As negotiations went on and an Imperial station was under construction at Tschai, the Consileen Fleet, which was much bigger than the Tschai Fleet, headed for the distant planet. They were under orders to take over the Cro Arms station on Consileen and kill all Cro Arms personnel inside, turning the city into an Imperial space station, and perhaps their gateway to interstellar space. Settling into orbit around the dark-green gas giant, the Cro Arms city was within visual range. They moved closer, sending legions of boarding ships holding armed stormtroopers to the city itself.