Chapter Four: Praxis
The Battle of Bastion is over, and the great Battles of Roche and Concord Dawn rage. The Alliance has retreated from the Bastion and abandoned. The Fallanassi have intervened in the war to protect the Jedi and Grandmaster Skywalker, as the Sith hammer the Alliance.
The Jedi Order fractures despite outnumbering the Sith, and have declared outright war against the Empire’s new allies. Emperor Roan Fel III has had the alliance between the Sith and Bastion forced upon him, doubly so as Darth Krayt was responsible for foiling an assassination attempt upon him.
Reigning from Korriban, the Sith throw their awesome strength into the war, and the Imperial Knights, based mostly on Bastion, seek to pick up the pieces. The Galaxy is aflame as the Alliance’ shattered fleet withdraws once more, like it did at the start of the war. As the war nears its second year, it has swung once more in the Empire’s favour.
But the Jedi will not surrender, and nor will the Sith. The Alliance and the Empire – and its Emperor and Imperial Knights – are now pawns in what has been renamed the Sith-Imperial War...
The darkness encroaches, but the Empire has been devastated by the war, and will need to recover. The Alliance has one final chance to save the Galaxy, or admit defeat.
With the Mandalorians and Verpine Separatists becoming more powerful and disruptive, the Alliance is forced to focus more attention upon them, drawing more vessels away from the sacred Core. Key worlds are under-protected as the Alliance seeks to end these smaller threats at the expense of the war against the Empire.
A string of Imperial and Alliance worlds run from Borosk to Mon Calamari, with large Imperial fleets poised at Borosk, Garqi, Mandalore and Concord Dawn, and larger Alliance fleets gathering at Mygeeto, Taris and Mon Calamari. One fatal mistep could cause a holocaust for both sides.
The Galaxy is horrified or cheering at the result of the Battle of Bastion as it becomes publicised. And, with that fact, Imperial sympathizers stir in the very heart of the Galactic Federation of Free Alliance's....and the Galaxy shifts once more.
In the face of it´s imminent destruction, the Confederacy, the rebellious systems that once belonged to the Galactic Alliance, are rampaging the galaxy. Defeated as they are, they intend to make it a bitter victory for their enemies. Their rage, induced by their puppet-masters, the Sith themselves, leads to mindless murder of civilians wherever they roam.
In the depth of the systems that remained neutral another power has made himself known. The Hutts, criminals, merchants and politicians for long, have remembered what their race has been long ago. Conquerors and warlords. And so their fleets stay unharmed by the warmongering greater powers in the galaxy, as they secure more and more planets to extend their realm of influence.
Meanwhile soldiers of the Empire and the Confederacy under the control of the Sith are brought to the mysterious region of space known as the “Cloak of the Sith”. To serve an unknown purpose in a war for the future of the galaxy.
Through manipulation and deceit the Sith have drawn the Chiss Ascendany into the war, siding with the Empire and therefore the Sith themselves. Princess Sia Fel and her companions have lead a first strike against the planet Adumar, were the Alliance had left a small fleet to protect the system.
But far away from the great war, the Yuuzhan Vong, hated by the galaxy, feared be the common people and defeated by the Sith over Bastion, retreat to their new colonies. Only to face a new threat. While the Tof, ancient warriors who endangered the galaxy once, have resurfaced and begun to probe the borders of the new Yuuzhan´Tar, something even more sinister seems to lurk in the unknown places beyond charted space.
An unknown terror