I don't mean to blow my own horn here, but I personally think that the first chapter was a good start. I haven't heard if anyone agrees with me, so if you guys could let me know, and do the same for this chapter, I'd appreciate it. By the way, all rights to the established characters go to EA, and Bioware. New original character, mentioned only in this chapter. On a side not, shoutout to Fallout2281 for your review. Thank you my friend.
Darth Mortis
Unbelievable. Inconceivable. Outrageous! For four years, my apprentice Lord Locust, held the fact that she had a child from me. Before the war, I would not have cared. But in the past week alone, Darth Zash was betrayed and killed by her apprentice, and Darth Baras betrayed, and evidently killed his best apprentice. Lord Drahg digging himself into a bigger hole then he already is, by helping. In these times, any secrets my apprentices hold, must be shared with me.
I know all too well that betrayal is apart of being a Sith, I understand that. But this is nothing short of irritating. Lord Locust, or perhaps more appropriately at this point, Alexia Roy, while the best seductress among my apprentices, is otherwise entirely unremarkable. How she could have kept this secret from me for as long as she had, is beyond me.
Were it not for her son still being in the wind, I would have killed Roy, on the spot. For now, I must spend resources on imprisoning her, in the hopes that the time in hopeless isolation, along with the lack of food and water, will drive her to confess. If not, torture, one of the many art forms that she was inferior in, shall flush out the information I desire. Her execution afterward, will finally release me of one of my worst choices.
I must cover this up, before my enemies use this to begin a smear campaign against me. As for the child, I must track down who has custody of the child, and take him to my stronghold, so that I ma- (Note from Reid Anselmo: Evidently, Darth Mortis was interrupted while writing this journal entry, and stepped away from it, for a short amount of time, then returned later.)
How much worse can this week become?! Not only do I find out that my apprentice has kept secrets from me, but now that same insignificant apprentice, manages to escape imprisonment, FROM DROMUND KAAS! Worse still, SHE HAS THE CHILD! When did planetary security become so incompetent? I cannot afford to put trust in investigators, over this matter. I must Alexia's holding cell myself, to ensure that no detail goes unnoticed.
(Note from Reid Anselmo: Mortis returned later the same day, and was obviously only more pissed off.)
FOOLS! Roy was taken to a singular cell, isolated from other prisons, four miles south of the Revanites camp. THEIR GUARDS WERE PISS DRUNK! THEY HAVE SEEN THEIR LAST BOTTLE!
It was obvious what had happened, as soon as their commanding officer told me that he caught them drinking, after she had escaped. She obviously either used the Force, or her... looks, to persuade the drunken guards to release her. I executed all three of them. The guards for letting manipulate their drunken selves, and their commanding officer for piss poor discipline, which the Empire can absolutely not afford, at all, let alone at times of war. I had a mind to ravage through the Revanites camp, to see if those scum were harboring her, but I don't believe they would have taken in a woman holding a child.
I have sent Zavrasha to monitor all of the docks and ports, and I await her report. For now, I must meditate, drink, do something, to keep from killing officials.
(Note: Mortis next entry was the next day, no doubt in my mind. The news... wasn't good for him.)
Damn the inherit nature of being a Sith! Not one docking offical knew not to let Alexia leave the planet, because I couldn't risk word getting out. What I wouldn't give for Baras' network of agents. This is the type of event that made me wish that Darth Terecept had never defected back to the Republic. When he wasn't on personal assignment for Emperor Odysseus, our Master stated that any member of the Dark Council could give him a mission. No doubt Alexia would never have escaped, had I been able to send basically a Sith Stalker after her.
On the bright side, the probability of Roy making it outside the Unknown Regions alive, and free, were limited. For a start, where would she go? She was born on Dromund Kaas, her mother a slave captured from Republic space, a few decades before the war, was freed by a Kaas City noble, and they married. This is the only home she's ever known. She was barely sent on missions in Republic space, the times that she was, she was always captured. It was a damned miracle she achieved the rank of Lord, at all, shortly before her Master was killed.
If she's lucky, she can go on to dominate a pirate crew, and use her looks to keep her, and her son safe for a few good five or so years, only to be killed after her borrowed time ran out. If she's unlucky, which she is, she has doomed both herself, and her son. Until I have a clear idea of what the most likely outcome is however, I must track her down, to the point where I at least know where she is. If she disappears in a part of the galaxy, that no one cares about, I will tell the rest of the Sith that she failed the final mission I sent her on. But I must not allow news of her son, more so than her escape, to become public knowledge, amongst my colleagues, and more importantly, my enemies.
Zavrasha shall lead a detachment, of my personal agents, in Imperial Intelligence, to regain a trail on Alexia. Once her movements have become predictable, I shall decide how to handle this situation. Of course, if Zavrasha manages to pin her down, execute her on her own, and bring the young child to me, then she shall have earned her place, as a Lord of the Sith.
To have to spend fleet resources, for someone so worthless, for a matter otherwise trivial... may this war be won soon.
