Star Wars : The New Sith Crisis

The Deeps

As the shields of Kasyyyk crashed, the Imperial transports and several wings of TIEs swept forwards and into Kashyyyk. From space, a Star Destroyer polished off the Wookie's northern shield generators but left the southern ones. As the ships flew over Kashyyyk, Wookie engineers routed all power on the planet through the Southern generators. The shield returned, but only half as strong as it had been. Any semi-serious bombardment could collapse it. Croak watched as the Imperial transports headed towards the treetops. He assumed they would try to land on the Wookie platforms. Already Wookie emergency response troops were waiting to repel the stortroopers before anything else could happen. To his horror, the ships didn't go for the platforms. Instead, they left their shilds on and began using them to cut right through Kashyyyk's vegetative canopy. The energy worked well for this barbaric pruning. As the ships sliced through tree limb and vine, A large wroshyr tree had ites trunk completely cut through. It began falling, As the kilometers tall plant fell, a wookie city that had rested in its branches fell with it. Thousands of Wookies were dumped into the deadly ecology of lower Kashyyyk, never to be seen again. The Empire has another thing coming if they think Kashyyyk will fall as easily as that tree Croak thought.
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Following the transports in her TIE Defender, Sev'rannce Tann felt the power of the force energy in this place. With so much life it was a veritable storehouse of force power. For fun, she fired her lasers and made deep gashes in one tree. Deciding to use energy on something more useful, she used the Wookies falling from the collapsing city as target practice. The other TIE gunners followed suit. Soon enough, the flight was over and huge gashes had been rent in Kashyyyk's ecosphere. It would take a long time for the planet to recover from the damage done by the slicing shields of the Imperial ships. Then again, we came for conquest, not vacation she thought to herself. As the troops began offloading, Tann saw that they would need a suitab;e area to camp in. Using the dark side, she killed everything in a large radius around the campsite. The lightning did an dexcellent job setting wood on fire. Fire that only she could control. As the droids began setting up the shelters and other portable buildings they had brought, Her force sense wandered across the planet. She noted with mild interest four jedi on Kashyyyk. She would deal with them later. For now, she had a war to start.

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Atop the massive government tree of Kashyyyk, Croak and the Wookie high command prepared a battle plan. They had been distributing bow-casters for hours now. The biggest problem as they saw it was the damage rent by those blasted transports. The Imps had caused irreperable damage to their planet by it. Now they had an infestation of enemies in thelower levels. Most of the leaders thoguht that the deadly lower ecology would deal with the foes, but Croak knew better. The Empire wouldn't have gone down there without a plan of action. He knew something was coming and coming soon. Suddenly an aid walked in.
"Sirs, there is something outside you must see." he growled. The pthers came out and Croak cried out in amazement at what he saw.

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On Kessel, Niun Nimb gaped at the size of the Imperial fleet that had just arrived in his airspace. The Sullustans there had no real fighting ships, just a few mothballed Headhunters and one old X-Wing from Incoms first batch. the fighters scrambled as TIEs swpet through thge air. Three Defenders dispatched from the main swarm as the rest kept moving, splitting into groups of Fighters and Bombers and moving for the main power stations and Atmosphere generators. He watched in amazement as the three Defenders proceeded to fly head on into the fire of his fighters without being scratched. They all opened fire at once, spinning and taking down the old fighters as easily as if they were doing a routine gunning exercise. He looked at the viewscreen and winced as power core after power core was pummeled by the TIEs. The Star Destroyers hadn't even moved from their positions in orbit. His display and the lights went dead when the last power core was beaten into dust. I guess we use mobile generators from now on he thought glumly as the emergency underground backups came online. these would only keep it up from four hours a day. His tactivcal screen came back only te reveal a massive formation of drop ships approaching. They're taking voer the whole planet he thought in amazement. Calling over the comm he spoke. "All hands to battle stations, prepare to repela surface assualt.

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On the Chimaera's bridge, Grand Admiral Pellaeon watched in approval as all the targets on Kessel went blank. Now only his droids could function on the planet. Any sentient would suffocate from Kessel's thin atmosphere. He weatched via remote viewscreen as wave after wave of droid troopers an dall their equipment was offloaded. Time to pay a visit to the spice mines and see what exactly the Sullustans would try.

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In the lowest levels of Kashyyyk, Sev'rannce Tann lifted her hands. A burst ofenergy leapt from them, incinerating anything in its path. It flowed into the air, a spike of Sith lightning that didn't stop until it hit the sjields high above the atmosphere. All over Kashyyyk Wookie's looked up to see the spectacle. The symbol of war was emblazoned across the night sky. Several cities near the spike felt its affect immediately. TIEs came swarming in as Wookie fighters left the ground to commence air-to-air battles. The TIEs were not the Quantum ones, they were still deadly. A wookie squadron swept forward to lead the defense as droids on STAPs and Jet Packs emerged from the surface. Others came in small atmospheric ships that landed and offloaded them. Firing repeatedly, they entered the Wookie city. A group of wookies in the city ceneter opened fire, cutting down several of the non-quantum-armored droids. AmTIE bomber silenced their weapons forever with a well-placed proton bomb. One Wookie punched a droid and knocked it over. As he lifted his foot to sromp its head in, The droids arm extended a vibro-sword which sliced the Wookies legs off. The droid stood up and finished its foe with a swift thrust of the vibro-blade. Seeing this, another wookie leapt forward and brought a large club down on the machines head. Its head collapsed and the computer chip was crunched into a thousand tiny parts. The Wookie bellowed in victory and turned, only to be cut down by blasterfire. The Wookie defense was helter-skelter at best. the battle in the skies raged on, the only evidence of it being the flashing lasers an dofcourse the odd wreckage raining from on high. The Wookies could never get into a knot to fire volleys because the blasted Bombers were always dropping proton bombs on them. With the city in flames, The last Wookie fighter spun a tight turn to avoid a Defenders lasers, only to clip its ing on the column of energy still blazing from the surface. It flew out of control and crashed into the one ship that left the city. Many more Wookies died as both ships crashed to the planetrs surface.

After she recieved reports of the first victory, Tann stopped the blast of energy. Itwas tiring to keep so much energy flowing. She sat down torest and await the pthre reports.