AN: I'm back again
Disclaimer I only own my OCs
Chapter 13 (The rise of a Bright Lord)
Auron sat in the middle of the practice ring of the on board 'dojo'. His eyes closed and breathing calmly across from him his partner and shard Qixoni both of them locked in meditation, Auron eyes moved behind their lids as if he was looking through his mind's eye.
Auron opened his eyes and found himself in some ruins, he looked over and saw that Qixoni was with him, "Where are we?" the shard asked.
Auron looked around and saw that it was night the moon casting a pale light over the area, he looked up to look at the celestial body, "Our bodies are on the ship, but the force is giving us a vision of the world we are going to." Auron answered.
"What makes you say that?" Qixoni asked as he looked up to see a shattered moon, "Ah, I see."
"But why show us this?" Auron asked as he looked back at the ruins, and made his way to them, he studied the pillars he came up to, "I wish I had an eye for written languages." he muttered as he looked at the characters engraved in the stone.
"Fortunately I can remember this with 100% accuracy, I can write them out when the vision ends." Qixoni stated as he studied the language.
"Good." Auron said happily, then he felt felt something to his right and looked over, he saw nothing, "did you sense anything?" Auron asked his partner.
Qixoni looked over, "No I didn't… perhaps whatever it is, I am not meant to see it."
Auron let out a sigh, "Okay, I'll check it out, you'll be fine?" he asked.
"Yeah I'll be okay." Qixoni assured him, with that Auron followed the disturbance to its source, leaving Qixoni to study the writings.
Auron walked till he came to a large chamber with an altar in the middle the interesting thing that struck him was that he recognised the symbols on the altar, "Strange why would that be here?" he asked himself then walked up to the altar, "how long have you been here?" he asked as if he was talking to the altar.
Auron turned around and saw a figure coming in the room, he wore armor with a helmet covering his head that looked like a skull with a breath mask it had a dark aura about it and it came to stop some bit away from him, the warrior then removed his helmet to reveal a face that Auron recognised to be himself, Auron lifted an eyebrow.
"Take a good long look lightweight, see the man you're supposed to be." the apparition started, "I am the embodiment of your true potential, I am what you could be, if you had the guts to follow the darker path more faithfully." he finished almost in disgust.
"I knew I was good looking, but this is ridicules." Auron responded somewhat humorously.
"Vanity becomes you, but your looks will do you no good unless you heed my words."
Auron's face contorted a little bit, "The last time I heeded anything you said, I killed the one person who loved me so much that she risked death to save me." he shook his head, "to go back to the dark would be to tarnish and disrespect her sacrifice,"
"It is the way of the Sith to destroy the ones that make you weak, that make you merciful, that make you compassionate."
Auron turned away from him in disgust, "At least listen before you completely deny me." the apparition pleaded, Auron looked back at him and subtly nodded allowing him to continue.
"You are Sith, one of the greatest and most powerful force sensitive warriors the Force has ever produced, and yet you embrace the light, which shuns the power of the strongest forces in the universe, Rage, Passion, Love. These things would serve you well in the battles to come."
Auron snorted 'Typical Sith Dogma.' he internally scoffed, 'Sith have no concept of love other than a love for themselves.' Auron began laughing. "The light shuns love huh? What type of 'love'?" Auron sneered, "the love of self, the love to do harm. WHAT TYPE OF LOVE DAMN IT!" he bellowed, "I have seen and felt what the Dark side does to a person, I will gladly choose the light over that." Auron spat.
"You're turning your back on true power." the apparition growled, "think about it through you the Sith can rise again, these Jedi you can turn them into your apprentices, control them, and add their power to yours, than nothing on this world would be able to stand against you, and you could see to the destruction of the cowards that are the rule of two."
"They and I will join forces and together we will fight the forces of Dark." Auron proclaimed.
"Fool! One day the darkness you reject will overwhelm you!" the apparition seemed to change before his eyes, the dark warrior's armor was fully assembled he had no cape, nothing loose was hanging off of him, the apparition reached for his saber at his side and thumbed the activation switch, the weapon sprang to life with a bloodthirsty snap, it's red blade casting a glow over the room.
Auron reached for his own blade and thumbed the activation switch, he didn't have time to register the fact that his light saber's blade had changed color as he parried the incoming strike from his opponent, Auron then launched a vicious counter attack the blow sending shock waves up his opponents arms, but he didn't stop there, he landed another blow and moved forward pushing his opponent back he continued this assault a blow a step, parry when needed then immediately countered afterwards, after some time Auron had succeeded in disarming his opponent, however the warrior retaliated by throwing a torrent of lightning at the young man, the bolts hit his hand and caused him to drop his weapon, the warrior then slammed his fist into Auron's face.
Auron retaliated by punching him in the torso, before realizing that he was wearing armor and that his knuckles were broken now, he sent the force through his hand, it mended the bones and numbed the pain than with his other hand he channeled the force into it, the warrior did not stop he continued to try and pummel Auron into submission Auron evaded the strikes he could but he took some blows, his body was bruised his face ached, but he kept going, Auron then struck with his good hand that he enhanced with the force, the armor dented inwards and cracked and the warrior was sent off his feet, Auron then brought his blade to himself and held it at the downed warrior's neck.
"It looks… like I win." Auron breathed out, 'my ribs must be broken.' he mused to himself, 'eh I've had worse.' the apparition stood up, it's aura became more bright and it walked directly into Auron.
"What the…?" Auron asked before a bright burst of light radiated out from him, he felt his body mend itself and heal at a rapid speed, he felt his body react violently at this for a moment before the seizures subsided, the feeling he felt from this was warm and incredibly calm like he was standing on a beach and his feet barely in the water and wet sand between his toes, "Wow." he said amazed.
"You have proven your way is strong and viable." he heard the apparition state. "With this victory our essence has been purified, in the clarity of this communion a vision of how this workshop came to be appears to us."
Auron looked around and saw a star ship crash on the world, out of it comes two figures one in Jedi combat gear, the other in Sith, the Jedi he see his face defined by a scar that ran horizontally across his face over his eyes, but the Sith wore a mask that obscured his face what he could tell though was that he was a member of the dark council, "Can you see it too a Jedi and Sith crashed on this world during our time but why, what drove them all the way out here?"
"The Sith said he's a light sider, he must have really proven himself if the council allowed him to join." Auron commented, "do you think that he built this place?" he asked.
"It is likely," the apparition answered, more images appeared the Jedi and the Sith helped a small tribe fight off an invasion of the dark creatures.
"Huh I didn't know this planet was inhabited by Echani." Auron said, seeing the pale skin and silver eyes made that an easy assumption to make the only real difference was the color of their hair, he than saw that the tribe began to worship the two force users like gods, much to the Jedi's displeasure who tried to stop it, and he did though not before building the ruins of the temple they now stood in, "well that answers that question."
"Does the Sith seem familiar you?" the apparition asked.
"He does but I can't see his face." Auron answered, he than saw that the sith was removing his helmet, the face was not one he recognised but the heterochromia Iridum eyes were the same color as his, one green the other violet, "Could he be my brother?"
"Your feelings should be able to confirm this matter."
Auron's eyes widened in surprise, "So this is my brother, he became a member of the Dark Council as well." the image seem to jump forward many years it showed the Sith who Auron confirmed was his brother married one of the tribes women and had a family, than he saw his brother be overwhelmed by horde of the dark creatures, the image changed they were in a different area it was if they were in another realm, Auron saw his brother being dragged to another figure that was faced away from the approaching Sith.
He was unceremoniously dropped and he fell to the ground, the man stood up and it appeared that the two were speaking, but Auron couldn't hear what it was that was being said, from what he could discern it looked like the dark lady wanted something, and his brother refused only for the lady to launch sever bolts of black lighting at him, "Stop!" Auron shouted, but the man just seemed to laugh at her as if that didn't hurt him.
The image changed again it was in the same place, but the difference was how starved Auron's brother looked, the dark queen said something but the Sith stayed silent, finally the queen smiled sinisterly and she called for something else to be brought in, Auron saw two people that he recognised as the Jedi and the wife to his brother, Auron's brother glared at the dark lady with such hatred that Auron actually shuddered at the sight, suddenly the queen's skin began to boil and she hissed in pain before she backhanded the Sith across the face.
She spoke again making a demand, if Auron was reading her lips right she was saying or she said 'use your alchemy to make my creatures stronger.' the former Sith's answer did not please the queen all that much what she did next truly pained Auron.
The queen smiled sadistically an expression that Auron recognised for he had borne a similar expression when he tortured his victims, he wanted to look away but he chose to keep watching, the Queen then sent a surge of dark electricity at the Jedi and his sister-in-law causing them to scream in agony, while Auron couldn't hear the screams watching them writhe on the ground was disturbing in his mind some bad memories came up he clamped down on those and continued to watch the event play out.
Auron saw that his brother was begging her to stop and it looked like he shouted 'I'll do it! Please for the love of god stop!' she did and turned to him, 'I need a human sacrifice.' the man admitted, Auron's eyes widened when he saw that they were taking his sister to the table, the image cut off and Auron was left standing in a mist with nothing to see, "My brother was a damn coward." Auron growled, from what he had seen it looked like he had given the queen whatever she was what she wanted.
"How about you allow me to explain myself before you jump to conclusions." a voice stated, Auron turned to see his brother standing there in the sith battle robes.
"Alright then, explain." Auron demanded.
"When I first encountered the grimm I was excited…" he began.
"Grimm?" Auron interrupted with a raised eyebrow, much to his brother's annoyance.
"Look, give me some respect I'm dead alright, the Grimm are those creatures that plague Remnant, the world you're going to." he explained, "Like I said I was excited at the prospect of a creature that had no detectable connection to the force and so with the help of the Barsen'thor I studied the Grimm doing all sorts of experiments to find out how they tick." he explained.
"Two things can you tell me everything you know about these Grimm, and why would a Sith lord whose been on the council be interested in conducting 'mundane' research like that?"
"First I can but not here, second I've always been like that ever since I joined the ranks of the Sith Inquisitors I have always loved to study the physical realm and how it's affected by the Force." he explained.
"I see, what was that all about, you needing a human sacrifice?" Auron asked, the older man's expression quickly somber.
"I found out a way to weaken the Grimm quite substantially through the use of Alchemy… but in order to do so I would need to sacrifice a human being I had no idea that she'd have me do it on my wife."
"She went along with that?" Auron asked in disbelief.
"She knew immediately what I was doing and well she was more than happy to do it and she put on a great act called me a coward… among other things she had me believing that she actually hated me."
"Huh, but what exactly did you do?"
"If you paid attention to the vision you would have noticed that the Grimm had no bone plates, that was because back then she felt felt no need for it, however what my ritual did was make the Grimm's hide so weak that mature level warriors could defeat them, so she compensated by giving them bone armor." he explained.
"Who is 'she'?" Auron asked his curiosity peaked.
"Her name I have no idea but from what I gathered she is indeed the one who created the Grimm, she is unlike anything I have encountered before, I know that someone called Melkur or Melkor is important to her in some way though." he answered, "I'm sorry I can't help you any more than that."
"Don't worry you did plenty, what's your name?" Auron asked.
"I was known as the Sith Lord Darth Imperus, but my actual name is…"
(Meanwhile outside world.)
Daniel and Vega felt a shift in the force coming from Auron they immediately ran down to the training room, and found Auron meditating with Qixoni, they noticed that Auron was much more at peace now, and his presence shined like a beacon, "What's going on here?" Vega asked.
"I don't know." Daniel answered baffled.
(Auron's head space)
"So what happened after you weakened the Grimm?" Auron asked.
"After everything was finished, I took my own life." Imperus admitted.
"What, why? I mean I get that you just killed your wife and all that but what about your children?" Auron asked surprised.
"If I could have escaped her prison I would have, that and I added a bit of security to the ritual only a closely related relative of mine or I can undo what I did that means my immediate children, our mother, and father who ever he may have been, and…" Imperus explained.
"Me." Auron finished.
"Yes, you." he confirmed and stared at him questioningly, while Auron looked to be in thought before he noticed his brother looking at him.
"You must be out of your damn mind if you think I'm just going to kill myself without a fight?" Auron exclaimed,
"What?"
"You have no idea what I just said?"
"No it was the wording that threw me off you see it sounded like you were going to fight yourself as you kill yourself." Imperus stated his words trailing off as he finished the sentence.
"I'm not going to kill myself!"
"Alright then." Imperus shrugged
"And you are not going to talk me into it… wait you don't care if I kill myself or not."
"It's just that if you somehow end up in her clutches like I did you can weaken them even more." Imperus stated.
"How?"
"With a faunas sacrifice."
Auron sighed in annoyance, "How about I don't get captured in first place?"
"That works too."
"How about we change the subject… do I have any living relatives on Remnant?" Auron asked curiously.
"Yes you do, five when I last counted." Imperus answered.
"Wow your family didn't do very well." Auron commented
"Well considering they live on perhaps one of the most unforgiving worlds in this galaxy it's understandable." Imperus deadpanned.
"Fair point."
"Two of them are adults and in prison, and three of them are young children one of whom is about your age and the other two are two years younger."
"What did my many.. times great... nephews and/or... nieces do to end up in prison?" Auron asked.
"Well your 'nephew' was charged and convicted for murdering his wife and before you ask, no he didn't do it, his son was sent to be raised by his sister your 'niece' her husband was killed in the line of duty as he was a law enforcement officer and she remarried, but the guy she married though was a complete bastard, he would abuse his step daughter and a number of other things I don't want to talk about, it got to the point where the son of your first mentioned 'nephew' grabbed a weapon to defend his cousin and killed the bastard, and your 'niece' took the fall for it feeling it was a fitting punishment for not seeing the signs of abuse done to her daughter." Imperus explained.
Auron was rendered speechless by that. "What the …!"
(Realworld)
The young Jedi felt a spike in Auron's emotions.
(Mindscape)
"My sentiments exactly." Imperus agreed dangerously
"I swear I'm going to find that bastard's body resurrect him then kill him again!" Auron shouted, "no one hurts my family and gets away with it… for long anyway."
"Uh you hurt our family too, remember?"
"You're seriously bringing that up?"
"Yes."
"Okay look I…"
"I forgive you." Imperus interrupted.
"You do?"
"Mom forgave you, so do I."
Auron looked away ashamed, "I don't deserve that forgiveness."
"No one who did what you did does." Imperus retorted.
"I don't want to talk about that anymore, tell me though what are their names?"
"The boy your age is named Nephritis, the girl is Nanami, and the last one's name is…"
(Realworld.)
"How long do you think he's going to be in this trance?" Vega asked Daniel.
"I have no idea." Daniel answered, "He better hurry though Micah says that we'll be set to talk to Rarok soon."
(Mindscape)
"So what do you plan on doing?" Imperus asked curiously
"I plan on building a new order." Auron stated, "the sith as they could have been."
"Which is?" Imperus asked, "I tried to do what you are thinking it can't work the Sith are too individualistic."
"You were trying to change an established system I am starting from scratch."
"What's to stop them from falling into the trap that every sith order ever has fallen into?" Imperus asked.
"... I'll find a way, I have people who can help me." Auron stated.
"I wish you all the luck in the world, and may the force be with you." Imperus said in farewell.
"Wait will I ever see you again?!" Auron asked as the vision began to dissipate.
"Maybe one day." Imperus answered as the image faded completely.
(Real world.)
Auron's eyes opened and he saw Daniel and Vega standing in front of him, "you're awake!" Vega exclaimed.
"Way to state the obvious." Auron deadpanned as he stood up.
"Did you find what you were looking for?" Daniel asked.
Auron smiled, "I believe I did, I also learned some new things about Remnant." he informed them, the Jedi tilted their heads questioningly, "I'll explain in the briefing room."
"Alright then, let's go help finish setting it up." Daniel suggested.
Auron looked at Qixoni who was sorting through his data files to figure out what those ruins they visited were, before he realised something, "Daniel, how did that meeting go?" he asked curiously.
(Location Mugg Fallow's orbit)
Rarok sighed as he tracked the ship's repair progress, he would have like to update them to modern specs but that wasn't necessary for his current purposes, "Can this not go any slower!" he exclaimed in frustration, that on top of the fact he had to deal with a pissed off Cathar Jedi who hated Mandalorians this had been a stressful few days for him.
"How is it coming?" Uriah asked coming onto the bridge of the ancient sith warship, the Cathar was at least not calling him a butcher now.
"The Chiss called up and asked why I was powering up the ships and repairing them, fortunately Micah sent some codes along with the datapad and as soon as I transmitted them they offered to help, but even with their help it's going to take almost two weeks to get this done." Rarok informed.
"Good." the ancient Jedi responded curtly.
"Look I get that you hate my people and I suppose you have every right to that, but seriously those wars happened nearly four thousand years ago, so much has changed since then." Rarok started.
"Maybe for you it has been four millennia for me it was four years ago." Uriah countered, "your people attacked and butchered not just my people but several other systems, all just to get the Jedi riled up." the cathar growled, "guess what, you succeeded."
"I wasn't there!" Rarok shouted, as he grabbed the Cathar by the scruff of his neck and shook him slightly, "what part of that don't you get!"
Uriah grabbed his hands and threw them off, "And how do I know that you're not some lackey of Demogal playing a trick on me to learn more about the Jedi's abilities!" Uriah shouted back, the Cathar felt his head whip to the side and his face stung it was than he registered that, Rarok smacked him with a closed fist.
"Never." Rarok growled dangerously, "ever associate me with that Chakaar again."
Uriah started to chuckle a little bit as he looked back into the Mandalorian's faceplate, "Now that, I can believe Rarok Cardea." Uriah continued to chuckle as he spit some blood out of his mouth.
"What?"
"You are different than those of your people I have encountered, more honorable for sure, if what you say is true than I am a man out of time." Uriah sighed bitterly.
Rarok ignored the jab against his people and looked out the viewport, "I wish that things hadn't happened the way they did, I guess that in some way the actions of the Crusaders brought about the Dral'Han."
"That means the annihilation correct?" Uriah asked curiously.
"You speak Mando'a? Rarok asked.
"Know thine enemy." Uriah answered simply.
"I see." Rarok sighed, with that Rarok explained what that event was how the Republic came in and oppressed Mandalorian space and why they did it, "... And they did this because we refused to join the Galactic Republic. They feared that we would return to days of Crusades."
Uriah sat there for a moment, "I would say 'my condolences'... but I wouldn't be honest if I did say that." Uriah felt a little upset that he would feel happy about the cultural genocide of another group though the Mandalorians were responsible for his species near total annihilation, but he couldn't deny that a part of him was happy that the Mandalorians got what he felt was coming to them.
Rarok looked at Uriah before turning away, "Feel free to hate my people if it makes you feel better after all you're a free man." he stated.
He was already tried from all this. What happened all those years ago was was disgusting and saddening but it happened in past. 'What happened in past, stays in the past. Cin Vhetin.' Thought Rarok.
Before the Cathar could respond a ping sounded from Rarok's wrist the Mandalorian brought it up to his face, "This is Rarok Cardea?"
"eak bic cuyir tisktu a dilyragr." A voice responded one that Rarok knew all too well.
"He's supposed to say the first part you Di'kut." a similar voice growled.
"I'm a soldier not a spy.' the first one defended.
Rarok sighed, "A akaanir cuyir draar a watr o'r ast, who are you and who is the Jedi you carry?" Rarok asked.
Another voice answered one completely different from the clones, "I am Jedi Padawan Nuru Kungurama." Uriah stretched out his senses and smiled when he confirmed that the boy was telling the truth.
"So there are more survivors?" Uriah asked happily.
"Cardera you have another Jedi on board?" Nuru asked hopefully.
"Come on board and we can make the introductions here." Rarok answered.
"You got it sir breakout squad out." one of the clones answered and cut the link, Rarok turned to the Cathar Jedi.
"It turns out not all clones followed that horrid order." Rarok smiled.
Uriah nodded the Rarok had explained to him the fate that befell the Jedi and to say the least it saddened him greatly, "Were there any masters who survived?" Uriah asked.
Rarok sighed, "I'm sure there are I know that the current Grand Master Yoda is still alive, as well as Master Kenobi." he answered.
"They sound like great Jedi, I would like to meet them." Uriah said.
Rarok tilted his head slightly in confusion, "I thought that the Revanchist hated the Jedi, for seemingly abandoning the Galaxy during the wars?" Rarok asked as he sat down.
"I understood their reasoning but I chose to go to war I could protect the people that the crusaders were slaughtering, do I agree with their decision? No I don't, but I don't hate them for it either, they were afraid, that simple."
"Afraid of what?" Rarok asked with a raised eyebrow.
"They sensed a greater threat than the Mandalorians, what I have no idea," Uriah said with shake of his head, "and not just fifty years ago we fought against Exar Kun and we were still recovering from that."
Rarok looked around, "Take a look around you," Uriah did so, "this ship was part of the Resurgent Sith Empire… they were the threat your Council sensed." Uriah turned to Rarok his eyes widened in surprise.
"The Sith returned?" the cathar asked in disbelief.
Rarok nodded, "Almost three hundred years after your time, well this group did, about five years after the war ended Revan and Malak returned from the unknown regions and launched an attack on the republic… with all the Jedi and men that went with him."
Uriah shakily took a seat upon hearing that, "Revan and Malak?" he asked his disbelief multiplied, "what… how, why?"
Rarok sighed, "They learned that the Mandalorians were coerced into starting a war with the Republic after Revan defeated Mandalore the Ultimate, Revan took his men into the unknown regions and returned with an armada the size of which would dwarf most, only being outmatched by Eternal Fleet of Eternal Empire and the CIS of the Clone Wars, what they found in the Unknown regions was the Sith Empire led by an immortal Sith Lord, Emperor Vitiate, Vitiate overpowered the two and turned them into his puppets along with everyone else."
Uriah brought a hand to his head. "If what you say is true… then the Crusaders are not completely guilty, How did the Jedi survive?"
"Well at some point Revan and Malak along with the expedition broke free of Vitiate's control, and decided to take the star forge, a powerful weapon and bastion that took raw matter from a star and turned it into any inanimate object you can imagine, than they attacked the Republic and the Jedi."
"Wait why do that if they were free of Vitiate's control?"
"Revan didn't want to destroy the Republic for the sake of destroying it, he wanted to make it stronger for the 'real' Sith threat, you see if the Republic defeated him than he knew that they were ready if he won than he would have a massive power base ready to fight the Sith, sadly the Sith always betray one another." Rarok explained.
"Ah I see." Uriah stated before he stood up and walked away in thought, "Maybe it's a blessing I got sealed away."
"Why do you say that?" Rarok asked.
For a long moment Uriah said nothing, "If there's one thing I hate more than Mandalorians it's the Sith, I would have hated to follow Revan if it meant even adopting the name."
Rarok looked to the side, "At the battle of Malachor, the last battle of the Mandalorian Wars, the republic activated a weapon called the Mass Shadow Generator, it devastated the world and so many Jedi, republic soldiers, and Mandalorians were crushed with the planet, the Jedi were those who often disagreed with Revan's views and were less than likely to follow him into Sith territory…" Rarok started.
"So he would have killed me." Uriah interrupted, his voice devoid of emotion as he turned away from Rarok.
"... Maybe." Rarok answered after a moment.
"I wonder how many of my comrades, friends, family is remembered, if any of them are remembered as heroes or traitors?" Uriah asked.
Rarok sighed, "The ones who went to Sith space are definitely remembered as traitors, the ones who died at Malachor and before… I don't know."
Uriah just sighed sadly, "It doesn't matter now they are all dust now," Uriah turned to Rarok there were tears welled up in his eyes, "I have nothing left."
Rarok stared in pity, "You have the force." he pointed out.
Uriah smiled, "My constant companion, how foolishly for me to forget about her."
"Her?"
"I refer to the force in the feminine tense, you got a problem with that?"
"No, you do you, I do me and we leave each other be." Rarok stated.
"Good, I guess."
Rarok nodded and stood up to go meet his guest, "One more thing Rarok." Rarok stopped and looked over at the Cathar curiously.
"Yes?"
"Is it possible to see if I have any living family?"
"Uh, it should be, but what would you say to them, 'hi I'm your many times great uncle' or something."
"I was thinking more along the lines of grandfather after all I was an only child."
"But I thought…?" Rarok trailed off.
"Thought what?" Uriah raised an eyebrow.
"When was that rule implemented?" Rarok asked to himself.
"What rule?"
"Never mind don't worry about it, but yeah if we have an opportunity we can look into it." Rarok answered as he walked out of the room.
"What rule?!" Uriah asked again, but the Mandalorian was out of earshot when he asked
Rarok ran to the launch bay where Breakout squad was going to land, he heard of them during the war, he was to say the least impressed with their record, they were lead by Jedi commander Nuru, if Rarok remembered correctly the boy was seventeen now, and he was a Chiss, thinking on it that made sense the boy probably thought that the best place for he and his men to hide from the empire was among his own people, the small ship entered the bay and landed, the ship hissed as it prepared to open the hatch.
The hatch opened and out came a young Chiss armed with a lightsaber flanked by a few clone troopers. Uriah also entered the room just in time to see the Breakout squad coming out of the ship, the Chiss Jedi turned to Uriah questioningly, Uriah himself also wondered when the members of the Chiss started to join the Jedi order, "Who are you?" Nuru asked confused, the clones immediately became worried and pointed their weapons at the Cathar Jedi, Rarok immediately walked into their line of sight and held up his hands.
"Woah hold on, he is a Jedi just not one you would recognise unless…" Rarok then turned his head to face Uriah, "are you in the history books by any chance?"
"How would I know I only woke up 2 days ago, and I haven't got a chance to look."
Nuru placed a hand on one of the trooper's rifles, "It's alright Breaker he is a Jedi just not one I recognise." the clones all looked at Nuru before hesitantly lowering their weapons but keeping them at the ready just in case.
"You wouldn't either I'm from a bygone era the Mandalorian Wars." Uriah stated, "I know how that sounds but it's true I was sealed in stasis because of some disease and well didn't awaken till two days ago." he could feel the clones disbelief and skepticism at his story.
Nuru probed his force signature for any signs of deceit but found none much to his surprise, "You're telling the truth." he said almost as if he couldn't believe his own words.
"Yes he is." Rarok confirmed, "I found him myself."
Before the conversation could continue the long range transmitter signaled, "there's a bridge console in the hanger?" Uriah asked with a raised eyebrow.
"More likly that the ship is letting us know since no one is on the bridge, so lets go." Rarok suggested and started back for the bridge, the others followed suit, when they arrived at the bridge Rarok answered to call, "Rarok Cardea here." he greeted.
"This Micah of the Antarian Rangers, it's good we got a hold of you mister Cardea, we have a problem." The Ranger stated
"How can we help?" Rarok asked.
"Well we could use your help in a few days from now it turns out that this planet as some very violent residents."
"What can you tell me about these residents?" Rarok asked.
"Well…" Micah then began to explain what had happened over the last few days from their arrival on the planet, their encounter with the Urku, Caleb's capture and execution, the Dark master's resurrection, and the siege that they are about to face, "thankfully we do have some allies on this world all they ask for in turn is to take their entire population with them when we finally leave this world."
"Well that isn't so bad." Rarok started.
"Of three hundred thousand beings."
"Like I said not so bad I actually have been working on repairing several ships, I felt that it was necessary for the almost certain confrontation with the 'Far Outsiders'." Rarok informed.
There was silence on the other end for a moment, "Rarok if you were a woman I'd propose to you here and now." Micah finally stated.
"Uhh, thanks I guess." Rarok said awkwardly, the other people around him were struggling to keep their composure and not laugh, "we should be their in about five days, but the rest of the ships I picked are going to take two weeks to get operational and than I expect a month of work to get them all updated."
"Well at the moment we only need them to fly, and we won't need them combat ready till hopefully we're done here "
"I see, well don't worry we'll be there in about five days."
"Works for us, who's all coming with you?"
"There's Uriah the Jedi from the Mandalorian wars, then there's Breakout squad led by Jedi commander Nuru Kungurama they just arrived recently."
"... Works for me." Micah answered, "get here soon, by your estimate you'll be here two or three days into the siege."
"You can hold out that long right?" Nuru asked.
"Yes, we should be able to." Micah assured them.
"Good, anything else we need to go over?" Rarok asked
"Hmn, nothing that comes to mind." Micah answered.
"Alright keep in touch." Rarok stated and closed the line, "alright people." he started and turned towards them, "Their is a battle to be won." before they could start one of Breakout squads hands shot up, "Problem?" Rarok asked.
"Yes sir, uh ever since the order was issued, it has been very difficult to resist this urge to shoot our friend and commander." the one called Breaker stated.
"Yes sir the urge is pretty powerful and hard to fight against." another stated, Nuru nodded as if to confirm their claims.
"It is true and I don't know what's wrong." Nuru stated nervously.
Rarok sighed, "I know what's wrong, there is a chip in your brains that makes you follow order 66, there are several clones who have resisted the chip's affects and got it out, unfortunately I don't have the medical experience nor equipment to remove them safely." he answered.
"How long can we fight off the urge?" Breaker asked concerned.
Rarok shrugged, "I don't know it depends entirely on you."
"Is there a medical droid on this ship that can take care of them?" Nuru asked hopefully.
"No the others scavenged him when they came here a while ago." Rarok answered with a shake of his head.
"Perhapes we might be able to fight off the effects of the chip better if we don't interact with you commander." Breaker suggested.
"What, you saying I'm not good enough to be around?" Nuru asked in mock offence.
"Yes sir." another one of the troopers quipped, causing the squad to break out in laughter Nuru included.
"Alright, then let's get repairs under way." Rarok ordered, and directed the clones and the droid they have called Cleaver if Rarok heard right, to the engine room while the Jedi went about the ship and repaired any droids they could.
(Location Varon, the Sage's bastion.)
Auron had just finished telling Daniel his plans for rebuilding a sith order, to say the least Daniel wasn't taking it very well, "Are you crazy!" he shouted in anger.
"Yes I am." Auron deadpanned, "but not in this instance, What I have planned will be different then the sith that we have all come to hate."
"The Sith philosophy demands that one becomes no better than an animal hell bent on destroying and dominating everything in their path, and we already have two sith to deal with I am not allowing you to make anymore!" Daniel growled.
"You fall for the same misconception everyone else has even other Sith, if you look at the core of sith philosophy it's absolute core, its code it states that you pursue your passions, you gain strength and through strength power and through Power victory and when that happens you are free to do as you see please." Auron explained.
"Freedom without laws is Anarchy which is what Sith are." Daniel retorted.
"I am not denying that, the sith way of survival of the fittest is outdated all sentient life has moved pass that." Auron agreed, "the Sith see that war brings about advancement in technology so they believed that through eternal war we'd have eternal advancement."
"I know that, but I don't necessarily agree with that statement, competition is what breeds advancement, war just happens to be one nasty competition." Daniel closed his eyes and put his hand to his head to rub his aching temples "not only that but if everything is constantly being destroyed, things actually regress."
"True," Aruon agreed, "look I know you think that this is a bad idea, but I think I can make this work with all of your help."
Daniel shook his head and sighed, "I can't, the Sith have caused so much pain in our history."
"And the Jedi have not?" Auron retorted.
"Fair enough, but still how much have the Sith done compared to the Jedi?" Daniel retorted back, Auron remained silent, "get back to me when you have a rough estimate." Daniel stated, and made to leave.
"Daniel," Auron started, Daniel stopped and turned back to the light sith, "I get it the Sith have done terrible things throughout galactic history, some of which I have no idea about, I am not going to make this a complete Sith order, It will be tempered with some Jedi philosophy among other things."
Daniel turned ahead not looking at Auron, "When this blows up in your face, I hope you live so I can say 'I told you so.'" Daniel relented.
"Thank you, Daniel." Auron smiled triumphantly.
"Don't thank me, you didn't even need to consult me, but you did why?" Daniel asked as he turned to face Auron.
"Because I want you help." Auron admitted, "think about it if you, Vega, Asajj, and eventually your master help me I might be able to pull this off."
"You're that confident?" Daniel asked with a raised eyebrow.
Auron nodded vigorously, "Yes I am."
"I'll help… but that still doesn't mean I think this is a bad idea." Daniel sighed, and started down the wall.
"I get it."
"Enough about that though, let's go practice." Daniel called back, and signalled Vega to meet them in the Practice Ring.
"Sounds good to me!" Auron shouted and jumped from the tower to the courtyard and landed no problem.
The two force users made their way to the Practice Ring they met Vega and the three fought the simulations till they knocked themselves out cold.
AN: I hope you all enjoyed
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