Rebel 14/8/01

Prolouge:

Menace of the Fleet

Ichre Aeder, Imperial Captain, held no illusions about the strength of his adversaries.

?Their forces,? he wrote on the day the Emperor dissolved the senate, ?can do no more than show that they know how to die gallantly.?

He was speaking in the knowledge that the Rebel Fleet was heavily outnumbered. Two small battle ships, three small battle ships, seven cruisers, 21 destroyers and 13 blockade runners made up a pitifully small fleet against the might of the Imperial navy. There would be no question of defeat with the Rebel ships playing the risky role of hit and run raiders.

His ship, the Imperial and its partner Pursue were in the Inner Rim when the Emperor made his announcement. Pursue immediately went into action at ???? Blasting nine Corellian Frigates, bound for the rebel fleet, into space dust. Flushed with his success, Pursue?s Commander, Captain Haan G?doff, headed for the Hydian Way hoping to catch more Rebels and attack a spice smuggling convey due to leave Chandila for Kessel. Instead he was met by the Rebel cruisers, Formidable, Avenger and the Xvon ? and the result was victory for the Rebels, when G?doff scuttled his ship.

Imperial, operating in the Mid Rim made little impact, destroying only two blockade runners coming from Rodia. On its return to its home port of Ielkoon, the Local Moff ordered its name be changed to Raider, apparently worried that Imperial morale would suffer should a ship bearing its name should be lost in battle. The Moff had every right to be, for the Rebels repeatedly crippled Raider. The blastboat Spearfish managed to damage it during a operation near Bothan Space, and in the Battle of Hettdowie Raider and the cruiser Nightblade were beaten off when they attacked a Rebel convoy. The failure cost Aeder his life. Commander Vlasov, who was already in charge of the Imperial?s Scarlet wraith, replaced him.

Vlasov was patrolling the Emballa System when he encountered convoy XHT2 protected by a single escort the Rebel armed merchant cruiser Heldron Bay. Bravely, Heldron Bay made a direct attack on the Stardestroyer, even though its guns were no match for Vlasov?s firepower. Undaunted and with most of its guns put out of action by Vlasov?s salvos, Heldron Bay closed to within 2km of its attacker before being destroyed, winning time for the convoy to jump to hyperspace. Its commanding officer, Captain Jace Gendan, who died with his ship, was awarded a posthumous medal upon the Rebel victory. Although Vlasov raced after the convoy it succeeded in crippling only five of the convoys 35 ships. Another - the Dermeio - was set on fire.

The ship, carrying 12 000 tonnes of fuel in its tanks, was set on fire by Vlasov?s boarding party. It should have exploded as the crew took to the lifepods leaving the tanker to its fate. The following day one of the lifepods, carrying three men, was still near the ship and had not been captured by the Imperials. With no other vessel in sight, the survivors chose to reboard the stricken vessel rather than drift forever in space with little chance of rescue.

They brought the blaze under control and repaired the engines. Chief engineer Char Domak got the ship under way and second officer Waark Hin used a crippled nav computer to navigate. Dermeio landed several weeks later on the Ice world of Hoth ready to aid in the withdrawal of Commander Skywalker?s troops.

One of the Rebels the Ship rescued from the clutches of the Imperials was Kel Larador.

 

What happens next?

 

Ahh! That would be telling.

I'm busy typing it all now and am suffering major writing cramps in the end of my fingures. I'll have to get used to this.
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This is good! Are you going to post more? Please?

 

this started out great. can't wait to read the rest of it

 

This looks really interesting.You've got my attention. Can't wait to see what happens next.

 

Great start! Looking forward to more Kel!