JEDI KNIGHT: JEDI WAR
Chapter 4
Jaden stood in the comm room they had set up in this lovely little facility. It was his only means of contacting his fleet. He had decided not tob ring in any of his own men for this operation because that would be sure to attract the attention of
the republic fleet. Therefore Jaden was currently using an old stock freighter called The Silverfish. As for workers, he had dragged some of them along from the fleet because they were fairly good at pretending to be citizens. Stormtroopers and imperial officers on the othr hand had absolutely no talent for that sort of thing, or if they did Jaden was yet to see it.
As Jaden stood there a hologram of Captain Webbit, Jaden had promoted him, appeared over the holoprojecter. "You have something to report?" Jaden asked sinisterly.
"Yes my lord. We discovered an imperial outpost stationed in Tregus asteroid feild. It was originally a mining operation for the alloyrs used in the construction of star destoyers. They also had two imperial class star destroyers and one victory
class star destroyer along with a number of TIE ships. They have agreed to join us." Webbit reported.
Jaden smirked like a predator. "Very good, with such a facility under our control we will be able to build our own vessels. I want you to continue searching for any and all imperial forces. We still need more ships to destroy the republic." Jaden
said.
Webbit looked a little startled as he said "Forgive me, but i don't think we will be ready for such an invasion for several years."
Jaden cackled evily, the true power of the dark side flowing through him as he said "You underestimate the dark side of the force. The republic fleet is scattered and divided, the jedi are weakened from the battle of Korriban. It is only a matter
of having enough ships to keep the republic divided and scattered. We are already almost there."
"I see, but if we use all our ships to keep them divided how shall we invade the core worlds?" Webbit continued.
Jaden felt a brief surge of anger, but it was a reasonable question. "That is wwhat your ship will be doing captain." Jaden said coldly.
"Very well." Webbit replied, and Jaden cut the transmission. A wicked smile spread over his face. The republic would fall before him, even now he could sense it. He even dreamt of it, soon it would be a reality.
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Kyle had spent the last three days examining the factory from a distance during the day, and more up close explorations at night when he could hide in the shadows. His goal at this point was to find out what sort of defenses the place had.
How many guards were there, how many entrances were there. What weapons did they have. The anwser to all these questions was bad. There was the main entrance, a garage entrance, and that was it. Both entrances were guarded by two people at any given point, often more than that. So far Kyle had identified a dozen individuals among the facilities guards, and all of them were carrying top of the line gear.
They had imp heavy repeaters, E-11 blaster rifles, and one of them, the leader from what Kyle could tell, was lugging around a stouker concussion rifle. He wasn't sure, but he thought he might have seen a rocket launcher at one point, but
that had been at night so it was hard to tell.
Now he was waiting around in a rather bored fashion for Luke and his jedi strike team to arrive at the landing area. Luke had told him he was bringing along seven Jedi Knights for this one. Kyle was pretty sure that would be enough, but he just
couldn't shake that bad feeling in the back of his head.
He finally gave in and said "I have a bad feeling about this." It was at this point a familiar round ship flew over his head and slowly began to settle down in landing bay threem which was just a glorified name for a snd pit that you were allowed to
land in.
Kyle had to chuckle as the ship landed completely, it was the Millenium Falcon. The ramp lowered and Han Solo shambled out, with his loyal companion Chewbacca right behind him.
"Han, Chewie! Good to see you." Kyle greeted.
"Hey, you got those credits you owe me." Han asked jokingly.
Kyle shrugged as he replied with "I don't know, you got that blue milk you promised me?" It was a long standing thing betwen them which they always greeted each other with. Chewie gave the wookie equivalent of a chuckle and greeting.
Luke walked down the ramp next followed by seven Jedi Knights who looked ready for anything. "Kyle, did you manage to find out anything about their defenses?" Luke asked.
"Some. A dozen guards, all well armed and well trained from what i can see. Their pretty strong willed to, i don't think mind tricks will work on them unless you really puh for it." Kyle explained.
Luke nodded, while one the jedi, a purple skinne twi'lek asked "Is Jaden there?"
"Yes, he hasen't left the place once since he hired Boba." Kyle said with a shrug.
"Ok then, i think our first priority should be to catch Jaden, then shut down the factory." Luke said.
"Ok, but were gnna have a hell of a time fighting the guards, i'd say most of them are up at my level before i became a jedi, and thats nothing to shake a stick at. Were gonna need a plan to get in." Kyle said.
"Leave that to me." Han said. Then he said "I'll distract them, lure them away and you guys slip in and do what you do."
"Ok, lets do it." Kyle. So they set off.
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The garage entrance was a boring place. There was nothing to see or do. The two mercs their, both humans, were bored silly. John, the one to the right had an E-11 blaster rifle with an illegal energy enhancement cell. The one on the left side of
the door held an imp heavy repeater that had been modified to carry 25 more ammo than the standard issue. Both of them were very experience, and very very good at their job.
"Hey, over here." Came a voice, they looked up to see a man they both recognized from the Holonet as Han Solo, and his wookie companion. "Hows your factory coming along." Han asked with a grin.
The two had specific orders regarding republic personnal, kill them as quickly as possible. They fired but Han was already in motion drawing his blaster and firing as he went into a roll. Due to the roll he wasn't able to aim well enough to score a
hit, but Chewie's shot caught the one with the repeater in the chest knocking him into the wall causing him to slump to the ground. John was not concerned, he knew his companions armour would have scattered enough of the blast to prevent death. He fired several precise shots at the two who quickly retreated away. John's companion had already regained his feet and aimed into the air before releasing a concentrated burst of energy from the secondary firing port which arkerd though the air in Han's direction catching the smuggler off guard. It landed between the two blowing both of them from their feet.
Suddenly a whirling blue blade flew forward and slashed through John sending him topling to the ground, and in his dying moments he was vaquely aware of a green blade held by a man in black being plnged into his partners chest, then
everything went black.
Kyle and Luke deactivated their blades while Han and Chewie pulled themselves to their feet.
"I thought you said these guys were as good as you were before you got the force." Luke said.
"These two are exceptions i guess." Kyle said shrugging. The other Jedi came forward and it was time.
"Alright, lets go." Luke said, and they entered.