Imperial Palace

[Kevin Kenobi]

*Kevin pays attention and listens as Sam talks about Black Sun and the conversation he overheard. As he listens, Kevin feels like he should be remembering something important, but doesn't figure it out until Lady Shana fires a stun bolt at Sam and mentions a virus on Coruscant. Kevin becomes concerned instantly and turns to look at Lord Ire, wondering what he's going to do now that everyone present could have just been exposed to the virus.*

[Emperor Ire]

In that moment, the second as Lady Shana depressed the trigger on her blaster to stun Sam, Ire feels an all too familiar dark tremor in the Force, a wave of the dark side washing over everything, the fear emanating from the bounding masses on Courscant due to this virus scare is all but manifest and Ire can feel it course through him like lightning. Ire can feel something specifically dark about this fear, the fear is collecting -- literally gathering. Something doesn't feel right about the fear that is gathering, its as if the fear is being amplified and transmitted. Those infected are like pin pricks on a map, each one a beacon amplifying the fear the planet. That's when it becomes clear to him, the virus is dark side in origin, he can sense this virus the source of this amplification and transmission. His only problem, he can't sense to where its going.

Ire can sense that Sith Alchemy is more than likely involved, his own dabblings in Sith Alchemy makes him aware of such things, it has a taste all its own in the dark side. That is when something else comes clear to the Emperor, Sam isn't infected... he can feel it. A part of Ire should feel the need do something to stop the stun shot aimed at Sam, that would be the proper thing to do and through the dark side he would be able to prevent the bolt from hitting Sam but he figures this to be a good time to test the young apprentice's ability to resist being stunned.

[Sam Milla]

*Sam is suddenly aware of the virus from Courscant. He had forgotten about that danger. Well he didn't feel sick or anything. Suddenly Sam hears blaster fire and spins around quickly to see a stun bolt Sam opens himself to the force and holds up his hand attempting to use the force to absorb the shot. The shot hits his hand square on knocking him to the floor He doesn't pass out because he weakened the shot somewhat but he can feel the effects running through his body. Sam then attempts to use the force to slow the effects and attempt to fight it off. Moments later Sam stands up and glares at the person who shot at him.*

I'M NOT INFECTED! IF I WERE I WOULD KNOW!

*Sam can feel his anger building Sam embraces the anger but also controls it. The fool that shot at him really was ignorant of the fact he wasn't infected. He then thinks he should have checked in with the doc so he wouldn't be in this situation. Sam draws his saber incase somebody else gets the funny idea to shoot at him again.*

[Emperor Ire]

Watching Sam move and absorb the shot, Ire moves in and tells his apprentice to lower his blade with a motion of his hand and moves between Sam and Lady Shana. The Emperor first looks to Sam, a gleam of pleasant surprise in his evil eyes. "Aggressive and quick, now if we can beat a brain into that thick skull of yours... you might make a worthy apprentice yet."

Ire then turns his gaze to Lady Shana. "The same goes for you, except you have half a brain already. Try to keep that aggressiveness aimed at an enemy, not our own."

The Emperor then turns and walks up to his throne, commenting the whole way. "Lady Shana is correct however, you should go and get checked out by the medical staff to make sure you're not infected or better yet why you're not infected. We must be sure after all." Ire turns around, facing those in his court before sitting. "Grand Admiral Tuulk."

"Yes, milord?" Tuulk says, having not moved from his spot next to Ire's throne.

"I want you to make sure nothing like this happens on a planetary scale." Ire says point down at Sam, using his example of slipping through and causing a viral scare. "And where is that Kage Dookie at?"

"Kage Dooku, milord." Tuulk corrects Ire, one of the few who can do such a thing and live. "I was lead to believe he was being transported as we speak."

"Then let us hope he arrives soon." Ire comments before looking down at everyone and relieving them. "You may go about your duties, except you Grand Admiral, dismissed."

[El Supremo]

Two Carratosian Guards enter the cell holding Corey Dooku. Without a word they equip him with a set of both arm and ankle binders as well as a force nullification collar.

"Looks like this one here has an important meeting... Not everyone gets to see the Emperor.

They escort him down to the surface on a shuttle, out of the very small viewport in the back the Kage can see the new Imperial Palace and the grand city of Chofin.

With decent timing and no delays they are ushered from their landing pad and into the Palace, As they enter the impressive throne-room, the Lord and Master of the Empire is present with his Grand Admiral... The Carratosian Guards salute and bow and with a stiff arm on the binders and a well placed kick to the back of the knees, they ensure the "Kage" pays the proper respect. Though they are kind enough to make sure he goes down gently and does not face-plant into the ocean-blue granite.

"Kage Corey Dooku, your Majesty"

[Corey Dooku]

Corey looks at the guard as they enter

I am not just anybody."

After the enter the throne room, the guard place a kick behind his knee forcing him to his knees. Corey ehead turn sharp looking at the guard as if he would had used force choke on him. Being confide he lowered his head before he spoke to the Emperor.

"Emperor, I am Kage Dooku of the Grey Jedi Order. My Order is dead but I hold on to there believe. I am here becaused I was wrongly accused an the one should be here is still on KDY. All I want was my ship back, nothing more."

He keeps his head down to hide his frown.

[Deleted]

Lady Shana nods and lowers her blaster, "My apologizes, your majesty..." She says glancing at Sam. "Though you might want to teach your apprentice how diseases work. He seems rather stupid and a risk to our safety. Carriers don't always know they are infected, and he risked the entire planet by being a fool."

She then bows, "We will depart now and leave you to deal with this man." She says nodding at Dooku before turning and departing the throne room.

[Sam Milla]

*Sam nods then looks at Lady Shana, he resists the urge to choke her out with the force. Sam leaves to go see the doctor in the palace*

[Emperor Ire]

Still sitting in his throne, Ire watches as the Kage is brought in and unceremoniously made to kneel before him. Ire takes a sharp look at the guard as he listens to a courteous yet defiant man plead his innocence, Dooku is being nice for a 'crazed and unstable' man. Ire stretches out with the dark side of the Force and goes to read the Kage's feelings, with the nullifier collar on the Kage Ire's intrusion should be all but assured. To make the Kage more pliable and keep his mind off Ire's intrusion, once Dooku goes silent, Ire raises his hand and grips the guard that kicked the Kage to kneel in a Force choke; the guard forgot that other than those that the Emperor commands, no one touches a prisoner but Ire in his presence. As the guard is lifted up into the air by the strength of Ire's Force choke, the guard gasps and chokes as he tries to breathe but is unable to.

"First off, let me apologize for the brute manners of my guards, they should know better." Ire says before sending the guard flying into the wall behind him as his companion guard stands tall and ripe with fear. The guard lands with an audible thud that is beyond sickening, no one could survive it, its a wonder that the guard lived. Ire stays where he is at and addresses the once proud Kage with everything the Empire has collected from KDY and from the RGE's own investigation.

"Grand Admiral Tuulk informed me of your situation, he also provided testimony and other evidence that shows you trying launching an assault with your fleet of ships and nothing beyond that from KDY. I am curious about this ship of yours, the one you claim was taken and the reason for your attack on KDY, the Grand Admiral tells me your ship is alive... is that true? If so, how did you come across such a vessel?"

Ire stands up slowly and looks much like a monolith at the height of his power, he looks down at the Kage and wonders what to make of the man before him in shackles. Everything appears to point to the Kage being unstable and this is where Ire has issue. "And please explain to me why I should give said ship back to someone who is insane enough to attack the single most fortified planet in the galaxy other than Carratos?"

[Corey Dooku]

Corey watched the guard getting what he deserves but to Corey he would have loved to do that himself. He begins to laugh out of anger at some of the comments that Lord Ire had told him. Corey started to reply but he waited, the Emperor did have a point. He only knew part of the truth, Corey went silent and look up at Lord Ire. Corey had hate, rage , pain in his eyes but there was no force abilities behind them. Here was a man that had lost everything dear to him.

His hands began to shake with his rage, only his human strength was causing him this, he began to speak but his voice was deep with hate.

“I would have never order my fleet that was already badly damaged to attack KDY. They attacked me on the station Emperor, and my ships in orbit had no idea what was going on inside the station. Only a insane man would do such an act. I allowed myself to be captured, a insane Dooku would have destroyed KDY from the inside. Selena, is a living ship. She has been with me for sometime now, but how I got her is no longer possible. The planet no longer belong to the Order, plus they have to pick you to make one.”

Corey placed his hands on the floor and pushed himself up to his feet.

“Yes Emperor, she is living and a part of me. I was attacked on the station which after I found out that they stole a sample from my ship. How else can you get someone away from a part of them by saying he is insane. Oh, I am insane with hate for the ones that attacked me on KDY and Lady Khari was behind it all. So I figured why play with someone with no power but to go to the source. That is why I am here now Emperor, I made a choice and here I am. “

Corey stares at Lord Ire, he can only read his face and knows he is out classed by his powers but he was not here to fight but to get his ship back.

[Emperor Ire]

"If what you say is true, due to your ship being a part of you and all, I am sure your ship has gone insane by now and started to defend itself viciously against its captors. If your ship is as you appeared to not only KDY officials but to Imperials as well, this Selena must he trying to blast its way free." Ire says looking at Dooku, the Emperor doesn't sound convinced. "We have ships over Kuat and they haven't reported anything of the such, in fact its a lot more quieter over the planet now that you aren't there."

Ire's tone is more than saturated in malcontent, there is something about this Corey Dooku that Ire doesn't like. He still sits, unimpressed, as he looks over the Kage and draws his own conclusions. "You truly have lost everything and that should serve as a reminder to you of these events. As it would turn out, the Admiral has not only informed me but our Regent as well on the situation and the Regent will speak to KDY on your behalf I'm sure to get your ship back. There is a matter of the fact that the Kuati wish to press charges against you for the damage you caused and the the personnel you killed there in your retaliation. I however have a better idea..."

Ire decides to do something that might seem out of the ordinary for him but Ire has his plots for this one as well -- another pawn. "I hope you don't think the Empire fools, we know all about your little outpost on Roon. I suggest you stay there and I also suggest you stay out of Kuati space, if you don't you will feel the full weight of the Empire fall against you. If you be good and don't stir up any trouble, we'll help get that ship of your's back and as a bonus we won't make you wish you were never born."

Ire just looks at the Kage is silence for a second; Ire can sense Tuulk's feelings on the matter, the Grand Admiral is easy to read, even he doesn't like it. "Sound fair, Kage?"

[Corey Dooku]

Corey stands there looking at Lord Ire

“Emperor, I have no issues with your Empire. I never said my ship would go insane, but I would like to thank you for your offer. How soon may I depart and head home?”

Corey knows this is not the time or place, they both have won the first round. He knows this is not over with from a long shot. They want insane he will give them that, it will take time to repair and rebuild a fleet, and grow another Army. He bows to Lord Ire and waits to be dismissed.

“Once again Emperor, Thank you for taking the time to see me and to check into my ship being returned. I will wait to get word back about Selena. “

[Emperor Ire]

-In the Throne Room-
Ire motions his hand towards the one guard left standing as an order to remove the Kage's shackles. The guard quickly moves over and undoes the ankles first, then the arms and finally the nullifier collar. Ire looks down at Dooku and his eyes narrow with an evil truthfulness to them. "You may take the offer anytime you wish, Kage Dooku, but remember my warning. If you so much as look at a Kuati funny, I will personally come to Roon and crush you myself. This is your one get out of punishment free card... use it wisely."


-In Hazziliex's Lab-
When the good doctor started this process three days ago, he didn't think what sort of challenges that laid ahead of him -- how else would a maverick in the cybernetics community have it? He had started by opening up the chassis and removing all of Grievous' organic parts and placing them in a bacta-enriched tank while he readied the new body. Taking a prototype battle droid shell that he had been working on and gutting it, Hazzilix sought to create the most dangerous weapon alive. The prototype droid shell was modified to completely encase Grievous' organs, spinal cord and brain for the most protection available, Hazzilix then tied the droid systems through the spinal collum but also routed control through the processor that Rajnish had requested. Finding a suitable processor with the speed to compute all the chassis' new functions would normally be hard to come but luckily for Grievous he is not in any ordinary lab.

A new head mount for the brain and eyes was designed by modifying the existing one; the faceplate from the droid was turned into a HUD for ocular visualization as well as tied into the processor for faster assimilation of information. A short range scanner is apart of the HUD and can detect things within fifteen feet from its location. Currently the chassis and head mount are the only parts completed, the arms and legs are still off being modified, and Hazzilix figures this is a good time to let the drugs keeping Grievous asleep stop flowing.

"Good morning, how did you sleep?" Hazzilix asks rhetorically, he knows how well the cyborg slept since he was in fact keeping him sedated. Hazzilix wishes to test the improvements so far, he does so with creepy morbid sense of humor that screams of uncaring. Its apparent that the doctor views him as another experiment and nothing more, his tone is cold and uncaring. "Don't be alarmed that you can't feel your extremities, at the moment, you don't have any."

Giving the chassis a weird look, Hazzilix taps the head with a knuckle and checks alertness. "Hello? Are we awake in there?"

[Corey Dooku]

A rush of the force hits Corey like a speeder hitting his head. He took a step back as feeling lucky for being free. He heard Lord Ire threat, it made him crack a smile. It was a evil one in return. The voice came back as soon as his was connected to the force.

Voice "Feel true power Dooku. You can feel true power coming from him. That could be you, if you give yourself to the Dark Side."

Corey moved his head around then spoke

"Hmm, its felt like a lifetime being disconnected. I hear you Emperor. (Looks around) I will take your offer an wish for my ship to pick me up its alright with you?"

Corey balds his fists and then relax his body, the force was flowing through him, an looks over at the Emperor. Corey bows to Emperor Ire and turns and walks out the Throne room, his thoughts was trying to figure out where his ship was he could not sense her now. He was thinking it was cause he was disconnected from the force for sometime.

He heads down and hops on a civilian ship that was heading for Corellia. Once clear he will make a call to his ship to pick him up and start his new mission on finding Selena.

[Rajnish Grievous]

Rajnish was starting to feel his body parts as he left the force to rejoin what was left of his body. He heard a voice an slowly open his eyes. What he thought were his eyes, they were not. The movement of the beam going side to side would have some getting use to, but his vision was far better his old eyes .

A small evil laughter could be heard. His voice was different now which was good. The processor started up and everything was being accounted for in the lab, he was loving every second of it. Then he felt that something was missing, he could not get up.

"I hear you Docotor. I feel a little funny though but it will take time to adjust to my new body."

Rajnish, does not care about the Doctor concern, he got what he wanted. It worked, the surgery was a success, he got the upgrades he needed to do care on with his mission, now he can wait on his legs an arms.

"So how long must I wait for the rest of my parts? I can't wait to test this body out. Doctor, you have done some great work."

Then he felt his old Master through the force, then with what strength he had, blocking himself from the force. He does not wish to be known he was here.

[Emperor Ire]

-In the Throne Room-
Ire watches Dooku rise and leave, Ire says nothing know what he has said has been assimilated. Looking over to Tuulk, the Emperor converses with his Grand Admiral. "You think he'll be stupid enough to go back to Kuat?"

"More than likely," Tuulk says not completely sure of things himself. "it might not be today, it might not be tomorrow or next cycle but he'll go back. I can feel it in my bones, he'll try it again."

"Its a shame, he could have been great." Ire says coldly. "As soon as any word comes in that he has broken the terms of his release, cleanse him from the universe."

"I will do that indeed, milord."


-In Hazzilix's lab-
"As soon as the interns comback from refinishing your extremities." Hazzilix informs Grievous. "The process of forming lightweight ore capable to withstand lightsaber strikes can be tedious but its well worth the wait. Luckily, your new chassis was already equipped with the Phrik shell. I just want to do some minor tests on your sensor package we installed."

Walking over to a drawer on the opposite side of the room, Hazzilix removes three remotes and walks back over to Grievous. "Now, I want you to run scans of the room and relay all biometric feedback the sensor's pick up. Begin."

[Rajnish Grievous]

Rajnish starts to feel a little irate for not being able to move, he felt helpless just laying there on the table like a piece of scarp metal. He speaks to the Doctor and tries to hide his feelings about it.

“Very well Doctor, I will be looking forward to being able to move around and not just lay here like a piece of meat. Running the scans now.”

Rajnish begins to run a scan like before but it was much faster, this time his brain with the assistance of the processor was able to pin point the objects in the lab. As his eyes moving back and forth he was able to keep focus and was amazed on how easy it was to adapted to this new tech.

With the force adding him in locating object and the scanner moving almost as fast as the force, he starts to laugh outloud. He was going to be a force to be recon with.

“It appears that this new equipment is almost as good as my force abilities, Doctor. I only hope that the legs and arms will be able to move as quickly as I this new processor you installed.”

He continued to run scans and move his eyes locating every movement in the lab.

[Deleted]

Lord Zairon was in his room for a while glancing at recent news and studying events in order to see what the Empire might need. Most of it was boring and trivial, but suddenly one announcement caught his eyes. It was about a large amount of Jawas being killed on Tatooine. Normally, the event wouldn't have concerned him, after all Tatooine did not belong to the RGE, yet, and Jawas were pathetic little creatures. However, it was the causes of death that was what interested him.

The Executor quickly made a copy of the news article that had reported it and headed to the throne room to speak with the Emperor.

As he arrived at the throne room he entered and bowed, "Emperor, I come with some information about an event on Tatooine that you might want me to look into."

[El Supremo]

***Posting at the request of Lord Ire***

-In Hazzilix's lab-

Two interns enter, pushing carts with cases on top of them. Dr. Hazzilix walks over to open and inspect the parts, taking a moment to shoo the interns from the lab. With such delicate procedures about to be undertaken, with so much to go wrong at this stage, he will brook no distractions.

"Normally, we would anesthetize you for this procedure, it would be much to painful for anyone to bear without. However since it is paramount that you retain your connection to the force, we will quite simply have to do without. I do hope you understand."

Without a further word, he turns and adjusts the fluids that are still being sent into Raj's shell, Hazzilix turns off the anesthetics and pumps adrenalin and interferon into the mixture. within moments, Raj will become aware of the true pain he is in, it no longer masked by the drugs.

Dr Hazzilix lays out the interface components next to their respective appendage sockets and begins the excruciatingly painful task of anchoring each nerve and cluster into the interface matrix one by one. As the nutrient solution is applied to each bundle to complete the interface, the small embers of pain Raj feels in his missing limbs bloom 100 fold then resettle to a dull roar. With each painful connection, Raj can feel a ghost of his arm emerge... While not exactly the pain and sensation of a true missing limb, it is quite comparable.

Over the course of the next 8 hours Hazzilix finishes the connections. Then restores the serenity and bliss of sleep to Raj as they finish healing and he goes about the much more mundanely mechanical task of attaching the limbs themselves to the mounting points.

After the last of the mechanicals are connected, the good doctor takes a moment to enjoy a much needed cup of caf. Then adjusts the drugs being pumped into Raj to once again awaken him from his deep torpor. Beyond the shooting pain, which should subside eventually, Raj should be able to "feel" and take control of his limbs.

"What say you... aside from the screaming?"

[Rajnish Grievous]

Raj nods to the doctor.

"I fully understand, Lets just get this overwith, my good doctor."

The pain started out small then it hit him, a liud roar came from him, it could have shattered glass in the lab. The pain was more than he could have imagine, he wanted to passout but the pain would not allow it. The Force was building up inside him, the pain was triggering his foce ability. He started to focus on that to control his pain. He thought to what end will this pain stop.

It seem like days not hours that the doctor was working on him, finally some relief came as his mind feels the pain eased up. He started to feel his limbs, but all he could do was turn his head.

"I...am..still....alive....in.....her..e"

His mind shuts down as he gets much needed rest, he thinks before the shut down.

(I am complete)