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Chapter 2: Renegade Era
Stoney 11:31am, July 23, 2011 [Edit] [Delete]	The Old Republic Chapter 2: Renegade Era Over the past two years since the razing of Alderaan and Coruscant, the Sith have waited, and plotted, and have taken numerous worlds previously considered Republic territory. Now they've emerged from the shadows again, their peacetime game of cloak and dagger now at an end. Hundreds of Sith battlecruisers have emerged from the frigid depths of space, laying waste to all in their path, and beginning their assault on the core worlds. Angry protests were made by irate Senators lamenting this egregious breach of the treaty, but all are empty words before the unceasing scourge. The Republic was truly unprepared for the onslaught, as two years of attempts at positioning to retake key systems have failed, and now the Sith's infrastructure and tactical inroads to the core worlds are better than ever. The Sith fleet at Alderaan quickly grew hostile, but was repelled by forces under the command of Admiral Savan. Yet the attacks on the core worlds have been unceasing since their start approximately three months ago, and many of the planets in the front line of the war have been devastated. Kuat, Onderon, Borleias, and Commenor have all fallen to the Sith, and several long-range tactical scouts have shown fleet activity massing for a coreward push straight for Coruscant; most believe the capital will soon fall. Panic has swept through dozens of systems, and their local governments have voted overwhelmingly, lobbying the Republic for surrender, including Taanab, Ambria, and Zeltros. After a particularly devastating side campaign taken before the main campaigns were resumed against the Republic, the Hapan Consortium has fled into the deepest core of their star cluster, taking their high-tech, stellar radiation-shielded vessels into the heart of the formation after razing and abandoning their homeworld, leaving nothing for the Sith to use. They occasionally conduct pirate raids on the massive patrols reconnoitering the sector, and have formed a significant deterrent to the advance of the Sith fleet, an initiative that the Republic has supported, their new director of intelligence proving a capable and worthy boon for a crumbling Republic in desperate need of information on the rapidly evolving situation. In spite of the increasingly desperate events unfolding, hope has coalesced around a single shattered planet in the Naheidron Trade Spine, a small but crucial hyperspace lane between Sith Space and Coruscant. The world of Eladros VII quickly became embroiled in the conflict, as the Sith in their arrogance believed the world would be easily conquered by their seemingly unstoppable fleet. This was disproven early in the new campaign, as the Republic had heavily fortified the world with over a dozen planetary ion cannons and beam lasers. The Sith unleashed a massive assault of the planet, and after a month and a half, managed to plant such powerful subterranean nuclear mines that the planet itself was mostly destroyed, the exposed core continuing to drift into space. The Republic, still not abandoning the world, has only dug in deeper, bringing in recently completed space defense platforms completed nearby within the system. Much is at stake for the war effort here, and gaining the planet for the Sith would provide production facilities as well as grant a huge strategic positional advantage for an assault on Coruscant directly. Hundreds of Jedi and Sith have already perished in the ground and orbital battles, and the now inhospitable surface of the planet, where the majority of the battles initially took place, has given way to fighting in a network of subterranean caves to escape exposure to the radiation caused by the planet's exposed core. Many heroes and villains have emerged on both sides, but as the fighting intensifies the Republic has begun fighting less like a faction of equal strength and relied more on hit-and-run tactics, and numerous pirate organizations are suspected to be Republic surrogates. The Jedi as well have taken to becoming more like renegades, attempting to study well the Sith forte for stealth and deceit while remaining true to the Jedi Code. Democracy and freedom are being systematically eradicated, and the Jedi are starting to look more and more like renegades... Edited 12:15pm, July 23, 2011 by Stoney, author.
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