The Remnant

[Damocles]

Several more soldiers rounded the corner they screamed seeing one of their own being hefted in the air impaled by the blade of a light saber.

Soldier: fire fire fire!

The men started to open fire Damocles looked over and used the force the sling the body of their fallen comrade over to them slamming into one of the men. He held his saber up deflecting the blaster fire from the men back at them. Damocles started to move towards the men causing them to curse and fall back. One of them threw a grenade, Damocles held out his hand and caught it with the force "Pathetic" he said as he launched it back at the men before it exploded.

"Trooper LMAO what is your position?" Damocles said.

LMAO and a few others were out in the front clearing out the rest of the resistance.

LMAO: Just finishing up here sir, orders?

Damocles opened another door and looked around there were no one in there "Excellent I am making my way to the central office now. We shall be finished here in a moment" Damocles responded going into the central office, he looked at the other men in there "Seems everything has been taken care of for the most part, did you manager to secure their leader?" he asked the three in there.

[Zilfer]

Jarik grunted seemingly amused by the attack. His hand rose up towards the Jedi and suddenly the older man stopped. There was an intense look of focus on Jarik's face that was hidden by his full body armor but the tenseness of his body would show. The Jedi seemingly struggled against invisible chains as Aleph approached. He heard the man's report distantly in his focused state.

"Good, apprehend this man and see to it that he does not escape. I want to know how a Jedi escaped the Empire's Executive Order, and if there are more. I had thought until now the Skywalker was the only one we had to worry about," said Jarik stopping for a moment as the Jedi managed to move a step forward. "But it seems that I was wrong."

He would have to report this to the First Order sometime later, they couldn't have multiple training centers of force sensitives cropping up. In order to subdue the rumors of Skywalkers attempts to return the Jedi they would need to make sure news of other force sensitives remained discrete. 

Meanwhile the Senator looked over at Mal, first with a look of disgust.

Senator Chahaklis: If I were to have my way each and every one of us would throw ourselves at you until one side was not left standing.

Chahaklis looked over seeing the mental contest of wills between the Inquisitor and his Jedi protector.


Senator Chahaklis: But, I see the prudence of waiting for the right time to strike.

He pressed a button on his desk and spoke into it. 

Senator Chahaklis: All men still acting under my authority will lay down arms and surrender to our enemies. If any of you are thinking of sacrificing yourselves in a heroic last stand I will not begrudge you, however I urge you to wait. There will come a day when you may be needed to cast our oppressors off, and we will wait for that day.

He pointedly looked at Mal, and then to the gathering amount of Remnant within the room. His contempt for them was palpable. 

[MikDaTv]

“By your order my Lord.” Aleph said. “You may be interested to know that Lord Damocles has also captured a Jedi on Kashyyyk who is currently being held captive aboard the Epyon.”

Aleph produced a set of stun cuffs. “Master Jedi, I’m afraid I’m to take you into custody.” He slowly approached the Jedi and circled round behind him. He put the cuffs on the Jedi and then disarmed him of his Lightsaber. “I will hold onto this for safe keeping. It will be returned to you upon your release… if you are released.”

Once the Jedi was secured, Aleph retrieved his comlink. “Emperor’s Legacy, this is RG-4524, Capitol secured. The order for a stand down of hostilities has been issued.”

“Understood RG-4524. Thanks for the update.” Came the reply.

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Meanwhile…

The Lambda-Class Shuttle Imperial Justice touched down on the landing pad outside. A squad of Deathtroopers deployed first and then the stark white uniform of an Imperial Grand Admiral strolled down the ramp. One of the SCAR Troopers approached the group and spoke with the leader of the deathtroopers, outlining current imperial locations, what sections of the building were secured and a rough layout.

Grand Admiral Tupalov pointed to the SCAR Trooper. “Trooper, you will lead me and my escorts to the head office. Weapons slung, these people have ended their hostilities.”

The deathtroopers complied immediately, slinging their baster rifles onto their backs. Together, the group moved through the building and they came to the head offices of the capitol building.

[Sir Lord Ash]

"Cor, call the ship and have it land nearby. We can take these people up. Levi, please take them into custody."[/b]

Cor, the man took a step away and making a call. The Twi'lek walked towards the senator and his guard, removing them of their weapons and putting cuffs on everyone. Malcolm walked up right after.

"Thank you senator. You're compliance is well noted."

If anything, Mal was being respectful to the Senator. He led them, Cor, and Levi out of the room and outside. The Corvette he was on previously was hovering in the air, a Lambda-Class Shuttle parked on the landing pad, which was more to the right landing side. Well, may as well send them in this shuttle. The Jedi would need to come out as well. Mal would wait for the Jedi to be removed and ship this lot with them.

[Damocles]

Damocles watched the interaction between the one Inquisitor named Jarik and the one known as Aleph. He decided to tell what he knew about the situation. "There were several Jedi that escaped, it was the reason the Inquisitors were created, to hunt down force sensitives and Jedi, but of course you knew that" He said to the man as he walked past him he looked at the jedi in front of him.

"The fact of the matter is there are more force sensitive people in the galaxy than the Empire or the First Order would have us believe, we still need to hunt them down" he said to Jerik. He turned to walk away meeting with LMAO who was waiting in the hall with a few Deathtroopers "What's our status?" He asked.

LMAO: The Epyon is ready to move any time, we have word that the Roughnecks moved from their home base on Coruscant, we have been tracking them.

"And the package?" Damocles asked, LMAO continued to look over his data pad.

LMAO: They still have it, what shall we do with the prisoner aboard the Epyon sir?

Damocles turned back to Jerik "Aleph is correct we do have a jedi prisoner aboard our ship, do we have any cells set up for prisoners or shall we be carrying him with us?" Damocles asked.

[Zilfer]

Jarik looked over to Inquisitor Damocles at Aleph's mention of another Jedi having been captured. "They grow ever so bold now that it appears that we are broken and shattered," said Jarik watching Aleph hand cuff the Jedi, who he then let go of the stasis field around the Elderly Jedi. "Put him with the other one than, and I'll leave his fate to Inquisitor Damocles' responsibility."


The Senator and Jedi were escorted from the room before Jarik turned directly and spoke with Damocles. “I am well aware of our intended purpose however it has been my experience that we more commonly find force sensitives on back water planets that don’t know their own abilities, no less finding one with any sort of Jedi training. These ‘Jedi’ are anomalies making me wonder if they’re might be more hiding out here beyond the rim,” said Jarik. “I do agree there appears to be a mounting…. Event that seems to be building up towards something. We’ve encountered far too many force sensitives in recent days, but perhaps we’ll discuss this some other time.”


He had stopped the Grand Admiral coming down the hallway, and decided to cut his conversation short since matters of the force were of no concern to the admiral. “Ah, Grand Admiral Topalov I trust your trip here was uneventful. The Senator, and a Jedi have been detained and relieved of their positions. I believe we have some people working on getting communication up to broadcast to the people of the planet, would you like to do the honors?” asked Inquisitor Jarik.

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Senator Chahaklis looked over to the trio leading them onto the ship and then grumbled something about mercenaries. Meanwhile the Jedi appeared to be calmly observing Mal specifically. He seemed to be unbothered by his earlier confrontation with the Inquisitor. One might picture him as a grandfather observing one of his grandsons with the pensive face he now wore. It wasn’t until he was secured for the ride that he spoke.


Jedi: You are different than the others.


He said it almost as a statement of fact, though there was no further elaboration. Chahaklis looked over to the Jedi and then to Mal.


Senator: If he works with the Remnant he is at least as bad as them.


Jedi: I am not so sure. The force around him is strong, just like the Inquisitors however it isn’t as tainted as theirs.

[MikDaTv]

“Indeed I would Lord Jarik” Tupalov responded to Jarik. “The fleet is arrayed in orbit and securing the planet. We’re making plans to move to the other planets within the system but it would go much smoother if we had a peaceful transition of power here.”

Tupalov looked around the room. “Have we secured the leader or leaders of this world? I’d like to have a conversation with them before I make my address. Acquiring their cooperation will alleviate many headaches”

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“By your command my lord.” Aleph said, bowing his head slightly. He placed a hand on the Jedi’s shoulder slowly but firmly to guide him out of the room. “If you would Master Jedi.” He said to his prisoner and escorted him along with Mal and the Senator.

When they reached the landing pad and saw the Lambda-Class Shuttle ready to take them up to the Corvette Aleph did a quick once over of the pad, Mal and the ship floating above. He didn’t know these men or their motivations. They used Imperial Equipment but that didn’t mean much. Aside from Hydrogen and Stupidity, Imperial equipment was the most plentiful thing in the universe.

“If you don’t mind my asking Sir, would it be alright if instead of going to your ship, if we took the shuttle up to Epyon directly? I have men on board to take custody of both the Jedi and the Senator.” He asked Mal.

[Sir Lord Ash]

Mal looked back as he heard footsteps approaching him, and saw the Jedi being pushed along by a soldier. A rather important looking soldier at that. He turned back to the small group of people as the Jedi was led with them, and spoke to Mal. He observed the man in silence, getting a feeling for him as his blue eyes scanned the old man. The senator spoke up next, and they were having a little conversation about him.

"I would worry more about how you and your people will be handled than by how you perceive me."

He stated that simply, then looked away as the solder spoke to him. Malcolm looked to this man, and over his red armor. He had seem stuff like that before, and there was a twinkle in his eye as he glanced at Cor.

"Yes, we can. Cor, signal for a regroup of our forces so we can assess our damages and injured, and have them ready to work with our new friends here. The three of us are going in the shuttle to formalize our alliance."

He looked over at Levi at the very end of his talks. He debated on taking her or not, but she was much like his shadow, and would be fine. She sensed what he was feeling, and gave a small nod to the man. Malcolm looked over at Aleph.

"Please, lead the way, and do you have a name?"

[Damocles]

Damocles and LMAO made it to the Epyon they walked off the shuttle "LMAO" Damocles started to say "Prepare for the arrival of the other Jedi, I want the cells on the ship ready for containment, and the men on high alert. We have no idea how long our visitors will be here" He ordered LMAO saluted.

LMAO: I'll have it done immediately sir.

He walked towards the cell, Damocles walked to the bridge of the ship. He entered it looking over the commander "Any word from our spies on Tattooine?" Damocles asked the commander looked at Damocles.

Commander: Well they followed the ship that left Ilum to Dagobah. Lost them then, however the Roughneck base on Courascant had been raided, they destroyed most of the files so we don't have much to go on.

"Hmm, what of the ship that was tracked from the Roughnecks, any idea where it was going?" he asked sitting down, the Commander stood up going over to Damocles.

Commander: Just that it was heading into the mid rim, we don't have any other reports, seems it was able to slip through our sensors.

"Then once we have the other Jedi we will be heading to the mid rim" Damocles ordered, "I think I have an idea of where they may have headed" he said crossing his arms.

[Zilfer]

His head buzzed with information filtering in picking upon the faces down the sight of his scope. Wind velocity, and calculated trajectory. It wasn’t going to be the hardest shot he’d ever pulled off, and the payer was good for the money. As usual paid in advanced as if he could not fail. He watched as a few prisoners were escorted off into the open launch pad and lined up his scope.

For a moment he wondered if the target would know that his life was about to end. That thought was easily brushed aside since it had nothing to do with the objective before him, and when the conditions were right he pulled the trigger. The figure off in the distance fell, and Arch Angel turned dropping the Verpine Shatter gun and poured a small container of nanites that would break down the gun and then scatter to the winds.

Stepping through the sliding glass from the balcony into the room he began his escape. He’d vanish before anyone began to realize what had happened.

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The Jedi looked up to his companion, and Chahaklis shook his head slightly as if warning his friend from shouting out. A sad smile crossed his face before the shot ripped through him sending him to the ground. The shot had been good, and as promised the death had been quick. Senator Chahaklis wasn’t unfamiliar with using assassins or other political maneuvers, but when his Jedi friend had insisted on coming with him to Corvis Minor he had taken cautionary measures.

The Church of the Force was still mostly unknown but if the Remnant were to obtain someone that new where most of the locations where… well torture was a matter of time rather than will. He would know. He was soon ushered into one of the ships, they’d realize soon that they’d need him.

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Inquisitor Jarik shook his head in response to Tupalov. “Based on our initial intel they should have been gathered in this room for safety. We found instead a New Republic Senator and Jedi. I think we can safely assume they were moved to a secondary location. It shouldn’t take long to track them down, especially if we can get the senator to…. Cooperate,” said Jarik moving closer to Tupalov. “Though perhaps we might get to know our new friends better considering they have a fleet of comparable size. Trust is a hard thing to come by these days.”

Jarik felt something then and knew something had happened to the Jedi. It wasn’t but a minute before he was reported dead. He took a moment and evaluated the loss. He had questions for that Jedi, but there were more leads in that direction of things. He turned back to Tupalov. “I believe you and your men have this handled from here. I will investigate what happened on the landing pad, Admiral.”

With a curt nod he headed towards the landing pad.

[MikDaTv]

“I am RG-4524” Aleph had just got done saying when the Jedi was struck by a shot from a sniper in the distance.

There was no hesitation or delay. Within a moment Aleph had his pistol in hand and was looking to the surrounding buildings for some sign, some tell that would give him an idea of where to return fire. When none presented itself after a moment or two, Alpeh dropped the pistol and immediately began administering first aid to the Jedi. He tore a section of his crimson cloak off and applied pressure to the wound.

One of the men out on the pad had already called the shot in on the battle net. A element of TIE Fighters started doing some sweeps.

Aleph watched the Jedi. In his heart he knew the man was already dead, but training and practice had taken over and he was going through the motions. “I’m sorry Master Jedi” He said, genuinely sad and frustrated that his prisoner, a man he was responsible for, had been killed.

Aleph continued to do first aid until relieved by a field medic. His final act, before departing the scene and boarding the shuttle up to Epyon was to take the Jedi’s lightsaber, remove it’s power cell to disarm it and then clip the hilt of the weapon to the Jedi’s belt where it had been before Aleph disarmed him of it.

[Sir Lord Ash]

Malcolm held back a sigh as the trooper gave him only his number rather than an actual name. At least in Mal's fleet group, people used at least one name over numbers, and he preferred it that way, but with this group... guess they really stuck with their imperial roots.

Right before the sniper killed the Jedi, he felt something: danger. He turned, nearly getting his lightsaber out from where it was in his jacket, but it was too late, and the Jedi was struck down. Commanding the force, he pushed the prisoners onto and up the ramp of the shuttle, getting them out of harms way before something could happen to them. Levi was quick to bring out her weapons: two lightsabers, red and blue in color with matching hilts, and assumed a defensive position. Cor didn't flinch and walked calmly onto the shuttle do perhaps start ordering people around.

Mal crossed his arms as RG whatever began first aid in the jedi, but he knew it was too late.

"He's dead. Leave him and lets go."

Mal turned and walked onto the shuttle, Levi being his shadow with her blades out, at least until she was on the ramp, where she put them away. As soon as RG so and so was on, the shuttle lifted off and broke for orbit.

[Damocles]

Commander Aznable walked over to Damocles to tell him what had happened with the Jedi. "Understood, if the Jedi wished for a death then that is what was given to him." He said leaning back in his seat "When we are ready you may take us to the mid rim" he ordered.

Commander Aznable: Sir, prepare the ship for departure, we are on a time sensitive mission.

With that the Epyon pulled away from the rest of the fleet changing course to the mid rim.