"This had better be good, we need all the man power we got out here. Helms, use our shipboard computer to lock onto her comm device and triangulate her position"

"Yes sir, should only take a moment"

In the off mement he grabed a small team of five armed men to lead the way in to see what she was up to

"Got her location sir, sending you her coordinates now"

"Thanks Helm, ok Empress, were on our way"

"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.

He sighed, looking down into his padd, she was moving, she couldnt have waited like he had asked, but kept on moving. He had left base camp in good hands, he was sure before days end the landing pad would be set up and they'd have a definative new beacon to lead them home by.

"Country Roads... Take me home.... TO the Place... I wanna GO!!.."

"SIR!"

"uh huh, what?"

"What are you doing sir??"

"Oh, sorry, this all seems a little rustic is all, reminded me of a good ol contry song I used to know, good thing is you cut me off right where I forgot the lyrics"

"Right...."

"Nevermind, just shut up and keep walkin, we're gonna catch up to her eventually"

[i]How the hell did she get so far out here so fast? This was a serious hike, it was gonna take a little longer before they were on top of her

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?"

"If I may, can I ask where you trained to get so strong Empress?"

But it was too late, and she had already walked out of hearing range. Turning back to his men he waved them on as they continued deeper into this old place. Turning back to one of his men he gestured towards her in an I dont know fashion, but when he turned back his face went right through a cobweb.

Jumping into the air the captain begain repeatedly smacking at his face trying to get the cobwebs off, he was freaking out with the unknown, if one didnt know better they might think he was scared. Then again youd probobally be right, the captain was freakin after all.

"Dont just stand there you fools! help me!"

It took him a few moments to calm down and stop moving but once he did two of the others gently scraped the webs from his face and continued forewards. The end of the passageway opened up into a large Foyer, a dark Foyer with a broken stairway like the entrance hall, in fact just like the...

"HEY! Not funny you guys! Who turned me around!"

The whole crew started laughing, that is, until the captian shot a chunk of wood outta the ceiling with his blaster, crumbling a piece of the passage way over a member of his teams head.

"Are you guys coming are what?"

"On our way Empress!"

[i]He smacked the nearest guy in the back of the head, who then held his head and shrugged in the what did I do fashion. Charging forewards at a new pace he entered the new chamber Jade had found.

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?"

*A sith is she? Well that explains the strenght and strange abilities, Raktus might wanna know about this*

"Uh, I'm gonna have to contact Raktus about this, he may have some reservations about dusturbing the dead as they are"

He turned around, walking back around the side of the castle, opening up his pad along the way. As soon as he rounded the corner he pressed an emergancy contact button to IDTech headquarters. A Flashing red light on the screen indicated his connection was being processed.

"Emergancy Line, what do you need?"

"I must contact Heir Raktus immediatly"

"Reason?"

"Dameo"

"Hold please"

The red flashing was giving him a headache, he rolled his eyes for a moment. Raktus's face appeared on the screen, a little impatient looking, but at least he had responded

"What is it?"

"Sir, its about the new Governess of Dameo..."

"Jade? What about her?"

"Are you aware shes a sith sir?"

"Yes I did, do you have a problem with that?"

"Erm, no sir, and we have one other situation down here, a minor one, but we need your call on it"

"Well, get on with it"

"We found a castle on this uninhabited planet, worse yet its filled with dead bodies. Jade wants to bury them all on the grounds behind the planet."

"Then do it, I respect her descions, as should you, in fact Captain, from this point forward regard all her descions as my own. Im also sending the colonizing fleet as of now, youd better be ready, Raktus out"

"Wait, But! SIR!"

The transmission cut line immediatly. The captain sighed but he had to do as he was told. He rounded around the side of the building and approached Jade again.

"Raktus says its your call. Look, we need to get back to base as soon as possible, the fleets on its way, we need to be ready"

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.

"Is this base almost ready?!"

"Sir??"

"The fleet is almost here people, get this place set up! We dont have much time! If were not ready by arrival its all our heads!"

With that rush came across the crowd, men runing this way and that. The basic camp was already set but there still needed to be smaller other side camps built up to support the coming shipments and crews. Walkin over to Jade he sat on the ground near her

"Well, seems this is your planet now, what ya gonna do with it?"

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.