Chapter 4: Arrival

(In a Imperial Shield Station over the Planet of Dromund Kaas)

A Imperial officer sat at his post, monitoring the space over Dromund Kaas. No one in the base really understood why Emperor Palpatine ordered to security on the planet. When he had been told that he had been assigned to a top secret location to guard he thought it would be exciting. In reality all anyone ever did in the outpost was sit and stare out at the crumbling ruins of a long dead civilization. It was almost as boring as reading a history holobook. He was so zoned out that he almost did not notice when a strange ship of unknown origin appeared on the radar. "Probably another lost cargo ship" the officer thought to himself. However due to regulations he called over this commander. The commander rolled his eyes and walked over. He was about to begin his usual "this is a restricted area" speech. Before he could begin the unknown ship transmitted a message.

*Attention Republic Command. This is Darth Concorus of the Sith Empire. I claim this planet for the Sith Empire. You have five minutes to surrender this planet. If you do not comply you will be destroyed.*

The commander looked up confused. His confused look slowly turned to slight amusement at the realization that a single ship was threatening the Empire. He began to transmit a response.

*Attention unidentified vessel. This planet is restricted by order of Emperor Palpatine himself. You have threatened the Empire. Surrender or be destroyed.*

He then ordered two star destroyers to intercept the vessel. He was amused with the foolishness of these people who dared challenge the might of the Empire. Suddenly one of the officers called him over. "Sir we have more enemy contacts!" The commander, still confident that it was no threat just laughed it off. Almost immediately afterward thousands of warships lead by a ship larger than two super star destroyers came out of lightspeed. The Sith Empire had returned.

(On the Bridge of the Empire's Fury)

A officer walked up to Darth Finalus.

"My lord, we are coming out of hyperspace." Darth Finalus was was sitting on the command chair on the bridge of the Empire's Fury.

"Good," he replied. As the ship came out of hyperspace he ordered all excess power be rerouted to the mass driver cannons.

"All ships in attack positions." He ordered the fleet. Then he opened a channel to Darth Concorus and Darth Imperius. "Darth Concorus has the Republic surrendered the planet?" Concorus responded with a negative. "Very well then. Lord Concorus you may start the ground assault on the planet."

"The enemy appears to have set up planetary shields. Our troops cannot land until the shield gate has been destroyed." Finalus nodded and sent out a fleet-wide transmission.

"All Gravestone class heavy combat frigates, move to sector 3-5 and ready your omnicannons. On my mark fire at the Republic shield gate." Then Darth Finalus turned to Darth Imperius.

"Darth Imperius, is your team ready?" Darth Imperius nodded. "Good. As soon as that shield gate is down get onto the planet. Darth Concorus's forces will be right behind you. May the force serve you well." He ended the transmission as his admiral walked up to him.

"My lord, all Gravestone frigates have reported that they are ready to fire. Shall I give the order?"

Finalus nodded and moments later the space around Dromund Kaas was lit up with the light of hundreds of omnicannon rays.

The imperials inside the shield gate started out at the massive invasion fleet in a shocked awe. For a few moments there was only silence as the imperials tried to comprehend what they were seeing. It was only when several of the enemy ships began to move into a formation around the shield gate that the commander snapped out of his trance.

"They're getting ready to fire! Quickly, deploy TIE fighters. Begin evacuation of the shield gate and warn the garrison on the planet." He ran to the communications officer. "Quickly, contact Imperial high command… Imperial command this commander Klin of the Dromund Kaas defense force, authentication code 87543. We are under attack by a large fleet of unknown origin and are being overwhelmed. We need reinforcements soon or we will…". His transmision was cut short as the station around him was disintegrated by the power of the omnicannon blasts.

(In Darth Imperius's ship)

Darth Imperius shut off the holocam. He turned to his handpicked team of Sith. Because of his status and abilities he had volunteered for a special mission to secure the ruins of Darth Vitiate's temple. Even though it had been abandoned there still was a large chance that it was still full of the dark side of the force. Because of this a special team of powerful gray Sith was needed to secure the temple from possible sithspawn while resisting full dark side corruption. After making sure his team was ready Darth Imperius's ship took off towards the planet's surface…

His ship landed by what looked to be a small outpost. After making easy work of the white armored guards and taking the base staff captive the team continued on to the temple ruins. In the four thousand years of almost complete abandonment the jungle had taken back what little of the planet that had been tamed. However despite the changed landscape Darth Imperius knew where the temple was. He could feel the temple radiating the dark side of the force. As they got even closer to the temple he sensed a presence following the group. The group ignored it and continued forward, killing any animals and sithspawn that got in their way. As they started to get closer to the temple the group began to notice that there were ancient remains of sith and sith troopers scattered around the temple area. From what he could guess, Darth Imperius realised that this was where the Sith Empire made their last stand against the Republic, most likely not long after he had taken as many citizens of the empire as he could and fled. The group finally reached the temple. The temple, which had been damaged already from a fight between a jedi knight known as the Outlander and Darth Vitiate thousands of years prior, was barely standing. The entrance to the temple had collapsed and parts of the courtyard had fallen into the tunnels beneath the temple. After using the force to clear the entrance the team started to enter the temple. However Imperius felt the presence he had noticed before getting closer. Telling the team to go ahead he turned around and meditated.

After a few minutes three figures emerged from the jungle. The approaching figures were wearing black and grey armor with insignias that had also been on the walls of the outpost the team had raided. Darth Imperius stood up and ignited his lightsaber in a defensive stance.

"Who are you?," he asked, addressed the approaching figures.

"We are Inquisitors. We have been chosen by Emperor Palpatine himself to guard this temple from and remaining Jedi or force users who would learn its secrets. But that hardly matters now."

"And why is that?" Imperius questioned.

"Because dead men do not care", replied the inquisitor as all three took out strange looking lightsabers and activated them. Underneath his mask Darth Imperius smiled. This will be fun, he thought to himself as all three inquisitors ran towards him, ready to attack.