17 Chapter 14

"I'm Vulkan, Primarch of the 18th legion under the Emperor. The Primarch of the Salamanders." introduced Vulkan as he didn't hid anything as he thought that he already broken his cover so might as well introduce properly.

"What? Primarch of the 18th legion? What are you talking about?" said Mace as he pointed his lightsaber to Vulkan.

"What I said is purely factual."replied as he brushed the sand from his now tattered robe and wore its hood once more.

"You're not going anywhere. You're coming with us."said Mace Windu with caution. This man just suddenly appeared out of nowhere and destroyed hundreds or thousands of droids without a sweat. He also shrugged off the blaster bolts that hit him. If that wasn't frightening enough, his skin doesn't show any injuries. It has no scratch whatsoever.

He'll be a good asset to the republic if they can recruit him somehow. An existence that was theorized by Mace Windu as someone invulnerable to the force powers will surely be great for the Republic. But if not, then he's too dangerous to be left alive.

"I want no part on your war. I'm just a simple man. Leave me alone." answered Vulkan as he looked at Mace Windu directly in the eyes.

At this moment, Obi-Wan rushed towards the position of the two.

"Master, I know him!" said Obi-Wan vouching for Vulkan. Hearing this Mace Windu just turned his lightsaber off and looked at Obi-Wan seriously.

"He's like the people you described years ago."whispered Mace Windu with seriousness to Obi-Wan which just nodded.

"People?" when Vulkan heard Mace's statement he was momentarily shocked. He thought that people or something from his old world must've come here also. It will be a good news if it's of the Imperium descent or else then this galaxy is totally doomed.

Obi-Wan saw the sudden change on the expression of Vulkan so he inquired.

"Vulkan, did you not know about them? The Imperium?" questioned Obi-Wan which prompted Mace to try and stop him but he just signalled for him to stop.

"The Imperium? You mean the Imperium of Mankind?" asked Vulkan with seriousness in his eyes.

"You know them?" asked Obi-Wan as he peered for more information regarding this mysterious imperium.

Vulkan just looked at Obi-Wan with seriousness as he just slightly nods.

"Can you tell us what you know? We've been trying to know more about them and we can't find anything regarding their existence on history books."asked Obi-Wan with interest but before Vulkan can speak the Yoda strike group suddenly arrived. The booming sound of the transport vessels made everyone turn to its source.

This distraction in form of the arrival of the strike group was enough time for Vulkan to escape as he suddenly burst with incredible speed and quickly left the scene. Vulkan took this opportunity and suddenly ran away from them creating a hole on the wall that fits his size. His speed is too fast that the jedis only saw his afterimage.

Obi-Wan and Mace was dumbfounded on what happened as they just looked at the direction the hole in the wall.

"W-what... happened?" Obi-Wan slowly walked to the hole and touched the edges of it.

"This Imperium, is really not simple. I feel that they hide secrets beyond our understanding. They might also know about who caused that another disturbance in the force 3 years ago. A disturbance similar to what happened almost 2 decades ago." commented Mace Windu as he approached Yoda who just disembarked from their starship to report what happened.

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The battle of Geonosis raged on. The moment the Yoda strike group arrived on the arena, large assault ships of Republic origin penetrated the upper atmosphere of the planet.

This assault ships proceeded to destroy the launch sites of the droid fighters of the separatists. With the help of the Republic's starfighters the Grand Army attained air superiority on the whole of Geonosis.

The sudden lightning strike caught the Separatists on the planet completely off guard. They haven't managed to mount a coordinated counterattack as they was slowly being pushed back by the Clone commandos deployed to ready the planet for the landing of the Grand Army.

The clone commandos softened up the landing grounds as they pounded and easily destroyed the defenses of the separatists.With the help of the starfighters, the planet is now ready for the landing of the Grand Army of the Republic.

Back at the arena...

The Yoda squad together with a regiment of clones arrived the Patranaki Arena expecting an intense battle. But all they saw there was scraps of droids which made Yoda confused.

Yoda ordered to scour the whole arena for any possible survivor of the separatists.

"Scour the arena you go. Expect good news I will." ordered the Jedi Grandmaster as the clones saluted and left their transport ships to search the whole arena.

Yoda met with the survivors of the sent jedi strike group and Obi-Wan with his student and Padme to inquire what happened.

"Master, thank you arriving." said Mace Windu as he thanked Yoda.

"What happened here? Yes, hmmm" questioned Yoda as he observed the surroundings and gradually walking over a droid part.

"Master, someone came and saved us." reported Mace Windu which earned him a curious look from Yoda.

"Saved you someone has?" asked Yoda with curiosity as he motioned for Mace to continue.

"Yes master, a man, a really tall man with dark colored skin and red glowing eyes. He's also like those that the late Qui-Gon and his student Obi-Wan described. They don't have force with them but a mysterious energy." said Mace Windu without holding back any details.

"Yrssss, where he is?" asked Yoda to Mace as a clone trooer slowly ran towards Yoda to report something.

"General, the whole arena is clear of any hostiles and we haven't found any single separatists affiliated people." said a clone trooper to Yoda.

"Everyone tell we'll evacuate. Yrsss hmmm" ordered Yoda to the clone trooper who saluted and left to relay the orders.

"Mace, gather the survivors and leave we shall." ordered Yoda to Mace as he needs to prioritize the safety of everyone before anything else.

"Yes master" said Mace as he rounded up everyone to gather the bodies and leave for their transport.

After sometime, all of the Jedis and the Yoda squad has left the arena and flew away. However, at this moment a shadow moved across the arena and towards its exit.

This shadow was there the whole time, observing, spying on everyone without them finding him out. This shadow is a spy of the Imperium that was sent here. He managed to catch Vulkan in action helping the natives of this galaxy. He was tailing Vulkan for about a whole week now nonstop as he caught a wind od his figure and spied on him. This is the only time that he managed to truly confirm that the man he's tailing is really Vulkan so he's excited to transmit this information back to the Imperium no matter what.

He quickly left the arena to find a suitable secluded spot. The data he will transfer would be 1 week worth of data so it will surely take sometime. He didn't transmit the data regarding Vulkan before because he's still not sure if the man he's tailing is really Vulkan. He didn't want to cause the Imperium any troubles just because he can't do his job properly so instead of transmitting everyday he'll only transmit today.

He immediately jumped from building to building as he evades the field of view of anyone. He's feeling the urgency as he didn't thought of his life anymore. His life is only second to his service to the Emperor and the Imperium.

"Hijo de puta, these abominations are everywhere! I need to find a secluded place to send this data and ensure it wouldn't be intercepted." cursed the spy as he did a somersault to reach the next building.

At this moment, a droid suddenly spotted the spy jumping as the droid suddenly open fired at him grazing his shoulder with the blaster bolt.

"Damn it!" cursed the spy as he performed an emergency roll and looked at the grazed part of his shirt. He looked at the energy level of his stealth module and he found that it's already depleted. He's been using the module for more than a week nonstop and he haven't recharged it as the man he's tailing didn't even rest. He's considering himself lucky that the module lasted up until earlier before being dead battery.

The blaster fire alerted the other droids as they immediately rushed to the scene.

The spy observed his surroundings and found a fairly secluded abandoned building which he made a run for.

He evades tens of blaster bolts on his way but even if managed to avoid tens there would still be a lucky bolt that will hit him.

Once he reaches the secluded building he was already full of wounds but he didn't mind it as he injected himself a painkiller with steroids.

He sealed the entrances to the floor he picked as he laid out the communications equipment on the floor from his storage module.

He can already hear the steps of the droids slowly walking upstairs as he plugged a wire to his head and started the transmission.

As the data is currently being transmitted, he also readied his laspistol and monitored the network. He must simultaneously defend the digital network from any possible intrusions and the room from the oncoming droids.

Based on the lessons he learned when he was still training to become a spy. It's said that no network is fully secure so they must always be in caution to prevent any intrusion.

As the sounds of the footsteps of the droids slowly got louder, the spy steeled himself for the inevitable as he chanted a prayer to the Emperor. He started to tinker with the explosives he has and set it up on the room to ensure a last ditch effort. He must prevent being captured and his equipment confiscated.

He flipped a table in front of hin to protect the equipment and him while the transfer is still ongoing.

50%...

The droids finally destroyed the barricade in front of the door in the room as they entered.

55%...

Gunfire occurred between the spy and the droids. The spy managed to hold the line due to the superior firepower of his pistol.

75%...

As more and more droids poured in, the spy couldn't fire at all as he was pinned down behind the flipped table he used as a cover.

He started to slowly retreat to the second line of defense because the first is riddled with holes.

90%...

The spy was hit many times and he's at the last line of defense. He's heavily injured but he's still fighting on against the more than 18 droids inside the small room firing at him.

95%...

He transmitted a message back to the Imperium as he knew he'll due here.

"Glory to the Emperor! Glory to Terra! I'm...a spy sent on planet Geonosis. I'm heavily injured and will die sometime soon. I'll use this moment to send this message to let the Imperium know that the Primarch Vulkan is alive! The data is currently being transmitted and I'll use my life to ensure the data will be transmitted! The Emperor protects!" this message was sent on an unsecured channel because transmission here is faster than the heavily secured network. He can only wish that the Imperium ships will manage to receive this message.

99%...

A droid fired a blaster bolt and it's heading to the equipment. The spy decided to jumo to use his body as a shield. He was hit on the heart and was badly injured but at this time the prompt sounded.

Ding... Transmission complete...

The spy just laughed in his mind as he detonated the explosives he set up on the room to ensure that no one will reverse engineer the technology of the Imperium.

"Only in death does our duty end! Glory to the Emperor!" shouted the spy as he clicked the detonator and the whole room suddenly exploded, demolishing the whole floor and destroying all the droids.

On the ruins of the room scavengers profiting from war surrounded it and searched for something important. They managed to intercept a communication originating from here so they immediately moved to the location of the transmission.

As they slowly scavenge the whole ruins they found a rather intact communication equipment of Imperium's origin.

When the man pulled out this equipment everyone cheered.

"Ha! We're rich! People will surely pay a large price for this equipment. It looks so sophisticated!" shouted the woman as she wiped the dust and pieces of building materials from the communication equipment the size of a PlayStation 4.

"Hmmm, do you think we should sell this? The message we intercepted was a weird language not in the galactic almanac. I'm just afraid they might do something to us. Also,the technology on whatever that equipment is are advance, it might spell the doom for us." said a timid man which jusr earned him a slap in the back.

"Don't worry, they're probably just some wannabe spy organization. Besides, what could they possibly do to us?" a man made the timid man calm by ensuring him that nothing bad will happen.

This earned him another cheer from the group as they left the ruins.