Opperation: Death - Target: Chandrila (Open)

[Dark Lord Rivin]

Looking across the rolling, grassy plains of Chandrila, Rivin watches the symplistic lives a small farming community. It was a beautyful village, like most of the many small scattered villages across Chandrila, This one was happy to live in it's own little world, with little to no cares of what was going of outside their community, let alone outside their planet.

This little village was one of the larger village on this planet, with a little over 1000 people living there. Under most cases people would just leave this quiet, peaceful planet alone, but this was not most cases. This planet was like a symbol to the Republic. Practicly unscared by the wars of the Empire, Rebels, or Republic. Many of there great leaders came from here, afew of them, including the great Mon Mothma, were from this Village.

Since this Village has such sentimental value to the Republic he will start with them. Late in the night Rivin had planted a number of proton charges through out the village, and Now as the sun pokes it's head over the grassy hill, Rivin starts his fun.

He reaches into his pocket, pulling out the remote detonator that sits there, and with a symple push of a button, a billowing cloud of smoke, ash, and flying projectiles takes the place the the small little happy Village.

After a moment of watching the cloud, Rivin mounts his speader bike, and zooms of to the Next village, only 15min away from his location.

It's not long before he enters the second village. The people there, now very awake from the resounding explosion of the neibouring village. Many of the people were screeming, or in a state of panic.

Rivin Aims his bike at a small crowd of people, drawing one of his lightsabers. He raises his bike's altutude so that the nose was aimed at the head of the tallest person, and plunges his bike into the crowd, swinging his lightsaber at the people below, removing body parts as much as he could, and removing the head of the tall man that took the hit from his bike at full speed.

he doesn't looks back at the carnage, though, he just contiues down the street, aiming for his next target group.

[Senator Thareena]

"Senator!" Toni ran into the office unnanounced, and Fa'un Thareena frowned, irritated with the breach of custom. Her aide didn't seem fazed, but scurried to her side and flipped a few buttons on Thareena's personal comm. "You've got to listen to this."

"You're my aide, but I'm not about to stop this paperwork just so I can listen to your favorite comm stat-" The senator stopped talking as Toni vigorously shook her head.

"It's back home, on Chandrila. There's some sort of attack happening, on our soil!"

Fa'un's breath caught as her aide managed to bring up the sound on a security comm transmission. "...all units respond, unknown assailant on First and Silver Sea Road... scratch that he's moved to Second. He's armed with a lightsaber sir, how do we -" Thareena turned down the sound, and pointed at her aide. "Get the govenor on the phone, I need to know if we know where this terrorist is from."

Toni nodded, "I also heard reports that there was a first explosion in a village about two kilometers from their location now." She hurried out of the room as Senator Thareena of Chandrila turned up the sound and steepled her fingers under her chin. It was a dark day for the Republic if enemies were attacking them in the Core.

Rogue Jedi? "Blair, comm the Jedi Order, see if they have anyone on Chandrila!"

She poked her head back into Thareena's office, one hand over the little micro-comm that was plugged into her ear. "Govenor Triest says he's already been in contact with the Jedi, and it isn't one of theirs. They have a Jedi on Chandrila, and they are working with the security forces now."

[Dark Lord Rivin]

The second group of people start to scatter as Rivin zooms towards them. There is no way he can hit more than one with his lightsaber as he zooms past, so he quickly turns off his lightsaber and places it in his lap for a moment, as he casts out his hand sending out a large arc of dark force lightning, bringing 7 people to their knees.

Rivin Skids his bike to a halt, and hops off his bike, grabbing his lightsaber, and acctivating it again. He then runs at the 7 downed people, and with a few quick swings, 7 heads were then rolling on the ground.

He then returns to his bike as he watches a large number of people entering the village's community hall, looking to get out of the way the dark cloked mainic rampaging through the streets. Rivin opens the storage compartment under the seat of his bike, pulling out a fire bomb. He activates it and throws it into the hall Via the open door, then uses the force to colapse the portion of the roof in front of the door and windows, preventing easy escape as the building bursts into flames.

Rivin was then about to go back to excuting the villagers when blaster fire starts to rain down on him from a number of airspeaders. The airspeeders were filled with law enforcement, most of which were pointing their blasters out of open windows or doors and shooting at him.

Rivin puts his bike on auto pilot, using the force to work the controls, and sends it back to his ship, a small landing craft located off in the middles of the grassy hills from which he started his strike. All the while he is working with his bike he does his best to find cover from the deadly rain of energy comming down at him, using his saber to block any that come too close.

[Dark Lord Rivin]

Once his Speader bike is well on it's way, Rivin draws his Second Lightsaber, and walks out of the narow allyway that he was using for cover, Ready to block the blaster bolts.

When he gets out of the ally he sees that the air speeder has landed and some security people are quickly converging on his location, others are trying to evacuate the villagers. When the Security people see him they open fire with another barrage of blaster fire. It is very clear that these people do not know how to fight a Sith.

Rivin has no trouble blocking or dodging all the blaster bolts. He does his best to deflect the bolts he blocks off into the crowd of people trying to flee the village, or at the Security people that are trying to free the people burning alive in the community hall.

[Rognan Dar]

What would be better then to have a small vacation while learning a little bit about the area and what they have done for the NR. Chandrila is a perfect place to do so. There have been so many great things, and no doubt people, that have come from this planet. Mon Mothma was only one of the great people to come from here and become a great leader of the Republic. Even before that she was binding people together to fight against the Emperor. Another name came to mind, though, he was not as famous as mon Mothma, was Admiral Drayson. From what he had read it apeared that the Admiral was a good and trusted friend to Andmiral Ackbar. Complete curiousity over came Rognan. Was it that everyone from Chandrila were great, wise people, or could it just be that generation was the perfect one to overcome the dark ruler of that time. These things were not known to Rog, but that was why he was here. To learn a little about history.

As he was walking around in the city and looked for what he hoped could be a library. He had neglected to ask the deck master if there was even one. So he walked up to man that was walking by and was just about to ask him where he could find a library when he heard a comm go off. The voice on the other side sounded frantic and angry. Turning his ear in the direction of the sound, he picked up that the man that was being commed most have been a security officer of some kind. And the news that he was getting was that a village was just confurmed to have been blown up. Also a dark figure with a lightsaber was killing people left and right in another village not to far away from the one that was destroid. Rognan ran up to the man and asked him what was going on. The man gave him a strange look before seeing that he was a Jedi. He then pointed down the road to his airspeeder and told him to follow.

The man, who Rog found out to be called Wesil, gave him all the news that he got, and some that Rog did not over hear. The flew out of the city with a few other airspeeders following them. The comm in the speeder went off and the same voice that he heard the first time was now telling all the squads that they were in persuit and gave them their cordinates.

Not to long afterwards, the small group of speeders came within visual range of the other airspeeders. Some were already landing and Rog could see the officers jump out and continue after the enemy. Little flashes of laser fire could been seen from the speeders in the air and even from the ones on the ground. "Tell your men to stand back. Their going to get killed if they are going up against someone with a lightsaber." Wesil relaid the message to the other speeder. But the men that were already on the ground were to late. For they would surely not be aloid to retreat back to their speeders.

They quickly landed and Rognan hopped out and un-clipped his saber from his waist and ran off to save any of the men that he could. As he drew closer he could see bodies on the ground, dead. Several of them were missing heads. Smoke was growing thickly in the area. Rog did not have to look far for the fire. For it was a great blaze of red-orange light and the sound of screams for help could be heard over the roaring flames. Blaster fire was heard in the other direction as the officers continue to take the man down. A hard choice was before him. Who was he to save and who was he to let die. There would be no way to do both, and a critical judgement would befall him for either one of his choices. But there was one choice that sang out to him. It was a horrible tune, but one that he knew he had to go with. Taking a deep breath he ran to the burning building. The front door was blocked by burning boards and beams. It would take to long to clear that out. And listening to the scream while he did such would forever eat away at his soul. There was nowhere that he would be able to get them out quickly. The whole place was on fire! But, could it be? Yes! There was a small section of the wall on the back of the left side of the building that was not burned as much. Rognan ran as fast as he could to that spot and turned on his saber. He then quickly began to cut a whole in the wall. When a big piece of the wall fell away, a sudden rush a heat over came Rognan, making him step back. People at once started to coming out, some on fire and others burned badly.

OOC: Sorry if this seems to long of a first post. I had to make up for all that has happened between the repeated posts. If it is to much action without a counteraction to Rognan's work, then let me know.

[Dark Lord Rivin]

Rivin continues to block the swarm of blaster bolts coming at him, but he looses his concetration when he hears the sound of another lightsaber activate.

Why can't the jedi just let me have some FUN! Rivin thinks to himself.

But it is not long before Rivin is snaped back to reality as a blaster bolt passes through his cloke coming unconfortably close. Though he really doesn't care about his cloke, he goes to play up the incident.

"YOU RUNIED MY CLOKE!" Rivin yells loud enough to halt some people in their tracks. "YOU'LL PAY FOR THIS!"

Rivin then, casts forward the fingers on his right hand, while his thumb holds his saber, sending an arc of Dark Force lightning at the security people. Some of them Dive out of the way, but most of them fall to the ground in pain. Rivin charges at the fallen security people, using the force to increase his speed, attacking and killing the ones that dived out of the was first, then killing the ones hit by the lightning.

Now that there was a pause in the blaster fire, Rivin reaches out with the force to find the jedi. Reconising Rognan instantly he calls out to the streets.

"Hello Mr. Dar! I would like to congragulate you on your premotion to knight! I hope that Vista is recovering well! She speeks very highly of you! Why don't you call off these guards, come out here, and face me like a Jedi in single combat!"

[Rognan Dar]

Rognan was in the building as Rivin was finishing off with the last of the ground troops. Many of the people that could not walk out of the hole he cut were still inside burning to death. Many were on fire trying to put themselves out. Some were on fire and alive, yet found no point in trying to beat the flame, for they new that they were already dead. Nothing could be done for those, which attack Rog's spirit, for if they did not try to fight for their lives in the face of death, who would? All he could do was carry out a few that were still alive and making their way to the hole. Rognan had carried out five people when the roof suddenly collapsed, falling on anyone that was left, killing them in a slow roast.

All the people that did make it out where making their way to a shelter that others had set up and some officers where directing and guarding. They all had burns to some degree, with pieces of flesh black from the fire or drooping off of the bone. Rognan was just about to follow the last one when he heard his name called from behind. Turning around slowly, Rognan perseived the site of a dark robed figure with two lightsabers in his hands. Walking forward he heard the mans comments about him and people he knew. Realization dawned on him at this was the man that took Vista, that was the cause of so many problems at the GJO and in his own life. Now he was out and about causing trouble whereever he could.

A airspeeder came up behind Rivin with someone leaning out the window just about to fire at the back of Rivin's head. Rognan mentally moved the weapon up, making the officer wonder what was happening. He turned around and called after one of the men escorting the victims to help with people, but to leave this fight to him. He then turned back around and stared at Rivin.

[Dark Lord Rivin]

Rivin knew the speeder was comming at him, but before the man could fire at him Rognan diverted the shot so that it would not hit him. Rivin was mildly suprised, but didn't show it. Though Rivin still doesn't like people that try to shoot him in the back, so Rivin looks back at the speeder and with a slight nod, he uses the force to pull the nose of the airspeeder so that itis pointed at the ground, causing the speeder to crash at high speed into the ground. He then looks back at Rognan, though now he is back lit by the exploding Speeder behind him.

Rivin then slowly starts to walk towards Rognan saying.

"You have been quite a pain in my rear end Jedi Dar. You have been killing or arresting my thugs where ever you can. You put my first apprentice into hiding, which in the end caused him to be arrested. You have foiled my plans for my men to capture some of the belongings of a few students of the GJO. But this is not over yet. Talzen was only the boss, the apprentice. You now stand before The Master, The Dark One, The Crime Lord of the Molochean Hand. Untill now you have faced the easy fights."

Rivin at this point starts ot circle Rognan at about the distance of three meters.

"Do you have any Last words before you face your death?"

[Rognan Dar]

He had not expected to have the airspeeder go crashing down into the ground. He was hoping that Rivin would jsut let it go and fight himself as Rivin had told him to do. Now there was a few more deaths that he was responable for.

As Rivin moved in closer Rognan didn't move a inch, a little because of shock and the other because there was no need. He watched the dark figure as his voice filled the air. All the things he said trigured memories of events that he had no idea Rivin knew about. Clearly this man new more about Rog then he did about him. Rog had done so many things to stop Rivin's plans when he was just trying to protect his friends and take care of a Talzen, who he thought was behind it all. That must have been what they wanted. Now, the person that was really behind all those plans and problems was standing infront of him.

His taunts did not surprise Rog in the lest. And he new that what he said was true. Those were the easy fights, if he was fighting only his apprentice. And unless his apprentice was just shot of his masters skills, this would be a test of all Rog has learned nad then some.

"Do you?"

[Dark Lord Rivin]

Rivin laughs as he stops in front of Rognan "I will not be dying anytime soon. At least not by the likes of you!"

Rivin looks to the burning building behind them and see that one of the other officers that was burried when the roof colapsed, has mannaged to dig himself out of the flames and was almost clear of the rubble. Rivin had to change that. He looks back at Rognan again.

"Let us see if you are as good in a fight as Vista clames you are."

Rivin Spins both His lightsabers in his hands as he nods towards the burning building, and uses the force to grab a flaming peice of wood that was holding up a large amount of flaming wood from falling on the almost free security officer, causing the pile of wood to crush the officer, and sends the flaming board at Rognan's Back like a harpoon.

[Rognan Dar]

Thats what you think.

Rognan watched Rivin closely, and saw that he was no looking directly at him. He turned slightly to see where he was looking and noticed the guard. He looked back at Rivin quickly and was about to do something when he heard the rest more of the building fall down. Right then his senses screamed at him. He could not have known what was coming, but something was telling him to get out of the way. He focused his thoughts on the force, drawing upon its warning. Then, with a step and a spin to the right missed getting hit by the board and watch it as it passed him by. Returning his gaze back to Rivin, he continues to watch and wait.

[Dark Lord Rivin]

Rivin uses the force to tap the board, changing the path of the projectile that Rognan dodged, causing it to impale a woman who was running from the butchers shop where she was when he first attacked , to an airspeeder that the security people were using to evacuate the townsfolk. The flaming board went through the woman's back and came halfway out of her chest. As she falls to her side dead It can be seen that the board missed, but is now pinning the 6 month old baby girl the woman was holding to the ground, but holding up her mother so that she does not crush her.

Moments after Rivin alters the path of the board, He takes two quick steps forward towards Rognan, swinging his Left saber towards Rognan's right hip, slashing upwards towards Rognan's left Shoulder. Rivin's Right saber also strikes with a Thrusting jab towards Rognan's lower stomach.

[Senator Thareena]

Fa'un Thareena sat white-faced at her desk, partly from shock, but mostly from anger as she listened to the reports coming to her directly from Chandrila. Her right hand was hastily scribbling something on a datapad, which she handed to her aide.

Toni looked down at the datapad in her hand, and nodded. Find out where this man came from! "I'll do what I can -"

"Shh!" Thareena turned up the sound on the transmission. "...the Jedi Knight Rognan Dar has arrived on the scene, and is confronting the alleged Sith who has identified himself as one Lord Rivin..."

The Senator's lips tightened into a white line. I only hope that he is able to stop the Sith.

[Je'gan Olra'en]

Rivin, you fool...

Je'gan moved - invisible, mind-shielded, Force-masked and silent - through the carnage. His thoughts regarding his fellow Sith Knight were anything but charitable.

Couldn't you have restrained your activities to less obvious places?

Then again, he'd never held Rivin entirely in the highest esteem, even when he had been an entry-level Apprentice and the older man was casting Force-lightning at him. Perhaps because of that, or at least the principles behind it that Rivin seemed to flaunt.

And why waste your time on such things anyways? Have you no self-respect, no pride?

Overwhelming, unnecessary force; wanton cruelty. Je'gan, too, was Sith - Darth Shule by taken name - but with him it was always force for a purpose, cruelty for a purpose. Creating fear, to his mind, was a fair goal, but there were more effective ways to do that than the torture and murder of innocents. From what he'd seen, heard, sensed and mindtapped, Rivin deserved no respect beyond that due his not inconsiderable abilities.

Why, for example, would you do that?

A mother and child had just fallen not far from Je'gan's path. Rivin was locked in combat with a Jedi - Rognan Dar, as Je'gan recalled the name from the Order's GJO file. He'd actually fought Dar once, briefly; just before Southstar had taken him as a student, that had been. A worthy and innovative opponent - and by his Force signature, a Knight. If he could wait to save the victims of the carnage, he'd give 'Dark Lord' Rivin a run for his figurative money. Even though Je'gan and Rivin were members of the same Order, he felt no guilt over wishing his fellow Sith a challenging, stimulating encounter.

Somewhat out of spite for the other Darksider, however, Je'gan approached the fallen mother and crouched beside her. He reached out with the Force and with his illusion and extended both over the wailing infant. A soothing mental influence quieted the baby; unhooking it from the board and taking it in his arms, he headed away from the conflict.

[Rognan Dar]

Rognan didn't have time to see what Rivin did. For when he altered the board he also attacked. Activating his saber he parried the right lightsaber to his right, knocking it into the incoming saber coming from Rivins left, stopping his own attack with his own saber. Taking a step backwards, he heard a small cry behind Rivin and to the side. He now saw that the board that had his name writen on it was now stuck on someone else. The small cry was coming from a heap in the womans arms. But his attention was drawn back to Rivin and the fight. After that moment he never heard the baby cry again. And did think about it because he was to busy.

[Dark Lord Rivin]

As his sabers were parried and knocked of to the side, Rivin does a quick spin to his right. Using the spin to add to the power behind his attacks Rivin swings his Right saber high as Rognan's neck, and his left Saber low at Rognan's knees.

While doing this Rivin notices the baby vannish. That really didn't bother Rivin, but he did see through the force that Je'gan was also there. He didn't get a good view of him, only a quick moment when he opened his illusion to engulf the baby. Rivin didn't have the time to confront Je'gan about his interfearance, but he would later.

[Je'gan Olra'en]

He moved farther away, behind a house, and appeared beside a villager, a woman, slightly wounded but overall in good shape. His mind reached out and soothed her fears before she could scream at his sudden entrance.

Take care of the baby, he said telepathically, handing the little girl to the woman. Run and don't look back.

He took care to ensure that his Force signature was still dampened, then re-worked his illusion and headed back to observe the combat.

[Rognan Dar]

Rognan was not use to fighting against two sabers. In fact, he never had fought against two at a time. He needed to sharpen his senses in order to perceive what was coming.

In the few second that it took to see the attaack coming and doing something about it, several types of counter attacks came to mind. But he did not use any of them. Doing a backflip instead, he landed five feet more ahead of Rivin from where he last stood, ready to block another attack.

[Dark Lord Rivin]

Rivin charges forward towards Rognan, but as he is charging Rivin calls on the force to grab both of Rognan's feet and yanks them out from under him and up so that Rognan would fall onto his back.

When Rivin gets over to Rognan, he uses his left saber to guard ageinst any attacks that may be comming at his legs, and swings his Right saber Down towards Rognan's chest.

[Rognan Dar]

The sudden rush of ground vanishing beneath his feet shocked Rognan as suddenly he was on his back. He looked up into the face of Rivin as he came closer and brought his saber down upon him. He kicks out his left foot at Rivins right hand, knocking it aside. As he does this a sign from a building behind him snaps off its supports and falls toward Rivin. He then goes feet over head in a back roll and comes to his knees.

[Dark Lord Rivin]

Rivin's atacking arm recoils back as it is kicked giving Rognan anough time to get out of the way of his attack. Rivin also notices the sign comming towards him, and sends it a quick nod, allowing him to grab it with the force, causing the sign to fly towards another small group of fleeing townspeople.

By this time Rognan was almost to his knees, So Rivin takes another step forwards, and thrust's his left saber at Rognan's chest and his right saber swinging at Rognan's neck. He also makes sure that he has a strog enough grip on his blades, so that Rognan can not deflect his left blade into his right causing both blades to be blocked.

[Rognan Dar]

His little sign diversion gave him enough time for what he needed. And now, as Rivins two blades came at him again, he wasn't in a very defendible position.

Rognan leaned to the right and faced the right saber, bringing his saber up infront of him, causing him to evade the thrust and block the swing which, in turn, also protected him from any quick attacks from that position.

The sign that was going toward the people hit nothing, for the people were smart enough to evade, or maybe just lucky, the big sign.

[Dark Lord Rivin]

Rivin uses the force to throw Rognan back into a wall not far away behind him. After Rognan is in the Air, Rivin calls on to the force to pull a lot of dirt and rocks off the dirt road, and sends all of it at Rognan as a Flying cloud of Dirt and Debrise.

Rivin was about to move in to attack Rognan again, when he noticed that the rest of the town had been evacuated, and the planetary defence was now sending in Snubfighters to deal with him.

Rivin was getting ready to block a number of lazer blasts, and the lazer blasts started to come in hard and fast, which Rivin only had little trouble blocking or dodging. But then Rivin noticed that one of the fighters had fired a missle at him. Hidden by the wave of lazer fire, Rivin didn't see it untill it was almost too late. Rivin dived out of the way, only to be thrown farther as the explosion throws him to the side of a building. Rivin hits the Side of a building across the wide main street from Rognan.

He was in pain, the fighters were getting ready for another pass, And Rognan was still fighting capabile. This was not looking good.

[Rognan Dar]

Rognan hit the wall with a force that made him black out for a second before coming back to reality. When he did, he saw a a twister of dirt and stones coming his way. It wasn't like it was laser fire or a lightsaber. Those would have been easyer to deal with. But how do you stop dirt and many rocks? He wasn't in a position to get out of the way or put anything between him and the storm.

Just before the could of pain was about to hit him, Rog heard a loud boom that made his ears hurt. There was a flash and a explosion behind the dust could that could hardly be seen but he knew that there had to be more things flying through the air now. So with all he could muster at that time, he used the Force to created a kind of bubble around himself that pushed outward. As it was pushing back the dirt and stone it connected with the debrise from the explosion and stopped it from going his way as well.

When the cloud settled down, he could see across the way where Rivin use to be. There was a cratter there now, along with smoke rising from it. Furth across was Rivin, still in one peice. But it looked like he was cutting it a little to close to whatever that explosion was. And out of the corner of his eye he saw a fighter zoom by and was coming around for another pass. He wouldn't have a clear shot, not with Rivin being next to the building. The fighter would have to make another pass at the right angle to get to him. Untill that could happen, he was still able to fight back and maybe even get away. Rog didn't want that to happen. Consintrating his thoughts he pushed his consurns aside and focused on the building behind Rivin. He then lifted off the ground and was moving across the street like a bullet right for Rivin. He landed to his feet and kept running with the speed he had and through his saber vertically at Rivin in a buzz saw fashion. He also pulled a small piece a board from the street and shot it at him.

[Dark Lord Rivin]

Rivin knew that things were going down hill for him. Rognan was zooming towards him, and a peice of wood was now flying at him. The Snubfighters were comming around again, and he still had to deal with a Jedi.

Rivin still on the ground, turns off his lightsabers, and rolls off to his right side so that the Lightsaber and wood would not hit him, he then flips him self back to his feet, so that he is now in front of an ally way going between two buildings, at which Rivin quickly runs through.

When he gets to the otherside, he pulls out a button, which he pushes, thus calling his speeder bike back to him. Though it will take a moment or so for it to get here. He now presses himself agienst the backside of the building, hoping that Rognan will run right past him if he follows him through the ally.

[Je'gan Olra'en]

Fighters...no, no, that wouldn't do.

He found cover again and dropped the illusion to give him a little more to work with, then considered again and dropped the Force-mask as well. The pilots of the fightercraft suddenly found themselves having a series of good ideas involving the landing of their vessels on an open plane at top speed. Less than a minute later, a massive set of fireballs appeared on the edge of town.

Smiling grimly, Je'gan restarted the Force Mask and the illusion of invisibility, then moved back to a position where he could see the two combatants.

[Rognan Dar]

Rognan's saber dug into the ground and part of the wall before switching off. The piece of wood sent splintering in the wall right after Rivin started running. As Rog continued to run he slowed down and stopped himself on the wall where his saber was poking out slighty. He grabbed it and looked to Rivin's fleating back as he turn away, out of site. Just then he heard another explosion and a feeling of death throug hthe force. He looked to the outskirts of town and saw smoke rising over the houses and buildings. Rivin couldn't have done that, not with his tail tucked between his legs. There had to be another one around here. That wasn't good. He wouldn;t be able to deal with more then one, if he could even deal with Rivin.

So far this was all he knew the other person had done. And it was enough to make him weary of where Rivin had gone off to. He went to the entrence to the alley and looked inside. It was dark and could easily split off into other sections. He felt Rivin was still around, somewhere. He thought better then to go inside, but to follow could be worse then letting him go. He would not allow that if he could help it. But he needed some way to light the alley. Looking behind him at the still burning building, he took a piece of burning wood and floughted it to him. He grabbed it and headed inside the ally, looking all over for where Rivin might have gone. Just then, he came up with a idea. Instead of holding his newly declared torch, showing anyone that he was coming, he let it flought ahead of him, making it seem as if he was farther then he really was.

[Dark Lord Rivin]

Rivin saw the fighters were now up in smoke, but he could sence more ships comming, likely landing craft, and likey ready you take on a Sith. So ether way It would still be a good Idea to get out of here before they show up.

Rivin could see a light in the ally comming towards him. and he could sence rognan in the ally. But Rognan was moving slow and keeping a close watch on things. Rivin couldn't tell if the light was where Rognan was or if it was a small distance behind the light, So Rivin went to be on the safe side.

When both the light and the Life essence that he thought might be Rognan, was in the middle of the ally Rivin tosses one of his sabers over the roof of the building he was next to, and uses the force to cause the saber to hover at roof level of the building. He then starts to spin the handle end-over-end and when it is moving very fast he then uses the force to activate the blade.

He pulls the spinning blade through the roof back towards the side of the building he is on, cutting free a chunk of the roof. Once the blade was clear through the the roof on his side, Rivin uses the force again to push the disconected 2 meter long portion of the roof into the allyway, dropping it as close as he could to where he though Rognan should be, some where between the ball of light and the life essence.

[Je'gan Olra'en]

More disciplined minds were approaching; reaching out to them, Je'gan implanted unreasoning terror in a handful from each group. The chaos they created should be enough to distract the incoming troops. Not for the first time, Je'gan regretted how slowly his learning seemed to be going. Even though he'd made steady progress, it never seemed to be enough. Not ever.

[Rognan Dar]

Rognan was getting close to the end of the alley way with not so much as a glimmer of Rivin. He was close, he knew that. But did he make it out already and he was just wasting his time looking for shadows that were not there? It didn't matter much. When a piece of roof came into the alley above him, his question was answered. Rivin did make it out and was now trying to smash him like a womprat. It was high up, giving him just enough time to do something. But what was he to do? Go after Rivin and what might be a trap, or make sure that he was not sqwished and give Rivin a chance to escape. He couldn't risk either of those options. And as the piece of roof kept coming down at him he was losing his window of opertunity.

With a turn around and a dive, the roof smashed down, sending splinhtering boards and roof material everywhere, not to mention his torch was now gone. He picked himself up and pushed some boards off of his back and turned around to head back out of the alley.

[Dark Lord Rivin]

As Rognan comes out of the alley Rivin attacks, activating his lightsabers again and attack what ever he see's leave the alley first, with his left saber swinging high towards his head, and his right saber doing what ever it can to hit anywhere on Rognan's lower body.

Some of the troops were starting to panic, but most of the troops were still comming, now most of them were out of the landing crafts and heading his way.

[Je'gan Olra'en]

The landing craft had landed, and their ramps were disgorging disciplined soldiers. Je'gan moved to take cover behind a durable stone wall. His mind reached out and touched those of the more professional soldiers. In large part, those were officers.

His touch became an iron clamp as he slipped through their discipline with ease and took full control of their minds in half the time it took the troops to cover the distance between the dropships and the village. The officers barked orders into helmet comms, orders to withdraw. The Jedi, they said, had neutralized the Sith. The orders were to stand down and re-enter the ships.

[Rognan Dar]

Rognan was just making his way out of the alley when a red light went right for him. He was at a slow run, just getting over the fallen roof, and he could not stop his speed right away. He activates his saber and ducks under the high attack. But then there was another red light that was lower and coming quickly. Hunched over he hopped over the low slash and went into a forward roll and came to his feet. He turned and could now see Rivin. BUt coming out of the alley had left him half blind as his eye's were re-adjusting from dark to bright light.

[Dark Lord Rivin]

Rivin could now hear his speeder on approching him. It was close but not here yet. He still had to hold off for a bit longer.

Rivin spins to face Rognan, slashing upwards with his right saber, attempting to contact at Rognan's left hip and slice him up to the right shoulder, as his left saber comes down towards Rognan's left shoulder.

Rivin looks off towards the troops comming his way. The commanders were ordering a withdraw, but a good chunck of them were ignoreing the orders since it was clear with their own eyes that the Sith had not been taken down, other were going back into the ship and a few were just standing there with a confused look on their face.

[Je'gan Olra'en]

The officers began to scream out their orders, and although some soldiers turned back to the landing craft, those who remained were focused on the visible Je'gan and Rivin. Blaster bolts started to fly, not at Rivin - he being too close to Rognan - but at the innocent bystander Olra'en.

Who promptly dove out of the way and turned himself invisible. Blades hissed from their sheaths as he moved towards the troops, avoiding fire with ease. The mind-controlled officers began to fire at their own men. Between the Sith Knight and the surprise attack from the rear, it didn't take long before the vast majority were milling in confusion.

[Rognan Dar]

Once again Rivin was at him attacking with both his sabers at the same time. Never at one time could he block both of them. Even if he could, he would then be opened up to some other kind of attack by his other saber. So it was a block and dodge. Doing a 270 degree turn to his left side moving towards Rivin, he ended up with his back to Rivin's sabers. He then threw out his right arm to block the low cut that would have still gotten him while the other went down with no contact. Rog was now close to Rivin. He lashed out with his left elbow at Rivins head before he had time to bring his left saber back to any kind of defense.

Just then he heard shooting and saw a figure going against some ground units. He knew that there was a second one here. But he didn't have time to take care of both of them.

[Dark Lord Rivin]

Rognan was quick, and there was just too many things catching his attention. Unfortunatly he didn't see the elbow till it was too late. He takes the blow to his right temple, knocking him back a few steps and causing him to loose his balance and fall onto his rear end.

At the moment all he could see was the world spinning around him, but that would cleer up quickly.

[Rognan Dar]

Wasting no time, Rognan turned around the rest of the way and watched as Rivin fell to the ground. There was a small chance of opertunity here, and if he didn't take it, then Rivin would be back and more then ready to fight. Take a few steps forward to close the distance that was lost during Rivin's stumble backwards, Rog spins to his right and goes low, sweeping his blade a few inches off the ground. He was just close enough the the blade would go right through both legs up to the knee.

[Dark Lord Rivin]

Rivin gets his sences back together jus as Rognan is closing in on him, and does a backwards roll as Rognan's blades comes down at his legs. The blade misses his legs but cuts his cloke so that it is now only half the length of his body.

Rivin's speeder was now comming in fast, locked onto Rivin's location, due to the homing beacon in his pocket. With Rognan, close on his heals, More troops comming in for a landing, and more snubfighters all comming in. Rivin knew that the time had come to get out of here.

Rivin comes out of his roll back on his feet and goes into a jump bacwards. using the force to guide the bike, Rivin lands on the bike in the driver's position. Rivin then does a quick turn on the bike, doing a saidways skid, kicking up a bunch of dirt going in Rognan's direction, and then Jets off towards Je'gan as if on a collison course, Giving him a heads up through the force that he is leaving, and that if he wishes a ride out of here, now is the time.

[Rognan Dar]

Rognan was about to do a follow up attack when suddenly Rivin was on a speeder bike. It was a good transition from the ground to mounting on a vehicle. If he really wanted, Rivin might have tried to run him over. Instead he turned and kicked up dirt as he sped away.

Rog grabbed the edge of his cloak and brought it up around him as he turned around, the dirt hitting his robe with no effect. He came out of the spin and threw his saber at the dissapearing back of Rivin. The blade moved with speed and power behind it as Rog guided it to its target. But with the Force he was not able to catch Rivin. The speeder was to fast and could easily dodge into a alley and the blade would then go blindly through whatever stood in the way. There was no point. Rivin wanted to be away, and there was nothing he could do about it but watch in dispare as his great enemy ran away.

[Je'gan Olra'en]

Smart, Rivin, Je'gan telepathed back sarcastically, dispatching another soldier and moving on. Right through the troops. Go ahead; I'll catch up with you later. I know you want to have a talk with me. That's quite all right. I want to have a talk with you just as much.

Dropping all mind-control, he sheathed his blades and moved away, out of the milling mass of soldiers and into the village again.

Where he turned a corner and encountered Rognan Dar. Instantly, he dropped his illusion, keeping his hands nearby his weapons.

"My ally has chosen to flee," he said, somewhat grandiosely. "My place is with him. You are most fortunate that I do not choose to finish you here and now. Until then, farewell." He bowed jerkily and moved away at a run, Illusion making him appear just another bloody, dirty survivor of the village. He actually was quite bloody, and the dirt was easy to add through Illusion, so that should go well.

Just another survivor...

[Dark Lord Rivin]

Rivin Zooms past Je'gan and turns around a building to avoid the lightsaber chasing him. As he zooms off along side of the village, he hits a button on his bike a few times, causing it to drop a few powerful explosives set to a two second timer. At the speeds he was moving at it would not be hard for him to get out of there before the bombs go off.

The first one goes off almost as soon as Je'gan says farewell. and and the other 3 he droped go off onesecond after the one before, leveling a few more buildings and sending dibris flying in to the air.

[Senator Thareena]

"Jedi Knight Rognan Dar to see you, Senator." Blair walked into Fa'un's office, and the Senator could see the Jedi in the anteroom behind her.

"Ah, good, send him in."

Thareena rose from her desk as the Jedi knight walked into the office. "It is an honor to meet you, Jedi Knight Dar. Thank you for your efforts on my home planet, Chandrila is most grateful.

"And I am anxious to hear first hand what I've read in the report I got from our security forces on Chandrila." She smiled, and offered him a seat.

[Rognan Dar]

Rognan entered the room and looked it over before returning his gaze to the senator. When she motioned him to a seat he waved his hand in refusal.

"I'll stand, thank-you."

He then walked in more and set himself right infront of her desk and put his hands behind his back.

"As you well know, your home planet was attacked by a sith. And, unfortunatly, I have had many run ins with this...man. I have delt with one of his padawans and then he has been showing up himself ever more. And I'm sorry that I was not able to save more civilians. He seemed to want to kill as many as he could in order to distract me or make me angry. Many were killed, not to mention the security forces that were distroyed also.

And I dont know if your reports have listed that there was another sith in the area. After the fight I can now put together many times that things were done by this second sith that hampered with my fight with Rivin and also the result of many more officers deaths."

[Senator Thareena]

Thareena found herself sitting back in her chair as her knees went a little weak. "Two..? No, I am afraid that was not in the report." Fa'un thought for a moment, and then collected herself. Rognan felt an underlying thread of fear coming from her, but that could have been expected. Her resolve strengthened, but the terror remained, although contained admirably.

"And you know the name of one... Rivin is what you named him in the report. Have you the identity of the second, or any notion of where they came from?"

[Rasha Vill]

Rasha has heard of the incident that happened only a week ago on Thareena's homeworld and from the report that she had received from her people, she could determin that it was a member of TSO that did it. So Rasha thought it best for political reason that She go back to Coruscant and express her sympathy for the loss of so many people.

Just as the last Time Rasha was on Coruscant, She showed up without any warning. Last time She spoke with Thareena, Rasha was only the leader of a city, now she was in charge of the planet Corellia, and the reaction that got this time when she just walks into the building where Thareena's office is was almost more panic within the support staff as when they found her on planet the last time, only this time they didn't even have any notice of her arrival since she came here right from the spaceport.

She walks up to an assistant behind a desk.

"I'm here to speek with Senator Thareena in regards to the event on her homeworld a week ago. Could you please let her know that Mayor Vill of Corellia is here to speek with her?"

[Senator Thareena]

Toni Blair, Fa'un's aide, looked up at the newcomer, slightly put out. "I am terribly sorry, but the Senator is in the middle of an important meeting. If you need to speak with her, I can make an appointment for next week."

There was no panic in the room, as everyone had things to do, and no time to waste on a non-Republic official. Toni did press a small black button underneath her desk, notifying security of a possible unfriendly. There would be two officers dispatched to the Chandrilan delegation, where they would wait outside the door discretely. "Ma'am... would you like to make an appointment?" Toni smiled sweetly.

[Rasha Vill]

Rasha Smiles at Toni.

"I'm sorry, but I am leaving planet this evening, so I will be unable to make an appointment. I understand that she is busy, but since she is not interested in getting more information about the attacker of her homeworld, I guess I will be leaving now."

Rasha turns and slowly starts to walk back towards the door.

[Rognan Dar]

"Yes, I do believe there was two. And it appeared to have been someone Rivin knew. So I assumed it was another Sith. Not to mention he was attacking the security officers. I can not say who it was. And I would not be able to identify him. As far as where they come from: I do not know where their base is. For if the Jedi could find out, then we would have gone and...wipe them out."

Rognan shifted his weight from one foot to the other. Then his brow wrinkled as consurned and contimplating showed from his face.

"But why would they want to attack Chandrila? There was no target that they had in mind. It was just a slaughter. This is a rash move for the Sith to be going out for a little blood bath."

[Senator Thareena]

Thareena settled her elbows on her desk, and sighed. "So these Sith, as you call them, attacked Chandrila for no known reason? Such terrorist activites need to be rooted out and destroyed, as you yourself said."

***

Toni pursed her lips, and then sighed. "If you have information about the terrorist attack on Chandrila last week, then the Senator will likely see you shortly. Please, have a seat." Ms. Blair waited for the woman to sit down across the anteroom from her, and then put her finger to the comm in her ear. She adjusted the extended arm that was the microphone, and dialed up the intercomm for Thareena's office.

***

The intercomm beeped softly as the Jedi Knight moved to reply, and Thareena regretfully interrupted him. "I apologize, Knight Dar, my aides were told not to disturb the meeting unless it was an emergency." Fa'un flicked the intercom on, "Toni, what is it?"

Toni spoke softly into her headset, so the other woman in the anteroom could not overhear. "I am sorry, Senator, but the woman from Corellia is here. She says she has information about the attack on our planet, and that she is only here for the day."

Thareena's mind reeled for a moment. Rasha Vill, here again? The woman had a habit of showing up in the most unexpected places. "You were right to interrupt, Toni. Please, if it is alright with the Jedi, you may show her in immediately."

Rognan Dar indicated silently that he was also interested in hearing what the figurehead of Corellia had to say. This must mean that the Sith Rivin has connections to the elusive Order! Thareena contained her excitement as Toni relayed to Rasha Vill that the Senator would see her now.

The office doors opened, and Toni smiled tightly at Fa'un. "Mayor Vill, of Corellia." The Mayor walked inside the office, and the aide closed the doors quietly behind her.

Thareena did not stand in welcome. "Mayor Vill, this is an unexpected surprise, although perhaps it should not have been. This is Jedi Knight Rognan Dar, of the Greater Jedi Order. Please, you told my aide you have information about the attack a week ago on Chandila?"

ooc: I hope no one is offended that I am trying to move the story along by RPing some of your actions. /ic:

[Rasha Vill]

Rasha smiles as she is told she could wait a moment and see the Senator, and moments later she was being shown into The Senator's office.

Rasha smiles and nods to Thareena and Rognan.

"Greetings Senator, Greetings Jedi Dar, I'm sorry for arriving unanounced again, and I wish to express my condolences for the lives that were lost. I was in the area when I heard what happend to your home. I then called back and checked with some of my soruces within TSO, and I was able to gather more information."

Rasha looks towards Rogana.

"I am assuming that you are the Jedi that was pressent."

After Rognan nodded comfirming her assumption, Rasha continues.

"You then likely know that one of the sith there was a Sith known as Rivin. A member of TSO, But often acts on his own agenda. He is also the owner of a criminal organisation, known as the Molochean Hand. It is rather large but keeps a low profile rather well. Some other actions that my people have put to the actions of the Molochean Hand would include the ransom of a Jedi child, and The poisoning of the water supply on this world, where Rivin was caught by a Jedi but escaped durring the trasportation to the prison.

TSO does not condone his actions, and his actions are not represented as actions of TSO.

The other Sith that was present was also a member of TSO, Named Je'gan Olra'en. He and Rivin do not get along well, and Rivin was heard barging into Je'gan's room accusing him of interfereing in his plans on Chandrila."

[Senator Thareena]

Thareena blinked once or twice during the Mayor's speech, but otherwise her face showed nothing except calm. Nothing betrayed what might have been going through her mind. "This Rivin seems to have quite the rap sheet."

Fa'un did not look at Rognan Dar, but kept her eyes causally focused on Rasha Vill. "Please, Mayor, have a seat and make yourself comfortable. What does the government of Corellia have to say about terrorism? I am curious as to what you would do in my place, if offered the same information and circumstances." Her fingers tapped absently on a datapad's surface as she spoke, and she sighed. The day was going to be a very long one, but it would help if she could get some help on knowing where to start.

Corellia was an unlikely ally in this, and asking for advice seemed to be the smart thing to do.

[Rognan Dar]

Rognan listened intently. Most of the things Rasha said about Rivin were things that Rog had to deal with personally. And the recollection of it all only made him wish he stopped him before he got away.

"What about the other Sith, Olra'en, is his actions also not condoned by this sith order?"

[Rasha Vill]

Rasha looks towards Rognan as she sits down.

"Je'gan's action were much more appropreate. He was protecting another member of the order, He was only harming the people that were attacking, and none other, He saved the life of an infant that was left by Rivin for dead after he killed it's mother. Je'gan's actions were far more noble than Rivin's, And thus the order has less of a problem with his actions."

Rasha looks back at Thareena.

"As for what I would do if this happened to my world, If it was TSO that attacked, then there would be little I could do, since the sith still are in charge of protecting the planet. If they attacked there would be nothing I could do. But if it was some rouge sith that attacked or a Jedi that did something of that effect I would first look for the reason, since everything is always done for a reason. I would then do what ever I could with my political office, to ensure that the attacker didn't get what they want, and Whatever I could to ensure that it never happened again in the same manner as it did the last time. For me, If they fool me once then I count it as a learning experance, If the fool me twice with the same trick, then I am the fool. As of yet in my life I have not been the fool." She adds quietly to herself "and Rivin will not be the first to give me that title."

[Senator Thareena]

Thareena nodded thoughtfully, her eyes straying a bit to the Jedi, still standing there quietly. "Fool me twice, indeed." Her finger tapped again, as she appeared to think.

Something Rasha had said had piqued her curiosity. "You say you would make sure that the attacker did not get what they wanted. Are you insinuating that this was not just a random terror strike, but that Rivin stood to gain from this latest attack?"

[Rasha Vill]

Rasha Nods at the Senator's Assumption

"Yes, or at least from what was overheard by my agent. Rivin was explaning his Tactic to Je'gan, Which involved a construction company that is on Rivin's pay role.

Apparently days after the distruction of those two towns a number of construction companies started bidding on the contracts to rebuild the towns. Also from what I have found out due to my own research, All of the comapanies pulled out of the bidding, except for two, both of which are owned by the same person.

The person that owns the two construction compainies has also been recorded to be placing large portions of his profit into an unnamed Bank Account that I could trace no further. Though I did find that around the time of the ransom of the Jedi Girl, there was a deposit of approximatly half the amount of the ransom into that account.

So I'm sure from this point, I do not need to finish drawing the lines to where Rivin stood to gain from this."

[Senator Thareena]

Thareena shook her head, slowly. "No, you do not." She looked blatantly at the Jedi, wondering what he thought about all this.

Turning her head back towards the Mayor, Thareena steepled her fingers below her chin. "Will you be on Coruscant long, Mayor Vill? It is not a short trip back to Corellia, even though it is a Core world. I couldn't imagine that you have made this trip out here just to speak to me. Is there some way I can get in touch with you while you take care of your other business?"

[Rasha Vill]

"I have a ticket on a Ship to go off planet this evening, but if political maters envolving Corellia arise while I'm still on planet, I may end up taking a diffrent flight home. I was accualy only supose to have been on planet long enough to transfer from the ship Arriving from Kashyyyk to the one leaving for Drall, and from there I was going to get a lift back to Corellia. As I said, I heard about the problem, and thought I would stop in while I was on planet.

I know it seems odd that I'm using public transit, But at the moment I'm trying to save a bit of money in staffing and fule costs by taking ships that would be doing the trip anyway. It's a small thing I can do to try and help the budget. As for getting in touch with me..."

Rasha reaches into her purse and pulls out a card, and writes out her personal Comm number and Office Number on the back. on the Front of the card is her buisness card from when she was just in charge of Coronet, and all the info on it has been crossed out.

..."here are some numbers I can be contacted at. If I'm still on planet then you can get me at my personal come number otherwise you can call my office and they can take a message."

[Senator Thareena]

Fa'un took the proffered business card, and turned it over in her fingers without looking at it. "Then I will be in touch with you, Mayor Vill. Thank you for your most gracious and timely visit."

The senator stood up from behind the desk, indicating the session was at an end. "If you will excuse me, I must finish my discussion with Jedi Dar. You understand."

Rasha Vill indicated that she did understand, and gracefully bowed out. Toni could deal with her if she had further questions. As the outer door closed, Thareena sat back down in her chair, and let out a breath she hadn't realized she'd been holding. Her sharp eyes tracked to the Jedi's, and she asked the only question that remained.

"Tell me, Jedi Dar, was she telling the truth?" Jedi were supposed to be able to discern truth from fiction, and she desperately wanted to know if she'd just been lied to.

[Rognan Dar]

This question was one that he was trying to figure out the whole time. Rognan was not the best at empathy, and with his limited Lorrdian abilities, it was still hard to really tell.

"From what I can tell...she is. Most of what she said about Rivin is true. I know that personally. She did not give off any sense of deception or move around in any way to say that she was trying to hide something. She was open on talking about the topic and didn't stay long in areas that I would have been eager to discuss more.

I dont see the logic in her coming. If she has a connection within this Sith order then she must know much more about them then she is saying. And why, now, is she coming forward with such information?"

[Senator Thareena]

Fa'un shook her head, slowly. "I do not know. Perhaps she realizes the futility of her position..." The senator shook her head once more, falling into silence.

After a few deft fingerstrokes on the datapad that had been sitting on her desk, Thareena folded her hands on top of it. Obviously distracted by her thoughts, she was quiet a few moments before looking back up at the Jedi waiting in her office. "I apologize, but I suddenly have a lot of work to do. If I need to speak with you again, may I contact you?"

[Rognan Dar]

"We are all busy people. And I can see why you would be. If you need to get get a hold of me you can. I dont know if I will be able to help you out during that time, since, I too, have things to do. But you have my assurance that I will do the best that I can."

[Senator Thareena]

She nodded in understanding. "I thank you for that." The senator stood to her feet and walked him to the door that led to the anteroom. "Thank you for agreeing to this meeting. And," she smiled, "Congratulations on your appointment to the Jedi Council."

Fa'un closed the doors lightly behind him, and then slumped against them, sliding to the carpets.