Battle of Vulpter (open to all)

Lord Invictus · Battle of Vulpter (open to all)

(OOC: I am requesting that a Jedi join but anybody can)
IC: The Galaxy has been torn apart by the Clone Wars. Darth Mortalis (a Jedi hunter who has torn apart his organic body and replaced most of it with cyborg parts) looks into the distance. He has the leader of this barracks. This city on Vulpter used to be manufacturing weapons for Clones but now... now it was doing the same thing for droids. Mortalis closed his eyes and relied on the force to see into the distance. There was a disturbance in the force.... an unnatural shift.... something aside from the Sepratists was here.

"Incoming!" yelled a droid. Mortalis open his eyes and saw a massive army of clones in the streets below him. The Sith jumped to the ground and looked at the clone before him. Taking out his lightsabers he dealed a swift punishment to his foe.

"Haheha," he sniggered. Clones were all around him at close range. Mortalis began swerving around as if this was coreographed. The clones fell to thier knees and dropped down. Mortalis jumped into a Seraph-class urban landspeeder and took a few battle droids with him. The maniacle Sith began to drive off through the city.

"Fire on.... is that.... Grievous?" asked a confused clone. Obviously, there weren't many cyborgs these clones knew of.

"I am most certainly not Grievous," yelled Mortalis shortly before jumping out of the speeder and slicing the clone. "Why do you always think that and.... ooh! A clone officer."

"What?" said a scared officer. Mortalis took out his lightsaber. "No I'm NOOAUGHT!"

Eventually, the patch of advancing droids were pushed back to a strip of wall, towers, and raised compounds for hieght and strategic advantages. Mortalis was viewing the battle on a holoprojecter table when a Neiomidian officer approached.

"What are your orders sir?" he asked. "The other field commanders here are attempting to hold out against the siege."

"Hold out!" ordered Mortalis. "I'll contact the inner city for reinforcements. Man the artillary and anti-air cannons and fire!"

Mortalis took out his EE-3 and began laying down fire on the clones below the walls after requesting reinforcements. ETA was another hour. A few Jedi were in the siege below but Mortalis knew that in order to win the battle he'd have to hold his position. Artillary fire from the walls battered the clones. However, the droids were still outnumbered and outgunned until the reinforcements came. Then it'd be roughly the same with the droids having a little more firepower and troops. Mortalis reloaded his EE-3 and looked through his sights at a Jedi. He slowly pressed down on the trigger and fired.

Butler_Swan

((I'll just assume that I'm commanding the clones))

Butler's instincts acted a split second before he actually felt it through the force. Butler rolled to the side just in time to watch the place he had previously been standing get pestered with blaster fire, from somewhere...Clone around him were dropping, he'd have to find a way to take down the snipers, it was demoralizing for the troops to have to fight an enemy the couldn't see, and it was costing his men thier lives as well.

Butler unslung his FN SCAR from his back and quickly loaded the launcher attachment with an HE (High Explosive) and fired in the general vicinity of the blaster shots. A few moments later, a large ball of flame could be seen and a tower wobbled slightly, which was enough to send one droid flying out, presumably to his death...or combustion rather.

Just as he began to load another round, a large formation of droids began thier march towards both the clones and him. Butler shouldered his rifle and reached in his pocket for a few electrical shurikens, which promptly knocked the head off of several battle droids. Suddenly, the large formation of droids halted, and then exploded, without any clear motive.

"Crystal? Araina? Was that any of you?" Butler asked through the comlink. Both Crystal and Araina were mercenaries, though the always seemed to work for the Republic for free...how the classified themselves as mercs was beyond him.

"Sorry coz." Came the reply. "Couldn't help it, I had to try out that new grenade that combined an EMP with a large explosive."

"Don't feel sorry Crystal, taking them out just means less droids for me to fight!" Butler said, reconizing her by the fact that she'd called him her cousin.

"Where's Araina?" Butler asked as he hacked through an unlucky battle droid.

"Oh...um...she said not to tell you."

"Gee...that helps a lot. I think I'm in a bit of a mess here, so I'll have to cut the conversation short." Butler said as the watched another group of droid begin thier march towards him.

Lord Invictus

((Actually, that clone army is made of a few clone groups, each of which is commanded by a Jedi. There is one supreme Clone Commander which I think will end up as Rive as he willsoon start playing.))

"Filthy Jedi slime!" screamed Mortalis as he saw a few of his droids burn. He took an explosive and shoved it into a droid's arms. "Get the troops out of this tower and seal it off. Place the demo charges on the supports and blow the tower. It's unfit for my army anyway. We might be able to make a stable wall out of it, too!"

Mortalis walked out to the main walls where thousands of battle droids shot aimlessly off the walls. Mortalis threw a few into enemy lines as missles and then continued to a large compound where a holoprjector popped up of a Dark Lord of the Sith (join in any time Lord Embeion).

"We lost the 1st tower my Lord," grunted Mortalis. He heard an explosion and looked out the window. The tower fell to the ground just as he had planned, making a nearly solid wall. "We just turned it into a wall. ETA of reinforcements is only another forty-minutes. To eradicate all the clones we are launching a few tank attacks from thier rear. I am sorry for the losses my Lord but at this rate we will soon win the battle."

The clones vastly outnumbered the droids (until reinforcements arive) but somehow the droids were killing clones at extreme speed. It was like water (the clones) hitting a rock (the droid near-castle like defences). Mortalis went to the walls and shouted,

"GET THE TANKS OUT THERE!" And, after a split second, at least a hundred AAT tanks appeared in buildings behind clone lines and on the frontlines. Mortias took out a lightsaber and jumped down one near his lines. They charged into the massive group of clones and began firing. "Get me some droids down here!"

A battalion of droids charged into the clone lines and the battle became less of a siege and more of an all out mish mash of troops. Mortalis saw a Jedi (Butler) nearby and charged at him, using force speed to zoom past him and brake his artillary gun in two. The Sith took out two lightsabers (a long curved green and a straight blue) and began to use his characteristicunorthadox combo of makashi and soresu. After showing off a bit Mortalis prepared for the real fight. He began to march forward slowly at Butler (killing at least twelve clones along the way) while shaking his sabers in an attempt to strike fear into his foe. Apparantly a giant cyborg wasn't scary as he saw no reaction. This would be difficult on both sides.

Lord Embeion

((Ill join up later as some sort of CIS commander))

Lord Invictus

((I'd like it if you were the supreme commander of the CIS forces of this planet. That'd be nice because you could be the Sith I as speaking with over the holoprojector))

"Fight back Jedi," hissed Mortalis. The Jedi wouldn't fight back. The Sith resorted to the final and last step. Force choking. To protect himself from any type of counter attack Mortalis kept his left lightsaber up for blocking purposes. He slowly closed his grip around the Jedi's neck, giving the Jedi a chance to throw a lightsaber at him to disrupt the attack and start a real fight.

Zsaber

Jynzo jumped into the air as a rain of blaster fire passed through the air of where he once stood. He came down hard on a droid and its gun was thrown into the air. He jumped again, catching the blaster and fired a few times. Then, flipping a switch, he threw the blaster into a group of droids. The gun was now sending energy back into its own power core, it exploded a few seconds later taking out the droids.

"RINJI, WHERE THE HELL IS MY LIGHTSABER" Jynzo yelled.

He turned around as 11 or so droids pointed their blasters at him. Suddenly they seemed to fly to the side as if swept aside by the hand of god. Jynzo looked to the left to see Rinji running towards him, force pushing for all he was worth and Jynzo's light sabers in his mouth. Jynzo grabbed his lightsaber from the kushiban and ignited it. He spun it around sending several bolts back to their point of origin. He smiled and lifted the hilt, he kissed the now warm metal of the handle.

"Ok" Jynzo said as he ran towards butler "Where's my battalion?"

Xander Vos

((Are you sure Rive will join? I mean, you can't just presume that. And besides, he wouldn't be "in charge" if you want to go off in-character ranks, because he's retired from the Council.))

Lord Invictus

((I invited him.... I can't wait any longer. Xander, would you like to command the clones? No, I'm serious. No sarcasm meant.))

Annoyed by his enemy's pacifist behavior Mortalis gave up. He lifted his hand in the air to signify super battle droids to deal with this foe. He turned around only to see that some man (Ringi) pushing a ton of droids away. A neiomidian contacted him over a holonet communication device.

"Reinforcements are currently arriving at the walls," he said. "The other commanders at the walls are ordering thier droids, closest to the walls, to come back into the walls. What are your orders?"

"Get all of the first line of droids into the walls but leave most of the army," ordered Mortalis. "I need to deal with a um.... grey Jedi who is destroying my army."

Mortalis walked up behind the Jedi and slammed his lightsaber toward the foe's back. Some other Jedi was behind Mortalis. He could sense it. He put his other saber behind his back to try to block any attack. There was an attack and he blocked. Turning around his moved his merciless eyes back and forth between his two prey, ready to strike them down.

Xander Vos

((Oh, ok, just checking. And no, I'm not really interested.))

Butler_Swan

((Mortalis...My gun is on my back...which means that you would have cut me if you broke my gun...so I'll just say that I had actually moved away and that was an illuision that I set up. Other wise I'd have to say I was dying. And try to use realistic numbers...it would be very unlikely to have 100 AAT's in your fortress just waiting.))

"Quiet!" Butler whispered at Jynzo as he grinned. The cyborg apparently thought he was where he wasn't, which meant that he wasn't where he was, so he wasn't there, because he was here...which meant...he wasn't out there...for the moment anyways.

"Jynzo, take group number 414413. Do what you can, I believe I have a surprise for the CIS commander." Butler said as he jumped over a ledge and into the heat of the battle. The AAT tanks were coming closer and the clones were having to hide because of it, which mean that thier efficeincy was cut down severly. Butler decided to take drastic measures, since there were about 100 of them, and decided to set up a little bit of fireworks for "crowd". Butler used the force and concentrated, using the sunlight to produce intense heat until finally the tank exploded causing a chain reaction among the fairly dense group until only seven or eight tanks which had not been part of the main group were left.

Butler noted with delight that the droids that had been sent to kill "him" were getting frustrated at trying to damage his illusion. Butler raced towards the cyborg and threw a shuriken which the sith blocked with his saber. Butler flipped sideways and summersualted drawing his WESTAR blasters as he flipped unleashing a deadly volley of blaster fire which singed the sith's robes even as the sith dodged most of it.

Bulter landed several yards away from the fight and quickly ran back into the heat of it sprinting and seemingly chaotically summersualting and twisting his body to produce a seemingly random pattern (Hehe...paradox) of strikes. Once Butler passed, he dropped to the ground in a roll and took out his sabers, all six of them and walked slowly and menancingly towards the cyborg sith. Once within 50 feet of the sith, Butler hovered in the air calling two sabers back to him which promptly snapped into his hand to block the stray bolt or close attack. Meanwhile, the other four sabers began thier attack.

((Just a note, you can't destroy the sabers unless you really put them through a lot...like sending it into a gas giant planet...they're coated with phrik so it'll be very hard to destroy. And please don't control my character, just wait until I post please, or just leave (meaning RP wise) all together and fight someone else))

Zsaber

(( Rinji is not a man, i said it in my post that he is a Kushiban.))

Rinji smiled as he used the force to manipulate the optic sensors on the sith. Finally the strain of such minuscule force manipulation got to him and he let go, revealing to the sith that he attacked a figment of his techno-magination.

Adenn

"Incinerate the clone!"

A blast, and Adenn was behind a piece of debris. The sound of war was ringing in his ears, and blaster fire rained on his protection as the clones moved forward. He glanced at a dead clone beside him, and took his blaster rifle. Hoping for the best, he took aim and fired clumsily at the waves of droids coming towards them.

He kept on firing until the ammo ran out, and, cursing under his breath, scavenged the remains of the trooper and found a thermal detonator. He activated it and lobbed it above the debris, an explosion following it. He looked for any other ranged weapons he could find, but to no avail. Adenn had never liked close combat, but he had nothing else. He drew his dull lightsaber, staring at its glow.

Temples throbbing, knuckles tightening, he ran out and swung at the droids.

((Is that okay...?))

Anakin

(Perhaps I could join?)

Rive Caedo

Another artillery shell impacted above Armia Delvron. She felt the stress of the structure around her and moved out from under the bridge. This blast indeed was finally too much for the bridge too take and it whined briefly before several bolts shot out of the support column and it collapsed entirely - bringing a division of clones with it.

Armia stood as the waves of duracrete dust washed over her - coating her grey-brown robes in a fine white powder.

She wasn't supposed to be here - she wasn't a commander, she wasn't a warrior, she was a historian! She should be back home in the Jedi Temple, archiving the results of this battle into the archive after it was long over. She wasn't cut out for this, she ---

This line of thought was interrupted as a blaster shot whizzed by her ear. She dove for the newly created cover of the collapsed bridge.

Lord Invictus

((The AATs were a prepared trap for the clones if the battle wasn't looking good for the CIS. You must understand this is a large CIS garrison. As for controlling your character I did nothing of the sort. I said that a Jedi attacked me from behind. There are numerous Jedi on the field. Anyway, how do you carry six lightsabers?))

"Another lightsaber and in your case six more to add to my collection," hissed Mortalis. The Jedi were brave but no creature could look at a nine and a half foot tall monster and have no fear. He took his unorthadox stance (Makashi combined with Shien which was quite odd as these forms were nearly opposites) and prepared to engage in a tough battle.

The clones were winning. The army here was being wiped out. Mortalis had to escape. One of the seven surviving tanks passed by him. He jumped on top of it and looked back at the Jedi with all four legs attached to the side of the vehicle which was about to leave. He began to stare with malice and anger.

"Fear not for you shall be dealed your deaths soon, filthy Jedi scum ((I'm not really insulting you guys OOC just IC))," he hissed as the AAT moved back to the walls. When it collided into he walls the cyborg began to crawl up them at a 90 degree angle. Quite and odd person really.... "Get our reinforcements all to the walls! Get me my council with the other officers!"

"Two of the six other officers were killed, Sir," stated the battle droid. Mortalis choked it and threw it off the walls into the enemy army, killing two clones. He turned to another droid after he had let out his anger. "Get me the other officers."

"Yes, Sir.... would you like me to get the supreme CIS commander?" said the droid. Mortalis nodded. The super battle droid walked away.

Soon after Mortalis met the officers at the main control room. The commander was sitting in a small throne. Mortalis looked around at the group. The hologram simulation of the battle looked very good. There was still a disturbance in the force. Something in this very room.

"IMPOSTER!" yelled a nieomidian guard at an officer. "That's my uniform!"

"I knew it!" shouted Mortalis taking out his two lightsabers. The enemy ignited one. Mortalis lunged at him, only to be blocked. Taking out his left lightsaber he swung at the enemy's belly, severely injuring him. "Get us better security here. I'll have another meeting in an hour."

Everyone left the room save Mortalis. As he was about to leave the Jedi used the force to pull him back. Somehow the Jedi wasn't as badly injured as Mortalis thought. The Sith charged at the Jedi. He wasn't sure who the Jedi was but he knew it was his enemy. They engaged in a huge lightsaber fight. "You fight well, Jedi. I'll admit you are an honorable warrior."

Again he was using the unorthadox. He kept looking between the Jedi and the battle. The battle was a standstill. At this rate both armies would die within a few minutes. Every few seconds fifty droids and fifty clones would die. The clones were outnumbered by droids but they had Jedi. The bloodthirsty eyes of Mortalis stared at the enemy Jedi. At long last, he would have a Jedi kill again. ((He might not. If any of you guys want to be that Jedi that's fine. Right now he's an NPC unless anybody volunteers.))

Cimil

((Need some help there Mortalis?))

Cimils' fleet dropped out of hyper space. Cimil flipped his hood off letting his eyes' peer out through the window. Droids wandered back and forth across the small room. A Cp unit walked up to him brandishing an elegant wooden box. Cimil lifted the lid. Inside there was a lightsaber.

"Ready the landing craft." He grabed the saber admiring his handywork. "Roger Roger." The droids answered in unisin. Cimil strode to the docking bay. Outside of the ship Cimil's fleet engaged the clones.

Lord Invictus

((Anakin you can join. After all this is "open to all". Would you like to be commanding part of the wall's defense groups?))

Super battle droids came into the room. They began to fire at and kill the Jedi.

"HOLD YOUR FIRE YOU IDIOTS!" roared Mortalis. It was far to late. In anger the Sith took out his lightsabers and sliced the droids to pieces. He left the room after saying, "That was going to be my first Jedi kill of today!" Then some battle droid caught up to him and began to speak.

"Sir, a fleet of CIS ships has arrived," stated the droid. "I have started to establish contact with them if you wish to speak with him. The clones are now confused and surrounded. What are your orders?"

"Move a quarter of our forces through the appartment buildings, unnoticed, and attack from behind to send 'em packing back to Kamino," ordered Mortalis. He stopped the droid. "Leave the Jedi for my fellow officers and I to deal with. I'll contact this naval commander."

Mortalis walked to a radio and made contact with the fleet commander.

"We're planning to hit the clones hard and flank them," he said. "You fleet, don't bomb the center clone armies. Bomb the back. There are Jedi in the center I'd much rather have my officers and I deal with the honorable way. With a lightsaber."

Mortalis awaited the reply. He looked back at the mutalated droids and the hologram of the battle. The battle was going well. Still, many clones were left. It was unlikely the enemy would win, but, with the confusion in the sky, a few shuttles could make it through and pick up the Jedi. And anti-air artillary wasn't much of an option as they'd probably hit our own ships. Still, this would be a great victory for the CIS if they didn't make a bad move and allow the Jedi to escape or let the clones kill off too many droids....

Adenn

How long this had lasted, Adenn did not know. He had sliced about 15 droids by now, and was exhausted as ever. Panting, he put down his lightsaber to catch his breath.

Every swing counts...

"Incoming!", a clone shouted.

A missle was headed towards his area, and quickly he ducked for cover. An explosion followed, and he could see clones flying up in the air, and a blast of wind hit him full on the body, bringing pieces of metal with it, cutting his skin.

I don't think I could do this...

Cimil

Cimil had ordered his fleet to bomb the back of the clone invasion force. Shortly after he and 2500 droids decended on the planet.

Lord Invictus

((5000 droids! That's completely rediculous. That's larger than the fortress' garison and the clone army combined! How about 2000 or 3000 droids?))

"Sir, the attack force has caught the clones off guard," said a Droid.

"Maintain the attack," laughed Mortalis. He jumped into the clone army (which was significantly reduced since the beginning of the battle) and roared up to a droid on the top of the wall. "Get me one hundred droids out here and push the offensive!"

The elite force of about forty super battle droids (although there were more as a defense in the fort) alongside about thirty (it's not exactly a hundred troops in the field that Mortalis got) marched out toward the clone army. Mortalis lead the group into the front of clone lines. Cimil landed with thousands of battle droids. Clones were dying faster than Mortalis had ever seen. If the Jedi didn't want to get hit in the crossfire they'd probably be slowly backing up and ordering their clones to move back behind them. The battle looked well until a demoralizing sight appeared. Two Republic Gunships (which, in this paticular situation, was another 150 clones) were coming from the sky. Clones were landing in the center of the field, pushing back the droids.

The Jedi can escape! thought Mortalis. He took up his radio and spoke to the droid commander at the base.

"Hit those clones and thier shuttles with artillary," he ordered. "Strike the shuttles first! I don't want any Jedi escaping. Patrol the rest of the skies for more shuttles. Get me more reinforcements. Get another five hundred droids out here!"

"We can't spare that many," said the droid. Mortalis asked how much they could spare while keeping the fort defended. "Maybe two hundred...."

"THEN GET ME THOSE TWO HUNDRED NOW AND FOLLOW THE ORDERS!" he screamed.

"Yes Sir-" began a droid. Mortalis cut off the conversation. One artillary bolt ran into a gunship and it fell to the ground. Some clones were killed when it collapsed but almost twenty droids died. The droid forces were being pushed back. They still outnumbered the clones but these guys knew how to fight. They weren't programmed they knew . They could think things out. Droidekas (( or destroyer droids if you prefer that)) charged into the clone lines. Most (60%) were killed before getting up. Most of the still living ones were killed before putting up thier shields (70% of the surviving ones). The rest were blasting the clones in front of them to pieces. Notice only FRONT. They were very inefective in this all out battle.

"You idiot, why'd you send droidekas in?" asked Mortalis. The droid commander responded.

"You ordered it, Sir," said the droid.

"THE REPUBLIC'S HACKED INTO OUR COMMUNICATIONS!" screamed Mortalis. "ARGHHHHHH!"

Mortalis was as angry as he could get. He charged into clone lines and slashed everything he saw to bits. This meant a lot of clones.

Cimil

((No listen not all of the droids make it, but I will lesser the amount.))
Just as Cimil was about to enter orbit the frigate next to him exploded. Flames burst to and fro.

"What the hell? Report Report." Within the next few seconds the last of the two ships flanking Cimil Was blown away as well. Now the only droids left where the droids on his ship. So about 1000. And his special cargo.

"Message Mortalis, tell him the reinforcements have shrunken."

Anakin

(Hmm, perhaps I can come in as a Sith-CIS affiliate?)

Anakin, cunning Sith Lord, walked down the capital ship's hallway, his combat boots clicking in the emptiness of the sterile chamber. As he slowly strolled with grace to his destination, he couldn't help but notice the strict attention of the skeleton-like B-1 Battle Droids that lined hallway. Their photoreptors patiently and emotionlessly watching him as he made his way to the bridge of the Lucrehulk.

When he passed the threshold and into the bridge he was greeted by a not surprisingly nervous Neimodian officer. The amphibious-looking creature was disgusting.

"Ah, you are Lord Revenous that the Order promised?" The Neimodian asked, his voice quivering but he could tell that he tried to mask his fear.

"I am. The Sith Order has sent me to assist you and supervise you with your battle plans."

Lord Invictus

"Ahh!" cried out Mortalis in pain as a clone blasted his left arm. A B-1 battle droid walked up to him. "Get me escort to the walls and medical attention. Continue to push the clones into the center."

"Yes, Sir," said the droid who brought him to a pack of super battle droids who escorted him to a building in the inner fortress. His arm was spewing hot gas (fuel) into the air. While only slightly flamable it was still dangerous to leak.

He came upon a medical center where a medical droid attended to him at near lightning speed. He was "healed" (more like repaired as he wasn't very organic anymore) in minutes and came to a main control room with the other highcommand. He looked that the battle was not going well as a droid came up to him.

"Clone reinforcements are coming," he began. "ETA is twenty minutes. Once they're here all is lost. A Federation Lucrehulk ship is in orbit and is offering escort. What are your orders, Sir?"

He thought for a few moments. The other officers were speechless at the possible loss of the battle. There were a few options that might work, though most would certainly end up killing all the CIS here. One rather brutal idea popped into his mind.

"Gather the city's population on the main hanger bay and make sure the Republic can see them," he ordered. The droid responded with a "Yes, Sir," and ran off. Once the order was completed Mortalis screamed into a city-wide radio system. All fighting stopped when his horrible voice croaked through the air and the droids marched back into formation. They could still win the battle if this worked. "You Republic troops have fought bravely today. But I am afraid this cannot continue. We have hacked into holonet news and are broadcasting this battle around the galaxy. Know that your desicion here will decide not only the fate of this battle but if you don't agree with our demands the population of your nation will turn against you. On the main hanger bay, viewable even to those in the field, is the population of this city which stands at the large 7,432,000 sentients.

"Why am I telling you this? If you don't agree we will execute the entire population. This is no longer a battle. This is negotiation. Our demands are simple. Hold your fire and allow our droids to enter the main fortress. If you don't agree the population's death will be on your conscounce. ((Pretty sure I spelled that wrong)) And you Jedi will be tempted by the dark side. If you do not agree you murdered this city. I allow you to think....."

He let out a few chuckles and awaited the response. This really was on holonet news and that really was the population of the town. He had enough leverige to get his troops back without ordering a retreat. Mortalis awaited his foe's descision.

Cimil

The ship was about 5 minutes from landing when Cimil entered the armoury. This might be his last chance to grab supplies. Taking a look around he decided to strap on some armour. After he got the armour on he grabed two heavy blasters, a spare saber, a blaster carbine, and two wrist dart launchers. He loaded some darts and took one last look around.

Finaly he fetched a small back pack and threw some mines and grenades in.

Lord Invictus

"Very well, inscolent Jedi," began Mortalis. He had managed to quietly get most of his army out of there while the Jedi were thinking and was now getting the last bit inside. Out of every ten droids at least eight were in the fort now. "I, being as merciful as I am will spare the civilians lives as I have accomplished by goal and- what the-?"

Clone transports flooded the area. Mortalis looked at the massive clone army before him. At least another five thousand clones had just arrived alongside the two hundred trooper army already here. The three thousand living (well, if you'd call it that as they aren't alive) droids could only combat so much. More clones (around twenty) were coming by the minute. The droids were vastly outnumbered. The Sith grabbed ahold his communications system and contacted all the Sith, CIS, and droid commanders.

"All commanders get into the ships!" he ordered. "We've lost the city! Get as many droids out as possible. Kill the town."

"Yes, Sir," responded a B-1 battle droid. A large number of gunshot sounds crashed into Mortalis' ears. "Execution finished, Sir. Heading to my ship."

Mortalis approached a Mankvim-814 light interceptor and walked inside. Strangling the droid pilot to death he shoved three magnaguards inside with him. The droids compacted themselves into a custom-made chamber near the back of the ship while Mortalis was taking off. He contacted the capital ship in the planet's orbit.

"The city is lost," he said. "The Republic is about to take control. We are getting all troops and commanders out of here. The population is dead. I'll talk about a counter attack when I meet up with you, my Lord."

The ship sped out of the hanger and out of the city. Mortalis hovered above the clones and gave them his regards. He blasted at least thirty bolts of laser cannon energy into the force and then sped off the planet. After almost twenty minutes he reached the command ship along with at least eighty other starfighters and twelve small capital ships. He entered a hanger and stepped out of his ship.

He began walking toward the commander of the assault on this planet. He walked through the ship toward the command room, his feet scraping the floor. He finnally reached it and looked around. It was filled. Nobody was speaking. They were all thinking of ideas for the planet.

"May I suggest a counter attack tonight?" said Mortalis after checking the room to make sure it wasn't bugged. "The Jedi are expecting one now but tonight we can catch them off guard. I propose we move our entire fleet onto the planet and bombard the city. Once the city is nothing but a pile of ash we should move in and press the advantage."

He awaited the response...

Anakin

"You are Mortalis?" Anakin said, stepping up to the one who proposed this new radical counter-attack. The Sith eyed the one who questioned him.

"Yes, and you are Lord Revenous of the Sith Council?"

"The one and only. And by the looks of this battle, a whole new revision is needed." Anakin said with a smirk.

"The Republic took us by surprise of course." Mortalis answered with a hiss of anger of course. He did not like such people adressing him like that, even if it was a Sith offical.

"And I suggest something unthought of...something that the Republic won't think of."

Lord Invictus

((Are you allowed to control each other's characters here?))

"And what is that?" asked Mortalis, trying to sound more kind yet still releasing a menacing tone. A droid walked in and punched Mortalis' shoulder.

"Sir, the Republic has taken control of the facility and erchhhh!" screamed the battle droid as Mortalis slowly stiffened his grip around its neck. He crushed it down in anger and looked at the other commanders. This was the entire fleet's failure, not his, right? He began to wonder if there was more for him to do.

"Stupid droid- ahh!" the ship shook as Mortalis was speaking. Blaster and missile shots were flying everywhere. As the command fled Mortalis approached Anakin. He knieled before Anakin. "Are you my new master then?"

((I know he really is but still.... for RP purposes they just met as Republic forces counter-attacked the ship.))

Anakin

(You can control eachother to a certain extent.)

Anakin eyed the kneeling Mortalis as the shipdeck vibrated slightly under his black leather boots from the Republic ships firing a new barrage into the Lucrehulk.

"Get up, my apprentice." Mortalis instantly did and could tell once he looked into his Master's eyes that he was not pleased.

"What is wr--?" He started but was cut off as Anakin silenced him with a deadly stare.

"I do not want you needlessly destroying the our machines." He said, pointing a finger at the crumpled mass of scrap metal that was once a droid. "We are already pressed for troops as usual."

"Yes,Lord Revenous." Mortalis grudgeingly said and followed Anakin as he walked to one of the viewports in the bridge. It was a brilliant yet terrible sight. A dozen Republic ships were closing in on their position, streams of galvanizing plasma and shell shots was ramming into their already small flotilla.

"Captain," Anakin said, turning to one of the Neimodian officers who was looking over a command module. "I want you to turn our ships into a defense line, this will let us spread our wings a bit and create steady streams of counter-fire;its something to delay them." He said.

"Now, for the land counter-attack."

Lord Invictus

"With all due respect my Lord," began Mortalis when Anakin suggested the counter-attack. "A land counter attack is quite illogical and.... completely genius! I'll prepare my ships for the attack, my Lord."

"Fine," responded Anakin in a rather unkind tone. He approved of the attack, obviously, but for some reason he wasn't much of a 'Mortalis' kinda' guy. Even though Mortalis was the near-victorious defender of the city. He had caused so much damage to the Republic he had basicly won the battle, even if he lost the base.

Mortalis ran off, hunchbacked, into the hanger and jumped into his ship, launching it into the vaccum of space. He took off and watched at least twenty Arc-170s blast away at more than two hundred droid starfighters. Mortalis may have wanted each clone in this battle to die but he had accumulated much respect for their heroic actions. However, he didn't show a lot as he launched himself into the firefight. He was too busy blasting a group of Arcs back to Kamino.

After realizing he should have been launching the ground attack he redirected his portion of the fleet to the planet. He had almost thirty ships under his command. One was a fully armed Munificent-class star frigate, eighteen Vulture droid starfighter, seven Belbullab-22 starfighters, and a Mankvim-814 light interceptor. ((So that adds up to 27 but as I said "almost thirty".)) Okay, so the frigate wasn't fully filled (had five hundred droids in it) but it was fully armed. They finally reached the lower atmosphere and hovered above the city.

The clones didn't expect this. It was already night and they were already unprepared. The ships blasted the city apart with the heavy cannons and various weaponry they had. Although having minimum damage, the attack demoralized the small clone force quickly. The clones had launched most of thier force for a space attack on a prepared Sep fleet and had left their city defensless against wave after wave of blasters. The frigate finally landed in the main hangar along with most of the ships, including Mortalis'.

Battle droids came from the ship like mad and overwhelmed the clones and a Jedi. Most of the clones were pushed back along with the Jedi. Mortalis crawled up the walls and eyed through a window at the hologram of the city. About five hundred thirty droids were there and around a hundred and twenty clones remained. This battle would be either a massacre for the droids or a massacre for the Republic. It all depended on where the Jedi were.

Anakin

Anakin was pleased as Mortalis's ship forces rapidly decended back into the planet's atmosphere. His duty now was to get this entire Confederate fleet to survive intill Mortalis took the city. He casted his glance on the bridge's frontal viewports. He quickly sized up the situation: The Republic had about 10 Venetor Destroyers, and 2 support Acclamators that were protecting their flanks. The Republic fleet was obviously trying to make a huge punch into the line defense Anakin had created by targeting all their battery cannons on their weakest ships.

The Sith Lord felt a jolt run through the structure as another hard hit sucessfully peirced their shields.

"I want 50 percent power to the the outer hulls of the claw's shields." He didn't want to convert all power to sacrifice their quadlaser's power shots.

Cimil

Cimil had joined Mortalis. Now he was slicing clones right and left. He had been very annoyed by the fact that he had been mistaken for Count Dooku.

"If theres one thing I hate." He sliced another clone down. "It's the fact that everyone thinks that Dooku is the Only Sith lord. People like me and Mortalis do all of the real work." Using the force he threw three clones several hundred yards into the air.

Lord Invictus

"Filthy clones!" roared Mortalis, decapitating a clone. "Hahahahaha! Your death, clone, is amusing!"

Mortalis pushed forward against the clones, accompanied by his droids and Cimil. A Republic Gunship, empty, hovered above a large section of clones and Jedi who were immediatly picked up and began to fly away. About thirty clones remained in the city, not counting the retreating clones and Jedi. Mortalis backed away from the frontlines and took out his EE-3.

"FIRE ON THE SHIP!" he screached as he fired two shots into one clone. The droids began firing on the ship which was preparing to leave. Mortalis holstered his rifle on his back and jumped onto the side of the ship. Crawling up he ignited a lightsaber and began slaughtering clones.

"By the force who is that?" yelled a clone who realized it wasn't Grievous who was attacking but a Sith. Mortalis pulled back his hand and released a shockwave throughout the ship which sent it crashing to the ground.

When it hit the ground, the ship broke into two damaged pieces that were on thier side and, in the cockpit's case, facing upward. Droids slowly walked into the wreck. One superbattle droid pulled Mortalis from the battered ship.

"What are your orders, Sir?" the droid asked.

"Plant charges on the ship and seal of the area!" yelled Mortalis who began walking away as his droids planet the charges. After a few steps he turned around to see four charges planted, eleven clones, and one Jedi alive on top of the ship. Mortalis popped out his EE-3 and killed four clones, while the rest were dealt with by droids. He then approached the Jedi. "Ah, a survivor. And which of the filthy Jedi commanders is this? WHAT?"

A droid had turned up behind him.

"Three other Jedi are roaming the area," said the battle droid.

"Blow the ship and hunt down the Jedi," ordered Mortalis as he turned around to look at the Jedi. The Jedi was now speeding off in a speeder-bike. "FIRE!"

The ship exploded and black dust engulfed the landscape. Another clone flew out of the ship and was silenced. Mortalis approached Cimil.

"Can you hold out the ground battle while I help my master in space?" asked Mortalis, who awaited a 'yes' from Cimil.

Cimil

Cimil smiled. "Of course, but I have one demand." Mortalis laughed.

"And what would that be?" Cimil turned and strode away. Finaly he said "It has been far too long since my saber clashed against another. One of those jedi, is mine."

Lord Invictus

Mortalis' anger brewed up in him. He had hoped to have the pleasure of executing each and every one of those Jedi. Finnally he gained control. It was for the good of the CIS he go to space.

"Very well," he said as he approached his ship. "Good luck!"

And then he sped off into the upper atmosphere and into space. He could still see the fight which now looked even more intense than before. Mortalis contacted Anakin.

"We have wiped out Republic ground forces and Cimil is now dealing with some surviving Jedi," said Mortalis as he blasted an Arc-170 to pieces. "I've come to assist you in space."

Then Mortalis' side was hit, but the shield absorbed most of it. A Jedi starfighter was behind him.

"Jedi slime," said Mortalis as he launched eight buzz droids onto the Jedi's ship. After making a swift turn Mortalis aimed at the Jedi's cockpit and fired. The ship burst into a fire ((I say a fire just for entertainment value because there isn't enough oxygen in space to support a fire so... yeah... Star Wars is illogical anyway though)) and spiralled out of control. Mortalis made another, more curved turn and headed toward another Arc-170. Then another 170 and another until he had 7 kills. Finally, he saw it.

A small Republic capital ship, or a large frieghter, had arrived and was being bombarded nearly to a point of becoming a miniature sun by the CIS fleet. However, it was still deploying ARC-170s! Mortalis launched himself at it and began bombarding the sides of the ship until he was nearly out of blaster cannon energy and had to recharge. To kepp himself protected he stored about sixteen buzz droids aboard just in case....