I found myself once again within the HoloPod room of the bridge.
On it the map of Sullust surface revealed itself, within it's complex lava-filled surface there were multiple cities and factories.
The Clone Forces went straight for the Military Headquarters, but no resistance was given. The Sullust Defense Guard surrendered immediately.
The Republic split their forces into 3, one led by Anakin Skywalker, another led by Plo Koon and a third led by Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Anakin led the campaign to the Military Positions across the planet. Each one surrendering upon the sight of any clones but not a second before, Anakin left Clone garrisons across these Military Camps, whom would soon be replaced by Veridian ones.
Obi-Wan led his forces straight to the capital.
No resistance was found until they reached the Sullust Government Building, whereas the Clones were not allowed to enter.
Of course Obi-Wan wanted to accept, but dominance must be showed.
What followed was a destruction on the Government side, all their guards were stunned, or tazed, or knocked out.
Meanwhile Plo Koon was sent to the Sullust Shipyards, to halt any construction of Military-grade weapons for the Seperatist.
Meanwhile I also sent my own forces out.
Commander Lux and 10 000 Marines attacked a SoroSuub Weapons depot.
If I'm correct then it was later destroyed by the New Republic.
This precise factory would supplement weapons for the entire western reaches Imperial presence and garrisons, supplying them with both standard rifles and heavy armament.
Lord Commandant Alexander took 15 000 Royal Guards to the SoroSuub Centroplex.
Commander Thorne would also take a dispatch of 10 000 Veridian Infantry to the SoroSuub Refinery.
Yes, I planned to utilise this chance to strike a major blow to the SotoSuub Buisness, of course I could not completely eradicate them, but about 20% of their production output come from these factories and refineries.
And my legal reason, suspected CIS properties.
I mean technically the CIS Fleet utilised the refineries and factories to assist their own fleet with maintainence and other reasons.
And the transactions during the CIS time was nothing, meaning they did not get paid to allow the CIS to utilise the areas.
Nor did they get threatened which was shown how the CEO welcomed the CIS Fleet.
This was a bonus of the war, the second any corporation got suspected of 'aiding the CIS' then they would likely be forced to use up a lot of influence or accept the loss.
Such as if factories on a CIS world were taken over, they wouldn't get that back if it produced CIS made and used products.
And I would be sure as hell to utilise this.
But getting that out of my mind, I called Yularen.
He was currently at Coruscant, and he was setting up the Coruscant Guard.
Correct, in the story Tarkin had substantial position within the Coruscant Guard as their Jedi Overhead, but I had convinced Palpatine to allow Yularen to deal with all Military related matters.
I leveraged his previous position in there Senate Intelligence and his skill to make him basically the the Chief Judge within Military Violation and Breaches.
It was a powerful position, any military law put in place had to be agreed by him and his council.
And we had control of 4 of the positions, the other 2 was Tarkin himself and a puppet.
"My Lord, what do you require?" Yularen asked, I had yet to inform anyone of my checkmate.
"Good to see you, Yularen. Today, during the siege of Sullust, I gave a direct order to Vice-Admiral Maarise Zinsj to assist us. She did not listen, and I caught a communication between Admiral Tarkin and Zinsj, him telling her to refuse it." I told him, Yularen wasn't even shocked. He assumed I'd move against Tarkin sooner or later.
"Well, that's first degree insurbordination, first degree conspiracy against Republic High Command, conscious sabotage of Republic Operations, sabotage with the attempt to kill Republic High Command." Yularen said, going over the major ones.
"You'd be within your rights to either, execute both Zinsj and Tarkin, or terminate Zinsj, demote Tarkin and terminate all their officers." Yularen said and I smiled.
"Very good, mobilise the Coruscant Guard and apprehend Admiral Wilhuff Tarkin, he has been demoted to the rank of Captain for the charges you find fit." I told Yularen and he nodded.
"I'll contact Strategic High Command later." I told him as the communications cut.
I turned to Admiral Trench, whom were on the bridge.
I walked through the blast doors and entered the ship.
"Trench, create a second task force of 2 Valiant-Class Star Destroyers and 5 Munificent's, also include the Immobilizer, I'll be taking a quick trip to Eriadu." I told him.
"Tsk tsk tsk, I smell chaos, very good. Tsk tsk tsk" Trench said and I chuckled at that.
And with that I began heading out.
I took a quick shuttle to Valiant-Class Star Destroyer 'The Dauntless'
The VSD used in the Battle of Naboo, destroying over 6 Lucrehulks while taking the entirety of their fighter.
Although it could be counted as a mix of luck and recklessness, the entire crew were still the most elite put in our Valiant's.
Immediately upon arriving I was greeted by Captain Will Dodik
"Greetings, M'Lord, we thank you for blessing our ship with your presence." He said while crouching down into a bow.
Eh, who's been getting to this guy.
"Thank you, Captain. Let's move to the bridge." I told him as he stood up.
While walking I took out my datapad and got information on this guy.
Apparently this guy had been a project of Admiral Jaime, he had adopted this kid after a pirate raid and put all the reason of his rescue onto me, when I was 4 years old.
He then continued breeding this guy into a perfect loyalist.
Apparently this guy was so devoted to me that he would suck off a guy for me.
This was somehow tested, he agreed without hesitation, without any context simply that I asked but then stopped it.
Great, a fanatic.
Apparently this guy was to be used in the case of a betrayal, or a coup, then this ship was to be used if my own ship betrayed me.
Great.
Just great.
Pushing that back I mainly ignored the stars in his eyes as I made my way up to the bridge.
Once I arrived I turned to Will.
"Make the jump to Eriadu, make sure everyone follows and order the Munificent's to prepare for a forced transmission." I told him and he ran off immediately.
The Forced Transmission was a new cyber-hack outcome, essentially we would force the enemy to listen to me speak for 6 minutes before the virus would fail.
There were also no recorded use of this type of cyber-hack and as such there were no defenses, or on ships.
A few seconds we jumped to hyperspace, the journey would take 15 minutes and as such I began preparing my speech.
However, 5 minutes before our arrival I went to the HoloPod.
Before me appeared Maarisa Zinsj.
"Greetings, Vice Admiral. I am here in regards of the insurbordination and conspiracy against the Republic." I told her, and her facial expression turned from calm and prepared to shock.
"Please bring your second in command here." I said, not letting her think. And of course she would not deny another direct command, especially after the accusation I just threw.
And in came Laslo Dorits.
"Laslo Dorits, in regards of the recent insurbordination, Maarisa Zinsj has been demoted to Crewman First Class. You are to immediately turn of all shields and weapons, prepare for boarding parties and set all ships on lockdown, no ships or communications are to escape." I told him.
"If any of these conditions are breached, we will find out. And you alongside your entire family and friends will be put in the Coruscant Jail for gang members, and the women will be put in the men's section. I do not need to explain further do I?" I asked him, and with a gulp he nodded.
"Good, I'll be there in 3 minutes." I told him before cutting the communications.
I then contacted the VIA Agent on the Spy-ships and ordered them to focus on anything coming out of Eriadu and heading to Coruscant.
And of course, they did not listen.
Infront of me appeared Tarkin and Maarisa.
"Governor! The bastard has demoted me to Crewman and he is heading to Eriadu to deal with the fleet. He has accused us with conspiracy and insurbordination." She said and I smiled.
I pressed a few buttons and Yularen arrived, though Tarkin and Zinsj didn't know.
"Move in once he agrees to help her." I told Yularen and he nodded, listening to them speak.
"Relax Zinsj, you must remain composed. He cannot do this, I'll give you the list of officers to make sure are not arrested and Officers in the Republic Navy whom support us, contact them if needed." He said, as I saw him put something In his HoloPod.
"Catch that!" I exclaimed into my comms, directing it at the Spy Station also listening in.
"Yularen, move in." I told him.
And about 15 seconds later Coruscant Guard Riot Troopers broke into his room and arrested him.
He screamed about being an Admiral and Palptine not going to have this, but he was ignored.
Zinsj looked shocked but shut down the connection, and along it did Yularen disappear.
And a few seconds later the list appeared, they had caught it.
I smiled as I read through the Judicial Names.
I then furthermore sent them to all troops.
"Ensure these officers are arrested and put in separate cells." It said on the message.
That's when Will came in.
"We're approaching Eriadu in 20 seconds, Your Grace." He told me and I nodded.
With that I walked onto the bridge.
"Order the Munificent's to immediately perform planet-wide jamming. And prepare the forced transmission." I told a communications officer.
Just in time for us to jump out.
Infront of me the entirety of their fleet appeared, they had recalled all forces due to the CIS presence around them.
"Initiate forced transmission and jamming." I told a communications officer as I prepared for a light to blink green, showing the success of the forced transmission.
Soon enough it became green.
"Ladies and gentlemen of the Juducial Outer-Rim Security Forces, this is Grand Admiral Thalron Veridian, of the Republic Navy. And as the Judicial Forces are a branch within the Republix Navy my control extends far into the Judicials, none are exceptions to my orders." I said before taki my a break.
"But your dear Officers believed otherwise, the further their own personal power they refused a direct order to assist our fleet engaging CIS Forces above Sullust. We barely won and suffered Republic losses." I said.
"This is not a simple insurbordination, but a conspiracy. Multiple Officers across the Republic pledged their support for personal gain. You have all been charged with 1st degree subordination, conspiracy to destroy the Republic, conspiracy against the Freedom of Republic Citizens, conspiracy against the Republic Navy and other charges, you have also been charged with attempted sabotage and intentional murder." I said, which ended up shocking every single one of them.
"However, you shall be spared from these accusations, so long these individuals are captured or terminated. These individuals have been demoted to Naval Cadet, these individuals are as follows;" I said as I began reading up all the names.
Meanwhile LAAT's were ushering out of the Valiant-Class Star Destroyer and the 5 Munificents.
Landing within the hangars of the 15 dradnaughts, boarding pods were also shot out, aimed at the Judicial ships without hangars.
And with that, the trap was unleashed.
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