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Hello. I have been working on this for months now. You may remember the Banner I had in my sig for two months. Well, this the epic you've all been waiting for! It is set in a timeline a few years after the Return of the Jedi. Every few days or so, I will release the next part, just to keep you in suspense!

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Here you go...

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…
It is a chaotic time for the Empire; Grand Admiral Thwarn has died while commanding the Imperial Death Squadron, which is a fleet of Imperial Ships originally commandeered by Darth Vader. An old organization, the Trade Federation, has grouped up with the Empire. Meanwhile, since the victory, the Rebels have called themselves the New Republic. The New Republic has sent its fleets to protect convoys and bases on the outer rims of the galaxy. Near Naboo, an Imperial probe has scanned the planet…

Chapter 1:

On the main New Republic cruiser orbiting Tatooine, Home One, Admiral Ackbar was talking to General Wedge Antilles. “We need a fleet to go to Naboo, we got a distress call, look at this,” said Admiral Ackbar as he walked over to his chair, he sat down and pressed a button. The view-screen flickered. Ackbar pressed another button and the display started to rewind through various images and finally stopped. A man on the screen said, “Help…lost…planetary…defense…shield…we need help...” the image faltered and died. “The fleet is spread dangerously thin, so I’ve asked General Solo’s Starfleet. They will accompany you on this mission; it has 1 MC80B Mon Cal Cruiser, 2 star fighter carriers, 4 MC80 star cruisers, 5 Nebulon-B frigates, 7 Corellian corvettes, and 3 Imperial Star Destroyers. Do you want to take this mission?” Ackbar said.
Wedge replied, “Yes, I’ll do it.” He turned around and headed for the door. However, before he went through the door, he said, “Um, sir, about Rogue Squadron.” Ackbar nodded, “they will not be taken apart, and it’s being assigned to this mission with 58 other squadrons, including Defender Wing and Pash Cracken’s A-Wings.”

Wedge walked out the door and went to the hanger. He walked over to a Lambda-Class shuttle; it was heavily modified, and was very valuable. No wonder there is so much security here now, he thought as he walked to two Rebel Troopers. He gave them his identification card. After they scanned it, they did eye tests, sound tests, DNA tests, and speech tests.
When they were finally convinced that this was the real Wedge, they let him on the ship. As Wedge walked into the cockpit, he quickly reached out and pressed a switch. He heard the hydraulic hiss as the ramp moved up into the ship. The airlock closed. Wedge heard a familiar thrum as the shields powered up. “This is Shadow 1…Mon…Rogue 2 …” he heard on the com as he lifted the ship. He almost scraped an A-Wing as the wings folded out. He flew out of the hanger. He was supposed to head over to Emancipator, an Imperial Star Destroyer captured by the Alliance at the Battle of Endor. As he blasted away from a corvette, Wedge flicked a switch to warm up the engines for Hyperspace; his ship did a roll and disappeared from the system.

Chapter 2

The shuttle reverted near the Emancipator. Wedge maneuvered the ship into the Primary Bay and landed. He walked down the ramp and looked around. There were two squadrons of New Republic TIE Interceptors and two squadrons of X-Wings. Many people were assisting in repairs. Wedge walked over to one of them. “Face, get the squadrons together and go to your computer, there will be a file about what we’re about to do, stay with this Star Destroyer, it will get us to the destination.” Face said, “Yes, and our T-65 X-Wings are being replaced with the new XJ X-Wings, they don’t need astromechs, speed is improved by 40%, and instead of 2 torpedo launchers, they have 3.”
“Good,” answered Wedge. Then they saw a couple of X-Wings being towed away and replaced with new X-Wings. Wedge turned around and headed toward a turbolift.


Wedge looked out the window of his quarters. He saw capital ships join with the Imperial Star Destroyer, fighters and transports stayed in the front and back of the fleet. He saw the ships start to fly away from the planet. Then they entered the dimensions of hyperspace and headed for Naboo.


Wedge walked into the hanger, dozens of pilots were climbing into fighters. Wedge climbed into the cockpit of his fighter. He said, “Let’s go.” The ships dropped out of hyperspace. He launched and said; “Report in.” On the com, he heard, “Rogue Squadron standing by, Wraith Squadron standing by.” Tycho Celchu said, “S-Foils in attack position. Nova Squadron, you may arm your weapons” B-Wings and X-Wings unfolded their S-Foils and joined the A-Wings, Y-Wings, E-Wings and good TIES. Kilometers ahead, Lambda Shuttles; which were trying to get to Naboo to land the ground troops started to rain fire onto the Imperial ships. “What are those?” asked Corran as large ships that looked like a sphere surrounded by a ring appeared. Their Quad Turbolasers aimed at the Shuttles and poured dangerous energy into them. Several seconds later, Corran saw several Shuttles blow up; he aimed at the weird ships, and asked Whistler, his R2 unit, “What are those?” On the secondary screen, it said, “Trade Federation Battleship-from ancient Old Republic era-heavily armed, including Droid Starfighters.” Corran said, “What are Droid-“The ship shook, warning klaxons indicated the shields were being damaged. Corran pumped energy into his shields and veered off. Where he was before, there was a fighter that looked like a slimed down TIE Fighter. Droid Starfighters, time to see how good they are. Corran did a snap roll that was supposed to get the fighter of his tail, but amazingly, the fighter stayed with him. This guy is good. “Nine here, I need help, one of these so-called Droid Starfighters is burning out my shield.” Even as he said that into the comlink, the shield around his fighter collapsed, the ship shook as its armor strained to soak up the laser barrage from the fighter. Then the port stabilizer was hit and went on fire, forcing Corran to reroute power from the lasers into the shields. Even though the shields were back on, they were a lot weaker, and the Droid Starfighter started to damage them again. A response came on the comlink, “Nine, this is Wedge, a couple of A-Wings are closing in on your position. Try to keep your shields online for as long as you can!”
Then Corran answered,”Believe me sir, I’m trying.” Corran flicked off the comlink. He put his engines on full throttle. The X-Wing picked up speed and zoomed away from the droid. Then, suddenly the droid started to speed up and it matched Corran’s speed. I expected it to do that; it must have rerouted power from weapons into engines. Although it matches my speed, it does not have anything to shoot me with. The sensor board beeped, indicating A-Wings closing in on the droid. One of their shots hit it, melting all the armor. Corran did a U-turn and fired. The shot destroyed the droid.
The A-Wings broke off and headed toward an Imperial Star Destroyer. They fired their concussion missiles at it. Their missiles exploded against the shield, filling the shield with color. The shield sphere started to get hit more as a Mon Cal cruiser, the Mon Denilno, fired its weapons at the aft section. Even though Emancipator had entered the battle, its weapons did not seem to affect the bow shields. They must be rerouting all power to the shields, time to batter them down. Suddenly, the enemy Star Destroyer fired at both the Mon Denilno and Emancipator. “E-Wings 1 and 2, follow me to the Star Destroyer that is now on your sensor screens. Slave your torpedoes to my telemetry,” Corran said. After he said it, his targeting system got a lock on the Star Destroyer. “Three away!” His torpedoes headed toward the ISD. Two other torpedoes followed the three Corran launched. Then the torpedoes slammed into the shield. The shields around the enemy Star Destroyer shrunk and collapsed as turbolaser fire followed the torpedoes into the shield. Laser hits and concussion missile pits dotted the surface of the enemy cruiser. The Star Destroyer belched fire and blew apart. Emancipator rocketed away and headed for one of the Trade Federation Battleships. Enemy TIE Fighters started to flood out of an old Victory-Class Star Destroyer. They followed Emancipator, their lasers firing at the Rebel ship. Corran and the E-Wings followed the TIES. New Republic TIE Fighters battled the enemy TIES attacking Emancipator. Corran shot one of the enemies down. The E-Wings took down a couple of enemy fighters. Then a TIE Fighter started to fire at Corran head-to-head. The shots sprayed harmlessly onto his shields. Corran fired a dual shot at the TIE Fighter, clipping its starboard wing and sending it spinning away. Corran watched as the good TIES and E-Wings destroyed the other TIES. Emancipator sent its thanks and started to pound a Trade Federation Battleship. The fighters that helped to get rid of the Emancipator’s pursuers helped it try to get the Battleship. However, amazingly, the shields held even after a hundred barrages hit it from the Emancipator and the fighters. Enemy Droid Starfighters launched out of the Battleship, but half of them were destroyed when Emancipator opened fire on them. The New Republic fighters made short work of getting rid of the other droids. The fighters opened fire on the shield generator. The shield generator started to crack as torpedoes from the E-Wings smashed into it. Emancipator finally got the shield down, its laser beams wreaked havoc on the Battleship, crushing turbolasers and melting armor plates. The Battleship’s return volley was not so good; its weapons were harmless against Emancipator’s shields. A black chunk of the Battleship ripped away, leaving guttering flames on the surface.
Just as Emancipator flew away, a couple of enemy TIE Fighters closed in on the New Republic fighters. The comlink buzzed.
“Loosen it up, Red 2-“
“Pull up; you’re taking too much fire!”
“This is Shadow 5; the enemies are firing on us!”
“I’m hit!”
Nova 10, a B-Wing that was just on the radio was hit by laser bolts from the pursuing TIE Fighters; it started to leak atmosphere and the pilot crashed his B-Wing into an enemy Dreadnaught. The collision collapsed the ship’s shields. Behind the cloud, Corran could see an ejection couch with the B-Wing pilot in it zoom away. A squadron of more powerful Interceptors joined the enemy TIE Fighters. Their fire ripped into the New Republic fighters. The Y-Wings were too slow, so they were the first to be destroyed. Soon, the only fighter left was Corran's. "Oh dang", he said as the enemy fighter barrelled towards him

Pretty nice, huh? Now you see why it took months. I'm not releasing the next part until I feel like it.

This post has been edited by Ultimate Ice Warrior: Mar 28 2004, 09:42 AM