Welcome back to Eons! I was thinking about this story for a while, and I think it's time to make it real! Let's begin. This takes place during the "Padawan Lost" and "Wookie Hunt" episodes.


As the Clone Wars rage on, the Republic forces are spread thin. After years of planning, the Chancellor has approved the construction of the massive battleship known as Pride of the Core. Eager to put on display the weapon's capabilities, Xur Eon and Mace Windu have been put in command of the vessel with orders to attack the ancient Sith homeworld of Korriban…


Chapter 5: The Pride and the Future

Jedi Master Mace Windu passed through the blast doors and into the command room of the massive bridge. All around him was command clones working away at the many stations it had to offer. It was actually one of three command rooms, since the 19,000 meter long ship could not be controlled by just one.

Windu made his way to the front, where Admiral Yularen was awaiting. He looked out the window of the bridge and gazed in wonder. The ship stretched so far, a Venator-Class cruiser looked tiny compared to it. To the left of the ship was the planet Kuat, where the ship had been constructed. The mechanical ring that orbited the planet was still attached to the ship, as they were still preparing to depart.

The admiral turned to him. "General, we are nearly ready to depart," he informed Mace. The Jedi General nodded and then tapped into the ship-wide comm channel.

"Crew of Pride of the Core, we are nearly ready to depart for Korriban, prep all stations and detach from Kuat," he ordered. The many officers got right to work pressing different buttons and pulling levers, causing a powerful sound to resonate through the bridge. He watched as the massive vessel detached from the mechanical ring and made a slow turn away from the planet. Mace then turned to locate the escort fleet to his right of the window. He counted 10 Venator-Class ships and at least 20 republic frigates. He then tapped into his personal communicator. "Xur, is the escort fleet ready to depart?"

He heard Xur shuffle around giving orders through the communicator. "Of course master, when am I not?" he replied, making Windu roll his eyes as he cut off the transmission.

"Make the jump to hyperspace!" he ordered. The ship then roared to life and slightly rocked before the window was occupied by a blue tunnel of light, and the ship shot off faster than the speed of light.


The Venator christened the Annihilator erupted out of hyperspace along with 9 others and 20 Republic frigates. Xur Eon stood with his arms cross at the command bridge of the ship, helmet on. He looked straight ahead and observed his target: the planet of Korriban. The planet seemed desert-like and dry, along with a few ice caps around the surface. He noticed a CIS blockade standing in their way. It wasn't the largest one he had ever come across, but it wouldn't be easy to just punch through.

He then realized that the Pride of the Core had jumped out of hyperspace, and it was currently the most powerful vessel in the galaxy. It alone could take the fleet on and come out victorious. Xur then looked to his admiral and nodded before he walked off the bridge, heading for the main hangar of his cruiser. Along the way, he met up with his second in command in the GAR, the purple-armored Captain Raven. The clone's armor was very similar to that of an ARC trooper, which he was, but much more sophisticated.

"The ground force is ready for the assault General. We'll follow right behind your escort after the Pride of the Core along with the fleet punches a hole through the blockade," Raven informed him. Xur nodded.

"Good work Captain, I will join you as soon as we break into the planet's atmosphere, where we will move in to take the planet. Just make sure you keep up," he joked.

The clone captain laughed. "General, when have I ever let you down?" Xur nodded and place his hand on his shoulder.

"Wouldn't want to see such a clean reputation fall to pieces would we?" Xur said before he entered the main hangar, where the dozens of gunships were preparing to take off, along with the fighter escort squad. He quickly located his orange Jedi Starfighter, the new model at that (Episode 3 look). Faster and more powerful weapons were the upgrades he had wanted for so long, and he had them. His astromech, R9, beeped and whistled at his appearance.

"Yes I know it's been a while R9, but we've got a big one this time," he replied to the droid as he hopped into the fighter. He immediately got his ship into working order, and his ship flared to life. He then fixed his comm channel box above to his squadron's frequency, and heard the clone voices come in. "Alright boys, we need to make sure Pride of the Core gets a clear path to the blockade so we can let that beast rain hell on those clankers. Who's with me?" he said, and he got enthusiastic cheers from the squadron. He was always the one to keep his troops inspired.

Xur waited for the order to launch, and soon enough he was taking off, exiting the hangar and into the depths of space along with his squadron close behind him. He immediately looked to his left and spotted the Pride of the Core, a massive gray dreadnaught packed with more ion cannons than Xur thought was possible to fit on one ship. He heard that the power generator would be able to power and entire planet, which Xur thought was a bit exaggerated at first, but now it seemed to make sense. They were much closer to the blockade now, and with the dreadnaught's advanced weaponry, it had already begun its barrage of beams towards the enemy. He watched as the escort fleet began to fire as well, protecting the massive ship. He saw CIS frigates fire back, but they were being blown out of space like fireworks up against the power of the ship.

Xur then returned his attention back to his front as vulture droids were barreling towards him. "Incoming fighters, form all squads into attack position!" he ordered as he unlocked his wing flaps, and the couple hundred of consolidated fighters assembled behind him. He pushed forward on his fighter's accelerators and rocketed towards the fighters head-on. He spun his ship to the left and kept firing, taking out three vulture droids in the process. The two squadrons clashed, and his comm channel was filled with the voices of clones either chanting about their success or calling for help. The zabrak Jedi kept up his attack, deftly drifting past the fighters and taking out each one he passed, eventually breaking through the wave. He heard the clones go on about how the rest of the droids were taken care of, bringing a smile to Xur's face as he pressed on to the blockade.

"Mace! Get me a hole through this will ya?" he called into his communicator. He got the best response he could ever get.

"Already on it Eon," he replied. Almost instantaneously, the Pride of the Core fired off a massive green laser that punched through a Lukrehulk droid ship in one blast, cutting a clean hole through the blockade. "We'll take it from here! Begin the invasion!" Mace ordered.

Xur nodded. "You hear that Raven? Time to get going!" he ordered. He got a "yes sir", and he used a rear-view camera to see dozens of gunships now following him through the newly created hole. They rocketed by, and burst into Korriban's atmosphere with ease. Xur smiled as they broke the cloud cover and got a good look at the ground. Xur noticed immediately the Separatist base that was on the surface, and his ship rocked from the anti-aircraft fire down below. He quickly spun out of the way, eventually reaching the surface with great haste. He quickly landed his ship and hopped out, drawing a dual-bladed lightsaber and deflecting any incoming beams as the gunships landed, pouring out troops. Captain Raven quickly took his side, dual hand-blasters drawn.

"Welcome to the party General!" he greeted. Xur kept deflecting beams that were coming towards them.

"Time to make this quick Captain, let's move!" he shouted as he ran down and into the valley they had landed near to take cover from the turrets above. He watched a gunship drop off a walker in the back, and it began to send a barrage of artillery fire onto the base above. Xur, Captain Raven, and a squad of troopers filed down into the valley, taking cover at each spot while Xur provided cover with his lightsaber. They eventually reached the end of the valley, which was a cliff face leading up to the base. Xur pressed up against the cliff face along with Captain Raven and 20 clone troopers.

"Ready the ascension cables!" Xur ordered. The clones quickly complied and fired the cables from their respective weapons. He did the same, taking a device from his belt that fired a hook to the top of the cliff. It wasted no time hauling him up, and he used his Jedi abilities to get up the cliff faster. He was at the top a good ten seconds before his battalion was, and he was met with an army of super battle droids in front of the Separatist outpost and they fired on him quickly. Xur drew both dual-bladed sabers and spun them around him, deflecting every beam with ease. He then pressed forward and cut down as many as he could before the clones were able to scale the cliff, and when they did, they cleaned up the rest along with him. With the area clear, they burst towards the outpost's outer wall and pressed up against it.

"We need artillery fire! Bring down this wall!" Xur yelled into his comm channel. He watched in the distance as the republic walker raised its cannon and fired at the wall, busting a hole into it in one blast. "Go! Go! Go!" Xur shouted as him and his clones sprinted inside, lightsabers dancing around him. Like clockwork, they had the base locked down and the commander cut in two. Xur then went to work at the command center, turning all weapons on the outpost to begin firing on their own troops and aircraft around the base. He chuckled as Captain Raven joined him at his side. "That was easy."

Raven nodded and smiled behind his helmet. "20 clones came down, 20 clones captured the base," he relayed the damage report to his general.

Xur nodded. "Just like always." He looked up into the sky now that they were safe behind the walls of the outpost. He saw the light of beams flying across space, and Confederate ships falling one by one. The Pride of the Core could now be seen above with its massive hull nearly blocking out the sun. Mace Windu had broken the blockade to pieces.

With that taken care of, Korriban would soon be under Republic control. It was ironic how the Sith homeworld would be under the control of the Jedi. The planet held so many secrets that he wished to discover, and possibly find a permanent way to strengthen his Dark Side control.

Suddenly, Xur got the urge to head back into the valley they had just crossed. He felt as if he was meant to go there, to find something important. "Raven, I need you and the squad to make sure this base stays under your control."

The clone trooper turned to him and nodded, but cocked his head. "Of course sir, but where are you going?"

Xur began to walk back the way they came and turned his head. "There is something I need to do," he replied as he exited the compound.

Raven rolled his eyes behind his helmet. "Jedi."


Xur found himself at the bottom of the valley once again after descending the cliff face. He found waiting for him what looked like a tunnel entrance, but it was certainly created by someone, possibly 1,000s of years ago. He gave it a look around the border and located some sort of writing at the top center of the entrance. It read Valley of the Dark Lords, which explained what the valley was for. He shook his head and then entered the cave, and found stone steps awaiting him. He progressed down with ease, not wanting to find out that he had walked into some sort of trap.

Eventually, the cave became too dark for him to see even with his helmet. He ignited a single bladed lightsaber, but it was burning a crimson red. He then realized that his Dark Side powers were far more powerful here, which meant that something was up. He paused and then looked around, but all he could find was more stone walls and cobwebs. He waved around his lightsaber in frustration.

"What do you seek?" a female voice sounded behind him. He whipped around and stuck out his lightsaber. He saw a human female with short blonde hair, wearing a black and red robe with black gloves as well.

"What concern of it is yours?" he snarled. The female didn't flinch.

"I can sense your power, your rage, fear, pain…your confusion," she continued. Xur shook his head and kept his lightsaber pointed. "You came here for something."

Xur scoffed. "Who are you? You don't seem like you live down here, so I'm assuming that you don't even exist."

The female laughed. "If I don't exist, then why am I here?" She then began to pace around him, and Xur kept his lightsaber pointed towards her. "I am the answer to all of your confusion…all of your pain…and most of all…what you seek."

Xur shook his head. "I find that very hard to believe…miss," he replied, still trying to comprehend what he was seeing.

She kept pacing around him. "You can believe whatever you wish, but I know what you want. You want power over yourself…power over the Dark Side."

Xur had heard enough. "You are Sith!" he growled as he drew his second saber and got into a battle stance. She then abruptly stopped and turned to him, her eyes glowing purple.

"And you're not? You're no Jedi, nor Sith. You're a monster…a monster that needs to be tamed," she growled at him. Xur spun his lightsabers, and they hummed with a dark intensity.

"Try me," he growled back.

"NO!" she shouted, causing a wave of energy to shoot off from her, and it ripped through Xur, sending him careening into the back wall and deactivated his lightsabers. He looked up in shock. "You are weak! You will never be a Jedi! You will never be a Sith! You will be forever caught in the middle, and all that you love will die because of your failure…your failure to control your power!"

Xur growled and gave off a menacing scream. "SHUT UP!" he yelled before he unleashed force lightning at the woman. He watched as she simply raised her hand and absorbed it into a ball of energy, throwing it down the hall. Xur clenched both of his fists and panted in exhaustion and anger.

The woman smiled. "Now you see what you can become. You must forget your Jedi ideals in order to achieve what you seek: the power to destroy what you could be, the Sith."

Xur calmed himself down and then rose to a normal standing position, arms crossed. "If you think that I'm going to let some witch control me…you're mistaken."

The woman's smile disappeared. She sighed. "Then you and your friends are doomed to die, and you won't be able to stop it."

Xur suddenly felt lightheaded, and felt his vision playing tricks on him. He looked around and saw his friends…the Jedi being slaughtered by dark beings. They were all dying in such horrific ways, and all he could do was watch. It then came to Mace Windu falling to his death, Obi-Wan being cut down by a dark being, Anakin being consumed by a dark cloud, the Jedi Temple in ruins. When he could seemingly see no more, it came to Ahsoka, but this time she was fine, but she looked different. He then saw himself being cut down by Ahsoka herself, falling to his knees and lying dead. Xur then screamed as she was stabbed from behind as well, and that was when his vision faded to black.


"Eon!" he heard as his consciousness returned. Xur flung awake. He was no longer wearing his helmet and found himself in a medical bed. He realized that Mace Windu was standing at the edge of his bed, arms crossed. "Are you OK?"

Xur leaned his head back on the pillow. "Where am I? What happened?" he asked the first of his many questions he wanted answered at the moment. Mace sighed.

"Well, Captain Raven told me that you simply dropped dead when you took the outpost. He rushed you to a gunship and brought you aboard the Pride of the Core, which is where you are now; the medical bay," Mace informed him. "What happened to you?"

Xur shook his head. "I don't know, but I feel like the Sith energies or spirits on that planet took hold of me; showed me…things."

"What things?" Mace asked. Xur sighed.

"I don't know…I couldn't understand it," he replied, which was partly a lie. The last thing he wanted was to relive the experience.

Mace nodded and then sighed. "Well I hate to bring you back with bad news…,"

Xur's eyes popped open. "What?"

The Jedi Master looked at him, wondering if he should even tell him. "Commander Tano is missing."

Xur erupted out of his bed. "What?! Then why aren't we looking for her?!" he shouted as he marched out of the bay, much to Mace's displeasure. "I'm gone for one day and she's gone! How does that happen?!" he shouted as he kept walking before Windu grabbed his shoulder from behind.

"Eon stop!" he shouted, but Xur slapped his hand away.

"Stop?! Ahsoka is missing and you're telling me to stop?! She could be dead for all we know! I can't allow that!" he snarled back to him.

"Your emotions are clouding your judgement!" he warned. Xur turned his back and kept walking down the hall, ignoring his last statement.


Xur found himself sitting alone in his quarters aboard the Pride of the Core, simply thinking. Ahsoka was gone…maybe dead. He tried to contact Anakin, but all he received was the same answer: "I don't know". It was all a waste of time. She could be anywhere in the galaxy, and he didn't know where to look.

He sat back, and thought about what they had been through. Christophsis, the first time they had met, how they clashed so many times with their ideals and personalities. They really had come a long way. He couldn't imagine her gone, just erased from his life, an empty hole in his soul.

He let his thoughts drift, thinking about her…where she would go…what she would do, her lightsaber style, reverse grip, one that he was yet to even attempt. His thoughts kept on, wandering down different paths…until they were no longer his own. He saw a jungle, heard blaster fire, and heard a hissing sound, one of a…trandosian. He let the thought drift further, and he got a planet, or moon, he couldn't tell. More came in…a wookie, two young boys, and…

…a togruta.


Xur's Starfighter erupted from hyperspace. He had come alone…and in fact only Captain Raven knew where he was. He got a good look at the planet in front of him, and he was almost certain that the moon orbiting it was the one he was looking for. He could feel the strong force connection that he had accidentally tapped into on the Pride of the Core. She was close.

He detached the hyperspace ring from his ship and accelerated towards the planet, using the force to guide him. He broke into the atmosphere, and quickly got a feel for the planet. He was instantly hit with rough turbulence as the thick cloud cover ruined any chance at a smooth ride. Before long he could feel the presence closer than normal, and that was when a floating fortress appeared as soon as he broke the clouds. He leveled his ship in order to avoid smashing into the fortress.

His sudden arrival did not go unnoticed, as what looked to be trandosians began to fire on his ship. He quickly spun away to avoid the fire, but then elected to eject from his ship in order to formally rescue Ahsoka. R9 took control of the ship and steered it away to the orbit of the moon, away from the beams chasing it down. Xur landed with a shockwave of force energy, sending an unlucky trandosian away and into the fortress, unconscious. He looked around and noticed the wookie he saw in his vision, but he was accompanied by other wookies as well. He then realized that a ship was hovering above, likely here before he was. Nonetheless, he joined the brawl, force pushing a few trandosians off the edge of the platform, causing the two boys he saw in his vision to turn in shock.

"Who are you?" the twi'lek asked. Xur shook his head. He didn't have time.

"Not a trandosian. Where's Ahsoka?" he asked, tension easy detectable in his voice. The twi'lek didn't waste time pointing above to the higher platform. Xur thanked him and then jumped with a great leap and grabbed onto the railing before he fell back the way he came. He then vaulted himself over and burst through the doors. There he saw Ahsoka, in deep hand to hand combat with another trandosian, and she was somehow winning, getting on top of a table while he looked above.

"Hello there," Xur greeted with his arms crossed. Ahsoka looked up with shock infecting her face, caught off guard that he was here. "Good to see that you've made a few new friends." The trandosian growled as he turned to meet Xur, who cringed as he noticed his four lightsabers. Xur wasted no time grabbing onto him with the force and pulling him close, both hands on the trandosian's neck. "Maybe you should go for prey that's more your size, creature!" he snarled before he threw him out the door and over the edge of the platform with the force. He brushed his hands together. "That was easy." He then looked to Ahsoka, how looked like she had been through hell and back. Her exhaustion was obvious, but still she was able to walk towards him.

"How did you find me?" she asked. Xur smiled.

"The force told me. It was very strange," he replied. She chuckled a bit as she came to his side, walking back out to the platform. "You look like you just ran the gauntlet…what happened?"

Ahsoka shook her head. "It's a long story…let's just get back home."

Xur nodded. "I agree."


Well, it's not Revenge of the Sith, but it's a second chapter, and I wanted to get something else out this weekend, so I got his idea off my mind and into reality. This one was pretty much 100% original content besides the ending of course, but I wanted Xur to have his own sort of chapter. If you enjoyed please follow/fav and leave a review! Thanks for reading!