The Victorian Wars

The Battle of Qretu 5

- Dissolution of warlord factions

- Correan Empire flees to the Outer-Rim

- C.I.L. is formed

- Corporate War

- Battle of Crescendo

- Mandalorian Civil War

- Second Battle of Badru

- The Construct Crisis

- Operation Rogue Shadow

The **Victorian Wars**, also known as the **Victoria Crisis**, was a lengthy conflict led by Victoria Correa and her Empire. Her military and political manipulation kept pressure on the New Republic, as well as splinter-warlord factions that hid in the Outer-Rim. Victoria's attacks, coups, and tactics severely crippled the New Republic's forces and moral, making her the greatest threat the Republic had faced since Roman's rule.

Victoria was regarded as a military genius who was a product of Ademole Turner's training program on Ignis Edge.

## Prelude

The Destruction of the Empire had given the New Republic a chance to establish their government and become the galaxy's central form of government. Bastila Vermire became head of state for the New Republic and Delta Squad had gained a reputation as heroes of the Republic and protectors of the galaxy.

The New Republic only grew as the remnants of the Empire dwindled into splinter factions that held a small piece of the galaxy to themselves. The New Republic struggled with attacking the warlords due to political tension and controversy that would come to attacking the warlords. However, the Imperious Coalition posed a great threat to the New Republic; they eventually attacked the New Republic as they were forming. The Jedi Order being established by Andres almost became a disaster as the Coalition's dark jedi, led by Mical, nearly destroyed Andres' entire order from killing several of his students. The New Republic saw millions of casualties during the Coalition's quest to discover the Construct, which was a lost warship with a supporting fleet of powerful ancient vessels that nearly destroyed the entire surface of Coruscant and the New Republic. Bruce Starkiller and Andres were responsible for ending the crisis by killing both Mical and Josque in separate battles, which saw the end of the Coalition months later. The attacks by the Coalition left Coruscant damaged and vulnerable as well as weakening the Republic Home Fleet.

After the crisis was over, the New Republic invested in new military programs that would see the construction of new warships for an inevitable tide of warlords attacking the Republic. The senate had gathered that the Coalition's attacks on the New Republic would spark the desire for attack by Imperials, so the New Republic set aside politics and liberated worlds from the Empire. In the process of their conquest, the New Republic discovered Crescendo, a valuable urban world that had seated the Empire's secret council during the Roman Wars and was a great strategic location for the Republic to access the rest of the galaxy with ease.

The Imperial perspective of the lead up to the war was focused on reconstruction and competition for power. Before Ignis Edge had been destroyed by the Sun Crusher, three students had been groomed to military perfection by Ade and Roman in a training facility that had been state of the art underneath the surface of the world. Out of the three, Victoria had been the most promising, but never got to finish her training due to the planet's destruction. Following Roman's Death and his Empire's destruction by the Republic; Victoria, Slander, and Elomeda (the three students) were the most viable options for leading the Empire after its demise. All three wanted the power to control the Empire, so each one of them tried to sabotage the other. Victoria convinced Slander that Elomeda had wanted to killed Slander to secure her place in the Empire, which was a complete lie that Victoria sold Slander on. Slander killed Elomeda in an assault on her base on Chasin.

## The War

### Preliminary Stages

Victoria and Slander shared power equally for the remainder of their fleet's growth in the Inner-Rim, and in 169 ABY Victoria sent her fleet to attack Slander's, killing him and merging his starfleet with hers. With Victoria in complete control of the Empire, she rebranded it as the **Correan Empire** and prepared her fleet to attack Coruscant. A year

later, Victoria sent in a small fleet that caught the Republic off guard. Her Star Destroyers managed to send in squadrons of bombers that nearly destroyed the Imperial Palace. The attack killed thousands of New Republic citizens as well as Rose Moonwood and Mandalore's youngest son, James. Victoria's task force is repelled and retreats back to Chasin to give Victoria the news of their attack. The death of Mandalore's son and one of his best friends, leaves Mandalore in anger towards the Empire. Mandalore demanded that the New Republic should track down the new threat and lead a campaign. Due to the mysterious nature of Victoria's new Empire, the Republic could not lead an all out attack and leave their worlds undefended, so Delta Squad was chosen to travel the galaxy in hopes to gain information regarding Imperial movements.

Victoria had caught word of the death of Mandalore's son and spies that she deployed to Coruscant revealed the anger that Mandalore possessed for the grievance of his son. Victoria felt that she could use Mandalore's emotions to her advantage by striking at his soul as well as his military. Mandalore's mandalorian army posed a threat to Victoria's plans since her developing ground troops and vehicles wouldn't be a match for Mandalorian technology. Victoria saw her campaign against the Republic as a series of small, loose pieces that had to be in place and fixed before a stronger foundation could be built. Mandalore became her first priority to enable her campaign continued.

### The Mandalorian Civil War and Early Strikes

Victoria traveled to Mandalore with her fleet shortly after the assault on Coruscant. The Mandalorian space fleet attacked without hesitation, but their power wasn't enough to stop Victoria's star destroyers. The fleet fled and prepared for a ground attack, but Victoria never sent an army in. She instead sought an audience with Darrell, who was the acting governor of Mandalore while Bryce was away. Darrell was hostile towards Victoria during her meeting, but began to listen to her words after she spoke about Mandalore's leadership. Darrell had despised Mandalore's

leadership for years and only followed him since he was only one worthy to lead the clans and was very powerful in his combat skills. Victoria offered her best forces to Darrell and promised expansion and honor of battle if the Mandalorians joined her cause or else she would eradicate their entire civilization. Darrell's views on Mandalore's "weak" leadership, made him take up her offer and he pledged Mandalore to Victoria. Victoria cemented their deal by sleeping with Darrell. Mandalorians across the world that were still loyal to Mandalore, rebelled against Darrell and the Empire. Those were captured by the Empire were executed for their acts of resistance. Clans continued to fight back using guerilla tactics in jungles and raiding the Mandalorian capital.

When Mandalore returned home, he was attacked by the Imperial fleet in orbit. Mandalore was aided in his pursuit by TIE fighters from his clan members who came from the far side of the planet to escort him to the surface. Mandalore was appalled and ashamed of his brothers and sisters in arms who betrayed their homeworld to the Empire. His anger grew larger every day during his stay on Mandalore, where he remained for weeks to fight against the traitors and Imperials on the planet. The entire planet broke into a civil war where those loyal to Mandalore fought against the traitors and aided in retaking the capital from Victoria and Darrell. Mandalore's primary goal was to eliminate the Mandalorian council in the city and killed Darrell and hopefully Victoria as well. When Mandalore entered the courtroom he was only equipped with a dagger, but managed to killed everyone in the room. Mandalore fought Darrell in a sword fight using the Darksaber and vibroblades. Mandalore decapitated Darrell, but saw that Victoria had already departed the planet to leave it in civil war, which was her plan all along. It took time for Mandalore to regain its footing, but the clans that had betrayed Bryce soon withdrew their attacks and were banished from the clans.

Following the Mandalore Civil War, Victoria withdrew her fleet once Mandalore was crippled and it's military practically destroyed. Over the next year or so, she evaded becoming known by the Republic and keeping her military movements as secret as possible. Victoria's next plan was to attack the New Republic's senate and military installations on the planet Crescendo, which had become their secondary capital from Coruscant. Before she could do this, their fleet would have to be weakened and the planet would need to be less defended. Victoria made several attacks across the Inner and Mid-Rim on her road to edge closer to Crescendo. Victoria feinted at Druckenwell to draw the New Republic's fleet away from Crescendo. Victoria then sent Admiral Cycone to attack Moff Cronus' forces, who was an Imperial warlord who controlled a portion of the Mid-Rim and was in control of the Empire's old research labs on the planet. Cycone won the fight and stole ATRDPs (All Terrain Rapid Deployment Pods) for their upcoming attack on Crescendo. Victoria continued to lure the New Republic's forces through the Inner and Mid-Rims by attacking Bespin and Nkllon, which were both operations headed by Kortez Jackett. The invasion of Bespin was seen by Victoria personally and she almost arrested Kortez with the help of Agent Thrall, but Kortez had already issued an evacuation and escaped before they could capture him. Nkllon fell easily to TIE squadron attacks and ground troops invading Nomad City.

### Battle of Crescendo

The New Republic's attempted defense of Victoria's attacks left them almost defenseless at Crescendo, so Victoria led her main attack fleet to take out what was left of their space defense in orbit. To ensure that their attack wasn't interfered by a larger Republic fleet, Admiral Devon feinted at Bestine, which was an important staging ground for the Republic during the Roman Wars. Victoria destroyed the Republic's defenses in orbit and subsequently attacked the surface with bombers. The planet's shields that were protecting their major structures and bases negated an orbital bombardment, so the ATRDPs were deployed from the *Helldropper,* which landed on the surface and deployed hundreds of AT-STs and other artillery. Delta Squad, who had just learned about the attack, rushed to Crescendo,

evading the Imperial fleet, and helped defend the surface. When Victoria's attack was no longer a secret, a small New Republic fleet arrived to fight Victoria. Both of their forces were evenly matched during the fight and ultimately the ground battle would be the most decisive part of the battle.

The overwhelming amounts of orbital drop pods and strategy of Victoria was too much for the ground forces to handle. The shield generator was destroyed and then the senate building was brought to the ground by an orbital bombardment from Victoria's star destroyer. The orbital strike completely destroyed the skyline of the planet and killed billions of Republic citizens. The rest of the ground resistance was wiped out by the Nova Corp and dark Jedi that were deployed late into the battle. Delta Squad and the fleet escaped from the battle before they were killed with the rest of the planet. Victoria sent teams to recover any records that weren't destroyed from the attack while she regrouped her fleet with Devon's who was successful stalling the Republic at Bestine. After the battle was over, Victoria's identity as the leader of the Empire was revealed after one of her soldiers, Davik Nord, was mind probed by Andres during the battle. Victoria responded to this be relaying a message to the New Republic across the galaxy to threaten the Republic about her campaign and gave them the option to surrender, but the New Republic only responded in their own threats.

### New Projects and Victoria's Capture

Victoria was frustrated that the Republic had escaped her grasp at Crescendo after she forced them to retreat, so Victoria green-lit a new project to begin the schematics for a new Interdictor cruiser. Interdictors were very rare in the Empire and almost every single one left had been destroyed or taken by the warlords. Moff Cronus was in possession of one interdictor, which Victoria wanted for her army, but an attack on his forces, especially with an interdictor on his side, was a risky move. Victoria mustered her best tacticians and attacked Cronus at one of his strongholds at Jendorn. Cronus was not present at the battle, but he was called to action once Victoria's fleet attacked. Cronus' abundance of victory-class destroyers resulted in Victoria losing one of her destroyers and a few corvettes. Victoria's fleet ultimately came out as victors in the end and a squad of Nova Troopers infiltrated their interdictor and captured it for the Correan Empire. Just as the fleet was about to jump to lightspeed, Cronus arrived at the scene with his flagship, which stunned Victoria beyond words. Cronus was in possession of Roman's old flagship, the *Behemoth,* Which was a bellator-class dreadnought that was modified to be just as powerful as a super star destroyer. Victoria was barely able to escape the system before the dreadnought could fire upon her weakened fleet.

With construction of an interdictor on the way and one already captured, Victoria had completed to goal relatively quick and now desired another goal: to capture the *Behemoth* from Cronus. All of the advisory board was strongly against Victoria's desire to capture a dreadnought, but since Victoria was in complete control, she made this next priority. Over the next few months, the Correan Empire had begun to be pushed back the New Republic, who were

now going to the offensive, taking back worlds that they had taken and hunting down Victoria. Delta Squad and the Jedi Order in particular caused the most damage to Victoria's plans which had been to destroy Andres' Jedi Order, find new ways to make her dark Jedi more powerful, and weapons projects that were in their prototype stages that could cause serious damage to the Republic. Captain Dellian, who commanded the *Helldropper,* was killed by the New Republic and the Jedi above Kabal after he travelled there to destroy the Jedi library that Andres had built in the center of a village filled with force sensitives.

Delta cracked down on Victoria's location with the help of NRSN (New Republic Spy Net) by Jaden Pon. Jaden tracked Victoria to Elshandruu Pica, where she was meeting with potential clients at a party who would be willing to fund her empire and loan weapons. Delta Squad infiltrated the party with the aid of a commando team and Jaina Katarn. Victoria was captured by the squad and taken into custody on Coruscant. During Victoria's custody, the New Republic was attacked by a suto-Imperial faction that was led by none other than an indoctrinated Paul Fitzgerald. Paul attacked the Republic on a few fronts and made a bold attack on Coruscant. Victoria tried to offer her assistance in the battle for temporary truce to fend off the fleet, but she was denied permission. Jaden Pon was in command of ground and space defense of the planet while the rest of the fleet was away attacking the Correan Empire. Jaden's tactical prowess allowed him to easily defeat Paul's forces and he retreats.

Victoria continued to stay on trial for her crimes, but the New Republic debated what they should do with her. Some of the council wanted her executed while the rest didn't want themselves to result a violent outcome. During her time imprisoned, Victoria was looked after by Jaden Pon, who began to have a soft spot for Victoria. Her acting was very convincing, as she pretended to have had a change of heart and "consider to change" and defect to the Republic. Victoria used tricks that she had learned from her dark Jedi officers to bend Jaden's mind. She seduced him using her light force abilities and attractiveness. While she seduced him, Victoria killed Jaden during sex, then ran from the complex. Bruce Starkiller and Mandalore were in the same building talking with Erik Eklair and other tacticians. Victoria was discovered to be escaping from guards and she killed the guards using her elite training and she nearly killed Bruce, but he was saved by Mandalore just in time. Victoria had one of her contacts pick her up from the streets of Coruscant and returned her back to her fleet.

When Victoria returned to the Empire, she was pleased to witness that Admiral Devon had attacked Cronus and was successful in capturing the *Behemoth.* Cronus was still alive, but he believed that the Correan Empire was superior and he pledged to merge his forces with Victoria's. Victoria welcomed Cronus and his military strength and she took control of the *Behemoth,* but Admiral Devon commanded the flagship most of the time.

### The Bacta Strike

Victoria knew that were space forces were powerful enough to take on the Republic, but her ground forces were minimal and still had to spend time training thousands of recruits and constructing vehicles. Most of the infantry companies had been heavily injured during the campaign and the only way to heal them was bacta, and Victoria had to result on using the weaker kolto substance from Manaan. Victoria valued her troopers lives and wanted to obtain Bacta, specifically control the entire bacta trade, which was very profitable market that she needed to preserve her troops and fund her Empire at the same time. The New Republic knew that Thyferra was a valued target by the Empire and had their roads to planet defended with a decently sized fleet. Victoria's first target for the movement on Thyferra was Derra IV, which acted as long range communication space where support ships would stop, refuel, and defend the lanes to the bacta world. Victoria destroyed the Republic space station at Derra with the *Behemoth,* then moved on to the next largest target which was Qretu 5. Qretu 5 was a well defended world that stored a large bacta refinery in one of the planet's industrial cities and would be the first big step in stealing a large sum of bacta.

Victoria's flagship, an interdictor, Onyx Squadron, and few other star destroyers, jumped to Qretu 5 and began their invasion. The New Republic fleet stationed there consisted of several heavy cruisers, Mon Calamari ships, and Delta Squadron. The *Behemoth* bombarded a small city from orbit that contained reinforcements of Republic starfighters and ground troops. The planet's other facilities were masked by Republic sensors, so TIE Squadrons were deployed

to the surface to discover other structures and the bacta refineries. Victoria joined the fight after the brief bombardment and was met with heavy resistance from the Alliance. Several smaller Alliance ships attempted to escape, but were unable to, due to the interdictor cruiser. Onyx Squadron killed a couple of Delta Squadron's pilots and dozens more of advanced starfighters. Victoria grew too confident in her assault and was too relaxed with the battle. The Republic fleet defending the world was in command of Erik Eklair, who was a brilliant tactician and Alliance veteran. He managed to use an advanced maneuver with his starfighter squadrons and a couple of frigates to destroy the interdictor cruiser. With the cruiser dead, the fleet escaped from Victoria to defend Thyferra in a final assault. Victoria's anger grew after the loss of her interdictor; she didn't waste time for her next attack. Almost immediately following the battle at Qretu 5 and securing as much bacta as possible, the Empire attacked Thyferra in battle that was fought in the atmosphere of the planet.

Thyferra's surface was very well defended with ion cannons and many starfighter hangars that unleashed swarms of fighters on the Empire. The Thyferran defense fleet also aided the Republic in their fight. One of Victoria's star destroyers, the *Sabertooth,* was shot down by ion cannons and crashed into an ocean below. Surviving soldiers from the crash invaded the beaches and the main land to attempt to take control of the nearby city and bacta refineries, but failed in their improvised assault. Victoria called for a retreat after losing two star destroyers and nearly losing her flagship from a barrage of torpedoes and missiles.

### Cargo Rush On Tatooine

The loss of several star destroyers during the bacta strike and other battles across the galaxy caused a slowdown and shortage of supplies and vehicles being transported across the galaxy. Victoria relied heavily on the use of under the nose criminal organizations to help her empire transport smuggled weapons, tech, frigates, and more through space sports throughout the outer-rim. Victoria's most important location for meeting with contacts and obtaining her cargo was Tatooine and one of the convoys that was making a stop at Nar Shaddaa before reaching Tatooine, was attacked by the Rogue Dozen. The spec ops squad managed to obtain the location of the supply lines at Tatooine and alerted the Republic. A small task force and ground units were sent to Tatooine to put an end to the supply trade within the planet's many settlements. Most of Delta Squad was present for the battle and was aided by Republic troops and the Rogue Dozen.

The settlements that were attacked during the invasion were: Mos Eisley, Mos Espa, Mos Entha, Anchorhead, and Bestine. Delta Squad was deployed to attack Mos Espa with a large team of commandos and the Rogue Dozen. The team landed hot in a large spaceport that was filled to the brim with stormtroopers and mercenaries. The initial push towards the city was the hardest part of the attack, but after about an hour of fighting, the republic troops and Delta Squad were able to spread their forces across the city and locate the warships and supply lines. Bruce Starkiller, Paila Meln, and Jax Daemon managed to sabotage three stations and recover weapon upgrades and large containers of illegal goods that would help the Empire. The trio was about to regroup with the rest of the soldiers, but were cut off by a large battalion of stormtroopers. They ran through the alleys of Mos Espa and became cornered, forcing them to climb up into the towers and hopefully escape from there. Bruce traveled up a tower by himself and came face to face with Agent Thrall; the most fierce accomplice of Victoria who used to serve Roman. The two got into a brief gun fight, but Bruce was beaten by Thrall. Bruce was held by the throat and thrown off the the tower by Thrall, leaving him critically injured; near dead. Jax was able to find Bruce and get him to the Republic ships. Bruce made a slow recovery and did not participate in the war for a few weeks. Overall, the attack on Tatooine was a huge success that saw the end to a major trade lane for the Empire, which would slow down operations considerably for the Empire.

### The Eriadu Campaign

A political world that was significant to the Empire during Roman's reign was Eriadu, which sat in the center a major trade lane and strategically advantageous since it sat in the center of hyperspace lanes that connected to important worlds such as Sluis Van. Victoria had tried to make a move for Eriadu, but couldn't see a situation where her fleet could win against the Republic's fleet at Eriadu. Victoria kept her forces at bay for few months to allow her forces to gain their footing after a series of losses. Moff Cronus and Admiral Devon looked into old imperial records that recovered from Cuitric that contained transmissions made during a rebel attack years ago. They discovered that a single experimental star destroyer that was equipped with a superlaser was still active and made a blind jump through the galaxy. This news caught Victoria's attention and she assigned Moff Cronus to track down this ship soon as possible. Cronus used new hyperspace tracking technology and calculated the star destroyer's possible range of jumping by using data he had stolen from the Republic on Coruscant; using drones that could sneak into their database.

Cronus tracked the ship to a vacant nebula not too distant from Cuitric. His teams recovered the derelict ship and discovered that the star destroyer's crew had all died and the engines were heavily damaged. Construction crews were able to repair the ship to flying condition and made further repairs to the ship at the Lianna shipyards. The weapon's superlaser was very outdated and would still be able to fire, but would take hours to recharge after two large blasts. Victoria outfitted the ship with a crew and decided to use the experimental ship in her campaign to gain control of Eriadu. A fleet comprised of the Conqueror star destroyer and several other capital ships began the invasion of Eriadu. The Conqueror's first shot destroyed an entire New Republic capital ship, which sent the fleet into a frenzy.

The ground invasion was comprised of Shadow Command; an elite group of black-clad stormtroopers led by Davik Nord. The New Republic troops mostly stayed contained in bunkers or using apartment complexes as temporary bases during the Empire's march through the city. The ground invasion finished off at the governmental palace, which saw the end of an entire New Republic unit that included Republic hero, Justin. The space battle resulted in a New Republic retreat after another capital ship was destroyed by the Conqueror star destroyer. Victoria was now in command of Eriadu, which opened up an attack opportunity for Sluis Van. When Sluis Van was attacked, the shipyards, although well defended, were no match for Victoria and eventually fell into her hands.

### The Corporate War

It hadn't taken too long for the New Republic to discover the location of Victoria's largest production and repair facility in corporate sector. Louise, with the aid of Blade Squadron, recalled their hunt for Kriell during the Roman Wars and how to Conquerer project had finished in the corporate sector before being moved to Cuitric. Their plan to trap the conqueror and discover the precise location of their production line was to send a large task force to the corporate sector immediately and bait the conqueror to leading them to their facilities. Delta Squadron and Blade Squadron spread themselves across the sector to key worlds such as Lianna, Deltooine, Etti IV, Ession, and Bonadan. The squadrons had several run ins with Imperials and agents that nearly exposed their entire operation, but they were able to whittle down each world until they had a small select group of planets to scout. The large Republic fleet had succeeded in grabbing the attention of the Imperials and the conqueror had been trapped at Kalla VII. The ship made a retreat into hyperspace and arrived at Lianna, where Blade Squadron had been scouting. After they alerted the Republic fleet, they moved in to corner the conqueror at the Lianna shipyards; the ship was subsequently destroyed and crashed into the shipyards, also killing Moff Cronus who was present for the battle aboard his Tector Star Destroyer. The shipyards and the conqueror were destroyed in one swift motion, which left the Imperials with only a few shipyards, mainly only Sluis Van, which wasn't even in its best shape yet since the battle.

### Reformation

Although Victoria was responsible for many wins that left the New Republic on their knees, their losses still shook the Empire and moral plummeted after the loss of Lianna and the corporate sector. Warlords that had been on Victoria's side, now left the Empire once more to form their own mini-empires to fight against the New Republic. Victoria became tired of playing games with the New Republic and realized that her numbers were much smaller compared to when they had began the war. She came to the conclusion that in order to gain the favor of the warlords again and to quickly regain territory, she needed to strike fast and strike fear into the Republic again. Victoria traveled the galaxy for about a year gaining the support of outlying worlds that still pledged loyalty to the Empire or were neutral. One world that Victoria discovered after her dark Jedi warriors had a vision in the force, was Dromund Kaas; an ancient world that had been home to extinct Sith race. Victoria traveled here with minimal armed escorts to show her trust and approached a palace in the center of the desolate Kaas city. In the palace, Victoria uncovered a Sith Lord named Darth Krant; a student of Roman's who had been on a journey lost in the galaxy for decades attempted to reconnect with the force and search for ancient holocrons on Sith worlds. Krant was hostile towards Victoria, but backed down after witnessing her command of dark Jedi and her campaign to bring order to galaxy. Krant respected her and took on her offer of having him train her dark Jedi army and aid in destroying the Jedi Order and New Republic. Krant was given his own Star Destroyer to command, which was specifically designed for him so he could train his students within the hull of his ship.

After gaining support from more worlds and reconnecting with some of the warlords, Victoria rebranded her Empire into the Second Correan Empire, which was to be a vastly improved and powerful entity from the first iteration. Victoria didn't want to waste time on special projects or give the Republic time to gain information about her movements, so she kept the Republic on it's toes by waging small battles across Republic space to frighten the galaxy and also take attention away from Krant so he could train a strong Dark Council and regain his force abilities. Without his full powers, Krant was still able to teach lightsaber combat and give lore lectures to his students so they could better understand the Sith ways.

### The Dark Council Forms

Krant succeeded in finding the students he needed that would be worthy for his Dark Council; an order of dark Jedi and Sith that would be opposite of the Jedi Order. Located on different planets across the galaxy, Krant discovered seven individuals for his council: Alora, Martice Nohan, Lady Axmis, Sekes Val, Ken Halcorr, Yunn'Seca, and Scoria Felian. Each person was skilled in different aspects of the force and lightsaber combat as well as having a very strong connection to the force. After hearing the stories of Andres and his order, he knew that his students would be a challenge to his, but he was confident in their abilities to cripple the order and hopefully destroy it.

### The Battle of Ossus

Darth Krant was very persistent to his forces to begin looking for more archives and force artifacts across the galaxy to gain further power in the force and gain as much knowledge as possible so the Jedi Order could never reemerge in the future and Sith could become larger. The Dark Council knew the location of Ossus and it's immense libraries that the Jedi and yet to discover or decipher. Krant made this the councils first priority and he wanted Alora to lead the infiltration. Ossus was heavily defended by New Republic defenses built into the surface as well as many Jedi Knights that would be present. The Mandalorian Hegemony also controlled the sector and could call in a nearby Republic fleet in no time, so the attack had to be secretive. Alora, field troopers and squad of Dark Jedi masked their presence with the force and landed on Ossus' surface. The team managed to disable most of the New Republic's defense structures until they were discovered by Jedi students. Alora called in the fleet and the Mandalorian/New Republic fleet arrived hours later to assist the Jedi. Andres tried to get to the battle as soon as he could, but his brother, Alvaro, made it the planet before him.

Alvaro led a strike team of Jedi to intercept Alora in the libraries while the battle raged on. Alora knew that Alvaro was more than capable of neutralizing the dark Jedi, so she lured him to the top of the ancient library and the two engaged in a lightsaber duel. The two were almost equally matched in a fight; Alora was Alvaro's first true opponent that could

wield a lightsaber. Alora struggled to kill Alvaro, so she used her surroundings to pummel him with as much rubble and redirected blaster fire from the battle to hit him. A Mandalorian freighter that was dogfighting with TIE fighters was shot down and crashed near Alvaro and Alora, nearly killing both of them. Alora used the force to throw the freighter at Alvaro, which hit him and threw him off the tower. Believing he was dead, Alora returned to the library to kill the rest of the Jedi inside and escort Krant to retrieve as much artifacts and data pads as they could from the archives, even if they weren't deciphered.

During the rest of the battle, the Mandalorians put up a great fight against the Empire, even being led by Mandalore himself. Victoria was present during the battle aboard the *Behemoth,* and Mandalore was specifically being targeted. Victoria saw Mandalore as her biggest problem as he was the leader of the Mandalorians and he was responsible for rallying worlds against the Empire. Without a Mandalore, the clans would fracture once again and the Hegemony would struggle. All fire had practically ceased on the rest of the ground forces and instead focused on Mandalore. Mandalore knew his fate and asked a Jedi Knight if he could do him a favor; to shield him with the force from blaster fire to make it seem that he had died. The Knight agreed with confusion and Mandalore walked into the center of the battlefield where he was shot several times from blaster fire while the Jedi Knights absorbed his body with the bolts.

Mandalore was presumed dead and he lied there until the battle was finished.

Andres arrived at the end of the fight, only to find that the Dark Council had gotten away and the New Republic/Mandalorians on the planet were slaughtered. Andres found that his brother was still alive, although quite wounded from the fall and burn marks. Mandalore's body was taken to an Imperial star destroyer, but when Mandalore was found to be alive by the medics, he killed the entire crew of the star destroyer, taking the ship as his own and took off for the outer-reaches and unknown regions to build an army and reunite the lost Mandalorian clans.

The New Republic believed that Mandalore was dead at Ossus and had a funeral for the legendary hero on Concord Dawn. Delta Squad, who were best friends with Mandalore, took it upon themselves to begin a resistance splinter faction of the Republic called the Pathfinders, which would operate separately from the Republic and use guerilla tactics and crack down on the Imperials on the personal level.

### Empire Takes Back Coruscant

Following the defeat at Ossust, the Empire made a bold move to take on Coruscant. The Republic's stripped resources left the home fleet to half of what it once was. Instead of outright taking the Imperial Center, Victoria deployed jamming satellites and orbital nightcloaks; a device that had been years in the making since the war began. The devices was quickly set up above the planet while the fleet guarded the stations and kept the fleet at bay. The nightcloaks would eventually turn the planet into ice and kill all life on the planet. Only one station was activated after the Republic retreated from the planet so that the citizens and any Republic resistance on the ground wouldn't fight back. If no one wanted to comply with the Empire, Victoria would activate the machines to slowly kill anyone who revolted on the surface. The New Republic had now lost their capital world, but unbeknownst to Victoria, the Republic had already evacuated much of Coruscant and transferred their valuable assets to Corellia and Chandrila. Billions of New Republic citizens that were loyal to the Republic and sought transport were evacuated from Coruscant and taken to the new capital and other worlds for refuge, leaving Coruscant ice cold and very silent; which also caused the economy of Coruscant to falter, trade to slow down, and crime to run rampant in the streets.

### Later Battles and Crisis'

Over the next few years, the New Republic used their old rebellion tactics to fight against the Empire. Their economy throughout Corellia and the Inner-Rim benefited them greatly and so did their outposts across the galaxy. Worlds such as Dantooine, Yavin, Jovan, and many more became refugee hubs and training installations for soldiers and Jedi. The Jedi Order suffered many losses against the Dark Council and notable members of the order such as Andres, Alvaro, Jacen Pavan, Krune, Ra'Vida, Jaina, and Shahna fought hard against the Dark Council. The Jedi Order managed to kill a majority of the Dark Council across the galaxy as they attempted to gain power in the force on force nexus worlds and destroy the Jedi. The last remaining members of the Dark Council that were still standing towards the end of the war were: Martice Nohan, Scoria Felian, and Krant. Alvaro killed Lady Axmis during the battle of Katraasii, Andres defeated Halcorr during the defense of Telos, Krune and Jacen defeated Sekes and Yunn on Ruusan, and Alora was defeated by Jaina on Tython.

Jax Daemon also played a pivotal role during the end of the war, after his sister Jan Daemon nearly completed the Darkstar Station; a large station that serve as massive mobile base and punch through planetary shields and capital ships with ease. The project was put to an end by Jax during a series of events involving the killing of Agent Thrall by Bruce Starkiller and Jax having no choice but to kill his own sister aboard the station. The station crash landed on the remote planet Ingo where the station's production yards were located and the station became a scavenging hub from for locals and travelers who came to take the expensive parts to sell. The wreckage from the station was so vast, that immigrants came to world and developed their own city within the confines of the derelict station and the world became a scavenging/trading hub.

#### Destruction of The Behemoth

Victoria's assaults with her flagship became much more frequent rather than keeping her vessel hidden from the Republic. During the battle of Telos (the same battle that Andres killed Halcorr), Victoria attacked Citadel station with her flagship and a support fleet. She had come to attack Telos specifically for their fueling technology and an automated factory that could produce battle droids, as well as the plant being a major Republic world, while the Dark Council came to planet to recover Sith Holocrons from the abandoned Jedi Temple. The defenses of Citadel Station were much more dangerous than Victoria had anticipated and the fleet defending the world was comprised of new Republic ship models. Jedi Knights and masters that accompanied Andres to the planet defended Citadel Station from the onslaught of stormtroopers and dark Jedi. A strike team comprised of three Jedi (Shahna, Jacen and Legia) infiltrated the Behemoth by stealing a shuttle from the Imperials that landed in Citadel Station. The Jedi foughts through thousands of skilled troopers and dozens of dark Jedi, including royal guards, until they reached the bridge,

battered heavily from the fights. The team was confronted by Martice Nohan, who was Legia's brother who turned to the dark side and joined the dark council. The three Jedi fought the expert blademaster on the bridge, but Victoria was using the opportunity to try and escape. Shahna went after Victoria while the other two fought Martice. Victoria got away after confronting Shahna head on near the escape pods. Shahna decided to reach the engine deck so that she could plant multiple detonite charges she took with her to destroy the engines of the dreadnought. She was successful in doing this and the ship began to plummet down towards Citadel Station.

During Shahna's regrouping with the other Jedi, she found out that Legia had been killed by Martice on the bridge and he escaped in the confusion after the ship started to fall. Dax and Shahna escaped within pods and landed on Telos' surface while the *Behemoth* crashed into the station. From the surface, Andres used the force to move the massive ship away from the station as much as possible, which he succeeded in; as the dreadnought missed all of the populated sectors of the station. The battle was won by the Republic with minimal casualties and the destruction Victoria's largest ship in the fleet, but at the expense of losing a promising Jedi student and Victoria's escape.

### End of the War

Near the climax of the war, the New Republic and the Pathfinders hid from the Empire after their forces were too stretched thin despite the destruction of the *Behemoth.* The Correan Empire was weak as well, but still much more powerful than the Republic was at the moment. Coruscant was still under Victoria's control and had become stripped away of life and color since even more civilians were escaping the planet and the orbital cloaks kept the planet like cold. Ever since Victoria took Coruscant, she created a holiday where her empire would be celebrated in a parade on Tempus. The planet was split half in half of citizens that liked the empire and those who resented them and wished for the Republic to return. The Pathfinders grew impatient of the Republic lack of action, so they went rogue and traveled to Tempus on the day of the parade to assassinate Victoria now that she was in the open for the first time in years. Delta Squad blended into the crowd as much as they could with disguises, but during their attempt to kill Victoria while she was standing on the central float. The heroes were stopped by Victoria's agents and they were humiliated in front of trillions in the crowd and throughout the holonet news. They were planned to be executed on the same day within a matter of minutes and it seemed that the heroes were about to meet their end, until a blaster shot from far away struck Victoria in the head, killing her instantly.

    Victoria's death caused the populous to go insane, with everyone who had opposing views fight each other in the crowds. Pro-Republic citizens fought back against the Imperials and vice versa. Delta Squad was nearly killed again by Admiral Devon who was aiming his blaster pistol on all of the elderly heroes until he was then killed by Dianna; an old friend and Republic agent that went missing around the same time Mandalore "died". Delta Squad regained their weapons and fought the Imperials in the frenzy and within minutes a large fleet emerged from hyperspace. The fleet was comprised of modified Mandalorian ships, Imperial star destroyers, and Mon Calamari cruisers that were of older models. The Imperial ships above retreated and Tempus was liberated once more by the Republic with the help of the new ally. Delta Squad met with the attackers and learned that Mandalore was alive the entire time and came back with the fleet to help the Republic's dying numbers.

With Victoria dead, the Empire in disarray once again, and the Republic's power regaining after Mandalore returned to the galaxy; the Republic came out of hiding and mopped up the rest of the Imperials running from the Inner-rim and core worlds. The Republic took back Coruscant, but the planet was in such bad shape that they continued to keep Corellia as their new capital and Tempus and Chandrila as their senatorial worlds.

### Outcome and Effects of the War

Victoria's death at the hands of Mandalore caused him to become the most wanted person in the galaxy; being worth millions of credits for his death. Since all major admirals and overall leaders of the 2nd Correan Empire were killed (Victoria, Devon, and Cronus), the Empire was in massive disarray and basically gave up all of their will to fight the Republic. The Empire approached the Republic at Corellia to discuss a treaty that would put an end to any hostile relations between the Empire and the Republic. After that point, the warlord factions that remained (most notably the Bastion Authority) came to peace with the Republic and merged their forces within the Republic, as they had proven themselves as the ultimate power in the galaxy for decades. Many Imperials were hesitant to joining with the Republic, but over time they grew to tolerate each other, some even became friends despite the horror they had inflicted on one another.

On a statistical standpoint, the Victorian Wars greatly weakened the New Republic fleet that used to be in it's prime, as well as the Empire, and hundreds of worlds were battered by battles waged across their surfaces. Coruscant became a nearly dead world that still hosted millions of citizens, but did not recover from the damage that had been done since the Construct Crisis and Victoria's attacks. The Jedi Order also suffered hundreds of casualties and a few academies that had sprouted across the galaxy were destroyed by the Dark Council. The Dark Council members that still remained abandoned the Empire after they made peace with the Republic, and fled to the unknown regions to re-establish the Empire which would later become The Confederate Imperial Legion. Since production facilities and capital ship yards across the galaxy were destroyed, ship production was slowed down considerably, while the newly formed C.I.L. found old shipyards in the unknown regions that would eventually produce their new Imperial Star Destroyer models.

## Battles

* Assault on Chasin
* Third Battle of Coruscant
* Mandalorian Civil War
* Feint at Druckenwell
* Battle of Ryvester
* Battle of Bespin
* Capture of Nkllon
* Feint at Bestine
* Battle of Crescendo
* Ambush at Jendorn
* Battle of Kabal
* Coup at Elshandruu Pica
* Fourth Battle of Coruscant
* Victoria's Escape from Coruscant
* Ambush at Antemeridias
* Sacking of Derra IV
* Battle of Qretu 5
* Battle of Thyferra
* Cargo Rush on Tatooine
* Battle of Eriadu
* Battle of Sluis Van
* Battle of Kalla VII
* Battle of Lianna
* Battle of Ossus
* Fifth Battle of Coruscant
* Battle of Katraasii
* Defense of Telos IV
* Battle of Ruusan
* Duel on Tython
* Battle of Ingo
* Assassination on Tempus

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