Private The Celestial Strain

[Darth Halitus]

Location: The Unknown Regions
Moon Facility, Time 1400hrs

The Researchers landed on the installation which was a network of metal conduits leading to towering chrome towers that rose out of the various craters. The Science officers were busy collaring and catelogging the findings. The Facility was vast and power was circulating in the lightning that lined the network of corridors and rooms. Great glass observatory decks looked out onto the white powder dust of the moon, and the black void of space.

There was an eery quiet that hung over this facility, nothing but abandoned tech and living quarters. The Researchera fouhd several sections of the labs went down into the core of the moon and they were sealed. An effort was being made to repair the lift and reach whatever might be down there.

Lord Halitus had come along because preliminary findings showed Sith artifacts and some of the files being studied required someone with knowledge of the dark side to access, mainly holocrons. It helped that his his partner was Doctor Noomi Ishaati, a Jedi Scientist. This put the research teams at ease, that they could use his talents without fear of sabtoage or worse.

The Dark Lord walked the corridor of the facility, pacing in his dark robes as his respirator made a pulsating noise and his breaths were like great thuds. He was on edge, the finding of this lost facility came shortly after he almost lost Noomi, and now the greed of exploration was motivating these teams to delve into secrets. From his experiance, there were things in this galaxy that should not be disturbed…

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[Noomi Ishaati]

Doctor Ishaati deployed her team who began running sweeps and scans of the facility. Her lips were in state of constant smile as she was in awe of the structure. The metal dated pre-Hyperspace War, and the terminals with their jade color were repositories of information.
One of her staffers called,
“Doctor! Come quick!”
Noomi made her way to a table of samples.
“I did a scan of the drop found outsixe the lift shaft. Look!”
Docor Ishaati looked in a microscope that magnified optically 10x.
In it was cells which stretched into fine strings that wrapped around healthy cells.
“This is magnificent Bess! We need to run a diagnostic, and bring in one of the Porgs. Lets see what contact with organic tissue does.”

Meanwhile a team was trying to clear the Lift, among them was a Wookiee who growled as he tried to force open the door, his hairy hands bending metal. Reaching for the releasw latch, the Fur Ball opened the door and inside the walls were coveres in black goo. Technicians began working on the console which was shorted. They used auxillary power which lit up the console’s screen and the words “Lockdown” appeared.
Taking to the comms, the Tech said,
“We have restored power to the lift, but its in some sort of lock ourlt. Attempting to override it.”
The Wookiee tool out a power cutter and began fixing the door, when suddenly the doors closed, snapping the torch in jalf.
“Auuurgh!”
The lift then began a sudden descent throwig the Tech into air and hitting his head, knocking him unconscious. The Wookiee growled and beating the door when it turned to the Tech and laid down beside him. The Lift fell to such depths before it stopped and opened. The Wookiee stepped out into the dark hallway, there was no noise, and no light. Taking a light attached to its utility belt, it began walking, seeing on the grouhd torn cloak, the Fur Ball growled as it went on and came to a door that was malfunctioning, part of it opening and closing like metal buds of a flower. There was creeping sound that made the Wookiee turn and moan, it searched frantically with its light, following a smell that was rotten…

 

[Darth Halitus]

The Dark Lord was greeted by a Science Officer.
“Lord Halitus. The artifact is ready for you. This way.”
The man held a datapad as he ealked in white lab coat.
“Doctor Ishaati apologies in advance that she could not be present, a finding has delayed her.”
The Sith Lord made no reply, he knew that her work took precedent. It was a open relationship, he allowed her to be consumed with her work while he got to commune with the dark side, an understanding that allowed both to be themselves.
They came to a room with an altar and dry candles. The Father approached it and saw a golden pyramid of 7 inches with ruby sides. Holding out his hands he levitated the holocron into the air, the science officer stepping back as the room drew cold and his breath became a vapor.
Darth Halitus began sedking the combination, rotating his hands as he searched, when suddenly he heard a voice,
“Have you ever heard the tragedy of Darth Plagueis The Wise?”
The Daek Lord turned to the Officrr,
“Get out.. now!”
Suddenly the holocron released a gas of black mist, the Officer sealed the door as the liquid atomized in the sir and began to sink into The Darth’s skin and worm all underneath his flesh. Halitus did not wince or make a noise as a hologram rose from the holocron that was onyx in color, not like most Sith images. The figure had a tall oval head.
“Welcome stalker of the Darkness, my little inventions are tunneling into your nervous system and assesing your cells.. hmm.. your Midi-chlorian count is.. worthy. I shall tell you what I discovered in the depths of this facility. Searching for the power of immortality I was led here, a pre-Rakatan structure that possesses something that drove The Celestials away long ago..”

 

[Noomi Ishaati]

The Porg was brought in and laid safely on a table, it made its chirping noises that melted the hearts of many in the galaxy. Taking the sample of goo, Dr. Ishaati placed a drop on some food which she gave to the test subject. The Porg cooed as it consumed the food, and then she waited. An alarm sounded that made her look up and then back to her assistant,
“What is that?”
Down in the lower levels the Tech began scrambling, he ran down a corridor, his breaths heavy as he looked back in terror. There was a growl that echoed, he kept moving, and entered a lab, and dropped below a white desk. Out in the hall there was footsteps, and then in half glass wall there was a blurred figure of fur and white eyes that peered in. It bore its teeth as it stepped in and sniffed, the beast appeared as a Wookiee, but the fir had blackened, as if burned and yet the hairs were not fine, but loke liquid tendrils. The Creature came to the table as the Tech shook, it then turned away and seemed to leave. He breathed a sigh of relief, when suddenly he was grabbed by the clawed fist of the Shadow Wookiee and thrown against the glass which cracked, making fissures arouhd his head. The Wookiee then using its other hand creates tentacles that began to slither up his neck, some entering the nose, others the ear holes, and finally his mouth was forced opened as he screamed and the larger black tentacle went down his throat causing him to gag, and his eyes roll white.

 

[Darth Halitus]

Halitus heard what Darth Plagueis had to say and he made haste to find Noomi Ishaati for what had been revealed was disturbing. He came to a hall where blood was sprayed on the walls, he saw bodies of lab techs torn apart.
“It has already begun.”
The Father began to hasten his steps, trying to get to the Lab. When he arrived there, the door was ajar, and broken, it trying to close and a smear of blood at yhe opening. Using The Power he forced it open and found Noomi missing. For a Dark Lord not much caused him concern, but Dr. Ishaati was the love of his life. He began searching for clues and saw blood stained foot prints, and then what appeared to be lines of blood as if something had been dragged.
Following the trail The Darth came upon a tech standing in the corridor. They were hunched over and as his boots rang on metal floor it stirred and turned around. The skin had black growth near the eyes ans nose, and out pf its mouth a inky tongue like tentacle shot out as it shrieked and began running towards him. Levitating his lightsaber hilt into the air he activated it and spun in in yhe air with his command of The Force, chopping the head clean off before it reached him. The body began writhing on the ground as if having a seizure before going still. The saber returned to Halitus’ hand. Moving towards the felled creature, his boot within inches suddenly it grabbed his leg and rose up, a monsteroous black head like a serpent rose up out of hole at the neck and shoulders. The Father swung his blade tp cut more chunks of the oily black head, and spun his blade to cut the hand grasping his boot off. With persistent strokes, the glowing blood blade cut the creature into more and more chunks till at last it was diced on the floor like Shelkath sushi.

Halitus panted from the hard work of getting this Celestial Demon to cease moving. If this is what one took to stop, he could only imagine what it would take to defeat a group of them…