Escape from Iokath

Following the assault on the Gravestone by Eternal Empire Empress Vaylin, both Alliance and Zakuulan forces were captured on Iokath by ARIES and had to fight his army of droids to regroup and reclaim their starships to escape from Iokath. Alliance forces regrouped with each other after Theron Shan restored their communications and managed to remotely pilot a shuttle left in the hangar of the Gravestone. Eternal Empire forces suffered heavy losses from the hostile droids of Iokath, but after Vaylin found her men and rallied them behind her, they were able to find and release captured Eternal Fleet warships. SCORPIO, herself an Iokath creation who had betrayed both Vaylin and the Alliance after working with them in the past, uncovered the history of Iokath and revealed ARIES, the only self-aware droid on the planet, as their biggest threat, capable of killing everyone. After ARIES lowered a planetary shield that prevented any vessel from escaping, the location of ARIES base was revealed to both SCORPIO and the GEMINI captains, and the Alliance stormed the base to confront ARIES, while the Eternal Fleet bombarded the fortress from above. SCORPIO arrived to help the Alliance Commander and Vette defeat ARIES, and was repaid by allowing her consciousness to merge with Iokath. Soon afterwards, the capacitors on ARIES' superweapon overloaded, and covered the entire world in a pulse of deadly radiation. The Gravestone just barely managed to escape to hyperspace, as did Vaylin with the majority of the Eternal Fleet, but Iokath itself became inaccessible for the time being.

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