[b]Rakata Prime - Stravon Dridis[/b] Darth Scelus was everything Stravon pictured In a Sith Lord, fairly tall, clad in robes and had his face masked. However Stravon noticed that Scelus had clipped HIS blade to his belt, this sent a spike of anger through his body, but he chose to ignore it. Darth Scellus answered his question with another one. "I am Stravon Dridis." Stravon stood up from his chair and stood opposite Dath Scelus, as to show that he meant business. "It's a pleasure to finally meet you my lord." "I've come here today in order to... Propose an offer if you will" "My employer, whom shall remain anonymous for the time being has had, an interest in your doings and wishes to make you a very good offer." As he finished that last sentence Darth Scelus appeared to straighten up and obviously Stravon had his complete and undivided attention. "The terms of the agreement is that we will provide your faction with a large amount of credits and technology, however actual military might is something we do lack in so the soldiers are down to you unfortunately." "If you agree to this then we will happily assist you in defeating the Jedi, but once you've completed that, you must assist us in our... Let's say conquest." It was hard to predict what Darth Scelus' face was showing at this moment in time, but this worked 2 ways as he could not see Stravons face either. "So, those are the terms, any questions?" [b] Space over Coruscant[/b] The orders from the chancellor were fairly simple, it was to assist with the fight over Vondarc, apparently they had fiented retreat and are awaiting reinforcements, time was of the essence so High General Vallen ordered the vanguard of his fleet, and Admiral Xer Loa to get there first, it'd take some while before the Colossus reached the battlefield. Vallen had greeted his first lieutenant on the bridge just before take off, it was obvious that he was disgruntled and his question was rather humerous. "War waits for no man" was his reply, he could see that this was not the reply he was looking for. "Don't fret Kellan, if the orders are to deploy humanitarian aid then we'll both go to the mess and get drunk" Numerous laughs went a round the crew situated on the deck at this. It didn't take long before The Colossus reached orbit over Coruscant and had met up with the rest of the fleet. It was then when the Holomap at the centre of the room turned into a 3d projection of the High Chancellor. "Greetings Vallen, we've bad news I'm afraid. This time you're off to war, one of our fleets is having difficulty dispatching a rebel fleet over Vondarc, this is in a major trade route so they simply can't have that sector, it's time to show these rebels what the republic is made of!" This was the reason why the High Chancellor was human, he had a sense of gravitas and could quite easily command an audience. "Don't worry sir" replied Vallen "They'll regret ever picking their arms up and betraying the republic." The High Chancellor smiled and said "that's what I want to hear Vallen, go show them the power of The Colossus" With that the 3d hologram returned to a map of the galaxy. High General Vallen had secretly been wanting this for quite some time, there was nothing like a good fight to get the blood pumping. He turned to his comm officer and said "Tell Xer Loa to set course for Vondarc" "Yes sir" the comm officer replied Vallen could see a portion of his fleet set off in to the distance and then engaged hyperdrive engines, and in a blaze of light they blurred off into the void. "Right I want everyone ready at the battle stations immediately, get all weapons prepared and have the Hyper-Collider charged and ready to fire. Captain get this ship to that war zone!" This was why he loved his crew, like ants they began to work away immediately, all working for the success of the mission and doing it as efficiently as possible. The ship and his fleet began to turn west and there was a slight hum as the ship picked up speed and the hyper drive engine activated, all at once the stars turned Into a tunnel of light. "Estimated time of arrival 15 minutes sir" "Good, let's hope Xer Loa is prepared for my arrival." [b]Space over Vondarc[/b] Rear admiral Viin was assisting some fellow engineers in the engine room, he got on well with the engineers simply because he enjoyed to be fixing problems, it reminded him of the old days, the technology wasn't nearly as efficient but Viin had learned that for organics aesthetic reasons seemed to over rule efficiency to some degree, he had to admit that the engine cores were incredibly beautiful to stare at. "Thanks Viin, that's saved us a lot of time" the head engineer took his hand and shook it, Viin enjoyed this greatly and everybody knew it, so he eagerly returned the handshake. "It was our pleasure" Viin said in his artificial voice. Viins Omnitool started to flash and it appeared he was wanted on the deck. "We must depart now, if they're any more problems do not hesitate to request my presence" The engineers all thanked him in turn as he left the room and went to the bridge were the admiral was waiting. Once Viin got there he relised that battle stations had been called and that they had arrived at the hostel controlled system. "We apologise for our absence sir" Xer Loa was peering at the map which was giving a detailed analysis of the battle field.