Bastilas hologram flickered into existence in the council room back on coruscant. "We have conducted the first raid under operation drum beat. We destroyed to imperial warships and five supply ships. We also observed the imperial reaction to the attack. It was surprisingly harsh, at first only a task force of five ships entered the system, which was a normal reaction to the attack. But later another fleet jumped into the system. It wasn't a full-blown attack fleet, but still there were a number of capital and support ships as well as to battle cruisers, we also believe one of them was Revan's flagship so he responded personally to the attack." Bastila finished her report. The masters nodded "This is indeed surprising and you are sure you were not spotted?" one of them asked. "Yes, the cloaking generators were working as intended and the outer coating was checked before we left the docks. We had a short contact with a radar beam on MC 4 but we believe this was just a coincident."
"This isn't a coincident", the senior sensors officer scolded his second in command, "We should have notified Lord Revan. I will go personally." Someone cleared their throat "That will hardly be necessary." The two officers and the operator whirled around to see Revan already standing a few meters behind them. "What was it you were wanting to notify me about?" The senior officer answered him simultaneously on the screen. "During the battle we thought this was merely a coincidence" he said taking some of the blame for his second officer "But after rewinding the records I'm pretty sure this was some sort of contact, maybe merely a party of wreckage that got there during the attack on our destroyers. I would estimate the object isn't bigger than a few meters but it doesn't match up with the armor composition of our ships. I wanted to ask for permission to have it brought onto the ship for further inspection but now it gone." Revan nodded in his thoughts; he was already about to leave when he realized what the officer had said he whirled back around. "What did you say? It vanished? Can you track it which point in time that happened?" The operator of the console typed in a few commands and isolated the contact from the number of other debris floating around. "It had to be about right here; I would say seven minutes after we entered the system." He concluded. The emperor laughed at this "Than their cloaking technology is indeed not as good as we had feared." The second officer frowned "We knew that they had been working on something like this for some time. This attack was carried out by cloaked ships. Most likely three destroyers. What you spotted on the radar must have been a part of the cloaking technology not working properly. Excuse me I need to relay this information to my engineers and to the intelligence, we need a way to detect these things."
Bastila was actually bored out of her mind, there wasn't much to do on these cloaked ships. She knew it was unbefitting of a jedi but she didn't even want to meditate even though these ships were the perfect environment. They were almost completely silent and everyone was ordered to be as quite as possible. They weren't even supposed to talk to loud while outside of hyperspace. Right now, they were lying above some moon in the Yavin system. This system reeked of dark side energy since one of the first Sith lords to ever have lived had had a temple here. Some imperial commanders liked to come here to visit the historical site and they hoped to catch one of guard. Indeed, she was notified by the command stand "A single light imperial cruiser has just entered the system." These ships were slightly bigger than the Interceptor classes and most of the times they were commandeered by a dark jedi or even a Master. "Get the ships to battle readiness I'll be on the bridge momentarily." As she entered the command stand, they were almost ready to open fire on the ship. "The enemy ship seems completely oblivious to our position commander they have launched a shuttle and it is now making its way down to the surface." Bastila nodded that shuttle mostly likely contained the commander of the enemy vessel. "Open fire as soon as possible, we can always deal with the shuttle later." Right as she finished several warnings emerged. "We have incoming, brace for impact" the sensors officer shouted gripping the metal bar behind him. Bastila and her second in command were thrown from the podium as the ship took several turbo lasers hits. "Jump to hyperspace immediately" she ordered the navigations officer who had already started plotting an escape route. "Incoming fighters' commander our cloak has failed completely" the sensors officer reported. "Return fire with torpedoes while we get out of here" she ordered and once again the ship vibrated as now all eight tubes launched a torpedo. The crew quickly began reloading the tubes but even under the best circumstances this would take several minutes. The eight acs-t 14 locked onto the enemy ship.
"We have incoming torpedoes" one of the radar operators reported on board of the oden. His superior nodded "launch decoys and move out of position with maximum thrust." The ship spew out over 200 objects all about 3 square meters big and glowing red hot they distanced themselves from the ship quickly with unstirred rocket boosters, that simply had the task of making enough kilometers from their mothership before being hit by the enemy weapons as to not endanger the ship they were trying to save through shrapnel. 5 of the eight torpedoes immediately went after one of these enticingly easy to hit and hot targets. The point defense lasers aboard the oden now awoke and started spraying away at the remaining torpedoes that still targeted the ship. 2 of them were shot out of the air immediately. Several laser bolts made their way towards the third one when they were intercepted by one of their own decoys of all things. The plasma melted its way deep into the metal but it didn't manage to fully penetrate it so the last torpedo managed to break through the oden's defenses and hit right below one of its turbolaser batteries. The bridge was rocked by the explosion "Damage report" ordered the commanding officer. "We have lost one our starboard turbolaser batteries and two point-defense cannons but the ships structure is fine" he was told. He decided to press the attack on the enemy this one time they had the advantage of surprising them. "All turbo lasers concentrate fire on the uncloaked ship, there may be more here but they haven't entered battle yet I want it destroyed.
"We are ready to jump to hyperspace" the navigator claimed and instantly pushed a button that propelled them thousands of kilometers away. Bastila sighed "damage report?" She was notified about three of the torpedo tubes not working correctly anymore, the cloak generator was offline completely and indefinitely until they got into the docks and all but one point defense cannon had been destroyed. The mechanics didn't want to run the generators to high because they had been damaged too. Consequently, the ship limped through hyperspace with three fourth of its normal speed and this would get considerably worse once the left hyperspace. "We need to get back into republic territory quickly. MC three and seven also need to return until we figure out why the cloak failed to hide us." She ordered. "This will take time. We can't make many repairs on the go so we will take some time to bring this ship back with the damaged engines. The next shipyard would be at rendelli." She nodded "lets go there" she said turning around contemplating her other options.
"Lord Revan we have news from the Yavin system, with the new information on the cloaked ships a light cruiser was able to spot and attack one of them. It seems however the faulty cloaking only impedes one of the ships. It was heavily damaged but managed to escape. The commander of the oden reports light damage to his ship and is on his way to the star forge to have it fixed." Revan nodded "these are indeed excellent news. The next shipyard from Yavin is rendelli and Admiral Garet will lead an attack on that system shortly. We maybe able to trap the attack force, which is executing operation drum beat.