The trip to Drummond Kaas was longer then expected thanks to the detour. It gave him time to turn the Jedi. (think of what happen with Bastilla Shan in kofr) He and Kory both turns, Kory would while the Jedi slept preform Dark side rituals designed to corrupt her and weaken her will. Yadira had lasted 2 full days impressive for someone who obviously just finished her own trials. Thankfully Lieutenant Sylas was keeping him company during the night.

When he arrived at the spaceport he was met by a Darth Scotia a Sith lord who was more machine then man, just happened to be passing by at the same time with his two Trandoshan body guards to give a message for his master.

Darth scotia had spoken with a smirk "Tell your master that your plans would not succeed he was watching her."

Janus then asked Khem could eat him who replied to much machine would give him indigestion. Darth scotia laughed and simply left. When they left the spaceport they were approached by an officer who was dealing with a problem with wild animals attacking speeders have lost an admiral to those beasts.

Ah the beauty of lackeys and delegating trivial tasks to them. He assigned Treek to escort Kory while she dealt with the problem. They would meet up in Kaas city later.

When he arrived in Kaas city Janus headed straight to Lord Zash. He informed her of Scotia's message.

"Apprentice we can't even begin our work while Scotia blocks are progress"

Janus replied "someone should kill him"

Zash "That someone will be you lovely apprentice"

Janus: "Why can't you do it"

Zash: "Oh I would love to but the dark council frowns at out right assassination I can't be seen to have anything to do with his death. "

Khem looked at Zash as if she was a walking buffet with clear deeply held distrust as she spoke those words.

Yadira was sceptical was well but she didn't voice her scepticism.

Zash then informed that she needed time to make preparations. He was to attack one of the scotia's bases using the slave revolt in the area as cover to seize a Trandoshan relic. He had informed the rest of his team via portable holo to meet him in the jungles. Ounce they met up he explained they the plan.

They were going to kill Scotia but first needed to bypass his defences. They needed to raid a secret base held by Scotia for an artifact. They were going to need cover to hide their activities so they were going to aid in the efforts of putting down the rebellion.

A Sargent was tasked to repair a lightning spire that was damaged by repelling slaves that put Kaas city in danger from its constant lightning storms. Lord Drull wanted help to test a toxin on the rebels. The military was investigating a series of murders I appeared that the slaves were killing on another and a mercenary captain having lost his best team trying to recover some explosives had offered a pile of credits to complete his task.

He sent his Acolyte and Padawan along with Treek to handle those task while he dealt with the base with his Dashade.

The base was surprisingly lightly defended only a dozen or so soldiers and an apprentice. While he cleared the base and retrieved the artifact.

Treek and Yadira had gotten into a competition to see who could kill the most slaves the young Padawan seem to have developed a blood thirst. There were thousands of rebelling slaves it turned out info they got from the merc that a dark lord wanted to impress his master and decided to build a giant Statue in his honour but wanted to keep it a secret.

Kory was grateful of her position she realized as she worked that just how furious Sith could be in the power straggles. She was starting to feel grateful at the instructions at the Sith academy, fail there and you were given a quick death quite merciful compared to what some of the more sadistic Sith lords would due to them if they failed. While she was good at what she did she knew she could never compete with the likes of Yadira in combat. She was a scholar and loved to learn and Yadira was a fighter a much more common past time among the Sith. Her master was generous and gave her full access to the lore he uncovered and without the significant risks that came with his position.

It turned out through her investigation of the murders a cult of Slaves was initiating rebels into their ranks. They were trying to emulate the Sith and gain the freedom that they possessed. Kory with quick thinking and a little force manipulation to cover her tracks, had directed the group to take up residence in the soon to be abandoned base claiming responsibility for the deaths of the small garrison. She delivered their oaths of allegiance to complete the act.

They returned and met up briefly before heading to Lord Zash to trade notes. Janus was surprised when Kory had mentioned Yadira's growing bloodlust. Kory had briefed her and told him what she did. Janus made a note to himself to get his Padawan some advanced training in combat arts when he had the access, her bloodlust could get her killed and she was proving to be quite useful.

Now they returned to Zash who informed them that she had a scientist with a cyborg destroying device in lord Grathans estate a rogue Sith lord that was held up in part of the sprawling jungles. He was to retrieve it and silence the scientist.

When they headed towards the wall they were approached at several locations as they passed with requests for assistance apparently he was viewed as someone who could produce results where others failed. An apprentice to a Darth he never heard of approached him about infiltrating a cult that followed the long dead Sith Lord Revan. Captain Bryn had approach with an opp to recover torrent designs from lord Grathan and Captain Sarnova had lost a hundred of her men and wanted to find out their fates but her hands were tied. The cult wanted him to retrieve the mask of Revan from the estate as an initiation test to see if he was worthy enough to apply.

Their first objective was to track down what happened to Sarnova's men which meant storming through one of Grathans labs following a trail. The area was well defended with Droids and soldiers nothing they haven't dealt with before. Carving a path of destruction into the lab where the troops where near the location where the troops were last seen. They discovered a droid that claimed to be one of the soldiers.

The rogue lord had been transferring their minds into droid bodies as part of some cybernetic project very impressive. He would be liberating them for the empire. A company of enhanced droids capable of thinking as well as soldiers would be worth quite a boon to the military. Now they headed to where the scientist was held, he had the device waiting for them. He was an apparently a brilliant scientist, he was quite pathetic to look at as his whimpering and begging to be allowed to live were pathetic.

He would have preferred to keep the scientist who might have proven useful later on, but his Padawan took his life before he could say anything. When they left with the device one of Grathans indentured scientists named Ismar Brengle Approached them with a business offer she wanted them to steal some biotech for her she would even split the profits with them.

He Gave Yadira a look to make sure she wouldn't go killing another potential future asset. Ismar would even split her profits and he would need a capable researcher in the future and her association with the rogue lord willing or otherwise would provide him with leverage especially after her betrayal of the rogue. They split up at this point sacking the remaining sacking the remaining labs. Looting the Torrent schematics and biotech research notes duplicating and grabbing the mask of Revan from one of the vaults along with a prototype droid core. This was turning out to be a vary profitable diversion.

Leaving nothing but scourged earth where Grathan had a base. Completing his assignments and returning to the cult to complete his initiation he left Kory to handle the large stack of paperwork their killing spree had generated. The military would want a thorough report and there was still the matter of negotiating with them for the prototype core. Janus was confident Kory could handle it.

The rest of his initiation was uneventful meet a few people while trekking through the wild answer a few questions and face some quite green mandos in combat child's play. He finally got to meet the leader of this cult once he completed his initiation it was a let down just a scheming upstart apprentice plotting against her master.

She was clever building a power base he could learn a think or two there but she obviously quite mad claiming that Revan had overthrown the emperor that only the dark counsel knew the truth and that Revan was betrayed by the counsel stealing his power for themselves. Turning her identity over to his client was a pleasure.

Having returned to Lord Zash with the news, Lord Zash made sure to provide herself with an alibi by attending some dull party while he committed the deed. Finally, he was ready to face Darth Scotia.

Yadira was approached with an offer to spar with some promising Sith Apprentices to earn her self a rank within the empire. The Darth had hoped to prepare her students to be able to deal with Jedi and a recently fallen one would prove invaluable.

Treek was touching base with some of her old Mandolarian associates having accepted a challenge from one of them for a friendly spar out in the jungle. Kory was still negotiating with the Diplomatic core on what to do with the plunder from Grathans Estate and the cabal of slave cultist.

It would be just him and Khem facing Darth Scotia. They quickly made their way to Scotia's private chambers where the artifact they plundered had broken Scotia's command over his Trandoshan body guards. Janus had insisted that they leave the Darth to him but they foolishly sought their revenge over their enslavement and rushed to their death.

Now it was time to short circuit the cyborg, the machine had done its job Scotia was left defenceless in time for the killing blow.