Hello Scholae Palatinae! Report itme, including the conclusion to Act 2 of the Forgotten Campaign!

Command Bridge
ISD Warspite
Low Orbit
Antenora Cocytus system

The reverberations came to a halt on the command bridge of the Warspite. Every ship in the Scholae Palatinae Fleet had parked themselves

“Bombardment complete. Ready to deploy forces at your command,” Delak said head turning to face the Emperor.

“Deploy. Let Dante and Archangel know I will be right behind them. Eether has command of the fleet,” Xen’Mordin replied, modulated voice ringing clearly through the now silent bridge.

The information collated by Elincia Rei from the numerous artifacts recovered and bits of unwiped computer information all pointed to one conclusion. Kill the one who headed the ritual, and the beasts of Ptolomea would stop spawning. The current location of the Evanescent and Pacre Datship was no longer a mystery. They were going for the final phase of their plan.

If Scholae Palatinae didn’t stop them, then the last of the Infinite Empire’s creatures would awaken, and no-one wanted to see what monstrosities would come crawling out of the earth.

Outside The Forgotten Temple Southern Pole Antenora

Archangel inhaled slowly then held his breath. With a quick squeeze of his finger, one of the Evanescent soldiers entrenched upon the steps of the temple took a blaster bolt right between the eyes. The Battlelord pulled his head back from the scope of his rifle and exhaled.

“Where do these guys keep coming from?” He said, frustration dripping from his words. Near by Sparky followed suit in taking a shot then pulling back to face the hulking Sith.

“I think some heavy artillery would help speed this along,” he spat. Since reaching the outgrounds of the temple, they had still not managed to breach to the interior. The crunch of time was held above all the soldiers heads. The longer they took, the longer the Evanescent and Pacre Datship had to finish their plans.

As if right on cue, there came a roar from behind them as a canon blasted at the walls of the temple, creating a sizeable hole in the ancient stonework.

“WAHOO!” screamed Lucyeth and he popped out of the gunners seat and hit the ground beside his clanmates.

“Subtlety was never your strong suit was it?” Arch said, eyes rolling. Lucyeth let out a chuckle and replied.

“The time for subtlety has passed. We have some fanatics to kill!”

Sparky shrugged. Lucyeth had a point.

Upper Balcony Main Chamber Forgotten Temple

Emperor Vanis paced back and forth, stopping periodically to peer over the edge of the balcony to look at the ritual taking place below him. He tapped a ancient looking scepter in his hand. Sweat dripped from his forehead with every sound of blaster fire that came echoing into the chamber.

“They will be too late, calm down,” Chaz said trying to console the leader of the Pacre Datship. Vanis stopped and looked at the man.

“We’ve worked too hard for this to go wrong. I’m not going to be stopped by these heathens again,” Vanis responded curtly. He resumed pacing. Below on the main floor of the chamber came a crackle of energy. Vanis smiled.

“It’s working,” he said relieved.

West Hall Way B Forgotten Temple

Energy crackled with every footstep Kell Dante took. They were just outside the main chamber now. Behind him, his men whispered in speculation. He raised a fist to silence them. This wasn’t the first time they were dealing with things beyond their grasp, years of service to the Dark Jedi of Scholae Palatinae had left them all hardened to things they could never fully explain.

But that didn’t stop them from speculating whenever they came across new instances of the Force.

Dante issued a few more quick hand gestures in command. Two of his men quickly ran forward to place charges on the sealed door to the main chamber. The charges were placed in seconds, and Dante tapped the side of his helmet.

“Team Auresh in position. Ready to breach,” The Elder said softly. Archangel’s voice came through clear in response.

“Team Gundark in position.”

“Gundark? We were using letters this time,” Dante responded, eyes rolling.

“Yeah I know. Cruise landed and insisted we use Gundark,” Archangel said.

“Gundark!” Cruise’s voice came through loudly. Dante nodded his head hoping the Evanescent were too absorbed by their ritual to have heard Cruise’s yell.

“Well then. Breach in Three-Two-One…” Dante counted down.

Main Chamber

What wasn’t vaporized by the explosions shot into the main chamber as lethal shards of rock and metal. Lord Onasi, kneeling in the center of the chamber came to his feet as did the rest of his men. through the dust came a volley of blaster fire, and then the unmistakable glow of lightsabers appeared.

“It took you long enough!” he called out to the swarm of Scholae Palatinae soldiers who were filling into the room.

“We wanted to make a dramatic entrance before killing you!” Cruise shouted back from one of the hallways. Lord Onasi smiled.

“I’m afraid it will be more like a dramatic exit,” He said with a large pearly white grin. He had known there was a chance they wouldn’t finish the ritual in time. If they couldn’t awaken the Old Gods the traditional way, then a sacrifice of flesh and blood would have to do. He raised a hand holding a remote detonator.

The soldiers of Scholae Palatinae quickly stopped fire, not wanting to hit Onasi and accidently cause him to activate the detonator.

“I had charges placed all around this temple months ago. One way or another the Old Gods will awaken. One way or another, you will all die,” he spat. His thumb moved up to press the detonating button. Before it could reach however an incredible pain radiated from his wrist. With each beat of his heart blood squirted out of the stump that once connected to his wrist.

He turned to see Mira holding a bloody blade, and the hand that had been moments prior his final chance of victory.

“Sorry you poodoo brained maniac. This has gone on long enough,” Mira spat. With a small glint of light catching the edge of her dagger, Lord Onasi had an expression of pain and confusion as it sliced through his neck severing his carotid arteries.

Upper Balcony

Emperor Vanis stared in disbelief as Lord Onasi fell to the ground twitching in a pool of his own blood. Vanis’s grip tightened around his scepter.

“Betrayal,” he muttered through gritted teeth. The Evanescent were not as capable as he had hoped. The Old Gods would have to wait for another day. He needed to escape back into the desert like he had following the failed rebellion he had helped start on the planet. He turned to leave.

“Sorry, you’ve reached the end of the line as well,” Chaz said stepping in front of the Antenoran.

“No, not you,” Vanis whispered.

“Yes, me,” Chaz said he lunged forward to kill the Pacre Datship leader. He planted his dagger deep into the gut of Emperor Vanis. From outside the temple there came an explosion, shaking loose more of the stone used to build the ancient temple. One of the stones landed firmly against the back of Chaz’s head knocking him out cold.

Cursing Vanis clutched his gut and stumbled out of the trembling temple.

Main Chamber

The soldiers worked quickly to clear the corpses of the fallen Evanescent from the chamber. Canon fodder corpses were of no concern for Xen’Mordin as he stepped with authority over another body. He approached the fallen body of Lord Onasi. Kneeling in the pooled blood, was Mira Spar. Archangel stood behind her, blaster rifle pointed at the back of her head.

“No need for that, Arch. Why don’t you go help clear the rubble upstairs and find our other friend, he should have taken care of Vanis,” Xen’Mordin commanded. He held out a hand to Mira.

“Good work Agent Neka,” Xen said helping the ISI Agent to her feet.

“It is nice to hear that name again,” she said, “Also nice to be done with these nutters.” She shook out some of the dust in her hair. From up in the balcony one of the soldiers yelled out.

“Another live one here!”

Xen pointed and yelled to Archangel.

“That one. Agent Silus I need to know what happened to Vanis. No sign of his body is is a bad sign for us.”

“Care to enlighten us on this all?” Arch yelled back as he climbed up to the upper balcony.

“What is the point of having an intelligence agency if you don’t have spies?” Xen yelled back shaking his head.

Royal Palace Judecca One Day Later

“His tracks disappeared a mile out into the desert. He could be anywhere by now,” Eether reported.

Xen let out a sigh.

“Again he slips away. And Ptolomea?” Xen asked.

“All quiet. We’ve begun dispersing the civilians back out of the safe zones,” Dante reported.

“Good. Once that is finished I want all resources devoted to finding Vanis.”

“I have already turned over all information on Pacre hideouts. He knows better than to use them,” SIlus said. His years of undercover work as Chaz did have some benefits despite not managing to finish his mission.

“Well at least have a starting place. Get to work.” Xen commanded.

I hope you all are enjoying our ongoing Forgotten Storyline.

Now for: Results Time!

Computerized (Graphics):
1st - Elincia Rei
2nd - Delak Krennel
3rd - Archangel
4th - Lucyeth
5th - Jorm “The Jester” Na’trej

The Gathering (Short Fiction):
1st - Archangel
2nd - Sparky
3rd - Delak Krennel
4th - Lucyeth

The Strike (Long Fiction):
1st - Kell Dante
2nd - Lucyeth

Destruction (Gaming):
1st - Rosh Nyine
2nd - Jorm “The Jester” Na’trej
3rd - Delak Krennel

Know Thy Enemy (Trivia):
1st - Jorm “The Jester” Na’trej
2nd - Kell Dante

Overwhelming Power (Poetry):
1st - Elincia Rei
2nd - Archangel
3rd - Kell Dante
4th - Lucyeth

Endless Waves of… Helium? (Flash Game):
1st - Elnicia Rei
2nd - Reiden Karr
3rd (tie) - Chrome and Delak Krennel
5th - Ulfsark

Overall Winners!:
1st - Elincia Rei
2nd - Lucyeth
3rd (tie)- Archangel and Delak Kennel
5th - Jorm “The Jester” Na’trej

Intel: Brotherhood Wide - The New World Order

There have been some big fiction related updates to the club.

First, The Fiction society has been announced. Our newest Society awards some cool CS feats, Tattoos to display as your accessory, and access to some exclusive weaponry. Fictionally, the society is the Inquisitorius, a group of ultra secretive danger negators for the the club. This society has been talked about for months, and is now finally live. It is pretty cool so if you like fiction, go check it out!

Relating to this comes the first new fiction update from our Voice Evant. Undesirables sees the first steps the club is taking toward its setting in the new SW canon. In this case we have the execution of our old orders (Bye-bye Krath and Obelisks!) as well as any newly created/changed character species to non-canon species. So for those of you wanting to jump to be a Neti, tough luck only those who already were one can remain one. That said, the new canon is growing all the time so keep an eye on the species list for what is out there as options.

These changes also change the options for members signing up, with a new Test of Identity taking them through the first steps of creating a character instead of the old Test of Lore. In addition to this, the order exams for the Loyalist and Mercenaries are live. Go check them out!

Intel: The Imperial News Net - Position Updates

As mentioned earlier, Koryn Thraagus, stepped down as Quaestor of House Excidium. Lucyeth has stepped up to replace him. Koryn did a lot of work to get Excidium up and running since its formation earlier this year. Lucyeth was deeply involved in this process as well, and I know he will do a great job as Quaestor. Applications for AED will be accepted by Lucyeth and Myself through the end this next week.

There have also be a lot of changes on the wiki pages. This progress has due to the great efforts of Elincia and Dek. These changes also come with a update to the Dark Paladin program for the clan. For this I’m advancing Elincia to the second level of the Paladins, and naming Dek Rott as our newest one. Congratulations guys.

Intel: The Imperial News Net - The Horizon

Lots of things are coming at us in the coming months. The road to episode seven is getting very exciting and it will get only more so. The next GJW is slated to release around the movie, along side more changes to the club’s move to the new canon information.

For us that means the finale of the Forgotten Campaign will be hitting between now and then. I’m shoot for beginning of November for this final act, but it might move slightly. As you might have noticed participation for Deception was on the lower side of things, despite our growing numbers. This isn’t super surprising to me, as this time of year is when people start getting much more busier this time of year (as clearly noted by the many messages on telegram bemoaning school work).

This is something I just wanted to point out, and I will be trying out a few different things to build up excitement and self confidence for each of you going into this final act.

Okay, I think that is long enough for this time. Keep being awesome CSP.

For the Empire!

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