yeah I know. She's just being respectful.))
Satana stayed close to Aya's side and watched her men scramble to get into the dropships. 'Thank god Raz is safe.' She thought. 'But... He might have loved to be apart of this. Oh well.. I wont have too much fun without him.' She looked up at the sky for a moment, easily keeping up with Aya. 'I miss you Jacen....'
Banis took in Commander Sraf's thoughts that she had sent for her. She looked up towards the sky, towards where the Dark Blade was. She gave out a long withdrawn sigh and she turned then to Sear, having their eyes meet for a brief moment.
"That's Lady Banis to you, miss"
Banis transported her response into Aya's mind before she started walking in Aya's direction. She would do what she could, but wouldnt guarantee a single thing. As she had walked for a while, she passed Aya with a glance and headed then towards the shuttle.
Aya watched them pass. "Now, where does he think he's going?" She stared at Daran, shrugged, and followed, making sure Satana was in tow.
***
Above the planet, the battle was well underway. Turbo lasers streaked across interstellar space. Starfighters wizzed back and fourth. Explosions dotted the void.
The Dark Blade shook from a direct hit. "Captain, rear energy shields down to thirtee-" an explosion caused the deck to shudder "-five percent!" He updated.
"Secondary PSV shielding?!"
"Holding at fourty-one percent, sir."
"Bring us about! Gun's, concentrate fire on their flagship, continue firing at will."
"Yes, my captain."
"The Imperialist is losing powe-" The bridge was suddenly awash in light as the ISD-II expoded. The Dark Blade was hit first by the shock wave and several consoles exploded in their operators faces. Ovan Degstr was knocked down from the shudder and picked himself up, brushing his Imperial uniform down. "Report!"
"Forward energy shields down, secondary shields holding at thirty-five percent. Structural integraty on the forward keel is unsafe."
Degstr glanced at Juion. "Evacuate that area and reroute life support power to forward shields!"
A Klaxon sounded and the officer complied. Another officer spoke up. "Fighters incoming."
Juion let go of the hand rail and moved over to the tactical holo. "Do we have any available fighters?"
"TIE's sir. X-wings have all been launched."
"Where is Draken squadron, and Mynock squadron?"
"On their way back." The light laser batteries started firing at the enemy fighters with rather good accuracy and with exceptional tracking speed. "ETA: three minutes."
"Sithspit! Belay TIE launching, lets see how our upgraded weapon system can handle this threat."
"Yes, sir!"
Degstr moved over to the holo. "What have we lost?"
"Two Star Destroyers, and one squadron of X-wings." The deck shudders from the shockwave and the bright explosion on the horizion. "And a Calamari battlecruiser." The officer added.
A strangers hand touched the shoulder of a ground trooper down at Endor, and with but a touch did the male trooper fall to the ground and with great strength had his body pulled around the corner. It took only seconds for the exiled woman to with usage of force speed swap clothing, leaving the trooper naked in a dark corner of the base. The hilt of the lightsaber was concealed beneath the armor that the woman had equipped, as well as the very fine folded robe which too was concealed beneath the plates of the trooper plates.
She had sensed them. She had sensed all of them, even long before they had invaded Endor. She had seen it. She had seen what had not yet occurred, and with the sole thought to survive did she hijack the identity of a male trooper in servitude of the Imperial Alliance. Trough the force could she alter her voice to male tone, and with a developed technique of cloaking ones presence was she able to hide herself from force users, emitting nothing more than the presence of a male human trooper.
It was tight, walking in an armor designed for males, but it was a minor setback as she boarded one of the shuttles inside the Imperial Alliance base. It was no surprise that an ID was requested by her, and she calmly announced the ID of her hijacked identity. An identity stolen in order to allow her leave the planet with not even an eyebrow raised towards her. She then had a seat inside it, and turned her head towards the base and observed how, as calculated, Aya Sraf, Darth Banis, Darth Sears, Satana Syphex and more was heading for the same shuttle that she had located herself inside.
"Captain, one of our sentry droids recorded this."
Captain Forrester looked up at the quiet word from his second in command and was handed a datapad. "Interesting, lieutenant." He read the report along with the recording and glanced at the two Sith entering the shuttle.
"Shall I apprehend the trooper, sir?"
Forrester brought his attention back to the lieutenant. "No. I'll deal with it. Just make sure the actual trooper is on the next shuttle."
The lientenant bowed. "Yes, sir."
"DB-423 to 426. Accompany me to the shuttle."
In bland voices. "Yes, sir."
On the shuttle, commander Sraf, dressed in an Elite Stormtroopers unifom, sat next to Q'Anilia. In a heavily filtered, almost male voice she spoke. "Lets g- captain Forrester, glad you could join us." The commander watched the captain and his four troopers walk up the ramp.
"Glad I did." The captain said, sitting opposite the trooper suppsedly known as DB-742. He said nothing.
"Okay pilot, lets go!"
"Great. Sounds like a nest of gundarks up there." He refered to the space battle. The pilot raised the ramp and activated the repulsers. "Here we go!" He said gleefully and blasted skyward.
Q'Anilia had been glancing down the floor, keeping her head lowered as the final group of troops entered the shuttle, accompanied by captain Forrester. It passed only seconds from the point when the ramp closed before Q'Anilia raised her head towards captain Forrester. It was no surprise to her that the captain knew, nor was it unexpected. She looked at the man from where she sat, then looking at the people surrounding her. She looked then back at the captain, as well as his personal troop escort.
"You wouldnt strike a woman, would you captain?"
Her voice was still that of a male, but she spoke out without hesitation and a voice in cold, shrouded words of implication that she knew. She knew also the answer of the question. If unraveling her secret he desired, it wouldnt matter. She didnt mind, as she was already onboard the shuttle, which was her desire. She turned her head then back towards the floor, awaiting his response, her hands on the sides of her helmet, prepared to remove it as soon as he admitted that he knew.
Her race had been extinct for thousands of years, so she expected nothing else than for them to see just another human if she removed her helmet as it was anyway. A blindfolded one, who steered head and face around as if she could see trough the fold. The fold covered her ears as well, but it mattered very little, as just like with her eyes, she did not listen with her ears.
"That depends on the context of your question, trooper. If you mean, would I strike a woman for no reason, then no. If you mean, an enemy, then that would all depend on if she would come quietly or if she was a greater threat. Which do you refer to, DB-742." He replied with a slight smile. He brought out a datapad.
Satana sat quietly beside Aya and watched the scene before her. 'Poor girl.' She thought. 'She may have had a chance to escape if she had kept her mouth shut.. But..' She glanced over in Banis's direction. 'Maybe its better she let the Captain take her..' She sighed softly and turned her gaze back to the woman, sitting back in her seat. She had an urge to cross her legs, but that wouldnt be very comfortable in this suit, nor would it be very storm trooper-ish. She had a gut feeling that it was best to act like one of the men for now. 'I'm glad I didnt go with Raz... This is interesting.' She thought with a faint smile on her face.
"My initiative motive of the question was to see how much trouble a woman would have been in if it turned out she was preforming unauthorized intruding trough immoral means"
Q'anilia smiled beneath her trooper head-gear and turned back towards the captain, removed her helmet and revealed what hid beneath.
"No need for this act, captain. I know that you know, and you know that I know. So fire away and start your interrogation. I aint hostile"
"Oh..." he let a grin spread across his face "...no miss Q'Anilia, we won't need to interrogate you, unless you know something we don't?" He showed her the datapad. It was currently dispaying Imperial Profile 358347-A.
IMPERIAL PROFILE 358347-A
NAME: Q'ANILIA
SPECIES: MIRALUKA
AGE (EXACT): 4162
CLASS: FORCE USER
LAST SEEN: [INFORMATION MISSING]
THREAT LEVEL: HIGH
IF SEEN: TERMINATE IMMEDIATLY
WANTED DEAD BY ORDER OF EMPEROR PALPATINE.
FURTHER INFORMATION...?
"As you can see, miss, we have all we need." Forrester smiled and handed the datapad to Aya. She read it and nodded, handing it to Satana.
"Hold this."
"I know things you dont for sure, even though you appear to be quite well informed. I thought I had been successfully erased from databases, but I sit proven wrong"
Q'Anilia smiled faintly from where she sat, her head now facing blankly forward. She was facing the captain, but had turned her head when Forrester was handing the datapad over to Aya and then Satana.
"So what now?"
"we are not giving them this planet, not without a good fight, but we can't get many dropships down here because of the fighters above. Aaray order the Raider to excecute Exodus Plan" jacen ordered and exited the shuttle to get a better view. The Raider (a lucrehulk) flew away from the planet and battle on full thrust then entered hyperspace. split seconds later it reappeared in endor atmoshpere and began descending quickly as dropships and fighter launched from the hangar bays, and the ship renentered hyperspace again and reappeared outside the battle.
"that will be out for a while sir" Aaray told jacen as the numous dropships began landing.
"corran tell the imperial alliance to begin evacuations we will cover their escape"
"yes sir"
"imperial alliance base, evacuate now, we will cover the evac, get everyone out" corran said over the 2-way
~~~
The com crackled. "We are evacuating. Our capitol ships are covering the retreat. We are giving up this dump. Its useless as anything more than a meeting place." The com fizzled static. "Ok Admiral, lets go."
Thrawn started at the readouts. "Quite, Vassisk, you go."
"We both g-" An explosion ripped into the command centre. Both Vassisk and Thrawn were knocked into unconsciousness.
***
"Captain!"
"Yes?!" An explosion lit up Juion's face from the view ports. "Report!"
"The comand centre on Endor was hit by some kind of RPE weapon."
Juions face was suddenly drained of colour. "Vassisk..."
"We have no reading. All signals cut off when the explosive hit the building."
Juion shook his head. "Ok, has the rest of the base evacuated?"
"Yes, sir."
Juion nodded. "All ships this is captain Juion of the Imperial Alliance. We are supplying coordinates. Jump into hyperspace at-" A massive explosion rocked the bridge sending Juion flying back. Screens of consoles exploded and screams followed. The lights flickered.
"We have lost main shields! Secondary shields! Communications! Port gun decks two and three! And main power grid!" An officer coughed through the smoke of the shattered bridge.
Juion's eyes watered as he stood up military stright. "Helm!" He squinted at the flickering holo display. "Get us out of here!"
"Sir." Someones voice crackled.
***
"Shuttle, this is the Calamari battlecruiser Tyrents Fist, we are going to pick you up. Gundark squadron and Farsight squadron will assist."
"Rodger that, Tyrents Fist." The pilot replied. "Complying."
Aya looked up. "The Dark Blade is retreating, there has been some heavy losses. Also - can you repeat that? - Admiral Vassisk, and Thrawn have been..." her face turned white "...killed. Banis, can you... sense..." (PM me)
Forrester looked at Banis for a moment, then flinched as the ship was hit by fighter fire. "Would someone get those bloody fighters off-"
"You called." Two X-wings roared in, quad lasers flaring. "Yippi-ki-yay!"
grens shuttle flew into the aldon's hanger bay, passing between larger ships. as gren stepped into the bridge, it was already clear that they were ready to leave. captain gona turned to greet him. "ah, admiral, right on schedule." he turned back to a bridge officer. "punch it." the aldon turned onto an indirect course that would first lead to sluis' van, before turning and jumping to hoth. the stars around them seemed to strecth into lines and explode behind them as they entered hyperspace. just as they jumped, gren forwarded a message to vassisk, but the message never made it to vassisks datapad.