Private I'm Back

[Alina Tremiru]

All of her plans and preparations had fallen to the wayside. Realization. Understanding. She'd heard it finally, the call of the Force. It wasn't like anything she'd expected, an actual voice speaking, calling for her to find it. A secret, her memories, something. And she'd found it. True understanding on just what a Sangnir was. What the control of Anima could do. She used it haphazardly as a power boost, but that was such a silly thing, wasn't it? It wasn't a power boost. It simply was power.

With that knowledge, with what she'd learned from Darth Carnifex , there was only one logical step left. Forsake everything she'd built properly, and serve the one who had taught her from the very beginning. It was a time to restart, it was a time to take the next step. She stared up at the familiar facility, smiling ever so faintly as she did. For the first time in a long time she was dressed plainly, the typical black gi of a Sith. No crazy dress, no large blade or other weaponry. She remained standing outside the door, hands clasped behind her back, head high. It was possible she was in trouble for yet again leaving without a word, but she'd accept that. She was here to be Sith, after all. Not play being Sith as she once had.

Taeli Raaf

 

[Taeli Raaf]

Plans were being rushed into motion, agents being dispatched across the galaxy, assets being prepared for the coming hunt and purge. The recent events where it had been revealed her grandchildren had been taken, on top of her recent ascension back to the Dark Council, had kick started a rapid growth in operations for her power base.

"Send authorization to Mellira to dispatch her Malaise Adepts to Formos, and track that supply shipment to the planet and see if we can't introduce some of our Spark Bugs into the cargo. We're going to undermine them before the hammer falls."

And fall it would. She would not stop until the children were under her protection and Alisteri had been neutralized as a threat to her and her family. She tilted her head as she felt the arrival of another, she had sensed her at the wedding, but she had been busy with Quinn, interrupted from sending her next message.

"My Lady, Lady Tremiru is here," her assistant would announce.

The apprentice had returned once again. "Send her up."

She had to wonder what Alina had been up to recently as she had seemed to absconded from her governorship over Dromund Kaas to pursue other things. The coming conversation would no doubt reveal that information and what she may require from her Master.

Alina Tremiru

 

[Alina Tremiru]

"Lady Raff will see you now."

Alina glanced to one of the guards that had opened the door. Smiled, dipper her head in greeting. "Good. Thank you, Jim. How's the wife?" She flashed him a smile, but that only seemed to unsettle him in turn. She'd never known his name before. Nor that he had a wife. He cleared his throat, motioning to the way up to Taeli. She just gave him another smile as she stepped by and made her way up.

There, in the room, she would take a knee, dip her head in greetings.

"Forgive my delay, Master. I found myself bored with politics and desiring to find more on my nature."

Taeli Raaf

 

[Taeli Raaf]

"Never apologize for seeking more truths about yourself, Alina," would come the reply, Taeli still dictating a message to her power base. "I fully understand the boredom that can come from politics. Ruling a planet can be quite tedious, even for a Sith. Until someone decides to kick over the metaphorical piranha beetle nest."

She would finish her message and send it out. The Order of Arcane Syn, along with its military forces, were about to shift fully onto a war footing. Output from Aurora and Spaarti could be increased. New technologies, new ships, new bioengineered forces and enhancements. Everything would be turned to wiping out the Inquisition. But for now...

"Rise and take a seat, my apprentice. Regale me of your travels."

A tea set would float over to the desk, one cup being poured with her favorite Bastion Black while the other would be a unique concoction from a planet in the Hapan Consortium known as Harterra known as Bloodmist Tea. It would be, Taeli had been assured, to the Sangnir's liking.

Alina Tremiru

 

[Alina Tremiru]

"Oh I don't apologize for seeking knowledge. But I heard your family was kidnapped." More accurately, Alina happened to be at that party and overheard what was going on. She stood to take her seat, calm as she glanced to the cup of tea. A brow raised before she reached down to take it up and sipped it slowly. Good. Surprisingly so, at that. She glanced to her Master with the same surprised brow raised before she settled the cup down.

"I found a path to a place outside the Galaxy. Long rusted ruins, unfortunately, but there was a plethora of information lost to the Sangnir. Our nature, our abilities. What was forgotten. Do you know of the Lifeweavers? Or Bloodcallers, as it might also have been known? I know you did quite a bit of your own research."

Taeli Raaf

 

[Taeli Raaf]

"Yes, a situation that will be rectified soon," she replied, her eyes flashing amber for a moment. She had been oh so patient with her old friend, even allowing his little murder of Alina to slide since Quinn had resurrected Alina. She had issued, what she thought, was a decent warning when she cracked the defenses around the Krayiss II library and forced him to stop his pillaging of it. She had thought she had given him a fair offer to stop conquering Tund and work together on a quieter method of controlling that region of space, considering it had been disrupting her own plans. He had refused and now...

Now he had gone past that last nerve and would learn exactly why she was not someone to trifle with.

"You'll have to regale me on these sects and their traditions, my dear," she would continue saying. "My studies of the Sangnir were more... biological than cultural. The Sangnir within my orbit, besides yourself, were more focused on building their own bases of support rather than exploring the history of the race."

Alina Tremiru

 

[Alina Tremiru]

If the situation would be rectified soon, then there was no reason to dwell on it any longer. Alina was well aware that if her Master needed her assistance, she would be asked. She nodded once to Taeli's admission before lifting a hand to form a sphere of red. Raw Anima, though unlike before Alina had pulled it from the very air around them rather than from her inner Maw. "They were Alchemists of their own variety, turning Anima itself into their creations. Armors and weapons, creatures. I've learned of them, and in turn, learned just how much of the Anima I can control around me."

Taeli Raaf

 

[Taeli Raaf]

"Once again showing that blood is the key to creation," she remarked, offering Alina a smile. It was one of the first lessons a Sith alchemist had to learn; blood and where it came from carried properties that were useful within alchemy. It seemed the ancient Sangnir had also understood this idea, and as predators of blood, they would no doubt have created and mastered many techniques that were lost and were simply waiting to be revealed again. She herself, along with her power base, had done extensive research into how to advance the use of blood within alchemy.

"I must ask Alina, where do you see yourself developing within the Empire? What are you hoping to cultivate?" she said. She knew her apprentice had relinquished Dromund Kaas and its governorship, but she must have had some ambition to return as she had. Perhaps she had only returned for Quinn, but if that was the case, she wouldn't have needed to come see her Master. Something else seemed to be within the offing.

Alina Tremiru