The three Gozanti's with only a three fighters and a single bomber between them and filled to the brim with over of over a hundred battle droids each dropped out of hyperspace and alarms started to blare as the sensors started picking up ships…. a lot of ships. An even dozen Star destroyers and almost a hundred smaller escort ships.
hey guys brief author break here I know all we saw over Mustafar was three star destroyers and I know imperial fleets almost solely contain star destroyers however we all know a military that only uses the biggest ships will get overwhelmed by huge numbers of smaller ships and fighters so I have been adding more ships and adding escorts to imperial fleets to make them more realistic.
One Tie fighter would be remote controlled to dock with the Destroyer Sovereign inside the fighter just as before was several dozen EMP charges to shut down the ship it wouldn't last long but it would keep the ship and many of its crew down for a while. Ezra did his force search looking for Kanen and for a few minutes nothing happened until he breathed deeply and opened his eyes. "He's alive he is on the flagship."
Hera and Greg both grinned "Hera I'll let you have the honors" she gave a wink as she sent the clearance code after the code was on its way she also had Eddie2 launched the bomb Tie
"Transport ship 63378 clear to dock sending a squadron of Ties as reinforcements came over the coms.
Same as before the Tie flew into the hanger without a challenge and after the tie sensors detected landing Sabine hit a control on her gauntlet and in less than a minute the Sovereign's running lights went out and arcs of blue electrical discharge arced from the belly of the hull otherwise there was no change. The Gozanti's flew up and clammed to the side of the ship one after the other aboard them Arc welders and a lightsaber made quick work of the destroyers hull and they were inside.
"Ok guys you all head to the detention level I'll send three Droidicas to help. The droids and I will head toward the hanger and see about grabbing anything that has a Hyperdrive, and cause a little mayhem on the way." Greg said waving as he transferred command of three Droidicas to Sabine's gauntlet "if you need help the code word is ""Rancor" don't need any ease droppers knowing you're in need of help." They couldn't dispute the idea. "Also when you find Kanen the code word is Naboo." And if things go bad for me in the hanger the word is FUBAR if you hear that and can't make it back the Gozanti's find an escape pod we will pick you up" They split up Greg and the small army he had brought headed in the direction of the hanger.
As soon as they were out of sight Greg turned to the droids of bravo and Charlie "Any imperial you see strip them of their uniform and weapons and kill them load everything into the Gozanti's: weapons, data drives, and Uniforms. Leave enough room for pilots the rest of you will join us in the hanger as soon as both ships are filled and sealed."
"Roger" the squad leaders replied
Looking at Delta "we will secure the hanger same thing applies any imperial we come across remove the helmet and kill them."
"Roger" the B2 replied.
The next thirty minutes were a maze of hallways and stunned imperials. Greg had lost count at a hundred blaster shots into the heads of technicians, pilots, and troopers. Until they finally reached the hanger inside rows of Tie Fighters, Bombers and Boarding craft sat ready to deploy at the order of the ships commanding officer. Off behind against the far wall was the ground compliment four massive towering AT-AT's Surrounding them was row upon row of AT-ST's, AT-DP's, and troop transports. And something that almost made Greg's mouth water but the mission came first.
With a predatory grin "Send a squad to power up a dozen AT-STs but don't move them everyone else ambush positions reinforcements should be arriving any minute kill the troopers and board the shuttles, When you take the shuttles cockpits that will be our signal" Greg ordered.
His droids jumped to without a thought "Roger."
Greg joined three Droidicas behind a LAAT\c just as the pair of Sentinel troop shuttles lifted into the bay. As they landed they did a visual scan looking for movement seeing none their ramps lowered and three columns of storm troopers came jogging down the ramp, doing a quick count…three columns of twenty each….sixty troops each.. A hundred and twenty men.
None of them were watching behind them as a super quietly ran up the ramps closing them behind them. Greg watched waiting in less than two minutes he saw the flashes of blaster fire and raided his blaster targeting a storm trooper with a Sergeants rank pad on his shoulder. and squeezed the trigger.
The bright blue bolt slammed into the trooper's helmet and he fell like a sack of potatoes. Then the rest of the droids opened fire from all directions as the three Droidicas rolled forward and deployed activating their shields. Troopers were falling all over the hanger and then the first droid took a catastrophic hit in the torso and fell sparks flying. That seemed to enrage the droids as they started firing faster and more accurately and less than five minutes after the first shot was fired the last trooper fell.
"Hanger Secure. Squad one and two ready the shuttles, bombers, and that advanced over there." Greg ordered.
"Roger" the battle droid replied as they ran toward the parked ships.
"Squad four load all the troopers blasters and your fallen B1 he can be repaired later."
"Roger" was it Greg's imagination or did the Roger this time sound more….dignified.
"Squad three fan out and bring back any additional weapons, drives or anything else. Also terminate all imperials you come across." Greg continued his orders.
The battle concluded Greg worked his way through the busy battle droids stripping the dead of their weapons and utility belts over to what had caught his eye before. As he started seeing the pods of the AT-ST's almost reaching the knee joints of the massive AT-AT's. Hidden behind over a dozen scout walkers were something that as Greg saw its full glory he literally had to swallow the drool pooling in his mouth.
This was the closest thing to a decent tank he had ever seen in any game, movie, TV show or Books. the four heavy blasters surrounding the Transparisteel cockpit with the barrel of the back mounted mass driver cannon that was the primary heavy weapon of the Republic era AT-TE.
"OHHHHHHHHH I want" Greg said to himself "but there's no way to get it out of here the LAAT/c doesn't have a Hyperdrive."
Eddie2 who was watching from Greg's helmet mounted camera Spoke up "Excuse me Commander Sands it is possible to take this ATTE with us when we leave."
The earpiece crackled and Sabine's voice called out "Naboo Naboo Naboo"
Greg grinned at that and continued talking to Eddie "How the Sentinels can't carry an Enforcer and the c isn't rated for hyperspace."
"As the forces of the four Squads inventory the ships, weapons, and equipment seized the list is uploaded to me" Eddie informed Greg "and one of the two Sentinels is the cargo variant rated to carry one hundred and ten tonns fully loaded Enforcers weigh one hundred and seven tonns. It would be close but we can bring it with us."
Greg lit up like….well a Star wars fan who just found out he could steal an ATTE for himself. "Awesome then Make it happen but primary focus is the space craft."
"Understood."
The giddy thoughts of having an honest to god ATTE was interrupted by a Supers voice "Sir there is a combatant with a red lightsaber approaching we saw him first and started pulling back request instructions."
"Get out of there" Greg ordered opening an open frequency Greg announced "FUBAR I say again FUBAR."
On the droids command net he ordered "We are out of time preparing to launch all captured craft we are withdrawing the ship objectives complete." around the hanger a jump in activity marked the crewing of fourteen Tie fighters, a tie Advanced, thirteen Bombers, three Sentinels (one with a vehicle cargo pod containing a ATTE) and a pair of Lambda class shuttle all stuffed with hundreds of blasters, megabytes of downloaded data from the ships computers, and barrels of fuel siphoned from the ships fuel tanks.
As a group the three dozenish craft lifted off and headed to the exit Greg looked around the Tie Bomber window watching the ships fly out just as the doors opened and a gray headed man in all black appeared holding a double bladed lightsaber. Seeing the Sentinel with Greg's ATTE he deactivated the saber and reached out his hands and the shuttle came to a shuddering halt.
"The fuck you think you are!" Greg snarled triggering the laser cannon. The inquisitor ignited his saber rolling to the side. The shuttle leaped forward and down out the bottom of the ship. Greg continued to fire as fast as the cannon would as he drifted and then fell out of the opening into open space.
Just in time to see the arrival of seven more star destroyers and thirty various kinds