Peace is a Lie(Ft)(Open)

[Coyell]

The lamba class shuttle flew threw the air of Csilla passing through the narrow airways left by the huge skyscrapers. Most speeders let it pass since usually Lamba class shuttles were for military use only. But not this shuttle.
Inside Lord Farck sat on a small chair surrouned by mercenaries, and other sith.
"Today is our day to take the Ascendancy for ourselves!" he began," The only thing that stands in our way is the puny King and his foolish order of force-sensitives, potraying themeselves as 'Jedi'. I promise you they are no Jedi, no we are Sith the true rulers of the Galaxy! After the king is killed, the Aristocras will quickly pledge their ruling families to our cause and we can conquer the entire Unknown Regions, and then, who knows?"
The Jedi temple was nearing and Farck prepared himself by letting the force surge through him. There were three sentinel class assault shuttles filled with Mercenaries and Sith, who were being landed at vital parts of the temple. As the shuttle descended he used the force to sense for organics in the temple. Some where over 100 non-force sensitives, Csillan Honor guard most likely, and another 2 dozen force sensitives, probably padawans, and lastly he could fill the strongest being in the temple. King Phillip.
The lamba touched down and he sensed...Suprise and Fear.
The ramp lowered and he put on a look of hate and ignited his lightsaber.
* * *
Borsaw looked from his view port on the bridge of the Liberation, a Palleon class star destroyer only a few thousand Kilometers from the Frost Asteroids Tibanna gas mining station. He was the only Admiral in the sector that was willing to join the sith's coup and it seemed like they would prevail. The liberation was accompanied by 4 ardent frigates, 2 venator star destroyers and 5 acclamator II class assault craft. The latter carried thousands of stormtroopers who had defected to the sith cause. The only other two fleets in the system were the pirates the sith hired and the Coyellian Defense Fleet task force used to protect the important mining and research operations there.
The rest of the Sith fleet was located near Csilla to help Farck in his invasion.
The pirate fleet comprised of5 interceptor IV frigates, 10 crusader corvettes and dozens of fighters.
The Coyellians made the first move. Contacting the pirates and the Sith the coyellians sent a warning,"Un designated ships you are in violation of Coyellian Reservatory act 347." A chiss said on the holo display.
Admiral Borsaw replied with,"We will accept any form of surrender commander, for we have far superior numbers and heavily outgun you."
" Long live the King!" The Chiss responded with and the Venator class star destroyer that was guarding the asteroids opened fire on the Liberation. The 5 tartan patrol cruisers that were stationed their opened fire on the pirates as 2 imperial-II class star destroyers came to the aid of the lone venator.
"Concentrate firepower on those cruisers." Borsaw ordered over the ship comm.
The enemy corvettes were taking a beating, but the enemy cruisers were holding their own... for now.

This is a civil war/coup loosely based on the Sith-Imperial war from star wars. Every one is welcome to join as individuals, armies, mercenaries, pirates, or whole nations. It's all up to you.
It is based on star wars tech but not restricted to it.

[United Planets 1]

RSS Atlantia
Venator Class Star Destoryer

A short distance away, the Atlantia emerged from Hyperspace quickly, deminishing it's sensor return to attempt to remain as inconspicous as possible as it observed what was taking place. The Venator was unlike the Venators being used in the conflict taking place, the Republic Vessel had undergone a major refit over the last year, bringing her into line with modern technology. The decision had been made to refit the Venator class, rather than go for the Imperator Class that had been put forward to a senior Beurocrat called Tarkin. Venator's were now capable of taking on almost any Capital Ship in the Galaxy. This Particular Star Destroyer had been the second to under go the refit, and was one of the most prestigious vessels in the fleet.

At the rear of the Bridge, two cloaked figured watched as the events unfoled on a massive hologram in the centre of the Bridge. They had been dispatcehd due to a large disturbance in the Force and they needed to ensure that this conflict could not become a threat to the Republic.

"WE are in position" Captain Taskg reported.

"Good to hear" Twi'Lek Jedi Knight Shato replied "Have we shielded ourselves from the locals?"

"As best we can, but We'll be spotted at some point" Taskg replied.

"That'll have to do then" Shato sighed "FUll sensors"

[Coyell]

RSS Atlantia
Venator Class Star Destoryer

A short distance away, the Atlantia emerged from Hyperspace quickly, deminishing it's sensor return to attempt to remain as inconspicous as possible as it observed what was taking place. The Venator was unlike the Venators being used in the conflict taking place, the Republic Vessel had undergone a major refit over the last year, bringing her into line with modern technology. The decision had been made to refit the Venator class, rather than go for the Imperator Class that had been put forward to a senior Beurocrat called Tarkin. Venator's were now capable of taking on almost any Capital Ship in the Galaxy. This Particular Star Destroyer had been the second to under go the refit, and was one of the most prestigious vessels in the fleet.

At the rear of the Bridge, two cloaked figured watched as the events unfoled on a massive hologram in the centre of the Bridge. They had been dispatcehd due to a large disturbance in the Force and they needed to ensure that this conflict could not become a threat to the Republic.

"WE are in position" Captain Taskg reported.

"Good to hear" Twi'Lek Jedi Knight Shato replied "Have we shielded ourselves from the locals?"

"As best we can, but We'll be spotted at some point" Taskg replied.

"That'll have to do then" Shato sighed "FUll sensors"

Commander Nafto watched in desperation from the command deck of his flagship, the Spirit of Deskar at the Palleon and the surrounding ships. He knew they didn't stand a chance against the "Sith" fleet that had just atacked. He noticed a Venator hyperspace in but assuming it was an Acsendany reinforcement vessel he shifted his attention to the battle. Long range communications rported that the Sith had recruited pirates to surround and crush Acsendant forces in the area. But, most unnerving of all was the man in command of the Palleon star destroyer.
Grand Admiral Borsaw had been his superior commander and the only human who had reached the rank of grand Admiral in the COyellian Expansionary fleet. And with the defense fleet and expansionary fleet all busy dealing with pirate and terrorist organizations.As far as he knew the three princes were all engaged in these disputes as well.
The two imperial star destroyers were a great help in soaking up enemy blaster fire. They were also pounding the enemy figates with their impressive weapons array.
"Comms, send a relay to Csilla to ask for reinforcements." Nafto said in Cheun into the comm system on the bridge.
the reply came,"Yes commander"
Then a though occured to him. Guerilla warfare. His brother, who fought against smugglers on Oyokai, had mentioned it to him. He could order his anti-asteroid equipped ships into the asteroid field and use the space stations powerful turbolasers to hep hold off the enemy until reinforcements arrived.
* * *
Farck lept from the lamba and decapitated two honor guard that were near the door. The 10 others who were in the lamba with him ignited their lightsabers and leveled their blasters prepared for the upcoming fight. A dozen chiss Honor guard entered the hangar bay accompanied with two padawans a and a jedi knight. Opening fire on the guards, the mercenaries took cover behind some crates and other containers. Meanwhile the 3 sith each picked a jedi. Farck chose the knight. "Die jedi!" he hollered, almost a command. He let out a storm of force lightningweakening the Jedi, but not hurting him. Farck charged and tried to stab the jedi, but was parried and tried to fend off acounter attack by the jedi. Farck force grabbed the jedis lightsaber and fought over it. An entire 30 seconds passed until the Sith was triumphant. The lightsaber flew off onto the busy streets of Csilla. The jedi was dignified as he took an unarmed combat stance. Farck kicked him in the face and he fell to his knees. Farck looked down on him and said,"All that you know, all that you have ever protected, or built up, is over." He decapitated the jedi and force threw the remains over the edge of the temple hangar.
Farck noticed that the mercenaries had mopped up and were proceedeing to the temple doors.
Farck entered first and saw a full scale battle going on. Hundreds of sith,jedi, mercenaries, and honor guard fought in the temple lobby.
* * *
Sorna crawled through he air vent full off anxiety. She was care ful not to bump her belt of thermal detonators on the vents walls. Her Dl-44 blaster bistol wasn't easy to carry while stealthily maneuvering either, but it was a precaution just in case. She had never met her employers, but she was working for a man named Borsaw. Her job was to plant some informatio on the Communications center on Csilla, she wasn't sure what for however.
She was a twi'lek standing about 5'3". She had blue skin and light brown eyes. Her specialties were sabotage and smuggling ad she was pretty good with a laster when the situation called for it. She reached a vent which led to the relay room. she kicked out the vent and landed perfectly on the floor. She retrieved the information pack that would insert into thr relay machine. She walked towards it and inserted it into the data port. The screen changed from various colors to all green. She had no clue what just happened buyt she knew her paycheck would be good. She walked up to the vents and she crawled back throughclosing the vent up.
She heard the comms officer say something like"...what about that emergency signal?"
"No, sir just another malfuntion, everythings alright in the Frost Asteroids."
"Very good as you were."
She escaped throught the vent and back to the Dagger and left Csilla.

[United Planets 1]

Two small Delta-7 Fighters shot from the Venator's hangerbay and sped away towards the Planet, they had felt the plight of Jedi in the Force and knew that they could not simply stand-by and let them die. The Two Delta-7's would be almost impossible to detect on sensors, as they were being shielded by the force skills of Shato, and in the battle that was taking place, they would be damn-difficult to spot with the naked eye. Quickly jumping to Hyperspace. As a result they were soon approaching the Jedi Temple on the Planet.

Approaching the Hangerbay, they watched in pain as the assault began and felt two Padawans and a Knight disappear into the endless force. They hadned over Control of theif Fighters to their Astrodroids, popped the canopy and jumped down, leaving their robes in their fighters as they. Shato landed in a low-stance, legs wide apart and her Bright Blue Lightsaber held in a ready position. Shato was widely considered one of the up and coming swordsmen in the order, and her Padawan; teh Eighteen year old Human Takila Mak, was showing real promise.

Takila held two lightsabers, both blinding blue like his masters. These were Both Jedi Guardians, and they were very good at what they do.

[Coyell]

Darth Farck deapitated yet another jedi. That totaled 5 today. His little forcehad taken extremely heavy casualties, but reinforcements were coming. The remaining 40 mercenaries and 5 sith had set up a perimeter around the Citadel and E-web repeating blasters were set up near the entrances to help ward off any counter offensive the Jedi Might attempt. When Darth Farck felt the two Jedi approaching from be hind, he along with 2 other sith marauders went to investigate. As they crossed the great lobby, he made out two figures and three blue lightsabers. He yelled out,"This is no business of yours Jedi" makingthe last word a curse, his hand on his lightsaber.

[United Planets 1]

"You are killing Jedi, That makes it my problem" Shato said.

The two Jedi moved quickly into stances which mirrored the other, as much as two lightsabers could mirrror one anyway. If the Sith tried to suprise them with the force, he would quickly find out that Shato had put up a force shield to prevent the Sith from pulling some sort of trick prior to attack. If he wanted a fight, he was going to have to do it on their terms, not his.

"Drop your weapons and we can end this peacefully"

[Coyell]

"DIE!" Farck lept forward and stabbed toward the obvious senior of the two.
The other two sith ignited their sabers and came to aggressive stances near the padawan.
"Come now young Jedi, you do not sand a chance, even if you defeat us, we will become one with the force, and their will be more sith to fight you with every day." the shorter sith, a twi'lek, said.
* * *
Rear Admiral Shaska was ready. His fleet of warships were servicing the Sith. 4 ardent class frigates 2 venator class star destroyers, and his flagship, an Imperial-II class star destroyer. They exited hyperspace above Csilla. The Acsendancy had a fair sized fleet defending Csilla, but Shaska could break the blockade to allow the sentinal landing craft to land.

[United Planets 1]

Shato easily deflected the attack, before deflecting the next two attacks that her opponant threw her way. She then went on the offensives. Her blade work would seem like a impassable sphere of purple, dozerns of blades attacking from different angles, for she was a Vaapad practitioner. The Great Jedi Master Mace Windu had taught her the form prior to the Clone wars, for her it was, like with Windu, an answer to her inner darkness; a way to channel it into something much more positive. It took the user very close to the dark side, but never over the line, and it was this that made Shato different than her opponent.

Her padawan meanwhile was fending off her attackers, each lightsaber dealing with an opposing one. Takila was pulling her enemies into the classic trap when one faced a duel-blader fighter. The common weakness was that a duel-blade fighter payed too much attention on their blades and not on the force. Takila had overcome this, and was just waiting for the right moment. When it came, he force pushed, hard.

[Coyell]

Seeing that the jedi was more powerful than he first expected, Farck parried the attack and disengaged his lightsaber. The acolytes were still dealing with the padawan. He motioned or them t disengage for the moment. Farck used the force on three large pieces of rubble and brought them down in beween himself and the jedi.The two smaller pieces served as chairs and the larger was a table.
'How about, diplomatic relations?' he said politely to the jedi he attempted to kill mere seconds ago.
* * *
Grand admiral Borsaw saw the Acendancy's ships retreating into the asteroid field. Smart move. The large and numerous Sith ships didn't stand a chance inside the asteroids. The eneny ships also had the research station's and the mine's defenses to help them. Borsaw ordered all fire be focused on the enemy ship closest to them. The Imperial-I star destroye's engines were an easy target and if they were destroyed, then the ship wouldnt make it into the asteroid field.
After a few minutes of constant bombardment, the star destroyer gave out. It slowed to a speed that was almost comical. The other two star destroyers escaped to the research station however.
The crippled ship was turning and beginning to fire its weaponry at the Liberator.
"FOcus all fire on that crippled star destroyer's sheild genereators." Borsaw barked into the comm."And send those acclamators to Csilla they'll be needed there."
* * *
Rear admiral shaska was impressed that teh twi'lek was so swift in her falsification of the cry for reinforcements near the frost asteroids. She came through the bridge door as if on cue and said,"I did what you asked, so where's my money?"
He smiled and handed her a large parcel filled with Coyellian credits in the form of Soltars(Paper money)"Are you available for further jobs?"
"Yes i might for the right price."
"I need you to go to Schesa and deliver tis very important package."
"I guess." she said taking the package and exiting the bridge.
Just as she left, 5 acclamator-II cruisers exited hyperspace and riht in front of the Acsendancy fleet. They immeadietly began firing at the Acclamators which held countless Sith Stormtrooopers and various other vehicles. Reacting quickly, Shaska ordered all fighters to be launched and all capital ship batteries to fire on the enemy ships. Hopefully they would shift fire towards the warships and allow the Acclamators to land and let off vital troops.
The fire exchange was heavy and casualties were mounting on both sides. But the acclamators did decend into Csilla's atmosphere to let off the troops.

[United Planets 1]

Shato resisted the temptation to rid the Galaxy of three more sith, but she controlled her feelings and remembered that that wasn't be the Jedi way, and it never would be. She never the less kept her Lightsaber angled, an a defensive formation, something of a rarity for a Vaapad wielder. Her padawan adopted a similar stance.

"Stop killing the Jedi, allow my ship to evacuate them, and then we'll talk" Shato said simply.

[The Empire Reborn]

(Tag for later post at the request of Coyell)

[Coyell]

"I will allow The padawans to leave to the Republic, but the masters and their foolish Jedi King are mine." Lord Farck said. If this went well then he could establish his dream of a sith empire.

*. *. *
Shaska's ships were doing fairly well against the acsendancy's fleet. More importantly, the acclamators had made a landing and were unloading all of their troopers and assault vehicles. Within a few hours the force would reach the temple.

[United Planets 1]

"Allow me in to collect the Padawans then" Shato said "Then we will discuss the Knights"

[Coyell]

"very well." he said
Then into his comm he spoke a language that neither of the Jedi would understand. ,"reinforcements are needed, especially demolitions experts,the rats are holed up in the citadel.
He looked back at the Jedi and smiled his chiss red eyes glowing."the knights will be allowed to live, if they accept mt new government and completely kneel to the dark side."
* *. *
King phillip watched out the slit in the citadel wall.
"your majesty, the sith's defensive line is to powerful for even us to over power." a young honor guard said to him.
The old chiss sadly said," I know all to well, we can only hope for reinforcements. I had no idea that all these sith were in the acsendancy."
"I trust your wisdom your majesty"
"I know child,I know."

[United Planets 1]

Shato wasn't a fool, she sensed the duplicity in the force and decided that she had to take matters into her own hands. Neither she nor her Padawan had de-energised their weapons, so they were ready for combat.

"Let me put it as simply as I can for you" Shato said "You will let me into this temple immediatly, I will evacuate whoever is willing to leave with me, and if you or any of your Sith scum attempt to stop me, I'll neautralise any problems"

[The Empire Reborn]

The Stronghold
Dantooine
Grand Master Luke Skywalker sat in a classic meditation pose, his mind probing the Force. In his mind's eye, he saw the battle on Csilla, felt the deaths of the Jedi. His arm extended and a comlink flew into his open palm.

Thumbing it on, he called the Masters of the various branches to his chambers. Minutes later, they had assembled and were discussing a course of action.

The Next Day
In the first major test of the reformed Navy, a lone Venator-class Star Destroyer, flanked by a pair of Dreadnaught heavy cruisers and screened by a line of Carrack light cruisers and Lancer frigates, emerged from hyperspace near Csillia.

On the bridge, Commander Jan Kerrick stood and watched as his small flotilla formed up, a wedge shape designed to give the warships maximum coverage from the escorts. ARC-170s and V-wings launched from the Venator as a small force of Knight-Guardians prepped their interceptors for a dash to the Jedi Temple. If need be, the Star Destroyer was prepared to land troops, under the command of more Knights from the General branch.

[Coyell]

King Phillip sensed almost a dozen force sensitives ourside of the citadel that weren't his or the sith's. "Commander check the sensors, are their any ships in orbit?"
"Yes your majesty, it seems Imperial ships are in orbit as well as the Sith in vasion fleet battling our forces on the planet."
"Reinforcements?"
"None milord."
" Wonderful, we'll have to fight them off until the garrison realizes that we are trapped. I believe the Imperials intend to help us in our desperate time."
* * *
Shaska was shocked at the sudden wing of enemy warships. Immeadietly he sent a message to long range omms to contact borsaw for reinforce ments.
"Grand admiral i reqeust assistance, the Reborn Imperials have sent a fleet and our numbers aren't sufficient to combat both enemy fleets."
* * *
Borsaw was beginning to get frustrated when he decided to relax and wait the Loyalists out whan he received a messag from comms.
He read the message and frowned. Scowling, he ordered two venators and one of the Ardent frigates to aid the young Shaska.
The ships left and hyperspaced to Csilla.
* * *
Major Href was reading the houses heat signatures when his subordinate officer interupted him. He contacted him via comms set up in their helmets. He was in charg of over 15000 stormtroopers, T4-b tanks, sentinel landing craft and other assault vehicles. The sith had recruited them to take over Csilla and take their Primary objective. The Jedi Temple. HIs men were assigned to capture a few very important oints, such as Csilla space port, the military HQ,and the Royal palace. But, he and his 200 man special operations team was commisioned to take the Temple. They wre currently ten kilometers away, so they began aching accompanied by a few heavy tank and support vehicles. They were equpped with heavy weapons to combatthe Jedi. They began their march to Csilla's temple.

[The Empire Reborn]

Commander Kerrick watched as the massive turbolasers rose and rotated, like the noses of predators hunting a scent. Firing in tandem, they sent huge bolts of energy, visible as green lances across the blackness of space, towards the Sith fleet. The Dreadnaughts and escorts opened up as well, more green turbolaser fire with some red laser cannon fire mixed in, a light show of death aimed at the Sith.

"Master Duross," Kerrick turned to the Knight-Master standing behind and to the right of him, his dark skin and long black hair an unusual sight on the ship. "Will you be launching now?"

Ulan Duross nodded. "An escort would be appreciated, commander."

"It will be provided. Will you be wanting troopers as well?"

"Not yet," the Knight-Master shook his head, his hair swirling around his neck. "But if they are required we will not hesitate to ask. May the Force be with you, commander."

"And with you, Knight-Master."

Minutes later, twelve Eta-2 Actis interceptors in the gray and blue of the Order of Imperial Knights launched from the Venator, escorted by a flight of V-wing fighters. They powered through the orbital melee with engines on full power and made a beeline for the Temple. As the interceptors entered the atmosphere, the V-wings turned back and rejoined the fight.

[Coyell]

Rear Admiral Shaskas main objective was to destroy any forces that were passing through to the Atmosphere of Csilla. He deployed a Venator to the sector where the enemy vessels were most likely to enter the planet. He then directed his fire on the Imperial fleet. The fleet of the Acsendancy was crippled and moving to a mored defensible position around the planet. "Concentrate all fire power on the bridge of that Venator! LAunch all fighters!" He yelled throughout the bridge.

* * *
Borsaw was even more frustrated than ever when the pirates began to get bored. Some of them began firing at the asteroids around the research station. Almost Immeadetly he ordered,"Pirate fleet, disengage and make your way to CSilla, after the battle you will be greatly compensated for your contribution to the cause. "
'I guess" a reply came over the comm.
Minutes late the pirates were bound for Csilla.

5 Interceptor IV class frigates
100 Heavy pirate fighters
5 Crusader class corvettes
1 ShaShore frigate

* * *
Href had arrivedat the temple. He did not find what he had expected, he found two Jedi Knights facing against Lord Farck and his Acolytes. He also knew from experience fighting with the Jedi that they knew he was here, so that why he gave the single command,"Open fire."
The 200 stormtroopers with the distictive red mark on their shoulder pad began firing indiscriminately against the Jedi, more notably the Padawan.
200 blaster bolts plus any grenades thrown would be difficult for even a jedi to deflect.
* * *
King phillip watched the gate of the citadel sway as it was pounded by who knows. The heavy durasteel would holdout for another 10 minutes or so, but it wouldn't be enough time. His knights, padawans, and the few masters would fight to the death, not to mention the honor guard perched in balconies that could take out the mercenary forces of the Sith. He sensed thousands of forces approaching the temple. Their intentions were not honorable. He entered a meditative state to prepare himself for the upcoming battle.

5 masters(including King Phillip)
10 Knights
15 padawans
30 Honor guard

[United Planets 1]

Seeing this, natuarlly, as a sign of betrayal, the Jedi lept into action. Shato moved to engage her target once more, resumeing her display of Vapaad without and holdings back, as as far as she was concernned they had just betrayed what little trust they had been able to get together. Her Padawan did the same, but even as he concentrated on deflecting the attacks of the two accolytes, she reached into the force and formed a Force Shield in between the fight and the stormtroopers that had just arrived, the shield flicked as it absorbed the attacks. Mak turned his fighting from holding them off, to finishing the fight. He would kill them both, then he would move to deal with the Storm troopers, he doubted his Masters battle would last long either.

[The Empire Reborn]

Space
The ARC-170s and V-wings formed up to meet the incoming enemy fighters, charging like jousting knights of old with laser cannons blazing. As the enemy pounded the shields of the Venator, the Imperial warships responded in kind, firing on the bridge of the enemy flagship.

Commander Kerrick had sent a message asking for reinforcements, and a squadron of Dreadnaughts was on the way. All he had to do was hold out, fixing the enemy's position for the reinforcements to emerge on their flank.

Atmosphere of Csillia
The dozen interceptors were designed for speed and maneuverability-the heavy anti-ship weapons of the Venator would be hard-pressed to effectively shoot them down. To further disrupt any targeting computers, the fighters flew wild patterns as they dove for the Temple, weaving and rolling as they descended.

[Coyell]

Lord Farck motioned towards his acolytes to retreat inside the temple to the rest of the Sith , when he used the force to leap from his current position, to the front line of the stormtroopers. Using force lightning, he helped his storm troopers weaken the force sheild put up by the Jedi, it wouldn't hold out long.
* * *
Shaska was aware of the enemy reinforcements and ordered the Ardents to do what they were designed for. They adavnced toward the enemy line to absorb their fire while dishing out a good bit of its own. The Venator would not hold out much longer.

[The Empire Reborn]

Space
"Commander, shields are at 25 percent and dropping."

Kerrick nodded, his eyes focused on the countdown timer for the reinforcements. All they had to do was keep the Sith occupied a bit longer...

"Begin launching troops," he said after a moment. "Get as much off the ship as possible and onto the planet."

From the Venator, swarms of dropships and transports began launching, under heavy fighter escort. Meanwhile, the Venator's shields continued to take a pounding, faltering and letting some shots through to hit the hull. Kerrick thanked the Force for the Venator's thick armor.

Just a few more minutes...

Atmosphere
The dozen interceptors shot over the city, the Jedi Temple visible on the horizon. Master Duross gripped his sightsaber with one hand and the control yoke with another.

"Knights, we'll strafe them and eject as we pass over. Astromechs will land the fighters a safe distance away."

Eleven "copies" buzzed in his earpeice. The fighters maneuvered into an arrowhead formation as they came up on the flank of the Sith troops, warming up their cannons for the strafing run.

[Coyell]

th pirates immeadietely began firing on the enemy dropships and landing craft. Their turbolasers and concussion missles would not make the dropship ride very"fun" for the Imperial troops. The head captain ordered all fire on the Sentinel(Im guessing) landing craft as well as the LAAT/i gunships as well. The soldiers inside those ships would make it hell for the sith on the ground.
* * *
BOOM! The gates to the citadel exploded. Dozens of mercenaries and sith from all various species stormed in focusing on the jedi. King phillip was approached by two sith and ignited his deep green blade prepared to die to save the rest of the Jedi. "What do you want?" he reasoned with one of the older ones, a trandoshan male.
He replied simply with,"The Acsendancy." as he and his partner ignited their crimson and violet blades. Before they began, King Phillip remembered something. Next to his throne, a gun. Not just any blaster of course, but a flare gun. A flare gun that meant a singhle word in its greenish fire. "Help."
Phillip force pushed the small panel that controled the roofs opening hatch. After a second it opened, but the sith were already on him. He parried, each time making a minute step towards the throne so as not to alert his enemy of his intentions.
Finally, after about five minutes of stepping and parrying, he reached the gun. Force jumping backward, he grabbed the flare gun and fired in the air.
The trandoshan glared at him with fearsome eyes. "You will suffer!"
* * *
Commander Arksta was just about to fall back when she received a message from comms.
"The king is in trouble in the temple, all available units assist him." Arksta may have been almost defeated with only a hand full of ships remaining, but she would protect here king. Every bridge officer had heard the command and had made necessary arrangements. She didn't have to say a single word except."Contact master Waru"
Master waru was on Gunnery deck 7 of the Nova class battle cruiser. the message was received as,"REport to the flagship Ardent frigate's bridege and await further instructor most honorable master."
So he took a Nu-class shuttle to the Ardent serving as flagship. As he boardied he noticed the Hangar crews preparing for a departure. Another mission he thought silently.
On the bridge Arksta briefed him on what had happened, so he put together a team of 2 dozen storm troopers and they all boarded his Nu class shuttle bound for the Temple.
As soon as the other left Commander Arksta decided to send a message to the Imperials,

Code: Select all

To: Imperial fleet
From: Coyellian Defense Fleet
You are in direct violation of Coyellian reservatory act 347. Under the circumstances, however this will be excused. We advise yout o recall all of your landing ships because the planet it self is lost. Due to interests elsewere in the galaxy our fleets are spread thin. We ask that you draw the Sith fire long enough to evacuate the remaining jedi knights and King Phillip from the System. Intelligence reports also indicate that the Auxilary Defense fleet and 3/4 of the Defense fleet are loyal , but little is known about the Expansionary fleet. Coordinates can be transmitted to your vessel to let you know where we are regrouping at.
Thank you for your aid.

[Coyell]

The NU class shuttle descended down I to the icy winds of Csilla. The stormtrooper marines around hum were uneasy, so Waru spoke up saying," Brave soldiers of the Ascendancy, our mission us to save the king in time to make a retreat."
"yes Jedi master." they all responded in unison.
Through the Icy winds, the soldiers and their Jedi commander could see thick smoke rising from the temple. They also saw thousands of troops around the city winning skirmishes against the ascendancy's militia and guards.
Apparantly, the sith soldiers were clad in normal trooper armor, except they wore various red markingson the arms, shoulders and chests.
The shuttle neared the temple and saw that the emergency hatch atop the citadel was open. through their amplified vision in their helmets, the troops identified several lightsabers and huge amounts of blaster fire. Suddenly Waru had an idea.
"pilot, contact those fighters we detected out side the temple. Ask them to provide covering fire for our shuttle.
*. *. *

Phillip was exhausted. He was simply too old for this.
His trandoshan adversary was wounded and his sith friend as dead. However, most of the honor guard was dead and very few Jedi remained. Just as his hope began to fade, he saw a shadow in the sky.
An obsolete, yet reliable shuttle. The Nu class transport
shuttle was lowering into the citadel. And standing on the ramp was Jedi Master Waru. Waru was a togruta, a rarity in
the acsendancy, but he was happy to see the man none the less. And behind waru were two dozen ascendancy marines.
Phillip motioned for his fellow Jedi to converge on the
throne. After a few minutes; all of the Jedi had reached
the throne and were desperately fighting for their lives.
The shuttle slowly descended and the marines opened fire
on the sith crowd that had surrounded them. Waru
Lept out of the shuttle and began to help the younglings and other Jedi onto the shuttle. Phillip and the newly
deshiped marines covered their escape into the shuttle.

Finally, he and the remaing twenty marines boarded the shuttle. It took of and made a desperate climb to the atmosphere.

Ten minutes later, the shuttle made it onto the ardent. The king was quickly brought to the bridge where he took command of the remnant fleet.
"this is your King" he said into the fleet comms," I am alive and well, but our government is in a different state. The sith have staged a coup and are trying to destabilize my authority. I advise all forces that are loyal to me, to report to the Narorar system. Wthere our fleets wil regroup and then, we will take back the ascendancy!" after he finished his speech, the remnant of the fleet jumped to the rallying point.