The Clouds Align For Battle
Chapter 25: The Battle of Shanev
I own not those situations I borrow from Disney Properties, Lucas, Mechalich or Thomas Benjamin DeMayo. This is a dramatization from my mind on a character created from the meld of table gaming and so on. Special thanks to ideas Drew Karpyshyn and Tim Lebbon fermented. Special thanks to Morihei Ushiba who formed Petre with his wisdom. Like any mind construct this is an exercise and my own work building on other ideas from the past.
This is a Zeison Sha story, set in what is known as the Star Wars EU.
Manaan space
Shanev
BBA
The Force is interconnected, waves travel like tsunami over time and space, some instantly but some even if you are listening take time. This was not that time as Ral Gorgon on her star destroyer Executor looked through the data and the Force equally. A gathering of rebellious forces had been here, two groups it seemed. One headed toward the Kalat Arm which was even at this distance a cacophony in the Force, another made raids on military targets inward.
Chance, they are not connected her insight told her. The raids on "secondary" shipyards where the Crescent parts were built concerned her more than the Force Storm on Shanev. It was too remote and the Calimari shipyards building craft concerned her more.
The all out rebellion she hoped for had begun.
"Admiral, Send the Repressor to Shanev to trace that path." she ordered through her comlink before coming to a holocom terminal where she waited to be conferenced in by the rest of the knights of Ral with a chorus of "Yes Lord Gorgon" signaling the start.
"Invictus, investigate the Rebel attack on Mahsdum with your battle group, find out what they know. Jiandie you go to Tatooine and look for our missing scientist. The rest of you continue finding out what has the Black Sun so stirred up and find Prince and Princess."
"As you wish Lord Gorgon." They intoned before she cut the link "Admiral, take me to Sullust, we need to provide humanitarian aid there after those earthquakes."
"Yes Lady." The Admiral said. My ascension is right on schedule.
Jahn crouched on a tree branch in deep concentration as his asawa ko and her mate joined his meccha derro linked droids in battle with the inquisitors below.
I am never alone, for the Force is with me
I am never defenseless for the Force is my shield
I am never ignorant for the Force guides me to knowledge
I am never helpless for the Force is my tool
His winds stopped flying diskblades, the fog absorbed blaster shots should they come and the vines made easy footing difficult. He truly had created everywhere and nowhere.
A branch cracking reached his ear bringing him instinctively to himself firing his battle suit down to swoop to another tree as a diskblade smashed the top off the spot he vacated.
"You indeed would have been worthy of my Ti'na if you were not so enamored with cheap tricks." Akumi said from another tree as the large trunk fell like a flyswatter toward the ground. She felt his vision focused now not on the entire battle but upon her and the figure of Ni'ko, in the path, below.
"You must always be aware of your surroundings, mindful of the consequences of action." He recited a Petre favorite in his mechanically augmented voice to her. Even as the Dark side tempted him with reaching out with rending Force to quarter her body and end her "ridiculously stupid against all rules and concepts of the Yanab vendetta." He instinctively sped his cyclonic Force draw up to centrifugally remove the darkness aimed at him and grasping at him, banking it would land on his foes or deflect their attacks.
Ni'ko heard the sound and felt the warning from above and moved with Sha Soresu speed out of the path of the falling timber. His partially vine fettered but lightsaber bearing foe turned her skills full defensive to weather this and cut through an ally driven by a droid into her reach for a second time before the droid produced a knife and launched stabbing one of her arms as the trunk smashed the three to peace forever.
Jannma having dodged like her foe did the deadfall had a split second because of the newly increased space for a decision.
Yes now would be a good time came Petre's voice in her head.
Her Butterfly Blades, the Signature weapon of the Liger were sheathed in a flash and two tubes leaped to her hands with a satisfying smack.
"You like lightsabers?" she sang to her foe tauntingly moving like a feline "Time for a lesson on use." And her alto pitched light violet blades sang into harmony as she took an unusual Jar Kai stance.
"I like it when my victim quits holding back." Jenro snarled as Djem So was his favorite technique but those damn grasping vines had made him rely on defense. But now, his anger fueled by his frustration, they were out of that morass up a side camber of the 200 meter wide bowl. Time for her to feel the FULL FURY of the Dark Side!
He reached his hand out to set his Force lightning upon her reveling in its power.
She calmly blocked it by sheer Sha Soresu instinct with her blades before responding. "I am almost impressed." She sang mockingly, almost cat like as she closed even before her foe finished expending his energy.
The blows, faster than the eye could follow as she danced and spun around him in varying speeds angles and power were breath taking in artistry and ferocity.
The other combatants noticed as much as Ni'ko and a droid were facing off even as Jahn and Akumi looked for an opening on each other in the trees.
"You do know, L'ran lives and awaits for you to find the light inside to seek him." Jahn said in his sonorous mechanical voice while parrying her diskblade shooting it back at her.
"YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO SPEAK HIS HALLOWED NAME!" Akumi raged. Suddenly Jahn leaped from his tree toward Ni'ko, his opponent stepping back as another seemed to enter their fight.
Then Ni'ko felt words in the Force. Family Right of First Chasten. A Yanibar rule, sprung to his mind as Jahn used repulsors in his hands and feet to avoid her swooping diskblade which came close enough for Ni'ko to catch as the second droid was eliminated by his opponent.
Switch Jahn suggested in the Force. Ni'ko nodded and turned to his mother as Jahn turned to his new foe, a Zeltron burning with passion and loving every second of the battle.
"Your sister and mine is tearing up the sky as we speak, so much for selling the weak one to slavery." He said as an electro staff from the fallen droid snapped to his hand and then to life. "Surrender and I may be able to heal you enough to survive. Your other choices are run and hope the empire does not catch you, disengage and explain to your superiors or fight leaving the Force to decide." Soren considered his options before leaping into battle hoping the staff play the droids showed was the extent of this lad's skill versus his lightsaber.
On the ground, many races led by a pair of Kyuzo all decked out in various ranger gear slaughtered wave after wave of infantry while still moving fast. They did this to not allow superior numbers to overwhelm them with superior firepower.
"So the Liger was taking all this storm trooper flack on by herself?" Paco asked Streehn as the four man team moved for the …. Well they lost count of moves, or even where they were in the battlespace.
"Yep." Streehn said in deadpan, shoot move dodge move shoot throw knife. "Endless."
"Damn wonder this place is not bloody red!"
"Ruusan is red." Steehn answered.
Lyi Chinwe, her lekku twitching unspoken words to the major led the commanders to the last remaining working ARC star fighters in the stone hanger.
"Get in, get up and make shots count!" she heard and felt the storm troopers in the base led by two Kadilimen as they slaughtered the former slave rearguard advancing.
"I have a bad feeling about this." Dar'n said calmly.
The command team, used to giving orders to the Sha took her suggestion to heart boarding and flying off as she and Dar'n stood between them and the oncoming wave of soldiers.
Overhead Shay saw a wing squadron approaching the attack fleet which was now putting a serious dent in the AT-AT population. "I need a touch of help, not many say three warbirds on Pinky please. TX cords 4." She said calmly on their combat channel. With that she wheeled "Pinky" her striped intruder toward the hairball approaching.
