What if...At The Battle of Yavin, Yavin 4 Was Destroyed?

That is so sweet. I think I'm going to cry.
Keep posting. Keep posting.

 

Whoa, I actually did a semi-skilled love scene.....

 

Hey, Wattowatta, write more on you other fics!

 

Forget the other fics and post on this one.

 

Here goes....


Aeron and Luke tried to find a romantic spot on the station for a meal, seeing as though they had spent sixteen hours of time in Aeron?s quarters, and she was completely without any type of nourishment beyond coffee. While that was good for a jolt of energy in the morning, it was completely lacking in nutritional value, despite what the Rogues attempted on various occasions. Those often resulted in heartburn or stool loosening.

But, regardless to say, sixteen hours of prolonged physical activity was a grueling process, and nutritional supplement was needed. They found a place called the Flare Star, which featured superb meals at a relatively inexpensive price.

While they ate, Ace Azameen busted in from the clear blue sky, and interrupted their conversation. ?Hey guys, how?s it going??

Aeron arched an eyebrow. Apparently Ace hadn?t caught on to the subtleties of romance. Luke was fairly forgiving, so he just smiled. ?Hey, Ace. Have a seat.?

Ace just piled in, and sat next to Luke. ?So, what?s the next mission? The boys in my flight are itching for combat.?

Luke smiled. ?Then have them sim against each other. Do some time re-creating past missions, or the ones in the mater database. Believe me, practice makes perfect.?

?Well, I was talking more of a live-fire run.?

?I know Ace, and I want to get back out there too. But, the walls have ears, so I can?t really discuss it in public.?

?Oh.? Ace finally caught what Aeron and Luke were in the middle of. ?Oh, man, I?m sorry. You two were-?

?Happens to the best of us, kid. Don?t think much of it. Anything else you need??

?Oh, uh, nothing really.?

?Well, then get your pilots up, and have them run through a few exercises. Keep repeating the runs until they?re able to run-through with no casualties.?

?Yes, sir.?

Ace got up, and quickly walked out of the café. Aeron and Luke got back to flirting, but were interrupted by Han walking up to their booth. ?Hey, kid.? Luke smiled, and Aeron broke down into laughter. ?What??

?Nothing.? Luke couldn?t hide the smile on his lips. ?Have a seat, sir.?

?Damn, Luke, its just Han. I didn?t want to get stuck with the rank.?

?How?d you get it, sir??

?Same rule applies to you, Aeron.? Han closed his eyes, remembering a hard memory. ?We were training at Hinuat Prime. The populace was pretty fanatic after Alderaan, and there was an Imp garrison nearby. The populace didn?t know the trouble that they were in for open defiance against the Imps. They just didn?t shut up, and finally the Imps came in.

?They had a standard occupation force in, a few ImpStars, a few Vics, a few Strike Cruisers, a drag ship, and a few Star Galleons. I tell you, Luke, we tried our damndest to hold them off, but we knew that they were going to punch through. Early on, the Imps located our base and bombed it out. We got most of our personnel out, but the command staff got nailed. Command naturally fell to me.

?We tried to nail that drag ship, but the TIEs just kept swarming in. My boys must have nailed at least three wings of those kriffing Imps. We got the dragger by strafing their ventral lasers, then pumping in torpedo volleys into the gravity-well projectors. Once the grav-field was down, the damn Hinuati chose that particular moment to make a run out, so naturally we had to cover them.

?We must have hit at least twelve of their Star Destroyers, Luke. My A-wings and the X-wing groups just had the Force with them. They dodged all kinds of hell-spawn turbolaser fire, took out the Shield Generators, and the B-wings just sailed in and disabled the suckers. It was a sight that made me proud, kid.?

?What happened to the Hinuati?? Aeron asked.

?Well, we took down the majority of their landing craft, but they had reinforcements pulling in by the time we hit out of the area. Holonet says that they went into an uprising a few hours later, and they took huge losses when the Storm troopers arrived.?

Luke winced. The stormies had a renowned reputation for putting down uprisings in terrible ways. Most

 

That cool for you?

 

Poor Luke. He can't have a decent date. Good work.

 

Thanks.

 

Luke's a hero. Do you know of any famous people who actually get a private life.

 

Colonel Skywalker took the podium at another briefing for another mission. Over the past few days, Allied Intelligence and the Azameen?s contacts had cooked up a delicious raid that would take down the Star Destroyers responsible for the subjugation of Hinuat, and temporarily disrupt the flood of material incoming from the Imperial Yards at Folzack II. It would be a difficult and long mission, but it would be a deadly blow to Imperial operations in the area.

Luke saw everyone was present, but they were wildly scattered in social groups and talking wildly. He bellowed from the bottom of his lungs, ?ROGUES! HAVE A SEAT!?

At first, they had no idea who was yelling, as hey had never heard Luke yell. But, then they sat down as they realized Luke was awaiting their seating.

In a few seconds, they all found their seats.

?Thank you, Rogues. This next one?s going to be tough. I?m turning the meeting over to Colonel Horn, Allied Intelligence.?

Corran?s father took the podium that Luke vacated. ?Thank you, Colonel Skywalker. Rogue Squadron, the mission ahead is going to be a long, drawn out, restless affair. It is planned out in 5 Phases. Phase One, you will hyper to the Kalastyin system. An Imperial convoy under light escort will arrive there. You are to provide support for the B-wing group Solar Flare Squadron. That includes engaging enemy fighters, covering their retreat, and helping them chew their food.? That brought a mild laughter from the pilots. ?The B-wings will disable the convoy; after that, you will remain in-system for Phase Two. Phase Two consists of covering the convoy while Azameen freighters move in to take the cargo. When they?re clear, you hype out to the Calamari Cruiser Mon Finta for Phase Three. The Mon Finta is part of a very larger task force assembling for Phase Three.

?Here, that force will be attacking the Imperial garrison and facilities at Koital Minor. The base is protected by several capital ships, the majority of which appear to be Carrack-class cruisers and Corellian Corvettes. However, there are also three Imperial-class Star Destroyers and four Victory-class Star Destroyers on station. Again, your role is to screen the B-wings while they go on their runs. Hopefully, we can take out some of those Star Destroyers and disable the majority of the smaller craft.

?Phase Four, you refuel and rearm while Assault Shuttles filled with commandos seize the disabled ships and make off for Mon Calamari.

?Phase Five, Rogue Squadron and the Mon Finta taskforce will hyper our and destroy the Imperial Stockyards at Folzack II. The base is the only major supplier of material to the sector. If we strike this base and destroy it, then bases all across the area would be vulnerable to strikes. They may fall piecemeal, leaving us with thousands of possible new recruits.

?All right, any questions? Mr. Hamial??

?Yes, sir. Why don?t we just steal from the base like we?re doing in the other two areas??

?Well, we don?t want to put you through another babysitting session.? That drew a chuckle from the crowd. ?Actually, we?ll be drawn out pretty thin thanks to our earlier operations, so it?ll be easier to just destroy the cargo then steal it. Any others? Corran??

?I heard there?s a Super Star Destroyer working this area. Any chance it?ll hype in??

?You obviously caught the latest Intelligence reports. Yes, there are rumors of a Super Star Destroyer working the system. If it appears in your area, you are to screen any Alliance vessels in the area, and once they?re out, to exit the system on critical vectors. The rendezvous point will be loaded into your astromechs before you launch. Any other questions? Aeron Azameen??

?Yes, sir. Who will be in overall command of the mission? If General Solo is coming on board, then??

?Understood, Lieutenant. Colonel Skywalker will command Rogue Squadron all throughout the operation, assuming he isn?t killed, then command falls to Captain Horn. He will also lead the operation during Phases One, and Two. General Solo will be in ove

 

Top.

 

And hopefully it will stay there.

 

Apparently not. To the top once more.

 

Sorry, sorry......


The Rebel fleet stretched out for kilometers in the blackness of space, filling the viewable sky with starfighters, freighters, corvettes, frigates, barges, and Calamari Cruisers. In mere minutes, they would make the trans-dimensional jump to hyperspace, and unload their destructive firepower on their targets.

In the middle of all that frenzied activity was the X-wing unit Rogue Squadron, the height of allied skill and training. The best of the best would be sent out on three separate dogfights, with only the solitude of hyperspace jumps, and the reloading of warheads and refueling of their fighters to grab needed rest. The coming mission would test their limits, but would ultimately pay off tremendously for the Alliance.

Off in the peripheral of Luke?s cockpit, a group of Y-wings hyped out to their target, a sensor facility that covered the entire sector of operations for this mission. If they failed, then the entire operation would fail.

And then, the fleet dies.

If the sensor station failed to go down in a short time, then an organized Imperial counter-attack would be arriving in short order. It would be likely that the Super Star Destroyer Castrator would arrive, and likely destroy the Rebel fleet.

Luke sighed. That was the nature of the Alliance: to use whatever force was the minimum to go on the longest odds, and to improvise when things turned up for bad. He wished them the best of luck, and began to prepare his squadron for the battle ahead.

?All right, Rogues. The mission critical objective is being secured. Get ready for our turn. We?re jumping in to save them, staying here to save the fleet, or taking down a convoy. Be prepared for either choice. In the meantime, hold position, let?s save as much fuel as we can.?

He heard a chorus of ?Copy, Rogue Leader.?s, and changed his comm channel to the general fleet frequency.

There, various reports of fighters being prepared for launch and status reports of craft flew over one after another. It was very dry in content, but kept Luke?s mind occupied with something.

Minutes past filled with absolutely nothing to do before the golden statement: ?Rogue Leader, you are cleared to proceed. May the Force be with you.?

?Thank you, Control.? Luke switched back to the squadron channel to get the end comment from Emon Azameen.

??Long time. I?d wish they?d just give us the kriffing order.?

?We?ve got it, Lieutenant. All Rogues, prepare for the jump to light speed, vector?s on the way to you.?

?Acknowledged, Rogue Leader.? That was Corran.

A second later, a hyperspace navigation buoy appeared on Luke?s Combat Multi-view Display. Twenty seconds after that, the Rogues were in hyperspace.

 

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Very cool!!

 

Way to go. I can't imagine ever reaching that level.

 

Great post. (I think I forgot to reply last night after I read the story. It was very late and I was tired.) But anyways, wonderful!

 

The swirling tunnel of hyperspace reduced itself to a million streaks of light, then to a normal star field. And the Rogues had entered the Kalastyin system. Nothing but some light nebula gases thousands of kilometers distant marked any sort of distance in the empty void.

Artoo beeped a warning, then pumped a map of the system, showing the Rogues, Solar Flares, and the convoy hypering into the system. Luke keyed his comm. ?Rogues, we?ve got incoming at 45.63 port, 73.09 elevation. Looks like the convoy, and an Imperial Deuce for back-up. Rogues, this isn?t going to be good. Fly fast, shoot straight. Hit their fighters, cover our B-wings.?

?Copy Rogue Leader. Three Flight, form it up.? Corran was already moving to engage possible TIEs launching from the ImpStar.

?Wait a second, Nine. I?ve got an idea.?

?What is it, Leader??

Luke smiled as he received a vision of the future from the Force. ?Here?s the plan: I run ahead, and tuck in close to that Star Destroyer, give you a target lock, and you follow up by a salvo of torps. Hopefully, you?ll hit a fuel tank, and then-?

?-Boom.? Corran finished the thought. ?Good idea, Leader.?

?Yeah, thanks. Rogues, form it up, I?m making the run. Keep within 14 klicks of me, not close to the Star Destroyer, but not to far away from it either. We?re going to have to fire these torpedoes in sequence. Fire only when I give the command. Rogues Ten and Eleven, you fire yours two seconds after I say ?fire?, got it??

?Copy, Rogue Leader.?

?Copy Rogue Leader.?
Luke dumped laser energy to shields, and shot ahead of the squadron to the massive vessel of destruction. With a quick flick of his thumb, he armed his torpedo system, and began evading the Star Destroyer?s turbolaser defensive fire. Green laser fire constantly illuminated his cockpit, but with the Force as an ally, illumination was the turbolaser?s only use.

The hull of the ISD, which Artoo designated the Humiliator, grew ever larger in Luke?s cockpit. It got to the point to where Luke could see individual view ports and the persons inside them. The turbolasers could simply not fire at that arc, so Luke was given a relatively clear run.

He easily maneuvered his craft into the fighter bay, and activated his targeting computer. Luke instantly got a red light, and he fed the telemetry to his squadron.

?Rogues, fire two, then scatter. We?ll see what this does.?

Luke committed words to action, and launched four torpedoes at the interior hangar bay. Without waiting to see what the result of his attack was, he turned around, and dumped all of his available energy to engines.

The Jedi expected some return fire, and he got it. Sheets of emerald green turbolasers began to open up at him. Although one of those bolts could instantly decimate his fighter, Luke was confident for three reasons.

One, he had the Force for guidance and protection. Two, his X-wing was about to clear the vessel?s effective fire range for hunting down a starfighter. Three, as long as the Imps fired at him, they didn?t fire at the hail of torpedoes incoming at the ventral side of the Humiliator.

As Luke shot free of the ship?s firing range, he looped around, and saw it all happen. One by one, the Rogue?s torpedoes slammed into the fighter bay, and caused a brilliant nova that seemed to engulf the entire mid-section of the Destroyer. Subsidiary explosions indicated that Luke?s idea of hitting fuel tanks was successful, and they kept the explosion up longer than the torpedoes did.

Then, the ship split in two. The anterior and posterior ends split apart, spreading molten metal, scraps of bulkheads, defense batteries, and human bodies to occupy the space in between the two hulks of metal. The vacuum of space operated as the most efficient fire extinguisher, and soon what was the Imperial Star Destroyer Humiliator appeared to be nothing more that the carcass of some space-dwelling animal.

?Good work, Rogue Squadron, scratch one Star Destroyer!?

 

Another ship to paint on their fighters.

 

Good!

 

KEWL

 

Explosions good. (As long as it's the other side and not one of ours.)

 

The rest of the operation at Kalastyin went as planned. The Azameen business picked up the cargo, and made off with a rather hefty sum in their pockets. The Rogues and Solar Flares made their way to the rendezvous point, then linked up with the Mon Finta. Their fighters were refueled and rearmed, and the pilots got some brief rest.

But, in an hour, they back in combat.

The reversion to real space went as planned with no foul-ups along the way. The launch went smoothly, with all craft exiting in a timely manner.

But, that was where smooth operations left the scene.

Luke shot out of the hangar bay of the Mon Finta, and was immediately subjected to laser fire from an Interceptor. He rolled left, split his s-foils to attack position, and hunted down the squint.

A quick quad burst of laser fire hit an ion engine, and the entire cockpit burst into a fireball. What were interesting were the markings on the wings of the Interceptor. They were gold stripes running up the entire solar panel. The Rogues had been in combat against that squadron, and one of its members defected to Rogue Squadron. The TIE belonged to the elite Imperial 128th Interceptor Group.

Another squint rolled past Luke, prompting him to fire. The squint detonated, but not before revealing it to be a part of the 181st Imperial Interceptor Squadron.

Great, now we?ve got two elite groups hungry for blood. This isn?t going to be good. Luke hit the comm, and keyed it into the fleet frequency. ?Rogue Leader to Mon Finta and all fighter squadrons. Clear the area near our dogfight. We have visual confirmation of the 128th and 181st squadrons in the area.?

?Acknowledged, Rogue Leader.? He heard a reply.

Luke switched to the squadron frequency. ?Everyone, watch yourselves. We?ve got Elites here. Pick a vector and run, Nine and I will cover you.?

?We will?? Corran replied.

?We will. You know what to do.?

?Right, as ordered.?

Luke took a deep breath, and let the Force slam into him. He resolved to use the power it offered for the defense of his squadron, and that thus saved him form the Dark Side. Luke let his sense expand out for kilometers, and then narrowed things down to the dogfight.

Then, Corran and Luke flew. Not just ordinary dogfighting, but Force-enhanced hunting. The Force told them when to evade, when to fire, when to run, and when to pursue. Corran and Luke were sure the Roues were amazed at how well they flew, but they pushed it aside and concentrated on flying.

In four short minutes, the Imperial Elites were no more.

?Great flying, Boss!?

Luke smiled, and tried to recover from what they had done. Using the Force so directly like that was extremely tiring, and he needed to catch hi breath before he could continue. Corran was likewise in the same condition. ?Thanks, Five.? He managed to summon up some concentration to tap into the Force to refuel his personal Force reservoir. Luke shook his head, and he felt ready to go into dogfighting again.

?You ready, Nine??

Corran must have done the same as Luke, because he sounded no worse off than he began. Better, in fact. ?Yeah, right with you, Chief.?

A new voice came over the comm. It was General Solos. ?Rogues, we?ve got trouble. Looks like the Castrator hyped in. They?re on the far side of the system, but they?ll be able to disrupt the operation right when we?ll be making our escape with the capital ships. You?ve got any ideas??

?Well, we could abort mission.? Luke replied.

?That?s always an option. Any others??

?Well, we could just blow up everything in sight instead of stealing some.?

?Yeah??

Luke suddenly snapped his head in a sharp realization of a damn good alternative. ?Bothawui is what, 20 minutes away??

?Yeah, about that much. What do you have in mind??

?But a call through, tell them that any Bothan interested in helping to save their region could really cash in afterwards. But, put some, oh?battle damage in the transmission, and have the entire planet listening in??

?Kid, that?s the craziest damn thing I?ve ever heard. But t