Private Rule of Two

[Ulic Indominus Kun]

The Newly Baptized Darth rode in a shuttle headed for Nfolgai, a long forgotten world of the Sith that once had been a munitions base. The planet was hostile, covered in a thick sheets of soot, and great monolithic stones. The Heir of Kun had been called her by his New Master, Darth Tentaus. The shuttle pierced the black atmosphere, and came to a great hangar at an old brass facility, most likely the munitions station at one point before it had all been shipped off world during The Galactic War.

The ramp descended, and wmerging was one cloaked in gray and coral hood and cape, and olive and coral tunic with matching pants. He approached another figure who was in thick plate armor, and white robes and hood, flaps covered his montrals.

Lord Kun took a knee before the Togruta Sith Lord.

“Master.. what is your will?”

The Fallen Jedi was eager to prove himself worthy of the Darth Mantel. His blood would have been enough, being the last living descendsnt of Exar-Kun, one of the greatest Dark Lords to have lived. It wad big shoes to fill, and yet finally Darth Kun felt a sense of wholeness that the Jedi Path had lacked. Remaining kneeling, he waited for His Master to instruct Him.

 

[Darth Tentaus]

The Dark Lord awaited the arrival of his apprentice. His probs were taking samples of the planet, to determine its properties. Ever the scientist, he desired to dissect his findings and harness them to his advantage. As he stood at a screen watching the Probs explore the toxic world, he heard the arrival of a ship in the hangar. Rising from a onyx metallic chair he walked into the area that housed vessels, and seeing his Apprentice take a knee and beseech, The Arcane Lord gave reply,

“My will and yours is to be One, my apprentice. For too long The Sith have grown decadent, and numerous, diluting the power of the dark side among their masses. They have forgotten the wisdom of Lord Revan and The legacy of Lord Bane, The Rule of Two, which concentrates The Dark Power in few, ensuring that they are strong and free of chains. We are to ensure The Rule resumes, and while our cousins become fat on their own self importance and deluded by their numbers, we shall in the shadows continue as heirs of your ancestor Kun and Bane, carrying on the unbroken line of dark lords.”

The Togruta Sith motioned his hand as if annointing His Apprentice,

“Rise..”

The Scientific Sith had brought them to the hostile world as a crucible, to forge their bond as Master and Apprentice in its adverse climate.

“Buried on this world is a foundry. It was abandoned during the Galactic War. We shall explore it and restore it. If we are to foster and ferment a rebirth of The Golden Age of the Sith, we shall need it.”

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[Ulic Indominus Kun]

The Apprentice rose at the command of The Master having heard the instruction of The Dark Lord about The Rule of Two and the mission to the Foundry.

“Yes my Master.. I see wisdom in the Rule of Two. I have heard word that our ‘Cousins’ are eating each other as we speak. That they destroyed their Assassins and its leader on Fiviune.”

Darth Kun adjusted his dark grey hood as he walked besides his Master, crossing his coral red vembraces and gauntlets.

“The Foundry.. is that the munitions forge? Or is there something else there?”

The Heir of Kun was inquisitive, as an apprentice should be. Though at the same time he did not waste his Scientist Master’s time with queries that could be answered on the holonet. A good Sith Apprentice combed the mind of their Master for the mysteries of the dark side, and in the case of Banenite Sith, look for the opportunity to cut down their Master once having gleaned their wisdom and seeing their weakness. Lord Kun knew that such a day would be difficult, to slay the One who opened you to deeper depths of the True Nature of the Force.

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[Darth Tentaus]

The Arcane Master was pleased his Apprentice had paid attention to galactic events and he understood that The Rule of Two was the only sound path.

“Infighting has weakened The Sith for eons. Empires have fallen more oft than nought over the greed of comrades wanting to assert their power than by the sabers of the Jedi. The greatest threat my apprentice does not lie without, but within. The titanic triumphs of the Sith have collapsed by the hands of Sith traitors, even your ancestor was betrayed by his apprentice.”

The Togruta Sith Master paused as his New Apprentice asked about The Foundry.

“As with all Sith constructs, there is another hidden element to everything. What weapons we will find.. what terrors.. suffice to say, there shall be suprises that await my Apprentice.”

The Dark Lord held his gloved hands on shoulders.

“This world has many secrets, and it has been forgotten for so long that I can only fathom what lies dormant..”

His burning blood orange eyes then fixed on His Pupil.

“Ordinarily you would be sent alone on this task, to prove your valor, however, I wish to know you my apprentice, and only by facing adversities will we see one another truly.”

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[Ulic Indominus Kun]

The Apprentice nodded his hooded head as he listened to his Master speak of the propensity for betrayal in the Sith.

“Ulic Qel Droma.. that traitor died ingloriously at the hands of a taxi driver. A just reward for his treachery.”

As Lord Tentaus spoke of the secrets this world may possess, he wondered what threats lurked in the Foundry. His mind came alive with Sithspawn, Massasasi, and Sith Droids. He was beginning to become excited.

Then His Master spoke of this mission being a bonding ritual, to tie Master and Apprentice as One through the trials that awaited.

“I will not fail you Master! This mission shall be a success.”

His zeal was rather obnoxious, and yet it was so different from his previous disposition as a Jedi. Then he felt no fire, no desire to grow and prove himself, all the answers felt at his finger tips, and that was the problem with The Light, no mystery, no uncertainty to drive you to prove yourself. It was like the Jedi Masters who all sat in circles and talked, and talked and talked.. never getting anywhere while the Shadows snuck up on them, prepared and will ample passion to see it through.

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[Darth Tentaus]

As they walked theu came to the threshold of the hangar, an invisible barrier shielding them from soot clouds. The Dark Lord fitted his respirator beneath his glowing blood orange eyes.

“The only true failure my Young Apprentice is to not leap. Indecision is death..”

Waving his hand the safety barrier came off and the Whire Robed Sith Master disappeared in the cloud of black, he called with his mind,

“I will lead and you will follow, lose your way and you will be left behind..”

The emphasis on that last two words was sharp in his resonating chamber of his respirator. He was not using some crude form of reverse psychology to motivate The Apprentice, Lord Tentaus meant what he said as he began to creep through the clouds of soot, making his way down into a valley. All about was crashed vessels that had not stirred clear of rocky shoals of soot, one cruiser was impaled on the many precipices that rose from the sea of black fog like teeth of stone. Nfogai was a place that poor souls shipwrecked on the soot covered shoals. It was why Sith had chosen it long ago, it concealed secrets which now this Sith Lord and his Apprentice were to uncover in the depths…

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[Ulic Indominus Kun]

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The Apprentice fixed a respirator with googles to his face as the barrier dropped, he followed after his Master, sensing him in the soot cloud, allowing his foot steps to cover the apprentice’s in his Master’s prints, as was fitting of a disciple. He saw the ship graveyard, so many vessels from different eras crashed on the rocks. Darth Kun, a name he used as placeholder till his true name be discovered, followed without fail, when his vision became too clouded he would sense the dark and powerful aura of His Master.

The planet was nothing special in terms of terrain. There was no water source, forests, jungles, or anything other than great precipices and sharp rock to break up the clouds of thick soot. The pollution just hovered, which made this Apprentice wonder, of the Munition Factory was taken off world, why was there such a cloud? The Heir of Kun saw ahead a great chasm, where his Master stopped. The Disciple watched intently, what was the plan now? He knew his Master could read his mind, so he had to be careful to hide his insecurities even from himself.

 

[Darth Tentaus]

The Dark Lord stood at the edge and made a fist with his gauntlet, he swept his long unfurling gray cape and turning to His Apprentice with those Blood Orange eyes, then ran forward and leapt, his body descended towards the abyss when a great wind crept up and he held his cape out, gliding over great obelisks of black sharp trck, and hollowed out canyon ahead. The Togruta Sith made his flight tell he came to the roof of a muted jade green, and landed on his boots. There was open skylight, which he dropped down into, landing in the light in a room of shadow, his glowing eyes scanning the great structure, his wrist released a small prob that he sent into shadows to make scans, he walked slowly when he came to a great chair, with a giant seated in it, it was a albino Massassi, some mutation which The Sith Scientist examined, his suspicions about other projects than munitions were confirmed. Which then made him wonder.. had the pull out and moving of munitions during The Great War been due to an outbreak or waa it to conceal what was being cooked up in the facility?

It was doubtful this was the work of The New Sith, the structure was old. Which made him surmise it could be a Lost Tribe of Sith from long ago, still hatching horrors for a war that had long been over. If there were remnants of them, Lord Tentaus had an obligation to learn what he could and then kill them. The last thing The Galaxy needed was more Sith with delusions of greatness. There was only room for The Rule of Two, and for present time their Cousins The New Sith.

The Dark Lord took a plastic vial from his belt and took a sample of White Massassi like creature imbedded in the giant chair, scraping tissue and some blood into the cup. Sealing it he placed it in his belt pouch and inspected the strange chair which seemed to have actually fused great rods into the spine of the specimen. He had seen some odd designs before, this one as they say “took the cake.”

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[Ulic Indominus Kun]

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To the Disciple’s surprise, His Master leapt off the edge! Darth Kun ran to the threshold and saw His Lord gliding on the wind.

“Oh that is a neat trick Master!”

The Apprentice then took twenty paces back and ran and leapt using his cape, he fell for a moment and screamed befofr the wind grabbed him and took him on a ride in pursuit, he began to laugh with giddiness when his chuckling came to an end upon seeing the great teeth of jaggid rock below, he then looking up slammed into a structure, he grabbed it as he slipped down, catching a piping that held him dangling over the pit of this planet’s teeth. The piping creaked as his body weight made it begin to break way, he leapt to grab the steel groove of the roof and hung for a moment. He panted as he behan to pull himself up, once on the roof he saw a broken skylight and sensing His Master, dropped down in. He then adjusting his hair and robes saw a great chair of gnarled design like a tin cage of silver and onyx, and seated in it a hideous being of white with tendrils for a beard and two great tentacle eyebrow. Its eyes were lifeless and its body seemed to be one with the odd chair.

Seeing His Master standing there and inspecting the seat he asked,

“What is this Master?”

He eyed the strange dark screens, and what looked like a holoprojector. Touching it a great holo orb rose around them with rings of jade and gold, and a map of the galaxy. He eyed that some of targets were, “Coruscant”, “Corellia,” “Naboo,” and etc. it looked like a strike map, was this creature plotting an assault of the Inner and Mid Rim?

 

[Kowareta Tsuno]

The Krayt Clan saw the two enter the facility of Clan Exogorth, those abominable ones who twisted flesh and tech to create weapons to compensate for their lack of prowess and honor. Kowareta and his Kraytian Warriors descended on the roof top, he was in full harness with his great dragon horns, looking like a demon he dropped down the skylight and snapped hus ornate saber hilt with its folded cloth red handle to life as he crept towards the Foreigners. They wore not the white of Clan Exogorth, though the tall one had white cloth wrapped around his face like a handmaiden.

“Ei! Ei!” shouted Howareta,
to which his men snapping crimson blades to life replied, “Oh! Oh!” This promoted them to charge, Howareta engaged the Titan, swinging his blade in a flurry of cuts, his blade arched around his ornate armor as he used the dark side as his ally. The Kraytians assailed the Ulic Indominus Kun jabbing their blades at him, including saber pikes.

The assault on these foreigners was a matter of Honor, they had entered the Exogorth’s house of Abominatons, and Kowareta could not let the devilish Spellcraft and technology to be unleashed on the planet. He fought his wife Mika, and his son Hiroto who was in the ranks proving his valor, and for his Clan which had lasted thousands of generations of Nforgai.

The Horned Warrior thrusted his Odachi Saber, it swept as great tooth of the Dragon, his goal was to strike down the Titan who’s eyes burned orange and unnatural. The Warrior was in the dance of blades, his every move choreographed by many years of training and combat.

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[Darth Tentaus]

The Dark Lord heard the batfle cry and then they were beset by multiple combatants, their blades swam around his head and his Apprentice, he ignited his saber to parry a Horned One who fought with ferociry and percision that Lord Tentaus had not experienced.

The Arcane Master pointed his free hand to unleash a great wave of lightning bolts and the entire regiment of warriors made a wall of sabers that deflected the bolts into the air. The Horned One thrusted and The Scientist parried with one hand, but his blade was almost thrusted into his side. It was clear these warriors were well trained and that he would need to resort to other tactics.

“Apprentice! Form up!”

The Dark Lord snapped his second blade on his staff to life and began a flurry of cuts with this Horned Captain who the Horde seemed to follow. The Togruta Sith found himself in full retreat as he tried to hold back the many saber blades sweeping around at them, he took a deep breath, his respirator exhaling with each parry and block.

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[Ulic Indominus Kun]

The throng of Warriors armed with pikes and sabers converged on him and his Master as a storm. Darth Kin snapped his blade to barely parey one of the pike blades which crackled, then he was kicked in the chest by an armored boot, causing him to stumble back and block another cut, when he heard his Master tell him to form to his side, he ran and then turned to catch another sweeping blade, they were like luminous teeth all around them.

“Do they ever tire! Master what are we going to do?“

It was them that from the shadows white robed warriors with cloth masks and boades that snapped purple charged and attacked. Darth Kun turned to his Master,

“We are pinned between them!”

He caught an anythest blade that nearly skewered him from byeind his waist, the White Warriors in mantels fought with more stealth. The Apprentice could barely hold his ground when he climbed the chair of the dead Albino Massassi, which prompted a Shinobi to leap up which he kicked in the face.

“Master up here!”

He cut one down that aimed a shoto blade for his abdomen, then from the shadows a hail of blaster bolts came.

 

[Darth Tentaus]

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The Dark Lord was in fill retreat when he heard his Apprentice urge him to climb the Albino Massassi and chair, he obliged and climbed up only to feel the chest of the creature stir, its clear eyes which had a white ivory skin covrring it opendd, it raised its head and reached its msssive fingers to the screens, pressing keys that opened walls in the factory, from which poured Ivory Massassi mutants, some with two heads with tentacle hands and spears, they charged The Krayt Comtigent who made a wall of sabers to meet them, One Kraytian was grabbed by tendril fingers and squeezed as they went up into their mask, and into their nose and throat.

The Lord Tentaus urgex his Aprenrice jump as the now awake Albino beat at them with his fists. Blaster bolts flew in the sky, and the whole place was alive was crackling blades and blaster noises, The Togruta Sith smote s White Assassin across the face, coeaving off cloth and flesh in a flash of yellow orange sparks. He let another storm of lighting come from his hand to strike two Mutant Massassi that charged, the amethyst bolts coiling like gnarled serpents, burning the massive warriors.

 

[Kowareta Tsuno]

Kowareta dipped his red blade into a Exogorth heretic, when he heard the gates open and the abominations be unleashed. He shouted, “Ei! Ei! Formation Talon!”

The Remaining Kraytians made a wall of Teeth and tried to hold against the Great White Demons, when Howareta saw his Son grabbed by one and thrown in the air.

“Hiroto!”

The Daimyo sprinted in his armor, his horns swaying as he attempted to intercept the Pearl Skinned Monster that poised a spear over his Blood. The Father fueled by the Force sped to the creature and leapt in the sir and cleaved with all his might at the back of the head and neck, his blade tearing asunder the head as it dropped the spear. Howsreta grabbed his Son by the hand and pulled him go his freet, when another Massassi grabbed him by the back and tossed him into the air, the Young Son shouting, “Chichioya! (Father!)” The Boy dug his blade into the chest cavity of the White Demon which snappee its jaws at him, while three other Kraytians dug their pike sabers in its back. The Creature fell before Hiroto’s feet.

Howareta landed among a sea of Exogorth Assasins, which he cut down three with his fall, their bodies collapsing. He then rose and split a Hereric from navel to the neck and with another sweep tore the legs off another, and thrusted his blade into the belly of another using it as he twisted the burning blade to help himself to his feet. All about him was a Raven’s harvest, the Okorgoths were in retreat, their last Massassi following them into the shadows. Raising up his saber he shouted,

“Hip Hip Huzzah!”

The Field was won, and those fallen of the Krayt Clan, he bowed his head in mourning. His son Hiroto ran to him and gave a bow. Kowareta placed his hand at rim on her arm pit grove, pulling on the armor when he pulled the bot into a hug.

“Well done Hiroto! My Son!”

The two Foriegners were surrounded, by His Soldiers and he approached Darth Sarlaac and His Apprentice.

“You will be taken to our Hideout.. blindfold them!”

A Krayt took teo black blind folds and placed them on the two.

Howareta shouted, “Isoide! (Hurry).”

The Kraytians took the Two Captives and made hast out of the Factory, as new bolts flew at them and Assassins stirred in waves after them.

Howareta lead his men up the black ropes and they made their escape.

 

[Ulic Indominus Kun]

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The Apprentice felt the seemingly dead Creature awake and now the battlefield was filled with matching monsters, Darth Kun struggled in the chaos of what appeard to be Clan Warefare and the unleashing of Mutant Massassi. He struck at warriors in white mantels, cutting them down as His Master bid them get off the grumpy chair beast.

Now on the ground they formed up as Master and Apprentice parrying the cloud of blades and bolts that fell like rain. Ulic deflected what he could, sending it back at the throne of snipers in the shadows, when he watched as The Horned Warriors took down the giants, let ants striking at a tarantula. The Massassi fell and the White Assassins retreated. Now the Horned Ones formed around His Master and him, and it was clear from their prowess and formations that to fight was futile. The Leader mentioned something about blindfolding them and then his vision went black and he felt himself grabbed and hoisted into the air as he heard blaster bolts zip past him. They were now captives of this Clan. Ulic was suprised to meet such skilled warriors on a planet so hostile to life, they made his saber skills seem primitive.

 

[Darth Tentaus]

The Dark Lord found himself on his knees, and the blindfold was taken off. He was in a toom with paper thin wall and fine mat flooring, sitting across from him was a man in a red robes with long jet black hair and goatee, he lifted a small cup and drank from it.

The Togruta Sith was not bound, he could if he wanted conjure more lightning and attempt an escape, but His Apprentice was missing. Which meant any hostility he projected could mean the harm and even death of His Disciple.

Besides he was curious about This Lost Tribe and the clans that undoubtedly were in feud. Perhaps with some cate he could learn why the two were at war and why the White Wearing Ones had mutated Massassi. For the time being he remained silent, for it was not proper to address a Captor till they have you leave tp speak. Lord Tentaus was erroring on the side of caution, not knowing their customns, an offense could be fatal. He only hoped His Apprentice was being as tactful, they were in endmy territory, and where exactly was a riddle to be solved. For now The Titan Sith remained silent and quiet till opportunity presented itself.

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[Kowareta Tsuno]

Howareta arrived at his home, a village of ornate huts of red and grey wood, the roofs appeared as great crescents pointing to the sky. The Daimyo instructed his men to take the Youth to a separate estate as he ordered The Tall One with blood orange eyes be taken to The Shrine. After a short visit to his Uchi, his wife Mika in her pink and ehite Kimono bowing her fan shaped hair, their Son Hiroto beaming as he entered removing his armor,

“I made my first Korosu (kill) Mother!”

Mika walked softly to the teen age boy and kissed his cheek and then went to wipe it aeay with a scarf.

“I am so Hokori ni omou (proud) of you!”

Howareta took off his armor and placed it on a wall rack shaped like a man, his horned helm the last piece he put away. He walked towards his Wife and Son, and placing his naked hand on the boy’s shoulder, and nodded with an air of pride that matched the Mother’s, “You did well my Son, soon you will lead The Krayt Clan.”

Nothing made him more proud than his Son following in Krayt footsteps, taking dowm heretics and their monsters.

A bath had been prepared for Kowareta who went to clran himself and then re-emerged in burgundy robes. His hair was carefully pulled into a poneytail and he sat on the floor crosd legged and the round floor table had all assortment of foods, fresh fish, rice, dumplings, and more that with red chopsticks he began to consume. Mike joined his side and provided a tea pot on a kettle, and poured the hot water in small porcelain cups of white and red that had powder of jade coloring in them. Howareta took the closest cup and sipped.

Mika eating some rice broke the silence,

“I hear foriegners have been brought into the village.”

Howareta grunted in the affirmative. And she pressed further,

“Offworlders?”

Howareta turned and nodded. He wasn’t be rude, his Wife was use to grunts and nods. It was testament to their relationship that she could read on his face many facts.

“That is exciting. Hiroto what are they like?”

The Young Man looked up from his meal.

“They are.. Sith, able to cause storms from their hands. But they were no match for Father and The Krayt!”

Mika turned to her Husbamd,

“How interesting.. what do they look like?”

Hiroto replied after slurping a fish in his mouth,

“One is tall and has burning orange eyes, and wears women’s veils all over his face. The other is a man, he is the apprentice I suspect.”

A door slide behind Howareta, and a man whispered in his ear prompting a grunt from The Daimyo. He rose to his feet and exited, heading to the Shrine. Then inside he took a lotus position across from Darth Tentaus. Taking another sip of his tea he ordered the blindfold taken off.

Afterva moment of quiet The Daimyo addressed his Captive,

“I am Howareta Tsuno, Daimyo of The Krayt Dragon Clan, descended from the first families of Sith who were abandoned on this planet during The Galatic War. What is your name?”

 

[Darth Tentaus]

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The Dark Lord having been adressed and told of the Daimyo’s heritage, gave a bow.

“Greetings Daimyo Tsuno, I am Lord Tentaus, a Sith Lord that hails from Shili, though operate from my Ship, not a planetary system.”

The Togruta Sith was tryingto be careful, he noticed in his short experience with this Lost Tribe that they did not use blasters or any technologies save the lightsaber. This was in stark contrast to the Warriors in White Mantels who had manipulated Massassi into a new mutation. As a Scientist he would have preferred to have been captured by that Clan, to see what their attempts at gene augmentation was trying to achieve. Though he had to admit The Krayt had bested the White Warriors without technology and even felled the Mammoth Massassi Mutants. Which was something go be said about their martial prowess, Tentaus had to admit he failed to hold his own, he had not remembered anyone capable of making him retreat in a saber fight as they had. And now he was their captive, and his Apprentice somewhere else. The Daimyo was wise, separating Master and Apprentice ensured good behavior, for if one acted I a dishonorable fashion the other mat suffer.

 

[Ulic Indominus Kun]

Ulic was lead into a room where he heard water lapping. He had his blindfold pulled off and women in fine robes of silk, pink, teal, and jade came with brushes and jars. They grabbed him from all sides and removed his robes until he was only in underwear, they then lowered him in hot waters, and sat him on a perch and began scrubbing his body with brushes and soap.

Darth Kun prptested, ahouting,

“Hey! Hey! Enough! I’m clean!”

They nearly drowned him with care, scrubbing his chest and back with an intesity, that made Ulic sit ans pout, thet did not seem to understand Galatic Basic. They poured jars of hot water over his shoulders and head, his hair covering his eyes as the women took brushed and combed his hair, his eye brow raised as they seemed intent on scrubbing him throughly. In truth it had been a while since he had a shower, but this was excessive.

When they finished he was clade in burgundy robe with horns like crescents in a circle and he was sat on a tan bench as he dried. He wondered if His Master was being subjected to such cleaning.

 

[Darth Tentaus]

Wrong acct.