Chapter 15

Secrets Revealed

Just a little note, it was the Emperor of Mankind that I was talking about and not Palpatine, I hate that guy, if I bring Palpatine into this it would be to enjoy killing him…(Evil Chaos Laughter)…here is the next chapter!!!!

Oh and to Wyrewolf, I double checked, it is known as the Galactic Federation of Free Alliance in Wookiepedia and I'll see what I can do about the comms.

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Inquisitor Robyn Vallace lay in her bed trying to get some sleep, the last few weeks on board the Alliance flagship had been tiring to say the least, suffering her first serious injury since she became an Inquisitor, but she was well looked after by the Alliance healers.

Once discharged from the medbay she returned to looking over the reports on Alliance technology, her main interest was on a healing liquid known as Bacta, this healing agent was widely used in their home galaxy and was known to heal almost anything from serious diseases to near fatal injuries. This style of medical treatment, if duplicated could be used all over the Imperium, the treatment could save thousands of lives in the Imperium armed forces and, possibly if she dared to believe it revive important individuals like some of the Primarchs and even the God-Emperor himself.

These possibilities however were far away at the moment, the idea of reviving the Emperor and his few Primarchs looked great on paper but like many things in the real world it was never as easy as it seemed, there were many leaders within the Imperium including several of the High Lords of Terra who loved their places of power and would rather keep the God-Emperor on the golden throne instead of having him revived.

Before she could let her allies on Terra know about the bacta she needed to gain the Alliances and their protector's support, she had just asked for a meeting with the Alliance captains, the Admiral, the Magi and the Jedi master.

She wasn't kidding herself, she knew that she had the resources and the firepower to take the technology by force, but she wasn't that kind of Inquisitor, she was of a much rarer breed that would rather negotiate than have it all down to a gunfight, besides from what she's knows of the Alliance officers they would probably be willing to help anyway.

She was Robyn Vallace, Inquisitor, a member of the Resurrectionist Faction of the Inquisition and liaison between the Galactic Alliance and Holy Terra, by the God-Emperor of Mankind she would see this through, but caution was key, one wrong move and powerful enemies can be made and important work can be undone.

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She walked down narrow, dark corridors made of black stone, dim lamps lit the passage casting shadows and making the eerie sight even more terrifying, within the darkness she saw the glowing eyes of daemons, monsters of chaos that she had been raised to fear.

As she continued walking she heard the sounds of gunfire and death screams echo everywhere, forcing herself to ignore them she continued walking, the hums of lightsabres joined the echoes which got louder and louder until she exited the corridor.

She came to a large chamber made of black stone and lit by the same dull lighting as in the corridor, a massive ruby red crystal lay imbedded in the centre of the chamber adding its chaos tainted light to its surroundings, on the walls were sacrificial pyres, eight pointed stars with the bloodied bodies of people tied to them, some were dead but others were still alive, if only just, their eyes were for what she guessed for the first time in so long had a flicker of hope in them.

The bodies of Chaos cultists littered the ground, blood pooling out of their disfigured and pale bodies, lasguns and blades still gripped in their hands, from the shadows Daemons pulled dead cultists into the darkness ready to feed on the corpses.

Forcing herself not to look at the daemons she continued on and saw the energy of lightsabres ahead, elegant crimson, emerald, sapphire and violet blades that blurred from the speeds at which they were being swung, more death screams filled the air but Alana pushed herself onward.

There were about ten of them, black cloaked figures that's very presence made the Daemons recoil in an unknown fear, their features might have been completely hidden if not for the low light from their lightsabres, ten human men and women.

They circled around two figures in the centre, both fighting each other in a duel of death, one she recognised immediately as Revan, holding two lightsabres in his hands, one crimson and the other silver, he spun unleashing a terrifying display of blurring blades at his opponent, a Chaos sorcerer, holding a rickety looking staff and encased in the spiked, blood stained armour of Chaos, the sorcerers head visor glowing red as he deflected the attacks that Revan sent.

But the fight was one sided, Revan was more powerful and completely on the offensive, not even stopping to let the sorcerer catch a breath, but the servant of Chaos jumped backwards, the obscene powers of the warp propelling him and raising his staff unleashed several bolts of warp energy, the beams of dark red light were deflected by the lightsabres, spun so fast that they appeared to be disks made of light, he approached still spinning the lightsabres in his black gloved hands. The chaos sorcerer releasing salvo after salvo of warped doom bolts at him even though it was pointless.

"You are beaten" Revan said, his voice mechanically amplified "Your armies are dead, your stronghold has fallen and the Imperium will be here within minutes…be still and let me send you to your gods" he threw his red bladed lightsabre at the sorcerer, spinning like a boomerang but the agent of Chaos laughed venomously, ducking the decapitating blade.

"You think this is the end Revan the Grey" the sorcerer mocked "The dark gods know now of you and your armies presence, you and your children will be hunted to the last and their existence irradiated!"

The lightsabre spun around back towards the sorcerer and sliced through his back, the crimson blade exiting through the vile murderer's stomach; surprised the sorcerer fell to his knees as Revan approached him, the lightsabre recalled to his hand.

"Do you really think that what I have brought with me is all there is vile slave of Chaos" Revan replied as he kicked the staff away "There are other immortals beside myself, both light warriors of the force and of the warp, they remain hidden, waiting for the time when the revival of the first Jedi Masters and the God-Emperor of Mankind is imminent" he swung his blades in a quick motion decapitating the chaos servant before turning to the warriors around him, small explosions could be heard from above "The Imperium is here, save as many of the slaves as you can…but be quick we must leave before they arrive"

As the ten warriors departed to free the still living slaves Revan turned in her direction, looking at Alana as if she was here and the young girl heard a voice in her mind utter one word.

…Galenor…

Alana woke from her sleep and sat upright, covered in sweet and trying desperately to draw in a breath, she used a force relaxation technique to calm down before she assessed what she had witnessed; the visions were getting more frequent, even going as far as invading her dreams.

What was strange was Revan himself, in the early visions he projected an aura of darkness, fighting an Archon of the Dark Eldar one moment and a Commissar of the Imperial Guard the next, always fighting, always killing, but in later visions he projected an aura of light as he walked down the incredible corridors of an Eldar craftworld with a Farseer of the Biel-Tan or wadding through the crowded markets of a Tau world speaking with an Ethereal, she wasn't even sure if Revan was a he.

But this vision was the most vivid of all the others, there were others there, like him, the revealed truths that there were others like him out there in the galaxy, warriors of the force interested her, but what he said about creatures of the warp who fight with him frightened her, light creatures of the warp, she was sceptical of such an idea. What was the word he spoke to her, Galenor…what was it, a name definitely, but to what or who? She had so many questions that she felt only he could answer, she had to tell Master Sabbath.

But not know, it was late, after a few moments of trying to get back to sleep she gave up and rising from her bed she slipped into her Jedi robes and walked to the desk where the parts of her lightsabre lay, she sat down on the chair and set to work, once more.

Several hours later she carefully set the last part into the lightsabre and closed the hilt before pushing the button, not even a spark, she groaned as the weapon refused to light.

She thought of what master Sabbath had told her before she began, a lightsabre isn't just a weapon, for it to work you need to put a part of yourself into the blade, it is your weapon, your tool, a piece of yourself, and an extension of your arm.

It finally came to her; she gathered a piece of the force within her and channelled it into the hilt before pushing the button again, a golden blade snapped into existence and she smiled in triumph.

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As the combined fleet returned to Helios Prime Admiral Halos watched as a swarm of small escort ships rose through the lines of defence satellites and weapon platforms to meet them, the fleet was half its original strength and most of the other half had suffered damage. Thankfully besides the minimum breaches to the Vigilance none of the other Star Destroyers had suffered harm.

He heard footsteps behind him and turned to see Inquisitor Vallace walking up beside him, she stood there for a few moments watching as the massive guns and missile launchers of the platforms trail the surviving vessels, small escort Cobras and Swords surrounded them and took up escort positions.

Once safely behind the defences the Star Destroyers and Mechanicus battleship broke off from the fleet and docked with one of the massive battle-stations.

"I have heard that some of your captains are voicing concerns about a full alliance with us" Vallace said as the Star Destroyer entered the massive docking bay and was caught in the docking clamps, small skull shaped hover drones floated around the hull in their hundreds assessing the small breaches to the ship.

"We know that there are enemies in this galaxy that cannot be reasoned with Inquisitor" Halos said "But from the data that we have gained from you we have read of races in this galaxy that can be reasoned with…the Tau and the Eldar"

"And there have been Inquisitors and other Imperium officers who have tried to tell that to the High Lords" Vallace replied with a sigh "But the fact is that these two empires you speak off have attacked us in the past and although there have been times when we do fight with them it usually degenerates afterwards. I will tell the captains that when the meeting starts"

"Well then shall we go?" Halos asked as he turned to the repulsorlift.

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As Gabriel and Alana entered the briefing room they saw that the captains were already there arguing with each other over whether or not they should make an alliance with the Imperium, the six officers stopped talking as the Jedi master and his apprentice entered the room.

"So" Gabriel began as he took a seat Alana taking the one next to him, he had decided to show the young girl the different aspects of being a Jedi, one was diplomacy and sadly politics "Who is against an Alliance?"

Hesitantly Mynn, Rosso and Severi raised their hands while Terik, Verge and surprisingly Florn kept them down.

"We have already traded technologies and created hybrids with them" Verge said "Why not take the final step?"

"It is because of the way they do things" Rosso replied "I admit it that during the days of the Galactic Empire we did enslave alien races but we never drove any race that wasn't human to extinction simply because they were an inconvenience"

"Agreed" Severi replied "It's barbaric even by the standards of the empire under Palpatine, the Ssi-Ruuk, even the Yuuzhan Vong"

It was then that Admiral Halos and Inquisitor Vallace entered the briefing chamber, Robyn carrying a small case that within Gabriel guessed had records and more data. As the two took seats Halos looked into each of the faces of the captains and the two Jedi that were present "You know why I have called all of you here, the Inquisitor has something to show you"

Robyn positioned the case on the table and placed her thumb onto a small scanning screen, there was a small flash of green light and the sounds of at least ten locks clicking open, she opened the case and took a couple of data chips out of it "All of you are wondering why we are fighting the Eldar instead of allying with them, one of the major reasons is that the Eldar only take action if their own people are at risk…and they don't care who they have to destroy to do it"

She inserted one of the data-chips into the holo-projector built into the briefing table, a holographic projection of a city world appeared "This planet is known as Armageddon, it's a hive world located ten thousand light years north of Holy Terra, several years ago the Eldar diverted a massive Ork fleet from their territories to this world, too date the Orks threaten to overrun her, it is said that you can see their armies from space as a green tide"

"I can understand why you would declare war against the Eldar" Florn said as he studied the hologram "However I would question your actions against the Tau, wasn't it you that declared war on them?"

"Secretly we were already at war captain" Vallace replied "The Tau were slowly subverting the worlds around their borders, threatening to turn them against the Imperium, we had to act!" she studied the faces of all present "Understand that this galaxy is very different to your own, although you have all seen your fair share of war at least there was small times of peace between them, here the war is never ending and it will not end until only one is left standing"

"Excuse me Inquisitor" Captain Mynn said as she read a datapad "But I am curious about the Exterminatus procedure, if a world is threatening to be conquered then you destroy it"

"Yes we do"

"You would condemn millions, perhaps billions of innocent lives to death" Mynn said in dismay.

"Although I have never ordered an Exterminatus Captain I would if our enemies threaten to take over a world" Robyn replied "Usually when such an order is given the population is mostly either dead or evacuated"

"But according to these you have driven countless alien races to extinction" Terik said as his eyes scanned a datapad screen.

"Many of those alien races would have done the same to us if they had a chance" Vallace replied hotly "Anything that threatens the safety of the Imperium is destroyed, it is similar to what your Galactic Empire did under the rule of Emperor Palpatine"

"Palpatine was a sadistic, xenophobic monster who murdered countless billions just because they were an inconvenience" Verge said, disgusted by that mad mans name "An example of such crimes was the Destruction of Alderaan, two billion lives winked out in a instant, the atrocities of the Great Jedi Purge being another!"

"And yet the Galactic Empire would be roughly what the Imperium is know" Vallace replied before noticing master Sabbath flinch "My apologies master Sabbath, I have read on what Palpatine did to the Jedi Order under his rule"

Alana looked over to her teacher quizzically but understood that she should ask about what happened at a later date.

Meanwhile Inquisitor Vallace was taking a breath "I need to explain something to you all…the Imperium was not always what it is know, nearly ten thousand years ago we were under the leadership of the Emperor of Mankind and at that time we had great promise, with the Primarchs and their Space Marine legions he began a Great Crusade to rescue worlds that were cut of by the age of Strife and who were under tyrannical alien control, several other powers including the Eldar were considering joining us…then Warmaster Horus turned traitor, taking half of the armies of the Imperium with him to Chaos, the war was devastating and although we won it was at great cost, the Emperor was mortally wounded and had to be confined to the Golden Throne, the Imperium has been slowly decaying ever since"

"An interesting tale Inquisitor" Gabriel said "However where are you going with this?"

"While I was researching on your medical technology I found that it is vastly superior to our own, your cybernetic limp emplacements are extraordinary, you can clone vital replacement organs quickly but the most interesting piece of medical technology you have is a substance named bacta" Vallace explained "I would wish a trade of bacta to create our own"

"So that you can use this to revive the emperor from his comatose state" Rosso asked "Therefore returning your greatest warlord to power and beginning your crusade of death and genocide anew!"

Inquisitor Vallace clenched her fists in rage, her knuckles turning white "If that were to anyone else but me Rosso you would already be dead, there is a difference between you and I, the Imperium would start a war with your precious Alliance without a second thought and although you may be able to hold your ground for a decade or two eventually you would lose, if the Yuuzhan Vong attacked us their invasion would be stopped dead within a year and we would counterattack them leaving nothing but the charred remains of their fleets and worlds in our wake, if we were threatened by an organisation like the Rebel Alliance we would have destroyed it before it even had a chance to begin, if it were the Separatists we would have crushed their fleets and droid armies under our iron tracks in half the time it took the Old Republic!!!"

"Inquisitor" Halos said firmly "Calm yourself!"

Robyn finally came to her senses and looked around, the captains were still there, each of them looking at her with a mixture of concern and fear, master Sabbath sat there, concern on his face while his apprentice looked scared half to death, taking a deep, calming breath Robyn opened her eyes "My apologies to all but you must understand that we are raised from birth to see the Emperor as a God, the Imperium was not the tyrannical empire you see today, if the Emperor wasn't nearly killed during the Horus Heresy then we would have become very much like your Galactic Alliance…I believe that if the Emperor is not returned then the Imperium will slowly get worse until it eventually topples either through a successful enemy invasion or from within"

All of the captains within the room considered this for a time before they glanced back at the Inquisitor, it was surprisingly Rosso who spoke up "What do you wish to trade in exchange for the bacta?"

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"You are sure?" Gabriel asked as he walked down the corridors, Alana in tow.

"Yes master" Alana replied "The visions are getting more vivid, I feel that if I don't find the source then they will get far worse"

Gabriel considered this for a time before sighing and looking back at his determined young apprentice "What was the name again…I will ask Magi Durin to look it up and we'll see where it goes from there"

The young woman smiled warmly before embracing him "Thank you master"

So what do you think of that, what will Inquisitor Vallace trade in exchange for the medical technologies, what will Alana and Gabriel do if they find what their looking for…tune in for the next chapter to find out!!!