11 Imperial Vaults II (1/2)

”This is Admiral Versio,” the communications rung in the helmets of the troopers planetside. ”Your timer has started now. Imperial Reinforcements are being sent to Coruscant to make sure Amedda is secure within the Imperial Palace. You have Four to Six hours until you have no choice but to evacuate.”

”Aye Sir,” Del and Iden responded in unison as they were making their way over to the vaults.

Walking down several flights of stairs and entering unmarked corridors. The deeper they went, the less troopers there were. They came a stop however when they noticed that it looked abnormal.

Though Del himself knew exactly what was needed to open this door without explosives. ”We need Kraytia...” He said as he recognized the type of locking mechanism. It was similar to the one on Pillio, except it was much older and seemed to be originated with the temple. As it followed a general scheme of architecture rather than some replacement door.

Iden placed two fingers on the side of her helmet as she paged with former Jedi. ”Kraytia, report. We have encountered the Vault. We need your assistance.”

For a good thirty minutes there was nothing but silence until suddenly there was a crackling over their communication system. ”Understood.” Was the only thing Kraytia said, but the sniffling couldbe heard. Her voice sounded like she had just been crying, screaming. Yet they hadn't heard anything of the sort due to how deep into the temple they had gone.

Within a few minutes she came around a corner, as if she knew exactly where she was going from the star. She came walking down the corridor with a sheepish expression on her face. Having made her teammates wait for her.

She didn't even try to laugh it off. She just had this stoic look on her face shortly after rejoining them and closed her eyes as she stood before the door to the vault.

She could feel the locking mechanism through the force. As she made a quick study of it, she reached both hands forward and began to reconfigure the lock. Within minutes the door began to shift and turn. The interior gears would churn and wobble. It was noisy, but the door was clearly beginning to open.

As the door slid open to the side, it would reveal several hundreds of Jedi Holocrons in their storage units. It was the Jedi Vault. On the ground were cases of unknown antiques and priceless artifacts of the past.

To Del this all looked useless, yet he had to feel as if this was just like the vault on Pillio. There were hundreds of Jedi related things here, if not thousands. Just what did their new leader want with the Jedi artifacts? Maybe it was the same reason their Emperor had them?

Licking her drying lips, Kraytia walked into the vault and began using the force to fill the various empty crates being brought in by the death troopers. She was stuffing all of the holocrons into the crates. This pretty much effectively eliminated the tediousness of pulling them out by hand. Plus a lot of them were pretty high up.

As each crate was filled up, the containers were closed and taken by groups of four. Two the carry, two the guard. They brought the crates out to the Imperial Dropship Transports.

Despite the speed and efficiency of the soldiers efforts to collect the crates and containers filled with Jedi artifacts and other priceless objects, it seemed that the Officers at the Temple were getting wary.

They still were not getting any calls from offplanet. Especially from Gallius Rax.

...

Thirty minutes later a heavily modified CR70 Corvette came out of hyperspace above the planet. It was the Sundered Heart, though its original captain was long dead for over four years, there was a different person commanding it.

On board was Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker who had returned from his various missions across the galaxy.

”So you're saying that the agents on Coruscant lost transmissions from the Imperials planetside?” Luke questioned his sister as the two stood on the bridge while it was piloted by New Republic officers.

”Yes, Luke...” Her eyes centered on the Star Destroyer which was located near one of the orbital habitat structures over the planet. She squinted her eyes slightly, compared to all of the other Star Destroyers, this one looked familiar. ”Something's not right here.”

Luke was staring at the planet as well, he felt something strange. ”I feel... Another Jedi?” He was almost at a loss for words before turning his attention to his sister.

Leia was walking over to one of the sensor output terminals and looked over the transponder codes which was coming from the Attribution. ”It's an Imperium ship.”

”Imperium?” Luke asked, not having been informed of the splinter government which was born from the Remnants. He walked over to his sister and stared at the inverted Imperial emblem. It looked like it was a message, 'We are the Empire, a new, better Empire. Different from the Last.'

His eyes rested for a few moments before looking toward the planet again through the front viewport windows. He reached through the force, trying to see what was going on down on the planet surface.

Yoda's force ghost and a young girl with white hair and blue eyes were standing right outside of the Imperial Palace's Vault. Why was Yoda with this girl?

Both of the force users turned towards Luke's point of view, as they could sense him. Yoda tapped his cane silently, while Kraytia averted her gaze quickly.

Luke ended his force sight and looked to his sister. ”There's a Jedi on the planet, helping Death Troopers loot an Imperial Vault within the Coruscant Jedi Temple.” He turned around and made his way towards the hangar of the Sundered Heart.

”Luke, wait!” Leia called after him, but there was nothing she could do to stop him as he went at a light run.

As soon as he reached the Hangar, R2 made himself comfortable in the astromech socket, chirping cheerfully. ”I know buddy, lets get back in one piece!” Jumping up into the cockpit as the droid opened the canopy for him. Luke would begin launching operations.

Moments Later, Leia Organa would be hailed by the Attribution moments before she had hailed it herself. This was a surprise as she assumed the electronic counter measures kept her hidden, but that wasn't the case.

”This is Admiral Versio current Commanding Officer of the Star Destroyer 'Attribution' of the Galactic Imperium, Sundered Heart, what is your designation?”