Sabine returned from her routine morning patrol of Lothal’s Capital City to an emergency alert beeping on her comm channel. It was about an hour old so she answered it immediately. Bo Katan’s faced bloomed to life on the holo. She looked like she was in the midst of a battle.

“Sabine!” She shouted, “If you’re receiving this, we need backup immediately. The Empire is here. They came out of nowhere… ha!,” she rolled and dodged bullet before continuing, “There’s too many of them, hundreds of ships…please, you’re our only hope.”

Sabine’s knees buckled. Her worst nightmares were coming to life. Ever since she’d made the decision to stay on Lothal, away from all the action, she’d been afraid that one day the Empire would attack her friends ore her planet and she’d be too far away to help.

She pulled herself together and called Ryder to request for a ship. Within minutes, she was speeding away, back home. She had informed Bo Katan that she was on her way but didn’t receive a response. She had no idea what she was walking into but that hardly mattered. She knew the Empire must have had a blockade outside the hyperspace lane so she’d have to exit in the adjacent system and fly sub light from there so she could enter from the far side of the planet, behind one of the moons. It would take longer but she would never make it through the blockade. She was good, but not that good.

When she arrived at the planet she glimpsed the armada the empire had brought and she almost considered turning back. It looked like their entire fleet. She had no idea where the fighting was concentrated but she headed for the capital and hoped for the best. She tried to alert her friends that she was coming but she nearly got shot down anyways. “Typical…” she muttered as she found a safe place to land.

She leaped off her ship, lightsaber raised and guns blazing. There were explosions all around her, every class of Imperial trooper raining fire upon them. Fortunately she spotted no civilians around, only armour clad warriors. She chose to believe that that meant all the civilians had either escaped or were in hiding and weren’t dead or captured.

She flew around, searching for anyone in blue: the members of clan Kryze. She flew over one of the banks and finally spotted 3 of their warriors being cornered there. She took out the imps with little trouble from her high vantage point and landed to greet them. They removed their helmets and thanked her as she asked, “Where is Lady Bo Katan? I need to speak with her.”

A grim look passed between them, “we’ll take you to her, you’re Sabine Wren aren’t you?”

Sabine nodded and they took off.

They spotted Bo leading the rest of Clan Kryze in a skirmish outside the throne room.

“Bo!” Sabine shouted.

“Sabine! Thank gods you’re here.”Bo screamed back as she dealt with the last of the imperials she was fighting.

“What in blazes is going on?”

“I wish I knew…”

“Alright, what are our defences looking like?”

“Depleted, but we’re still fighting. The General or Moff who’s leading this attack hasn’t shown himself yet but he clearly knows what he’s doing. Your mother is leading 2 Clans just outside the city, Clan Eldar and Rook are protecting the factories, and the rest of us are here. If the Capital falls it’s all over.”

“Rao?” Sabine asked

“Leading the air strike. I hope he’s dong better than we are. Are any of your friends coming?”

“I sent them a message but they’re pretty busy, I wouldn’t count on it.”

“Dank Ferrik…alright.”

“So what’s our plan?”, Sabine inquired, “How do we get rid of them?”

Bo Katan sighed, “We survive.”

Photo Credits: Star Wars Rebels