What just happened seems to be a Sith! Who's currently striding threateningly towards the garrison (stolen lightsaber unignited and at her belt).

(There's an awful lot of dead enemies, some in areas without clear signs of damage, some cut down by lightsabers, some in areas blasted with explosions or lightning... No destroyed infrastructure, and the scorch marks are at 'we aren't using that anyways' locations or seem to be cosmetic.)

Hmm hm hm hm.

Yeah, the grunts aren't getting paid enough to deal with this. They will salute respectfully as the Sith passes by and if Lord Skar wants to make an issue out of it he can come do so himself.

(Nice to see some soldiers with basic intelligence.)

She and Brin go to find where Lord Skar has holed up, unless he feels like coming out to meet them. 

Skar is waiting for them in the large room that occupies the back half of the first floor. He narrows his eyes when he sees just Lily and Brin, obviously expecting that Occlus would have accompanied them. (No fresh acolyte could have achieved the destruction outside.)

"So, do you wanna do this the easy way or the hard way?"

He laughs. "You're the wrong person to be asking that question, little girl. Where is your master?"

"Dealing with your Master, little boy."

"Hah. As if she could. Your heads will make appropriate trophies to cement her final failure."

"So the hard way it is?"

(If he was a Jedi, he might feel the building danger. Of course, that wouldn't necessarily save him.)

His lightsaber flicks out, a burning red tongue. "I think I'm going to enjoy this."

And the Force seizes around him, a convulsion that rips his carefully built control - anyone's control - from his grasp. 

Force or no, he still has a lightsaber and he's still a lot bigger than Lily or Brin, so he charges forward in an attack-

A remarkable thing about this world: even Force-sensitive sapients, even powerful Force users, don't have the right kinds of opinions about the laws of physics. Not to matter.

First:

Lightsabers no longer work in this fragment of space-time. That's an honestly weirdly specific slice of physics, and it doesn't have to do much detail work to get 'no lightsabers for you' to not break anything else important. 

Second:

The air around Skar changes. Gels - becomes thick, a thing which cannot be moved through. The heat of his body will slowly render it more mobile, enough he can breathe - not enough he can continue his charge, and it takes a few moments for the air to become breathable from the moment of change.

Grklrg.

(Yeah, he's starting to get significantly more scared.)

"Last time: easy way, or hard way?"

"Easy- easy way," he gasps out.

"Smart boy."

"First question: Does Thanaton have any dead man's switches set up?"

"Yes- yes of course he does."

Then Skar can tell it all about Thanaton's plans and capabilities - everything Occlus asked Lily to get, and quite a few things besides.

He spills like a waterfall. (And then maybe he'll be allowed to live.)

Hmmm...

Nope!

It wants to test its ability to tear apart the minds of Sith for information, too, and to directly fuck with his body if that fails or when it feels satisfied with the experiment. 

Skar is more resistant than the Jedi at his level were, interestingly. Not enough to hedge it out completely, but it has to apply more effort for the same result.

Interesting.

Something to research, certainly - and to take into account with dismantling the Sith.

But, for now: it's done with him. It kills him nearly idly.

And settles more into being herself. 

...That sure was trippy.

"Well, mission accomplished," she says to Brin.