Episode Thirty-Nine

The crew recovered in one of the dark trooper charging stations while Jasper and Jub-Jub stood watch. Meanwhile, Ventress rescued Mace from the burning Nemesis, while Ahsoka held off the attacking battle droids. R2-D2 evacuated the hanger and sealed the doors, which allowed the Revanites to return to their battle meditation. The Nightjar crew faced Moff Gideon, and despite his suit’s ability to channel force powers, they defeated him, and set the Devastator II on a collision course with Starkiller’s Vulcan.

Luke and Leia boarded the Adamant with support from X-wing pilots Rogue 9 and Rogue 1. As a dogfighter raged outside they chased the praetorian Mara Jade off the ship in a tie-fighter where she was destroyed. Luke battled his way to the bridge and Leia persuaded the troopers to stand down and attack the Vulcan.

Back on the Devastator II, the Nightjar crew were stopped by the twin Sith apprentices in the hangar. The Sith disabled the Nightjar and a battle ensued in which Claywill hit a perfect shot on the female Sith to end the fight. Badly hurt, the crew briefly debated resting before a final confrontation with Starkiller, but deemed the risk to their allies to be too great. Gage and Thalia escaped with the prisoners on the Nightjar, while the rest of the crew took the Sith’s ship and boarded the Vulcan.

On the husk of the star destroyer, Vulcan, held together only by dark side energy, the Shady Bothan stabbed Naix but was quickly dispatched. As the crew approached the core, they passed cloning equipment, and sensed the presence of thousands of force users. Starkiller revealed his intention to resurrect a Sith Empress, and the final confrontation began. Despite their best efforts, Conrad and Jasper were knocked unconscious, and Jub-Jub was killed. Starkiller used unfinished clones to heal himself, and nearly pushed Claywill off the edge of the ship, before Mandalore was able to strike the final blow! The crew was revived, and Conrad used force energy to revivify Jub-Jub. As they explored the Vulcan’s core, they found thousands of clones fueling the ship’s dark energy, and a clone of Padme Amidala whom Starkiller was seeking to revive. Conrad set off his remaining thermal detonators which destroyed the clones and the Vulcan, as the crew made their escape. The Republic Fleet pushed their advantage and both the Sith and Imperials were defeated!

Following the battle, Claywill retired from mercenary life to become a politician, and represented Coruscant in the Galactic Senate. Mandalore married Vanchu, and relocated the clans to Dathomir where he brokered an alliance between the Mandalorians and Night Sisters. Jasper took Slave-One, and returned Jub-Jub to his people on Endor, before eventually returning to bounty hunting with a full crew of Ewoks. Conrad and Gage continued working missions on the Nightjar until they were confronted by his former master’s other apprentice, Darth Laslair. Conrad managed to kill Laslair, but was badly burned in the ensuing fire and lost his arm. Conrad received a new mechanical arm, and continued his mission to maintain true balance in the force.

Epilogue:

A ship was pulled from the sky onto Dathomir by the hermit Minch, and his new apprentice: a Zabrak Sith, born from Naix’s essence stored in the silver brula fruit. They took the ship to escape the planet and begin their campaign of conquest.