He had packed his gear and had a shuttle readied and soon thereafter he had left his Master’s stronghold and was enroute back to Lucazez. The trip gave him time to reflect he had recently discovered that he had a wife and lived on a small colony on tatooine. Had being the operative word he had as a sacrifice to the dark side had killed her and the settlement. He did not feel remorse or guilt but for a short time something had nagged at the back of his mind. Something he could not place. Maybe it was a tiny spark of the man he had used to be, the man he would never know. He had gotten over this as his sacrifice had herald a new level of existence for him. He had in that made the dark side his and he was the property of the Dark side of the Force. He would not ever come back from, and he did not want to. The path to the dark side was one of power. Something that was increasing for him as time went on for him.
It had been a few hours but he finally arrived on Lucazez. The shuttle touched down in the same hanger he had left with Jonah what felt like a lifetime ago. He disembarked to be greeted by two troopers as Warvanus descended the ramp. The sith soldiers stood at attention and bowed their heads to the apprentice. “Welcome back Milord” one had said. Warvanus did not bow his head back nor did he greet them, he only said to them “Bring me to Pycellan” and at once they escorted him to the governor.
The Doors to the governor’s office slid open and the 2 soldiers stood at either side of Warvanus as he stepped through the door into the office. Governor Cam Pycellan rose from his seat and also bowed his head as he stepped inside. Without a word the troopers saluted and turned and stepped out. The door had barely slid shut when the governor spoke. “Welcome back Milord, I trust the Emperor is well”
Warvanus took two steps further inside and sat down without being prompted, he looked at the governor “Your Message was urgent” he said avoiding the question. Pycellan nodded and sat back at his desk. “Yes Milord but not so that you needed to come here though do not get me wrong we are all honored by your presence” Warvanus waved his hand to cut him off.
“I have been monitoring you Governor and your progress and I am most pleased in the short time you have been in this office you have surpassed years of work that your predecessor had done. More importantly the Emperor is pleased. I do not need to give you reasons why I decided to come here personally” he began “However, since you have done so well I decided to come see your operations personally and lend assistance in this issue that you seem to be having” Pycellan seemed to relax a bit. Knowing he had the Emperor’s approval was the highest compliment any servant of Tormentous could ever achieve to receive.
“As you may remember Milord when I first took over there were rebel cells here, those who had supported Argonis, and those who are totally against the Empire’s presence here they were committing random acts of terrorism but as you know me and my men squashed this rather quickly” he paused and folded his hands in front of him. “The mastermind of the Argonis’ supporters who was believed dead was spotted here three days ago. My men have been unsuccessful in finding him.” With that Pycellan pushed the datapad towards the end of his desk. Warvanus picked it up and read and studied this. After a long moment he looked up from the datapad.
“This animal has eluded your best efforts it seems” he said slowly, He wondered if this person was touched by the Force, either way this beast had to be put down. Pycellan nodded his eyes not meeting Warvanus’ “It says here that he has been striking out at different outposts” he paused “This interferes with production and the Emperor will not be pleased if this is not dealt with” he put the pad down back on the desk “I should take command and have your troops hunt and execute this terrorist like the dog he is” he paused “but since I need a workout you will have the blessing of knowing that I will deal with him personally” He rose from his seat. “Keep your ear to the comm. I will expect a direct line to you Governor” With that Warvanus rose and departed. He had reached the edge of the main settlement. He could see the woods and the elements that lay before him. Inwardly he smiled. He was going to enjoy this.
To Be Continued====Begin Force Jump App====
Warvanus broke out into a run drawing his blade, he opened himself to the Force expanding his senses, bringing his heart rate and body temperature under voluntary control with the use of the Force he could feel the life around him as he used his blade like a machete, his control had improved and had no problem maintaining all these things and bringing his shield up (Force shield) he dodged and ducked and jumped over various obstacles that lay before him. To the Sith it was almost like he was running an obstacle course.
He could feel the life all around him animal life mostly. He came to a stop. He came face to face with a wall. He tried to climb it he couldn’t, he also couldn’t go around it. It looked old. He then had the idea of trying to jump it. He concentrated and then tried to jump he did jump but nothing out of the ordinary.
He sheathed his blade. He drew his senses inward focusing on the immediate area. “I wonder” he thought to himself. He could feel the air molecules and an idea came to him. He tried to jump again this time he used his efforts to manipulate the air under his feet to push him upwards. He failed. Frustration began to rise in him, he needed to figure out how to scale this wall. He decided to try something he had known that force users could jump exceptionally high and while he had never formally been taught the technique he knew it could be done. He took a rock from the ground and threw it up in the air and attempted to manipulate the air around it to push it up with the Force. To his surprise the rock as it had started to come down stopped and moved upward but more like a bump as it fell and hit the ground.
He was encouraged by this it had worked but not well. He tried the experiment again this time he focused harder pushing his will harder, manipulating the air to push the rock upward harder keeping his hold on it to keep it going upward. He found that it went considerably higher before he reliquenished his manipulations. Now, he had to do the same thing but for himself. Warvanus took several steps back he was going to get a running start as to give him more momentum. He ran and jumped and drawing on the force he once again manipulated the air under and around him to push him upwards and to his pleasure he was going upwards he willed the air around him to become dense willing it to push him to carry him upward , pushing harder he was climbing at a steady rate he then ceased his manipulations. He barely was able to grab on to the ledge as he was at the top. He did it too soon. Maybe he should have tried to jump over the wall and then used the force to soften his landing. He would have to practice and his attempt was sloppy. He scaled the wall and then after taking a deep breath let himself fall.
He employed the technique again this time he was pushing against the air as to stop the fall, he didn’t stop it he did have periods of his fall slowing down but having not the hang of it he was attempting what he thought was the right technique by willing the air under him to gather together to be dense to act as a platform of sorts to lower him down. He needed practice on this but he was successful. After he hit the ground he slowly picked himself back up. Brushing the dirt off his jumpsuit Warvanus then looked ahead and resumed his trek only he would walk for a while.
=End Force Jump Application=
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