Authors notes:
Welcome to my story, I hope you enjoy and sorry if there is any bad grammar. Oh and as for copy write stuff I don't own Star Wars but I own most if not all the characters in this story. enjoy
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Tales from the Titan's Hammer:
A New Beginning
The darkness engulfed him totally and completely. But wait.......there was a light. No. Many small lights..…stars. All around him, he was surrounded by the galaxy itself, floating though its vast space. Viewing worlds from the center of the galaxy to the outer rim, planets he had visited before and planets that had not even been explored. Seeing the past, present, and sometimes the future. This was meditation, becoming one with the Force. Then he viewed an all too familiar planet, his home…Kessel. That horrid prison, those vile mines, and the people unlucky enough to live on that planet were the scum of the universe. He was born there, among them, among the criminals. Not knowing right from wrong, good from evil. To survive, that was the only goal in life, survival of the fittest. Luckily he was brought up by the fittest, the best of the best. His mentor was so good that the Republic had to lock him away because he was a danger to its entire existence. Then he saw himself, not as the teen age boy he had been when we was on Kessel but as the man he had grown into. He stood there with his blonde hair and pitch black cloak being tossed by the evil wind, combat boots gleaming in the red light of the planet's sun. There he stood, on a cliff, looking down at an object moving towards him.
Suddenly Corr was snapped from his meditation by the blare of a warning klaxon, his ship rocked beneath him as it was struck by some object outside the ship.
"Sir, we are under attack by a Mandalorian war party!" called a voice over his personal com system. Corr cursed as he dashed to the bridge of his modified Republic Cruiser his black cloak trailed behind him.
"Why are they attacking us? For all they know we're a bloody peace envoy!" Corr exclaimed.
The deck commander yelled over the sound of the klaxon, "we've tried to open communications with them but they are not responding!"
"Open fire on them captain. We will make a run for it, set a course to the nearest Republic military outpost," Corr ordered as he started to pace the command deck.
Outside the ship, space was filled with laser blasts being exchanged between the Cruiser and the oncoming Mandalorian gunboats and cruisers. The space between the ships was alive with deadly reds and greens, and occasionally the blue of laser and ion blasts
"Our Port shields are down Sir!" the co-pilot yelled.
"Roll us to Starboard then!" yelled Corr as he continued to pace across the bridge.
"Sir, we have a hull breach in the second ion drive," the navigator screamed as the ship lurched," we can't make the jump to hyperspace!"
As the navigator spoke this the captain walked up to Corr, "Sir, you and your friend must get into the Salon Pod, if we can get away quick enough we will join you but if not you will have to leave on your own."
"I am a Jedi I can't just leave you here captain," Corr replied as he brushed his blond hair out of his eyes.
"Sir, you are not a Jedi anymore. You left the order, but that is beside the point. I have traveled with you for over a year now and I know you are a good man but I can't let you-" there was another sudden lurch as a laser blast penetrated the hull.
"Sir, we have multiple hull breaches on all aft decks," yelled the Co-pilot as all the sensor boards lit up with different color lights, most of them red. "We have lost all thrusters, Sir you must get out!"
"Fine, I will go. Farewell captain. Try to get away," Corr said solemnly. He then started to run down to his friend's quarters. He burst through the door and yelled, "Aria we have to get to the Salon pod now, the ship is breaking apart!" The blue Twi'lek in her yellow sleeveless jumpsuit hurried over to her weapons locker, pulled out her blaster and strapped the pistol at her side. The ship lurched and groaned as it started to break apart and the two of them ran as fast as they could to the escape pod.
As they raced through the corridors they passed many crewmen going in different directions. Just as they reached the air lock that lead into the salon pod the cruiser was reeled like an animal as it was hit by a concussion missile. The hallway that they were running down suddenly ripped in two. Corr immediately grabbed out for a handhold on the wall before the vacuum of space could suck him out. He clenched the bar until his knuckles turned white. He took a quick look to see were Aria was. He searched around what was left of the corridor and found her nowhere. He then realized that she was at the end of the hallway getting pulled into the vacuum. Corr quickly did the only thing he could do, he called upon the Force. The Force that bound everything together, that was in everything from rocks to the very space that was now trying to obliterate him.
Corr felt its power swirling around him, filling his being. But in this power there was a dark shadow, it was always there. Always haunting him, always trying to fill his being instead of the light that was now surrounding him. The Dark Side, it represented all evil and malice in the galaxy. He would not give into that evil. Corr shunted aside the darkness and stretched out with the force grabbing a hold of Aria and eerily she rose up to the door controls. She quickly accessed them and they dragged each other inside. They hurriedly closed the door and with a pop, and the cabin repressurized as they gasped for breath. The inside of the Salon Pod was much like a large escape pod, except it had a large table with several chairs, a small locker with supplies and weapons, and an independent sensor system which was much stronger than any normal escape pod. Corr ran over to the main controls and ejected the pod from what was left of the main body of the cruiser.
"We have to get out of here before the Mandalorians spot us on their sensors." Corr said still gasping. But as he looked at the pod's sensor read out he saw that they could take their time, because the Mandalorians were gone.
"Where the hell did they go to?" questioned Aria as she slumped into a chair.
"I don't know. I can't believe they surprised us like that. Everyone on the ship was killed and even my droid is gone," Corr sighed as he sat back and pulled his shoulder length hair into a pony tail. He stood up, letting his black cloak drape over the back of a chair. Then out of the corner of the pod there came a beep.
"What was that?" Corr asked as he drew one of his Blaster pistols. "It sounded like a droid."
Aria jumped a little black astromech droid came speeding out of the dark corner of the pod and smashed into Corr's knees. Aria fell back into her chair laughing as Corr fell to the floor beside the droid.
"I guess you didn't loose your droid after all Corr," she said, between her giggles.
"I guess not. Specs how did you get into here?" asked Corr. The little droid gave a confident twitter.
"You snuck in did you? Thought you would play a little game with me, did you?" Corr teased the little Astromech.
Specs was a R4-P17 astromech droid. The most common droid used by the Jedi. The little black droid had come in very handy at times when Corr had gotten him self stuck in foreign prisons or when he needed to hack into a computer. The little droid was always there for him. Too bad he didn't have him on Kessel, he thought to himself.
"Well at least we didn't lose everyone. Glad to see you made it out of the ship in one piece Specs. It's terrible to even think that they're all gone."
Specs just gave an affirmative beep.
"Aria, get on the sensors and see what planets we are near," Corr ordered.
"We are in the Sidus system. Most of the planets are uninhabitable but there is one that I think has some life on it and breathable atmosphere." Aria said.
"What is the planet called?" Corr asked.
"The planet is called Aquo-Sidus, unfortunately it's not part of the Republic, but that shouldn't be too much of a problem," she said.
"Well then, let's go down and take a look," he replied.
Two hours later they had reached the planets outer atmosphere. Aquo-Sidus was a rather small planet, mostly covered with water, but it had many large forests on its many islands.
"What a beautiful planet," Aria stated, "the water looks so warm and pleasant."
"Well, unfortunately, we won't have time to enjoy it. We need to get off this rock and meet up with the others before they leave us behind." Corr said as he gazed down at the blue and green planet that loomed below them. Suddenly there was a flash through the view port.
"Corr, we have company," Aria said in a tight tone. "They aren't like any ship I have seen before. And they seem to be flanking us."
Then there was a beep from the com display, Corr ran to it and opened up a communications channel. A strong but melodious voice came through the com, "Unidentified escape pod, state your name and business."
"This is Salon pod number five-bee-two-fifteen. Our ship was attacked by Mandalorian raiding party and we are the only survivors from the Republic cruiser Corsica. May we have permission to land?" Corr replied.
There was a long silence.
"Corsica Pod, follow us. Don't think of making any sudden movements. Oh, and welcome to Aquo-Sidus." The voice said.
"Aquo-Sidus fighter, we will follow your lead." Corr replied and shut off the com.
"They seem to be taking us to the largest island in this region." Aria said from the controls."
"I'll go activate the landing gear," Corr said as he walked to the back of the pod. "Specs, come with me. I may need your help. I always have hated these manual landing gear contraptions."
As Corr stepped out onto the landing ramp he was immediately bombarded by the many diverse and new smells of Aquo-Sidus. Everything on the world was so bright and clean, the sky was bright blue almost the same color as the bright water that covered a most of the small planet. The landing bay they were in was sparkling clean and it hurt the eyes to look at it if the sun was shining in the right direction. Waiting at the bottom of the landing ramp was a squad of strange fish like creatures with blasters drawn and at the ready. Corr and Aria walked slowly down the ramp with Specs in rear. The creatures look like Selkath, Corr though as walked down the ramp. They had the long heads and large mouths like the normal Selkath he had seen and the webbed feet and hands. But instead of having blue oily skin which was normal for Selkath they had green scales. They also had a large fin coming out of their back, which was strange for biped aliens to have.
"If you would please lay down your weapons," the Selkath said, Corr and Aria handed their blasters to the Selkath like creatures but Corr pushed his cloak over of his lightsaber hoping that they wouldn't see it. "Please follow us."
The guards guided the trio though the bright streets of Aquo-Sidus. The houses and roads were all surrounded by all different shades of green and all assortments of other colors from the many trees and plants. All the buildings and streets were sparkling white and the roads and streets were all dirt free.
"How do you keep everything so clean?" Aria asked one of the guards, staring around astonished.
"We have many laws that are enforced about cleanliness. We also don't allow any food outside our homes or cafes." The lead guard explained.
"Wow, tough rule to keep. What happens to people who break these rules?" Corr asked.
"They are executed." Replied the Guard, as he gave what looked like a grin.
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yey first chapter is done, please review chapter two is comin out soon.