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| With help from Plagueis, and with the hard-won consent of Quaestor [[Tra'an Reith|Reith]], the reptiles of the guild captured the crews of these ships to be slaves while stealing their precious cargo. By [[Aedile]] [[Kal di Plagia Vorrac|Vorrac's]] orders, the slaves were subjected to [[Emar Xu]] and his twisted surgical augmentations to become a new army and crew for the ''Ascendancy''. | | With help from Plagueis, and with the hard-won consent of Quaestor [[Tra'an Reith|Reith]], the reptiles of the guild captured the crews of these ships to be slaves while stealing their precious cargo. By [[Aedile]] [[Kal di Plagia Vorrac|Vorrac's]] orders, the slaves were subjected to [[Emar Xu]] and his twisted surgical augmentations to become a new army and crew for the ''Ascendancy''. |
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| Some time afterward, on a tip from former Jusadih Senator [[Alaris Jinn di Plagia|Alaris Jinn]], the ''Ascendancy'' launched a surprise attack over the night side of [[starwars:Ord Pardron|Ord Pardron]]. There, they caught the 108th Expeditionary Scout Fleet of the [[starwars:Galactic Alliance|Galactic Alliance]] on shore leave, using captured freighters fortified as brutal boarding craft to deploy [[Ravagers]] and [[Subjugates]] alongside Dark Jedi. These quickly enabled the Plagueians to take control of the badly-undermanned fleet, capturing or destroying the ships and making for lightspeed.
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| Following this, each ship was renamed and staffed by Subjugate crewmen while the fleet made its quiet way toward Antei. Reith, relying on [[Elder]] [[Braecen Kaeth|Kaeth]] to navigate the [[The Shroud|Shroud]], arrived in the Antei system with shields up, weapons ready, but no fighters deployed and the fleet clustered. Curious, [[Muz Ashen|Darth Ashen]] ordered his forces to allow a single shuttlecraft through, carrying Reith and a delegation of Dark Jedi and [[BX-series commando droid - Plagueis|BX droids]] all the way to the [[Dark Hall]]. There, Reith swore fealty to the Iron Throne, pledged his House's worship to the [[Star Chamber]], swore to uphold and work alongside the [[Dark Council]], and declared a state of unending war on every House and Clan in the Brotherhood.
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| == Fleet ==
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| === Ascendant Assault Fleet ===
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| Flagship: [[NSD Ascendancy]]
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| *[[NSD Predominant]]
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| *[[ACC Ravager]]
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| :*''Lambda''-class Shuttle x5
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| :*XJ X-wing Squadron x1
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| :*T65AC5 X-wing Squadron x1
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| :*A-Wing Squadron x1
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| :*HLAF-500 Squadron x4
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| ===Hellfire Raiding Fleet===
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| Command ship: [[BAC Harrower]]
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| *[[DP20 Nightmare]]
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| *[[DP20 Curse]]
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| *[[DP20 Wrath]]
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| :*''Lambda''-class Shuttle x1
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| :*''Nu''-class Attack Shuttle x3
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| :*T65AC5 X-wing Squadron x2
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| :*B-wing Squadron x1
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| :*Y-wing Squadron x1
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| ===Corsair Raiding Fleet===
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| Command ship: [[BAC Terminus]]
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| *[[DP20 Headsman]]
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| *[[DP20 Anguish]]
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| *[[DP20 Despair]]
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| :*''Lambda''-class Shuttle x1
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| :*''Nu''-class Attack Shuttle x3
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| :*T65AC5 X-wing Squadron x2
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| :*B-wing Squadron x1
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| :*Y-wing Squadron x1
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| ===Independent Craft===
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| [[S1 Firespray-class Patrol Craft]]
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| * S1 ''Chaser''
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| ==Ground Forces==
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| [[Ravagers|Ravager Hordes]]:
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| *2588 Warriors
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| *647 Berserkers
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| *65 Underlords
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| [[Subjugates|Subjugate Crews]]:
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| *Several thousand crewmen
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| *Several hundred pilots
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| *110 Engineer peons
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| *40 Medical peons
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| *Several thousand minions
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| [[Wraiths|Wraith Cells]]:
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| *720 Phantoms
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| *20 Reapers
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| *85 Underlords
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| [[BX-series battle droid - Plagueis|BX-Series Commando Droids]]:
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| *40 units
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| ===[[Saraask'ar]] Slaver Guild===
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| Commander: [[Tress'kar]]
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| Lieutenant:[[Ghaarm]]
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| *425 Trandoshan slavers
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| *[[GR-75 Bloodsport|''Bloodsport'']]
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| *[[Z-95 Headhunter - Plagueis|Z-95 Headhunters]]
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| *[[starwars:74-Z speeder bike|74-Z Speeder Bike]] x 10
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| *[[starwars:Ultra-Light Assault Vehicle|ULAV]] x 6
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| *[[starwars:All Terrain Attack Pod|AT-AP]]
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| *[[starwars:All Terrain Tactical Enforcer|AT-TE]] x 6
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| *[[starwars:Heavy Assault Vehicle/wheeled A6 Juggernaut|A6 Juggernaut "Turbo Tank]] x 1
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| *[[starwars:Low Altitude Assault Transport/infantry|LAAT/i]] x 16
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History
The original Ascendant Fleet served in the Jusadih System from 30 ABY to 36 ABY, conquering the system in the War of Ascension and becoming the new main fleet for House Plagueis. Together with their Legion, a collection of Throne-loyal soldiers and conscripts, they kept in line a system that became more and more fragmented, disloyal, and difficult to police with each year. It would see its end in the fall of Jusadih, as both the Horizon Plague and Zoraan's forces would crush and destroy the system and almost all of the ships therein. Only Ascendancy escaped.
Following Jusadih's destruction, the Plagueians found themselves stranded, but not without hope - their Trandoshan allies of Saraask'ar had called in the rest of their guild, and they had managed to come out of hyperspace at the coordinates of the derelict Vaiken Spacedock. This would be a boon to Plagueis, who used the station to start repairs on their ships. The work was slow, until freighters began to drift in, called to the Bloodsport's emergency beacon.
With help from Plagueis, and with the hard-won consent of Quaestor Reith, the reptiles of the guild captured the crews of these ships to be slaves while stealing their precious cargo. By Aedile Vorrac's orders, the slaves were subjected to Emar Xu and his twisted surgical augmentations to become a new army and crew for the Ascendancy.
Command Structure
Unlike traditional fleets and ground forces, the Ascendant Fleet has no typical military chain of command - the ships are all crewed by slaves, droids, or Plagueians when they choose. Thus, their command typically falls to either the strongest Dark Jedi aboard, the best-supported, or those decided upon by the Quaestor. Only when the Dark Jedi at the helm of any particular ship is busy will he surrender the helm, and then typically to another Dark Jedi. That said, on occasion, particularly loyal Subjugate crewmen are given the helm - though never without supervision.
In typical engagements, the Hellfire and Corsair raid fleets operate as separate entities; they carry out the petty week-to-week raids throughout various sectors in whatever area Plagueis is operating in at the time, while the Ascendant Assault Fleet only appears every couple of months and always in a different area. This strategy allows most of their strikes to resemble common piracy, even when slaves are taken; in a galaxy of trillions and even quadrillions of beings, a few thousand are never particularly noticed, especially in areas where pirate assaults happen frequently. The sudden appearance and the smash-and-grab tactics used by the Assault Fleet allow it to seem like a ghost story to most spacers and officials, as few believe the rumours of a phantom fleet of Star Destroyers emerging from nowhere to strike the unwary.
During larger engagements, the fleet comes together, with the commanding Sith of Hellfire and Corsair unifying beneath the leadership of the Quaestor of Plagueis. Then, as always, the Quaestor will fight like a pirate, ordering strikes on weak areas, strategic feints, and unfair tactics to cripple parts of a fleet and then run. Being nomadic in nature already, this makes the technical duration of a Plagueian space battle days or even weeks longer than that of a typical House or battlegroup.