Jaina Solo and Twin Suns Squadron came out of Mon Monthma's hangers with the intention of keeping the vast amounts of Coralskippers currently making attack runs on Ralroost at bay, which had just found it's way out of hyperspace, and was on a course to get in firing position on the capital ship analogs. Jaina always found capital ship firefights to be the most dangerous. It was simply a matter of getting the ship into position, and launching all weapons against the other ship that you have available. It seemed to her that the commanders of those vessels had more courage and will then most any starfighter pilot.

They began teaming up with their shielding trios, even though the new XJ model of the X-Wing starfighter had grab protection from the skips dovin basils, they had found that they were still able to get their shields "Grabbed" from them from time to time. Jaina dialed her inertial compensator to 95 percent, always preferring to feel the motions of her craft, then settled back in her seat and allowed herself to become one with the Force. Calm resolution coming over her, she grabbed her control yoke, and began to take her craft toward Ralroost. "Twin Suns, raise forward deflector shields and bring your ships to mark Alpha Alpha, One!" Jaina informed Twin Suns, the squadron respected Jaina, and at 21 years of age, she had already made the rank of Commander. Of course, wartime promotions were usually fast, as those ahead of you seemed to die much quicker, leaving you holding the reigns.

"Twin Suns Two bearing to mark, raising forward deflectors, and powering up quad lasers" Twin Two responded to Jaina's call.

"Twin Suns Three bearing to mark" Three checked in

As the rest of Twins Suns checked in and they bore toward their mark, powering their shields and lasers, the Coralskippers took notice and began to turn to engage them. Yuuzhon Vong warriors were not known to be the type to back down from a fight, in fact, quite the opposite, they were known to be fanatical to their dedication and did not fear death. It seemed to be only a matter of time before the Coralskippers were in range. This was by no means the first battle for Twin Suns; in fact, they themselves had been at the liberation of Coruscant. Yet, most of the pilots were green, not having the experience of the pilots that most had at the start of the war.

The skips came within range and magma projectiles began to fly from their launchers. Twin Suns split up into their trios and began the dance that always ended with death. Jaina caught a lock on to the first skip that started to bear upon her, and squeezed the trigger. Her quad linked cannons let loose a barrage of destructive energy, but even though she had the skip locked, and her stutter fire worked just fine, the dovin basils caught on to her fire as if it was merely snack food. Jaina had to take a double take as the skip began to maneuver and finally came up behind her. The Yuuzhon Vong let loose his projectiles and Jaina's X-Wing took a direct hit on the upper left ion drive. Fortunately, Jaina had been able to reach her shielding dial, and switch it to cover the rear as well, merely jerking her X-Wing into a nose over rear tumble that she had to fight to regain control.

Jaina called upon the force to bring her emotions under control and inverted her X-Wing to face the Coralskipper, pressing down the trigger on her control yoke and sending out the destructive energies of her cannons, then switching quickly to proton torpedo's, she depressed her trigger button once again. The dovin basil singularity ate up the laser fire, but the proton torpedoes hit their mark and the skip exploded into a thousand fragments of yorik coral heading in all directions. "One down, a million to go!" Jaina thought as she moved to vector in on the next closest skip. She knew one thing, if they did not get almost the whole fleet here, and fast, this would be the most humiliating defeat that the Alliance had ever suffered.

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Supreme Commander Krey'Fe looked out of the forward view screen and shook his head in disgust. They were being slaughtered out there, and with only five or six capital ships in the area, the battle was soon to go downhill. Even with re-enforcements on the way, the Commander did not know if they could last. Kyp had left the bridge and flew out with Twin Suns, to try to keep the Coralskippers at bay, but even with eight squadrons of starfighters out there, he did not know if they could handle the sheer amounts of Yuuzhon Vong that they found in this sector. Three Worldships! The Commander began to wonder if Onimi had communicated with these warriors before his death at the hands of Jacen Solo.

Krey'Fe knew that the Alliance had been caught unaware, and he did not enjoy the next order he was going to have to give. Placing his head into his furry head the Bothan almost felt tears coming to his eyes. Standing up and regaining his composure, he looked to the crew aboard the bridge. Finally, he decided, it was time to give the order. "Call back all Starfighter squadrons, inform all capital ships to calculate a micro jump to right outside the system, from there we shall decide how we are to handle Gyndine" with that the Supreme Commander of the Alliance forces walked from the bridge, heading to his personal quarters. He needed time to think on how he was going to explain this to the Galactic Alliance.

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The battle blazing in space, all starfighter squadrons, and capital ships found there way to the appropriate hyperspace vector. Those starfighters that could not make it back to their capital ships either had a hyper drive, or died in a blaze of glory. Jaina Solo watched as her friends were being picked off one by one. Having made it herself back to the Mon Monthma, her anger began to well within her. They had been taught just recently, that so long as it was not combined with a desire for power, anger was not of the Darkside. Yet, the way Jaina felt at this time, she may have been falling to the Darkside and fast.

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