Ashla Wills It
"The Maw found their way to Ilum some time ago, but I doubt that they would have delved this far beneath the surface. If something were to be guarding this place, it would have to be old... very old. Even then, I doubt it would have survived."
"Unless we act now, the next attack by the Maw will be worse. I have faith in our cousins, but faith alone will not protect this world. If we find this record vault we should destroy it, transfer its contents elsewhere."
Geiseric looked on quietly as Eina offered to create a Force bond with Heinrich. He commended the man for refusing. The last time Eina had done such a thing it had created well... something far deeper. He'd known Heinrich for over a decade, though there duties had drawn them apart. Eina, his love, was one of the few strong links between them now, which seemed strange to Gei.
They continued walking through the system of frozen caverns. Jagged shards of ice protruded from nigh every surface, sharp enough to cut at a slight touch. Though the caverns were wide, the available path through them was narrow and winding. The air was chilled and stale. The echo of the platoon;s footfalls reverberated off the dense blue ice crystals. The ice creaked gently as they went along.
The cold here was uneasy, so unlike the cold of the Sanctuary. Here it was a dry cold, the air sucked of its moisture by the Icey monoliths that lined their route. No sooner had SAINT alerted him to a darting nearby movement when he heard a man scream from the back of the marching order. He stopped in his tracks and turned around, pushing his way through the stunned knights. At the rear, a man of 7 feet in height, composed entirely of ice, stood over thee body of a crusader. The knights all around had their hands on their lightsaber hilts, though the thing made no move. It stood solid, blood already congealing on the sharp ice spike protruding from its hands.
A deep quiet hung over them. The creatures lack of eyes made it hard to tell if it was observing them the same as they observed in. Geiseric's HUD showed no vitals or heat coming from it, but its aura in the Force was clear. To Gei's left he heard the snap hiss of an igniting saber. The ice-man immediately turned his attention to the weapon, and with a lightning motion thrust its spikes through the brash knight. The rest of the knights ignited their sabers.
From the towering stalagmites of ice, more ice monsters emerged as if they had been one with the ice, sleeping. The warmth of the sabers enraged them, and from all sides the descended on the crusaders...