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The day of the Reunion of the Rebel Alliance came as Ironwood realized the mistake he had made defecting from the mainstream Alliance to Restore the Republic under the Remnant Alliance. He had took Taiyang's advice into serious consideration and had addressed the Atlas Remnant that they would once again join the White Fang Syndicate and become the reunited Remnant Alliance with those within the Syndicate as the leaders of the other organization did the same.
"As for the mistakes we did, fighting the forces of the White Fang Syndicate aren't forgivable. For the lives that we lost, forgiveness isn't what we'd get from the Syndicate but they will forgive us for defecting from them. The Mandalorian fleet that resides above the ruins of Vale will assist the Remnant Alliance and once we strike at the height of the Empire's power in Atlas. Those Star Dreadnoughts will be destroyed as well as the Galactic Emperor and the Sith Lords!" He said to the people that sat in their chairs.
One of the people, an officer, stood up. "What makes you think that they would trust us?!. After what happened when we killed hundreds, if not, a thousand of their troops and since our defection was only last month. Civil wars like this don't go along and just end like this." He said in response and the others mumbled in agreement.
He then looked down at the officer. "The Syndicate's leaders aren't really who we think they are. Taiyang Xiao Long, ruler of the planet Mandalore and leader of Clan Pre-Xiao, convinced me that without the reunion of the Alliance forces on Remnant means only one thing, whoever wins... the Empire will finish off those who still stand and if we don't reunite with the Syndicate then the Empire already controls Remnant. The Empire sits on top of power and control in Atlas and everyday we spend fighting the Syndicate gives the Empire more chances of controlling Remnant completely!. As leader of the Atlas Remnant, I will not stand by and just watch us, people from Remnant, fight each other while a more larger enemy waits to take what we leave behind!." He finished as the others mumbled, debating about agreeing or disagreeing with this statement.
Another officer stood up on the right side of the room. "Those in favour of reuniting with the White Fang Syndicate, raise your hands." He said as most of the officers and seniors rose their hands up and agreed to reunite with the Syndicate with Ironwood.
Those who didn't agree never rose their hands as they knew that the Syndicate would most likely not accept their request to become the Remnant Alliance once again. While Ironwood and those who agreed went to contact the leaders of the Syndicate. The Empire was currently on their way to Vale to strike at the heart of the Mandalorian Fleet from both ground and air to cripple their grip. With Taiyang unaware of the attack and not having the deflector shields up on most of the ships in his fleet, the Empire has the element of surprise on the Mandalorians and a quick, short window to destroy the majority of their fleet in seconds. Beeping could be heard going off on the Atlas Remnant's scanners which they still had access to after the Remnant Alliance had set up some surrounding Vale.
One of the crewmen alerted his senior officer. "Sir!. Scanners going off at Sector 53A, north of Vale." He said as the officer walked over to him.
"Show me what you found, lieutenant." He responded as the lieutenant nodded and showed him the large force of Imperials on their way to the ruins of Vale. "My god... that looks to be a sizable force to wipe out an entire fleet in seconds." He expressed.
One of the other radar crewmen also reported the same but instead from both east and west sides of Vale. "Sir, we are tracking three large groups of hostiles coming in from the east and west of Vale. They are probably going to wipe out the Mandalorian fleet, sir." The other lieutenant explained.
"Alert General Ironwood. Send what star cruisers, droid class starships and starfighters we have to defend the Mandalorian fleet, and someone alert them of the incoming threat!" The officer ordered around as they all did as they were told.
Ironwood and the others were walking to the hanger bay to get into a CR90 Corvette but were stopped by one of the radar center's crew. "General, something's going down. And we need you in the command center, sir." He said as James looked at him in confusion.
He then straighten his tie. "What is it, lieutenant?." He asked as he looked down at him.
"Our scanners picked up three large groups heading to the ruins of Vale from the north, east and west. The Mandalorian fleet will be destroyed in seconds because of the combined forces of those groups." He explained as Ironwood then turned around and walked off to the command center.
Atlas Remnant ships and starfighters later then went to the sky above Vale and form up with the Mandalorian Venators while Imperial-I and II class Star Destroyers were on their way to destroy Taiyang's fleet with AT walkers firing from the ground while TIE series starfighters would engage fighters and perform bombing runs on the Venators and other Mandalorian-class ships. Unaware, the Keldabe Battleships, Aggressor Star Destroyers and the other ships that Taiyang had within his fleet at the time didn't have their deflector shields up at all.
Imperial convoy
"Omega Squadrons alpha through foxtrot, aim for the Venator's command bridge. It'll bring the ship down quickly. Squadrons golf through kilo, protect the bombers for their bombing runs. Squadrons lima through zulu, take down every pirate starfighter in your sight and don't let any of them get away or survive." One of the fleet commanders relayed out to the starfighter squadrons.
The squadrons who were given orders took off ahead and went to weaken the venators while the Star Destroyers, as well as the ground forces, would be on their way to assist them. The Atlas Remnant's small fleet was also on their way to Vale to alert the Mandalorians of the imminent Imperial assault on their ships and grip on the ruins of Vale. The Syndicate also still had access to the scanners as well and reacted to the sudden, unexpected imperial attack on the Mandalorians and sent whatever ships they had to assist the Venators in action.
Yellow Dragon, Venator-class Heavy Attack Cruiser
"Vale... a city of peace... harmony... serenity... and now... its nothing but a shadow of the once peaceful city before this... came... Vale of the Dead... my Mandalorian troops call it that... maybe because it means 'Valley rests in dead plains, nothing to revive it' Well you know something?. I am gonna make sure that the Empire doesn't harm Remnant or its people ever again. My fleet wil-" Someone walked in and interrupted.
"Sir, the scouts from Atlas have returned. And I think that you should see this." One of the armoured Mandalorians said to him in Mando'a.
He turned over to face the person. "Come on, Z'iji. I was having one of the hero moments where they are talking in a dark room and saying they'll defeat evil." He responded in Mando'a.
"Sorry, Father. But I think the Empire may be busy on Remnant and they'll been developing new war machines and this one you are about to see is... well its unlike anything we've seen before." She said in response.
He looked at her. "Well I'll know if its considered dangerous or not. Have you contacted your mother recently, Z'iji?." He asked her as she looked down. Not wanting to say no nor deny that she had a thought of contacting her mother.
She then looked back up at him. "Well... I uhh... don't know... I mean, I haven't spoken to Mother in so long, Father. You know that we had a fight..." She answered honestly. Taiyang's time on Mandalore wasn't going by as just himself, but with a Mandalorian female to love and care for, the biological mother of Z'iji Xiao Long.
He sighed. "Z'iji... you and mother can't keep up the wall between you two forever. I need the both of you to just try to be nice to each other. For me, please?. Contact her and try to develop a friendly relationship again. She's your mother, Z'iji. You can't always avoid family." He said to her as they approached the elevator to the command bridge of the Yellow Dragon.
They entered the elevator and went up in complete silence. Z'iji wasn't sure of contacting her mother at all nor did she want to at all. Taiyang loved his daughter, Z'iji, like he did towards Ruby and Yang. H'ijia Visla met Taiyang years ago after he arrived on Mandalore, and since then have been developing a connection of love. Their first and only daughter, Z'iji was all that they had and H'ijia never wanted Z'iji to meet her sisters, Ruby and Yang as she knew that Remnant was a different place, a whole new different. They then reached the command deck and walked out of the elevator and to the command console.
One of the Mandalorians walked up to it as well. "Clan leader Taiyang. Scouts came back with information on those Star Destroyers that we haven't been able to identify." He said as he stood at one end with Taiyang at the other.
"Well, what am I looking at here?." He asked him as he pulled up a holographic image of two Star Destroyers, but two different models.
One of the models were then enlarged. "This is an Imperial-II class Star Destroyer, its tough against all starships but not the Venators." He explained as he enlarged the other model. "And this is what the Empire calls, an Imperial-III Schnee Destroyer. The weapon systems on these are infused and modified by some sort of mineral, or substance that the people of Remnant call 'Dust' and they have renamed the turbolasers in corresponding with the dust name. Like for instance, these octuple barbette turbolasers are called Octuple Barbette Heavy DustTurbolasers and it seems that this 'dust' also been infused with the shielding of these ship, making the shielding stronger than those Imperial-IIs and stronger against our turbolasers." He explained as they listened to him.
The others thought for a second until Taiyang thought of a plan. "Alright, these Schnee Destroyers should probably have at least some power, right?. Like transferring power to the weapons for massive damage?." He asked as they nodded. "Then we could exploit that, we'll strike at them once they transfer the power to the turbolasers because if its the same as the other Imperial Star Destroyers then all the power will focus on the weapons and when we damage the shields, they won't recharge and thats when we strike at them. We'll take back Remnant, one kingdom at a time. We'll liberate Mistral first then Vacuo last then we'll strike at the heart of the power in Atlas with everything that we would probably have left. Mandalore doesn't stand up to anyone for nothing, not even against the Empire!. For Mandalore!." He said as he held up his arm with the rest of them doing the same and saying Mandalore in Mando'a.
"Sir, detection 12 o'clock." One of the radar crewmen said to them as they looked out of the window.
They approached the window and looked into the clouds. Moments later a large group of TIE/S, TIE/SINs and TIE/S Defenders came out of the clouds and started firing their weapons at their designated targets. TIE/S Bombers were later seen as Taiyang ordered his fleet to bring up their deflector shields to max power but since they were caught off guard, the ship's systems were failing. The turbolasers didn't do much damage against the TIEs as it was made for only starship combat. Taiyang then saw an unidentified TIE fighter model lined up directly to the command bridge as he looked at it, not paying attention around him, as the fighter drew closer to the window.
He then saw someone very familiar in the cockpit of the fighter with a red helmet on and a rose painted on it. "R-ruby?..." He said as he looked out of the window.
Z'iji then grabbed him from behind as the fighter started to launch its missiles to the command bridge. "Father, pay attention. We have to go!. The Yellow Dragon's systems are failing!." She said as she held onto him and carried him to the elevators alongside the other Mandalorians.
The missiles then hit the spire as the elevator doors shut. The TIE fighters later paid their attention on the heavier turbolasers on the Venators while the laser cannons on the Crusader corvettes did their best to destroy the attacking TIEs but were being overtaken by the arrival of the Imperial Tartan Patrol Cruisers and Victory II-class Schnee Destroyers. AT-ATs and AT-TEs fired their weapons from the ground as well as supporting and deploying troopers to take out any Mandalorians found in the city ruins and surrounding area's of Vale along with Grimm.
The elevator doors then opened as multiple Mandalorians ran out of them to the escape pods as the Yellow Dragon suffered too much damage and was going down. Rumble rocked the ship. "Come on!. This way, brothers!. The ship is going down and we need to get off it or we're going down with it!." Z'iji yelled out as a large group of Mandalorians ran to the escape pod cluster where she led them to with Taiyang right behind her.
They then entered the pods and ejected from the Yellow Dragon as it went down. Z'iji then looked out of the pod window door and saw the very first Venator heavy attack cruiser just go down like that. Taiyang on the other hand couldn't unsee what he saw within the TIE fighter that bombed the command bridge. He kept thinking on who it was but didn't want to believe it as how Ironwood showed him earlier. The Imperials later destroyed half of Taiyang's fleet in minutes, Palpatine watched via the Force.
Atlas
Ruby did as she was told and went to rest within the Imperial Palace in the city of Atlas where Darth Eclipse, Vader, Varanee and Polendina would be most of the time. Ruby was resting in her quarters whenever Palpatine had told her to. She rolled and shifted around in her sleep. 'Your actions will not... go unpunished... You'll suffer when the time comes...' A voice said to her as she was asleep. Like Anakin said that even the Dark Side can't take them away. 'The Jedi are weak!. The Sith will forever rule this galaxy!. And you shall fall!.' The voice of Eclipse then can be heard. She then suddenly awakened herself to avoid the visions.
She held onto her head. "Ugh... why don't these stop?!." She asked herself.
A blue light then lit up the other end of the room. "Because they show you a future that is forever yours. Nothing can stop that, Ruby." Mace Windu's force ghost said to her as she panicked.
She force grabbed her lightsaber and activated it with fury. "Who are you!?. And how do you know who I am?!." She demanded.
Mace then walked closer to her. "The Force watches over all those within it, but not the Sith. Ruby, if you were fully turned to the Dark Side then I wouldn't be able to communicate with you right now." He answered her as she glared at him.
She then kept her lightsaber active although she couldn't harm him at all. "I am a Sith. Like what my master told me, I am powerful like my mother!. My mother would be proud to know that I am fighting for the good of Remnant and the removal of the evil Jedi." She responded to him.
He then sighed. "Ruby. You're a very gullible girl. You're easily corruptible whenever someone, like the Sith, tells you something that is believable. The Jedi aren't the ones you should be afraid of. The Jedi are guardians of peace and justice in the old republic, Ruby. I confronted Darth Sidious but he was able to overtake me and took my life." He explained to her as she listened carefully.
"What makes you think that my master would use me like some Grimm?. I'm no animal!. My master says that with my power in the Force, I'd be able to take down that traitor Skywalker and Kenobi." She responded to him.
He sighed again. "Ruby... you realize that your mother wouldn't be happy with you. Summer Rose was never force-sensitive nor your father, Taiyang Xiao Long, but they both believed in the Force like no other. Skywalker and Kenobi stumbled upon Remnant during the Clone Wars, way before you were born, together they met your parents while Summer was carrying you. I overheard Skywalker and Kenobi talking about how your mother wanted you to be a Jedi if you happened to have been born force-sensitive. Yet without neither of your parents being force-sensitive, it didn't seem possible that you are sensitive to the Force." He explained as he started to feel uneasy and emotional waves coming from Ruby after he mentioned her mother. "Something's troubling you?. Yes, of course. Only reason why you're training under Palpatine is because you want your mother safe... I've had no idea that she is still alive. And yet, I feel you want her to be with you always and Palpatine took her away..." He said to her.
She looked away, turning around and facing the other direction. "He said that she'll be safe... if she's far from me, she'll always be safe..." She responded to the force ghost.
"He took her away from you, Ruby. The one thing that you never wanted was her to not be taken away. Its time that you realize what he has taken, Ruby." He explained to her as she looked back at him, finally realizing what he was saying.
She then looked worried. "I uhhh..." He knew that she was at a loss for words.
"You don't know where your mother has been for a month. At night when you rest, you wonder about where she is but can't seem to figure it out because Palpatine has you right where he wants you to be." He said to the little rose.
She was completely caught off guard with what he was saying. She knew that Palpatine took her mother away and she did her best to ignore it. Windu's force ghost could sense the uneasyness within Ruby and saw that her force-sensitivity was connected to something he never understood, Aura.
"You really wanna know the truth of the Sith and Jedi?. Find your mother, within her are secrets that she has seen. She has not told anyone about what she has seen during the Clone Wars." He said to her before disappearing. Ruby sat down on her bed, trying to process everything she just heard.
'I'm not fully turned to the Dark Side...?' She thought to herself as she sat in the dark. She then got up and walked out, looking to her right as she saw two Shock troopers at the far end of the hall. "Troopers, I need your help." She said to the troopers as they nodded.
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