The other PDS ship, the Morgan class did continue on its apparent course, taking a slingshot towards the Imperial force behind the moon, which withdrew its fighters quickly, at this stage at a high speed, the Imperial fleet matched its course and speed, entering a formation with it as they headed out of the system, keeping the moon between the planet and them as ever and programing in hyperspace coordinates away from Dantooine to their staging area.

They broadcast a message as they began to leave, on all frequencies, they had made an attack that was swift, brutal and long lasting, the effects of the crashing ship would be insignificant today, but over time, Dantooine would suffer. "Thus always to rebels"

Lord Gregorious Gemmell
Advisor to the Emperor
Imperial Ruling Council

Those residing in Dantooine's South polar region would shield their eyes from a bright, white flash in the sky as the Justice splintered in the atmosphere and its stern exploded. It would be a spectacular light show, were it not so deadly; a brilliant green turbolaser blast could be seen blazing into the heavens, missing its target and eventually disappearing into the blackness of space. A second shot, however, did connect with the plummeting bow of the ship, blasting it into still smaller debris. One particularly large (over 100 meter) hulk of roasted durasteel would splash into the ocean, creating a cloud of vapor and upsetting the seas, but causing otherwise little damage.

The casualties would become known only gradually, as the scope of the disaster became known in the hours that followed; a passenger ship felled by debris, killing all aboard; a landspeeder hit while joyriding in the countryside, killing the couple within; a townhouse demolished by a falling barbette, killing 20. But most of the Justice would disintegrate beautifully in the sky, as meteor showers could be seen through the entire Southern hemisphere of the planet.

The New Republic vessels and their accompanying starfighters, which arrived within minutes of the assault, assisted the locals with turbolasers and tractor beams to map and clear some of the larger debris, and provide traffic control in orbit and medical relief on the surface. When the fire in the sky finally did subside, 128 would be dead. But the real killer lingered, unseen, circulated by the wind and the rain and sea; but it was not a killer of men, but of flora. Radiation from the Justice's reactor would, over the coming weeks, contaminate and wither hundreds of billions of credits worth of crops and agriculture on Dantooine's otherwise famed and fertile fields, and it would be a mammoth undertaking to repair the destruction.

And so Dantooine's and the Republic's work began, both to revive the planet from this attack and to exact vengeance on its perpetrator.