Dark
Jedi: Sith History #3
Darkside@forceacademy.com
The
Great Hyperspace War
Millenia after
the dark Jedi conquered the Sith, the Republic was rising to its
full power. Exploration was being conducted into the unknown reaches
of the galaxy and hyperspace explorers, men and women who mapped
new hyperspace routes, abounded. Hyperspace exploring was dangerous
and many times suicidal, as the explorers would spin random coordinates
onto the navicomputer and then follow the path, hoping to end up
lucky. Most of the time, they wound up dead, flying their ships
through a star or planet or black hole. This, however, did not deter
the young and adventurous from following the same example, for the
luckiest explorers became wealthy.
In that time, two young teenagers, Gav and Jori Daragon, stumbled
upon the Sith Empire in an alarming series of coincidences. The
seven worlds of the Empress Teta system had just been united in
a series of wars, in which the parents of Gav and Jori were killed
while smuggling supplies to the soldiers. The two decided to set
out on their own and become hyperspace explorers. However, it did
not work out quite as they had planned. After selling a disastrous
route to a merchant who vowed revenge, Gav and Jori fled from the
Teta system. With nowhere to go, they entered random coordinates
and came out in the far side of the galaxy, where no Republic ship
had flown for millenia: in orbit above Korriban.
Of all the times to arrive in the heart of the Sith empire, this
was the worst. Down on the planet's surface, the funeral of the
ninth Dark Lord of the Sith, Marka Ragnos, had just ended, and two
powerful Sith lords, Naga Sadow and Ludo Kressh, were facing off
in a duel to the death to decide the next Dark Lord of the Sith.
Ragnos' spirit tried to intervene, but nothing caught the lords'
attention until Gav and Jori appeared, asking cheerfully if the
Sith wanted to establish a trade bargain with them.
Instead, the Sith took Gav and Jori hostage and then called a council
of the Sith lords, asking what should be done. Kressh suggested
that it was an invasion from the Republic and that the two should
be destroyed immediately. But Sadow disagreed, saying it was instead
a time of expansion and conquest for the Sith Empire. He was unable
to convince Kressh, however, and the Sith lord and his followers
left in a rage.
In the days that followed, Sadow carried out his devious plans.
Obtaining strange Republic weapons such as a blaster from the Daragon's
ship, Starbreaker 12, he staged attacks on the prison where Gav
and Jori were being held. In the process, he killed his old ally
Simus and hid Gav and Jori in his secret fortress while pretending
that it was a Republic attack. The Sith empire erupted into chaos,
and, as expected, Sadow's followers elected him tenth Dark Lord
of the Sith, pleading with him to protect them from the Republic
invasion they thought was coming.
However, Kressh found out about Sadow's deception and launched an
attack on the Sith lord's fortress. Little did Kressh know that
Sadow had been waiting for this moment, and that the Dark Lord of
the Sith actually had two fortresses and the one that Kressh was
attacking was a decoy, a fake. Separating Gav and Jori, Sadow convinced
Jori to flee back to the Republic before Kressh destroyed them.
Jori left in the Starbreaker 12 without knowing that Sadow had attached
a homing beacon to it, thus letting him find out the location of
the Republic. After she was safely past Kressh's force, Sadow then
launched an attack from his real fortress on the dark side of Khar
Shian and used his Sith magic to turn the slaves of Kressh's followers
against them, thus destroying most of Kressh's reinforcements.
After defeating Kressh's force, Sadow began teaching dark Jedi skills
to Gav and made the boy head of his fleet. He then made plans to
attack the Republic, using Sith magic to project images of ships
to make his fleet seem larger than it really was. The Sith invasion
fleet set out for the Republic and met the Republic ships at the
world of Primus Goluud.
Sadow's plan would have gone without a hitch if it were not for
Gav and Jori Daragon. Jori, escaping back to the Republic, had risked
her life to warn the Republic forces about the Sith empire. The
Republic navy met the Sith ships in battle, but for a while it seemed
the Sith would triumph. But Sadow had underestimated Gav Daragon.
Seeing through Sadow's lies, the boy attacked his master and damaged
his meditation sphere from which Sadow sent the illusions. With
the illusions gone, the Republic forces began crushing the Sith.
Sadow, in an attempt to escape, caused the star of Primus Goluud
to explode and fled back to the Sith empire. But more trouble awaited
him there. He found that Kressh had declared himself the Dark Lord
of the Sith in Sadow's absence and had exiled Sadow from the empire.
As the two Sith fleets met in battle, the Republic ships arrived.
Jori Daragon, true to her word, had returned to destroy the Sith
with the help of Empress Teta and her Jedi advisors. Sadow knew
he was beaten, but as a last parting gift, he again made the Sith
slaves turn on their masters, killing Kressh and all his followers.
He then destroyed pursuing Republic forces by exploding the double
star of Denarii Nova.
But Sadow still had other plans in defeat. He and his followers
fled to the moon of Yavin IV and there he built a grand civilization,
thus ensuring the survival of the Sith throughout the centuries.
Be
mindful,
Darth Moor
darthmoor@forceacademy.com
