Battle of Ni

The Battle of Ni was the opening battle in the conflict named the War of Twelve Heirs.

Prologue
In the year 3,964 BBY, Hekas-ni, the Dark Lord of the Decreton Empire died. His son, Setal-ni was declared Emperor by Hekas-ni's old apprentice, Shalbacca.

This immediately provoked uproar from the Sith Council, of whom many believed Setal-ni to be too young. Head among these was the Human Mythos. Mythos ordered Shalbacca to allow him to challenge Setal-ni, but Shalbacca refused, insteading offering to take Setal-ni's place. Mythos refused, and left the building, followed shortly after by Corae and a reluctant Korin.

Mythos, enraged by Shalbacca's embarrassment of him, decided to take the throne by force. Uniting the fleets of Corae, Korin and his own; Mythos launched his attack.

The battle
Arriving at Mythos jst a day after leaving the Council, Mythos was not surprised to see that Shalbacca had already called back his fleet for the defence of the capital world. As Mythos' fleet approached Ni, a second fleet commanded by Setal-ni came out from behind the planet's moon, encircling the House of Mythos.

Corae, Mythos' commander-in-chief turned his ships around and engaged the combined forces of Setal-ni and Konopka. Konopka lead the assault in his flagship, but recieved havy damage very qucikly, and had to be saved by Setal-ni's warships. In the meantime, Setal-ni personally engaged in combat with Corae's flagship and dealt several crippling hits to Corae's ship.

Seeing this, Korin, who had up until this point kept out of the battle, ordered her ships to encircle Corae's flagship, but to avoid dealing serious damage to Setal-ni's vessel. Mythos however, was left to battle Shalbacca on his own, and was now losing.

Shalbacca's flagship had begun pummeling the sides of a multitude of Mythos' ships, while receiving very little damage itself. Mythos, seeing that his plan was beginning to unravel ordered his forces to begin landing on the planet, in order to take control of its automatic defence network.

Several ship loads of s landed on the planet before Shalbacca could prevent anymore, and so the battle spread to the planet itself. Fortunately, the garrison on Ni were more than up to the task, and easily decimated the invasion force.

After receiving word of their victory below, Setal-ni and Shalbacca begaun closing in on the center of the enemy fleet, dividing them up so that Konopka's forces could clean them out. Mythos, seeing the threat in their plan order his forces to withdraw.

Aftermath
Shortly before their escape, Shalbacca sent a secure transmission to Korin. In the transmission Shalbacca made it clear to Korin of his disappointment in her betrayal, and that she would pay for it with her life.

Sekal Phasas'a, the lover of Korin and father of her child sensed the threat through his, and was most displeased.