The Imperial | Star wars

10. The Defiants

I was deeply affected to hear about my mentor's passing and vowed to exact revenge. However, I now realize that my initial motivation for joining the Empire was to provide the same level of care for the person I fell in love with as a child. I spent my childhood watching the soldiers march through the city, and I dreamed of becoming a pilot so that I could serve the empire alongside my childhood sweetheart, Zena Dellis. Unfortunately, she is no longer by my side, so I am on my own. I felt her presence next to me, grinning at me every time I held this locket and looked up at the stars.

We know there are more out there, so we need to be ready, so I've created something that might put an end to this rebellion by making sure people never suffer and can live in peace under protection. My "protomatter bomb" invention helped us advance clean energy technology because the radiation it produced could largely replace electrical generators in most sectors of the economy. Jabba has noticed my influence and expressed interest in my creations and designs. He even offered his bounty hunter guild in exchange for power guards, which was an alluring offer. However, Jabba only revealed that the guardianship was necessary for security reasons, as rebels had been attempting to persuade him to support their cause.

Having agreed, I now command the majority of bounty hunters who support my goals and cause because they see me as a lucrative venture. As I am now their keeper and send them on assassination missions and jobs for us because it also provides huge sums of money on which they never question the reasoning and simply focus on the credits, this also added in rules for assassins to prevent them from disrespecting the nature of the empire.

While the first batch of "Defiant" class warships is finished and ready for combat demonstration, I get ready to launch my Procurator class ship, which I've dubbed the "Renaissance II" in memory of my old ship. It is now ready for launch as I get my crew ready and synchronise every warship to my command. All it needs to do is synchronise with the throne on the bridge, from which I will personally command every warship and oversee the formation myself.

As I was contacting the emperor to present the Defiant, a far-off shipyard reached out to me, asking for help because the rebels had attacked them to take back control of the space. With the information at my disposal, I get every ship in the fleet ready to jump to Fondor and get into battle as soon as we leave hyperspace.

As we travel through hyperspace, I brief the pilots to get ready for instant combat deployment, with the rebel bombers being their main objective. A holographic image of my fleet appeared as I sat on the throne. As I was rearranging the formation and giving each warship a specific task, I made the decision to make things easier on myself by giving them the names Alpha, Beta, and Gamma fleet formation.

When we arrived, we found the Star Destroyer disabled and docked for repairs, escorted by two Corvette classes on a capital ship, MC 80, who were preparing to board a boarding party in an attempt to take control of it. Following my fleet's arrival, the rebels turned to face us and attempted to hail us. I responded by asking them to surrender or face destruction, but they refused, so my fleet opened fire at will. Due to the ship's firepower and firing rate, which depleted the enemy shield, the "Defiant" easily destroyed both Corvette classes. Any fighters or bombers that attempted to attack the warship were either intercepted or destroyed by the "Defiant" anti-aircraft personnel.

We concentrate our firepower on the capital ship's engine and weapon system as it gets closer and tries to disable us with its ion cannon. Our goal is to take out the commander of the capital ship and question them for information. We fired everything we had at the capital ship, and I was told that it was disabled and that all of the fighters had been destroyed in the process. However, just as I was going to assign a boarding party, personnel shuttles, U-wings, and fighters all attempted to flee the capital ship hangar. For this reason, I concentrated my firepower on the shuttle because the U-wing and the fighter were too far ahead and out of range.