The planet was surrounded by multiple dark hulled Star Destroyers, in various states of completion. Red armored Sith Troopers patrolled the massive rings that had been built around the planet to accommodate the increased production; the troopers paused only to let a newly completed Star Destroyer. Susan Bones watched this before letting the Dark Side show her the truth behind the veiled existence known as the physical world. She sees the dark side surrounding the weapons, soldiers and equipment of the Dark Empire.

It was like a living mass of Dark pulsing energy, and at the center of it all? The Emperor, her master. Sheev Palpatine had remade his Empire, rebuilding it and reforming it into a better one, fixing what had ruined the last Empire. The First Order wasn't that Empire, which was a faction that had broken away from the true Empire. She snorted at the attempt the First Order had done in trying to rule the Galaxy.

She spun, activating her lightsaber as she blocked the blade of the lightsaber training droid. Her amethyst blade collided with the crimson blade, the droids' body flickering before turning into the visage of Darth Bane. His body armor glowed before the Ancient Sith Master spun before his curved lightsaber curled down to take out her legs. The dueling form of Makashi was perfect for dueling other Lightsaber users; however, if not used by a force user, it was a very dangerous fighting style.

This did not mean the Lightsaber Droid wasn't helpless, in fact, these droids had something that no other droid could do. They could use the Force, enhancing themselves to the effect that Jedi and Sith could be, in some sense. Susan deflected the blows before pulling her other saber out and connected them both together. Spinning the double ended blade around, she attacked the Droid Bane and pushed him back. She then sliced off the droids legs before beheading the training droid.

Deactivating her blade, she huffed before turning back towards the view. She looked down at her datapad before leaving her position, her Master needed her.

She found herself aboard her personal flagship, the ISD Broken Hatred; the crew busied themselves as they headed deeper into the Unknown Regions. Her master, Emperor Palpatine, had order her to find the rest of the Imperious Fleet that he had sent into galaxy before he had even entered the second Death Star. Made up of tens of thousands of experimental ISD's, this fleet would allow the Dark Empire's numbers to grow.

"My Lady," Captain Valadri spoke up, looking up from the crew pit, "We've picked up the signal of the Fleet…"

"And?" She asked, sensing something was wrong.

"It seems that the Fleet has encountered another alien threat, the Grysks apparently have been trying to steal the Emperor's fleet for themselves." The captain said, pointing out the window to the ships docked near one of the few thousand black hull ISD's.

Susan snarled, having read the reports that the traitorous Grand Admiral Thrawn had written up before his "disappearance" over Lothal, only to reappear days later on Coruscant with a heavily damaged Chimera. The Emperor had then sent him out to the Unknown Regions for more exploration until now, when he joined Darth Vader. However, she had to deal with the Grysk threat here and now.

"All batteries, open fire on those Grysk Ships," She ordered, the crews jumping into action, "Leave no survivors or witnesses."

The Dark Empire ISD's weapon batteries opened up upon the unsuspecting Grysk warship, the better Mark X turbolaser batteries accurately and precisely tearing apart the alien warship within seconds. Any ships that had been near the warship were picked off by expertly piloted TIE Furies, new TIE fighter's that were designed to be the successor of Thrawn's TIE Defenders. Within the hour, the presence of the Grysks had been wiped out.

"Have the boarding crews moved onto the Fleet's Flagship," Susan then ordered after the turbolasers quieted, "Send the coordinates from the Flagship to the rest of the fleet with the specific instructions on how to arrive."

"Understood, my Lady."

"You have done well, my young apprentice," The hologram of the Emperor said, smiling down upon her, "The fleet has begun arriving as I have foreseen."

"Master," Susan spoke up, feeling none of the pride she should of felt for doing this for her Emperor, "There is another threat to the rise of our Empire…the threat that the traitor Thrawn spoke of."

The Emperor frowned before nodding his hooded head, "Indeed, the alien species known as the Grysk…They are a threat, even more so than the Imperial Remnant and the First Order. Their destruction will lead to the fall of the Galaxy, remove a major power from play, and then the rest of the pieces will follow."

"My young apprentice, you shall take command of one of the new Eclipse class dreadnaughts and lead the first Dark Empire fleet into the Unknown Regions to destroy the Grysk threat for good."

Susan bowed her head, "I am honored, my Master, the Grysk shall fall to my blade."

"See to it that they do, Susan," Palpatine said coldly, his voice like a snake ready to strike, "or you shall find yourself…replaced."

The hologram faded as Susan stood, heading to the bridge. Her emotions were everywhere; anger, hatred, embarrassment, panic, fear. She focused herself and opened her eyes, both glowing bright gold. She smiled before entering a turbolift, a thought coming to her. Why not take some of the Chiss?

Yes, they knew these regions better than the Empire ever did; capturing them would help in the long run. Maybe even brainwashing a few of them would make sure they would only serve the Emperor completely. Of course, the Emperor's new ISD's were able to find any cloaked vessels within a certain area. The Chiss wouldn't know what hit them, that thought made her smile darkly as the turbolifts doors closed, taking her to the bridge to begin her search.