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The Shadow Empire – Part 3
Admiral Daala’s Forces
The forces possessed by Admiral Daala are very unusual for an Imperial Commander, as the bulk of Admiral Daala’s fleet consists of very different types of warships. Admiral Daala flagship is the heavily upgraded Imperial II class Star Destroyer Chimaera, formally Admiral Gilad Pellaeon’s flagships, though how Admiral Daala, acquired the Chimaera no one is quite sure.
What happens is that some warships like the Imperial II class Star Destroyer Chimaera have been stolen, by pretending that these warships have been destroyed in battle, but this type of action does not happen very often as it attracts too much attention.
Amongst the other warships is her position are at least 1 Venator class star destroyer, 1 Victory II class star destroyer (upgraded), 1 Acclamator class assault ship (upgraded), 2 Republic class cruisers (salvaged, repaired and upgraded), several Assassin class corvettes, 2 Crusader class corvettes and several Scimitar class frigates. The numbers of warships as part of the Maw Irregular fleet is growing at a slow but steady rate, as either new warships’ are purchased covertly (most through the Corporate Sector Authority) or warships salvaged from the battle sites that took place between the Yuuzhan Vong and the Shadow Empire, New Republic and the Imperial Remnant.
The Maw installation is now being wound up by Admiral Daala as it has served its purpose, these research facilities are now being moved back into the Deep Core, were Admiral Daala has her bases of operations.
Admiral Daala has several bases scatted through the Deep Core, the Deep Core is hidden within the densely packed mass of stars at the very heart of the galaxy, is a small region that hid unusual worlds. The Deep Core is home to the galaxy’s oldest stars, at its centre is a black hole surrounded by antimatter and dense star clusters. Due to the gravitational pull of the vast number of stars, local space-time was severely warped, making hyperspace travel difficult at best. The region was thought to be inaccessible until Emperor Palpatine found several safe hyperspace lanes into the region. The area remains an Imperial stronghold even after the Battle of Endor and the fall of Emperor Palpatine.
The world in the Deep Core that is Admiral Daala’s base of operations is located in a system that has only one narrow hyperspace route in and out. Halfway along this route Admiral Daala has based several Golan III battle stations, along with several GWP’s, to pull any unauthorised ships out of hyperspace and then the Golan III battle stations would destroy them. Fortunately no one knows the location of Admiral Daala’s base of operations so the Golan III battle stations/GWP combinations have never needed to be used.
Admiral Daala’s main weapon is information, during the Yuuzhan Vong war, Admiral Daala’s remained quite, with the exception of defending those planets under Admiral Daala’s protection. During the four year long war against the Yuuzhan Vong, Admiral Daala was building up her small but very successful intelligence organisation to warn Admiral Daala of any potential threat against her forces.
The upshot of this is that Admiral Daala knows more about the Shadow Empire than any other power, though Admiral Daala does not know everything about the Shadow Empire she does know enough to know that the Shadow Empire is not nearly as powerful as the New Republic and the Imperial Remnant seem to believe.
In the upcoming Swarm war Admiral Daala’s will take no action beyond protecting those systems that provide assistance to Admiral Daala’s Maw Irregular fleet.
The Swarm War
The Swarm War is a the brief, but devastating, between the New Republic, the Chiss Ascendancy and the Shadow Empire, and the Colony, which consisted of Killiks and their Joiner allies. A continuation of the Dark Nest Crisis, although the New Republic attempted to ally with the Chiss, elements of the Jedi sided with the Killiks, thus the Chiss believed the New Republic was aiding the Colony, and for all intents and purposes it was a three-way war, a completely free-fire zone.
Attempts to prevent war are ruined when Jedi Knight Jacen Solo attacked a military supply depot of the Chiss Expansionary Defence Force in an attempt to lure them into a pre-emptive strike against the Killik. The Killiks responded by attacking the Shadow Empire forces blockading the Utegetu Nebula. Following the defeat of the Killik forces in this region, the Shadow Empire declared open war against the Killik colonies.
The Killiks had quickly gained allies for the coming conflict. In addition to the many Joiners that had fallen under their influence during the Yuuzhan Vong invasion (including Zekk and Jaina Solo), many members of the galaxies various insectoid races (among them the Fefze, the Vratix, the Yam'rii, the Verpine, and the Geonosians) fell under their influence and became addicted to the Dark Nest’s black membrosia.
Gold membrosia is a powerful alcoholic beverage made by the Killiks, insectoid races especially favour this beverage. The Gorog formed there own version called black membrosia, which was much more powerful and more addictive. After a year of black market sales, it had ruined the economy of the Roche asteroids. Sien Sovv was killed when a pilot drunk on black membrosia crashed into him.
Many of them became Joiners as well, doing so much faster than the average humanoid.
During the Swarm War there are two major fronts, one within the Unknown Regions, involving the Shadow Empire and Chiss Ascendancy that would be engaged in fighting the Killiks in there home systems. The second would involve the New Republic and the Imperial Remnant dealing with the small proportion of the Killiks and those insectoid races that had come under the Killiks influence.
The Shadow Empire deployed a single fleet, the first fleet that consists of 30 Imperial III class star destroyers and 2,500 other warships and support vessels, the Chiss Ascendancy deployed the bulk of the Chiss Expansionary Defence Force, that consists of 20 Chiss star destroyers and 1,000 odd other warships and support vessels.
In agreement with the New Republic and the Imperial Remnant, it is agreed that each force will deal with its own area of space, this time their will be not Shadow Empire controlling all the four powers fleets. As the combined fleets of the Shadow Empire and the Chiss Expansionary Defence Force start their obliteration of the planets controlled by the Killiks, neither the Shadow Empire nor the Chiss Expansionary Defence Force will land troops onto the surface of a Killiks controlled planet.
Rather they will use the Imperial Base Delta Zero command, Base Delta Zero is the naval code used by the Empire to order the complete surface destruction of a planetary target, eliminating all life and industry. It denoted the most severe of several levels of destruction that could be directed against a centre of resistance, and involved laying waste to an entire planet by orbital bombardment, either reducing the upper crust of a planet to molten slag or atomizing the planet’s topsoil.
A Base Delta Zero fleet bombardment is regarded as one of the most devastating operations that the Imperial military was capable of, and unlike other Imperial military codes, the designation was not subject to change, so that there was never any confusion when it was issued. Due to its effects, BDZs are considered a last resort
The reason both the Shadow Empire and the Chiss Ascendancy choose to use BDZ is to send a message that neither power in the Unknown Regions will stand for any attacks against either power, from within the Unknown Regions or from outside the Unknown Regions.
It takes the combined fleets of the Shadow Empire and the Chiss Ascendancy several months to eliminate all life on the world occupied by the Killiks, the result is that the Killiks population is reduced by 98 percent (of an original population of several billion) and scatted throughout the galaxy. This also helps the fight by the New Republic and the Imperial Remnant as this eliminates the source of the Dark Nest’s black membrosia.
With the destruction of the Dark Nest and the Killiks population, the New Republic is very muted in its criticism of both the Shadow Empire and the Chiss Ascendancy. As the current leadership of the New Republic understands why they eliminated the Killiks population, there are some in the New Republic who want a stronger response, but they are less than one percent and no one is listening to them.
It will take the New Republic and the Imperial Remnant many months after the elimination of the Killiks to bring the various insectoid races that had fallen under the influence of the Dark Nest’s black membrosia, to be weaned of this and to come to their senses. Once this happens peace is restored very quickly and the rebuilding of the various systems and worlds damaged during the Swarm War can begin.
During the war, Supreme Commander Gilad Pellaeon leads the forces of the New Republic and the Imperial Remnant. Having replaced Sullustan Sien Sovv, who was killed by the Killiks in an accident some weeks prior and the New Jedi Order by Grand Master Luke Skywalker. Thus the Imperial Remnant had control over both its own fleets and the New Republic for the duration of this brief war.
Once the war is over Admiral Pellaeon returns control of the New Republic’s military forces back to the New Republic, and returns to Imperial Remnant space with his own Imperial fleets.
During the Swarm War the Imperial Remnant starts to introduce a new class of star destroyer, the Turbulent class star destroyer is a new type of star destroyer built by the Imperial Remnant, because of its smaller size than the Imperial class star destroyer, it is sometimes referred to as a “pocket star destroyer”.
The Turbulent class star destroyer is smaller and more manoeuvrable variant of star destroyer and is designed with two hangars opening at the stern of the vessel. The ship’s bridge was situated in a tower on top of the main superstructure. It has a large holo-display built into its bridge design and there is a day cabin available to the flag officer near the bridge. An emergency docking bay is located astern of the tower.
The class has many maintenance tunnels running throughout the upper portion of the vessel. This makes maintenance easier, but also provided a means of escape in case the ship is boarded. Another design focus is an extensive use of bulkheads throughout the interior.
The first batch of this new class of star destroyer arrived to late to be involved in the Swarm War, but in the aftermath of the Swarm War Admiral Pellaeon would use one of the first batch would become his new flagship, the Bloodfin.
This would also lead within six years to another devastating civil war within the New Republic called the Second Galactic Civil War, as the civil war raged, after running for several years would eventually drag in the Imperial Remnant and also later drag in the Shadow Empire, via Grand Admiral Thrawn’s link to his former progeny Admiral Pellaeon.
To be continued.
Admiral Daala’s Forces
The forces possessed by Admiral Daala are very unusual for an Imperial Commander, as the bulk of Admiral Daala’s fleet consists of very different types of warships. Admiral Daala flagship is the heavily upgraded Imperial II class Star Destroyer Chimaera, formally Admiral Gilad Pellaeon’s flagships, though how Admiral Daala, acquired the Chimaera no one is quite sure.
What happens is that some warships like the Imperial II class Star Destroyer Chimaera have been stolen, by pretending that these warships have been destroyed in battle, but this type of action does not happen very often as it attracts too much attention.
Amongst the other warships is her position are at least 1 Venator class star destroyer, 1 Victory II class star destroyer (upgraded), 1 Acclamator class assault ship (upgraded), 2 Republic class cruisers (salvaged, repaired and upgraded), several Assassin class corvettes, 2 Crusader class corvettes and several Scimitar class frigates. The numbers of warships as part of the Maw Irregular fleet is growing at a slow but steady rate, as either new warships’ are purchased covertly (most through the Corporate Sector Authority) or warships salvaged from the battle sites that took place between the Yuuzhan Vong and the Shadow Empire, New Republic and the Imperial Remnant.
The Maw installation is now being wound up by Admiral Daala as it has served its purpose, these research facilities are now being moved back into the Deep Core, were Admiral Daala has her bases of operations.
Admiral Daala has several bases scatted through the Deep Core, the Deep Core is hidden within the densely packed mass of stars at the very heart of the galaxy, is a small region that hid unusual worlds. The Deep Core is home to the galaxy’s oldest stars, at its centre is a black hole surrounded by antimatter and dense star clusters. Due to the gravitational pull of the vast number of stars, local space-time was severely warped, making hyperspace travel difficult at best. The region was thought to be inaccessible until Emperor Palpatine found several safe hyperspace lanes into the region. The area remains an Imperial stronghold even after the Battle of Endor and the fall of Emperor Palpatine.
The world in the Deep Core that is Admiral Daala’s base of operations is located in a system that has only one narrow hyperspace route in and out. Halfway along this route Admiral Daala has based several Golan III battle stations, along with several GWP’s, to pull any unauthorised ships out of hyperspace and then the Golan III battle stations would destroy them. Fortunately no one knows the location of Admiral Daala’s base of operations so the Golan III battle stations/GWP combinations have never needed to be used.
Admiral Daala’s main weapon is information, during the Yuuzhan Vong war, Admiral Daala’s remained quite, with the exception of defending those planets under Admiral Daala’s protection. During the four year long war against the Yuuzhan Vong, Admiral Daala was building up her small but very successful intelligence organisation to warn Admiral Daala of any potential threat against her forces.
The upshot of this is that Admiral Daala knows more about the Shadow Empire than any other power, though Admiral Daala does not know everything about the Shadow Empire she does know enough to know that the Shadow Empire is not nearly as powerful as the New Republic and the Imperial Remnant seem to believe.
In the upcoming Swarm war Admiral Daala’s will take no action beyond protecting those systems that provide assistance to Admiral Daala’s Maw Irregular fleet.
The Swarm War
The Swarm War is a the brief, but devastating, between the New Republic, the Chiss Ascendancy and the Shadow Empire, and the Colony, which consisted of Killiks and their Joiner allies. A continuation of the Dark Nest Crisis, although the New Republic attempted to ally with the Chiss, elements of the Jedi sided with the Killiks, thus the Chiss believed the New Republic was aiding the Colony, and for all intents and purposes it was a three-way war, a completely free-fire zone.
Attempts to prevent war are ruined when Jedi Knight Jacen Solo attacked a military supply depot of the Chiss Expansionary Defence Force in an attempt to lure them into a pre-emptive strike against the Killik. The Killiks responded by attacking the Shadow Empire forces blockading the Utegetu Nebula. Following the defeat of the Killik forces in this region, the Shadow Empire declared open war against the Killik colonies.
The Killiks had quickly gained allies for the coming conflict. In addition to the many Joiners that had fallen under their influence during the Yuuzhan Vong invasion (including Zekk and Jaina Solo), many members of the galaxies various insectoid races (among them the Fefze, the Vratix, the Yam'rii, the Verpine, and the Geonosians) fell under their influence and became addicted to the Dark Nest’s black membrosia.
Gold membrosia is a powerful alcoholic beverage made by the Killiks, insectoid races especially favour this beverage. The Gorog formed there own version called black membrosia, which was much more powerful and more addictive. After a year of black market sales, it had ruined the economy of the Roche asteroids. Sien Sovv was killed when a pilot drunk on black membrosia crashed into him.
Many of them became Joiners as well, doing so much faster than the average humanoid.
During the Swarm War there are two major fronts, one within the Unknown Regions, involving the Shadow Empire and Chiss Ascendancy that would be engaged in fighting the Killiks in there home systems. The second would involve the New Republic and the Imperial Remnant dealing with the small proportion of the Killiks and those insectoid races that had come under the Killiks influence.
The Shadow Empire deployed a single fleet, the first fleet that consists of 30 Imperial III class star destroyers and 2,500 other warships and support vessels, the Chiss Ascendancy deployed the bulk of the Chiss Expansionary Defence Force, that consists of 20 Chiss star destroyers and 1,000 odd other warships and support vessels.
In agreement with the New Republic and the Imperial Remnant, it is agreed that each force will deal with its own area of space, this time their will be not Shadow Empire controlling all the four powers fleets. As the combined fleets of the Shadow Empire and the Chiss Expansionary Defence Force start their obliteration of the planets controlled by the Killiks, neither the Shadow Empire nor the Chiss Expansionary Defence Force will land troops onto the surface of a Killiks controlled planet.
Rather they will use the Imperial Base Delta Zero command, Base Delta Zero is the naval code used by the Empire to order the complete surface destruction of a planetary target, eliminating all life and industry. It denoted the most severe of several levels of destruction that could be directed against a centre of resistance, and involved laying waste to an entire planet by orbital bombardment, either reducing the upper crust of a planet to molten slag or atomizing the planet’s topsoil.
A Base Delta Zero fleet bombardment is regarded as one of the most devastating operations that the Imperial military was capable of, and unlike other Imperial military codes, the designation was not subject to change, so that there was never any confusion when it was issued. Due to its effects, BDZs are considered a last resort
The reason both the Shadow Empire and the Chiss Ascendancy choose to use BDZ is to send a message that neither power in the Unknown Regions will stand for any attacks against either power, from within the Unknown Regions or from outside the Unknown Regions.
It takes the combined fleets of the Shadow Empire and the Chiss Ascendancy several months to eliminate all life on the world occupied by the Killiks, the result is that the Killiks population is reduced by 98 percent (of an original population of several billion) and scatted throughout the galaxy. This also helps the fight by the New Republic and the Imperial Remnant as this eliminates the source of the Dark Nest’s black membrosia.
With the destruction of the Dark Nest and the Killiks population, the New Republic is very muted in its criticism of both the Shadow Empire and the Chiss Ascendancy. As the current leadership of the New Republic understands why they eliminated the Killiks population, there are some in the New Republic who want a stronger response, but they are less than one percent and no one is listening to them.
It will take the New Republic and the Imperial Remnant many months after the elimination of the Killiks to bring the various insectoid races that had fallen under the influence of the Dark Nest’s black membrosia, to be weaned of this and to come to their senses. Once this happens peace is restored very quickly and the rebuilding of the various systems and worlds damaged during the Swarm War can begin.
During the war, Supreme Commander Gilad Pellaeon leads the forces of the New Republic and the Imperial Remnant. Having replaced Sullustan Sien Sovv, who was killed by the Killiks in an accident some weeks prior and the New Jedi Order by Grand Master Luke Skywalker. Thus the Imperial Remnant had control over both its own fleets and the New Republic for the duration of this brief war.
Once the war is over Admiral Pellaeon returns control of the New Republic’s military forces back to the New Republic, and returns to Imperial Remnant space with his own Imperial fleets.
During the Swarm War the Imperial Remnant starts to introduce a new class of star destroyer, the Turbulent class star destroyer is a new type of star destroyer built by the Imperial Remnant, because of its smaller size than the Imperial class star destroyer, it is sometimes referred to as a “pocket star destroyer”.
The Turbulent class star destroyer is smaller and more manoeuvrable variant of star destroyer and is designed with two hangars opening at the stern of the vessel. The ship’s bridge was situated in a tower on top of the main superstructure. It has a large holo-display built into its bridge design and there is a day cabin available to the flag officer near the bridge. An emergency docking bay is located astern of the tower.
The class has many maintenance tunnels running throughout the upper portion of the vessel. This makes maintenance easier, but also provided a means of escape in case the ship is boarded. Another design focus is an extensive use of bulkheads throughout the interior.
The first batch of this new class of star destroyer arrived to late to be involved in the Swarm War, but in the aftermath of the Swarm War Admiral Pellaeon would use one of the first batch would become his new flagship, the Bloodfin.
This would also lead within six years to another devastating civil war within the New Republic called the Second Galactic Civil War, as the civil war raged, after running for several years would eventually drag in the Imperial Remnant and also later drag in the Shadow Empire, via Grand Admiral Thrawn’s link to his former progeny Admiral Pellaeon.
To be continued.