For a time unknown she wandered in the Netherworld of the Force, a spirit of the DarkSide, but she was angered, and needed revenge for her death. And then her dark prayer was anwsered.

A new DarkLord arose, Darth Kharn, who possessed greater power and deeper knowledge of the DarkSide, equal in power to such Sith as Sidious and Bane, he spoke to Mala through the mists of the Netherworld, and promised her a chance at vengence. Mala agreed..

Kharn had his servant Darth Armadon and a handful of Sith Acolytes steal Mala's corpse from the Morgue in Rhydin, and took it to DarkSpire. Here the Imperial Scientists cloned Mala's body, and through Kharn's dark knowledge of the Force, restored Mala's spirit to her new body.

And in Sith tradition, Mala was named by Kharn, "Darth Lynara shall be your name, raise and serve your master!" And so Lynara stood and pledged her returned life to Kharn. Lynara's first mission, kill those that had seen to her death, destroying them would give her a greater strength with the DarkSide.

Lynara would have her revenge...

Atana her life full of hardship and tragedy, she was one of a handful of Jedi left in the Home Galaxy, seeing many other Jedi killed at the hands of the Sith and the New Empire. It was a new Jedi Purge, and like many years ago, Atana and her master, an old human woman, named Dhaan-Tau, escaped to the far reaches of the Galaxy.

And for a time, they were hidden, that is until Darth Kharn and his minions found the two Jedi, thanks to the work of bounty hunters and criminal informants. Kharn found the women on Geonosis, hidden in a cave that had been converted into a house. Dhaan-Tau told Atana to get out, while the old Jedi master fought Kharn.

For a few moments, Atana disobeyed and grabed her own lightsaber and joined the fight, but it proved too much, Atana was cast back by Kharn's Force Slam, this gave Dhaan-Tau the chance to slice Kharn's left leg deep. The pain enraged Kharn, the old Jedi yelled to Atana to get out, groggy and in pain, with tears in her eyes, she got away. Then as she was near the back enterance, she turned back, and saw with her mind, Kharn in his anger using his Force Lightning to strike Dhaan-Tau down as she was to slice down with her lightsaber.

The Old Jedi master screamed in terrible pain and after a few brief moments stopped, she was dead, killed without mercy. Kharn got up and was headed after Atana, but using her Force Speed, got away into the desert. Half-Straved and hurting she found her way to the hidden enclave where Dhaan-Tau's ship was located. Atana piloted the ship out of Geonosis and went to Hyperspace.

But there was an accident, unknown to her, Atana and her ship were pulled into the Rhydin Galaxy by the Nexus. At first she was affraid and unsure, then using the Force, she reached out, and found her Master, now part of the Force, and Dhaan-Tau spoke to her, telling Atana that she was brought to a new Galaxy, by the Will of the Force, for the Sith had come here to conquer this Galaxy and spread the power of the DarkSide.

Atana was told that she must do all she could to stop the Sith and the Empire. Atana when done communing with Dhaan had found herself aged several years, believing this to be the will of the Force.

Now Atana seeks a way to stop the Sith and their conquest of the Rhydin Galaxy.

"Aghhhhh! Noooooo!"

Atana went to her knees, as if someone had punched her in the stomach with great force, she felt the pain, the anguish of millions, as she was performing her Lightsaber exercises by the lake. Gasping for air, tears in her eyes, she could hear the screams of the dying.

Closing her eyes she reached out, trying to focus her mind, breathing slowing, opening upto the Force. In her mind, using her Farsight, she saw the horrors taking place on Janas.

The bodies on the ground, burned and bloodied, the buildings ruined and shattered, the ground ash. The Imperial Stormtroopers in their white and black armor, and the Sith Troops in their Black and Silver armor, blaster rilfes in hand, leading chained prisoners to their doom as slaves of the Empire.

Children crying for a lost parent, the old being summarily killed by the butt of a blasterrifle, falling to the ground, blood splattered, half dead animals limping along, trees burned, the sky filled with the smell of smoke. Carrion birds feasting upon the dead. All this Atana saw as if she was there, feeling it as the poor souls of that planet felt it. And then she saw Darth Armadon, like some black star shinning, she felt his darkness, his hate, she...

"Too much, too much!" she awoke out of her trance and threw up, gave a snarl and slammed her fist to the ground, activated her lightsaber and swung at the nearest tree, taking it down in one swoop.

"Peace young one" a voice was heard, a soft familiar voice, Atana turned and was so shocked she deactivated the lightsaber and dropped it.

"Master Dhaan is, is.. that you?" Atana exclaimed with sorrow and surprise

"Yes young Padawan, it is i Dhaan-Tau, and i am here to help you, to guide you and to keep you from going to the Darkside." Indeed it was Dhaan-Tau, now a Force Spirit, a ghostly, transparent apperition aglow in blue and white light, one witht the Force.

"I felt the pain, the suffering of those poor people Master Dhaan, i saw the Sith, i was so..."

"So angry Atana?"

"Yes Master Dhaan, so angry and full of hate. I..."

"Be careful Atana, such emotions can lead to the DarkSide, you must be calm and at peace, you cannot let yourself go down that path." Dhaan said with a soft motherly voice, for to Atana, Dhaan was like a mother.

"I am sorry Master, i just..i don't know what to do, there are so many Sith and Imperials, i come to this strange Galaxy, and i felt drawn to this world, this Rhydin."

"Ah yes Atana, the Force led you here, for there is a great Wellspring of the Force here, called the Nexus, looming over this world, and so great is the power of the Force, it draws many from across Space and Time. And it is why the Sith and their Imperial minions are here as well."

"But why? Master, why would they come here?" a look of some confussion upon Atana's face.

Dhaan-Tau gave what would be a slight sigh and spoke "To draw its power, Atana, if the Sith get a hold of it, and build enough of their accursed temples, along with the slaughter and mayhem, they could absorb and use the Nexus to give greater power and drive their efforts of conquest.

The Sith and their Imperial allies would become unstoppable, conquering Galaxy after Galaxy. Such actions would unbalance the Force, and the Darkside would become absolute."

"What would happen then Master?" Spoke Atana, with fear in her voice.

"Then life would start to decay, become corrupted, and in time die. Life would cease Atana, without the Light, there would be nothing in the end, except Oblivion."

"Don't the Sith realize that Master?, If they should succeed, that they would destroy everything?"

"They don't care Atana, they seek only power, and to conquest, and to destroy all that get in their way. The Sith have no remose or pity, they are slaves to their own ambitions and to the Darkside. That is why you must find a way to stop them, to maintain the Balance."

"What do i do Master? Where do i go? How am i to stop the Sith from what they plan?"

Dhaan-Tau gave a slight smile, and with gentle voice, speaking as a mother to her child.."You have already started your quest in that regard my dear, you are on the world you were supposed to find, now seek out allies, you will find them, just listen to the will of the Living Force and you will find them. And i will be here with you, my daughter."

Atana wept at hearing Dhaan-Tau calling her daughter, she was now the stronger for it, knowing that Dhaan-Tau was here, she would find the strength to fight the Sith. Atana took a deep breath, and gave a nod to her Mentor, her surrogate mother, and sat in a medative pose, and opened up herself, listening to the Force for guidence.

"Trust in the Force, Atana, and you will find what you seek, i will speak to you again, soon." With that Dhaan-Tau returned to the Netherworld of the Force, she would consult with other Jedi Masters who also dwelled in this place.

Nyssa had escaped the turmoil and destruction of her home, the Capital City of Urisis, Capital of Janas, now a world under the harsh control of the Sith and of the Galactic Empire. Nyssa had witnessed the great blasts of green energy level the buildings, laying waste, the screams of the dying, she tried her best to help, she and the other Jedi, they all could sense it. And they could not believe it, The Sith here, in this Galaxy.

Nyssa's Grandfather told her stories about the Sith, when she was little, he knew of the Sith, for he came to this new Galaxy through the Force Nexus, a young man, a Jedi Knight during the time of Old Republic, some 3000 years before the First Galactic Empire. Garan, Nyssa's Grandfather, built a Jedi Enclave here on this world of Janas, taught the ways of the Force and of the Jedi to those he found to be sensitive to the Force, Nyssa being his last student.

And now using all her skills, Nyssa got away, told to get away by Master Hajdun, an old friend of Garan, to get to the Enclave and get all the data from the computers, and the Holocron, not to let it fall into Sith hands. And so the young woman did, though after much protest. Nyssa wanted to stay and fight, but Hajdun told her to go, her fight would come later.

Nyssa found her way to the computer banks, deep below the Enclave complex. The orbital blasting of the surface had stopped, but now she had and saw the landing ships, all headed to the cities. The Enclave would be safe for a time, but it would not be long before the Sith found it.

Cursing as she was loading up data from the computers into datachip

"Come'on you slow ass computer, hurry up and finish the damn data transfer, i haven't got all day, come'on!" pounding her fist on the consule, it seemed the computer heard Nyssa and was done.

"Oh good, thank the Force, your slower then a droid on an ice planet, you hunk of junk, now time to get the hell outta here."

Just as Nyssa turned to leave, she was not alone, before her eyes were a pair of Sith Battle probe droids, much like Imperial Probe Droids, though these things were armed to the teeth with weapons, including a heavy repeating blaster. And had sensors to detect Force-users. The two droids locked on and opened fire on Nyssa.

"Well now, that was rude!" she jumped into the air, doing a summersult and landed behind the droids, quicker then an eyeblink activated her double lightsaber and struck one droid, slicing it in two, the wreakage falling to the ground sparking with a loud crash.

The other droid, came arround with a Sith alloyed vibroblade, Nyssa just blocked enough, though her left arm was cut, and bleeding. "Hah! that the best you got you bucket of bolts!" Swinging her lightsaber, Nyssa did a spinning kick and with a twirl of her lightsaber struck the droid, it parried, blocked, thrusted and sliced. The sound of metal and lightsaber filling the chamber, then with a flick of her wrist, Nyssa slammed the droid into the wall, crushing it.

Satisfied, Nyssa, deactivated her lightsaber, limping but victorious out of the chamber, headed to the medical bay for supplies and grabed the emergancy light frieghter in the hanger bay, and blasted out of the Enclave. Checking a star map on the NavComp, she looked for a safe port. "Hmm, lets see where to?, hmm, here we go, Rhydin, its the nearest space port, i just hope those damn Sith haven't taken it too."

Nyssa activated the NavComp, fed in the coordinates and hit the hyperdrive and soon she was gone.

But not undetected, the probe droids had recorded her face and her Force use readings and transmitted them to Darth Armadon's ship. And an Imperial ship detected a frieghter leaving Janas from the location of the droids' transmission. And Nyssa's ship's trajectory was traced to Rhydin. Soon the Sith would be coming for her.

Kharn stood looking at the map of this Rhydin Galaxy, as he and his minions had dubbed it, for to him, his Sith servants and the Empire, Rhydin was the only true reason to be here, to even care about some backwater world, near the Galactic center.

The Darklord of the Sith had plans for that little planet, he would turn Rhydin into a new Coruscant, and build a massive Sith Temple, as great as the Imperial Palace constructed by Palpatine. His thoughts turned to the future, a future where the Sith ruled supreme, and Lynara would be at his side, as his Emperess.

Kharn shook his head of these thoughts.."Best to think of the now, and not get lost on the future, that leads one away from the now, be mindful of the Living Force." he thought to himself, remembering the lessions taught to him.

Lessions not taught to him by Darth Krayt, though he served that Sith Lord, oh no, but an earlier Sith Lord, Darth Sidious himself, otherwise known as Emperor Palpatine, during the time of Palpatine's first rebirth, Kharn was just a small youngling at the time. But Palpatine sensed the young Dracen's power and had him secretly taken to Byss, a world hidden away in the Deep Core of the Home Galaxy.

"Be mindful of your surroundings young one, for your enemies are all arround you, waiting to strike you when your guard is down." Resonated Palpatine's words in Kharn's mind. Kharn remembering an early lession, teaching Kharn to be aware as he was then attacked by a half dozen combat droids, programmed to kill.

Kharn showed promise, strength, skill, and a dark heart, easily this one would turn to the DarkSide. Palpatine had plans for Kharn, to make a weapon, a force to destroy the Jedi, and the New Republic. Just as Palpatine did with Vader and Maul, he would do with Kharn. Though Kharn was not only brute force, he was as cold and calculating as Palpatine, and powerful with the Darkside of the Force.

When the Sith came to power in later times, and formed their new Empire, Kharn kept his true origins hidden, even from Krayt, and the other Sith, and when the time was right, Kharn had converted many to his cause and took the New Sith Order and the New Galactic Empire for himself. Kharn fulfilled his destiny and his duty to his true master, Palpatine.

Darth Kharn, DarkLord of the Sith, Emperor of the New Galactic Empire, had taken his rightful birthright and would give glory to the Sith.

He would bring a new Golden Age of the Sith, and this time it will last for all time.

Nyssa made it safe to this Rhydin, but she was not a dumb girl, nope she was not about to let her presence known, at least not to anyone. For one, Nyssa landing outside Rhydin City, not taking any chances by going to the SpacePort, could way to be seen. So she found herself a canyon, with one one way in or out, and full of trees at the canyon floor. Nyssa made damn sure she hid that ship was well as she could with camo netting and walked out, sealing up the hatch.

Once Nyssa got out of the canyon, wearing some camo clothing herself, she found a ridge high enough to survey the land with her electrobinoculars.

"Charming planet, hmmm, barely any tech on this world, just like the stories Grandfather told me about Tattooine, cept' no sand dunes, or Sand People, thank the Force. Will girl where to now?"

Looking arround a bit more, she sighed...

"Nothing but cow pastures and farms, save for that Rhydin city, guess i got no choice, if there are any Jedi, i'll be damned if i know where to look, but here goes."

And so Nyssa started the rather long walk, about 20 kilometers to Rhydin, who knows what she would run across or who...

Indeed young Atana was being watched, Darth Vedris's Sith assassin/spies hidden, invisible in their cloaksuits, invisible to the eye, and to heat sensors, and barely noticable on mention sensors, watched Atana as she headed to the city. But they were no to engage, not yet anyway. Lynara made it clear that she wanted Atana alive.

Though the Sith assassins did not yet know it, some 150 kilometers to the west of them, was a cloaked Sith Probe Droid, not sent by Vedris, but by Armadon, he had no idea of Lynara's plans, nor of Vedris's schemes, or anything at all about the young Jedi Atana. No, he was tracking a different target, Nyssa.

The Sith would soon get a nasty suprise, there were two Jedi on this little out of the way planet...

The young Imperial lieutenant bearing the datachip was running through the corridors of the Main Command Complex of DarkSpire, the information was from a destroyed Sith Probe Droid on the planet known as Rhydin, its mission was tracking a young Jedi woman, what it found, Darth Kharn would not like.

Kharn himself was preparing to leave for a planetary assult on a system of world some 400 lightyears away, when the Lieutenant came into the Command center, breathing hard.

"Your Majesty, i have some disturbing news, my Lord."

Kharn gave a sharp look at the Imperial and spoke, his voice heavy and cold..

"What is it Lieutenant?"

"This your Majesty." The young human male place the datachip in the Holoprojector and activated it...

"The recording is from Sith Probe Droid RH-776-02 on the planet of Rhydin, your Majesty, tracking that young Jedi woman that escaped from the planet Janas three days ago."

The image came up on the projector, showing Nyssa leaving her ship in the wooded canyon, transmitting for about 20 minutes and then...

Out of nowhere a robed human male apporached the Droid as if he could see the invisible droid, and quickly destroyed it, with his silver-bladed lightsaber, and said one word... "Sith" Then the transmission ended.

"Damn it to the Chaos of the Netherworld! Another Jedi! arghhhh!"

So angered by this revelation Kharn swiftly struck the Imperial lieutenent with the DarkSide of the Force, crushing the young man's heart and lungs, killing the human within moments.

Kharn without a moment of hesitation in a very commanding tone spoke to his Sith and Imperial subordinates, two Sith guards took the body of the young lieutentant, to be incinerated.

"I want a Battalion of Sith and Imperial Stormtroopers on that Rhydin immediatly! Scour that pit backwater of a planet, find all Jedi! and kill them all! I will not have Jedi scum ruin my plans!"

And with great speed Kharn's minions went to it, arranging to send a full Battalion of Imperial Stormtroopers and Sith Troops to Rhydin... Kharn would stop at nothing to eliminate the Jedi, once and for all.

Atana arrived to the outskirts of the only major settlement of this odd world, Rhydin, both the same in planet and city, and she saw things she never even dreamed of, creatures not even found in legend or myth, sure there were humans, but their were other beings, orcs, trolls, elves, and dragons, at first when she saw a dragon, she jumped and activated her lightsaber, which freaked some of the locals into running away.

But as the great beast flew overhead without so much as glance, Atana deactivated her lightsaber, and quickly ducked into a pub, and took the corner table, hood drawn over her head. She ordered some food and drink, trying to calm herself.

"Damnit Atana." she whispered to herself "You have to stay calm, and not go off like that, activating your lightsaber dumb move girl, dumb move."

She gulped down her drink and chewed her food, got herself a room, and went upstairs, bolted the door and went to sleep, will as best she could, things were going to get interesting...

The Imperial assult fleet came out of the depths of deep space, Strike Force Omega, 1 Imperial Eclipse class Star Dreadnought, 2 Imperial Sovereign Class Star DreadNoughts, and 4 Star Destroyers, with at least 40 support frigates, cruisers, and carriers, Kharn meant business, he wanted those Jedi found. Landerships were sent down holding thousands of troops, AT-ATs, AT-STs, Mobile battle platforms, Prefab buildings, Power Generators, everything needed to establish a base on this world.

What few vessals that dared to challenge the might of the Imperials were either blasted into nothing or captured, for interogation on the possible whereabouts of the Jedi. It was decided that the Imperials would set their new base on a fairly underpopulated northern region of the main Continent. Here the base could be put together with little to no resistance. Especially since two directions, North and west were guarded by high mountians, to the east was a large bay, and to the south a vast forest.

And inital scans showed that the mountains contained large quantities of minerals. A better spot this could not have been. Kharn did not want to establish a base on Rhydin, not yet, but the Jedi had made him move his plans up.

He arrived once the first perimeter was setup, carried by a shuttle to the landing strip, and at his side was Lady Lynara, his Imperial Consort. Stepping out from the shuttle, the two Sith Lords were greeted by the throng of Imperial and Sith forces with a salute of attention. The Sith Imperial flags fluttering in the breeze.

The Sith had returned to Rhydin... To stay