The Bioenginered wall came into view, the secret entrance, still concealed behind a slight filmy membrane, welcomed Verak and Veramus as they walked towards it. The membrane had a special communication device, it communicated with a special peice of coral implanted in Veraks brain, it was only one was so he couldn't be controleld by the membrane, when he approacehd it, it would reced and let him exit or enter the compound via the secret exit. Verak walked over to the membrane and it receded before him. He walked in and the second set of membranes receded, what he saw was not pretty.

There were vong vorpses littering the streets, Verak walked further in and then noticed a shadow decending apon him. Verak twisted out of the way and caught the figure in the back with his elbow, smashing him into the ground. Verak looked down at the man, not man but yuuzhan vong warrior.
"Soldier stand attention to your leader!" Veramus said. The warrior looked at Verak and then at his arm.
"Sir!" He immediantly stood up and saluted fist to chest. Verak was about to salute back but his arm was missing so he just nodded.
"Warrior, what happened here?" Verak asked.
"After you left with your regiment to attack the infidel base, the infidels, they seemed to attack very soon after you left, they navigated our defences and eliminated our perimeter guard easily, many of us fled to the central building to attack in force, but they have the upper hand, i do not believe that we can win this fight" The warrior saluted again and stood rigid prepared for any response. Verak patted him on the shoulder.

"Go, with Veramus and gather all the vong warriors that you can, we are leaving this planet, the infidels have scared it beyond repair" Verak turned around, he heard another salute from the soldier. He looked out at the area sorrounding his location, it was ruind, explosion marks over walls, warrior bodies in the streets, it was appalling. He turned around and signaled for Veramus and the warrior to move out, the warrior turned and gestured for Veramus to follow, Verak stood there motionless planning his next moves, no dought this would be his hardest challenge yet. He snuck around the corner, heading towards the central building.

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Cotez stood onboard a lambada class shuttle, it was to evacuate the troops needed of the planet during the battle, he was to join warren on his command cruiser when it jumped into system, he would help people be evacuated to the second fleet. He looked around the shuttle, so, he would soon be involved in a great victory, or defeat. Cotez sighed and looked towards the docking area, supplies were being loaded into saftey areas. He could also see outside into the landing area, it was filled to the brim with similar ships, freighters and fighters. Cotez was amazed at the amount of sips that were here, a great sortie of planet, people were calling it. He knew now that things like this were small in comparison to other places but he still felt that it was surprising. He turned to the captain of the shuttle, Cotez would be with him during the 'sortie', they were evacuating key materials and several key personel. Cotez beleived that to much trust was being put into him, but when he confronted Warren he simply said that this is how you learn.

Cotez walked over to the captain and sat down in the co-pilots seat.
"So what do you think our chances are sir?" Cotez asked.
"Humph, call me James, and i beleive that we have a high chance of victory aslong as we work together to the best of our abilities" James had been under the leadership of Warren since the start of the war with the vong. He had known Warren for five years, and during that time James had moved up to the rank of Captain, one rank under Colonel. Cotez stood up from the chair and walked into the cargo bay, the materials were almost fully loaded. Cotez sighed this wound be his first space engagement, well not really an engagement for him but, he would be in much more danger than the people on the ground. He was going to get shot at, alot. He walked back to the co-pilot seat and sat down.
"What is our estimated time of departure?" Cotez asked. James turned to several instruments.
"Roughly two hours" James replied. Cotez sat back and savoured this peace, for soon the battle would begin.

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Verak walked silently between two yorik coral huts, he could see the enemy at the end of the alleyway between the huts, he knew that was the only way that he could get to the main building. The distinct sounds of battle echoed into the valley and the infidel shifted and turned towards the main building, he caught a look of Verak in the corner of his eye and cursed, turning around he fired his blaster, Verak dived behind cover and fumbled in his pouch for a thudbug. He flipped around the corner and threw a thudbug at the soldier, this soldier was far more skilled than his counterparts, he dived away behind cover and began firing again. Verak took a shot in the shoulder, the recoil smashed his shoulder back he fliped around and landed three feet behind his previous positon. In that time the infidel called for reinforcements, Verak cursed silently and grabbed his amphistaff which was wrapped around his waist. He advanced slowly, careful of any attack made by the infidels, he burst forward as fast as lightning and flipped of a wall avoiding a blaster shot, as he came down he slashed across the chest of one of the infidels, then rolled along the ground talking out the legs of another, then he sprang up and shoved the amphistaff through the last infidels head. Letting the body fall to the ground lifeless he climbed up onto the top of one of the yorik-coral huts and jumped from one to the other towards the main building, which he could see was embroyaled in battle.

Verak crawled towards the edge of the last yorik-coral hut, looking on at the battle he saw the vong battling to the last inside the main building, it was a grand hut, or cathedral. It was built for the sole purpose of coordinating battles and housing the elite on teh planet, it was at least 14 stories tall, its spires reached into the air, at the top where plasma launchers used for shooting down enemy fighters or landing craft. Verak looked around for a place to sneak into the main building, he found a small alcove protected by a wall, he could climb over the wall into the main building, just as he was about to jump down, his pocket vibrated, he pulled out a minature villip.

"Commander Verak Sir!" Veramus's familiar voice erupted from the villip.
"What is it Veramus?" Verak asked, he leaned back from the edge and sheltered the villip with his hand to avoid and sound escaping.
"We have made a small strike force, we are prepared to move on your order" Verak looked over at the main building, it could not hold out much longer.
"Very well, attack at once, i will attempt to enter the building via stealth, once i am in i will organize the defence and we can crush them from both sides" Verak nodded and silenced the villip with a stroke of his hand.

Verak pulled himself to the edge of the hut and looked out at the main building awaiting the attack. Shortly he could see a group of vong travelling on the otherside of the compund from him, they were travelling light and had an amphistaff and others had thudbugs. The troops with thudbugs came to a stop at the closest hut and climbed up the side of it, standing on the top they let out a cry and began throwing thudbugs down the the attackers, they turned around and several were hit with thudbugs, the ones that reacted in time began to fire only to be attacked by the warriors still on the ground. Several squads of infidels began running towards them from the entrance of teh compund, and more came from the sorrounding alleyways. Verak took this as his time to move, jumping from his hiding place he sprinted across the open ground as fast as he could, he reached the wall withoue being seen, he jumped up and caught the edge of the wall, then he climbed up and jumped over to the otherside, when he hit the ground he saw several infidels placing charges, he howled and charged them, cleving them apart. When he reached the last one, he stopped, the infidel was carrying a small round object, a thermal detonator as the infidels called them.

"Stay back or i will kill us both!" The infidel yelled.
"Fool!" Came a voice from the alcove, a thudbug sliced through the air and smashed into the infidels hand, he droped the device and Verak prung forward and impaled the infidel on his amphistaff. Verak turned to look at his saviour. Veramus walked through the carnaged towards Verak and saluted, then kneeled before him.
"Veramus" Verak said "Stand" Veramus looked at Verak with eyes wide open, commanders were not normally supposed to talk to inferiors like this.
"Veramus, thankyou, you are my greatest leiutenant, i have decided that i will defeat my brother and claim his rank as i deserve, will you follow me, will you help me acheive my victory?"
"I will Verak, I will" Veramus saluted and kneeled again.

"Now, we need to capture a transport for our troops, we are going to evacuate, go to the troops and tell them to retreat into teh innar sanctum, there is a private transport there for myself, it can house many warriors" Verak nodded at Veramus to leave, Veramus stood straight away and ran towards the door. He stopped then turned around and saluted again, Verak saluted aswell, then Veramus turned to leave. Verak rand after him, but did not follow him down the hall towards the entrance, but he ran towards the inner sanctum, to his private chambers. When he arrived he found his transport there un-damaged, he walked towards the organic console and put the hood over his head, he saw what the ship saw and he saw several dozen troops headng towards the entrance to the transport. Once they had entered Veramus came to the cokpit and joined Verak, Verak took of and flew throw the visual illusion that was the top of the main building, he flew towards the yuuzhan vong fleet, intent on taking what was his.

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Comerack stood overlooking the planet from his observation platform, this planet was insignificant compared to the amount of planets that existed in this galaxy or any galaxy for that matter, however, this planet still proved to be a great thorn in his side. He had fought of many attacks by infidel ships and raiding parties. He realised that this planet was eating up his forces very, very wuickly, he needed to end this battle as fast as possible. One of Comeracks subalterns ran up and bowed before him.
"What is it?" Comerack asked, his tone lacking any real interest.
"Your brother Verak has boarded the ship and is on his way here" The subaltern said, he crouched low and bowed to Comerack and returned to his station. Comerack growled, How dare he come before me before he acheived his victory, i hear that he has failed in his battles. Comerack grinned this was a perfect excuse to get rid of his brother once and for all. Comerack walked over to his throne cahir and sat down, it was not long before Verak appeared at the entrance with his enterage. Verak walked up to Comeracks chair and bowed before him.

"Brother i have come seeking forgivness for my loss, it was unforseeable and i have paid penance" Verak gestured to his missing arm. Comerack grinned his brother was missing an arm, he thinks that this will be his repentance, Comerack grinned. Something silent crossed Veraks face he grinned and raised to face Comerack head on. Comerack stood, Verak gestured to his enterage, they walked to the gurads in the rooms and attacked them, impaling them to the walls with their amphistaffs. Comerack growled. "What is the meaning of this!" He yelled. Verak grabbed Comerack by the throat slaming him back into his chair, then he bought is foot down on Comeracks chest kicking the wind out of him. Then Verak put his head next to Comeracks ear and whispered..
"I am succeding you!" With that Verak drew his amphistaff and impaled Comerack to the chair, he shoved it through his chest, instantly killing him, then he ripped it up through his kneck and to through his head. Verak turned around and held the amphistaff aloft with his brothers blood.

"All those who wish to follow me bow down now, for if you do not follow me i will kill you" He wrapped the amphistaff, still stained with his brothers blood, around his waist and ripped the command baton out of Comeracks dead hands. Verak turned around and was pleased to see that everyone in the room was bowing before him. He grinned, Excellent!
"Spread the word, i have succeded Comerack, i will lead this battle group to great glory, recal all ground forces, we will bombard this planet until it is a lifeless husk in space" Verak pushed aside his brothers body and sat down in the command chair, his chair now, his brother was dead, his rise to the top had just began...

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"Red one come in!" James called.
"Red one here" Came the reply over the comm.
"Run checks now, we have a five minute countdown unti lift of, it is getting pretty heavy up there." James replied, the lift offs had started thirty minutes ago, since then they had been getting fragmented reports of unusually well organized vong ship placements. four out of fice transports had been shot down, luckily there were limited personel and items on them, however their envoys were also shot down, a great loss. They were assigned red squadron, a high ranking fighter squadron under Warrens command. The fleets were due to revert any minute, they needed to run the gauntlet to get there safe.

"Red one remember, tight formation, these goods are of the utmost importance, priority 1, do not turn to engage the enemy, concentrate all fire to the front, the rear reds will defend our backsides" James was an ace landing craft pilot, he had piloted many rescue missions in this war, he knew what he was doing.
"Understood sir!" Red one replied.
"Grey 6, you are a go for launch!" Came the call from, the comm. Cotez buckled himself into the co-pilot chair and waited for james's signal, james nodded, and Cotez fried up the engines.

"Red one prepare for launch!" James said as he grabbed the throtel and the control stick and began to lift off. The land began to reced from view as red flight took up defensive positions around grey 6. Cotez sighed, this would be a great battle where he would be tested to his limits. He looked on as a flight of coralskippers headed their way, this was far too soon for them to be coming towards them He thought, He looked at the scanner and realised that a massive portion of the fleet was moving to block the retreat.

"Command!" Cotez said into his comm.
"Yes grey 6?" Came the reply
"We have confirmed skippers heading towards our position and we beleive that a portion of their fleet has moved into position to halt our retreat what are your orders?" For a time there was only static then...
"Your orders are to continue on your current course, the fleet should be there soon to cover your retreat if it isn't then you will immediantly hyperspace sump out of the system, to these coordinates, there you will await further instructions." Cotez nodded, and turned to james.
"Are you ready?" James asked grinning, he thought that this was the best part of piloting, looking in the face of death and laughing. Red flight began firing proton torpedos at the incoming coralskippers, they exploded doing mass damage, however another wing of coralskippers was behind the first one and reinforces it, the transports guns began firing aswell, the coralskippers came within range and began firing their weapons, Red flight began manouvering around the incoming fire. A Group of coralskippers appeard on the scanners, but not infront of them behind.

"James, they are behind us!" Cotez yelled, James put the transport into evasive manouvers, one of red flight was hit and exploaded. Not good...