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[Aelek]

-Korriban-
Yorgen leads them through the ancient, abandoned complex.
"What exactly is it you're looking for?" Yorgen asked.
"Words, codes, something we're looking for to open a container we found on Thule, the container had sith markings on it, that said "If you seek what I hold secret, then you will travel to worship my memory to learn what I hold dear", and nothing more" Aelek replied.
"Then we're wasting our time, I believe what you seek is actually a tomb, you don't worship anything in an academy, except for what you learn" Yorgen said.
"What tomb should we start with then?" Aelek asked.
"I suggest the tomb of Ludo Kressh, it being one of the more dangerous tombs, also being more famous than some of the others" Sjevih said.
"Can you show us?" Aelek asked.
"Yorgen knows it better than I, but I suppose both of us could help you" Sjevih said.
"Yes, let's return to the speeder bikes" Yorgen said, "The tomb is located in the Shyrack Cave, so I suggest that all of your men come with us".
The group leaves the building, and walk back out to the speeder bikes, where they find the six soldiers slain on the ground, by what appears to have been a blade.
"May Grenth have mercy on these poor souls" One of Aelek's personal guards whispered.
"This is horrible, but we cannot wait around here to bury them, we must leave, for I fear that I know who may have done this to your men" Yorgen said.
"I agree, though I care little for them, the fact remains that they attacked us and left hastily, we were not in the building for more than five minutes, and we did not hear a single sound, whoever did this is quite skilled, though I fear not the person or thing that did this, I would rather like to keep our guides safe" Aelek said.
They mounted up on their speeder bikes, and destroyed the six bikes that the slain soldiers were using. And they set out for Lugo Kressh's tomb.

[Darthme]

-Thule-
Unidentified ship of Venator-Class, state your intentions.

~This is the Var'Kaas, we are not here to cause problems, we are merely on an expedition into our local sector.  If we may dock on your planet and learn of it, it would be of a great help to us~

The Var'Kaas waits for a response to be given.  

-Katarr-  

A lone Jedi Knight stand in a rainy courtyard, droplets of water bouncing off of his hood.  There are pinpricks of red light dancing around him in pairs.  These turn out to be the glowing eyes of training droids.  The Jedi's Lightsaber ignites in a purple-black blaze.  As they close in, the droids lunge at the Jedi, who in turn jumps straight up and spin-slashes downwards, taking out every droid in the circle.  More droids rush in to take their spots.  One of them wields a blaster, the other all have vibroblades.  Okay The Jedi thinks to himself I can take down the blaster droid first, or I can keep him and deflect his shots into the others He decides to go with the latter.  

Blaster stays behind the group while Vibros 1,2,3, and 4 close in.  Seeing that the latter plan will not work, the Jedi decides to Force-Push Vibros 1 and 2 into each other. His hand goes out, and the droids follow as if on some sort of invisible puppet string. The droids, incapacitated for the moment, the Jedi turns his attention to Blaster.  Taking cover behind a stone wall, Blaster pops out and fires a three-shot burst at the Jedi, who in turn deflects them into Vibros 3 and 4.  The melee droids sputter and die in a flash of sparks.  Their circuitry has been fried and now the only droid left was the ranged one.  The Jedi uses a burst of lightning-quick speed and drives his lightsaber into Blaster's stomach.  Or what would have been it's stomach, had it been real.  

Having completed his daily practice, the Jedi walks off of the courtyard and retires to his living space.  

[Aelek]

-Thule-
Var'Kaas, we permit your landing, you may dock on the planet itself at the Kessia spaceport, where an inspection crew will check your records and cargo holds as a safety precaution.
-Korriban-
The group of five arrives at the cave, where Ludo Kressh's tomb is built deep into the caverns.
"So, is this the tomb of this 'Ludo Kressh'?" Aelek asks.
"Indeed it is, now I'll..." Yorgen is cut short by Aelek.
"No, You'll stay here with my guards, if it's dangerous in there, there's no need to risk your injury, I am quite powerful, and I'm no idiot, I'll find my way in there" Aelek said.
Aelek went down the cave, and once he was out of sight of the others, he dropped the lantern he was carrying, and he channels a very small amount of power through to his staff, and it begins to glow with an eerie, green aura. Aelek walks through the cave until he comes to a place where the walls have been carved out.
"This must be the beginning of the tomb" Aelek whispers to himself.
He steps forward, and then feels a presence, a powerful dark presence, one almost as powerful as his own. He is feeling the presence of Ludo Kressh's spirit, the sprit trying to attack Aelek's consciousness, attempting to drive him mad. But the spirit's attempts fail, Aelek, as a necromancer, is able to control the spirits of the dead. He easily subjugates Kressh's spirit, however, he is unable to capture the essence of the ancient sith lord.
Aelek communes with Kressh, and talks to him about the container, knowing full well that Kressh would know what he is talking about.
"You know what I seek" Aelek says, "You know what I want, and I will tear your soul apart if I don't find the secret that of which you hide" Aelek said.
But before Kressh could answer, Aelek felt the presence of another, a presence far darker and stronger than Kressh, a presence that is perhaps even more powerful than Aelek himself. A spirit, when Kressh feels the presence as well, Aelek can sense the hatred burning in Kressh, but Aelek can also sense that this new spirit is what he is actually searching for, and just as he realizes this, the presence is gone.
"So, your rival is it then?" Aelek questions Kressh. "And to what I must wonder, who is your rival?"
Aelek hears a whisper in his mind Sadow. And Kressh's spirit relents, and gives up his struggle with Aelek's powers, knowing that Aelek has already gotten what he wanted, and no longer had any use of Kressh's spirit. Kressh to preserve his own soul, backs down from his attacks on Aelek's consciousness. Aelek then makes his way back from where he came, his unholy staff lighting his way back to the entrance, he cuts out his staff and picks the lantern back up as if nothing had happened, but once he comes out of the cave, he finds Yorgen dying on the ground, his two personal guards dead, just like the last place.
Aelek kneels down.
"Yorgen, who did this? Who killed my guards?! Wheres Sjevih?!" Aelek Whispered quickly.
"The shadows..." Yorgen said with his dying breath.
And then he was gone, Aelek lay him on the ground. Aelek looks around, the speeder bikes are left untouched, all five of them. No trace of Sjevih around, Aelek takes one of the speeder bikes, and destroys the four others. Aelek sets off towards Yorgen's moisture farm.

[Doktor von Wer]

Master Kenobi and his padawan stand in the hangar. Chris looked down the runway, at the aperture at the end, flanked by numerous landing pads and Jedi shuttles and starfighters. On Coruscant, it is dark and raining heavily.

Kenobi speaks for the first time during the walk.

'We haven't heard from any of the GAR fleets for over 24 hours now, and already we are noticing entirely new star systems in our midst. The politicians are naturally in disarray, and the Council fears for our numbers off-world... They are dispatching numerous Knights to ascertain the extent of the situation whilst the politicians squabble and try to regroup, but we have a... special mission' he says wistfully.

He climbs into his red-and-white Eta-2 starfighter, and Chris follows suit into his own navy-blue and silver one. Obi-Wan continues over the intercomm.

'We're going to Korriban' he announces, and pauses.

'Korriban, master?' Chris queries, fully aware of its history, careful not to jump to assumptions.

'Indeed, padawan. The Council fears that whatever is going on may provide an opportunity in the confusion for certain undesirable forces to regroup and pose a threat to... whatever is left of civilisation. Stay guarded... I do not wish to lose you there' he continues, powering up his starfighter and bringing her to a hover.

'I wouldn't dream of letting you' Chris chuckled, poorly hiding his apprehension of the situation that he - nay, they had all been thrust into.

[Darthme]

-Thule-
Var'Kaas, we permit your landing, you may dock on the planet itself at the Kessia spaceport, where an inspection crew will check your records and cargo holds as a safety precaution.

~Thank you, we're bringing her down now~ 

The Var'Kaas lets off another flare of blue light and coasts towards Thule.  Upon Entering the atmosphere, it locates the Kessia Spaceport and docks there.  Two figures exti the ship and wait for the inspection officers. 

[Doktor von Wer]

The Eta-2s of Master and Padawan dock with their hyperspace rings over Coruscant. Their astromechs had already encoded their hyperspace co-ordinates, and very quickly, they jumped to hyperspace.

[aceofhicks]

The remaining missiles bar one thread through a hail of laser fire and impact the Dreadnaught's shields, exploding in colourful arcs of light against the invisible bubble.

The ship shakes from the impact, but the shields negate most of the damage.

The warfare officer on defences reports in.

'The warheads are powerful, sir, but have little in the way of ion disruptuon effect against our shiel-' The first MAC round impacted the shields as she spoke, and a few monitors flickered.

'EVASIVE MANEUVRES - DROP ALL THRUSTERS AND STABILISERS' the captain orders immediately. The engines, thrusters, stabilisers and dampeners aboard the ship are all de-activated, using the nearby star's gravity to quickly maneuvre the vessel out of the path of the second MAC round. As the ship 'drops' towards the star, the second round skims the top of her hull, leaving a cylindrical gash down her hull where it carved through as it penetrated the weakened shields. Bulkheads seal as a few armour-clad Mandalorians are sucked into space, and begin drifting towards the star.

'What in the Mand'alor's name was that?' he demanded.

'A large kinetic round' answered the officer, climbing off the floor and re-manning his station. 'Hyperaccelerated. Not in itself highly effective against our shields, but if a shot gets through-' she reports, trailing off the sentence, looking disheartened.

The engines come back online and the vessel maneouvres around the star, putting its coronosphere between it and the enemy fleet.

The reinforcements proceed in a loose formation from the other side, advancing on the rear of the former UNSC warship and her escorts, and launch their squadrons of Belbullabs.

"It appears the Enemy ship is out of action for a while, Captain" Ensign Lovell reports, "But the other ships are approaching on our rear"

"Hmm..... Wait!" Keyes jumps from his chair, "Cortana, have our remaining Shivas put on two Longsword Fighters and have them Ram the enemy Ships. You can Remotely Pilot them?"

"Aye, can do" The A.I. says with a smirk on her holographic Face

"And Launch all Life Pods to disrupt their RADAR equivalent" The Captain Orders

The Iroquois turns to meet the Fleet, and launches 30 Objects, including the the Shiva Armed Longswords.

[Aelek]

~Thank you, we're bringing her down now~  

The Var'Kaas lets off another flare of blue light and coasts towards Thule.  Upon Entering the atmosphere, it locates the Kessia Spaceport and docks there.  Two figures exti the ship and wait for the inspection officers.  

(I was adding more on to my post)
-Thule-
The crew of twenty inspection officers greet the two figures, and the highest ranking officer request ship records, and tells the other nineteen crew members to inspect the cargo holds of the ship.
"Have to inspect the ship records and the cargo hold, it's Tyrian policy with ships that are not in the Tyrian charter database". The officer said.

[Doktor von Wer]

"It appears the Enemy ship is out of action for a while, Captain" Ensign Lovell reports, "But the other ships are approaching on our rear"

"Hmm..... Wait!" Keyes jumps from his chair, "Cortana, have our remaining Shivas put on two Longsword Fighters and have them Ram the enemy Ships. You can Remotely Pilot them?"

"Aye, can do" The A.I. says with a smirk on her holographic Face

"And Launch all Life Pods to disrupt their RADAR equivalent" The Captain Orders

The Iroquois Turns to meet the Fleet, and launches 30 Objects, including the the Shiva Armed Longswords.

'Sir, they're launching more starfighters - hundreds of them' a warfare officer onboard the flagship of the reinforcing fleet reports.

The commodore commanding the fleet pushes his way past the captain of the vessel to look.

'It's a diversion - the cowards seek to deceive us with decoys' he spits, his battle experience seeing through the ruse.

'Send in the first wave of fighters, bring us into main battery range and prepare to fire' he commands.

[Peace Trooper]

Protoss Probes land on the homeworld of Aiur after the zerg mysteriously disapeared from the galaxy, to begin the rebuilding of it's cities and former glory, all ground forces and the fleet are stationed on the planet awaiting orders but for now it is time to 'macro up'.

[aceofhicks]

'Sir, they're launching more starfighters - hundreds of them' a warfare officer onboard the flagship of the reinforcing fleet reports.

The commodore commanding the fleet pushes his way past the captain of the vessel to look.

'It's a diversion - the cowards seek to deceive us with decoys' he spits, his battle experience seeing through the ruse.

'Send in the first wave of fighters, bring us into main battery range and prepare to fire' he commands.

"Cortana, Charge the MAC Gun, Aim for the Closest Ship." Keyes Calmly orders

"Aye, charging and Getting Firing Solution" The A.I. Remarks

The CR70s Put Full power to the engines and Catch up to the Missiles/Life-Pods.

[Aelek]

Aelek arrives at the moisture farm, where everything is as normal. Aelek talks to some of his officers, and tells them what happened, and tells them to say nothing to the enlisted men.
Aelek goes over to the historical expert that is beside one of the CR70's.
"Professor, you know of sith culture and lore correct?" Aelek asks the short statured man.
"Yes, I am, and what is it you need sir?" the professor asks.
"I need to know a bit about ancient sith history" Aelek said, "Do you know of Ludo Kressh?".
"Yes, I do, and what about him?" the professor asks.
"Who was his 'rival' during his life, during his reign as a sith lord, who was his greatest adversary?" Aelek asks.
"I believe that would have been Naga Sadow, a Sith lord who fought with Kressh for the title of Dark Lord, a conflict that Kressh lost." the professor said.
"Hmm, interesting... and where was this Naga Sadow buried after his death?"
"Most people believe he died and was buried upon the planet moon of Yavin 4" the professor said.
"Thank you, professor" Aelek finishes, and goes off to talk with some of his officers again.

[Doktor von Wer]

"Cortana, Charge the MAC Gun, Aim for the Closest Ship." Keyes Calmly orders

"Aye, charging and Getting Firing Solution" The A.I. Remarks

The CR70s Put Full power to the engines and Catch up to the Missiles/Life-Pods.

The Dreadnaughts pull into range and open up all batteries simultaneously on the bridge of the Venator. Nobody notices yet the UNSC ship turning to align its main cannon.

The Belballubs hang back, close to their motherships.


The two eta-2 class vessels exit hyperspace near Korriban, only to almost collide with various huge pieces of scrap metal and chunks of starships.

'Well, I think that explains what happened to the Separatists' Kenobi muses sarcastically, as he weaves between two pieces of hull plating that threatened to smash his fighter to dust. Chris rolls and follows suit, and the pair undock their hyperspace rings in relatively clear area beyond in the middle of the graveyard, where the hulks of numerous Munificent-class and Recusant-class warships lied in pieces.

[Aelek]

Aelek orders everything to be packed up, and prepare for take off.
"We're going to head for Yavin 4, once the sun rises in the morning" Aelek says to his officers and pilots.

[aceofhicks]

The Dreadnaughts pull into range and open up all batteries simultaneously on the bridge of the Venator. Nobody notices yet the UNSC ship turning to align its main cannon.

The Belballubs hang back, close to their motherships.

"Jacob, MACs Ready to Fire" Cortana Announces

"Fire" The Captain Yells

The 50 Archers Launch, Followed by a MAC round 20 Seconds later, and another 10 Seconds after That. They are right behind the Shiva/Life-Pods.

The Venator diverted all power from the weapons to the shields and engines. It sets a collision course for the Mandolorian Fleet

[Doktor von Wer]

"Jacob, MACs Ready to Fire" Cortana Announces

"Fire" The Captain Yells

The 50 Archers Launch, Followed by a MAC round 20 Seconds later, and another 10 Seconds after That.

The Venator diverted all power from the weapons to the shields and engines. It sets a collision course for the Mandolorian Fleet

The fleet breaks outwards, and a dreadnaught behind the leader is hit by two MAC blows, bringing her shields down. As they break, the Belballubs are revealed in the centre, and rush forward to engage the enemy, shooting down various archer missiles on the way. 30 or so make it through the fighter screen, mostly impacting the dreadnaught's shields with little effect, though a handful hit the unshielded vessel and blow multiple large chunks out of it. She begins to vent atmosphere.

The remaining dreadnaughts change their target.

'Fire' the Commodore shouts. 'Fire straight into its barrel' he continues maliciously.

Each Dreadnaught fires a volley of 25 concussion missiles at the barrel, whilst the turbolasers of all of the ships follow suit.

All the while, the original dreadnaught had come full circle around the star, and the pursuers and belballub escorts heading for the exposed rear of the UNSC vessel.

[Aelek]

(I'll wait for you to find me, Chris)

[Doktor von Wer]

(I'll wait for you to find me, Chris)

[I wasn't coming specifically for you, it was a genuine coincidental idea, but if you want it could be fun]

The Jedi starfighters weave casually through the debris field.

'If this is what they can do to the Separatist fleets, I'm not sure I mind what's happening' Chris jokes to his master.

'I think I spoke too soon' Master Kenobi warns. He was right - as he spoke, a veritable squadron of droid tri-fighters emerged from the remains of a hangar in front of them.

'Why do I always end up flying?' Obi-Wan exasperatedly begs of his padawan, as the two dodge between a hail of lasers.

'Because you're such a good pilot' Chris jokes, rolling effortlessly to the starboard to avoid a heavy laser blast that would have otherwise vapourised him, before hitting the aggressor with an ion bolt that sent it careering into a piece of debris before exploding.

'You know, you can't actually use flattery as a trial of knighthood, padawan?' Kenobi remarks wryly.

Chris laughs. 'So, are we escaping or fighting?' he asks, on a more serious note.

'With this many, I don't think we'll have the chance to escape' retorts Kenobi, rolling and pulling up, quickly dispatching two tri-fighters with a burst of laser fire before tailing another.

'No rest for the wicked' Chris replied, rapidly pulling up and allowing the droid on his tail to smash into the fragmented engine unit that he pulled up from.

[Darthme]

(I was adding more on to my post)
-Thule-
The crew of twenty inspection officers greet the two figures, and the highest ranking officer request ship records, and tells the other nineteen crew members to inspect the cargo holds of the ship.
"Have to inspect the ship records and the cargo hold, it's Tyrian policy with ships that are not in the Tyrian charter database". The officer said.

"I understand, the SRI would want to search a foreign ship before letting it's crewmen onto Alba or Katarr"  The Captain, Chandul, replies to the officer.  The insepction officers would find nothing in the cargo bay other than standard supplies (food, water, air, etc.)  As for the records, the officers would find the captain's logs, detailing their journey from Alba to Thule, and the navigational history, revealing the location of SRI space and the coordinates for Alba and Katarr.

[aceofhicks]

The fleet breaks outwards, and a dreadnaught behind the leader is hit by two MAC blows, bringing her shields down. As they break, the Belballubs are revealed in the centre, and rush forward to engage the enemy, shooting down various archer missiles on the way. 30 or so make it through the fighter screen, mostly impacting the dreadnaught's shields with little effect, though a handful hit the unshielded vessel and blow multiple large chunks out of it. She begins to vent atmosphere.

The remaining dreadnaughts change their target.

'Fire' the Commodore shouts. 'Fire straight into its barrel' he continues maliciously.

Each Dreadnaught fires a volley of 25 concussion missiles at the barrel, whilst the turbolasers of all of the ships follow suit.

All the while, the original dreadnaught had come full circle around the star, and the pursuers and belballub escorts heading for the exposed rear of the UNSC vessel.

"Multiple Contacts.... We're surrounded!" Ensign Lovell

*Sigh* "Begin the Cole Protocol, Randomize Slipspace Vectors, get us the Hell out of here" Keyes states

"Jacob, the CR70s' Light Space Drives are damaged" Cortana States

"Tell them to self destruct and take as many of the bastards with them" The Captain responds

The Iroquois Sets a Random Slipspace Vector and purges her information banks; She starts to move out of the system. The Venator nears the Mandolorian fleet and starts to melt down it's reactor core, while the CR70s prepare to ram & explode near the ship behind the Iroquois