It Begins Very Small

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

Zeltros was once upon a time her home a place where the people partied and it had attracted her parents together once upon a time. The sith lord herself though rare came here.. it was calming, it was dangerous but it was also a place where one could disappear and for a zeltron it was home. SOmetimes you just needed to renew yourself as you went through it all and she walked along in the streets themselves. Through the throngs of party goers as news of the SIlver jedi had come to the world and quelled a possible riot... strange. She was needing to find more information and it was not good. hologram fun world was being neglected by the new forever rulers. Offworlders who had come to save the savage zeltrons.

That amused her mostly because lax security and ignorance of their people or what made the world so special meant she could attack it now and anger, hatred instead of lust and hedonism would prevail in a fight... made ground forces less vulnerable so these reforms were powerful as she stood taller then most. THe sith lord had brought several firebirds who were spanning out, to hide away from the jedi temple on the world she had been able to sense them and knew from spies they were there. She had the black vault on Kashyyyk and her own private landing strip that was in the forest to get down into the vault. She was here though using what they had to get their own place.. the remains of the old temple on the planet.

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

It was not hard to get in... the orbital attack had been more dangerous then many had seen and the sith lord herself had sent a few things. A golden ropo didn't calm down with the pheromones and the alchemical augments to it had summoned darkside starweirds that tore it and the padawans to shreds. That Kel-Dor had been smart and worked to stop it but in the end the onslaught had ben too much and they had been smarter. Zeltros was dangerous to most of them so ones who were immune or in suits to attack and cause destruction. "This will do fine." She said it and stood there looking as two decloaked around her. Rebreathers over their faces in the black robes almost looking like the silent.

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

She could see their faces though, pale skinned, scarred and tattooed with sith poison. It was something the firebirds did to ensure loyal followers. Each one stripped of their personality and broken down into something to mold. THen they were worked on, sith runes etched into their very bones over the years, painful and dangerous but it ensures the soul crystal veins of the runes can channel the spells and for each of them they are able to absorb and take the souls of their kills. Trapping them and being able to use them for their own means siphoning off the power. THe binding of spirits to them meant that each of them she could draw upon for their power as they marched and removed their cloaks.

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

Their faces with the tattoos were one fo the first things most would notice, the sulfer colored eyes and auras they gave off were important but expected. The Firebirds force users didn't use pretense, they didn't pretend to be more then they were. Darkside warriors who had a ruthless skill set. Balaya wasn't a zealot like them, in fact she was one of the only they might listen to because she gave them their improvements. So she was going inside as they shadowed her and the red aura under their skin hummed with the force itself. "We can make use of this, we'll need to send some to hunt down taozins, it will obscure us until we are ready and we will need some hijarna stone."

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

"Hijarna stone?" She stood there and one of them spoke as the sith lord turned to look at them. It was checking out parts of the stone work itself. "Yes with hijarna carved and used to reinforce it as a layered section. With the taozin it will also be useful to protect and keep it concealed." THere was a smirk appearing on her face while she walked through the halls and there was a great deal needing tio be cleared out. THey would be able to do that and with a few greased palms they had been able to get the land cheap. The lower levels were something they needed to be able to build up and look after. "We'll have to act quietly though. DOn't pretend to be something else but we don't need to announce ourselves to the jedi."

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

That got some nods from them with the orders. THe firebirds cared little about pretending they were good or noble... they tore the people apart and using what they learned from the hand artifact. THey knew how to tear the souls from a body and harvest the spirit binding it to them to make them stronger. Eternal torment and suffering was something that could do a whole lot more and she was able to feel more. Standing in the building the jedi were on the planet but they had not mobilized to fight them. She was correct in their ability to sense on a world so heavily populated so long as they didn't make to much noise... being subtle was important when making a foothold.

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

She was waiting there as some of them left, one of her contacts stood there waiting for her... looking over at all of it when the old seat was there. A smirk appearing on her face where she looked over at it. "What information do we have?" Her voice came out and she brushed at the seat. "There is another who has come, we do not have a name for them yes but they came to the world from Atrisia and they are a darksider." She was talking about it and borught up the information they had for [member="Maranon"] but no name was set up for them to look at just a ship in the port and something to follow the interest of. THey had felt the darkside from the shp and it wasn't one of theirs.

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

She focused the force itself now, using it to push back at the debris around them and clear off the seats. The servants who were coming through to clean it worked as she made more plans. Brinigng out a holographic display so they would be able to see more of it. "Report." The words came from the displayed image that appeared, pale skin, black eyes and spikes of kyber crystal stuck into her skull. Surgicaly implanted so it was safe if you can consider it such but she was a priest, a prophet in some cases to the firebirds who worked to convert those upon the rack. "We have found a suitable location and are beginning the next steps. Getting it rebuilt in our design and image."

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

She got a nod of approval from the woman who stood there... the white robes were something few others really got to see but she appeared rarely off of the firebirds world. Something that had remained hidden for now at least. Once it was time there mgiht be ships trying to reach them at least. "Good, very good. I will make sure what engineers we have are coming there to start the works. We'll also require local support in some needs, a way to blend in and we have been debating that. A den designed to bring out the darker impulses of the people who can come to the surface and show us who is ideal for recruitment ad conversion."

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

That got a few looks as they were coming around and out. the time table of it, the engineering would take some time... getting a way to hologram fun world would take some time or at least the right amount of bribes. "UNderstood." One of the firebirds in the corner of the room spoke and her tattoo's glowed in the shadows with darkside energy. She was moving out and Balaya sat down, allowing herself to weave tendrils into the seat with the cracked stone. The darkside pulsing around her as she could feel it within the force now. Her dark red hair gleaming as small glowing red tendrils latched onto the stone like vines.

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

"Lord Balaya." One of the others came to her in a few days, the work that had been going on. SHe reached out and she could feel it as they looked upon her. "Yes." her voice came out and the sith tapped a finger. "We have news lord, our ventures on zeltros will give way to something that you wanted." SHe came forward and stood there holding up the casing. "So you have found it?" Nods as they opened the case and she picked out the cut stone about the size of a fist. The heat of her hand making it cast light all around the room in hundreds of colors. "Perfect." SHe said it and her lips curled up into a grin. What was it... well few would know off hand. The crystals were harder to find after all and valued higher then most.

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

She had the crystal lens and she had more then enough. Rooting the firebirds off of zeltros would be hard as they didn't care and they weren't here with the purpose to attack. THey were here to learn and that was more then enough as she was heading towards her ship. The small entourage standing around her. "Return to the ship and get it ready. We have the black vault where this will need to go." She got nods and few could survive making it to the black vault... mostly because the smart ones knew where it was located and even less felt the need to go. "What of the other items we require?" The firebird standing next to her asked with a small snarl. "Oh we shall get them, things begin very small and at tiems they will see like nothing much at all. Just a germ, just a spec, just a grain... but the seeds have been sown and before one knows what has grown it will spread through the world like a stain." It was rather sing song and amusing to her, the vault and then the hand... that was where who they had would go."

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

THe inside of the ship as she entered had several more of the firebirds. THeir navy personnel were different then the force users. Where they were marked with darkside tattoo's the pilots, officers were simple looking, black and grey uniforms, straight hair that was streaked with crystals and beads of lignan crystal that radiated the darkside. The nullification resin was impressive to say the leastfor their purposes. It was useful to make their presence harder to find when it was fully sealed. Her boots tapping against the floor as she sat down in the mess hall seeing others being brought in. "New recruits Lady Balaya."

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

"New recruits" She said it and raised an eyebrow... recruits within the firebirds went through a whole lot more then just saying they want in... the zeltron held a hand up motioning for it. "Well the rack will enjoy it." She said it and in truth they might not be ready for years... they would be the ones to finish another recruits beginning within the group. The initial stripping away of their personality and humanity was important to the process, then build them up and make sure they are steadfastly loyal with implants and engravings on their bones... tattoos and trails that make them strong and dangerous. The one standing there with her spoke striding into the room of the ship. "New or old, we shall welcome them as sisters."