@[member="Coryth Elaris"]
Nodded as he recounted the events.
"He was a Jedi, one of my students, at a time the Republic and the Jedi were in war against the Sith, as they often are. I trained him and watched him grow up since he was an initiate with the Jedi. He became a protege in the arts of a sword, a master among his colleagues, as such, he joined the ranks of Jedi Guardians, and when he became a knight he asked if he could be adopted by me, something I agreed to even though the Council did not recognize it as official, but it was something real for us."
His monotone echoed through the metal halls as he carried Cory still in his metal arms
"He was still a Jedi at the time and I was still a supporter of anti-celibacy movement, which was soon to change. You see, my son met another Jedi knight and fell in love with her, by the time I learned about it they were planning to get married in secrecy, I agreed to marry them, of course."
He glanced slightly to Cory
"They were married on the plains of Dantooine at sunset, it was not too long before the Council learned about this, unfortunately."
He looked back ahead as he carried her
"He was exiled for his actions and the Jedi sent teams of Shadows in order to hunt him down and bring him to justice as they said. I have misled them many times in their pursuits, few times even facing them in order to halt their chase, as a result I have fallen out of the Council's grace but they allowed me to continue my work with the Order. It was when my granddaughter was born and I had to face another ambush of Shadows soon afterwards that my son and I agreed to cease contact with each other until things calmed down."
HK slightly looked aside as he kept talking
"Years passed until I heard news of him once more, in mean time the Council of Sith Lords has fallen from the control of the Sith and a new Emperor has risen to led them. He led an ambush attack onto a Temple of Tython where I took part in a rescue mission, however, we arrived too late, instead of survivors we found a massacre of the Jedi."
He glanced back to Cory
"I decided to track the new Emperor and hunt him, I have had enough of his massacres and slaughter. I have tracked him to Mustafar where he went on a lone retreat, that is where I ambushed him. I tell people now that my son has died during the war with the Sith, in the Battle of Mustafar, however, I do not tell them on which side he has fallen."
And he glanced back ahead of himself
"I learned that day that my son was the new Emperor, he joined the Sith as the Jedi attacks on his family did not ceased, the Sith offered him protection, he did not had much choice. The skills in lightsaber I have taught him came useful then as he rose through their ranks."
HK nodded
"I have taught him well."
He looked to Cory
"But I did not taught him everything I knew. He fell on Mustafar, in our duel he did not took the chance to back down and be arrested as I offered him, I was forced to decapitate my own son, the second Emperor of the Sith I have slain, and the one for whose death I was exiled from the Order. That day I learned why the Jedi are offered celibacy, it is because they can fall so easily and so far once they break that restriction, they have great power but it does come at a restriction, they need to be much more careful when they deal with pulls of passion and love, for it can drown them into darkness over the fear of the losing the loved ones. I took my son's bone mask off of his corpse, I put on his black robes and burned his body in the lava of Mustafar. I put on his mask and clothing, calling myself the next Sith Emperor as I began issuing orders for the Sith to surrender. It created chaos among their ranks, they did not knew whether to follow my orders or those of other Sith Lords, who fought among each other to fill the power vacuum. I did not overstayed my welcome, rejecting the black robes soon after, and hiding the white mask of my son on Dagobah, it was not until recently that I recovered it, the dark powers of the Sith still clinging to it."
He glanced ahead of them into the corridor
"You know what is most painful about it, Cory? I have never found the rest of my family, thousands of years has passed as I never reconnected with what I have lost then, my daughter-in-law and my granddaughter are long death, turned to ash as I kept existing. And every time I remember my son, it is not just memories that droids remember, we remember all of it, the sounds, the visions, we relive it. I have relived killing my own son thousands times over now, Cory, and it does not get easier."