Corvus Raaf
Adieu...
Of course they’d all heard the reports, seen the holovids, but it was something else again to actually witness the carnage first hand. It may have been their home but for now it resembled what it had become – a Sith planet. It felt and looked dead. It was a cracked and twisted wasteland, covered now in jagged cliffs.
And the monitors said it was prone to lightning storms and persistent rain. Inhospitable didn’t do it justice. It was a charred and wrecked mess of a planet they all used to think of so fondly. Was it better to remember it the way it was or face the terrible truth? Only time would tell.
Another warning flashed up on the screen.
Alert: The gravity of the body you are attempting to land on has been detected as unstable. It is not recommended you remain on the surface for more than three hours.
As the coordinates were no longer valid, landing was done by sight alone. Finding what appeared to be a coastline on what passed for the southernmost continent, Corvus navigated along it. Heading north she found it. Mostly rubble and ruins, this was no ancient civilisation but what was left of Coronet City.
The Jewel was certainly tarnished.
She sat in the cockpit in silence, rain beating against the windscreen. Like a best friend that you neglected, it wasn’t until they were gone that you realised how much you missed them. How you needed them. How much you’d taken them for granted. But she was here now. It was like attending a funeral. At least she’d be spared the pointing and the whispering, people wondering why she wasn’t here sooner. She’d left just before the One Sith landed and in truth could have returned quicker. There were no excuses. Only the salty tang of tears.
[member="Darth Arcanix"] | [member="Coci Heavenshield"] | [member="Thurion Heavenshield"] | [member="Hawk Solo"]