Chapter 35

As the first laser cannons fired from each fleet, the Fighter's from both sides started engaging each other, fighting for air superiority.

But the number of Ascendancy fighters were 3x the amount of fighter's and bombers that the Ssi-ruuvi Imperium had, so they were greatly outnumbered.

Ascendancy fighters were even able to advance to close range of the Ssi-ruuvi Imperium ships and bomb some of them within the first minutes of the battle.

Alexander watched as the bigger cruisers of his fleet advanced in formation toward the enemy fleet, while the bigger battleships and battlecruisers were behind them.

The support ships were placed behind the fleet in a safe place to protect them from enemy fighter's and bomber's that managed to get close enough.

The Ssi-ruuvi Imperium ships were being beaten badly as their technology was no match for the Terran ships, but that didn't mean they were ineffective as so far they managed to take down a frigate which was too exposed to the enemy fleet.

But even that didn't compare to the amount of ships that the Terran Ascendancy managed to destroy within 30 minutes of the battle, which numbered nearly 60.

Admiral Dzaku seeing the condition his fleet was in knew that they wouldn't be able to hold out much longer, but if they don't than the enemy fleet will have control of the system and be able to invade the planet.

He only hoped that reinforcement's came in time to assist them. But little did he know, reinforcements were not even on the way.

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Prelude to the battle of Zakuul at the Ssi-ruuvi Imperium homeworld of Lwhekk his Majesty the Shreeftut was talking with one of his advisors.

"Your Majesty, the small fleet we sent to take the planet called Zakuul is currently being attacked by a fleet which has the same ships that we have seen from the unknown fleet which roams the unknown region's with its superior technology" Reported the Advisor

"So there could be a possible connection between this enemy fleet and that unknown fleet which goes from system to system taking them over" Said the Shreeftut

The Advisor nodded his head while bowing, "Yes and if they can send a big fleet of 400 ships out then they must have a backup fleet waiting somewhere so when we arrive with a reinforcement fleet we will be attacked by an overwhelming enemy fleet, but that is only my guess"

"I have thought of the same thing but by not sending a fleet then we will lose loyal soldiers who are on the surface of the planet, so I will send a reinforcement's but not to fight but to delay the enemy fleet so that we can get our ground troops off of the planet and regroup"

"That is a good plan your majesty" Said the Advisor

"While I do that, I want you to try and investigate where this strange fleet came from so that we can find their homeworld or base and attack them with our full force" said the Shreeftut

"I will get on it right away, your majesty"

"Good, I will await your results"

With that, the Advisor bowed and walked out of the room to carry out his task, while the Shreeftut continued thinking about where possibly could these fleet's have been hiding.

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Back to the battle of Zakuul, it's been nearly an hour since the battle has begun and the remaining enemy ship's have decided to give up instead of fighting to their death's.

Admiral Dzaku unfortunately killed himself after he crashed his ship into a battlecruiser, which destroyed the battlecruiser but killed him in the process.

After seeing that no other ship had the will to fight, so they surrendered, allowing Terran droids to board their ships and take all the crew of the ship's into custody and transported into cells.

Now that they had control over the system, Alexander begin preparation's to land his army at a resistance location which contained a small army of people who armed themselves and starting resisting the enemy occupation.

He already contacted them and told them that he was here to help, and the resistance responded by wanting to meet with him on the planet.

So Alexander who is now on his way down to the planet's surface was being escorted by 10 fighter's and 15 gunships.

Following behind him were many transport's carrying droids and soldier's.

It didn't take him long to arrive at the resistance base, which was well hidden in the dense forest of Zakuul.

Alexander's transport landed in an open field just next to the base, while the escorting fighters had split off and started scouting the area for enemy movement or anything suspicious.

The Gunship's had landed next to Alexander's ship and dropped off the soldiers, who lined up at the door of Alexander's transport in two lines.

The Resistance was looking at the soldier's in confusion, wondering who was the person coming out of the ship.

And just as they were thinking this, their resistance leader had come forward and stood at the end of the line of soldier's waiting.

Alexander didn't want to keep the Resistance leader waiting, so he exited his ship and began walking pass the line of soldiers, who were all saluting. Trailing behind him were Yrena and Yona and a couple HK-Assassin droids.