Reclamation of Akiva

The Reclamation of Akiva was the culmination of a series of battles in the Outer Rim between Apex's Confederacy and the Galactic Empire, with an interjection by the Winter Collective. After a failed assault by Apex's confederacy the planet was declared independent and was soon invaded by the Galactic Empire, seeking to reclaim their planet.

Background
The Reclamation of Akiva was brought on after the Battle of Akiva left the planet semi-independent of the Empire, with large caches of imperial weapons claimed and used against the Akiva Garrions to great effect, taking control of the Capital city and five other Garrison in but a few days, using stolen imperial armor and speeders to launch surprise attacks to take the first few garrisons with little bloodshed, though it would not last, turning to a bloody campaign against the Imperial Holdouts in the far east, south, and west. The Akivan people, having been raised up by Charlotte Corday's speeches and her actions in saving the planet from the Imperials and Apex's Confederacy, would form their own government, the Akivan Peoples Republic, and their own Akivan Peoples Army, from this they would raise eight-thousand men and begin more seriously retaking their planet, sending five-hundred men contingents to the Garrison of Behn, Dred, and Furin. While sending a force of fifteen-hundred men to the far west to Athos, with dozens of armor.

Battle above the Planet
The Empire would not leave a world out of contact for long, sending the 30th Patrol Squadron under Captain Chenille to check in on the planet, soon finding the wrought husks of the local Imperial Akivan Defense Fleet's capital warship, an Imperial-II class star destroyer, and more than twenty other warships of varying class of Imperial and Confederate design. The Imperial Captain would send a transmission out to the planets new defense fleet demanding they submit themselves to boarding, a small group of ancient Republic light cruisers and a single Hammerhead cruiser. The reply would be brief "No." the Akivan peoples were not ready to surrender to the Empire, they had just been freed from their ilk, and more so, feared the reprisals of the Imperial Garrisons they had begun to besiege. The Akivan vessels would turn to face the Imperial fleet, standing united in the face of certain death from the Imperial fleet, they would start the battle on their own terms, destroying a TIE Fighter which had strayed too close to their command ship, though they would find no victory in it, losing their command ship in a flash of light after a salvo from a TIE/sa squadron. This would send the Akivan forces into a rout, half of their vessels turning tail to try and make their way to the surface, while the others charged onwards towards the Imperial force, intending to die on their own terms. All seven corvettes would be destroyed in minutes, being ripped to shreds by squadrons of TIE fighters and salvos upon salvos of turbolaser fire from the imperial line.

Air battle
With the Akivan Fleet in orbit decimated by the Imperial firepower, the Battle naturally moved onwards to the surface, Communications being established with the local garrisons, quickly finding the situation was beyond terrible for the empire on the surface, having lost all but five of their garrisons, in only a few days, with Eros falling as the 30th Patrol Squadron arrived. A Stormtrooper Corps officer under Captain Zeitsev by the name of Lieutenant Valek was quick to organize a wing of Fighters to send to the surface, alongside reconnaissance fighters, intending and succeeding to map out the area of operations. Lieutenant Tygen was quick to make contact with the surface, chastising the rebel forces and bringing unto them the threat of orbital bombardment, though the threat would not be followed through as Captain Zeitsev's commanding officer, Fleet Admiral Rieper was not present to authorize such an assault. And so they would mobilize a starfighter force to take back the skies from the rebels, Ten Squadrons of TIE Strikers and Three Raider-class corvettes. The fighters, upon descending to the surface and the garrisons of Behn, Dred, and Furin, finding the airspace above all three of these contested garrisons filled with TIE Fighters, the side of the rebels having a two to one advantage over the imperials, at least until the imperial reinforcements arrived crashing against the rebel TIEs striking down thirty-nine of them, at the expense of fifty of their own fighters, the total inflated by Behn garrison fighters being mistaken for rebel fighters.

Zero Hour
All three garrison fronts were again and again assaulted by the rebel forces with imperial relief and garrison forces trying to defend, there would be another fourteen rebel fighters taken down by the imperial forces, this time at a more even cost of ten imperial fighters. All was not going well however, as the Garrison of Athos, far in the north-west frantically contacted the imperial relief forces, being cut off after revealing the garrison was under attack, orbital scans showing fires all around the building. TIE Strikers from Captain Zeitsev's force would be re-routed to Behn after Athos fell, losing a single of their number. With an order to do so by Lieutenant Tygen, the garrison starfighters at Behn would begin withdrawing, making their way to Furin and Dred, joining the air battle there, bringing the rebels back into and equal position of strength with the imperial fighters. A Gladiator Star Destroy called the Hornet and her escort of TIE interceptors would make their way to Behn, finding the battle on the ground had turned heavily into the favor of the attacking rebels with no air support for either side, and the rebels greater number of armored units, slaughtering scores of imperial soldiers at the expense of few of their own, at least until the imperials new air support arrived in great numbers, strafing through and killing almost a fifth of the rebel infantry, while above the planet an orbital strike was called in by Lieutenant Valek, dealing with most of the remaining armor with turbolaser fire, this small victory was however soured by a transmission from Dred, indicating the garrison was under attack from the inside as the Raider corvette above it saw no signs of outward assault.