Chapter 1: Infinite power


The Imperial Star destroyer Chimaera glided through hyperspace.

Onboard its bridge was the ship's captain, Gilad Pellaeon.

Gilad's black officer uniform was crisp and well maintained. His white mustache well groomed as it sat above on his upper lip.

One of the navigation officers approached captain Pellaeon.

"Sir has he said anything yet?"

"No, not for hours."

"Should someone talk to him?"

"You have work to do Lieutenant, leave the admiral to me."

Captain Pellaeon approached the front of the bridge where another man stared outside the glass.

The man wore a white uniform with golden epaulets on the shoulders. The man was a member of the blue skinned and red eyed Chiss race.

He stood with his hands behind his back.

"Grand Admiral, you've been silent for the last few hours. I was wondering if you had any further instructions."

There was silence for a several moments.

"If I have new orders for you captain, I'll inform you."

"Yes sir."

The captain was still shaken every time he heard the cold and efficient tone of his commander, he was about to turn when the Chiss spoke again.

"Actually captain."

"Yes sir."

"Instruct the helmsmen to slow the ship down, we're in unknown space and the navi-computers will need more time to calculate safe courses."

"Yes sir."

Pellaeon did just that before returning.

"Sir, there are many in the crew who are still confused on the mission."

"We're searching for a lost world captain. One that will turn the tide in our favor against the new republic. My strategies will only get us so far."

"You've done an outstanding job of bogging down their navy sir."

"I've bought us time, but our raids can only do so much. We need more ships, materials."

"Losing so many systems has made it quite harder to maintain a massive navy."

"Each day we grow weaker, the new republic grows stronger, captain."

"Admiral, I have to ask. Is it true that Skywalker's Jedi Praxeum now has almost ten-thousand Jedi knights?"

"Not close to, over ten-thousand, my agents are never mistaken."

"I suppose that hasn't helped the situation with the Moff council and their consideration of suing for peace."

"We will not sue for peace captain."

"Yes sir."

"Do you know why?"

"Because we're the Empire, we do not surrender."

"A political answer, I'm looking for a practical answer captain."

Pellaeon was silent, almost afraid.

"Surrender is destruction. The new republic wants us destroyed, they see the empire as an institution of evil , an evil that must be destroyed." the admiral said.

"Even if we sue for peace."

"They would destroy us captain."

"This planet, it holds the key to saving the empire?"

"Possibly."

"What is it called?"

"Lehon."

"I've never heard of it."

"You wouldn't have, the old republic and Jedi order took great efforts to erase it's existence from the galaxy."

This intrigued Pellaeon.

"What would make them do that?"

"From what I know, the planet held a power that nearly brought the galaxy to bend more than once."

"Why is it Emperor Palpatine never sought it before?"

"He likely didn't know about it."

The ship remained in hyperspace for several hours longer before it began to slow down and exited hyperspace.

The ship slowly moved towards a planet.

Pellaeon and the chiss admiral looked at the world. It was mostly ocean with patches of land. There were two small moons in orbit around the planet.

"Is this the world?" Pollen asked.

"Possibly." The grand admiral said taking out a data pad.

He read from it for a minute before looking back at the planet.

"It seems to match the descriptions."

Moments later an alert went off.

"What's happening?" Pellaeon shouted.

"Proximity alert! We're picking up ships all around us!"

The grand admiral looked out the glass and saw as dozens of massive cruisers began to remerge from around the moons and move towards them. Seven more came out of light speed and surrounded the Chimaera.

"Battle stations get the tie-!" Pellaeon started before he saw dozens of black fighters swarm around their Star destroyers. The fighters were almost u-shaped with a center cockpit.

The cruisers were roughly half the size of the Chimaera and had a similarly shaped design. However, they had two upper decks that were flat without a command deck that came up.

"Sir?" Pellaeon asked nervously.

The ship shook as more alerts went off.

"Security alert! We have been boarded! We have been!" The bridge doors burst open as several men ran in.

The men wore white armor that was similar to stormtrooper armor only it had a black abdomen area and a black pack attached to the back. The armor seemed every efficient with black ankle areas and interiors under the white plates, an insignia on the shoulders with black containers on the forearms and shoulders under the emblem. The helmets had a black thin visor and black areas around the cheek with a black mouth area that also covered the chin and nose.

Two were armed with heavy chain gun blasters, two had smaller blaster carbines in one arm while carrying a laser shielded riot shield over their other forearm. Two had a blaster pistol in each hand , and four hand blaster-rifles in hand.

The imperial navy troopers on the bridge tried to fight off the boarders, but the ten soldiers gunned them down with deadly efficiency.

The two holding riot shields came up front deflecting blasts as the others gunned down the imperials.

Two more figures appeared over the soldiers. They were both human with buzzcuts. They wore red armor similar to the soldier's armor with red capes and each had an red lightsaber in hand.

This caught Pellaeon's attention as the two thrusted their hands forward and hurled the remaining security members to the ground before dashing forward and cutting them apart with their lightsabers.

"Enough, we submit." The Chiss said.

The soldiers ket their weapons at the crew as the two lightsaber wielding soldiers made way for another figure to approach.

The figure wore a hooded black robe with red armor in the chest and waist as well as the forearms.

There figure had a lightsaber on his belt and had his hood raised.

"Who is in command here?"

"I am." The admiral said before he noticed the figure under the hood wasn't human. The figure had red skin like blood and deep yellow eyes. He had black hair combed back behind the hood.

In all his years Pellaeon nor the admiral had seen an alien like this before.

The admiral and he captain sat inside small cells with energy fields around them.

Around them were several of the soldiers.

There were also a series of sentry droids. The droids being sentient in design with three red eyes in the center and a blaster in their arms.

Moments later the soldiers snapped to attention as two more figures entered the chamber. The figures wore red uniforms that were both robe and armor. The armor was mostly in the upper chest and large shoulder areas. Their helmets had a black visor and two blade shaped areas on the top.

Each had an electrostaff on their back and came in front of the two cells.

"What's going on here? Who are you!?" Pellaeon shouted.

The men were silent, it made Pellaeon afraid.

They opened the cells before grabbing the two and putting electric shackles on their wrists.

The two were lead to a hanger and into a shuttle where they were sat down.

"Stay seated." One of the men said in a cold tone.

No specific threats were needed for Pellaeon to get the picture. The chiss admiral watched as they descended down to the planet below.

As they came through the planet's orbit they saw several very alien looking space stations and dozens of the cruisers.

Once they reached the planet itself, the admiral saw that it was covered in a vast ocean with several islands scattered around. Many of the islands seemed to have large cities built on them with thousands of speeders and ships rushing across the air and out into space from the islands.

"Who are these people?" Pellaeon asked.

"No talking."

Eventually they saw a smaller island with a massive palace built onto it. The palace was mostly black with red areas and multiple statues of men wielding lightsabers and in armor. The same sigil on the soldiers armor was built into the palace.

The island around the palace was tropical with curved palm trees, waterfalls, and sandy beaches.

After landing , the two officers were lead inside and into a large throne room were they saw dozens of the men in red standing along the path at attention. Near the thrones itself were two of the red skinned aliens in black variants of the armor each with two lightsabers.

The throne itself didn't seem extravagant, but rather very well made in design, it wasn't made of gold or other expensive material, just regular metal painted black.

One of the red skinned human like aliens sat on it. He had four tendrils near his mouth and his skin was a lighter shade of red with red eyes and redder hair. His hair was long and came down almost to his shoulders, all of it combed back behind his head.

He looked to be in his early forties and wore a black chest piece with an almost dragon shaped head area around the chest and shoulder areas that came around the neck, the rest being almost a robe on his arms and around his legs, a lightsaber on his belt

Around the throne room were golden statues of men wearing similar attire.

The two imperial officers were lead to the foot of the throne before being forced to kneel.

"Kneel before the Infinite emperor, Draikor III."

"Infinite emperor?" Pellaeon asked.

Draikor stared at the two for almost a minute.

"Who are you?" He said a a powerful voice, the two able to feel his presence.

"I am Captain Gilan Pellaeon , commander of the Star Destroyer Chimaera, Imperial Navy."

"I am Grand admiral Thrawn, Imperial navy."


A young man stood inside a white room as he held a blue lightsaber.

He had thick sandy brown hair, ice blue eyes, and light skin. He wore a brown jacket with tan pants with a tan undershirt. He sparred with an older young man who had brown hair, brown eyes and fair skin. He wore a tan pilot like suit with a black belt and wielded a green lightsaber.

The younger man tried very hard to keep up with the other young man, only to be knocked away each time.

"Focus Anakin, you're better than this." The older one said.

Anakin looked frustrated as he came in low only to have the older young man moved to the side and raised his hand, a pulse of telekinetic energy, Anakin was hurled back and grunted.

"You let your guard down little brother."

"Why do we have to keep training like this. I'm already a Jedi knight."

"A true Jedi never stops learning , even uncle Luke."

"You should listen to Jacen, he's the only knight who can give me a challenge." Another voice said.

Anakin saw a young man Jacen's age with long blonde hair while wearing a hooded grey jacket and black pants. He had a lightsaber on his belt as well as a data pack.

"That ego of yours is dangerous Wurth." Jacen said.

"I'm just having some fun Jacen."

"All this sparring has built up my appetite, let's get some food." Anakin said.

The three young jedi knights walked down the halls of the Mediator a Mediator class Mon Calimari class capital ship.

As they walked down the halls they passed several new republic soldiers, engineers, and pilots. The soldiers wore light blue jumpsuit esk uniforms with whitish grey shoulders areas , a white helmet that covered the top of their heads and came over the back of their necks with an orange visor over their eyes. Several also had packs on their backs.

The soldiers were of various species, human, twilek, rodian, Quarren and Mon Calimari."

Eventually the three reached the mess hall and sat down at a table together.

"I still can't believe we're blatantly traveling through imperial space. Isn't that technically violating the peace treaty?" Anakin asked.

"What is the remnant going to do about it? Especially now that Thrawn's gone." Wurth said in a condescending manner.

Jacen knew how uneasy his uncle and many of the high-jedi masters were of the new republic's attitude about the situation with the imperial remnant. Since the war officially ended, the treaty signed between the two practically forbid the remnant from having a military at all. In return the new republic would respect imperial borders and remain out of their space and would make no attempt to 'liberate' any more imperial worlds. However, the new republic was consistently violating this treaty, republic naval squadrons constantly moved through imperial space on a whim. New republic companies and citizens often set up stations and mines in imperial space with the remnant not having the military capabilities to stop them. One of the main reason's the remnant's campaign went down was because of the mysterious disappearance of their last grand admiral. Thrawn was a military genius, his strategy was to use the new republic's size to his advantage, launching lighting strikes deep within the core worlds using the empire's knowledge of the area. The republic fleet was bogged down by the strikes while smaller imperial forces captured republic planets on the edge of their space, but several years prior , Thrawn had vanished mysteriously.

Smugglers and pirates who once fought for the rebellion played havoc with the remnants shipping, many were killed and when the remnant tried to stop them, the New republic brought a fleet to Bastion as a show of force, 'reminding' them of the treaty, despite not following it themselves.

"We shouldn't be moving through sovereign imperial space like this." Jacen said.

"It's the fastest way to the frontier." Wurth said.

"I've never been to the frontier." Anakin said.

"None of us have, it's why it's also known as the unknown regions." Jacen said.

"All of the untapped resources out there are quite appealing to many." Wurth said.

"We still don't know what's out here. Maybe we should let the imps explore it first. It is bordering their space." Anakin said.

"I doubt that senate will allow the imperials to get their hands on those resources." Wurth said.

This was another great concern of Jacen, the new republic had been blocking the imperial remnant from tapping into the many new resources of the unknown regions connected and within their borders. He feared that all of these acts would give the imperials provocations to start another war.

"Why do we need such a large squadron to guard a mine?" Anakin asked.

"This mine is quite important to the many businesses in the new republic, the new mineral discovered out here is more versatile than anything found in the known galaxy and the Tannab 3 is the largest mine out there."

"If Tenzo corp wants to keep their mine safe why don't they do it themselves?" Anakin asked.

"Tenzo corp is one of the biggest private contractors for the new republic, they provide a lot for the military. It's founder was a member of the rebel alliance." Jacen said.

"I still don't like not telling mom and dad we're out here." Anakin said.

"We're Jedi now, you don't need to always keep them updated." Jacen said.

"Jaina does."

"Well I'm excited to see what's out here in the grand beyond." Wurth said.

"Attention, all officers are to report to the command center for a briefing immediately." They heard over the intercom.

"I guess that would include us." Jacen said as he got up.

"Let's go."

"Can we finish first?" Anakin asked.

"You'll have time to eat later little brother." Jacen said.

The three made their way to the command center of the ship where the officers had gathered. They sat around a holoprojector with a twilek officer and Mon Calimari officer in front of it.

"Listen up, we'll be arriving at Tannab 3 mining station in a few hours and I want to make sure everyone is up to date on the situation. Currently the station is guarded by what's left of Commander Phalion's squadron, but in the last three weeks his ships have been disappearing. We need to take control of the situation and ensure the mine stays safe." The mon calamari officer said.

"We're still technically within Imperial space, should we consider that the remnant is behind these disappearances admiral Zuhh." Jacen said.

"It's entirely possible, if that is the case we've been given authorization to launch an preemptive strike against the nearest imperial outpost."

"We would start a war?" Jacen said in concern.

"Technically the empire would have started it by attacking us."

"Even though we're in their space." Jacen said to himself.

"No need to worry Jacen, if the empire is behind this it would be a short war. The fleet would just fly right to Bastion and take the capital no problem." Wurth said confidently.

"If the remnant is attacking they could have rebuilt their military in secret." Anakin said.

"The new republic military would still dwarf theirs, plus they have forty-thousand Jedi knights backing them up." Wurth said.

Eventually the squadron exited hyperspace.

They saw a large asteroid field ahead of them with a massive mining station built into an asteroid that was the size of a large moon.

Around the mine were several satellites armed with tracking devices, repair bays, and turrets.

Dozens of mining shuttles came from the other asteroids and landed at hangers near larger freighters docked outside.

Guarding the station itself were a few squadrons of new republic a-wing fighters, six corellian class corvettes and a single Nebulon-B frigate. Their own squadron was composed of the Mediator, two Nebula class star destroyers, and four Nebulon-B frigates.

The three Jedi knights watched the station from a viewing screen in the halls of the Mediator.

"Jedi." They heard turning to see a new republic officer.

"Come on we're heading in." He said.

"Alright captain." Jacen said.

They walked with the army officer to the hanger where they boarded a shuttle and left the Mediator.

"Any of you Jedi have battle experience?" The captain asked.

"Some." Jacen said. The captain was a human like them, he had shiny black hair in a buzz cut with deep green eyes and slightly tanned skin. His uniform looked very new and well maintained.

"The name's captain Phil Tillok. I got into the army too late, I've never seen action against the Imps, just been fighting pirates and keeping the rule of law lately."

"Battle is nothing to be excited for captain. I can ensure you that." Jacen said.

"Speak for yourself, my cousin fought in the rebellion and always told me his tales of glory. I need some stories like that before my career ends. Maybe if the imps are getting to big for their britches I'll get the chance."

Jacen did not appreciate this type of soldier, but if there was war then he would learn soon enough.

"If not the imps, you may soon get it from the mandalorians with the way things are going." Wurth said.

This concerned Jacen as well. He knew all about the rising activities of the various mandalorian clans.

"I had hoped that Clan Wren could keep them in line." Jacen said.

"It's Fett and his clan, they're the one's who have been violently opposing the new republic. Dad said Boba Fett just rallied three more mandalorian clans to join his own." Anakin said.

"You know mandalorians , all bronze and no brains." Wurth said.

"If they had no brains why are they still around?" Jacen asked.

The shuttle finally landed inside the mining station before the ramp lowered and let them into the hanger.

The three jedi and republic captain exited the shuttle and saw a nemodian waiting for them.

"Welcome honored guests, to Tannab 3 mining station." She said.

The nemodian woman wore a very expensive looking silk robe with previous stones embedded into it.

"I am Clara Yuioo, the mine overseer for Tenzo corp."

"If you wouldn't mind showing us the mine." Captain Tillok said.

"Of course." The four were lead through the mining station.

Jacen noticed that the mine didn't have any Tenzo corp security personnel aside from green security droids. The rest of the security was manned by new republic soldiers.

"Our mine here is the top provider of Ezium-4 for the new republic."

"Isn't that the new mineral discovered out here?" Anakin asked.

"Indeed, the mineral is easier to convert to metal than other minerals, it is lighter but far stronger than any other metal. It will bring a new age to the galaxy." Clara said proudly.

They looked through glass and saw various mining droids with overseers extracting the minerals from the asteroid.

"Is there any indication of who's been attacking the squadron here?" Captain Tillok asked.

"Your admiral will be discussing that with commander Phalion." Clara said.

"Still I should know the defensive points inside the station. Who's the security-" Captain Tillok said before Jacen sensed something, a disturbance in the force.

He turned to the other Jedi who felt it as well.

"Something's about to happen, I." The station shook, an alarm going off with the lights flashing red.

"What's happening?" Anakin asked.

"It's a security alarm." Clara said sounding afraid.

Anakin looked out of the glass at the fleet and saw in horror an Imperial star destroyer had appeared. The star destroyer looked like it was a much darker shade go grey than usual. It also seems to have a slightly different design,making it more efficient with he overall design looking the same.

Just then another star destroyer exited hyperspace, the two capital ships were joined by three smaller heavy cruisers that had similar designs to the star destroyers.

Soon dozens of black and grey u-shaped fighter craft came from the cruisers towards the station and republic fleet. Among them were also a familiar looking fighter craft. They seemed reminiscent of X-wings only more advanced and black.

The republic squadron responded with their own fighters and corvettes as a massive melee began. Anakin saw he A-wings get blown apart one by one as the republic corvettes tried to back them up. The corvettes shot down many of the u-shaped fighters but for each one shot down two more seemed to be deployed from the imperial fleet.

It wasn't long before the larger imperial ships were close enough to begin firing.

The three cruiser class vessels unleashed a barrage of green turbo lasers that easily ripped through the shields of the corvettes and then their hulls, despite their speed, the smaller craft were unable to escape.

Two of the republic frigates tried to assist but were soon caught up in the fire themselves. Anakin saw multiple y-wing groups shot down by the black X-wings before they could even get close to the imperial cruisers.

One of the frigates was soon caught in too much fire, Anakin watching in horror as the green turbo lasers ripped through the hull and tore the ship in half.

Moments later the station shook again as several imperial fighters raked the side , the shields remaining up.

"We need to get to defensive stations before!" Captain Tillok shouted before the station shook again.

"Warning shield generator hit, station shields off line."

"Without the shields we're sitting ducks!" One of the panicked soldiers shouted.

"Calm down , remember your training." Captain Tillok said.

"We need to repair the shields, where are they?" Jacen asked.

"This hall leads to the chamber." One of the soldiers said.

"No we need to get out of here!" Clara shouted in fear.

"We're not abandoning our forces." Wurth said firmly.

"Let's go before-" Tillok started before the station shook again, a series of explosions occurring down the hallway. The three jedi covered their eyes as they heard the cries of pain from the republic personnel caught in the blasts.

When Jacen opened his eyes, he saw metal drill ends opening up. From the openings came grey battle droids. Each having somewhat thin armor with the internal works underneath and three glowing red eyes. Each was armed with a blaster rifle and waisted no time firing at Jacen and the others.

The security droids between them and the battle droids were the first to be destroyed, five republic soldiers were also caught in the mass of fire before Jacen, Anakin, and Wurth ignited their lightsabers and began deflecting the blasts.

Wurth's lightsaber glowed yellow as he deflected three more blasts back, hitting and disabling two of the droids.

Anakin and Wurth came in front of Jacen deflecting more blasts as Jacen hurled his lightsaber forward, using the force to guide it as the lightsaber cut down five of the droids.

The door at the end of the hallway exploded open as more droids sprinted in, unleashing a barrage of fire.

By this time, captain Tillok had organized the men in the hallway and took positions of cover while firing back. The republic soldiers were careful not to hit the Jedi as their red blasts hit and disabled several of the droids.

"Keep your pressure on the front most droids!" Captain Tillok shouted.

Till and his sergeant both tossing thermal detonators as Anakin used the force to guide them into the center of the droids. The blasts tore the droids apart, but two more pods latched onto the side of the mine, more droids poured into the hallway from the pods and the destroyed droids.

"How many of these things are there!?" Anakin shouted.

Captain Tillok gave a hand signal to four of his men who got up and ran down another hallway.

Anakin got in front of Jacen and Wurth , deflecting the blasts before the two Jedi each telekinetically picked up large pieces of debris and hurled them into the droids, tearing eight apart.

Moments later the four soldiers came down an adjacent hallway at the side of the droids, outflanking them as they took cover behind debris and began firing, four of the droids were disabled.

When the droids diverted their fire, the three Jedi leapt into the midst of the droids and began slashing them apart with their lightsabers. Wurth slashing the last three apart with three precise strikes.

"We're clear, everybody up!" Captain Tillok shouted.

Clara was still shaking as she hid.

"Hey nemodian, you want to live, you get up." Tillok said as the alien slowly got up.

The Jedi lead the soldiers and remaining security droids down the hall before reaching a fork in the paths.

"The right path leads to a hanger, the left to the shield generator." The sergeant said.

"Captain secure the hanger so we can get reinforcements from the fleet. We'll get the shields up." Jacen said.

"No problem master Jedi. Come on boys, high ho silver!" Tillok shouted as many of the soldiers have uneasy looks at the captain's eagerness.

Clara was still shaking, Jacen noticing this.

"Clara, go with the captain."

"What!?"

"You can get out when one of our ships arrive."

"Alright." She said.

All of the soldiers went with Tillok while most of the droids went with the Jedi.

They hurried down the hallway and came across several dead republic soldiers and destroyed security droids. More of the imperial droids were in the hallways, the Jedi easily dispatching the small groups of droids before making it to the generator room.

Six of the droids were already inside and planting demolition charges on the damaged generators.

Wurth quickly pulled the explosives off the generators and onto the droids before Jacen used his lightsaber to set them off.

"Alright let's get to work." Jacen said.

Elsewhere in the hanger, Clara was cowering on the upper level with several of her droids around her. She peered over the corner and saw the republic soldiers battling a large group of droids, Tillok was doing a good job organizing an offensive against the droids, however two of Clara's droids were hit as she yelped.

The nemodian then noticed she was cowering behind the shield console.

The two hangers were actually one connected hanger and Clara quickly activated the console. A shield wall appeared before her, keeping Clara safe but also separating her from the republic soldiers inside the other hanger.

Jacen and the other Jedi finished up on the generators before they heard the intercom.

"Shields online."

"Alright let's go help Tillok." Jacen said.

They hurried back down the hall before entering the hanger and noticing the shield was up.

"What are you doing?" Anakin asked.

"I'm trying to stay safe."

"We need to help those soldiers." Wurth said.

"They're doing fine-" Clara started before an explosion happened inside the hanger.

Clara was knocked off the walkway and held onto the edge before Anakin helped her up.

Wurth saw the droids were destroyed and the console damaged.

"I can't get the shields down." Wurth said.

Jacen saw Tillok and his men finish off the droids. He also noticed another door in the lower area of the hanger.

"Well they should be fine for now , we-" Jacen started before he looked out of the hanger at the space battle. His eyes widened as he saw one of the star destroyers engaging the Mediator in close combat. The star destroyer's guns tearing through the republic capital ship with blue blasts that looked different than turbo lasers. Despite the republic capital ship's enhanced shields, the blue blasts tore through them and burned through the hull, several explosions happening inside the ship before the bridge went up in an explosion before the ship was torn in three.

That was when they heard another explosion, a second door inside the other hanger blowing open before five men sprinted in.

These men wore stormtrooper armor , however, it did not look like traditional stormtrooper armor. It looked more advanced with the abdomen not armored , the shoulder plates having modified imperial insignias, the helmet looking more narrow with a thinner black visor and more-pointed mouth/nose area with a thin black mouth breather area.

One held a shielded riot/esk shield over his left arm and a short carbine in his right hand. One held a two handed gatling blaster, one held a large blaster pistol in each hand, and the other two held blasts rifles, one had a grey pauldron over his neck and shoulders with a pack on his back.

"Manuever-4, move out!" The lieutenant shouted as he and his men charged in. The one with the riot shield came in front absorbing the blasts from the republic soldiers. The stormtrooper with the gatling gun sprayed blue fire from his gun, the blasts tearing apart three new republic soldiers on the upper level before turning down to a pair in cover.

He fired a larger mortar round that tore the crates they were behind apart, killing the two men.

"Get the shield down!" Jacen shouted.

"I'm trying!" Wurth shouted back.

The one with the blaster pistols dove from cover to cover, firing precise blasts as he killed five new republic soldiers one after the other.

The one with the regular blaster carbine got into cover and exchanged fire with three republic soldiers.

He tossed a grenade out , the explosion killing one while suppressing the other two. Using the opportunity, the stormtrooper sprinted forward and gunned down the two soldiers.

The officer continued to direct his men while shooting down two of the republic soldiers. Captain Tillok was also hit, but the shot only hit his rifle, disabling it.

He saw the stormtrooper officer and drew his combat knife.

As he leapt out and tried to slash the stormtrooper, the man used his rifle to knock Tillok's arm away before smashing his elbow across the republic officer's face. As Tillok tried to recoil, the stormtrooper smashed the stock of his rifle across his head , knocking Tillok back before he was blasted.

The last three republic soldiers tried to run but were gunned down.

The five stormtroopers saw the Jedi on the other side of the shield. The Lieutenant got on his communicator and said something before leaving with his men out of the other door.

Moments later a door on the hanger floor was ripped open by an unseen force.

The three Jedi sensing a disturbance in the force again.

Three humans came in. They wore red armor similar to the soldier's armor with red capes and each had an red lightsaber in hand. One was a young woman with long brown hair tied into a pony tail, one a large man with a shaved head and dark skin, and an average sized man with light skin and blonde hair in a buzzcut.

The three Jedi were in horror seeing them.

"For the Infinite empire!" They shouted.

Clara screamed as the Jedi leapt down and battled the three force wielding soldiers.

Jacen's green lightsaber met the leader's red lightsaber, the two exchanging a series of strikes as Jacen tried to read his style. Jacen noticed that the man fought in a very disciplined military manner, he was tell trained in lightsaber combat, but lacked the sense that Jedi were trained in.

Jacen caught his lightsaber and allowed him to go past him before blasting the man back with a blast of force power.

The man got up and lifted up a crate with the force before hurling it at Jacen who slashed the crate in half before grabbing the pieces and hurling them back at the soldier who used the force to leap over them.

Jacen caught the man's lightsaber and held it in place, the man trying to overpower Jacen before the much more experienced Jedi knight used his own force against him, guiding his lightsaber under the man's hands before coming up and slicing them off, continuing on and cutting him in half.

Wurth similarly fought the largest one who came like a furious gundark, Wurth held off each strike but was unable to launch an attack. The man funneled the force into each of his strikes, making them have that much more impact.

Wurth caught another strike and did his best to hold him in place. He then saw a crate nearby and used his offhand to pull it into the man, knocking him off balance before Wurth moved his lightsaber under the soldier's and slashed up his chest.

Anakin and the woman kept up with each other, the woman using a more defensive style as Anakin did his best to try and break it. The woman caught his lightsaber and thrusted her hand forward, a blast of telekinetic force power hurled Anakin back.

He then saw the girl leap at him and remembered what Jacen told him earlier.

"Focus." He dove forward as the girl landed beyond him, She tried to turn, but Anakin thrusted his lightsaber backwards, impaling her.

The three Jedi regrouped.

"What the hell were they?" Wurth asked.

"Sith?" Anakin asked.

"No, I sensed the dark side in them, but it was in a very controlled and almost grey manner. But what they said didn't make sense. They said they were serving an Infinite empire?"

"We need to flee!" Clara shouted.

Jacen turned and saw the two republic nebula star destroyers get torn apart by the imperial star destroyers.

The station shook again.

"Shields offline."

Jacen tightened his fist.

"We have to warn the republic."

Clara went to another terminal and put a key card in. The hanger floor slowly opened as an expensive ship began to rise up.

"My personal craft the Golden-prize."

Moments later, Jacen and the others felt another disturbance in the force, a very powerful dark side presence.

They then saw another figure enter the hanger.

The figure wore a hooded black robe with red armor in the chest and waist as well as the forearm

Under his hood they saw he had very deep blood red skin with red hair climbing over the sides of his head. Under his chin were two claw like appendages. He had yellow eyes and was slightly taller than Jacen. At the side of his belt was a lightsaber.

The three Jedi realizing the immense dark side presence was coming from this alien, a species they had never seen before.

The figure looked at the dead soldiers in the room with interest and then saw the three's lightsabers.

"Jedi, of course. So much more interesting now." He said in a powerful voice.

The three drew their lightsabers.

The figure gave an evil smile as he held his lightsaber up and ignited it. The lightsaber glowed violet.

"A true sith, must have a proper test of his powers at some point."

"Sith!" Jacen shouted.

The three rushed at him, each of their strikes were knocked away by the sith. His lightsaber strikes were more conservative, he made no offensive strikes, he only deflected his opponent's lightsabers.

This surprised Jacen and the others, however, as they pushed him back they felt the dark side grow stroker as he thrusted his hand forward.

A blast of violet energy burst around the three who felt their strength wane.

The sith's hands sparked with violet lighting before he unleashed a chain of lightning that hit all three Jedi and forced them back.

The power of the lightning was almost crippling, Wurth and Jacon trying to strike him again only to have their lightsabers knocked away.

The sith blasted Anakin back with a blast of violet lightning.

The sith's raised his arms as a violet and red aura formed around him and then all three Jedi, the three felt a crushing darkness around them. The pain was immense, Jacen and Wurth concentrated and gathered the force around them to protect them, eventually the two were able to get out of the cloud but saw Anakin was struggling, Jacen used the force to pull him out.

The sith raised his arms again as a storm of lightning flew out and hit the three Jedi who tried to absorb it with their lightsabers.

However, the violet lightning was stronger than the usual blue lightning they had faced before. Excess went past their lightsabers and hit them, the three grunting in pain.

The ship's ramp opened as Clara ran in.

"She's going to leave without us!" Anakin shouted.

"Stop the ship!" Jacen shouted as it began to lift up and the ramp began to close.

"Ghahhhh!" Wurth screamed as leapt in front of his companions and blasted them back into the ship with a force wave.

The two got up and saw Wurth take all of the force lightning and tried to get back to him before the ramp shut.

"Wurth!" Jacen shouted.

Wurth held his hands up and tried to absorb the lightning but was overwhelmed, the lightning surged through his body. The Jedi fell to the ground, his life extinguished, Jacen and Anakin sensing it.

"There is no death." Jacen said to try and cope.

Anakin's head lowering.

The two went to the cockpit where they saw Clara.

"Clara!"

The nemodian turned to them.

"I."

"You were going to leave us." Anakin said.

"No I!"

"Set course for Yavin 4, now!" Jacen said.

The Nemodian nervously jumped to hyperspace as the last of the republic squadron was destroyed.

Inside the hanger the sith approached Wurth's body before using the force to pull his lightsaber into his hand.

"One trophy is better than none." Ten of the stormtroopers approached the sith from behind.

"My lord, all enemy forces are neutralized, we have prisoners."

The sith turned to the lieutenant.

"Get them aboard the ships."

"Yes my lord."

The sith got onto a small holocommunicator.

"Admiral Pellaeon, status?"

"All enemy ships destroyed."

"We're clear inside the station as well. Bring in the construction drones."


Author's note

Alright so this is my first star wars fic in a while that will be a long one

Please let me know what you guys thought of it, what you liked, disliked

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