Eternal Father
Kanz Sector
System MZX32905
The time had come to tear loose the weeds that had been allowed to thrive in the Empire’s own backyard. Testimony from those who had once been closely connected to the errant Sith Ella Nova, and through intense reconnaissance, had revealed the existence of a secret hideaway deep in the most remote regions of the Kanz Sector. That such a redoubt had gone unnoticed for so long was a grave insult to the Emperor and his servants, but their chagrin was quickly replaced by a wave of cold anger.
So it was no surprise that several Marr-class Star Destroyers materialized around the system, accompanied by smaller interdictor vessels so that nothing could escape the system unnoticed. Out from their hangars poured waves of starfighters and boarding ships, a swarm that enveloped the asteroid field in their search for the hidden base.
It loomed before them like a sharp crystalline dagger embedded in lifeless stone, the Home. Once the secret fortress of Darth Vectivus in ages past, it had been rebuilt to serve as a den of heresy and falsehood.
No weapon systems rose to defend the Home as the transports approached, for the skyhook did not possess them. Unfettered, the transports began magnetically attaching themselves to the surface of the skyhook. Pressure sealing connected the two together as white-hot plasma-cutters carved through the metal hull. From the hole dropped two Zuguruk engineers, Pureblood Sith trained in the art of Mechu-Deru, who quickly moved towards the nearest computer terminal so that they could hook themselves into the skyhook’s systems.
Once the way had been cleared and any self-destruct or system wipe protocol overridden by the Dark Side engineers, the Emperor of the Sith, Darth Carnifex, descended from the opening to gingerly step onto the station.
He took one look around before calling out, “Scour the station, catalog any information you can retrieve.”