Trek through the Stars.
Chapter 3 Decisions.
Having changed into his M.A.C.O. Armor again David sat down in his command chair, With Mace Windu to his left as he lifted up his head and looked at the view screen. "Sir." and Ensign said "Reports from the Nightmare Moon. Primary systems are operational. Rachel Luna is hailing us, Priority message."
"On Screen." And at that point the main view screen lit up, as Rachel appeared. He was amazed at how perfectly she resembled Luna, except in Anthro form. Her mane filled with stars as her wings behind her were folded tightly as they barely rested over her shoulders. as her hair seemed to flow and move behind her as she gave a report. "Main power, impulse engines, Shields, deflector are on line. Weapons are still off line." She said as images of Kline and Bradly appeared on screen. "Stand by," She said as she patched in a new video feed as at first it was badly distorted and then it snapped clear as it showed General Grievous and Dooku.
The elderly Dark Jedi, looked seriously pissed as Grievous said, "The Republic has a new ship, it single handedly destroyed one of my cruisers! We are in pursuit."
"General, I did not give you permission to launch an attack on Kamino of this type, you will call off this comet strike at once!"
"What was that Count? Our communications are damaged. We are unable to receive audio, but rest assured we will destroy the Cloning Facilities!"
"General..." And at that point the transmission was cut as he was in communication with the other ships. "We will come back for this ship later, set course to Kamino... we will out number the republic fleet twenty five to one." And at that point the communication cut. Rachel came back on screen. "Chakona reports, that the fleet is breaking off their fighters are recalling and they are preparing to enter hyperspace."
"We have to get the Kamino!" Windu said as David turned his chair to face him as he asked a simple question.
"And do what exactly. Get blown out of the stars?" Leaning back in his chair he said, David was annoyed at Windu. "We have two ships that are fully operational. One ship that has operational primary systems, but no weapons. And three ships that are still wounded badly. Missing ninety percent of their crews. What do you want us to do? Take our ships and ram them into the comet, sacrificing all our lives. When we are not even associated with the Republic or Separatists and have no stake in this war."
At this point it was Kline who spoke up as David sat watching Windu impassively. He wasn't up set per-say, but he was annoyed. "That is one of the problems with the Jedi. They think their vaunted force powers, status as republic peace keepers, gives them the right to go anywhere do anything."
Bradly spoke up, "Such as come aboard our ships, which are not affiliated in anyway with the Republic or separatists, And decide that you are in charge simply because we have a Force sensitive on one of our ships. Who has some Jedi Training."
"The other thing," Rachel crossing her arms looking at the top of her bridge on screen and lifted a finger up to wiggle it around in a circle, she said in a slightly sarcastic tone, "For all your vaunted wisdom you don't seem to know when it is wise to listen to others. Especially when we know these ships better than you."
Leaning back Windu inhaled through his nose, closing his eyes and he exhaled. "Very well." He said as David could sense the tinge of frustration from the Jedi Master. Just as Windu started speaking with David again, "I ask..." And at that point David cut him off sharply.
"I agree with the Jedi master." Turning his command chair to the screen. "A comet strike, even a small one will cause planetary devastation Like it or not we are caught in the middle of this war. I can not in good conscious sit back and do nothing."
There was an agreement passed with a subtle nod. "Rachel. Are your sensors intact and fully operational, as well as your slip stream?"
"Yes they are." She said as David closed his eyes and thought. "Here is my suggestion, We transport Master Windu and his troopers to the Chakona, Kline, You can take the Nightmare Moon and the Dragonheart with you. You have a better understanding of military tactics than I do. You formulate the battle strategy to disable that comet and slow it down. Rachel, Windu said the Comet was reinforced. I'll need the Nightmare moon's sensors to find weakness in the Comet so that when the Dragonfire, Chakastra and Karl Galster arrive we can attack the comet with maximum effectiveness."
"Is this acceptable to you Master Jedi Windu?"
"Yes." As Windu leaned back, Kline spoke up.
"As long as Windu respect my command of this ship. I will accept him. And once we arrive at Kamino, We will transfer Windu to a republic command ship. Assuming he doesn't order the republic ships to order us to surrender and prepare to be boarded, we'll assist the republic fleet."
Turning to face Mace Windu, David listened to him as the jedi master said, "You and your friends seem to have a low opinion of the Jedi."
David simply smiled as he said, "As was said, I know Jedi like to come in and instantly take charge of the situation. Just because you are older and wiser than I am. Doesn't mean you being in charge is right. We know these ships and their abilities better than you."
With a deep inhale Windu simply said, "Very well. I will Listen and heed your advice. I and my clone troopers will respect your command, and your suggestion on battle tactics."
"Very well. Lock onto the clones and the Jedi master and transport them to the Chakona. Dragonheart, Nightmare Moon, Form up on my five and Seven Position." And with that The Jedi master stood up.
"May the Force be with you Master Windu. I may be a little late. But if it is at all possible for us to lend any assistance. Rest assured the Chakastra, Karl Galster, and the Dragonfire will be there. Energize."
Leaning back as Windu was enveloped in the transporter energy beam, David closed his eyes as he said, "Stay safe Kline, Commander N'doran." And then finally he pressed a button and sent a message to engineering. "Bridge to Engineering. We need to get operational as soon as possible. If we focused all repair teams on the Karl Galster, then Chakastra, and Dragonfire, what is the ETA of full operational status?"
There was a pause as the voice said, "It might cut repair times down by twenty percent."
"Do it." And with it he watched as the Dragonheart, The Nightmare Moon, and the Chakona begin to move off and then as they moved into an aligned position. They began to warp off. "We need those systems operational."
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Aboard the Chakona, Kline had issued orders the Jedi and the Troopers were to be disarmed. Weapons stored in the armory. And at that point had Windu and his Lieutenant brought to the conference room where Kline had several of his senior staff there. He had learned that their names were Lt. Commander So'kar, a A vulcan male. An engineering officer of course. Ltc Command Lelha. Andorian female Science officer. And his chief tactical officer. A male Benzite. At this point Rachel came in as she was wearing not a gown, but he was surprised at how much like Princess Luna from The My Little Pony show she looked like. Her dark midnight blue fur, on her black uniform, with her mane and tail on proud display. She gave a very tombyish look, slender with some muscled tones. Her wings folded onto her back and held tightly. She wasn't exactly his taste in ladies. but he didn't deny that she was easy on the eyes.
Next came Commander N'doran. The Klingon commander of the Dragonheart. Like most of the crew she was dressed in a standard Star Fleet uniform. With a Yellow Stripe as she and Rachel Luna sat down. Mace Windu and his lieutenant, Slick as Kline had learned, sat down as well. Neither were very happy about being relieved of their weapons. But his ship, his rules. He told them. A view screen came up showing David and Bradly "Alright, Tactical assessment of the Separatist ships."
"We have the superior edge. Their shields are about as strong as the Chakona's and we'll get best results in a direct attack path. But we have the greater movement, speed, and firepower." The Andorian said.
"Their weapons, have a similar out put to federation ship turrets. Not alot of power individually. But when you have hundreds of batteries firing as is typical for these ships sir."
"Death by ten thousand cuts. What about putting a Magnetic charge through the shields? According to what I understand, a magnetic field will contain or repel it similar to how a lightsaber deflects the plasma bolts of pistols."
"Death by a hundred thousand cuts. It will buy us more time. But the problem is for ships around us. The Turbo lasers will bounce off and be redirected. Any friendly ship around us, could easily be hit."
Kline nodded as he turned to face Mace Windu. "Do you know the composition of the Comet in question. Size general dimensions it will help us demolish it." The Question caught Windu off guard. As his lieutenant offered an answer.
"Some rocky ore, with large deposits of Quadranium and Trimantium. However the Seppies have reinforced it with large amounts of Laminanium, as well as shield generators and engines."
"We're not familiar with those materials, at least by those names. What are their properties and uses?" Kline's engineer spoke,.
"Quadranium is used in the construction of fuel tanks, and droids. Trimanitum is used primarily as Star ship armor plating. Laminanium however is the real problem. It can be turned into a liquid at almost any temperature and is used for repairs as it then flows into fill cracks and form emergency seals. The Comet it's self is big. You saw our cruiser we ejected out of? It was at least fifty times our size."
At that point the View screen in the room blanked out as the ship they were in appeared in general shape and it's size was compared to a rocky mass fifty times the size of the ship. "Correct me if I am wrong but Kamino is a water world, no land mass?"
"Primarily." . Master windu said as they watched a water world appear that was the size of Kamino was established as Kline said,
"A Dinosaur killer."
"Dinosaur killer?" Windu asked.
"Estimated Sixty-five millions years ago, an asteroid roughly this size was thought to have impacted my planet, Killing off the majority of the Bio-sphere. Including the dominate life form. Super animals called Dinosaurs." And the simulation showed a planet wide tsunami which would destroy any structure on the planet that would then impact at the other side, and rebound. Followed by the devastation made by falling materials made from the impact."
The Simulation ended with the room quiet. The image of Bradly and David came back online as Kline asked, "Options,"
"I am assuming the Separatists have used military grade shields on it." David said, "How strong is the shield estimated to be? How much of a pounding could it take?"
"It could take the fire from hundreds of Venator class star destroyers."
Windu said as David said, "Then a core breech is out of the question."
"Core breech?" The Clone asked.
"Ejecting a warp core set to explode,.on impact The shield would absorb most of the damage before it over loaded resulting in the destruction of only a small amount. It would also leave the ship in question without main power and a sitting target, If we had the fire power of all our ships, we could bring the shield down and destroy it with our Torpedoes. but The Chakastra, Dragonfire, and Karl Galster won't arrive in time."
"Then we will slow it down." Kline said.
"We can't stop something that massive." Windu Said.
"You can't. We can." Kline said. "Commander N'doran, you looking for a fight."
"These honor-less soulless Pe'taqs will learn to fear the valor of a Klingon warrior." she said proudly.
"Here is the Plan. When we arrive in the Kamino system. The Dragonheart will lead a republic fighter force under the guise of attempting to attack the engines of the Comet to disable them. Commander your real job will be to get as many of their escorts for the engines out of position. If the shields have one weak point, that will be near their engines. Once you have drawn off the majority of the fighters. The Chakona under cloak will move her self into position, drop her cloak and open fire."
"The rear of that asteroid will be protected by dozens of Separatist ships. Your ship will be cut apart before you can do any real damage." Windu said. "And what if they board your ship?"
"We are going to put a magnetic charge through the shields and angle our shields to redirect the incoming weapon's fire to the engines of the Comet."
"You'll turn their own defensive fire against them. Good plan." David said. "That will slow it down."
"We can use Gravity wells to slow it down perhaps even stop it if we can disable the engines." Rachel said.
"And how will stopping hyperspace escape stop the comet?" Windu asked.
"Ah We forget, Gravity well projectors project a shadow mass of a planet into hyperspace to bring ships out of hyperspace." David laughed softly.
"Our Gravity well projectors actually will warp space producing a micro black hole that will exert a strong gravitational pull. Pulling the comet back away from Kamino. This will buy us time for the Dragonfire, Chakastra, and Galster to show up lending their fire support to over power the shields and vaporize the comet. If we can make several passes doing this it will slow the comet to a stop." Rachel expanded.
"We have a plan then." David said, "Providing that someone doesn't alert the Republic officers to this plan."
"Agreed." Kline said to Mace Windu, and Slick. "This plan will only work if everyone believes. These Pilots, have to believe that the Dragonheart is the Chakona, they have to be willing and able to fly fighting to the death. I am not asking you to deceive them lightly. But if even one of them doesn't give a convincing performance. It could expose the plan."
Leaning back as Windu weight the options on his mind. "Very well. It is a solid plan. And the republic can't get enough ships in time to stop this attack. You are the only hope the Republic has of stopping this atrocity."
Over the comms "Sir we are ten minutes out from Kamino."
Pressing a button on the table,. "This is Captain Kline. All hands, Battle stations. Engage Cloaking device. Under no conditions is that comet allowed to hit the planet. All other considerations are secondary. Do I make myself clear? We have ten minutes to refine this plan, make it count."
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Resolute Bridge
Walking across the bridge was Admiral Yularen looked across the gulf of space as the massive comet came at Kamino. Moving towards the Togruta Jedi master. As he said, "General we are unable to get any more help. The Separatists have most all our forces in the outer rim in this region engaged. And we don't have the firepower to get through those shields. We are out numbered twenty five to one. And with our communications being jammed..."
"I sense that help is about to arrive..." And in that moment with a flash of light outside the bridge of the Resolute. Appeared a large starship. The Jedi master and Admiral Yularen watched in amazement as a second ship much smaller that the first also appeared. "Sir!" One of the Clone bridge officers said, "The ships don't match anything in the database." And at that moment came a shimmering light on the bridge. As a large group of individuals began to appear. Officers began to draw their weapons, as the figures materialized revealing who it was, A squad of two dozen clone troopers in armor and Jedi Master Windu.
The surprise and shock of everyone there as they stared in disbelief. "Master Windu." Shaak Ti said and then looking out the window "It appears you have made some interesting friends."
"I don't think I will ever get used to those Transporters." One of the clones said,
"Hey it beats getting shot down in a gunship." Another said as his brother conceded the point.
."I wouldn't exactly call them friends, but they are here to assist us."
Lifting up a golden pin and tapping it as he said. "This is Windu to Chakona, Transport successful."
"Stand-by Master Windu, Let's see if we can't do something about this communications jamming field." A man's voice said.
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General Grievous Command ship Inferno
With Consoles still sparking and sputtering. Grievous narrowed his eyes at the image of the two ships, and he growled, "So the Republic has new allies. I will take their ships myself." At that point one of the Battle Driods began to approach Grievous,
"General, We are receiving some sort of feed back on the Communications Jamming signal."
"What?"
And in that moment across the entire Separatist command fleet their communication arrays began to blow out. As the Communication between ships was cut and consoles that had been almost repaired began to explode. As Grievous watched the two new ships images begin to flicker flash and fade out. The General growled out as he roared, "Prepare for their attack, Launch all fighters! Defend the Comet!" He roared.
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Resolute Bridge
"Sir All communications restored. Receiving incoming signal from the new ships." And a Screen activated on the Resolute Bridge as a young man appeared. "I am Captain Boyce Kline of the USS Chakona. I am here to render assistance. We have a plan and the necessary firepower. But not the protection to destroy that Comet. And it could have very high casualties."
At this point Kline began to explain how the Chakona under fighter escort would attempt to swing around behind the Comet and destroy it's sublight engines. So that they can slow it's approach down to buy time for the arrival of other ships. Of course he made no mention of the decoy attack that the ship the fighters would be following would be leading a distraction attack. It would also allow the Nightmare Moon to begin running sensor scans of the comet searching for weak points in it's structure to enable it's total destruction.
"How can you be sure that you have the firepower necessary to penetrate shields of those caliber?"
"Sir, We've seen the Chakona in combat against the Seppies. If she is given what she needs she can accomplish her mission sir." One of the clones said. Respectfully. as all the Clones stood to attention.
"She is a powerful ship. And right now, our only chance to stop that Comet."
A young man began to approach the group as he had a slight balding streak as Admiral Yularen turned to address him. "Captain Tarkin. Ready the all fighters to launch, Have them report to the Chakona."
The Image of Kline smiled as he said, "I have to prepare for the assault. This is commander N'Doran she will co-ordinate the fighters with the Chakona." And the image focused on the commander. "Transfer appropriate friend foe Identification to us, and I will prepare the assault."
As the communication with their Bridge, Shaak Ti approached Master Windu asa she said. "I sense you do not trust our new friends. Master Windu."
"No I don't trust them. One of the ships that is coming has a padawan on it. He refused to acknowledge my seniority."
"Ah yes the Mystery Padawan." Shaak Ti said.
At this point the Lt Slick came up as he cleared his throat softly standing at absolute attention. Waiting to be called on. "Yes Lieutenant?" She said in a very calm voice looking. "When we were rescued by the Padawan General. His ship and the others had suffered extensive internal damage from an unknown cause. I could understand his desire to keep us out of his hair and from under foot considering how the Seppies could have shown up. He took an extreme risk in providing us protection and shelter. Added to the fact he claimed his people had no affiliation with the Republic or separatists."
"That is true and I can respect that." Windu replied, "But he showed me no respect and threatened to put us back in our escape pods unless I promised to not cause him or his people any harm. That is not the Jedi way." He said.
"If that is the case, then perhaps we should seize these vessels by force after they assist us. Allow them to take damage, disable them. And board them." Captian Tarkin said.
Shaak Ti looked at captain Tarkin as Admiral Yularen lifted an eyebrow. "That is enough. These people have come to aid us in a dark hour. we should not repay their generosity and sacrifice with betrayal. That is not the Republic, nor Jedi way."
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Resolute Hanger Deck
Fighter Pilots scrambled to get to their cockpits as a voice came over their comm channels. "This is Commander Cody. Kamino is as close to a home as any of us clones have. If we fail here. We loose our home and all our brothers. Our new friends out there say they have the fire power to stop that comet, and they are going to be the target of the Seppies and clankers. We have to protect them. And we will not fail them. For if we fail them. We fail Kamino..." And at that point all the clones began cheering and roaring as they launched their fighters and bombers. AS they many Republic warships began to open up and release their fighters.
A dozen Venator class star destroyers began to launch their entire fighter wings. The stage was set, thousands of kilometers away was the separatist fleet, over a hundred war ships were escorting a massive glowing asteriod asa it hurled it's way through the vacuum of space towards Kamino. In the middle of the Star Destroyer formation all the fighters began to line up. Beside the smaller the Large Nightmare moon. With the Nightmare moon in the center of the Star Destroyer formation she pointed her nose at the oncoming.
Over the comms, Rachel said, "Astrometrics say two hours before the Comet's course become irreversible."
"You heard her troopers go go go."
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Resolute Bridge
Rachel was transmitting the Data she was getting on the Asteroid Cross sections and more importantly the surface covered with Droids. Ready and waiting for anyone to try and land on the surface. The location of the shield generators on the surface. They had invested a lot into this operation. With overlapping shield generators. And it had increased their strength considerable the weakness was indeed the engine areas. Pushing out propulsion energy. Finally all Attack wings had been launched as they heard Commander N'Doran interrupt.
"This is commander N'Doran of the USS Chakona. All Fighter wing commands Report Status of your flights." She gave a very hard command as her tone of voice was one that indicated she expected absolute compliance. As the flights ordered she gave orders to two bomber wings and two fighter wings. "Bomber Squadrons, Shadow and Rancor, Fighter Squadrons, Talon, and Eagle. You will hold your position here. Defend the Cruisers and Nightmare Moon. All other Squadrons you will maintain your distance of no Less than thirty no greater that one hundred meters off our aft. If I give an order to scatter, You will comply. If you do not you will die. Your primary targets are to defend this ship from boarding craft."
Sitting down in her command Chair on the screen. "Hail the Confederates."
"On screen." one said. As the communication appeared so did General Grievous. Transmitted to the entire republic fleet the Klingon woman sat down as she scoweled at him,
"And where is your Captain, did I kill him when I drove your ship off?" he gave a taunting laugh as she bared her teeth.
"The Captain is dealing with more important things than a lowly Pe'taq such as your self. I order you and your entire fleet to stand down, and surrender. Or I will destroy your entire fleet."
Grievous burst out laughing as he said, "When I am finished with this world I will crush and annihilate your entire species for your arrogance!" he said as his cackle to her as she said.
"Now you face a true Klingon Warrior in battle. Today is a good day to die Begin attack, Attack pattern, Delta one!" And with that the communication closed.
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Instantly the Dragonheart posing as the Chakona launched forward at incredible speed. The fighter pilots had been told of the ship's extreme speed and maneuverability. But to see it was a shock. It took them a few moments to catch up after they accelerated. The ship was instantly greeted with a large number of fighters racing to her. Crossing the gap of space she began to open fire, as she spun in the void of space unleashing waves of energy fight as the scattered cannons fired. Spreading out a number of red bolts that were a blanketing effect. A large number of white star light torpedoes fired into the areas where the Cannon fire had been avoided in a circular arch, and as they reached the area of the Droid fighters their proximity detonators, the massive area explosions took out large numbers of droid fighters, Mainly because they were not shielded, and those that avoided the torpedoes flew into the random volley of energy fire.
The Squadrons of fighters began opening fire on fighters and boarding vessels that the Dragonheart had missed. The Boarding vessels were not designed o track and move in on a ship as fast as the Dragonheart. The ships would move and climb, dip and dive, faster than anything they had been prepared form. Only one of the Boarding crafts actually succeeded in locking onto the the Dragonheart, but as the ship began to turn and twist so that the spear like core dove through the shields as the ship began a banking turn. The Spear like tip hit the armored hull and instead of penetrating deeply the boarding craft was deflected off the neutronium alloy armor.
Aboard the craft the Piloting Battledroid was surprised. "Hey that wasn't supposed to happen." At that moment the ship turned and banked as a Red lance of energy hit the ship as thousands of droid fighters began to home in and target the vessel. A number of strips began to pull back on the Dragonheart as a point Defense system unleashed a Volley of red bolts of energy as fighter after fighter was brought low. Un-shielded the Droid fighters were throw away troopers. Disposable cannon fodder who's purpose was to over whelm and crush an enemy. Against the power they were now faced with, the words of Admiral Yularen fit perfectly as he watched on his screen, "It's a total slaughter out there. I have never seen a ship with that kind of firepower, or a ship of that size move that fast."
The Dragonheart as she was focused entirely on depleting the fighters. A large number of them began to break off from the Dragonheart, and head towards the Resolute and her support ships. By now further repairs to the system had begin, and as Admiral Yularen had spoken over the Comm, "Nightmare moon, we have in coming attackers. We'll try to keep them off of you."
One her bridge the Equine Rachel smiled as she said, "No need. Now you see them..." She lifted a finger up and pointed at the screen as a probe was fire at the coming group lancing out as fast as any blaster bolt and a dozen kilometers in-front of the incoming attackers. And instantly exploded producing a dark purple expanse of space that began to warp and distort. The Droid fighters caught in the Gravimetic sheer were pulled into the Gravity well. The force of the well was massive as every ship in the area was effected. With the shock going through this system as Captain Tarken said, "Sir, Hyperdrive is off line! We are caught in a gravity well similar to a black hole. And it is pulling in the fighters that were coming at us..." Over two hundred kilometers from the Republic fleet the Fighters were pulled in and for ten seconds the well formed and then collapsed in on it's self, and in that moment exploded. For the mass that held all the debris was evaporated there was nothing holding all that super compacted matter.
The shock wave blasted out over twenty kilometers sending particles and shards of metal at the remaining droid fighters. were impacted by the new effect. Only a handful of the fighters got through. As they moved erratically the Fighters holding position began to intercept as the Nightmare moon continues to perform her scanning of the Comet, allowing the runabouts she carried to aid the republic fighters. Unfortunately one of them managed to get through the defensive screen of blaster fire as the Vulture droid began to ram into the command portion of the Resolute's bridge. There was nothing to be done, as the Jedi Windu and Shaak Ti began to run and call for an evacuation. Crew members jumped out of the pits on either side of the bridge, as the droid impacted causing massive damage and explosions.
The walkway was covered in exploding debris and shards as Admiral Yularen was pulled out of the way only it was not fast enough, as the admiral ran and was pulled down by Mace Windu, a large piece of deck plating hit him in the head knocking him unconscious. Windu began to pull him out as they Reached the bulkhead as it was sealed. On the Dragonheart Commander N'Doran screamed as she commanded, "Hailing Frequencies open!"
And as Grievous appeared on the screen she screen, "You will pay for that with your life!" she screamed and cut the transmission, And at this point the SDragonheart began to change course for the Inferno, changing her tactics from area of effects she entered attack pattern Omega III. And she homed in on the Bridge of the Inferno, Realizing that small ship was about to put all her fire power into this attack he turned and fled, running down the hall as fast as his augmented body could carry him and as he reached the bridge elevator the attack came as the Dragonheart unleashed everything she could. Torpedos, beams, cannons. The wave of destructive energy lanced out as it over powered the shields and torn into the armored hull plating of the Inferno. The armor plating was calibrated for Blaster fire. Not Anti proton weapons.
The turbolaser was the immensely scaled up version of the blaster and laser cannon. Generating the bolt relied on two components: a gas cartridge filled with an energy-rich blaster gas (typically Tibanna) and a power pack. When the blaster was fired, a small amount of gas moved from the cartridge through the Heter valve into the gas conversion enabler chamber, commonly called the "XCiter". In this chamber, the power pack energized the gas, before it passed into the actuating blaster module, where the now extremely high-energy gas was transformed into a compressed beam of intense energy particles, coupled with intense light. The particle beam was then focused through a prismatic crystal or a similar device, which generated a deadly high-energy particle beam, fired from the emitter nozzle as a bolt of glowing energy. Blaster bolts themselves carried no heat. On impact, however, their displacement of matter produced kinetic energy that causes heat:
As a result armor of these ships were designed to protect and shield from these effects. The weapons of the Dragonfire were Antiproton energy weapons, which were the counter part of the Proton. This devastating weapon interacting with normal protons resulted in an effect similar to matter and anti matter colliding. Mutual total annihilation. As such when the weapons punched through the Ray shields of the Cruiser Grievous was on the bolts tore into her hull plating slicing through and doing significant damage. This weakened the structure around the surrounding areas so that as the beams lanced into the structure began carving apart the support. Droids screamed in shock and horror as four torpedo flew from her torpedo tubes and as the bridge was left devastated the ship began to list.
The four Photon Torpedoes seat to high yield included a tenth of an ounce of anti matter as the impacts of the first torpedo impacted the bare hull of the bridge, punched through and detonated in the unprotected interior. The matter anti matter explosion, disrupted the power grid as the explosion ripped through the elevator and it's channel before the blast wave cut down sending the elevator crashing down. The second torpedo impacted the bridge deeper inside as it exploded. more structure and supports were blown away as the ship began to go into a death kneel. Groans as the remaining torpedoes dealt a crippling blow.
The main command ship was out of commission as the Trap was sprung.
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Having drawn all the fire power to her self the Dragonheart had allowed the Chakona, the real Chakona to remain cloaked sneaking up behind the Comet. And then begin her assault. Dropping her cloak she unleashed every ounce of fire power into the Comet to bring down her Ray shields. With four Torpedoes on stand-by Kline smiled as none of the Enemy ships appeared to have taken notice, For the moment, and then when it was realized that a ship had appeared firing on the comet's engines they opened fire. The magnetic charge began to focus all the battle ships turbo laser fire in to the engines, and it took a few moments before the Tactical command droids on the ships realized that the smaller ship was simply deflecting the blaster bolts. Star fleet shields were designed to primarily protect from kinetic damage, but also energy damage. Unlike The technology of the attacking ships where there were two separate shields, Energy shields and particle shields. Because of this nature the Chakona was able to send a magnetic charge through her shields and angle them to the Comet.
Like a door could be magnetically sealed to provide security boost it would reflect blaster bolts, and Turbolasters were just upscale blaster pistols. This caused the shields on the Comet around her engines to fail. This allowed The Chakona on Kline's order to Transport over a half dozen Photon Torpedoes. Transporting them right next to the primary few lines and power generators,. The Droids were were stationed near the engines to protect them turned around as they watched the shimmering light appear revealing a tube like structure. "What's that?"
"Better check it out..." In the time it too for that brief conversation, to occur the three second timer had expired. Resulting in an ounce of matter and anti matter to mix. The resulting blast wave destroyed the Driods around the engine areas in a flash of light. The shock wave ripped through the Comet pulverizing everything in it's path. Normally the material would have been destroyed. Breaking it up, But the ore the Quadranium, Trimanitum both composited with Laminanium, broke apart and refused to shatter. There were large amounts of supporting structures and reinforce the comet. But the explosions, were enough to all but destroy the engines.
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On the Inferno Grievous had suddenly smashed the view screen as he saw the level of damage inflicted, coughing out as he could feel the ship dying under his feet, A scream of unadulterated rage escaped his vocabulator. On another screen he suddenly saw two new ships appear. Large, and instantly he recognized them as being of the same design as the Chakona and that other ship that had deceived him. From these two larger ships. Two beams of Red energy began to lance out as the star light projectiles began to fire in spread patterns. Running Grievous began to run as fast as he could. The elevator has smashed to the bottom shaft and he had forced himself out as his cloak was ripped and torn and he began to watch that ship begin to fire into the inferno, as they relentlessly pounded into the ship. Spreading their attacks out. Grievous raced to the shuttlebay.
Realizing the battle was lost and they could not repel this kind of Firepower. began to attempt to make a withdraw. Only to have a number of Gravity wells produced. The Nightmare moon began to leave the formation of the Star Destroyers and used her ship to trap the Separatist fleet. The creaking and groaning as the ships had their hyperdrives cut out and unable to escape to hyperspace. Their numbers were going to be slaughtered. "The battle is lost, we must return to Separatist space and inform them of the new war ships the Republic has produced."
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With the edge given to him, Bradly smiled with an almost amused. And allowed his Defiant to decloak and race through the debris. the weapons on his ships were not Antiproton but Phased Energy, and he began to make attacks of opportunities. As the DragonFire and Chakastra began to separate their saucer sections for additional fire power. The Karl Galster weaved in and out firing it's cannons torpedoes and phaser arrays at ships that had. Bradly watched and looked on the screen as red areas of ships lit up indicating some ships had lost their shields. This worked good for him allowing him to unleash the full power of his escort on the Separatist's ships. Two torpedoes fired from his ship impacted and all but gutted a section when they exploded.
Bradley "Swift wind" Jackson. Got reports from his officers. of various enemies but also how there was a small ship launching from the vessel and moving away from the fleet. Scans indicate it has a cybernetic organism on board. "Grievous. Alter course to intercept. Hail the Republic fleet."
"Channel open sir!" One of his ensigns said.
"Grievous is attempting to flee the system, I will attempt to cut him off." Bradley said.
"This is captain SilverFang. Pursue and destroy. I repeat pursue and destroy General Grievous. He's too dangerous to be taken alive by your ship. Swift." At this point The Karl Galster began to peel off attacking everything in his range as he began to home in on the ship.
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General Grievous began to bank and swerve in space, as he saw energy weapons fire bear down on him a large number of energy bolts at full power tore past him, a few he only barely avoided by some fancy flying diving down and looping around some debris. he had heard the communication. That was... unexpected. Jedi had always been interested in taking him alive if at all possible This one... had a ruthless streak. He would have to remember that as his scanner showed two other large ships forming on his rear end, and just as he backed behind some debris from a ship he had it explode. Beams fired through the debris he realized if he did not get out of the area he would be destroyed. He couldn't go into hyperspace in the debris field or he would enter hyperspace in pieces. And he couldn't escape the effect of the gravity wells unless he got free of the debris.
There was only one option, to disable the safety of his hyper drive to allow him to make a hyperspace jump, while inside a Gravity well. "Curse you Jedi I will destroy you myself Silverfang!" And at that point he change direction as the ship made a hard right to the edge of the debris field and then just as he cleared it a massive blast of energy ripped through space at him as he engaged his hyper-drive, and just as the energy blasts reached him he was gone as the blue tunnel of Hyper Space surrounded him. He instantly turned it off so he could reset the Hyperdrive, and engage more set Co-ordinates
And moments later just as those computations were finishing, the very ship that had been ordered to destroy him appeared. "HOW?!" and he instantly began evasive maneuvers with no debris behind him the ship began to open up Volley fire spreads as Grievous began to try and get into position for his next hyperspace jump as the ship closed in on him . And finally as he had the co-ordinates locked in he had to activate the hyper drive without the safeties online, and then he once more jumped into hyperspace narrowly avoiding the energy blasts.
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As Grievous had jumped away Bradley said, "Track him!" He stood up as the scanners at their post did their job. "Sorry sir...No sign of him exiting hyperspace on his course. He must have been willing to stay in it for a longer period of time. If he comes out now he will be beyond our sensor range,"
Bradley nodded, "Alright you did your best back to Kamino." he said as his ship turned around and warped back to the system. He could see almost all of the Separatist ships had been destroyed "Open Channel, Sorry Silver, he got away."
The hail came back, "Alright, To all ships let the Separatists go. We have to turn our attention to this comet. We'll need all our fire power to obliterate the thing. All power to weapons, arm all torpedoes." Bradley nodded as his crew manned their stations working the controls as he said, "This is The Karl Galster, ready to attack on your mark..."
He heard the Dragonheart, The Chakona, the Chakastra, Nightmare mood, and the two chevrons report in. And at that came one word from Silver fang. "Concentrate all your fire onto the following location. Be ready in case we need EPA1"
/Escape Plan alpha 1./ Bradley thought. /That would be a fine thank you from the republic, if they did indeed try to capture these ships. But Silverfang iss sure it would happen./ And oddly Bradley also expected it. And at that point all ships got the order to open fire. As then attacked the Comet on one point, this broke through the shields instantly even the strongest shield generators could not withstand that kind of attack. Torpedoes fired as the ships began to fly through the comet and explode in the middle as the comet finally broke apart into smaller fragments as the nightmare moon fired a gravity well as the rest of the shields began to fail. Exposing the Comet to proper attacks.
And as one every ship fired large numbers of Photon and Quantum Torpedoes. the weapons impacted and the explosion could be seen on Kamino the Comet bombarded by massive amounts of energy simply vanished in a cloud of debris. And that cloud had been pulled into the gravity well before it evaporated and then finally exploded dispersing all the remaining fine particles across the system.
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Sitting down on the Battle Bridge, David closed his eyes and he said, "Order reintegration." He could see the saucer section beginning to sweep around slowly, as the Dragonheart began to pull into her berth. Closing his eyes he was told the republic fleet was hailing them. David of course held his hand as the ship began to pull back together. Eight ships had now become four. As the Chakastra, Dragonfire, Karl Galster, and Nightmare Moon began to pull together. The Republic cruisers were beginning to approach, The Resolute was damaged as he received words that all systems were locked down and they could go to warp at any time.
"Open Hailing Frequencies. " And his screen opened up as he saw Captain Tarkin, . Clearly a much younger man than the one who ordered the Death Star to destroy Aalderaan. But to his near Photographic memory it was clearly the same man.
"This is Captain Tarkin, In the Name of the Grand Army of the Republic, I order you to surrender your vessels, and prepare to be boarded."
"We just took out a fleet twenty five times your size... You know what. I don't feel like arguing. Goodbye Tarkin." And with that David lifted his hand up and offer a wave good bye to Tarkin with just a few fingers. And at that point the communication cut as the Star field began to pull back and then the ship jumped to warp. All ships accounted for. as the began to head out of Kamino. Communicate between all four ships came back online as Kline said,
"After that little show we put on I can't say I blame him for his action."
"No me either. But I am not giving up this ship." Rachel said., "Tarkin... Wasn't he... "
Realizing where Rachel was going, "Perhaps we should get some rest and recover before he start going on about the who's who and what has happened. I want some dinner, I want to get cleaned up, and I want to go to bed. It will give us a chance to collect our thoughts. when we meet. Say fourteen hours? How long can you all maintain this speed before we have to drop out of warp?"
Getting answers from his friends David closed his eyes, "Alright let's hold this speed for another two hours before we drop out of warp, and catch our breaths. put in our final repairs. Let's meet on the Dragonfire in fourteen hours?" He offered as it seemed to be a good idea accepted as they could chill and relax. As Commander N'Doran came onto the bridge she cursed,
"Those ungrateful..."
"Commander, would the Klingon empire have done anything less? if their technology was comparable to the Republic's technology?"
After a few moments, "Yes sir, they would have simply attacked and attempted to take the vessels by force." She said
"Ok We are going to continue on this course for two hours. Drop out of warp, and complete our repairs. Until further notice or we sort out the duty roster, Commander N'Doran. You are my XO. Try to find a fair shift rotation for the crew. But I want at least a third of the crew on duty at all times."
"We could go to a planet and buy a bunch of droids to man our ships." Bradley said as it struck a memory inside of David despite how tired he was.
":No, our ships are not set up for droids...But if we installed Holographic emitters on all decks..."
"We could man our ship with a holographic crew..."
"We'll focus on the Nightmare moon, Karl Gaster, Chakastra and Finally the Dragonfire. Unless you have objections David." Kline offered, "It would also be a good idea to keep the Chakona and Dragonheart fully maned and ready for launch at all times."
"Good idea. Commander, see to these things... I am going to my quarters going to eat, get cleaned up, and then go to bed. I don't want to be bothered unless it's an emergency." David said extremely fatigued before he headed to the turbolift to his quarters...
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Curoscant Supreme Chancellor's office
Looking at the hologram of Captain Tarkin, and Mace Windu The Jedi Council members Yoda, Kit Fisto, and Obi-wan Kenobi. For one of the few times in his term as Supreme Chancellor, Palpatine was upset. "And what madness possessed you to Order those ships to surrender, and prepare to be boarded?" Palpatine had stood up.
"Sir General Windu said that he didn't trust them. I felt it would be wise..."
"Wise?" Palpatine accused him. "Captain Tarkin, An unknown government has made contact with the Republic, Discovered the attack on Kamino involving a comet strike, and as Master Windu said, In good conscious could not sit back and do nothing, coming to our aid. And you just told them Thank you by, Surrender your vessels and prepare to be boarded. And now I must resolve this crisis."
"Sir...I," Tarkin was caught off by Palaptine.
"You are reduced two steps in rank, and this will go on your permanent record. Unless you wish to tender your registration?" Palapatine was deadly serious as he looked very adamant."
"No sir. I will assume my stations." Tarkin said Reluctantly as Admiral Yularen came up. As Tarkin left the hologram.
"We are Fortunate that they did not turn their weapons on us. Although... their withdraw was very fast."
"Indeed," Jedi Windu said. "I would have to admit they went into Lightspeed much faster then expect almost as if they anticipated this course of action."
"What do you mean Master Windu?" Kenobi listened as he stroked his beard.
"I was transported to the Chakona before they entered Warp Speed. Their version of FTL. Not Hyperspace. It took time for them to align their course. And enter it, it took their a moment or two. This was almost instantly. I think they anticipated it."
Moving to sit down as the Chancellor sat behind his desk. "Master Windu, Admiral Yularen. I need you both to return to Curoscant as quickly as possible to deliver a full military report on these ships. Count Dooku, has a habit of intercepting, our data. I need this information securely delivered." Turning to Padme Amidala. "Senator, I will have to convene an emergency session of the Senate. And ask them to dispatch a representative to solve this diplomatic incident. I would like you to prepare to depart immediately."
"As you wish Chancellor, With your respect, I would like your current adviser Master Kenobi to accompany me. I am certain that as your personal Representative he can assist me in smoothing over diplomatic relations."
Kenobi was surprised at her request. Ever since the death of her husband Anakin she and he had not been able to speak with him. Although Anakin did defy Jedi tradition of not taking a wife until after he had become a Master and had the council's permission. Things had been tense between them, and there had been no chance for them to speak. "I would be honored Senator. But how do we find them, they could be anywhere by now."
"That may not be a problem." Master Windu said. And showed a Golden pin in his hand with a stylized Arrow head design. "Captain Kline gave me a communication device. And it is possible that with their cloaking device, they could still be in the system listening. Although I don't sense their presence. "
"My lady Please make ready your preparations. May the force and luck be with you and Master Kenobi." Palpatine said.
"Then we will rendezvous with you in the Kamino System Master Windu." Padme' Amadala said.
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After notes This is an AU star wars universe where the Jedi Are not required to totally forgot attachment or relations ships. But there are Rules and traditions that are strongly imposed. Remember I am trying to focus on story and plot. I have had this plot boiling around in my head for YEARS now. And Had to get it out. I do accept reviews, even negative reviews. Hateful reviews will be deleted how ever.
I will now post a chapter or two of Rise of Dragons before returning to this story.