Chapter three (HPtSR)

When they arrived at the Star Forge, their reactions were mixed.

"The Star Forge... I've never seen anything like it. I'm transmitting these coordinates to Admiral Dodonna. Maybe a quick strike by the Republic can cripple the Sith fleet. Message is away. Now we can just wait for the Republic to show up. We should be safe here - we're outside their sensor range." Carth said.

"I might try building something similar once I update my degrees, but without using the Force to create a nexus on it." Harry said, causing Revan to raise an eyebrow. "It'll be hard, but theoretically possible."

"A small vanguard of Sith fighters, coming in hard! Someone needs to get on those gun turrets. Take those fighters out before they report our position to the main fleet!" Carth said, and Revan went to take control of the turrets.

Unfortunately, after Revan did some Grandmaster level shooting, they hit some energy field that disabled the Ebon Hawk. They were all very lucky that Carth could land them without destroying the Hawk.

"Whew! Talk about your rough landings, Carth! What's the matter? You're flying like you've been on an all night Tarisian ale drinking binge!" Mission exclaimed, both amusing and concerning Harry.

"That disruptor field fried our stabilizers - we're lucky we made it down in one piece! But if we can't find the salvage to make repairs I won't even be able to get the Ebon Hawk airborne again!"

"During our rather rapid descent I noticed the hulls of many crashed ships scattered across the landscape. Perhaps the parts you need can be found among their wreckage." Juhani said.

"The Cathar's right: this planet's a technological graveyard. I saw dozens of downed ships out there. That disruptor field must have wiped them all out. But where could it be coming from?" Canderous said.

"Even if we get the stabilizers fixed, we'll have to find and disable the source of that disruptor field before we can take off. Otherwise we'll just end up crashing again."

"That disruptor field could wipe out the entire Republic fleet!" Harry realized.

"You're right! That Sith fleet we saw must have some type of protection against the disruptor field. We have to find a way to disable it or the Republic will be slaughtered!" Carth said in agreement.

T3-M4 said something in droid.

"T3's picking up massive power fluctuations on the ship's sensors. They seem to be coming from some type of large stone structure to the east... it looks like some kind of ancient temple." Mission said.

"Then lets go burn down a temple!" Harry said, amusing the others.

"Hey, don't forget about Bastila, guys! We still have to rescue her, too." Mission said.

"Carth, Mission, Zaalbar, Canderous, Juhani, and Jolee will stay with the ship. Juhani, Jolee, and Canderous will help protect you all and help salvage where necessary. Harry will help me deactivate the disruptor field so that we can leave the planet as soon as possible." Revan said, and everyone nodded in agreement.

Getting to the Temple wasn't terribly difficult. They had to kill a lot of Rakata, Harry had to use the Killing Curse on Rancors, they killed Mandalorians and Harry looted their corpses, and finally, Harry apparated them past the force field.

After cutting down a few Dark Jedi, Sith, and droids, Harry was led to take all the Sith artifacts and one in particular... the holocron of Darth Revan. Harry moved to hand it to its creator, but Revan held up his hand.

"You were led to it for a reason. It's yours now." Revan said.

They moved on, killing a Jar'Kai using Dark Jedi, a female Dark Jedi, and a Sith Master. It was inevitable that they would not only disable the disruptor field and reach the Temple Summit where they encountered Bastila and some unknown Sith, and two Dark Jedi.

"Bandon," Revan greeted coldly. "Harry... I need you to deal with Bandon and the two Dark Jedi." Revan said, causing the three to laugh.

Harry smirked at them, building up his power and his eyes flashing red, and unleashed a wave of hellfire that killed both Dark Jedi and left behind an extremely intimidated Darth Bandon.

"No... by all means... laugh..." Harry said coldly. "Nothing? Good." Harry Force Pushed Bandon into a wall and then unleashed his lightning upon the idiot. While Bandon was recovering, Harry ripped the knowledge of the Sith language from his mind, and then Force Crushed his brain and heart, quickly killing him. Harry's immense natural speed was of great help, but he opted to use the Force to kill Bandon.

Harry destroyed Bandon and Bastila's fighters and then went to aid Revan in defeating Bastila.

Harry calmly disarmed and restrained Bastila with Telekinesis and then suppressed her connection to the Force.

"Do you want to talk with her here or should I take us back to the Ebon Hawk?" Harry asked.

"Ebon Hawk," Revan replied. Harry nodded and disapparated the three of them back, making Bastila even angrier. "Harry... I'll lower Bastila's mental defenses. I need you to begin the contingency plan in case I'm not able to redeem her before the battle." Revan said, to Bastila's fear and the crews concern.

Harry nodded and when her defenses were lowered, he rapidly drained copies of her knowledge of Battle Meditation and then took an imprint of her skills. If Revan failed to redeem Bastila, then Harry would use his amateur skills in Battle Meditation and strengthen the Republic fleet as best as he could.

After bathing the Temple of the Ancients in holy fire, Harry returned to the Ebon Hawk and he learned that Revan had taken Bastila to the med bay for healing and hopefully her redemption.

**The next day...**

Harry had a great night, apart from Mission trying to seduce him in his sleep... fortunately, when she realized how well endowed he was she chickened out, and he and the guys got a laugh out of it after having feigned sleep. Best of all, Revan had redeemed Bastila, and now Harry wouldn't have to guess his way through Battle Meditation during a very important battle. Only Harry and Revan would be going onto the Star Forge. The others would be guarding Bastila on the Ebon Hawk.

They were leaving the planet now and Harry was eager for battle and looting... Revan okayed him placing ships into a specially prepared trunks, of which Harry had many, and gaining sellable assets and reducing the number of enemy ships at the same time. Harry had a very understanding friend/teacher.

"The Republic Fleet must have got the message I sent as we were crashing onto that planet. I'm picking up a transmission from them now." Carth stated, drawing Harry and Revan's intention.

"This is Admiral Forn Dodonna to the Ebon Hawk, do you read us?"

"Admiral Dodonna, this is Carth Onasi. We are receiving your transmission."

"Carth, I'm glad to see you're still alive. We've begun our assault on the Star Forge, but we're taking heavy losses. How did the Sith ever manage to build something of this scope!"

"The Star Forge wasn't constructed by the Sith, Admiral. We don't have time for me to fully explain it, but that space station is far older than you can imagine."

"Maybe we should pull the fleet back and retreat. I don't know if we have the firepower to go up against this alien technology."

"You can't do that, Admiral. The Star Forge is a factory of immense power. It's been churning out the capital ships, snub fighters and assault droids that have powered the Sith war effort. You have to destroy the Star Forge now or you'll be fighting an unending wave of reinforcements." Carth said. "Bastila was rescued and she can soon use her Battle Meditation to aid you."

"That will help greatly, but it still isn't going to be easy. I can't even get our capital ships into position to start bombarding the Star Forge."

"There is still the matter of Darth Malak," Vandar Tokare chimed in.

"I will handle Malak," Revan said, leaving no room for argument and causing Vandar to realize that Revan had regained at least some of his memories. Vandar nodded in agreement and assigned a Jedi escort to ensure that they reached the Star Forge.

Once they joined up with their escorts, they began running the Sith blockade, with Carth dodging enemy fire with maneuvers that Harry wouldn't be able to execute for years.

Unfortunately, two of the four ships were destroyed, but the Ebon Hawk still managed to land on the Star Forge's deck, and Harry and Revan disembarked and met up with four Jedi Knights.

"You made it! Several Jedi have already gone ahead into the Star Forge. We have to strike while we still have the element of surprise!"

They were interrupted by three Dark Jedi exiting an elevator.

"More women trying to kill me. This is murder to my ego..." Harry commented dryly, amusing Revan. "I don't suppose you ladies just want to come back to the light? I'll give you the best sex of your life!"

They replied by attacking, but Harry used his vastly superior speed to kill them all in an instant and then pocketed their lightsabers.

"We don't want the Sith to cut off our escape route. We'll stay here and hold this docking bay. You get in there and find Malak!" One of the Jedi said.

Harry rolled his eyes and followed Revan into the Star Forge, with them cutting down countless droids, sixteen more Dark Jedi, four Sith apprentices, and hundreds of troopers.

"I'll go ahead and confront Malak alone, my friend," Revan said. "I want you to hinder the Star Forge as best as you can... which probably means stealing ships like you planned."

"Well, when you're good at something and need resources and a powerbase..." Harry said, smirking, which caused Revan to do the same.

"Have fun," Revan said, before entering the Command Center.

Harry teleported away.

When Harry arrived, he began rapidly incapacitating pilots and droids.

When he was finished, he withdrew one of his trunks, greatly enlarged it, and then began placing ships inside of it. Harry hoped to gain a good enough powerbase to survive any attempts on his life that the Jedi and Sith enemies would make... the Jedi seemed to persecute anything that disagreed with them and Harry had no intention of spending his immortal life being harassed all the time by zealots. The Sith were mostly rabid beasts that needed to be put down and Harry was entirely willing to do that.

After Revan finished Malak off, he teleported to where Harry was and Harry shrunk his trunk and then he teleported them both to the Ebon Hawk.

"Malak's dead and the Republic's about to fire upon the Star Forge! Lets get going!" Revan called out.

"With pleasure!" Carth replied, before flying them away to safety.

And so ended the Jedi Civil War... the crew of the Ebon Hawk were all awarded the Cross of Glory, with the only exception being Harry who requested monetary compensation instead and completely avoided being photographed or having his surname becoming known.

After being awarded a million credits by an amused Republic official, Harry sold some looted weapons and technology and began investing, while continuing his training with Revan... though Revan ran out of stuff to teach him after another year. Harry was pleased to have invested into Mission and Zaalbar's import/export business and even contributed some of his captured ships to help them begin profiting much sooner.

After being forced to rip the contents of Revan's holocron due to a faulty power source and mastering the contents within, Harry spent some time acquiring holocrons... Harry acquired the Holocrons of King Adas, the Dark Holocron, Telos Holocron, Dathka Graush's Holocron, Holocron of Naga Sadow, and the Holocron of Heresies... which turned out to be a trap designed to resurrect the long dead Darth Andeddu and Harry was forced to consume Darth Andeddu's spirit and take his knowledge, skill, power, and experience.

Apart from nearly dying due to a has been wannabe immortal, Harry continued making great progress... Harry acquired the holocron of Elcho Kressh, Freedon Nadd's holocron, Syn Holocron, another holocron of Tulak Hord's, XoXaan's holocron, Broodica's grimoire, Arca Jeth's holocron, the Chronicle of Sorzus Syn, several talismans, tomes, scrolls, and spellbooks, and a holocron showing the location of an army frozen in carbonite. Harry's greatest success was looting the Great Jedi Library of Ossus of Jedi knowledge, Sith and Jedi artifacts.

Harry had been traveling for a year and he had a lot to show for it, but Revan had requested that he return to Coruscant.

"You called?" Harry asked in amusement, but he noticed that both Revan and Bastila looked stressed.

Revan began reciting recent events, of his nightmares of a shadowy and storm covered world and of an unknown threat.

"And you wish to abandon your pregnant wife to slay a threat that you either encountered and were defeated by or was so powerful that you opted not to fight?" Harry summarized.

"I'm not pregnant!" Bastila said self-consciously, looking down at her still flat mid section.

"I can sense the life growing within you. You simply aren't showing yet." Harry replied. "Revan, you could do far more good at the head of an army rather than a lone Jedi trying to save the galaxy. Assassination could simply martyr a leader and provoke them into attacking sooner with full citizen support."

"I know, but the Force is leading me away," Revan replied firmly. "If I can allow my child to grow up without experiencing war, then that will make it all worth it to me. I just need you to protect Bastila and our child." Harry glared.

"If you don't make any progress within six months, you will return, or I'll hunt you down and will bring you to Bastila in chains and bind you to her in such a way that you could only leave with her permission." Harry replied, amusing Revan and Bastila. Revan nodded in agreement. "You will leave recordings for your unborn child in case you aren't able to ever return so that they can hear it directly from you and experience some affection from you." Again, Revan nodded. "If possible, and if you get leads to these enemies you will try to send this information to me... in case of your death or capture plans will be made to either rescue you; if practical and possible, or destroy this enemy and their support base. General locations, hyperlanes and possible staging grounds, numbers, weaknesses; stuff that can be used to prepare the Republic for war. Any information that you can provide."

"I will try, Harry," Revan said, in response to his last demands.

"Then I'll protect Bastila and the kid," Harry said.

After meeting up with Canderous and proclaiming Harry a Sith Lord at his request, Revan departed, never to be seen by his wife again, and leaving behind a son who would grow up to be one of the greatest Supreme Chancellors of all time. All Revan did was send directions to a planet called Nathema. Harry tried searching for his friend and former master, of course, but he found nothing.

They were visited a few years later by the Jedi Exile, Meetra Surik... someone Harry was quite grateful too for her defeat of the Sith wannabes plaguing the Republic. Her defeat of Darth Traya also allowed Harry to gain another useful teacher. Between learning from Darth Malak, Traya, the Jedi Kavar, Zez-Kai Ell, Vrook Lamar, and many other Sith and Jedi, Harry was extremely skilled and dangerous.

Yet Meetra Surik was uninterested in increasing her skills further under his guidance to better aid in Revan's rescue. Harry had advanced his studies in the Jedi arts and grey arts and could now use the green lightning in the same diverse ways as Sith Force Lightning. Meetra would at least later transmit the information that would save countless lives and allow the Sith Empire to fall far faster.

Harry would spend over a decade and a half guiding Vaner; a boy so much like his father that it hurt, to him reaching his full potential.

Vaner served the Republic as a politician and he was constantly working to rebuild the Republic and always looking after its people... no one was surprised when he became Supreme Chancellor. What Revan, Malak, and those other pitiful excuses for Sith tore down, Vaner helped rebuild, and upon his death he was revered as being a truly great Supreme Chancellor and as time passed he would even be remembered as one of the absolute greatest. But Vaner was outlived by his mother, which broke her heart once more, and Harry wasn't much better off. Harry loved Vaner like he was his own son, yet when Vaner came to think of him as his father, Harry felt like a usurper in the worst way possible. Bastila would die over a decade later with only Harry for company and Harry would vow then and there to see Lord Vitiate broken.

Harry lost a friend, mentor, brother, and teacher in Revan...

Harry lost a sister and friend in Bastila...

Bastila lost her husband to a follower of a failed ancient dogma, Vitiate, and lived the remainder of her life like she was missing an essential part of herself... and she was, she lost her soul mate and then she lived her life for a son that she eventually outlived. Bastila may have suffered more than Revan, Vaner, or Harry combined in her own way... she lost the love of her life and soul mate and her son and remained unbroken.

Vaner lost his father and he never even knew him because of a disease given form... Vitiate.

Harry hated Vitiate and his worthless empire of rabid beasts that needed to be put down.

Harry hated himself for honoring his promise to Revan, but he lived with it and he would forever more.

Harry hated... and yet he focused on one single goal... revenge for all the suffering Vitiate had caused. This focus propelled him to even greater heights of power, skill, and knowledge... and when this empire attacked Harry would begin his noble work.

Such hatred would strengthen him greatly and serve him well during his search for Revan... after all only the Sith knew what happened and Harry was fortunately skilled in behaving like one.