Scorlan:
I had to take this chance, because I knew no one was going to give it to me. I was one of the few volunteers in the Republic Fleet for this complete suicide mission. Black Sun, on this particular mission ruled by one of their most feared commanders, Trokinsis, had come out of their shadows and chosen to invade Naboo, the planet they assumed was harbouring some kind of elite Jedi order. They were wrong of course, as they were with everything, but at least this time they had provided us with a rope to hang them with.
It didn't help however, that Coruscant's military command could not be bothered sending a larger fleet out this far, expecting this to be a very minor skirmish, and instead chose to use a few small star bases that were within close hyperdrive range of the area.
Naboo's defences were laughably bad, but at least they had created force fields around all their potential targets, so that the Black Sun could not just simply subject them to an orbital bombardment. So at least they couldn't do much damage until they were fairly near to the ground.
Black Sun's new viper fighters were only designed mainly for use in space whereas our new Q-wing fighters firstly had a robust shape, being saucer-shaped without any major weak points, and were also far more adjusted to atmospheric manoeuvres, with them having a rotating underbelly with many rows of vanes, giving them aerodynamic uplift instead of the fragile propellers or wings of most of the potential air vehicles we would be likely to encounter. But never mind what we could achieve in the atmosphere. To begin with we outnumbered them ten to one. Now there were 20 of us against a fleet of 500 vipers. But to me a large concentration of vipers only meant more targets.
Black Sun:
"The plan seems to be succeeding, Commander Trokinsis," Lt Golnar advised from his viper. "The Republic have only had a token force within easy hyperdrive range of Naboo and this tiny fleet looks easier to defeat than the pathetic out-dated Naboo defences".
"You have done well," Commander Trokinsis replied through the comlink from his ship, "Keep your fleet in orbit as much as possible, and don't attempt to go up against any of the ground forces until the Republic fleet has been dealt with. Afterwards I will take this carrier ship to the planet's capital city Theed and see personally to its capture. It is unlikely that any senior political figures will remain there during the invasion but it will be a psychological blow".
In reality through Trokinsis saw this as a bad move for Black Sun, overtly attacking a whole planet while they were used to operating in the shadows. The high command in Black Sun seemed not to know what they were doing, but he would ensure that, being chosen as the one to lead this attack, he would use the situation to his full advantage, even if he personally would be the only one to benefit.
Scorlan:
My strategy was to break off from the main fleet then cut a hole right the way through theirs. By flying right through the middle of them they had severe problems aiming at me without shooting at their own ships. They must have lost around a 100 fighters at this point, a few of which were due to them accidentally shooting at their own side. As they obviously knew I was a threat, I knew they would chase me wherever I went, so I had a to ensure I led them to where I wanted them, in other words, into Naboo's atmosphere.
This would not perhaps seem to be the most sensible idea as that was exactly where they wanted to go. At least I would ensure that they were as far as possible from their intended targets.
On entry into the atmosphere I levelled the craft out, and they were coming into firing range they were obviously expecting me to swerve upwards, but instead I brought the Q-wing's forward motion to a complete stop, and set the rotating lower section of the craft to put it into a vertical take off, a move that virtually no airborne craft are nowadays designed to do, so that the vipers simply flew underneath me whilst I was able to fire plasma discharges downwards at them all. I managed to take out all but around 40 of them with this manoeuvre. As the confused remains of their fleet turned round I use used the forwards cannons to destroy around 10 of them in a fraction of a second, and for the remaining 30 I fired as many seekers to take care of them.
The rest of my fleet were possibly all dead now, but I knew my priority was the planet's population. The nearest target I would be able to defend from here would be the Krelli village. My radar detected no airborne vehicles near there, so at least there was a chance I would get there first.
When I reached there, there were several spider-like walking tanks firing towards the shield generators, but in seconds the tanks were less than pools of molten metal, as there was no way they could outmanoeuvre an aerial attack from a Q-wing. At this point I would need to be on my guard for any ground troops using more stealthy means of sabotaging the shield generators.
Sure enough, there were several carrying some rather heavy, probably nuclear, explosives. Fortunately they did not have the will to simply detonate it there and then, which would sacrifice them in the process. The curious thing was that the only person defending the area was what appeared to be a Jedi Knight, except carrying red lightsabre, in the style the Sith used to carry. . Before the two assassins knew what was happening this "Jedi" decapitated them both and caused the bomb to float off, slowly and safely.
About ten of them in response came out of the forest and I shot 3 of them and held fire as the Jedi deflected the blaster shots from them and sabred through them all as if they were paper.
"My name is Syfo Dyas" the young Jedi introduced himself, "I had hoped to be assisted by my instructor but since the invasion started there has been no sign of him".
"And I am Scorlan", I replied, "We can't wait for any further assistance as the Republic Fleet in orbit above Naboo, capital City, Theed, had been almost completely destroyed. The Black Sun fleet will be less than a minute from being able to breach the city."
I would need this person's help, especially as it seemed as if he could single-handedly defend the city again against an army of hundreds. Fortunately the Q-wing had an additional seat which would normally be required if it was used on a bombing mission. During the journey I also noticed a large carrier whip in orbit above heed, no doubt the one under the command of Trokinsis, that would be dropping in soon.
At Theed what few guards there were had all been killed. My wrist-based radar receiver, which was coupled up to the radar on the Q-wing was picking up 48 Black Sun operatives in the area. I suggested at this point we split up at this point, and if we survived this we would swap outfits with the operatives, as no doubt as soon as they saw us, they would alert their colleagues everywhere to be on the lookout for a Jedi and someone in a republic pilot uniform.
I picked up 6 life signs around the corner and after shooting one in the back, I picked off the other 5 before they could react. At this point I saw that all the other life signs were gone. Could Syfo Dyas really have killed them all that quickly? As planned I swapped outfits with one of the operatives and through my comlink asked Dyas to meet me to find an abandoned air car, and meet me at the Northern part of a city, where I could see a star descend, which would surely be the carrier under the command of Trokinsis.
Black Sun, on board Trokinsis' carrier ship:
"At this stage do not use heavy weaponry against the city", Trokinsis' voice boomed through the ship's loudspeakers. "We need to search for anything that we can use to bargain with. Only after that, will the city no longer be of any use to us. We should not meet with any resistance here as there are only 2 life signs, which both appear to carrying Black Sun transponders, so they are likely to be ours."
Sixty troops entered the city in 6 separate speeder tanks. One group went in search of the two survivors…
Scorlan:
I suggested at this point we split up again, when I picked up the sixty life signs coming to the city. I figured we seemed to be able to do more damage separately, and it would also encourage them to split their forces up.
Black Sun:
Ten operatives broke into Theed' palace, the seat of power on Naboo. Here they would attempt to access any valuable computer records for the planet. The expert hacker, Relus, was the one to lead this. However, when he reached the main archive room, he was surprised that Commander Trokinsis had chosen to meet them there.
"We're nearly finished here," Trokinsis told them. "I have no doubt that you will be able to break into the…"
Rather than finish his sentence, Trokinsis shot all ten of them. No reaction time could prepare them to be assassinated by their own Commander in the middle of supposedly congratulating them on their mission's success. Now, any victory Black Sun may have scored would belong to Trokinsis alone.
Scorlan:
It was the ideal deception. No one would ever suspect that Commander Trokinsis was in fact the same person as myself, Scorlan. No one in Republic Intelligence had ever seen the face of Trokinsis and by the end of the day any Black Sun operative who knew this would be dead, and any other possible witnesses would never be taken seriously by the Republic.
I suspected this Jedi must be some kind of Sith. He Could be of some assistance for my long term plans.
Darth Plagueis:
Scorlan told me the remarkable story of he used to be a Black Sun operative but 2 years ago had defected to the Republic, but at the same time was infiltrating Black Sun, and not even Coruscant Intelligence knew that he was posing as the feared Black Sun Commander, Trokinsis. He explained that the carrier ship was fully loaded but would not be doing anything until the Republic cavalry was arriving, as no one in the carrier ship would do anything without his orders. He had even sabotaged the ship so that none of the entrances would open without HIS Remote command.
At this point I could feel a familiar presence from the ship, and when I looked into the distance I saw a red glow cutting through the side of the ship and a dark figure I was sure I recognised emerging.
"I must advise," Scorlan explained, "Black Sun were being assisted by a Sith Lord, one who you may be familiar with. Right now I will have to swap uniforms with one of the dead guards and take on a new identity again. I will seek a career in the Naboo military and publicly you must now know me by my new pseudonym, Cosan Palpatine."