Rising Forces

Timothy Levels' ship, Expedite, floated a few light years away from the beautiful pulsar NL-373491E. The neutron star emitted a purplish-pink glow, and was beautiful from this distance. Tim watched as his ship passed by the interesting star, but he got back to buisness, preparing his ship to land on the planet a few light-years from the star, planet Defoin.

Tim had been called there by the New Republic to aid in an assualt on the planet of Kushmar. The New Republic had used Timothy in many other assualts and he had never let them down. They cherished his fighting ability, but also, they cherished his "unusual" ship. His ship was an exensively modified Corellian YV-666 Light Freighter, which had the most advanced, and unusual computers in the Universe. He had designed them, and he had built them.

The freighter had enormously large and excedingly fast and powerful engines, which, if Tim couldn't gain control over the ship pursuing him using his computers, he could simply outrun it or defeat it with his ship's excellent weapons' systems. He even designed the targetting computers, which are more accurate and advanced than those aboard any one of the New Republic ships or the old Imperial ships. Tim's ship had provisions for his X-Wing fighter, which was almost as advanced as his main ship, but most of the ship's main cargo area was taken up by the enormous engines, and the new weapons' systems, which consisted of many ion-cannons, laser-cannons, and two proton-torpedo launchers, with room for Tim's experimental weapon, an anti-matter explosive, which could destroy even the largest base on any planet. Tim slowed his ship down as he entered the planet of Defoin's atmosphere. The planet, from space, was green-blue, which complemented it's lush forests and beautiful waterways, which were extensively traveled. The New Republic base was in no way hidden. Quad-laser barrels burst through the canopy like enormous trees, and there were plenty of X-Wing fighters patrolling around the base. On the surface there were military landspeeders and S-Swoop bikes patrolling the dense forests, looking for unwelcome visitors from anywhere. "This is Expedite, requesting landing, any pad." Tim said to his comm.

"Expedite, this is Tower Control. Landing request acknowledged and confirmed, Pad 9. Take it slow, becuase salvage is cleaning up an earlier accident on Pad 7."

"Alright, Tower." Tim skimmed over the treetops until he found the open landing pad. He could see the salvage operations cleaning up a disaster on one of the nearby pads, and he detoured so he didn't disrupt them. Then he set down carefully on the pad and retracted the metallic walkway. He allowed his droid-brain to power down the ship and he got better dressed into a brown overcoat and he strapped his Ferlan dagger to his left-hip. The weapon was a large blade consisting of many sharp curves that could almost slice the body of a ship apart.

Once the weapon was on his hip he walked out of his ship to be met by New Republic Intelligence Director Hartsow. "Hello, sir. Good to see you again." Tim said.

"Same to you, son. As you know, we are going to battle today, and we have requested your assistance. I knew you wouldn't resist."

"Never, sir."

"Great. You'll get more background information on this operation through this data-card. Good luck."

"Thanks," Tim said, putting the card in his pocket. He would read it later.

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