Private Sith Take What They Want

[Iasha Rha]

There was one journey that many Jedi deemed to be one of the most sacred rituals of their religion.

The Gathering.

During these trials and tribulations, young Jedi found the kyber crystals that powered their lightsabers, and they learned valuable lessons from the Force itself. These lessons were often about courage, humility, compassion, patience, all the things that made a Jedi tick. But now, these younglings were about to learn a lesson far more dear.

A lesson only Sith could teach.

Having stalked the Jedi freighter's coordinates, researched optimal flight paths and backed up her research with the hearsay of her organisation's spies, Iasha Rha now lay in waiting. Her ship was darkened, floating like a piece of random debris in the blank void of space, yet the engines were alive and the guns were hot and ready. She had released one of several interdiction mines that now waited for the freighter to cross its path.

Her plan: To let the mine rip the ship out of hyperspace, then assault it and take the kyber crystals for herself.

Each crystal could make one rich in credits, but even that value was nothing in comparison to their utility. To the Sith, a kyber crystal was invaluable, especially one claimed from a fallen foe. They said the weapons of sith were not constructed like the Jedi's.

They were taken.

And that was just what Iasha Rha intended to do.

She would teach the Jedi the meaning of loss.

Evelyn

 

[Evelyn]

Opportunism was the name of the game, in the criminal world and the path of the Sith. Whispers came up from the Maw's people laced in with the Alliance. A freighter ship of young Jedi on their Gathering. Kyber crystals, lightsabers and, importantly, young force sensitives. Potentially powerful. Easily broken. The Maw could take them and mold them into whatever they needed. Or, they possibly be ransomed for a good amount of credits. Profit for Evelyn either way.

It was fairly easy to arrange for a tracker on the ship. No doubt it involved careful subterfuge on the behalf of a Maw agent, but Evelyn's own effort was minor. She knew where the ship was, where it was meant to go and where it'd drop out of hyperspace. On her own light freighter, two flunkies tapped on consoles as an alert came up. One beckoned Evelyn over.

"What d'you mean it's out of hyperspace?" Evelyn asked quietly, looking at the data. The Jedi ship had been ripped from it's jump in some random system. "Charge the hyperdrive. Get us there now," she ordered firmly, her mind running through the possibilities.

Meanwhile, in that particular system, the Jedi freighter emerged from hyperspace in a brilliant blast of blue. Consoles flashed and bled warnings as the ship was firmly yanked from it's path, leaving it stranded in that system while the interdiction field wore out. Nervous chaperones checked for equipment failures... and for other ships on their equipment, as the realisation hit them about what'd happened.

Iasha Rha

 

[Iasha Rha]

"Fire."

While the Jedi were still scrambling to get their ship in order, the Sith's vessel opened fire. An initial barrage of turbolasers waylaid the ship's engines and damaged the communications. Despite the initial volley, the Sith's purpose was not to blow the ship to pieces. Not yet, anyhow. Iasha Rha simply knew that the first the Jedi would do would be to contact their friends.

And she didn't want anyone to crash this party.

"Ion torpedoes next, clear the way for boarding." "Yes ma'am."

So far, so good.

"Keep them occupied."

The twi'lek turned sharply, the twin lekku trailing behind her as she moved at a brisk pace from the command bridge to the ship's single shuttle. Were this just any assault, then perhaps she would have brought someone along to cover her back in the assault. But this was a matter of Sith and Jedi. If she were to teach them, then she would need to do so on her own.

Besides, she only had so many under her command.

Two streaks of blue left the Sith vessel to strike the Jedi freighter again: Ion torpedoes would wreak havoc on their systems, and perhaps even force a full reboot.

Meanwhile, the one-person vessel ejected itself from the sith's ship and whirred toward the Jedi vessel like an insect among banthas.

Evelyn