Battle of Nar Shaddaa (GDE/Legion)

"Never thought I would have to fight another fellow droid. A freaky Sith droid who can use the force, at that." "Never thought I'd have an opponent so weak!"

- Unit 8311 and Darth Tyler

The Battle of Nar Shadda was a fierce battle between the Galactic Droid Empire and the Steel Legion, which started after a comminque between its leaders went badly wrong. It resulted in a pact between the GDE and Legion, but also caused severe damage to several Nar Shaddaa districts. Both factions took casualties in the battle, and the two commanders themselves--Darth Tyler and Unit 8311--engaged in a ferocious duel on the planet in a refinery, with both of them bringing to brunt their finest abilities and in 8311's case equipment and gadgetry.

Meanwhile, on space and on the ground, both sides focused on outdoing each other in firepower, with large civilian casualties caused in the crossfire. Throughout the battle, the GDE had the advantage in quantity, and the Legion in quality. The two factions soon brought out their finest soldiers and equipment in a bid to overwhelm one another, but this merely led to more destruction beign caused. The battle was comparable to the Battle of Coruscant in terms of epicness. However, eventually, Tyler and 8311 got so worn down in their duel that both asked one another for a truce, ending the ferocious battle. Both sides took heavy casualties in the battle, which lasted for some time. Fighting between pockets of forces from both sides that had failed to recieve communications of the truce would continue for a few weeks.

Background
"Ah, a fellow droid. Wait, what the hell, he's a Sith?"

- Unit 8311

The Sith battle droid, Darth Tyler, was in need of funds and resources. He approached several companies and corporations, but they quickly refused him. Soon, he noticed a droid crime lord, Unit 8311. 8311, head of the massive crime syndicate known as the Steel Legion, was, like Tyler, was an ex-CIS battle droid. 8311 also had access to vast funds and resources, and Tyler thought that 8311 would be more than willing to give him funds. Tyler contacted 8311, who was initially suprised to learn that he was not the only ex-battle droid in a position of power.

However, 8311 quickly considered Tyler a freak upon learning of his usage of the Force. Viewing Tyler as a disgrace to droids, 8311 quickly declared war on Tyler, wishing to purge him from the galaxy. Tyler realised that he would have to end the conflict quickly to avoid being brought down by the Legion, so he immediately planned and commenced an attack on Nar Shaddaa, HQ of the Legion. 8311 was expecting this, however, and had already prepped Legion forces for attack, and also had his own droid forces built at his home of Hypori on standby.

Prelude
"OOM-8, are your forces ready?" "Yes, they are ready, sir. I placed several ships around Nar Shaddaa."

- Tyler and OOM-8, a general

With both fleets ready for a huge battle, Tyler and 8311 each quietly planned out strategic locations for the placement of forces. 8311 placed several snipers equipped with jetpacks on top of buildings and he bribed the local Nar Shaddaa militia into giving him some extra support. 8311 was much more experienced with the layout of the city, which also gave him an advantage over Tyler's forces. 8311 was sure that Tyler's droids would quickly be depleted by the snipers and militia. The survivors would be demolished by various turrets around the city.

Tyler, however, was much more experienced in battles than 8311, so he prepared for a battle. With his lightsaber and use of Force lightning, he was absolutely sure he could knock out several droids just using these tools. He also prepared a Guardian for emergency contact in case something went wrong. He placed his ships in strategic locations, and prepared bombers for a run over the Palace's shield. Everything was perfect planning to Tyler. However, as the GDE exited hyperspace, orbital mines were straight ahead.

The battle
"Attack!"

- Tyler

The orbital mines crippled Tyler's fleet above Nar Shadda. A Legion fleet began engaging Tyler's ships, and whilst this was happening, Tyler led forces down to the planet to commence an attack on 8311's palace, using several decoys to distract Legion ground-space guns located on the planet. Any Legion fighters or missiles that got close to Tyler's shuttle were shot down.

The space battle
"Wipe them out. All of them."

- Tyler quoting Darth Sidious from which he overheard at the Battle of Naboo

Above the planet, Legion and GDE ships furiously engaged in combat. The Legion vessels were led by one of 8311's favoured admirals, who had had experiance in the Empire. Both sides were more or less evenly matched in all respects, but the GDE had the advantage in starfighters, which were overwhelming the outdated Legion Z-95s. In response, Legion ships deployed cloaked shadow mines which severely crippled the GDE's capital ships. Both sides began boarding each other's ships and attempting to jam one another's communications, which resulted in interference with equipment all over the planet. Legion Infiltrators managed to seize one of the GDE's Lucrehulks, styming the GDE efforts, but in return GDE providences caused critical damage to the Legion flagship, forcing the Legion space commander to transfer his flag. Falling debris from ships destroyed large parts of the Nar Shaddaa cityscape below.

Soon, both the Legion and GDE admirals were trying to turn the tide in their favour, almost mindlessly throwing as much firepower as they could at each other. A GDE commander sent a squadron of tri-fighters equipped with small-scale nuclear weapons to try and smash through the Legion line of capital ships, only to be shocked when the squadron was decimated by fire that came from nowhere. It became apparent that the Legion had deployed its specially modified cloaked V-wings, which began to wreck havoc amongst the GDE starfighters, boosting morale for the scattered Legion Z-95 pilots. However, buzz droids deployed by GDE Vultures in strategic locations crippled the squadrons of cloaked V-wings. Both sides began calling in reinforcements and their biggest guns, with the Legion sending in their Keldabes and the GDE bringing in more Lucrehulks and bombers.

Hundreds of thousands of ships were destroyed each hour, and the battle went on for a very long time. The battle was chaos. Ships were flying everywhere, capital ships were falling, many infiltrators and droids were dying. Each army could not withstand the amount of fire for very long. The armies were literally destroying each other. Eventually however, concurrent with the ground battle, the outcome of the space battle was a truce, and the space battle was over as soon as the surface battle was. However, the casualties of each side was unheard of, and both Tyler and 8311 both secretly wished, even after the truce, that their side had won. Nevertheless, they still traded as an act of peace.

The surface battle
"A droid army? What kinda enemy are we up against? Ta hell with it, let's kill 'em all!"

- A Legion soldier upon seeing the GDE forces

Tyler's contingent successfully landed, but came under heavy Legion fire. 8311 had also bribed the local militia, which further hindered Tyler's droids. However, most of the local militia was destroyed by orbital bombardment from Tyler's flagship, the Medal. Meanwhile, Legion troops, 8311's droids and Tyler's soldiers engaged in brutal urban combat, levelling several buildings. A Guardian of Tyler's, however, entered the battle, confusing the Legion troops, who had never seen such a thing. However, they were soon able to fight back, and squads of Legion Defilers began to turn the tide in favour of the Legion, crippling the Guardian. Eventually, the Guardian fell, boosting morale amongst the Legion troops.



During the battle, much confusion was sowed amongst the civilian populance. When they saw Legion vessels engaging what to them appeared to be CIS ships, many were absolutely stunned. Complete panic and disorder in the city made fighting between the two sides even more difficult. Several Nar Shaddaa landmarks were levelled as both sides tried to demolish the cityscape to their advantage. The Legion forces, who were familiar with Nar Shaddaa, had the advantage in knowing the layout of the city, allowing them to perform pincer movements on GDE divisions. The GDE forces, in response, relied heavily on support from orbit, with orbital bombardment from GDE ships crippling Legion contingents. Both sides tried to take strategic locations--the Legion attempted to seize spaceports that the GDE were using as landing zones, and the GDE droids tried to attack 8311's palace, the headquarters of the Legion, which was protected by a shield. However, the massive array of defences around the palace annilhated any enemy that got near, and several GDE bombers that performed attempted bombing runs on the palace were brought down. Meanwhile, Tyler supported his troops, terrorising Legion soldiers, who were shocked at the sight of a force-wielding droid.

Then, Tyler got word that 8311 was waiting for him in an abandoned smelting refinery not too far from his palace. Tyler headed there, confident his Force powers would put an end to 8311.

The Duel
"Well, well, well. If it ain't the skinny little B1 freak who thinks he's so clever just 'cause he can wave a glowstick about. Now, I recommend you commence preparations to get your skinny durasteel ass kicked." "Is the only thing that you haven't upgraded your fat B2 ass? Hey, at least I can do all that acrobatic Jedi crap without no Force nonsense. Now, are ya gonna come to me, or do I have to go over there and slam yo thin little body into the dust?"

- 8311 and Tyler

Tyler entered the refinery, where 8311 was waiting. Tyler was sure that he would gain the advantage over 8311, who was lumbered with a B2 body that he had uploaded himself into, having viewed his nominal droideka body as being too cumbersome. To his horror, Tyler discovered that 8311 had heavily modified his body in preparation for the fight. Now 8311 was equipped with repulsorlifts, a seismic blast generator, a droideka shield generator, a density projector, and an EMP blaster.



After a brief slanging match between the two droids, the battle commenced. Tyler found his efforts to Force Push 8311 futile due to his density projector, and his attempts to throw objects at 8311 were also made redundant due to 8311's shield. Meanwhile, 8311 began attacking Tyler with blasters and missiles, but Tyler dodged them quickly, even for a Force-sensitive.

Realising his projected attacks to be futile, 8311 converted his blasters into electromagnetic grapples, and leapt at Tyler, blasting his lightsabre away. The two furiously engaged in hand-to-hand combat. 8311 suffered damage to his midpoint, and Tyler lost an arm. During the fight, much of the surroundings were destroyed, reducing a large part of the refinery to ruin. Both combatants pulled off various acrobatics to dodge falling debris, and the fight moved to another part of the refinery. Tyler used the Force to pull his lightsaber to his other arm and pointed it at 8311, trying to get the super battle droid to give up. However, 8311 punched Tyler in the face, blurring his sensors. Tyler then electrified 8311's body, but 8311 found enough strength to leap at Tyler once more and make him fall to the ground. Very quickly, both combatants were exhausted and damaged, and had come to a stalemate. Tyler offered to make peace. 8311 agreed.

Aftermath
"Let us not explode into war again, 8311." "Agreed. It was all kinda my fault, but I've decided that there's more than enough room in the galaxy for both of us."

- Tyler and 8311, before signing

With that, both recalled their forces, and shortly after they signed a treaty promising not to fight each other, although fighting between a few remnant Legion and GDE forces who had not recieved orders to ceasefire in the lowest levels of the Nar Shaddaa city would continue for a few weeks. 8311 would occasionally provide large quantities of funding for Tyler (since the Steel Legion had far more credits than the GDE), who in turn allowed him to open Legion activites on his worlds (since the GDE had far more planets that the Steel Legion). When the GDE merged with the New CIS, the Steel Legion doubled their funding, and the New CIS/GDE's planets doubled to over three hundred. When the New CIS/GDE managed to secure its objective in conquering the galaxy, most major criminal organizations were eradicated save for the Legion, allowing it to virtually monopolize galactic crime. This made 8311 and the Legion tremendously rich and powerful and also allowed Tyler to have some control over the underworld, benefiting both parties.

Tyler was able to get a new arm from a battle droid, and he was able to fix his lightsaber. 8311 found a new chestplate since it was stained with the lightning blast, but would soon afterwards transfer himself back into his modified droideka body. However, there was one problem: Tyler's sensors were blurred so he could not see well. Then he came with a solution. Tyler's sensors were replaced with that of an unfinished battle droid's. All was well.

Behind the scenes
This article was created in a collaboration between Darthtyler and Unit 8311. It does not count as part of Unit 8311's fanon continuity, although it counts as part of Darthtyler's.