Shadow heard lightsabers ignite behind him as he began to slow his run into a walk as he walked into the dorms. The droids that weren't being cut down by the masterless lightsabers started to fire at Shadow. He deflected them all back at thier owners and then used force wave as Vader joined the battle.

Vader let loose a Force Storm, unimpressed by the resistance offered by the droids and decimated the remainder of the droids.

"Well, that was easy," he commented and deactivated his blades.

He turned to Shadow.

"So, what do you plan to do now?"

"First, to have the troops conduct a thourogh search of the ship to make sure there are no rouges. Second, to try and find out where I sent us. And last, to apologize to Leia for yelling at her. It was wrong of me to get angry like that." Shadow replied deactivating his own lightsaber. He had cooled down, but the anger still was fresh in his mind.

"Well, thats nice," said Vader as he motioned to the door so that they could get started with the search. "But there is some fault on her side. I'll talk to her later."

"Troops! I want a full search of the ship conducted and I wanted it done half an hour ago! Split into patrols of twelve men and shoot anything that's made of metal or is half metal." Shadow said over the com. Then he went over to the room that Cyphon and Leia were in and knocked. "It's safe to come out now." he said.

Before any man could move to go follow Shadow's orders there was a sound of marching that could be heard through the corridor. A force of cyborgs 250 strong came trudging down the hall, all of the clones stopped and readied for battle. Once every cyborg was in the hall they compacted in the middle sending wave after wave of men. On the other side of the hallway, Jaken and Vok came in, right before them and their men got to the droids they stopped, eight DT Phase-1's got out in front, they activated their wrist shields and charged! The first group of cyborgs was knocked over by the DT's shields and then they were trampled, the second group was quickly hacked to pieces. Then Jaken and Vok activated their sabers and gave a battle cry that all of their men took up as well, and then they charged! But because of the cyborgs formation, it was hard to break through, even lightsabers couldn't brake through very well.

As the battle raged outside Cyphon came out of his concentrated look, got up, and went into another dorm room, the sabers outside dropped to the floor. Cyphon kept going down the rooms, until he couldn't hear much blaster fire. He then turned and opened the door to the outside hallway! When it slid open he found himself in the middle of the cyborg formation, an area not resieving much blaster fire. The first thing he did, was reach out and use force crush on two of the nearest cyborgs heads. When the cyborgs noticed him they turned, many would think what he was doing was suicide, but he had different plans!

In around three seconds his demeaner changed. His eyes turned black, pure utter black, no pupil, no white, just black! And in his eyes could be seen hundreds of little specs of light, showing the age, experience, and wisdom that had so long been hidden from normal eyes. His face wrinkled, and became haggered, his hair wilted, and his hands became thin and gaunt. He looked as an old man, and there was a reddish aura about him, it was cold, harsh, and full of darkness.

Do to his change there was a pause in the battle. The cyborgs were stunned, and in many, they felt something that had so long been forgotten to them, fear. But this still did not stop them, three fired, one shot missing, one shot hitting his left leg, and the other hitting his right shoulder. His face contorted into a look of pain, but only for a moment. The battle started going again, but before it got to far, he lifted his hand, and said, "HALT!! You foul minions of the Emporer!!" After he said halt, a pulse of force energy could be felt by all, force users, and non-force users alike, it knocked the cyborgs to the ground, the DT's on their backs, and the clones on their rears. Jaken and Vok were able to resist more, but were still knocked to a kneeling position.

The cyborgs started to get up, but Cyphon lifted his other hand, and said in an even sterner voice, "I Damand Respect! I not only Demand Respect! I Command IT!!" From saying the final it, another pulse came out, knocking the cyborgs back down, and many of the clones flat on their backs. The cyborgs hesitated, then Cyphon changed again, his hands, and hair turned back to normal. His face cleared of all wrinkles, he started to smile a bit, and his voice became soft, and the aura changed to a pale gold, it was warm, comforting, and full of peace! He lowered his arms, and said, "come, friends, why did you do this to yourselves? Your commanders have abandoned you, the Emporer...never really cared for you!" he said this with a soft voice, yet it echoed and stirred the ship. "Think...think deep beyond your programming, back to the days you said you hated and wished to get away from....yet you trully loved them!" he said, "remember the days when laughter came easily, and were not hidden by robotic programming." "Think deep within you....do you really want to die for someone who promised immortality, but all he gave you was an unthinking mind." At this Cyphon paused, then said, "What Say You!!"

Most of the cyborgs had gotten up by now, many hesitated, others had their blasters up, but were still thinking. Some started to twitch, from them digging into their hidden memories, others had already dug, and were thinking, staring at the floor. Then they started to talk, first in binary, then the more they spoke the more they changed. Then they spoke in basic to eachother, but it was the common droning robotic voice. Then, slowly, but surely, they changed, they spoke in normal dialects, slowly coming out of their robotic voices. Many who had normal organic eyes had a light in them, they started to shift, and ponder. And then something happened that shocked everyone...they smiled, they smirked at eachother, then to the amazment of all...they started to laugh! Some even cryed, the clones, so shocked didnt know what to do! Then, they stopped, and their faces softened and became straight once more. They all turned and stared at Cyphon, one cyborg stepped forward, there was total silence, no one made a noise, but then something happened that made everone's jaw drop. The cyborg grabbed Cyphons hand, and started shaking it, and said, "thank you." Cyphon smiled, and in a weak voice said, "your welcome." The cyborg smiled, Cyphon smiled back, then the cyborgs got into a line of two by two's and started marching to the brig, singing old marching songs, long hidden in the back of their memories. The clones stood stunned, watching the cyborgs go willingly to the brig, one clone said he counted 120 cyborgs!

Cyphon smiled at his shocked companions, then fell forward, and passed out from his injuries! And so they witnessed Force Conversion for the second time, in the age of the Emporer!

Shadow was one of the first to snap out of it. He looked around at the stunned clones and said "Well? What are you waiting for? This isn't the first time you've seen it. Get Cyphon to the medical wing!" he ordered and the troops rushed to do what he told them. He then got on the com and said to every trooper on the ship "Troops! The droids are now friendly due to that conversion trick that Cyphon pulled off. So do not open fire when a droids army passes by you!" Shadow then turned to the door and opened it to find Leia.

"Sorry for yelling at you Leia. Will you forgive me?" Shadow asked.

Leia looked up, puffy eyed, with tears still running down her cheeks, she was sitting in a corner, the commlink lay on the ground, where she had been listening to the battle. She looked at the floor when Shadow came in, she mumbled, "It's okay, I'm sorry too."

Jaken and Vok came in behind Shadow, first they looked to Leia, then they turned back to Shadow. Since they had nothing more to do, they hung around Shadow for orders, or just to follow him, since Cyphon was passed out.

Brutas came up behind them some time later and asked Shadow, "Sa, the diplomats wish to speak with you...and who are you calling old!" he said indignently, after remembering what Shadow had said about him.

Shadow turned to Jaken and Vok and said "Go make sure that this ship is still throughly searched because there were plenty of non-cyborg droids when we came on." they both nodded and left. Shadow then turn to Brutas and said with smile "Actually, I was referring to Cyphon when I said that. And please take me to the diplomats."

"Right this way, sa" said Brutas motioning down the hall. They went down the hall, then down another, and down a couple of other halls, until they reached a conference room, the door was shut, representing privacy was needed. There stood two Dark Troopers P-2's on either side of the door, they snapped to attention when Brutas and Shadow came near. Brutas took off his helmet, he wasnt anything anyone expected him to be. He was a Kel-Dor, round and wrinkled with age, bareing many scars, but full of fight, with a fire in his eyes, he sighed, motioning to the door, "they're waiting in there sa, hm, wot wot, hm, I think they were expecting Cyphon though. You'll have to be on extra good behavier, you young rip" he said, waiting patiently for Shadow to go in.

When Shadow walked into the room, he felt like he was walking into a minefield. Being a Jedi and a General, he knew how to handle diplomatic problems. But when you walk into a room full of diplomats that had just been freed, you won't exactly get a warm welcome, especially if it wasn't the person that they were expecting. So Shadow started off to quell any questions about Cyphon. "If you were expecting Master Cyphon, he has been incapacitated for the time being, but I will answer your questions."

Most of the Diplomats were females, seeing as the role of diplomat is something that women are good at aspiring to.((that's a complament for all you ladies out there! :D)) But this made things quite a bit worse, because they were, well...filthy, tired, and hadnt eaten in days. There were about twenty diplomats, each from a different planet, and something that not many expected, but there were about ten famous people as well, singers, dancers, holo-movie stars. They all turned to Shadow, a little disapointed, some of the female stars eyeing him like a piece of meat. One of the friendlier diplomats came forward, she was a 5' 11" Twi'lek, she was young, and represented Ryloth. Offering Shadow her hand, though she was more affraid of him than some of the other diplomats, because she was new to this career and hadnt met a jedi before, and the rumors the Emporer spread about the First Gray Jedi and his followers, wasnt exactly plesent. "Hello, j-j-jedi!" she stammered in a weak voice.

Shadow smiled a warmly and shook her hand. Then he turned to a trooper and said "Why haven't these people been fed yet? Get these people some food and I wanted it done ten minutes ago." The trooper left and Shadow turned back to the Twi'lek. "Why are you afraid? All the droids on this ship have been eliminated and the cyborgs are on our side now since Master Cyphon persuaded them with Force Conversion, the same thing he used with the clones. And my name is Shadow." Shadow said.

"Y-y-y-your a jedi, there, well, n-n-not kind to aliens, at least that's what the Emporer says!" The twi'lek said, still scared and shy. One of the movie stars walked forward, he was a 6' tall Rodian, and he was in his late forties, but looked good for his age. "Haha, child, worry not, I have met many jedi, they are the kindest people you could meet!" he said this with a smile on his face. But this didnt reassure the young diplomat very well. The rodian said hello to Shadow and stepped back, letting the young twi'lek who was still very afraid, take care of the talking, seeing as how rodian arent too articulate in most cases.

"Well, to push rumors aside, the Jedi are normally peace loving... police men you could say. Except they're not corrupt like some police men, exercise diplomacy, are excellent fighters incase situations go bad, and do not harm anyone if they don't have too. There is thing thing called the Force that runs through all living beings and some are born with the ability to control it and can be trained to control it properly. From the force is where a Jedi draws his strength. Unfortonatly, there are two sides, a light side and a dark side. The dark side believes that if you are weak, then you die. It believes in controling the force, rather than letting flow through you like the Jedi. The people who embrace this are called Sith. Emporer Palpitine is a Sith Lord who overthrew the Republic by influencing the senetors with the Dark side, and starting the Clone Wars to give complete emergancy powers to him. The Clones, were bred early on as part of Palpatines plan to overthrow the Republic. The Order that deemed Jedi traitors to the Republic and to be exterminated was called Order 66. Killed practically all the Jedi, only a few surviving. Then Master Cyphon came and used force conversion to... change the clones minds, making them our main troops. Of course, since we can't take the emporer's droid army on directly, we've had to emphasize gorilla tactics. But to put it simply, we are the good guys and the droids are the bad guys." Shadow said. The diplomats looked like they were having a hard time taking it in.

The twi'lek relaxed a little, she smiled and said, "well....Shadow, my name's Sashei Loruun, I'm a diplomat from Ryloth. The rest of us were suspected disidents" she finally said. The others made their introductions, and the discussions commensed.

The food came and the diplomats looked like they really needed it. "I'm surprised that you all are still alive. Starvation isn't exaclty what diplomats are trained for." Shadow said as they ate.

One of the the other diplomats spoke up, "yes, but the will to live is stronger than, starvation." Sashei spoke, "and what are your hobbies, Mr.Shadow? What do you like to do in your spare time, while your not fighting wars!?" Some of the other diplomats had settled down after they had eaten, and were intrigued to hear what Shadow had to say. They listened and discussed issues with him, but they held back questions, specifically meant for Cyphon. After the talks were done, many of the diplomats, and famous people started having more, casual conversations with Shadow. Sashei asked, "So when are we going to get to see our rooms?" She smiled at Shadow, Sashei was beginning to find the jedi and their ways interesting, and she wanted to know more.

"So, what do you want to know first? What I do on my free time or where your rooms are? I can talk about my free time on the way to the dorms. And my last name is Gravemind." Shadow asked.

Sashei smiled, "yes lets talk on the way to the dorms, I'm feeling tired." Many of the others agreed, one of the diplomats stood up and opened the door, "lead the way General" said the diplomat, the other diplomats got up, and bowed, as is the custom with diplomats, as a show of respect. The famous people thanked Shadow in a different way, the males shook his hand, one by one, while the females hugged him, as is common with famous people.

As Shadow led the way he talked about his hobbies. "Well, I like to be with my troops in whatever they're doing. So during the seven years of silence, it was mostly hard exercises and then doing something fun afterwards, like playing a game of tag DC-15 style with the stun on. Please note that I was 17 years old at the begining of these seven years. On my time without my troops, I like to read, shoot at the shooting range, sparr with the other Jedi, meditate on why I have to meditate when sleeping is better." This recieved a chuckle from the troops passing by and some of the diplomats.

"I occasionally write just for the sake of writing, whatever it might be. What I love to do the most though is watch the young troops and the younglings as they train." Shadow said.

The diplomats were intrigued by Shadow, Sashei was the most intent listener, finding that the more she listened about the jedi, the more she liked what she heard, and in the back of her thoughts, envied the jedi, and wished to be one of them. "So, we're going to be on this ship...three, days, maybe more afterwards, depending on where we end up. I hope to learn more about you, and the other jedi, Mr.Gravemind!" said Sashei with a smile on her face, she seemed to always be smiling, at this she bowed low to Shadow, for the lower you bowed, the more respect you were showing, and she turned and went into her dorm. The other people did the latter and left Shadow to enter their dorms, the last person in the hall with him was the rodian, he smiled and said, "I got an idea awhile back, since we'll be here so long, I thought that maybe me and the others, you know, the singers and all. I thought we could throw a party, or a celebration, for the soldiers and other young people...it's the least we could do to pay you back, and it would boost morale for the troops. You know it's tough in war, so how bout letting the soldiers relax, kick back a little....come on whatta ya say!?"

"I think that's a great idea. I'll talk to Master Cyphon about it when he wakes up and see what he thinks. Until then, you get yourself some sleep. All of you look like you could use it." Shadow said patting the Rodian on the back and left. The ship was mostly quite now, as most, if not all, of the troopers were sleeping at this hour. He headed down to the engine room, where he would sleep.

When he got there, it was spotless clean in contrast to earlier in the day. He also saw that some other clones were there sleeping, not because there were not enough room in the dorms, but because they wanted to be in the presance in the place of their fallan brothers. He understood. He wanted to be in the presance of his fallan troops. He chose a spot and fell asleep.

Cyphon twisted, and turned, and jerked in bed, his dreams filling with horrid visions of desacrated corpses, defiled graves, bodies of ones he had known through out this war. He saw Vader, Shadow, Leia, Jaken, Vok, and Brutas, he also saw a figure, though less known to him than the others, it was the merchiant, John, he saw, Thor, and Kadesh, and many more. Then he looked and saw that they were gone, taken from him, he was in an empty wasteland! "AAAHHH!!!!" he came screaming out of sleep, 'huff' 'huff', he was panting, and had broken out in cold sweats, his face was worn and tired, pondering a moment on his dream, he said, "so is the life of those who see no end."

Though he was still weak, and in pain, Cyphon got up to go wonder the ship. In lonelyness and tiredness, he trudged, looking in on sleeping people, avoiding those still awake, and thinking on his dream, he sobbed, and weeped, for he knew things, things that made him feel lonely, and ostrisized, among the ones he knew, and called friends!

"We cannot be defeated. The ones before could not defeat us.
The ones after them could not defeat us. How can you hope to defeat
us when those before could not, even in their minds? We plauge your
mind till your grave and then we steal your flesh and blood and mind.
We will keep coming until all is ours and nothing is left.
Ridding the galaxy of false promises and this so called 'Force'."

Shadow woke up recodenizing that cold voice. It still chilled him to this day. He checked his Chronometer and it said two o' clock. He tried to fall back to sleep but he couldn't so he relieved the clone outside on sentry duty. The clone was asleep within seconds of laying down. Shadow's mind wandered about the day's events and how they could have been or how he could have done better. "The past is the past. If your dead troops saw you like this they would laugh themselves dead," an old clone once said to him once when there had been an accident and some of his troops had gotten killed.

So Shadow decided to focus on how he could improve his tactics, rather than morn for the dead. He felt better thinking about that. The rest of the shift went uneventful and he was soon relieved, and he fell asleep within seconds.

Soon it was 6:00, and the daily routines had started. Cyphon who had recovered from his dream, lay in the med-bay, using Ancient Force Heal to quicken the healing proccess. He opened his eyes to see a twi'lek standing over him. "Hello!?" he said, a little stunned, and confused, she responded, "Hi, you wouldnt happen to know where Mr.Gravemind is, would you?" "No...not that I can think of..." he said weakly, "Oh, thank you anyways!" said the twi'lek.

"Your welcome!" he said as she walked away. "Masta Cyphon!!!!" came the yell, Cyphon quickly became alert, thinking, *Oh no, oh no, they didnt...they wouldnt...they couldnt, they would!!* he jerked around, to his horror, he saw her! A huge built nurse, she was human, though only 6' tall, which is smaller than Cyphon, she was still imposing, her name...Volka. She was feared, and respected by all men, she had the stregnth of two wookies some men said, and Cyphon knew first hand how strong she really was, and two wookies is nothing!! Ignoring all pain Cyphon bolted, heading for the only place he knew might be a good one to hide...the engine room! As he ran he could hear her behind him, she was built like an ox, clever as a fox, keen eyed as a hawk, and the most scary thing of all...as fast as a rabit! Cyphon saw her behind him and put on an extra burst of speed, men diving into hiding places when they saw Volka! Cyphon thought to himself as he ran, *being chased, by a Bear...nothing, chased by an angry Gundark...scary, chased by a 80 year old Crate Dragon...horrifying, being chased by Volka...only God can help you there!!!!*

When Shadow heard that voice and he knew exactily what it belonged to. And he knew exactily where the person that... thing was chasing would try to hide. The men had heard it too and were nevous. "Okay whatever you say troops, you were just here sleeping when Master Cyphon ran through here and went on a loop to the bridge through that corridor." He said pointing to another corridor. They nodded and got into sleeping positions, while Shadow did that as well. And they waited for The Thing to come.

"Hi Shadow, bye Shadow!" said Cyphon as he ran by, he knew that his ploy would work. He stopped before he got to the end of the engine block, turned and opened a ventilation shaft. He quickly jumped in and closed it behind him heading for the brig! He knew that Volka thought he was going to the engine room, and he knew that Shadow would tell her he was heading in the bridges direction, and he also knew that he had left Shadow to the rath of...her! He knew that she would know Shadow's lieing, and that is where he would be able to escape! Because he knew that she would tear the engine room apart, and that when she was finished she would be out of ideas, and she would lash out at the nearest people. When Cyphon got midway he stopped, he then sent his every thought to contacting Shadow, first he said he was sorry! Then he told him to run like no man has ever ran before!! Cyphon could only hope that Shadow would understand the little pulses of the force he was sending toward him.

Shadow felt it and knew he was incredibly close to The Thing's wrath. He also felt the pulse. "Run like you've never ran before!" he shouted instantly and ran using force speed to head to the hanger. He'd rather be running from a monster in a large space than a close space. The troopers got the hint instantly and ran like there was no tomorrow as The Thing got there.

Vader had spent the night in the room Leia and Master Cyphon were hiding in through the battle in the hallways. He got up and glanced at his chronometer. 6 AM. He shook the sleep out of his head and glanced at his daughter, who was sleeping soundly on another bed. He smiled under his mask and left the room. As he got into the halleway, he heard the sound of someone shouting, it was Shadow.

Run like you've never ran before!

Only Volka could scare him like that. Vader got into the hallway calmly and followed Shadow's group into the hangars slowly, unafraid of Volka.

As Shadow's group arrived in the hanger, he realized that they weren't being followed, and let out a sigh of relief, as did the other troops. The hanger was mostly empty because, well, who uses a hanger in hyperspace? There were a few personal, but none really.

"Alright. Since we've had our mourning run, let's head to the chow hall." Shadow said.

"Amen to that." said one of the clones. And they headed down to eat.

Cyphon emerged in the brig, hopping out of the ventilation system, he looked around the hallway filled with cyborgs, cleaning the area. He waved said hello, and left. He felt better after that little run, then he bumped into a rodian, "Hello, sorry, I'm looking for a Master Cyphon, have you seen him?" said the rodian.

"Yes, I'm master Cyphon!" he replied.

"Oh, good I have a proposition for you!" said the happy rodian.

They talked about the celebration for an hour, three hours later from there, they were setting up a stage in the hangar. And to keep it a surprise, all personel were not allowed into the hangar. Cyphon had gotten dressed, collected his sabers, got a release form from the med-bay, and headed for the mess hall, "hhmm, I missed breakfast! I'll have to fill the space in with lunch!" he said laughing to himself.

After eating breakfast, Shadow headed down to the Galactic map room to try and figure out where they were going. When he got there, he found that it was empty. He got the coordinates from the computer and started to look for it on the map. When he found it, he was confused.

"That's odd, I don't ever remember going to that area of the Unknown Regions." Shadow murmured to himself as he touched the point with his finger. It was was surrounded by stars, but it had been supossedly stated that the planets that orbited them were uninhabitable.

The map magnified and it showed a system with with a medium sized sun, and five systems, each one a gas giant. The one they were heading to was the smallest blue giant on the the edge of the system.

It looked familiar, but he quite couldn't place his finger on it, mentally of course. he was there for a long time looking at it and by the time he realized what time it was, it was already lunchtime.

So he decided to look at it a bit later and go get lunch.

It was lunchtime and Vader decided to go find Shadow to figure out how to locate themselves. He went to the lunchroom and spotted Shadow at a table and went up to him.

"So, figured out where we are now?" asked Vader. "You could use some of the astromech droids to calculate our coordinates, you know."

((sorry i took so long, guys))

"I don't know how far along we are yet, but I do know where we are going. It's an uninhabitable system in the Unknown Regions. We'll be coming out of hyperspace over a blue gas giant on the edge of the system. It wouldn't do much good to learn where we are anyways seeing as if we drop out, we could loose life support." Shadow said, having barely picked at his food.

Cyphon had been in the galley (cafateria) ever since Shadow came in. He walked up and heard what was said, and commented, "Blue gas giant...on the edge of a system....hhmm" Cyphon looked at the floor with a distant gaze.

"Shadow, could you do me a favor?" Cyphon asked, looking up, "and I need to talk to you Vader...if you have the time."

"Sure Cyphon." Shadow replied.

"Excellent, I need you to scan in the deeper regions of the system, about a couple thousand lightyears out, towards the middle of the far regions! Use astromech droids like Vader said, if you have to...just transfer the file to me on what you find. I've got a pretty good idea where we are, and dont need any explanations on what the area looks like. Go to it when you have the time." Said Cyphon with a smile, while turning back towards Vader.

Shadow got up, his food untouched, got a droid from matinance, and went to the map room. People were starting to come and do their daily duties, greeting him with salutes and such. When he reached the room, the droid told him it would take about a half an hour to do the scan, and so he decided to take a nap.

"What do you need?" Vader asked Cyphon.

Edit: ((I'll post soon but I dont have the time guys, sorry!))-This is no longer true!

Cyphon looked to Vader, "I need to tell you something..." he said, his voice trailing off.

After he had told him his dark thoughts on where they were headed, Cyphon went to the Dorms, to check on, and talk to the Diplomats. Cyphon had told Vader that where he thought they were going, should be kept a secret, until they had proof of where they were headed, exactly. He didnt want the men more nervous than they already were. And he had told Vader a few tidbits, and secrets of what the place was, or at least what he knew. He hoped Vader could help him in the deciding what they should do, when the time came, when they came out of hyperspace.

The day went by uneventful, the stage, and decorations were set up in the main hangarbay, and the men went off to sleeping. Cyphon sat talking to the rodian for hours, till finally, close to mourning he went to his room, the next day slipping in.

Shadow had long ago sent the results to Cyphon and gone to sleep.

Now he was dreaming that he was a child again, on a ship with a lot of people, all happy and smiling. Then there was an alarm and people shouting. There was the sudden shake as the ship entered hyperspace, but there were other people on the ship now. They had blasters and were shooting everyone in sight. Shadow was picked up by someone, though he couldn't get a good look at her, and taken into a hold. He remembered that hours later the door began to turn red and was blown open, the shards killing many of the people in the hold and killing the woman holding him, her corpse saving him.

They started to file in and Shadow hid in a container. The people shot anyone they found and began to looking in the containers. The ship dropped out of hyperspace just before they were about to find Shadow and they left. About an hour later, there was an explosion and some screaming. Shadow heard a screech/roar and he dared to peek outside the container to look. What he saw would give him nightmares. It was a mutilated creature, skin decaying with a yellowish color and had tentacles sprouting out of its left hand standing just outside the room in the hallway. The thing that made it worse was, even though it was mutilated and decaying, it looked like a person, with the head dangling by a piece of flesh. Unfortunately, he couldn't control his stomach and threw up. The creature noticed him. The creature leaped and Shadow got out of the container, barely avoiding getting hit by the creature who crashed into the container. Shadow scrambled out into the corridor to find the both ways of it were infested with the things. He turned around to find the one behind him closing in also. Suddenly a bunch of yellow rings formed materialized out of nowhere and when they dissipated, a lot of floating machines were in their places. And then the opened fire with their yellow lasers, followed by the gagging smell of burning flesh. He felt something hit his head hard and he passed out into darkness.

Shadow woke up breathing hard. A few clones were looking at him and one of them asked "Are you alright, Sir? You were moving a lot in your sleep and hit a few of us hard."

"I'm fine. It was just a dream. And I apologize for hitting a few of you. Now go to sleep. We're going to be halfway through our journey tomorrow." Shadow replied, not entirely sure about the fine part himself.

"Yes, Sir." the clone said and they all went to sleep.

Shadow stayed up for a moment and whispered to himself "That is over now Shadow. Forget." He then went back to sleep, peaceful, for now.

Jynn leaned back in the pilot's seat of the Ion Storm. As she watched the stars streak past her window, her thoughts drifted into the past.

In the beginning, everything had seemed so clear. It was her destiny to be trained by Kai Lin, to meet Kante Rhun, to tangle with Xendek. And the war had seemed just as clear. The Republic had been fighting the Separatists for good reasons. Even the corruption growing in the Senate was easy to see.

But something changed. The balance of power shifted. The Separatists had become stronger than anyone could have imagined. Then came the massive attack on the Jedi. Almost no one had seen it coming. Kante Rhun was dead - just like Kai Lin - just like the younglings thought to be safe in the Temple.

The things that should have lasted forever were gone.

Nothing was clear anymore.

Cyphon awoke, getting out of his bed, he headed to the galley. Men were either waking up, or eating, so he got his food. It was a special treat, a buffet of cullanary food from one of the stars, who was a famous cook. After eating he headed to his room to get dressed, but was stopped by the twi'lek from earlier.

"Hello, um, can you point me to the cafateria? I'm lost..." she asked Cyphon.

"Head down the hall, the door I came out of a ways back is the galley" he said pointing the way.

"Thank you!" she said while walking away. Cyphon stared at her as she walked away, an expression of wonder, and concentration on his face. "Ah, I see..." he mumbled to himself as he walked to his room.

Around an hour after lunch a female voice came over the comm system, "all personel, everyone, please come to the main hangar, that is all!" The voice said excitedly. Cyphon smiled to himself as soldiers, and other personel, went jogging, running, or walking to the hangar. Cyphon followed, and watched as, in surprise, the men saw, and heard the show stage. So another day went by, with the men feeling happy, and free spirited, which hadn't been for a long time. Cyphon watched, as they enjoyed the day, and watched as it continued into the night. After awhile, the show was done, and the men went to the dorms, and the final day of their journey in hyperspace, came crashing in.

((Sorry, but I'm trying to speed things up to the moment we come out of hyperspace. Dont need this thread to get boring! ;P ))

The Force called to her again, stronger than it ever had before. Jynn shrugged her shoulders in resignation and decided to listen for once. Closing her eyes, she drifted off into meditation. A while later, she blinked, looked around, and began studying her star charts.

"Not so very far away," Jynn murmured. She punched a series of coordinates into her nav computer.

The Ion Storm leapt into hyperspace.

It was around mid-day of the third, and final day in hyperspace. Cyphon had been in his room all day, meditating, and reaching deep in to space, trying to feel the area in which they would come out. But something drew his attention away, it was a concentrated escence of the force, though faint, it was there. This made him worried, so he delved deeper, trying to draw on this small blip of the force, that was so far away. He prodded it, testing it, trying to draw it just a little closer, so he could tell what it was. Then it jumped, it leapt from his field of sense, he was surprised, he started to expand his thoughts out in all directions to find it. He felt it, but could not pinpoint it, it felt closer, and getting closer as he thought, but before he could find it, he found something else. He concentrated on the new entity, it was out there, yet it was not through the force he felt it, almost, a pure absense of the force, something he hadn't felt since the Exile, from so long ago. Then, he felt what he was looking for in the first place, the forboding thing that had so prominently plagued his thoughts.

He came out of his meditation, with a look of worry on his face, he decided not to jump to conclusions. He looked over at his message system on his datapad, there was a message, several hours old. It was the report that he asked Shadow to send to him, about the deep space scans. He looked them over, his face turning from a face of worry, to a face of anxiety, and fear. There, right where he thought it to be, was the deeper system, with it's third planet, the only inhabitable one in that sytem of nine planets. Gaia, or Terraferma, as what it's technical name was, was the last thing he wanted to see. He only hoped that they came out near the edge of the outer systems in that area, and he hoped that they didn't run into what he feared the most!

Opening his door he trudged down the hall, passing all in his path, knocking any over that got in his way. He trudged up to the head engineer, a top graduate of one of the best engineering schools in the galaxy.

"Tell me! When exactly are we coming out of hyperspace?" asked Cyphon hastily.

"Um...at around 04:00...PM time sir" said the engineer looking up, a little confused. Cyphon looked around impatiently, "oh, one more thing sir! I was able to pinpoint our exit vector to the tee!" said the engineer excitedly.

"How?" asked Cyphon. "Since we're so close to our exit, I was able to use some old techniques to find our exact exit point" said the head engineer in response.

"Go on" said Cyphon. "We'll be coming out on the far side of a gas giant, it's got a strange satellite, or moon of some sort that orbits it. My statisics could even detect other more reasonably shaped moons orbit it as well, along with, what looks to be an asteroid that orits the gas giant, right next to the strange satellite moon." Cyphon looked even more worried an anxious than before. He looked down at the engineer and said, "contact all high ranking people, and all sector heads in the area, call a meeting basically!" The head engineer got up, saluted and trotted off to do his bidding. Cyphon headed to the meeting room that Shadow had talked to the diplomats in.

Shadow now did not look like a General or Jedi, but like a Drill Sergeant. He was wearing camo cloths and a green cap, barking out orders and drilling troops hard. Some were cursing to themselves and some were just trying to finsih the impossible time limits that Shadow set for them. Shadow had woken them up at three in the morning chronometer time and was drilling them along with some other sergeants. Anyone who wasn't a drill sergeant or a general and was seen by the sergenants was being drilled, some diplomats included.

When a messenger came and told him about the meeting, he turned around and said to all of those in the hanger "Half Hour Break!" Quite a few of them sighed in relief and then Shadow left to the meeting.

When he got there he found that a few where already there, including Cyphon, and he asked "What's this meeting about? I still have two more hours to drill them."

"Drilling will have to wait, this meeting is for everyone with high enough rank or importance, once Vader gets here, along with a few others, then we'll start!" said Cyphon in response to Shadow's comment.

((One of you guys could post! I wanna get us out of hyperspace! I'm just trying to explain where we're going! Are you alive Rexraptor2000, RC_1162? Are you planning on posting again? Anyone? Dark_Lady? Hello?))

((I'm alive and here. I'm just waiting to get out of hyperspace, not much I can do until then. And I'm supposed to get out of hyperspace after you guys, right? Can't you just say that "the meeting started after Vader arrived" or something? Vader doesn't actually have to do anything right now, does he? Please let me out of hyperspace!!! Please!!!))

((Well RC-1162 is Vader, but I guess I'll have to use my TM prowess to get us out of hyperspace!))

Cyphon looked at Vader as he entered the room, Cyphon nodded at him, and he took a seat. "O.K., everyone is here, so lets get started. For one, we're coming out in an unknown system, near a gas giant, and an unknown satellite moon. I know from ages past, when I was very young, and not considered 'dead', which technically what I should be." he said laughing lightly. "That this 'moon', is not what it seems, now I'm not going to say what it is, but when we get there, we can only stop for a short time, but only to get supplies then. Does everyone understand? Good, meeting ajourned." Everyone got up and started leaving, talking to eachother as they went.

Many hours later, the ship's engines could be heard gurgling, and straining, as they finally came to rest after three days of sustained hyperspace. Then they hummed loudly to a nice halt, and were quiet, all except for the sound of steam rising as the engines cooled. Cyphon was on the bridge, which had been nicely set back up, and a small crew of people were at the various stations throughout the ship. Cyphon sighed as he looked out at the enormous gas giant, luckily the 'moon' wasn't in view. Then the sensors officer called out, "hyperspace exit detected." Cyphon said, "it must be Felix and the Matukai" said Cyphon with look of question.

"No sir, from what we can tell, they came out of hyperspace a day before we did, it's also too small to be one of ours" said the crewman in response. Cyphon stared out across the vast expanse of space, trying to see what this mystery 'ship' was.