Her comm beeping waked Jesmin up. She quickly hit it.
“Yes, what is it?”
“Five minute until reversion into real space, at Lwhekk.”
“Excellent, I will be there soon.”
Jesmin quickly threw on her uniform, and can down to the bridge. The clock showed one minute left into reversion.
“All ships, prepare for reversion.”
“Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, zero, plus one, plus t-”
The ship rocked as it came out of hyperspace.
“Enemy ships on long range sensors sir. Five Shree Battle Cruisers, two Sh’ner Planetary Assault Cruisers, 10 Wurrif-class Light Cruisers and 50 Fw’Sen Picket Ships. The Sh’ner Planetary Assault Cruisers are at the edge of the system, and just jumped. When we came in we received signs of a fleet jumping into hyperspace. I think the Ssi-Ruuvi are on the move again, the first time we have heard of, since they attacked Bakura a while ago. Their vector was heading towards the edge of the galaxy, not in any regions we have on our maps.”
“Any Lwhekk-class Manufacturing Ships?”
“Yes sir, five of them just came into view. They seem to be in orbit together.”
“Shields up, their scanner can’t see us yet. Every ship with missiles, load up with diamond boron missiles. All fighters and shuttles with missiles launch and prepare to target incoming fighters. Their ships are easy to destroy. With the Shree Battle Cruiser in a line before the Manufacturing ships, we just place our ships in the correct position, and each on can get two. Allegiance, between the first and second, MC-200, between the 2nd and 3rd, Imperial Star Destroyer, 3rd and 4th, MC-300, get in between the 4th and 5th. Missile Cruisers and Freedom Cruiser, fire on the Wurrif-class Light Cruisers. Aegis Star Cruiser and modified Corellian corvette, fire on the Fw’Sen Picket Ships. Interdictor, help them. Fighters, destroy every last one of those Swarm Battle Droids.”
“Sir, they don’t have any Swarm Battle Droids.”
“Yes they do, they just haven’t noticed us, and so they launched them yet. All ships, move closer.”
“Swarm-class Battle Droids launched and incoming. The Fw’Sen Picket Ships incoming as well. The rest of the ships are hanging back.”
Jesmin looked at the sensor board, it was glowing were the incoming ships were, providing light across the bridge.
“Figures. Sacrificing the P’w’ecks and battle droids to save their own skins. All ships, launch your diamond boron missiles.”
Every launcher in the fleet, including those on the TIE Defenders and Skipray Blastboats fired at the incoming mass of craft. Everybody knew that they had to destroy a lot, or they would be hopelessly outnumbered. 1576 diamond boron missiles lanced out at the incoming mass. With the incoming ships massed together, the enemy didn’t stand a chance. Each diamond boron missile was capable of destroying 4 Y-wings; the battle droids and picket ships would suffer severe damage. Suddenly explosions ripped into the formation, and the sensor board started to dim. The explosions dimmed away, and a new sensor reading was done.
“20 Fw’Sen Picket Ships remaining, though most are severally damaged. The battle droids have been reduced to 250, we destroyed tons of them in that salvo.”
“Excellent. All ships move forward, I want those ships destroyed. The Ssi-Ruuk intruded on our galaxy twice, and nobody has ever come back to them and to pay them back. Now we are here to teach them a lesson. To intrude in our space is to die.”
“So that is why we are attacking. You are delivering out vengeance to the ones who attacked many long years ago.”
“Yes.”
The fleet advanced, weapons blazing. The shields on the enemy cruisers started to glow. The Ssi-Ruuk were hopelessly outnumbered. Their advanced force had been decimated, and was currently being picked to pieces, brushes from turbolasers destroying them. The forward wedge of Jesmin’s fleet was ploughing into their formation, blasting the Wurrif Light Cruiser which came up to meet them, destroying two, and then advancing into the Shree Battle Cruiser formation. Jesmin glanced at the sensor board. The Aegis Star Cruisers had peeled off the attack on the Picket ships, only five remained, and the Interdictor and Corvette were demolishing them. They were heading straight for the middle of the Shree formation.
“Pride of Mon Calamari and Jesmin’s Prize, move on past the Shree Battle Cruisers, and start a run on the Lwhekk Manufacturing Ships. Aegis Star Cruisers, fill their places. All shuttles, commence strafing runs on the ground, and prepare to land troops.”
“Sir incoming ships from behind. It seems that the Ssi-Ruuk have recalled their advance force. Ten Shree Cruisers, two Sh’ner Planetary Assault Cruisers, and about five Wurrif Light Cruisers, nothing else.”
“@#%$. Continue bombardment of the current enemy ships. One sec while I d calculations.”
The Sh’ner Assault Cruisers offered little threat; the Missile Cruisers could deal with them. The Shree Cruisers were another fact all in themselves. If the current enemies were dealt with, then each of the current ships assaulting a Shree could deal with two. The rest could deal with the five Wurrif Cruisers.
“Continue bombardment, though all ships once your target is dead, peel off and form up. Here are your orders at the time.”
Jesmin told each one where to go, and when. The plan was set, if only they could deal with these threats.
“Sir they have micro-jumped in.”
“@#%$. Pride of Mon Calamari and Jesmin’s Pride, break off bombard the incoming ships now. Interdictor, Missile Cruisers, Freedom Cruisers and Corvette, go help. Fighters, prepare to do strafing runs. All other ships, deal with current targets.”
Jesmin frowned, this battle was getting riskier every moment.
“Another incoming fleet, 5 Shree Cruisers, 8 Wurrif Light Cruisers. Micro-jumping in now.”
“@#%$. All ships, retreat. Get through the we have opened, past the Manufacturing Ships.”
“Fourth fleet incoming.”
“Jump now, try to jump to Bakura, if you can’t get a course, do a blind jump.”
“We just lost the Missiles Cruisers, our ships are getting ripped to pieces.”
“Fourth fleet is firing on us.”
“Stay here, hold the door open for our ships to escape.”
“Incoming fighters.”
“All our ships have been destroyed sir. Our shields are at 5 percent.”
“Blind jump now.”
Allegiance jumped blindly into hyperspace, unknowingly heading straight towards Farquak. Jesmin was in agony; she has just lost several thousand people who had served her loyally.
Suddenly Allegiance popped out of hyperspace.
“Sir, we were pulled out of hyperspace a planet. It has two moons and is habitable.”
“Incoming fighters, unknown type.”
“Shields?”
“Up, though at five percent power.”
“Launching missiles.”
“Brace for impact.”
The incoming fighters fired off salvos of missiles, taking down the shields, and then started to use ion cannons on the ship.
“Engines disabled.”
“Front of the hull disabled.”
“Port side completely disabled.
“Starboard side disabled.
“Aft disabled.”
“Bridge disabled. We only have backup power.”
“All hands evacuate the ship.”
“Shuttles incoming, they are boarding.”
“Prepare all traps.”
Jesmin stretched out in the Force, and felt the intruders. They were defiantly alien, but not Yuuzhan Vong. Everybody checked the charges in their blasters, and then set up, hiding behind anything they could find. Suddenly the intruders came in.
“What the hell are those?” someone shouted. Blaster fire erupted, though the intruders fired only stun bolts. The aliens truly were strange, with two heads an-. One of them stunned her in the back, and she remembered no more…
That last thought brought her back to the actual time.
“You were one of the interrogators, were you not?”
“I was.”
“Then you know what I want. Why can’t I have it?”
Jesmin glared at the Cren, with hatred in her eyes. She could easily reach into the Force and kill this one Cren, without any effort. That kind of thought had gotten her kick out of the Jedi Academy, and almost turned her to the dark side, but she was willing to take the risk. The Cren had better offer something good, or else…she would kill him on the spot. Though she had not been taught how to kill someone through the Force, it was easy enough, and had been before. Use the Force to push against the front of the through, and push from the back, strangling the person, or thing. But she had never used her Force powers yet, while in captivity, and wasn’t sure if she should start now...
