Captain, Your performance during the Battle for the Katana Fleet was exemplary, even heroic.

You defeated a total of 33 starfighters, and even attempted to save the Peremptory despite the massive damage your ship sustained. Your efforts, and the efforts of soldiers like you has allowed our Engineers to capture 178 Katana-Class dreadnoughts, and even with our losses, and our retreat, we still did not lose. In fact, when the New republic looks on the field of battle, they will see that only about a dozen of the remaining dreadnoughts are salvageable, and their losses far outweigh the small gains they made. As such, I award you, and the rest of your crew with the Distinguished Medal of Imperial Honor, the highest medal offered by our Armed Forces for extreme heroism under duress, for extreme selfless action when under extreme circumstances, and for acting as a hand of the admiral on the field of battle. As such, you are now a Hero of the Galactic Empire, a name that will be known around the Galaxy, except for the secretive nature of your team. As such, your status as a hero shall be held until peace is achieved. With this award comes a one-time payment of ten thousand republic credits. Due to your efforts, we will be able to directly progress into the invasion fo the Republic. Currently, the dreadnoughts are being deslaved and outfitted with improved weapon and shield systems, as well as enhanced life support systems to allow for larger planetary invasions. Your loyalty has proven that you can be trusted to do the most covert of operations as well as intense combat situations. Your versatility has shown that you are worthy of earning the title of Hands of the Emperor, and you shall be ordained as such. Now, from Yaga Minor, we will move into the inner core, capturing major worlds and use them as stepping stones for our eventual assault on Coruscant itself. The coming months will be filled with victories, victories which will usher in a new era of history, one written by us. The lessons of the rebellion Era shall be replaced with the lessons of the Thrawn Era, and none shall challenge the stability of this Empire ever again. Now, go and relax, and contemplate what I shall ask of you. You are now more than qualified to choose your own missions, so on the next page, I shall attach several objectives that I need accomplished. You can tackle them in any order, and in any means necessary to you. Some you may need to be covert, others require a steady blaster shot or expert piloting to ensure success. Regardless, I believe that you will accomplish them all. Good luck, Captain, and welcome to your new life amongst the Hands of the Emperor.

OBJECTIVE ONE: CAPTURE MINISTER OF STATE LEIA OREGANA SOLOS CHILDREN CURRENT INFORMATION: The Minister is making a heavily publicized trip to Kashyyyk to garner support for a universal bill of rights that has been held up by Kerrithrarr, the Inner Council Member from Kashyyyk. She will be bringing her husband and children with her, and this would most likely be the best opportunity to seize her. If enough time passes, she will return to Coruscant, or, if other events conspire against you, to some place that may require significant investigation to find.

OBJECTIVE TWO: COVERTLY BESEIGE CORUSCANT CURRENT INFORMATION: The cloaking mechanism that we found at Mount Tantiss has been reverse engineered, and now there is an ambitious plan to sabotage the New Republic. We have loaded several large cloaked asteroids in our star destroyers and if we deploy them above Coruscant, they will effectively keep most incoming and outgoing traffic at bay, which will lead to starvation and other epidemics as Coruscants vast supply lines suddenly cease because massive stones physically destroy any incoming ships. However, for this to work, they have to be deployed below the planetary shield, just high enough to stay in perpetual orbit but low enough to be inside the shield that would otherwise destroy them. As such, I need for you to figure out a way to disable the massive planetary shield generator. OBJECTIVE THREE: PROCURE THE MOSS PAINTING KILLIK TWILIGHT CURRENT INFORMATION: This painting was once presumed lost once Alderaan was destroyed. Originally part of the royal familys personal collection of paintings, they have no idea what it is actually worth. You see, there is an old Shadowcast keycode embedded somewhere in the painting, and it would allow us to decrypt all of the Republics communications, all the way to the personal communications made by the Minister of State. With it, information becomes a weapon, because we can sent legitimate looking orders to any Republic Unit, and the Shadowcast keycode would add that legitimacy. Currently it is coming up on auction on Tatooine. Purchase it quickly, as I expect it to be a very hot item. Funds will be made available to you, and most likely it would cover all the costs. However, if the painting is taken before you arrive, you will have to find out who has it and where they took it.

Upon completion of these objectives, more shall be assigned. No hurry Captain, determine which ones have precedence over others. _____________________________________________________________________________________