Battle Royal (Mygeeto)

[Talau the Ever-Lurking]

ESS Fleet/Forces (Jahai Draken : ESS CoA)

-Space Forces-
Flagship:ESS Chimera

ESS Eclipse
3 Deimor-Class Battleships
2 Ophelia-Class Battlecruisers
3 Leopold-Class Fleet Carriers
2 Radiance-Class Shield Cruisers
3 Halcyon-Class Anti-Shield Cruisers
4 Errant-Class Missile Cruiser
7 Hyperion-Class Cruiser
9 Crusader-Class Destroyer
12 Talleran-class Frigate
8 Exodus-Class Attack Corvette
4 Disciple-Class Corvette
12 Nautilus-Class Corvette

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x10 Eagle Eye LaSS
x12 Skynet MiSS
x13 Goliath PDSS
x20 Dire - Class Space Stations
x14 Wolf - Class Space Stations
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x62 Siren 2Megaton Anti-shiping Nuclear Ballistic Missiles, x15 Proton EMP distruptor Ballistic missiles, x2 Calamity MkV 110 Megaton Nuclear Ballistic Missiles
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ESS Relief Force:
Flagship:ESS Edessa
3xHyperion-Class Crusiers
4xDisciple-Class Corvette
2xExodus-Attack Corvette

VS.

Sith Empire Fleet (Rear Admiral Jade Borgonia)

Flagship: Pendragon Centurion-Class BattleCruiser

2x Scyethe-Class Dreadnoughts (Shadow Lord, and Dauntless)
4x Centurion-Class BattleCruisers
6x Vengence-Class Battleships
7x Thunderer-Class Siege Cruisers
6x Wraith-Class Fleet Carriers
8x Infernal-Heavy Cruisers
14x Interdictor-Class Cruisers
8x Frenzy-Class Cruisers
12x Hornet-Class Frigates
10x Hawk-Class Destroyers
6x Seeker-Class Corvettes
10x Razor-Class Corvettes
17x Derriphan MkII-Class Corvettes
12x Doppelganger-Class Landing Ships

Additional Players: Arc (Jackal) and Talgo Flong (Infiltrator)

Referee: .:JK:.

[Talau the Ever-Lurking]

Jade had been busy after his escapades at Nar Shaddaa, he had to be if he was going to live up to his reputation. The already injured and sleep deprived rear admiral had stayed up late into the night more than once trying to get the appropriate lineup for the attack on Mygeeto. This was an important battle, and he wasn’t about to let it slip through his fingers because he was hurt or tired…too much was riding on this. The be-spectacled man had written and rewritten plans of attack until well in the morning hours, when poor Lieutenant Chase would seem to be at her wits end with his harassment of her. Only then would he allow them both to get a minimal amount of sleep before they were back at it again.

Finally, however, the fleet had arrived and Jade was more than pleased to see what Barj had sent. He’d already been sent the listing of course, but to see it in person was always better than to see it as simply a list of names and numbers. His plan had only been finalized the previous night, his two new ‘hired hands’ had docked their ships in the Pendragon’s bays with a bit of shuffling around of the interceptors in the bays, the plan had been sent out to the other commanders and he had waited a whole day to get everyone into position for the jump. He wanted to take as little time arranging the fleet on site as possible. This being the case, Jade had allowed the commander of the Pendragon to carry out his orders while he got enough rest to focus properly on the battle the next day.

To say that the Sith fleet exiting their jump into space over Mygeeto was intimidating would be an understatement. Spaced apart only enough to jump without colliding, the sith arrived in near perfect formation. The spearhead form that had been arranged was three tiered, the top and bottom ranks set back slightly to protect as much of the fleet as possible, and made to be used as a wedge to force their way into the center of any fleet that might try to repel their advance. As they slowed to sublight the ships that made up the outer ranks of the form, the heavily armored and bulky cruisers which would make up the wall of defense and act as the battering ram to get the smaller destroyers and frigates in back of them into and behind enemy lines, immediately began to close ranks, only allowing enough room between for their various corvettes, and later the Hornets and Hawks, between them as well as for maneuvering. The Pendragon had taken point as the flagship, flanked by the two Scythe class cruisers, and after those a mixture of the other cruisers interspersed sporadically with the 14 Interdictor cruisers, between each of which the corvettes came to help protect the cruisers from assaulting fighters.

As the Pendragon moved into its final position, Jade stood calmly with his hands behind his back gazing out at what lay ahead of them. It seemed the ESS had quite a few toys they would need to destroy if they were going to hope to win this fight.

Ensign Stafford, find out all you can about what else we have out here with us. I don’t want to be surprised…not that there’s much more to surprise us with.

He muttered the last bit to himself as he gazed at the fleet spread haphazardly across space orbiting the planet. It’s as if they were expecting us to attack them sometime. Well, not that I blame them for being cautious, he thought ruefully.

Commander, start having the others check in with their status if they haven’t yet, and tell them to work on locking onto those blasted systems, I don’t want them biting us before we’re ready. Lieutenant Tel’lor, bring the shields up, and ready our weapons. Lieutenant Grot, open a channel to the fleet…let’s see…I’d say the Chimera? That looks to be it name…the dreadnaught closest to us.

“This one sir? Yes, it appears the name is Chimera. Channel open now sir.”

Dreadnaught, Chimera. This is Rear Admiral Jade Borgonia of the Sith Empire Navy. I suggest that you remove yourselves from the space around Mygeeto, and inform the planet of our intentions to occupy. If you do not, I’m afraid we will be forced to make you comply….and that just would just ruin everyone’s day wouldn’t it?

He stated, quirking an eyebrow, his red eyes glinting mischievously behind his glasses.

You have one minute to reply with your compliance…no reply will be taken as a sign that you do not intend to surrender and you shall be fired upon.

With a nod to the twi’lek Lieutenant, the channel was closed. A flurry of activity began around the blue and white clad man, though he seemed to take no notice as he awaited a reply of some kind. Well, they can’t say I didn’t warn them, or allow them an easy way out of this. Pulling out his com-link, Jade contacted the two captains of the ships docked in his bays.

Arc, Mr. Flong, I hope you are prepared. I believe I know which is their flagship, and she’s close…be prepared to board her and cause a little havoc. I’ll inform you when I know more and am ready for you to enter the fight.

There, like that, all of his ducks were in a row so to speak. Now all the stoic rear admiral had to do was wait.

[infiltrator]

Talgo finished loading the ammunition to his blasters and sharpening his blades. Looking out the gravity field into space, the mandalorian saw all the sith warships. He then thought how this would be one for the clan stories. The bounty hunter turned to his droid.

"Get aboard B3. Prime the ship for battle."

"Yes master."

[Grawn]

Arc nodded at his boss, drawing both his pistols and loading the chambers.

"With pleasure", he muttered quietly, his red eyes concentrating on the guns as he opened and snapped the ammo packs into each. Closing them with a satisfying snap, he activated the comm on his wrist computer.

"JB, prepare the ship and warm all necessary armaments"

"Right away!"

He glanced at the mandalorian bounty hunter and nodded, a sign of acknowledgement and somewhat respect. Arc didnt have issues with partners as long as they werent complete incompetent morons. He didnt feel the mandalorian would prove as such.

His eyes went back to the Sith admiral as he waited further orders.

[Dire Wolf]

Jahai sat slouching in the tight embrace of her plush chair aboard the flag-bridge of the ESS Chimera. She slowly pinched the bridge of her nose, attempting to ease the nasty headache that had crept up on her since Iriel and the Radiance left the system. This had proved to be such a boring post, not that boring was a bad thing... boring meant an easy check. Her train of thought was de-railed by one of her men, the sensor operator, "Ma'am! Sensors are detecting multiple contacts coming out of hyperspace." The man said excitedly "The Edessa's battlegroup?" Jahai asked, her head now perked up and her crystalline blue eyes boring a hole through the man who spoke. "No ma'am. The Edessa is not slated to arrive for 3 hours." The man said, all of the excitement had drained from his voice. It was replaced by fear.

"Well, Jahai, you asked for it..." Jahai thought as she shot up out of her seat and quickly walked across the raised walkway to the observation window. "All ships shields up, weapons charged!" She bellowed, while she looked somewhat dainty the woman could hollar louder than some drill instructors. The COMM operators were quick to communicate with the rest of the fleet group. Within seconds about one hundred ships flew in at unimaginable speeds and quickly to sublight speeds. It didn't take long for the opposing flagship to hale them. "Open it up, Ms Suribachi, we might as well show a little chivalry." The COMM officer nodded and within seconds the face of Jade Borgonia popped on the screen, that is how he announced himself anyway.

"Our forces will leave the system, Admiral Borgonia..." she paused, giving him a chance to think she would bow to his will "And your forces will leave as well, strapped to a salvage freighter." Jahai said with a cocky smirk. She waited for the hale to close and opened up a channel on FleetCOMM "All ships, this is the Chimera. Form up on me, Shotgun pattern. The Sith Armada just came a knocking." She heard her voice echo through the Chimera's comm system, she still wasn't used to it "Remember, we may be outnumbered. But we are never outgunned, people... All hands to battle stations." Jahai said as the lighting on the bridge cut to a dark red. She was never one for speeches.

Quickly a the two shield cruisers activated their shields, protecting the Chimera with its shield projectors. The Nautilus corvettes were close to Jade's forces, a little too close. They fell back to the main fleet group, laying a few "presents" along the way, including a few nuclear mines just for the capitol ships.Jahai pushed a button on the observation console, it linked down to weapons control and spoke quick and clear. "As soon as those nukes go off I want you to open up on the biggest ship caught in it's radius." The rest of the ships drew close to the Chimera, she would probably be the center of the Sith Aggressors attention.

She looked over to the weapons officer, who controlled the main guns that were mounted on the nose. "Dresden, *on my order* I want you to open up the PPCs on of the the battlecruisers, the second that her shields go down gut the bastard with the MAC." Jahai said, she would not be the one to fire the first shot, then she could easily be turned into the aggressor by the SE propaganda machine.

"So it goes." she said as she gazed across the void at the Sith ships just hanging there. They looked like ants from where she was.... they wouldn't look like that for long...

[infiltrator]

Talgo boarded the Flong's Fist as B3-A3 primed her for battle. Won't be the fist time she fires on a Republic warship, the mandalorian thought. And it sure won't be the last

"All weapons loaded and charged B-3?"

"Of course master."

"Good. Shields and engines primed?"

"Affirmative sir"

"Alright. Now get to your station B-3. We're heading out as soon as the admiral gives the order."

[Talau the Ever-Lurking]

((Jackal...this is a MODERATED thread....we can't have anyone post until JK posts the scores for this round. Please don't post again until it's your turn))

[\J|K/]

Alrighy guys, here we go.

ESS:
~Round 1~

Dire Wolf:
Effort: 4 /5
Fairness: 3 /5
Detail: 4 /5
Coolness: 3 /5
Bonus: 0 /2
Comments: I liked the bit about not firing the first shot. I'd like to get a feeling that we are about to enter the first step of the Sith Conquest. I kinda feel that this is 'just another day on the job in the ESS.' The three in fairness was the nukes in the first round. It halfway conflicts with the 'won't fire the first shot' thing but it works.

TOTAL: 14 /20

Sith Empire:
~Round 1~

Talau:
Effort: 4 /5
Fairness: 4 /5
Detail: 3 /5
Coolness: 4 /5
Bonus: 0 /2
Comments: You got a 3 because you didn't quite capture the epicness of what this battle means for the Sith Empire. I did like the synchronized light-jump of the fleet. Got you a cool point.

TOTAL: 15 /20

infiltrator:
Effort: 1 /5
Fairness: 4 /5
Detail: 1 /5
Coolness: 1 /5
Bonus: 0 /2
Comments: Not a whole lot written for me to grade. Thus the scores. For your next post try and make the reader feel that you are about to go into battle not just doing 'something cool.'

TOTAL: 7 /20

Jackal:
Effort: 1 /5
Fairness: 4 /5
Detail: 1 /5
Coolness: 1 /5
Bonus: /2
Comments: For the next post fill in enough to get me to read. You can never have too much detail.

TOTAL: 7 /20

[Talau the Ever-Lurking]

Sith Empire

No sooner had he closed the channel did Jade hold up his hand, signaling the all stop. He’d gone over the drill with the crewmembers he had hand chosen to be his relayers to the other ships in the fleet. There would be no taking chances today…not with everything hinging on this battle. The Pendragon lurched slightly beneath his feet as it came, finally, to a complete stop, settling there to hang in the depths of space and time and wait for a reply…if one would come. Jade and his crew didn’t have to wait long. With a nod of his head, the transmission was sent to the fleet gathered behind him. The woman, presumably the commander of the Chimera, didn’t seem to horribly surprised to see them there. Were they just wary, or perhaps information had been leaked? Certainly He’d not been the one to leak this information…not for this battle he hadn’t anyway. Listening to the woman’s reply, Jade smirked slightly.

So they wanted to play then did they? Alright, he would oblige them.

Watching as the smaller cruisers that were nearest them scurry away to ‘mommy,’ Jade noted the subtle blinking dots that appeared from their afts. Well, it seemed they were going to try and trip his capitol ships with a few explosive presents. How interesting. Standing quietly for a moment, one of the officers behind him asked for his orders. The Rear Admiral’s mind was working swiftly, latching onto those few lessons he’d been ‘granted’ by the few jedi willing to spend their time with him. Focusing on what he wanted to investigate, he sent a few tendrils of thought out toward the object floating before his fleet. At first he thought they might be too far away, his mind not being able to ‘feel’ anything threatening in the space beyond. With a bit more focus, however, he finally managed to latch on to the nearest ‘present’ and figure out just what it was. Some kind of explosive…yes, well, he’d guessed that much already so it didn’t help him much….if only he’d been able to discern what KIND of explosive. Giving up on that avenue, Jade comforted himself with the fact that at least he now KNEW they were indeed explosives. Another call for order from behind him and Jade turned crimson eyes to the man standing at the ready to relay his commands to the other ships.

Yes, I heard you the first time. I assume, Mr Stafford, that you have my the results of the sweep?

“Yessir! They have approximately: 10 Eagle Eye LaSS, 12 Skynet MiSS, 13 Goliath PDSS, and about 34 stations, sir.”

And the ships, ensign?

“I can’t tell their exact numbers sir, they’re too spread out.”

Well they aren’t now…run another scan.

He stated icily as he watched them form up. The longer it took for these scans to run through and the more prepared they got, the worse for him.

I’ll assume that the fleet has their guns set on the missile and laser systems like I asked…inform them they are to bring their shields up if they haven’t already, and open fire on the ESS unmanned systems. They are not to break formation, nor are they to move from this position until I give the go-ahead. They are not to fire upon any ships unless fired upon first. Once the first shot is fired upon us they’re free to open fire, but no matter what, they are to maintain formation.

As Jade spoke, the two officers running the relay set to work, relaying the message over the tight band they had set up just before they had made the jump to the space above this frigid planet. Turning to one of the com system officers Jade opened a channel to their gunners.

We need the light lasers on those mines they dropped. I’m not sure yet what they are, but I don’t feel like getting to close to them, and I can’t afford to possibly sacrifice a corvette.

“We should be able to reach them from here, I saw them on the scans. They look to big to be regular mines, I’m guessing some kinda nukes…”

All the better to not toy with them, get them out of our way, now.

“Aye sir”

Give the others the okay to open fire on their targets.

Within moments, the space around the perimeters of the fleet were ablaze with red laser fire, cannon fire, or torpedo fire, depending on the distance between the ship in question and it’s target. The Pendragon shifted slightly under Jade as he stood silently on the command deck, watching the light lasers sweep the area before them clear of the nuclear mines the ESS had set out for them as a welcome gift. Another shift of the centurion-class ship and several torpedoes were sent flying in the direction of the nearest missile system.

Putting one hand in his pocket, he fingered the small silver badge that was settled there. It infuriated him to even have to hold on to this badge...the one bit of his sister that was left to him. Surely she was dead by now, executed by the Republic they had both served faithfully. Now, they were both branded as traitors, and she had paid the ultimate price…her life. Clutching the badge that held his family’s crest tightly in his hand, Jade shook with a new wave of rage. No, the ESS wouldn’t get out of this intact…not if they stood in his way of venting his rage and grief at the ones who really deserved it, the Republic.

[Dire Wolf]

Edessa Security Systems

Bridge of the ESS Chimera

Jahai smiled as 12 triangles hung on her screen, each one representing a nuclear mine that would unleash a small sun on anything bigger than a corvette that happened to stumble into its kill zone. Her smile quickly disappeared when the Armada opened up on the said mines... how they knew the blasted things were there escaped the short woman. She went to say something to the effect of "Ah Sith-Spit" when the Armada opened up on the Missile Defense Platforms. That was it. There was no turning back, they had officially attacked ESS assets (the mines were just a precautionary measures). Jahai unless she was going to retreat... but that was not going to happen anytime soon.

She found herself lost in the moment, she just frozen there, she was like this until one of the bridge hands asked for her orders. She promptly snapped out of her daze "All ships, open fire. Fighters had better be scrambled." She spoke over the FLEETCOMM just before pressing a button that linked her with fire control "Miro, Alpha Strike one of those Centurions. Now."

She sighed, why did the Sith want to attack here? HERE? Yes, it is an economic power house in the outer-rim, but that would all change once the planet was taken by Force... or slagged. In ancient times it was not uncommon for an army that was sieging an enemy city to kill all of its inhabitants once they were inside, every so often. It made an example of them and it often made other cities think twice about resisting. Jahai shuddered at that thought. Would this man really slag a planet because she put up resistance? She didn't know him, he may be some kind of homicidal maniac, he was a Sith Admiral after all.

It was then that Jahai made a silent pact with herself: There is a fine line between defending pride and defending lives. My contract is to defend lives. Those of the Mygeetins, and those of my fleet. If saving lives means losing to this man... than I am all for that. She shook her head, it would not come to that... they would not be the ones to sound the retreat and run with their proverbial tail between their legs. The Sith Empire would. She got up and walked towards the observation window, the same command panel could be found there and she had a better view of the fight as it unfolded.

Jahai stood in front of the transpari-steel view port of the bridge with her arms held behind her back, just gazing out at the enemy fleet as if her crystalline gaze alone could destroy the fleet. If only... she thought as the ship rocked and buckled from the fire it was pouring out.

Chimera Fire Control

Capt. Miro had been on his toes for far too long waiting for Admiral Draken to give the go order. He was sure to have all weapons, armaments, and payloads locked and tracking for when she gave the order. When Adm. Draken ordered an alpha strike on one of the Centurions in the armada the rather portly man cursed loudly. It required him to lock all of the ship's offensive weapon systems on a single target... it would take him time, a minute at the most, to do so. "Roger that, ma'am. It will take us... Three-Zero seconds to re-lock everything in."

Miro could almost feel the woman's impatience growing exponentially despite the 500 meters of ship between him and her. He worked furiously to punch the solutions in, and let a giant sigh when the computer announced that the targeting system was locked & tracking. With a single press of a button the man initiated the alpha strike, almost instantly the entire weapons complement that had line of sight with the target ship opened up.

The Black Sun Squadron

”Alert-5! Alert-5! All fighters scramble! All pilots get to your ships.” The voice of the CAG boomed over the SHIPCOMM as the pilots of the VMF-214 fighter squadron were being briefed on the capabilities of known Sith Empire fighter craft. The corridor outside of ready room #326 was abuzz with activity, Lieutenant Rahn could barely get through the mass of people to the hanger bay that held his F-233 Space Superiority Fighter. When he and the rest of the Black Suns managed to get to their bay their fighters were on the catapult just waiting for them to hop in and be launched out of the Eclipse at insane speeds in a short amount of time.

Without a word Lt. Rahn threw on his helmet and sprinted towards his ship and up its ladder, he knew that the rest of the 'suns would follow suit. He knew it. They had been through thick and thin, thin and thick together... aint a power in the 'verse that could stop them. Save mynocks... Rahn hated mynocks. He was quickly welcomed by the digitized female voice of the onboard computer that his '233, dubbed “The Buccaneer”, sported. She simply informed him that all systems were green and she was ready for launch when he was... of course he had a quick retort, not that she understood... she was just a pile of circuits and protocols. “Yeah, babe, me too”

Rahn began to prepare himself mentally for the dogfighting hair ball that was to come. He waited for the CAG to give the green light. The next seconds slowed to hours as the man waited... and waited... and wa- “All fighters, launch on my mark...” The next half a second took a life time “Go.”

Instantly the magnetic latches caught his ship and sped him from 0 – 1200 kph in the short 7 1/2 seconds that it took for the catapult system to run the length of the tube. He would have passed out if it were not for his flight suit, which kept all of his blood from rushing to his back, head, feet, or front... this was invaluable in combat where gravity played a roll in fighting or during sudden speed ups like the one he just went through. The dull gray blur of the catapult tube was quickly replaced by the blackness of space and the small bright dots of distant stars, he scanned around for the rest of his squadron.

“Awright, Black Suns... form up on me. We are gonna guide the bombers in.” He ordered, almost instantly 12 green lights winked on his H.U.D., and within minutes the Black Suns were linked up and ready for a fight.


The Fleet

The blackness between the rival fleets quickly lit up with fluorescent hues of green, red, and blue, missile contrails streaked to the Sith fleet, and MAC slugs ripped at the Sith Armada at nearly unimaginable speeds. From at first they were coming from the ESS forces... but that was likely change soon, very soon. Within minutes hundreds of fighters shined and shimmered against the light that the Mygeetin star produced.

[Jace]

Round 2

Sith Empire

Effort:4/5
Fairness: 5/5
Detail: 4/5
Coolness: 4/5
Bonus: 1/2

Comments: I thought this was a great post, it had a good amount of detail. What make it intriguing was the personal touch added to it, with the incident about the traitors. Those are the type of things that take a normal post and make them better.

Total: 18/20

ESS

Effort:5/5
Fairness: 5/5
Detail: 4/5
Coolness: 4/5
Bonus: 0/2

Comments: This was also a great post. Dire really covered all the aspects of the battle, including throwing in the section with the pilots. The only real problem I saw was that there wasn't much 'technicality' when it came to the initial ship combat.

Total: 18/20

[Talau the Ever-Lurking]

((ugh i don't feel like getting all technical with this, so I'mma just have fun and get it over with, I'm feeling Jade right now ^_^ Besides, Dire and I already agreed to let the Sith get this one without any more scoring))

That was the problem with large scale battles...things got messy.

As the ESS' little "welcome gifts" were swept out of the way ending in bright waves of light, the silver and blue clad man simply averted his eyes. He had a little surprise in store for the larger fleet as well. Barricaded and stacked as they were, the Sith fleet could hold this position fairly easily for a good length of time without considerable damage. That was the good thing about having been a pilot and working your way up through the ranks, you tended to get a better grasp on just what kinds of formations worked and what ones didn't. Either way, red eyes returned to the space ahead of the flagship. He could already see fighters scrambling from the opposing fleet, little swarms of gnats to be batted away with a heavy hand. A call from behind him and he glanced over his shoulder. With a silent nod of his head, the okay was given to scramble the fighters, their own little bothersome pests to harry the ESS fleet.

Already the bright flashes of explosions from the unmanned systems, well trained legs keeping him steady as the Dragon roiled beneath his feet spewing red, green and gold fire out upon his enemies. Behind, below, and above him a conglomeration of vicious beasts unleashed their wrath upon the unmanned systems that had already begun locking onto their targets.

"Sir, we're being targeted"

Then fire at whatever's targeting us!

"There's more than one sir..."

Use your head Ensign! Fire at them one at a time then!

"A-aye sir!"

Jade watched passively as the metallic beasts unleashed their swarms of pests, the fighters streaking by the view port with incredible speed as they formed up into their teams to join the fray. The ship was rocked suddenly, and violently, as a barrage of fire power from one of the unmanned platforms battered against the shields.

“Shields down 30% sir!”

Jade kept his cool, detached, visage as the weapons control signaled they were ready to unleash their hell upon the unmanned platforms targeting them. With another nod the Pendragon recoiled beneath him and their attacker was brought down in a ball of light. This was the way of things until the majority of the unmanned systems were destroyed.

“Only two unmanned remain, both targeted by Shadow Lord and Dauntless.”

Good. Rid us of the last pests then we move.

It took a matter of moments for the signal to get across, and the two Scythe dreadnaughts on either side of the Centurion class easily wiped out the remaining two unmanned systems.

Tell the fleet to shake off the dust and rubble, we’re heading for the heart of them. Keep formation and tell the corvettes to lock in and keep our flanks protected. The frigates and destroyers better be ready by the time we get there, I’m not acting like a battering ram for no reason.

Oh…and call our dogs back to give us a bit more protection and keep from getting in our way. I want as little friendly fire as possible.

Ensign, open fire on the Chimera’s weapons arrays.

The bridge burst into activity as orders flew about the com systems and the great metal beast around him lurched into motion once again, slowly gathering speed. As the opposing fleet slowly drew closer, one hand pressed the glasses further up his nose and they glinted viciously. Jade had nothing personal against the people in that fleet, but he DID have something personal against the Republic now, and he’d make them pay however he could…if it meant slaughtering this fleet and capturing their planet, so be it.

The fighters flew back toward them, taking up defensive positions around the front edges of the Sith fleet, drawing the ESS fighters away from their own fleet and into the waiting bombardment of lasers that the heavy cruisers and corvettes unleashed upon them. For those that managed to get through the round of fire, the sith fighters were waiting to pick them off. Still, his fleet was taking damage…the ESS wasn’t about to simply roll over…yet. One of the outer corners’ battle cruisers had taken heavy damage and limped away from the battle early to preserve itself hopefully.

“Sir….we’re getting too close to…”

I see it Lieutenant, thank you. I know what I’m doing.

The bothan swiftly silenced himself. Another tense minute and they were practically on top of the ESS fleet.

Open fire all and unleash the dogs.

“Aye sir!”

Jade stood, almost serenely, on the command deck, his free hand resting inside his pocket, the other still in that sling. Concussion missiles, lasers, everything they had flew at the waiting ESS ships, bombarding them just enough to get them to move out of the way.

“Shields down 50%”

Open up and let the others through, but keep pressing inward, I want them scattered! We’ve got the destroyers and frigates in, let them wreak some havoc where we can’t reach yet. Tell them we need room to breathe and it’s up to them to make that room.

Fighters flickered past the view port as they tailed each other, the smaller destroyers sped past them into the fray, worming their ways into the ESS fleet as the cruisers took the heavy fire.

“Sir, Centurion ‘Narril’ is crippled and requesting to leave battle”

Inform them we can’t protect them out there, and they’re free to go.

Jade turned his head as another voice sounded.

“Sir, Hawk class “Rancor” has been destroyed”

Keep a tally, crewman.

He snipped in return. He didn’t particularly want a blow by blow of who was in or out of the game, they were fighting until there was no certainty of winning. The Dragon rocked and buckled harder this time as several missiles slammed against the shields and the side of the ship. Red eyes glinted as an alarm sounded over the flurry and commotion on the bridge. Debris was floating openly in space now as the metal beasts clawed at each other and spat their fire, clamoring for dominance in the void of space.

“Shields down 75%”

Move us Lieutenant! Now! Bring us along side the Errant class ship nearest to us and fire full battery into its hull! Ensign, tell the other cruisers to focus on the Errant class cruisers, Radiance class cruisers and Halcyon class cruisers.

The fleet was swift to obey…he just hope they were fast enough.

[Dire Wolf]

((kk, ending now. >_> shoddy, really shoddy, but its done. Finally.))

The woman gazed out at the enemy fleet as they wiped out the last of the unmanned platforms, then turned its attention to the ESS fleet. It wasn't long until the heart of the two fleets became one, and turned into a maelstrom of superheated and florescent colors flying about inside. Jahai knew what was going to happen, she could tell... there wasn't a way that she could win this fight.

“Ensign, sound the retreat throughout the fleet. Get them out of here so they can fight another day.”

It wasn't long before the vast multitude of scattered ESS ships managed to turn themselves about and began to lurch out of the planet's gravity well. But there was one pursuer: An interdictor class cruiser. The remnants of the ESS fleet almost instantly flung their massive projectiles at the beast, attempting to rid themselves of the gravity well that played havoc with the navicomputers. After the interdictor was little more than a fleeting memory the ESS ships slowly hyperspaced their way out of the battlefield one by one.

Mygeeto was one of the first stepping stone's to the Sith Empire's plans for the galaxy. And stepped on it they did.