Endor + one year

Time stood still in the auditorium as the members of the rebellion high command reflected on the past year. Endor was to be the shining moment for the rebellion and now a year later the force which once tottered on the edge of victory over the Empire now lay in ruin and broken. Many of the worlds which once had shown sympathy to the Rebels now lay in waste from imperial retribution or have voluntarily sided in fear of reprisals of their treachery towards the dead emperor and the Empire.
Reshmar listened as the members of his staff listed the losses from the sparse battles which have been nothing but a nescience to the empire since Endor and had been the best the fleet could muster at the time. After his aid was finished Reshmar stood and looked at the admirals, generals, and political envoys gathered before him.

“Ladies and gentlemen, I stand before you on the anniversary of the most decisive battle yet fought in the war with the Empire. We look back in remembrance and morn the friends and soldiers who we lost there and since that dreadful day.”

Reshmar paused and drank from the glass he had been holding. The room was dry for the calamari and other aquatic races gathered in the room. Since the battle the Dar system had been the fall back and regroup zone for any and all who sought to escape the fist of the new empire. Many argued the new empire was far better then the new order under Palpatine but in the eyes of the men and women who fought over the forest moon the memories were vivid and clear. Palpatine had not been the one who slaughtered thousands over the moon in the massive space battle. The new leadership of the Empire was no better then the sith. In fact they were far worse. The emperor and Vader had been singularly minded in the idea of what the empire was and should be. Now the empire has more voices. Many leaders from around the galaxy bid for power and leadership. These men and women in there move for powers have created a strong and powerful leadership which is more powerful and more importantly far better at waging war.

“We need to move on and look to those memories as motivation to carry on the fight against the Empire. We need to fight and in fighting we need to show the Empire that we are still around, still a force which can match them on the battlefield.”

One of Reshmar’s aids stood and began passing out data chips. Once he had finished and the members of the meeting had begun looking over the data on their pads Reshmar continued.

“Before you I have a plan for the next year. We have the resources now to strike at the Empire. We need to show the galaxy that the rebellion is not dead as imperial propaganda says we are. As I have indicated on pages four and five of the document I have passed out the plan is to make a show of force. We will give the impression that we have the power to be in more then one place at one time. Our forces will be separated and outgunned in most of the cases but our objective is to put up a front of power. As we move out against key targets word will spread that the rebellion is in fact alive and that we can bring the fight anywhere we need to. This will open up political windows on worlds once loyal to us who look for protection and strike fear into smaller imperial world which the Empire lacks the forces to protect. We will move to take two worlds in this operation. Sullust will be the first world we move to liberate. The peoples of Sullust have been supporters of the rebellion from the beginning. The second world will be Kashyyyk. The wookie peoples also have been valuable allies in the past. These two worlds are key in the rebuilding process over the next year.”

Reshmar paused again for people to look over the data. He watched as members of military and government alike whispered between themselves.

“Now if you will look at phase two of my plan. Here I lay out the show which will put up a false front of power. The fleet will perform rapid assault strikes at twelve key locations. These will be carried out in rapid succession to one another to make it appear we have fleets spread through out the galaxy with the power to defend and attack the empire directly. These targets are small independent worlds that are loyal to the empire. Most produce goods and materials for the empire. Some are strictly show. We need to rethink our tactics and the scope of the war we wage if we are to survive the next year. Calamari and the Dar system will be the Head quarters for the fleet and will be protected against anything the empire can muster against us.”

“What about Training? My ground forces have very little room on Calamari to train. And we are in need of Armor support. WE can do little once we get on the ground against AT-ATs and Speeders.”

“General Forlon, That is a problem we have are aware of. And it is for that reason we are moving on Kashyyyk as our second target. It will provide a training ground for us and obtains us wookie heavy infantry to support our troops.”

The general seemed content with the idea and sat back to listen to the remainder of the meeting. Reshmar wrapped up his speech then took more questions from military and political members alike. He concluded the meeting and retired to his quarters to rest and began plans for the first of the Attacks. Fleet deployment, reassignment, and readiness were always a headache. The Rebellion had lost most of its senior commanders and the best warships it had available at Endor and in the fallowing exodus which fallowed. Many ships, commanders, and crews still remained unaccounted for including the supreme commander Admiral Lion. A year had past since the commander of the rebel fleet escaped to the unknown regions to repair and regroup. One year without word of his situation of wellbeing. High command had no other choice but to list him and his battle group as lost.

Endor + sixteen months

Reshmar stood looking out the forward view port of the Independence. The massive Command cruiser had spent the last year in the Calamari yards being refit and repaired. Now as the massive ship orbited the blue ball of Calamari Reshmar could see the vision he had when he planed the assaults on the twelve minor imperial worlds. The rebel navy was undermanned and out gunned and stood no chance of combating the empire in a massive engagement. This was now not the situation. In the last three months the yards at Calamari had repaired and refit the four remaining MC-80 Cruisers to the MC-80a standard and built another three MC-80 a’s along with twelve Assault frigates and four Calamari light cruisers. With the ships active and the new additions to the fleet his plan to show the galaxy that the rebellion still lived was finally possible. Now was the time to strike and strike fast. The battles of Sarapin and Sullust had both drug on for far longer then the rebel high command wished. The assault on Kassyyyk had been postponed until the twelve minor assaults had been concluded and reviewed.

The fleet had lost minor engagements and any engagements won even marginally had been deep space engagement with little to no influence on the worlds which the Rebellion needed on its side. The time had come to show the worlds who once aided and supported the Alliance that indeed the rebels are ready to aid them and free them from tyranny and defend them there after.

Reshmar looked over the status report on his group and the three other groups which would be assaulting their own targets through out the galaxy. Around the massive command cruiser smaller cruisers, frigates, and gunship’s gathered and prepared for the jump to hyperspace. Their target Lisanna.