Authors's Note
Hey everyone Shadow Solaris here! Greetings and welcome to all those who have decided to stop by and give a little of your time read this story. I have been planning to write this story for a while and after reflecting and some advices from some friends and fellow fanfic writers, I decided to give it a try.
This story will take place first during the time of the Old Republic and then will time skip prior the Clone Wars. There will some Legends but mostly Canon as well some other references later on but till then onto the story now.
Disclaimer: Star Wars the Old Republic is owned by LucasArts and BioWare while the Clone Wars are owned by Lucasfilm Ltd and Disney. Only my OCs are of my own.
3641 BBY – 1 year into the Galactic War
The galaxy is at war once again, after the collapse of the Treaty of Coruscant a second period of conflict begun known as the Galactic War between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire. It has been more than a year since it began and even in such a short time the casualties were already great for both sides, no planet was saved except those very far in the Outer Rim or even without being discovered that became shelters for those who wished Escape the butchery and be fortunate enough to achieve it. Such a planet is located in what will be called the New Territories where a couple of ships recently landed in search of a save place for something quite rare for such dangerous times.
Unknown planet (later known as Namadii) – Churnis Sector
In the northern borders of the Mid Rim lies a planet not yet discovered by any galactic civilization and devoid of any of its own, just an extensive savannah with some rock formations here and there and few places with trees. The perfect place to hide for some time and get everything ready in time… or at least that's what he thought.
"Come on Jean, just a bit more. We are almost there." said a man wearing dark robes with a cloak and carrying a woman bridal style through the landscape in a hurry.
"I-I don't think we're going to make it… I can feel it… its coming!" said the woman taking deep breath with each sentence while trying to hold the pain. Just moments later she couldn't hold it anymore and released a pained cry.
"Dammit!" he exclaimed and decided to put the woman down against a tree nearby. He then took out at his holomap for a moment "We're still 2 miles away and even at top speed it will take too long. All of this had to happen just after we sent our ships for supplies."
"I guess… he got a little impatient… right?" she said with a tiny smile despite the pain, clearly an attempt light up the situation.
"Guess so, he got that from you." he said with a smirk on his face.
"Oh ha ha… If I wasn't like this you wouldn't be saying that." she said and then started to scream even louder than before not able to hold the pain anymore.
"There's no other option, it will have to be here." he said while taking his robe off. "I read about this so it will be fine." he murmured the last part but the woman managed to hear it.
"I know you will do it… after all… you are the Dark Sorcerer." she says with confidence helping him calm down a bit.
"You always knew what to say in moments like this." he said no more calm and getting mentally prepare for his next move. "Ok, Jean listen to me. At the count of three you will take a deep breath and the start to push. Alright?" he asked to which she nodded. "Now one…two…three now!"
Her scream pierced through the land shattering the silence of the night. "You're doing good keep going one more time. Ready? One…two…thr-" he was interrupted by a beeping sound, that sound been his communicator. "Who could be calling in a moment like this?!" he exclaims in exasperation activating it.
"Announcement: Good news master! I managed to get the supplies you requested and a pirate group tried to highjack the ships. Needless to say they were dealt with extreme precision and with painless deaths… most of them" says the voice on the other side indicating it was a droid of some kind.
"HK I'm so glad to hear your voice! Listen Jean just got into labor before arriving to the camp, I need you to pinpoint my location and bring the ships so you can help me" he quickly ordered and for a moment there was no answer. "Umm… HK?"
"Declaration: Master, I'm an assassin droid built to eliminate any organic u other high valuable target my master considers important! I do not possess any kind of medical protocol to assist in delivering an infant" answered the droid after a couple of seconds.
The man was with a dumbfounded expression on his face for the answer he just received. "That's NOT what I meant; I know you are not programmed for that because I'm the one who restored you! I want you to bring the ships here so 2V-O9 and C2-N7 can come and help us out with the medical contingency!" he exclaimed.
"Confirmation: I pinpointed your location and will be arriving in approximately 15.47 minutes Master. Everything will be ready by that time. Addendum: I apologize for the incorrect assumption. Master would never reduce me to the level of a medical droid" answered the droid finishing the transmission.
"I really need to teach him not to take everything so literal." comments the man with a tired expression passing a hand through his hair.
"Did you finish talking with that murderous droid of yours? Yes? Then star help me out because everything I'm feeling right now is your FAULT!" shouted the woman now angry after all the pain she endured during the entire conversation.
"Sorry honey." said the man quite scared after her outburst. "You know for a jedi you can be very scary"
"Salcor!" she shouts angry.
"Alright alright sorry." Salcor said taking a deep breath "Ok, let's do this one more time. Ready?" he asked to the pained and angry woman that only managed to nod. "Ok, one…two… three now!"
The screams could be heard from afar and even if only passed no more than twelve minutes passed they felt like an eternity for the couple as they kept continuing with the difficult task to bring a new life to their chaotic galaxy.
When the time finally came two ships, a Fury-class Interceptor and a Defender-class Light Corvette, could be seen getting closer before they landed nearby where the couple was located opening their ramps and from the Defender came out a bronze golden droid with golden yellow optics carrying a package of sort followed by a T7-series astromech with a yellow optic. While from the Fury came two droids, one was a bluish grey droid with red optics carrying a similar package like the golden one and next to this one was another that could be mistaken as a protocol droid painted in dark grew with red highlights this was one of the most feared droid series ever created HK-51 the assassin droid.
"Orders: Do not waste time and start attending mistress Jeanales or I will tear your chassis piece by piece and use them as spare part" said HK in his semi monotone voice making the droids move in a hurry to their masters, even he doesn't sound very threating at times his threats are very real. As one of the droids started assembling a tent around the woman while the other taking several medical objects from the packages HK walked to the man that left his wife in the professional hands of the two droids that were better equipped and prepare than him. "Question: I hope my arrival has been under your standards master".
"You always knew how to arrive in the precise moment HK, thank you. But we are going to talk about no taking everything I say so literal." Salcor says with some seriousness in the last part.
"Declaration: My main programming dictates that I must follow all of my master's commands to the letter. Differencing between what he says is literal or not is not part of it" declared HK.
"I gave you a learning matrix right?" asked Salcor getting a bit annoyed by the droids lack of understanding regarding human interaction.
"Confirmation: Yes master and I must thank you for it. It has allowed me to improve my abilities to a 35% of efficiency, the maker would be proud" said HK with some joy in his voice
"And yet you haven't learn very well how to deal with others without threating them or considering them as potential targets." thought Salcor knowing despite all of the improvements HK displayed he still got a long way. "Then use that same principle to learn how to better eliminate targets and use it to improve in your social skill, alright?"
The droid became silent for moment and just as he was about to answer they heard a scream followed by a cry that got their attention but this one was different because it was the sign of a new life brought to the world.
Both droid and man walked to the tent and when they saw the inside they saw that it was filled with different medical equipment and in the middle both droids were at each side of the bed they made in which the woman was lying with something on her arms covered in wraps.
"Are you going to stand there all day or are you going to enter?" the woman joked her face filled with exhaustion after everything she went through but still having a loving smile on her face when she looked at the bundle on her arms.
Without a word the man got inside followed by HK and walked to his wife side to see what she was carrying.
"Salcor, I want you to meet someone." she said uncovering what was covered under the wraps. A baby boy was revealed still a bit pale and lacking some hair since he just was born not even an hour ago.
The baby opened his eyes for the first time looking at all the colors and lights around him before focusing on the two humans looking at him and by instinct he felt a connection with them making him release a chuckle making both parents smile at that.
"He has your eyes." said the woman while taking the baby closer to her looking at him with a loving smile. Then she heard a sniffing looking at the man that had some tears in his eyes. "Never thought I would see a Sith Lord cry." she joked.
"Well, I never thought I'd be more scared by a Jedi than by the tale of Darth Nihilus." he responded with a smirk after cleaning his eyes. "But I can't blame you. No training Darth Marr gave me could have ever prepared me for something like this"
"I don't know you did pretty well in the beginning, even after you started to freak out about five after I told my water broke." she said with a smirk of her own making the man sigh then noticing the look the woman had.
"What's the matter? A second ago you were happy about our baby." he asked.
She signed before saying "I know it's just. What are we going to do? I'm a Jedi Knight and you are a Sith; to be more precise The Dark Sorcerer,right hand of Darth Marr leader of the Dark Council and not to mention we are at war again. If any of them learn about our son they could take him from us or worst." she said worried.
"You know I'd never allow that, besides we talked about it he will be safer with in Republic space till we figure something else." he reassured her.
"I know we talked about it but I just can't help it. If the Empire finds out they will turn him into a Sith and if the Republic does the Jedi Order do the same, I want him to choose who he wants to be not by others but by himself." she finished looking at her child with some tears and them felt a hand on her right cheek looking up to his husband who had a reassuring smile.
"And he will Jean, even if we have to go to the Unknown Regions he will not be taken from us and became something he doesn't want to." said the man looking to the woman's caramel eyes before their moment was interrupted.
"Question: Is this tiny organic of great importance to you and mistress Jeanales?" asked the assassin droid.
"Yes HK, he's our son after all." said Salcor with some exasperation.
"Oath: As long as I'm operative no harm will come to neither you, mistress Jeanales or the young organic. No organic will be a threat to any of you while I remain functional."
To say they were taken aback was an understatement but to hear something like that from the droid that considered wookies tearing someone's arms out is an efficient tactic for dissuasion and scare tactic was not only rare but virtually impossible.
"I thought you said he couldn't get infected by viruses." the woman said through their Force-bond to her husband after she overcame the initial shock.
"He can't. I make sure of it." he responded. "Uhm… HK? Why are you saying this? Not that is a bad thing but is definitely not something I would expect coming from you" he said a bit unsure where this was coming from.
"Dismissal: My systems do not present any abnormality that could jeopardize neither my combat or logical protocol. I simply reaffirmed my loyalty towards the new organic both have created in respond to master's request to use my learning matrix to improve my interaction with organics." HK answered to appease its master's concerns before continue. "Conjecture: In order to properly understand such interactions observing your new formed family will provide me with the necessary information I require in other to achieve such goal. Reaffirming my alliance is only a formality to indicate that I will remain vigilant towards you while at the same time collect data from it. It's a win-win situation don't you think master?" the droid ended receiving only silence for a moment.
"Alright… thanks for answering that HK." answered the man although still a bit surprise but understanding what he meant while the woman just remained silent. Once again there was silent moment where only the sound of some of the machines and the baby could be heard before the astromech decided to talk after seen the hold situation.
"T7 = happy for Jedi + Sith Lord / New born = have a name?" said the droid making the couple remember something important.
"I can't believe we forgot." said the man after doing a facepalm.
"With everything that happened I guess that slipped our minds." said the woman with a little laugh for the whole situation. "Now, what name can we give you?"
"I've been thinking for some time now. How about Ronon?" said Salcor to which Jeanales looked at him with a 'are you serious 'look and even the baby reacted displeased by the name.
"Looks like he doesn't like it and I second that." said Jeanales with a smirk. "How about James?" to which the baby once again reacted against it.
"Guess he didn't like yours either. Looks like he turned out to be an eccentric one." commented Salcor with a smirk while looking at his wife, which she noticed.
"Why are you looking at me? You're the one that works as the lead member of the research and development faction for the Empire, you're the one that is always been eccentric with your projects!" exclaimed Jeanales.
"Just teasing you. But in all seriousness we better get a name for him because we can't just keep referring him as just 'the baby.'" and just like that another moment of silence came with the couple debating a good name for their new born son.
After a couple of minutes their expressions changed from thoughtful to happy ones before looking at each other.
"Guess its decided then." began Salcor.
"Yep. Let's hope he likes it or else we'll be in quite a problem." finished Jeanales.
"Jedi + Sith Lord = chose name? / Baby = what's his name?" asked the astromech very eager to know.
"Ok T7, just calm down we're going to tell you." said Jeanales holding a laugh.
"Everyone, we want you to meet Shane Marlisk Colvbeal. He's destined to do great things I can feel it." said Salcor with proud in his voice.
"Baby = like Jedi + Sith Lord?" asked the droid curious.
"He is I'm sure of it, I can feel it. The Force is strong in him." said Jeanales with a smile and then it changed to a serious one. "So, what's our next step?" she asked.
"Like we planned, after you recover I will take you to Russan in the Terrab sector. It's deep enough in Republic space to keep both safe but also secluded enough so neither the Republic or the Sith Empire pay attention." he explained.
"And there are also no dangerous creatures and the like as well nice terrains for him to grow up." she finished.
"Exactly, so you both will be safe in a nice planet with little chance for been spotted and I will have the chance to see you from time to time" said Salcor to his wife.
"I'm not sure if that's very fair for you, after all you're the father and Shane will needs his father as much as his mother." she commented thinking the little time he might have to see their child.
"I know it's not the best idea trust. From all the plans I could have think of this was the only one where you could be safe and be able to have a peaceful and normal life… well as normal as it can be anyways" he said with a bit of humor on the last part.
"Yeah I guess you are right. I should probably start considering what I'm going to teach him when he's a bit older, last thing I want is him accidently force pushing me or making a mess by accidently levitating everything around the house" she said already feeling even more tired with just thinking what awaited her, something that Salcor took notice.
"Hey, don't put all the weigh on you this is a team effort remember? Even if I'm away I'll do everything I can to help you and besides you won't be alone, you'll have Teeseven with you" he said patting the astromech's head.
"T7 = help Jedi with baby / Jedi = nothing to fear!" said Teeseven excited making the laugh a bit for the droids excitement.
"Alright then I think is better if we start getting everything ready to return to camp. How long before they can be transport?" Salcor asked the Seneschal-series droid.
"Scans indicate that both the mother and the baby do not develop any abnormalities during and after the delivery and vital signs are under standard levels. We could initiate retrieval of all no essential equipment during for the time been till you considered the appropriate moment for relocation" it said to which he nodded.
"Make it happen. As soon as everything is packed we'll do the same with the camp as soon as we arrive so we can move everything to Ruusan".
"Right away master." answered the droid.
"HK, T7 I want you both to look out for any Republic or Imperial transmission near our location. We must be sure that there's no one around the before we leave the system and not be track down."
"Confirmation: It will be done master." responded the assassin droid.
"T7 = on my way." replied the astromech.
"So… we're officially a family now. Never thought in a million years this could happen." said Jeanales with a smile on her face.
"Well this galaxy is full of surprise. Believe me I've seen crazy things during my searches of ancient Sith knowledge and artifacts as well old technologies." He said with a smirk.
"Yeah? Well when you are the padawan of the Grand Master of the Order you can find yourself in some of the craziest adventures out there." she responded with a smirk of her own.
"I can imagine that, honestly." he said with a laugh.
"Wonder what awaits us in our future, in his future." she wondered.
"Not sure about it but I can assure you that we'll face it together for us and more importantly for him." he said while petting the almost bold head of his son who was already sleep after such a tiresome day.
"Maybe one day he might help end this war once and for all." she said imagining the possibility.
"If he got your stubbornness and lack of security he might be using a practice blade as soon he starts walking." Salcor joked.
"Excuse me? My stubbornness? Sorry but need I remind you that it was my stubbornness that caught your attention in the first place?" she asked with a smirk on her face. "And I quote 'You're probably the craziest jedi I ever met but that's what I love about you." she finished with a triumphant smile.
"Ok you got me there but you got to admit he might do that."
"Mmm, yeah probably but if he's like you he'll be very careful and making plans for everything." she laugh after saying that.
"There's nothing wrong with having many contingency plans, that's part of my charm." he said getting close to her.
"And I wouldn't have it any other way." she said getting close herself and just when they were inches to touch their lips a little whimper broke the moment, the baby just woke up and started to feel uncomfortable. Salcor signed.
"Already two hours of life and doesn't like his parents expressions of affection."
"Too bad for him because his mom and dad love each other no matter what."
"You can be mean sometimes, you know that?" he asked.
"But you love it, right?" she said with a seductive smile.
"You know it." He said before finally finishing what they started moments ago.
Well this is my first chapter that I hope many of you liked, I'm very new with the whole making dialogues so just bear with me as I keep improving in my writing skills with this story.
To make it clear this and probably the next two chapters will be located during the time of the Old Republic game and then we will take us prior the time that put everything in motion for the period in which this story focuses. The Clone Wars.
Please leave your comments and opinions, reviews are well accepted but please no flames.
Hope to see all of you for the next chapter.