The Rebel Faction

"Great, I shall be waiting somewhere around here."

Shutting off her unit, Jadey pulls out her datapad and runs a scan of what this ruined castle is, or if there is anything living within it that may become an enemy to them.

Sighing at the lack of info she gets, she pulls out her left side blaster and steps up to one crumbling wall of the castle. She peeks inside, her warm breath seen from the cold outside as she works her way around the outside wall.

Jadey comes back to the front of the castle and kicks down what remains of the front door. To her surprise, a barage of bats come flying out, just barely missing her head.

"God fragging.....of all the things......"

That is when the Captain and his troops walk up, just as she was about to enter the ruins. She was too busy looking inside the crumbling doorway and jumped when she felt his hand on her shoulder. Whirling around, she puts her blaster in his face, then lowers it after seeing who it is who touched her.

"Empress, is this what you called me up her for?"

"Well, shite Captain, I didnt call you down here for a bonfire. I thought maybe we should check this place out for enemies.

But then, if you think setting up camp is more fun than this, then by all means, return to it."

"Sorry, Empress, but if you get hurt in there, itll be my ass for not stopping you, or at least staying with you."

"Fine, Captain, lets go."

Jadey cautiously steps over the broken door of the castle, followed by the Captain and his team. Each person goes in a different direction to inspect the castle carefully.

Just in front of her to her left, Jadey comes across a massive stone staircase leading up to the second floor. She glances around at the others for a moment, then slowly begins to climb the staircase.

Just as she begins to get halfway up the staircase, it suddenly crumbles beneath her without warning. Screaming loudly as she falls, she grabs on to part of whats left of a ledge to keep from falling more. At the bottom of this pit was apparently another room below it. The ceiling of that room had rotted out and stone spikes can be seen standing up from the floor below.

Just as Jadey losses her grip, she feels a hand grab her wrist tightly and pull her up slowly. When she looks up, she is surprised to find the Captain had saved her.

"Empress, you really ought to be more careful."

"Right."

She darts down the stairs and walks the spot beneath the stairs where she fell through.

"There is a secret room here somewhere. I saw it while I was hanging on to the ledge before you pulled me up. Now we just gotta find a way in."

With inhuman strength, Jadey slams her fist into the wall, then pulls out chunks of stone until it is wide enough for them to get through. She smirks at the Captain, who had dropped his mouth at her discovery.

"You wanna go first, or should I?"

Jadey is found by the Captain and his men, looking up at the hole she fell through.

"Wow, what a hole." she says quietly.

Looking around the chamber, she finds a few torches in the wall. Raising the palm of her right hand, she waves it and the torches light up, showing the spikes that she was hanging over moments ago.

"Uh, Empress, how did you do that with the torches? I mean, first you punch through a wall, and now you light torches. How?"

"Well, Captain, if I told you that, I might have to kill you." Jadey smirks and winks, leaving the Captain speechless and wondering if she were joking or serious.

Grabbing a torch, she wanders about the chamber, finding many types of torture devices. Some of them even had skeletons still in them. All were intact, with sunken eyes and dried, stretched skin.

Further back into the chamber was another door, and adjacent to that was a wall full of cabinets. Jadey touches a door and suddenly pulls back, gasping loudly from the telepathic vision she got from it.

"Empress, what is it?"

"These cabinets are homes for many instruments of torture. We must leave from here at once."

Without another word, Jadey grabs the doorknob next to cabinet. As soon as she does, she sees another vision. This one is of a room filled with bodies that have been buried for many years.

Dropping the torch, Jadey turns around and runs towards the door she made, entering the foyer once again. After a few moments, the crew finds her sitting on the bottom stone step.

"Empress? Everything alright?"

"When we tear down this palace and rebuild it, I want those rooms gone.

The other door led to a room that had been used as a burial ground for the people tortured here.

I know you wont like this, but when we rebuild, I want those bodies dug up and given a proper burial. I heard theyre souls cry out for help when I touched the doorknob. They suffered great pain here and for nothing, just because some evil Sith wanted them to. In order for them to rest peacefully, I want them dug up and properly buried in a small, man made cemetary behind the palace that will be made for them."

Jadey looks up at the Captain, her dark green eyes sparkling with tears of pain and suffering.

"Will you do that for me, Captain? Make a small cemetary behind the castle during building and properly bury these poor souls? Please?"

Jadey looks up at the Captain for a moment, then at castle again. She nods slowly and begins walking back to the base camp, muttering softly as she goes.

"So evil.......so much death........and destruction.......in just one room........what if there are more of those rooms?......we need to search........every room........to be sure.......how could one person.......be so blatanly sadistic?......."

The Captain walks behind Jadey, listening to her senseless muttering. He looks back at his com unit, then back up at Jadey.

"He expects me to follow her decisions when something like that effected her that badly?"


Once at base camp, Jadey sits in the grass, still quietly muttering. Sure, she was Sith, and sure, she liked to kill and torture people, but not once in her life had she gone that far. Even that was a line she would not cross. She had heard of Sith doing that, but she hearself had found it completely sadistic.

Every now and then, someone would send her a worried glance, none of which she saw, due to her current state of mind.

Jadey looks up at the Captain with tear stained cheeks. Its the first time anyone has every seen such a hard Sith like her act in such a way. It can be seen by the empty look in her dark green eyes that the vision she saw had really affected her.

"First, we search every inch of that place, tearing it down as we go. If we find more victims, we add them to the ones already found. Once everyone has been found and every room in ruins, we build a small cemetary behind the ruins.

Then secondly, we find a new place to build another castle on. That land there is cursed. I want no part of it, or of anything on it."

"As you wish, Empress."

The Captain stands up and prepares to carry out her orders when she catches the leg of his uniform pants, looking up at him. After he sits back down, she begins to speak again.

"There were people here. They were non Force users, mere humans living peacefully. They were very active, yet working people. Smugglers, gamblers, miners, farmers even. Not a bother to anyone in the world.

Then come some really sadistic Sith. They came and wiped out everybody and everything, gathering up every resource possible. After that, most of them left, but the ones that stayed behind built that castle of terror.

They began gathering up those who had been spared and did those things to them, and putting them in that makeshift graveyard.

Then sometime when they ran out of people to torture and kill, a meteror came and wiped out the remaining Sith."

The Captain looks around at the empty space, then back at her.

"What happened to the other buildings? And why is the castle the only thing still here?"

"The meteror left the buildings in ruins, like the castle. Then over time, with all the storms here, they began to wear away til there was nothing left.

The same is happening to the castle, but at a slower rate, since it is so big. That is why I fell through the floor of the stairs. And that is why I seemed so strong when tearing down that wall. The stone was already wearing away, becoming weak, making it easier to punch through.

Anyways, some time has passed and here we are, colonizing on a deserted planet, or so we thought. It was once full of life, but not anymore."

Jadey finishes her tale and lowers her head, leaving the Captain to sit beside her in silence, unsure of what to say next.