The then-visible Jedi StealthX fighters suddenly vanished into the star-studded blackness of space behind the Reo system's occupying Chiss force before they charged forward. Several Ascendancy vessels turned gradually but with haste to the starfighters that they knew were there and began firing blindly against the darkness, for it was all they could hope to accomplish against a virtually unseen Force-driven opponent.
The entire Jedi fleet managed to maneuver their ways around the incoming lasers, missiles, torpedoes, and other projectiles that the Chiss fired, and once they were within striking distance, they let loose their own volleys of fire. Explosions lit up the shields of the Ascendancy's capital ships, and the intensity with which the visible fleet spewed their projectiles increased tenfold. All the while, squadrons of their venerable clawcraft lurched from the capitals' hangar bays to engage the Jedi fleet.
As the clawcraft began taking hits and losses just after they left the safety of their hangars, the dwindling survivors matched the strategy of the capital vessels and began firing crazily into the blackness that protected the StealthXs from sight. One would thing that such a desperate move even by the Chiss Ascendancy, the civilization that spawned Grand Admiral Thrawn, a man proclaimed to be one of the greatest leaders the galaxy had ever known, if not the greatest, was an indication that they had no chance of scoring a graze against one of the StealthXs' hulls.
But eventually, the firing from the Ascendancy became so intense that explosions began blossoming, apparently from the darkness of space, as an indication that the blind shooting on the Chiss's part began to take effect against the StealthXs. That was when Luke Skywalker became worried.
He pulled hard and fast against the stick of his StealthX, hurriedly moving here and there to dodge the lasers, missiles, and torps that the Ascendancy sent his way, and he had to ignore the pangs in the Force that indicated the Jedi who were dying out here lest he join them as their inarguable greatest loss today. It didn't help at all that he had to add even more minor pangs as he and the Jedi who still had a chance of surviving were blasting away clawcraft left and right to increase their odds of making out alive.
"Kyp! Octa!" Luke shouted into his fighter's activated comm system. "Did you and your Knights manage to make it past the blockade yet?" The Grand Master didn't worry about anyone from the Chiss side of the battle picking up on their communications, since it had been especially encrypted with recent tech that the Ascendancy couldn't possibly know about yet.
"Yeah, we all made it past 'em!" Kyp reported. "We're headed for Reonoq as we speak!"
"Excellent," Luke replied. "Skywalker out." He then cut the comm and focused the rest of his energy in the battle.
As the majority of the StealthX fleet continued to engage the wild-firing Chiss Ascendancy, six of the near-invisible fighters rocketed for the planet that had been the reason of debate between the Ascendancy and the Killik nest of Thuruht. Jedi Masters Kyp Durron, Octa Ramis, and four twenty-something Knights-female Muun Ohga Merkaw, Bith brothers Pom and Dom Cella, and female Gungun Dressi Binks-went unnoticed by the occupied occupying force as they set out to accomplish their mission.
Bare minutes after they soared through the atmosphere, the Jedi team touched down near the destroyed Celestial Palace, where the ruined hulk of the Millennium Falcon lay in ruins as well. In various directions all around, Chiss shuttles sat, unoccupied, as if waiting for their blue-skinned masters to return from Reonoq's undergrounds and leave this planetary wasteland.
Kyp, Octa, and the Knights accompanying them disembarked from their starfighters and looked upon the dead Falcon with a mix of grief and despair.
"Moi moi, is dada Millennium Falcon?" Dressi Binks said, her high-pitched mirroring the entire group's astonishment.
"Yes, it is, Dressi," Kyp answered without turning away from the site. His tone was trance-like. "Knights, you are all looking upon what was once practically a living legend unto herself; a legend responsible for so much in this galaxy, for so many years." Kyp's tone nearly broke under the sadness and mourning he still felt for Han, Leia, and Jaina's deaths, given how close he was to Jaina and Han in particular in the past.
"I think a moment of silence is necessary," Octa said.
They all agreed without saying a word, and bowed their heads in honor and respect for the late Millennium Falcon.
"Now we should continue our mission," Octa stated, holding back the emotions she still felt. She looked back Ohga, the Cella brothers, and Dressi. "Remember, Knights, our mission is possibly the most important in the fleet. Saving Allana Solo's life is important not only for the Order, but for the galaxy."
"Indeed," Ohga Merkaw said. "As foreseen by Master Skywalker himself, her death would unbalance the galaxy to total darkness." The Muun then changed the subject. "Masters, do you believe we can head underground via the Celestial Palace up ahead?" She pointed in the direction of the palace.
"Good place to start," Kyp commented.
"Agreed," Octa said. "So let's go."
As the Jedi began trotting to the ruined Celestial Palace, Pom Cella commented to his brother, "The site of the Millennium Falcon would make for beautiful music, Dom."
"Yes, it would, Pom," Dom replied. "I await for when we return to Shedu Maad so we can conduct our great memorial symphony for the Solos."
No more words were spoken among the team as they entered the palace and began searching through it in order to get underground. Once they found a hole in the floor at the back of the palace, the Jedi entered it single-file-Kyp first, Octa second, Ohga third, Dom and Pom fourth and fifth respectively, and Dressi was last-and they prepared to face the challenges that awaited them.