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A Destiny in all of this? 12


The next planet they landed on was Dagelos. It had quite a bit of trade with planets outside the Empire and was considerably populated. Considered part of the Empire it had a huge amount of trade with planets outside of Empire control. Dagelos was a known place where an outlaw could disappear. A few crime lords even held sway there although no one opposed the Empire directly. 

That was still suicide.

It was a launching pad out of the Empire for those who wanted to go. Starkiller and Juno had planned on leaving from Dagelos, but that was before they'd picked up so many passengers.
Juno set the Rogue Shadow down on a landing pad farthest away from the center of the station.
Starkiller was out of the ship in a flash checking the perimeter. He was followed out by AJ and Connor who had insisted on coming.

Starkiller had listened to the dream both boys had had. Once again he was surprised by how much they used the Force without any training or without even realizing it. They'd had some training, he suddenly realized. BJ was old enough to know something.

He felt admiration for BJ suddenly. Keeping his family going through all of this. It was no wonder they all looked to him for answers.

They headed off their landing pad scanning the surrounding pads. Starkiller was hoping that with the tracker gone they'd find BJ with no problem. He closed his eyes and reached out with the Force. To his surprise he sensed quite a bit of activity, rage, anguish and fear. He mentally kicked himself for not reaching out in space before they landed, Juno's safety was always in his thoughts.

A dark foreboding began to creep up in the back of his mind. "Can you sense that?" He whispered. AJ and Connor nodded. "So much concentrated Dark Side of the Force and...there's a lot of fear as well." Starkiller paused. "Dagelos is a gateway to the edge of the Empire."

He glanced around, certainty dawning on him. "It's a Royal Guard School. It has to be."

"So they want to expand?" AJ piped up.
"Think about it," added Connor, following AJ's thoughts. "Perfect place for a battle school, if you are launching out in to space."
"You know you are the scariest ten year olds I have ever met."
"Ten years are smart too," AJ said defensively. "What were you doing at ten?"
"I was being trained as Vader's apprentice."
Both boys were silenced. It went unsaid that Starkiller was an intense person on occasion and hard to read.
"So BJ is in there somewhere becoming a Sith?" Connor asked again, eyeing Dagelos around them.

"Probably not." Said Starkiller as he scanned the area. "They have this rule of two, I'm not too sure of all the details. Vader broke that rule at some point, but I'm sure it was at the approval of his Master."

He studied their surroundings. The market on Dagelos was filled with beings of many different worlds humming with variety. In the distance a set of plain buildings marked with the seal of the Empire radiated the dark side. Starkiller concentrated on letting his frustration and anger through. Better to make the right impression "Let's head to the most concentrated area of the Force." He said walking towards the buildings, having to weave through the crowd.
"How can you feel that?" AJ asked.
"It's how I found you," Starkiller said. "There was no evil feeling, I just looked for Force users, I'm surprised no one found you before. You guys stick out like a sore thumb. In time you'll sense others as well. I suppose you'll need to learn how to hide yourselves."
"Can they sense us?" AJ asked. It was the most sensible question.
"Probably," Starkiller said, "But I'm hoping at this point to pass you off as new recruits. There are a fair number about if this is a school. It looks new, and it's location suggests they are scouting past the outer rim...and feeling rather safe about it."
"And you?" AJ asked. "Who are you supposed to be?"
Starkiller shrugged. "An Inquisitor." He paused. "Maybe. If I tell you to run, I want you to head back to the Rogue Shadow as quickly as possible and tell Juno to launch. No questions asked. Got it?"
"Yeah we got it." Connor was suspicious. AJ simply nodded. Neither was planning to leave due to the dream they'd had. But there was no reason to tell Starkiller their plan. He might leave them behind.

Good, Starkiller thought. He walked on ahead as the Jorals followed behind.

Things were about to get messy and he was supposed to be keeping a low profile.

Perhaps the criminal element would be of some use, but Starkiller couldn't count on that. Considering the amount of Dark Side Energy here, there was definitely a school of some sort here. This was a big step in expanding the Empire further out. There might not be any criminal element left to use.

"Let's head back to the ship." Starkiller glanced around. There was no way into the Citadel, it wasn't an open building at all. While it baffled him that a Royal Guard Academy would be out here, it also made sense. The Emperor was always looking to expand his control and those that graduated from one of these facilities were known to be highly loyal to Palpatine.
Starkiller shuddered. Darth Vader had trained him ruthlessly but it had saved him from going to one of these, or even being apprenticed to the Emperor himself. The different paths he could have taken weighed heavily on his mind.

I'm here now, he reminded himself. With Juno and our baby.
Connor stared up at the Citadel as they started to walk away, somewhere his brother was in there. Who knew what he was going through?
"Come on," AJ tugged at his arm. "We'll find a way...we both saw where we ended up."
Connor nodded. He turned away and slipped through the crowd behind AJ and Starkiller. They would get in.

"I am not sure how we are going to get in." Starkiller lamented to Juno when they returned to the ship.
Juno was silent a moment, Proxy stood next to her in the cockpit of the Rogue Shadow, Starkiller had sunk into a chair
"Do you not want to get in?" She asked quietly, "because as long as I've known you there wasn't anything you couldn't get into if you put your mind to it."
"Especially where you're involved." He smiled at her. Her belly had grown with the life inside of it. He resisted the urge to put his hand on it. There were so many on the Rogue Shadow they had little time for privacy. He relished the few moments they had alone together, even if Proxy was standing there observing.
Proxy.
He shot up. "Proxy you're a holodroid!"
"Yes, Master..." Proxy sounded a bit unsure. "I know you've known this for years but I don't see the relevance to the present situ—"
"Do you still have Darth Vader in there somewhere?" Starkiller asked.
"Of course." The Droid sounded almost offended by the suggestion.
Juno's eyes lit up. "How will it work?"
"It's Darth Vader," said Starkiller as the idea slowly formed in his mind. "He rules by fear. They both do. Today we can use that against them."

"As long as you don't destroy my ship again." Said Juno in an attempt at humor. Starkiller had crashed her ship The Salvation into Kamino's defense systems in order for the rebels to get through the shields in a previous battle against the Empire. It had been a desperate move but it had worked. Juno had sworn to him she'd strangle the life out of him herself if he destroyed the Rogue Shadow. So far the much smaller ship remained intact.

Proxy's metallic voice cut into his thoughts. "Master, there is the probability that some of the Force Sensitives will realize I am not him."

"They may but I'll come with you. I still have most of the gear in the Rogue Shadow's storage."

"Your Sith outfit?" Proxy sounded surprised. "You kept it?"

"Well they belonged to him..." Starkiller started. "I haven't touched them."

There was an awkward silence. Juno reached down and pulled at his hand while he stared at the floor.

"They belong to you." She whispered.

He nodded. It was an old argument between them. While the memories had been imprinted onto him so thoroughly the line between himself and his template was blurred to the point that he often called the memories up as if they were his own. He used "I" when referring to the activities that had taken place before he was created. He often wanted to say before he was born but that sometimes put Juno in bad humor. She insisted he was himself no matter what, and he loved her for it. Her argument had been somehow it was himself that had been transferred into a clone.

He'd argued the original who'd sacrificed himself for her and the rebels had been different, she'd argued that the original had disobeyed orders, taken her off Darth Vader's own ship the Executor, fighting through Imperial soldiers to get to her. Just as he'd stormed the base on Kamino bringing the rebels with him and single handedly battled his way to Darth Vader, defeated him and rescued her once again.

He'd had no argument for her after that.

"I'm taking Connor and AJ in with us," he said.

"The boys?" Juno's eyebrows shot up. "Why?"

"Well for one, they are good. No one is going to expect them to be able to handle themselves, so that is one surprise we'll have up our sleeves. Another thing...they had a vision." His voice dropped. "They were both with BJ, and they are both so convinced they need to be there to save him. We did pick them up for a reason, practically dragged to Kelusia by the Force to get them."

Juno nodded. "So they have a role, or a destiny in all this."

Starkiller nodded. Inwardly he hoped their destiny wasn't to die at BJ's hand.

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