The troops grew silent as everything on deck rattled under the sustained fire of the temple's anti-air guns. The weapons, only suitable for shooting down starfighters were little more than white noise to the corvette's shields but it was, with the turmoil of atmospheric entry enough to shake the crew to the point of tripping a few of the men over.

The three Siths however, stood in line at the edge of the loading bay unphased, seemingly immune to the tremors.

Maegr reached for Arianna's hand. He spent most of the way down looking at her until the ship slowed and the bay's doors opened a good fifty meters off the ground. Letting go of Arianna's hand he cranked a valve on the chest piece beneath his robes, patted Garrern on the back with his other hand and jumped out of the ship sabers in hand.

The local planetary defence troops had entrenched themselves in front of the temple's sandstone walls. Mobile parapets and assault cannon nests had been set up. Barely more than a hundred men stood in defence of the holy site.
Maegr threw his offhand saber on the way down which swooped across the enemy defence line cutting down several soldiers in its wake and hit the ground down on one knee with no impact, as if weightless.
Not a second passed before his two comrades entered the scene of operation in a similar fashion, on either sides.

The Ravenbeak tipped its nose towards the massed crowd firing a volley of green plasma with its earshatteringly loud anti-starship guns leaving nothing but smoke and molten metal.
With this done, the ship stabilised and the Imperial troops rappelled down from its belly.

Maegr walked to the gate closely followed by the others and with a force push smashed the old wooden doors open to reveal a great empty and unlit hall.