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"Naturally."

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Grin. "We can fly you over, maybe answer other questions on the way, if you'd prefer to meet people sooner rather than later."

...She should also probably warn her mom about new alts before showing up with them. And warn her mom off new alts.

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"That is acceptable. Lord Sicaria, gather our effects."

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"Yes, my lord." She wraps the Force around her-

-and seems to vanish.

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"Now, as long as my organization has not been too disturbed, she should meet us on the way."

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She nods. "Don't think my predecessor messed with even what he found too much; he didn't seem to know what to do with a lot of it."

(...She pokes the Force. Lily isn't as insanely talented at clear sight as she is at Force powers relevant to lying, but she would in general like to track where Lord Sicaria is, even if doing anything more specific might be hostile-ish. The similarities to Tayab might help...)

"Our ship's this way." She nods back towards the entrance, turning to lead.

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(There are quiet Tayab-shaped ripples flitting in and around the various storage rooms. It doesn't feel like there's any hostile intent involved.)

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She won't stop paying attention, but yeah Lily's not getting a sense of hostility at all. 

"Are you going to need anything like water or medicine soon?" she asks a bit absently, as a quiet, deep partition of her mind reaches for her bond with her mom. (She's good enough at concealing when they're talking to fool everyone she's met so far - though she hasn't actually checked this with Elesse, who can pick up on a lot of Lily's other subtle uses of the Force, and she won't assume Occlus can't detect that part of her, either.)

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"Our physical needs were taken care of by the stasis chambers."

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Nod. "They're a cool piece of tech."

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"Based on a Rakatan design, initially."

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Very interested noise. 

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"Perhaps that is a piece of information you would be interested in trading for."

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"Almost certainly."

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"That might be arranged."

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Grin. "What sorts of information would you want in return?"

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"It depends on what might be available."

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"A pretty long list. So far... Everything that survived to the end of the Banite Sith, which is rather biased towards recency - Darth Sidious focused fairly heavily on artifacts and on manipulating minds, emotions, and events through the Force, while Darth Plagueis had a lot on bioscience that I've mostly recovered... Darth Tenebrous did a lot of really good work on quantifying the Force and its actions mathematically - he was super obsessed with using that math in combination with supercomputers to get ever more perfected visions of the future, which basically never went anywhere so none of the others in his line really did anything with his work except leave his notes in a box. Which was a travesty but meant I got them sans any messing with, so, balances out, and his plan to predict the future precisely was egomaniacal, required better computers than he had to get anywhere close, and glazed over a lot of fundamental parts about how Force visions work - but his actual base models were pretty accurate on a close scale, especially given his limited personal scope..."

She pauses. "...That is tied into my special interest, I got distracted there... Anyways I also have access to the Jedi archives that survived the Order's fall - which isn't everything they had, but is a lot - and lots of notes on cross-universal magic - some of our alts aren't from this universe, they world hopped, and they are very nerdy and very willing to stand in front of sensors while I poke them - but I'm not actually the expert on that so it's probably not really accurate to offer it as a trade... Also archeological finds scattered over assorted ancient history, some of which we're pretty sure were never disturbed - including one nearly intact temple that predates the Rakatan Empire. We haven't translated the inscriptions, though. There's also a good bit contemporary to the Rakata, though mostly not directly from them."

"...Also definitely some other stuff. Darth Sidious was a hoarder, I suborned all his access protocols about four years ago, and I have not actually finished cataloging it all..."

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"It seems we will be able to work something out. Why do you call these recent Sith 'Baneite'?"

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"The founder of that order was Darth Bane - about a thousand years ago. He was the only known survivor of the Brotherhood of Darkness, which had been an alliance of disparate Sith warlords and the remnants of the Sith Empire founded by Darth Ruin about a thousand years before that."

"The Banite Sith were mostly a single teaching lineage, with one surviving apprentice each generation - branches did sometimes happen, but usually didn't last very long, and subordinate dark sider groups were a lot weaker and not given the title of 'Sith,' even if they were lightly trained by whatever current Sith were about."

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"An interesting philosophy. I suppose a reaction to the failure of the previous system, which is understandable. And it evidently was reasonably successful."

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"Yeah, Ruin's Empire had collapsed from a mix of picking fights with the Jedi and picking fights with each other, and the Brotherhood turned on each other at the end. But - the Banites weren't any better about not turning on each other, and their infighting was then solely within a teaching lineage, which really, really fucked up continuity of information."

"There's an argument, too, that the Banites ended with the death of Plagueis's Master - Sidious recorded that Plagueis had been disdainful of a lot of the Banite philosophy, though... Neither exactly successfully pivoted away from establishing intense hierarchies with apprentices who extremely want them dead, even if they gestured some at cooperating with each other. Still, it was Plagueis and Sidious who did almost all of the 'destroying the Jedi,' when the past Banites had failed to make much progress at all."

"My teacher used to be Darth Vader, Sidious's apprentice. She left that name - and the Sith philosophies and methods - behind when she killed Sidious. I'm probably biased? But, like, I think she's succeeded at way more of worth than anyone from that line - and the stuff we've found from the last few Banites just... Drips with wasted potential."

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"I look forward to meeting her."

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Sicaria reappears, a bundle under her arm. She hands a lightsaber hilt to Occlus.

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"Thank you, apprentice. Did you find everything."

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