YES! Finally a chapter that's length I am pleased with.

I know I said that this wouldn't be updated until the JC Forums were back up but I decided that some stuff just needed to be updated and it would give me breaks from the others.

To my readers that aren't native English speakers. If you have a hard time with English just leave a review in your native language and I've find a way to translate it. :)

WARNING! There are references to people burning alive, boiled to death and shot to death. Nothing too graphic though.

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Darth Sidious stared out at the cityscape and pondered on ways to get rid of Anakin Skywalker. He needed to do it fast and quickly.

He turned from the window and looked at the objects that filled the office. Many of them had connections to the Sith with a handful of others that were connected to other Force User groups.

His eyes landed on a small group and found a smile coming to his face. The Seers, Philosophers and Priests and Priestesses; he could send Skywalker to one of those groups and then rain down turbo lasers on them.

He sat down and closed his eyes in meditation. The Seers along with the blasted Priests and Priestesses would have to go and soon. The Philosophers on the other hand could wait and they wouldn't hinder him too much.

Rook Nyss was already coming along nicely seeing that the Jedi believed that he was dead. At the moment he was fighting for survival on a backwater planet that was of no importance. He had a feeling that Rook would emerge the victor in the fight and that was something that he liked the idea of.

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Anakin felt his guts twisting as he headed for the transport that would take him and Ahsoka to Eras to see how the Republic Base there was coming.

Something told him that something horrible was going to happen while they were there.

He wished for the umpteenth that he could talk to his parents about it. But he understood that things couldn't be just handed to him so he would have to search for himself for the answers.

Something told him that things were going to get much worse before this horror ended.

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Sayda Shadowfinder couldn't shake the feeling of dread that was making its way into her heart and mind.

Some Jedi had arrived a few hours ago to help build the Base that they were allowing for the injured and a staging ground. The Separatists didn't frighten the High Priest and High Priestess or any of their people.

"High Priestess," a young student called out. "Yes Rica?" she asked gently, keeping face and aura calm. 'The Republic Fleet left the system." The young woman reported.

Sayda nodded.

She headed to a Mediation Room and sank to one of the mats on the floor.

The Force had been clouded for the past thirteen years but the Kadesh and they could now and then see enough to know that at this point that there was death and destruction in the future.

The Jedi seemed grim when they told them this and Master Windu admitted that they saw the same.

The smell of smoke filled her senses and she could feel the heat from the flames. She could hear screams of fear and panic. She saw a complex that she knew all too well slowly go up in flames: a Monastery of Kadesh.

The Seers were running everywhere, trying to escape the flames but it was futile.

The scene melted away and was replaced with what could only be a firestorm. She had only heard of them in books but there were real.

She saw people running; her people she realized in horror. Some fled into the river that was so close only to be boiled by the heat of the water. Some in confusion and panic fled into the flames.

The scene melted away again and was replaced with the inside of a building. She could hear the panicked and fear filled cries of children. She saw some run passed and saw that they were Jedi Younglings.

Right behind them were shadows that shot the children to pieces.

Sayda gasped as she finally opened her eyes to escape the horrors that she had seen.

She discovered that she wasn't in a meditative position but laying on a bed. She looked around and noted that she was in the Hall of Healing.

Caia Stardust was coming to her side.

"What happened? She asked once the Chief Healer was by her side. "You collapsed during a mediation session. You have been out for days." Caia informed her.

Sayda could only stare. "How many days?" she asked trying to keep the fear out of her voice. "Four days High Priestess." Caia answered.

Sayda felt horror grip her as she tried to get out of bed; only to have her knees give out.

"Sayda, you need to recover!" Caia cried out as she helped her back on the bed.

At that moment her husband hurried in with a look on his face that said that he was distressed.

"Darren, what is it?" Sayda asked as her husband reached her side. He took her hand and rubbed his thumb against the back of hers.

"Sayda the Seers of Kadesh are nearly all gone. Their monasteries burned and so many of their cities were bombed out of existence." He told her with tears in his eyes.

Sayda stared ahead for a few moments. "Give the evacuation signal Darren, we have to evacuate as many civilians as possible. Send them to Inamerg; they will be safe there." She ordered.

Darren nodded and hurried off to start the evacuation process.

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Padmé put away her commlink. Anakin had called to tell her to get off of Coruscant as fast as she could and to go to the Lars's Moisture Farm. She was to be as inconspicuous as possible.

She quickly put a few things together.

"Dorme I need you to take my place for a few days." She said as she closed her carrying case. "Yes milady." Dorme said.

Padme quickly put on an outfit that wouldn't stick out and undid her hair.

She quickly grabbed a few things and then pulled on a cloak and walked calmly out of the apartment; trying to ignore the feeling that she wouldn't see it again for a long time.

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So, what do you think?

I decided that I wouldn't really go to Rook's POV until later.