The Rebel Faction

Hoth
Planetside

The cinders of the mighty Death Star's explosion and debris had nearly pelted the great shields established for just such an instance. Some of the vicious pieces managed to break through and smack into the snowy white blanket that encompassed the planet, but casualties were nill thanks to the many bases there, and where the persons had taken cover.

Defenses had been re-raised in the instance of the Imperial strike on the planetside itself. They may have the fleet advantage, but they would be damned if they got the ground advantage.

Hoth System

For those onboard the Death Star, the workers who had strived for years to build the behomoth and then to make it operational, death came quickly.

One of the workers, knowing it was to late, watched in fascinated awe as the massive vessel began to tremble. Then it exploded, showering the surrounding area with molten-hot plamsa. The worker felt a blast of heat, and then warring factions and enemy battleships were no longer his concern.

Those that had escaped, in escape pods or shuttles, saw the station explode and starred in mute awe as the explosion lit the sky, an expanding ball of fire.

The escape pods, to close to the station, were enveloped in the flames and crushed. The few shuttles and starfighters that found passage from the doomed station went next, hit by the shockwave and tossed about like a cork caught in the ocean current of Mon Calamari.

On the finrges of this expanding shockwave was an Imperial Star Destroyer. The Captain, in a last effort to save his command, raised shields against the storm. Some gunners even began to spray turbolaser fire at the storm, to no aval. The ship was torn apart, metalwork and debris floating away from the twisted hulk of what had, moments ago, been a proud battleship.

On the edges of the battlefield, where the Rogue Imperial and New Order fleets waited, radiation assaulted the warships in a never-ending torrent of invisible rays.

Then, as quickly as it had appeared, the storm was past, and the sky cleared to show the fires burning on Hoth's icey surface, a sharp contrast to the snow that covered that world.