Assaulting the dome

The ships descend upon Sundari, the air defenses and the shield of the dome have been activated, the duchess was hardly taken by surprise by the invasion. The fighters clash with her fighters, the troop transports head to their respective target areas to land the clans assigned to each sector. Amidst a fierce air duel, you too land at the main entrance of the dome along with your clan and Pre's Clan Vizsla. As your feet hit the ground you all start running towards the gigantic gate, fit to allow medium sizes spaceships into the city. The shield is still active and the automated defenses open fire on you. There are some ramparts and ditches around the gate, to which you all slide into, to find cover.

Lana (in cover as the guns still fire a few meters next to you ineffectively): Is everyone alright?!

Rantar: We have lost at least a dozen men making our way this far and we haven't even entered the city yet! Next orders?

Pre: We wait here, my agents should deactivate the shield and the defenses any minute now!

Pre (through comlink): What in the name of Mandalore the First is taking you so long?! Deactivate the blasted systems!

Agent (through the comlink): Already working on it Mandalore! Just a few more seconds... Here, systems deactivated!

Pre (flying out of cover as the huge metal gate disappears into the ground): Finally! Everybody, charge!

You all activate your jetpacks and fly after him, right into the dome. The moment you enter, you find yourselves under heavy fire from the local military units. Getting behind cover again, you engage in a firefight. Meanwhile, Clan Fett and Kryze have similarly entered the dome on the other end of it, finding a similarly hot situation inside. A few minutes later, members of Clan Varad and Dar'Manda appear behind the enemy lines, forcing Satine's men to fight in both directions, pinning them down. Gradually you overcome them and press forward towards the centre of the city, the royal palace. Clan Varad goes to assist Clan Fett and Kryze and you press on with the three clans, Ordo, Vizsla, and Dar'Manda. Satine's policing **** is clearly outnumbered and outmatched in this battle, leaving you and relatively clear path towards your goal. An hour of fighting later, halfway to the palace, a group of snipers open fire on your group from above. You can't advance in open terrain any further without taking them out first, so you wait for Clan Wren and Ha'rangir to arrive from above. They arrive shortly after, having received the orders from Pre to deal with the snipers.

They fly over the targets and pick them off one by one at first, but then, the remaining snipers redirect their fire from you to the Mandalorians above them.

Ursa Wren (as she lands next to Pre): We've got this Pre, you should move, we'll handle the snipers!

Pre: That's right, move, move! We've got a duchess to dethrone!

With the obstacles removed, your troops rush directly to the palace. When it becomes visible from afar, you hear the roaring sound of engines bursting.

Lana: What's that sound? Fighters...? Here, under the dome...?!

Pre: Don't be ridiculous, our ships keep them at bay outside, they can't have...

Rantar (interrupting and pointing to above): Pre... Look at that...

Pre (in disbelief): What in the...? Impossible...

At least a dozen Republic gunships are flying over your heads dropping clone troopers off just next to the palace.

Lana: What is the meaning of this?! Mandalore is neutral, the Republic can't send troops here!

Pre: You should try telling them that! Satine must have spread her legs for the chancellor to get some reinforcements! The whore of Mandalore will sit on that throne no longer! This ends today with or without Republic involvement!

Lana: This is bad... I hope they haven't sent a whole legion or we'll be damned... Wait, if those gunships open fire with their lasers or missiles, we'll be so badly outgunned not even our beskar will remain from us!

Pre: Gar! Get your men here, we need more firepower!

Gar (emotionlessly): As you wish, "Mandalore"...

He steers his ship towards the dome entrance and signals Clan Saxon to follow him inside. Meanwhile, the clones get loaded off of the gunships and men the makeshift barricades they can find or create from the rubble around the palace to form a defensive perimeter. The now emptied gunships start an attack run on your position, barraging you with their light laser guns, dispersing your people from the open street into the smaller alleys and behind cover. Cornered by the air superiority, you wait until Gar and his clan arrive. They fly in firing at anything that flies and moves, taking out a few gunships but also losing some of their own fighters in the combat. With them distracted, you charge to the palace engaging in a fierce melee combat with the clone troopers defending it. They too are equipped with jetpacks, making them just as mobile as you Mandalorians are.

The intense hand to hand combat is mixed with short range firearms, the bursts of jetpacks, and all the big and small tricks and moves that come with the Mandalorian fighting style. The clone manage to hold you at bay, making any progress costly and time consuming. **** lightning, flamethrower, stun grenade, lightsaber, all are fair in chaotic battles like this one. Fighting side by side with Pre saving each other's back a couple of times both by deflecting blaster shots with your respective sabers, you have come to develop a sense of true kinship with him and the others. Not as if you haven't known they are your wider family in a sense, but shedding blood with them is a whole new experience as a "wider family program". Pre charges forward to try to make a breakthrough while you and Rantar stay behind and secure the flanks of your street fighting ****. All goes well until one of your fighters flies right towards you. You don't give it any thought but rather focus on the fight at hand. That might be a mistake. It's Gar Saxon, and unbeknownst to you, his fingers are right on the trigger as he's targeting your back.

Saxon Clan member: Gar, what are you doing? Those are friendlies you are flying towards!

Gar (coldly and ready to pull the trigger with you ate the crosshair): I know...

Your father looks up and realizes what is about to transpire. He activates his jetpack just as Gar opens fire, clashing against you with full speed, tossing you out of the laser's way and getting hit by them instead of you. When you recover from the fall and see what has just happened, you rush to Rantar and find him laying on the ground, his armour still smoldering at spots from the powerful laser shots.

Lana: Father! Father!

Rantar (groaning): Eeehh.... Lana...

Lana (holding him in your arms and taking his helmet off): Father! Are you alright?!

Rantar (in pain): The laser heated my armour a few places... Aaargh....! I...

Lana: You will be okay, I'll get you to a medbay! I'll find some bakta or kolto...!

Rantar: My child... I did... what I... had to. Every Mandalorian hopes to die in battles like this one...!

Lana (amidst tears): You aren't going to die just yet, you'll live to see an other battle, just hold on!

Rantar: Kind words... But I have already told you how proud I am of you... I am ready to see what comes after this life... Be well, my daughter...!

Lana (crying out as Rantar closes his eyes): Noo! I'll find you a medkit! I will...!

Leader of Clan Dar'Manda (pointing his rifle at you from behind): Khm... Don't want to interrupt but... Gar promised me a pile of credits bigger than this dome, if some "accident' was to happen to you during the siege... Pre is far away of course, he won't see anything... And given your father is on the brink of **** anyway... I have a clear shot at my target now!

Lana (angrily but not turning to face him): If you pull that trigger, you will have a just as painful **** as Gar will for this...! I would think twice about that...!

Gar's fighter is returning, flying over you again, but not firing this time, seeing that the Dar'Manda leader is next to you.

Leader of Clan Dar'Manda (you close your eyes and wait for him to shoot you): You know... Those are a lot, lot of credits...! Just to shoot a fellow Mandalorian in the back! However, we Dar'Manda don't sink that low, even for credits!

He raises his rifle and shoots at the engine of Gar's fighter as he passes you by, making it explode and forcing him to crash it nearby.

Leader of Clan Dar'Manda: Here, now you can even the score and do to him what he did to your father. Or worse, up to you. I don't betray me brothers or sisters who haven't earned the betrayal. I'll watch out for your father. Gar won't be staying here after having failed to stab you in the back, you should hurry! For Mandalore!

Lana (standing up and igniting your lightsabers): Thank you. I'll remember your deeds! As I will remember his!

Leader of Clan Dar'Manda: Just make sure to pass some of the loot to me, will you?

You get going towards Gar's crushed fighter.