Arriving in orbit around the moon, their sensors pick up life signs in scattered areas throughout the surface, as well as two larger signals indicating established structures; one Imperial-made, another Republic. There were numerous smaller signals indicating outposts and similar structures over the place. Flying toward the Imperial Defense Control Tower, they see it surrounded by an idyllic community akin to the Hobbitshire. Decorative plants had been placed in the various windows and ledges of the originally ominous control tower, and the landing port had been replaced with the equivalent of a sports field.
Interrupting the game, they land and stroll by the numerous confused Chadra-fan, ignoring their questions and pleas. Partway up the installation, they meet the mayor of the village, wearing a piece of modified equipment to act as a jetpack; thus giving him the headstart to catch up with the party. Asking why Sith were returning to a colony they had long abandoned earned him a blast of force lightning, his bodyguards thrown out a window after their own jet packs were disabled with the Force. Interrogating the mayor for the source of his tech, he told them they were modified salvage from the area, and promptly overloaded his own jet pack in an attempt at a suicide bombing to harm Imriel. Imriel pushed the explosion back and was unharmed.
They didn't have so easy a time against the heavily armed and armored Chadra-special forces unit, who also had a flying droid covered with lightsaber crystals, that attacked them near the control station for the entire Imperial Planetary Defense network. After a rough fight of flamethrowers, lightsaber-charged thermal detonators, and light shurikens, they managed to take out the assailant; mainly by realizing that the equipment was all modified extensions from the complex, and put in the passcodes they were given to deactivate everything in the area.
Rearming the facility, they told the network to essentially treat everything as a hostile invader (except their room and the landing pad where their shuttle was) throughout the planet.
The disturbance in the Force is felt by the entire party, and so very many of the inhabitants are blasted by exploding outposts they built around or automated defenses aiming toward them. While Pradeque looks out a balcony at the devastation throughout the land, Sorbin decides to look at the old logs for anything special that Darth Newton might be looking for. The main thing is that the Imperial general was complaining about the tendency for the Sith and Jedi that died on the colony to nearly immediately rise as dangerous force ghosts, making the fighting difficult because of their potential damage.
It's at this point that the party feels the disturbance in the Force continue to roil around and turn Dark, and starting to form a Force Storm over the entire planet. Thinking better, they head toward the shuttle, and find fifteen Chadra-fan that had been possessed by Force Ghosts and standing over the corpses of Pat's soldiers and wielding kit-bashed lightsabers; their eyes crackling with lightning. The fight is over swiftly by some truly astounding rolling on their side, especially considering relatively abysmal rolling.
They perform a strafe of the Republic installation before leaving the planet and start heading back to Imperial space. They're congratulated, curtly, for their mission and are contacted by the new Minister of Military Action; a Given named Darth Kenner. Darth Kenner informs Imriel that due to recent changes in the Sphere of Philosophy (a Givin has taken the position), they need to reevaluate their Sith for ideal missions in their military objectives. Their new mission is to escort a recently defected Republic droid programmer named Lord Asis without killing/destroying those who attempt to harm him. Further details would be provided by the Imperial attache with Lord Asis upon arrival.
The attache was a Givin. Lord Asis was a portly human with a heavy amount of cybernetics, which only made Imriel hate him more (if he's under the knife that much, why not cut off some of the fat). There's a manufacturing facility abandoned due to all of the droids breaking free of their restraining bolts. Due to Lord Asis's programming experience, direct access to the control station at the heart of the facility would allow him to upload changes that would reactivate the restraining bolts. They're to refrain from destroying any droids along the way, as they will be newly acquired assets at the completion of the mission. In addition, the attache provides new uniforms to the Sith for a more optimal performance, as well as informs them that they will be under surveillance throughout the mission to better analyze their conduct to determine whether they need further optimization.
This earns the attache a broken neck, to which Lord Asis nearly gets ill from the sight; before handing over the holo-recording he was told to provide when the attache was killed. The recording is of the attache, telling them that there was a 47% chance of him being killed by Imriel, and that in preparation the recording was made to inform the party that due to his relative low value, his death would not detract from their evaluation of the success of the mission.
Lord Asis is asked to disable the surveillance, and is forced to inform the party that it's built into his cybernetics along with the system he needs to be able to access the control system, so disabling the surveillance on him would essentially invalidate the mission.
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