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Chapter 13 - A Straggler

Deep within the untamed wastes of Korriban. There was nothing but sand and deadly creatures constantly eating each other.

[Hermes, a strange signature has been detected by your scans. It reads has advanced technology, but also a high Dark Side saturation reading to it. 1000u underground in a cavern network.]

It can never be know what lies beneath these wastes however.

"Anything else down there I should be worried about ATLAS?"

[Negative]

I switch my multi-tool to terraformer mode and start digging down.

After some minutes of digging, I reach the cavern network and follow the technology signal through the tunnels. This brings me to a door that didn't look fancy, but was old solid metal.

"No keyhole, no handle, guess I'm blowing it up."

I blast it with a plasma shot and the door "opens".

"Well well well..."

I gaze upon a perfect sphere. Perfect, as in it is a sphere that isn't made up of triangles. Every 3D shape is from triangles. Yet this sphere isn't.

I scan it, "Atlas, tell me what I'm looking at."

[Hermes, this is a 6th dimensional sphere. No triangles needed. Surface scans revealed nothing, no electric field, no radiation, no thermal activity, or Force energy. However, deep scans revealed a Dark Side Force energy density of...infinity.]

"Oh, so what would that mean? This sphere is a 6th dimensional prison for a Dark Side Force energy source? Well, that would make sense. An infinite reading means nothing in the 3rd dimension would be able to contain it permanently. 4th and 5th would be too weak as well. I wonder who made this sphere? Anyways, I'm going inside."

I stepped into the sphere and phased inside. A simple thing to do once you figure out how to tune your existential frequency.

It is dark inside the sphere, no light. I have various means to see though. Switching to line-sight, where everything is simply outlined with white lines. I see something interesting.

"Atlas, that's a dog. Scan it"

[Scan shows that the dog is the source of the infinite energy. Breed is unknown.]

I wave my hand over, "Here doggy, come to Hermes."

The dog looks at me with pitch black eyes and red-singed fur. It shows its maw with rows upon rows of white teeth. It leaps at me with evil intentions radiating from it.

I draw my multi-tool and shoot a simple blue laser at it. The dog stops midair.

"7th dimensional motion stopper. Stops all movement entirely. Physical movement, electrical signals, heart beat, blood flow, thoughts, even soul thumps. Useful against dangerous beasts like you. You're not a normal dog.", I put my multi-tool away.

[Hermes, age is incalculable, DNA is...chaotic to put it lightly.]

"Oh, then this entity is interesting. It shouldn't be alive in any sense. I'll take it with me. The sphere prison will continue to imprison it. I'll just shrink it for easy carrying."

I exit the sphere and hit it with a shrink ray. The sphere fits perfectly in my pocket.

"That should've been the last thing to investigate on Korriban. Time to move on."

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