The Ordo's Sends Their Regards(One Sith Dominion of Ashera)

[Taeli Raaf]

Taeli cracked her neck as she arrived on Ashera in one of the dropships deploying troops, heeding the summons of her master. She was late to the party, she knew that, but while she had been bust studying, her master had started working another project she assumed. Always a lovely thing and maybe she would pick up on some more alchemy or hone her combat skills.

Moving to where her master's presence was pulsing with dark energy, she walked in on several slaves and experiments being hemmed in by Blackblades while her master twisted a worm into some sort of Sithspawn.

"What is thy bidding, Master?" she said, bowing behind [member="Darth Praelior"]

 

[Natasi Fortan]

[member="Natasi Fortan"]

At the very mention of the collection Emperor Tyrin Ardik had stolen from him years ago due to heavily misplaced trust, Darth Janus bristled. A deep grimace momentarily formed on his face. Some old wounds still responded to salt, it seemed. As was his modus operandi, Janus took these feelings and bottled them up. Then he stuck them on a metaphorical shelf in a metaphorical dark place where he wouldn't have to deal with it. Such was the way of the business-minded, capitalist Sith.

"It's not as exclusive a group as I like to pretend, but nevertheless." Janus said, just as the doors slid back open. Another dark museum level, though not as dark as the basement had been.

"If anyone, expect a bewildered, security guard well past his prime and armed only with a flashlight. I don't anticipate a large firefight or anything of the sort."

Janus exited the elevator without waiting. If he remembered the floor plan properly, they were only a short-ways off from the artifact he sought.

Natasi drew her blaster but held it down at her hip as she followed [member="Darth Janus"] out of the elevator. "I just know those fools are pawing through my -- our -- diamonds with their grubby little hands," Natasi said anxiously as she walked along the corridor with the sovereign. "I'm pinning my hopes on the fact that they're probably too stupid to know the difference between diamonds and glass," she continued, pausing at one intersection and peering around the corner. "Looks clear," she said. Where was that security guard she had been promised?

Footsteps muffled by the low-pile carpet, they traced their steps down the corridor, her flashlight flooding the way. She paused to study a painting before again resuming her steps behind Darth Janus. "What is this? Where in blazes is this trinket of yours?"

 

[Carliah Dakrone]

Carliah had just arrived from Widek and sought out her Master. She spotted Balaya and Taeli Rae a short distance from her and smirked, heading over to the two of them. "Tell me what needs destroyed and where it is I need to go to destroy it," Carliah called as she reached them. She was eager to get to work. She wondered briefly if Yusan would show up to bother her again. She would have to avoid him if he did. The Queen of Madness still wasn't strong enough to slay him if he decided to try and capture her. [member="Taeli Rae"] [member="Darth Praelior"]

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

[member="Taeli Rae"] [member="Carliah Dakrone"]

Balaya looked at Taeli and held a small grin on her face as she looked at the two of them. "I want you to scour and ensure as many of these subjects are taken in as possible. Work with Carliah to achieve this goal and anything special you find you may keep." Her smirk was there while looking at the others with her and focusing her energy while she went back to the large worm and focusing on the organs. She wanted to make sure before he got to big the organs could and would be working wihtin the creature.

 

[Hailey Sosis]

Harley had left the museum entrance, leaving the man dieing on the steps. She wanted to find something to do on this planet, she obviously was not welcome in the museum. Though she had taken the ring as a memento, she doubted that [member="Natasi Fortan"] and [member="Darth Janus"] would realies it had gone. Though it was some bishops ring, obviously had some significance to these people. She head out, to see if she link up with some people. To help prove herself.

 

[Wes Jorel]

Wes was standing out of his Master's way. He was transfixed on what she was doing to that creature. If he could one day do that, he knew that he was in the right place. Wes felt like he needed something to do. He stepped towards his Master. "What is thy bidding, my Master?" He asked.

 

[Caulder Dune]

[member="Natasi Fortan"]

"Patience, Natasi, please." Janus urged, continuing his leisurely meander through the museum's upper level. "And here I thought you would be more appreciative of such fine works of art."

He was being facetious, of course. Janus only really appreciated these works in a manner directly proportionate to their credit value. No more, no less. These weren't so much cultural relics to him as they were free tickets to a tidy fortune.He found some of the sculptures to be noteworthy, at the least. Perhaps he would use them to decorate something extravagant rather than outright sell them. Only time would tell. For now, time only told of a continuing unguided tour of the museum, only punctuated by the sounds of an unseen, overweight security guard struggling to stay out of their path.

After rounding another corner, they came upon a rather innocuous display case. A small thing, no more than two-by-two feet. Inside was a small, pyramidal red holocron placed atop a cushion. Beside it, a plaque announced it was the Holocron of Darth Mekhis. No one anyone had ever heard of, really. Except for Janus, who had a keen interest in these things. She'd been a devoted scientist and a probable practitioner of mechu-deru. Or so the records of her mechanical Sith Knights would have one believe.

"Ah. Here we are."

 

[Taeli Raaf]

"Shall we then, Carliah?" Taeli said, striding away from their master to search for more subjects for Sith experimentation. She almost felt sorry for the native Asherians, they had been deemed useful by the Sith and that meant the world was soon to be theirs. Gesturing for several Sith troopers to accompany her, she began trekking through the area, looking for pockets of resistance.

Here or there, an Asherian would take off running but a stun bolt from the troopers with her would bring them down. Picking up a datapad one Asherian had dropped as they were stunned, she studied a map that was labelled with several sanctuaries that might hold valuables or potential subjects.

"Transmit those coordinates and let's take the nearest hideout," she ordered. "No killing though, capture is the objective."

Moving towards the cave network, Taeli unsheathed the bes'kade saber on her belt and gestured for the soldiers to follow her in.

[member="Darth Vivaldi"] [member="Darth Praelior"]

 

[Carliah Dakrone]

Carliah had her vibrosword in hand though she relied more on getting behind the Asherians and putting them in sleeper hold. Once one of the passed out she would gesture for one of the Sith troopers to grab them. Carliah was a bit upset that she wasn't allowing to kill anyone, but her mood brightened as she realize that she only been not to kill. No one had said anything about maiming them... Though the Mad Queen decided she probably shouldn't harm them too much. They needed useful subjects after all. [member="Taeli Rae"]

 

[Taeli Raaf]

The troops were shining lights from their stun rifles as they descended through the caves, Taeli taking point. As they reached a junction point, several Asherians charged out of the gloom, firing off blaster bolts and wielding vibroswords. Taeli dodged two bolts of energy, backhanded one Asherian into the craggy wall and caught the blade of another on her's. Around the small fight, stun bolts and full blaster bolts raged in the confined space. Three troops had dropped to the floor, smoke rising from their chests, but too many Asherians were unconscious.

Taeli smiled coldly at the opponent she was blade-locked with, her eyes slowly turning yellow as she drew upon the dark side. Using the enhanced strength and speed it lent her, she broke the Asherian's sword and sliced off their opposite arm. The Asherian only screamed in pain for a moment before the female Sith smashed his head against the wall, a bloody but non fatal wound on his head.

"Spread out, hunt down any in the chambers beyond. I suspect women and children are cowering," she ordered and the troopers moved out without hesitation.

Opening her comlink, she called Carliah and said, "How goes your hunt, oh Mad One?" She continued along the cave hallway she was in while she waited for a reply.

[member="Darth Vivaldi"]

 

[Carliah Dakrone]

"Building up a nice pile of unconscious bodies," Carliah replied, the sounds of her locked in battle with a few Asherian's would be heard in the background of her speaking. Carliah let out a low growl as she slammed the hilt of her vibrosword into the side of one Asherian's head effectively knocking him out. She sliced another charging man's leg off as she side-stepped around him, smirking as his scream was cut off by her slamming the heel of her boot into the back of his head.

"Just added two more the count," Carliah called over the comlink. [member="Taeli Rae"]

 

[Taeli Raaf]

"Ma'am, we've begun attacks on the other coordinates you transferred," an officer said over Taeli's comlink as she smashed in the face of an Asherian warrior that tried to ambush her. For all their vaunted talk of being masters of the Force Sense abilities, they still needed work on their other abilities. Then again, that was what their master was here for, to slowly but surely improve these beings as only a Sith could.

"Excellent, continue the operation," she said to the officer before switching channels back to Carliah.

"These Asherians should just surrender now and be done with it, this world is ours now," she said, walking into a chamber with several women and children huddling in the corner. Two Asherian priests, along with a few more warriors were present.

"Attack the dark one!" one priest commanded, and the warriors charged in their religious fervor and desire to protect those they were charged to defend.

Taeli didn't even deign the charging warriors a thought as she used the Force to grab the entire group and begin choking them into submission. Ten seconds later, all the warriors were unconscious, leaving just the two priests between her and those that had no defense.

"Spare them and we will go peacefully," one priest, older than the one who gave the command to attack said.

"Let me think . . . no," Taeli said, unleashing Force Lightning upon the fools. It wasn't enough to kill them, as she knew the priests were more powerful in the Force and would be more useful for experiments, but they were badly injured. As they fell to the ground, more Sith troopers arrived to take the rest into captivity.

[member="Darth Vivaldi"]

 

[Carliah Dakrone]

Carliah was in the middle of Force Choking once Asherian as she responded to Taeli.

"Almost done here I think," the Miraluka practically laughed as she tossed the limp form the Asherian to the ground. She turned and saw another group of warriors watching her. 'Probably can't comprehend how to handle the Mad woman,' She thought as she stepped towards them, vibrosword in hand. She smirked as once of them began to charge at her. The Mad Queen waited until they were almost upon her before moving to the side and using her vibrosword to trip the warrior, slicing their foot off in the process. The Queen of Widek laughed as she felt the man's blood splatter across her legs. She turned and faced the rest of the group, slashing one across the eyes, blinding him but not killing him. She continued laugh as she worked. 'By the end of this battle I shall be red from head to toe,' Carliah grinned at the thought. [member="Taeli Rae"]

 

[Taeli Raaf]

Taeli could hear over the comlink Carliah having way too much fun with what she was doing, the mad giggles and strange comments almost necessary for the strange Miraluka. As she and the troopers under her command marched the prisoners out to the caves to a waiting transport that would take them to a holding site, Taeli counted how many Asherians that were here. Almost two hundred total, with about ninety warriors and the two priests, and the rest were women and children. Taeli hadn't harmed then, she wasn't that consumed by the dark side that she saw the need to harm such people with out a reason.

"Taeli to Darth Praelior, we've captured almost two hundred of the Asherian holdouts in the western region, more locations are being raided now," Taeli said into the comlink to her master. "Shall we continue our sweep or report back for more orders?"

[member="Darth Praelior"] [member="Darth Vivaldi"]

 

[Carliah Dakrone]

Carliah finally managed to finish her little battle. As she was heading to same sight Taeli was at she came across a small home. She kicked the door open and found a mother cowering with two children in one of the back rooms of the house. Carliah stopped giggling and walked calmly up to them. She put the mother in a sleeper hold and smiled at the two children. They appeared to be twins, about two or three years old. She picked up one of them up, and lead the other out by their hand. The two kids were too terrified to try and struggle. She nodded to one of the men she had taken with her to round up the Asherians as she exitted the home.

"Mom's inside, grab her, she's out cold." Carliah commanded. She ordered the rest of the group to round up the twenty or so warriors she had faced and lead the way to her meeting point with Taeli. [member="Taeli Rae"]

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

[member="Darth Vivaldi"] [member="Taeli Rae"]

She was still working on the creature, the ones who were useful and would be for experiments were being taken to the ship, the ones who weren't needed were being used here to empower her creature and pet. She heard the comlink and gave a nod of her head while speaking. "Good... good my apprentice, continue and ensure all that challenge us are handled." The sith continued forward and was now grinning a little while soldiers preformed another round of smearing the blood and her energies were leeching outwards into the creature to empower and grow it.

 

[Shinju]

These being were finally learning their place as she sat there now on the one chair. A boot on the back of one and her fingers bouncing up some music... they might be a useful species in the end while her musing went away. The lightside sects were losing out, being washed aside and their darker oppressed peoples were rising up to take control of the planet. "As it should be now, send in our reports that the pocket of resistance here has been wiped away." The soldier gave a nod of his head and started sending reports.

 

[Seras Goto]

"Excellent" Seras had collected enough genetic samples of the species and now was returning to her quarters o the ship. The only pladce with an observation window overlooking the large cargo hold that contained her prisoners. They were already being put to work fixing some of the more arcane and ancient symbols to reflect the new status and trinkets of the lightside were being destroyed in favor the darker versions that deserved to be displayed.

 

[Sawa Ike]

The soldiers were moving now, they had done it as the temple burned. The darkside sect who had joined her in taking it were ensuring their people knew the new status quo and would follow it or risk angering the One sith who were installing themselves as the gods of the people. They wouldn't want to do that as Sawa stomped a foot and brought up a wall of earth kicking it into a small group to pin them. The soldiers were moving in and dispatching the ones who resisted them now while she inhaled deeply the scents around them.

 

[Taeli Raaf]

Taeli jumped onto the transport ship that would be taking the prisoners she had taken back to the main Sith holding facilities. Many of the Asherians were staring out into the distant, shock that their gods hadn't protected them from the Sith invasion pulsing from each and everyone.

"See what happens when you place your faith in such gods?" Taeli said, moving through the bound prisoners, soldiers watching every move. "Your world has fallen, the dark side now reigns supreme here. Those of your kind that saw the light so to speak are now helping us replace your broken religion. For some grand cultural center, you lot are all very pragmatic once the writing is on the wall."

One Asherian warrior got to his feet, blocking her path. The sound of stun rifles charging filled the air, but Taeli held a hand up to prevent the troops from firing.

"You Sith have destroyed this world," the warrior snarled, spitting at her feet. "Ashera will remain proud within our hearts, those of us who fought against you and will fight against you for the remainder of our days."

"Such noble words, but look around you my friend," Taeli said, spreading her arms wide. None of the other Asherians had risen to join their fellow, even the other warriors had stayed where they were, recognizing that something the Sith said made sense. Their gods hadn't protected them, and these Sith had proven they were stronger than any they had worshipped before.

"No! We must fight them, we must retake our home even if it takes. . ." he implored the others, but they all started to turn their heads away, ignoring the warrior.

Taeli flicked her hand and the troops lowered their weapons. Moving up to whisper in the warrior's ear, she muttered, "I can't wait to see what sort fo experiment my master has in store for one with such fire and drive to fight within them."

She moved on, gesturing with her head for the soldiers to force the warrior back to the ground.