Prologue
4015 years BBY, somewhere in Unexplored regions
Revan deactivated his lightsaber. His Dark Side fuelled attack seemed to finally kill Vitiate, but he sensed, that something was wrong. Meetra and the helpful pureblood Sith Scourge had the same feeling as him. And right after that, Vitiate laughed. "You are weak against me, Revan. Now, you and your friends will perish in history." Revan slowly turned and tried to reignite his lightsaber with a purple crystal inside.
But, it was too slow. The Force lightning from Vitiate's hands flew towards him and Revan felt strong pain. "RUN AWAY!" he managed to shout at his companions, but only Scourge listened and rushed to get away from the lightning. 'Alek had better death, than I'll ever get.' Revan thought and his vision turned black.
21,5 years BBY, near the former Rishi station
CT-3512 was on ordinary scouting mission, when something caught his eye. It was an old distress signal. 'And they are saying, that almost nothing happens in this sector.' he thought and turned on his datapad to find out, which Clone legion was the nearest one. He scrolled for good 10 minutes, before he found the position of the nearest legion. When he found it, he turned on his holoprojector. "This is CT-3512 to 501st Clone legion. I found a strange and old distress signal from Unexplored regions. Do you copy?" he said.
"This is captain Rex of 501st Clone legion. We hear you loud and clear, trooper. Send the signal to us." a voice of a Clone answered. 'Even a week after the massive attack on Kamino, Skywalker stays there.' Ct-3512 thought and touched some buttons. He smiled. The signal was in safe hands now.
And, CT-3512 started again with scouting the area near the Rishi Labyrinth, in order to find out possible hiding Sep ships. But, one of the remaining Vulture droids hid too well in the near asteroid field and fired at his small fighter, when he passes by. CT-3512 stood no chance against it and his body, teared by explosion, got sucked into the vacuum.
10 days after retrieving the signal, Coruscant, Jedi temple
Anakin Skywalker looked at the Jedi council with Ahsoka at his side. Both of them waited for the decision. "A decision we made. Padawan Tano to the place of origins travel will." grandmaster Yoda announced. Suddenly, Anakin felt anger building inside him, but he managed to suppress it. "ALONE? Are you sure masters? Ahsoka won't make it past the Sep controls in a sole Z-95 or ARC-170!" he said.
"She won't be alone. Her transport is prepared." Plo Koon answered and held his hand up to shut Anakin up, before he could say anything else. "Do you remember the smuggler, that we arrested a week ago?" the Kel Dor Jedi asked. Most masters nodded at that. "Harold Sunstalker? Are you sure master Plo?" Ahsoka asked.
Anakin stared daggers at the whole council. He won't leave Ahsoka alone with a smuggler. And even one of those, that operated with Hondo Ohnaka. "Stop being so overprotective, Skyguy. I'll manage to arrive back whole." Ahsoka called at him, drawing small smiles from Yoda and Obi-Wan. "If you don't, I'll make sure to have you cleaning the Twilight for a whole day, Snips." Anakin countered jokingly.
"It is settled, then. Padawan Tano will meet with Sunstalker tomorrow at 10 AM." Mace Windu ended the discussion and did a small gesture towards the door. Anakin and Ahsoka got it and went out from the Council room.
The next day, Jedi temple Hangar bay
Harold Sunstalker looked at the group of Jedi, that approached his ship. From the group departed a teenage Togruta, which had the status of war hero on her neck. When she came closer, he smiled and shook hands with her. "This ship is old." Ahsoka muttered. "You're right, because the databanks told me, that before one unknown owner changed painting and parts of hull, it was known as the Ebon Hawk." Harold answered.
The young Togruta was shocked. 'This will make the trip more interesting.' the smuggler thought and led her inside of the ship. "Your quarters are to the left." he announced and watched her go there. The not so famous smuggler went to the cockpit and typed the coordinates, given by the Jedi council. The map suddenly started with searching the final destination.
Harold almost blacked out, when he read the name of it. 'By the Force! Rakata Prime?' he thought and sat on the pilot's chair. His mind wandered mile per hour, when he tried to remember, what happened there. It was something important, but he couldn't remember, what it was.
Somewhere in Unexplored regions, near Rakata Prime, one week later
He looked at his slowly constructing droid army. His HK-66 models are more dangerous, than HK-47 would ever hope of being. "Master, the distress signal was found successfully by one of those Republic meatbags." one of the oldest HK-66s announced. "GoOd. ThEy HaVe No ReVaN tO hElP tHeM wItH dEfEaTiNg Us NoW." he answered.
"Master! One ship is nearing us! Should we prepare our cannons and start the Master plan?" another one shouted. "DeW iT!" he said and flew out from the room to look at the ship being destroyed.
When he finally reached the room, something hit him. The ship was familiar. 'What the?! The Ebon Hawk tries to repeat history?' he thought and smirked. But, the ship managed to evade most of the turbolaser and ion turrets. Finally, one ion turret disabled the ship's shields and rocked with it violently.
The Ebon Hawk soon after that landed, already showing its upgraded engines and laser turrets. "Master, the ship is too fast to be shot down! We must kill the intruders, before they comm the Republic meatbags!" another HK-66 shouted. "No! WiPe DoWn ThEiR mEmOrIeS!" he shouted and flew to the lowest level of his station.
Hangar bay of the strange station, 2 minutes later
Ahsoka Tano looked around the hangar. There were two doors, which led deeper inside f the station, some robes and destroyed metallic objects, that were lightsabers once. Suddenly, the right one opened and some droids rushed in. They were armed with blasters and rocket launchers.
She looked behind her and saw Harold slowly taking aim with his blaster pistol. "Freeze! Drop that blaster and lightsaber, meatbags!" one of the droids shouted. 'Strange. Only HK-series droids are using that word.' she thought. Ahsoka ignited her lightsaber almost instantly and leaped at the droids.
She managed to cut down three of them, when another one grabbed her arm. "Harold run! Warn the Republic, that it's a trap!" Ahsoka called at the smuggler. She saw him running towards the ramp, but a stun bolt hit him square on his back. The Togrutan Jedi tried to Force push the droids, but nothing happened.
"Your Force tricks are useless against us, Jedi meatbag." her captor stated and pulled a stun stick from nowhere. Ahsoka tried to get herself from it's range, but failed. The stun stick connected with her abdomen and her vision turned black.