Ch9 A Symbol of Destruction
Ryloth 19.7 ABY
Inside the luxurious palace of Tyber Zann the twisted crime lord sits quitly inside his quarters signing several contracts and carefully accounts for all of his funds. Tyber always aware of his suroundings heres someone walking quickely towards him. He then reaches for his blaster and then realizes its his right hand man Urai Fen. He justs looks up at him.
"What is it Urai?"
"Tyber we have a problem, we've been exposed and now a fleet of almost fifty Imperial ships have come out of hyperspace east of our space station, what should do?"
"Damn this does present an issue, what's our Urai?"
"Right now we have a fleet of 6 Crusaders gunships, 6 Interceptor VI frigates, 3 Vengeance class frigates, 1 Munnificent class frigate, 1 Aggressor class destroyer, and 2 Kedlabe battleships. Their engaging the enemy now. But they wont last. What are your orders Tyber?"
"Have that fleet continue to keep the Imperial ships busy. Signal all of our key ships, troops, and personnel and have them regroup with my flagship. Have the rest our troops stay here as a decoy to cover our escape, we need to evacuate now. It will only be around twenty minutes before Imperial ground troops start landing on our front door."
"Should we rig the palace to explode?"
In most cases Tyber wouldn't think twice to sabotage his own fortress to slow down his opponent but he knew that it would take to long.
"Normally I would Urai, but we don't have time to, we have to move now."
"Right away Tyber."
The two crime lords rush off to make their escape. They run to the the palace com room and signal their elite and VIP personnel and spring to the hanger and board a dropship.
On Board the Devastator II Jadex watches the battle closely. His fleet was ripping the rag-tag pirate fleet to shreds. The Devastator II closes in on a Consortium Vengeance class frigate and bomdards it with proton torpedos. The torpedos blow off its left mass driver turret and begins decend down towards the planet, where burns up in atmosphere and explodes.
"Commander Dellis those two Kedlabe battleships may cause some trouble concentrate fire on those two ships then press onward so we begin landind troops."
"Yes sir, Lieutanant you heard him fire for effect on the Kedlabe battleships." the Lieutanant then orders the surounding vessels to begin fire.
A groupe of five Venators and four Victories engulf the two battles ships with plasma and warheads. Four of the Venators move in even closer to broadside them, while the rest of the task force fires on the bow of the two ships. The two Kedlabes are being tworn apart. Nearly all of their weapons emplacements and vital areas have been destroyed. One of the Kedlabes remainging mass drivers managed to get a lucky shot at one of the Venators and blew one if its heavy turbolaser turrets up, before getting shot by the Venators other cannons. After about five minutes of shelling the two battlships were limping badley. To finish them a group of Tie Bombers fly in and start unloading their payload on them. One of the bombers missiles hit a weakened section of the hull near its reactor and puncturing it. The reactor overloads and explodes, taking half the ship with it. The other battleships bridge was blown away by torpedo fire and was rendered useless.
"General we have destroyed the Kedlabes, we can now postion the fleet to deploy ground troops."
"Good, begin landing your troops. Have the entire ARC battalion storm the palace right away, see to it personley, the rest of our ground troops will land outside the perimiter of the palace and attack the Consortium so called army. I'll remain here and finish off their fleet and destroy there space station. We'll make sure none of them try to escape. Kill everyone you see Commander and report to me when have done so."
"With pleasure General." The ARC commander then rallies up his troops boards their guships.
Thousands of troops land on sandy dunes of Ryloth. AT-ATs and AT-TEs punch through limited Constorium forces. One by one they get massacered by the seemingly endless Imperial army. The massive walkers fire relentlessly on retreating Consortium troops, killing hundreds and destroying every enemy vechicle in sight. The battle virtualy over before it started. The ARC troopers fly at a very low altitude towards the palace, while proving supressive fire on the way. As the LAATs reach the palace they launch all of their missiles at the palace causing ecssessive amounts damage. The commandos quickly jump out of the gunships and rush inside. With only handfuls of mercenary troops still inside the palace, they stood no chance agianst the elite ARC commados. When they reached Tyber's quarters they rush only find no one inside.
"General this Dellis we have cleared the palace and found no trace of Tyber Zann or Urai Fen."
"Those cowards probably left as soon as we got here. Very well commander secure any thing of value and burn the palace to the ground as a symbol to the people who the true rulers of this galaxy really are."
"It shall be done General." For the next hour collecting every peice of treasure, artifacts, and money they could find. Once they secured the valuables they place a black flag with a crimson red Imperial insignia on top of the palace. Then set the palace ablaze.
On board the Aggressor class Destroyer The Merciless Tyber Zann's flagship on the other side of Ryloth.
Inside the bridge of The Merciless Tyber has been trying to regroup his key staff.
"Tyber most of top personnel managed to elude the Imperials and have reprouped with us we can leave at any time."
"Good work Urai. I can always count you."
"Where are we going to hide, the Empire must know by now where most of our contacts are if they managed to find here?"
"We will being headed for Rattatak Urai. I figured we would get discovered eventually, so I paid some of the local pirate groups to rebuild an old CIS base in the deepest moutains on Rattatak. We should be safe there for now. Now set the coordinates and lets get the hell out of here."
With in moments The Merciless and the remains of the Consortium fleet jump to hyperspace enroute for Rattatak.
Inside the Devastator II after the battle.
Just returning from the surface Commander Dellis enters the bridge to give Jadex his post action report.
"General all forces have our accounted for, we have all the valuables loaded inside the ship, as you ordered we were able to capture two Constorium Venators and several gound vehicals, Combat casulties are minimal, were now awaiting your orders sir."
"Excellent Commander, right now standbye I need to contact our the fleets on Nal Hutta and Nar Shaddaa."
"Yes sir."
Jadex then leaves the bridge and walks to the comm room. When he walks in the two shocktroopers on guard salute him as he walks past. He immediatly hails the Nal Hutta assualt flagship the ISD Scimitar. It takes a few moments for the long range comm system to link.
"Captian this General Jadex what is your statis."
"General you be glad here we have full control of this system. The Hutts surrendered very early into the fight, and they turned over fleet and hardware to us. They also offered a bribe of great magnatude to let them live. What do you want us to do sir."
"Take the money then kill anyone who is not important and imprison the rest of them. You have done well Captain Admrial DeGuale will be pleased to here of our actions. Carry on Captain."
"Yes General."The Captain then bows cuts the transmission.
The palace burned for hours and the palace grounds were littered with dead bodies and wreckage. The once feared criminal empire is now in ruins. The people on Ryloth were terrified, they didn't know what to think. They thought the reign of the Empire was a thing of the past. They were wrong.
In the skys of Coruscant 2 days later.
For over a week Tim and his new fighter wing have been training rigorously. From practicing dogfighting tactics to advanced target practice. Often flying for six to eight hours at one time. Tim knew he had train up his pilots, their lives were in his hands, and he couldn't take another defeat. He knew some how he wasn't sure how but he knew the Empire was going to strike agian. When and how he didn't know, but this time he was going to be ready for them. He could tell his crew was getting tired including himself.
"This is Raptor 1 all pilots form it up. Thats enough for one day. Give me a heads up flight leaders"
Each flight then forms up and gives Tim a head count. Once everyone was accounted for Tim decides to address the wing.
"Ok everyone listen. We have been working our asses off for the past week or so. You've excelled in every task we've been put up to. Your the best pilots I've flown with. So for all of your hard work everyone will have two three of leave. So rest up and have good time you've earned it." Everone in the flight cheered. Their new commander was good man, he expected alot from them but he made sure his people were taken care of. He wanted them to have a high level of morale, they were going to need it.
Once they returned to their post they all sat down and had an informal after action review "AAR". The pilots all gave their pros and cons, suggestions and comments about their training and what they need to improve. They were nearly ready for the bloody conflict short to come.
Authors notes: Well how was that? This had some booms in it. Tyber got his shit ruined. Things are only pressing forward. I hope your liking this so far. Thanks for reading and reviewing.