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Hey I just wanted to post this for people who never played any of the flight sims so they can see how the Designers messed up. Because as its been pointed out the domes are actually supposed to be Radar domes not shield generators. http://tinypic.com/eaha90.jpg You can see in the blue box area, in the lower right it reads, "SHIELD GEN." and the yellow box circles the Radar Dome. Pretty big mess up if you ask me.

Hey I managed to take a few pics from THE flight sim, TIE Fighter. Compleanos feliz. http://tinypic.com/eah8at.jpg http://tinypic.com/eah8i8.jpg http://tinypic.com/eah8j8.jpg http://tinypic.com/eah8k4.jpg http://tinypic.com/eah8nm.jpg

I sure hope they dont make the game have two equivelant sides, thats just way boring. They need to make each side have its pros and cons. They dont need ships that match up with each other. As for the list I woulnt say its entirely accurate either, because we dont know the exact stats of all the ships so it's too early to say which ships "match" up with others. All we can do now is speculate. I just hope that they dont make two boring identical sides that best each other in all areas of combat.

What? hahahaha thats the most hilarious EU thing I ever heard lol. What is that from?

Three? Wasnt there only the original DS, shown in RotS (being constructed) and ANH and the Second Death Star in RoTJ? I think there were only two.

Well technically in TIE Fighter you could still kill a Star Destroyer with the domes intact. It would just take longer, if you were to kill the domes it would drastically reduce the shielding though. So it could be there ignoring the subject or it could be they just didnt bother with destroying the shield domes.

If anyone has ever played the flight sim game, TIE Figter the domes on any Star Destroyer are Shield Generators. When you target a Star Destroyer, simply use the (.) key to cycle through the seperate parts of the ship and the domes will be selected and in your HUD it will say Shield Gen. So in the gaming world the domes are shield gens, no matter what they may have been in the actual movie lol.

I bet that they will do something like in C&C Generals, where you have constant Morning, Afternoon, and Night maps. Meaning they always stay the same lighting. So when you make your own map you can program it to have different lighting.

I would hope for a day and night, but I dont think they will put it in the game. Of corse they might and that would be totally awesome.

I prefer seeing Capital ships dog it out one on one. I love seeing their turbo lasers firing at each other and slowly damaging each other. Imperial capital ships are my favorite espicially Star destroyers or interdictors (for their gravity wheels)

I want to ask straight up if the Death Star can fire on ships.

Here's chapter two of my story. Dont forget to please leave comments. Thanks a ton, Nate CHAPTER 2 “We have called this meeting because a very disturbing ripple has passed through the force” Master Daryl said very solemn as he always talked. “Yes, Master Daryl is correct. Many of you may have felt it also. We fear that the Remnant has finally uncovered some ancient sith artifacts on Korriban. A strong power has been released from a long sleep. As of now we don’t know if this power is of the Remnant or of something else.” “But Master Skywalker, I thought Korriban has been whipped clean of all sith artifacts.” “As did we, Don. But it is apparent that the Remnant has uncovered some sort of old power, because of the strong surge that went through the force.” Master Skywalker looked over toward Daryl. “Because of this disturbance I have volunteered to go to Korriban and find out what the Remnant has found. I must go alone, for the more people that go with me the less chance that I will return.” Daryl looked around at the students to check their reactions. “But Master, what will I do while you are gone? I just finished my final task as a padawan.” Ventris asked somewhat upset. “Don’t worry Ventris, you will become a full Jedi Guardian as soon as I return, I do not expect this trip to last over a month.” Daryl felt the anger in Ventris, he knew how much Ventris was looking forward to tomorrow. “Me and Master Daryl both understand that the ceremony was to be tomorrow but we cannot let this sudden event be left alone.” Luke was trying his best to comfort Ventris. “Cant you perform the ceremony Master Skywalker? A month is such a long time. I am eager to finish my training so I can return to Coruscant and find other Jedi for the order.” Ventris yelled out. “Do not be so quick to anger; it leads to the dark side. If I do not return by next month then Master Skywalker will perform the ceremony. But I will return, I promise. I have no intention to stay on that dark world.” “With that, this meeting is over. Master Daryl and I need to talk about what must be done. Save your questions for after our talk.” Luke then shifted over to look at Master Daryl. The students slowly left the room, and Luke could sense unrest in all them. “They are restless,” Luke commented, “I worry that this isn’t a Remnant trick Daryl, I fear they may have uncovered some old sith technology, or worse” “I am not sure either Luke, I feel dark times ahead. We don’t need this kind of bad energy in the force. We just reestablished the jedi order, and these students are very vulnerable to the dark side. While I’m gone, you must help them understand why they need to stay away from the dark side. Maybe you should show them some of the old Sith temples.” Daryl looked for Lukes reaction. “Maybe, I don’t know if they need to be exposed to that quite yet. Perhaps Ventris and Don could, because they are the only students near completion of their training.” “Very well, I will take one of the imperial shuttles to Korriban, they have tight security, though it is focused only on one side of the planet. I will land on the other side and find my way to the Imperial base.” Daryl was very nervous, but he knew he was the best choice for the mission. “May the force be with you Daryl.” Luke tried to smile, but he too was nervous at the sudden events. “You to Luke, you to.” Daryl got up and exited through the back, to avoid the students waiting in the main room. Luke went to the main exit, and was expecting to be pounded with questions from the students. But to his surprise only three of them were sitting down meditating. “Hello Master Skywalker, I need to talk to you.” Ventris said. “Okay Ventris, head on into the main room, I’ll be there in just a few minutes” Luke then looked at the other two students, Don and Ariel. “Are you two alright?” Luke asked, he was surprised they didn’t greet him when he walked into the meditation room. “Master Skywalker, me and Don felt the wave you were talking about. But we fear it has somehow,” Ariel looked around the room, “affected Ventris.” “Why is that?” Luke asked surprised. “When he came back from the swamp, about an hour before the surge, we felt that something was missing from him. As if he returned with half the energy than what he had left with.” Ariel was nervous; she didn’t want Ventris to hear. “I feel what you are talking about, I fear Ventris with his extra sensitivity may have picked up the surge earlier than some of us.” “Master, be careful. I feel the dark side is shadowing many things around him.” Don got up from his meditation. “I am sorry Ariel, but I couldn’t tell anyone until now. I used my sensitivity last night to check Ventris’es feelings and he was in deep thought about the dark side. I don’t think it had to do with the surge either, because me and him both share the power of Extra Sensitivity but I didn’t pick up the surge until the same time anyone else did.” Don whispered. “Don you should have told me before using your power on him, it is unwise to use this power for small things. I am afraid that Ventris knows what you did. I will try my best to consul him.” Luke then walked away toward the main room. Ventris was sitting on the floor balancing himself when Luke walked in. He then got up quickly when he notice Luke walking in. “Sir, I um… you see me and Don are really good friends. But Master he has been trying to read my thoughts, and I don’t like it” Ventris said quietly, he was still feeling very sick from yesterday and his experience in the swamp. “I think he tried to do it so he could help you. Him and Ariel both felt like you returned from the swamp empty Ventris. What exactly happened?” Luke felt as though Ventris was hiding something. “Master I didn’t mean to do anything wrong. When I was in the middle of the swamp I decided to take a break, and meditate with the force,” Ventris took a breath, “while I was meditating I decided I should practice my sensitivity because I can use it much better when I am alone. So I reached out and felt the life around me. I decided to focus on a snake, when all of the sudden it sent some dark side energy to me.” Ventris lied; he knew very well he had accidentally drew the energy to himself. “Ventris you must be very careful when you use this power, the link works both ways, and someone skilled on the other end can usually tell when you are trying to create a link. They can also send and receive through the temporary bond. For example, the way you knew Don tried to create a link between both of you. Though I don’t know how a snake was skilled enough to send power to you. Your sure it sent this power?” Luke asked, he was worried Ventris was lieing. But he didn’t want to check Ventris’es truth with the force, he was too afraid. “Yes, the snake sent it to me” Ventris lied again, he didn’t know what else to say. “Then it is as I thought. Before the surge Ventris, minor pulses were being sent out, though not from Korriban. It started about thirteen hours before the surge. The strange thing is, is that was midnight of yesterday. Ten years, since the fall of the empire. The pulses were coming from somewhere far beyond the outer rim. That is why Daryl went to investigate. I fear the pulses have affected many lifes within a small radius of where they originated. Not just animals, but humans and other life as well. Though it is impossible for us to pinpoint the location of these pulses for some reason, but it is apparent now that they are affecting Yavin,” Luke paused, “You see Ventris, Yavin was once part of the ancient sith empire, that is why there are temples here. The ancient sith used Yavin as a burial sight for many of its strongest lords, and since the surge originated from Korriban, which is another world of the ancient sith empire, there must be some connection.” “So what should I do about my emptiness?” Ventris asked. “Ventris, as for now I am not sure. When you reached out to the snake and when it sent its energy to you, what did you do with that energy?” “I reopened the link and sent it back” Ventris said. “I think someone else was using the snake Ventris, and they forcefully ripped more power from you than you sent back,” Luke frowned, “we aren’t alone here anymore, something has arrived on Yavin and it is connected to the surge.” ~*~ “Darth Xai, you have returned, I was about to send a whole battalion of stormtroppers. It has been a whole day! What did you find?” “Nothing, General Bela, the power in there was just a few more Kath Hounds. Very disappointing isn’t it?” Xai frowned. “I must agree, but I will most definitely send some archeologist inside to make sure you didn’t somehow miss something.” Bela smiled. “Are you saying Darth Xai would miss something? You are a fool; he is the strongest of the last dark Jedi. How dare you!” “You are more than correct my apprentice; we don’t need their kind in our ranks. Kill her.” Xai smiled evilly. “But sir! I was the one who helped secure this world. Under my leadership our forces cleared the Hounds faster than a game of…” Bela stopped suddenly. “No you are wrong Bela. If I am not mistaken did my master not just say he faced some Hounds inside this tomb? Then that means you did not kill all of them.” he began to reach out with the force to choke Bela. “I… but… it… stop!” Bela then fell over, dead. “Very good, my apprentice, she was a fool as you said. She couldn’t be trusted with what I found in here.” Xai looked over at his apprentice. “You mean you actually did find something. What was it?” “He found me,” the ghost walked out of the tomb doors stopping just before the shadow ended from the door, “come Darth Turcan.” The ghost forcefully made him walk over. “Who are you?” Turcan screamed terrified. “She is my new master, apprentice. She requires something of yours.” Xai said coldly. “Kneel before me you coward.” The ghost used the force to make Turcan kneel. “How are you doing this? What do you want? Xai you traitor!” Turcan yelled. “It is a shame my apprentice you never got to feel as I do now, I am a true sith lord now. But we have no need for you. You see my apprentice the sith are guided by the rule of two. There are only two sith at a time, a master and an apprentice. She is my master now, and I am her apprentice. You have broken the rule of two my apprentice, and for this you must give her something.” Xai laughed cruelly and kicked Turcan in the side. “What? Anything! Just please let me live!” Turcan cried. “You are weak, as Xai was before he turned over to me. I would use you as I am using him but as he explained you are a traitor for breaking the rule of two. Your punishment will be most painful too.” The ghost laughed along with Darth Xai. “But wait ghost, are you not forgetting? I have studied the ancient sith laws, and an apprentice and master must always battle each other so the strong survive. Let me and Darth Xai battle for your apprenticeship.” Turcan tried hard to pled for his life. “You are an amusing fake, very well you and Xai will battle. Winner shall become my apprentice.” The ghost released Turcan. “Xai you will die, I will not be the one who must kneel awaiting death now.” Turcan yelled. “My apprentice, now I have the true dark side in me, something you will never have, and it will kill you.” Xai smiled. They both ignited their red light sabers. “May the battle begin my children.” The ghost said. Before Xai attacked Turcan reached over toward the tomb door with his hand. “You are both fools” he laughed as he used the force to bring down the archway of the tomb, making it crash into the ground. He created a wall between him and Xai, he knew it would only buy him a few seconds. Quickly using the force he ran toward the base, he then entered the door into the base and looked back. He saw the ghost still standing in the shadows, and Xai was running toward him. Quickly he reached over and hit the alert button. Suddenly the door closed and the speaker system spoke. “Alert! Alert! All guards to their stations. This is not a drill. All guards to their stations, prepare for attack. Base wide lockdown initiated.” Turcan took a second to catch his breath. He knew his only chance was to reach a shuttle and escape Korriban. Xai wouldn’t be held back for long. Before he left he went over to an emergency console. Then he typed in his executive code, and ordered all guards on alert for Darth Xai, he wrote that Xai had gone mad. That should work, he thought. Then he began running to the turbo lift, so he could reach the shuttle hanger. ~*~ Lyn was fast asleep in her quarters. Yesterday after the briefing her and a few other officers decided to have a party. She knew it wasn’t a good idea with all the supposed drills coming up to over drink, but she knew they were just drills. Suddenly alarms starting ringing, Lyn began stirring and woke up. “…a drill. All guards to their stations, prepare for attack. Base wide lockdown initiated.” “Oh not today of all my bad luck.” Lyn got up. She knew that with this type of alert the “attack” was happening on the planet and the fleet orbiting was to keep the planet under blockade, unless a ship had the proper codes. “Piece of cake” Lyn smiled. She then got out of her room and walked toward the bridge. She then noticed everyone running to their posts. “Must be some new drill encouragement holomovie they watched, stupid propaganda those never get me motivated.” Lyn then saw U-M47 walking toward the bridge. “Great not that droid, why cant high command actually get real officers to help out? Not stupid machines” Lyn then entered the bridge. “Oh my! Admiral! The situation is horrible! Apparently Darth Xai himself is attacking the base, we are ordered to keep all ships from leaving unless they have executive codes! I do hate real emergencies!” U-M47 was frantic. Must be some new drill that high command cooked up, at least its more creative, Lyn thought. “Okay, put us directly over sector A-1, inform the Black Cloak and the Sith Avenger to orbit over A-2 and A-3 respectively.” Lyn smiled at how serious U-M47 was being. “Yes Admiral. It is amazing how you keep your cool in emergencies.” U-M47 walked over to a smaller R-1 unit. “R1-E7 send a small band transmission to the Black Cloak and the Sith Avenger to orbit over sector A-2 and A-3, also inform them the Naga Sadow will patrol sector A-1. Do hurry, I know your terminal skills are particularly slow but this is important!” U-M47 then walked back over to Lyn. “Should we dispense the TIE Interceptors? In case anyone tries to flee?” U-M47 was dead serious in his monotone voice. “That isn’t standard procedure during drill situations, it waste fuel. You need to brush up on your drill rules U-M.” Lyn was happy she outsmarted a droid. “Admiral what are talking about? This is no drill!” U-M47 was getting real nervous. “What? Replay speaker system emergency message!” Lyn was slightly worried at this development. “Oh my, yes Admiral,” suddenly U-M47 started to play the recording, “Alert! Alert! All guards to their stations. This is not a drill. All guards to their stations, prepare for attack. Base wide lockdown initiated.” “Oh my god, launch all fighters in patrol mode, and inform our sister star destroyers.” Lyn then ran over to the emergency console, standard procedure in real emergencies. “Fighters launching Admiral” U-M47 said. “Base Report: Many troops are somehow going crazy, they are helping Darth Xai, they are getting close…” the speaker system spoke, suddenly cut off at the sounds of blaster fire. The emergency console then started beeping. Lyn pushed a few buttons and it started playing a message. “All command: Many pilots on the base are launching TIE Interceptors, they are hostile, repeat they are hostile!” “U-M47 inform all Interceptors to change their codes to NS-09 now!” Lyn yelled. “You heard her! Now R1!” U-M47 yelled. “Order them to attack any fighters with a separate code, even the code E-01 understood?” Lyn asked. “Yes Admiral” U-M47 responded. “Beep! Bep, Dwooo” “Admiral! R1 indicates an imperial shuttle is approaching, they are transmitting the executive codes of Darth Turcan.” “Let him pass, open a small band transmission to the emergency console.” Lyn ordered. “Darth Turcan this is Admiral Lyn, what is the situation?” Lyn asked. “I am falling back to the Super Star Destroyer Last Hand, if those damn sith blow up any of your fleet retreat there immediately!” Turcan cursed. “Yes master.” Lyn turned off the channel. “U-M47 use our turbolasers and bombard all of our bases on Korriban.” Lyn ordered. “But Admiral! We have many stormtroopers and officers down there, what about all our people?” U-M47 asked. “It’s too late for them. Do it now, and inform the other Star Destroyers to help.” Lyn cried. “Yes Admiral” U-M47 gestured for R1-E7 to send the message. “I hope that can stop most of them” Lyn prayed. ~*~ Darth Xai was running through the halls with his light saber, slaying any troops he saw. Anyone he saw, for that matter. His master, was now with him, inside the base. She was using her power to resurrect the troops and make them fight the imperials. Xai wasn’t sure what she had in mind, but he didn’t mind being her pawn. He wasn’t sure what was coming over him, but it was a feeling he never felt before. He barely had control over his actions, he didn’t know if he had any. But he didn’t care, he just wanted to be controlled. “Good my child,” he heard her voice in his head, “keep moving, we will take this base.” ~*~ She stood at one of training rooms. Other Dark Jedi were there looking at her, unsure what she was. She felt sick, because so many fake sith existed, they had no clue what the real power of the dark side was. She also knew she didn’t have much time, she needed to find a body and fast. She couldn’t live much longer in her ghostly form. Besides she knew with her awakening she sent a surge of energy through the force, that maybe perhaps he felt it. She couldn’t remember what his name was, but she knew he was on his way from the unknown. She had to move quickly for he could kill her easily in this form. “What is that?” one of the Dark Jedi asked. “It’s a ghost of one of the ancient lords, Xai must have uncovered it” another answered. “You are wise,” the ghost said, “she is right, I am a sith lord. You must all swear allegiance to me now, or like your teacher I will make you.” “Our teacher? Wait, you’re the one who made Darth Xai go crazy. She is trying to do the same thing to us! We must stop her!” “You have much power child, your body is fit, and it will be perfect for me.” the ghost smiled. “What are you talking about? Attack!” All of the Dark Jedi drew their light sabers, and began running toward the ghost. They had no clue how to attack it, but they had to try. “Fools” the ghost reached out and froze all of them in their steps, except for the one she eyed. “I am glad to see there is a female among you. I wasn’t going to be happy taking the body of that coward Turcan, and now I’m not so mad he fled. You see, you have as much power in you child as he does. It is a shame you won’t have the time to train.” The ghost force the girl to stand still. Then the ghost began chanting, in mandalorian. The language of a race long forgotten to the galaxy, all of them dead, including the last of their kind Boba Fett. Suddenly a ray of energy shot toward the girl Dark Jedi, and she fell over. The ghost was gone, she was inside the body of the girl Dark Jedi now. “Yes, it is nice to feel again” she rose up. The other Dark Jedi were still frozen, and had no clue as to what was going on. “Now I require energy” she reached her hand up, and from it an orange ray went to each of the other Dark Jedi. They all fell over, not dead, but not alive, in a state of nothingness. “Thank you class.” She laughed at the foolishness of all of them. Then she reached out to Darth Xai, “I am in human form once again my apprentice, I will soon join you in battle.” Then she felt a disturbance in the force, the ships in orbit were about to fire at the planet. She sat down and began chanting in Mandalorian again, she was using the force to stop them, and she knew just what to do. ~*~ “The fleet is in position, Admiral” U-M47 said. “Very good, begin bombardment” Lyn looked out the window onto Korriban, part of her wouldn’t mind whipping out the surface of the planet. It has been bothering her ever since she arrived. Then she looked at the Sith Avenger, something wasn’t right. “Oh my! Admiral! The Sith Avenger has lost all systems, there reactor is going critical!” U-M47 stated. “How? What could of? Great… come one U-M and bring that R1 with you.” Lyn began running out of the bridge. “What? Oh yes Admiral, hurry R1-E7!” U-M47 ran with Lyn. Lyn was running as fast as she could to the hanger, she had a bad feeling Xai was somehow causing the problems on the Sith Avenger, and the Nago Sadow would be next. “Wait Admiral, are we retreating?” U-M47 asked. “Of course! Look there is no time for chatting!” Lyn kept running. “R1-E7 it is a good thing you pre-positioned the ship for light speed, hurry go to that terminal and enter us into hyperspace,” U-M47 looked at R1, “Now!” R1-E7 rolled over to the terminal and extended its connector. He twisted it around a little bit, and then un-hooked itself. “You are a splendid droid!” U-M47 cheered. ~*~ Lyn had made it to the turbo lift when she looked out the side window; the Sith Avenger was beginning to explode. She noticed neither U-M47 nor R1-E7 were following her, but she had to leave now. But then she noticed that the stars were beginning to blur and that they were in hyper space. “Yes! U-M47 you did it!” Lyn yelled she knew now they were safe from the dangers of Korriban.

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CHAPTER ONE The galaxy wasn’t what it used to be ten years ago. Once it was controlled by an Empire so great, one that ruled by brute force and terror, and yet a small and insignificant rebellion defeated it. All the work and resources to control a galaxy, now just dreams and fantasies. She knew it would never happen again, not the way it was, not with an imperial empire. Standing at the bridge of the once proud star destroyer Naga Sadow, admiral Lyn stared into the void of space, contemplating the galaxy. Just below was the strange world of Korriban polluted with the dark side, and haunted by the corpses of old Sith. She overheard a few of the remaining Dark Jedi discussing the feeling of the world, as if when you sat foot to it you could feel a network of dark energy flowing from the world itself, especially strong closer to the tombs. Even though she wasn’t a force user herself she could feel something wrong about the planet, an eerie feeling she never felt before. No one else was on the bridge spare a few droids, working at consoles below her at either side. Once there was a time when the Empire had too many recruits to keep up with, Star Destroyers were literally packed with fresh imperials wanting to climb the ladder. But now there is no “ladder”, one can just say they are a general and not deserve to be a mere officer. Now they must rely on scrapped droids, not even standard issue. The droids on the bridge ranged from old R-1 units to even older protocol droids. “This ship looks more like a smuggling vessel than that of an imperial cruiser.” Lyn said, with her voice low. “Is there anything I can do Admiral Lyn? It is not uncommon to feel odd around groups of droids. If I may Admiral, perhaps you should take a walk, it does always seem to cheer me up.” An old looking protocol droid commented, walking up to Lyn. “Nothing gets past you does it?” Lyn asked. This droid in particular always was talking to the officers, and now it caught up to her. “Well admiral, my hearing used to be much better, I could hear 500 feet away, quite a feat back then if I may say so myself, but I am afraid the sign of aging has made its mark, now my hearing only works 486.6 feet in length. I have tried multiple times to get my hearing unit fixed but…” “I get the picture,” Lyn smirked, “just do me a favor and pull up that report Darth Xai issued. Just play it here no one will hear.” “Im afraid that would be against my parameters, I am not allowed to play messages marked classified in any other room except the briefing chambers.” This protocol droid must be from the early days of the empire, Lyn thought to herself. “Okay, okay I know there is no use in arguing with protocol droids. By the way what is your uh.. number?” Lyn gestured for the droid to follow. “Oh I am glad to see someone on this vessel appreciates good conversation. I am U-M74, created by the scientist Ulang Myreth, a brilliant man if I may say so myself. And in fact despite what many people assume, my letters do not resemble his initials, in fact they stand for…” “Really? That is quite interesting I will make sure to recommend you personally to maintenance to fix you right up as soon as possible.” Lyn said, knowing she couldn’t really do anything but it is always fun to diminish the hopes of simple droids. “Why it is a pleasure to meet you in person Admiral Lyn.” U-M74 spoke in a medium tone, no matter his emotion his voice was always monotone, this fact amused Lyn. “Wasn’t that fast, we are already at the briefing room. Now you promised to display the message” Lyn was starting to get a bit impatient with the rules that really didn’t matter anyway. “Very well sir” U-M74 went to the terminal and plugged in a part of his finger, to display the hologram. The projector instantly moved into action, and shot out a blue image of Darth Xai, the strongest remaining Dark Jedi. Unlike most of the other lords Lyn has served, Xai didn’t wear the traditional garments of the Sith, instead he wore a cape, of the color grey, and black clothing. A plain and odd looking pair, though Xai wasn’t exactly human, he was part something else and no one really knew what. Lyn then laughed at the fact no one even knows what they are serving and where this Xai came from. Well at least she didn’t. “Greetings fellow command, I am recording this transmission in front of a newly discovered tomb on the surface of Korriban…” Lyn giggled. Really? Korriban you don’t say, Lyn thought. “…whatever is inside this tomb, it is emmiting great power, not just of the force but of life itself. Our sensors indicate that something is living in the tomb, but we aren’t quite sure what…” That’s what you said when you uncovered the tomb of Naga Sadow you idiot, Lyn thought, and it was merely a few Kath hounds. “…we are to be on high alert the next week, and drills will be engaged multiple times, and I expect no flaws or you will be dealt with personally.” Then the message blurred out and Lyn was left thinking nothing was quite new about that message. It is not like she hasn’t heard that before. “I would love to stay and chat admiral, but I am due for an oil bath, and I am in dire need.” “No problem, I am sure we can continue our conversations some other time, it’s not like some rebels would want to come here.” “Point well stated” At that U-M74 walked out of the room leaving Lyn to her thoughts again. Lyn sat at one of the many chairs surrounding the central platform used to display holograms. There were at least thirty seats in the room, once crowded for attacks on the under defended rebel worlds. Now it was used to display the insignificant messages of a Sith Lord who had nothing better to do than waste time by sending out pointless messages. Thinking was a most tiring habit, and it was just about all that Lyn could do when she wasn’t having conversations with protocol droids. This must be heaven for them, Lyn thought as she closed his eyes and drifted off to sleep. ~*~ The swamp was especially cold in this area, not just in temperature, but in the force. Ventris reached out and felt the vines with his hands. They were bumpy and algae like, nothing like what he knew of at Coruscant, his home where there was no such vegetation. Yet his master instructed him to get through it as part of his training. Now that the Republic has found peace, a new Jedi enclave was established on Yavin. Ventris was thrilled to be part of the Jedi, even though he was the first to admit he wasn’t the strongest in the force. Master Daryl will not be disappointed at my progress today, Ventris thought. He had made it through the swamp more than twice what he did yesterday, and it was only just now noon. “Plenty of time to take a quick rest” he said sitting down on a rotting stump. Then he reached out to the force, feeling it, touching the life around him. The trees, vines, moss, bugs, and even the reptiles were made naked to him as he could get their exact location and feeling through the force. A technique he has been practicing for quite some time now. Daryl had called it a form of the force called Extra Sensitivity. “Only a few gifted Jedi posses Extra Sensitivity, the ability to touch the life around you and sense their feelings, their intentions. But be mindful not to pry on others feelings, for it is not the Jedi way to use this power to the advantage of one’s self.” Daryl had told him earlier. Ventris thought that he could exercise this power more now that he was in solitude. Using it on the bugs around him for the most part, and the reptiles. He felt a snake on a branch about twenty feet away, he felt its instincts. It felt cold like everything else in the swamp. “One can even place themselves into the position of others, a daring feat. Even the best Jedi take days to place themselves into others spots, to better understand friend or foe alike.” He remembered from the same lesson earlier. Then he tried it, he placed himself into the snakes mind. Now he could feel its instincts more than ever. Its simple thoughts, so small compared to his own. But something was urging him on the inside, something trying to tell him something. As if the snake knew what he was doing. Suddenly he became disconnected, trying to breathe vigorously. He touched something forbidden in the animal, a strange feeling but why it was there he didn’t know. It was the dark side of the force. Something he had never felt inside himself before. But was it really in him? Or did he feel it through the snake? He still felt a small hint of it, poisoning his link to the force. “No, no!” Ventris cried out. He felt it flowing through him. Then he remembered his lessons, how one balances themselves. He began to breathe more slowly centering himself focusing on nature, for nature was blessed with the light side of the force. Except in only the far reaches of the galaxy, where a small number of worlds had been taunted with the dark side so bad, that even the nature began emitting the destructive energy. “Much better” but he still heard it echoing in himself. Ventris still used his balancing technique, but impulses were begin to surface. As if it was a primitive way for the force to speak. Nonsense, he thought. He felt the need to control the snake, go back to it. Re-connect his link to it. He reached out again, half willingly. He felt it again, though now it had no connection to the force. As if he had somehow drew the power right out of the snake, but then he channeled the dark energy back but used it to his advantage. He slowly forced the snake to move. It was an exciting feeling to Ventris, he was manipulating the snake to do his will. Then he stopped, knowing that manipulation of life was forbidden. “I need to go” he whispered. He got off the log, and began jogging away from that place. The memory of the feeling was all that was left of the dark side. A memory he knew he would never forget. ~*~ “We will find you, and when we do, I will take your power and become the greatest lord ever.” Xai yelled at the tomb wall. Two Ranchors were smashing at the door, trying to open it to no avail. It was a brown color, defaced by the color of the dirt piled on it before excavation. Korriban was a planet full of such places. A grave yard for the ancient Sith, long forgotten and long dead. But Xai knew that some tombs incased the power of the ancient lords, extracted before death to preserve their dark energies. But for the most part the energy escaped, and that is why Korriban was as dark as it was, why it emitted the dark side of the force. But in this tomb the energy he felt was so concentrated he knew it had to be there, the power of the old lord. Xai was using the force to use the Ranchors to do his will, a most enjoyable task. A few squads of stormtroppers waited behind him, in case something was lurking in the tomb. With every smash of the giant Ranchor’s claw, Xai felt a dark ripple through the force. To his surprise none of the other Dark Jedi with him apparently felt it. “We will be there soon my children, where I will shower in the powers of the dark side, too long forgotten.” Xai laughed. Then one of the Ranchors finally broke through the door, and it left a small hole. Xai directed both of them to smash at the hole and then it was wide enough to walk through. “Follow me” Xai yelled. He finally did it, the unthinkable. He found an un-touched tomb. How many more are there? He thought. Instantly gas began flooding the entrance as they all walked in, a trap set by the original Sith, Xai used the force to create a bubble to protect him, his Dark Jedi did the same, but the stormtropper squadron passed out. “Leave the weaklings, our moment approaches” Xai ordered. They walked down a dim flight of stairs at the edge of the room. The ceiling was one large map of the galaxy, with Korriban at the edge. Then they reached the bottom. The ceiling came down only leaving about five feet to walk through. On the vertical part of the ceiling just above the entrance was the carved picture of a skull, and a mandalorian insignia on its forehead. Some text written in mandalorian was written below the carving, but Xai had no time to sit and study. He pressed onward. Ahead was a small walkway, about three feet wide, and either side lead to a pit, that appeared endless to who knows where. The path went on for miles. Eventually Xai and his three followers reached a small circular platform, extended off the path. In the middle a small altar with the bodily remains of most likely one of the most ancient Sith lords. Xai’s eye immediately caught a glance of the lightsaber in the skeleton’s hand, clutched onto it. Then he noticed that further ahead was another circle, this one with small statues surrounding the edges. On the floor was a design of brilliance, a carving of a spiral connecting all the statues. Xai walked closer, he felt the force pushing him, guiding him. He took off his cape and boots and placed them to the side, for such things would distract him from the true power he was about to be blessed with. The rock was cold to his feet, ice cold, he walked to the center of the second circle. The eyes of the statues began to light up a yellow light, and then the spiral lit. He was carried into the air by some power, and suddenly from each statue a orange beam hit him and he began to chant the Sith Code. “Yes! The power I feel it!” Xai cried out, but then suddenly his cries turned to terrifying screams. He then was dropped and hit the spiral. His face badly cut, on the right side. “You have no idea…” he coughed, much dust had gotten into his breath from the fall. “We must go, now, now!” he cried to the other dark jedi. They ran for the stairs, but as they reached the entrance a door shut. Xai looked back terrified, for a ghost was standing there. It was wearing a dark cloak covering all of its body, except its mouth. “You dare intrude on my temple. The place of my death, the place of my re-birth, yes you alone have sealed the fate for this side of the galaxy. For some secrets are best left secrets, yet you pry.” The ghost said. Xai took out his light saber and the red ignited through the dark tomb. “We have no need for them,” the ghost pointed toward Xai’s students, “they must die.” Suddenly they all turned to bone, dropping down. Then the ghost drew his own saber. A red blade, with and orange outline, never before had Xai seen such excellent craftsmanship. “You are a disgrace to the name Sith, Darth Xai, you think you know the power of the Dark Side of the Force? You know nothing, nothing at all.” The ghost was disgusted. “We will see who knows nothing” Xai yelled back. “I have no time for petty duels” the ghost then put his hand forward. Releasing a tidal wave of dark energy, he froze Xai in his place. He then ran up and pierced Xai directly in his side, then released him. Xai fell over, he was dead. “Now rise my new child” the ghost put his hand over the body and pulled up. “Darth Xai you are now my apprentice, and you will start by doing directly as I request. You were a fool to try and meditate in my meditation ring for now I have complete control over you. You will do as I say now starting with your pathetic forces. It is time you helped me, your time is over my friend as it was ten years ago.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I'll post chapter two tommorow. I have about 35 pages of content on MS Word, so far four chapters. Maybe if you guys like it Ill add more to it. PLEASE leave comments! I really appreciate it, and i can take constuctive critisism. (blah spelling)

Here is a fan fiction that I started writing just about two months ago, and its been shelved since. I stopped writing it because I started feeling like the plot was becoming a little bit out of whak with the star wars universe. This is a consequence of playing KOTOR II over the summer a little too long lol. Im never gonna finish this story at least I have no intention to, but any comments would be greatly appreciated because Im trying to better my writing skills. Much thanks, Nate PS I know the title is highly unoriginal! lol PRELUDE In the most remote areas of the galaxy are the most treasured artifacts. Those the once strong Empire overlooked, ones the New Republic is just now excavating. But in the far reaches of the galaxy, those where a New Republic is unknown, the Imperial Remnant still has control. But on the perverted and dark world of Korriban, the Remnant has its iron fist clutched very tight because they are trying to uncover an old Sith secret so they can once again rise to power, and control the galaxy. But when the Remnant excavates too far, they awaken a spirit of an ancient and powerful Sith lord. Unknown to the Remnant is that light years away in a distant galaxy, even further than the outer rim, the last true Sith Lord has been waiting in solitude for the day that the power of a lord so strong would beckon him to regain his control of the abandoned worlds, those inhabited by the Remnant, New Republic, and all the planets in the known galaxy… Approx. 10 years after Return of the Jedi

Im intereasted as to how they will handle the objectives. It would be nice to have a choice as to what type of a single player campaign you wish to do, so that makes replayability.

Eversince Episode III i have a new respect for mace windu, i think he is my all time favorite. Becuase he is arguably better than Yoda seeing as he almost killed Palpatine. I also like the fallen Darth Tyranus (Dooku) his form II fighting style was awesome .

The force is strong with this one.....

I never noticed the blasters looked so bad in that first screenshot. lol. Yeah they do look like placeholders

Some EU stuff just is flat out stupid lol. The emperor getting cloned is an example. I thought it was really stupid that he supposeably cloned himself many times in the past . Man thats just dumb lol

All I know is that if there is no demo some activision guy is in trouble lol. I am real excited for the demo, and even if is one single player mission I shall play it every day until Feb. 7th!!! Okay maybe not that much.....

For some reason clans have never really appealed to me. Though I might check it out when the game releases. Espicially now that I have DSL my internet multiplaying wont lag

ya and what like a few trillion people would die (this plan reminds me of isard) lol the Coruscant thing is something I think is funny and cool to think about but i wouldnt ever do it lol . Talk about a disturbance in the force, Obi-wan would be gettin super migrains from all those people dieing lol jk. Anyway whats isard? lol

I want to get Hoth, and if they have it mustafar (I love that planet) and hmm use the death star on.... CORUSCANT!!!! no jk lol That would be funny to see the imperial capital be blown to shreads haha I love it.

In the demo they'll probably put a limited tech tree so you cant make all the cool stuff until the real game. But it just depends on the developer.