Msst Orbit

[Inquisitor Camulus]

He watches quietly as the events unfold before him. He then notices the enemy has formed up into a defensive position. "So, they DO wanna play then?" He taps a button on the comm. "All ships, launch all fighters, merge with the Atrocity's fighters."

One by one all the ships in the Death Hammer fleet launch their starfighters and begin their attack runs. Camulus grins darkly and glances at Zairon. "Soon, this will be all over." He walks over to the bridge's forward windows and watches the battle. When he hears Zairon's word of warning, he spins around and takes immediate action. "Capital ships, target those asteroids before they get closer to us. Blow them out of the sky!"

[Fleet Admiral James Cook]

"Sir," said Melee. "They have launched starfighters and are firing on the asteroids."

"Good. Maybe if the asteroids don't take them out it will buy us some time."

"The Titanic and Olympic are reporting half of the remaining clones are safely aboard." stated the comms officer.

"And that is how many?"

"Around one million, two hundred thousand."

At this the bridge crew deflated. There were millions of clones down on Msst, in various stages of development.

"Captain Smith of the Titanic said that the surface is in ruins, and there are probably more survivors, but it would take full scale rescue operations, not to mention time." reported the officer.

"Alright. Keep sending the distress messages, on all channels and frequencies. Alert Fordox as well. Wake him up if you have to."

"Yes, sir."

Cook looked out the viewport again. A few asteroids had been obliterated, but many more remained. "They're almost surely going to be occupied with those for the time being. The fighters, though, are targeting specific areas."

Melee walked up to him and stood next to him.

"May the force have mercy on their souls." he said sadly.

[Nick Cousland]

MOD post to progress storyline, doubtful Cook will be back, so....


The Atrocity continues bombardment of the surface of Msst, making sure all facilites are demolished. As the fighters of Cook's Fleet converge on the RGE Fleet, all the fighters of the Atrocity and Camulus' Fleet launch and engage the enemy. While the fighters are blasting away at each other, the SD "Inglorious" continues its descent through the atmosphere and begins to break up upon reentry.

As the Titanic and the Olympic try to make their escape, the SD Inglorious unfortunately collides into both ships, causing all three to explode in a gigantic explosion, with several escape pods managing to launch before it blows up.

Camulus onboard the Athena's Revenge orders his weapons officer to target and lock onto Cook's Flagship. The weapons officer does this and Camulus give the order to open fire. The Revenge's weapons all begin firing on Cook's Flagship.

Onboard the Atrocity, Grand Admiral Tuulk orders the Atrocity to commence fire on Cook's Flagship as well. The Atrocity's weapons change targets and begin firing upon the traitor's ship.

Onboard his Flagship, Cook is shaking in a mixture of rage and fear. Knowing his doom is approaching, and no hope of victory as the rest of his Fleet has been completely disabled, he attempts to make it to the escape pods just as several missiles from the Athena's Revenge slam into the ship's engines, causing a hyperdrive warp core breach. The ship explodes in a giant explosion.

Onboard the Atrocity and the Revenge, their respective commanders give the order to cease fire and stand there watching and taking in their victory. Camulus looks at the damage report for his Death Hammer Fleet and saw that there were only several major damages done to the ships, which were repairable. He orders all remaining fighters to return to their designated vessels.

[Inquisitor Camulus]

Camulus walks over to his command chair and sits down. He glances over at his tactical officer. "Give me a damage report Lieutenant." The officer nods his head. "Aye m'lord. Sending the report to your console now." Camulus pulls his console around and looks at it. "Hmm, some damage, but its repairable. Not bad at all. Awesome." He then enters several commands into the computer and the Fleet's repair droids begin working on repairs.

Camulus then opens a comms channel to the Atrocity. "Grand Admiral Tuulk, this is Chief Inquisitor Camulus. It appears the enemy has been defeated. What would you have us do now?" He leans back in his chair and waits for a response.

[Lord Ire]

Grand Admiral Tuulk looks on in with a glint of happiness as the traitorous Cook's flagship explodes but is saddened to thinks at the cost, all ships destroyed here today were RGE vessels and would cost much to replace. A beep on his comline from Camulus signals his attention. Not wanting to see a total loss of all the expensive ships still out there, Tuulk orders the Atrocity's cannons to halt their fire as he then hits the com and responds to Camulus' inquiry. "Hold your fire, Inquisitor. Let's see if we can salvage something from this."

Tuulk then walks over to Ensign Ricky, having him open a channel to the ships of the rouge fleet. "Remnants of the rouge fleet, this is Grand Admiral Tuulk of RGE High Command. Cease your actions immediately, your commander is dead and you have no chance of escape. Surrender and your lives will be spared, do not and your fate will mirror that of the once Admiral James Cook."

Tuulk looks at Ricky and signals him to kill the feed, which he does without further prompting. He begins to walk back to the viewport and watching the mass of ships floating in space, he soon begins getting answers to his ultimatum.

"Sir, three ships have signaled their surrender... and two more." Ensign Ricky reports to Tuulk. Tuulk knows that there will be hold outs and those would be dealt with quickly.

[Inquisitor Camulus]

Camulus hears the transmission and nods his head. "Understood Grand Admiral. We have ceased fire as ordered and are standing by for further instructions. I have also sent out my Fleet's repair droids to begin repairing any minor damage we have taken." He ends the comm and stands up from his command chair and walks down the length of the bridge to stare out at the viewport at the remaining vessels of Cook's fleet. Smirking slightly, he shakes his head wondering how many will actually decide to resist them.

[Lord Ire]

Signals come in from about half the ships confirming their surrender while the rest sit there as if still contemplating. Tuulk has no time to play games and orders his tactical officer to power up a solar ionization cannon battery and turn it on the nearest 'undecided' vessel, a Victory II-class frigate. The vessel is enveloped in a hail of shield piercing fire from the Atrocity's cannons and explodes in a brilliant display of malice and carnage. Tuulk orders Ensign Ricky to open a channel to the rest of the undecided ships and his uncaring tone is very clear.

"Attention rouge fleet, you now have but one minute to decide your position or you will be destroyed." Tuulk says as he then points to his tactical officer who begins once again powering up weapons. "You now have 50 seconds."

Tuulk looks back out on the fleet outside and begins the count down in his mind, he is ready to destroy the rest of the rouge fleet in necessary but would prefer not to if it can be saved. As the rest of the fleet begins to signal surrender, seven frigates and one Star Destroyer show their intent to fight the good fight and open fire on the Atrocity and surrounding ships. They even fire on ships around them, probably considering their once allies traitors to the cause. Tuulk is not happy about what he is about to order but is not about to let their actions go unanswered. The remaining rouge ships also seem to be trying to move outside the Atrocity's gravity well projector's range. This Tuulk will not allow. Hitting the comlink on his station, Tuulk signals Camulus.

"Inquisitor, deal with these bothersome flies."

[Inquisitor Camulus]

Camulus growls in pure rage and fury as he sees the seven frigates and one Star Destroyer begin opening fire on them. His eyes glowing a deep crimson color, he opens a comm to the rest of the Death Hammer Fleet. "All ships raise shields to maximum. Star Destroyers Kadavra and Orlais and Dreadnoughts Patronus, Excrucio and Sirius target and destroy those damn frigates. Star Destroyers Imperator and Crucious take out that Star Destroyer. Revenge will assist!" Over the comms, the commander of the designated ships give an aye aye to the command given.

He looks at the weapons and tactical officers. "Lock onto that blasted Star Destroyer and open fire immediately!" There eyes wide with fear, they begin relaying orders to commence fire. The Revenge shakes as their weapons open fire and as the enemy fire hits their shields.

[Lord Zairon]

Zairon shook his head, "He was an idiot of trying this. There was nothing to accomplish."

[Lord Zairon]

Zairon turns, "You no longer need our assistance here. I'm going to go out scouting." He said, "High Command can get a hold of me if I'm needed elsewhere." Zairon said saluting before turning to leave. "Lady Athena, let's go."

The two knights left the bridge and boarded their Tie Phantoms. Once they were given the clearance to leave they left the Star Destroyer and entered hyperspace.

[Inquisitor Camulus]

Camulus nods his head and watches as Zairon and his fellow Knight depart the bridge and then leave the ship. He looks out the forward bridge windows and smiles darkly as his Fleet all but obliterates the enemy ships that fired upon them. Pretty soon all that is left of the enemy vessels is ruins and debris. Camulus walks over to his console and opens a comm to his Fleet. "All ships, cease fire. It is over. Regroup and form position." He then opens a comm to Fleet Admiral Tuulk. "Admiral, this is Vestis Inquisitus Camulus. The fight is over. Nothing remains. What is your next command sir?"

[Lord Ire]

Grand Admiral Tuulk looks out at the scene of carnage and death as it plays out before him, several small ships explode in a hail of fire that baskingly blankets the starry backdrop. Tuulk watches as a few of the larger chunks enter Msst's atmosphere, only to be called to by Ensign Ricky. "Sir, it's Inquisitor Camulus; he wishes to know how we should proceed next."

"Open a channel to all ships." Tuulk replies as he looks down into the command pit at Ricky.

"Channel open, Sir."

"This is Grand Admiral Tuulk to all ships of the fleet; to those of you who have decided that following Admiral Cook was a foolhardy measure and have decided to rejoin the ranks of the Empire, know this, you have made a wise decision this day that has more than likely spared your lives. You will be accompanied by the Atrocity and Inquisitor Camulus's fleet back to the shipyards at Yaga Minor, from there I promise you will be treated fairly."

Tuulks words are nothing more than lip-service to the ears of the traitors, he knows what their fates are already but will lie to keep them in order. Tuulk continues to tell the men of the fleet what will happen next, more lip service obviously. "I do not know what the punishment will be for your acts but I assure you that you will all wear an Imperial uniform for the rest of your days in the Empire. I thank you in advance for proving that you are truly a part of the Empire this day."

Tuulk's words do little to convince his own men on the bridge who can see the glow in his eyes; while his voice is even toned and even sincere in its message, the look on his face as he speaks volumes as to the truth... those men are as good as dead when the fleet returns to Yaga Minor. Tuulk walks over to his command chair and opens a private message to Camulus

***INCOMING TRANSMISSION***PRIORITY 1 MESSAGE***INCOMING TRANSMISSION***

TO: Inquisitor Camulus
FROM: Grand Admiral Tuul'kor'sabosen
SUBJECT: Enemy Fleet

ACTIONS: Surround enemy fleet for escort back to YMS, SITREPs on any deviation by fleet, engage and destroy if need be.

***END TRANSMISSION***

[Inquisitor Camulus]

Camulus looks down at his console as he receives the encrypted message from the Fleet Admiral. He grins darkly and opens a comm to the Fleet. "All ships, surround the enemy Fleet. We are to escort them all back to Yaga Minor Shipyards immediately. All ships report in." He leans back in his chair as all ships reports in for lightspeed readiness. He watches as all ships of the Fleet surround the enemy fleet as ordered and then gives the order to jump into hyperspace, enroute to Yaga Minor.

The Imperial Death Hammer Fleet and the Atrocity as well as the enemy fleet all enter hyperspace heading for Yaga Minor leaving behind the devestated world of Msst.

[shadow]

Two Chiss Star Destroyers, Shockwave and Blackout under the command of Shadow emerge from hyperspace above the ruined world of Msst.

Shadow looks out the forward bridge windows and looks down at the ruined world. "Wow, the Atrocity and the Death Hammer Fleet wasn't playing around with this guy. Oh well, time to get down to business." He looks at the commander. "Open a comms to the surface." The commander nods his head. "Comm is open sir." Shadow nods his head. "Very well. This is Shadow of the RGE aboard the Chiss Destroyer Shockwave. I am giving you one chance to rejoin the RGE or you'll die. The choice is yours and yours alone. I await your answer."

[Lord Ire]

"This is Commander Krackpippe of the Msst Defense Force," a voice says with fear over the comline, its apparent the fear is fresh within the commander's mind. "We don't want any trouble, my commander is asking that your representative come planetside to talk."