Kashyyyk

Wookies.

Loud, snarling, grunting, wicked beasts.

Tall beasts, full of fur, whose form of speech sounds like someone coughing and whining at the same time.

These beasts that love to fight, wrestle, climb their tall and thick trees.

And of course...

To aid the Rebellion in it's fight against the Galactic Empire.

To Admiral Park Kraken, standing on the bridge of the Dominion, a Super Star Destroyer, all of the former was excusable and ignorable. Except...except for that last little bit.

He turned slightly, gesturing to the commander standing to his left. He nodded, and the Commander nodded in return, turning around as he spoke into his comlink. A few moments later, Park could detect a slight shudder in the ship as the massive hangar doors opened down far below where he stood. Out, ahead of the ship in flanking formation forward, the Imperial Star Destroyers Indomitable and Inflexible began disgorging flights of Imperial shuttles escorted by TIE Fighters. Other shuttles and fighters, from both the Dominion and the Impervious and Implacable, which were cruising behind him, started to appear, heading down to the planet below.

Twenty shuttles from the Dominion, ten each from the rest of the destroyers, escorted by a total of six squadrons of TIE Fighters, would provide a total of 2,400 Shriiywook Shock Troopers, stormtroopers with specially equipped climbing gear, and heavier than normal weapons, to subjugate the first and most Rebellious city on the planet, as an opening gesture of what was to come if the Wooks didn't surrender peacefully and quietly.

"Admiral, scanners detect energy readings in the destination city. Power signatures indicate Turbolasers and Ion cannons powering up," spoke up the sensors officer from his console.

"Weapons, have Turbolaser clusters three and four engage those power sources," ordered Kraken.

A mere moment later, a green flash lit up the ship as twenty heavy turbolaser batteries fired from beneath the ship's bow down towards the planet below. Several flashes could be faintly seen as the turbolasers struck their targets, obliterating them. Yet even as the planetery weapons died, a single azure blue ion bolt swept up from the planet below, striking one of the Sentinel class shuttles. That shuttle, disabled, nosedived into a large lake near the city, it's occupants of forty troops, two pilots, and three gunners almost certainly dying upon impact.

First blood had been drawn against the Empire. As the other shuttles began strafing and landing their troops, it was time for the Empire to strike back....