Alliance -- the position or act of conjoining
with one or more government or military parties for the
sake of a common cause.
with one or more government or military parties for the
sake of a common cause.
Alliance, several alliances had been known in the galaxy before the Rogue Empire, and no doubt there would be several after. The Alliance to Restore the Galactic Order, also known as the Rebel Alliance. The Sith-Trade Federation Alliance. The Bothan-Rebel Alliance. The Muugari Pirate-Rebel Alliance. These were all common examples of alliances, but further beknownst that they could be as fragile as a newly taped glass figure, or as strong as the mightiest alloy.
A single comment uttered in a quiet hall could throw to former moral friends into a voracious combat rule in which thousands were known to die for a single cause. The cause to regain the honor lost mentioned in that hall.
It was a fool's trade, but fools were known for their unbeknownst ability of gathering funds and massive success, as is on par with the famed Han Solo, or Obi-Wan Kenobi. Perhaps equally rivaled with Luke Skywalker and Mara Jade. These are simply typical examples that are known on a galactic scale.
Though tiring and confusing they may be, alliances have been and shall be the founding point of all matters of peace...and war. When it is one who chooses for peace, and the other desiring war, then thus shall there be war between the two, and then peace again, resulting in further alliances and so on.
An alliance, gone axis, a friendship...tarnished by power. Ziost was the focal point.
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A solemn cold beget the bridge of the Unforgiveable Sin, recently renamed from the Majesty of Elrond. It was the Rogue Empire's first Executor-Class Super Star Destroyer, and though only somewhat the size of the normal star destroyers of its class, it still portrayed in all of its glory the rememberance of the Civil War.
It was Vice Admiral Meriadu that was in command of the Unforgiveable Sin, and it was he who had trained with the soldiers for weeks upon weeks upon weeks on drills and exercies, preparing for this single moment in which they would destroy possibly the most dangerous target in the galaxy.
Though the Naboo Sith Order and the Rogue Empire had always formed a symbient bond, that bond could only go so far, and allow so much leniency. That leniency was being outrooted by the defilement of the galaxy by allowing these beings to allow control of the mighty Eclipse-Class Super Star Destroyer. Of course, Super was an understatement, and Rogue Imperial slang had founded it as an Ultra Star Destroyer.
To allow Sith a super laser was as if handing a mad man a gun in an Alderaan, where obviously those not wanting to be cought up in conflict would find themselves as open to it as any. It was something unable to be tolerated by the Rogue Empire, this was where the line was drawn.
Admiral Meriadu realized that hitting them most likely would result in the immediate declaration of war on the Rogue Empire, but it was nothing they had not had before, especially from fools such as the New Alliance.
Now the true battle, the true Duel of the Fates was about to rage to true heights. Tweeters and hollers from the consoles and systems within the bridge perimated the obvious fact that the Super Star Destroyer was preparing for battle.
As most would assume, the admiral believed one Star Destroyer, no matter what size, would be unable to fulfill the trick of destroying, nay, decimating the shipyards beyond repair and overcome an entire Sith fleet.
But thus the emperor had insisted, and when the emperor commanded...it was obliged. Not only was it courteous and just...it was the only logical thing to do.
His ship had been careening in hyperspace for days now, and only now, the day of the invasion, was it coming out for the true attack. With a spinning tuttle evolving to passive, lined rays of light, and then transforming into specks on a giant, black mat, the Super Star Destroyer Unforgiveable Sin gave its welcoming call to Ziost a good seven klicks away from the Sith planet and forces as was, keeping it well out of the three klicks required for weapon range.
The enormous structure that was the Ultra Star Destroyer pivoted into view, and it sent a chill down the crew of the Unforgiveable Sin, telling them definitely this would be a battle to reckon with.
Admiral Meriadu, being a handsome young man of only 36, gripped his hands over the datapad with an uneasy breath of fear as the Sith ships immediately locked onto his craft and identified him. The comms station roared to life immediately.
"Attention Rogue Imperial craft, this is the Naboo Sith Order, you are entering restricted space with hostile forces, withdraw at once or be destroyed," one of the officers had patched through from the Naboo craft. A lump formed in the admiral's throat as his thoughts traced to that of his children, of his wife home on Chandrila.
Cocking his head to the deck officer, he nodded his obvious call. "Pull us inward, do not waver...if we die...we die with honor at least," he ordered with sympathetic eyes. Sith did not grant mercy to those surrendering.
The comms officer, hearing the indication from the captain, gulped down his own fear. "Attention, Naboo Sith craft, this is the Executor-Class Star Destroyer Unforgiveable Sin, we will persist, as well as prevail. Surrender at once, or be destroyed."
There was a moment of silence and the mass of warships ahead of them seemed to mock them enticingly.
"So be it Unforgiveable Sin, you have sealed your own fate."
As if on que with the man's words, the incredible wave of three thousand Rogue Imperial star fighters raced into the system, literally littering what empty space there was with fighters.
Fleet Manifest
Executor-Class Super Star Destroyer
Full Fighter Compliment
1980 TIE Defenders
500 TIE Advanced
220 Missile Boats
300 Assault Gunboats
100 TIE Shadows