The Death Star has been destroyed. While the Coalition celebrates, Ezra and Jaral return to Lothal, to spend some time with their family and introduce Luke to the ways of the Jedi. But the Empire is far from broken, as Grand Admiral Tanis and his fl...
The trip to Mon Cala was surprisingly quick when the way wasn't blocked by the Empire. In just a couple of hours, the ship reached the planet and Jaral was escorted down toward the capital together with Darvos. Along the way, she noticed something that rose her spirits: the orbit was now filled with new ships.
She recognized the insignia of the Tau Empire on them. She had read the report that the fleet had finally arrived in Andromeda, going straight for Mon Cala without stopping over Lothal to join the fight as soon as possible. Their presence here meant that the Grand Marshall might have had at least the opportunity to present herself to their leader and perhaps learn something about this new asset.
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The corvette docked at the spaceport and a squad of the renewed Mon Cala army was ready to escort her at the Royal Palace, which was going to host the summit of the Rebel Alliance.
When they were dropped in front of the palace, they prepared to go and meet with the new King of Mon Cala, Ech-Char, a cousin of the late king Lee-Char.
But before they could do that, they were stopped by a turian messenger.
"Excuse me, Grand Marshall." the alien said, wearing the clothes of a diplomat.
"Can I help you?" Jaral asked cordially.
"Thanks, I'm just here to deliver a message from the Empress."
"Proceed."
"Her Majesty has been informed of your plan to start a campaign in the Trailing Sectors. She would like to provide your brother with a ship that should improve his chances of success."
"That's very generous." she replied in a composed tone. "What kind of ship?"
In response, the diplomat lightened up his omni-tool and sent a message containing the specifics of the ship. While Jaral opened it up and found the design of what looked like a cruiser with a compact linear shape.
"It's an Infinity-class cruiser. It's part of one of the latest models created to explore uncharted space in the Milky Way. Despite that, it carries a lot of firepower and can host a sizable military force, along with a greenhouse, a small refinery to obtain proton fuel for the smaller ships..."
"I see." she replied impressed as she looked at the statistics. That ship was definitely larger than the usual cruiser, but since it was created to make long travels into uncharted space, it had to host many infrastructures that could allow the crew to keep a certain standard of living.
"Why you haven't already used them in this galaxy?"
"It's not exactly a warship, and so far the Admirals didn't think they were need. Plus, all the sister ships of the Amerigo are out exploring in the Milky Way. This one had just come out of the dry-dock. Her Majesty has just given the order for it to be refit and redeployed, it should arrive in three rotations."
