Chapter 76

I'm not talking at the moment. Anger rolls off of me like waves and the starships are like little islands that those waves brake on. Captains feel sick from my rage and anyone with a weak will throw up in their mouths. My anger is well placed because while Padmea may want to save lives and the hope of the galaxy in the form of the rebels she has in fact tipped my hand. I know there's a second Deathstar in the early steps of creation, I was hoping to attack that one as well when the empire had put enough resources into it that it would hurt them when destroyed but at the same time be easy enough that my resources aren't depleted. Now the Empire will hide the second Deathstar and develop counters to my stealth ships. Padme has cost the galaxy many more lives than she has saved today.

I'm super tempted to force-choke her back into position, but that would be a mistake. My anger is still there, but I'm thinking about the cost of battle. Should I get involved? My fleet has seven starships, minus the one taking a kicking. I suppose I better join the fight. The cost of attacking the second death star means I need the rebels, and I can't just hide building up my power because of what Padme has done.

My fleet first attacked with the bunker busters. I wouldn't use them in space, but my six starships still have the element of surprise in stealth and can get close enough to deploy the missiles. Armour and shield-piercing missiles excel at opening attacks, and the Empires starships that are attacking Padme are drifting damaged in space.

Padme has dragged the Rebels flagship towards the Jedi clusters. I'm making a nuisance by positioning myself behind the damaged Empire ships and using missiles mixed with laser fire to pepper them with damage. I'm attacking their sensitive parts and then activating programs that cause my enemies' ships to fail. As the Empire engineers try to fix their ships I mix illusions into their heads. At this distance, I can't do much but what I can do is change the perception of colour and that is enough to cause more problems that would take time to fix.

"Go, go, go" I use my mental abilities to send a message to my hangers. Sixteen starfighters rush out of my ship and fly in different directions. Each one heads for a starship. Two of them are destroyed but the other fourteen find their mark. I wince as the starfighters turn to vapour and debris

"This is why I hate star fighting, you have to be skilled and lucky to even survive the most mundane fights," I thought to myself

The fourteen starfighters are not dog fighters, they aren't here to whittle down other starfighters, their job is to get aboard and damage the starships from inside.

"Boba, deploy the sonic mines" I order

Boba Fett does as he's told and while thousands of mines rush out of our ships, I close my eyes and peer into one of the starships that the fourteen starfighters boarded.

I see through the eyes of one of my Doppelgangers and see his actions. He jumps out of his ship and deflects several blaster shots. Almost immediately the doppelganger slashes into the electronics using his lightsaber and dives into the circuitry. Covered by wires and delicate electronics my doppelganger rips and tears anything he can get his hands on. Every now and again he burst out of a wall like some horror story to rip and tear the flesh of an unexpected crew. This was the most cost-effective way of destroying a starship, once the doppelganger was on board then it was near impossible without another force user to stop him.

Dopplangaers know what I know, their force abilities were just as controlled as mine, their only weakness was they couldn't recharge force abilities. The more force they used, the quicker they would disappear as they, themselves were only a force ability but I and my doppelgangers solved that problem with the dark side of the force ability called Drain force and Drain life. When a doppelganger became weakened through the excess use of the force it would drain what it needed from my enemies around them. It was brutal and something I made sure not to show anyone alive as the fear it caused made allies and enemies alike hate you and even sometimes attack, but for war like this, it was perfect for my doppelgangers.

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Each one sliced their way to the most important places of the ship and placed explosives that detonated taking everything within the room out, then they would move on to the next area.

I pulled myself away from the doppelganger and focused on the space battle. The mines were deployed and being used efficiently as a barricade against starfighters. The enemy tie fighters rushed to take their shots at my fleet only to be monentary surprised when the mines magnetic locked on to them and explosed. The other tie fighters thought twice about attacking my fleet.

The Jedi starships came under Padme's command and they reformed their lines to attack the Deathstar. They only had a certain amount of time before the might of the Empire would send fleet after fleet to counterattack. I was left to deal with the Empire's fleet which was a daunting task as the enemy outnumbered me ten to one. Thank the force that the Deathstar wasn't even halfway complete or the Empire might have thought it was a good idea to protect it with thousands of starships instead of the sixty-odd they had here.

Not sixty starships but fifty-three, seven of them just lost their command thanks to my doppelgangers bombing the bridge. I felt one of my doppelgangers being sucked out into space. This would have been the end of any normal force user but I and my doppelgangers were decked out with armour, technology and force abilities. My space doppelganger had the survival abilities that I had and it pulled itself through space using broken ship parts to land on a mine. Quickly, it pierced the mine and ripped out the detonator and then used force choke on a passing tie fighter pilot until it was close enough for the mine to magnetic lock onto the ship. My doppelganger tossed the pilot out and flew the tie fighter back to finish its job on the starship.

One of my doppelgangers fought a pale-looking inquisitor, it wasn't a close battle. My doppelganger sucked the inquisitors dry and continued. Another doppelganger took over a start ship and rammed it into another pushing it into the mines. Each doppelganger had the flexibility and cheese I had and they used it with great success but they were alone on a vast starship, each one would take time and I was alone dodging and attacking the Empires fleet.

Ten of the Empire's fleet peeled away from attacking my fleet to defend the Deathstar. Now I was in a pickle, my hands were full with the attacking fleet, with time and luck I could cause enough damage to make the empire think twice about attacking or I could just leave but Padme's newly formed Jedi fleet would soon be surrounded.

It was now or never, I didn't want to reveal this tactic as it had gained me so many capture ships but without the rebels and the Jedi it would have been increasingly harder to destroy the second Deathstar so I used the dirty programs that I had infected the empires ships with. Not all of them were affected but enough that when activated it caused six of the empire's ships to stutter in space. With only four of the starships active, they waited for support that a futher ten starships joined them.

Thirty-three starships would soon be twenty-odd as more and more fell because of the doppelgangers but I needed a different tactic or the rebels would lose

And that's when I ordered one of my starships to evacuate all crew and piloted the vessel with telekinesis. It wasn't hard, it wasn't like I was fulfilling all the crew's duties, I just steered the ship into the minefield I made. The mines latched on but didn't detonate, every square inch of the vessel was covered in mines and it was used to ram the starships that went to attack Padme's ships.

Ramming didn't cause enough damage to incapacitate a single starship but the release of the mines spread out causing a vast area to be surrounded by mines that detonated to cause sonic waves to ripple out and incapacitate the other ships. It wasn't enough to destroy even one starship but it granted time for the destruction of the Deathstar.

The Deathstar didn't have the explosive power stations that would explode when destroyed but it did have a mass that was now compromised and the Deathstar fell into itself as a implosion.

I felt the pain of many lives being lost as the Death Star collapsed on itself. I have felt this feeling a couple of times before and let it wash over me. There was no point in fighting it and it was a better idea to accept it but to those who had never felt something like this it was shocking, even Yoda felt dizzy when a good chunk of the Jedi was killed due to order sixty-six.

I wondered if Padme was cheering instead of reinforcing the ships and helping me with the remaining empire's fleet. A victory like this could swell the heads of anyone and cause them to forget that the battle wasn't over.

I couldn't rely on Padme to help me. I used a very dirty trick, I used the pain and suffering of those who had just died to mess with the attacking Empire starships. I transferred the feelings over to their command and felt their minds turn to mush, many thousands dead screaming out for peace towards the captains, there was no way in this galaxy that they would be mentally stable after that. It was nasty but I had to protect myself and attacking the head of each starship with a newfound resource called the pain of thousands was something I would do and did.