Chapter 22. Force Time
Darth Traya decided that she had lingered enough, she was over four thousand years old and her memory faded in and out, but that didn't deminish her will to rule. ("I shall reshape the galaxy... After all a perosn with my power and knowledge should be able to do that...") She thought to herself. There was nothing about the force that escaped Traya's grasp, she was the most powerful Darth Traya to ever exist.
"Where is it..." In order to reshape the galaxy Traya needed to be able to control time and space itself. The Arquillions had a theory that it was possible to manipulate time and space through the force, but the Arquillions also believed that the force should not be used, so no Arquillion ever explored the possibilty. Traya had to look too the Sith. If anyone had ever discovered a technique for time travel or manipulating time itself through the force it was the ancient sith. Legends say that the ancient sith could move planets destroy star systems and make stars go nova. Darth Koar was one sith lord who had done all these things and it was he who discovered the true nature of the force. She searched his journals but there wasn't anything in it about controlling time and space.
"My lady I found it..." Trintan the current head of the sith priests declared. He came to her with an old scroll. "Darth Cerebro's master was Darth Calamar..." Cerebro was founder of the flow-walking technique often used by the Asii Ting Monks.
"So..." She replied in frustration.
"Yes but mistress flow-walking is the closest thing to time travel and as you know when an apprentice creates a force technique it is derived from something they saw there master do, but could not master themselves..."
Traya turned to her computer, "Mother... display all information on the sith lord Darth Calamar..."
"One moment please... Darth Calamar was a lord of the sith who lived during the era of Marko Ragnos... One of nine known sith lords to survive the great hyperspace war, Calamar refused to aid Ludo Kreesh in his war against Naga Sadow and fled the old sith empire... He returned to his home world of Mon Calamari and set up his own kingdom. After defeating and exiling his apprentice, Darth Calamar gave his throne over to a worthy Calamari with the instructions to join the Republic... that is all that is known of the sith lord Darth Calamar..."
Traya sat in silence as she thought on what she had just heard, that is when she recieved a transmission from the droid mother brain in the Hoth System. "Milady I have discovered something of note... please locate the file named the victory of Calamari..." It didn't take long because the file was digital. "Now please cross reference with hard file coded MC dash 88..."
Some of the information the Trayus academy possessed was in the form of scrolls that had been cataloged. "That makes no sense..." Trintan said looking over Traya's shoulder.
Traya looked at the dates, the digital one gave the victory by the Mon Calamari over the Quarren, the date on the tattered scroll indicated that the Quarren won the battle. "Its a time paradox and an indication that Darth Calamar manipulated time itself..."
"Now all we have to do is find his tomb..." Trinten said.
"There is a place on Mon Calamari called the forbidden sea..." The Mother Brain said.
"A perfect place to hide a sith tomb... Summon Lord Khaun to the throne room..."
When Khaun entered the throne room Traya was waiting for him, he dropped to one knee. "You summoned me milady..."
"I did... I have a mission for you... Travel to the Mon Cal home world seek out the tomb of Darth Calamar... I want his secrets..."
"I obey milady... I shall leave now..."
"Serve me faithfully Lord Khaun and I shall release you from your vow to this academy and set you loose on the Mandelorians... The Republic... and The Jedi... but Luke Skywalker is mine and mine alone..."
He bowed, "As you wish milady..." Khaun stood up and left the throne room. He summoned his apprentice Greelock an Ugnaught who came to the academy at a young age. He also took his personal assassin droid who he designed after Darth Revan's assassin droid. He called the droid HK, but its designation was HK 5000. When They reached his star ship the dark comet Darth Eros was waiting for him. Eros and Khaun were rivals mainly because Khaun had killed Eros' apprentice. The two sith were the strongest in the academy second only to Darth Traya.
"Going somewhere..." He arrogantly asked, Eros was a male Weequay.
"Personal business for the mistress... Don't worry we shall settle our affairs soon enough..."
"I do not think so... This mission for the mistress will lead to your doom..."
"Maybe... whatever happens I won't die by your blade..."
"It has been an honor..."
"I shall see you again Lord Eros... On my terms..." Eros stepped to the side and allowed Khaun to pass.
The dark comet came out of hyperspace nine months later in the Mon Calamari system which was under the control of the Sith Republic. Abeloth and her minions controlled the Galactic Alliance which had been renamed the Sith Republic. The capital ships blockading the planet didn't see the dark comet which was cloaked. "Set ship for hydro run..." Khaun ordered to Greelock and HK who piloted the ship. As the star ship dove into the oceans of Calamar it converted for deep sea travel. They skimmed the ocean floor heading northeast away from the Mon Cal capital city. The dark comet looked like a glassy blob with the cloaking shields on.
After two hundred miles the ship scanners made a ping sound, "Master long range scanners are detecting four large lifeforms... Unable to identify..."
Khaun stretched out with his feelings and felt the four massive beasts that patrolled an unmapped part of the ocean floor. "Creatures of the force..." He said. "Full stop and open the torpedo tube..." Because Khaun was a Tosh he could liquefy himself, he did and slithered into the torpedo tube. Greelock hit the button and a slivery liquid eased through the vast water pass the first creature which had a body that resembled a Rancor with a huge membrane like fin on its back. Its tail was long but like a Firaxan shark's.
After twelve miles Khaun came upon a large underwater structure surrounded by an air-shield. When he passed through the air shield Khaun solidified and walked up the steps to the doors the Calamari statues scanned him and the eyes projected the hologram of a sith.
"Life form detected... Unidentified... Humanoid... Silicone based... Medi-Chlorian count... Nineteen thousand... Please identify yourself..."
"I am Darth Khaun of the Trayus Academy... I seek the knowledge of Darth Calamar..."
"You may enter at your own risk Lord Khaun..."
When the hologram vanished and the head of the statues returned to their first position Khaun reached out with his mind and tripped all the traps in the building. He walked down a long hallway and came to a huge opening. Then he used the force to rip open the massive doors that lead to the crypt. An elaborate sarcophagus lay in the center of the room. The tomb shook, "Go back... There is nothing for you here..." A voice said.
"If that were true then you wouldn't mind me looking around..." Khaun said into the air.
"What is it that you seek here..."
"The knowledge of Darth Calamar..."
"Knowledge is power... and power has a price..."
"And what is your price..."
"To be erased... I am a living computer and I shall tell you what you want to know but you must swear to erase me..." The lights came on and there against the wall among all the gem stones was a super computer old, but functioning. "My master Darth Calamar designed me to watch over this place... I gained sentience and I wish to be nothing... I wish to stop existing..."
"Give me Darth Calamar's Holcron..."
"To find the Holocron you must go forward to go back and you must go back to go forward..."
"Riddles... One must dream of tomorrow and one must remember the past... To forget the past is to make the same mistakes tomorrow and the future will be lost..."
"Well said sith... The holcron is in the sarcophagus... Take and end me..." Khaun opened the Sarcophagus then he switched the living computer off and erased its file. Then he touched the holocorn with dark side energy and it awoke. The gate keeper was Darth Calamar himself.
"Welcome young master... What can I teach you today..." Khaun didn't answer he set up a communications array with the old computer and equipment he found in the crypt. Soon a life size hologram of Traya was standing before him. Traya looked at the holocron.
"You have done well..." She turned her attention to the gatekeeper, "Master... is it possible to control time and space through the force."
The miniature hologram looked at Traya, "The power you seek is too great and powerful... it will consume you..."
"That is my affair... answer the question..."
The holgram just stared at Traya, holocron gatekeepers were tempermental about the information they gave out because they were built to mimic the people who created them. "Yes it is possible to control time and space through the force..."
"Show me..." For the next hour the holocron master dove into the ends and outs of Force timing.
"Sights and sounds help and if you don't know then draw the memories from other people... objects can be used as well... the older the better... Like trees and rocks they stand the testament of time and possess the deepest knowledge even though they cannot speak... The force flows through them and that is all you need..."
"Lovely..." Traya said, "But like all sith you think on a grand scale... I am talking about the galaxy as a whole... Can I affect that much space and time... and what are the side affects... what are the variables..."
Once again the gatekeeper just stared at her before answering, "Time is constant like the force... time always moving while the force is always flowing... from life to life it is all connected... these connections transcend time that is why both the Jedi and Sith can see things before they happen... The power must come from six points in the galaxy all connected to the central hub... each point must be powered by a force user who is aware of his power and has some degree of control... The center is the key and the master of the galactic hands... The others will be consumed and lost forever while the center will hold the very fabric of time and space in his or her hands... You will be able to send the galaxy backwards or forward in time... Know this all force users will have knowledge of the change if they were still alive in the time frame you have set... If any force users died in within the time frame you set they will have no knowledge... Non force users will have feelings, but that is all... many decisions are paved in lanes of time... choose wisely... One last warning... this power is addictive that is why I turned away from it... do not drown in your own ambitions... The force spheres are located on the following planets... They are made of coronite..."
"You have done well Lord Khaun... remain on Mon Cal I shall contact you when the deed is done..." She switched off the COM and got ready to fulfill her desires. Traya chose seven sith apprentices and sent then to the six points in the galaxy where the six spheres awaited them. She planned so that everyone would arrive at their destination at the same time. She made the trip herself to the deep core planet of Tenaubrau. A huge temple was built over the force sphere that lay underground in a large chamber completely built out of coronite a rare metal that amplified the force.
Traya stepped into the sith sphere and reached out to the other sith to make sure they were in position. Then she ordered them to activate the spheres. Immediately Traya could feel the spheres amplify the power of the other sith and then drain them. The sphere she controlled had to be operated by the force and by computer. There were two small clock hands connected to a large one. Both had to moved similtaneously by hand and the force. Each revolution represented a year from today. She set the dial to twelve years ago. One year after the Yuzhaan Vong surrendered to the Alliance. Then Traya unleashed the power of the time spheres.
Corellia:
Luke Skywalker and the Alliance remnant was getting ready to make the jump to hyperspace and attack Abeloth and the Sith Republic on Coruscant. Luke and his sister Leah Solo watched the reports coming in on Gala Vol and her assault forces assembling to attack Coruscant as well.
"Well we could attack Gala first..." Leah said.
"It doesn't matter... I intend to use battle meditation..." Luke replied.
Leah looked at her twin brother, "And when did you learn to do that?" It always amazed Leah, every time she was away from Luke and came back he had learned a new force technique. ("If this keeps up he will be all powerful...")
He smiled, "Well if you would keep up with your Jedi training you would be a master by now..."
"May the force be with us if you ever turn to the dark side..."
He shook his head, "I have passed all my tests... I have been tempted more times than I would care to remember... The galaxy still has you..." Leah smiled at him as Saba Sabatyne came on the bridge of Alliance One.
"Grand Mazter All zhipz in pozition... We await your orderz..."
Luke was about to give the order when he felt a massive wave of power coming towards the fleet. He ran to the main view screen. "Scan sector two and magnify..."
"Luke what is..." She gasped as the screen was filled with a massive blue wave that froze everything it touched. Seven star fighters got caught in the wave and they stopped frozen as they tried to turn away.
"What iz that?" Saba asked. Luke tried to throw up a force barrier against it, but it was no use as the wave engulfed the entire fleet.
Throughout the entire galaxy everything and everyone was frozen in time. Whether it was traveling through hyperspace or walking up a street, racing in a pod race or taking a dive off a cliff, time had stopped all over the galaxy. At the center of the force wave Darth Traya beheld the galaxy, its past, present, and future. It was the second time she felt godlike, the first when she was taught the true nature of the force. The dial was set now all she had to do was release it and she did.