Returning to Lord Zash who was attending a party in a local cantina her alibi. Having informed of hissuccess, they were now free to pursue their goals. Lord Zash wasn't out of the woods just yet she received a holo from her superior Darth Thanatos of the Dark Council. The Dark Lord was furious at Lord Zash lack of discretion and had blamed her for Scotia's Death. She was brought in to account and surprising walked away with a promotion to Darth.
His task was clear he was to trek to the dark temple and retrieve artifacts of Tulak Hord. But first he would take the time to prepare his team and preform force rituals to protect them from the likely infectious madness that seemed to plague Sith tombs.
Rituals to strengthen the mind and the connection to the force with an emphasis on the light side to counteract the overwhelming dark side forces that would be at work. Khem was likely immune and none of the rituals would have an effect on him anyway. Ounce the preparations where completed they made their trek to the dark temple.
Captain Isen who was tasked with finding out why the construction and security droids were behaving oddly was ambushed by malfunctioning droids and discovered a transmitter in one of the droids. Barely escaping with his life he was in no position of completing his mission without outside help. He was very grateful that a Sith just happened to cross his path likely heading to the dark temple. Isen was not going to look a gift horse in the mouth had approached Janus and his party for aid in the matter.
It was a trivial task but since they were heading that way and Janus hated leaving a puzzle unsolved had agreed to help. After Salvaging the transmitters from those droids he headed back to the captain who was startled the droids had been transmitting security codes defences plans layouts etc. everything that an invading army would need to land. Lord Grathan was behind this. Major Shellaster who was sent ahead asked for your help in dealing with a mercenary force lead by lord Tytonus a rogue Sith lord who claimed her own kingdom and was allied with Lord Grathan.
Lord Tytonus had manage to land an elite unit of alien mercenaries. It was up to him to carve out their numbers destroy their transports to prevent the rest of her army from landing and to deal with the rogue. He and Kory provided an impressive barrage of force lightning and storms to cover Khem and Yadira as they stormed the lines leading towards the transports. The mercenaries where tough and fought back hard. Kory healing proved invaluable they didn't suffer a single casualty thanks to her.
Ounce the mercenaries where dealt with it only left the rogue lord she turned out to be on a whole different playing field to Scotia. She wasn't only much more powerful by her command of the force was also more diversified calling storms of lightning charging her lightsaber with currents of lighting. Hmm he didn't know that was possible he would need to learn that trick and teach it to Yadira. She and her apprentices put up a valiant fight, Lightning met lightning lightsaber against lightsaber.
They were evenly matched He had the honour of facing the Lord while Khem, Treek and Yadira each faced a skilled apprentice. Kory proved to be their ace in the whole with her healing and support skills. The fight turned into one of simple attrition they wore the enemy down little by little and till one by one they had fallen. The apprentices were the first to fall and Lord Tytonus was left all alone facing them weakened by her fight with Janus she fell to their combined might. They signaled their success to the major who would be sending a cleanup squad.
Janus was approached yet again when he resumed his trek to the dark temple by a major in the Imperial Reclamation service informing him that his team after uncovering powerful artifacts from the temple had gone missing. He needed someone to recover the artifacts. Captain Fizak had approached him about retrieving some data from the 3 lost expeditions he sent to take readings that would be vital for future construction of Kaas City.
And finally Lord Alaric had simply assumed he had been sent to help with his problem. An expedition led by overly ambitious Sith had hoped to plunder the dark temple for artifacts of great power, had awoken the dead Sith Lord Kallig.
They were driven mad by the Dead lord's power. He was tasked to seal vaults insuring that none of the other Sith lords would be awoken by future expedition of fools. Simply killing the fools who had gone in would do nothing to detour the net group.
Yadira had remarked once they left had they been in the republic as Jedi they would have been expected to do these thinks pro bono, the Jedi existed to serve. Disgusting charity was for the weak, nothing in the empire was free.
They proceeded to clear the temple of its intruders sparing only 2 managed to keep the spirits at bay a slave how was sent to collect the data and a Sith Apprentice who was fighting off a spirit named Anyarah, all others were put down. They had not faced any real challenge the possessed where too disorganized and driven mad.
They had recovered the stolen artifacts from the slain along with the data, before proceeding to seal the tombs shut using the industrial laser that Alaric's first team had been sent with. Just outside the last tomb they had found a Hologron containing the knowledge of a powerful Sith lord the fell to the light side. Finally reaching the tomb that they been sent to, there Janus discover from the force Ghost of Kallig that he was descendant from that Sith Lords line, retrieving the artifact they left the temple.
Ounce they reached the camp and reporting the success to the various people who sought their help receiving their compensation. The various artifacts (not the Tulak Hord one) were sent to the Imperial Reclamation service. They proceeded to the Office of lord Zash to inform her of their success.
Lord Zash was thrilled at her Apprentice success and had rewarded him with a ship an beauty this ship was a Fury class imperial interceptor. Lord Zash had located trails leading to further artifacts of Tulak Hord on Balmorra and Nar Shaddaa. While Janus took care of finding a crew to man his ship requesting that a squad of marines be transferred from the black Talon sighting previous exemplary service under him. Khem and Treek went hunting as they had time to kill while the girls went shopping.