Board Thread:Forum Roleplays/@comment-26296200-20150427205834/@comment-26272311-20150502025350

(Seriously?! You flashed forward in the middle of a fight!?)

Arahad was troubled. Shurtagul had been fine at first, but now, after 16 long years of fighting with the dark side, there was fraying at the edges, Arahad could tell. Recently, he'd executed an assassin sent by the Chiss- while the hit man begged for mercy on his knees. Also, he had agreed to become a Jedi Master only because he'd known the necessity of it. His philosophy of the force had changed over the years. He would have started a "gray" force order on a little planet in the outer rim called Terra, though for some reason that wasn't what the natives called it. Ear- something was the name they used. He'd gone to a Mandalorian blacksmith, and asked him to make something conceal able and with more mobility than his heavy armor, out of Beskar too. The smith had done a fine job. The plates could be worn under Jedi robes. He usually wore beige ones with black pants now. (With his concealed armor on under it, it looks like the Dreaming Robes from the Force unleashed II) He'd taken the interior components of his lightsaber and put them in a new hilt case. (It looks like the lightsaber hilt design on Starkiller's, from  the Force unleashed II, but with slightly different black parts.) He'd yet to find a woman to love. The new order didn't encourage relationships, but unlike the old order, it didn't forbid them either. Mostly it had been because of the example of Anakin coming back to the light. But it had had a practical reason too. Many force sensitive people in the galaxy were adults, and lots of those had families or other attachments. Which leads to no age restrictions anymore. The term "Youngling" for the newest members of the order was in fact more tradition than anything else. There was another, more important reason he hadn't founded his own order of gray jedi. Darth Sidious was long since dead. But Arahad felt that his mission to bring balance to the force had yet to be completed, somehow.

-Byss, capital of the Hidden Empire-

Sidious was happy. He was soon to unleash 16 years of the work of the Hidden Empire on the USNR. He had long kept these 34 star systems secret: for Sith always kept a backup plan. The Eclipse had been built 16 years earlier, and every anniversary of her christening, he added something that made her even more deadly. The vessel alone was more than capable of defeating whole armadas of ships. Here, hidden in the deepest parts of the core, the Empire had thrived. What was even more deadly for his enemies, was the weapon being christened at this moment. It was massive, it had more than triple the firepower of Eclipse, it had drained 12 star systems dry, it was capable of becoming invisible, without any sensor interference, though weapons couldn't be fired with the cloak active, and it was named Ragnarok, after an ancent myth about the end of the world it originated on. It was going to be his new flagship. Eclipse was going to Thrawn. Yes, the galaxy would be his again. Especially now that the so-called 'Master of the Force', as his spies told him the Jedi who killed him was now titled, was beginning to be at last slowly corrupted by the dark side. Sidious could feel the Jedi's presence, though he probably couldn't sense Sidious. The same sort of thing had happened with the old order. When the Jedi had let so many of their own moral principles slip to uphold the Order's foolish choice to swear loyalty to the Republic, the true nature of Palpatine had eluded them due to the lack of a sharp distincton with themselves. Now, he addressed the large crowd gathered before his podium. "The Rebel Alliance has long enough usurped the galaxy from us! The galaxy will be the Empire's once more! Today, this ship, she symbolizes the glory of our Empire! I hereby christen this vessel, Ragnarok! May it bring the Rebels death!!!!" Shouted Sidious. The crowd cheered.

-Coruscant, 2 weeks later-

The USNR guard was incredibly bored. Of all the details she could have been assigned to,  it had to be the one that consisted of standing in front of a box in the cold cargo hold for 8 hours. Then, her boredom was alleviated as alarms went throughout the defensive Golan VII space station that defended Coruscant. Dozens of ships of unknown origin were attacking! And so began the Second Battle of Coruscant...