On the Wings of War

The silence of space can be a turn a strong man weak and a weak man insane. However for creatures who have mastered space it just Tuesday. That was what was running through the mind of Commander Hex Matia. The Neimoidian up to this point had had an easy life his father's money had bought his his place in the military early.

During his time like any good Neimoidian He lied cheated, and blackmailed his way through the ranks. He now only sat one rank away from the rank of Viceroy. The only thing that was in his way was this tiny mud ball planet named Naboo. As one of the many staff members of this droid control ship. It had been his idea to delay the troops from landing to save the Federation hundreds of thousands of credits in power saved.

He was sure this would stick out when the quarterly review of this invasion was read. That would be just enough to get him in the running for the Viceroy rank. Sure they had recieved an early warning about another fleet coming to try and free the people of Naboo. However the largest fleet that belonged to anyone in this sector of space was the Hutt cartels and it's not like the Republic or the Queen of Naboo could trust them even if they hired them.

No more than likely it would be a bunch of free lance pilots who would try and take down the control ship. So in response the Federation pulled 4 Lucrehulk-class off of their shake down runs to help shore up the blockade of this mud ball.

Still he couldn't help but won.....

Hex never got to finish his thoughts as six advanced ion torpedoes slammed into crew quarters on the control ship. Hex ship had been on the for front and out of position when Jack's fleet jumped into the system. Seconds later the Lucrehulk was inflames as the focus fire of 15 Harrower class ship melted the armor on the ship like butter. They had jumped in so quickly that the enemy didn't have time to rise it shields. So just like that 10 into the battle and the enemy had already lost and important capital ship.

However this was only the first one and the rest had been alerted after their first attack. The droid ships slowly began to move into position as they moved Jack's fleet lined up a shots with one of what Jack thought to be greatest modifications that had been done to this class of ship. In the middle of the ship where the fights would normally launch from straight into open space down the narrow path that two parts of ship create.

Massive rails and a tube had been added. Thanks to the preparation done before they jumped into the battle the power building up took seconds. Then with out a sound 14 massive sabot bolts flew through space. Each ship getting 3 bolts aimed with the closest ship getting an extra one were completely unaware of what they had been targeted with.

Under normal circumstances with their shields raised such objects would have no effect whatsoever on a ship that large. This however was anything but normal times. The metal used to create those Sabots was a special compound created to completely bypass shields. Add to the fact that there was no friction in space which allowed for speeds to increase at an exponential rate.

By the time the Neimoidians on the closest ship heard the proximity alarm massive holes had torn throughout the ship. One of the Sabots hit the main fusion reactor causing the ship to instantly implode. One minute into the battle and the Federation had lost two ships in the blink of an eye. It was lucky that the recharge time it would be for the MAC guns in Jack's fleet was 20 mins other wise he would have just sat back and hammered this fleet into oblivion.

The other three control ship survived with minimal damage do to them being farther out which gave them more time to move. The Federation fully understanding that were out ranged lunched all fighter they had at the incoming fleet. 4,500 droid fighters screamed towards Jack's fleet. In response Jack's fleet unleashed all of it's fighters totaling 1,425. Jack's fleet was out gunned three to one in terms of fighters but Jack's fighters where more technology advance then anything the Trade Federation had at this point in history.

The Mandalorian fighter where atlest 5 times faster then the droid fighters. Add with the fact that every ship was shielded the droids where in for a beating. As the fleet battle begain to pick up Jack's flag ship broke off and headed for the planet. Just as they where passing over head of where the Capital of Naboo was. 4 Republic transport ships launched out of the bottom hanger. It had been done in such a was that the enemy fleet had no knowledge of it.

As soon as Jack's Flag ship returned to position the other 14 ship started to launch their transport ships at the planet, and thus the second phase of the battle had begun. Jack and his Spartans were silent though the ride. Each and everyone of them had been augmented by the super solider process. Next to his own Demon Dogs these were the Mandalorians strongest soldiers. Jack made sure to only bring 50 of these Spartana no need to show his hand to the enemy he did however bring the whole of Demon Dogs. Each in their old republic sith like armor. Gone was the heavy armor of standard Mandalorians.

They had fully embraced their force user personas. Their looks had unsettled the four jedi with them. Shaak Ti had asked why they were dressed like that at one point. Jack had simply pointed out they where heading into war what good would robes do them in such a fight.

This caused the Master Jedi to in turn look at her fellow jedi and sighed understand that they were indeed vastly underdressed. Lucky for them there had been extra armor on the transport which Jack gave to them without much hesitation. Shaak Ti had been a bit hesitant to take things from the man, but Jack told her it would be a shame if such a beautiful woman such as her were to get hurt simply because she was not properly dressed. Shaak Ti turned a visibly shade of purple from his statement.

She quickly took the armor and took her padawan to the back to change. Not really understand how to deal with the young Mandalorian. Jack laughed as she quickly ran away, but then refocused on the task at hand. Jack had his transport land near the hiding place of the Gungans Not that the Queen's Forces knew this.

Meanwhile the rest of the Mandalorian troops entered the planets atmosphere and begain stepping up their LZ. Hundreds of troop transport flooded the field as Mandalorians solider and heavy vehicles got into formation awaiting the arrival of the droid army. They did not have to wait long as probe droids peeked over the horizon before darting back to Theed

The troops knew it was only a matter of time now before they would show their faces.

Back with Jack and his crew the slowly made their way into the edge of the jungle just south of the battlefield. In that jungle Jack came face to face with the Gungan tribe of Naboo. They did not look to happy to see these new comers entering their holy place.

The leader of the Gungans made that thought quite clear very quickly too, "Wassa You thinks youas doing in thiss holys places, You people of the Nabooss." Though he was not even sure why Jack was still a bit taken back by the way the Gungans spoke. He decided to take the back sit on the negotiating between these two peoples. The entire thing played out like just in the movie.

With both sides coming to an agreement and the Gungan chief calling for his armies to reinforce Jack's army in the plain. The Big boss told Jack to inform his troops of the reinforcements as they would only take a hour to get to the battlefield. As it turns out the Gungans had been preforming hit and run tactics on the invading droid army almost as soon as they had begun landing troops. This forced most of the droids to stay inside of the cities on the planet.

Jack's opinion of the native creatures grew by a sizable amount. He could respect any creatures that could and would put up a fight against unbelievable odds. We everything sorted Kack and his group 78 people then broke into two groups of 39 people. They would attack the palace from two sides and sweep the building until the capture the Viceroy.

After returning to the transport each group was quickly shuffled to their drop points, and the final stage of the operation had begun. Returning to the Mandalorians on the field at the moment. They had just finished up deploying fortification on the plane to provide cover from long range bombardments, as well as give cover to the troops.

Lucky for them they managed to finish up just in time to see the droid transport vehicles come rolling over the hill. Though the space battle was still raging over head the Trade Federation was still able to launch some of their troop transport to the surface of the planet. They had been however quickly targeted by the Mandalorian fighters and many did not make it.

So as it stood ruffle 110,000 Mandalorians stood against 400,000 droids. The odds where not in the Mandalorians favor as far as the numbers go. However the biggest factor that would play into this fight would be who had air support, and as it stood only the Mandalorians could afford to have any.

The Transport vehicles slowly rolled into range of the Mandalorian artillery batteries. The Mandalorian commander didn't know if they were mad or stupid but he wouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth. So they opened fire on the transports. For whatever reason the droids had not been expecting this as many of the transports try to retreat as soon as the first few transports had been destroyed. Unfortunately because of how packed their ranks had been they were not able to back up properly.

And so the first 20 transport vehicles of the droid force were destroyed without issue marking the start of the ground battle. As the ground battle got under way Jack and the others made it into the palace undetected their was still atlest one company of droids still in the capital so stealth was their friend at the moment.

Clear each room they narrow down the Viceroy location to the center of the palace. Both groups converge in the main hall way before making their way to the throne room. Things had been going smoothly up to this point. Jack knew that it was likely to change so he had the 50 Spartans and 20 Demon Dogs hold the man hall way as he was sure that the moment a fight broke out all of the droids remaining in the city would swarm this position.

Until the Viceroy was captured or the control ship destroyed they would have to keep fighting against this unbelievable odds. Jack had Anakin take Padma who had reviled at this point that she was the true queen into one of the many safe rooms. To protect them both from any of the major fight that was about to take place.

After giving one a moment to calm down and focus Jack the jedi and his two friends force pushed the doors open into the throne room. A few droids had been behind the door before it had been blasted off its hinges. The blast startled Viceroy Gunray and his staff, but not the mysterious group of hooded figures.

At this point knew the timeline had differently been changed so most of the knowledge he knew about the future was almost useless at this point. He would deal with it another time as these hood figures gave Jack a bad feeling. They were strong in the force he could feel it from here. They were not strong than Jack, Trish and Keith, but they would give his new jedi friends a run for their money.

One of the hooded figures took off their cloak revealing to be Darth Maul which was no surprise. The other ten figures turned out to be Nightsisters.

This was unexpected but still something that could managed. For Jack it seems like a trip to Dathomir was in his future. No one spoke as both sides could feel the rising battle approaching.

(A/N: Battle concludes in the next chapter and my life gets easier too yay.)