Shadow Jedi Knight Dark Emerald Jade, Leader of IDTech and Governess/Empress of Dameo sits at her desk in her office at IDT.

Her intercom beeps and she stops her paperwork to answer it.

"Yes?"

"Empress, there are warships entering Reecee right now, as we speak."

"What do they want?"

"We are not sure, Empress."

"Oy vey, what next?" Jadey takes off her reading glasses and drops them in her desk rather angrily.

"I am sure they will try to contact me shortly. Until I know for sure what is going on, do nothing until I command it."

"Yes, Empress." and the connection is cut.

He sat in a momentary silence, overlooking the helpless planet of Reecee within his very grasp. It seemed so silent. So Desolate. So weak from the previous wars brought to it.

It was a perfect target.

"Helm, bring us about. Weapons armed."

The weapons officer stured in his seat, pressing a few red and green buttons aboard the Spirit of Csilla, a Defender-Class Star Destroyer.

"We're in a Bloccade Position, Sovereign Admiral."

"Good." he replied coldly. "Open a Channel."

"Open, M'Lord."

"This is Sovereign Admiral Aldrex'ile'nuruodo, of the Chiss Expansionary Defense Fleet. I request a formal meeting with the Empress aboard my warship as soon as she is available."

Xilen severed the communications for a moment, glairing at a tactical officer sitting to his right. "Inform all commercial and civilian vessels that the Reecee system is closed, by order of the C.E.D.F."

"Empress, incoming message for you."

"Patch it through at once."

"Yes, Empress, right away."

"This is Sovereign Admiral Aldrex'ile'nuruodo, of the Chiss Expansionary Defense Fleet. I request a formal meeting with the Empress aboard my warship as soon as she is available."

Jadey presses another button and responds immeditaely upon recieving the message.

"This is Shadow Jedi Dark Emerald Jade, Owner of IDTech and Empress/Governess of Dameo. You wanted the Empress, you have found me. May I ask what this sudden attack is all about?"

He sat in silence, staring out of the transparisteel viewing port stretched before his command chair, his crimson eyes blazing against his inky blue skin. Chiss Clawcraft stretched out with deadly precision over the planet's atmosphere, prepared to launch a ground assault with a moment's notice.

"Let me be more clear with you, Empress. If you do not accept my invitation, I will be forced to presume that you are not interested in a.... peaceful resolution to this ordeal, and will be forced to declare open war..."

He leaned back, a satisfied grin on his face. The shadowed figure beside him didn't seem to move, or flinch.

Drek. Drek, drek, drek. War was one thing that she DIDNT need at the moment. With the link still open on her comlink, she makes her way to docking bay, where her ships and shuttles are docked.

"You misunderstand me, Emperor. I never said I wouldnt except the meeting. I merely want to know why you are doing this before I walk to my death.

But enough conversation. I shall be there shortly to......attend.....your meeting."

Jadey climbs aboard a transport ships and sits down in the pilots chair. After entering the coordinates, she makes her way towards the warship. Next to her sits her apprentice Tobal Hadul, who has accompanied her on this trip at the last minute.

After a few moments of travelling, Jadey docks her ship and she and Tobal exit the shuttle, meeting there in the docking bay with a few soldiers.

"Empress Jade, we have orders to escort you and your guest to the bridge."

"Aye, lets go." Jadey says with a nod, and Tobal follows.

Once on the bridge, they meet with Sovereign Admiral Xilen. She stops a few feet from him, Tobal a few feet behind her.

"Greetings." dips her head. "This is my apprentice, Tobal Hadul. I hope you dont mind I brought him with."

Before the Admiral could reply, he steped out of the chairs shadow. His hands placed behind his back, chest up, glowering demenor on his face. He glared down at Jade, he saw defeat in her, something he had never thought shed give in to... Weakness

"I could care less, but as for you, dare not speak on behalf of IDTech, hers is a spirit only I could weild. You disgrace me with your weakness"

[i]He continued to remain stiff by the side of Xilen, his towering frame comparable to the supreme commander himself.

Jadey could feel her mouth drop open as she sees Raktus again, after he had been gone for some time. Somehow, he did not look the same as she remembered him. Somehow, he looked......different. Of course she looked defeated, having run the company the way she thought he would have, to prevent a war from coming........but hes right, she had disgraced him, and everything he had believed in her. She was even disgraced herself.

Feeling her lower lip quiver slightly, she lowers her head and turns it to face right. Once again, Tobal can feel sadness within her, this time a bit heavier. Not glancing at anyone, she turns and faces a viewport, knowing Tobal does not deserve a Master like her. At this point, she had even disgraced him in her teachings.

Finally, she speaks, her voice quivering slightly, tears in her voice.

"Yes, youre right. I am a disgrace. I dont deserve to run your company. Hell, thats why Uni-Sol went done, was because of my leadership skills. I did what I thought was right, to prevent war and save lives. I guess I was wrong. I deserve to die, and my clone, Alicia Doment, to take my place."

Tobal had stood silent through the short trip to this iron world, he had been silent as both Master Jade and himself had been watched, and escorted to the presence of this blue skinned being by similar blue skinned beings. When this other man stepped out of the shadows, and into full light, Tobal had seen Jade’s mouth open, and something seemed to flow out of her at his words.


Master Jade had taught him many things, how to use a lightsaber, how to make other people see things they really didn’t see, and to a limited extent, how to feel things from great distances. She had also taught him tact, she had helped with his reading, and his understanding of basic. But one of the things she had not had to teach was patience. His patience was something she had not taught him, but rather, she had honed it to a razor’s edge.


So he stood, like a rock behind his Master, patient and unfazed at the events that were unfolding before him. Like a rock he stood as her spirit wilted, and like a rock he stood when she said she deserved to die. He would be here to support her, like the patient rock he was.

A descernable frown crossed his face, obviously unhappy with her current escapade of self loathing. Whilst he was upset with her and her fuax control over the situation, he was still attached to her in more than a corporate way. His eyes bore into the back of her head as he spoke harshly, hopefully a tone she'd forgive him for later

"Rise woman, you shall not die this day. Your the one I want by my side, not some freak of technology."

Jadey can feel the Darkside well up inside her, trying to change her back Sith, but unsuccessful. With an angry snarl, she slams her left fist into the viewport, shattering her hand once again. She had done this because she was more angry at herself than at Raktus.

She sighs, calmer now, and finally faces him.

"I am sorry I had made such a mess of this. I didnt think you wanted the whole planet destroyed over a bad mistake, but instead I ended up making a worse one."