OOC:

This is stoires from when Zeshaun was still a mercenary, I would love feed back and comments!

Zeshaun found himself sitting with Gres and Balt speaking to three officers from the empire. They proposed that the Akodo, a trandoshan mercenary group, join the EMpire and fight the rebellion. It was only a proposition and after about a half-hour of discussions the Imperials left them a commlink to call them if they decided to join. Zeshaun, Gres, and Balt escorted them to there shuttle and watched them leave their modified freighter.

"WEll that was borin." Balt said yawning. "I don't really want to join the Empire, I really like the free life of a mercenary."

Zeshaun rolled his eyes, Balt thought anything short of a life threatening battle was boring.

"Maybe if you had listened to what they were saying you would be more interested." Gres countered "but your right, we can't choose sides, we fight for whoever has more money, that's who we are."

the three of them were all self appointed generals in Akodo, they were the three best fighters and pilots in the organization. After discussing for a few more minutes they decided to return to their own squads and get ready to make a jump toward Correllia. They had just taken a down-payment to smuggle out a women from the jails of the Correllian Security. They normally didn't need a down-payment but the Correllian Security was a much more substantial threat than any other mission.

The modified freighter that they lived on, was named The Akodo's Spark. It had changed most of the cargo space into hangars. It still wasn't large enough to hold enough fighters to allow all three squads to have there own ships so while two squads flew in the  fighters the other squad was assigned to manning the turbo lasers and turrets on the freighter. There were an assortment of fighters on board the ship, each squad was made up of 4 X-wings, 3 Tie-defenders, and 2 Y-wings. They figured if the fighters got separated from the freighter the mix of fighters could fend for themselves for a while until they were picked up again. They could also go on many different types of missions.

Zeshaun went up to the bridge and started up the hyperdrive "Entering hyperspace in T minus 5...4...3...2...1..." Zeshaun announced.

The stars grew into long blures and Zeshaun took a seat in the captains chair and waited.

After a couple minutes he decided to see what his squad was up to.  He saw that all 8 pilots were in the squad room talking and playing some friendly games of sabaac. When he walked into the room and they all stood and saluted. He threw a salute and sat down.

"For this mission Balt's squad has been assigned to freighter duty." some laughs and cheering broke out. "but we are flying cover for Gres' squad."

A chorus of boo's and a couple credits came flying his way. Zeshaun laughed and threw a few credits back. a darker colored trandoshan stood.

"What does 'flying cover' really mean? If we think their in danger we can go in and help them right?' The others chuckled.

Zeshaun grinned, his right hand man, Destral was always eager to jump into fights. Before Zeshaun could think of a good comeback the freighter shook causing Zeshaun to fall of the chair that he was sitting in. A blaring horn started to go off.

"Everyone to their fighters, assignments are first come first serve!" Zeshaun yelled as he ran toward the hangar.

He hopped up into an ZX-wing and waited for the conformations from his squad mates saying they were all ready to go. He gave the order to launch and in seconds they were all hovering above their freighter searching for the reason why they had prematurely ended their trip to Correlia.

"There!"Zeshaun didn't know who said it but started looking. "20 degrees north sir!"

Zeshaun looked up and saw an unmarked cruiser withdrawing some kind of gravity generator.

"Prepare for another short jump, they seem to have taken back their gravity generator." zeshaun heard Gres order.

At that moment a black cloud seemed to pour out of the bottom of the large ship. As they got closer Zeshaun saw it was a large group of TIE fighters.

"Balt, try to take out some of the incoming fighters, but stay away from the cruiser it will shred you to pieces if it hits you." Zeshaun said.

"copy that." Balt's voice came in over the comm.

"Z squad break in pairs. Z2 your with me. Z3 you with a bomber and Z4 you are too. The 3 defenders back up whoever needs helm" Zeshaun quickly ordered.

destral, Z2, moved in behind Zeshaun. Zeshaun flew toward the black cloud of TIE's. He saw out of the corner of his eye Gres' fighter and his wingman pulling up next to him. As they apporached within firing range of each other they started to dodged and fired. A few of Zeshaun and Destral's shots got lucky and hit but they weren't very effective. A sudden blue beam blew by Zeshaun's left wing. The beam went straight through the heart of the black cloud and left a gapping hole where several TIE's used to be.

"Nice shot Balt."

"I do what I can." Balt said yawning into the comm.

These fighters seem really unskilled for having a gravity generator and a cruiser. Zeshaun thought shooting down another TIE. The whol squad was not involved and it was fair to say that they were quickly disposing of their enemies. The amount of TIE's qas getting thing giving the Akodo's A chance to escape.

"Prepare to jump." Zeshaun ordered.

A choruse of confirmations followed and then the stars blurred and the cruiser disappeared. In a couple of minutes everyone had regrouped at a nearby star system, loaded the fighters back into the hangars and prepared to continue their jump to Correlia.

"What do you think that was?" gres asked.

They had calld for a meeting to see if they could come up with any idea what that was.

Balt spoke up. "I caught some chatter on the comm's and it seems we were up against," Balt referred to his notes, "Abra, Aron, and Slate squadron."

"Anymore info on them other than the fact that they were the worst pilots I've ever flown against?" Zeshaun pressed.

Balt looked up and gave Zeshaun a dirty look, he didn't like being rushed. "yes, they are from the Correlian Security Acdemy." A grimace fell uponBalt's face "That mean they probably have a heads up that we're coming."

Zeshaun whistled. He never like having to deal with Correlian Security when they weren't ready for them, what could it be like against a prepared force.

"When we come out of hyperspace put our shields up. We should be prepared for the worst." gres said gloomily.

They stood saluted each other and left to tell their squads the bad news. Zeshaun ran into Destral roaming the halls. He saluted.

"What's the report on the surprise attack sir?"

"Correlian Security, now they know we're coming." Zeshaun said. "Follow me, we're going to tell the squad to get ready and prepare their fighters, it could get really nasty out there."

Destral picke dup the pace and Zeshaun commed the rest of the squad. They were all prepared to launch with 5 minutes left before they exited hyperspace. Each member counted as the seconds ticked by. The hangar opened and they launched. Zeshaun was confronted with three correlian corvettes, three squads of X-wings emerged followed by one squad of Y-wings. A furry of voices sprung up.

"Shields up!" Balt's voice pierced the sea of commands. "Aim for the bombers."

"Break by pairs!" zeshaun ordered. "Take the Y-wings., Gres you got the X-wings?"

"copy Z leader." Gres' squad moved off toward he incoming fighters.

"Z squad fly straight, drinks are on me when we get down to land." Zeshaun said charging the bombers.

Each side erupted with lasers flying each way hoping to get lucky shots in. Zeshaun could see the heavy turrets from each side blasting away at each others squads trying to make it easier for themselves. Zeshaun barely dodged a blast from a corvette.

"Balt, could we get a little help?" Zeshaun yelled.

"I'm tyring, but if you didn't notice I'm down 3 to one!" Balt yelled back.

"Z2 follow me, bombers as well." Zeshaun ordered "Defenders and X-wings, keep the fighters off our backs."

"fire torps on my my mark then escort the bombers in for a quick run." Zeshaun ordered.

The other three pilots all confirmed and they lined up.

"Fire!" 4 proton torpedos launched from the X-wings and smashed the shields of one of the corvettes. "Fire!" Another set of torpedos launched.

"Bombers start your run., we have your back." Zeshaund ordred.

They flew toward the corvette dodgeing the lasers as they came in.I hope we come out of this one alive.