Secrets of Darth Anubis

Lord Invictus

Last hologram of Darth Anubis (encrypted):

The following is the story of the relatively unknown ancient Sith Lord, Darth Anubis, compiled by Jedi Historian Vos Vikalenz.

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Darth Anubis gazed up, the shuttle hovering over head. All was going according to plan, assuming he'd actually killed the Jedi and not left him limping in the control room. He had the holocron; mission accomplished.

"Come on," Anubis groaned, his hand feeling every inch of the holocron's surface.

The shuttle nearly landed perfectly, lurching downward at the last second. It's rim scraped the muddy rock, causing a loud screech to fill the air. The doors swung open barely enough for Anubis to jump inside before the shuttle zoomed off into space to the Sith flagship....

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Anubis fitted the triangular holocron into the shelf-like casing built into the main hall of the oddity of a ship. Seven holocrons recovered since the project's start. Four dead Jedi... five now, assuming he wasn't alive.

"My lord," began an officer, bowing slightly to the Sith before adjusting his slightly lopsided military cap.

"Yes, officer?" Anubis replied respectfully to the officer, a trait not often practiced by the Sith.

"We intercepted a message from the planet we just.... erm... Tanaab that was headed to several Republic planets, including Coruscant," answered the officer with equal respect, showing his admiration for the honorable Sith.

The light buzzed with static before emitting an almost equally stattic-filled holo-video, showing frame-by-frame Anubis' fight with the Jedi, a skirmish that lasted a short while. In mere seconds Anubis was pocketing the Jedi's lightsaber, trotting away with pride. The Jedi, however, limped to the holo-recorder filimg the incedent, sputtered a few last words, and sent the video all over the galaxy, to various Jedi temples now listed in the light image.

"Anything else of importance apart from me slaying the Jedi?" Anubis asked, looking back to the officer.

"It detailed your capture of the holocrons as well," the officer suggested, rewinding the hologram to the precise moment when Anubis reached for the Sith-pyramid.

Anubis contemplated the situation carefully, his mind disected each fact and sewing the strings and fibers of what remained together. Poor technology in the miniature-fort on Yavin. It would take several days for the transmission to reach the other Jedi forts, enough time for Anubis to pocket another three or four holocrons undetected. He'd have to finish the job.... finish it in maybe four days at the very best.

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Lord Invictus

Anubis fell to the ground, pushing himself up almost before he smacked against the metal floor. The shuttle was hovering at lightning speed down through the atmosphere of the planet. Up until now he was using stealth as his weapon. Not here. Not now.

Tatooine could be one of the most desolate or one of the most populated planets in the galaxy depending on where you went. Hutts may not be friends of the Republic, but Anubis doubted a digging project could be interrupted by the Sith Lord without trouble, and he wasn't looking forward to fighting this Hutt.

Gallu Keldorez was a crimelord trying to scrape enough funds together to start a powerful empire. Until then, he was digging for fuel and rock in Tatooine and blasting anything in sight. Pathetic really....

"Open the sliding doors.... go!" yelled the squad leader, jumping out of the ship with four other troopers and Anubis.

The surprised enemy was either speechless, or didn't know what was going on. One could be lead to believe this due to the fact that most of them were still mining the ground or staring at the attacking force.

A loud gunshot from the Sith trooper broke the silence, piercing a soldier's chest. As chaos broke out Anubis ignited his blades, slaughtering anybody close to him.

"Jedi!" screamed the shadded Hutt from behind his tent, ordering his soldiers to attack.

"'Jedi?'" repeated Anubis, approaching the Hutt calmly amid the chaos. "Do you mock me?"

"What is this?" the Hutt groaned. "My actions are perfectly legal within the laws of the Republ-iiiiiche!"

A red lightsaber pierced the Hutt's chest, almost instantaniously killing the beast. In under two minutes the entire mining camp was decimated. Anubis, proud of his most recent 'accomplishment' holstered his blades.

"Orders?" asked the Sith captain.

"We didn't even need to dig the hole," Anubis snorted, grinning as he pointed to a large patch of nonexistance in the ground; the pathway to the next holocron was built for the Sith.

Anubis crawled into the tunnel, noticing a drilling instument was laid against the inner walls of the caves. Immediately a Sith soldier mounted the drilling machine on his shoulder, designating the duty of drilling to the holocron his own duty.

Anubis, in fact, knew where the holocron was anyway; an object with as much influence over the force as that was impossible to not sense. The tunnel was even soft, obviously dug through multiple times before. It would seem as if Anubis was meant to bring the holocron back to the Sith, which was exactly what he thought.

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