"First of all im glad your back" General A'Baht said "we have taken losses but with your success you alls success the impact of our losses are negated material wise. Personnel wise the droid foundries are ramping up production to replace the lost droids however we did have some losses." Around the table beings bowed their head placed a hand over their hearts or other signs of mourning Greg lowered his head as the General continued "2,194 of our people died their absents will be felt until the oceans dry up and no longer crash against the surf."

What followed was five minutes of absolute silence as everyone sent their own prayers toward the fallen and their families.

A'baht sat at the head of the table as everyone raised their heads and looked to him. "Despite out losses this was a overwhelming victory against the empire as we speak droids are being produced as fast as we can to man ships hundreds of new ships have already been parked on the moons Braha'tok, Torkta'rak, and Erraht'kar so their small crews can be used to bring others up to strength as new droids are produced."

The next three hours were filled with each officer giving a short rundown of their targets, imperial forces encountered and ships secured. Almost everyone had come up against at least a small imperial taskforce but with overwhelming numbers of Boarding craft ships were quickly over run and seized a report spoke of nearly three hundred boarding craft hitting a single destroyer some ships had departed with only a few dozen fighters holding the majority of their landing bays and hangers full of boarding craft not a single imperial ship was actually destroyed though they all would take weeks or even months to repair from the boarding punctures and the internal fighting.

Greg mentally whistled together the seven surviving task forces had captured forty star destroyers, nearly a hundred carriers, and several hundred various escorts ranging from cruisers to corvettes. Totaling nearly eleven hundred ships.

And then it was Greg's turn and the room became deathly quiet. Greg took a breath and started his report.

"Task Force Cerberus consisted of twenty nine ships." Greg started and hit a button bringing a display to life just as the others had showing his starting task force.

"Our target was the Bracca's Ship Breaking yard where for the last ten years they have been recycling the military shipping of the Republic as well as shipping from various worlds planetary guards. The first ones in the system by exactly three minutes were the dozen Munificent class frigates in high orbit of the planet the moment they arrived they started flooding the comms network jamming any imperial or guild communications and then the main body arrived. Upon arrival we encountered a small Imperial Task Force of three Nebulon frigates, A Quasar fire carrier, four Arquentens cruisers and seven Gozanti's. Knowing the Dornean fleet hand enough Gozanti i ordered the boarding of the Frigates and Carrier, and the Destruction of the Cruisers and Escort Carrier's."

Greg pauses to show the brief fleet action ending with the last three Gozantis agreeing to surrender impressing the room that they had only lost four Tri fighters and severe damage to a Cr70. As the video plays Greg takes a quick drink before continuing.

"Upon achieving space supremacy i instructed the fighters and corvettes to rampage the planet destroying the barges and Viper droids the Salvage guild uses to patrol the airspace around ships. As they were doing that i had teams land and start loading ships with supplies from ships that were notably stripped beyond hope of flying again as safety and preflight checks were carried out upon completion of checks all but a skeleton crew of droids would disembark heading to the next ship. Every ship that passed checks took off and jumped back here the moment they cleared the atmosphere knowing if the empire did jump in surprising us barely crewed ships would serve no purpose but target practice. The vast majority of the ships appeared to of just been landed and the crew disembarked and left so they were fully fueled and carried standard compliments of…well everything from strike craft to Armories full of blasters. So the first two hundred or so ships…"

Greg paused looking at the Datapad "twenty eight Venators,seventy eight Acclametors,thirty eight Arquintens, forty Dreadnoughts,and eighteen Carracks were all launched within the first hour of the operation. When the empire dropped them off it appeared as soon as the ship landed the Imperial crew disembarked after shutting the ship down leaving everything as it was including all embarked craft and weapons."

Greg showed another video file of the huge mass of ships taking off from around the planet and making the jump to lightspeed back to Dornea.

"As the hours passed ships that had been parked longer requiring more and more safety checks and maintenance to fix what problems arose more ships were cleared and launched. Droids and and personnel not actively involved in checking ships were loading them with parts and pieces from ships that had been broken down already, As well as strike craft and transports from ships deemed too labor intensive to take. However im not sure why but as time continued i felt a growing sense of unease in my mind that the empire would drop on us and i would be forced to quickly abandon the salvage operation and the hundreds of people and thousands of droids on the surface.

So i made the call we would grab everything we could and be gone in 10 hours ship time after arrival. So teams were reorganized from a thousand ships down to around five hundred speeding up the checks and launches."

Greg played the footage of the Imperial Gozanti appearing outside weapons range the Droid fighters left on CAP unable to catch it before it jumped.

"And when the Imperials sent a ship at the eight hour mark our pace quickened on the remaining ships. By time the imperials arrived with a substantial fleet shortly under a hour later the last ships were off the ground and joining us to make the jump."

Greg showed the last image before the fleet had jumped a dozen Star Destroyers and nearly a hundred escort ships in the middle of launching fighters and pursuit.

"In the end we salvaged four hundred and seventy six warships." Greg concluded to a quiet room.

They all nodded approvingly as the meeting continued Greg mostly tuned it out thinking of the loss to the empire in reality even counting every ship taken or destroyed the Empire had a hundred times that but having it all in single system it looked and was Impressive as hell.

Greg didn't even notice as everyone stood jumping to his feet as well they all started to leave until

"Greg a moment please." A'baht said. The General waited until the others had all left the room before he continued. "Excellent work the fact the majority of the ships you acquired have already been fully maned and joined the defense fleets. Wanted to talk to you about your reward."

Greg nodded hiding his excitement thinking of what he would get as a reward.

"Im sure you understand when it comes to the safety of my people that takes priority? The empire wont take this affront lightly if anything they are more likely to take some if not a large portion of the navy and attack us in oder to keep us from ever doing anything similar while they stamp out this rebellion. So im sorry but your reward for this will have to come in increments is that acceptable?"

Greg held his hands up "yes thats fine i would never demand all of the reward up front if it meant the chance of putting your people in danger."

A/baht looked relieved and pulled a small data pad from his uniform and handed it to Greg. looking at the screen greg saw five ships:

-Quasar fire class carrier Stellar Void carrying:

twenty ARC170 star fighters

one Epoch boarding ship

Eight Droid Tri Fighters

-Three Pelta class frigates Campbell, Explorer and the Webber the Campbell and Explorer were standard frigates armed with a pair of turbolaser cannons and a dozen point defense batteries. The Cambell however was converted into a hospital ship sporting a hundred bed infirmary and twenty five FX and 2-1b medical droids and a small hanger holding a pair of LAAT gunships that had weapons removed and sported medical and first aid equipment to serve what Greg would call CASEVAC transport.

And lastly a Consular class cruiser Negotiator armed with three medium turbolasers and a pair of concussion missile launchers.

Greg looked up from the list with a smile and held his hand out "Pleasure doing business General."