Star Wars: A New Dawn

"It is possible." Darth Ancalagon said looking down at her. "Many Sith use this ability to gain an edge against our foes. Resisting a mental intrusion is one of the many skills you will be taught."

Case shook her head," I don't want to resist it. I want answers... explanations to these visions of the past that I simply can't make sense of. I bet it's the Jedis fault. They kept telling me to not dwell on the past. Easier for them to say they know their history."

"The past is what shapes us." Darth Angalacon said. "A Sith feeds on their past, and uses it to make ourselves stronger. The Jedi shut themselves off from their emotions, their past, their strength. You have to potential to become very powerful little one, you just need to simply give in and let us train you."

Case cupped her hands behind her back, she had accepted that the life she had was anlie and was definitely no more.
"I'll work with you if you work with me. How's that for a deal?"

"Trying to take what you want already. You'll make a fine Sith." Darth Angalacon smiled. "I only hope you live up to Maeror's expectations for you."

"While we're in deal mode... I've got my own demands. Oh relax breathe... I'm not after you to make me a Death Star space station. 1- If I'm going to be staying here and putting up with you lecturing me, I mean training me, no more of this kid business. It's case, my real name Caesaria or I can put up with girl. Oh if you decide to name me Darth kid I will pop you on a ship and send you to the outer planets. 2- I think I deserve better treatment than some ugly cell or quarter. Something with a view. Acceptable terms?"

The Captain wrote:

Anzat

Darth Désir overlooked the large ancient temple being dug out of the ground, a Sith Temple from eons passed. Sith military covered the area while their engineers worked on digging out the temple.

In orbit above the world a Sith Fleet lingered blockading the world.

The Katari

Ford meditated on the ship awaiting their drop out of hyperspace.

Leiliana and Quinn stand by Desir at the Sith Temple, Leiliana covering the front, Quinn covering the rear. "This has been dreadfully easy," Quinn sighs. "But if it'll make Lord Maeror happy... heehee."

Leiliana says nothing, remaining solely focused on escorting the Sith Lady and the apprentice.

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Major's in-suit A.I chatters in his helmet. "Brace for Hyperspace Exit. Got it," he says before leaving the firing range to make his way to the bridge.

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Ink wrote:

Nix convenes with Ena and Beta "Infiltration team's ready to drop," she says.

The Merc Knights and Jaxie gather as well. "Knights ready to deploy," Zora says.

"Why do I get the feeling my medical skills are about to get a workout?" Jil adds.

Tsuni takes up her place at the main gun with Jarik, and Hsien heads to engineering. From the cockpit, Kitty observes the hub. "All systems online. Ready for action." With the flip of a switch, the hatch opens.

Darth Ancalagon lifted Case into the air using the force and planted her against the wall. "Listen to me, child. You are not here to make demands. You are but an initiate, you must earn the title Darth and you must also earn yourself better quarters. It is through the pain of your training that you shall be made strong." He released her letting her land on the floor. "Now, go to the training center. I have something special planned for you."

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Désir glanced at Leiliana. "Once we find the star map it will make him very, very happy."

Talia approached them. "The ship in orbit has detected a vessel coming out of hyperspace."

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"Let's get it done." Jarik said over the comms.

"Fine, but one of these days I'm hlokgn to be fed up of taking orders from you and from the Jedi. I might go off rogue or something..." Case muttered storming off but took it deliberately slow to the training hall, that would show him.

Mellicious wrote:

Cervana was too wrapped up in watching Neri struggle against her force choke that it meant Darren's approach went unnoticed. She however turned slightly when she heard him call her name but the mere turn of her head wasn't enough to block the rock that hit her between the temple and eye. The impact sent her flailing backwards and she tripped over where Neri laid landing hard on her back. She was only wounded and still lifted herself up with her eye dropping of blood and searched for her saber. When her hands found it she gripped it tightly and went for her favourite move.

Cervana instead was left gasping for air, she expected to see her lightsaber flying through the air like an arrow striking Darren down. She had used it to kill many before but looking down at her chest she saw that there was blood everywhere. She could only make out Ardens blurry form holding the gun used to shoot her and she dropped backwards unable to keep herself upright.

Arden limped past Darren to Cervana, wanting proof that the woman laid dead and as she got closer, she threw the saber out of reach and glared down.

Neri came around but she saw Arden kneeling over Cervana watching as she took her last breaths. Still unable to accept that her sister was lost forever to the dark side, she grabbed her own saber and plunged it into Ardens back. With both women struggling on their last breaths, Neri sat up and looked back to see Darren.

"I don't want to fight you! Hasn't there been enough for today? Did this have to happen?!"
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Darren scoffed and walked towards Neri with saber in hand. When she mustered strength to rise up and raise her lightsaber to defend herself, he parried her weapon easily with his own and cut her forearm in the process so that she would drop it, letting him send the saber flying off to the side so that it would be out of her reach.

"Fight? You and I? It wouldn't be much of a fight at this point, don't you agree? I'm not a shot up, tired and weak has been sith lady for you to stab in the back either, so your chances are at zero I'm afraid."

He kneeled down close to her so that his blank eyes could be seen. "Any last words, Jedi scum?"

The Captain wrote:

Désir glanced at Leiliana. "Once we find the star map it will make him very, very happy."

Talia approached them. "The ship in orbit has detected a vessel coming out of hyperspace."

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"Let's get it done." Jarik said over the comms.  

The the mention of an approaching vessel, Quinn's mouth curls into a grin. She calmly looks over her shoulders and to the sky, her hands folded behind her back. "Oh my. It seems the Rebels have come, Nanny," she says, addressing Desir. "Do you think they'll want to play? Maybe they'll have interesting new dolls, for me. They're usually so very thoughtful."

Leiliana looks over her own shoulder, and to Desir. "Would you like me to see to the issue, Lady Desir?"

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The teams ground teams deploy from the Raptor and onto the shipyard.

"Don't get dead," Nix says to Zora before nodding to Beta and Ena, sneaking off to get a ship aboard their main target.

Zora, Jaxie, and the Merc Knights depart on their own objective of getting a ship for Bakura. Once they've departed, Kitty powers the Raptor back up. "All right, ladies and gents! Boss lady says our job is to wreak as much havoc on this here ship yard as possible! Ready for a little mayhem?"

Tsuni locks in. "Show me my target and it shall no longer exist," she says. "Care to make this a game, Jarik? Which of us can fell more enemies, perhaps?"

Ancalagon looked back out into space, Case's next training would surely help her to unleash her anger.

As Case entered the training room the door locked behind her and the lights dimmed, before her stood Darth Cestra smirking. "Come child...face me."

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"You keep count, I'll just fight them." Jarik said spotting incoming fighters. "Plenty to go around." He said opening up with his blaster cannons.

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Désir nodded. "Both of you, take some troops and deal with them. I shall attend to the temple." He said heading down towards it with a pair of Sith Warriors.

Nix, Ena, and Beta make their way to a shuttle on the far side of the yard. Nix holds up a hand as to hold them up. Then she phases inside. There's a distinct sound of a lightsaber igniting and a bit of a scrap before the shuttle hatch opens and Nix tosses out a pair of bodies. "Watch your step," she says before moving back inside.

"Show off," Ena says, rolling her eyes and stepping onboard ahead of Beta.

Meanwhile, Zora and her team find an alternative shuttle, guarded by fledgling Sith. Zora peaks out from around a corner. "We'll have to flank them."

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"Playtime," Quinn says, girlishly skipping off to see to the issue with Leiliana, who follows in silence.

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Tsuni smirks. While firing slower, every shot is precisely targeted to do the absolute maximum amount of damage to key areas, ships, and enemy defenses. "Heh. They may as well be standing still."

Case rolled her eyes in her sassy personality, "I'm no child... and what's with the lights? Trying to save on power?"

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Neri screamed out in pain and lurched to the side, her other arm alright sore and possibly broken was moved with a wincing expression on her face to defend herself.
"Shouldn't you be thanking me?! She was a historical traitor to both sides.

Deal's this. I can't kill you? You make me your prisoner, try and make a sith or you kill me. I won't plead so torturing me is useless. I joined the Jedi to find my sister and I did. I haven't thought of my next chapter yet, so Death would only be like ending the story quickly."

(Please don't lol I've got some ideas which will see case wrongly assuming that Neri killed Arden and she'll lash out at her, slipping into a state of anger and regret. She'll blame herself for her mothers death. If Darren could take her prisoner for some reason if you can find one, then case would have the quickest way of becoming bad right there for me to use in the story. Can it be done? If not don't stress, don't go for the kill next post, I'll have to find some way of getting her rescued )

(No worries, Mel, I'm just going with the flow! I wouldn't try and kill one of your characters without discussing things through with you first)


Darren sneered at Neri. She had a good point; Death would only be a quick and unsatisfying resolution, not only for her but for himself as well. He had but a small part in the exchanges that just occured and it would be in his best interest to return with something to show for.

"Tsh. Go to sleep", he muttered and flicked his index finger at her head, using a force trick to knock her out. He turned off his lightsaber and stood up, taking in his surroundings before finally leaving the spot where he'd left the bodies.

He returned with a platform belonging to the ship Sestra had crashed landed with, towing it behind him through use of the force. He moved the everyone onto it and subsequently made the return to his ship with the platform in tow.

(Nice work! If its a real nasty sort or a random character then I wouldn't whine)

Darth Cestra moved at Case with inhuman speed slashing out at her.

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One of the Sith guarding the shuttle took out her communicator. "No sign of the intruders here yet My Lord...yes my lord..." She clicked it off and looked to the other one. "Darth Venegax is deploying the entire garrison."

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Ford stepped off the ship looking around. "We have company coming." He said sensing the Dark Side users approaching them.

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Jarik looked up seeing a Sith cruiser moving in on them, firing a volley of concussion missiles. "Here we go!"

Cairn and Major step off behind Ford, and Siha behind them. But the instant she sets foot on the planet, her muscles lock and her ability to move is suddenly robbed from her. The presence she senses... this vacancy of emotion on one hand, and complete disregard for them on the other... it's a crippling familiarity.

Cairn glances over his shoulder at her. "Something wrong, fish?"

"Mr. Sensitive, over here," Major remarks.

Siha reaches out, grabbing Ford by the shoulder, her face wrought with fear. She shakes her head.

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Ena pilots her party's shuttle toward the destination ship. Meanwhile, Zora and her group assess their situation. "There are too many," Zora says to herself. "Kit-lon. A diversion on our end would be appreciated."

"Roger roger, boss lady," Kitty says over the radio. She opens a line to Tsuni and Jarik. "You heard her."

"Wait," Tsuni says. "If we get close to their position, we'll only draw fire to them."

"Well then, miss Dead Eye, can you snipe with the ship's guns?"

Tsuni sits back with something of a smug grin. "Dear Kit-lon. I can snipe with anything?" She sits forward again, turning her gaze on the group guarding the shuttle. "This will only be able to scatter the thickest group. Strays are yours to handle."

"Affirmative," Zora says. She turns to the others, igniting her saber. "Get ready."

Case raised her hands shielding herself with an energy force and backed away until she hit the wall behind her. She felt threatened and slightly unsure of what to do. When she arrived on their ship, her saber was taken from her. The barrier was beginning to decrease around her and she channelled the strength of it to her hands, where she delivered a force push more advanced than what she was capable of and far beyond her skill set. When she saw the woman forced back hard, she felt bad.

"I'm sorry... I didn't mean to hurt you like that, in fact I'm not sure how I did it."

Mellicious wrote:

(Nice work! If its a real nasty sort or a random character then I wouldn't whine)

( I got you, but I'm always gonna make sure it's okay with you first)


Darren took off with the ship him and Arden had arrived in. Once the ship broke through the atmosphere he set coordinates back to the Star Destroyer and to his master.

Neri woke slowly and glanced around still in pain at her environment. She was glad to be alive, she didn't expect that it would happen for her. Managing to tilt her head as far as it could go downwards to the right she was able to see that her arm had been wrapped up tightly from the elbow down to stop it bleeding any further and becoming infected. It meant for certain that he did not have any wish for her to die at the moment, which would make her certainly a prisoner.

She laid her head to the side and watched him in the seat from the floor and tried to crane her head enough to see what he was doing, or more so where he was going to.

Darren had the back of the pilot's chair turned against her. Coordinates and various words were somewhat visible on the screen to his right.

"Already awake? I'm impressed.", Darren suddenly spoke.

Neri wasn't expecting Darren to pick up on that she was awake, but she wasn't surprised, "It was touch-and-go for those four minutes you left me alone but somehow I got through it. Hey... why did you? You could have killed me as I lay there, I'm not ungrateful, it was just the last thing I was expecting."

"I'm not particularly merciful of myself.", Darren replied. "If that's what you're thinking. That I let you live out of mercy. No. I felt it would be appropriate to seek my master's counsel is all."

Neri scoffed, "oh please, you can't not kill me and then try and cover it up with a 'but I'm still bad speech', just admit that you don't like killing defenceless women. Nothing to be ashamed of. Heck this master of yours might even say thanks to you and I. She betrayed him..."

She stopped and sighed, "she betrayed us all. Who did I kill back there anyways? I didn't mean to do it, and you can tell your master this. I really thought I'd have a chance of getting through to my sister... anyhow I just said- she betrayed us all. One big hole ripped through us all."