Star Wars: The Exile

Chapter 2: Jex

The Dark Jedi stood on the observation deck, staring into the darkness of space. She had felt a disturbance in the Force as soon as the Shadow Hawk was docked. There was something or someone onboard that ship that involuntarily reached out to her through the Force, however she felt nothing now. It might have just been the deceitfulness of the Republic spies she felt, but then again, it might have been a Jedi. The second option, however, was more improbable since his troopers didn't find anyone with a that matched the general description of a Jedi knight and no member of the Order would simply surrender. Of course, the Jedi do love their mind tricks, she thought, and our troops have very weak minds. She then thought of how much the Republic valued Bastilla and her battle meditation. She could make an entire fleet lose their will to fight, in some instances even make them change sides. A terrible weapon all because the troops' minds were weak. If only she was a Sith, she thought, we'd have crushed the Republic already.

The door opened and Commander Sundree entered the dark and black observatory. The observation deck had been made completely black with only a single red light in the middle of the room as by order of the Dark Jedi. The remodeling of the observation deck was only one of the many changes that "Her Lordship" had made. Dark Jedi Masters onboard were no recent occurrence, but this particular one was even more elevated. Orders were given by Lord Malak himself that she was to be treated "like a god". Darth Jex was one of the few select that Dark Lord Malak had personally trained. These elite were charged with missions given personally by the Dark Lord. Of all the Elites trained, Jex had showed the most potential. Her extreme cruelty and mastery of the Force had led Lord Malak to appoint her as High Elite, the leader of the rest of them. Her saber skills were not lacking either. More than once she almost came close to beating Malak's apprentice Darth Bandan. Almost.

"My lord," Sundree said expectantly, "there's been a discovery."

"Commander Sundree," Jex replied in a sweet and almost seductive voice as she turned and started walking closer to him, "I gave explicit orders that I was not to be disturbed." At this statement she was standing so close, her lips barely brushed his and her arm was hung loosely around his neck. Beads of sweat began to build on the commander's face.

"So tell me," she continued as she slowly backed away, "why have you disturbed me?" With this, her sweet smile grew into a spiteful frown. On the inside however, she was quite pleased with herself; she loved making those underneath her uncomfortable, and she succeeded. Once she had killed a copilot and forced the pilot to fly to the destination with the corpse of his friend still in the seat. The commander had seen personally, Multiple times, the way she "disciplined" insubordinate troopers by decapitating him the same time as she passionately kissed them.

"Uh, I-I wanted to inform you that we have found a hidden compartment in the hull of the Shadow Hawk. It contained several holocrons that our techs are trying to decrypt." answered the commander. Jex slowly sat down on the only chair in the pitch black room with one leg cocked up on the armrest.

"Tell me commander, do you know why you were promoted?" Jex said, once again in her seductive voice.

"You, uh, y-you killed the last commander."

"That's right," replied Jex in a matter of fact voice, "he... displeased me. That's why I jettisoned him out of the airlock." Once again, Jex succeeded in making the commander uncomfortable. As she slowly rose from her chair, she approached the commander yet again, only not quite as close. In a fluid motion, she put the end of her lightsaber's hilt on the surface of the commander's stomach with her thumb hovering over the activation button. "Please don't.... displease me as well." she remarked, "Now, when you find something you would risk your life on, come back. Now....GO!" Jex screamed.