A year has passed and the New Allinace Transcendence Organization, otherwise called N.A.T.O. has secured most of the Omniverse for order, peace, protection, and stability. The Conglomerate Sith Alliance Triumvirate, also called C.S.A.T. is heavily a...
The extent of Bakura's devastation, though horrific enough as relayed by holo-image, was even more staggering when Alliance Admiral Gar Stazi saw it with his own eyes.
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When his shuttle had come in to land at the capital, it had banked low over kilometer after kilometer of blackened cityscape, and his stomach had turned to think of the lives lost, the agony sustained. His ship finally sat down in the government district, one preserved island amidst Salis D'aar's wreckage, where a modest welcoming party took him and several other officers from the fleet to meet with the local government. They were all broken, weary men, and Bakura's president didn't even try to put a brave face on it.
It is a miserable experience, and Stazi was eager to take his fleet and finish fight against the retreating Nagai and Ssi-ruuk, but he had to do this too. After the damage Bakura had taken, a visit by the commander of the liberating army was the least it deserved. Still, he was relieved when the audience was over.
He headed back to the landing zone with the Imperials' Captain Bovark. They walked slowly down the presidential palace's halls while their guards- two stormtroopers and two Alliance, shadowed them from several meters away.
"It's going to take decades to rebuild," Stazi told Bovark wearily. "Even if Coruscant commits massive funds here, it may still take a generation to heal the damage."
"One generation would be lucky," remarked Bovark. "And that's assuming Coruscant will have the political willpower to deliver appropriate aid."
The stout, whiskered Squalris had been the first of Roan Fel's officers to reach out to Stazi's renegades. That had been years ago, and their initial encounter had ended with Stazi trying to knife the Imperial over a misunderstanding, but intervening experience had turned Bovark into one of his favorite Imperial officers. He lacked their usual haughtiness and replaced it with practicality; Stazi suspecting being a non-human in a still-too-human navy might have something to do with that.
"I'm hoping with the fight in the Outer Rim wrapping up we can finish the fight back home," he told Bovark.
"That would be ideal."
"I'd like your battle group to accompany mine, Captain," he went on. "I want to get the Nagai firmly under heel. That means chasing them all the way back to Saijo. Subduing them might be easier, now that Darth Nostra is gone. With a power vacuum on top, they'll be more likely to surrender."
"I'd like that too, Admiral," Bovark sighed. "But I don't think that will be possible."
Stazi looked at him sideways. "What do you mean?"
Bovark held up a hand and snapped thick fingers. Suddenly the stormtroopers lifted their blasters and held them at the heads of Stazi's guards and were using free hands to disarm the Alliance men. Stazi instinctively reached for his service pistol, but froze with hand on hilt when he saw the blaster Bovark had drawn.
