(In which Lialla recounts the events of Mission 3, "The Darkside Nexus".
To continue where I left off, we were all at the base when one morning the Trade Federation struck. They had somehow located us, and they swarmed the base faster than we could have imagined. My companions and I were captured and taken to Theed where we were then placed in the same makeshift prison that my parents were held in. During this time, as we considered how to escape, a strange, dark figure walked by. Geldar, Brin�tac, and Satchal all felt a disturbance in the Force, and it was later discovered that the figure was none other than Darth Maul, a Dark Lord of the Sith. He glanced over at us when he went by, and Satchal says that he thought that the Dark Lord knew who they were. How terrifying!
We escaped from the prison shortly afterward and escaped towards the outskirts of the city square when suddenly we ran into Queen Amidala herself. She quickly enlisted our aide in the reclamation of Naboo, and we complied. Making our way to the palace we created a diversion and protected the queen while she and her troops made it inside. Naboo was saved, and we were all hailed as heroes.
Shortly after the queen was put back into power we were able to continue the original mission of my companions. It was discovered that Savor Kibbs had left Theed shortly before the invasion and had implemented a resistance group of his own against the queen. It was said that he had many people under his sway, and the queen wanted us to go and find out more about him. (This was the original mission anyway.) I was sent with them as a guide since I�ve explored much of Naboo�s terrain.
We found Savor Kibbs after our long trek through the countryside, and the event was even more frightening than confronting the Dark Lord, if that�s possible. At the outskirts of the camp we confronted what we thought was the Dark Lord himself. After a horrifying battle, we learned that the Dark Lord, who was supposedly killed by Jedi Padawan Obi-wan Kenobi, was really nothing more than a dark side illusion. We made our way into the camp and confronted Savor Kibbs, and within a few moments the battle was won. Although Savor had modified destroyer droids on his side, he was unable to defeat us, and, as I recall, it was Brin�tac�s shot that took him down.
At this point we nearly lost Satchal, not to death but to the Jedi Council. Satchal and Geldar had been told that they were not to train Brin�tac in the ways of the Force, but Satchal refused to adhere to this. The Jedi Council was going to take him back to Coruscant but Brin�tac intervened on his behalf.
We then learned some very useful information about our adversary, the dark Jedi who killed Master Lo. We learned from one of Satchal�s dreams that Governor Creed was involved with Master Lo�s death, and after Brin�tac had done some research on the situation we learned that Creed was definitely governor of Darga Prime, the planet where Master Lo died. We then learned from Savor Kibbs that he was the apprentice to a Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Maul, whom had slain Master Qui-Gon Jinn during the Final Battle for Naboo. We also learned from him that there was an even greater Dark Lord named Darth Sidious, the master of Darth Maul. According to Kibbs, Sidious is some sort of genius who has his hands dipped into political affairs including the Trade Federation. The following is an account of our meeting with Kibbs just before he died captured on holo-footage given to me by the Chief of Security on Naboo:
After discussing matters we felt that we should go to Darga Prime in search for this assassin whom we now know is named Wraith. Satchal was almost not allowed to come with us because he had been training Brin�tac without permission, but Brin�tac had convinced the Jedi Council to allow him to come. Now we are all traveling to Darga Prime to the city of Tican Oosta in hopes that at last the mystery of the murder of Master Lo and the kidnapping of Brin�tac�s family will be unfolded. We only made a quick stop at Coruscant to visit with Geldar�s father to tell him of his wife�s death during the Trando-Wookiee Conflict. He�s pretty broken up about this, but he is doing well in spite of the pain that is obviously tearing him apart inside. I only hope he and Satchal will be able to withstand the emotional strain of tracking down the murder of Master Lo and the one that is responsible for Geldar�s mother�s death.
