Over three months. I should've got this done much, much earlier. I apologise.

Running log #010...

We had our own little piece of deep space to call our own, we had a Lethisk armed freighter to disrupt the Republic with, and we had an entire Republic task force deposited in our bit of the galaxy. Overall, things were going well after that first attack.

We sat down and looked over the Republic HoloNet feeds to see if our strike had attracted any attention, and where there were ships being diverted from to look at the site and survey possible damage. Some scouts had been diverted out of Bothawui, with more ships prepared to enter the area of attack if required. Excellent. Being told exactly where the optimum targets are is both useful and timesaving when you're trying to take over a galaxy with twelve people and a stolen ship.

We waited a few days, just letting the Republic scouts examine our handiwork and report in. Then the other ships that were on standby went out and had a look, and we took that moment to strike. We powered up the hyperdrive, all weapons on standby, and jumped to Bothawui.

The Bothan defences had somewhat anticipated an attack from the same people who took the task force they were investigating - not knowing it was us, of course - and had all perimeter defences on alert. That made things interesting. It actually allowed us to test our ship's weapons against more than just fighters, gave us a chance to see what it could do in an invasion. No, we weren't planning to take over the whole planet. We'd need more than twelve people for that. We just wanted to leave it scared and ready to be invaded - bluffing a full assault force can sometimes be as effective as actually having one.

Anyway, let's get on with how we did it.

We first sent out the same message as before, "surrender or we'll beat the fierfek out of you until you do" (not those words, but words to that effect). Again, they refused. And again, we engaged their forces. They threw some light assault ships at us, thinking we were no more than Exchange muscle trying to bully our way into the planet (it happens frequently when you're that close to Nar Shaddaa). Obviously, they were wrong. Those light assault ships didn't get far before they were absolutely destroyed. That made them take us more seriously, sending their full defence force out against us. One ship against a planet's worth of defences. Time for some real Mandalorian fun. We stretched the freighter to its limits and a bit beyond, flying through defence lines, below heavy cruisers, above and around pretty much everything they had, blasting them with everything we had in the process. It was a real feat of piloting expertise, and really showed exactly why our pilot had been selected for the Bralor Twelve. It was a lengthily, exhilarating battle, but in the end we'd fought long and hard enough for the enemy to surrender. We ordered the crews out of their ships, and then took the remains of the defence fleet back to our space hideout with the task force we already had there.

Well, we began to. Then we ran into a problem.

We chose to attack Bothawui at that time because, as I said, there was a load of ships off investigating our previous target. We were too excited about the attack to factor in their return. They found us dragging the planetary defence force off into deep space with absolutely no opposition, and decided to become the opposition.

Even more fun for us. We met them head on as soon as they requested our identification, not even leaving them time to fire before they were obliterated. They were all destroyed, so we didn't have to take them out to our base as well. It was a simple destroy-all-opposition-and-continue-with-the-mission tactic. Highly effective. By the end of it, we ended up with enough Republic ships in our patch of deep space to quite possibly turn the tide in whatever war would come next. Very useful indeed. Satisfied with a successful mission, we started talking about what would happen when Revan and Malak returned, and the looks on their faces when they heard what we'd done to their precious Republic.

I'll be talking about what we did next in the next log.

END OF LOG #010