Obligatory disclaimer: I don't own Star Wars or it's proprietary characters, like Darth Vader or the Emperor. I created Kyle and Kieran Katro, Tessa Richards, C-3P1, and the group of aliens, who Cassandra first encounters.
Star Wars:
Cassandra's Journey
By: Myst Dragon
Chapter 1
Cassandra Katro is the daughter of Kieran Katro and Tessa Richards. Twenty-five years ago her father became a wanderer after the loss of everyone in his family except for his brother who had left home for personal reasons. Fifteen years ago Kieran had recovered from the need to wander and settled down to give his wife and daughter stability. During this time he trained his daughter in martial art techniques, including some slight weapons training. At age twenty, young Cassandra Katro had become proficient in all of the techniques that her father had taught her, though she was nowhere near mastering them. Her uncle, Kyle Katro, occasionally visited and gave her firearms lessons, much to her father's annoyance. Cassandra had learned over the years, that by using her chi, the energy of the spirit, she could strike harder, move faster or jump higher. She also learned some techniques to project her chi, to seem more intimidating or simply as a kinetic pulse to strike from a distance, the former being a drain depending on the strength of the pulse. Eventually she became restless, like so many these days on Earth in the early 21st century, and she began to wander.
One day in her blind wandering, she finds herself on Mount Fuji in Japan. Speaking fluent Japanese had many benefits for the young lady. Most of which were related to information gathering about the local area; just as knowing German helped her, when she had allowed herself to be captured by a group of neo-nazis. Now she travels the Mountain, wearing a cold climate suit over her regular clothes, hood drawn. After hours of searching, she finds an abandoned shrine in front of a cave that many locals said they'd heard strange noises coming from. As she enters, she remembers her uncle telling her that being a Katro meant that, "No matter where you go. If you don't find trouble, trouble always finds you!"
Once she goes so far into the cave that the wind is no longer apparent, she shucks off the cold climate suit, revealing her close fit jeans, jump boots, wrap-around, white shirt, and the brown leather jacket of her fathers. Her long, brown hair was tied in a ponytail and she removed her shaded glasses, uncovering her hazel eyes. Two sets of bangs frame her face and a thin set hangs between her sharp nose and right eye. She turned on a compact flashlight and continued on through the cave. Eventually she came to a strange metallic object that was shaped like an arrowhead and colored primarily red. Upon closer inspection, she found a way to open it's clouded canopy. I really did seem like a cockpit, and she wondered, "Can this really some kind of spacecraft?" On an impulse she jumps into the cockpit and attempts to locate some kind of log playback. In a moment of luck she hits the right switch and a message plays back. It's a holographic image of a humanoid being with two horns on top of his head. It's words were unintelligible to her, but she perceived through it's body language that the being had been losing hope.
Hologram: "Master Windu! I can only hope that this transmission finds you, the auto repairs on my ship are malfunctioning and working slowly." The image flickers for a moment "I came to be on this planet full of superstitious humans, during an accident while testing modifications to the fighter. My nav. computer malfunctioned and flew me through a…" the message is cut of as the rest of the ships systems come to life. The canopy quickly closes and the craft frees itself from the earth and quickly flies through the cave. As it goes, the computer is apparently trying to say something.
Cassandra: "Look here now! I don't understand what you're saying! Try speaking…" she is suddenly cut off when an injector pricks her in the neck!
Computer: "Intruder alert, security protocols engaged. Have a nice flight." As they leave Earth's atmosphere, the young woman sees a ring with what looks like a jet engine on either side, and she passes out.
Cassandra wakes up wearing only her jeans, finding herself strapped down to a table. She examines the strap by means of touch and sight.
Cassandra: "I wonder if I can focus enough chi to break it?" As she attempted to focus her chi into her arms to make them stronger, she discovered that something was terribly wrong! A panicked thought races through her head, "It's disrupted! I can't control the flow of chi in my body!" She sees her pocketknife on a nearby table, and in annoyance closes her eyes and visualizes her father, Kieran Katro, taking the knife and cutting the strap. "Someone is going to pay for this!" When she hears a snap she opens her eyes and sees the knife fall to the floor. With her free hand she unlocks the other straps and stands up. She collects her pocket items left in the room, and puts on a robe that had been, carelessly left in the room. While avoiding sight by some of the strange aliens, a feat in itself considering that her normal chi flow has been disrupted, disorienting her slightly, she overhears a human and an alien fighting the human insulting the other.
Bald Human: "Creedos, you Imbecile! I specifically stated that the midichlorian sample was to be administered directly into the ovum and nowhere else!" the creature he was speaking with looked like a cross between an insect, a human, and a lizard.
Creedos: his antenna twitched, "I don't work on humans. I don't even know what that is!"
B Human: "You could have at least asked before wasting the sample, now the Emperor will have both of our hides! He has sent Lord Vader to inspect the Jedi Starfighter, and the girl!" the panic was obvious in the man's tone and face. "We must return to the examining room to make sure, that she isn't alone when she awakens." As they turn to leave the room, she rushes in, stopping them.
Cassandra: "It's a little late for that! I want my shirt, my jacket, and a way out of here, now!"
Bald Human: "Get her!" with that order, the strange alien rushed towards her. In that instant she had memories of something called the Force, and some of the means of manipulating it. The creature was four feet away when she held out her hand and pushed back into a wall, 20 feet away. She smirks, and looks at the bald man.
Cassandra: "Get her!' That was the best you could come up with!" she grabs him by the collar, and stares him down. "My shirt, jacket, and a way out of here, NOW!"
Bald Human: "The shirt and jacket were destroyed by a lab animal, when he got loose, I swear! As for a way out you to get out of this space station, you can use that terminal to find a hanger and take a ship. There's nobody here that could possibly stop you!" That last part was a lie; he knew Darth Vader should be landing in a few moments.
Cassandra: "One more thing, what did you do to me?"
Bald Human: "Our plan was to create a being powerful in the force to be raised from child hood, by the Emperor."
Cassandra: looking in her arm in disgust. "How disgusting!"
Bald Human: "It wasn't that kind of sample! It was a midichlorian sample taken from Darth Vader."
Cassandra: "What are 'midichlorian's'?"
Bald Human: "They are cellular organisms that allowed the jedi and sith to manipulate the Force. The sample apparently carried with it, the skills of Vader, which was most unexpected! You probably can speak some if not all of the languages he knew, when the sample was taken as well as the force powers you've demonstrated."
Cassandra: tossing the man to his associate. "Feels like they brought something else too. I don't exactly feel like myself, so I'll take me leave of your company." She walks over to the terminal and searches for the nearest hanger bay.
Meanwhile an Imperial shuttle is landing in Hanger Bay three. The Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Vader, walks out of it. His black helmet, mask and support suit make him an imposing figure even to those who are unaware of his reputation. Two storm troopers accompany him; wearing white, face covering helmets and armor. He senses a strange disturbance in the Force, but ignored it because the emperor informed him of the plan to create a child using his midichlorians. The head of the station, Dr. Cornel, greets him.
Dr. Cornel: the white-haired man tries to fight his unease. "Lord Vader, how nice to meet you."
Vader: "Cut the pleasantries, and just lead me to the girl that was in the fighter!" his deep metallic voice sending shivers down the spine of the doctor.
Dr. Cornel: "Of course sir."
As Cassandra sneaks down the hall, she uses simple strikes to the back of the neck to take out some of the guards. She eventually decides to take one of their blasters and belts. In the back of her mind, she is constantly bothered by painful feelings of loss and anger, feelings that are not her own. The feelings continually push for dominance, but she keeps her cool. As she walks into an intersection of the halls, the hair on the back of her neck is on end as she finally notes a heavy breathing to her right. She nervously looks to see a tall man in black armor, a cape and a face-covering helmet. Beside him are two storm troopers and very frightened looking Doctor! Cassandra begins to feel an anger of her own, as she looks at the man in black. The anger begins to blend with the emotions she was feeling earlier.
Dr. Cornel: "It's her! What's she doing free?"
Cassandra: gritting her teeth "Just let me pass. I don't want to hurt anybody!"
Vader: "Surrender to me, and you will be taught, how to master what is happening to you. Fight and you will die."
Cassandra: "I don't think so. I'm a Katro." she pauses glancing for a long shaft of metal. "And you'll pay for messing with my head!" As her anger overwhelms her she pulls a bracing rod to her hand, lifts it up and sends it arching down into the floor, sending debris towards the surprised men. She drops the rod and as she starts to run away, she unconsciously reaches out and pulls Vader's lightsaber to her. As Vader recovers from the surprise and the dust clears, he finds that the doctor and troopers were badly injured and unconscious. He then noted the unthinkable; his lightsaber had been stolen!
Vader: "Impressive." The Dark Lord crushed the throat of the doctor, and left noting that he would have to grab a spare lightsaber from his shuttle, and that things should be interesting, while they search for the woman. He realized that part of his essence that powered her strange attack must have called out for the weapon.
No longer bothering to be discreet, she punches and kicks anything unfortunate to be in her way. After standing around a few moments, trying to figure out what to do, she looks up and sees a vent cover. After pulling it down, she goes into the vent and uses the Force to pull the cover back up into place. She silently crawls around the vents for a short time, and decides to rest.
Cassandra: "This isn't good. I'm alone on a space station, I've lost the ability to manipulate my chi, and I've got some guy's painful emotions roaming around in my head, distracting me! There's a plus side to that though. I've also got some of his skills. It looked like he was still wearing a flight suit, so maybe I can pilot a ship!" She looks down at the brown robe she is wearing to cover her chest. "I'd better do something about this, so it'll be easier to move." She uses her knife to cut much of the lower half off, and re-wraps it, tying it on her left side. "Oops, that's a little higher than what I intended." She noted to herself after seeing that she exposed her abs.
As the young woman crawls through the vent, a small robot approaches her from behind. The droid shocks her with a prod coming from a panel. Without thinking Cassandra uses the Force to send it sailing through the wall of the vent, screaming. Her face flushes as she realizes effect her noisy action would cause! She quickly draws the lightsaber she 'acquired', and activates it, causing a crimson beam of energy to form. With it she cuts a whole in the vent. She drops down, and is about to run when she sees six guards with blaster rifles aimed at her.
Cassandra: "Hi there! You guys come to help see me off? Which way to the nearest hanger?" She smirks as she finally pushes back the dark emotions that have been disturbing her conscious mind.
Guard 1: "Shut up, witch! Drop your weapons and surrender. Try anything funny and you're dead!"
Cassandra: "You don't want to do this, you should leave while you still can." To her surprise, the guard lowered his weapon and started walking away.
Guard 2: "What are you doing?"
Guard 1: "I don't want to do this. I should leave while I still can."
Guard 2: "She did something to him! Shoot her!" As the five remaining guards began firing, she instinctively used the scarlet lightsaber to deflect the shots.
Cassandra: "What did I do? I can't help it if the man knows good advise when he hears it!" She rushes in to finish the guards, before they can call for help. She quickly beheads one and spins the weapon to stab one that maneuvered behind her. One of the others takes a shot at her back. Unable to move completely out of the way she tries to reposition herself to deflect the blast. She was too late and the blast winds up grazing her side. The young woman cuts him into multiple pieces in retaliation to his shot. Not wanting to kill anyone else, while it is unnecessary, she Force pushes the remaining guards into the wall hard enough for them to make an impression. "I lost control again! Whenever I use these 'Force' powers, it gets harder to keep his emotions in check!" After looking at the disaster surrounding her, she starts running down a hall.
As Vader returns to his shuttle, one of the storm troopers he left behind approaches him.
S.T. 1: "Sir, we've received a message from the Emperor. He wants your report."
Vader: "Have the remaining troopers wait outside the shuttle." The storm trooper relays the order, and the four remaining troopers exit the shuttle. Kneeling down, the Sith lord activates his holographic transmitter, and he is greeted by the image of a withered old man in black robes
Palpatine: "Report. How goes this endeavor, we've allowed for amusement."
Vader: "The researchers have failed, as expected. Also, Dr. Cornel's security control of the facility was found lacking, so I relieved him of his responsibilities."
Palpatine: "What bothers you, my apprentice? Is there something familiar about this woman?" the old man seemed amused by what he sensed from Vader.
Vader: "It felt as though I was facing myself. The researchers blunder has affected her emotional stability. She is…"
Palpatine: "… compelled by your darkness. She is of no concern to us, and will most likely self-destruct with the proper motivation." The Emperor grins maliciously. "Download all of the data, from the Jedi vessel, destroy it in a very notable manner, and return to what you were doing. You lost Skywalker in Cloud City; you must not loose him again."
Being wary of the droids, Cassandra finds a hanger bay while crawling through the vents again. As she peeks through an opening she sees a gray shuttle that looks like it has a pair of wings and a sail. She also sees the craft that brought her here, and it explodes after the shuttle is cleared of the bay.
Cassandra: barely able to stay in a hushed tone "No. Why? Now I'll never get back! I guess I have no choice, I'll be stuck wandering space, with someone else's damage stuck in my head!" She takes a deep breath. "I am a Katro. We don't surrender. I won't give up! I'll 'borrow' a ship and use the time alone to meditate. Maybe I can exorcise his demons before they drive me insane!" With that plan she opens the vent, jumps down and kicks the guard she lands next to in the jaw. With the only guard in the bay out of the way, she makes for a small, quarter-moon shaped, cargo ship.
As she sits in the pilot seat she lets instinct take over and plans a course for a nearby world called Tantooine. She lifts off as other guards rush in and start firing on the ship. Before they know it, she's out of the hanger and makes the jump to hyperspace.
Star Wars:
Cassandra's Journey
By: Myst Dragon
Chapter 1
Cassandra Katro is the daughter of Kieran Katro and Tessa Richards. Twenty-five years ago her father became a wanderer after the loss of everyone in his family except for his brother who had left home for personal reasons. Fifteen years ago Kieran had recovered from the need to wander and settled down to give his wife and daughter stability. During this time he trained his daughter in martial art techniques, including some slight weapons training. At age twenty, young Cassandra Katro had become proficient in all of the techniques that her father had taught her, though she was nowhere near mastering them. Her uncle, Kyle Katro, occasionally visited and gave her firearms lessons, much to her father's annoyance. Cassandra had learned over the years, that by using her chi, the energy of the spirit, she could strike harder, move faster or jump higher. She also learned some techniques to project her chi, to seem more intimidating or simply as a kinetic pulse to strike from a distance, the former being a drain depending on the strength of the pulse. Eventually she became restless, like so many these days on Earth in the early 21st century, and she began to wander.
One day in her blind wandering, she finds herself on Mount Fuji in Japan. Speaking fluent Japanese had many benefits for the young lady. Most of which were related to information gathering about the local area; just as knowing German helped her, when she had allowed herself to be captured by a group of neo-nazis. Now she travels the Mountain, wearing a cold climate suit over her regular clothes, hood drawn. After hours of searching, she finds an abandoned shrine in front of a cave that many locals said they'd heard strange noises coming from. As she enters, she remembers her uncle telling her that being a Katro meant that, "No matter where you go. If you don't find trouble, trouble always finds you!"
Once she goes so far into the cave that the wind is no longer apparent, she shucks off the cold climate suit, revealing her close fit jeans, jump boots, wrap-around, white shirt, and the brown leather jacket of her fathers. Her long, brown hair was tied in a ponytail and she removed her shaded glasses, uncovering her hazel eyes. Two sets of bangs frame her face and a thin set hangs between her sharp nose and right eye. She turned on a compact flashlight and continued on through the cave. Eventually she came to a strange metallic object that was shaped like an arrowhead and colored primarily red. Upon closer inspection, she found a way to open it's clouded canopy. I really did seem like a cockpit, and she wondered, "Can this really some kind of spacecraft?" On an impulse she jumps into the cockpit and attempts to locate some kind of log playback. In a moment of luck she hits the right switch and a message plays back. It's a holographic image of a humanoid being with two horns on top of his head. It's words were unintelligible to her, but she perceived through it's body language that the being had been losing hope.
Hologram: "Master Windu! I can only hope that this transmission finds you, the auto repairs on my ship are malfunctioning and working slowly." The image flickers for a moment "I came to be on this planet full of superstitious humans, during an accident while testing modifications to the fighter. My nav. computer malfunctioned and flew me through a…" the message is cut of as the rest of the ships systems come to life. The canopy quickly closes and the craft frees itself from the earth and quickly flies through the cave. As it goes, the computer is apparently trying to say something.
Cassandra: "Look here now! I don't understand what you're saying! Try speaking…" she is suddenly cut off when an injector pricks her in the neck!
Computer: "Intruder alert, security protocols engaged. Have a nice flight." As they leave Earth's atmosphere, the young woman sees a ring with what looks like a jet engine on either side, and she passes out.
Cassandra wakes up wearing only her jeans, finding herself strapped down to a table. She examines the strap by means of touch and sight.
Cassandra: "I wonder if I can focus enough chi to break it?" As she attempted to focus her chi into her arms to make them stronger, she discovered that something was terribly wrong! A panicked thought races through her head, "It's disrupted! I can't control the flow of chi in my body!" She sees her pocketknife on a nearby table, and in annoyance closes her eyes and visualizes her father, Kieran Katro, taking the knife and cutting the strap. "Someone is going to pay for this!" When she hears a snap she opens her eyes and sees the knife fall to the floor. With her free hand she unlocks the other straps and stands up. She collects her pocket items left in the room, and puts on a robe that had been, carelessly left in the room. While avoiding sight by some of the strange aliens, a feat in itself considering that her normal chi flow has been disrupted, disorienting her slightly, she overhears a human and an alien fighting the human insulting the other.
Bald Human: "Creedos, you Imbecile! I specifically stated that the midichlorian sample was to be administered directly into the ovum and nowhere else!" the creature he was speaking with looked like a cross between an insect, a human, and a lizard.
Creedos: his antenna twitched, "I don't work on humans. I don't even know what that is!"
B Human: "You could have at least asked before wasting the sample, now the Emperor will have both of our hides! He has sent Lord Vader to inspect the Jedi Starfighter, and the girl!" the panic was obvious in the man's tone and face. "We must return to the examining room to make sure, that she isn't alone when she awakens." As they turn to leave the room, she rushes in, stopping them.
Cassandra: "It's a little late for that! I want my shirt, my jacket, and a way out of here, now!"
Bald Human: "Get her!" with that order, the strange alien rushed towards her. In that instant she had memories of something called the Force, and some of the means of manipulating it. The creature was four feet away when she held out her hand and pushed back into a wall, 20 feet away. She smirks, and looks at the bald man.
Cassandra: "Get her!' That was the best you could come up with!" she grabs him by the collar, and stares him down. "My shirt, jacket, and a way out of here, NOW!"
Bald Human: "The shirt and jacket were destroyed by a lab animal, when he got loose, I swear! As for a way out you to get out of this space station, you can use that terminal to find a hanger and take a ship. There's nobody here that could possibly stop you!" That last part was a lie; he knew Darth Vader should be landing in a few moments.
Cassandra: "One more thing, what did you do to me?"
Bald Human: "Our plan was to create a being powerful in the force to be raised from child hood, by the Emperor."
Cassandra: looking in her arm in disgust. "How disgusting!"
Bald Human: "It wasn't that kind of sample! It was a midichlorian sample taken from Darth Vader."
Cassandra: "What are 'midichlorian's'?"
Bald Human: "They are cellular organisms that allowed the jedi and sith to manipulate the Force. The sample apparently carried with it, the skills of Vader, which was most unexpected! You probably can speak some if not all of the languages he knew, when the sample was taken as well as the force powers you've demonstrated."
Cassandra: tossing the man to his associate. "Feels like they brought something else too. I don't exactly feel like myself, so I'll take me leave of your company." She walks over to the terminal and searches for the nearest hanger bay.
Meanwhile an Imperial shuttle is landing in Hanger Bay three. The Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Vader, walks out of it. His black helmet, mask and support suit make him an imposing figure even to those who are unaware of his reputation. Two storm troopers accompany him; wearing white, face covering helmets and armor. He senses a strange disturbance in the Force, but ignored it because the emperor informed him of the plan to create a child using his midichlorians. The head of the station, Dr. Cornel, greets him.
Dr. Cornel: the white-haired man tries to fight his unease. "Lord Vader, how nice to meet you."
Vader: "Cut the pleasantries, and just lead me to the girl that was in the fighter!" his deep metallic voice sending shivers down the spine of the doctor.
Dr. Cornel: "Of course sir."
As Cassandra sneaks down the hall, she uses simple strikes to the back of the neck to take out some of the guards. She eventually decides to take one of their blasters and belts. In the back of her mind, she is constantly bothered by painful feelings of loss and anger, feelings that are not her own. The feelings continually push for dominance, but she keeps her cool. As she walks into an intersection of the halls, the hair on the back of her neck is on end as she finally notes a heavy breathing to her right. She nervously looks to see a tall man in black armor, a cape and a face-covering helmet. Beside him are two storm troopers and very frightened looking Doctor! Cassandra begins to feel an anger of her own, as she looks at the man in black. The anger begins to blend with the emotions she was feeling earlier.
Dr. Cornel: "It's her! What's she doing free?"
Cassandra: gritting her teeth "Just let me pass. I don't want to hurt anybody!"
Vader: "Surrender to me, and you will be taught, how to master what is happening to you. Fight and you will die."
Cassandra: "I don't think so. I'm a Katro." she pauses glancing for a long shaft of metal. "And you'll pay for messing with my head!" As her anger overwhelms her she pulls a bracing rod to her hand, lifts it up and sends it arching down into the floor, sending debris towards the surprised men. She drops the rod and as she starts to run away, she unconsciously reaches out and pulls Vader's lightsaber to her. As Vader recovers from the surprise and the dust clears, he finds that the doctor and troopers were badly injured and unconscious. He then noted the unthinkable; his lightsaber had been stolen!
Vader: "Impressive." The Dark Lord crushed the throat of the doctor, and left noting that he would have to grab a spare lightsaber from his shuttle, and that things should be interesting, while they search for the woman. He realized that part of his essence that powered her strange attack must have called out for the weapon.
No longer bothering to be discreet, she punches and kicks anything unfortunate to be in her way. After standing around a few moments, trying to figure out what to do, she looks up and sees a vent cover. After pulling it down, she goes into the vent and uses the Force to pull the cover back up into place. She silently crawls around the vents for a short time, and decides to rest.
Cassandra: "This isn't good. I'm alone on a space station, I've lost the ability to manipulate my chi, and I've got some guy's painful emotions roaming around in my head, distracting me! There's a plus side to that though. I've also got some of his skills. It looked like he was still wearing a flight suit, so maybe I can pilot a ship!" She looks down at the brown robe she is wearing to cover her chest. "I'd better do something about this, so it'll be easier to move." She uses her knife to cut much of the lower half off, and re-wraps it, tying it on her left side. "Oops, that's a little higher than what I intended." She noted to herself after seeing that she exposed her abs.
As the young woman crawls through the vent, a small robot approaches her from behind. The droid shocks her with a prod coming from a panel. Without thinking Cassandra uses the Force to send it sailing through the wall of the vent, screaming. Her face flushes as she realizes effect her noisy action would cause! She quickly draws the lightsaber she 'acquired', and activates it, causing a crimson beam of energy to form. With it she cuts a whole in the vent. She drops down, and is about to run when she sees six guards with blaster rifles aimed at her.
Cassandra: "Hi there! You guys come to help see me off? Which way to the nearest hanger?" She smirks as she finally pushes back the dark emotions that have been disturbing her conscious mind.
Guard 1: "Shut up, witch! Drop your weapons and surrender. Try anything funny and you're dead!"
Cassandra: "You don't want to do this, you should leave while you still can." To her surprise, the guard lowered his weapon and started walking away.
Guard 2: "What are you doing?"
Guard 1: "I don't want to do this. I should leave while I still can."
Guard 2: "She did something to him! Shoot her!" As the five remaining guards began firing, she instinctively used the scarlet lightsaber to deflect the shots.
Cassandra: "What did I do? I can't help it if the man knows good advise when he hears it!" She rushes in to finish the guards, before they can call for help. She quickly beheads one and spins the weapon to stab one that maneuvered behind her. One of the others takes a shot at her back. Unable to move completely out of the way she tries to reposition herself to deflect the blast. She was too late and the blast winds up grazing her side. The young woman cuts him into multiple pieces in retaliation to his shot. Not wanting to kill anyone else, while it is unnecessary, she Force pushes the remaining guards into the wall hard enough for them to make an impression. "I lost control again! Whenever I use these 'Force' powers, it gets harder to keep his emotions in check!" After looking at the disaster surrounding her, she starts running down a hall.
As Vader returns to his shuttle, one of the storm troopers he left behind approaches him.
S.T. 1: "Sir, we've received a message from the Emperor. He wants your report."
Vader: "Have the remaining troopers wait outside the shuttle." The storm trooper relays the order, and the four remaining troopers exit the shuttle. Kneeling down, the Sith lord activates his holographic transmitter, and he is greeted by the image of a withered old man in black robes
Palpatine: "Report. How goes this endeavor, we've allowed for amusement."
Vader: "The researchers have failed, as expected. Also, Dr. Cornel's security control of the facility was found lacking, so I relieved him of his responsibilities."
Palpatine: "What bothers you, my apprentice? Is there something familiar about this woman?" the old man seemed amused by what he sensed from Vader.
Vader: "It felt as though I was facing myself. The researchers blunder has affected her emotional stability. She is…"
Palpatine: "… compelled by your darkness. She is of no concern to us, and will most likely self-destruct with the proper motivation." The Emperor grins maliciously. "Download all of the data, from the Jedi vessel, destroy it in a very notable manner, and return to what you were doing. You lost Skywalker in Cloud City; you must not loose him again."
Being wary of the droids, Cassandra finds a hanger bay while crawling through the vents again. As she peeks through an opening she sees a gray shuttle that looks like it has a pair of wings and a sail. She also sees the craft that brought her here, and it explodes after the shuttle is cleared of the bay.
Cassandra: barely able to stay in a hushed tone "No. Why? Now I'll never get back! I guess I have no choice, I'll be stuck wandering space, with someone else's damage stuck in my head!" She takes a deep breath. "I am a Katro. We don't surrender. I won't give up! I'll 'borrow' a ship and use the time alone to meditate. Maybe I can exorcise his demons before they drive me insane!" With that plan she opens the vent, jumps down and kicks the guard she lands next to in the jaw. With the only guard in the bay out of the way, she makes for a small, quarter-moon shaped, cargo ship.
As she sits in the pilot seat she lets instinct take over and plans a course for a nearby world called Tantooine. She lifts off as other guards rush in and start firing on the ship. Before they know it, she's out of the hanger and makes the jump to hyperspace.