STAR WARS: RETROSPECTION- Holocron

"So... Rallo is trapped there, permanently?" Dak asks.

"Well, we did encounter him in there, so...I guess so..." Rianna replies. "Why did it grab us, though? Simply because we're Dark Siders?"

"I don't understand the science of it, but there is much I don't understand about its workings," Rand says. "But yes, it 'sensed' the darker emotions in us. I was able to resist the effect, of course."

"Yeah, he's stuck in there," Galder rasps, still not feeling well.

"How were you able to resist it?" Rianna replies to Rand with scorn.

"What happened after we...left you?" she asks Galder.

"I fought Rallo and lost," Galder says. "He ran me through his lightsaber."

"My superior power allowed me to pull back from the effect," Rand smirks.

(It depended on a Force roll- any of you could have resisted, had you rolled well enough. None of you did.)

Rianna winces slightly at Galder's response, but immediately becomes even more irritated with Rand's smug comment.

"So just how did you get the natives to cooperate?" she asks.

"Wait..." Dak says, "He ran you through? He didn't... choke you, and switch off his lightsaber and... do something with his hands?"

"He did," Galder says. "I don't know what he was doing. Then he stabbed me, and that was that."

"I have agreed that, for their help, we'd help them with a task," Rand says.

"What task, Rand? You've been dodging that answer."

Rand smiles.

"We're destroying the colony."

Damn you!

"...why?"

"What."

"You heard me," Rand says.

"Sounds fun," Galder says.

"Why, though? Why not just destroy this...thing...and get out of here?" Rianna says, glaring at the holocron.

Now that you think about it... the Holocron is curiously dark.

"The Nokros An agreed to help me get you out of the Holocron without serious harm to you," Rand says. "This is the only thing that they want in return."

"And since when have you ever cared about following through on a deal like that?" Rianna says nastily.

Dak still feels something is... wrong.

"What is it?" Rianna asks Dak.

"The Holocron's gone dark... Rand, do the Nokros An know anything about that?"

He stares at Galder suspiciously.

"That's...huh. Odd. Why would it do that? Are you sure Rallo can't escape?"