Lucina felt the battle meditation, the dark side had always felt like a disease or a sickness and this was no different. But she kept her head and kept focused on the task at hand. Cutting through the next door Lucina once again found a half naked female shackled to the wall. "What is with the sith and keeping half naked women around." She muttered, this one had been beaten pretty badly and had a nasty burn mark on her possibly from a light saber. Lucina first healed her and then let her free. After letting her free she felt the blast that hit the upper levels and her eyes went wide, turning to Kast She said. "Ask this one what unit shes from, i have to go." Her voice had urgency and concern mixed within it. She didn't even wait for a reply as she ran out of the room at full sprint.

Running through the bunker the only sound were her feet and the sounds of the occasional firefight, some of the sith forces were in a fighting retreat. Helping pinned down troopers where she could. But at the sight of the jedi some sith charged her in a suicidal rage or charged her grenades in hand but nothing a force push back into their allies couldn't change. Finally reaching the upper level she found the troopers who came with Master Rorwoorr standing around him, one was even looking at his wounds but Lucina cut in pushing the trooper to the side. "I got it." She said and started healing her own master.

Rorwoorr

While he couldn't keep the troopers off him as his entire body ached, he had sensed the panic as his Padawan approached, then as she pushed her way past the troopers and then started to heal him. She pushed him off him before letting out a grunt, barely comprehensible as Shyrii'wook. [Stop the fires in the datacore...] He clutched his side as he took a breathe. [An investigator is on his way, use my commlink and tell him to hurry up...] He took another pained breathe. [I fear we may not have much time before the building is destroyed...] This time there was a longer pause, as he drew breathe more slowly, taking the time to concentrate on the force and his body, numbing the pain at least temporarily until it could be healed.

If it could all be healed.

[We must not let the Sith get away with this. Go, quickly young padawan. Or all that have been lost today will have been lost in vain.]

Crusade

Crusade stood before a hologram off one of the other Sith within his Empire. While there were many fallen Jedi from the time of Revan and Malak he regarded very few of them as actual Sith. There were a couple of those he would consider Sith on the planet, though Sith had to truly prove themselves to the dark side and not just use it. To be a Sith you had to control it. In a way such as him, and his hunt for knowledge. Some of it fabled, though he was very close to uncovering the Truth off its existence. For now he had to destroy the Jedi, though to destroy one fully first you had to destroy their reputation. Make them outcasts, and then. Then he would kill them. "Are the preparations complete?""Almost My Lord. The fleet is assembled and prepared, the secret weapons are fully operational and we have sent scouts along the hyperspace route you provided us with.""And?""As you predicted my Lord. They set off no alarms and met no opposition until they arrived and with the credentials forged for them they managed to get away without incident. The long range scanning unit indicates they have been attempting to trace the hyperspace lane or set up a security network however at this time it is inefficient and won't be able to detect our approach."

"Very well. Have the fleet head to the rendezvous, the Hásk shall arrive shortly with her escorts." The man in the hologram bowed as it cut off. He turned around heading back onto the bridge. "Captain Roland.""My lord?""Have the dropships return with due haste. If anyone is not capable of returning to a dropship then they will be left behind. Have their escorts target any escape pods in decaying orbit as they return as well, we don't have time to take prisoners and the fewer witnesses the less reliable reports there are, and bring us into firing range of the megalaser.""Yes sir."

Patience had never been a problem for him, even before throwing himself to the arms of the dark side he had always felt it easy to figure out ways to occupy his time. Meditation and such was beyond him for the most part, his mind at the time was simply amusing itself with his most recent kills. He had convinced himself that the Twi'lek and Mother had brought upon their own deaths. The Twi'lek was going to ruin his chances to follow the thread that led him to the ripples in the force and the mother was... well, she was just disobedient.

It sucks that I had to do it, he told himself, his silver eyes falling on the trembling daughter across from him; they were just a sheen beneath his earthen robes but they display an radiant pit. But to further my own goals... I'll show no mercy. That is the creed I've chosen.

Again he felt the tiniest of twitches in himself, a arrow that tilted towards indifference and away from guilt. The steady fear in the daughter had not diminished and thanks to that, he could numb himself to his pain. The pain of betrayal and the pain of loss.

Silent breaths counted the moments of his travel, moments that like his own life had passed by and never been thought of again. Before long the ship had docked with a few heavy-metal scraping, the lights in the starcraft flickering as it settled. Now that the ship had been successfully halted, he could feel the tether to the dark side so much stronger now. It was like covering yourself in shadows, having the darkness embrace you in a deathly hug. It was frightening and awe-inspiring at the same time.

Rising from his seat, he turned towards the daughter and after a moment said. “Try not to let this make you crazy. If you leave here alive, just think how lucky you are.”

The girl's lips quivered before her tears rolled down her face. Naraal couldn't help thinking that in the end, it was better to have a stranger kill your love ones than for your loved ones to betray you.

Walking out of the ship, he was met with chivalry of troopers that persuaded him to halt his descension from the vessel. His robes came to a stop on the metal ramp as he pulled off his hood, the silver gleam of eyes curiously looked on at them. It was clear to him, simply from the tension in the room, that it was not goodness that drove the soldiers; it was either fear or utter and complete loyalty.

Kelim'tel waited for what seemed like an eternity for him. He had been meditating while he waited for someone to arrive, but it appeared that nobody was in sight of his flare. Standing up, he looked around for any kind of landmark or building. Approaching a cliff face, his eyes were caught by something peculiar. In the distance, he spotted what appeared to be an Imperial Fort under attack. He armed his saber and slid down the cliff face, running out towards the Fort's position. There lied the bodies of many Republic and Imperials alike. He stared down at the faces of the brave men and women who had fallen into battle. He closed the eyes of those that remained open, whispering silently "There is no death, only the Force."

He looked around and noticed that the outer walls had been breached and Republic forces were still attempting to take it. He went along with them into the Fort, preparing his mind and body for combat. There, he could feel two Jedi inside the base. It was during this moment that he heard a loud explosion. His mind raced as he questioned what could of happened. He ignited his saber and ran through the different Imperial levels, fending off any Imperial that was still left behind. It wasn't until he got to the Data level that he found the two Jedi's he sensed earlier. Master Rorwoorr was injured and was with his Padawan, Lucina. Quickly sprinting over, he approached the two Jedi to analyse the situation.

"Master Rorwoorr, it's good to see you again. I see you've gotten yourself a Padawan." He looked up at the young Jedi, nodding his head in a greeting manner, and inspected the Jedi Master. Kelim'tel had never really known Master Rorwoorr, but had several encounters with him before. Despite never knowing him too well, Master Rorwoorr was possibly one of his favorite Jedi Masters. As for Padawan Lucina, Kelim'tel had never met her in his entire lifetime. Either way, they were fellow Jedi and Republic servants, and it was his duty to aid them. "I'm here to assist. Do you think you can stand, Master Rorwoorr?"

Lucina opened her mouth to protest what her master was saying but then she shut it this was no time to argue, she was about to turn and leave when another jedi appeared seemingly out of the blue, something about him coming out of the blue almost made her run him through but she restrained herself she didn't trust this jedi around her master but she had a job to do. "Take Master Rorwoorr out of here." She told the troopers, and took off sprinting leaving both jedi and the troopers alone.

The room with the data cores was a flame, the young padawan could feel the heat crawling across her skin, any closer and she would of probably gotten blisters, looking around the room for something she could use she sighed as her eyes settled on the pipes the held the coolant in it. They could probably draw the data from the powered down cores but spewing coolant everywhere might damage them, but there was no other way using the force she gripped the pipes and set them free the foul smelling liquid burned her nostrils but moving the pipe with the force was easy and soon all that was left of the fires was smoke and embers that seemed to dance around the padawan who just stood there surveying her handy work.

Airus groaned as another dropship of troopers took off "If I'm not back in ten minutes, leave without us." Airus took off back inside heading down towards the Datacore he moved through the charred doors and walls he stopped sensing Master Rorwoorr leaning on smaller jedi he spoke sensing Rorwoorr's padawan still in the Datacore. "Master Rorwoorr, I have discovered the Emperor is behind the retreat of Sith, also a Sith cruiser is in orbit above us it's destroyed our fleet. We must go now before the Sith destroy this place and us along with it, I'll already ordered most of the trooper to escape" He turned to were the other Jedi "Take Rorwoorr and the troopers to the shuttle outside, I will go retrieve the padawan." He headed back into the Datacore trying to get to were he could sense Lucina close enough to speak. He arrived to find her surveying the area. "Padawan, we need to go the Sith are in retreat grab whatever is your here for and lets go, Master Rorwoorr and the others are waiting for us at the shuttle."