Caprica City Spaceport, Caprica City
Even after the ISD Chimaera arrived over Langara, through carefully coordinated stellar checkpoints, Thrawn would be greeted by the rigors of Aschen paranoia, in the form of nearly two thousand capital ships placed carefully in orbit above the planet, four Reverence IIs, and two Imperious class Command Carriers.
In addition, the Aschen had thousands of fixed geosynchronous orbital defense platforms orbiting the planet, from heavy missile stations, to several singularity drivers seated back in massive Orbital Defense platforms, and that was after the Chimaera had to navigate being escorted through Aschen space by the Classis I, a large and rather capable Aschen fleet that seemed to watch the movements of the Chimaera closely.
It took quite a bit of coordination with the local Aschen authorities, the larger central Imperial Government, the Province of Caprica, and the Caprica City Transit Authority to facilitate the arrival of a rather controversial guest of the Aschen Empire.
Security was tight, with the arrival of the spaceport under escort from six Imperial Aschen Raptor Talon starfighters. Each Aschen Raptor Talon seemed to glimmer in the Caprican sun, shimmering as it's fluid movements guided it through the Langaran Atmosphere, and around the Lambda shuttle.
In comparison, the Raptor Talon was larger than a TIE, but not quite as large as the X-Wing, but in both cases, with it's twin Voram-Thraxon MEC-A6 30mm Autocannons, nimble acrobatics aided by a G-diffuser, and inboard inertial dampener. The Raptor Talon's superiority to either star-fighter counterpart was unchallenged. The Aschen Empire literally believed the Raptor Talon could litewrally fly circles around any potential competitor, likewise a few of the escort pilots opted to demonstrate the Raptor Talon's acrobatics by executing a formation break into tight immelmann turns, darting off at nearly breakneck speed to return to their carrier.
As the shuttle broke the cloudline, the skyline of the city could be seen spread out before them, wide streets lined with greenery, traffic moving in a smooth, and orderly fashion except around the spaceport. The observant eye would see the entire city section around the spaceport had been cordoned off by local police, and the Military, with armored vehicles, barricades, and armed personnel.
There were also dozens of Stormbringer AA emplacements manned by military personell all throughout the city, camouflaged and situated in city parks, along greenery, atop roofs. Each of these twin-barreled high-energy laser emplacements tracked the shuttle as it made it's final approach towards the spaceport, which was completely cleared to accept their arrival.
"Shuttle TA-7738 this is Spaceport Control, you're on final approach, we have you on scopes, checker's green, call the ball."
A trio of F-11x Apollo fighters swooped by the shuttle, before coming to a complete stop, hovering above the skyline and keeping their weapons trained and missiles locked.
"Final approach calculated, transmitting coordinates to landing pad three."
A landing pad near a heavily guarded section of the spaceport lit up with flashing LED beacon lights, Admiral Claire Hanley was waiting by the landing pad, along with hundreds of news reporters whom had affixed their cameras to the approaching shuttle.
Quietly, she watched, and waited for the shuttle to land.