Chapter 4: At the threshold
Location: Corusca Galaxy
Yavin 4
The activity in and around the excavation site had grown to a fever pitch when Tenel Ka arrived from her quarters.
"So show me.
A mon-calamary researcher began to explain how they found what it was. "In essence milady what we have here is some kind of artificial transport system, we have been able to fix its control panel and we have plugged the whole array to a a power generator, we wanted you to be here for the first test.
"will it work?
"Only if it finds a link with another of this devices and that's the ticker, since this is the only device in existence in this Galaxy. If there's still another functioning device out there it would be most likely in another galaxy altogether."
"Ok proceed then."
The mon-calamary began pressing buttons in sequence in the device's control panel as it did the circular device began to light up and come to life , the locking devices began to switch into the combination being punched in. And all of a sudden a huge burst of energy came out of it. Tenel Ka warrior instincts drove her to reach for her lightsaber at her waistband ,but she relaxed after sensing no threat.
The mon-calamary chuckled " Well what do you know... So that's how it works, it's..."
Tenel Ka cut in to finish the sentence " It's an artificial wormhole! It's absolutely fascinating. Prepare a probe immediately!."
The probe was prepped and it hovered slowly to the artificial wormhole's event horizon. Finally it disappeared into the silvery surface of the artificial wormhole. Tenel Ka asked the probe operators "Are we getting telemetry?"
"Yes milady we'll track the trajectory on the HoloProjector ."
The HoloProjector came to life showing the path that the probe was taking along the cosmos. In about a minute the path stopped. She again asked for a report
"The probe has stopped according to astrometrics in a galaxy about 16 million light years away."
"are we getting live feedback from the probe?
"The signal is coming in now!"
The HoloProjector showed a strange planetary landscape with what at first sight appeared some sort of ruins.
"Can you enhance that and analyze it?"
"Already on it milady the structure appears rather to be the remains of an unknown spacecraft. most of it's buried in the planet's soil."
Tenel Ka stood looking transfixed at the scenery in the HoloProjector "Assemble a team, we are
going in."
Location: Corusca Galaxy
Coruscant
Or'lek was more than happy to get his little R&R and the fact that it came from the Emperor himself gave him a great sense of accomplishment, plus it felt great to be appreciated given the fact that he was a direct descendant of the infamous genetically enhanced clones that later became Palpatine's own army of stormtroopers and those inherited enhancements had made all the clone's descendants outcast specially after the fall of Palpatine's Empire. Even then his predecessor still remained loyal to the imperial ideology in part because they had been designed that way and also because they could not fit anywhere else. So after the remnants of the New Jedi Order took control of the government at the end of the last civil war and dissolved the New Republic, sure enough he was back on the job. Even though by right of birth and conditioning he blindly believed in the empire. He knew that the former empire treated his kind as no more than beasts of burden. The fact that in this new imperial order they were given rights and treated like ordinary sentient beings. Made him more determined than ever to defend this new empire at any cost.
As he was heading to a dinner for well-deserved meal he felt a sting on his neck, instinctively he grabbed at it and pulled a dart. Immediately he felt wobbly but before he collapsed somebody grabbed him and dragged him to a nearby narrow alley.
After taking him there his captor dropped him on the ground and he heard a gruff voice "Just so you know the dart was meant to paralyze you, not kill you, after all we know about you genetically enhanced clowns and we don't want that to get in the way of our dealings at hand now. Do we?" A surly figure stepped out of the shadows and Or'lek recognized the Shock Trooper commander Norys "What... What do you want?"
"Funny you should ask, I want to know everything you know about the findings of the dig on Yavin 4. Oh! And I do mean everything!"
Norys slammed his fist against the palm of his other hand in delight as he proceeded to extract the information from the hapless trooper.
Location: Corusca Galaxy
Super Imperial Destroyer Harbinger in orbit around Tattoine
Grand moff Tarkin III walked into the chamber of supreme imperial commander Jacen
"We got a report that they captured the stormtrooper and they are on the process of extracting the information from him."
Jacen just kept looking through his chamber's viewport without turning toward Tarkin "Excellent! As soon as you extract what he knows you are to report to me immediately."
"Yes milord.!"
Tarkin turned and left the imperial commander's chamber. Jacen smiled wickedly as he went on looking through the viewport.
Location: Corusca Galaxy
Yavin 4
The Mon-Calamari researcher and the Devaronian assistant were already prepped for the expedition through the artificial wormhole to that planet in that very distant galaxy " Were all ready milady."
"Well, then lets get going shall we..."
As they approached the wormhole's event horizon and the Devaronian saw just about everybody vanish into its void, he felt very uneasy "Are you sure about how safe this is mistress?"
"Ooh, don't be such a cry baby!"
Tenel Ka pushed her assistant into the void and jumped into it shortly after.
Location: Corusca Galaxy
Yavin 4
The activity in and around the excavation site had grown to a fever pitch when Tenel Ka arrived from her quarters.
"So show me.
A mon-calamary researcher began to explain how they found what it was. "In essence milady what we have here is some kind of artificial transport system, we have been able to fix its control panel and we have plugged the whole array to a a power generator, we wanted you to be here for the first test.
"will it work?
"Only if it finds a link with another of this devices and that's the ticker, since this is the only device in existence in this Galaxy. If there's still another functioning device out there it would be most likely in another galaxy altogether."
"Ok proceed then."
The mon-calamary began pressing buttons in sequence in the device's control panel as it did the circular device began to light up and come to life , the locking devices began to switch into the combination being punched in. And all of a sudden a huge burst of energy came out of it. Tenel Ka warrior instincts drove her to reach for her lightsaber at her waistband ,but she relaxed after sensing no threat.
The mon-calamary chuckled " Well what do you know... So that's how it works, it's..."
Tenel Ka cut in to finish the sentence " It's an artificial wormhole! It's absolutely fascinating. Prepare a probe immediately!."
The probe was prepped and it hovered slowly to the artificial wormhole's event horizon. Finally it disappeared into the silvery surface of the artificial wormhole. Tenel Ka asked the probe operators "Are we getting telemetry?"
"Yes milady we'll track the trajectory on the HoloProjector ."
The HoloProjector came to life showing the path that the probe was taking along the cosmos. In about a minute the path stopped. She again asked for a report
"The probe has stopped according to astrometrics in a galaxy about 16 million light years away."
"are we getting live feedback from the probe?
"The signal is coming in now!"
The HoloProjector showed a strange planetary landscape with what at first sight appeared some sort of ruins.
"Can you enhance that and analyze it?"
"Already on it milady the structure appears rather to be the remains of an unknown spacecraft. most of it's buried in the planet's soil."
Tenel Ka stood looking transfixed at the scenery in the HoloProjector "Assemble a team, we are
going in."
Location: Corusca Galaxy
Coruscant
Or'lek was more than happy to get his little R&R and the fact that it came from the Emperor himself gave him a great sense of accomplishment, plus it felt great to be appreciated given the fact that he was a direct descendant of the infamous genetically enhanced clones that later became Palpatine's own army of stormtroopers and those inherited enhancements had made all the clone's descendants outcast specially after the fall of Palpatine's Empire. Even then his predecessor still remained loyal to the imperial ideology in part because they had been designed that way and also because they could not fit anywhere else. So after the remnants of the New Jedi Order took control of the government at the end of the last civil war and dissolved the New Republic, sure enough he was back on the job. Even though by right of birth and conditioning he blindly believed in the empire. He knew that the former empire treated his kind as no more than beasts of burden. The fact that in this new imperial order they were given rights and treated like ordinary sentient beings. Made him more determined than ever to defend this new empire at any cost.
As he was heading to a dinner for well-deserved meal he felt a sting on his neck, instinctively he grabbed at it and pulled a dart. Immediately he felt wobbly but before he collapsed somebody grabbed him and dragged him to a nearby narrow alley.
After taking him there his captor dropped him on the ground and he heard a gruff voice "Just so you know the dart was meant to paralyze you, not kill you, after all we know about you genetically enhanced clowns and we don't want that to get in the way of our dealings at hand now. Do we?" A surly figure stepped out of the shadows and Or'lek recognized the Shock Trooper commander Norys "What... What do you want?"
"Funny you should ask, I want to know everything you know about the findings of the dig on Yavin 4. Oh! And I do mean everything!"
Norys slammed his fist against the palm of his other hand in delight as he proceeded to extract the information from the hapless trooper.
Location: Corusca Galaxy
Super Imperial Destroyer Harbinger in orbit around Tattoine
Grand moff Tarkin III walked into the chamber of supreme imperial commander Jacen
"We got a report that they captured the stormtrooper and they are on the process of extracting the information from him."
Jacen just kept looking through his chamber's viewport without turning toward Tarkin "Excellent! As soon as you extract what he knows you are to report to me immediately."
"Yes milord.!"
Tarkin turned and left the imperial commander's chamber. Jacen smiled wickedly as he went on looking through the viewport.
Location: Corusca Galaxy
Yavin 4
The Mon-Calamari researcher and the Devaronian assistant were already prepped for the expedition through the artificial wormhole to that planet in that very distant galaxy " Were all ready milady."
"Well, then lets get going shall we..."
As they approached the wormhole's event horizon and the Devaronian saw just about everybody vanish into its void, he felt very uneasy "Are you sure about how safe this is mistress?"
"Ooh, don't be such a cry baby!"
Tenel Ka pushed her assistant into the void and jumped into it shortly after.