Chapter 88

  I am alone on a hostile planet that affects my mood with extremely powerful dark-side tendencies. Many Sith Eternals have fallen by my hands, but it feels like they are endless. My Asura droids killed so many that their armour was coated in blood, which is many more deaths than you would think as my Asura droids killed the majority with blaster fire. With every one hundred Sith Eternals killed, a single Asura droid may fall.

  With time on their side, the Sith Eternals have whittled down my army, thankfully I still have my doppelgangers to fight the good fight because I would truly be up shit creak without a paddle because the Sith Eternals are going all out. They no longer fight my doppelgangers with lightsabers and force powers but also true weapons of destruction.

  Tanks, planes, guns and bombs started a full-on war.

  I wondered where they were getting such massive amounts of killing tools. I've seen through the eyes of my fighting doppelganger, and the chaos that is shown reminds me of the Clone Wars but fifty per cent flashier. Blaster fire lights up the sky, and lightning counters to protect flying doppelgangers who land on tanks and rip the tanks apart with their bare hands. A number of my lightsabers have been captured by the enemy due to each fallen doppelganger dropping the weapon and being destroyed.

  Now, my doppelgangers are fighting without armour or weapons, but that just meant that they fought completely with force abilities.

  I, on the other hand, have found a deep hole in the ground and have kept myself there like a corpse. I'm finding it extremely hard to adapt to the waves of negative energy coming from all around me, and it doesn't help that I haven't eaten a bite in three days.

  I can extract water using my force powers. I could even set up a water condenser using the components from the tanks and other broken machines, but the food my doppelgangers have found is tainted with something I'm not too sure about. If I had the proper equipment, I could filter out the toxins and viruses and find the answer, but it puzzles me that even though the Sith Eternals have very fine weapons, tanks and vehicles, my doppelganger has yet to find a single manufactory plant.

  The ground rumbles as a passing bomber carpet bombs the area. I can't risk staying this close to the surface; the weapons the Sith Eternals are using are too powerful to hide from by using a bit of dirt. I move deeper into the caves. The dark side is thicker down here, but the rumbling earth is long gone.

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  I deploy several doppelgangers to explore. The speed they show is incredible; by using the force in mute ways and the absolute control I have earned throughout the years, they can skip through the caves with ease without touching the floor or ceiling. Each one squeezes through the tightest areas, places I wouldn't even try due to the natural claustrophobia we all have.

  They find something unusual, an awkward system that leads deep down into the earth, something that is common enough, but there's a steady stream of warm air flowing up. And yet that was also common enough not to be surprised, but the continuous flow of warm air stops and stutters, leaving a chance for my inquisitive doppelgangers to dive in.

  The fall was deep, and every second going down increased the heat. Each doppelganger scraped earth from the sides and coated themselves with mud to save themselves.

  I was tempted to leave the doppelganger's mind because the heat was terrible and would have done so if a doppelganger didn't have the same thought and developed the ability to split the heat around him. I guess when you can't escape the heat, then you have to make do with what you have. With one doppelganger able to split the flow of heat around him, all the others picked up the skill.

  Interestingly, the doppelgangers were falling at increased speeds by using the controlled heat to their advantage. They plummeted to the depths like falling stones with rockets strapped to them.

  It was then I was abruptly disconnected from my doppelganger as it dive-bombed into a huge manmade chimney. If my doppelgangers were made of flesh and blood, then it would have left a giant smear on the rising cooling tower. This was the price to pay for an untested ability, and I was glad it wasn't me that had paid it.

  I reconnected to a doppelganger that had landed and witnessed a great sight of an automatic construction plant that didn't pale to any other I'd seen. The Geonosians built the droid armies for the Trade Federation and Separatist Alliance and used mega structures to deliver an army, but the structure in front of me was so much more and yet only a fragment.

  The size was overwhelming, a true mega structure that spilled out nothing more than bolts, screws, nuts, rivets, and washers that lead out of a belt to feed the next superstructure that I could barely see off in the distance.

  I had no idea how the Sith Eternals had so many fleshy bodies, but at least I knew where they were getting their hands on their equipment. Without a doubt, I would find tanks and ammunition further down the automatic construction. I briefly thought about destroying this factory, but I was almost certain that it wouldn't make a difference to the manufacturer. The loss of this factory would only tell my enemies that I had found their stash. Instead, I changed the design of the bolts and nuts just a tiny bit. A higher dose of carbon in the mixture would cause every bolt to become weaker, and with the right amount of force, I could cause them to break. It would be unfair to me if I didn't visit all of the automatic factories and tinker with them.

  Thankfully, there was a long line of belts leading to where all of the factories would be. God bless the Sith and their lazy ways.