I walked into my wardroom on the Warrior, looking out my window into deep space, thinking about the task that is upon me. I have been without a master ever since the great redistribution of the Dark Brotherhood. I have communicated with other Sith Knights on guidance as this won't be an easy journey. As I removed my Sin flight suit and put on my ceremonial robe, I felt ready for my adventure at hand. I gathered my miscellaneous pieces of a de-constructed lightsaber and put them in my robe and headed for the Warriors ship bay. As I walked into the bay, there was Grim, my custom TIE fighter made for pilots of Sin Squad. As I climbed the ladder onto my ship, I could see the awesome red glow inside the cockpit. This felt right. I turned the engines on and got permission from the on-duty flight operations officer for departure. I received a salute, and I saluted back. It’s time. Destination - Korriban. My ship glided out of the Warrior’s hanger bay, space is silent, cold, dark, and unforgiving. I put in the coordinates into Grim and my ship turned as the autopilot took over, hyperdrive in 3...2...1... WHOOSH. Korriban wasn't that far as it was in the Outer Rim territories just like Aurora Prime. I blinked and gathered my thoughts which seemed like minutes and then I heard the audible tone... Grim dropped out of hyperspace and there in front of me. with an eerie glow and tint of Red was Korriban. the graveyard of the Sith Lords. I turned off the autopilot and manually took over the controls. As I entered the atmosphere, the weather was overcast and dark and as I got closer to the surface, red rock could be seen. I passed the old broken down Korriban Arrival Port and kept going... My destination on this evil planet would be the Valley of the Dark Lords. Not a soul was around, I felt something but what was it? I slowed my TIE down and I started seeing statues. Huge statues of Dark Lords. This was it! I felt something get stronger... Like it was calling out for me. In a very garbled evil tone... I stopped the ship when I heard it and it hovered above a flat surface next to the entrance into what looked like a temple hundreds of years ago. Still, I started to feel cold. I landed on the ship and exited my hatch from the top and jumped down. No sound could be heard, no wind. It was absolutely nothing. I walked up the steps of the temple and entered. It was dark but I used a torch light from my emergency bag from Grim, everything I saw was old looking and run down. No one had been here in hundreds of years or more. I made my war further into the temple and I saw a faint glow of something I couldn’t quite make out... It was a faint red color on a waist high pillar. As I got closer, there was an ancient Sith writing on the pillar. I took out my translator and scanned the ancient symbols - The words displayed in front of me on my holographic screen "Nw kash zo tash. Antai kash tik sh. Pro sh, nu gauti ty. Pro ty, nu gauti midwan. Pro midwan, nu gauti pergaleas. Pro pergaleas nuyak chains aras svistuis. Tave qy sekleti uzsit nun." which translated to - "Peace is a lie. There is only Passion.

Through Passion, I gain Strength. Through Strength, I gain Power. Through Power, I gain Victory. Through Victory my chains are Broken. The Force shall free me". This was the Sith code. I looked at the faint red light in the center of the top of the pillar and the red light wasn’t faint anymore, I brushed the dust of and there it was - A blood red corrupted Kyber Crystal - I don’t know how long it’s been here for and why, but maybe this crystal was calling out to me. Immediately, the room became even colder, and I felt a presence there with me, it felt like there was someone there, watching me as I gazed upon the red crystal. I looked behind me using my torch light for sight, nothing there. I looked back to the crystal, and I knew what I needed to do and do it now. I took out the lightsaber pieces (black blade emitter shroud, handgrip, hilt, activation switch, power cell/handgrip, and pommel) and laid them in front of the crystal. I put my hood over my head and closed my eyes and envisioned the crystal and the lightsaber coming together as if some graceful dance that was choreographed to perfection and began to recite the Sith Code..."Peace is a lie. there is only passion..." As I finished the code, I opened my eyes and saw the Kyber Crystal going into the hilt of the lightsaber, the glowing ceased. I opened my right hand and the lightsaber rushed to it. I emitted the saber and a red dark beam projected. The distinctive hum. I did it. My quest complete, I slowly exited the temple not turning my back and I heard mumbles and Sith tongue, evil laughter, and screaming. As I excited the temple, I took off on a dead sprint to Grim, I jumped up to the hatch and immediately started the engines, I lifted off and put the throttle to 100%, the sonic boom could be heard in the valley, and I zoomed towards the atmosphere of the planet until I saw dark space. I put the coordinates in Grim to head back to the Warrior and entered hyperspace. Coming out of hyperspace, I called upon the on-duty flight operations officer to request permission to enter the Warrior hanger, "permission granted Major". I set Grim down next to the other Sin TIE's and excited the craft. My lightsaber was swinging as I walked back to my wardroom. I entered my wardroom and took off my ceremonial robe and took off my lightsaber from my belt and put it in my case next to my bed. I lost track of time and didn’t realize how long I was gone on Korriban as it was 0300 in the morning - the witching hour. Exhausted and spent from my ceremony, I sent out a holo message to the Dark Council of the Dark Brotherhood and let them know of what transpired and that I shall report to them tomorrow before reporting my squadron commander in Sin. I set my lightsaber next to me on the nightstand and thought about what had happened earlier. I am fear. I am strength. I am hatred. I am now a Sith Knight.