Bridge, Star Destroyer Ignitus
General Kane Latosh, Lieutenant Rann Kicelorn, and Lucir Hea, the three most hated persons by the Kultrian Collapse, were preparing for the battle ahead. Five large Kultrian Collapse cruiser were about to drop out of hyperspace, and the resources for the Alliance were sparse.
Putting down his datapad, Rann looked to Latosh, "How could we let the Collapse go this long? Why didn't we destroy them three decades back?"
The elderly General shook his head, "We thought they had died. When Fancitti was stabbed, and the crew died, we thought Shelit and Zach were the only survivors of the ship. Turns out we were wrong"
All three took a last glance out of the Imperial Stardestroyer's window. One by one, five huge ships appeared out of nowhere.
"This ends tonight, Lieutenant", Latosh gave Rann a pat on his shoulder before leaving.
One of the pilots ran up to Lucir, "We just detected an energy fluctuation nearby. It could be a cloaked shuttlecraft, should we fire at it?"
Rann shook his head, "Let it come. I think i know who it is"
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Akramar II, Hangar Bay 05, Star Destroyer Ignitus
The first Akramar ship had been destroyed during an operation on Illum, but as a gift, Rann had arranged the construction of a new ship, Akramar II. It looked like a crossover from an A-Wing and a YT-2400 freighter. The interior looked exactly like a YT-2400, except for the cockpit.
Lucir entered the cockpit, "We've been cleared for departure, Cor" He dropped into the pilots seat, opposite of his second pilot, Cor Batler.
The ship lifted off and hovered out through the hangar bay shields. Once outside, Cor activated the ships engines and cloaking system.
A hologram flickered and appeared behind them, "I hope you know what you're doing, Lucir", Rann stated as he expressed his worries.
"Don't worry, Lieutenant. The cloaking will keep us from getting picked up by ships and sensors" Lucir assured his commander and shut off the hologram.
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Back on the Ignitus, the ship had entered red alert. All guns were armed, and the ship was prepared to engage the collapse.
Rann ran his hand through his hair as the Collapse ships were arming their own weapons. He was interrupted by his second in command.
"Sir, seven boarding shuttles on approach! Should we shoot them down?"
Rann shook his head, "Negative. This is a fight we have to take personal. We only have to buy enough time for Lucir to destroy the main ship"
He turned around and ordered two of his soldiers with him as they entered the turbolift, heading down to the hangar.
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Akramar soon landed in the hangar of the main ship, uncloaking the ship. He and Cor both jumped out of the escape hatch, sneaking past the soldiers. Cor snuck away towards the engines, while Lucir proceeded to the bridge to finish his former Sergeant.
It wasn't long before Lucir reached the bridge, but Rert had foreseen this action and locked off the bridge.
"Cor, i need you to overload the power reactor. I need to gain access to the bridge", he ordered.
In the power room, Cor was already deep in the system. It only took him seconds to overload the power reactor, causing a shutdown of the ships door locks, allowing Lucir access to the bridge.
As soon as the doors opened, Lucir stunned both the guards and tackled Rert, holding him on the floor, "I've wanted to do this for a wh-".
Lucir was interrupted when he realised the Rert he was holding down was a dummy. Before he could react, Lenka grabbed him by the neck.
"It's been a while, old friend", Lenka pushed a blaster pistol against Lucir's back.
Unable the get out of his grip, Lucir resorted to a last option. He kicked backwards, causing Lenka to fire. As he fired, Lucir took his arm and threw him into one of the windows on the bridge, causing them both to get sucked into the vacuum of space.
Because of the ships crew being drawn to the bridge by the fighting, Cor had been able to rig the ships hyperdrive engine to overload once he the Akramar left the ship.
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On Ignitus, the Alliance was beginning to lose the battle. Rann and Latosh had both barricaded within the cargo hold as the Collapse were trying to cut open the door.
"I hope you have a plan, Kicelorn" Latosh sighed as he pulled a pack out of his blaster rifle.
Shaking his head, Rann dropped against a crate "For once, i don't. They're too many. Three ships down, and this one is beginning to lose orbit. All we can do is hope Lucir and Cor got the hyperdrive rigged"
He looked up as the doors fell down. In the cloud of dust, four figures appeared, two of them seemingly commanding the other two. As they got closer, Rann recognized both faces.
Kana gave a quick glance at Rann, "How low have we fallen?", she took a shot at Latosh, hitting him in the chest.
The other, Rert, walked up to Rann and grabbed him by the throat, "You tried to kill the Kultrian Collapse, but failed. Quite funny really! I'll give you to Mister San'th"
As he hit the floor, Rann noticed the Rodian mercenary, Ikni San'th appeared in the dust. Once he got close, Rann received a kick in the stomach, followed by being picked up and thrown into the wall.
"He's not going to kill him, is he?" Kana asked and walked up to Rert's side.
Rert grinned, "Why? Of course he is. That's the whole meaning of it"
Kana's expression changed to a much more angry one as she took her pistol from it's holster. Somehow, Rert had sensed this and disarmed her, followed by the lightsaber of Jer'hei being pushed against her stomach and ignited.
"Do you really think i did not know? I'm the last leader of the Collapse, and Fancitti gave me the lightsaber of Jer'hei right before he died the first time. I expected you to try and kill me, Kana", he turned off the lightsaber, letting Kana collapse gasping onto the floor.
Meanwhile, San'th had turned his attention from Rann to Kana, allowing his victim to kick him away. Rann grabbed San'th pistol from it's holster and took a single shot, hitting the Rodian in his head.
Hearing the shot, Rert turned his attention to Rann "Seem's like it's you, and me, Kicelorn". He leaped at Rann, slashing with the lightsaber. Rann dodged by rolling behind a crate.
"I'm not going to let you live, Rert" Rann noticed the cylinder containing carbonite, which gave him an idea. He leaped over the crate and directly into the open cargo hold.
Rert charged at Rann, tackling him and pushing him into a crate before slashing again. Once more, Rann dodged by ducking and pushing rert away. The crate broke open, revealing an ancient spear that was supposed to be delivered to the Coronet Museum.
Rann charged at Rert, causing him to stumble backwards. Unexpectedly, Rert reponded with kicking Rann backwards, directly onto the ancient spear he had just cut open. Rann's eyes widened as he felt the stinging pain.
Laughing, Rert turned off the lightsaber and walked up to his impaled friend. Just as he was about to speak, the impaled Rann put all weight on his upper body, kicking Rert in full force backwards into the cylinder with Carbonite. The cylinder broke, and the carbonite poured onto Rert, forever incasing him in it.
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One hour later...
"Captain, i think i found them..." an Alliance soldier stepped over the doors and into the cargo hold. The first thing he noticed was the man in carbonite.
Captain Supim followed the trooper and took a quick glance as he walked into the room.
He walked up to the body of Rann, "Both General Latosh and Lieutenant Kicelorn... Dead..."
The soldier sighed, "Should we call the medic team?"
Supim nodded, pulling Rann off the spear, placing him on the ground infront of it.