The Tandum system located on the edge of CIS space. Considered a backwater planet with no strategic significance. The only thing on the planet was small separatist listening post protected by a small company of 50 men and 150 droids all lightly armed. In low orbit there is only a small fleet with one cruiser, three destroys and a corvette. They had no idea what was to come in the next few hours.

Aboard the flagship Far Star was a young man in his late thirties. Sat in his command chair slumped over looking board. He had been assigned here for two years. In the past he had been a rising star in the navy however now he was a nobody because he had made a lot of enemies in the navy along the way. One of which was an officer who managed to get back at him by getting him resigned to this backwater system. He had no idea how boring this system was. There were no major threats within range such as rebels or restless warlords. On rare occasions they had the odd pirate or smuggler to deal with but usually they were only small time criminals with nothing that could challenge them. As such he disappeared into obscurity never to appear in any glamorous reports again. His name is Terran Parat not that it matters any more.

Down on the ground buried deep into the side of the mountain on Tandum III was a small listening post. They were there to monitor imperial channels for intelligence on military movements and important news. It usually takes them months to decode transmissions and by that time they are too outdated or unimportant to care about. Most of the time they have to guess what the imperials are up to based of activity in the area and where the transmissions are coming from. Unfortunately they hadn't picked up any information about the fleet heading there way I fact there intelligence suggested that the imperial fleets weren't anywhere near there boarders.