Forged through Darker Knowledge

[Jaster Awaud]

-- Lothal was just a planet on his long journey to search for himself, there were many things that he still yet did not understand. One such thing was a deeper understanding of the Dark Side of the Force that he was warned about.

-- The Master Mistress of the Forest was the first to warn him, the temptations of the Dark Side were not for the weak willed. For its temptation was sweet to those that wished for something selfish and impure thoughts. However, the Light Side was just as corrupt in their higher standards and purification of the Force. Because of the millennia of Conflict and manipulation of the Force on both sides, it was nearly impossible to find the Force in its base form. The True Force was a wild and volatile, its true state of being was that of its Chaotic Nature and Unpredictability. It was that, that base form of the Force he was searching for.

-- He was now in a Foundry on the planet, he needed to conduct his experiment in the pursuit of his end goal. Around here was several dead individual, all hanging and their blood being harvested. The Force was strong here, and corrupted with the Darker Winds that enveloped this planet through the conquerors. Jaster was working on a piece of metal that he had brought along with him. His Force Imbued Forging Hammer sparked as each strike laid the full force of that Volatile Natural Force entered the hammer.

-- Natural Force Energy was like clay, it was easy to forge and change. He did not have a deeper understanding of the Force at its basics level. Thus each time he forged an item with intentions of having the new item be a neutral unchanged vessel, it was changed by the environment around him. Thus his mission to Lothal. Jaster had hopped to travel more around this Empire, study their energies and have a deeper understanding of the Dark Side as he did of the Light. It was only then that he could make the powerful sets of Vessels he was meant to create. However, this day was not that day.

-- The Cyborg lifted the heated Armored Shoulder Plate and tempered it in the blood of the dead. He could feel the Darker Entities rush to the object and change the armor with Dark Alchemic Reactions. Jaster placed a Force Bubble around himself so the corruption could not spread to him, as he knew the dangers of working with such an energy. So far the quality of his work was dependent on his environment. It was still difficult to predict the Darker Elements with little to no understanding of it. It was a dangerous path, but he needed to know more before his experiments could result in anything more then the manifestation of the energy around him.

-- Jaster left the Foundry, the bodies and all. He no longer needed them as they served their purpose and though he did not kill them, other would not like him using them. The Force Sensitive Cyborg could feel the shift from life to death. He spent his time in the Limbo between this world and the Netherworld.

-- He moved through the city, and found himself in a dark alleyway just taking a breather. He needed to complete the work he was given by the Guiding Hand.

[member="Aren D'Shade"]

 

[Aren D'Shade]

Light or Dark, it mattered little to the young sithling. As long as she accomplished her mission and got the job done. Her mission here was pure research. It didn't matter too much what Aren learned about. Though her focus was the Force, this was a good place to learn about the more neutral aspects. Both Jedi and Imperials had ruled here. Her knowledge of the Force was rather limited and her strength was with electronics. A door had been opened though and instead of running, she gladly embraced it this time and walked through.

Here there was plenty of technology and electronics to connect to. Not entirely heaven to the young woman, but close enough. Worlds like Denon, Coruscant and Dorsis were far better, but she would make do here just fine.

She walked through the city streets, her headset around her ears and oblivious to much of what was going on around her. In touch with the Force, she followed its call and stopped in front of an alley. This didn't make any sense to her and she leaned up against the wall and out of the way of traffic.

Looking around, she shook her head and started to move on. Something caught her attention and she turned to look into the ally to come almost face to face with a stranger.

[member="Jaster Awaud"]

 

[Jaster Awaud]

-- Jaster needed to create as much distance from the dead as he could after the experiments he conducted. Tampering with the Stormy Winds of the Celestial Wills was never a good thing, corruption often drove one to insanity from what the Mistress of the Forest and the Young Silver Boy told him. He did not feel it, mostly using the power of his Hammer to keep the Force around him in its Chaotic Natural State. Forging his needed took required a more in depth understanding of this thing they continued to call the Force. He could feel it and was often unchanged by its state around him thanks to the energy of his Forging Hammer. The power it gave off was of volatile power, chaotic, natural and unchanged by mortal hands. It often felt like it had a spirit of its own as it reached out in the Force.

-- He turned a corner and continued to look behind him when suddenly a person appeared before him. Forcing him to turn and stop his large half mechanical body. Jaster was here to study this Dark Side he had heard of, not to hurt those that still had life.

-- The Cyborg nodded, "Greetings, where did you come from?"

[member="Aren D'Shade"]

 

[Aren D'Shade]

If Aren had felt any fear, that quickly evaporated as she got a feel for the figure she had encountered. He was partially cybernetic and as such, she was confident that if he tried to harm her in any manner, he would soon learn just what she could do with the Force.

His question was a little odd, but she shrugged it off.

"Zakuul. You?"

It was like being a child again and the two of them started off like children would when first talking to each other. All in all, it wasn't a bad thing. For some reason, Aren felt sympathy for the poor man and wondered just what had happened to him.

[member="Jaster Awaud"]

 

[Jaster Awaud]

-- The cyborg was confused as to where she had fallen from and who she was that his mind wondered from the problems he currently had. However, he sensed something different in her then the others he had encountered. What it was however, he was not very sure but it felt like the clouds he was experimenting with.

-- As [member="Aren D'Shade"] answered his question he looked up, squinting a little as if trying to see something from where she dropped from. Once he could not find it he looked back at her, pointing to where she had fallen, "Zakuul, is Zakuul up there?"

-- Once he realized she had asked a question as well he knew he was being rude, and that was not very kind. Meeting new people was something he rather enjoyed, but falling new people well that was new. He dropped his hand and brought it to his chin, "Where do I come from, well a place with a lot of dead people, I was experimenting thought it did not succeed."

-- His mind that was distracted when back to the problem, how could he create raw chaotic Force Energy. A puzzling question he tried to put at the back of his mind, for he was in a conversation and talking to himself was rude.

 

[Aren D'Shade]

The young woman nodded when he asked if Zakuul was up there.

"There many worlds up there. Zakuul is just one of them."

It seemed like she needed to talk to him in something of simplistic terms, but that was fine. Not everybody had good language skills, but then he answered her question and her opinion of him changed. He had been experimenting of people, failed and left many dead people behind.

Lifting a hand to her chin, his words gave her some pause. He didn't seem to be a danger to her, but what he said indicated he could be.

"What were you trying to do?"

In her own life, she had done experiments too. Under the tutelage of her master, the two of them had worked wonders on people and droids.

[member="Jaster Awaud"]

 

[Jaster Awaud]

-- Jaster was amazed that just over his head was the perception of the worlds that this young women was telling him about. He knew what planets were, but just thinking of the deeper meaning of one of many made one feel insignificant. Jaster however, he felt connected to those far off spaces like they were something he was truly one with. He continued to have his gaze drifted to the skies until she broke his connection to the world around him with her question.

-- He snapped back to reality and looked at [member="Aren D'Shade"], "Attempting to draw on the Force using ones life force that is present after the destruction of their physical body, for every living thing it connected to the Force and after death a little remains to be recycled by the greater galaxy," He brought out his Hammer, a object that carried a mighty connection to the Force, its presence greater then most lightsabers. The power within the Hammer was also unlike anything else in the Force, its power Untamed, Chaotic, and Natural energies pouring out of the object. "I wish to create an armored chestplate out of near living force energy, however there is nothing I have learned in the development of once living to cusp of living,"

-- The cyborg scratched his head with the hammer and looked puzzled, "The Blood of the Dead is hold the needed energies needed to complete the process, however the dead died with strong emotional connections to the world of the living thus the armor created is strong in the Dark Corruption that stains this world," He sighed a little, "The Silver Youngling and the Mistress of the Forest have not taught me the true talents of this Darkened Corruption, this Dark Side of the Force they spoke of, and with that gap in knowledge I can not complete my experiment."

 

[Aren D'Shade]

She might have been one that could use the Force, but Aren was not the kind that could easily pick up on the power of objects. At least, not until it was pointed out to her. When he brought out his hammer, then she felt it. Her eyes went to it until he started speaking and they moved back to where his face would be.

"I have done experiments on people and turned them into droids. Perhaps some of what I can do will help you accomplish what you want to."

Not phrasing her words as a question, the tone she used indicated she questioned them. Aren had not intentionally killed anybody before, but had accidently caused the deaths of a few in her own experiments. In a way, the two of them were the same in that regard.

"Maybe you need to find people that don't have any connections. Clones."

It was all she could think of, but it might help him.

Not knowing of who he spoke, she didn't question who these people were.

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