Star Wars : The New Sith Crisis

Forest, Blood, and Lightning

As her workers finished scraping paint from the sensors of the final battle droid, Sev'rannce Tann looked out over the massive army she had prepared for the final assault on the Wookies. Already they had been driven back, with many small villages annihilated by the Imperial droids. It had been a costly campaign, but nothing compared to the resources that would be gained when Kashyyyk fell. Many of the Wookie cities had already surrendered, but one bloc was being very resistant. They had already repulsed two attacks, and all the rebellious Wookies were gathered there. She needed only to strike and finish the job. Unbeknownst to the Wookies, she had set up several factories on the ground, and droids were being turned out from them by the thousands. The resources were right there. Very few knew about the excellent mining opportunities of lower Kashyyyk. The factories wre heavily guardedm of course, the blasted creatures down here seemed to always be doing their best to wreck the Imperial camp. She had lost a number of un-armored droids to their razor sharp teeth and ripping claws. Soon she watched as frsh STAPs and jetpacks came off the assembly lines. The attack force was ready to move. With TIE fighters and bombers launching into the atmosphere and the droid army moving upwards, she took her place for the battle. An armored transport awaited her as soon as she signaled the attacks beginning. Raising her hands, she called the lightning to her and fired. A massive spike of lightning shot skywards, burnng a hole through the matted and ingrown branches the defenders first city rested on. The lightning caughjt some of the trees on fire and as Tann lifted off with thge first wave of battle droids, the city caught fire. The flames cast a freakish blu light over the entire scene as the wood burned.

The droid army emerged from the lower levels and moved forwards to the attack. Bowcasters fired and several jetpacks were demolished. The droids fell to the waiting repulsor nets below. Some of them struck against trees and left only a metallic smear on the massive giants. As the transport drew nearer to the battle, she felt the presence of four jedi. An enemy that might be worth coming up here for she thought. She felt the panic in the minds of the defenders as they desperately fought both the flames and the vanguard of the Imperial army. After some light skirmishing, the battle began in earnest. As the last of the flames was quenched, the main body of the droid army came up. With TIEs swarming overhead the droids begna landing. Blasters answered bowcxaster and both Wookie and droid were sent sailing into the depths of Kashyyyk. The repulsor nets had special guns built on the ground that shot anything organic that was caught in the net. Several Wookies tried an innovative tactic. They would fire once and then stop; until a droid came near, then all jump on it and beat it to pieces with clubs. This worked well until a q-armor droid came by. The clubs had no effect on it. The droid activated its vibro-sword and cut three of them down. It advanced on the fourth, swinging its weapon. The Wookie spun his staff and parried several blows. The droid worked him around so that the Wookies backw as to the main droid army. A blaster bolt cut him down. As the droid moved to return to the battle, he was sliced into four pieces by an X-shaped lightsaber. The four jedi emerged, blocking blaster bolts and advancing. Seeing them come, Sev'rannce Tann disembarked and moved to meet them.

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Falun Justan advanced on the black-robed woman. Maybe this is the infamous Imperial Sith-general. What a catch!! There's no way she can defeat us all. "Sev'rannce Tann?" He spoke. She answered with a lightning bolt that he barely blocked. He rushed forwards, swinging his weapons. Her yellow blade appeared from nowhere and parried his thrust. He felt himself being tossed backward by a crushing wave of Force and tried to absorb it , succeeding just enough to prevent himself from falling off of the huge tree . Looking down he gulped, he was slightly afraid of heights , Maybe coming here was not such a good idea, he thought, just as he felt Tann rushing at him from behind . Falun twisted around and blocked her blow, gasping in pain as the impact of the lightsaber on his own nearly ripped his arm out of its socket . This Chiss had some serious power . Flipping backwards he saw his friend, Het Fitine's lightsaber get crushed by a battle droid's huge hands . Falun worked a catch on his X-bladed lightsaber and suddenly he was holding two double-bladed lightsabers ." Het, catch ! he shouted as he threw one of the lightsabers toward his friend . As he re-activated the half-lightsaber, the formerly red blades came out as green . Falun had worked for weeks, trying to get the crystals to align properly where the blades would change color when he parted the doubled bladed sabers , now he had a working prototype . He advanced slowly, blocking Tanns blows eaily, but then as he deflected an over-head slice, he realized the cut had bee an diversion and his lightsaber fell apart in two peices . Tann had brought her saber around again and sliced through the saber . Amazingly, both halves still worked, Tann having chopped through the one place that would not destroy the entire lightsaber when cut there . He moved confidently, his two sabers easily out-matching Tann's one, or so he thought, as he fought, Tann went into full Sith mode, her ligthsaber becoming a simple flash of light as it cut throught the hilts of both halves of his lightsaber . Falun leaped back still clutching his useless weapon and prepared himself to die, even as he grabbed a short branch and broke it off, leaving him with a staff about seven feet long . Tann stared at the crazy Jedi , her lips curved up slightly in a menacing smile , suddenly, he felt a thudding blow to his knees and fell to the ground. The lightning burned into him and he rolled away from it. And right off to an eleven kilometer drop. And a very hard wroshyr branch.

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Kelchuunara bellowed when her friend fell, running at the hated Sith. as she braught her blade up to combat position a cascade of lightning caught her. She blocked most of it but a tiny bolt got through and scorched her. Crying out in rage and pain she ran forward again. The yellow lightsaber swung upwards, nearly decapitating her. A lucky duck was that saved her head. She stood up and then eralized that every stroke had a back-swing. The lightsaber sliced through her neck and down through her side. Sev'rannce Tann brought it back to en guarde position as the Wookie jedi fell.

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All across the skies Wookie fighters and TIEs flew about in a dance of death. Lasers flashed downed fighters spun towards the trees. A TIE bomber began a run aganst a knot of Wookies firing in concert as a Wookie fighter swept overhead, firing. The TIE went crashing into the trees. As the Wookie fighter flew away, an Interceptor swept forward and cut the group of Wookies to shreds wityh a few well-aimed laser blasts. The Wookies were putting up a good defense but they were slowly giving way against the onslaught of Imperial war machines.

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Ignosi howled a Shistaven battle cry and charged, his lightsaber held high and hard to see in the rays of the setting sun , his blaster firing uselessly as Tann blocked each laser bolt easily . Not waiting to counter his attack, Sev'rannce Tann moved against him. Her blade flashed too fast for him to see. Before he knew it, his weapon was flying through the air. His head followed it into the deepest levels of the forest.

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Grad Fortune sat in an incision into one of the trees. He and the last jedi had anice system worked out. Het Fitine blocked all the droid shots while Grad's Nightstinger took out droid after droid. Suddenly a dark-clad figure approached. He fired, only to have her deflect his shot back at him with a yellow lightsaber. The jedi deflected it off into the trees. She lifted her fingers.
"Get down as far in there as you can . NOW!!!!" The jedi called to Grad as blue lightning fired towards them. The jedi caught the lightning on his borrowed doubled-bladed lightsaber, his face pinched in concentration as he caught every salvo.

Sev'rannce Tann laughed as she watched how hard the jedi tried to block her attacks. Little did he know that the illegal weapons trader he was protecting was choking in his rat-hole. As the scum fell dead, she drew her blade and advanced on the jedi. Swinging several times he leapt at her. As he landed, she drew a force wave backwards against his knees. He fell at a funny angle. There was an audible POP as his right ACL snapped. He writhed in agony on the ground as she fired lightning to finish him. He gave a last rasping breath and died from the attack.

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Afters several hours of fierce fighting, the last Wookie defenders gave up. With no ammo left and droids surrounding them, Croak and his guards came out hands up. Croak signed a treaty officially turning Kashyyyk over to the Galactic Empire. With the honor of all Wookies behind his signature, Sev'rannce Tann could return to Bastion with the assurance that no more trouble would come from this area.