Duel in the Sith Academy

The Duel in the Sith Academy was a battle between the Force-sensitive Ren Silber and the Mandalorian bounty hunter Luna Kryze in the Sith Academy within the Valley of the Dark Lords on the planet Moraband.

Prelude
After escaping the planet Raxus, the crew of the Sovereign Outcast set their new goal as the planet Alteia in order to find an ancient Sith artifact that could assist them in their fight with the Empire. As Alteia didn't appear on any known galactic maps, the crew set their course to the planet Kalee on the edge of Wild Space, deducing that the planet they were seeking must be somewhere in those uncharted regions. In order to travel to Kalee, the crew would need to stop near the planet Moraband in order to switch to a hyperspace lane that would take them to their destination. Meanwhile, the Mandalorian bounty hunter Luna Kryze had been tracking the Sovereign Outcast via a tracking beacon secretly placed on the ship during the skirmish on Raxus. Once the Sovereign Outcast exited hyperspace and appeared over the planet Moraband in order to perform repairs and recharge the hyperdrive, Luna Kryze's ship, the Phantom Adrift jumped in nearby and began to attack, forcing the Sovereign Outcast down to the planet's surface for a crash landing.

Afterwards, the captain of the Sovereign Outcast, Ren Silber, decided to venture off on his own in order to confront their pursuer, who had landed at a separate location nearby. The two eventually made their way to the nearby Valley of the Dark Lords and converged at the Sith Academy at the very back of the valley, where the two would confront each other.

The Duel
To begin the duel, Luna Kryze fired her blaster towards Ren, and Ren, who had previously been standing on a balcony overlooking the main hall of the building, jumped down to avoid the shots while activating his lightsaber. Ren was quick to close the distance, but Luna responded in kind by activating her jetpack in order to move away, taking flight and continuing to fire upon Ren with her blaster pistol. Ren deflected and evaded the shots, retaliating with a saber throw, which Luna evaded in mid-air, responding by shooting a series of micro-missiles at Ren, forcing him to move out of the way. Ren then pulled out his own pistol and returned fire while taking cover behind a nearby pillar, trying to formulate a plan. Knowing he couldn't say in one place for long, however, Ren moved out of cover, only to be greeted by Luna shooting her jetpack-mounted rocket in his direction, hitting the pillar and sending Ren flying backwards and onto the ground. The pillar went down shortly afterwards, and fell upon Ren, crumbling into multiple pieces when it hit the ground.

Luna, figuring the battle was won, landed back on the ground. However, this was just a ruse on Ren's part, as the lightsaber Ren had yet to call back to his hand was thrown towards the other side of the room. Ren himself had evaded the pillar by pushing himself out of the way with a Force push just before the pillar fell upon him, and using the Force to manipulate his lightsaber from afar, he pulled it towards him, activating the blade mid-flight as it flew towards Luna at high speed. Hearing the blade behind her, Luna quickly dove to evade, but didn't react in time as her jetpack was sliced by the blade. Ren, siezing the opportunity, leapt out from cover and grabbed his weapon in mid-air. Luna acted quickly to remove the jetpack from her back, throwing it towards Ren and shooting it to make it explode. Ren, however, shielded himself with the Force, flying through the blast and firing down towards his opponent with his blaster from his left hand before coming down with a hard and fast swipe with his lightsaber.

Luna barely managed to move out of the way of the attack, and used her wrist mounted flamethrower to force Ren back. Ren, however, further retaliated even while moving back, firing more shots towards his opponent. At this point, Ren knew that he had the advantage in agility, as without her backpack, Luna would not be able to match his speed. He used this to his advantage, moving in once again and rolling under another burst of flame, taking a swipe at Luna with his lightsaber, only to be surprised when Luna pulled out a blade of her own, a short blade made of Beskar, capable of resisting lightsaber strikes.

Now in a short-range duel, the pair exchanged blows from both their blades and shots from their blasters at point-blank range, the two being fairly matched with Ren's Force senses and abilities being offset by Luna's Mandalorian tactics and training. Eventually, however, Ren would best her in bladework, disarming the bounty hunter and slashing hard upwards, cutting her helmet off and forcing her to the ground. Now with both his lightsaber and blaster pointed down at Luna, the Mandalorian still resisted by pointing her own blaster upwards at Ren.

Aftermath
With the duel won, Ren demanded answers from the bounty hunter, inquiring as to how she was able to find them immediately after a hyperspace jump. Although refusing to answer at first, Ren issued a threat and moved the edge of his lightsaber closer to Luna's face, and she relented, explaining how a tracking beacon had been secretly placed on the Sovereign Outcast before they had escaped Raxus. Satisfied with the answer, Ren deactivated his lightsaber and holstered his blaster pistol, telling Luna that he would spare her this time, but would not allow her a third chance should she continue to pursue them. Ren then left the Sith Academy and the Valley of the Dark Lords, arriving back at the Sovereign Outcast and informing Trent Allet and Eigy that there was a tracking beacon on the ship, whereupon it was located by Eigy and subsequently removed and destroyed. After the repairs to the ship were complete, the group took off and left Moraband.

Luna Kryze also made her way back to the Phantom Adrift and left Moraband, making her way back to Imperial space in order to report to her contractor, the Twelfth Sister.