Chapter One: New Journey

[Akirapryde]

What did you miss at the last game?

The last game was filled with so much in such a limited time.

As Auro, Ashla and Unna landed they received a message from Duncan. Duncan informed Auro that Colonel Noor’s daughter was kidnapped. Despite efforts to increase power, the jamming was too much for the party to overcome. The last thing that Auro saw, was Duncan’s shuttle being shot down. With the jamming increasing, it became clear that Auro and his group were on their own. Sensing that Gadeon was in desperate need of help, Auro led the rescue.

The group entered the underground complex through the burned-out ruins of a massive hanger bay. The group work their way through the underground complex till they ran across Nima’s younger brother. He informed them that Gadeon had said that he would help Nima from the darkness. Unna and Auro detected that Nima’s brother intentions were innocent and truthful. He led the group to a blast door that 9’s had to hack to open.

Once the blast doors were opened, the party saw Nima laying beaten and nearly unconscious. Auro rushed to Nima’s side as she looked up at him. “Auro…..” she said pointing to the larger blast doors deeper in the chamber, “Gadeon!” she said.

Ashla quickly rendered medical aid on Nima using a Medpack. Shortly thereafter, the party successfully employed Heal Another on Nima to heal the remaining of her injuries. After they revived Nima, Auro realized that Gadeon was in the battle of his life. He turned to a massive set of blast doors. 9’s informed the party that the doors were held closed and he couldn’t open them.

Drawing upon each other’s force ability, the party focused their move object on the massive blast doors. After a great deal of effort, the party was able to force the massive blast doors open. As the air pressure equalized, mist flooded the chamber that Auro and party were standing it. As the mist cleared, Gadeon stumbled forward a few steps. Then he dropped to his knees reaching forward for Auro. Then Gadeon collapsed to his left and remained motionless.

The chamber was massive! Forty meters across and over seventy meters deep. Along each side of the chamber stood seven massive fourteen-foot-tall statues of Sith Warriors. Each warrior was armed with a large pike and shield. In the center of the room kneeled a fifteen-foot-tall statue. This bronze statue was also of a Sith Warrior armed with a pike and shield as well. Unlike the other fourteen statues, who were facing the back of the chamber, this one was kneeling in respect.

It was the massive thirty-foot statue at the back of the chamber that sent chills down the spines of the party. The massive statue in the back of the chamber was of Darth Revan. The all white marble statue held a massive gold and silver lightsaber that was incrusted with gems. It was a massive and impressive statue that clearly was meant to drew the attention of anyone who walked in to this chamber. However, for the party, their attention was on their fallen companion.

As the group rushed forward to Gadeon’s aide, they felt the chamber flooded with hate and anger. Unna attempted to move him through the force. Her efforts failed as she felt a dark vile presence. “I can sense the darkness within you” the being said within Unna’s mind. He was clearly speaking about the darkside point that Unna was still holding on to. “Give in to your hate and anger and I shall teach you” he temped Unna.

After she refused, the power spirit revealed its location atop of the massive bronze statue. He unleashed a powerful attack of Sith Lighting at Auro. Unna retaliated with her Light Disk at range. This distraction allowed Ashla to continue to make her way to Gadeon while hiding from the spirit. The battle was epic and pushed our heroes to their limits. However, by fighting together and working as a team, they managed to destroy the spirit and save Gadeon from death.

In victory, the darkness won a smaller prize. During the battle, the spirit reclosed the blast doors by using the force. This made Nima’s escape that much easier. She murdered her own brother whom she saw as a traitor to her cause and dismembered 9’s who had heroically attempted to protect Nima’s fallen brother.

Nima fled from the underground complex while the party was occupied with the spirit and searching the tomb after the battle. Looking back, Unna could see that something about Nima’s actions didn’t make any sense. She had originally made her way for the part of the complex that she knew. However, something stopped her in midtracks. Something that scared her so much that the new dark Jedi drew upon her lightsaber and called upon the darkness.

She deactivated her saber after a moment and her fear subsided. Shortly after Nima nodded her head as if she were taking orders from something. She then turned and fled the complex from the same direction that the party entered. It was there that she found the party’s assault shuttle. She took the shuttle and escaped the world in to hyperspace.

With the complex secure, all eyes turned to Duncan and his efforts to fend off Colonel Noor’s advances. Desperate to find his missing Daughter, Colonel Noor mobilized his forces and headed in to the mountains. Duncan supported by a handful of Republic Troopers, crashed landed near a village. It was there that he confronted Colonel Noor and forced the Colonel to accept Republic control of the situation, or else. Nothing says, accept our command, like the 2nd Battalion led by Jedi Knight Demaya

After Auro and the party returned to the Vengeance, the party discovered that it was the planetary Governor who had kidnapped the Colonel’s daughter. After intensive questioning, the Governor admitted to bringing Nima and her band to the world with the mission to provoke Colonel Noor. His plans were to have the Planetary Council declare a State of Emergency. Then he would be able to remove Colonel Noor from command of the militia once and for all.

The Governor had told Nima about the ruined complex to the north but had no idea about the spirit that lurked within. He also funded her team with military grade equipment to carry out their mission. He had no idea that Nima and her group had planned to attack the Jedi Temple or carry out the fire bombing. He had attempted to call Nima and her group off when the Colonel’s daughter had overheard his end of the conversation.

At the end of the interview, the Governor was broken and incapable of lying. While his goals were foolish, he only wanted to remove a man from power that he saw was dangerous. In the end, the Governor ended up becoming what he hated about Colonel Noor. Beyond the arrests of both Colonel Noor and the Planetary Governor, corrupt members who had their hands in the Mimar crisis were also removed from power. Leadership of Mimar was handed over to a Senate appointed governor.

While Nima did escape in an Assault Shuttle, the destruction of the Sith Spirit was a major victory for the party. Auro and the party loot the Tomb of nearly all its riches. Thanks to efforts by the party and the 2nd Battalion, Mimar has been restored to a state of calm and peace once more.