Into the Chaos -- Author's note.
Welcome to the nineth chapter of my story 'Into the Chaos'. A Sci-fi story that just happens to take place in the Unknown Regions of the Star Wars universe just after the Great Galactic War, almost 4000 years before the events of the movies.
To those not really into star wars lore, the events in this novel happens about 2600 years before Darth Bane instigated the Rule of Two, limiting the Sith to a One Master, One Apprentice system. In other words, there were thousands of Sith in this time period. Some were immensely powerful (Like Darth Malgus), while other were not.
As I said, this is the nineth chapter and if you haven't read the previous ones, I recommend that you do that first.
OftenRomantic have suggested that I add a list of the ships to the chapter, but it's simply too 'clunky' to start off with. Instead, I will put the list as either a seperate chapter (With a lot more into on the ships) OR as an artwork. Either way, it will take a few days to get done.
AND
THANK YOU
for the comments. As I've said before, they really do inspire me to continue writing.
And btw, yes I WILL get back to A Long Time from Home II, but my mind have gone Into the Chaos and I'm having a hard time focussing on that at the moment,despite having 3 new chapters almost ready (ALMOST :) )
Disclaimer
: I do not own or hold any rights to any Star Wars licenses, including the star ships used in this story.
Some warnings
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This is an erotic sci-fi adventure, meaning that there will be both sex and violence, but I don't mix the two.
This story is posted on the Literotica website and the author does not give permission for it to be reposted or reprinted anywhere else without consent.
P.S. The series is self-edited, so any mistakes are mine, though I now have a proofreader, that can catch missing words ect. Thanks to Jessejames932006 for doing that.
P.P.S. While you're here anyway, please rate the chapter and leave a comment :)
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Chapter 9 -- Combat at Nodia
Dreadnought Majestic
"The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy,
so that he cannot fathom our real intent."
From the Holy Book of War
Tetra 7 system
Despite using the Force to find a safe route out of the Labyrinth nebula, it still took a week to get out, but besides that the trip was uneventful.
On the bright side, the sight that filled my eyes as we dropped out of hyperspace, was a magnificent one. The two smaller suns danced around their primary, like children dancing around a parent. That's where the similarity stopped, because as they did so, the larger gravity field of the primary drew strands of burning material from them, gradually absorbing the smaller suns.
It might take thousands of years, but the smaller suns were doomed, caught in a deadly dance that ultimately would lead to their demise.
In a strange way, it was a cosmic paradox. A scene of both creation and destruction. The larger star flourished, absorbing the life force of its smaller counterparts, while they, in turn, withered away, their light gradually fading into the abyss. The dance would continue, until one day, the smaller stars would be no more, entirely consumed by the voracious appetite of the larger sun, leaving only a single, massive sun at the centre of a now solitary system.
In a more practical way, the suns' positions, and the energy exchange between them, temporarily blocked the outgoing routes on the other side of the suns and with that the route towards Centauri 21 and the Debra system.
Not that it mattered, since we were heading in the other direction, going back to Epsilon Eta before finding the way to Nodia.
On the positive side, we had been careful coming into the system, so there weren't any problems except for the waiting time.
"Lieutenant Karnos, how long until this show is over?"
At the scanner station, Karnos checked the display, "A week according to the computer, sir."
"Welcome back to the Chaos." Mumbled Captain Iska, making me nod slightly. Such delays were frequent in this area of space and there was rarely anything one could do about it. She looked at Tavune. "Comm, signal that we're going to normal watches."
"Yes, sir."
Iska looked at me. "I'll turn the fleet, so we can hyper to Epsilon Eta as soon as we have the route."
"Excellent. I'll go check the route." I said and walked into my office.
That the navigation computers only knew of two hyperspace routes in the system didn't mean that there weren't more than that, as it only meant that the data wasn't available, so I sat down in a chair, closed my eyes, and used the Force to find those routes.
To my surprise, there were no less than two more, with one of them going towards the galactic north and I followed the flow. To my surprise the route ended in a system only four jumps away from Chiss territory. Granted, it was an extremely long jump that was entirely inside a nebula all the way, skirting a lot of hazards on the way, and wasn't one I would choose unless someone pointed a blaster at my head, but at least it was there.
The second route led into a region of space known as the Tempered Wastes. There weren't many star systems in that direction, but those that were there were extremely large and going that way meant skipping the edge of several gravity wells, which was never a good idea as there was a fair chance that it might pull you out of hyperspace.
Another point against that route was that Rakata Prime was supposed to be somewhere in the Tempered Wastes, which fitted with the two old battlegroups we had found. It was also far from anywhere else, so I backtracked and tried the last route.
That one was the one we had been on when we were hit by the gravity wave and, as I already knew, it led back to Epsilon Eta, the system with the asteroid base that we had taken more than a year ago and where we had encountered the three prison-ships.
The Epsilon Eta system proved to have no less than three hyperspace routes leading away from The Chaos and into the Outer Rim.
I was at the edge of my ability now but tested the routes anyway. The first led to an average solar system, with a huge asteroid belt. The second led to another unremarkable solar system, consisting of a white dwarf star and several planets, and the third proved to be so long that I had to give up following it.