Riftwalkers

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

The rift had been an interesting place to navigate. Within the confines of the small ship she had sat for days listening to the others. The massive zeltron standing up finally when they had arrived at the reconstructed station on the surface. The dilation effects were not something many others understood and once they had been able to find the way through she had followed the feeling in the back of her mind. They had reconstructed it, the jedi had rebuillt it, the primeval had come here and then there was bounty hunters and mercenaries who had come here. THey were not the problem as she had spent a few days working with them to find the room and open it up. THe dreams were filled with inky shadows that gave her where to go when she had finally arrived.

The massive gate itself couldn't be opened by the others and it required a force user to get into as the light was bright. her eyes polarizing to protect themselves before she stood in her armor prepared to fight if there were things there but the others couldn't follow her. no one could and after she had left her holocron on the world she had thought about where she had wanted to go. In many cases going around the galaxy was boring, going to the ancient sith worlds would be cliche and seeing people around the galaxy was.... meh. She found most of the One Sith were not doing things and whatever was left of the others they were as impressive or as needed as a mite. The sith lord stood tall when she was going through the gte into a room of white feeling the force all around herself.

She could feel the darkside of the force in her body, in her bones when she was looking over at all of the things. TO let the force course throughout her body when she was feeling more until she was on the other side. Some world, some place she wasn't exactly certain about when she looked it all over. The light was there but it wasn't harsh, the force was strong all around her and she could look over records that had been downloaded in the invasion of Korriban. She had went with Tyrana to get the archives for her tactical pad that would serve to help and protect her as she needed it. The One Sith well she had learned a lot and worked with a few more things but had spent time making her own. She much preferred what she could get from it but breathing in the scents and sounds.

The sounds as the image of the nightmare child flying overhead came to her and she could see it with a grin on her face. It would have been something she could send here. Easily able to survive the journey but she much preferred it being somewhere others wouldn't find him. Same with many of her sithspawn like the ropo's that had been freed and left to populate other worlds for themselves. She used her sithspawn as she needed to but was looking at some of the dangerous things that they were setting up all of it. She didn't want to worry to much about it though before the sith lord was standing there letting her mane of red hair come down. She could see the inky shadows approaching and they were trying to work and make her afraid.

Their energy rolled across her skin as the armor she was wearing dind't leave anything to the imagination. The darkside rolling off of it to meet them while they were promising knowledge and power to others but she wasn't here for them. The monoliths power was great, it was something few could really see and she knew how they would be able to use it with the field created around it to use to her advantage. She could do a lot more while she wanted to work on it and what credits she could get from the accounts would be used around here as best as she could be. Balaya's eyes flicked back and forth seeing the beings before she was walking into the distance. it was like a massive world of the force.

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

No it was more then that, she could feel it and it was feeling strange now... this wasn't a world strong in the force it was the force. It was raw, it was unformed keeping her energized as she could feel her body itself was recovering. The darkside corruption that was a part of her body for years ad she had worked to fix it with cybernetics, to augment herself and make it so that her body would be able to handle channeling the power... it was there and she could feel it being healed. The shadows all around her were moving and she could see gold slitted eyes that looked like some fo the sith used to but there was more to them still. Shapes and forms before the light from under her skin seemed more like a hue that kept them away but creeping forward.

They were whispering and she could hear it all as she rose up to her full height prepared to fight them if they tried anything but they were staying back from her while the forest changed almost to a temple like area. It was shifting as they moved allowing the beast of a zeltron sith lord to find a location she could sit and meditate. Preparing herself for a fight as she let the darkside surge through her body to enhance it. Let the muscles flex even in the armor and her own form bulk under the metal as black veins came.... but then she felt something else. Something there and it was like a crashing wave of darkness that consumed her body and made the smallest flicker of emotion become larger.

She wasn't expecting it and her mind was racing to try and find reasoning but there was none there. She could see it all and as a form of mental blocks she was worried about it. Turning things over in her mind as she was realizing a lot about it. her mind showing her the force itself and the world around herself while she went out into the rift feeling the energies of the galaxy. it was there just behind her eyes as they were almost returning. What she had lost in fights with vulpesen from his fire and flare were protected now but she could feel the force trying to heal all of her. Without real instance but she needed to learn how to focus it and control it with a purpose as the shadows were whispering.

'We know the answers.' 'We can grant you power.' She wasn't foolish enough to think the power would be free, there was a lot of work when it came to things. So that they would do something. All things of power came with a price, though she was learning in here the price was something that was very different. She could feel herself glowing with the force itself more then anything and it was almost making it feel like she could reject the cybernetics and a lot of the upgrades she had done to herself. She could reform herself even as she wanted to be within the rifts monolith if she truly wished itself. There was much more here in the force that the zeltron master would be able to do with.

She was focusing on the force here, on the raw potential as her mind knew what it could and what she wanted to do. She had the power here, it just needed the direction for what it would be able to do with her. The massive zeltron was an amber glowing being before she moved back starring at all of it to see the area she was in and focused on herself. She was floating, looking out across the stars and then from the stars to the atoms and molecules that would be giving her everything that she would be able to do. Wanting to see what she would be able to do with it as the shadows around seemed to retreat. her consciousness expanding outwards until she could feel others.

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

She could feel more of the galaxy then ever before, allowing her mind to go out and expand through every inch of the galaxy as she was thinking about it. She was a follower of the darkside, she fought the strongest, went to test herself and never allow stagnation as so many others sought to do. She never went backwards going after the weaker who could come up, never sought out only going for the ones she would have the advantage over. It was cowardly and she saw it done so many timmes that it made her almost saddened by the idea that that was what the darkside came to. Going after targets who couldn't fight back as opposed to seeking out the strongest and throwing yourself against them.

She was letting her thoughts become muddled and it was letting her body drift off, the state of oneness with the force that others experienced and sought for themselves. To reach it be they jedi or sith was here when she let the raw energy make her body explode and reform a thousand times finding what she sought. The heart of the force itself where she could sit and gather the power to feel it. She was focusing her energies and mind to hold her body together when she arrived at the planet. The world was there before she felt them seeing her when they turned around seeing her. Five sisters that she could make out and they were all for the emotions themselves.

She didn't know how to find them but they were not hiding themselves. They were force being that were coming here until she moved over with a number of other things. She was letting the force energies flow throughout her body more when she unleashed it and sought to pull them, to bridge the gap between here and there with her rage and fury before they were there. Coming at her almost like from a dream when the area all around her crackled with energy from a displacement field. It was easier to use the force in here and overuse it, the no limits thing was a benefit compared to many of the other places as was the price when she felt her body wanting to fall from the corruption but it was healing.

Her body was like a vibrating cell before she was in the middle of the five sisters who had come through and she couldn't see their masks. She couldn't even make out their faces it all looked very much like five golden beings swirling around her fast as they were speaking. The shadows curious but also backing away and fleeing before the sith lord stood tall and ready. Her body reforming properly where the pink skin and mane of red hair were concerned. It was a little darker now though as was her armor but she could see all of it, she could feel all of it again and wasn't entirely one with the force when they spoke. "Balaya.... such an odd way to contact us."

She was looking at them as they continued to speak among each other and to her almost as an after thought. her wanting to deal with the danger's before she sneered clenching and unclenching her fists. Wanting to let the force loose to smash into them. "So young and impatient, what did you think would come of this. You would become more powerful then the others? THat you might come back to something, or that you might become something more then what you were." She could hear them while moving through the area and the realm shifted again to standing in a desert. "You are skilled in the ways of the force but you are not prideful enough like the others.

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

She was listening to them when they were moving around her and she could feel the force energies themselves. She could let the force energies swirl around her as they were presenting it and she could see where it was that she needed to go. She could feel her children, her creatures around the galaxy when she was letting the force energies flow outwards before she focused to reform her body until the five seemed to vanish and she could see a harsh bright orb in front of her. The shadows were gone from around her and she was heading through it as she let the force energies our over her body and become part of her. She was feeling all of it raw and infinite across the galaxy.

She felt her vision go dark and hazy when she was looking out and her vision was normal again, standing there as the islands around her came into view. She could feel the force all around her when she was standing there. Normal again... her body still glowed but she was not nearly as big as she once was, her body still tall, but she looked like a sports player instead of a giant. Her mane of hair was slightly shorter, her chest seemed larger now as it had maintained the same size and she couldn't feel her armor while there were cybernetics that were on the ground itself. She still had some of them before she went over with a few of the other things. her hair was straight in a curtain around her covering her form.

She didn't know what had happened but she felt lighter, she felt stronger then she had before but she wasn't some new special flower that had been redeemed. They had helped bring her back and reform her from the raw primordial force energies that she was swimming in. Drowning in and it had been marvelous before she looked around feeling the darkside all around herself as it radiated off of her body and she giggled to herself. There was her eyes, there was wetness within her eyes before she wiped at them and shook her head while walking around seeing all of them and what they were showing for her to see here. The sisters had a strange place indeed.

She could see the world around her with her new eyes and it looked like entire forests, mountains and places were floating but she didn't feel like it was technology. All of it was within the force itself and all of it would give them a great deal to work with before the sith lord herself was standing and looking over the edge itself down into an abyss with stones coming to her. Making a bridge to a larger island and she had heard from the ssisters that she had talent but she was unsure of where they were exactly before jumping to one of the stones and then to another. She dind't have any of her equipment which was strange compared to many of the things as she always wore it but... they wanted her not to have it.

She could work with that... the lack of her other clothing though well she could work with that as well. She might not be the most open of zeltrons... in fact she might be kind of a prude but she still was a zeltron and modesty was a foreign concept in many ways when the sith lord was leaping to another rock. Letting the force cushion her fall as the stone dripped but then was coming back up and she could see the forest ahead of her. She touched the ground and crouched as the instincts she had from her parents, mandalorians as they were had taught her how to live and survive same for her trials. She was looking at what was around herself she could fashion into weapons if needed.

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

She heard a sound when Serenity... how did she know that name or that she was it? Questions for another time in the end of the day was coming near her with the others blinking into existence compared to all of the others. They were circling around her again as the one seemed angry and she was guessing that was anger also her mask helped before the words came out. "You have managed to find our world and we are curious about you. It has been so long since we have had someone come here, so long since we have had someone who sought the knowledge that we possess." Her voice was coming and they were spinning around faster and faster before she had a couple of thought.

They were still spinning and going over what might be the problem when they masks seemed to almost meld together showing the different expressions on the priestesses, on the sisters or whatever it was that they really were. They had found her when she was on the monolith or inside it or wherever it had sent her to become one with the force. There was a look on her face of confusion but then they vanished in another bright flash of light that left her stunned before she was starring out at a massive forest on one of the islands when the one was floating near her and speaking. "The first test is in there, the journey itself is all that you have done up to this point and will do."

She didn't know what to expect or what she had been prepared for but this was... different. She was so used to all trials, all things being bout the fight that you have been doing. The sith lord was moving and lept towards one of the stones with a look on her face as she looked down and her memories were flooding back to her now. All she had done with Kaine and the sith empire, her parents, her clan and what had happened. It was a shame but in many ways had shaped her into what she was today as the mandalorian lessons about going after the strongest fighter brought her around to wanting to become stronger and prove herself against the strongest sith she could find.

She had found her mind drifting when she lept again and came to another part, flashing back to when she first met her apprentice Tyrana, a skilled sith apprentice who was learning and when she had left her alone on a world she had not only survived she had managed to thrive. It was a testament to her skills as she saw Camilla and Raven. All of the work that they had been doing before she joined the black rose with venefica. She had found them more interesting compared to many of the other things that were happening. The danger's that came from it all when she breathed in deeply and while being a member of th one sith she had been betrayed, abandoned and like mny cast aside for something else.

Balaya stood tall and ready when she got to the other side and started to going forwards into it. Wanting to see what there was when she pushed some of the branches aside with a small look on her face. Sticking with it until she was ready, then she was prepared to fight whatever there might be or face whatever challenge they might be giving her. Her skins glow had died down and she could still feel the force all around herself, feel it throughout her body vibrating practically in this world untils he got through hearing nothing but the trees were interwoven and twisting around to block out the light that she was able to see from the planet. Some internal light source was giving illumination.

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

She still was uncertain of what was in here but she could feel it, that creeping sensation along the back of her spine and as the air shifted she smelled it for a moment before the sound of shuffling feet came to her ears. Straining to hear as the sith lord looked around with her head jerking to the left and to the right. Sticking around before she moved to the center and crouched low and ready for a fight in this case. She was looking at the black smoke like shadow moving around in the dark and then the red eyes were looking at her. A smile revealing razor sharp teeth that were like ivory among all the blackness before it was charging at her and the sith rolled to the side.

Her leg felt it strike at her, felt its claw dig into her leg as crimson streaks were there and she almost snarled. Sticking around when her attention went to some of the big things. Prepared to work on more of the fight before she was standing there and facing it again to see the being. The shadowy form became like white smoke and light looking like her but she was different, smaller in many ways. Less curved and shapely like she had been indulging in more food then she had been working out. It all made the zeltron watch and look at her carefully before she was holding up her hand prepared to battle her and Balaya rushed forward clenching her fist to make lightning crackle.

The doppleganger seemed to have much the same idea as they were moving and smashed into each other. Energy cascading while they flung each other through the area and slammed onto the ground itself. Looking over intently until the zeltron had the upper hand battling her with flashbacks of what she had been doing coming to her. She knew the dangers of it all, she knew the dangers of losing here would likely mean her death so she ground her teeth as her jaw was set. Lips curled back and blasted a wave of force energy point blank into the face of the illusion. Sending it back into the ground more as it was solid. It had form when going against her that she would be able to use against it.

She was fighting it and the flashbacks as they went through her mind and she saw Kaine again and all of the ones like Anara or Taeli... her apprentice who once she became a lord fled to the jedi because she could have a position of power. It made her feel strange or Raven and Tyrana who served their purposes with her. All of the works she had going forward with the one sith and the black rose that had advanced her skills compared to others and the knowledge she had learned about all of it. There was a look on her face when she finished and pulled back on the illusions body bringing her around with a knee digging into the beings back when she heard a pop.

The being was beaten and she knew what she was, this was her other half. she needed to accept that even in the darkness there was still the light be lieved she was above. As the pain was on the beings face Balaya was looking. "I accept you and you know what has to be done now." She was there and as the being knelt below her Balaya rose up and prepared to finish her. Flexing her chest and the curtain of her dark red crimson hair parted when the force was moving around her before she let the hammers drop smashing in the illusion as it started to be reabsorbed into her and Balaya gasped letting the force energies cause her mass of hair to swirl around herself.

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

Standing there prepared and ready as she was gave a few good things. As the sith was looking at the area a pathway opened up and she could feel the breeze against her skin where the force had been reabsorbed almost like she was covered in water. Walking through it she looked out at the forest around her until they were standing there to see the rest of the area. Serentiy was standing there next to her... well floating for lack of a better term as the being spoke showing a massive cave mouth that was there. "You have faced yourself, seen that which is buried deep inside of you that you still fear and believe you don't have." She was looking at the being and towards the cave while she was motioning that it was where she needed to go.

"You must go inside but be careful, your mind and heart must be completely empty and pure. Otherwise you could become trapped within your own mind." Balaya looked at the floating woman as she was moving through the area and preparing herself. She didn't know how a darksider could really be pure but not thinking about something to give it form was something she understood. it was like when you were training and injured, if you thought about it at times then it would suddenly start to really hurt. Her thought cleared, her breathing going calm and as she was walking into the cave there was the feeling of the world around herself then the force whispering.

She was uncertain before entering and compared tot he others when she was pushing ahead with her thoughts. Wanting to let it all go forward as she walked and felt something. It was old, it was powerful and it was watching her but it wasn't coming at her. It was prepared to take her she knew and as the sounds started all around her she kept her head forward letting her eyes lock on the area ahead. The end of the cave where she could feel the force energies of the world beyond until she felt something brush against her shoulders and her hair. The red mane moving as a breeze tried to move and send a chill along the length of her spine,

She turned her head at that it was getting a little to friendly with her exposed skin before moving and the cave changed to something else. The surface of a world she knew very well as it was where she had created her creatures. Bringing her apprentices, bringing her monsters and her pieces. All of them were there assembled as the nightmare child was curled around her and looking down. The massive beast of a sithspawn that she had created far stronger then anything that had been made before it including the others. Raven was there and Tyrana waiting for her in their darkside gowns that she could feel pulsing with the darkside of the force itself.

She could feel something in her chest as it was a strange feeling walking around and joining them there for the moment. She wanted to stay here with all of them and her sisters were there so that they would have a chance to well live around here instead of just having to deal with some of the problems. The sith lord knew deep down in her mind that this was an illusion but she liked it. There was something to be said for well accepting illusions that you would be able to handle for yourself. She was looking at it and at the dangers it all presented before they were moving around and she knew she needed to try and break this train of thought. As much as having family would appeal to her she was beyond it all.

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

Her mind was still racing but she stuck around a little long before speaking up. "THis isn't real, you both are gone and you my baby are somewhere no one else will find you." She was looking at them as they seemed to try and convince her that she was meant to be here with them and this place was real. The only problem with that was what she was feeling and what she knew. The galaxy was strife and peace was a lie. You didn't get what you want without others coming after what you have been getting for yourself. She knew the galaxy itself would try and serve itself before she saw their eyes shifting and the sky was going dark until she was preparing for a fight against them.

Their forms were coming at her with bloody murder in their eyes when she was moving around to attack them. Her fist connecting with the face of Raven and the Tyrana as she let loose the frustration they gave her vanishing on her like that. It allowed the energies and the frustration to flow freely until she was sticking around and in the cave again. Near the entrance as the others were looking at her. The priestesses and their forms giving her looks that matched how she felt most of the time but she had passed she was guessing and managed to get through the cave coming out on the other side. "A interesting way to overcome the greatest temptation of your mind."

Balaya was standing there when she looked over everything that they had moving around. She was prepared to work on some of it with them, she was prepared to set it all up here but there were more looks coming from the beings as Serenity spoke. "You have only one trial left, compared to the others this one will be one fo the most dangerous you have faced and will require you to go to a place you have not seen before. Face horrors and challenges you have never seen until you yourself have learned the most primal instincts of all the other beings." Balaya was listening to her while she prepared herself, thinking about where it is that she would have to go and face this challenge.

She didn't know where it was that she was going to have to go but a few ideas came to her mind. THe most notable being that she would have to go face the jedi themselves. Not on Tython, she doubted that world had recovered but on one of the worlds were the jedi were strong... where they were plentiful and able to soak in the lightside of the force. Jedi doing these trials she knew thanks to whatever the monolith had given her would go to worlds seeped in darkness and corruption. She would have to find a world seeped in the light as there was only a handful of those in the galaxy that really served a purpose with the jedi. She thought about it and...

"Voss." She said the name and almost wanted to spit the words out. "You are sending me to Voss." She was more curious while looking over it with a couple of the ideas of how she might... key word might be able to get close enough. The jedi weren't exactly happy with darksiders or she imagined anyone in general right now. The slew of hatred they seemed to get from helping others coupled with whatever smear campaign is going on at the moment really only serves to show how much the sith were.... pathetic in terms. They coulnd't win with strength or even cunning they needed to resort to politics and just telling people without facts or proof.... Which bored her.

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

Her mind was made up but now there was the problem... how to get to Voss... and where to get some cloths.... One was needed the other well she had never been shy just oblivious. "So is there a ship here I can use to get to Voss, or am I supposed to hold my breath and float there?" She was curious and sarcastic jokes would be the way to ease into that when she looked to the masked and robed floating figure. "Yu know how to get there and even how to get back. The resonating force is all around you and you can recall yourself to it as oyou brought yourself back here." She was being cryptic and that pissed the zeltron off but she also could feel it as her skin was glowing again and here.

Here.... where the force was strong and made you feel a lot stronger she could feel the connection between herself in the monolith and herself in the planets core. She felt herself being pulled back to it as the sensation of weightlessness, of being empty and everywhere came back. The sith lord herself was looking at what could be her own powerbase for developing and she had soem ideas. Letting the area and the dark shadows creep back i as she had managed to heal from the corruption and price that was being taken from her body for the force abilities. She was feeling more of them around her before pushing out with the force and feeling the tower on Voss like a beacon.

Se was going there now and feeling the lightside fo the force all around ehrself. Wanting to let it go until her mind was ready and anchored here in the now away from the shadows in the force. Here in the tower as she was standing there prepared to fight these jedi or whatever when she could feel the world around herself. Something had been happening here and she knew it. Attacks, raids, people mysterious bypassing all of their security like it was tissue paper and then going on about how speciall they were. It was childish and unneeded while the sith lord was forcing herself to take shape and reform here in the tower away from the others.

She was looking and feeling what had happened here. Unable to fully grasp it but from the sounds it was going to be on high alert for a reason and that made it dangerous as she was glad she wasn't well masive and standing out. The valkyri here could mask her and she punched a padawan on the head grabbing his clothing while putting it on herself. She changed the outfit so it properly fit her somewhat showing some skin but being a zeltron that was easy to shake off. The lightsaber he had she slid onto the robes when she felt some of the others wearing robes and armor that were like beacons in the force itself and she dind't want to be near them.

She was walking over with some fo the things here now. She could sense more of the jedi and they were practically glowing as they walked and she looked just like them as she walked carefully into the temple itself. She wasn't exactly certain where she was supposed to be going here or what she was supposed to be facing but a darksider on Voss would be a dangerous thing they would all be coming after her. As much as she relished the idea of a fight and a challenge she was also not really looking to battle a bunch of jedi on their home turf for the time being. Not at least until she understood what it was that was happening to her and in the monolith.

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

Her mind was going around as she moved over with some thoughts here. She was going over all of the different jedi who were looking around before she came into the temple. Still unsure where she was headed or going until she felt something. A pull, a tug towards the levels there until she was letting herself go as she was guided down towards the catacombs with a look on her face. The dead silver jedi could provide entertainment if she brought them back and set them on their friends but what value would that really have she was wondering as they all moved around. Her hands opening the catacomb doors before she was allowing the force energies to go around herself.

She didn't know what was down there, what there was that they would be able to see but the sith lord could feel the darkness of the catacombs creeping around herself before she breathed in the scent of fresh earth and decay. Even with crypts as they had them there was some questionable things as the jedi generally burned their dead and left the ashes to scatter to the wind. It was all about perception and Balaya was able to see a lot more of it when she came out of the one chamber into a larger one where she got to look over at some of the urns. She dind't know what silver jedis were down here they seemed to die only to come back as darksiders secretly and mysteriously.

She didn't know what there was going to be to face when the feeling of something was there. A large serpent.. no a dragon that was massive and white scaled appearing on the edge of her vision as Balaya's hands went instinctively to the lightsaber on her ip. She could feel it in her hand and the sound of it activating came to her with a snap hiss of blue light all around. THe zeltron was prepared for it until they were moving around in the tunnels and the chambers before she was leaping down to dodge when she rolled on her shoulder sticking away from the being. It felt like a large force ghost or being and her nightmare child would serve to be here protecting her.

The beast would hve to wait though as she felt it in the force and with emotions with her empathy. It was old, something not many others saw and a white dragon wasn't exactly specific... no it was coming at her and Balaya moved holding the saber while she rushed it leaping to the wall and kicking off of it as she came around smashing the massive beast in the face with her foot. The jedi's boot was helpfu but she would need to be careful as she wasn't i her armor before flinging around her mane of hair to swat and sting the creature in the eyes. Her attention to the smaller details not withstanding the sith lord wanted to relish and enjoy this fight that was going on.

She felt her boot smack itno the dragon before they were going back down and she grabbed his body feeling it solid under her hands for a moment before they were all going around. The sith lord stayed there for a moment until she pulled with the force to force her down and to the ground so that it would be a better game providing them a few more ideas. The sith lord smashed her fist into the head of the creature once they were on the ground and she was moving witht he lightsaber itself to smash and attack the creature. uncertain of if it could really be killed but it stank of the lightside of the force before she twisted the grip of the saber to smash it in and carve a large gash.

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

She could feel the force energy as it was coming out of the creature and was like a smashing, blinding blast of force light into her face as her vision blurred from tears welling up. THe pain was there before they were moving on the ground and she kept at it allowing the force energies to tear itno it as the thing was disappearing and all she could see was a white crystal left over hovering there. The colorless crystal going itno her hand as she wiped at her eyes and was pulling at the force to sense the area around herself. Wanting to make sure she had everything instead of leaving something behind as the familiar feeling of Serenity came by her brushing across the skin.

"You have done very well and earned this, fighting the dragon fo the jedi themselves. Iella was one of the few who was dedicated to the light from her initial training and well into death. Not many do that anymore which is why she was so much stronger." The sith was looking at it and she had encountered Iella E'ron before, more then that she had seen the other jedi who were light then died and suddenly were secret darksiders all along that is why they didn't become one with the force. Getting a small look on her face while she went over a couple more of the things here before she was finishing up to provide herself some cover before she was trying to focus her eyes and see.

"Your vision will return in time, for now it has been blasted with the lightside of the force. you are lucky for the most part. If could have done a lot worse to you if you were not careful." She could hear serenity and walking now as she reached out with the force there wa the small feeling of danger and she needed to get out with the darkside before the jedi suspected or sensed something going on down here. A sneer on her face while she was focusing the energies and thinking about it. "With this test completed you have earned the right to retain your mind and spirit after death. To return should you wish it and guide others just as many other have done."

She was thinking about what there might be, looking over the bigger things here when she came out and something was happening. Ossus was being attacked and they were mobilizing attack craft to go and help the people there. Seemed an invasion force had shown up and then a second wave because they were getting more resistance then people rolling over to just let the mandalroians have their way. it brought some interest to her when they where going over the problems. This was the perfect chance for her to well get out of here as they were all distracted and she could make her way back towards the tower itself. Stopping only when she was listening to some fo the padawans and younglings.

She heard the news that they were being secured and protected away from the dangers so there wasn't another Ilum incident where because jedi is in their title children were killed because jedi for honor and prestige... Her mind was racing to try and figure out the honor of that and where she would be needing to work on things. The sith lord had a number of plans that she would be looking to work on. She had a plan now as clarity came to her that she needed to be abel to do something here... well she couldn't help the jedi but she also dind't need to aid in their destruction. The jedi and these silvers were just a lot more fun compared to being all around.

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

"Who are you?" She was looking at a child who was there, a small one at that but she could tell the girl was part zeltron at the least or she was just very light skinned. Looking over the things here while she stood around looking. it would be rude and could possibly blow her cover when she was trying to avoid well being caught and alone on a planet full of jedi. "I am Balaya, one of the new ones around here." The child seemed to be looking at her outfit and she had those adorable to large for her mouth front teeth that took up all of her face when she was moving around. "Oh cool, I haven't seen many other zeltrons all around here since they brought us from Ossus. "

That seemed to do something for her as she was walking around before they moved. "Oh well I am hearing about Ossus right now. Seems something dangerous is going on there, it might be best you are not there." Balaya was watching the child but she spoke with a look on her face. "But why aren't you there, aren't you a strong jedi master like the others?" No I am a sith lord who needs to get to a tower to return to a super ancient and dangerous monolith that uses the darkside. "I am busy with another task. The jedi council has asked me to continue and to preform the trials of the five priestesses padawan. There is a lot that can happen but a duty is a duty."

The face of the zeltron got even brighter. She was so excited from the looks of it that Balaya was unsure what it was exactly that was happening to her but the girls voice came out. "The Trials of the Five Priestesses... don't you need a pure heart for that.?" A pure heart full fo the lightside of the force was her guess but no oh no. "Oh there is more then one way to pass the trials and I might not be the ideal jedi but I assure you padawan. I do have a pure heart." balaya was standing there for a moment and looked out towards the tower in the forest. "A heart of pure badass and power." She said it and both of them looked at each other.

"Do do you really believe your own hype that much master?" Balaya thought about it for barely half a microsecond before she was answering watching the others. "Padawan i am the hype." The padawan was looking at her as the little zeltron spoke. "Ah I think I need an adult." Balaya moved her hand to the padawans shoulder. "I am an adult." Then she smacked her in the shoulder and neck as the girl was going unconscious before she was moving to see the tower. Rushing into the jungle itself so that she was able to leave before the jedi could know she was there. As much fun as it was to talk with the padawan the sith had something to do and take care of.

She was returning to the tower quickly going through the jungle and she could feel that familiar pull of the force. She was uncertain of what would happen as she ascended the tower. There was a lot of things here on the planet but she had done what was needed to do. Staying would not serve a purpose before she was in the top of the tower standing there when the force itself was making her body glow to head back into the rift itself. Hovering there in raw force energy that left her wanting more and thoughts were swirling all around herself. The need to be around the galaxy and attain a higher power would push her, would make her want to go bigger but how?

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

As she hovered there and her thoughts were muddled, feeling the after effects of the trials that were giving her a chance to maintain her form here easier even though she had become one with the force. She was keeping her body and some thoughts about what she could do came back to the sith lord. She needed to become stronger, not stronger in the force but stronger in her prowess and rebuilding the likes of the sith... no not the sith. As appealing as the idea of being the dark lord was to her. She was not Kaine. She didn't need to just make her own empire to become the dark lord and she dind't need a sith order to become the ultimate master. Instead she was looking to make it a military might.

She would have to think about it, the goal wasn't just to be another empire though she could use them. There was always another group of Imperials in the galaxy looking for something but no she was thinking about what she knew of the empire itself and what she knew about the different things that they were doing. "Hmm." She could use this rift itself as a base and develop with the time dilation. Using it to her advantage as having a way they could build up and prepare over the couse of years within a couple of months. It would also give them a way to really accelerate while working with clones or sithspawn using her knowledge.... but she would still need a group.

She was searching out and feeling it, the Firebirds were still a thing, out there in the outer rim world that they had discovered. A fortress world converted by the Empire long ago and it was serving as a major base they had developed. it might not be perfect but it was looking to become something different. The Fourth world she could sense and had found it when the black rose was in power. To meet with them as they had a great deal of traits and goals similar to the Black Rose. She could work with that, she could work with them to create something different that might change the face of the black rose when Darth Venefica returned but it would serve something else.

She could feel all of them on the planet and her attention went to more of the things that they were doing. Balaya wanted to build up more of it for herself as thoughts drifted to the others pieces of this puzzle about what she would do with them. Their world would only go so far. The Firebirds were solely and generally a part of the whole not the grand sum of the Imperials. An empire needed more then just dedicated females that would be working on things. It would be beneficial for them to rebuild and prove themselves to be something far stronger that would be able to be thrown around presenting themselves as a military power that Imperial governments would want.

She was letting the thoughts go through her mind and even more came to the sith lord when she could feel the woman. Coming in here to the rift had been a benefit and now she would be able to share it with them. The Firebirds would rise and prove something to the others when she was sending herself there. Letting the raw force energies wash and wrap around herself before they were going to the planet to meet her and she could do much more now. She could reconstitute her clothing, she could make it stronger, make it more powerful as the design was within her mind and the Warlords Armor would serve as a sign of what was coming as powered sith armor.

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

She could see all of it and here on the world she was seeing them. The armored bodysuits that were made and specially designed so that you knew it was a female you were fighting and being beaten by a woman. The sith lord was walking and getting looks as the soldiers here were stern with sharp eyes and you could see scars on their faces from the battles they had been in. Their attention to her armor and her weapons were bringing others out who had more heavy weapons in case of dealing with sith and she was certain the comlink they had around their necks you could see for handsfree communication was sounding off that she could feel with the empathy and force energies itself.

She could see more of them coming, these elite soldiers and feel the force energies around them when with a look over all fo the things there were a couple of ideas that Balaya wanted to test with them. Specifically if there would be a way to alchemize their armor and weapons, maybe make them some new things that would be able to tear into enemies. "Hmm interesting." She got a look from a number of them with a look on her face before she was seeing more of the things. To present a new idea when she saw above all of them who she was looking at. The woman wearing the jet black uniform with the padding where it was until she was seeing the scars on her face and heard her voice.

"Last time i saw you Lady Praelior you were much taller and left quite an impression." She indicated her scar while looking at it all with a small raising of her eyebrows until she was ready so that they would be able to fight. Well their first fight had been something she had torn her eye out almost with her dagger and the woman jumped down looking at her before the zeltron stood to her full height watching her puffing out her chest and wearing the armor before she clenched her fists ready to attack her again. "Still pretty I see and it was only because the Black Rose needed your skills. You worked well with us until we were betrayed by the outsiders."

The black rose faced a dangerous prospect and she had disliked it. Once they had some footing suddenly a secret order was being shown to everyone around the galaxy and all of their business was suddenly theirs. it was tiring and boring in her opinion as the sith lord looked at the women. "yes, those who betrayed us and the black rose among others shall need to be handled." She was looking at them with a look on her face though while they were moving now and heading towards each other as it seemed like the two fo them were going to clash and brawl right there. Then Balaya opened her arms and the woman did the same as they embraced more as long time comrades with a look.

They embraced. "Welcome back, we are glad to see that you are alive and it gives some hope or at least proves that only the good die while the wicked live forever." She said i with a grin on her face while they were walking and balaya prepared herself for a few of the other things. She could see the others getting into the hall where others were drinking and putting out drinks, serving girls were around and others who were with all fo the weapons that they were displaying. "We had heard the rumor that you were killed or missing and then the One Sith went away, the Black Rose, the Republic. Everyone has gone crazy and there are several Imperial factions across the galaxy."

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

She was imagining there would be a plan to solve that, they might not be able to fight the first order but if all went well or the way she wanted to see it become. The Firebirds could rise from being just a cog in the Imperial machine to being something far more impressive and dangerous. She was looking at the weapons they were working on as the others were showing some of their skills with weapons so that the soldiers in their armored bodysuits and in their combat armor itself. Balaya saw more things there until she was moving over to the table picking up the rifle when she checked the sights of it. Then the clip and it was a beautiful thing to behold before she was looking at other parts of it.

She could see the rifle at some fo the other parts they were setting up for it. Between the ammunition she could see they were working on and the secondary weapon mode so the rifle in melee combat would be just a beast of a weapon. The zeltron wasn't going to argue that it would be soemthing to pass up. "This is something that is looking very nice." She was taking in the material and it was heavier but if she was going to work with them then she was going to be working on more of this. "Though if I am going to be here with you, there is a number of things that I will be able to help you with." She had a grin on her face before she was thinking about it and providing a number of new pieces of information.

She knew they had been working on a lot more as well which would come in handy in some cases. The combat blades that would go with it, the armor that they were wearing and these rifles plus whatever else equipment wise the Firebirds would be looking to make and with them Balaya was thinking about it because she could make them more equipment to go with it. They would have to be their own group, their own empire for a time until they proved themselves but that would be easily done when you figured how many groups there were in the galaxy that functioned as the empire, the Imperial remnant or a republic.... hell she had lost count of how many there were out and about in the galaxy.

She herself was looking at the different ways they would be able to handle it and Balaya was working on the rifle itself as she turned around to see the other Firebirds who were there with her. She wanted to test out some of the gear. "With the right materials and with the right backing we might be able to do something few others have done for centuries. Even the Black Rose will be unable to meet the power that we have to offer in this small endeavor." She was getting some looks and knew it would be a harder sell but it was time to think about herself and what she could offer instead of just another grand dark lord who was in charge and peope would forget all about him the first chance they got.

She was giving it a few more ideas. "We'll need some other materials as well, for these rifles. We'll use some enhancement crystals to make the energy being fired stronger and make them able to resist lightning and sabers. Just to surprise a number of dangerous jedi or worse dark jedi." She got some looks from them. "Oh don't look at me like that, dark jedi are worse then anything. Not good enough to be jedi but they don't want to commit to being evil or wicked as a sith. Instead they straddle the middle and it makes them pathetic. Nothing worse well there is worse. They could be the kind of sith who only talks or just smears everyone else because they can't actually act on their goals."

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

Balaya continued to work with the firebirds for weeks, days would pass as they were working on developing the technology into somehting usable and something that could be profitable to them and them alone as she was sending them out to gather materials and resources that would benefit them. From the metals needed to make sure the weapons were lightweight and designed to welcome alchemical enhancements to the armors need to be protective and created lightweight but still durable. She was working to make there be two versions of the Firebirds armor, the classic bodyglove that they would be able to wear and the heavy combat styled power armor.

They were working on more of the things around them here with the weapons, with the equipment and she had taken up a place in the area but wasn't in charge of the Firebirds. it would give them well a number of things as she operated in the basement labs with the other manufacturers who were producing their equipment at a more steady pace compared to som of the other things. She had convinced them to move operations to the rift so that they would be able to use it and as the area was being set up Balaya knew they were moving among the locals to present a whole lot of new places to go and search around the area. She was working on more things.

She was going over intelligence reports that they were getting from the others. She was wanting to see what they might be able to do here as the reports about all of their capabilities. "We have been looking at things and we have been getting reports of the attacks on Ossus and Voss. Seems the mandalroians are growing bold and so are the sith but... there is not a lot to it. The attacks look to be trying to provoke actions and the jedi are turning the other cheek. Surprising given how much they are being attacked that they have that many cheeks but it is a testament to them I imagine.... or just shows how bored they are with the situation about what they are doing."

Balaya listened to it and well she preferred a challenge but fighting jedi was only worthwhile if they got in the way. They might not like something but they didn't rush it with a weapon. Instead they preferred to let things play out and stop them if it was going to be a problem. Right for right and all that where she knew the others in the galaxy used their might to make things right or at least how they saw it as right. The beauty of being one sided in your mind was that you could justify anything as the sith lord continued tow ork on the pieces of equipment. Bringing the firebirds back into something that would be strong or serve a better purpose.

That better purpose as she was looking at the Firebirds in the completed suit for now with the full gear was oe of enjoyment. She wasn't going to deny the rush you coudl feel doing well not good but that rush you could feel making something with the force. Alchemy was her bread and butter even if her stuff was no longer going to be used. She prepared a couple more things to organize with them so that they would be able to do it and here once they were in the rift it would serve to provide plenty of time which they needed to handle everything. "We seem to be coming to a crux for now, we should be able to handle the major problems that have been going against the grain."