The Moldy Crow flew through explosions as Star Destroyers traded fire with Clone Wars era dreadnaughts, and the Corellian Security Forces arrived, firing non stop at the Imperial vessels attacking the Corellian shipyards.
Davin Felth hung on for dear life as Kyle Katarn flipped the Crow in a quick corkscrew maneuver through a dogfight between strange looking Tie fighters and Corsec ships. "Whoa! Six on your left!"
"I see them." Kyle said, flipping the Crow towards the enemy fighters... they had the ball cockpit of a Tie fighter, but thats where the similarities ended. These ships had strange forward slanting wings, with cannons on their bladed tips, blazing green beams of death missing the Crow by inches. Kyle triggered his own lasers, and cursed when he saw shields flare around the Ties. "Damn... they got shields." He turned the Crow directly downward and punched it for open sky.
"Attention Corellian Forces." came a voice through the comm. "This is Corsec officer Corran Horn. I want all ships to protect the Corellian shipyards, we got innocent lives at stake people, lets not allow the Empire a chance to do to us what they did to Mon Calamari!"
Davin looked out the window as several Corellian battlecruisers flashed out of hyperspace, guns opening up at the Imperial ships. "What the hell is the Empire thinking? Dont they know that they have no chance of taking the Corellian docks without losing most of their..."
He was interrupted as suddenly hundreds of sickle wing shaped Tie's suddenly appeared out of nowhere... one moment they werent there, and then suddenly they were everywhere, blasting at the Corellian defenders. "Cloaking devices!" Kyle exclaimed, as he fired at one of the strange looking fighters. "How the blazes? No ship that small has a cloaking device!"
"Try telling them that." Davin said as he watched several Corsec ships erupt in flames. "Looks like they're launching some new kind of fighter from those Star Destroyers..."
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On the Star Destroyer Iron Fist, Admiral Zsinj stood on the bridge overlooking the battle. "Launch the remaining Tie Hunters, Phantoms and Avengers... then prepare the Dark Troopers for launch. Have them raid the shipyards, and take them over personally. Prepare the tractor beams. And get me Loor on the line.. tell him its time for his forces to seize control."
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On the Katana Class dreadnaught Peregrine, Garm Bel Iblis stood overlooking the battle of Corellia. "How many other shipyards have been hit?" he asked, looking towards the comm officer.
"...al.. almost all of them, sir." the young man said, struggling to clear out the mass of confused communications. "Im getting distress calls from Fondor, Kuat, Mon Calamari, Sullust..."
Iblis closed his eyes.. "Damn." He turned towards his nav crew. "Bring the Foehammer and the Shadowguard up to protect our flanks. Corsec needs our help. Set weapons for anti-fighter screen, and bring us into the thick of it."
The Peregrine and its two escorts jumped ahead, towards the middle of the battle.
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Kyle fired again, grinning as he blew another of the strange looking cloak capable ships away. "Seems they dont have much in shields after dropping their cloak." he said, flying towards a group of Corsec X-wings in trouble. "Man the torpedoes, Davin.. we're gonna help these guys."
"Im on it." Davin said, grasping the torpedo controls and bringing up the heads up display. Kyle keyed his comm signal. "Corsec forces, this is Kyle Katarn of the Moldy Crow... might we offer assistance?"
After a second, Corran Horn's voice came back. "Welcome to the party, Katarn. Would you mind terribly getting this sithspawn off my tail?"
"Not at all." Kyle fired a stream of deadly energy into the wing of the offending Tie... whatever... and grinned as it exploded spectacularly. "All clear, Corsec."
"Thanks... form up on my wing.. we need to take the fight to the commander of this little raid."
Kyle smiled. "I got a wing full of concussion missiles if you need them."
Horn's response was full of joy. "And look at that... strangers bringing me presents on my birthday. All right, Katarn... get yourself a nice run towards that Star Destroyers bridge... we'll fly cover for you. Iella, you get his other side." A second X-wing flew up on the opposite side of the Crow. "Im on it." Came a female voice. Kyle flew over the prow of the Peregrine as he headed straight towards the Iron Fists bridge. "Get ready to fire." He informed Davin... who smiled.
"Im on it, buddy.. just get us close enough, and he'll know hes got company."
The Crow flew straight and true. "Fire!' Kyle exclaimed. Davin triggered two concussion missiles in staggered formation. One a split second after the other.
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Admiral Zsinj watched as another Corellian ship exploded with a smile... then he noticed two flashes of light approaching quickly. His eyes widened in terror. "Intensify forward firepower!" he screamed as he dived into the crew pit as the first torpedo hit the shields, flaring them out for a split second... allowing the second to get through...
The torpedo flew upwards, guided by Davin's hand, and struck the left primary shield generator. The ball shaped generator exploded in a huge ball of fire that rocked the Iron Fist. "Shields failing!" One of Zsinj's crew yelled. "Down to 23 percent!"
Zsinj uncovered his head with his hands and looked around. "Launch everything we have, all of it! And get me Zaarin! Tell him we need more help!"