to fire missiles at you." say Mark as he tries to get there fast. He keeps his mind focus on the Force.
"Now!" shout Mark as he got close enough to see it. Mark watches as the only X-wing in the group dive down straight at a very fast speed. All the TIE Aggressors fire their missile and nailed each other. "You know what, Uncle, you are scary how you know these things." say Luke. "I swear if I ever get out of this alive, I am not going in any Starfighter!" say Leia.
"Focus Leia." say Mark as he flies his X-wing around. Mark then felt his ship shakes a little bit and sees Rachelle flies past him. "You telling my Padawan to focus, but you almost got shout by a TIE." say Rachelle. Mark notices a hint of humor in her voice. Through Rachelle mature a lot during the years, but there are moments when in dire times, such as this, she act a bit immature. Mark just laughs as he got out of the way of an MC80 Home One type Star Cruiser firing bunch of missiles at Victory 2-class Star Destroyer on the Empire's side. There was a battle raging between the two of them that Mark does not want to be a part of it.
Even through they might have the same weapons, due to the more power in the larger ships those weapons is way much stronger than the X-wings. That got him back to thinking about the Super Star Destroyer, it would take a lot of power to move something that huge and heavy, even through space, so due to that the weapons and shields will be much more powerful.
Mark spirals to the right searching for more Imperials. He watches as a TIE Bomber commit suicide and trying to crash into the command tower of one of the Republic Attack Cruiser. Mark just smiles at how stupid that was. Whoever is commanded the Attack Cruiser saw that coming and move the ship up in space a little bit, so instead of crashing through the viewports of the ship, the TIE Bomber hit the tower itself, which only left some scorch marks.
Mark then speed out of the way before he got hit by a TIE Fighter. He just sits there waiting it get into his firing path. Once it did, the TIE Fighter exploded. Mark then flies off and destroys another one which was tailing Mara.
"I got you sneaky bug!" say Mara who manage to shoot one of the TIE Bombers that was coming near an MC80 Home One type Star Cruiser. Mark notice that Major Kia was aiding her into shooting that one by a trap. He smiles at the teamwork between the two of them. He has always taught Mara about teamwork, you get more done faster by working together.
"Master, I think we are surrounded." say Galen to Anakin over the Comlink. Mark looks around and notice bunch of TIE Fighters and bunch of Imperial ships surrounding them. He gives a sigh, this is going just great. Didn't they split up in the first place, so the major question is how in the galaxy all the Jedi managed to get trap in one area.
"Oh, Force sake, I know this is how everything going to end! In these cursed Starfighters." mumble Leia scared once more. Through the Force, Mark can see visions of Leia's crash on Duro. "Not if I have something to say about it. Anakin, you on the other side, right?" say Mark. "Yes, why?" ask Anakin. "We are going to split their formation up. We will need you a massive Force Push to break the sides, once that happen everyone flies out of the trap." say Mark. Now using Force Push like this is a bit harder because you can just push anything in front of you or you will damage the ship you are in. You have to focus a bit more distance between you and the target.
"NOW!" shout Mark as he uses the Force to send a massive Force Push that knocked bunch of TIE and smaller ships out of the way and leaving him slightly tired due to how hard he pushed against them. Then he along with everyone begins to fly out of the holes in the Imperial formations.
"Now Leia, remember I told you, you have people watching your back, so if I hear one more negative death talk out of you, I am letting your mother know so she can punish you." say Mark. "Sorry Uncle." say Leia. Mark cannot help grin at that title. No ought he is not her real uncle, he is glad that both Luke and Leia looks up to him as an uncle. He also knows Pooja does too, but she does not call him an uncle.
Mark flies out of the formations and take along some more TIE Fighters that did not exploded because of the Force Push. Mark flies through the smaller ships while dropping Proton Missiles down on it like rain. Rachelle follows behind him with Mara behind her, which did some damage to the Praetor Mark 2-class Battlecruisers. All 3 Triad War fractions use these ships. The ships in this class could range from around 3 miles long to around 5 miles long. The ship explodes killing everyone aboard.
Then the 3 of them fly straight upwards and firing at various ships that has the markings of the Empire on them. When they got far above the battlefield, they were attack by a couple of Imperial-class Star Destroyers which, Rachelle destroys with the Force.
Mark watch as the TIE Fighters, TIE Aggressors that were chasing them being fired upon and destroyed. "Well it look like the junk crew will have a lot to collect." say Mark as he looks around. There is a group of Republic Attack Cruiser that was sitting there above them.
Then something drops out of Hyperspace bellow them. It was a very long ship that has a design that is familiar to Mark. This ship was longer and large than any ship Mark has ever seen in his life. The ship was 11 miles long with ridges station in the center of a perfectly smooth dagger design.
"Holy Force!" shout Mark as his eyes widen as he sees the ship fires heavily on two Republic Attack Cruiser, with couple of minutes went by both Attack Cruiser was exploded in flames and pieces went everywhere.
"Master what is that!" shout Mara. Mark was shaking; they do not even have any ships to put up with a power like that. Before he could answer 3 more Republic's Star Destroyers were destroyed. It would take a great plan to destroy something this large. They must do something quickly.
"Mara, it is a Super Star Destroyer, this is the Executor-class Super Star Destroyer. One that is currently being made at Kuat for the Galactic Republic. It is one of the many is the Super Star Destroyer field that is being made. It supposes to have great power on it." say Mark. "Nice power, but the only problem is that the Empire has it and without a Super Star Destroyer on our side, it is going to be just that much harder to beat the Imperials." say Rachelle.
"We will have to take in from the inside. If that thing hit the planetary shields then it could whip out a major part of the shields due to the how big it easy." say Mark getting a plan. Through the Force he senses Darth Solaris and his half sister and cousin.
"The question how are we going to get on, the shields will be too strong to force through." say Rachelle. "I just have this feeling that, the Sith wants just that." say Mark. "A trap?" ask Mara. "Yes, we will use that trap against them to protect Coruscant.
On the Imperial Super Star Destroyer, Darth Solaris smiles at the power the ship is firing at it. She knows that none of the ships within the Galactic Republic could due a thing about it. They simply do not have enough power to harm this ship even with the shields are down.
Vadis was standing not to far from her. Darth Solaris knows that Darth Vader have been training her in the ways of the Dark Side of the Force, per request of the late Maxus Zane. Darth Solaris would have been afraid if Vadis was going to take her spot as a Sith. Then again Darth Vader needs her strength and her willing to obey any orders to take down their enemies.
"Vadis, I want one of the Hanger Bays open, Master Zane will be attempting to board and through the Force, I sense that Rachelle Zane will be boarding to, me and her have some unfinished business to attend to." say Darth Solaris as she finger the hilt of her black encased Lightsaber hilt.
"What are we going to do about Zane?" say Vadis with pure hatred in her voice. She hates the two Jedi Zane with a passion. She hates Mark for killing her father and she hates Rachelle for being with Mark. Ever since she heard about the wedding she has been planning to murder Rachelle Zane. "Which one, we are going to kidnap Master Zane so my Master could kill him and we are going to kill Knight Zane." say Darth Solaris with a smile. She has crossed plasma blades with Rachelle Zane way to many times during the Triad War.
"Why can't we kill Mark!" demand Vadis. Darth Solaris turn and looks threatening at Vadis. "You listen here; Master wants to kill him at his hands. Your father wanted to kill him, but he has enough respect to let Darth Vader do the deed! So if I were you, I watch your tongue before I stab you with my Lightsaber for disrespecting your Lord." say Darth Solaris with a dark voice and her sith yellow eyes seem to glow.
"What did I say about get up close and personal!" snaps Vadis looking at Darth Solaris. "You will not disrespect me, you just a Commander in this military, while I am a General. You keep it up, I will kill you! I could care less if you are Maxus's daughter." say Darth Solaris. Vadis knows that the Sith Lady will do exactly as she said. It not that she is afraid of the Sith Lady it is just she does not want to be killed by her. Darth Solaris is just as ruthless as Darth Vader. While Darth Vader is power hungry to rule and have lot abilities in the Force, Darth Solaris main purpose of power is to be as strong as possible within the Force. The scary thing is she is a monster. Yes, she knows enemies of the Empire consider Darth Vader is a monster, but not as bad as Darth Solaris. Darth Solaris told her how she killed her own family and enjoyed every minute of it.
"Um, Master, my R2 unit has picked up something from the Super Star Destroyer." say Mara as she listens to the beeps and whirls that her R2 unit is saying. She did not need the screen in the X-wing to know what it is saying. Just like her mentor, his wife, and Anakin, she understands the droid language called Binary. Only way to learn how to understand is to be around droids a lot, such as she has been.
"What is it saying?" ask Mark over the Comlink missing his old R4 unit. He has gotten a red and gold R2 unit from the Joseph for a wedding gift, but is currently in Rachelle's X-wing. The droid look exactly like R2-D2 expect where R2-D2 is white it is red and where R2-D2 is blue it is gold. There have been couple times that both he and Rachelle have to put it back together. It reminds him of his old R4 unit that he had, always reliable. "It is saying that the power readings for one of the hangers have been down and it was saying it not a wise idea to go there. Shut you droid." say Mara.
"Yes, Red saying the same thing over here. Expect the warning." say Rachelle. Red is the name of the R2 unit that Mark has gotten from Joseph. Mark is currently piloting without an Astromech Droid.
"Well I guess we have to spring the trap." say Mark. "I absolutely hate when he says that!" say Mara as she start banging the back of her head against her seat. Rachelle laughs as she follows Mark to the Imperial Super Star Destroyer as it fired on another Republic Attack Cruise this time it was a powerful missile the blow apart the ship like it was nothing. They got to stop it before it destroys the whole entire fleet.
Rachelle knows if the Empire manage to get Coruscant it will deliver a mighty blow to the Galactic Republic, might not be militate wise, but it will dishearten many people. As long as the capital stands there still hope. There is more to war than physical fighting. You have to have moral too and without that everything would fall apart.
The one thing that both Rachelle and Mara hope that whatever Mark's plan is works.
Like I have stated before, I am not good at space battles, so hopefully this is not to bad. Since R4 got destroyed and I introduce Joseph, I had been planning on him giving him a R2 unit name red.
Yes, I was planning on introducing that the Empire had a Super Star Destroyer, which I have made reference many times before in other stories stating a very large ship or along those lines.
Til next time, enjoy!
