The Rebel Faction

The captain stared at the screen and watched as the Trandoshan destroyer had been blown away, when another ship flew right by it heading in a path away from them

"Its a trandoshan ship... but it fired on its own race", The captain said in a curious tone

"Scan complete sir", the sensor's officer said, he moved his chair over to another screen and typed in some commands, "Unknown type sir, can't get a reading on it at all.. its hull fooled our sensors"

"Interesting, must have some type of sensor absorbing hull", she said and licked her lower lip, "Are they in any position to attack?"

"No sir. In fact, if I was to guess, there trying to move away from us"

"Typical, very few things can stand up against this ship", she said. "Any more ships coming?", she said

"Yes sir, that ship sent out a beacon before it was destroyed... there's a fleet approuching and its neither trandoshan nor wookiee", the sensor office moved over to another station, "Uhh sir... we have pirates"

She stared at the screen, "Ship types?", she asked

"Counting.. 6 Intercepter Class Escort Carriers and 7 YV-666 frieghters.. and... oh crap..", The sensor's office said pulling away from the screen

The captain stared at him, "Talk to me...", she said

"Sir! We have an additional Interdictor class cruiser appearing!", he yelled

"There pirates.. shoulda known that was coming", she said, "Fire off a message to the fleet!", she yelled

"Yes sir!", The com officer replied

"ALL HANDS THIS IS THE CAPTAIN, RED ALART ARM ALL WEAPONS, FIGHTERS TO YOU'RE STATIONS", the captain yelled over the loud speaker," Time?"

"5 minutes sir before they reach us, the Carriers are making a Bee-Line for the disabled Triton, sir.. even if we break off the engagement with the Interdictor we won't make it to the Triton in time", The sensor's office said

"Crap", The captain said and moved over to her chair, "Then lets just hope that one Trandoshan ship knows of a way to piss those Carriers off"

***

Lumier and Merendez had been working on the imperial base's orbital defense gun's, which hadn't been disabled just shut down

"Should we try to activiate it?", Merendez said

Lumier was listening to the com's, "Power it up! Things are about to turn ugly up in orbit", she yelled

Merendez didn't say a word, she pushed the controls upward and the systems began coming online, slowly. "I'm surprised this base has power"

"Yea I know, the reactors must still be charged up", Lumier said. She looked at the sensors screen but it didn't com online, "Looks like we'll have to relie on the Triton's sensor package to aim the guns", she said

"Weapons coming online, ion cannon one is online, two, three and four are... slowly coming online", Merendez said

"FOUR?!?!?", Lumier said in disbelief, "Why have four ion cannons in one base?, most base's had only one, sometimes two, but never FOUR!", she yelled

"Don't yell at me.. there must be a reason", Lumier said.. her question was answered when a screen appeared and showed a cargo bay, body's littered the floor, all skeletons. Tritanium bar's had been chewed away and the door leading toward a shaft had also been chewed away, "Looks like my question was answered.. what ever the imperials did here they wanted to make sure it was kept a secret"

"The triton is targeting the first Carrier for us", Merendez said

Lumier nodded and took her attention away from the screen. As she looked away something brushed the camera and the screen went dark. "Prepare to fire", she said

"The Ion cannon is used to disable enemie ships.. but these particuler cannon's are modified to destroy ships, not disable", she said

"We'll take them apart and figure it out AFTER we defend ourselfs now prepare to fire!", She yelled

"Yes ma'am", Merendez said

The captain of the Interdictor watched the screen with amusement, "Who would've though a captain would try a tactic like that", she said. "Remind to ask that captain if he wants to join the fleet, we could use people like them", she said

"Sir! Enemy Interdictor is targeting one of our grav pods", The sensor officer yelled

"Hard to starboard, prepare to fire all weapons!", she yelled

The interdictor moved to starboard, showing its under carrage all turrets in that area fired in unison

"Launch Gold squadron and order him to pepper that interdictor with torpedo's", She yelled

The sensor officer watched the displays, A squadron appeared on the screen marking "Gold"

The torpedo bombers, or the K-wings, flew through space away from the enemy, they then turned and flew toward it on a relative heading that could suggest they where going to fly right past it... but if anyone had been looking closely they would've noticed that the squad was "Strafing" through space

"Sir, there on course", the com officer said while listening to the chatter coming from the ships

"INC Ion Blasts!", The sensor officer said. The captain stared at the screen as two more intercepters took hits in there reactors and blossumed

The captain nodded, "4 down.. only a couple more to g-", she said

"Sir! Enemy is launching fighters! There on course for the planet", the sensor officer yelled

"Target them with our cannons", the captain yelled... "FIRE!"

The four turbolaser batterys opened fire, the blasts flew across space. 3 of the batterys laser fire successfully destroyed several fighters, but the 4th one found a different target... The bloodfang, the laser blast splashed across the hull

The sensor officer winced, "Oops", she said

"Whats with the 'oops' officer?", The captain said

"Uhhh, I hope that tran ship doesn't take that as an act of aggression", the officer said trying to act calmly

The captain sighed, "For you're sake anyway", she said

The enemy interdictor suddenly changed course and began heading toward the planet. The frighters took up postion's on all sides, effectily shielding it from there fire

"Its out of our range now.. sir we can't catch up to it", The sensor officer said in disbelief

"We can't.. but gold squadron can", she said

***

Merendez and Lumier continued to target ship after ship, the cooling coils on the ion cannons where beginning to overload

"One more shot is all we have", she said

"According to the Triton, we have a big ship heading toward the planet. They've provided some firing cords for us", Lumier said, "Inputing them now"

Merendez changed the postion of the guns just a tad and aimed them at the incoming enemy interdictor, "ready when you are", she said

"Fire!"

***

Squad Leader Vilon was piloting one of the torpedo bombers when he and his squad got up close and personnel with the enemy interdictor, apperently they hadn't been spotted.

"All ships, arm you're torpedos", he said

"Incoming from the planet surface", another wingmen yelled

"FIRE AND FLEE!", the squad leader yelled

6 Torpedo bombers launched there torpedo's, space was filled with more than 60 torpedo's from different directions. The K-wings flew backward away from the enemy and out into space

"Torpedo's with inpact at the same time those ion cannons will", the squad leader said

"Sir! Incoming hyperspace signitures", the sensor officer said

The captain looked at the displays, and smiled

Space around the moon suddenly twisted and folded as more than 18 ships of various classes appeared, both imperial and rebel along with an unaligned craft that no one would be able to reconize

"Looks like the flagship sent half the fleet", The captain said with a satisfieing smile

"There targeting the fraighters, com line is open"

~This is the Fleet Saren Divoday's to pirate freighters, stand down at once or we will open fire~

Naturaly the freighters stopped and gave up, two of the carriers in the fleet launched there shuttles to capture the freighters

The captain looked away from the screen, it only took a couple minutes and the freighters where under there control, the freighters where docked with several of the carriers and the carrier hypered out. Before the rest of the fleet left a message was beamed over to the Captain

"They want to know if we'll be staying?", The captain said, "Tell them we'll catch up in a bit"

"Sir! The Aegis-class Star Cruiser "Lovinas" and "Hitokan" are targeting the trandoshan ship, orders?", The sensor officer said

"Order them not to fire", she said. And walked off the bridge

***

Lumier and Merendez sighed and a sigh of relief, the battle was over according to the Triton's sensors, another fleet appeared but had quickly left after capturing the freighters

"Well, lets get going back t-", Lumier said before hearing a noise, she grabbed her rifle and looked around..

Merendez was looking through the camera's and noticed that several had been knocked out, "These camera's where online just a few minutes ago.. something knocked them out", she said

"Great, whats next?", she said before the wall behind her suddenly exploded. She flew head over heel and slid across teh floor. Merendez grabed her arm and they made a bee-line for the door and out

"What the hell was that thing?!", Lumier yelled

"No idea, but it wants us for lunch", Merendez said

The captain walked to the hanger bay, she looked around and saw several Tie Fighters and X-Wings ready to departure

"I see you got my message?", she said to her flight officer

"Yes Ma'am, when you said you need an escort to the moons surface I made sure to get the best pilots out", The flight officer said

"Good good, and the shuttle?", The captain asked

"Ready when you are, along with several elite marines", she said

"Good, lets get underway", The captain walked over to a com station and keyed the communications officer, "Order the cargo transport to follow my shuttle, upon getting to the moon below I want my escorts to perform a standard close air support patrol", she said

~Yes Ma'am~

The captain smiled and walked the Shuttle Tyderien, the doors closed and the shuttle lifted into the air and sped out of the hanger, its 6 Tie Fighter and 4 X-wing escort took up postions near and around the shuttle

"Ma'am, ETA is 6 minutes", the pilot said

"Take you're time", The captain said and survived the satallite images that her ship had taken. One particuler image intreged her

***

Tzhali had been in the medbay, the doctor was done fashioning his new arm. "All done sir, just got to put it in place", the medical officer said

Tzhali said nothing, probably because he was asleep

"You really shouldn't talk to you're unconcious patients", Lumier said while leaning up against the door frame

The Med offical chuckled. "Sorry Ma'am", he said

"Thats ok, where can I find silliss?", she asked.

The med officer just pointed at the door, "You can find him in there, along with 8 nurse's who are TRYING to help him"

"8?", Lumier said

Back on the Interdictor

"Sir", the sensor officer said to his 2nd in command

"Go ahead", The 2nd in command said walking up to sensor officer

"I'm picking up multiple hyperspace signatures coming from", she said then moved over to another station, "Hyperspace sig’s coming from either side of the Moon. Looks like two different fleets of ships"

"Can you ID them?", said the 2nd in command

"No sir", said the sensors officer, "I won’t be able to answer that question until they come out of hyperspace"

"Very well", he said and walked over to the command chair, he looked at it for a second, "ETA?"

"Another minute before they arrive", the officer said. She moved over to another station where several other crew members where piecing some data together. "Unknowns will enter this space in… 5 --- 4 --- 3 --- 2 --- 1 "

Space bent and twisted, then folded. On one side of the moon a fleet of wookiee ships appeared, mixed ships of Republic Destroyers and small cruisers and frigates.

On the other side another pirate fleet hype red in, this fleet however was bigger, and more heavily armed than the previous fleet that the Interdictor had gone up against

"Ummm sir, premission to cuss", the sensor officer said

The 2nd in command stared at the screen, "Allow me to join you"

"HOLY @#%$!", both of them yelled in unison

Each fleet comprised of about 19 to 23 ships, both fleets turned toward the lone Interdictor

"Uhhh sir, there targeting us", the sensor officer said

"Com’s fire off a message to fleet command, tell them we need immediate assitence! If they ask why tell them where taking on TWO fleets each fleet comprising about 19 - 23 ships", the 2nd in command said

"Yes Sir", the com officer said

"Can you also get a message off to the captain", he asked

"No sir, there in the atmosphere and the outpost is somehow jamming communications aimed at the moon", the com officer said

"Very well", the 2nd in command said, "I hope she makes it down there safe and sound"

***

The Lambda shuttle descended through the atmosphere of the moon, the shuttle turned slight to port to avoid a piece of debris that had come from one of the pirates carriers that had been blown to pieces when it attempted to make a run for the Triton

"Ma’am where approaching the Triton, doesn’t look like they’ve spotted us ", the pilot said
"Good, order our escorts to break off and patrol", she said and walked towards the back of the shuttle. She dawned her robe and checked the images, a faint smile appeared on her face. The marines with her recognized the smile, and promply took a couple steps back

~Ma’am, the Triton’s sensor package has picked us up, the turrets are tracking~

"Alright, order our escorts not to fire", she said over the internal com line

~Already done~

***

The Triton’s sensor officer kept a close eye on the incoming Lambda shuttle, she watched as the shuttle turned toward a clearing near the ship, she sent a message to Lumier and Lumier responded by sending several of her marines to the shuttles landing location.

Lumier had decided to go along, even though they had more pressing matters to attend to. She glared at Silliss, "You minus well come along", she said. "Who knows, that creature might show up"

Silliss nodded and gestured for his warriors to follow him.

They walked off the ship and toward the shuttles landing location.

The shuttle made a hard turn to port and then its landing struts came out and extended toward the ground below

***

Lambda shuttle ‘9387-A’ floated above the ground for a couple sections before it finally landed, the engines shut down. For a second nothing happened, which worried Lumier

Lumiers marines walked around the shuttle looking for anything that could be considered ‘suspious’ … they found nothing

The ramp on the shuttle became active and descended toward the ground below, when it came to a stop. A women wearing a strange robe walked down the ramp, she looked about and at all the marines, then took the hood off

Lumier stared at the girl, "Not possible, how can you still be alive?", she said

The girl looked at Lumier, "Its hard to explain", she said. "But I’m willing to explain it… once you get rid of you’re little problem", she said with a grin

Lumier glanced to her left, then walked away. Her marines stared at her then back at the strange girl, "Umm Ma’am, what are we to do with her?", she said

"Take her to the guest quarters, we’ll discuss more later", Lumier said

The marines nodded

The girl looked at Lumier, then turned to look at her marines. They where clad in black so no one saw them since the inside of the shuttle was pitch dark

***

The 2nd in command stared at the screen. It was filled with multiple sensor contacts, both fleets had them targeted and all they could do was reverse course and flee.

"Enemy fighters will be all over us in less than a minute", the sensor officer said

"All we have on board are bombers", the 2nd in command said. "Has fleet command replied to our message"

"Negative sir, its possible they received the message but are not risking a reply", the com officer said

"Sir, several squads of fighters have broken off and are heading toward the Trandoshan ship", the sensor officer said

"Fire a couple shots in front of the fighters to gain there attention", the 2nd in command said

The gunnery officer nodded and sent the proper orders

The ships turbo laser batterys fired and succeeded in destroying 4 fighters and causing the rest to take interest in the Interdictor

"Nice job", the 2nd in command said while looking at the sensor display

"Sir, I’m picking up another hyper space sig… ETA is 5 minutes", the sensor officer

"5 minutes eh?", he said and licked his lips, "We’ve got to hold off each fleet for 5 minutes.. This’ll be interesting"

"Provided to stay in pursuit of us, If they turn toward the moon then the Triton will have more problems than they can count", the sensor officer said while moving to another station, she pulled up the planetary maps and outlines the area of the ion cannons, they where to far away to effectively *hack* the cannons control… but perhaps they could get one of there fighters to do to the work for them, all they needed to do was send a message

"Com, when the opportunity arrise’s send a message to one of our fighters, inform them that we need someone to turn those ion cannons on the new threat", she said

"We’ve got bigger problems", the com officer said, "Check you’re sensors"

The sensor stared at the screen, what had once been only 45-48 ships total, was now nearly triple that amount to include fighters and shuttles, all heading toward the moon. "I certainly hope they get here", the sensor officer said