After a month of reconnaissance, eighteen teams returned to Zambar, while the other two teams, due to navigation issues, went into an unknown Star Domain.
According to the messages from these eighteen teams, most of these planets were uninhabited, all of them desolate.
Thousands of years of war had long destroyed everything, but fortunately, some planets, with their powerful self-healing abilities, had recovered and turned into lush green worlds.
This included Xiost, the target planet.
Seeing the returned messages, Kote believed that secret construction could begin, starting the Empire's establishment in an unknown location.
Naga Sadow volunteered to explain to Kote what these planets were like in his era and what their functions were.
Having such an expert from that time to assist truly saved a lot of time.
"Xiost can be extensively built upon first.
That place is one of the strongest Dark Side locations in the entire Galaxy, a Holy Land for all Sith, and its richness is comparable to Coruscant's," Naga Sadow introduced how rich and powerful his planet was.
"But that's all in the past.
A Sith Lord after you basically destroyed it, but fortunately, its tenacious vitality allowed it to recover," Kote said, recalling records he had seen in the Mandalore Temple archives these past few days.
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"What! These good-for-nothings didn't learn my strategies at all!" Naga Sadow exclaimed, as Xiost was the center of his ruling power.
"However, later we Mandalore also occupied the entire Sith space.
I discovered new hyperspace routes, routes created by us Mandalorians, a path unknown to the Republic, and one can even go directly from here."
Kote, to learn more about Sith knowledge from that era, returned to Mandalore and studied for several days, discovering these in the archives.
"Then let's quickly return to Xiost, Master.
My Sith castle from when I ascended still stands there, and there might be many things inside," Naga Sadow said anxiously.
"As you wish, after all, I also want to see what kind of planet the former capital of the Sith Empire is," Kote stood on the bridge, pointing forward.
"To Xiost!"
"Understood, understood," the B1s nearby operated the hyperspace calculator to plan the journey to Xiost.
It wasn't just the hyperion; other herculean-class transport ship carrying various resources, SCVs, and un-commissioned Clones also joined the journey to Xiost.
Three days later, the hyperion and other ships had arrived in the Xiost system.
Looking at Xiost and its moons before him, Kote felt a pull from The Force; it seemed Naga Sadow was right, this place truly had a strong Force presence.
All ships were moored at the equator of the Xiost system.
This planet was currently in an ice age; apart from the temperate zone at the equator, the areas expanding outwards were all covered in snow, and there was very little life existing on the entire planet.
After a reconnaissance, it was found that the entire planet was indeed a relatively rich planet, as Naga Sadow had said, a planet suitable for covert expansion.
Upon reaching this conclusion, all SCVs and robots on board disembarked and began construction, building a habitable planet and starting to construct refineries and barracks on the planet.
Even the surrounding moons could not escape the fate of being built upon, and instantly, about three hundred thousand humans appeared in a Star Domain that had seen few people for a thousand years.
In space, refineries were also being built on the asteroid belt, emphasizing no waste, and starports also began construction on site.
Kote, led by Naga Sadow, went to the former Sith castle.
Along the way, Kote saw many ruins of Sith cities, and finally, he saw Naga Sadow's Sith castle on the cliff.
Its grandeur was far greater than most temples.
"My castle!" Naga Sadow sighed upon seeing his familiar location after a thousand years, recalling how spirited he was back then, and how things were now, alas, only sighs remained.
Kote walked inside and found it had been abandoned for a long time.
It seemed no Sith had come here to search for treasures later; it truly seemed forgotten.
Walking through it, Kote had already discovered no fewer than ten Sith artifacts, and a glowing stone caught his eye.
He didn't know what it was, but it felt very powerful.
"What is this?" Kote asked the former Sith Emperor.
Naga Sadow looked at it and realized it was a good item.
"This is a Sith ritual altar; you can use it to achieve many unimaginable effects."
"Such as?" Kote asked.
"For now, the most important thing is to hide your actions, and Master, you can achieve this by using it, making this area a forgotten zone, preventing anyone from entering or discovering it, and you can even use some artifacts to enhance this method, making it undetectable by The Force," Naga Sadow spoke of the function Kote most desired: concealment.
After all, everything he was doing now was like dancing on a knife's edge; if he had this, it would be much better.
"Can you do it? Teach me." Kote himself hadn't learned such Sith knowledge, so he could only rely on Naga Sadow to help him.
"Of course, no problem, Master Kote, it's just that this spell requires a strong Force to activate for the ritual."
Naga Sadow explained the activation conditions.
"Those are minor issues; you just need to help me complete it." Kote saw that the conditions were simple; he could just use Naga Sadow's Force, directly absorbing his Force since he didn't need it anyway, and it would also weaken him.
"I will tell you everything I know, Master Kote."
Then Kote had people maintain the castle to use as one of his bases, while Kote himself studied Sith Alchemy and Sith magic in the established camp, but most importantly, about obscuring The Force.
Later, during the inventory of Sith artifacts, a necklace was found.
According to Naga Sadow, this necklace could hide a person's Force, making it perfect to add during the ritual.
Kote had originally thought of creating a new one, but having a ready-made Sith artifact and not using it would be a waste.
After a week of study, Kote finally fully learned all the prerequisite incantations for this Sith magic.
Returning to the Sith castle, which had its power restored, he held the necklace and placed the bottle from his belt in front of the altar.
Seeing Kote's actions, Naga Sadow quickly asked, "What are you doing, Master? You haven't performed the ritual yet!"
Kote smirked, "Aren't you the sacrifice?"
Naga Sadow instantly panicked; this guy wasn't joking.
"Master! No! I taught you; have you forgotten?"
Watching Kote begin to chant, he burst out in curses, "Kote Vizsla, you beast, you are a born Sith! My vengeful spirit will haunt you endlessly!" Naga Sadow continuously slammed against the bottle's walls.
But Kote pretended not to hear, as their words were too weak, only uttering such feeble terms, he just took it as praise for himself.
As Kote continuously chanted, the necklace and bottle floated around the altar, both items absorbing power from the altar in the middle, while Kote was performing the act of shrouding the Universe in mist.
As the last incantation was completed, the necklace instantly turned to ashes in the air, and Naga Sadow, who thought he was certainly dead in the bottle, suddenly found he still had a breath left, and could survive by absorbing the Dark Side.
"Master! Everything just now was fake; it was my Dark Side being too strong.
Now that Master has healed me, I have regained my sanity.
Please forgive me!" He instantly knelt, for as an Emperor, one must have a tolerant heart; he absolutely had to survive to get revenge on the Republic.
"Next time, you'll continue to play the sacrifice," Kote only left this one sentence.
At this time, a major, unknown event had quietly occurred in the Galaxy: several Star Domains had disappeared from the Galaxy, and they could not even be detected by The Force.
However, the fluctuations in The Force were still noticed by some, but they didn't feel anything wrong.
Everyone thought Kote was doing something again, as he always emitted some Force fluctuations in the Galaxy, which they all took as a lack of control over his power, never imagining it was this situation.
Once hidden, there was only one way to enter and exit the current Star Domain: through a hidden hyperspace route left by Kote, and this was one of Mandalore's most concealed hyperspace routes at the time.
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