Chapter Twenty-Three

John watched the reaction of his apprentices. "Of course, I will amass a giant clone army before then, so you'll have time to train."

Chris rubbed his chin before speaking. "Is it because they will be in the way of your empire?"

John nodded. "Yes, but they also have resources I would rather take than find or make myself. Kyber crystals, saber parts, holocrons, possible apprentices..." He stopped himself. "...I think you get it."

Chris and the others nodded.

"Either way, I think I'll want to make sure the army is large enough to carry out the raid on the temple, and the elven 'democracy.'"

John left his apprentices to begin dueling and went into the cloning facility.

'If I breed 500 clones, the cost will be 50,000 gold. The amount of LAATs needed to support that would be 42. That's 168,000 gold..." John stared into the faculty and watched Hosea and a few others making sure everything was working properly.

"218,000 gold... With ten more apprentices, and a new temple where that old elf city was, and twenty apprentices there, I could make that back in..." John looked at the ceiling as he thought for a moment. "I could make that back in 1 month."

John decided on it. He began producing 500 clones, along with crafting LAATs.

[Gold: 297,000 -> 79,000]

'After the casualty and battle reports of the last six months, the current number of LAATs and clones is 472 clones and 21 LAATs. That'll be 972 clones, minus the Arc troopers, and 63 LAATs. Not counting the pilots and gunners on each one, I'd say that's the perfect number.'

Two weeks passed as the clones and LAATs were completed. All of his soldiers and clones told at attention, waiting for his orders. Chris and Charlotte stood at the front, and the eight others behind them, then the clone arcs and the clones, and then the 20,000 soldiers.

Not all the soldiers had armor, only the 300 Shadow Troopers wore it, while it seemed the soldiers had made there own gear.

John climbed a stage some of the people built him and began to speak. "My people! Soon, we will raid the Jedi temple, the very people who have left you at the hands of the elves! We will march, and kill their masters and knights, while we take the younglings and padawans, so we can break them, and make new Sith from them!"

"We will use what is taken from the temple to destroy the elves, and on the ashes of their advanced land, we will build an empire! One that will conquer this world, and the universe!"

Every saluted and chanted once. "For the Empire!"

———

John sat in his room and finally opened the three random items.

[1x Black Cape, 1x White Cape, 1x Black Glove]

"Those really are random items." John sighed as he leaned back in his chair.

Someone knocked at the door and John quickly let them in. "What is it Fix?"

Fix saluted before handing him a blueprint. "We found this behind that set of armor in the casing you told us about."

John opened it up and his eyes widened as the System spoke.

[Blueprint discovered!]

[Harrower-class Dreadnought: Heavily armed battle-cruiser, and usually the capital ship of a fleet. It is 0.5 miles long(800 meters), requires a crew of 2,400 men, and can transport 7,300 men. It comes with 95 Mark VI Supremacy-class starfighters, 32 B28 Extinction-class bombers, and 35 shuttles. It has 4 hangars, 2 stacked in between the prongs on the front, and one behind the small 'wings' on either side. (Go to Wookieepedia to learn more and to see a picture of each of these.) Cost: 20,000,000, Time to Complete: 2 years.]

"Fix, did you find any other blueprints?"

Fix nodded. "We found one for the armor the Shadow Troopers wear sir, although we still have a few hundred of those uniforms, so there's no need to make more."

John closed the Harrower-class blueprint and stood up,"Is everyone ready to attack?"

"Yes, General."

"Tell them we'll go to the temple in four weeks."

"Yes, sir!"

After Fix left, John focused on a specific part of his stats.

[Slot Tickets: 13x]

[How many Slot tickets would you like to use?]

"3 of them."

[3x Slot Tickets Spun...]

[26x Items: 2x Medical Droid Kit, 1x Empty Lightsaber Hilt(Duplicate), E-11 Blaster Rifle Blueprint, DC-15A Blaster Rifle Blueprint, 1x Black Robes]

John put on his helmet and went down to the cloning facility. He opens the two medical droid kits the moment he stepped inside.

[2x Medical Droid Kit opened.]

[4x Medical Droids]

The medical droids noticed where they were and immediately went to the infirmary.

'Weird.' John thought. He went back into the temple, and saw 4 apprentices dueling to use the furnaces while the other four all held crystal in their hands.

He saw that Chris students were the ones who finished first and slowly nodded before I walking away.

John sat in a mediation room on a separate floor from the seventh. He focused in the force and felt another powerful presence ten miles away.

'The master of the temple.' John thought.

———

Obadiah and Oryx sat in a dark room, with a little light dying through a window.

Obadiah began to feel discomfort, as if he was being watched, and opened his eyes.

"Oryx..." Obadiah stared at his apprentice and sighed. "I will be leaving for a while, so that whatever is watching me cannot find the temple."

"Something is watching you, Master?"

Obadiah nodded. "I'll take Arthur and Yuri to help me fight it. Tell everyone I said they are not to leave the temple."

Oryx stood and slightly bowed towards Obadiah before leaving the room.

Obadiah slightly squinted. 'My mind is clouded...'