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The Shadowstone Affair
Galactic Civil War
Date	Year 4 Day 273
Location	Beta system
Result	Decisive Falleen victory · ISD Shadowstone captured
Belligerents
Falleen Federation Rebel Alliance	Galactic Empire
Commanders and Leaders
Lord Commander Squall Chitose ??? Keir Santage King Eldrik Kuraine Moff Vir Calder	Director Siather Det'aan Dark Lord Adric Simms Emperor Greyson Uebles
Strength
	763 defenders in total total includes: 2 Sith Lords 1 Gand officer 3 senior officers 360 stormtroopers 40 engineers 40 mechanics 317 extra crewmen
Casualties and Losses
Xarius Tylger† (traitor) Doug the Battledroid†	760 killed

WORK-IN-PROGRESS... Writing article... Everything on this page is in flux, disorganized, and riddled with errors...

The Shadowstone Affair, also known as Operation Shadowstone by Falleen historians, refers to the seizure and theft of the Imperial-class Star Destroyer Shadowstone on Year 4 Day 273. The theft was orchestrated by Moff Vir Calder with the aid of King Eldrik Kuraine of the Falleen Federation and involved automated battle droids garrisoned aboard the vessel being turned against the Shadowstones Imperial crew. According to accounts, [...]

[...] is an Imperial Star Destroyer once famously captured by Keir Santage, Finn Setanta and Squall Chitose who were working in the employment of King Eldrik Kuraine of the Falleen Federation. A lengthy battle was fought to seize the ship chiefly through the attackers bringing aboard large amounts of Battle Droids under their command, and fighting the Imperial stormtroopers aboard the ship.

Notable incidents in this battle included the wookiee Ralgarrch squeezing into a turbo-lift maintenance shaft to chase the more nimble Siather during her attempts at escape, Keir Santage accidentally tossing an extra grenade into a fray resulting in damage to his own battle droids, the death of Doug the Battledroid, and the baking of cookies in the mess hall after the battle was concluded by Adam A Flynn. Keir Santage also managed to rescue an injured female Imperial officer from a bacta tank, however it is unclear what happened to her after she escaped with him. Towards the end of the battle, the betrayal of Xarius Tylger was revealed. Xarius's droids were equipped with slave commands by Kuraine, and he took direct control to of them to attack Xarius. Tylger was wounded, but was able to initiate the command codes to the bombs he had smuggled aboard to destroy the ship. Squall Chitose was nearby and saved the ship by disarming the bombs and shooting Tylger in the face.

Santage presented the ship to King Kuraine who, in turn, gifted the vessel to Hapan officer Alex Tylger. It is rumored that Roan Axios was gifted the ship by King Alex. As a result of the capture of the Shadowstone, the Galactic Empire attacked the Fallen Federation's stronghold at Beta.

To be rewritten, integrated, and condensed

Section Titles

1. Prelude
2. Kuraine's Plot/Conspiracy
3. Theft and Flight (Flight of the Shadowstone to the Beta system, Imperial crew realizes Moff Calder's treachery)
4. Assault and Capture (ISD tractored by Libra battle station, assault team and droids enter, Siather sneaks aboard, etc.)
5. The Last Stand / The Final Withdrawal (final defense of bridge by Imperial NPCs role-played by Uebles; Squall and Keir personally led droids to capture bridge)
6. Defenders Retreat (two Sith portal in, set explosives on reactor core, and portal out with Siather)
7. Aftermath

Section Quotes

"Our esteemed Moff Calder has sided with the enemy... Whichever enemy those ships belong to. Weaponry, open fire on the attackers! Engineering, start to jam their comm systems. Seal all blast doors, send out a distress signal, and lock down this ship!"

— Commodore Vladimir Edinton, ISD Shadowstones First Officer - Year 4 Day 273

Flight of the Shadowstone

Plotting months in advance to steal the Shadowstone, Calder — with Kuraine's guidance — had decided to utilize overwhelming numbers of slave-controlled battle droids to subdue the Imperial skeleton crew. To accomplish this plan, Calder first needed to purchase and to requisition the battle droids which were Imperial-only assets. As such, he applied for authorization from the Imperial throne. Given the large number of battle droids that Calder requisitioned, Emperor Greyson Uebles became suspicious. When he probed Calder's stated reasons for such a large complement of automated droids, Calder replied with flimsy excuses. At this point, the Imperial High Command became concerned Calder was planning to defect.

Calder's orders were to enter hyperspace with the Shadowstone and to join the Imperial fleet that was massing outside the Beta system for the upcoming battle. Unbeknownst to the Shadowstones loyal crew, Calder had altered the ship's hyperspace coordinates to ensure the vessel would exit hyperspace nearly adjacent to the Libra battle station and thus would be surrounded by the enemy fleet.

Assault and Capture

The ISD Shadowstone exited hyperspace in the Beta system. [...] an area awash with asteroids and strewn with charred derelicts. Observing her arrival, the Libra battle station of the Falleen Federation began the initialization procedures for their tractor beams. As the Imperial officers gazed outside the bridge viewport of the Shadowstone, they observed a sizable amount of unidentified starships rapidly approaching them. The gunnery officer petitioned Moff Calder to allow him to open fire, but Calder ordered him to stand down. Abruptly, the Imperial command crew felt a shudder as multiple tractor beams locked onto the Star Destroyer from the nearby Libra space station.

The Imperial officers dispatched a distress signal across the Imperial Holonet. An officer pressed a rectangular button and the red alert instantly sounded aboard the ship. The security crew ran to cover all access corridors that a boarding party might enter through. Small teams of troopers ran to cover key areas of the ship — the bridge, engineering, armory, and docking bay. They consisted of twenty men. Everyone else was guarding the entrances. The miscellaneous crew heard the emergency klaxons sound. They rushed back to seek refuge in their quarters and in the mess area. Although nervous, they were confident the stormtroopers garrisoned aboard the vessel would repel any hostile boarding parties.

On the bridge, Commodore Vladimir Edinton — the First Officer — noticed that Calder had retreated to a corner of the bridge and surrounded himself with battle droids. He addressed his comrades: "Moff Vir Calder has not given the order to fire upon the attackers. I sense treachery afoot, all stormtroopers attack the commander." Edinton immediately moved to take cover behind a command console. He had dealt with this kind of situation before as the commander of another ship, but he never expected a Grand Moff to commit such treachery. He yanked his DH-17 blaster pistol from its holster, readied his comlink in his hand, and then sought safety behind the phalanx of nearby stormtroopers on the bridge.

"This is a global communication throughout our ship," Edinton spoke into the comlink, "Our esteemed Moff Calder has sided with the enemy; at least, whichever enemy those approaching ships represent. Weaponry, fire on their shield quads! Engineering, start to hack major systems and take control of com-systems, blast doors, and propulsion. Send out a distress call to Coruscant informing them of the situation!" Edinton barked various orders to his troops as he moved about. "Lock this ship down. We must be prepared. There are a number of droids around but their command functions are set to defensive mode. Do not attack them. Only attack moving targets!" With that the Commodore his blaster and fired upon the droids surrounding the defector.

Situated on the Engineering Deck, Chief Engineer Tarthos Ventiri received a communique from First Officer Vladimir. Obeying his training, he did not hesitate to follow Vladimir's orders. He instructed all the engineers to hack the computer system of the Star Destroyer in order to regain control: "I want all docking ports locked down, close the docking bay, and secure all blast doors." After assigning orders, he took out a crate. From the crate he drew restraining bolts and distributed them to the people under his command — five to each specifically.

Being in the company of stormtroopers assigned to the bridge, Fenix Stormguard was astounded by the treachery of Moff Calder. Regardless, he took his X-95 blaster rifle and fired it at any battle droid around the Moff that he could. Ordering all hundred-and-twenty of his men under his command to attack as well. In the ensuing chaos, ten super battle droids were destroyed, but fifty-three stormtroopers were killed. During this time, Imperial engineers locked every docking point down and started securing vital rooms.

The Shadowstone unleashed a barrage of turbo-laser fire upon the Libras bow quadrant of shields.. aiming for the turbos if they fail.

Meanwhile, on the bridge, First officer Vladimir Edinton cursed as he shot a second time at one of the droids. As other droids returned fire, a pair of stormtroopers unceremoniously grabbed him by the arms and dragged him behind the cover of one of the auxiliary consoles. When his initial rage cooled down, he just nodded to the troopers that covered him. He then carefully went down to the port bridge-pit where some of the bridge crew was digging in, firing on the droids with their blaster pistols, and covering the vital personnel that couldn't leave their stations.

Edinton activated his comlink and received reports from all decks that where still under Imperial control. Then he turned to Lieutenant Commander Aleksei Stahl, the Shadowstone's Tactical Officer. "Stahl, keep firing on the space station. Get us away from it and we might have a chance to escape into hyperspace. You have free hands to do it, just do it!"

Edinton frantically entered the code that patched him through to all stations aboard the vessel: "All stations... Evacuate all non-vital areas. Upon evacuation, seal them off and shut them down. Off-duty technical personnel, report to engineering. All other personnel, report to the arsenal to receive arms. Send a security detail to the bridge, we are under attack. Equip yourselves with heavy weapons and hurry. Bridge out!"

He was interrupted by the beeping of a comm. He checked his comlink to realize that it was the holonet transceiver. Hastily he opened the audio-only channel, turning pale when he realized who was contacting him. With a grim face he listened to the voice from far away Coruscant.

On the bridge, Tactical Officer Aleksei Stahl radiated an icy calmness as he replaced the Fire Control operator. The first salvo was inadequately prepared and executed. He glanced at the young officer, "Ten demerits, Ensign."

Without further ado, Stahl's fingers began to fly over the large and complicated Fire Control terminal, vulgarly nicknamed the "Organ" by the crew. He scanned the sensor readings and the data from the tactical computer, quickly making decisions, and giving orders to the gunners and to engineering.

"Engineering, reroute some of the energy of life support and the non-essential systems to the weapons to increase the recharge of the turbolasers. I also need you to reverse the polarity of our own tractor beams to use them to push us away. All ion cannons, target the stations bow. Primary targets are the tractor emitters, I'm transmitting your coordinates. On my mark... Fire! Turbolaser batteries, as soon as you are recharged, fire at the same targets. Fire at will."

He turned and stood up slightly to glance over the central gangway, "Helm! Nasgar! Full speed aft! Clamp down the throttle. Overheat the engines if you must, but I want full pull against the enemy tractors! Ion salvo, concentrate on the enemy tractor emitters and divert energy to increase the recharge rate of our batteries. We must weaken their tractor grip with full engine power!"

On the bridge, Fenix Stormguard quickly realized that his position was indefensible. He continued to shoot at the droids, ordered his men to slowly retreat behind cover and to concentrate their fire on individual droids, always two or three troopers targeting one. He heard Commodore Vladimir's order to send an additional security detachment to the bridge and prepared for a purely defensive fight until his reinforcements arrived.

Chief Engineer Tarthos Ventiri, on the Engineering Deck, finished his first tasks while calmly reporting to the bridge. Upon receiving orders and requests, he did not hesitate. His experienced worked like a well-oiled clockwork. He ordered a team of technicians to work on the tractor beams. Another team under his assistant was to round up all available personnel they could find, equip them with restraining bolts, and go off to shut down any yet inactive droid they could find. A third team was to descend to the life support level using the ductways and service tunnels to ensure that life support could not be deactivated by anyone; thus, severing the command circuits from outside and welding down all accesses. Ventiri turned to help with the hacking with a grim dedication. Then he had prepared the self-destruct mechanism... One could never know.

On the bridge, Flight Lieutenant Jamilla Nasgar, the ship's helmsman, cast an irritated glance at Stahl for ordering the obvious. She was already on it. Her eyes were glued to the readings she received from the sensor ops and she was experimenting at low settings to check out the response times of their enemies' tractor crew and the possible limits of their adaptability. Satisfied, she entered the complicated vectors and thrust ratios she had calculated during her preparations, throwing in a slight random factor the enemy computers would have trouble dealing with for a while. Grimacing, she thought that the enemy surely wouldn't have anticipated how important Chief Gorion's little virtual Sabbacc program — stored away in the mainframe for the wee hours of uneventful watches — could become.

The sequence she entered executed a nasty acceleration pattern and she hoped the inertial dampeners would not fail or everyone and everything on the ship would end as a thin layer of red stains on the bulkheads. Of course, for only a very short time, as the bulkheads would be ground to dust with the rest of the ship only moments later. The ship would experience a g-forces in excess of five hundred units. The Shadowstone would accelerate towards the station for a second and a half, then fire all maneuver thrusters to the left, the right and the right again, before moving backwards with two-thirds thrust, stop half a second to finally accelerate away with a hundred-and-twenty percent thrust for full five seconds. The random factor would further disturb the enemy crews and to the very least this should fry some of their tractors if it didn't fry themselves first. With only a very short moment of hesitation she triggered her pre-programmed flight sequence... programmed and executed evasive pattern.

Somewhere on Deck 10, Technical NC: Chief Petty Officer Hull motioned his men to wait silently as he looked around the corner. He saw no movement but waited for a moment longer just to be sure. This reminded him of his time with the Navy Troopers, before they where replaced with the Stormtroopers and his technical skill bought him a nice spot away from the worst heat of battle. But he was back smack in the middle and now he was quite thankful for the training he had received, even if it netted him this little suicide mission... Damn Commander Ventiri and his good memory.

He waved his men to follow him as he rounded the corner and quickly skulked to the bulkhead that led into the main droid hold. He used his tools to override the shutdown and manually opened the heavy door with the assistance of two others. He glanced inside, ready to slam the bulkhead shut at the first glimpse of movement. When nothing happened, he pulled out the first restraining bolt and told his men to follow him. With a little luck they could turn some of the enemies weapons against them. Began to use restraining bolts on combat droids to reprogram them.

At the computer mainframe on the Engineering Deck, Technical Officer Lt. (jg) Edward "Critical Ed" Tivrusky's fingers moved over her terminal like colibri wings, so quick that they seemed a blur. Her carefree smirk was a facade. While as she truly enjoyed the challenge of her current task, she was highly concentrated. Her military career was just an accident. After a hack into the local Navy bases comp system on her homeworld went awry, she had only two options: Twenty years of conscripted service or ten years in the spice mines of Kessel. The choice wasn't that hard after all. But she was a slicer in her heart and finally she could do some serious slicing again, even with the blessing of her superiors. Life could be ironic sometimes.

While other engineers wrested for system control from the traitorous Moff Calder, Ed's task was a more difficult and devious one. Step by step she was removing all accesses the former Moff had on the ship. To do this she had to fight the very same computer that she had maintained for nearly a year now, best her own security measures and little traps. She was good back then, she had to admit that. Just good that she always left loopholes, and backdoors, like any good slicer would do. Thus she deleted files, altered others, rebooted whole sections of the comp back to factory settings; all the while she was redoing or sabotaging any enemy hacking she could find. Meanwhile two Ensigns where busy researching specifications and scanning handbooks for her. If she just could get hold of a few liters of any seriously decaffeinated beverage, she would be in slicer heaven... Hacking Main-Comp to counter any enemy hacking attempts and deleting Calder's access permissions.

Thirty droids were destroyed and the remainder of Fenix Stormguard's hundred-and-twenty stormtroopers were dead... you hear the stomping of feet from further down the corridor as a few men drag the 1st officer away...

[...]

The Last Stand

By this time, the Fallen Federation's boarding parties had secured most of the Star Destroyers. Squall Chitose and Keir Santage spear-headed the Falleen Federation's assault to seize the bridge of the Star Destroyer.

But as Vladimir hewed his way, he became aware that all about him his men were falling, overcome by the masses of battle droids. "Treason!" he shouted suddenly. "Treason! Treason!" he cried again, even as he fired his last shot, releasing his heart's anguish in one breath, crushing the predicament of his life into a word. None of his Imperial officers remained at his side. A dozen laser bolts smashed through his torso. In the midst of his foes, alone, he fell lifeless to the bridge floor, leaving the prized ship in the hands of Moff Calder and King Kuraine.

[...]

[All of the people above died. Then the Sith portaled in.]

Siather

Siather [part 1]

From the cockpit of her YT-510 Retaliation, Siather "Raptor" Detaan glimpsed tractor beams latching onto an Imperial Star Destroyer bearing the identification transponder of the Shadowstone. There were a number of ships surrounding the ISD, yet no actions aside from the tractor beams were happening. More strangely, no distress call was being sent.

The YT-510 Retaliation slipped closer to the ISD Shadowstone amid enemy ships of all shapes and sizes. The ISD was firmly locked in a tractor beam of the nearby Libra battle station. The Gand pilot, Siather Detaan, took a quick account of some of the ships present. Unaware of Calder's defection and the earlier theft of the Shadowstone, Siather was puzzled why the Shadowstone was out in the middle of nowhere. She couldn't understand why was it surrounded and, more importantly, why the vessel hadn't put up any sort of fight. She deduced there had to be more to this situation than she could discern.

Siather decided she would board the vessel and determine what was going on. Using the ship computer on her YT-510 Retaliation, she transmitted codes that would allow her to dock without incident or an attack by security personnel. She considered a voice transmission to the massive Star Destroyer but decided against it deciding it best to merely land and keep an element of surprise, even a loyal crew needed to be surprised once in awhile.

Her YT-510 slipped through the screen of starfighters and capital ships swarming around the ISD. She cruised at about three quarters of its total speed so as not to draw attention. Siather focused intently on slipping past these ships and closer to the ISD. Siather saw the ISD and realized it was being attacked. Because of the large amount of ships in the vicinity, it took considerable skill to pilot through them without detection.

She neared the docking bay. She was able to hack open the docking bay doors, and sent out a distress call to the Empire. She flew inside with her vessel. Pursued by enemy ships into the hangar, the ISD fired it's forward turbolasers at her pursuers, dealing massive amounts of damage to their shields. Siather set down her YT-510 in the docking bay and powered the quick freighter down to a standby mode quickly moving out of the cockpit and into the rear section. She looks at the two waiting droids both in a recharge mode hooked up to the ships main power generator.

Siather quickly disconnected them from the ship and activated the droids, one a Super Battle Droid and the other a Destroyer Droid. She smacked a panel to her right and the wall opens up revealing a whole array of equipment and weapons. Siather grabbed the stormtrooper armor and strapped it on. She grabbed a breath mask and the stormtrooper helmet. She tucked the mask into the helmet and pulled both on. She grabbed a heavy belt from the rack and strapped it on. Arrayed in front of her were many weapons of all types, she opened up the holsters on her belt and stuffed a pair of DL-18 into one set, a pair of TB-1a in another, and a pair of scout blasters.

Siather grabbed a heavy backpack and pulled it on grabbing a variety of items from the tray in front of her. She stuffed it into the pack and onto her belt. She looked at the larger weapons and grinned to herself. She grabbed the T-21 Heavy Repeating Blaster and inspected it quickly before putting it in her pack and grabbing an E-11 Blaster Rifle off the racks checking it also. After equipping herself, she ordered the droids to the top of the docking ramp smacking the panel to lower it both droids having orders to fire if fired upon.

Siather looked down the ramp and ordered the droids forward. Bringing her E-11 up to her side, she slowly followed them down. As she reached the bottom of the ramp she scanned the docking bay visually and ordered the droids to do the same but hold fire. She ordered the Destroyer Droid to power up it's shields and continued into the bay, scanning carefully for anything hostile. She entered the docking bay and realized that a large group of men and droids had just left. The place was in disarray. It was quite possible that someone stayed behind to keep an eye out. Siather looked at the mess left behind and stared at it for a moment trying to judge, based on the damage how many there had been. She quickly made her way to the end of the docking bay. The droids followed her every step. She scanned the bay with her weapon ready in search of anyone who might be observing as well as a terminal which she could access the main computer. She ordered the Super Battle droid to begin patrolling the docking bay and the Destroyer droid to cover her as she did so.

Siather quickly realized a sizable force had just emptied the area. Based on metal scars on the floor and blaster marks, she realized that it was battle droids of some make or model. They must have just passed through shortly before as the turbolift was currently going up. Siather spotted the scomp access and grinned. She made her way over to it quickly and ordered the Destroyer droid to cover her. The Super Battle Droid returned also to cover her. She stepped up to it, pulled out her code cylinders, and plugged them into it. She searched the archives for access to the internal security systems including cameras and automated defenses looking to bring them online.

Siather looked over the security screen. She saw masses of battle droids moving towards the bridge. She quickly tapped commands into her access terminal attempting to close and seal the blast door to the bridge. She quickly glanced over at the turbolift which was apparently coming back down. Although security cameras indicated the lift was empty, she ordered her droids to cover it just in case. She continued tapping commands into the access terminal and glanced at the Super Battle Droid judging it quickly comparing it to the droids she sees on the screen. She ordered it to plug into the access terminal to receive new programming instructions.

Siather started attempting to setup the ships internal comm system in order to transmit at a low frequency to the Super Battle Droid while at the same time disconnecting some cables on the droids left leg joint to make it appear damaged as she waited for the lift to get down. She noticed via the security camera that the bridge was under fire. The Imperial defector, Moff Vir Calder, had many battle droids and was winning that fight over a meager amount of stormtroopers. Observing via the camera, Siather noticed that there was a large group of men, women, and droids alike in the main docking bay. They were stealing sentinel shuttles. Apparently, the Imperials on one of the shuttles sacrificed themselves in an explosion that destroyed many droids and injured Prince Jace Meridan.

She also noticed another group of men, women, aliens, and droids were heading to engineering. She realized that if that raiding party succeeded in the area, her mission would be a total failure. She also noticed via the camera that another man was doing something very suspicious. It seemed like he was planting explosives. Using the terminal, Siather succeeded in closing and locking the blast doors to all entrances and exits to the bridge. Siather frowned as she witnessed the teams make their way to the engineering bay and tapped in commands to seal all access to that area as well. She saw the empty lift arrive and tapped in commands to the Droid that established a comm connection with it through the ships internal comm system. She pulled up a map of the internal structure of the ship and stepped onto the lift ordering both droids to do the same.

Before she went on the turbolift, she noticed more events unfold via the security cameras. An Imperial prisoner had been executed. A red-headed female crewman [Ed: is this NPC Jamilla Nasgar?] had surrendered but a commissioned officer of the Falleen military named Mark Hornet killed the young woman with a blaster shot. Siather successfully closed all doors leading to Engineering. She discovered that someone else was closing doors on the ship, but she did not know who. Apparently other Imperials were doing their best to keep the enemy at bay. Before she logged off from the computer terminal, a status report informed her that Reactor One (of two) was functioning at 75%. Cooling systems were damaged in an explosion. The report continued stating that, if the cooling systems failed, the reactor would jettison and Reactor Two would activated. The droids followed her orders and boarded the turbolift alongside her. They traveled to the middle deck.

Siather rode the lift up and ordered both droids to power up to full combat readiness. She leveled her E-11 on the door, waiting to possibly shoot whatever may be beyond the door. Siather pulled herself to the left wall of the lift. She ordered the Destroyer Droid forward so any fire that came through would strike it's shields. She ordered it to be ready to fire. The turbolift doors opened and immediately she saw no one, but heard plenty of clamor down the corridor as there were literally swarms of droids and Federation troops. She heard them trying to break through various doors and such.

Siather quickly flipped the lift switch to the "Hold" setting. She ordered the droids to remain where they were. She quickly ducked out of the lift. She glanced in both directions as she moved quickly into the room she knew to the crew quarters. She peeked out to her left, trying to determine what might be between her and weapons control or flight control. She kept as silent as possible as she moved keeping her E-11 ready to fire. She wished the stormtrooper armor wasn't white.

Siather [part 2]

[The muted alert lights began flashing, and Siather could hear the sound of the klaxons baying faintly outside the room.]

Siather ducked in, but she had this weird sense that something was about to go wrong. To the left of the turbolift, she heard several droids repeatedly say, "Kill Xarius." Seconds later, several hundred laser shots could be heard and a resounding thud [Xarius' body hits the floor]. Siather realized that, unless she moved quickly, she would be surrounded by the enemy boarding party. She heard footsteps of Federation troops and battle droids heading in her direction.

Siather quickly retreated to the turbolift and slammed the "Stop Lift" button with the back of her fist. She repeatedly slammed her hand against the button to go down to the Detention Level while keeping her blaster at eye-level and ready to fire at any potential targets. As she reached the turbolift, blaster fire arced towards her. Just as the lift door hissed shut, white foam was sprayed from the fire-retardant system and everything was covered in white foam. [She took a gush of thick, white foam full in the face. The turbolift was ankle-deep in foam, and spurts of anti-incendiary gas made it nearly impossible to see. The racket of sirens and warning hooters was deafening.] The foam was slightly irritating to her eyes which burned and itched. Luckily, the rest of her body was covered in armor. Her droids were covered as well.

The turbolift stopped at the Detention Center. There were some Imperials on the ground, most of whom were dead. A few however, were wounded or unconscious. Two prisoners were alive and well. However, they were restrained by stun cuffs and drugged heavily. Siather glanced into the Detention Center and pulled the "Hold Lift" switch. She ordered the droids to exit the lift. Following them, she checked the Imperial corpses for any equipment she might utilize as well as ensuring the prisoners were still secured in their holding cells. Siather then moved to the security console in the room and checked for scomp access. She instructed the droids to cover the turbolift as she worked.

Siather verified the two prisoners were secure. The prisoners didn't seem to notice her presence as they groaned from the constant excruciating pain of the electrified stun cuffs. Siather found a scomp access link, but the access level was not of a higher authority than the earlier aft hangar one. Meanwhile, her droids covered the turbolift. As she began testing her access into the scomp link, the turbolift door pinged as if it had been remotely summoned. Fortunately, as Siather had jammed the "Hold Lift" button, the lift remained stationary. [Obviously, Falleen party called elevator, but it didn't work.]

Siather realized that, quite soon, she would not have an escape route. Siather used the scomp access to attempt to take control over the turbolift. Her intent was to release the lock and send the lift plummeting to the bottom of the shaft. She checked the status of the security cameras and realized that, by this time, the enemy had likely sliced into such a low-level computer system. Using the terminal, Siather attempted to feed false imagery into the security cameras in order to deceive them.

She accessed current feeds and noticed she could see herself at the detention center. Knowing this, she realized the enemy boarding party likewise knew her location. Siather attempts to move the turbolift failed. The lift went to where it was called. There was no other way in or out. The unconscious Imperials were now awake, while the wounded Imperials had expired. The wounded Imperials were unconscious. One of the prisoners woke up and screamed gibberish, which woke the other prisoner from his catatonic state. He too began screaming nonsense.

Siather's live feed from the security cameras was suddenly cut by [someone in the enemy]. Siather growled aloud in anger and then glanced at the people who had regained consciousness. "Get into that armor and arm yourselves with those E-11s," She ordered. She tossed her own E-11 to the odd man out and proceeded to the turbolift door attempting to pull it open. "Get over here and help me," Siather yelled at the newly-equipped troopers.

The five men strapped on the trooper armor and helped her with opening the door. She successfully opened the door and saw smooth sides of a long pieces of magnetized metal on the left and the right. Across from her was an access ladder going up and down. She peered down and saw the shaft was a long way down.

[The turbolift shaft went down many stories, more than Siather expected; the lift car was far below in the dimness. There were access rungs on one side.] Siather noticed the lights snapped off and the room was plummeted into near darkness. It was difficult to see. Whoever had taken away her access to the computer terminal also had cut power to the overhead lights. Siather assessed the ladder. She made a successful jump across the yawning shaft to the metal ladder. The ladder was intended for use to exit stalled turbolifts. Siather turned her attention to the troopers with her and drew a single TB-1a ionization blaster from her belt. She tossed the weapon to the nearest trooper and drew another for herself. She glanced at them, "Follow my lead."

The stormtrooper nodded. Siather aimed her blaster up the shaft and fired. The trooper did likewise. She retrieved the blasters from him and holstered them both looking at the troopers and then her droids. She set the droids to move to the end of the cell block and fire at the doors on the cells of the two rampaging prisoners as soon as they received the order from her comm. The non-human Director of ISB [Siather was Director of the Imperial Security Bureau?] then focused on the armored men before taking a running jump at the ladder in the shaft and indicating they should do the same.

She successfully hurdled the distance and caught onto the ladder. The troopers began firing the ion weapons and their E-11s at the oncoming turbolift. The lift slowed by their laser fire, but didn't stop. The lift halted and the Falleen raiding party fired upon the troopers. Siather heard many shots and the screams of troopers as they fell.

Suddenly, she received a comm message from an encrypted ISB channel. "Sith One for ISB One. We have arrived. Meet us at the reactor bay for pickup." She realized that it will be very difficult to reach the reactor core. Mentally reviewing the Star Destroyer's layout in her head, she believed the location of Uebles in relation to her was on a lower deck, likely past Security Checkpoint Alpha in the Solar Ionization Reactor Room.

Siather sighed as the troopers fell to their own incompetence. She climbed down the turbolift shaft as quickly as she could. She searched for an exit from the shaft as well as attempting to pry the shaft door open while receiving the message. She keyed her comm to that frequency and encryption algorithm, "ISB One to Sith One... Understood. En-route now."

Siather then quickly keyed her comm to connect to her two droids in order to check their status and to get a sense of what they were 'looking' at. Her message went through as she travel down the shaft. She keyed in her droids frequency, but received no response. She assumed the droids were now disabled or destroyed. She reached the next lift and found a manual ramp. She pressed the open button next to the ladder. The lift opened and, out of the corner of her eye, she glimpsed nineteen Super Battle Droids primed for combat.

Siather grabbed the hold lift switch and pulled it out before, keying her comm back to the secure ISB channel whispering into it: "ISB One to Sith One, I have a group of droids between myself and your location. I'm going to engage them but I will need assistance."

In an inspired moment of improvisation, Siather drew her TB-1a and set it to overload before tossing it out towards the enemy super battle droids. She drew her T-21 and stepped out just enough to open fire on the droid formation. The blast door opened a bit. The overloaded ion weapon exploded, immediately destroying two Super Battle Droids and injuring another two. Siather was immediately hit by two shots, which were absorbed by her armor, while another volley of shots went off wildly. She made a quick shot and clipped one of the injured droids. The droids took the hit and kept standing, but began malfunctioning.

Half of the remaining droids advanced on her, while the other half were busy doing something else. [What?] Siather took aim at the nearest droid and fired before ducking into the lift upon hearing Darth Knyte.

Uebles and Simms

[Emperor Uebles and his bodyguard Adric Simms decided to personally intervene in the Shadowstone Affair by using a Force wormhole to portal to the ISD Shadowstone's lower deck and attempted to sabotage the ship by planting explosives on the reactor core. Although they succeeded in rescuing Siather and in detonating their explosives, the ship was not destroyed and the vessel was successfully captured by the Falleen Federation. Their presence was seemingly never noticed by the Falleen raiding party as they were dealing with Xarius Tylger's betrayal.]

The large room with the high ceiling was nearly empty and plunged in darkness. The only light source came from a holo-projector that displayed the interior of what appeared to be a ship or station [Libra battlestation]. Two shadowy figures, Emperor Greyson Uebles and Adric Simms (a.k.a. "Darth Knyte"), were clad in matte black armor with featureless helmets and partially covered by ebony robes stood in the middle of the chamber. They had checked their equipment and now ended their preparations with a quiet moment of meditation. The act of meditation itself at least was quiet, something that could not be said about the mantras an images that filled their heads — blood, pain and fury mdash; that was the fuel that powered the Dark Side and these two sentient beings standing there had long ago united their souls with the Dark Side.

Finally they nodded to each other, nothing needed to be said anymore. It was time to act. One of them reached out with his mind, travelling the unseen paths only the initiates of the Force knew existed. His mind grabbed the very fabric of space time, pulling it towards himself and ripping it open. This was the way of the Sith mdash; Control, Domination, Force. Before them a swirling vortex of energy appeared like a gaping wound in the universe. A numbing cascade of red and purple light that didn't illuminate but only deepened the writhing shadows around them. Strange energy currents crackled like chain lightning across the floor, walls, and ceiling, even over their armor. Sparks and electric discharges followed their steps.

Without hesitation, the two Sith figures entered through the Force wormhole to instantly cover a distance that crossed a galaxy with only one step. They materialized on the ISD Shadowstone's lower deck in front of its main reactor. [Draco Creed, an impulsive young Sith who belatedly arrived to the meditation chamber was sadly left behind by the two older Sith when they entered the wormhole.] Immediately one of them activated his wrist-comlink using the encrypted Imperial Security Bureau (ISB) frequency and transmitted a coded message: "Sith One for ISB One. We have arrived. Meet us at the reactor bay for pickup."

As soon as he stepped out of the Force vortex, Adric Simms a.k.a. "Darth Knyte" ignited his hand-built lightsaber and its red energy beam bathed the surrounding area in a crimson glow. Simms prepared for retaliation from the enemy and stood closely near Uebles, flanking the Emperor.

Immediately upon their entry, the two Sith destroyed all holo-cameras in the lower deck with a simple thought. The blast doors behind them were closed, magnetically sealed, and locked. They sensed a Light Jedi on-board somewhere and another Light Jedi presence that was very powerful. They also felt that there was an extremely powerful presence but the presence itself was not physical, but more ethereal.

They noticed ten super battle droids begin to activate that were guarding the reactor core. Simms used Force push on the droids and moved over to the blast door to temporarily disable the mechanism so that no one could entered without blasting their way through. Invisible under his helmet, Uebles raised an eyebrow as he sensed the presence of an unknown Light Jedi nearby on another deck. His mission had just became more interesting than he had anticipated, and a cruel smile crossed his visage as he felt the hatred for the accursed Jedi wash over him. Casually igniting his double-bladed lightsaber, Uebles performed two sweeping cuts at two of the nearest droids as Simms hurled others off their feet. Glancing around, Uebles quickly spotted the right places to plant his explosive charges.

Observing Simms moving towards the blast doors, Uebles made a quick halting gesture: "Stop. Leave the door open for the moment, so that Siather Det'aan has a chance to reach us." "As you wish," acknowledged Simms. Uebles paused as he awaited Siather's response on his comlink and then he growled again at his trusted companion, "Simms, you heard it. More tin cans outside the door. Please give Siather a hand so that she can break through. I'll handle the heaps of junks in here."

Dropping his well-cushioned satchel with the explosives, Uebles positioned himself to take care of the remaining droids as quickly as possible. He deftly annihilated two droids with his saber in one sweeping blow. The droids fell to the ground hard enough to knock three of them offline; this left five remaining on the same lower deck.

Getting up on unsteady metal feet, the droids shot at Uebles, but the emperor easily deflected four of their laser bolts and redirected them towards his assailants. The deflected bolts blew apart another two droids. Uebles made one last swing and destroyed another two droids. He could hear fighting outside the reactor core's chamber.

Simms nodded. He unlocked the blast door using an electronic lock breaker while still gripping his lightsaber firmly in another hand. He moved towards the droids that are between Siather and him. At this moment, Simms hissed into his wrist-comlink: "Siather, if you want to live, duck and get out of the way--"

Stepping over piles of smoking battle droids, Uebles spied the last operational droid remaining in the reactor core chamber. Without effort, he struck a sweeping blow, beheaded the hapless droid, and then glanced around. Uebles saw Simms opening the blast door and heard the noise of combat filter through his helmet's audio sensors. When he saw another band of droids outside the reactor core area, he growled with irritation, the rage that only just died down surging once more. Without thinking, Uebles raised his hand and used the Force to violently ram one droid into another. He had to compel himself to stop. He knew Simms would handle this next batch of droids quickly enough; meanwhile, he had other things to do. Uebles looked at his gauntled hands and realized they were trembling slightly from his anger. Breathing deeply he composed himself and then he was ready again. With steady hands, Uebles opened his satchel and started planting the first of the explosives on the Shadowstone's reactor core.

The remaining droids halted their approach towards Siather and focused their attention towards the sudden appearance of Simms. The Sith assassin's rage exploded at the battle droids. He did not have time to play around with these mechanical gnats. In a black fury, Simms ran towards the droids and began slashing at them left and right while deflecting any laser shots fired back at their source.

With the last of the droids destroyed and Siather now safely in his party, Simms returned to the reactor core's chamber. He knew what needed to be done next. While Uebles planted the explosives, Simms concentrated deeply and moved his hand in a circular arcane motion. The bridge of the ISD "Byden's Death" appeared in his mind. He knew it was located nearby in a system neighboring the Beta system. Simms concentrated harder. The shape of the reactor chamber seemed to be bending, folding in half. An energy vortex formed in front of Simms as electrical currents ringed the the vortex in circular motions. The vortex opened up and, through this unholy portal, the bridge of the ISD "Byden's Death" hazily appeared. Simms motioned to Emperor Uebles that there wasn't much time. Uebles and Siather had to hurry or else Simms would enter the wormhole alone. Simms was beginning to be involuntarily drawn into the swirling vortex. He desperately concentrated to keep it open. He fed on his rage to continue keeping control of the vast amount of dark energy. Finally, a reluctant Siather entered the vortex, followed by Emperor Uebles who had set the last of the explosive charges on the reactor core with a twenty-second delay. Simms then entered the vortex and the vortex vanished.

The three Imperials escaped the ISD "Shadowstone" via the Force wormhole and materialized on the bridge of ISD "Byden's Death," a vessel located outside of the Beta system. Twenty seconds later, .... Boom! .... the reactor core of the ISD Shadowstone exploded. However, there was no way for Uebles, Simms, and Siather to determine if the ship itself was also destroyed [which it was not]. After arriving on the ISD "Byden's Death," Simms immediately entered a Lambda shuttle and departed for Coruscant. At the same time, he focused his energy on aggressive feelings and hate to regenerate his force pool.

Random stuff

Old bios

• Tazam Azam's old biography - http://web.archive.org/web/20030331024636/http://pub19.ezboard.com/froleplayingcentrefrm139.showMessage?topicID=4.topic
• Siather role-plays as a male? - http://web.archive.org/web/20010619190907/http://pub19.ezboard.com/froleplayingcentrefrm14.showMessage?topicID=307.topic

Imperial Archives

During the following era that Stanov was named the Provost General, the IMS Shadowstone, a Victory-class Star Destroyer, in the 2nd Assault Fleet was stolen by Imperials that broke off from the Empire. The loss of the VSD caused Naval High Command to strip the commander of the 2AF's position, and Stanov was promoted to Captain and became the Fleet Commander of the 2nd Assault Fleet. The 2nd Assault Fleet was called in to action against the Black Sun and Stanov lead the 2nd Assault Fleet in to the Battle of Beta, along with other forces of the Imperium's might - including a large force of Sith.

GNS Articles

• http://www.swcombine.com/community/news/gnsarchive.php?display=2&postID=4034&category=20
• http://www.swcombine.com/community/news/gnsarchive.php?display=2&postID=23416&category=20
• http://www.swcombine.com/community/news/gnsarchive.php?display=2&postID=27267&category=20

Interview with Dreighton

In order for Calder to take over the "Shadowstone," Calder used large numbers of battle droids to subdue the loyal Imperial crew. The battle droids were actually purchased in preparation for the Battle of Beta and this is mostly how the Empire got wind of Calder's defection as he had to apply for the funds with the Imperial throne. As Calder desired to buy Imperial-only assets, he had to run this past Uebles in order to obtain authorization. Calder made flimsy excuses on why he needed the battle droids and the stormtroopers he had asked for, but it was one of the signs that gave his intention to defect away to Imperial High Command. (Vodo was inactive at this point.)

Messages from Alex Tylger

The Libra was part of the pre-Darkness space station system where people built stations in the HoloCom by adding modules and stats. Essentially it does not fit in to the system of stations as we know them now. When we switched to Darkness, we were eventually able to convert on stations to new types with modified stats and whatnot. If we want to retcon, we might want to just say Heavily Modified Golan II or something generic like Heavily Modified Defence Station.

Interview with Tholin

Jace Meridan and Tholin Dur'aak both participated in the capture of Shadowstone. Tholin Dur'aak was part of the space support fleet rather than the incursion party. Jace and Tholin had actually manufactured Moff Vir Calder's defection, although the capture of Shadowstone was purely of Kuraine's design. Their actions on the Shadowstone were an attempt to minimise FF casualties while sabotaging the attempt at capture - knowing it would be a severe escalation in the GE/FF conflict - something they wanted to avoid. Clearly this failed.

Messages from Squall

I think Jace put Vir in contact with Kuraine, and we did the rest. The actual battle plan was concocted by myself and Keir, essentially using the same boarding plan I had when we stole the Star Galleon earlier that year. As a note on the Battle of Beta, I wasn't too involved in the planning or execution of it. I was participating in a Red Scenario that would later become the Battle of Nar Shaddaa. After I escaped, I was trying to be let into the battle when they allowed reinforcements to arrive, but Kuraine died prior to that and the admin never let me make the job. I was slated to either take command of the ground forces or take command of one of the Libra's ancillary stations. I'm actually trying to get Kuraine's player to send me a bunch of his records, but he's having trouble finding them.

I believe that it turned out that Xarius was a black sun saboteur, but I can't remember. We caught wind of his betrayal and Kuraine instructed his droids to kill him. He was mortally wounded, but managed to activate the bombs. I was able to perform the killing blow on Xarius, shooting him in the face. Afterwards, I disarmed the bombs before they detonated.

Kuraine scammed Venom out of the Xenon. At the time, Kuraine and Venom were probably the two richest characters in the game, and longtime rivals. After Kuraine died, the Xenon and Shadowstone went to me. I, like a goddamned fool, put the ships into faction inventory. (At the time, characters acquiring their old assets wasn't really an issue, as not very many characters had died at that point). Essentially, Kuraine's new character Drax, asked me to put the ships into Malebranche's inventory so he could use it. Then he sold them for like two hundred bucks or something. I was pissed. The Xenon was probably even more lethal than the Shadowstone, and its high number of ion weapons made it an awesome pirate ship. I'd give both the SB-1 and the Tetan to have it back.

The earlier theft of the Star Galleon was known as Operation Big Score. Vincent Strife defected with a star galleon full of imperial goods. Essentially my plan was to capture key areas of the ship to prevent sabotage and set up a significant resistance. These areas included the bridge, the engine area, and the armory. I lead the attack, along with Asarya'katr and Finn Setanta. We used the same plan on the Shadowstone on a larger scale, bypassing areas that were of little concern until after the ship was firmly in our possession. Again, Keir Santage and myself raided the bridge.

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"Squall wasn't yet Lord Commander of the FF Army, it was Trevelan. Was Squall awarded army leadership due to his service in capturing the Shadowstone?" I actually was the commander of the FF Army at the time. Trevelan actually replaced me as the FF Army commander after I was elevated to Lord Commander of the FF Military. I believe the stuff saying I replaced Trevelan was backwards. I became the Army commander as soon as Kuraine took over FF, replacing Mexxecuter.

"What was Keir's rank at the time of the mission?" Keir had no rank. He wasn't officially part of any branch of the FF government. He was brought on, technically, as a consultant. He obviously was very involved though, and acted in the capacity of a company commander. Technically he had no authority over anybody, nor I over him.

Keir's Ode to His NPC "Doug"

For weeks in advance, Kuraine's motley band of soldiers and hired mercenaries analyzed the precise method in which to assault the ISD Shadowstone.

Ralgarrch, a Wookiee warrior, attempted to squeeze into a turbo-lift shaft to chase after the more nimble Siather Det'aan.

In smoke-filled corridors, the battle droids controlled by Kuraine and Calder overwhelmed the stormtroopers, as well as executed all prisoners.

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Calder flanked by two battle droids on the ISD Shadowstone's bridge.

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The beleaguered Imperial defenders were quickly defeated by the battle droids, many of which had been purchased by Moff Calder using Imperial funds.

Doug the Battledroid was the martyr of the theft of the ISD Shadowstone. Given designation 009-42, he stood 42nd in line of Keir Santage's battle droids aboard the Libra Battlestation, while awaiting entry to the Star Destroyer. During the pitched battle, Doug was dressed in distinctly humanoid clothing. Doug lived at the DroidHaus where his wife and six children anxiously awaited his return back home. Despite his married status, there was always an aura of sexual tension between Doug and Keir.

There are twenty-one statues around the galaxy, erected to Doug's memory.

Turning quickly, and grabbing something off the nearest shelf, and tucking it out of view, Keir stepped to the door, and exited the storage room, reentering the hallway.

Reactivating the droids, he strode to the 42nd droid and took the parcel out from under his cape. "Here ya go" Keir grinned lopsided "Your very own set of informal clothing." Glancing at his chronometer to ensure he wasn't running *too* far behind the rest of the group, he quickly dressed the battledroid.

Stepping back again, he couldn't help but chuckle at the site of the droid's skeletal frame poking out from the sleeves and pants of the outfit, he looked absolutely ridiculous...but he could still fight, and that was all that mattered.

Throwing a hat over 009-42's head, he completed the image, and spoke again. "You'd better survive this fight Doug", he said, "You got a wife and 6 kids waiting for your safe return to the Droidhaus." The droid nodded its head "Roger, roger. Will survive impending battle." Keir laughed out loud, and punching the droid in the arm, caught himself, and returned to the front of the column. He held open the turbolift doors as his droids began filing in, still in tight formation around him. "Now remember, we'll have friendlies coming up behind us on the turbolifts, so our backs are safe, no firing behind our wall."

With that, Keir tapped Doug on the shoulder lightly "So far so good my man, see that you make it through, this is your baptism by fire." "Roger, roger" was the only reply he got. Keir rolled his eyes and muttered a quick prayer for dumb non-sentients. Pausing for a moment to take stock of their situation, he afforded a glance around him, the other turbolift was up now, and firing on the stormtroopers as well, behind him lay a couple dozen destroyed droids. With horror, Keir noticed Doug was among them.

Narrowing his eyes and gritting his teeth he turned back into the fray and bellowed "Nîn daged dhaer!" and shifting his rifle to his left hand, tore a proton grenade off his belt, and cocking the arm mechanism for the 4 second delay, rolled it straight into the confused mass of stormtroopers in the middle of the room, while around him, his droids continued firing into the mass of black and white. Keir prepared to open the door, and let his droids march in. Now remember he hissed at them Any lifeforms present in there are to be considered enemy, and shot immediately. They replied with a terse, standard unquieted "Roger, Roger." Keir shot them an angry look as though to admonish them for being too loud, and made a hushing gesture. "Oh and boys..." Keir reminded them, hand resting on the doorpad "This one's for Doug". He hated droids...he was used to fighting alongside living creatures, the silent killing machine that was a battledroid removed all sancticity from the murder of crewmen aboard a ship.

Doug was different, he wasn't like the rest of them, he didn't know why, he'd never felt that close to a droid before...but when his eyes first fell upon Doug's magically sparkling photoreceptors, something happened, there was an instant connection that couldn't be explained. Keir bit his lip, and held back the tears, he loved that droid...and he never had a chance to express his real feelings, Doug had died never knowing how much Keir had wanted to throw him down and shag him, right there on the Libra when they'd first met. Keir winced, these memories were distracting him, he mustn't lose sight of the mission that still wasn't completed, there would be plenty of time later to miss Doug, for now he had to get down to the Docking Ring that connected the Galforee to the Star Destroyer.

Keir and Ralgarrch Earn Falleen Citizenship

http://web.archive.org/web/20050819025639/http://www.swcfalleen.com/news/main.php

In reward for their services in capturing the Shadowstone, Keir and Ralgarrch were made Falleen citizens shortly after the incident.

FF welcomes new citizens ------ Tuesday, October 21 2003

Government officials today announced that two celebrity names were sworn in as Falleen Federation citizens.

The proceedings took place at the Supreme Court today, where Keir Santage and Ralgarrch swore fealty to Kuraine and the FF. They were soon pronounced as FF citizens by the Lord Chancellor of Justice, Ceud.

Important Stuff

Moff Vir Calder

• Operation Shadowstone
• The Capture of the Imperial Star Destroyer Shadowstone and the Defection of Imperial Moff Vir Calder to the Falleen Federation
• Operation: Shadowstone (Squall successfully raided the ISD Shadowstone bridge, along with Keir Santage. Then Squall saved the entirety of the operation by killing Xarius Tylger and defusing the bombs Xarius set to sabotage the operation)
• Vir Calder was Director of Research and Development under Emperors Piett, Connel, Mccarthur and Charon, becoming Moff of Fakir Sector during his appointment to R&D.
• Possibility: Did Calder defect on Year 4 Day 118?
• Year 3 Day 143: Emperor Charon appointed Vir Calder as Moff of the Fakir Sector. Calder was later succeeded as Moff of the Fakir Sector by Krovikan Sengir.
• Siather "Raptor" Det'aan was a Gand female and the non-human Director of the Imperial Security Bureau at the time of the Shadowstone Affair.
• An entire complement of TIE Bombers were stored aboard the Shadowstone and were later kept by the attackers as spoils of war.
• The space station from which the Falleen Federation boarded the Shadowstone was the Libra battlestation. Calder flew the ISD Shadowstone from Imperial space to the Falleen kingdom's stronghold of the Beta system. The Shadowstone was then tractored into the station and the Falleen boarding party then entered with a stream of battle droids which Calder had earlier purchased with Imperial funds.
• Squall wasn't yet Lord Commander of the FF Army, it was Trevelan. Was Squall awarded army leadership due to his service in capturing the Shadowstone? Squall actually was the commander of the FF Army at the time. Trevelan replaced him as the FF Army commander after Squall was elevated to Lord Commander of the FF Military. The records stating that Squall replaced Trevelan are backwards. Squall became the Army commander as soon as Kuraine took over FF, replacing Mexxecuter.
• What was Keir's rank at the time of the mission? Keir had no rank. He wasn't officially part of any branch of the FF government. He was brought on, technically, as a consultant. He obviously was very involved though, and acted in the capacity of a company commander. Technically he had no authority over anybody, nor Squall over him.
• New Holocron category for players: "Operation Shadowstone veterans"

Redo Table

Leadership (Ignore For Now)

Falleen, Rebel, and Mercenary Assault — Leadership
Eldrik Kuraine King Falleen Federation	Vir Calder Moff Imperial Defector	Squall Chitose ??? Falleen Boarding Party	Keir Santage ??? Falleen Boarding Party	Ralgarrch ??? Falleen Boarding Party	Tholin Dur'aak Prince Falleen Support Fleet	Ava'taar Vird'rnnaa ??? Rebel Alliance

Imperial Defense — Leadership
Siather Detaan Director Imperial Security Bureau	Adric Simms Dark Jedi Master Sith Operative	Greyson Uebles Emperor Sith Operative	Vladimir Edinton Commodore Shadowstone First Officer	Tarthos Ventiri ?? Shadowstone Chief Engineer	Aleksei Stahl Lieutenant Commander Shadowstone Tactical Officer	Jamilla Nasgar Flight Lieutenant Shadowstone Helmsman

Personnel (Ignore for now)

Galactic Empire		Falleen Federation
Imperial Navy ISD SHADOWSTONE Vir Calder, Moff Senior Officers Vladimir Edinton, First Officer Tarthos Ventiri, Chief Engineer Aleksei Stahl, Tactical Officer Other Staff Jamilla Nasgar, Helmsman Ed Tivrusky, Technical Officer Skeleton Crew 360 stormtroopers 40 engineers 40 mechanics 317 extra crewmen	Order of the Sith Greyson Uebles, Dark Lord Adric Simms, Sith Master Draco Creed*, Sith Apprentice Imperial Security Bureau Siather Det'aan, Director	Falleen Federation Navy Jennos Ackbar, Commodore Josa Va Amora, Commodore Argon Nitor, Starfighter Command Nathen Panhtom, Vice Admiral Andy Brooks Zachai Dracolis*	Command Staff Eldrik Kuraine, King Tholin Dur'aak, Prince Jace Meridan, Prince Mizuno Ryu, Lord Ambassador Bisz Aldaris, Lord Admiral Zechs Darius, Lord Commander Squall Chitose*, Lord Commander Ceud, Lord Chancellor Airoria Celestian, Intel Director Pixelor Xess*, Culture Minister Kirek, Lord Abbot Zell Jaak, Lord Chancellor Max Fors Tigris Ninx, Diplomat Norad Slip Stream* Mexx Cuter Phil Jones Falleen Federation Army Mexx Cuter, General Dash Raltar Jado Dur'rik Avalon Larkin?, Medical Officer Vincent Strife-Antaria*

* Note: Individual names denoted with an asterix were slated to participate, but did not do so in the actual battle.

Participants

Raiding party

• Keir Santage
• Finn Setanta
• Squall Chitose
• Ralgarrch
• Bruce Spear
• Adam A Flynn
• Thrax Mincoul
• Metuki Ryuujin
• Darian Taldoshar
• Gailen
• Jace Meridan
• Amon Khan
• Eric Adams
• Mark Hornet
• Kirek
• Delta 02
• Edwacop Wiwem
• Airoria Celestian, supporting role
• Asarya'katr, supporting role
• Ava'taar Vird'rnnaa
• Tazam Azam, supporting role flying Y-Wing cover outside
• Xarius Tylger, later killed by his own battle droids
• Jennos Ackbar, supporting role

Imperial defenders

• Siather Detaan (docked via personal ship and escaped via Force wormhole)
• Adric Simms, a.k.a. Darth Knyte (entered/departed via Force wormhole)
• Greyson Uebles, a.k.a. Darth Cypher (entered/departed via Force wormhole)

Other personnel

• Vir Calder, defecting Imperial Moff and an accomplice of Kuraine
• Hovstad Stockmann, defecting Falleen Federation member... a Gamorrean
• Draco Creed, an enthusiastic young Sith who was accidentally left out of the entire operation by Imperial High Command
• "Doug the Battledroid," an NPC droid which Keir wrote an entire story about

Falleen Awards

Many accolades and awards were granted in the Falleen Federation after the success of Operation: Shadowstone. Among them, Squall Chitose was granted the title of Warlord and elevated to the rank of Lord Commander of the Falleen Military. Zechs Darius was elevated to Lord Commander of the Falleen Civil Defense Force. Chitose's then-wife, Asarya'katr von Ismay, was granted the title of Duchess of Harravon.

All Falleen Federation participants were awarded the Operation: Shadowstone medal.

Chronology

Doug, the faithful battle droid of Keir Santage, during happier times.

• Year 3 Day 213: Green Devil of Loronar Security is killed by Eldrik Kuraine, leader of Astralwerks Engineering.
• Year 4 Day 72: Tholin Dur'aak abdicates as king of the Falleen Federation. Eldrik Kuraine succeeds him.
• Year 4 Day 273: The stolen ISD Shadowstone is boarded by Falleen forces in the Beta system and its skeleton crew annihilated.
• Year 4 Day 304: Squall Chitose replaces Trevelan as Lord Commander of the Federation Armed Forces.
• Year 4 Day 323: Kuraine bestows Falleen citizenship upon Keir Santage and Ralgarrch in reward for capturing the Shadowstone.
• Year 4 Day 334: Emperor Uebles unveils a treaty between the Galactic Empire and Hapes Consortium.
• Year 4 Day 338: Grand Admiral Black Lodge declares that the Battle of Beta has begun.
• Year 4 Day 361: Three Sith — Adric Simms, Thraken Solo and Locus — undertake a plot to murder Eldrik Kuraine.
• Year 4 Day 362: King Eldrik Kuraine of the Falleen Federation is murdered by Sith assassins at Beta.
• Year 5 Day 12: Uebles publicly reveals the Imperial genocide of 1.2 billion Falleen in the Beta system.
• Year 5 Day 21: Lord Admiral Bisz Aldaris, commander of the Federation Navy, vows to avenge Kuraine's murder.

See also

Individuals

• Eldrik Kuraine
• Vodo Bonias
• Tholin Dur'aak
• Black Lodge
• Jace Meridan

Events

• Battle of Beta
• Battle of Berchest
• Galactic Hostage Crisis
• Black Sun Crisis
• Battle of Kashyyyk

Organizations

• Galactic Empire
• Falleen Federation
• Rebel Alliance
• Blue Sabre Transportation
• Loronar Security

Technology

• Libra Battle Station
• Victory Star Destroyer I
• Alpha-class Xg-1 Star Wing
• Super Star Destroyer
• Dreadnaught-class Heavy Cruiser

Locations

• Beta system
• Cloud City
• Falleen Prime
• Hapes Cluster
• Kiffex