Lexi was born twenty two years ago planet side on Balmorra, within part of one of the Imperial Remnants control. Her father Boris Sarden was a well known Tramp freighter Captain, and he raised his family with his first officer and wife Nora Sarden aboard the Tramp Freighter Kessel Run named after the infamous smugglers run. Lexi spent her life learning about the workings of her home, the Kessel with her two older brothers. She learned to navigate when she was 9 years old, she learned to use the cargo haler when she was 12, but that all ended when a member of the Exchange called in one of fathers loans, the ship was captured in a space port called Estele City.
Once stranded in Estele City her life changed dramatically the once fun loving girl became bitter and began to run with the street gangs that plagued the underside of the slums she was forced now to live in. Her father was forced to become a shuttle pilot that shuttled cargo and supplies for the Zratian Arms Corporation. Lexi could fly a ship and pretty good with ground transports so in her little gang she was “the driver” if you can imagine a 14 to 17 year old as the driver in some criminal act. She was jailed on suspicion of speeder theft and even the “person of interest” in a murder case in Estle City.
Rumors started about her around 16 that one of the gangs girls could get people to do things for her, rumor had it that she even convinced one of the local gang leaders to shoot himself. They started calling Lexi, Dead Girl, on the streets because if she wanted you dead you soon showed up dead in an ally somewhere. She learned to street fight and one night had her ass handed to her smartly by a Teras Kasi master. She found him again and asked to be taught by him. He accepted thinking that the discipline of the art would save her from her downward spiral into darkness. Soon he found that all he did was create a better killer when he confronted his student about it she became annoyed with the “old man” and in a fit of rage made him kill himself by jumping in front of a speeder.
It was not soon after that, a dark figure came to her and cornered her in an alley where she had just killed some street thug. She turned on this figure and was soundly beaten down by them, she woke up on a transport in pain, the first words out of her mouth were: “Even my teeth hurt.” The dark figure snickered, she looked over a him and the others aboard the shuttle. “You have great potential my violent young girl. Let us see if you have what it takes to achieve it.” Is all the dark figure said before she blacked out again from the pain and woke up in a seat on a different shuttle next to another Shadow Academy applicant. Thus, began the fall of Lexi Sarden to the darkness that is the Sith.
Part Two: Novice to Protector
Lexi sat at her terminal in the training center, studying the hierarchy and the history of the Dark Brotherhood, the Exodus, and all the Grandmasters that came before. Never realizing that the Dark Brotherhoods ties reached so far back into galactic history. One of her scientific specialties that she had acquired over the trainings was the researching of ancient bloodlines. She rolled up her sleeve when no one was looking and took a blood sample from herself and put it into the analyzer. The analyzer would not only measure the midi-chlorides in her blood stream but it would run matches of her blood type to every other blood type that the Shadow Academy had ever imputed into its databases which were nearly exhaustive with the Jedi, and Sith bloodlines and their many off shoots. Data collected from as recent as the new jedi order and as old as the Hyperspace wars. She ran the algorithm that she had pieced together from twenty of the best known genetic and genealogical matrix’s that had been put together for the express purpose of tracing jedi and sith bloodlines. She never thought she would make a match at all, there was a million to one, and that was being generous, chance that her blood would match in anyway someone in the database. The program began its run and she left the computer to run its course.
She had some scrolls to read that her new master had given her, ancient martial arts training scrolls for Broken Gate, Master Cethgus had become her master after she was transferred into House Galeres to become part of her new battle team the highly experienced Dark Forge team. She was especially nervous that her master was also her house Quaestor attracting that type of attention was dangerous, both from her fellow students who would be jealous, and from those within the house seeing her as a potential rival for influence with the house leader.
Her thoughts were interrupted when the computer made a strange sound, there was a match ping! “A match?” Lexi thought as she scrambled to the computer. She watched as the match was verified, 88% match! “Holy…that’s a better match than some blood relatives get.” She muttered aloud. She reached up to hit the enter key and her hand shook. She pulled away, this could be enlightening or deadly. If she was related to any enemy of the brotherhood she could be signing own death warrant by hitting enter for the system to verify. It would log all information directly onto the brotherhood mainframe and that would be that. Forever, known and cataloged. Finally Lexi musters up the courage and hits the enter key. It reads out various pieces of information:
Ancestral Check Verified…
88% match with…Ackavashe Sarden, Sithlord aka “The Forcewalker” from circa 3650-40 during the Sith Empires return to the galaxy during the Inter-Sith Period.
Activities of Note: Controlled of the Sphere of Influence of the Dark Council called Knowledge and Mysteries under the title of Darth Nox.
Race: Pure Blood
Sex: female
Sith lineage: Unknown
Known spouse: Alexander Kesslar Sith warrior from the same time period, human.
Known siblings: Unknown
Known children: Classified
All other records either above current security clearance or not avalible.
Information logged and categorized in Brotherhood database. Secured and protected, access to alteration of information denied, improper security clearance.
End summery…
Lexi just sat there blinking at the screen in complete disbelief. It was not until she heard Tessa’s voice behind and above her, “Oh a Darth and pure blood, relative. Aren’t we the little sith gem.” Lexi about jumped out of her skin, “Whoa!” She yelled flinching and turned to Tessa who also flinched and stepped back, “You scared the be-jesus out of me.”
Tessa smiled after regaining herself, “Thought no one could sneak up on miss third eye in the back of her head,” Tessa smuggly replied to Lexi. “So found yourself an ancestor sith did you, that little blood chaser you wrote must work or you just put all that in there yourself.”
Lexi just motioned to the computer screen as the Brotherhood logo came up and the computer voice indicated the information was logged in the official database as an update. “I used a sample of my blood to run it through some paces,” Lexi said looking back to the screen, “I never in a million years.” Her voice trailed off.
“Are you telling me that crap I saw was, real?” Tessa said with an air of annoyance. “You are such a little snob!” Tessa came at her enraged, without thinking Lexi slide sideways avoiding Tessa’s attack. She had just been studying the Broken Gate scrolls her master had been insisting she learn as her secondary martial arts, “Teras Kasi is an excellent art, but you must have more tricks up your sleeve if you want to survive here.” Lexi could remember master Cethgus saying to her. As she slide to the side in a basic Broken Gate maneuver that confused Tessa as Lexi was known for her skill with Teras Kasi which was brutal and straight forward in attacks. She lifted her left foot as the scrolls had shown and bring it down in a stomping motion onto Tessa’s ankle while simultaneously bringing her left fist into the side of her face. Broken Gate used short stomping and quick fist attack joined together with pure brute strength. While Teras Kasi was brutal and straightforward in its attacking and relentless. It was not an art where stomping and short punching happened.
Tessa screamed as her ankle descended into fire from the hit and pushed the wrong way, it was actually Lexi’s punch, that threw her back off it enough to prevent it from being broken. However, Tessa’s nose was not so lucky and the cracking of the cartilage echoed almost as loud as Tessa’s scream. Tessa sprawled across the floor as her behind met it with a thud that made her yell out again. She looked up with nothing but deadly rage in her eyes, she moved to stand but between her foot and the balance she no longer had because of her broken nose she simply crumpled into a pile on the floor with a pitiful whimper.
Lexi was angered by the unprovoked attack by her classmate, she moved in for the kill, it was not the nature of the Sith to leave enemies to heal and strike again, nor was the street rules she used to live by any less forgiving. She move in fist in the air ready to bring it down on her prone enemy to finish her.
“Enough!” Came a powerful voice, she only hesitated because something told her the voice should be obeyed. She looked over her shoulder and saw her master standing there. She looked back at Tessa who was now covering her face with her hands, “Please,” Tessa whimpered. Lexi leans into Tessa and whispered, “I will find out what you fear the most and I will torment you with it to the point you will beg me to kill you.” She released Tessa letting her slump back into the cold floor. “Pathetic.” Lexi spat as she backed away.
Cethgus surveyed the scene, looked up at two of the other Initiates watching, “You two bring her to the infirmary.” He ordered the two boys scrambled to obey they drug off the whimpering girl. “Nice form next time plant your right foot better, you should have killed her with the fist blow, it was slow and sloppy. But not bad for two days study of the scroll. However, this is not why I am here.” Cethgus was always so much taller and muscular than she would ever be, he was a mountain of a man, and moved with the grace of a great cat, a killer. Cethgus took out an armory saber and levitated it over to Lexi. “Congratulations Protector Sarden, your things will be moved over to the Galeres main hold with your battleteam. You are no longer a student of the Shadow Academy you are my apprentice.” The words echoed not only in the hallway but her head as well. Finally she was out of this place.
“Great there will be no living with her now,” said a male voice from one of the other students nooks. That made Lexis face squish with annoyance, and Cethgus only chuckled. He placed a hand on his students shoulder, “Well done.” This small accolade made her beam. “Now my little pure blood I have a great deal of expectations for you. See that you do not disappoint me.” Cethgus said evenly. She was excited and worried all at the same time. “Wait, what? How did you even know,” Lexi started only to have Cethgus interrupt her. “I can read a computer screen.” Cethgus said as he tapped the monitor of her screen that still had the ancestral summery on it. “Great, just great.” Is all Lexi could think until she lit her saber up with a hissing snap marveled at the red blade. The red glow lite up her face with an almost scary hue, It was nothing like the training sabers, it was: powerful, dangerous, and it was most importantly, hers. She swing it around and cut through the wall with ease eliciting a cry of pain and surprise from someone on the other side. She walked around and Eric was holding his arm, “You burnt me through the wall with that!” It was a mixture of accusation and excitement, he looked at his grazed arm, “It cut through the damn wall.”
“Like a hot knife through butter, and if you were not standing there listening to what was going on so intently you would not have been cut, Apprentice.” Lexi said with authority as she shut down the saber and put it on her hip clip. Eric looked at her and smiled, “of course Protector, I will be more careful.” He said snapping to attention. Watched her walk off hand reaching out and with a flip of her wrist the computer shut down. A hand was placed on Eric’s shoulder, “She is out of your league Apprentice.” Said Mikel a togruta Apprentice. Eric makes a unwholesome sound from his lips, “As if you had one either now. I bet you never see her again.” As they speak the droids come into the room and pick up all of Lexi’s belongings and carry them away.