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The Lost Empire
Unknown Regions
Darth Nox was at the command bridge's viewport of his personal, Harrower class Dreadnaught named the Maelstrom, that is currently overlooking a planet that was recently discovered on a Rakatan Star map by an old ally, Talos Drellik. Talos worked in Imperial Reclamation, had told him the location of the planet.
It has been three weeks since the discovery of the map which oddly enough it had only one star system was marked. In his opinion the planet was very interesting because of the large artificial structures on the surface and in space around the planet. From what Talos could tell him from the small amount of ruins that they could enter that the species that owned the planet were older than the Infinite Empire.
*Holo communicator Terminal beeping
Moving away from the viewport Nox moved toward the table. "Xalek report what did you uncover" asking his apprentice
"My lord" responded Xalek while bowing before his master. "After going through ancient text and cross-referencing with what we could recover and I believe the ruins are from an ancient species that the Rakata referred to as the Precursors." Looking at his master feeling a sudden peak in curiosity through the force as he could not see his master's face do to a mask that adorned the Darth's head.
"Precursors?"
"Yes my lord, from what we could recover, they probably had technology that could put Gree technology to shame. I doubt the Empire will be able to reverse engineer any of this for centuries if not longer."
"Alright, tell HK-51 to take what weapons, artifacts or technology that you can and bring it back to the ship." Nox stated before ending the Holo.
Three Days later
Sitting in his personal chambers, Nox was sitting in his chambers meditating while dwelling deep in the force. Ever since Xalex brought back the artifacts, he sensed a disturbances in the force unlike what he had ever felt before, it was as if these Precursors artifacts had a presences in the force but at the same time they felt like an echo in the force as if it was not there or was removed. He was the head of the sphere of ancient knowledge and he had never heard of anything quite like this.
For the fact that he had no clue as to what this is, so he decided to call a friend of his Lord Jaesa the Emperors Wraths' wife. She had a unique force ability that allowed her to see with the force the nature of almost anything. An amazing gift he must admit. He hoped though, even if it was a long shot that she could see into the unique nature of the force presence around the Precursors devices.
Lord Jaesa he presumed would also bring her husband the Emperor's Wrath inspect what he had discovered before leaving to return to wagging war against the republic. Wrath was good ally better than any he had ever had as they worked together in many situations, that is how he met Jaesa when they were tearing through the Dread Master forces on Belsavis to get to a downed Imperial cruiser called the Fatality.
Hanger Few hours later
Darth Nox was staring into space at the three other imperial dreadnoughts that were in the system the Tempest and the Dying Star, along with five battlecruisers, three capital ships, four Terminus destroyers. and seven frigates that were orbiting. After receiving a message from Wrath that he had entered the system and was now waiting for him to dock with the Maelstrom. After a few minutes of waiting he saw Wrath's ship on approach.
Signaling for the troops that were in the hanger to form a honor guard when the ships touches down. Upon the ship settling down in the hanger, the Wrath exited from his ship along with his wife Jaesa, strood past the honor guard, and greeted the Darth.
"Darth Nox, good to see you my old friend" Wrath said.
"Good to see you too, I trust that you and your wife got my message and kept it confidential on a need to know basis."
"Indeed, we did keep it confidential to need to know. May you take us to the Artifacts." Wrath said getting straight to the point.
"Follow me then." Nox said replying to Wrath's comment as he directed them to the turbolift.
"So what can you tell us about the Artifacts and about what you uncovered on the planet." lord Jaesa inquired of Nox due the fact what the message he sent only what he wanted them to know in case of interception, along with the coordinates of the planet in the unknown regions.
"Almost all of the alien infrastructure that are on the planet in inaccessible to my forces and the language used is indecipherable without better point to reference with known languages." Nox explained to Jaesa and Wrath. "The materials used to make the structures are very resilient to damage by the pieces that we picked up from site Delta which were parts of a collapsing structure. We tested those part against many different types of attacks, I even had parts for the structure moved into orbit to be targeted by our turbolasers, it was able to withstand almost twenty-five shot before showing any stress or damages. the materials are also lighter than durasteel.
"Interesting if we can reverse engineer what this civilization used to create the material then we can gain an upper hand on the Republic." Jaesa said.
"Indeed, just imagine starfighter with this type of metal on them they would be almost invincible." Wrath added to his wife's comment.
The turbolift that they were in came to a stop at the research and development level. Nox walked and and motioned for the Wrath and Jaesa to follow. as they followed Nox they took this time to look at what they could through any of the windows to see what they could.
Nox on the other hand contacted Talos that he was bringing friends to the main research room and that Talos should meet them there.
After telling the archaeologist what he need to know. Nox then lead Jaesa and Wrath past the rest of the rooms to get to the main research room that was a little bit away. Upon entering the room he noticed out of the corner of his eye that Lady Jaesa attention was captured by the precourse technology that was centered in the room had caught her attention.
As Lady Jaesa moved toward the alien device, while Nox made a motion with his hand to activate a holoprojector to display what notes have been taken since he last tried to uncover the secrets of the device.
"Jaesa, you may go through my notes or use anything that you need. Wrath and I will leave and go to a nearby room to discusses other important matters." Nox mentioned before walking out with Wrath following not long after.
"How is the war against the republic going have we gained any new systems under our control? How has Darth Marr been fairing on the front?" inquire Nox.
"Marr has fair well and has captured four new systems but Moff Ragnus forces have be forced out of two," Sighed Wrath, "I have heard that the exploratationary division has discovered a new star system."
"Tell Marr once I'm done here I will return to the front. With all this advanced alien technology here, I can not abandon this."
"I understand, the previous implications that were discussed earlier would give us a defendant advantage in dismantling the Republic."
"On another note has Emperor's Spirit tried to break out of the Rakatan mind trap or is it holding strong?"
"No, Vitiate's soul has not been able to weaken the Rakatan device, will be only a few weeks before the ritual is complete to completely bind Vitate's to the device." Wrath replied with confidence, "I will be leaving shortly to return to the front lines"
"Send Marr my regards" Nox replied before leaving the room to head to his quarters a few decks above while Wrath went back to his starship.
Meanwhile
Lord Jaesa was not having a good time with the alien artifact or with Nox's notes. Nox's notes stated that the device had somehow a presences in the force from his meditations. But when she meditated near the device she felt few other anomalies spread sparsely throughout the galaxy and even felt some beyond. What also felt weird was that she felt that she heard a voice or voices when she was meditating. For the ones that she felt outside of the galaxy raised some questions, who were they and what were they, among many more questions.
She continued to sit in her meditative stance for a few minutes before getting to go find Darth Nox. As she was getting up she looked at the ancient device before heading to the door.
Just before she reached the door. She froze as images of giant War ships firing upon on another, civilians fleeing while alien organization of various sizes were attacking, changing to a vision of a giant ring which had a glowing mass at the center before exploding outward. "Agh" she cried out in pain as she felt an echo of death through the force then collapsed to the floor.
1 Day later
Bridge
It's been a day since Jaesa was brought down to Medbay with mental exhaustion which Nox had no doubt that it was caused by the force. He was currently dealing with a notion that something major was going to happen soon and he wonder how soon.
He had just received word that Jaesa had woken up per his orders. Just as Nox was about to leave the bridge one of the bridge officers at one of the sensor consoles said something that that got his attention.
"Sir, I have got two unidentified masses have appeared at the edge of sensor range and are holding. Might be ships, sir"
"Can you tell what type of ship or object is out there
"Negative, they are too far away to get any visuals or definite scans, sir."
"Alright, keep an eye on it. If you want send a probe out." Nox said acknowledging the sensor officer. "Bring shields online and tell all other ships to do the same and be on guard until the object can be identified."
As alerts sounded throughout the fleet the unidentified objects suddenly rapidly increased in speed before making a small hyperspace jump before firing upon the imperial fleet.
"Sir, those were Republic warships on the scanners" the sensor officer said in shock as three imperial cruisers went down before their shields got to full power.
Furrowing his eyebrows behind his mask Nox stared out the viewport he counted 17 Valor capital class cruisers and 20 Hammerhead class cruisers, at least 7 carriers, and numerous corvettes.
It's an invasion fleet.
"Comms tell all forces on the ground that they have thirty minutes to get back to the fleet before we retreat." Nox said with only a little bit of anger leaking into his voice since he now knew there was a traitor on one of the ships in the fleet probably SIS. "Tell all ships to begin in thirty minutes to retreat to a safe distance before I destroy the planet with a force storm."
"My lord, the republic ship the New Hope is hailing us" stated the Comms officer
"Go ahead" Nox replied to the Comms officer before moving to the holo-table as it flickers to life revealing the Barsen'thor of the Jedi order and Grandmaster Shan.
"So by the fact that your fleet is here and this operation was above classified means that I have one of your operatives in my fleet somewhere?" Nox question before Shan or the Barsen'thor could open their mouths.
Barsen'thor ignoring Nox's statement spoke "Darth Nox, I am only going to say this once surrender now and we will spare your fleet and your men."
"I think I will take my chances Barsen'thor." Nox replied with disdain aimed at the jedi.
"Well your ha-" The Grandmaster tried to say before Darth Nox cut transmission with a wave of his hand as the bridge shook as the hundreds of turbo lasers and quad-laser cannons sounded off.
Moving back to the viewport Nox knowing that the battle will not go in his favor made a motion to Admiral Okul, before beginning to immerse himself in the force to influence the flow of battle so his men on the surface could get back to the ships. Across the imperial fleet those that felt fear no longer felt fear as a senses of peace and patriotism spread among. On the Republican side the opposite happen as their moral lowered.
Republic Fleet
Barsen'thor felt from across the vast space the shift in the force that Nox had create.
"Grandmaster, Nox knows that this battle won't go his way; he is trying influence it," Barsen'thor stated before questioning, "Why though?"