Chapter 25 - Rhen Var

///Author note: First of all thanks to anyone following my novel. I want to say that from this point onwards there might and will be some inconsistencies. Characters who are supposed to die will die, and those who are supposed to live will live, and battles will still have the same outcome.

What will change is who take part on the battles and how they happen. Like the next battle, general Di wasn't supposed to take part on it but he will. If I were only to follow what happens in the series there would be no reason to write.

One of the reasons I have chosen Hell Squad and Dageer to be under commander Keeli and General Di is because there is very little about them known, so I have bigger flexibility.

I hope you all can understand that, and thank you all for your support so far. I am really enjoying writing this.///

Rhen Var

Hell Squad was on the Republic Venator-class Star Destroyer Sincerity. The capital ship of jedi master Ima-Gun Di fleet, it was one of the biggest starsh.i.p.s on the Republic Navy, although there were bigger cruisers being built.

They were going to the Outer Rim system of Tobali, on the Thanium Sector. The Separatists have invaded and conquered the planet of Rhen Var.

The system was at the time defended only by the jedi General Obi-Wan Kenobi and his padawan Anakin Skywalker. Tobali System was an unimportant system, so the defending troops only had an Acclamator-class cruiser, which was patrolling at the time.

As soon as General Kenobi ship detected the invading force, that was composed of 3 Lucrehulk-class battlesh.i.p.s and several smaller sh.i.p.s, he ordered his forces on the planet - alredy under siege - to retreat.

He sent his padawan to pick them up on RTTs and after they were safe he himself descended with Laats to bring them to his ship.

General Kenobi retreated to the nearest Republic controlled system. His forces have suffered heavy losses while boarding the Laats, he himself was injured.

After that, he could only report to the Galaxy Senate and the Jedi Council that the system have been lost.

As a response General Ima-Gun Di and his troops have been sent to retake the system. Beside Sincerity they were also taking two Acclamator-class cruisers.

Dageer was on the command center of the Sincerity, together with Commander Keeli and General Di. They were talking to General Kenobi, his padawan Anakin Skywalker and Kenobi commander Cody, in the hologram table.

"Good to see you Master Kenobi, and you young Skywalker. We should arrive in one or two days. We have to take a detour around a nebula. After we reunite our troops we shall take Rhen Var back."

As Dageer have already noticed, General Di liked to get straight to the point. General Kenobi, on the other hand, seemed to enjoy doing small talk.

"Master Di, it's good to see you. I am afraid that we have to ask for your help. However, I don't think we should focus our efforts on Rhen Var. We have seen a large number of Separatist sh.i.p.s landing on a nearby planet called Raxus Prime. We think their attack on Rhen Var was just so our base there couldn't keep on eye on them."

"Humm. I think I have heard of Raxus Prime somewhere. There is more than what we can see to this Separatist invasion."

"I agree. I and my padawan will go to Raxus Prime see if we can discover what is going on. Don't worry, we won't make a move before you arrive."

"Then I shall see you soon Master Kenobi. I am going to consult our records and see if I can find out about Raxus Prime."

General Di closed the transmission and turned to Dageer and Commander Keeli.

"Keeli, go check our troops, I want the 303rd ready to anything. We are entering enemy territory. Dageer, I have never seen you in actual combat, but if Master Windu transformed Hell Squad on a special unit you should be good. I looked at your records and you received just the normal training. I want you to follow Commander Keeli until we disembark. See what you can learn. Dismissed."

"Yes sir."

Dageer and Commander Kelli walked out of the bridge. Keeli seemed very interested on Hell Squad stories, according to him he would be able to learn how to best deploy them.

"So, Dageer. Tell me more about Hell Squad operations. General Di and I found quite strange when he asked for one of our squads. You lost a lot of fun out here."

"I guarantee that we had more than enough fun on the factory sir. From what I have heard the Separatists couldn't even broke through our blockade on Geonosis."

"Yeah. They tried to counterattack. I say it is stupidity of them. Almost all of our army and navy was there. They weren't expecting us. Now they are. We have to be more careful. Come on, enough about us, tell me about Hell Squad."

"Well, Brain is..."