This is an updated version of the first prelude that I posted years ago. There are slight differences to the versions, I am going through the three chapters already posted and updating to changing slight parts to remember the pretense of this story and hopefully remember where I was going with it

I do this as fun, so there are most likely mistakes in the grammar and tenses however I do hope it isn't too bad.

The Human names will be a mixture of all of our culture's names.

Anyway, I do not own Harry Potter or Star Wars. Both remain the property of their owners and I am not making any money from this story.

PRELUDE

There are places that exist in the galaxy so ancient that they have been forgotten completely by all as time has progressed and in one of these places is where our story starts.

Within the deep recesses of the unknown region, there is a barren planet which life has not been seen for untold eons. But as fate has it, a republic exploration cruiser returning from an exploration mission in the region is about to stumble onto the planet. The cruiser traveling through the new hyperspace lane begins to shutter and shake as it enters an anomaly. The crew onboard begins to experience the feeling of being in an air speeder while battered by extremely strong winds as the cruiser pushes through the anomaly.

The Science Officer on watch starts to conduct scans of the immediate area around the cruiser, looking at the current information from the scans as the computer system analyses the area. He stands up and walks over to the Officer of the Watch and informs him they had entered anomaly within the hyperspace lane. The others of the current bridge crew begin to conduct damage assessments on their parts of the ship, while the science officer gave his report in case the turbulence had caused damage to the cruiser, crew or equipment onboard.

LDCR Wilson McGeehan, the Officer of the Watch walks to the ships intercom once the Science Officer had finished his report and inputs the Commanding Officer's cabin number to brief the CO of the situation while the bridge crew progressed though the damage assessments.

"Captain Sir, Officer of the Watch"

"Go ahead, OOW"

"Sir, we have entered an anomaly in the hyperspace lane. Recommend that we come out of hyperspace to assess the situation and conduct any maintenance that maybe required. The Science Officer is currently investigating the anomaly and the watch on deck is conducting damage assessments"

"Approved and inform me with an update on the report once the Science Officer completes his scan"

"Aye, Sir" The OOW turns to the helmsman while disconnecting the call to the CO, "Stop all engines and come out of hyperspace, Helm"

"Aye, stop all engines" The Helmsman confirms to the OOW, reaching over to the console inputting the command to stop the engines.

The OOW looks over to the science officer, "Science Officer, do you have more information on the anomaly?" The OOW asked the Science Officer.

"Sir, I am currently still consolidating the information I have however it seems like the anomaly has impacted on the ships speed and when ship continued to push through it at maximum thrust, we got that turbulence and reduced speed. It could be a hyperspace jammer." The Science Officer answers the OOW's question.

"Thank you LEUT Nikitovich" the OOW replies, reaching back over to the intercom and inputting the CO number.

"Captain Sir, OOW, recommend taking the ship to General Quarters due to the anomaly" the OOW suggests to the Commanding Officer.

"Approved, additionally I am on my way to the Bridge"

"Roger, Sir" The OOW replies, turning to the Quartermaster, "QM sound general quarters"

"Aye, Sir" QM acknowledging the OOW order, activating over to the alarm on his station.

"Ship has left hyperspace, engines all stopped, and ship is adrift, Sir" the Helmsman informed the Officer of the Watch as the ships engines finally stopped, and the cruiser began to drift in the cold void.

"Roger, Helm"

As the republic exploration cruiser came out of hyperspace and entered normal space drifting away from the anomaly and the ships company was still closing up to general quarters; the bridge crew notices that the ship's viewing port now contained a large barren planet taking up a majority of the viewing port on the starboard side.

The Science Officer anticipating the order to conduct a scan of the planet, starts another scan on his terminal while checking the progress of the scan on the anomaly. The rest of the bridge team finishing up to the final preparations for the cruiser to be closed up to general quarters.

The Radar and Sensors Operator utilizing his terminal to ensure that the cruiser has not entered normal space near any dangerous objects or other ships. Once the terminal finished the sweep of the system and came up with no objects and/or other ships near the cruiser or in the system. He turned his head towards the Officer of the Watch,

"Officer of the Watch Sir, Radar Operator, the radars and scanners are showing no objects or ships near us; or in the system"

"Roger, Science Officer, have you started the scan of the planet"

"Aye Sir, scan started along with the investigation of the anomaly still running"

"Captain on deck" The OOW yells as Captain walks on to the bridge with the Navigator and the Executive Officer along with the Jedi Master and Jedi Knight that joined crew on the exploration mission.

"Captain Sir, OOW"

"Captain"

"Sir, we have exited hyperspace and entered normal space, the ship is adrift. We have come out of hyperspace next to an unknown planet; the ship is still closing up to general quarters and the Science Officer has begun a scan of the planet. The anomaly is still being investigated. Radar and scanners show no objects or ships near us or in the system"

"Very well, inform me when there is any new information" The Captain replies as he sits in his chair on the bridge along with the Navigator and XO taking their seats.

"Aye, Sir"

The Jedi Master and Jedi Knight flinches when they feel a powerful presence within the force on the planet they found themselves drifting past and debates between themselves if the anomaly that the cruiser had encounter was the will of the force , the Presence or an enemy force ambushing them as the ship passed the planet. The Jedi Master turned to the captain,

"Captain, I believe that we should proceed towards the planet. We have felt a powerful presence within the force, and I believe we should investigate it"

The Captain nods to the Jedi Master and faces to the OOW,

"OOW, bring the ship planet side once the ship is confirmed at general quarters and the damage assessments are in"

The Jedi Knight starts walking towards the communication room to update the Jedi High Counsel on Coruscant of the current situation. When Cruiser was confirmed in general quarters and the damage assessments showed that there was no damage, The OOW gave the order to the Helm to bring engines to slow and position the ship the edge of the atmosphere of the planet.

The Cruiser entered the atmosphere after the Science Officer reported that the Cruiser would be safe to conduct atmosphere flight within the planet's gravitation well. The Jedi Master and Knight felt the Presence on the planet consolidate on itself into a tight path acting as a guide towards to its location, unlike when they felt it for the first while adrift near the planet.

The Jedi Master looks over at the CO and gave the cruisers captain the directions to steer the ship in the general direction of the path that he was felt the presence formed while he was feeling uneasy about the whole ordeal wishing that he could turn away however if he returned to the Council found out they would be displeased that a Jedi Consular did not investigate.

As the cruiser skimmed across the barren planets landscape, the Jedi Master and personnel on the bridge wondered if the planet ever had held life and if so, what had happened to it, the Jedi also wondered what the presence they felt in the force was.

The Science Officer turned to the CO,

"Captain Sir, Science Officer, I have the scan on the planet. Scans are unable to determine if the planet has ever sustained life"

"Roger"

With that report, the Jedi Master's uneasy feeling continued increasing with the force trying to warn him.

As the ship slowly made its way along the path, the Presence was slowly waking up from eons of hibernation to stave off the boredom and loneliness from its containment after feeling activation of the warning beacon. As the Presence regained full consciousness, the presence started to wonder how long it has been since it's imprisonment. The Presence stretched it's power out to find what had caused the activation of the beacon, finding numerous life forms now in the planet atmosphere.

The Presence commenced invading the minds and souls of the intruders to find out more about these beings. The Presences investigation of the intruders concluded that all the life forms on board had a connection to the same power, however at different levels of ability along with only four of the intruders could actively use the same power that it was able to access, now it was wondering if they could use it at the same level as itself. The Presence turned its attention toward finding out the nature of the individuals onboard along with taking all the information that it can from them.

The being chuckled to itself as it laid in its prison, the information that was taken from the crews minds was extremely enlightening, It knew that the galaxy had de-progressed technologically from the last time it was free but life has evolved with a lot more diversity and the diversity in the galaxy now; would make life interesting if it managed to get break its imprisonment.

As the cruiser begins the landing preparations at the closest landing location near the presence that the Jedi Master and Knight felt. The Helmsman started to bleed off speed by circling the landing area and conducting the final preparations. The Jedi Master and Captain took notice that the location of the landing was in a large tundra with a lake taking up about one third of the tundra and a tomb like structure located at the north end of the area. The Jedi Master noticed the Presence lead inside the tomb like structure.

As the cruiser begins the final descent to the planet, the Jedi Master turns and walks towards the cruiser's cargo hold to disembark while contacting the Jedi Knight and Jedi Padawans meet him at the cargo hold with their gear. The cruisers captain gave the order for the cruisers primary marine squad to meet the Jedi in the cargo hold to provide protection to the Jedi while they explored the Tomb and established what the power they felt was and if it was a threat to the Republic.

The Presence was smirking within the darkness of its prison as it continues to shift through the minds of the Jedi knowing that the Jedi Master was experienced and powerful enough feel wary of the situation. The Jedi Knight even though less experienced was more powerful than the Jedi master. The Presence takes to account that both elder Jedi are now wary of the situation and due to their mission in protecting the Republic they would with their Padawans come to warily investigate the tomb it has been imprisoned.

The Jedi Master and Jedi Knight finally made their way to the cargo hold and were standing at the cargo ramp of the ship with a squad of twelve Explorcorps Marines and their Padawans awaiting the ramp to lower, the Jedi Master, a human male about fifty years old and with a height of one hundred and eighty centimetres with greying brown hair and brown Jedi robes on while open show that even in his advance age the Jedi Master is still in prime physical condition turned to the other Jedi and Marines,

"Are you all happy with what to do once this ramp opens?" He asked while looking over the two young Jedi Padawans and the Knight on the mission knowing that the marines onboard knew exactly what to do if this ended up in a conflict.

The Jedi knight onboard, a young Caucasian human female about twenty-five years old in appearance at one hundred and sixth five centimetres. She had an athletic body with a D-sized bust, an attractive feminine face with light icy blue eyes which when looking at someone it made them feel as if she was looking into their souls. Her black with blond streaked hair was tied back in a ponytail reaching the middle of her back replied to the Master question,

"Master, we know what to do as you have drilled it into us throughout this entire mission and I trust my Padawan to know what to do if shit hits the fan" the Knight says to the Jedi Master.

The two Jedi Padawan nod their heads in acceptance of the Knight's comment. The Jedi master turns the Knight and looks at her before nodding,

"I hope the Padawans and you do Revan, this feels completely different to the other planets that we have visited on this mission. You and I know presence has entered the crew's minds and ours, I do not know why however that one fact cannot be good" replies the Jedi Master to the young Knight, now known as Revan.

While the Jedi and Marines were waiting for the OK to exit the ship, the Marines started conducting system checks and visual inspections of their gear to ensure that their armour is fitted properly and their weapons are in working order and in serviceable condition before a possible hostile encounter. The Jedi conducted their checks over the armour under their robes to ensure that it would not impede them in a fight and that their lightsabres were in working order still, Revan conducted her additional checks on the blasters she carried with her.

The Science Officer once the helmsman had finished landing the ship and placing the ship into a standby state, begins conducting checks on the atmosphere outside the ship to determine if the air outside the ship is breathable for the Jedi and Ships Marines ground team. Whilst the Science Officer was conducting his checks of the atmosphere, the Captain looked out the viewing windows on the bridge towards the tomb, curious why the planetary scan showed nothing on the surface or while in orbit the crew could not see the tundra.

"XO, Why do you think the planetary scan showed nothing on the surface or while in orbit the crew could not see the tundra?" the Captain turned and asked his XO, A young red Twi'lek female, about twenty five years old with sharp grey eyes, the uniform in immaculate condition with numerous medals decorating the uniform.

"Sir, I cannot answer that confidently however I can only give two theories why, there is something that interferes with our scans of the planet or presence the Jedi felt is able to interfere with the scans and visual inspections of the planet until we reached the area" the XO replied to the Captain.

"Captain, Sir" the SO calls out, "I have the results of the atmosphere scans, the atmosphere is composed of nitrogen, oxygen, argon, water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and ozone making it breathable for the all the Jedi and Marines. There are no doesn't seem like there are any pathogens in the air at all that the ground crew risk bringing back on-board however I would advise caution, additional there is no radiation or chemicals detected."

"Thank you LEUT Nektonic." The Captain relies before turning to the XO and saying

"XO approval granted for the ground party to exit, lower the cargo ramp and inform the Jedi and Marines that they are good to investigate the tomb"

The XO nodded at the Captain before she turned and proceeded at a quick pace toward the cargo ramp, whilst the XO making her way toward the ground party, the Jedi Master and the two Padawans had begun meditating with the Marines and Revan and started a game of Paarak while they waited for the results and the approval for the ground party to exit the ship.

As the XO made her way through the cruiser with her quick pace towards the cargo hold, she wondered what the Jedi and Marines would find in the tomb near the cruisers landing area. Throughout her career, she had seen many worlds both with life and without, however only one planet before has made her feel scared just for being in the atmosphere but even that planet had nothing on this world. It made her feel like whatever was on this planet should of never be found.

She could see that the other members in the crew onboard were having the same feeling she had with the planet given the looks in the direction of the tomb. It seems as she paid attention, there was a pattern to the crew, the older and more experienced crew members were the ones who showed the feeling in their body language and looks whist the junior members seemed to almost be shutting down completely if not for the older crew member helping them.

When she finally made it to the cargo hold, her feeling about the planet was now truly in the opinion they should not be on this planet though it was not her decision to make on the matter. She walked over to the Intercomm point just before the cargo hold door and explained to the captain the feeling she was having and the state of the crew before proceeding through the door.

As the XO walked through the door into the cargo hold, one of the marines bought the squad to the attention and saluted her. The Jedi stood up coming out of their mediation with Revan packing away her cards and gathering the credit chips she had just won from the Marines.

The XO returned the marines salutes and told the marines to fall in. Once the Marines had finished falling in front of the XO, the Jedi stood off to the side of the squad with Padawans in front of the Master and Knight each with their respective masters behind them.

"The Captain has received the report of the atmosphere details and has approved for the Jedi to investigate the Presence that was felt by them in orbit. Your mission is to protect the Jedi from anything that might be on the planet. Breathing apparatus is not required however carry it on your persons. The Jedi Master is in charge, report in every six hours Sergeant"

"Aye Ma'am" The sergeant responded to the order, before turning to the Jedi master "Sir, permission to establish a perimeter at the entrance to the tomb" The Jedi Master nodded at him before ordering the Knight and the two Padawans to go with the Marine squad in securing the tomb entrance.

Once the Master stopped speaking, the Jedi and Marines walked to the top of the ramp, the Knight nodded to the crew member at the ramp control point for him to lower the ramp. As the ramp was lowered, the Marines readied their weapons. When the ramp touched the planet surface the first fire team rushed out towards the tomb followed by the next two fire teams conducting leaping bounds with the first fire team towards the tomb, the other three Jedi following the third fire team in their leaps.

The Master waited until the other Jedi and marines had left the ship completely before he turned to the XO and enquired about the feeling of terror around her. The XO was startled as she was hoping that no one would be able to tell that she was afraid over then the Captain and bridge crew. The Jedi Master smiled at her and informed her that even he was feeling wary and slightly afraid of the Presence he felt also before he turned and exited the ship and began his walk to catch up to the others.

OOW = Officer of the Watch

SO = Science Officer

CO = Commanding Officer

XO = Executive Officer

LEUT = Lieutenant

LCDR = Lieutenant Commander

QM = Quartermaster