Star Wars: Dark Horizon/Chapter 4: Intercept

Kashyyyk Medical Station, Kashyyyk Orbit

John awoke onboard the Kashyyyk Orbital Medical Station in orbit of Kashyyyk. He tried to get up and as he did he heard a small booming sound near the bottom of the station. It was old, built during the Clone Wars and commissioned to service just minutes after Order 66. An M1 Medical Droid walked over to him.


 * "Admiral Zao would like to talk to you on the bridge." said the droid.

The droid departed to look after other patients, and John went up to the bridge via elevator. Zao was waiting for him when he arrived.


 * "Glad you're alive." Zao began. "Let me get you up to date: you've been here for five days, the Sith Reborn became the Sadow Empire, and many fragments of our Empire have joined Naga Sadow and his forces, and he owns most of the galaxy now."


 * "So now what?" asked John.


 * "The Emperor has decided to make a Death Star battle station after an engineer found it in a box of old CIS schematics in a factory on Mygeeto." answered Zao. "Anyways, you will be sent to the Fondor system, 'cause the Sith are carrying an important Sith artifact that will turn the tide in this war for them, and you will be part of the team to get it from them. Get your armor on and your transport is waiting at Dock 7B."

New Imperial City, Korriban

Ty, and Mai looked at the Sith Palace while it was under construction, though it was almost finished, circled by other large buildings of the New Imperial City, the capitol of the Sadow Empire, from the upstairs of the Imperial Center. Then, a former Reborn Empire commander named General Tevinter came into the room.


 * "Sirs. The Sith Holocron found on Dathomir is on it's way here, but it has to pass through an Imperial-controlled system, so it will be delayed." said Tevinter.


 * "What? You can't let it go through an Imperial system. It's to important to lose to the Empire." inquired Ty Sadow.


 * "Don't worry, we have a whole fleet of Sith Battlecruisers escorting it." reassured the General.


 * "Make that two fleets." said Mai.


 * "I assure you it will be fine. I'm in charge of security for it anyway. It will be fine." inquired Tevinter.


 * "It better be. For you sake, general. The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am." said Ty.

Tevinter nodded and left the room back downstairs to the Sith Battlefleet headquarters.

VSD Inquisitor, low Fondor orbit

When Zao said that John will be part of the team to get it back, he didn't think this was what it meant. He stood in the bridge of the Victory-class Star Destroyer Inquisitor, the transport of the Holocron, and was wearing a Sith officer uniform. Half of the Inquisitor's crew was replaced by SpecForces team members in disguise. They all kept in contact and made sure that it was only Imperials who were guarding the Holocron room, so they could just take it and leave via escape pods when the Empire will make a distraction attack on the Sith fleet.

The Inquisitor left low orbit of Fondor, and flew up to meet the Sith battlefleet, and the procession started their trek through the system.