Fate Of The Sith

Peace is a Lie; there is only Emotion.

Through Serenity, I control my Passion.

Through Wisdom, I overcome Ignorance.

There is no Chaos; there is Harmony.

Through Emotion, I gain Power.

Through Harmony, I gain Clarity.

There is no Death; there is only Sacrifice.

The Force shall Guide me.

-Revanite code

The elevator stopped and out trotted one of the Sith apprentices, now that I had time to study her face I noticed the bony spines from her face, a slight change relating to her previous race.

“Ah, Captain Desyanti.” The Sith smiled pulling her hood down to show her cropped... mane? and red horn “I was hoping to see you, I have been asked to follow some of your regulations while I command this ship. Now I have found a small discrepancy, there seem to be six Sith on the entry passenger manifest, yet only my master and Tavion are on the official crew list.”

“You wish for me to find them my lord?” I cocked my head at that.

“Yes. When you have found out who the other Sith are you are to report to me directly, I will be in my Quarters.” With that she pressed a button on the elevator with a flick of her horn and left.

I waited for the next elevator not wanting to take one with the Sith and made my way to the crew deck, only one person knew everyone on the ship. A few of the crewmen spotted me and smiled nodding or giving me a respectful salute, something that was rather Un-Imperial. Most crews had a perpetual fear of higher ranking officers and I was not naive enough to think I was any different. So why was everyone being so nice?

The med bay was mostly busy, not in an emergency state but people who had transformed with burns or other wounds were not healed and had to recover. Doctors and medical droids, who were untouched by the transformation that had occurred, were trotting from bed to bed monitoring the more critical patients. I ignored them and made my way to the back office, the door opening to me as soon as I was in range of its sensor.

“No, its not something that I can tell anyone about just yet I..” Ja,Vok looked up to me, the winged equine blinking before he looked back at the com link “I will call you back.” He severed the link without waiting for a reply.

“Yes, its something that I will need your help on, but you have to promise me something, something that if the last Captain was asked I have no doubt he would lie right to my face about.” That got my attention, turning to look the doctor in the eyes I waved a hoof.

“Ask, I will not lie to you.”

“I must be going mad in my old age.” He sighed tapping his hooves on the desk “We have had another type of equine, one with a unique gift that might be incredibly dangerous in the wrong hands.” he licked his lips “You need to promise me that you will take into consideration their safety and wellbeing before ANYTHING else.” Cocking my head I otherwise noded, the task the Sith set for me could wait.

“You have my word.” with that he nodded

“Follow me.”

A Thranta-Class Corvette hung in space its turrets halting their fire as the Sith Destroyer entered hyperspace, its bridge was quiet as the Captain, one Taza Torpoli, thought out her next action.

“Plot a course to follow there hypertrail, we can't let the Imps escape here!” She slammed her fist down on the holo table before her as the bridge crew rushed to follow their orders.

“There is a transmission from the Flagship Captain.” Taza nodded to the young officer who put up the transmission.

“Captain Torpoli, you are to follow the fleet to the orbital docks for repair and rearmament, the battle here is won.” A Male Zabrak Jedi looked Taza over.

 “My ship is undamaged, we will continue the chase.” A beeping at her terminal told Taza that the navigational officers had the trail of the escaping sith ship.

“We cannot follow them Captain, they have traveled to an unknown sector, there will be no support, no reliable way of returning.” The Jedi pleaded with the Republic Captan to reconsider her dark path.

“The Imperials must be eliminated, there is no other way.” Before he could send an order to any of her crew she cut the communication and entered the navigational orders into her computer, she felt her ship lurch as they entered hyperspace, then the world went black.

“The Chiss?” I followed the Doctor to one of the cargo holds, a smaller one that held mostly spare parts for weapons.

“Yes, they now have abilities that must not fall into the wrong hands... well hooves right now I suppose.” Punching in the code to open the door with the tip of his hoof, the inside of the cargo hold was dim, only the running lights were still on but my eyes quickly adjusted.

“Captan.” The voice was respectful, but it was off, wrong almost as if many people were speaking at once.

“Come forward, I can't see you.” Blinking I turned spotting eleven silhouettes in the darkness.

It was when they stepped forward into a soft red light I understood. They were changed, and definitely Chiss, well ex Chiss, there eyes a blood red but it was the rest of their bodies that was startling. Dark black chitin flawlessly covered their bodies broken up by their bone white fangs and slightly lighter fins atop their heads.

“Sorry Captain, we are still getting used to our new... bodies.” One of them spoke, a larger female with a long green mane. I had to look up to her she was so big.

“Well, I can understand your trepidation over this transformation but this hardly qualifies for leave from work.” My voice was stern looking each one in the eye, but it was the larger one who spoke once more.

“That is not why we have hidden ourselves, and we have been working as per our jobs, if you remember rightly there are twenty Chiss that survived the battle, the ones who are carrying out their work are exercising a new ability that I want to keep away from the Sith." Three of the changed Chiss stepped forward, red flashes covering their bodies before three copies of me, my new body, stood grinning.

“That is quite the trick, infiltration perfected...” The larger one grinned and nodded

“We have taken to calling ourselves Chiss-Equis, a placeholder name until we find one better, and we have been looking into our new anatomy...” She looked to the doctor who turned to me.

“It’s all in the report, as is my recommendation of what to do in this situation.” I nodded.

“Well, I will ensure you and all of the now Chiss-Equis are protected, crewmen?” she shook her head.

“You are our Captain and we trust in your leadership, but it seems this transformation has made me into what my planets scientists would call a ‘Queen’ of my own small hive. Nothing that I would use to undermine you just a formality, I would like to be called Queen Metamorphosis, it’s poetic if you care for such things.” I did not but saw no reason not to grant the new ‘Queen’ her wish.

“Stay safe Queen Metamorphosis.” The door opened before me

“You too Captain Desyanti.” Then the door closed.

“Do you know about any Sith or other passengers that our not on the official lists?” I turned to the doctor in the dark hall, it was a side corridor that did not see much use, I could not think of anywhere better than this to ask.

“No, and that I promise you, but I will point some things out, when the quartermaster died, I was given his duties until I could assign them to another officer, something I hope to do today when you sign the reassignment. Anyway he left a few reports of missing stock, food medical equipment and other things but there was some odd things he reported, an officer losing his uniform in the washer, several sets of battle armor going missing as well as a hack that left the army assignment database in shambles... not sure what it means until you said it but i think-”

“Yes i get the idea, we have infiltrators aboard beyond the new Chiss... you are to forget about it, I will deal with it myself.” Turning I left for my quarters getting ever closer to the work that was building up on my terminal, the longer I had this uniform the more and more it seemed to drag me into every dark secret on this ship.

“Far too much drama for a Destroyer... well at least it’s not a dreadnought.” I found myself grinning at that.

It seemed that my quarters where going to be shared, the Mandalorian was sitting on her back, long catlike hind legs stretched over my bed as she looked at a datapad.

“Long day? You must have seen the bug Chiss downstairs.” she grinned as I blinked at her, helmet at her side.

“How do you know about that?” I dropped into one of the chairs and blinked when I saw a fully cooked ration pack open on the table.

“My cloaking still works just fine, and the wings help quite a bit, the foods for you, and I was wondering why that cargo hold was off limits anyway.” Blinking I dug into the food before me.

“What are you doing here?” I bit though a particularly nice tasting fruit still watching the predator on my bed closely.

“You have a nice bed, no chance of backstabbing me, lots of control but little power.. the list goes on but it’s mostly just to make you the best mix of strong and weak that makes me interested.” She winked at me and put the data pad to the side.

“So you have a few choices here. And as much as I would love to tell you what to do, what you chose here has little impact on me. This Bug Chiss dilemma is yours alone, ..so what will you do here?”