Fate Of The Sith

There is no emotion, there is peace.                       Peace is a lie, there is only passion.

There is no ignorance, there is knowledge.             Through passion, I gain strength.

There is no passion, there is serenity.                     Through strength, I gain power.

There is no chaos, there is harmony.                       Through power, I gain victory.

There is no death, there is the Force.                      Through victory, my chains are broken.

-The Jedi Code                                                         The Force shall free me.

                                                                                 - The Sith Code

My eyes stung from smoke, yet I could not bring myself to blame the Republic.

A man to my right, I did not know his name, let out a cry of surprise as the console he was using exploded burning his face. It left all navigation control of the Terminus destroyer to me.

Turning I looked back at the Captain, a well dressed man whose uniform was immaculate, not like the rest of the bridge crew, we were covered in sweat stains and grease marks from the six hour battle, a feeling of dread plagued the ship as one of the Non commissioned officers, a fighter pilot ran forward pulling the man howling in pain to my right back before taking his place, doing his best to work with a half broken terminal.

Then my gaze fell upon the women standing next to the Captain, power oozed from her like the sick scent of a Hutt, covered from head to toe in Sith robes and battle armor that formed a puzzling contrast, but then she was a Sith.

“Your crew seems inadequate Captain, I trust its not just your leadership?” The man beside her shook his head.

“No my lord, I am afraid that the quality of our crews has gone downhill since we let those with weak blood onto the bridge” his gaze met mine and I shook with anger punching a new course around a small moon that would put us slightly ahead of the Republic fleet.

“Truly it is a shame to have them sully our presence, but these are hard times, The Sith stand strong but our Navy and Army have proved inadequate” there was no change of mood, no sign of her anger, she simply drew her lightsaber and sheathed it to the hilt in the mans chest.

The bridge was silent, the defining Klaxons and sparking consoles the only sound.

“But I think an experiment is in order, YOU Twi'lek, you are promoted to captain congratulations” my mouth dropped open in shock at the sudden promotion, my hands shaking in fear as I nodded for the Pilot to take my station as I jogged over to the captain's station, and closer to the mad Sith.

“M-my Lord! what our your orders?” I looked up at her before quickly lowering my gaze from her own piercing eyes, configuring the terminal before me proved a convenient excuse.

“This battle is lost. You are to take us to hyperspace” I bit my lip hard to hold back a squeak as I looked up.

“B-but our Star Charts were wiped! We have no programed destinations!” despite my cries I set up a Order packet, a set of orders to be sent to the other bridge crew, to jump.

“Well then” she grinned her voice a sick confidence I found terrifying “We let the force Decide where to go.” nodding quickly I sent the orders to the rest of the crew, a resigned fear falling across the room as I called out what I knew where to be my final words.

“Jump to Hyperspace.”

I let out a moan and found myself gasping for air, turning on my side I vomited out a sticky red substance, panting hard I groaned simply lying on my side Hoping the dizziness would pass soon as I rubbed my face with a hoof.

Ok what?!

Opening my eyes wide as I stared down in shock at the fur that covered my new limb, my smooth dark blue skin gone replaced with a light purple coat, and my Lekku... I let out a half sob half gasp as I reached up to my head, a long bone pushed out from my forehead but my Lekku were gone.

“Well, isn't this interesting...” I looked behind me and saw a leath red equine, black vains broken up her face like a spiders web, nicks and scars could be seen under her blood colored fur, her black robes had changed to cover her new form as if she had always been whatever she was. But she was not the only one, the entire bridge was changed, Officers had become one of four variants of equine; a winged one, a horned one, a striped one, and one with no horn or wings.

I noticed that only five horned equines where on the bridge. One of the engineers, the two sith apprentices, the sith and I.

She noticed too.

“Well look at that Head tails, the force has given you quite the gift, well I can't call you that anymore now can I?” she stepped over me, that sick grin still on her face as I shakily got to my... hooves.

“What our your orders my lord?” I quickly bowed my head hoping that I was still useful to her.

“Find out where we are, after that you are to send ALL horned crewmembers to my chambers, do you understand.” I quickly nodded as she left, her Apprentices falling in behind her.

It spoke for the integrity of the Imperial navy that after only a few moments of shock and confusion, the bridge at least was working as it should be, Officers were learning how to operate the controls with the new large unwieldy limbs and I... felt something.

Like a slow pulse in my head that made me giddy, I could feel it around me too, like a heartbeat, I chose to ignore it and get back to work.

“Damage report.” I turned to one of the Human turned Winged pony next to me, it had been five hours since we had gotten in system and most repairs where done on the bridge, even though the repairs were pathetic for imperial engineers, we all had new bodies after all.

“Hyperdrive intact but we lack the thrusters to use that, only one of the thrusters is still working at the moment, life support is gone and we have forty hours to fix it, out of the five hundred and twenty four crewmembers we have three hundred and five who have answered roll call, we have one shuttle, all of our star fighters and bombers are destroyed, three of the thirty laser turrets are working, almost all of the small batteries are gone, we have no missiles, the ion cannon is out of alignment, and the twin turbo laser cannons are working at thirty percent capacity.” He paused looking back to his terminal screen “Fabrication facilities are still functional but we have next to no supplies. Also we have only fifty troopers left, one of the trooper barracks was vented into space... Oh and we are all equines for some reason.” I cursed tapping my hoof for the odd clicking sound it made when it hit the metal floor.

“Do we still have scanning?” I looked out at the system through the bridge viewport.

“Yes but it is limited to short range, umm Captain, I know this goes against regulation but if that planet in the middle of this system is habitable... we need to land on it if we want to live.”

I glanced at the planet, it hung on its own in the middle of the system, its sun spinning lazily around it.

“Yes, how long till we reach it?” I glanced at the Officer on the navigation computer, it felt odd to be able to move my head and neck almost the entire way around but it was far more convenient than turning my whole body. The force must have a sense of humor.

“At our best speed, three days, and working on the Engineering reports. We have about four days of life support if they rig up something. But it will break Reg-”

“Just tell them to do it, for now we focus on surviving.” The crew seemed to brighten at that. I felt a ping of empathy with them, far too often in this war had Captains killed there crew to follow regulation dogmatically.

The Bridge crews good mood was soon shattered as one of the apprentices stalked onto the bridge, the Sith Pureblood turned Horned Equine walked with a slow confidence as if she was already a Sith. I turned and Stood at attention as she glanced around.

“The ship looks repaired.” I saw the Chief Engineering Officer smack her face with a hoof as I slowly shook my head.

“The ship is still in critical condition and we will have to make planetfall soon before our life support runs out, I have taken the liber-” her blade sprung to life floating in the air by my neck as I froze in fear.

“YOU, you have overstepped your bounds, while my Mistress meditates on this I am in command, do you understand that ‘Captan’”

“Y-yes my lord, I recommend we set a course for the planet.” Stopping myself from continuing I watched as she seemed to think things over. I knew it was a rather obvious ploy to seem more in control of something she had no understanding of. After a few moments she nodded.

“Going to the planet would be best, you may do so on my order.” With that she grinded and stalked out. Turning, I let out a sigh and looked at my number two.

“Well you know our orders. Get too it.” Stepping out of the bridge I left an Officer in charge and went to inspect my new Captain's quarters, hopefully to sleep for the next four days.

The last Captan was a vain fool I mused as the elevator doors closed. Weapons lined the walls from Dueling blades, Blasters, Ancient rifles and even a Jedi Lightsaber. It Left a bad taste in my mouth, walking, or rather trotting, I made my way to the large double bed that dominated the room. Blood red sheets made of some sort of silk and bottles of Wine from Coruscant, perhaps plundered with the lightsaber in the sacking of the planet-wide city.

“A lovely room, is it not?” The hairs on the back of my neck stood on end, something that I was sure I would never get used to.

Turning around quickly I saw a leath figure in mandalorian armor leaning back with a short blade in her armored Talons. Like my uniform the force must have made her armor fit her new body, but she was FAR from Equine. Twin black wings folded out from her armor and spread behind her longer Birdlike front, her lower half was more in line with one of the Excotic cats Sith often kept as pets, clawed hind paws and taloned hands, the dangerous woman had been turned into a predator. Covered in blaster-proof battle armor, knives and blasters sticking out of multiple places, the twin Blasters on her hip turned flank and one of the most sophisticated Shield generators I have ever seen caused me to pale under my new coat.

“Y-yes it is.” I choked out unsure how to deal with this situation.

“Its a nice bed, try it.” Turning I pulled myself onto the bed and rested my head on the pillow. I looking down at her as she got up, in full armor. She stalked over to me and got onto the bed, pulling me into a smaller spoon and running her razor sharp talons over my neck.

“Sweet dreams Captain.” She chuckled while holding me close, but I found myself unable to close my eyes.