Knights of The Old Republic

Redemption

Written by Nikita Ignatyev.

Taken from Star Wars Knights of The Old Republic game of LucasArts™

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A long time ago… in a galaxy far-far away…

The Republic is under attack of The Sith Empire. Lead by a dreadful Dark Lord of the Sith – Darth Malak, after taking the title of the Dark Lord from his old master Darth Revan, by betraying him while Jedi boarded the Flag-ship of Revan. Sith started invading the worlds of Outer Rim.

Weakened after the Mandalorian Wars, Republic had to defend her Core worlds and deploy more and more forces against the unlimited number of the Sith…

Prologue.

Ship shook hard of being attacked by Sith fighters. In a room was laying a man in bed sleeping or being unconscious. He had long black hair and had some kind of underwear on him. His age was about 30. Suddenly he woke up, opened his eyes and couldn’t clarify the situation. Where is he? What’s happening? He got up slowly when the door got unsealed. Someone was running in and seems to be hurry. It was human male looked like a soldier or the Republic, the colors of his outfit could make up anyone’s mind. The man looked young, about 27 years, had blond hair and bright blue eyes. He had a blaster rifle in his hands.

“Hurry up!” – Suddenly said the Republic soldier to an unknown human: “We should get to the bridge to save Bastila!” “Who’s Bastila and who are you?” – Said the man being surprised and shocked. He looked at the hurried man with his big dark eyes.

- Oh…seems you hit your head enough hard! Bastila is a Jedi, leading this operation on the ship Endar Spire! You’ve sworn to protect her!

- Really? Well, I don’t remember anything…But if you say so, then I will do it! What’s your name?

- Lieutenant Trask at your service! And yours?

- My name is…Hazar. Hazar Star.

Both smiled and shook hands. Trask said that he needs to be equipped because the Sith forces are attacking the ship. Hazar found some locker and opened it. There were some clothes, some kind of blaster and a vibroblade. He dressed up as fast as possible. For some reason he chose to handle vibroblade, it seemed to him easier to fight.

- I’m ready to go.

- Alright! But be careful, Sith forces are not the merciful ones. We might will meet some Dark Jedi out there. We need to reach the bridge to join Bastila and accompany her.

- Wow! That makes sense. Let’s go to the bridge!

Both men went out of the room and Trask opened the blast door to the dormitories with his security card. But they stepped out of the dormitories, they heard the blaster’s sounds and the battle cries of the Sith and Republic soldiers. Hazar and Trask Joined the battle with the soldiers.”For the Republic!” – they cried and Trask with them. Sith were in silver-colored outfit with helmets closing their faces with black glass or some kind of it. They stood opposite the Republic soldiers equipped with blasters and grenades on the belt.Hazar tried to reach the Sith troopers, but it was enough hard because they were shooting so he could get injured. One of the Sith was already down and then Hazar moved as close as it possible to him and sliced him with vibroblade right at the chest. Trask looked at him with admiration. "He just got up and already fights so furiously against the enemy. That’s the spirit!” – He thought. Hazar looked at him with some curiosity in his eyes.

- Good job! But it was the first battle here.

- You’re right. I hear the voices crying through the walls of the ship.

- We’re close to the bridge! We need to go there as fast as possible.

They started to run at the doors of the corridor at their way there were some Sith troopers but they got killed fast Trask shot at their backs and Hazar hit them with blade till death. It would be possible to deflect the blaster shots but he was neither a Jedi nor a Sith to do this. Vibroblade couldn’t be broken even by a lightsaber. It’s made of some kind of metal called cortosis. The armor included the plates of cortosis as well. They reached the corridor leading to the bridge but them stopped a battle between Sith and a Jedi Knight, that came with Bastila here. They were fighting furiously and Sith was doing some harsher hits than Jedi, who tried to protect herself against his hits. They crossed lightsabers again and their faces looked enlightened and in different aspects, looking at each other. Sith had crimson color of the blade and a Jedi – blue. Trask and Hazar were watching the battle, avoiding to join them. Both were standing and looking for other enemies that could be around. Jedi twisted her saber in hand and sliced Sith under the neck, Sith couldn’t block her hit, he was opened to her by raising his hilt above. He fell down lifeless and hard on the floor. Jedi Knight stood up but was hit from behind by a huge plate of ship armor. “She would survive if we called her…” – thought Hazar and looked sadly at Trask. They had to do everything alone.

Sith fighters kept attacking Endar Spire: droids kept fixing the systems on the Republic warship. Hazar and Trask stared at the woman’s lifeless body and heard some footsteps from the corridor: These were Sith troopers soldiers again. Trask looked cautiously through the corner and saw 3 troopersrunning. He took his blaster rifle and started to shoot at them. Hazar heard it, ran out of the corner to another, quickly moving close to the walls and raising his vibroblade. He twirled with blade in his hands, hitting all of the troopers. They were screaming of pain and dying of bleeding. Trask finished them with shooting rapidly in their damaged bodies. Suddenly, Trask’s comlink started beeping, he activated it and the voice of a man was heard along with static:

- This is CarthOnasi! The Sith troopers blocked me in saving capsules chamber! Almost all of them have left the ship! You must hurry up to get here and get rescued! I must warn you: here is a Sith commander. I hope you will get here soon. I’ll contact you as soon as possible! Carth out!

Trask had a big smile on his face. Hazar looked at him with a question. Trask said:

- I can’t believe it! This was CarthOnasi! The hero of the Republic! Oh…We need to get to him as fast as we can! The Sith troopers can breach the blast door!

- Right! And then we will leave this flying graveyard…

- Let’s go!

They were going fast not to miss any Sith trooper, but on their way to the bridge there was no one. They came closer to the door of the bridge and head nothing sounding like a lightsaber. So Bastila wasn’t there as they thought. Maybe she’s gone on the capsule after the attacked was just about to begin. But there was a sound of battle. They heard the grenade exploded under the control panel. The ship was about to lose its control and was falling at the surface of a planet it was near to. Trask said something incomprehensible but that was a damnation about the Sith. He lost his comrades here and friends. Trask looked at Hazar, he saw everything on Trask’s face. He patted his shoulder easy and said calming him:

- It’s a war, my friend. The victims are unavoidable, you know it. But they will always live if you keep them in your heart.

Trask looked at him companion with a smile. For him these words were like comforting ones. He felt relieved.

- I guess you are right. We need to move on.

Hazar opened a door and saw bodies of Sith and Republic soldiers. The control panels and screens were badly damages, everything sparkled. They walked carefully not to get shocked by the electrical impulse. Step by step they went out of the bridge room and entered the one where was the way to the capsules. But something stopped Trask and he asked for Hazar’svibroblade. He grasped the hilt tightly and came next to the blast door.

- I think there is something behind it.

He stopped talking because the door opened and there was a man, clothed in dark armor, he was bald and his eyes were burning with anger. Both Hazar and Trask had fear in their eyes. In his hand was a double-bladed lightsaber. It was a Dark Jedi! He ignited his lightsaber and pulled his hand in front of him. The Dark Jedi smiled with a strange, evil smile and made his step closer to Trask.

Trask looked at Hazar with pale face, but seems it was his fate to die here with his comrades… He said with trembling in his voice:

- Run! I will keep him here as long as it possible! Find the way out of here! Goodbye, my friend…

Trask looked at his friend for the last time, smiled and stepped into the corridor to confront the Dark Jedi. Then Dark Jedi raised his hand and used the Force to seal door.

Hazar was alone this time. He needed to get to the capsules and find CarthOnasi. He forgot about the comlink. Carth promised to contact, but it was with Trask. He opened the door and started to run along the corridor leading to the Sith commander right before the door with Carth. Walking in the corridor before Sith he was looking around. He found the computer and approached next to it. Were a few manipulations and he got access to the computer and cameras. He looked at the Sith. Sith commander was different in the outfit. He had red outfit, when others has silver-colored armor.

“Aham, 3 of them…Alone would be a suicide…”

After a few seconds looking for some cables to overload through the computer. He entered a key and all 3 of the Sith were down and screaming in agony. In 10 seconds they were dead, burnt. The smoke was rising up from the dead burnt bodies. Hazar walked faster coming closer to the door and tried to open it. Door opened easy because the man behind it has been already prepared for some guest. He had short brown hair and red shirt. He looked about 40 years old. The man before Hazard was CarthOnasi – The Republic War hero. Carth was surprised he came alone and killed these Sith right now. He said:

- You came just in time! There is the last capsule remained! And Bastila has left the Endar Spire long ago it seems.

- How long have you stayed here?

- For a couple of hours. But there is no time to talk! We need to get out of here.

- True, get a seat there!

Both men entered a small ship-like cabin and pulled a trigger to drop out of the ship. The capsule moved faster and faster every second and entered the atmosphere of the planet , covered with forests and a couple of big cities. It moved right into one of the cities! Passing the high buildings by and falling on the square, scattering and gritting…

Date: 2015-04-20; view: 642