Yavin IV (open to mandalorians other wise please ask)

[Elaine Thul]

[member="Ember Rekali"]

Elain had come here with permission of the leader of clan Rekali, a man called Ember. Dispensation was granted for the help she gave to [member="Ginnie Ordo"], in giving her the information to attack a prison ship. She had given them the location ship, and everything she could so they could mount a rescue attempt for [member="Preliat Mantis"], which she took right from under the nose of the one sith, and with this help it was successful. She was know free of the one sith, and wanted to explore the galaxy a bit. The main reason for this, was to search for a weapon from the past, it was called a Lanvarok. She wanted one to study it, and try and figure out how it was used purposely against force users. As it was designed by ancient sith to win battle against other sith, using a creature called the massassi. She had been given a location of a possible burial mound, she was allowed to dig their though any further digging would be subject to Ember discretion.

She was a little weary of entering mandalorian space, after all she was a republic noble, and recent events had put them at odds. Though form her point of view, the republic was in the wrong. This also made her plan to find this weapon, more important as she knew know the republic can not defend it's self, let alone Alderaan. Her priority was Alderaan, and not the republic. She came in a shuttle with the markings of house thul on it, hoping to distance herself from the republic a little. She also had present for Ember if he decide to meet her, she was unsure of that he would or not. It was her old fury from her time in the the one sith, she had no longer need of it. He may find some use of it, though he would have to change transponder codes so not be recognized.

She waited with her team of archaeologist, to be given the all clear for her descent to the planet surface.

 

[Elaine Thul]

Elaine finally got permission to landed, she had her ships captain follow the course without deviation, as she did not want to get off on the wrong foot with the mandalorians. This was because it was seen as an honour to be allowed on the clan world of the great [member="Ember Rekali"], and it was one she was not going to squander, due to a slight flight detail going wrong. As the shuttle entered the atmosphere, she felt turbulence and shook the shuttle around a lot. It made her slightly nervous, but not to much. Soon she could see through the window the great expanse of Yavin IV, it was truly spectacular jungle world. Her course was to the ruins of old temple, it was used an built by massassai people, who where slaves to ancient sith.

She was planning on looking for and digging up an old armoury, once the seismic scan could locate it. It was an effective way to map underground buildings, that have been buried for centuries. As it would allow the team to work out what was where, and keep the dig timing to a minimal. Soon as they landed, she order the men to unpack, and make camp. She would start the search in the morning, after all what was the point of starting in creepy forest at night. She would stay inside the shuttle for safety, as she had heard of tails of sith spawn on this planet.

 

[Ashin Varanin]

[member="Elaine Thul"]

The details of Elaine's archaeological tourist visa were somewhat customized. She could not come within a hundred kilometres of Port Shardrock, the Jedi Academy, or any other settlement on the planet except in a medical emergency. A Clan Rekali flow-walker would examine her activities after the fact, and her vessel would be searched before she left. She could not bring substantial armed force, apart from her small party of explorers and guards, nor vessels besides her single ship. She could not bring Sith, apart from herself, and an exemption had been made in her case due to proven enmity with the One Sith. Her vessel had been logged and scanned at various points throughout the Gordian Reach on its way here. So long as she followed the limitations of her visa, she would be undisturbed by Clan Rekali, who controlled the Yavin System.

 

[Elaine Thul]

[member="Ember Rekali"]

During the night, she began suffering her nightmares of glitter again, how her old master got to stand over when she was fifteen. How dribbled on, her how she was so scared she weed herself because of it. The nightmare then what followed to her beloved homeland, as the sith gave it over to the vong. She then woke up in the middle of it all, in cold damp sweat, she had these dreams often, and her mind was plagued by them. It was her driving force, of why she helped the omega protectorate, why she know helping the galactic alliance, why she was rebuilding her home into a fort, it also why she helped the mandalorians if they wanted it. She wanted them dead, all the members of the one sith, she want to find ways to kill sith spawn. She hated everything about them, especially how they breathed. After a quick shower, she head back to bed after a cup of calms, she wonder if her nightmares could be felt by others or not.

Next day she got up like nothing had happened, and saw her men getting the systemic charges in place. They where only small charges, they could get an echo from the rebound image. Then it would give them a map of what was under their dig site, then they could work out the best place to dig. Whilst that was going on sentry post where being set up, just in case any wild animals where around, guns where set for stun with A.C.C.G. as this was not a hunting trip, and they had no want to permanently harm the wildlife. Soon the charges went off, and the images where being up loaded, to the central computer. After that the archaeologist would start to work out where to begin the digging.

 

[Elaine Thul]

[member="Ember Rekali"]

The seismic charges had uncovered the out line of a temple of some sort predating Exar Kun, according to the depth of it. This was what she was after, as under their they might be relics of the massassi. The mining droids she brought from [member="Captain Larraq"] then was unloaded, and put to work. They would dig down slowly to the top of the building, after that it was all hand tools, as it was much gentler. As they waited for the droids to dig down, to the roof area of the underground building, which would take most of the day, as they where set on slow. This was due to possible fragile nature of the building below, and not wanting to cause any damage. She and her crew and tiffin, an old house thul tradition, of light snacks and tea.

The day was spent discussing what they might find down there, and the recent and unfortunate events of roche. This was Elaine main driving force, could the Republic defend itself anymore, could they defend alderaan if the one sith came back, and the answer was sadly no. As such she wanted to make sure alderaan could defend it's self. She was laying plans to turn her home into a fort, and making new weapons. She was also wiling to do what ever was necessary to defend that world, weather it was a military alliance backed by marriage, to bankrupting house thul, for the greater good. Her hate for the one sith was strong, and was corrupting her on the inside, and she did not know about it. She was searching for power to fight, and she was seeking more of it. She had no idea where this path would lead, but as long as alderaan was safe she did not care.

 

[Elaine Thul]

[member="Ember Rekali"]

Next morning she woke up, she had slept much better than the night before. She did not have nightmare every night, she usually had it only once a month. The droids, had finished there digging, and know it was time for hand tools. As they got deeper the trench had to be reinforced, to stop it collapsing. This work would take most of the day, the idea was to cause as little disturbance as possible. Though there was always a chance of the building collapsing, as they removed the the soil supporting it. To help prevent this, scaffolding was added on the way down to try and support it. When ever they reached a window area, they put scaffolding through to help support ceiling and arches, this process would take most of the week. It was slow going, but it was worth it, they already started to find fossilized bone of some sith and massassi. As well as some old lightsabers, that had an independent battery packs, she had read about them, but never seen one she would send them to a museum as well offer her host some for there own amusement.

Whilst they did this, Elaine kept having updated scans, so they might find anything of use. It seemed their is an armoury and some sort, which was her main reason to be there. As well as some sort of Sith training room. She was interested in that as well, as any knoweldge to hep defeat the current power house of sith would be welcome to her.

 

[Elaine Thul]

After a week of digging, they had uncovered and protected what they could of the ruined building. It was completely covered in scaffolding to support it, and it was time to enter the building. She wanted to be first to do so, as she used the force to help her push open, the heavy but rotten wooden doors. She was met by a sudden bad smell, the place was actually been buried with people in it. They had decayed and left nothing but bone, and bad smell. She did not care to much, but could see what she was after. Some of the old weapons where their, and ammo was still available. She picked up the lanvarock and some of cortosis disks it used, and it was dirty but still in good working order. She then turned to head archaeologist and told him Get all of this packed up and be ready to ship it out tomorrow, I need to a complete brake down of how it worked. She was planning on bring this weapon up to date, and making a disc cannon. She need to know how it was used against force user first, so she could understand how to replicate it, and bring it up to date. Exploring of this ruin would take them two days at most, something how ever told her there was something else to discover here as well. She would wait for the archaeologist tough to dig more of it out before she explored further into it, as for know it was tiffin time.

[member="Ember Rekali"]

 

[Elaine Thul]

What they had found was know being crated up, and put onto the shuttle. Elaine however decide to take a tour of the ruins, before she gave the location of it to [member="Ember Rekali"] to decide what he wanted to do with long term. They had also created up some of the artifacts for him as well, that had been found. She how ever was felt drawn to an stone wall, she started look at it. It looked slightly out of place, she could not put her finger on it but it did. She decide to pull the bricks out using the force, as she did she started to see a skeleton that had been walled up, inside an alcove. In is hands however was a holocron, she decide to take it and not tell anyone about it. She knew that some people feared Sith knowledge, and some people still thought she was sith, and those few where right. She may hate the one sith, but they where right about one thing. That emotions gave them strength, and that was possibly why they cut the Jedi down much easier than the other way round. The republic had been beaten to a pulp by them, they had held of against the combined strength of three galactic empires due to that passion, and she wanted to make alderaan safe no matter what the cost.

With that in mind she took and hid the holocron, she was going to study it later. Though for know she was content, with her artifacts, and she had a gift for her host. she left the temple turned tomb, and sent a message to her host they would be leaving tomorrow, asking what they wanted her to do with the site. If he did not reply she would leave it, as they could always rebury it if they wished.

 

[Elaine Thul]

[member="Ember Rekali"]

Next day came and her shuttle was loaded up, she had still no word what they wanted her to do with the ruins. So she decide to leave it, the planet may rebury it, they may decide to search it, or bury it them selves. She had what she came for and a little extra a holocron, she had not tried to unlock it yet, she would do that in safety of alderaan. She would also get her engineers to start working on the pole arm she had, work out how to bring up to date as weapon of war.

She had some tiffin and one last look around the ruin, as the shuttle was loaded up. It was actually quite nice building, question why was it a tomb, and those things buried alive in it. Though these questions where merely academic to her. Still it would have been nice to know, as a warning from the past so she would not make them same mistakes. Her shuttle was almost loaded with all the artifacts the droids, and other things of interest they found. Plus a holo recording of the whole building, and other seismic scans that where preformed. Encase they ever wish to come back and do another study, if the host of the planet did not mind of course.

As she boarded the shuttle home, she gave the planet a wave good bye.

 

[Elaine Thul]

[member="Ember Rekali"]

As she her shuttle left orbit, she her crew had already began dismantling some of the poll arms, to try and figure how they work. The second she left for hyperspace, another ship came in. It was her old personal Fury, it was a present to the rekali clan for granting her access to yavin V. She hoped to foster future friendship, with a clan that hated the one sith and there allies as much as she did. It was almost ironic, the one thing the sith did teach her was hater, but it was hate for them.

It would not be long before they where home, and would begin making a rail gun version of this disk throwing poll arm.