Assault on Odessen

After breaking free of her father's mental conditioning on Nathema, Eternal Empress Vaylin immediately launched a devastating assault on the Alliance base on the planet Odessen, which housed the majority of the Alliance forces, including Vaylin's brother Arcann and mother Senya Tirall. With the Alliance Commander away on a mission, Bey'wan Aygo led the defence of Odessen, focusing all Alliance efforts on stopping the Eternal Empire forces from taking the Gravestone, which was stuck in the dry dock while undergoing upgrades. Zakuulan forces have deployed troops, dropships and walkers on Odessen's surface, and the battle raged all around the Alliance base, involving the entirety of Alliance forces. The Alliance Commander, Lana Beniko and Theron Shan returned in the middle of the battle and raced to help defend the Gravestone, where Arcann and his mother held off the attackers until their arrival. Just as their position was about to be overwhelmed by Eternal Empire Walkers, the crew had finished installing the upgrades and the ship blasted them away before joining the battle against the Eternal Fleet in orbit. However, the Alliance forces were still outmatched, and to end the battle with one decisive blow, the Commander taunted Vaylin into leaving the safety of her flagship to face them face-to-face on Odessen's surface. Arriving to Odessen, Vaylin captured one of the Alliance fighters as a hostage and invited the Commander to face her on the Alliance landing platform. With a host of skytroopers and Horizon Guards at her side, Vaylin faced Senya, Arcann and the Commander, using the Force to snap her victim's neck. Vaylin then engaged her family in combat, but was outmatched and struck down by the Commander. Upon the death of their Empress, the Eternal Empire forces at Odessen surrendered en masse, but the Eternal Fleet escaped and reverted to its basic programming, bombarding the capital worlds of Coruscant, Dromund Kaas, and Zakuul with equal abandon, putting billions of lives at risk.

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