Bast Castle

[Emanon]

The secret sanctuary of Darth Vader, Bast Castle was an immense black fortress located near a beach on Vjun. It was surrounded with a complex network of manned defenses that extended several kilometers into the surrounding ravines. It was also equipped with at least one turbolaser turret. The facility also contained a number of hovering security droids that were tasked with eliminating intruders. Most likely it possessed starfighter hangars, and appeared to have an extensive garrison of stormtroopers and other vehiecles.

[Sardac Ordo]

*Landing his ship on the deck Sardac shuts down the ship and goes to grab his bag out of his quarters. He sense a slight bit a of displeasure as he walks by Isko and sighs.*

Ok spill it, what is on your mind.

[Isko Gratua]

*Adjusting herself, her HUD shows him sighing. The voice from the buy'ce sounds tinny" Ori'aranar ner runi. *Trying to be calm from the tales of this home. So much pain and sadness surrounds it. The tales vod have told sent shivers down her spine, yet here she is looking at it. Feeling like ad'ika, she takes his hand* Briikase kar'taylir cyar'ika we are tome. *Watching the droids unload their things to hover sleds, she looks at him and laces her fingers with in his. This is where her future starts, and there is nothing to be changed. Small groups of people come out of the house and she stands upright and scans with the HUD, left hand resting on her Ripper handle*

[Sardac Ordo]

*Gently squeezing her hand he looks about the place.*

Don't worry the staff here as well as the droids answer to me. The humans owe me and the droids are target practice if they screw up. Welcome to Bast Castle, headquarters to Ordo Bounty Agency.

[Isko Gratua]

*Keeping her hand on her Ripper, she walks with Sardac into the castle. To large and pretentious for her tastes. Statues and art line the walls, the house staff stand under the art as they walk by to their quarters. Taking off her buy'ce, she brushes back a few strands of hair from her face. The quiet hum of the druids and the hover sled mingle with their foot steps. Looking side long at Sardac, she never says a word*

[Sardac Ordo]

Let me guess you would rather be back home with your parents. I can have one of the spare ships brought out of the bay for you. It would probably be safer for you anyway.

[Isko Gratua]

*Smiles at him in a sarcastic way she raises her ripper* Can't get rid of me that easy ner runi. Besides *Kicks in a door and looks at the dining room* You have to train me.

[Sardac Ordo]

First off don't wreck my place, I still want to sleep here when I am in the area. Secondly I want you to get some sleep. We can start training in the morning, I need to sort out the new droids. As well as the intell I got from Nar Shaada.

[Isko Gratua]

Well, *Standing there and looking at him* want to show me where our bedroom is. *Looking out of the dining room at the stairwell she smiles at him sweetly and thinks to herself a few choice words she could call him*

[Corey Dooku]

Selena lands in a clearing and Corey comes out. He walks down to the surface looking around, thinking to himself.

"Hmm, never been here before."

He spots a shuttle heading towards him and Selena, he pulls out his sabers and gets down on one knee. He places his saber out in front, just out of his reach. He lower his head and waits on Master Volk to exit the shuttle

[Emanon]

Landing in his shuttle, Volk sitting behind the pilot sees Corey is already there. Behind him in the belly of the transport were a platoons worth of engineers ready to check out the commanding structure that was Bast Castle. It didn't matter if Vader had taken over for a time, the planet was his birth place and he ruled here.
He didn't blame Lord Vader one bit for choosing this place, for it was strong in the Dark side not as well known places such as Korriban or other Sith planets, but it had a ancient history of Sith involvement in any case.

Unbuckling and standing he walks to the back where the boarding ramp was located, passing by the engineers and the few soldiers meant to offer them protection. Hitting the activation button the ramp lowers and he walks down just into to see Corey kneel and offer his lightsabers.

Standing there he looks at him frowning. "Get up and follow me...." Volk says as he passes Corey leaving him where he was then continued to walk up to Bast Castle. Not knowing if they were following or not, Volk talks out loud just enough for the others to hear. "You men get to work. Send your primary reports up to the Captain."

Then he looks over his shoulder at Corey, and waves a hand encompassing everything he sees. "This is my home, not Bast Castle, but the world itself. I grew up in this wasteland of acid rain and death. Does the Dark side call to you here? Does it whisper to you of secret powers? Of glory itself? I have heard them all, Corey.....They have no meaning to me other than the empty words they are. I went down that path once before and found nothing but never ending darkness. The GJO taught us dark or light is nothing but the Force itself, and i realize that now." He looks up at the highest points of the Castle. "The simple fact remains, that the Grey Jedi Order is dead....my family is dead. What now.....? Now what is there to live for?"

[Corey Dooku]

Corey grabs his saber an started to walk behind Volk. He listened to his words, but said nothing until they stop and started to look around. Then Corey heard Volk say that the Grey Order was dead. Corey knew he was wrong, he got in front of Volk.

"You are so wrong Master Volk. There are two Grey Jedis still alive. How dare you, give up on the Order. You are not the only one that lost everything. (Anger in his face) It took me years to get over my lost, an I found out that there was only the force. I do not hear the Dark Side calling me, something more powerful called me hear."

Corey stopped in mid sentence, and lower his head.

"I know you felt it too. I will not turn my back on the Order, that is why I took the rank as Kage to show the others that the Grey Jedi Order was not dead."

Corey lifted his head high and crossed his arms.

[Emanon]

"It's dead as an Order, Corey....one man believing in a dream is a waste like war is a waste. We believed that to fight the Yuuzhan Vong was the right thing to do." Looking at Corey Volk sees the anger in his eyes and shrugs. He would not be talked out of what he was planning to do. "War inflicts death, injury and pain to both sides of the conflict, Corey, I know that." He says as he steps out from being in front of Corey and continues walking up to the castle. Speaking just loud enough so he could hear. "The death of someone dear or something you believe in is hard to accept. We convince ourselves there's no way that they could die....not with us protecting them. In the end everything dies."

It was not knowing what had happened while he was recuperating in a bacta tank somewhere in the unknown regions. The loss of friends he knew, what hit him harder the loss his wife and daughter. Death and pain is all he felt now....when he searched for them in the force. Pain for not being there to help them. He was lost now without them.

Stopping Volk looks over his shoulder at Corey, with real pain in his eyes. "You may try to find the meaning in the death of someone you love or something you believe in, but there is only pain in the end. The pain of loneliness. The pain of having to continue on on your own. Its an unbearable pain...."

Facing forward again Volk looks at the ground and sighs. What was he doing here? What was he looking for? He was searching for a sign to continue. "In my case, its an eternal pain over the death of my family that will not heal....that is what death is to me, Corey. I came here to the place of my birth to search for a answers. To see if I could become what i was once before....."

[Corey Dooku]

Corey heard the pain behind Volk’s words, he too know what it means to lose everything. He fell deep into the Dark Side and in that he took his anger out on the Grey Jedi Order. He went after Volk and his family not knowing Aeron was with child. Corey pain hits him hard and now he owes everything to Volk, for not wanting to kill him where he stands.

Corey catches up with Volk and saying nothing for a moment then moves over to his left.

“Volk, I will hold the memories of the Order within me. I will carry the title as Kage, but I have one request.”

He don’t wait for him to reply he spoke

“Volk, I owe you for all my wrong doing. I have not ideal on where to go from here, but I will tell you this. (Pause) I will follow you on whatever path you go. I life and sabers are yours, I only have one Star Destroyer and a living ship. I will pay my debt to you until I see fit that its pay in full.”

Corey turns looking at the team working and points at one slacking in his duties.

“This is not the time to play, Soldier. Go back an Tend to your duties we have a planet to rebuild an a fleet to get back in shape. So get to it.”

Corey tries to claim his pain and anger, the Dark Side is strong here. That’s a road he does not wish to go down for now. His mind goes on his past as he tries to forget what happened to the Order and to him. He leans on the wall waiting to see what Volk has planned to this planet.

[Emanon]

"This is my path." Volk says waving at the ruined structure that was Bast Castle. Zonama Sekot was gone to them as it was reclaimed by the Vong, let them have it. There was no use fighting for what was never there's to begin with. Here is where he planned on making a stand. Rebuild. Grow. "Here is where i will stay from now on. I am still healing from my injuries, and I need a safe place to gather go over info on what happening out there in the big bad galaxy."

He turns to look at the soldier that Corey had been reprimanding, seeing that he did get to work. He stands there for a few minutes. Then speaks to Corey again, realizing what he had said earlier. "You dont owe me anything. If you wish to earn that title you wear, then here is where you can get that chance. Your new Order needs a place to operate out of. A place to call their own. Well, this is it.....all you have to do is figure out where you stand in the bigger picture."

The Grey Jedi Order needed to stay in the shadows now, they were weak...but their strength always revolved around their secrecy. Here they had it, here they could strike out, here they will grow. But first they needed info. "Corey. Between the two of us, we have a fleet, a planet and vast riches. That in itself is not power....so we need to set about gathering power." He looks at him and smiles like old times. "Information is power. If you used it right...or let it slip in the right moment to steer the coarse of events. That's the power of balance... . " Somewhere in between staying away and wanting to be left alone, he found himself including his men and possession in Corey's dream of reviving the Grey Jedi Order.


Already planning ahead, Volk starts planning. "That is what we will do.....as far as everyone is concerned. I am dead...lets keep it that way. I will be just another one of your many soldiers under your command. Go out and start making connections with the Jedi, the Sith, the RGE and the Republic.....use your title as Kage if you have to. Do not commit our forces into anything, yet." He stretches his arms out simply. " Just....be friendly."


((Corey, as far as everyone is concerned Volk is dead....remember that ))