5000 bby Star wars Galaxy: Unknown Space
Lurr'desh sat upon his leather seat, eyes gazing through the panes of glass that adorned his cockpit, the fuzzy blue-green gasses that made up a nearby nebula diffusing away as his ship began to change dimensions and the tell-tale white streaks of light began to light up and warped around Lurr'desh's ship. Lurr'desh stood up from his seat and began to pace his way through the narrow hallway. The aroma of singed flesh and charred electronics surrounded the hallway as Lurr'desh hastily trodded over the heaving mountain of corpse's, former massassi warriors and guardsmen oblivious to the ambition and treachery of the lowly Lurr'desh. after the hasty stroll he arrived at his royal chambers, which were built with great wealth and splendour, the walls adorned with rich tapestries, the polished metal floors covered with velvety carpets, his bed made of the softest and finest hand-woven sith silk blankets, once enjoyed as only the merest visage of once great ocean of wealth, is now an oasis in a desert. Lurr'desh once viewed his quarters as nothing but a mere finery, now Lurr'desh knew that amongst his brethren, he was lucky to have escaped with such riches intact, but nothing gleamed larger in his eyes than the greatest and most revered object of all, his master's holocron, which he took from his master's singed corpse after Lurr'desh instigated a riot aboard his ship.
'Agh Master, if only you could see me now, enjoying the sweet taste of your death upon my brow, your crown adorning my royal head, and your headless corpse resting at my feet, you never could see me as a worthy apprentice, and your weakness and foolishness has cost you your life, did you honestly think you could betray Naga Sadow without my knowing, did you think I would support Ludo Kressh and his over eager way's. No master it was you who betrayed yourself, and now that Naga Sadow and Ludo Kressh are gone, I can enjoy being a Lord of the Sith.' thought Lurr'desh
"My Lord, do you find everything to your liking!" Lurr'desh's slave spoke which broke Lurr'desh from his thoughts.
"Yes my slave" said Lurr'desh eagerly awaiting for his slave's reply
"About today milord i…" the slave paused when Lurr'desh held out his hand dismissively
"we continue on course to the artefact, I have awaited this day for a long time" Lurr'desh held up a black cube and held it to the slave's face "this holocron has shown me an object that even the builders did not know, an object so old that it predates our hyperspace technology by many thousands of years, an ancient race, no… an enigma that I must find, even if it leads to… our deaths!" said Lurr'desh calmly with great vigour
"As you wish my lord" replied the slave as he readied himself to leave his masters quarters
"Before you leave, slave… I wish to know your name?"
"I am sorry my lord, I am a slave caste and was not given a name" replied the slave as he slowly turned around to watch his master waltz around the room inspecting and making sure everything was clean.
"Do not fear slave, I am not admonishing you, rather I am complementing you for your efforts, in one great act of ambition, you aided me and betrayed my enemies, in turn it is time that I award you…" said Lurr'desh slowly, waiting to see how his slave would react…
When several moments passed and Lurr'desh made no movement, a spark of fear raced up the slaves back, however when Lurr'desh finally began to place his hands over a blackened metal chest plate, the slave stood firm ready to receive either praise or a dagger to the face.
Lurr'desh saw how the slave reacted and laughed mentally while he gathered up a black chest plate, a trophy from his first kill. 'I have waited for this moment to come, my loyal slave shall become my loyal compatriot, a vicious beast who has enough ambition to do as I command, but not too ambitious to overstep his bounds, the perfect guard dog in a word' thought Lurr'desh eagerly
"Slave, remove your shirt, and keep your arms up" spoke Lurr'desh
"As you wish" replied the slave as he hesitatingly began to remove his dirty shirt and held out his arms whilst his master placed the front part of the chest plate and began to buckle up the back plate. When the master was finished with the suit, he began to hold out his arm and directed him to a large mirror. The Slave inspected his muscled form now adorned with the armour and began to feel proud of serving his master loyally. When he was done inspecting his master appeared behind his back and began to speak
"Look at you now, where once was rags and trauma, I have seen fit to give you armour, I no longer see a slave, tell me, what do you see in your reflection?" said Lurr'desh eagerly
"I see a warrior eager to kill your enemies and seek your approval enviously, I don your armour and send destruction to your enemies, if you will have me my lord" replied the slave eagerly
Lurr'desh chuckled at the slave's reply and began to waltz around with a metal object in his hand. After a moment Lurr'desh began to speak. "I see a man bereft a weapon, being slaughtered before he can even reach his first kill, in this galaxy a man is not a warrior without a weapon by his side, I have another gift for you"
Lurr'desh threw a metal object at the slave who reached out with his hands and was shocked by the weight of the object. "What is this master?" replied the slave as he curiously examined the object.
"the Republic troopers I fought called them blaster pistols, I do not know how they function, I do know that they will be the future weapons that everyone will bring to battle from now on though, no matter how cowardly the republic fights, so long as we learn from our mistakes, we shall emerge and return victoriously"
"But how will I use this weapon?" replied the slave
"As I said I know not how the weapon functions, but to use the weapon, you point the barrel to your opponent and pull the trigger"
"I will gladly use this weapon to kill in your name my lord"
"Oh I am sure you will" chuckled Lurr'desh.
BEEEP BEEEEP BEEEEEP BEEEEP BEEEEEP
2185ce Terminus System
Aboard the Batarian slaver ship Pride of Terminus, Admiral Bhorak sat patrolling the terminus systems for the Turians or Humans who remained ever vigilant in their hunt against slavers, although the citadel did nothing to hinder the slave trade, it was better to be prepared rather than to be sorry.
Bhorak sat tapping his fingers idly while he sat watching his ship slide through the nearby asteroid system, the bluish nebula gasses providing atleast an aesthetically pleasing view from the otherwise tedious and boring black and white outcrop of normal space.
"Admiral Bhorak, sensors have picked up an energy spike in section 38-b" spoke an alarmed Batarian navigator
"What is the signature, is it Turian?" Replied the surprised admiral
"No Admiral, it appears to have no eezo emissions" replied the navigator who was puzzled
"What kind of ship runs without eezo?, What is the size of the vessel… is it a terminus vessel" said the confused admiral who let out a flurry of questions
"it appears to be about 100 meters long and has spiky protrusions throughout its hull, it is emitting more power than four other ships of the same size should, It doesn't match any known databases on any known ships!" replied the navigator
"So what I want to know is… is this first contact?" Spoke the admiral
"I believe so, what shall we do Admiral?" replied the navigator
"What do you think we do, we contact them, give them the first contact message then see if they respond, if they take more than thirty minutes of my time, we send our boarding parties and claim a new species for the good of our Hegemony!" replied the Admiral who yelled out at the last bit to the applaud of the crewmembers
"To the Hegemony" yelled the chorus of Batarians.
2185ce Terminus System
"Where are we, my astrogation charts are offline?" said Lurr'desh
"My lord our ships weapons are offline, if we are attacked we will likely be in severe danger"
Lurr'desh cursed mentally at hearing that the weapons were off-line until he began to notice that the ship was floating near a nearby asteroid field and a plan took root in the Sith Lord's head.
'Those asteroid fields, ingenious, I could use the force to project them at any enemies if they were to show up' thought Lurr'desh
"My Lord, we are receiving a message request on unusual frequencies, shall I send it to you?" spoke the slave
"By all means, I shall see if these aliens are like" smiled the Sith lord as he spoke to his slave.
Lurr'desh began to straighten up and hold his shoulders as to project an image of strength. No sooner had the sith lord posed when a strange four eyed being began to speak in a foreign language.
"adgawfawdwss hweud Bhorak" spoke the Strange alien
2185 Terminus System Pride of Terminus
"Admiral Bhorak, we are receiving a transmission now" spoke another Batarian navigator
"Good send it through to me" replied Admiral Bhorak
A large being came into view; with weird face tendrils' running along his cheek's and around his chin. On the beings nose rested a chunk of sharp jewellery and on his head he wore an elaborate box shaped crown elaborately etched with patterns. He stood possibly 6'5 feet tall and his outfit seemed to be a chest plate that was lavishly designed like the crown, a sash tail covered his lower torso and stretched on to below his knees where it stopped. The being looked to be wealthy. Curiously Admiral Bhorak began to notice a similarity between this species and humans, noting the facial and body similarities.
"I am Admiral Bhorak, can you understand me?" said Admiral Bhorak
The alien began to smile, and then he slowly held out his hand towards the startled Admiral as though he were there in the room. After a few seconds a piercing pain began to descend on the Admiral, it felt as though his mind was being torn away from his body.
"Ahhhh, can you understand me?" said the alien
"Yes, this is admiral Bhorak of the Batarian Hegemony" replied Bhorak, stunned that the alien could understand his language through a projection, even an asari had to be touching to mind meld, so this being could be dangerous.
'Dangerous, yes, if they can be trained, the hegemony could claim the verge and rid them of those human scum' though Admiral Bhorak with a grin on his face
"A Hegemony, so similar to our… system" replied the Alien
"What do you mean" replied the Admiral
"A hegemony is based on those who profit off of others, this tells me that you either support or use slavery as a source of income or human labour" replied the Alien calmly
"Correct" replied Admiral Bhorak as he was slightly stunned by how correct the alien was
"Then you are similar to our system, we see those who are weak, we subject them to our will and we make the weak become strong, slaves to build our ships, live in our houses and serve our Glorious Empire" spoke the Alien with a calm passion
"an empire" replied the Admiral
"Yes, an empire devoted to a single cause, We Are the Sith Empire!" Spoke the Alien with a passion
"Who are the Sith" replied the Admiral
"That depends on who you ask Admiral, to the republic we are oppressors, to the Jedi we are abominations to be purged. your question admiral is a difficult one to answer, however I shall try to satisfy your curiosity." The being paused for a moment before speaking again. "I am Sith, I am also a sith pureblood"
"a Sith Pureblood" replied the Admiral
"Correct, you see about 2000years ago, a band of beings known as dark Jedi crashed on the planet Korriban, these dark Jedi, were humans from a religious sect forced to flee known space from another sect of religious people called the Jedi, the Jedi wield the powers of the force, yet they were afraid of the power that the Dark Jedi wielded, and so they cast them out. These Dark Jedi assumed control of our planet and began to interbreed into our society. I am a sith pureblood because I am descended from one of these dark jedi, because of this I was born with the ability to control the force… to control magic as it were I can hurl bolts of lightning from my hands at my very whim."
"You are descended from those pyjack humans, disgusting" replied the admiral with scorn
"I Suggest you watch your Tongue admiral, it would be a shame to kill you in front of your men" replied the alien with an amused expression
"How dare you talk to me like tha… aghkkkkkkk"
The Admiral felt his throat constrict as he was slowly asphyxiated, the alien being held out his hand and then waved it away. after a few moments of suffocation the Admiral could finally taste air through his now raw throat
"Don't think I spared your life admiral, because I have decided I would rather watch you squeal beneath me feet as you beg for your life, and I will make you taste the power of the dark side before you die, it will not be pleasant"
"you just fucked with the wrong Batarian, Pyjack fucked animal" replied the Admiral
"My name is Lurr'desh, I suggest you remember it for when you squeal for your life admiral, I also suggest you gather your men because I feel extra happy at the thought of killing all your men before I gut you like a fish."
The Transmission cut-off soon after.
To Be Continued
"My lord do you think it is wise to threaten them"
"You are a sith, act like one and we shall be victorious, besides these aliens are no match for the power of the force, I suggest you sit down and watch the fireworks slave"