A long time ago In a galaxy far far away...
STARWARS
CHRONICLES OF DEMON SHEPARDS
After the war brought on by Lord Malak left the Galactic Republic on the brink of collapse, however Malak's former master Revan rose from the ashes of his former self, with renewed determination Revan set out to stop is apprentice and former friend. Along the way on his journey Revan began receiving visions of his past life, he knew what he was before but refused to tell the others anything about his past life. Revan defeated his former apprentice on the star forge station, causing the Sith Empire fleet to retreat to the darkest reaches of the Galaxy. With all his memory returning to him, Revan was furious at the Jedi Order for their inactiveness both during the Mandalorian Wars and the Jedi Civil war, their mistakes nearly caused the destruction of the Galaxy, before Revan could turn his attention to the Jedi Order, Revan had to leave the known Galaxy to face the evil he was planning the Galaxy for... The Sith Emperor. Revan now regretted destroying the Star Forge, the only weapon that could stop the Sith Emperor with out needing to prepare the Galaxy for, now it was up to him to either stop him or slow the Sith Empire down to buy the Galaxy more time. Shortly after Revan's departure the Galaxy was left in turmoil from the conflict, pockets of Sith Imperial remnants still remained in Republic Galaxy. Among this turmoil located at a Peragus Mining facility a worn down hero only known as the 'Exile' went into hiding due to the force being cut off from him. The Exile ran in to troubles while trying to leave the Ghost station, with his companions a scoundrel by the name of Atton Rand, and a Old Jedi by the name of Kreia who helped the Exile reestablish the connection to the force. The group met up with a Sith on the station who was hunting the Exile, believing he was the last Jedi. After the group left the station aboard the Ebon Hawke, The Exile found out that Kreia and him were linked in a strong force bond, feeling each others pain, thoughts, and other powerful combat patterns fighting as one. The crew grew by the day the Exile took on an apprentice who referred to her self as the Hand-Maiden, though her name would be announced later due to the fact she harbored feelings towards him, not just as a Master and an apprentice but as lovers, she too had a Force bond that connected the two, however Brianna was not the only one who felt this way towards the Exile, Visa Marr developed feelings when she first felt him through the force. The Exile powers grew to the point it attracted Visa's old master, Darth Nihlus. Darth Nihlus was defeated over Telos, but Kreia showed her true colors, being the instigator of the conflict. She informed the Exile that if he did not follow Kreia to Malachor V she would kill herself taking both of their lives through the force connection. The Crew understood this would be their last battle all they prepared for, Malachor called to them... The Death of the Force. Kreia in the final battle with the force adepts and the Exile, informed them of what she sought the abhorrent existence of the force and it's purpose, she sought to end it, but it would not come to pass. The Message left behind to the Exile was final... War... War was coming, and at this stake Republic would fall if it wasn't ready. It is unknown what choice the Exile made, did he follow Revan in to the unknown? Or did he stay to prepare the Galaxy?
Three hundred Years later...
A Sith Lord named Aloysius Kallig known as the Immortal who survived his duel with Tulak Hord faking his death, he let Tulak Hord believe he was victorious while he laughed in the shadow's reveling in the secrets of immortality, Aloysius spent his Immortal existence gathering knowledge to better understand the force, however he received a vision something shook the fabric of the very Universe... a rift was opened the disturbance in the force was loud enough to even wake the youngest of force users. During the return of the Sith Empire in BTC 24 he met a woman by the name of Hannah Roriic. Aloysius became attached to the woman, her beauty was a thing to behold, and to her Aloysius was her age behind his helmet. Aloysius referred to himself as Alan Shepard, married to Hannah Roriic a year later the two settled down in a backwoods colony near the Outer Rim. In BTC 23 Aloysius felt a tremor in the force again, it was hollowed out and chilling, it as if his life force suddenly halted for a split second. In BTC 22 Hannah gave birth to a baby boy, Aloysius looked upon his son with fear as he sensed the raw power of the force just streaming off of it's frail body, but the fear wasn't that he'd surpass him, the power was killing his form... Their son was dying. Aloysius informed his wife Hannah that they would have to make a trip to Dromund Kass to perform a ritual to save their unnamed child. Aloysius held a bundle of a pale looking Human baby, he placed the infant on a stone pedestal in the middle of four others.
"My son... You are destined for greatness, for if the vision was correct you will save this Galaxy from a great terror, but now... you must survive this ritual."
Aloysius hit the pylons in the room with force lighting charging up the pedestal, Hannah couldn't bear to watch what would happen to her son. Blinding flashes of lights lit up the room, the four pedestals in the room began to lit up sparking Hannah's attention.
"Alan! What's happening?!"
Aloysius ignored his wife concentrating on the ritual.
It's Working... It's WORKING! LIVE MY SON!
A purple force storm shook the entire room, knocking Hannah off her feet, leaving Aloysius to stand unaffected from the blast. Hannah awoke to a set of different crying in the room the middle pedestal was nothing but a scorch mark, but the others carried Four infants...
(Smuggler) Damon Shepard - Demon's trait - Demon's Popularity with Women.
(Bounty Hunter) Max Shepard - Demon's trait- Demon's Greed.
(Sith Inquisitor) Mathew Shepard - Demon's trait- Demon's Powers.
(Sith Warrior) Duncan Shepard - Demon's trait- Demon's Unnatural Strength.
The Four Shepard's all inherit Demon's traits but they all specialize in one.
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BTC: 7
Ziost Colony/ Shepard residents
The back yard of house had Mathew and Duncan playing Force catch, though Duncan got a little more Competitive with the game.
Duncan- Mathew's got skill in the force I'll give him that much, but I'm just as good as he is!
Duncan charged a force push on to the ball throwing it with all his might but Matthew reacted by not even holding his hand up to catch it with the force, his eyes great a bright red channeling the force to the object. Aloysius was just in time to witness the call in the force as his son Matthew threw the ball back at Duncan with great force throwing him against the house denting the wall.
Mathew- Woops...
Duncan holding the ball on his gut just shot his fists up in the air over his head.
"WOO! That was awesome! Hey Dad did you see how far I flew!"
Aloysius was about to respond to his son, but Hannah came out of the house to see what caused the building to shake.
"Why the Hell is there a dent in the wall!?"
The three shook from Hannah's voice as it was very commanding and frightening to them. Mathew just approached his steaming Mother who was still looking at the damage.
"Sorry Mom... That was me, I threw Duncan in to the wall by mistake..."
Hannah simmered down after hearing her son's apology.
"… It's alright Mathew, we can get it fixed, at least it's not a hole."
Duncan and Aloysius breathed a sigh of relief, not wanting to feel the wrath of Hannah. Hannah turned towards her Husband, catching his attention.
"Alan do you know where Damon and Max is?"
Aloysius was trying to remember where his sons ran off to, but before he could reply to his wife the holo communicator rang, catching their attention.
Speaking of the Devil...
"Well lets see where they are..."
Damon popped up on the holo, who was overly excited next to his brother Max.
"Dad! We need you to come down to the Junk Yard, just don't tell Mom."
However Damon shook when he saw his Mother's irritated expression on her face.
"Don't tell Mom what?"
Max just face palmed himself leaving Damon's right eye to twitch.
Damon- Crap...
Twenty Minutes Later...
The Shepard family stood in front of a beat up XS Freighter, Hannah just stood there in silence waiting for an explanation from her son.
"So Damon do you mind telling me where you got the money to buy this?"
Damon- Buy?
Max- Not Even...
"Mom the guy who owns the junk yard is letting me take it off his hand for free, or it gets smashed... Dad you got to move this with your Force powers Please! I'll take special care of it, and get it back to being space worthy-"
Aloysius took a look at the ship then at his sons pleading eyes, Aloysius just sighed as he prepared to lift the freighter, but stopped when Mathew approached him.
"Dad can I lift it?"
…. Time to test my theory.
Aloysius nodded stepping out of the way for his son Mathew. Mathew raised his right hand towards the ship, the family stepped back seeing dust falling off the ship as it shook. The Family's eyes widened seeing the ship lift up from the ground hovering over them.
That's my boy...
Five Minutes passed leaving Mathew placing the freighter in the back yard. Mathew eyes went back to normal, to Aloysius surprise Mathew didn't seem exhausted from using the force to move such an object at his age. Damon rushed towards his ship unlocking the door through the hatch.
Damon- YES! My own very ship, got to get my license clean this place up... and then I'll begin my own adventures... The Galaxy's going to be mine!
Later that evening the house was dead quiet with most of its inhabitants sleeping, all except for Aloysius who was sitting at the side of the bed placing his armor on. Aloysius received a powerful vision linking to the disruption in the force he felt years ago.
I must head back to the archeologist site, the trail starts there. My Family, I must leave for now... I hope you can understand... If I can, I'll stay in contact with you all. Hannah I should've told you everything, keeping this a secret from you will probably do more harm than good, the longer I stayed with you all made my presence known to the Emperor and his servants. If I can stop the tear, we can all be together again... though the visions I receive isn't guiding me... it's warning me... Yet I am attracted to see this threat stopped.
Aloysius placed a holo on his side of the bed and quietly left the room leaving his wife undisturbed in her slumber. Aloysius checked on his four sons in the room down the hall, all of them rested peacefully taking one last look he could only think to himself as he left down the stairs of the house.
My Sons we will meet again..
SIX HOURS LATER...
Hannah was waiting for the Holo to load, worried why Alan couldn't tell her in person.
"Hannah if you are reading this... then I am no longer on the Ziost... I received a vision from the force, a dangerous force was approaching and I... I have knowledge that made us a target, I had to leave to protect you all... when I figure this out I will return, but until then tell know one of this holo Hannah, destroy it... If anyone saw me leaving a recording, they'd know who I am... Goodbye Hannah know that I love you and our boys and it pains me to be away from you all, but I promise I will return."
The Holo recording terminates leaving a depressed expression on Hannah's face.
Hannah- Alan why couldn't you tell me what is going on, what danger?
Hannah was about to get out of bed, but was startled when the house shook, followed by hearing her son Damon.
"Damn it, the thruster gave out!"
Max through the window was covered in smoke as he came out of the engine holding a fusion cutter.
"You also burnt the engine light off..."
Damon face palmed himself as he grabbed a plasma torch thrusting it into the hatch prying it open to allow access to his secondary tool. Max handed him the Fusion cutter leaning down seeing the mess of wires.
"What are you going to do with this after the exteriors been fixed?"
Damon wiped the sweat off of his head, before he stuck his hand back in the hatch.
"Redesign the interior make it livable, then take this thing around the Galaxy, trying to find my purpose in life."
Max thought about asking his brother if he could tag along, he too felt the need to get out there not wanting to stay on Ziost.
"Room for one more on that adventure?"
Damon slid out on the board, giving off a cocky smile.
"sure but, I'll have to lay the ground rules down, my ship my rules."
Max- I should of seen this coming, well we'll see what his 'conditions' are.
Hannah thought of her sons, how would she tell them about their father, what would she say? Uncertainty plagued her mind, what would become of their family? Gripping her sheets Hannah was a utter wreck without a peace of mind, the only thing she could do was hope for the best... Hannah put on a confident face knowing there could be trouble ahead for the family, but they would find out what trouble was in store from them.
In the boys room Mathew was reading a holocron, while Duncan was pulling himself with his legs holding on to the bar in the door way in the closet.
"259, 260, 261,..."
Mathew swung his chair around, looking at Duncan with an irritated expression.
"Can you count in your head, I'm trying to learn this force meditation."
Swat dripped off Duncan's head as he pulled himself up with ease.
"Fat chance, I'm trying to improve my endurance by lifting myself up, I mean who knows there may be a time where I have to rely on my strength to save the family."
Mathew rolled his eyes as he got up leaving the room with the holocron, Leaving Duncan to continue to train his body.
TWO HOURS LATER..
"1949,1950,1951, 195- I'm getting this weird feeling in my head... Holy Crap am I sensing something?! …. Not a good sense either-"
An explosion shook the entire house, causing Duncan fall to the ground. The Colony of Ziost was under attack by multiple slaver organizations, Duncan heard the front door smash open causing him to get his training saber. His Mother Hannah grabbed her blaster by the cabinet in the living room, discharging a green bolt at a duros slaver, the slaver dropped leaving the other trandoshan slaver to throw a concussion grenade at Hannah throwing her at the stairs. Duncan's eyes widened as a vicious teeth grading snarl was made, his eyes lit up like sparks of lighting, leaving Duncan to force charge at the attacker. The blade cut the Trandoshan's head uncleanly off, Duncan ran over to check his Mother.
"Mom!"
Hannah rubbed the back of her head feeling the small lump on the scalp.
"I'm fine Duncan, find your brothers Hurry!"
Duncna shook from his Mother's orders, Duncan only nodded backing away slowly before turning around making a mad dash for the front door. Outside Max and Damon armed with blasters were firing two different colored plasma ammo at the attackers, as they took cover behind the crates full of ship equipment for the freighter.
"Damn it! Max my blaster is cooling down, cover me!"
Max hopped out of cover, spraying a heated barrage of orange bolts at the slavers taking out nine of them. Damon took out a thermal det kissing it, before he threw it at the slavers skiff transport causing a fuel explosion on the transport.
Duncan- Wait where's Mathew?
Duncan saw Mathew's body by the fence line with his head bleeding from a trauma of a blunt object, he was obviously taken out by surprise, Duncan doubts that the slavers knew he was a force sensitive. A slaver ship overhead, began to hover over the house giving off a warning siren signaling the slavers to leave with the haul. Max, Damon, and Duncan saw as a armored Ithorian picked Mathew up, Jump packing in the ship.
Duncan- NO!
The ship was slowly turning towards the direction leading to the southern atmosphere, however the ship was stopped as Duncan force griped the entire ship holding it in place. Damon rushed in to his freighter's cockpit trying to engage the generator turning on the power. Max took out a Blaster rifle equipping explosive shells, firing at the slaver ship bringing pieces of the ships belly down. Damon finally got the power running for the freighter.
"YES! THANK YOU!"
Damon engaged the top turret of the ship, the ships battery began firing off two shots per 2.5 seconds. Duncan felt like he couldn't hold on to the slaver ship, before he could yell at Damon to hurry he lost his grip on the ship, causing every one's eyes to widen!
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