"Are you certain that this is a good idea Ky'ram?" the female voice asked.

"Yes Skye." Ky'ram responded. "If Snoke is moving you this constantly then he mistrusts you. You need to make a concentrated strike on an important resistance target."

The two were speaking through a heavily encrypted holonet connection. Skye constantly was looking behind her to see if any First Order troops were sneaking up on her. Ky'ram found it slightly difficult to keep from laughing at her behavior.

"How does the General feel about this?" Skye questioned.

"I haven't explained it yet." Ky'ram explained. "We can set up an area to look like a brand new forward base for the fifth fleet, near Kashyyyk. I will be assigned to them temporarily to help secure the position. If all of this information leaks to Snoke he will no doubt send you to ensure my death. I've got the guys in the workshops creating a fake version of my mask. I will imbue it with a tinge of my Force and try to get some of Revan's left over energy on it. I will also provide a set of lightsabers like my own, crystals and all."

"If I bring all of that back to Snoke as well as destroy the 'fifth' fleet then he will trust me yet again won't he." Skye concluded. "How do you plan on having us destroy an entire fleet without really crippling the Resistance?"

"Easy." Ky'ram told her. "We have a fleets worth of ships that are about to be retired from service since the first line of Solo Class Cruisers are about to be finished. I can send a reconnaissance squad to Raxus Prime to recover a few discarded droid brains and have them wired to control the old ships. Give me five months to have it all in place then lead the assault."

"I don't fully like the idea but I have no others to propose." Skye said. "I will slowly add this information to the First Orders intelligence reports so it will seem as though we've been keeping an eye on it, provided the General agrees to it."

"Thanks Skye." Ky'ram bowed to the hologram. "This should be the final step before he deems you worthy enough to learn how he manipulated midichlorians."

"If you say so old man." Skye chuckled. "I will contact when I can, Master Skirata."

"It's Ky'ram to you, young lady. I will send the normal message if she agrees." Ky'ram laughed as the hologram flickered out of existence…

"Admiral I'm not entirely sure I can keep an operation like this undercover for such a long time." The General told Ky'ram.

"I'm not asking you to." Ky'ram pleaded. "We both know the old fifth fleet is just going to be retired. At best it's a backline defensive force, at worst it's completely destroyed. Tell the other admirals and everyone assigned to the project that this is a diversion tactic. We are going to let the First Order believe they are destroying the fifth fleet and that gives us an entire fleet they don't have any intelligence on."

"They may just buy that." The General pondered. "Fine I will allow it. Get the needed equipment list down to the necessary parties."

"Yes Ma'am." Ky'ram smiled while saluting.

As he exited the office Ben, who had been waiting outside, immediately fell into lockstep with him.

"How much did you hear?" Ky'ram asked.

"Enough to know Commander Skye has not fully abandoned us." Ben said.

"That is a top level secret." Ky'ram told Ben. "Only you, myself, and the General know this. It is to remain that way."

"As you say Master Skirata." Ben responded. "My request is that since I will only have a few months left in my sentence on base perhaps you could ask the General, when the operation gets closer, to allow me to go along."

"I will ask but first I must know why?" Ky'ram asked.

"I believe that it will provide a true target for Snoke. Perhaps even draw him out to fight us." Ben answered. "It could let us take him down."

"We're not ready Ben." Ky'ram warned him. "We knew that back at Raxus Prime but tried anyways. You see how that turned out."

With the last statement Ky'ram gestured to his legs and his lightsabers. Ben nodded in understanding before speaking again.

"How long should we wait and let him regrow his numbers?" Ben asked.

"We aren't letting him regrow." Ky'ram explained. "We are making it so that next time he will be defeated, and no one else will have to deal with this."

"Yes Master Skirata." Ben bowed. "I will keep this in mind. Hakk believes he has something he can teach you and me that will be beneficial to us."

"Let's go see what it is then Ben." Ky'ram said while gesturing for the younger man to lead the way…

"It's actually a simple concept." Hakk explained. "You don't sever yourself from the Force in the way I do to items but instead you sever the senses of everyone else in an area. It's harder the larger the area but I believe the more naturally gifted someone is the more people the can trick."

"Go ahead and show us Hakk." Ky'ram ordered.

Hakk nodded and then walked outside of the barracks. A minute after he left Ky'ram's head snapped to Ben. The man was staring back at him as well. Before they could say anything to each other they suddenly found Hakk again in the Force. The boy soon walked back into the barracks.

"Hakk you must teach us this as well as explain how you only made yourself invisible." Ky'ram told the boy.

"Yes Master Skirata." Hakk said while bowing, before launching into his long winded explanation…