Note: No real clue when this happens in the storyline, but it is before Ahsoka wakes up but after Rhyloth
Lamus was a lush world, teaming with life and yet no significant presence from the galaxy at large.
One relatively small settlement near a large lake was the only detectable sign of civilization beyond the beacon they detected nearly opposite it.
An emergency beacon from a Republic medical ship, one with an ID code he remembered from the war for a damn good reason.
A friend and an enemy were each on that ship when it vanished after Boz Pity.
They had found the Bright Flight.
The small number of life signs there was comforting actually, a sign that the dark jedi sent off on that ship hadn't killed everyone onboard when it crashed.
Adding Theta to the landing team would work as they had the closest thing to a jedi his fleet had, and a LAAT/i was useful in making sure that he wouldn't have unleashed her on the galaxy again.
He could smell the vegetation while leaving his helmet on the hook inside the gunship, face to face was the easiest way to do things.
Footsteps caught his attention and he signaled the commandos with him to prepare for a possible fight.
The familiar face he'd remembered from the battlefield came into view dead ahead.
One word escaped his lips, one word with so many meanings with how he said it calm, cold, and as casually as he could force it through his lips.
"Ventress."